AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

On July 21, 2026, the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA), Deloitte, and DMCC jointly launched the AI & Agentics Council, a governance initiative designed to establish standards for AI-powered agents capable of holding digital wallets and

According to Tencent Cloud, Tencent WorkBuddy officially launched on the HarmonyOS app store, becoming the first desktop office AI agent on the HarmonyOS platform.

According to Korea Exchange, Naver stock jumped 8.8% to 225,000 won during afternoon trading on July 27 after Nvidia announced a ₩1.48 trillion investment in the South Korean tech company. The investment is part of Nvidia's AI factory collaboration initiative with Naver.

Kiwoom Asset Management announced on May 27 that it will list the 'KIWOOM US CPU Semiconductor TOP4+' exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Korean Securities Market on May 28. The ETF concentrates investments in CPU companies emerging as core semiconductor players in the Agentic AI era. The fund

According to Bloomberg citing sources, SoftBank attracted 21 new lenders to its $40 billion bridge loan for OpenAI on July 27. The new lenders collectively received approximately $7 billion of the loan amount, with Abu Dhabi First Bank, Singapore's Temasek, and Standard Chartered each subscribing to

The SF-Olive Korea-Spain consortium has been selected by South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) for the '2026 International Joint Technology Development Project' to develop a Physical AI-based smart farm platform for olive

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is visiting the White House this week to seek fast-track approval for a new AI model powerful enough to solve an 80-year-old mathematics problem, according to Axios reporting on the 26th local time. The visit comes as the Trump administration prepares to announce details of a v

According to Axios on July 26, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is visiting the White House this week to seek faster approval of a powerful new AI model that has solved an 80-year-old mathematical puzzle. The model, which resolved the Erdős unit distance problem, marks the first instance of an AI

According to an International Data Corporation (IDC) report on China's AI gaming cloud market released recently, Alibaba Cloud ranked first in the AI gaming cloud model services and AI applications segment with a 37% market

According to Beating, Alibaba's office Agent "Qianwen Workplace" launched on July 27, integrating QoderWork, Wukong, and MuleRun into a standalone product accessible via web or within DingTalk. The platform

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) stock’s weekly close as of July 24 was $521.95, up 5.3% this week. AMD has committed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic. AMD’s Q2 earnings report will be released after the close on Aug. 4 (U.S. market). The median expected Q2 revenue is $11.2 billion. Semiconductor stock performance comparison this week: AMD’s weekly gain of 5.3% beats the broader market Based on the closing data as of July 24, 2026, the performance of major semiconductor and tech stocks this week is as f

According to Chosun Daily, South Korean IT services firm LG CNS was selected as a founding member of AI Materials Foundry on July 27. The consortium, launched by UK-based startup CuspAI, includes partners such as Nvidia, Meta, AMD, 3M, and Merck, spanning more than 45 organizations globally. The

World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, raised $52.5 million in a locked WLD token sale led by Pantera Capital on July 24, 2026. Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, and Susquehanna Crypto participated in the round, which

According to a BusinessWire announcement, Pantera Capital led a $52.5 million locked World (WLD) token raise for World Foundation on July 24, 2026. Bain Capital Crypto and Eightco Holdings also participated. All tokens carry a 12-month lockup with no public exchange sales. The funds will expand Wor

According to Chosun Daily, on July 27 Samsung Electronics announced plans to use its 2-nanometer process for the base die of its eighth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM5). The company said HBM5 will process data more than 50% faster than current HBM4E chips, utilizing a 2nm Gate-All-Around base

Oracle Corp. stock rose 1.4% in overnight trading late Sunday after the Wall Street Journal reported Nvidia was in talks to provide a roughly $250 billion backstop for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project. The reported guarantees from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a

Renowned value investing guru Benjamin Graham warned on a program that the United States is falling into what could be the largest AI investment bubble in history, and that popular tech stocks could drop as much as 70%—as if the 2000 bubble were being replayed. He criticized SpaceX’s messaging and fundraising strategy, admitting that he was an early investor. He also said Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and will go to zero in the long term, advising people not to hold or buy it.

NVIDIA announced at SIGGRAPH 2026 that AI PCs and AI workstations equipped with RTX Spark chips will be released as early as this fall. The RTX Spark platform was jointly developed by NVIDIA and MediaTek, symbolizing that AI agent computing has officially expanded from data centers to edge devices. RTX Spark co-developed by MediaTek; first wave from ASUS and MSI in the fall According to the information released at SIGGRAPH 2026 and a report by the Commercial Times, the core architecture of the R

AMD and South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT signed a memorandum of understanding for AI semiconductor ecosystem cooperation on July 23 (local time) in San Francisco. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon met with AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su at the 'AMD Advancing AI

According to South Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology and ICT (MSIT), AMD CEO Lisa Su signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on AI semiconductor ecosystem cooperation on July 23 (local U.S. time) during the AMD Advancing AI 2026 event in San Francisco. AMD will establish an AI