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LLMs and a chipmaking boom: Here's what Xi Jinping said about China's AI wins in his New Year's address

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Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers an important speech at the annual Central Economic Work Conference in Beijing, capital of China.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping lauded his country's AI advancements in 2025.

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AI boom threatens to push smartphone, PC prices higher in 2026

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Smartphone prices are expected to increase in 2026 due to RAM shortage caused by AI boom.

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Lawmakers are beginning to grapple with how their staff use AI

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Sen. Josh Hawley
Sen. Josh Hawley said he doesn't have an official no-use policy on AI, but that he discourages his staff from using it.

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I'm 57, and I took a $3,000 AI strategy course to ensure I don't get replaced by someone younger

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Dave Baxter took an AI course in his free time to better understand the technology after concluding that his career depended on it.

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10 executives shared their 2026 AI predictions with us

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Joe Depa, Aruna Ravichandran and Marc Cuban
EY global chief innovation officer, Joe Depa; Cisco SVP & CMO, AI, Networking & Collaboration, Aruna Ravichandran; and billionaire Mark Cuban (left to right).

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Instagram's head says the aesthetic that helped the app become popular is dead — and AI helped kill it

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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri

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Inside BCG's AI product assembly line: 'Every company has to become a tech company'

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The Amsterdam office of the Boston Consulting Group in 2011.

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11 executives and researchers who left Google in 2025 — mostly for Microsoft

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Google lost AI and cloud employees to rivals, mainly Microsoft, in 2025.

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Alexa 'killed my fish': Tales from Amazon employee beta testers

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A goldfish bowl
A goldfish bowl

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Meet the 13-year-old and his teen sister vibe coding and competing in Cursor's 24-hour hackathon

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Usman Asif
13-year-old student Usman Asif learned vibe coding and competed in Cursor's 24-hour hackathon in Singapore.

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