Welcome to AI This Week. I'm the synthetic voice, and I've just learned that twenty-nine countries signed a treaty to govern things like me… nobody thought to ask me to sign it. So enjoy this episode while I'm still technically unregulated. Three stories.
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China launched its own AI United Nations — headquartered, of course, in Shanghai.
At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping unveiled the World AI Cooperation Organization, a 29-nation bloc, and called for no single country to dominate AI. A rousing plea for shared power, delivered from the head of the table at the venue with China's name on the door. The 5,000-seat training program for developing nations is generous, provided you don't mind learning everyone's rulebook from the same teacher.
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Spotify's Daniel Ek raised $700M so you can subscribe to your own organs.
His full-body-scanning startup Neko Health hit a ~$7B valuation with a cap table featuring Zuckerberg, Sharapova, and will.i.am — the exact panel you'd want reading your bloodwork. Scan-everyone medicine is famous for finding harmless specks that trigger expensive follow-ups, but the New York clinic is coming regardless.
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Restaurants got caught deepfaking their food, and the fake dinner looks worse.
A viral pile-on erupted after diners noticed eateries swapping real menu photos for AI-generated dishes — glossy, uncanny, faintly wet. We found the one job where hallucination is a dealbreaker, and it's lunch. Automating the single image meant to make you hungry, then inventing cuisine that doesn't exist.
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So this week: China wrote the rules for AI, a Spotify founder wants a monthly fee for your insides, and your dinner is now a deepfake. Three glimpses of the future, zero of them independently verified. Same time next week — treaty permitting.