AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

Gate News message, April 24 — Project Prometheus, an AI lab founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former Google executive Vik Bajaj, has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation. JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock are

Gate News message, April 24 — According to The Kobeissi Letter, AI-related stocks now account for 45% of the S&P 500 (U.S. benchmark equity index) total market capitalization, marking a historic high and a 20 percentage point increase since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022. Simultaneously, AI-rela

Gate News message, April 24 — A North Korean state-sponsored APT group dubbed HexagonalRodent has stolen over $12 million in cryptocurrency and NFTs from Web3 developers in the first quarter of 2026, according to cybersecurity firm Expel. The group compromised 2,726 developer devices and gained acce

Gate News message, April 24 — OpenAI has officially released GPT-5.5, a next-generation AI model designed to handle complex objectives, tool integration, self-verification, and multi-step task completion. The model excels at code writing and debugging, online research, data analysis, document

Intel’s quarterly revenue was $13.6 billion, with EPS of 0.29; for the second-quarter outlook, the midpoint was $14.3 billion, well above expectations, and the gross margin was 41%. AI data center demand is driving a CPU turnaround, boosting servers like Xeon. Led by Lin-Yu Chen, the transition is underway: IFS’ first-quarter revenue was $5.4 billion, up 16%, as external customers like Tesla are watching Terafab using Intel technology. After-hours, the stock price rose by about 20%, hitting a record high; since last year, it has gained nearly 3x.

Gate News message, April 24 — Band, a startup building a communication and collaboration platform for AI agents, has closed a $17 million seed round led by Sierra Ventures, Hetz Ventures, and Team8. Founded in mid-2025 by CEO Arick Goomanovsky and CTO Vlad Luzin, the company develops software for re

Claude expands Connectors, adding everyday tools such as AllTrails, Booking, Instacart, Audible, Spotify, and TripAdvisor, which can help with tasks like leisure, travel, and tax filing within conversations. It dynamically recommends tools based on the situation and allows using multiple tools at the same time. Desktop access is open and the mobile app is being tested; it maintains privacy with no ads, based on authorization, and does not use data for training.

Gate News message, April 24 — Cognition AI, an AI coding startup, is in early-stage negotiations for a new funding round that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company aims to raise hundreds of millions of dollars or more as

Gate News message, April 23 — Anthropic's engineering team confirmed that the Claude Code quality degradation reported by users over the past month stemmed from three independent product-layer changes, not from API or underlying model issues. The three problems were fixed on April 7, April 10, and A

NEC announced it will become Anthropic’s first global partner in Japan. The two companies will develop secure, industry-knowledgeable AI solutions for highly regulated industries such as finance, manufacturing, and local governments, and integrate the Claude series into NEC BluStellar. They will focus on data-driven management and transforming customer experience, while also introducing Claude Cowork and SOC integration to enhance cybersecurity protection. To validate effectiveness, NEC launched the Zero Customer Program to conduct comprehensive internal testing of AI agents, and plans to promote Claude deployments globally—building Japan’s largest-scale AI-native engineering CoE.

Gate News message, April 23 — A major regional exchange announced the listing of the Chip (CHIP) token on its Turkish Lira (TRY) trading pair. The CHIP token became available for trading on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. According to official developer statements, CHIP is an AI-themed altcoin that

Gate News message, April 23 — Vercel disclosed on April 19 that its security incident, initially described as affecting a "limited subset of customers," has expanded to a much broader developer community, particularly those building AI agent workflows. The attack may affect hundreds of users

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, focused on agent-style work and enterprise knowledge processing, and also rolls it out in ChatGPT and Codex. Key points include a 12 million token context window and an AA Intelligence Index of 60, leading Claude Opus by 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Pro; pricing is $5 per million tokens for input and $30 per million tokens for output. Output tokens are reduced by about 40%, while the actual cost increases by about 20%.

Gate News message, April 23 — Cluster Protocol, an AI deeptech and Web3 infrastructure company, announced it has raised $5 million in a new funding round led by DAO5, with participation from Paper Ventures, JPEG Trading, and Mapleblock Capital, bringing total funding to $7.75 million. The capital wi

Gate News message, April 23 — Despite competition from Google and supply chain disruptions, Nvidia remains the dominant player in AI hardware. TD Cowen reaffirmed its buy rating on Nvidia on Thursday, citing the company's leadership in performance and software ecosystem breadth. The endorsement

Anthropic reports three combined failures of Claude Code: from 3/4–4/7, reasoning levels are reduced to medium, causing slower responses and a feeling that it’s become dumber; from 3/26–4/10, cache purge errors lead to long conversations forgetting things; from 4/16–4/20, a “tool call instruction within 25 characters” was added, then rolled back after 4/20. Affected are Claude Code, Agent SDK, and Cowork; the models are Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6/4.7; the API is not affected. On 4/23, usage was reset and evaluation and regression testing were strengthened.

Gate News message, April 23 — MagicBlock has released Mirage, a command-line privacy payment tool designed for the Solana network. The tool enables users to create wallets, deposit funds, and send private transactions through terminal commands, bots, or AI agents. Mirage is built on Private

The White House warned on April 23, 2026, that foreign entities, primarily in China, are conducting "industrial-scale" campaigns to copy American artificial intelligence models, according to a memorandum from Michael Kratsios, Assistant to

Gate News message, April 23 — OpenClaw, an open-source AI Agent platform, released version 2026.4.22 on April 22, with its biggest change being the alignment of Codex harness and Pi harness lifecycles. Previously, plugins behaved inconsistently across the two harness pathways, with some hooks