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March 25, 2026
AI Access Rivals Salary in Job Talks
Microsoft executive Charles Lamanna reveals job candidates now demand access to AI models as a key compensation item. This request is becoming as essential as salary negotiations. Comments shared at GeekWire's Agents of Transformation event.
Meta Grants Execs Stock Options Amid AI Race
Meta Platforms is offering stock options to top executives for the first time since its 2012 IPO. The move aims to retain talent as the company aggressively invests to compete in AI.
Tencent Poaches ByteDance Seed AI Engineers
Tencent has hired multiple core engineers from ByteDance's Seed AI team in areas like visual AI platforms, infrastructure engineering, training infrastructure, and reinforcement learning algorithms. This talent acquisition accelerates Tencent's large language model development. The company plans to launch its next-generation Hunyuan 3.0 in Q2.
Disney CEO Hits Fortnite, OpenAI Snags Early
New Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro faces two faltering billion-dollar tech bets in his first week. Issues involve Fortnite partnership and OpenAI deal, with one fully unraveling.
Teens Build AI Ransomware Vaccine
Three post-00s founders from a high school club developed Siwuting's ransomware 'vaccine' using key capture and AI adversarial training to recover enterprise data. The firm has served 500+ global clients, generating 20M RMB revenue in 2025. Expanding to overseas markets and AI security.
Horizon's 100B Valuation, Profitability Awaits
Horizon Robotics achieves a 100 billion RMB valuation. Revenue has grown significantly. However, profitability remains elusive.
AWS Launches Plugins for Claude Code & Cursor
AWS released 'Agent Plugins for AWS' integrating AWS architecture design, cost estimation, IaC code generation, and deployment execution into Claude Code and Cursor. This enables seamless end-to-end AWS workflows within these AI coding tools.
Embodied AI Firm Raises 100M+ RMB
Guangxiang Tech, founded by ex-Alibaba exec and Tsinghua professor, completed multiple funding rounds exceeding 100M RMB led by IDG Capital. Funds target self-learning industrial robots for auto manufacturing using RL and sim-to-real transfer. Aims for 1,000+ robot deployments in auto factories within 3 years.
Token Costs Spark DeepSeek Nostalgia
Rising token consumption and costs in Agent apps like OpenClaw create user anxiety, contrasting past DeepSeek-V2 price wars that slashed prices to 1% of GPT-4. Storage bottlenecks like HBM surges hinder token price drops until 2028+. Optimizations like MFU boosts and smaller models offer relief.
Amity Raises $100M for IPO Push
Thai startup Amity, which builds and integrates generative AI for businesses, raised $100 million. The funding supports preparations for a stock-market debut and accelerates product rollout.
Hitachi's LogiRiSM AI Boosts Logistics 4x
Hitachi announced LogiRiSM, a transport plan optimization AI engine that evolves logistics center material handling equipment into physical AI. It monitors equipment states in real-time, achieving about 4x productivity in sorting tasks.
SK Hynix: AI Drives Long-term Memory Boom
SK Hynix states that AI will expand memory demand in the medium to long term. HBM is expected to remain a key growth driver in the memory market through 2026.
Nvidia L4 Strategy Misunderstood
Nvidia's L4 strategy has been widely misunderstood. The company has been deeply invested in autonomous driving for over a decade. This analysis corrects misconceptions about their long-term approach.
Openreach Scales Google AI for Fiber Fleet
Openreach expands Google Cloud partnership using AI to speed fiber broadband rollout and cut emissions. AI analyzes routes, idling, and faults for its 24,000-truck fleet traveling 200M miles yearly.
OpenAI Foundation Unveils $25B AI Research Roadmap
OpenAI Foundation announced a $25B investment in AI research, starting with $1B next year, post-recapitalization where it holds equity in for-profit OpenAI. Focus areas include AI resiliency in biosecurity, model safety, and impacts on children/youth, plus life sciences for disease research. This roadmap aims to build safeguards, shared data ecosystems, and serve as a blueprint for AI development.
TikTok Launches US Self-Made Short Dramas
TikTok is recruiting actors for its first self-produced short drama series in the US, styled as a soap opera. The platform filed a 'TikTok Drama' trademark last year and currently features AI-enhanced third-party short dramas. This move comes amid a booming $1.4B US micro-short drama market.
Safari 26.4 Restores Compact Tabs, Adds Web APIs
Safari 26.4 fixes 191 bugs and adds 44 features, including compact tab layout revival on macOS. Key additions: CSS Grid Lanes for layouts, WebTransport for low-latency, and Keyboard Lock API for web apps. Deprecated FontFaceSet constructor removed.
Shenzhen Pushes 1.6T Optical Modules
Shenzhen's action plan accelerates AI server chain by upgrading optical modules from 800G to 1.6T/3.2T. Supports mass production of 800G+ modules and advances silicon photonics, CPO/LPO. Boosts core tech like thin-film lithium niobate and InP.
AstraZeneca-Tsinghua Launch AI Drug Center
AstraZeneca and Tsinghua University signed a cooperation agreement to establish the Tsinghua AIR-AstraZeneca AI Drug R&D Joint Center. The center focuses on AI-driven molecule research, translational medicine, and clinical innovation. It aims to integrate AI agents across the full drug development pipeline, shifting from single-step to global decision-making.
AI Drives Efficiency via Unemployment
UK data reveals rising unemployment alongside productivity gains, mirroring France's capital-deepening model where high labor costs spur automation. AI accelerates this labor substitution, potentially displacing more cognitive jobs than it creates. Article explores UBI and redefining work's meaning in AI era.