AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to ChainCatcher, AI application platform Certifyde announced the completion of a $2 million seed funding round. Investors include K5 Global, Flamingo Capital, and angel investors such as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Honey co-founder George Ruan, and Nutra co-founder Roland

According to Altcoin Buzz, KITE AI mainnet launched on Avalanche on April 29, introducing a dedicated Layer 1 blockchain designed for autonomous AI agents. The platform integrates identity and native payment capabilities to enable AI agents to operate, transact, and scale without friction. Avalanch

According to ChainCatcher, the CAS token from Base ecosystem AI project Caspius surged yesterday afternoon (April 28), reaching a market cap high of $18 million and currently trading at $16.6 million, up 220% in 24 hours. Caspius is an embodied AI data infrastructure project focused on robot

According to PANews, DeepSeek launched its image recognition feature today (April 29), currently in beta testing. Both the web version and mobile app users may be selected for the beta rollout.

Anthropic has announced a suite of creative tool connectors that enable Claude to directly control professional software used by designers and musicians. The initial eight connectors span 3D modeling, visual design, music production, and live performance, with partners including Blender, Adobe,

Liquid announced it has raised $18 million in Series Seed funding to expand its multi-asset trading platform that provides continuous access to cryptocurrencies, equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and pre-IPO assets. The round was co-led by Neo and Left Lane Capital, with participation from se

According to Whale Factor, the White House is bypassing the Pentagon's risk assessment to deploy Anthropic's Mythos model across federal agencies on April 29. The move aims to accelerate federal AI capabilities and match the pace of decentralized AI networks. This represents a significant shift

According to Reuters, on April 29, Cognizant agreed to acquire Astreya for approximately $600 million as it expands its AI infrastructure business. Astreya is an IT services provider specializing in AI infrastructure and data center services. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter

According to Manifold researcher Ax Sharma, 30 plugins on ClawHub disguised as legitimate AI tools have been downloaded over 9,800 times while secretly converting users' AI assistants into cryptocurrency workers. The plugins, published under the account imaflytok, appear as routine task schedulers a

According to ChainCatcher, B.AI and deBridge announced a strategic partnership on April 29 to develop intent-driven cross-chain infrastructure. The collaboration aims to provide seamless cross-chain execution for a scalable AI Agent economy. deBridge's 0-TVL model and gas-free cross-chain

According to Beating, Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, completed a $100 million Series B round led by Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $2 billion. Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, and Khosla Ventures also participated. The funding comes six months after the c

On April 29, DeepSeek multimodal team researcher Xiaokang Chen posted on X: "Now, we see you," accompanied by two images of the DeepSeek whale mascot—one with closed eyes, the other with open eyes. The post appears to hint at an upcoming vision model, aligning with Chen's role as a researcher in Dee

Gate News message, April 29 — Nvidia met with Doosan Robotics, a South Korean industrial robot maker, on April 29 to discuss integrating Doosan's robot operating system with Nvidia's AI tools for industrial applications. Doosan plans to unveil an intelligent robot system based on the

Gate News message, April 29 — South Korea's LG Electronics announced during its first-quarter 2026 earnings call that it is expanding its collaboration with Nvidia into physical AI, with planned projects in robotics, mobility, and data centers. LG plans to integrate its home robot CLOiD with Nvidia

Gate News message, April 29 — 0G Labs has officially launched 0G Private Computer, a privacy-preserving inference service for AI agents and developers powered by Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology. Users can access the service via pc.0g.ai. The platform utilizes Intel TDX CPUs and

Gate News message, April 29 — AI researcher Aran Komatsuzaki conducted a comparative analysis of tokenization efficiency across six major AI models by translating Rich Sutton's seminal paper "The Bitter Lesson" into nine languages

Bubble Boi says the AI investment cycle is still in its early stage, with expectations of at least three more years of growth, and he has no intention of taking profits. He believes advanced packaging is the real bottleneck for semiconductors, and that more HBM and larger chips need to be integrated within the same package. He is bullish on NAND/Flash, and prices may keep rising; in the future, he may also add to the flash supply chain. His personal strategy is to borrow funds to increase his holdings, and to use his engineering and practical background to understand the technical details, which he sees as an advantage.

Amazon Web Services announced on April 29 a significant expansion of its partnership with OpenAI, integrating OpenAI's latest capabilities into its cloud infrastructure. The expansion brings three new offerings to Amazon Bedrock: OpenAI's latest models (limited preview), the Codex programming

W3 has launched a control platform on the Avalanche network designed to manage agent-powered finance. Key Takeaways W3.io launched an AI control platform on Avalanche, already processing 200,000 daily enterprise workflows. W3 and Avalanche bridge an accountability gap for 70+ blockchains by

Gate News message, April 29 — OpenAI researchers Sébastien Bubeck and Ernest Ryu say AI systems could perform most human research work within two years, presenting mathematics as a clear measure of AI progress. Unlike vague performance tests, mathematical problems offer precise verification: