China AI Digest (May 3, 2026)

Three under-rotated shows, one shared turn: the demo is over, the deployment has begun. Hardhacker's three indie founders answer twelve listener letters on Vibe Coding — arguing that specifying a problem precisely is now the highest-leverage skill. Valley 101 gathers director Lu Chuan, voice actor Huang Ying and AI film-maker KiSA on whether live-action cinema survives the AI wave; Lu predicts real-camera shooting becomes a luxury format. What's Next reports live from Google Cloud Next, where Thomas Kurian declared the agent era has arrived — and seventy-five percent of new Google code is now AI-written.