8 Point 1氪丨Analyst Exposes Apple Vision Pro Product Line Being Removed; Jensen Huang to Appear on Variety Show for the First Time; Fenbi CEO Apologizes for Calling Unemployed College Students 'Deserve to Not Find Work'
Apple has finally admitted an awkward truth: people simply don't want to strap an expensive, bulky helmet on their heads to "step into the future." According to the latest supply chain survey, the Vision Pro product line has been completely wiped from Apple's roadmap, with resources shifting toward screenless AI glasses expected to launch in 2027. This decision comes two full years late. That ambitious vision of ushering in "the era of spatial computing" now looks more like an expensive piece of
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While Silicon Valley debates whether glasses should have screens, Jensen Huang has flown to Seoul, raising glasses with Korean chaebols at a barbecue joint and even planning to appear on Yoo Jae-suk's variety show. The NVIDIA CEO's "entertainment debut" is no spur-of-the-moment decision. It's a natural extension of the intensifying battle for AI compute: collaborations with SK and LG target the AI semiconductor supply chain, while variety show exposure directly battles for the public's mindshare. A tech leader's personal charisma is becoming a more effective business weapon than technical specs. Bill Gates appeared on this same show last year; now it's Huang's turn. This has become a ritual: if you want to sell chips in the Asian market, you first need to learn how to dance with the entertainment industry. This effortless cross-industry grace itself announces a new rule: in the AI era, a CEO must simultaneously be a product manager, diplomat, and celebrity.
But the world of AI deployment isn't all glamorous. Chalk CEO Zhang Xiaolong's speech at the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China turned into a classic case study of poor entrepreneurial EQ. Flaunting wealth, insulting students by saying they "deserved to be jobless"—these remarks stand in absurd contrast to his identity as CEO of an education technology company. Education should empower, yet he used the most brutal means to humiliate. What's even more ironic is that this disaster unfolded at a top-tier university's philosophy school—a place meant to explore human value and dignity. No matter how sincere the apology letter, it cannot erase the harsh words caught on tape. This incident brutally reveals that while many tech nouveau riche are sprinting ahead on capital, their humanistic literacy and empathy remain in a primitive stage. Technical capability does not equate to the ability to be a good human—a lesson every tech company needs to learn.
Meanwhile, WeChat's collaboration with manufacturers like Huawei and Xiaomi to launch Agent-to-Agent assistant capabilities might be the most noteworthy undercurrent on this list. When you can directly tell your phone's voice assistant, "Use WeChat to video call Mom," it means a breach has been blown in the wall between the mobile operating system and the super app. This is no longer a simple API call—it's direct dialogue between intelligent agents. Honor devices can already perform this operation via YOYO. Behind this lies WeChat's reimagining of traffic entry points: it doesn't want to just be an app you open; it wants to become the ubiquitous "service air." For phone manufacturers, this is a golden opportunity to boost user stickiness; for WeChat, it's a moat defending against erosion by super apps like Douyin. The most subtle aspect of this collaboration is that it breaks China's long-standing "walled garden" rules—and the catalyst is AI. When AI becomes the interaction hub, closed ecosystems must find open interfaces.
On another front, ByteDance's four goals for 2026—world models, video generation, coding, and Doubao commercialization—clearly outline the company's anxieties and ambitions. The world model aims to rival Google's Genie 3, video generation must maintain its lead, coding seeks to build a closed development loop, and commercialization targets the office scenario. The level of detail in this roadmap reads almost like a military plan. Of particular note is the phrase "Coding dogfooding": letting AI itself refine programming tools, using the company's own products to train itself. If this "eat your own dog food" strategy succeeds, it could create a powerful data flywheel. ByteDance is transforming from a content distribution giant into an infrastructure company for the AI era, and commercialization in the office scene is clearly the most handy lever for penetrating the B2B market.
While tech giants map out the future in boardrooms, a UN report delivers a stark warning: by 2030, AI data centers will consume as much water as 1.3 billion people need for a year. As we marvel at AI-generated HD videos and smooth conversations, we're invisibly overdrafting the planet's blue blood. Data from China Literature shows that AI short dramas have become the largest token-consuming scenario, accounting for 55%—more than double the consumption of coding. This is pure dark humor: humanity is using massive energy and water resources primarily to produce melodramatic three-minute episodes. The value direction of technology is being ruthlessly twisted by the market—what drives instant traffic and ad revenue is often the most superficial application. Goldman Sachs predicts SpaceX will "burn through" $350 billion by 2030, with 80% going to AI. At this scale of capital investment, if it ultimately serves only entertainment-to-death content and convenience for a select elite, we may need to recalculate the true cost of this technological revolution.
Returning to WeChat's A2A collaboration: it may symbolize a more pragmatic path for AI implementation—not chasing flashy sci-fi vibes, but solving fundamental needs like "how to more easily video call Mom." While giants race to build world models and pursue the grand narrative of AGI, the real revolution may be happening in these capillary-level connections. When different AI assistants can shake hands, converse, and relay information on our behalf, a more complex and convenient digital society will truly begin to take shape. Just don't forget: behind every intelligent interaction lies real costs in energy consumption, data privacy, and humanistic ethics. As the wheels of technology roll forward, we must both admire the new landscapes they reveal and stay vigilant about the tracks they leave behind.
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