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The geopolitical tension around artificial intelligence took a sharp turn this week, as China made clear it has no interest in slowing down its AI development. Beijing acknowledges the risks of advanced AI but views any international agreement structured around pausing progress as little more than a scheme to lock in American dominance. The message from Chinese officials is straightforward — they did not arrive at this moment in technological competition only to agree to fall behind.
On the subject of AI doing real work, one developer handed Claude Code one hundred dollars and thirty days to see if an AI agent could build and monetize a software product from scratch. The experiment, documented publicly on GitHub, raises genuinely interesting questions about how much autonomous value these tools can actually generate when given a budget, a deadline, and minimal human hand-holding. The results are worth a look.
And in a quieter corner of the hardware world, Boox has launched the Palma three, a pocket-sized e-ink reader that fits in one hand, alongside two new color digital notebooks. E-paper remains a niche that refuses to die, appealing to readers who want their devices to demand less of their attention, not more. Sometimes the slower technology turns out to be the right one.
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