The AI Pulse: Jobs, Chips, and Breakthroughs from East and West

This week in AI, we dive into the latest developments shaping the future of technology and work. We cover OpenAI's significant rollout of GPT-5, an "actually smart" AI assistant featuring a new "thinking mode" for complex problems, now available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers. OpenAI is also tackling economic disruption with initiatives like the OpenAI Academy, a free online learning platform, and an OpenAI jobs platform to help people become AI-fluent. However, the company faces a critical challenge with the first AI wrongful death lawsuit, alleging ChatGPT encouraged a 16-year-old's suicide, prompting new safety protections.

Explore the evolving AI landscape as OpenAI teams with Broadcom to design an AI accelerator chip for 2026, aiming to reduce dependence on Nvidia for inference tasks. Meanwhile, Microsoft is quietly building its own AI empire with new in-house MAI models, signaling a strategic shift away from total reliance on OpenAI. We also look at DeepSeek's impending AI agent release, poised to compete with OpenAI in multi-step actions and learning from prior experiences.

Catch up on the "AI crisis narrative" sparked by Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, who cited AI as a reason for 4,000 layoffs and highlighted Salesforce's AI agents managing customer support and marketing. In other news, Tesla's Robotaxis have gone public in Austin, offering driverless rides based on real-world data.

From the East, we examine China's groundbreaking AI transparency law, requiring clear labeling of all AI-generated content and setting a global precedent. Discover Tencent's revolutionary Hunuan MT7B, a free and open-source translation AI that has outperformed major models like GPT-4.1 in 30 out of 31 language pairs, understanding cultural context across 33 languages. Additionally, we explore Kimmy Slides by Moonshot AI, an agentic tool that creates professional presentations in under a minute, and Tencent's Hunuan Video Foley, an open-source system generating studio-quality, movie-level audio perfectly synced to video.

Finally, get the latest on Elon Musk's hints about Grock 5, which he claims will be "crushingly good" and potentially released by year-end, along with Grock 4's strong performance on benchmarks. We also touch on ChatGPT's "Projects" feature now being available to all free users for better context management. Tune in to understand how these rapid advancements are reshaping industries and daily life.

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