AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Beating, Nous Research is currently finalizing a new funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, with a minimum raise of $75 million. Robot Ventures leads the round, alongside participants including USV. The deal remains pending and the company declined to comment. Noireus Research's

Federal Reserve (Fed) Governor Christopher Waller delivered a speech in New York on July 13, warning that the “demand spillover effect” caused by the AI industry’s explosive growth has become a new root cause of persistent inflation remaining at stubbornly high levels. He also said that if inflation stays high or rises further, there is still a possibility in the near term of restarting a more hawkish monetary policy. According to CME FedWatch, the market currently estimates about a 39% chance o

According to xAI, the company announced a Zero Data Retention (ZDR) privacy mode on July 14 where code and execution logs are not saved. Users without ZDR enabled can enter the /privacy command in CLI to disable data retention, with all previously synced data deleted. Grok Build lead Andrew

According to DigiTimes, HBM4 chip prices are expected to surge from approximately $2 per gigabit in the second half of 2026 to $4-5 per gigabit next year, driven by accelerating demand ahead of Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin AI platform launch. The price surge is also being supported by

According to Decrypt, OpenAI released a new prompt engineering guide for GPT-5.6 on July 14, recommending users reduce over-prompting and allow the model to self-plan. The guide advises setting clear goals and stopping conditions rather than using lengthy XML code blocks for fine-grained control,

Dunamu, the operator of cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, announced on the 14th the beta launch of the Upbit Strategy Toolkit, an artificial intelligence-based backtesting tool that allows users to verify trading strategies entered in natural language against actual historical price data. The toolkit e

On July 14, Dunamu, the operator of Upbit cryptocurrency exchange, launched the beta version of Upbit Strategy Toolkit, an AI-based backtesting tool that allows users to input trading strategies in natural language and validate them against historical market data. The toolkit enables users to

According to Wedbush Securities analyst Bryson, Micron Technology announced plans to invest up to $3 billion in Taiwan-based semiconductor wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers, including a 10-year silicon wafer supply agreement, as part of its $250+ billion U.S. chipmaking investment commitment

According to CNBC on July 13, Meta announced it will expand its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts (GW) at a cost of over US$50 billion, up from the original 2 GW plan priced at US$27 billion. The company expects Hyperion to reach 2 GW by 2030 and 5 GW around 2032

According to Reuters, Payoneer Global plans to hire about 300 engineers in India by the end of 2026 to establish a new global capability center in Gurugram, near Delhi. The facility will focus on AI and platform engineering and become the company's second-largest technology and research and

According to SoftBank, on July 14, SoftBank Corp. became Sierra's exclusive partner in Japan and deployed the US-based conversational AI startup's customer service solution at LINEMO, its online-only mobile brand. The deployment increased inquiry resolution from 83% to 97% and customer

According to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on X, Base adjusted its development roadmap earlier this year after acknowledging that its previous focus on content-related tokens "did not work." Armstrong confirmed that Base maintains three core long-term focus areas: trading, payments, and AI agents,

According to Bloomberg and public statements, OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI released new AI models over the past week, with a primary focus on reducing token costs rather than performance gains. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is designed to complete more tasks with significantly lower token usage, while Musk's

According to Paradigm partner Georgios Konstantopoulos, the Paradigm Frontiers annual conference and hackathon will be held October 12-14, 2026 in San Francisco. The event operates on an invitation-only basis with no exhibition booths or sponsors. Topics will cover stablecoins, artificial

According to The Economic Times, HCLTech announced on July 13 an investment of up to 35 billion rupees ($366 million) to establish AI data centers through new subsidiaries, with potential to scale to 50 MW of capacity. The investment is part of

According to Security Times, Oriental Compute Core launched the DF1000 software-defined 3D AI chip in Shanghai on July 13. The chip delivers 520 TFLOPS at BF16 and reaches 6.4 TB/s of memory bandwidth, exceeding Nvidia H200's 4.8 TB/s. It uses DRAM-logic hybrid-bonded 3D packaging to address AI

According to Motley Fool analysis, Oracle stock fell 6.47% to $131.54 on July 13 (NYSE close) following S&P's downgrade of its credit rating from BBB to BBB-. The analysis attributes the decline to investor concerns over OpenAI's ability to fulfill its obligations under a $300 billion computing

According to an official announcement on July 13, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs and 13 other departments jointly released the Rehabilitation Assistive Device Industry Expansion and Quality Enhancement Three-Year Action Plan (2026–2028). The plan aims to establish a new industrial landscape

According to Yahoo Finance, Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday (July 11), alleging the company and current and former employees orchestrated a scheme to steal proprietary information related to iPhone manufacturing and AI device development. The complaint specifically names OpenAI

OpenAI published a prompting guide for GPT-5.6 Sol that reverses earlier advice on prompt engineering. Internal coding-agent tests showed lean system prompts improved evaluation scores by roughly 10-15% while cutting total tokens by 41-66% and costs by 33-67%. The guide introduces outcome-first prom