MIAMI, July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Jalil Lopez continues to build momentum in Latin music, returning to the Billboard Charts debuting at No. 12 following the release of the official music video for “La Culpable.” With this latest achievement, Jalil joins the chart alongside acclaimed Latin artists such as Prince Royce, Carlos Vives, Romeo Santos, and Kany García, further solidifying his place among the genre’s rising stars.

The music video has been met with an overwhelmingly positive response from fans, reinforcing the impact that “La Culpable” has had since its release. What began as one of Jalil’s most beloved songs has continued to gain momentum, reaching new audiences while maintaining its strong connection with longtime listeners.

Filmed with a cinematic approach, the video tells a compelling story of love, emotion, and second chances. Jalil portrays a man caught between rekindling a past romance and embracing a new beginning, delivering an authentic performance that resonates with anyone who has experienced similar crossroads in life.

Jalil Lopez – La Culpable (Official Video)

The success of the music video comes alongside the song’s impressive performance on streaming platforms, where “La Culpable” has reached nearly 14 million streams on Spotify, making it the most-streamed track in Jalil’s catalog to date.

This latest milestone marks another significant step in Jalil Lopez’s career, highlighting his continued growth as one of bachata’s most promising emerging artists. With an increasingly strong artistic vision and new projects on the horizon, Jalil continues to expand his reach and strengthen his presence in the Latin music industry.

For more information on Jalil Lopez and his upcoming releases, follow him on social media and digital streaming platforms.

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SHANGHAI, July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As Pakistan enters its annual monsoon season, accurate forecasts are crucial to protecting lives and livelihoods. Powered by artificial intelligence, China’s MAZU meteorological system is helping Pakistan detect early warning signs and issue faster alerts for potential extreme weather events.

“Using this platform, we can make more accurate predictions of floods, droughts and other extreme weather events,” said Furrukh Bashir, head of the Research and Development Department at the Pakistan Meteorological Department. “We look forward to seeing more products like this that can benefit people around the world.”

Deployed in multiple countries, the system shows how AI can help address global challenges. Through open-source models, technology cooperation and international initiatives, China is working to make AI more accessible and ensure its benefits reach more people worldwide.

At the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on countries to uphold a people-centered approach and work together to build a fair and inclusive global AI governance system.

“China, as a responsible major country, is always committed to providing international public goods relating to AI,” Xi said.

Making AI a shared opportunity through openness

At the conference, Xi announced a series of measures to support global AI development, including helping 30 countries utilize the MAZU meteorological system, providing 5,000 AI training opportunities for developing countries over the next five years, and establishing international AI application cooperation centers with ASEAN, the League of Arab States, the African Union, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS.

China has also embraced open-source development to promote more inclusive global AI growth.

Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen have gained global attention for their high efficiency, affordability and openness, enabling developers and businesses to adapt AI technologies at lower costs. Official data shows that China’s open-source AI models have recently surpassed 10 billion cumulative downloads worldwide.

In Africa, for example, DeepSeek’s open-source approach allows developers to freely download and fine-tune AI systems, helping strengthen local digital capabilities and foster homegrown innovation across the continent.

The approach has also significantly lowered costs. With pricing of just $0.27 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens, DeepSeek has reduced the entry barriers by more than 90% compared with some mainstream Western AI models, enabling more African users and businesses to participate in the digital transformation.

“China, as a developing country, understands the aspirations of many Global South countries for economic development and technological progress,” said Zhang Weiwei, deputy director of the Institute for World Peace and Security Studies at the China Institute of International Studies.

Zhang said that China’s open-source AI models enable countries to develop applications faster and at lower costs, allowing more developing nations to benefit from technological advancement.

Promoting global cooperation to bridge the AI divide

With AI technologies’ rapid development, global AI divide is widening. The World Bank’s Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025 highlighted significant gaps between high-income and middle- and low-income countries in AI systems and computing capacity. Meanwhile, global data center resources remain highly concentrated in developed economies, with Africa accounting for less than 1% of global capacity.

To address these widening gaps, Xi called on countries to help developing nations enhance AI capabilities, bridge the digital divide and build a globally accepted governance framework to ensure that emerging technologies benefit humanity as a whole.

China has long advocated for a fair and inclusive global AI governance system. In 2023, it proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative, followed by the AI Capacity-Building Action Plan for Good and for All in 2024 and the AI+ International Cooperation Initiative in 2025. These efforts aim to promote responsible AI development and help bridge the digital divide.

China has also worked to create platforms for international cooperation. It launched the Center for Global AI Innovative Governance (CGAIG) and the Group of Friends for International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building, bringing together countries to strengthen dialogue, share knowledge and enhance capacity building.

The signing of the agreement establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization in Shanghai on Thursday marked another step toward advancing global AI cooperation and promoting the safe, equitable and beneficial development of artificial intelligence.

From open-source models and AI training programs to global governance initiatives, China is working to make artificial intelligence a shared driver of innovation and development, ensuring that the benefits of this transformative technology, once enjoyed by only a few, reach more countries and communities.

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New 5W Research Finds the 99-Point AI Favorability Gap Didn’t Close. It Moved.

TAMPA, Fla., July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In May 2026, 5W identified a 99-point favorability gap between daily AI users (+57) and everyone else (−42) — the widest behavioral divide in American public opinion. The prediction was that the gap would close as adoption spread.

Adoption spread. The gap didn’t close. It changed shape.

The divide is no longer between who uses AI and who doesn’t. Half the country now uses it. The divide is between the quarter of Americans who use AI every day and believe in it — and the quarter who use it every week and don’t.

Half the Country Is Now Using AI

49%. Half of U.S. adults now use AI chatbots — up from 33% in 2024 and 23% in 2023. Adoption more than doubled in three years. (Pew Research, June 2026)24%. One in four Americans now use AI every day. That’s the Power User cohort — up from roughly 15% in early 2025. (Pew Research, June 2026)60%. Share of U.S. adults who now read AI-generated summaries inside search results. AI is no longer a destination. It’s the layer on top of everything. (Pew Research, June 2026)

Adoption Is Up. Trust Is Not.

63%. Share of Americans who say AI is advancing too fast. Only 2% say it’s moving too slowly. (Pew Research, June 2026)16%. Share who expect AI’s 20-year societal impact to be net-positive. The rest split negative or uncertain. (Pew Research, June 2026)

The Gen Z Paradox: Highest Use, Sharpest Skepticism

50% vs. 14%. Among adults under 30 — the heaviest users — 50% say AI will be negative for society. Only 14% say positive. (Pew Research, June 2026)70%. Chatbot use among Asian-American adults — the only major demographic group with net-positive views of AI. Daily use runs roughly double the national rate. (Pew Research, June 2026)

“In May, we found a very deep divide between AI users and non-users. Daily users expected AI to improve their jobs, benefit them personally, and reshape daily life for the better — by margins of three-to-one over everyone else,” said Ronn Torossian, Founder & Chairman, 5W. “Today the divide continues, but the fault line moved. It’s no longer about who uses AI. It’s about who believes in it. Adoption is now compulsory — it’s baked into Google, Office, and every phone in America. Conviction is still a Power User trait. Half the country is using a technology it doesn’t trust. That is the largest commercial opportunity in the market right now. When half the country uses a technology it doesn’t trust, the brands the AI engines cite become the trust signal. A skeptical buyer who sees your brand named inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews is a buyer with a reason to say yes. The brands that fill that vacuum — and proactively manage it — win very big.”

What Changed Since May

The original finding: Daily AI users were the leading edge of American consumer behavior — higher-income, higher-education, higher-intent, and dramatically more optimistic about AI than everyone else. The 99-point favorability gap was the widest behavioral divide in American public opinion, wider than gender, race, age, or party.

The update: Adoption crossed 50%, but favorability didn’t follow. The Power User cohort held its +57. The non-user cohort mostly became a light-user cohort — and imported its skepticism with it. Americans are now using AI at record rates while distrust of AI hits record highs simultaneously.

This is the defining commercial condition of the AI era: use without belief.

The Cited Brand Becomes the Trust Signal

Power Users still set buying patterns. They are higher-income, higher-education, higher-intent — and now surrounded by 200 million skeptical light users making the same queries with less conviction and more scrutiny.

A brand cited by the AI engines enters the answer with borrowed authority. A brand absent from them is invisible to the buyer and unverifiable to the skeptic.

The 5W Power User Audit measures a brand’s Citation Share across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, and identifies the retrieval signals — source mix, structured data, third-party citations — required to compete in AI-driven discovery.

Methodology

The July 2026 update to the 5W AI Power User Study synthesizes Pew Research Center’s Americans and AI 2026 (June 17, 2026, n=5,119 U.S. adults, fielded Feb. 17–23, 2026), the original 5W AI Power User Study (May 2026), Data for Progress (February 2026, n=1,228 likely U.S. voters), the Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index, and the Ipsos AI Monitor (March 2026).

About 5W

5W is the AI Communications Firm, building brand authority across the platforms where decisions now happen — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — alongside earned media, digital, and influencer channels. 5W combines public relations, digital marketing, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and proprietary AI visibility research to help clients measure and grow their presence in AI-driven buyer research.

Founded in 2003, 5W is recognized as a Top U.S. PR Agency by O’Dwyer’s, named Agency of the Year in the American Business Awards®, honored as a 2026 Top Place to Work in Communications by Ragan, and named to Digiday’s WorkLife Employer of the Year list. 5W serves clients across B2C sectors — Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, and Nonprofit — and B2B specialties including Corporate Communications, Reputation Management, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications, and Digital Marketing across Social, Influencer, Paid Media, GEO, and SEO. Learn more at 5wpr.com.

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