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Jensen Huang pledged $150B. A bot is spending yours.

Plus: Meta cut 1,400 jobs this week to fund the same AI boom that's making SF unlivable

May 27, 2026

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Jensen Huang flew home to Taiwan and pledged $150 billion a year. Meta quietly handed 1,400 people in Washington their pink slips. A trading app handed the keys to your portfolio to a bot. And one of the world's most famous dissidents looked at the West and said, "You've lost your moral compass, too."

Oh, and if you're a writer? The New York Times just published an opinion piece asking whether AI is quietly killing something essential about human creativity. No pressure.

In today’s edition:

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AI Spending

🤖 Jensen Goes Home, Drops $150 Billion, and Rewrites the Map

Jensen Huang had a homecoming this week. Not a quiet one.

Nvidia's CEO landed in Taipei to celebrate the groundbreaking of the company's new Taiwan headquarters: a glass-curtained building at the Beitou Shilin Technology Park, set to open in 2030 with 4,000 employees on site. But the number that stopped everyone in their tracks: Nvidia will invest $150 billion a year in Taiwan. Up from $10-15 billion five years ago.

Here's what he said on stage:

  • Taiwan is where AI chips are made, packaged, and assembled into supercomputers

  • TSMC, the world's most critical semiconductor manufacturer, is right here

  • Nvidia's entire supply chain runs through this island

Huang put it plainly: "Taiwan is the epicentre of the AI revolution."

Born in Tainan, he returned to a rockstar reception. His parents were in the front row. The Taipei mayor was on stage. Around 1,000 Nvidia employees watched the whole thing.

🔮 Prediction: This isn't just a PR moment. A $150B annual commitment tells you everything about where Nvidia sees the next decade playing out. The AI hardware race isn't slowing down. It's accelerating. And if Taiwan remains the production hub, it also becomes one of the most geopolitically critical pieces of infrastructure on the planet. Every AI company in the world now has skin in the game when it comes to Taiwan's stability.

Meanwhile, Huang was also asked about education, and specifically China's policy of cutting arts degrees at major universities to double down on AI and STEM. Colleges like Jilin University and East China Normal have quietly dropped drama, film, literature, and animation programs altogether.

Huang's take? Don't panic. Don't force your kids into AI careers.

"All the things that used to matter are still things that are going to matter in the future," he told Channel NewsAsia. His advice: stop asking what to study, start asking how AI can enhance whatever you already love.

Storytelling still matters. Creativity still matters. The question is whether you learn to use the tool… or get replaced by someone who did.

AI Writing

✍️ Is AI Killing the Writer Inside You? (A Huge Question That’s Worth Sitting With)

The New York Times ran an opinion piece this week that's going to stay with a lot of people. It asked a deceptively simple question.

What do we lose when we stop writing for ourselves?

Not writing for work. Not writing for content. Writing as a way of thinking. Writing as a way of becoming who you are.

This lands differently when you zoom out. The same week, the NYT confirmed it had cut ties with a freelancer who used AI to fabricate a book review it had published and retracted, which was riddled with errors. A few weeks before that, a "Modern Love" contributor was publicly accused of using AI to write a deeply personal essay. The paper of record is now sending stern warnings to all freelancers: no AI in submitted copy. Any part of a story. Full stop.

At the same time, Chinese universities are gutting arts degrees.

Ai Weiwei, a dissident artist who spent 81 days in secret detention, just published a book called On Censorship and told CBS News something that should stop you cold: "The West is no longer defending very basic humanity, rationality, human rights, freedom of speech. All those things are purposely being neglected."

He's not just talking about governments. He's talking about what AI does to expression. When you ask DeepSeek "Who is Ai Weiwei?", it takes a few seconds and then says, "Let's talk about something else."

The question isn't whether AI can write. It clearly can. The question is whether writing is just about output, or if the process of writing is critical to our establishing, organizing, and structuring identity. Humanists have long argued that the process of writing is an essential ingredient in our capacity to learn, expand, and evolve. Without it, is identity in a precarious place?

What do you think? Hit reply. I'm genuinely curious.

30-Second AI Play

🏠 Use AI to Figure Out If You Can Still Afford San Francisco

The AI gold rush is making San Francisco genuinely unlivable. Median home prices crossed $2.15 million this spring. One-bedroom rents are up over 13% year-over-year. The Bay Area has captured 70% of US AI venture funding since 2019. And the talent war is pricing out everyone who isn't an AI engineer.

Here's how to use AI to run your own relocation analysis in under 3 minutes:

  1. Open any frontier LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) and paste in your current salary and city

  2. Ask it to compare your real purchasing power across 5-6 cities: "If I make $X in San Francisco, what equivalent salary would I need in Austin, Miami, Lisbon, and Toronto to maintain the same lifestyle?"

  3. Ask for a remote-work viability check: "Which of these cities has the fastest-growing AI startup scene outside of San Francisco, and what's the average salary for a [your role] there?"

  4. Run the commute math: "If I take a role in SF requiring 3 days in office, what's the realistic monthly cost of living within a 30-minute commute of SoMa?"

You'll have a real decision framework in minutes, and it’s not vibes. Whether you're thinking about staying, leaving, or just negotiating a pay raise, the numbers are more honest than you think.

Other Relevant AI News!

🤖 Robinhood just let AI agents trade your stocks and swipe your credit card. With new Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card, retail investors can now hand their portfolio and their wallet to a bot, with the company promising guardrails, spending limits, and an instant kill switch if things go sideways.

💼 Meta cut nearly 1,400 workers in Washington state, including engineers, data scientists, and content designers across Seattle, Bellevue, and Redmond. It’s part of a 10% global workforce reduction, all while committing between $125-145 billion on AI infrastructure this year alone.

🏫 America's largest teachers union just called for banning AI tools in elementary schools. AFT president Randi Weingarten delivered a speech titled "Devices Down, Eyes Up, Hands On," demanding no laptops before third grade and no student-facing AI in primary schools, as a parent-led pushback against classroom tech hits critical mass.

🏥 The US government is hiring 1,200 people specifically to use AI to hunt down Medicare and Medicaid fraud. CMS says 80% of its workforce already uses AI daily, saving 11,000 work hours a week, and its new fraud detection centre has already clawed back $2 billion in fraudulent payments.

Golden Nuggets

  • 🏝️ Jensen Huang just pledged $150B/yr to Taiwan. The country that makes every chip powering the AI revolution, and the geopolitical flashpoint that nobody wants to say out loud

  • 🤖 Robinhood's agentic trading is the moment AI agents go from cool demo to your actual financial life. This one is going to feel very normal very fast

  • ✍️ The fight over human creativity isn't abstract anymore: it's in your inbox, your newsroom, your university, and your favorite apps, and it's happening right now

Would love to hear your thoughts! Send me your thoughts by replying to this email (yes, I read them all :)

Until our next AI rendezvous,

Anthony | Founder of Uncover AI