AI's Split-Screen Day: A Preview of the New Global Power Balance
If you wanted a single day that captured where the AI race stands in mid-2026, this week delivered it. On the same 24-hour stretch, China’s president stepped onto a stage he’d skipped for eight years, and Google watched roughly $200 billion evaporate from its market cap. Two very different signals, one unmistakable message: the balance of power in AI is shifting, and it isn’t shifting in one…












