(July 2026, Cambridge, UK / XX Group Headquarters, Multinational Video Conference)
After Li Banjia personally made the final decision to designate "Singularity Near" (Project Singularity Dawn, or PSD)—a relatively unknown Cambridge-based startup possessing revolutionary AGI foundational algorithms and brain-like photonic chip architecture—as the "Number One Strategic Target" for the Renhe Global Innovation and Future Technology Investment Fund, Chang Siyuan and his "M&A elite team," comprised of top investment bankers from Wall Street and Silicon Valley, flew immediately to England. There, they began a grueling and dramatic "negotiation of the century" with PSD's two founders, known as the "Cambridge Eccentrics": theoretical architect Arthur Pendragon and chip architect Turing.
The negotiations lasted for three full weeks.
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