AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

ASUS’s final batch of smartphone inventory at major retailers in Taiwan has sold out completely, and retailers say they will not restock. After Zenfone 11 Ultra and Zenfone 12 Ultra were nearly sold out in mid-October, both were completely sold out as of October 27. HTC U24 pro is also nearing the end of its run: chain retailers say only a low double-digit number of units remain in stock, and they may sell out before the end of the year. Sellout Timelines for the Final Inventory and Pricing Hist

According to GPU Economy data, H100 on-demand rental prices this week hit a median of $3.39 per hour, down approximately 19% from October's average of $4.20 per hour. Despite the weekly decline, prices remain up roughly 19%

Gate News: On November 2, according to Gate market data, ORAI (Oraichain) was trading at $0.4984 at the time of publication, up 42.24% over the past 24 hours. It reached a high of $0.599 and a low of $0.3489, with 24-hour trading volume of $65,700. Its current market cap is approximately $9.6623 million. Oraichain is a data oracle platform that aggregates artificial intelligence APIs and connects them to Smart Contracts and traditional applications. Oraichain uses Oracle AI technology, which is

SenseTime open-sources SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview model on October 30, using a recurrent Transformer architecture and multimodal design. Model weights are released on Hugging Face, and code is hosted on GitHub. IT Home reports that the model contains 32 decoder layers, with the middle 24 executed twice in sequence. SenseTime open-sources model on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license IT Home reports that SenseTime open-sourced the SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview model on October 30, 2026. The model

According to Anthropic co-founder and President Daniela Amodei on November 2, AI's rapid advancement requires humans to continuously evolve alongside technology rather than stagnate while machines progress. She emphasized that AI should take over repetitive, tedious work to free people for genuine r

According to Guru Club, Ricoh and Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a collaboration agreement on artificial intelligence-powered design business on November 2.

Alibaba's Qwen AI glasses received an OTA update on November 1, adding call translation and media translation features and improving noise cancellation. According to IT Home, the official Weibo account for Qwen AI glasses posted an announcement about the update on October 30. Call translation provides real-time cross-language translation during phone calls and online meetings. Three features in the OTA update: call translation, media translation, and enhanced voice recognition in noisy environme

According to IT Home, Tencent Cloud announced at the AI-Native Database session of the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit held on October 30 that AI agents create more than 20k TDSQL-C database instances per day, a rate that has grown more than 80-fold over the past year; active instances created by AI agents have surpassed 1 million. Tencent Cloud Summit: AI Agents Create 20k TDSQL-C Instances Daily, Growing More Than 80-Fold in a Year According to IT Home, Tencent Cloud announced at the A

Cisco CEO Jeetu Patel announced at a roundtable that he had granted 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy an unlimited allowance of AI tokens to rewrite Cisco's legacy code as a two-person team within 24 months, beginning with a four-week proof of concept. Krishnamurthy previously founded EzDubs, which Cisco acquired; the report did not disclose details such as the size of the legacy codebase, the AI model used, or the actual costs. Fortune reports that Cisco CEO Jeetu Patel granted unlimited AI tokens to 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy after a two-person team proposed rewriting Cisco's legacy code. The plan targets a 98% rewrite in 24 months, following a four-week proof of concept. The article notes Krishnamurthy's EzDubs background and acquisition by Cisco, but does not disclose code size, AI model, or token costs.

Foreign corporations issued approximately 2.5 trillion yen in yen-denominated bonds during April-September, a 160% increase from the same period last year and a record high for any six-month period, according to Daiwa Securities data cited by Nikkei Asia on November 1. The surge was driven by

LG CNS is deploying artificial intelligence agents across South Korean financial institutions' operational systems, transforming how employees handle loan documentation, marketing content creation, and customer relationship management. The technology company disclosed details of ongoing projects

China-based AI company DeepSeek’s Harness team published a paper outlining a design intended to increase the autonomy of AI coding assistants, allowing them to perform multiple tasks with less human intervention. The paper says that one person can monitor only three to five active AI agent sessions at a time, the South China Morning Post reported on Nov. 1. The proposed system is designed to automatically assign tasks to agents and coordinate their work. One Person Can Monitor at Most 3-5 Agents

According to LG CNS's Q3 2026 earnings call, the South Korean IT services firm is advancing AI agent adoption across South Korea's financial sector. KB National Bank is applying generative AI agents to credit and corporate relationship management operations, as well as document processing using AI-p

According to Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, OpenAI has cut its pre-IPO funding target from $30 billion to approximately $20 billion, with valuation declining from $1.4 trillion to $1.25 trillion as of October 30. Actual locked-in commitments reached only $11 billion, prompting the

According to Guru Club on November 2, Swiss investment manager UBS Asset Management believes new cloud providers face rising refinancing risks in the near term, potentially slowing the next wave of AI infrastructure investment. While a default crisis is not imminent, CoreWeave, a leading new cloud p

According to Guru Club, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung announced on November 2 that the government's artificial intelligence investment spending will nearly double next year to 21.3 trillion won.

Bitcoin briefly rebounded to around $78,250 on Nov. 2, while the crypto Fear & Greed Index fell into “Fear” territory for the first time after Binance was hacked. Binance suffered a hack last week that affected an estimated $6.3 billion, and around $3 billion in stolen assets has been frozen. Binance co-CEO Richard Teng said the company would cover the stolen funds using corporate funds and the SAFU fund, emphasizing that users’ assets are safe. Binance Hacked: Estimated $6.3 Billion Affected, A

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, reported that the correlation between international oil prices and US Treasury yields, which reached 80% this year, broke down in October, with the market now prioritizing artificial intelligence (AI) risks over geopolitical risks. Senior Portfolio

Siemens Chairman Roland Busch visited Naver's second headquarters building '1784' on the 31st of last month to discuss cooperation in industrial artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technology with Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon. The visit, held in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, aimed to explore

Yuanta Securities maintained buy ratings on Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix on November 2, forecasting fourth-quarter earnings surprises as the gap between stock performance and fundamentals reaches critical levels. Analyst Baek Gil-hyun attributed recent sharp declines in both stocks to