AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Beating, an open letter titled "Open Weights and U.S. AI Leadership" has doubled in corporate signatures from 25 to 50 in two days. The letter, initially signed by Nvidia and Microsoft, calls on the U.S. government against premature restrictions on downloadable and self-deployable open-

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek's investor meeting notes leaked without authorization on July 26, disrupting the company's ongoing $71 billion funding round. Co-founder梁文锋 has paused the financing process to reassess information disclosure procedures and investor communication mechanisms. DeepSeek

According to Calcalist, Microchip Technology signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hailo, an Israeli developer of edge AI processors and software, in July 2026. The deal is expected to close toward the end of Microchip's fiscal quarter ending September 30, subject to regulatory approvals. Hailo m

According to Beating, OpenAI experienced a near-global service outage on July 26, with API, ChatGPT, and Codex experiencing widespread errors. The primary disruption lasted nearly two hours before services were restored. To compensate affected users, OpenAI product lead Tibo announced that all Codex

According to RootData, Quack AI (Q) will unlock approximately 16.11 million tokens worth $3.82 million on August 2, 2026 at 00:00 Beijing time.

According to Beating, Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI cofounder and member of Anthropic's pretraining team, removed Anthropic from his X bio, sparking speculation that he had left the company just 68 days after joining. Responding to questions from users, Karpathy dismissed the claims as "strange

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek has paused its second fundraising round after founder Liang Wenfeng expressed frustration with online reports attributed to him about China's AI capabilities and the industry's reliance on Nvidia chips. The Chinese AI startup, owned by hedge fund High-Flyer Asset

According to Chosun Daily, at the San Francisco AI Summit, Hyundai Motor Group announced plans to expand into physical AI including autonomous driving, robotics, and AI factories. Chairman Chung Eui-sun outlined a three-stage approach: first enhancing vehicle and robot intelligence, then deploying A

LG AI Research developed a financial AI service that analyzes approximately 8,000 listed companies in the US and Korea, according to Lee Hwa-young, Executive Director of Business Development at LG AI Research, in an interview on the 24th. The AI system uses multiple specialized agents—an AI

According to Lee Hwa-young, executive director at LG AI Research Institute, the institute recently developed a financial AI service that analyzes approximately 8,000 listed companies across the U.S. and South Korea to generate one-month-ahead corporate forecasts with explanatory scores. The system u

SK Telecom announced on the 26th that it will provide its proprietary artificial intelligence model A.X K1 to startups to support the development of practical and industrial AI services. The company is participating in the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' '2026 Modu's Challenge AX-LLM' program,

According to SK Telecom on July 26, the South Korean telecom company is providing its proprietary artificial intelligence model A.X K1 API to three startups to support real-world and industrial AI service development. The selected startups—TeamLimited, Pursely, and DevAllCompany—were chosen

According to BlockBeats, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on July 26 during a Bloomberg podcast interview that open and closed-source AI models will coexist long term, serving different needs. Closed-source models offer convenience and lower costs, but enterprises requiring data control, specialized

According to BlockBeats, citing a Bloomberg podcast interview on July 26, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that South Korea is in a "golden age" and its semiconductor capabilities will help build global AI infrastructure. Nvidia and SK Group have reached multiple partnerships with combined future

According to Korean media reports, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun, and Naver founder Lee Hae-jin visited Nvidia's Silicon Valley headquarters on July 26 and met with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Nvidia did not disclose the specific details or

According to ChainCatcher, Bankr AI agent tool developer deployer announced on X that the Bankr X account has been compromised and was used to post fake airdrop links. The developer noted that enabling MFA on X or other social login accounts is insufficient to protect funds; users must enable

According to sources, on July 26, DeepSeek has suspended its Series B funding round and notified potential investors that it will not sign investment agreements in the coming days. The AI startup may resume the fundraising process in the

According to Jin10, Nvidia announced on Friday a partnership with South Korea's SK Group worth over $500 billion to build large-scale AI data centers and develop next-generation memory technology. Nvidia will establish a long-term partnership with SK Hynix to secure next-generation memory supply and

According to BlockBeats, on July 26, SK Group Chairman Choi Tai-won stated that South Korea must transform into an "AI-native nation," with a target of providing each citizen with at least one AI agent. He said this would position South Korea as a global AI testbed for experimenting with various AI

KAIST and NVIDIA announced on the 26th the establishment of a joint research center to develop artificial intelligence models that understand and predict human movement. The Human Physical AI NVAITC (Human Physical AI NVAITC) will combine KAIST's human motion data and gait control technology