29 maart 2026 · 14:31

AI Competitive Advantage, Eric Schmidt Code Generation & Chinese Robots

The State of Tech — The European Edition of Sunday 29 March 2026: Competitive advantages in AI now last weeks instead of years, forcing companies into a brutal elimination game. Eric Schmidt reveals that top programmers no longer write code but instead direct AI systems to generate it. Meanwhile, China aggressively pursues home robotics and swarm intelligence, Samsung and SK Hynix expand Chinese chip plants to address the global AI memory shortage, Elon Musk proposes massive "Terafabs" to solve semiconductor constraints, and Pizza Hut launches a fully AI-generated podcast, signalling mainstream acceptance of synthetic media.