China AI Digest (Jun 7, 2026)

Three podcasts catch AI growing up — past the benchmark, into the real world. What's Next interviews Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on the "one-person company": he runs a roughly twenty-million-dollar business with three engineers, argues a technical founder's first hire should be sales not engineering, and imagines AI as CEO with the human free to be a craftsman again. Dafang reports Chinese AI video leaving the leaderboard for the industrial production line — Seedance 2.0, Kling and rivals now shipping real short dramas in about two weeks. And ChinaTalk unpacks Pope Leo's encyclical calling AI humanity's greatest challenge, his call to "disarm AI", and the striking idea of the Vatican mediating between the US and China.