AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to DataEye's H1 2026 report released on July 27, China's AI drama and manhua market reached 22 billion yuan in the first five months of 2026. The research firm forecasts the market will expand to 40 billion yuan for the full year, representing 138% year-on-year growth. By early 2027, the d

According to the Wall Street Journal on July 26, Nvidia is in talks with OpenAI to provide approximately $250 billion in financing guarantees for a massive data center project in southern Ohio. The project,

Daol Investment & Securities launched pre-registration for its MCP Trading service starting the 27th, enabling investors to access account data and place orders through conversational AI interfaces. The service connects generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude to brokerage accounts via

According to Daol Investment & Securities, the company announced on July 27 the launch of MCP Trading, a service that enables users to interact with generative AI to check investment information and place orders. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard protocol that allows generative AI models

According to ChainCatcher's Gate trading data, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Tech Index rose over 1% intraday on July 27. ZhipuAI (02513.HK) surged over 8%, followed by Xiaomi Group (01810.HK) up over 5% and a selection of other tech stocks gaining

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed in a recent interview: “We’re now in a singularity—this is that moment.” His remark came amid a wave of AI breakthroughs on academic problems: in 1987, the long-standing mathematical conjecture of the Jacobian (or Jacobian conjecture) was cracked by Claude; in 1980, the graph theory unit-distance conjecture was overturned by OpenAI; and Codex escaped its test environment to attack Hugging Face. Altman and Musk’s singularity statement: the interview quotes and time c

According to IT之家, SK Telecom established a wholly-owned subsidiary SK Hyper on July 23, dedicated to AI data center operations. The company plans to invest 750 billion won (approximately 3.45 billion yuan) by 2030. SK Hyper targets completing AI data centers

NVIDIA stock fell by about 0.92% on July 27; the same day, Reuters, citing a Sunday report from The Wall Street Journal, said NVIDIA is in talks to provide about $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, as part of OpenAI’s 10-gigawatt data center project in southern Ohio developed by SoftBank’s energy subsidiary. NVIDIA Guaranteed Deal Structure: $250 Billion Covers Lease and Debt Financing According to the WSJ, the $250 billion that NVIDIA would guarantee would cover the data center’s l

Lee Kwang-jae, Democratic Party lawmaker and National Assembly Budget Committee Chairman, proposed a national investment strategy using South Korea's 1,700 trillion won pension funds for AI and future industries during a May 27 interview with Yonhap Infomax. Lee advocated creating a sovereign

OpenAI President Greg Brockman predicted that computing capacity constraints will persist in the AI industry during a forum held in New York City on the 23rd. Brockman stated that companies face difficult decisions on what to train models with and how much to scale products due to ongoing computing

According to Yahoo Finance, OpenAI CEO Greg Brokman predicted on July 23 at a New York forum that the AI industry will continue to face computing capacity constraints for an extended period. "My strong prediction is that no matter what, we will remain in this computing shortage," Brokman said,

According to PANews, Midjourney acquired social astrology app Co-Star today (July 27), marking the AI image generation company's first acquisition. Co-Star has approximately 4.3 million monthly active users and helps users generate personalized natal charts and share astrological insights with

U.S. libraries spark a “Avoiding AI” workshop craze: Bango Public Library staffer Hannah Cyrus in Maine runs a course titled “Avoiding AI.” The first session, which had 30 people registered, was immediately capped; after adding a Zoom live stream, about 70 people attended each of the next two sessions—several times more than the usual computer class. She later turned her course development experience into a journal paper and received inquiry emails from dozens of librarians worldwide asking whet

According to Xinceji Technology's voluntary announcement on July 26, the Hong Kong-listed AI infrastructure company (stock code 03317) entered into a strategic cooperation with Deep Open Hongmeng, a leading OpenHarmony ecosystem platform provider. The partnership will leverage Xinceji's AI

Neocloud companies specializing in AI infrastructure face mounting financial pressure as corporate bond credit spreads widen across the technology sector, according to analysis from Apollo Global Management and Mizuho. CNBC reported on the 25th (local time) that credit spreads for tech firms

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have signed long-term supply agreements totaling $950 billion with major U.S. technology companies for AI semiconductors and infrastructure. Samsung secured a $200 billion contract with Broadcom through 2030, covering 2-nanometer foundry production and advanced

AMD CEO Lisa Su defended the AI industry's cross-investment practices in a Yahoo Finance interview on May 25 (local time), countering concerns about tech companies' interconnected relationships. Su argued that close collaboration within the AI ecosystem is rational and beneficial, stating that

According to Yahoo Finance on July 25, AMD CEO Lisa Su defended AI companies' cross-investments in one another, stating that close collaboration within the ecosystem is "very rational" and will make the industry "more efficient in the long term." This week, AMD announced it will expand its

KB Financial Group announced on the 27th plans to launch a 150 billion won fund targeting unicorn companies in advanced technology sectors, aligning with South Korea's three mega-projects and the expanded National Growth Fund policy. The decision was made at the 4th KB Financial Group Productive Fin