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Disney Appoints Its First CTO, Hiring Former Character.AI CEO Anand to Strengthen AI Push

Disney announced that Karan Deepsingh Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, will become the company's first Chief Technology Officer on October 2, reporting directly to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Anand will oversee enterprise technology, infrastructure, data and AI platforms, as well as product and engineering, and Disney has also hired some members of Character.AI's technical team. Notably, Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter last year over unauthorized use of Disney-owned characters.

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'Workslop' Flying Around: Tech Leaders Who Once Embraced AI Are Starting to Hit the Brakes

Fortune reports that tech leaders who once touted AI as the key to unlocking employee potential are changing their tune. Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke now criticizes staff for passing along unchecked AI emails and code as 'junk grenades,' while Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn has walked back his 'AI-first' rhetoric, admitting roughly 20% of AI output at scale is junk. A survey of 962 US full-time office workers by BetterUp Labs and Stanford's Social Media Lab found 52.7% had sent AI 'workslop' to colleagues and 38% had received it, spending 3.4 hours a month fixing it.

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Tech Giants Call for an AI Slowdown; Acer Chairman Chen Junsheng Says It's Unlikely — Technology Will Only Accelerate

Recently, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Tesla's Elon Musk have successively called for slowing the pace of developing the most advanced AI. Acer founder Stan Shih argues that technological progress cannot really be stopped, while Acer chairman Chen Junsheng says flatly that a slowdown is 'unlikely' because technology will only move faster, with the key being effective governance along the way. Shih also noted that even if AI development slowed, Taiwan's production capacity would not be enough to support its pace.

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Sinolink Securities: 'AI Compute Demand Drives High-End PCB Capacity Expansion — Analysis of New Technology Tracks in PCB Equipment'

Sinolink Securities published a research note arguing that AI compute demand is driving high-end printed circuit board (PCB) makers to expand capacity, and analysing new technology tracks in PCB equipment. It is a sell-side supply-chain review and discloses no specific investment figures or financial data.

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After Yao Xingcheng: The Middle Tier of AI Talent Begins to Lose Value

A TMTPost article argues that the AI talent market is polarizing: demand is strong at the very top and at the entry level, while mid-tier AI workers are losing scarcity and bargaining power. Using cases such as Yao Xingcheng as a starting point, it discusses shifting hiring and pay expectations across the AI industry.

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A Wild Year for AI Headhunters: 3 Million Yuan Commission per Placement, Hundreds of Recruiters Chasing One Role

A TMTPost feature describes the red-hot market for AI talent recruiting: a single placement can earn a headhunter a commission of 3 million RMB, with hundreds of recruiters competing for the same role. The piece focuses on the earnings and competition inside the AI headhunting trade, illustrating the intensity of the scramble for AI talent.

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang Pushes Back on Calls to Slow AI Development, Says 2030 Won't Be the Apocalypse

In a CBS "Sunday Morning" interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said "2030 will not be the apocalypse" and pushed back on calls to slow AI development over safety concerns. His remarks respond to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's Sept. 12 essay "We Must Control the Frontier," which urged coordinated controls and a slower pace for frontier model development and was endorsed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Huang also said nobody in China talks about "AI doomerism," calling China's narrative far more pragmatic.

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Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

TechCrunch AI reports that Accenture is set to become Anthropic's first "embedded evaluator," described as the highest-risk consulting engagement Accenture has ever taken on. The excerpt discloses no deal value, valuation, or investment size — only the arrangement itself.

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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

TechCrunch reports that companies in the world-models space are sitting on piles of cash and plenty of buzz, yet neither founders nor even their data suppliers will say what they are actually building. The piece focuses on the widespread opacity across this segment.

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The Fed Just Revealed Something Big About the AI Boom

An InvestorPlace piece highlights a less obvious point Fed Chair Warsh raised about the spending behind the AI buildout, and where investors should focus in this market. The headline suggests the Fed revealed something significant about the AI boom, though the excerpt offers no figures or firm conclusions.

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AI is now leading driver of new cybersecurity spending

According to research from IANS and Artico Search, AI has become the leading driver of new cybersecurity spending, even as overall security investment growth remains relatively modest. This suggests AI-related demand is reallocating enterprise IT budgets rather than expanding them dramatically.

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While AI Goes Cloud, Anker Brings Computing Home

The article discusses Anker's strategy of deploying computing power locally (edge computing) amid the general trend of AI moving to the cloud. This reflects the demand for low latency and privacy in AI applications, and the rise of edge AI.

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DeepSeek Expands Hiring by About 150

DeepSeek is hiring about 150 people, focusing on senior engineers with 2-10 years of experience, covering roles such as backend development and agent elastic computing. This indicates continued investment in model R&D and engineering.

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Huawei Qiankun ADAS and Harmony Cockpit Reach 2 Million Milestone

Huawei's Intelligent Automotive Solution BU announced that its Qiankun ADAS and Harmony Cockpit installations, along with Qiankun App users, have simultaneously reached 2 million. The cumulative mileage of Qiankun ADAS has exceeded 42.7 billion kilometers, with 6.4 million potential collisions avoided. Huawei executives stated that they will invest 70-80 billion yuan in computing power R&D over the next five years.

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