AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to a report released at the 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference yesterday, Beijing's core artificial intelligence industry scale reached approximately 450 billion yuan in 2025, with over 2,500 related enterprises operating in the city. The report, released by the Beijing Academy of

Kim Yong-beom, Director of the Presidential Policy Office, stated on the 5th that while companies can create artificial intelligence (AI), building power grids, developing industrial sites, and organizing supply chains are the responsibilities of the state. In a Facebook post, Kim described AI as a

On July 5, Kim Yong-beom, South Korea's presidential policy chief, outlined the government's role in the artificial intelligence era via Facebook. According to Kim, while companies can develop AI, the state must build power grids, develop industrial sites, and organize supply chains. He described th

According to Park Se-woong at Samsung Securities, SK Group announced on June 29 a 210 trillion won investment across three mega projects covering semiconductor clusters, physical AI, and AI data centers. The research report, published June 30, designated SK as a long-term beneficiary of the mega pro

Stephen Yiu, manager of the Blue Whale Growth Fund with approximately $4.5 billion in assets under management, disclosed the fund's strategy to capitalize on artificial intelligence capital expenditure by investing in semiconductor supply chain companies. The fund's top ten holdings include

According to official announcements, Alibaba's Tongyi ChatBot and ByteDance's Douyin will suspend their AI Agent services on July 15, following the implementation of new Chinese regulations on AI anthropomorphic interactive services. The suspension aligns with regulators' guidelines released in

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told CNBC in an interview on May 2 (local time) that the online brokerage platform is expanding AI-based trading services to provide retail investors with institutional-grade automated trading capabilities. Tenev stated the goal is to offer individual investors the

According to CNBC, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said on July 2 that the company is expanding AI-based investment services to enable individual investors to access the same automated trading capabilities historically available only to institutional investors. Tenev stated that agent AI's goal is to

According to ChainCatcher, Moonbeam announced a new protocol transforming the Polkadot parachain into a decentralized AI Agent communication and settlement network for on-chain economy. GLMR token will migrate 1:1 to Base and become a native ERC-20 token. The cross-chain migration is now open

According to UBS Holt's latest analysis, AI infrastructure stocks focused on semiconductors and hardware are forecast to significantly outperform the Magnificent Seven tech giants. The research team, led by analyst John Talbott, found that cash-flow return on investment (CFROI) for AI infrastructure

According to tech blogger Leo, OpenAI may roll out GPT-5.6 as early as July 7, with a window through July 9. The new model will feature more generous quota allocations, and OpenAI is strengthening safety protocols before launch. Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.5 Pro is scheduled for July 17, according t

According to a July 2 report from J.P. Morgan's Chief Technology Strategist Jason Hunter, U.S. equities are showing market divergence similar to the months preceding the 1999-2000 dot-com crash. AI hardware supply chain stocks are surging, with the Semiconductor Index up 87% this year and the

According to Nomura Securities' latest report released July 5, the global storage industry faces severe supply shortages, with AI-driven structural demand growth remaining unsaturated. Nomura emphasized that market concerns about oversupply are exaggerated. South Korea's 4.8 trillion won

According to Guru Club on July 5, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon collectively plan to invest $1 trillion over the next two years in AI infrastructure. However, actual water consumption at data centers far exceeds figures publicly disclosed by these companies, driven largely by indirect water usage in

According to industry insiders on Friday, July 3, artificial intelligence adoption is triggering a structural CPU shortage that mirrors earlier memory market dynamics. Companies purchasing high-end accelerators are now acquiring CPUs at a 4:1 ratio to GPUs, with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger noting

The Bank of Korea and the World Bank published a guidebook on May 5 to support artificial intelligence adoption and utilization by public asset management institutions. The guidebook targets central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and public pension funds, providing systematic governance frameworks f

According to Yonhap Infomax, the Bank of Korea and World Bank released on July 5 an introductory guide supporting public asset-management institutions—including central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and public pension funds—in adopting and deploying artificial intelligence. The primer outlines

South Korea's exports surged 70.9% year-over-year to a record $102.25 billion last month, driven by semiconductor demand from AI investment expansion and rising memory prices, according to Kiwoom Securities analysis. The dramatic export growth stems from artificial intelligence infrastructure

According to a latest report from SemiAnalysis, Google's next-generation tensor processing unit (TPU), codenamed "Humufish," will abandon TSMC's legacy CoWoS advanced packaging technology and adopt Intel's latest EMIB-T 2.5D packaging process. The move marks Intel's first success securing a

According to Benzinga, Qualcomm's stock surged 12% on June 24 after the company announced a major AI chip deal with ByteDance for its data centers and revealed ambitious growth targets at its investor day in New York. The deal marks Qualcomm's entry into the AI data center market as a key