China AI Digest (Sep 11, 2026)

Three podcasts, one uncomfortable pattern: every decision that mattered was made before the evidence that would justify it existed. On Crossing, Kuaikan founder Chen Anni describes pulling her best-performing content out of her own recommendation engine, absorbing a 30% data drop, and watching IP revenue pass half the business four years later — and now betting the next chapter on Livo, an AI world whose headline feature is called Destiny. AI Weekly Talk reconstructs OpenAI's three escalations — structure, scale, compute — and lands on the number nobody models: roughly 10GW contracted, fewer than 2GW actually plugged in. And on What's Next, GenBio AI's Song Le explains why AI can already do a junior doctoral student's job, yet still cannot do what Mendel did with a 3:1 ratio in a garden.