China AI Digest (Jul 26, 2026)

Three podcasts, one coming-of-age: AI gets a financial adviser, a writing tutor, and pocket money. AI Weekly Talk walks the robot-crowded halls of WAIC Shanghai and asks the three questions that kill FOMO: good tech ≠ good business ≠ good company ≠ good price. Valley 101 meets the "content engineers" — ex-journalists like Tony Lin and NBCUniversal's Bianca Consunji who write the taste that makes models feel human. What's Next charts agent payments' U-turn: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, OpenAI and Google all built agent wallets within six months, with Clink as the ramp between protocol highways.