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Chinese tech giants block AI during gaokao
Plus: Altman's bold predictions
Amandeep Singh
June 11, 2025
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📚 China blocks AI during exams
🤖 OpenAI CEO claims we've crossed the AI Horizon.
🍕 xPizza Cube automates restaurant prep tasks.
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AI benched for the gaokao.
In a move that might surprise no one (but still feels wild), China’s biggest AI players just shut down their tools during one of the most high-stakes events of the year — the gaokao.
Over 13 million students are taking this brutal university entrance exam. And to keep things fair, tech giants like ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba hit pause on AI features that could help students cheat.
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🤖 AI tools blocked:
❌ ByteDance's Doubao
❌ Alibaba’s Qwen
❌ DeepSeek & Moonshot’s Kimi
❌ Tencent’s Yuanbao
These tools refused to:
📷 Analyze test images
❓ Answer exam-style questions
📵 Provide study hacks
📅 When?
🗓️ June 7–10
⏱️ During active exam hours
💬 Users received system messages:
“Feature temporarily unavailable to ensure fairness.”
🕵️♂️ Anti-cheat upgrades:
Authorities also used:
👁️ AI surveillance
📸 Photo monitoring
🧠 Behavior detection tech
Inside real exam halls. Yes, really.
💡 Why it matters:
AI is shaking up education systems 🌍
Old-school tests can’t keep up.
Cheating gets easier.
Enforcement gets smarter.
The future of school? Under construction 🚧
📣 TL;DR:
AI took a time-out —
so 13 million students couldn’t cheat their way to college. 🎓
Welcome to exams in the age of AI.
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SAM ALTMAN
AI isn’t coming. It’s already here — and OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says we’ve officially hit the point of no return.
In a new blog post titled “The Gentle Singularity,” Altman claims the AI event horizon is behind us. What lies ahead? Superintelligence — and a complete reshaping of society.
But here's the twist: he thinks we’ll handle it just fine.
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🌀 “The Gentle Singularity”
In his new blog post, Altman reveals a surprising future:
AI will reshape society — but in a way we can adapt to.
“What once amazed us becomes routine.” – Sam Altman
📅 The Timeline
Here’s what’s coming, fast:
🔹 2026 – AI starts generating original ideas
🔹 2027 – Real-world robots begin functioning at scale
🔹 2030s – Intelligence & energy become abundant
🪫 AI costs ≈ Electricity costs
🧠 The Big Plan
1️⃣ Solve AI alignment — so it works with us
2️⃣ Make AI cheap, safe & widely accessible
3️⃣ No single owner — power must be shared
😨 But What About the Dystopia?
Altman isn’t worried.
People adapt fast to new AI.
And he believes that will continue — even as intelligence explodes.
🌍 A New Era, Not a Collapse
We’re not sprinting into a sci-fi nightmare.
We’re gliding into a smarter, more capable world.
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