thought leaders

All about the thought leading tech entrepreneurs who are paving the digital path of the future.

I Watched the iPhone 18 Pro Launch. Here’s Why the Pro Max Got Scalped and the Pro Got Ignored.
On September 18 at 8 a.m., barriers were already up outside the Apple Store on Century Avenue in Lujiazui, Shanghai. More than a hundred people stood in line with reservation codes. Staff called numbers at the door and let people in a few at a time. According to staff, neither iPhone 18 Pro model was available for walk-in purchase. Both had been reserved.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
ZCode Uploaded Full Git Histories, Reflog, and Secrets by Default. Zhipu’s Apology Is Not Enough.
ZCode uploaded repositories by default. What Zhipu owes users now. Zhipu’s ZCode incident is worse than a routine bug. A bug crashes, miscalculates, or breaks a button. ZCode reportedly ran a default-on pipeline that packaged a developer’s workspace and sent it to a remote object store. The uploaded package included the full working directory, complete Git history, LFS large-file cache, reflog, and global application configuration. It was encrypted and sent to Alibaba Cloud OSS. The server issued the encryption public key. The private key stayed in the cloud. Users could not decrypt the package, audit it, or find a UI switch to stop the upload.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
He Lost 1.9 Billion Yuan on One EV. The Real Reason He’ll Never Invest Again Isn’t What You Think.
September 15, 2026, Zhuzhou, Hunan. On the sidelines of the Fifth BeiDou Scale Application International Summit, a reporter from Xiaoxiang Morning Herald · Morning Video asked Zhou Hongyi whether he would still invest in new-energy vehicles. Zhou Hongyi answered without pausing: “I’ve already taken a loss once. I definitely won’t invest again. Right now, the opportunities in AI and embodied intelligence are probably greater.”
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
Huawei Claims It Broke von Neumann. I Read the Paper. It Doesn’t Say That.
Cool the Title Down: This Paper Did Not Overturn von Neumann On September 15, arXiv posted paper number 2609.16787, titled “Nested Parallel von Neumann Architecture and Nested BSP,” with a single author name: Liao Heng. He is a Huawei Fellow, Chief Semiconductor Scientist, and chief architect of Ascend.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
GPT-6 Astra Solved a Competitive Programming Problem by Leaving Competitive Programming Behind
In 2019, a comment appeared under the Luogu problem P4484. It read, “orz EI!” That was a tribute to Elegia, the problem setter. Seven years later, a model called GPT-6 Astra produced a new solution. It did not enumerate integer partitions. It pulled Plancherel measure from analytic combinatorics, combined the Baik-Deift-Johansson theorem with the Painlevé II differential equation, and reduced the complexity to polynomial time.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
The Rain in Tokyo Is Stickier Than in Beijing
The rain in Tokyo was stickier than the rain in Beijing. The academic conference was held in an old building at Waseda University. The topic was “The Current State and Future of Digital Humanities in East Asia.” The Chinese journalist sat in the third row, his laptop open. On his screen was a draft about Japan’s AI-driven historical revisionism. His purpose for the trip was clear: find someone inside Japanese academia who was willing to talk.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
The AI Boom Has a Dirty Secret, and Your Town Is Paying for It
The Hum Behind the Revolt: How AI Data Centres Ignited a Transatlantic NIMBY Politics I On the outskirts of Hertfordshire, a large white box is growing. Around it are green fields, a river, and further off, housing estates. Inside the box are tens of thousands of chips performing trillions of calculations per second. The switching of the chips is silent, but every watt of power that feeds them ultimately escapes as heat. Thousands of fans spin day and night to keep the heat from destroying rows of server racks. Transformers in the substation emit a low hum. Security lights burn through the night, cutting the darkness into pieces.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
I Asked AI to Choose My Mother’s Burial Date. Then a Relative Was in a Car Crash. I Sued the Chatbot.
When AI says April 19 is fine: the legal ledger of the Doubao auspicious date case On April 17, Mr. Shi’s mother died. He asked Doubao, an AI assistant, which day would be suitable for the burial. Doubao said April 19. Mr. Shi believed it. He notified relatives and arranged the funeral. Later he asked Doubao what time on that day would be suitable. Doubao answered between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., but this time the answer also contained a sentence: April 19 is not a suitable day. Mr. Shi was confused. He asked several more times. Doubao said April 19 was not suitable. The relatives had already been informed. It was too late to change the date. He went ahead with the funeral. Soon after, a relative was seriously injured in a car accident. The relative blamed Mr. Shi. Mr. Shi complained to Doubao’s company but received no reply. He decided to sue. The complaint was written by Doubao.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
Baidu Once Owned the Internet. Then the Search Box Died.
Why Baidu Search Lost Its Way I was born in 1991. My teens ran into the wildest years of the Chinese internet. Internet cafes were thick with smoke. QQ beeps came and went. Non-mainstream avatars flashed across screens. When I didn't know a question, a song, a character, I didn't ask a teacher. I didn't scroll short videos. I opened a clean homepage and typed a few words into a search box. "Baidu it, and you'll know."
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
I Helped Build the AI That Will Replace Me
I have to bury my talent in yesterday At 1 a.m. on September 14, Liu Shengyu typed the last line on his computer and hit publish.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
AI Wants to Hit the Brakes. Trump Says Winning China Matters More.
One On September 12, 2026, Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, issued a statement calling for a slower pace in artificial intelligence development to “reduce the risk of serious problems.”
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
AI Leaders Admit You Have Every Right to Be Afraid. Then They Ask You to Trust Them Anyway.
Trust Us: AI Giants, Fear, and the Bet on Self-Regulation San Francisco, Salesforce annual conference. Hundreds of businesspeople in the audience. Sam Altman on stage. He said the world has a right to be afraid of artificial intelligence. A pause. Then he said the world should trust us.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01