On May 25, 2026, the Vatican released Magnifica Humanitas (“The Magnificence of Humanity”), the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV. Focusing on human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence, the document reflected growing global concerns about the social and ethical implications of increasingly powerful technologies. Standing beside the Pope during the announcement was Chris Olah, co-founder of Anthropic and one of the architects behind the Claude family of AI models.

Tokens are the small units of text that AI models read and process; the building blocks of every request, question, or command we give to AI. In 2026, these tokens have become the invisible infrastructure of the AI economy. Whether autonomous agents like OpenClaw or large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, tokens are what AI ultimately runs on. For developers, they’re not just a pricing unit, but a proxy for capability: how well a model understands, remembers, and performs.

In recent weeks, the open‑source, self-hosted AI agent OpenClaw has created huge waves in China, with users around the country racing to install it on their laptops and figure how to turn its exceptional task-executing abilities into increased efficiency at work.

“I don’t think that many new job positions are going to emerge -  income redistribution will be a must.”

As China and the European Union enter a new era of diplomatic relations, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) today hosted the China–EU Anniversary & 2026 CEIBS Innovation Forum in Beijing.

"A lot of things can already be helped by AI, and people find that interesting, that’s useful, and so there are quite a lot of positive and active feelings toward it, (in China)."

At this CEIBS Global EMBA Singapore seminar on June 30, Professor Fang will explore the frontier concept of the "Super Syntelligent" and discuss how Chinese companies can rethink the relationship among technology, talent, and organisation in global operations. He will examine how AI can be truly embedded into business processes and management systems to enhance cross-regional collaboration, localised responsiveness, and global operating capabilities. Through this lens, participants will be invited to reconsider the deeper competitiveness of Chinese companies going global in the AI era: not merely replicating existing models, but building human-AI collaborative organisations capable of continuous learning and self-evolution.

The event will bring together political leaders, industry pioneers, technology experts, eminent academics and thought leaders from Europe and China, and provide a platform for in-depth dialogue on global AI trends, strategic choices, and industrial empowerment. Through open and constructive exchange, the Forum aims to build shared governance consensus, explore pathways for industrial development, and advance Europe-China AI cooperation—from conceptual dialogue to structural synergy, and from regulatory consensus to shared industrial value creation—injecting renewed momentum into Europe-China collaboration for the sustainable development of global AI.

The 12th CEIBS Europe Forum 2026 will bring together senior leaders from government, business, and academia from China and France to tackle the most pressing questions of the AI age. How can cross-border AI cooperation reshape productivity and industrial upgrading? Where are the real growth opportunities as AI moves from promise to practice? This is a platform for ideas to meet action—for dialogue to translate into collaboration, and for global leaders and future leaders alike to engage with the forces shaping tomorrow’s economy.