AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Vertex Ventures, Drylab AI, a startup building AI agents for scientific research, raised $3 million in seed funding led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, with participation from software company PatSnap. The company, which launched in February 2026, will use the funding to

Meta Platforms (META) stocks slipped 0.5% in overnight trading late Monday after rising 3.4% during the regular session, marking their best daily performance in about two weeks. The pullback came amid a broader market selloff over fresh fears about AI durability, with a particular slide in chip

KB Kookmin Card signed a four-party memorandum of understanding on October 13 with Japan's SBI Holdings, Everspin, and SBI Everspin to cooperate on AI agent security technology and digital finance and payment services between South Korea and Japan. The agreement establishes a security framework

According to CITIC Securities research released on October 13, Chinese AI models consumed 65% of global tokens as of end of September, driven by prices roughly 80% lower than U.S. competitors. Global weekly token consumption reached 1.46 quadrillion as of September, with platform models

According to Bloomberg, Broadcom CEO Chen Fuyang and Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger warned on October 12 at a DBS conference in Singapore that capital, not chip supply, has become the primary bottleneck for AI expansion. Chen stated that overcapacity in memory, wafer production, and power supply has been r

According to Odaily, on October 8, Metis launched the Metis Rise monthly developer incentive program, rewarding teams that deploy new AI Agents on the Metis Andromeda mainnet, attract real users, and generate genuine on-chain economic activity. Developers must meet monthly requirements: at

Kakao announced AI assistant services 'Kanana Space' and 'Kanvas' on the 13th at the if(kakao)26 conference held in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The company plans to transform KakaoTalk into an integrated AI platform that handles daily tasks through voice commands, starting with a closed beta test in

According to Blockspace on October 12, IREN and Anthropic allegedly signed a multiyear cloud services contract, but both IREN and Anthropic declined to comment on the matter. IREN announced on August 27 of this year that a new customer, a “leading AI lab,” had signed a contract, but did not disclose the customer’s name. It remains impossible to confirm whether the customer is Anthropic. IREN’s Anthropic Contract Remains Unverified According to IREN’s financial data and SEC filings, its key finan

Destructoid reporters recently tested specific links that allow users to play eight well-known games, including Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA 5), directly in a browser for free, with no download or installation required. The reporters noted that most versions suffered from lag and graphical glitches, while a few ran almost as smoothly as the originals. They added that dozens of other browser-based games of the same kind are available. The technical foundation of this wave of free browser games is a co

According to TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi at the DBS Asia Outlook Summit in Singapore, AI is likely to drive major scientific breakthroughs in physics, biotechnology, chemistry, and materials science within two to three years. The company is expanding its AI research scope from consumer applications to

According to PANews, ByteDance's Seed announced on October 13 that it has established the "Seed Model-Alignment & Preparedness" department, led by Yan Lin and reporting to Seed head Wu Yonghui. The department will integrate the original Responsible AI team and select members from the Chat team. The

According to The Information, a startup co-founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg is in talks with OpenAI to acquire usage rights to Sora, with plans to adjust features and commercialize related services.

Google Labs released the experimental AI game development platform “Playground” on October 12. Users do not need any programming experience to generate 3D and 2D browser-based games in real time by entering prompts. Playground is currently available only to users aged 18 or older in the United States. The platform uses an interactive conversational interface and supports customizable single-player and multiplayer modes. Playground’s Core Features: Real-Time Game Prototype Generation via Prompts,

According to PANews, David Sacks congratulated Anthropic on October 13 for reducing data extracted from Claude through distillation attacks by 90 to 99 percent. Sacks reiterated his view from All-In Podcast episode 282 that private companies, rather than governments, are the best actors to prevent m

According to IMF officials, on October 13, artificial intelligence financing has formed a positive feedback loop but may turn negative if venture capital commitments fail to materialize. An AI market correction would impact the global economy, with emerging markets like Thailand facing heightened ri

According to Bernstein research dated October 11, 2026, the data center project pipeline reached 456 gigawatts in September, up 13% month-over-month with 52GW added. Under-construction capacity stood at 79.9GW, while stalled capacity hit a record 51.7GW, representing 11% of the pipeline. Bernstein n

According to an Oct. 12 report, Alibaba’s Qwen team launched QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning (RL) framework for training agents with ultra-long horizons. Its core ideas are switching idle GPUs between deployment and training and converting branching agent histories into bounded training samples. As of the report’s publication, QwenGyre’s code had not been released, and the GPU models had not been disclosed. Problems QwenGyre Solves: Long-Tail Effects and Branching-Trajectory Overhead

The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that government bond yields could rise in a disorderly fashion, driven by mounting inflation pressures, escalating debt levels, and competition from AI-related borrowings in sovereign bond markets. The warning came as government bond yields in several a

According to IT Home, Baidu announced on October 12 that Baidu World Conference 2026 will be held on November 12 at Phase II of the China National Convention Center in Beijing, under the theme “The Next Act: Intelligent Organizations.” Tickets are now on sale through the conference’s official website. The official preview promises an event featuring 12 subforums focused on intelligent organizations, more than 30 public courses offering hands-on experience with AI technologies, and a 6,000-square

According to the International Monetary Fund's latest Financial Stability Report, artificial intelligence-related investment adjustments and sharp increases in bond market yields pose potential threats to global financial markets. The IMF identified these developments as key risks in its updated