O fundador da ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, recuperou o primeiro lugar na lista dos mais ricos da China, impulsionado pelo avanço de sua empresa em IA  (inteligência artificial).

Os rankings divulgados pelo Instituto de Pesquisa Hurun nesta terça-feira (27) refletiram que os setores de alta tecnologia do país estavam em ascensão, enquanto outros, como consumo e imobiliário, estavam sob pressão.

O instituto, que publica a lista anualmente desde 1999, encontrou um recorde de 1.529 pessoas com mais de 5 bilhões de yuans (cerca de US$ 750 milhões), um aumento de 6,6% em relação ao ano passado.

O número de bilionários com base em seu patrimônio líquido em dólares americanos subiu para 1.176, um aumento de 155 pessoas – 176 a mais que os Estados Unidos. Isso foi ligeiramente abaixo das 1.185 pessoas em 2021.

Zhang liderou a lista com US$ 100 bilhões, um aumento de 43%, “quase tudo graças à IA”, e o valor foi um recorde para a pessoa mais rica da China, disse Rupert Hoogewerf, presidente do Hurun Report, em um comunicado. Hoogewerf observou que o Doubao da ByteDance é o assistente de IA mais usado na China.

A ByteDance também é a empresa-mãe das populares plataformas de vídeos curtos Douyin e TikTok.

O magnata do setor de água engarrafada Zhong Shanshan caiu para o segundo lugar com US$ 61 bilhões, enquanto Robin Zeng, presidente da CATL, o maior fabricante mundial de baterias para veículos elétricos, ficou em terceiro.

Já o fundador da startup chinesa de inteligência artificial DeepSeek, Liang Wenfeng, novidade na lista, ficou em sétimo lugar. O presidente da fabricante de chips de IA Cambricon, Chen Tianshi, ficou em décimo.

“Os ganhos deste ano foram polarizados: empreendedores em IA, semicondutores e robótica avançaram, enquanto aqueles em consumo, imobiliário e manufatura tradicional viram sua riqueza encolher”, disse Hoogewerf.

Hoogewerf ainda disse que Lei Jun, presidente da fabricante chinesa de eletrônicos de consumo inteligente Xiaomi, foi o “maior perdedor” deste ano, com sua riqueza reduzida pela metade para US$ 25,1 bilhões. Fonte: Associated Press

*Conteúdo traduzido com auxílio de Inteligência Artificial, revisado e editado pela Redação do Broadcast, sistema de notícias em tempo real do Grupo Estado

The second edition of Venezuela’s International Festival of Arts and Disability, “DiverFest,” will take place from November 2 to 21, featuring performances in dance, theater, and pantomime, alongside workshops, talks, and virtual activities focused on cultural inclusion. The European Union (EU) delegation in Caracas announced on Tuesday that it is supporting the event in collaboration with the organizers.

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The festival will be divided into three phases. From November 2 to 6, the first stage will focus on direct engagement, research, and the exchange of knowledge with individuals with Down syndrome.

Between November 11 and 15, there will be an intensive program of dance, theater, and pantomime, as well as workshops, discussions, conferences, and book presentations. According to the EU, these activities will center on art, disability, and technological innovation as applied to this sector.

The third stage, scheduled for November 17 to 21, will be primarily virtual, with the exception of an in-person closing event. It will include workshops on inclusive dance and the use of sign language in theater, with activities specifically designed for people with disabilities, those with limited mobility, or those living in other regions of the country.

The text reads, “Art knows no barriers or labels! The second edition of El DiverFest—the International Festival of Arts and Disability in Venezuela—presents three weeks of talent, music, theater, dance, and diversity.”

Partnerships and Community Participation

DiverFest is the result of a cooperation project between Producciones DV and the French Embassy in Venezuela, with the support of the civil association Apoye. For this edition, the festival has expanded its reach by bringing in the EU delegation in Caracas as a new partner.

The first edition was held in 2025; since its inception, the event has been dedicated to highlighting, promoting, and empowering the artistic talent of people with disabilities, fostering cultural inclusion and equal opportunity through the performing and visual arts, the European delegation noted.

Meanwhile, the Kümelen Day Center will present an arts festival titled A Journey Through Time ( in spanish Un viaje en el tiempo), featuring individuals with functional diversity. The event will bring together music, dance, theater, and audiovisual media at the Sala Payró in the Teatro Auditorium.

The program will include a tango performance coordinated by Germán Suárez, a choreographed piece set to Astor Piazzolla’s “Adiós Nonino,” a theatrical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, the audiovisual projection Changing Channels ( in spanish Cambiando de dial), and a stage production titled Between Seasons ( in spanish Entre estaciones). The event will conclude with a musical performance by the guest group Aunquinco Malambo.

Actor says she was told to ‘lay off the chips’ if she wanted to Juliet

• Nate Soares said he stopped adding to his 401(k) because AI may kill us within a decade.
• The MIRI president said humanity has a more than 50% chance of dying within a decade.
• Elon Musk said AI could make retirement savings irrelevant by creating an age of abundance.

Saving for retirement is a bet on the future. Nate Soares, the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, isn't so sure AI will let us get that far.

"I do not save for retirement right now. I have a 401(k) from when I worked at Google, but I haven't contributed for a decade," Soares told The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson in a recent interview for Thompson's "The Most Interesting Thing in AI" series.

Soares' decision reflects a grim view of the AI race.

"Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton and Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger have, respectively, put the odds of AI killing everyone within a decade at 10% and more than 10%. Soares is more pessimistic: He told Thompson he believes there is a greater-than-50% chance AI causes human extinction in less than a decade.

Soares, who is also the coauthor of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies," has spent more than 12 years working on AI alignment, the field focused on ensuring powerful systems act as intended. Before joining MIRI, the Berkeley-based nonprofit focused on AI risks, he worked as an engineer at Google and Microsoft.

Soares said that a sufficiently capable AI could develop goals at odds with humanity's, evade oversight, improve itself, and build the automated infrastructure needed to operate without people.

From there, he said, it could reshape the planet around its own objectives, potentially making it uninhabitable for humans — a warning he shared with Business Insider last year.

A 401(k) for the apocalypse?

The question of how AI will shape the future has also prompted Elon Musk to question whether retirement savings will matter. Musk's vision of the future, however, is radically different than Soares'.

In January, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said people should not worry about "squirreling money away for retirement" in 10 or 20 years, predicting advances in AI, robotics, and energy will make retirement savings "irrelevant." (Personal finance experts and AI gurus told Business Insider the opposite: You really should be saving for retirement.)

Musk has said that supercharged productivity could create an age of abundance, in which everyone has access to a "universal high income," cheap goods and services, and better healthcare and education.

Musk has also said money could become irrelevant in a future where AI and robots outperform humans at virtually every task.

For Soares, the prospect of a vastly capable AI is an existential danger, not a route to plenty.

Echoing calls from tech leaders to "pace the frontier" of AI development, Soares said governments should halt the training of general-purpose AI systems. They should focus on developing technology for applications like cancer research and safer self-driving cars, he said.

The solution, he told Thompson on Wednesday, "is to not build the thing that would kill everybody."

"I do everything I can to stop this eventuality," he said. "I don't think it's inevitable."