Five Things AI: AI Race, AI Policy, Chinese Talent, Juniors, Novelists

Everything you need to know about AI this week. Really.

Heya and welcome back to Five Things AI!

AI is still speeding ahead faster than common sense can keep up. The BBC looks at the trillion‑dollar AI race and wonders if the whole thing might be a bubble, while Derek Thompson points out the absurd contradictions in Washington’s AI strategy -free trade for chips, protectionism for everything else. The New York Times shows that Chinese researchers quietly continue to power America’s AI progress, politics be damned. Meanwhile, Gen Z workers are learning the hard way that building the best AI tool might still get you fired, as one young consultant at PwC discovered. And finally, British novelists are bracing for digital doppelgängers, though maybe they should realize that AI can be a very mighty tool for them.

Enjoy this edition of Five Things AI!