thought leaders

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

A Telepathic People Facing an Artificial World
Heed my words. We come from the place on the other side of the mirror. Your dreams are where we meet. One world to the next, ours to yours and yours to ours. We are frightened. Most of us would not even mention this to you.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in 01
Your Next Phone Just Got Pricier. Here’s Why.
September 1: Three Brands Raise Prices On the morning of September 1, the Huawei Mate 80 Pro Max 1TB listing jumped from 8,999 yuan to 9,999 yuan.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
To Get Smarter, AI Must Learn to Forget
It started with a single support ticket in late 2025. A developer was debugging a production outage—an OAuth timeout that only appeared after two hours of back‑and‑forth with Codex. The model had traced the issue correctly, suggested a fix, and then, mid‑conversation, the context window filled. Codex performed its usual compaction: a neat summary of everything discussed so far. The developer pasted the new error log. Codex looked at it and suggested the exact same fix it had ruled out twenty minutes earlier.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The Non-Ban
Behind CXMT's Lawsuit Against the Pentagon: How 18 Months on a Blacklist Reshaped a Chinese Chipmaker's Global Ambitions On August 28, 2026, CXMT filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, naming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as a defendant. The sole demand: removal from the Section 1260H "Chinese military companies" list.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The Day You Stopped Buying Blindly
When "Buying Blindly" Becomes History Changxin Technology's first‑half 2026 income statement carried a number that made the sell‑side research team pause for five seconds during the conference call: revenue of RMB 150.31 billion, net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 77.61 billion. In the same period last year, it lost RMB 2.33 billion. The swing: roughly RMB 80 billion.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
THE 770B AI BEAST JUST WENT OPEN SOURCE
On August 28, 2026, Tencent's Hunyuan team published Hy4 preview—a model card on the website, a few live demo links, no press conference.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The AI Leaderboard Is a Farce
001 In the summer of 2026, a screenshot made the rounds in AI circles. It showed DeepSWE’s multipass results. GLM‑5.3 Flash and Claude Fable 5 were 6.3 percentage points apart at pass@1 — 63.4% vs. 69.7%. That looked like a normal generational gap.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
I Bought a NAS for My Writing. Here’s Why It Changed Everything.
It was two in the morning. The coffee had gone cold, and the cursor was still blinking on the screen. A twenty-thousand-word manuscript had nearly vanished into thin air when my computer suddenly blue-screened—though Word's auto-recovery saved it, the feeling of my heart stopping for that split second has never left me.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
DeepSeek Is Calling You ‘Noob’ – And That’s the Best Thing That’s Happened to Your Writing
A Few Weeks Ago, a Funny Meme Started Making the Rounds on Chinese Social Media. Users noticed that when they used DeepSeek's "deep thinking" mode, the model would tag them with all sorts of bizarre labels in that little gray block of reasoning text: "this thing," "ultimate troll," "Momo," "bro," "noob buddy." Screenshots flew everywhere. Some people laughed. Others felt secretly judged. A few worried the model was building a permanent profile of them.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Who's Actually Paying $230 a Gig for Internet?
Satellite Data at 28,000 Yuan a Year: Who Uses It, Who Pays, Who Profits On August 21, 2026, a modified off‑road vehicle pulled over on an unnamed dirt road near Mangya, Qinghai. The owner opened the trunk, took out a parabolic antenna, aimed it at the sky, connected to Wi‑Fi, and his phone displayed "China Satcom satellite network connected." Three minutes later, he placed a WeChat video call — in an area with no terrestrial coverage, that call costs 27,999 yuan per year.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Trust No One, Not Even ‘localhost’
1. Event Summary In August 2026, Qi An Xin Threat Intelligence Center disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in DeepSeek Harness (DSH), tracked as QVD‑2026‑57410 . The CVSS 3.0 score is 9.8 (Critical) , with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and no user interaction.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The 5‑Hour Wall Is Back — And GPT‑5.6 Sol Is Eating Your Quota
On August 25, 2026, OpenAI reinstated the 5‑hour rolling usage limit for ChatGPT Plus subscribers using Codex and ChatGPT Work. The previous suspension of this limit, which had taken effect on July 12, lasted 44 days.
By Jin2 months ago in 01