AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

Macro investor Jordi Visser stated that wealthy investors should hold Bitcoin as an "anti-decay" hedge against AI-driven growth compression across traditional assets. In a conversation with Anthony Pompliano on Saturday, Visser argued that AI-driven competition was compressing multiples across

Jeff Amico, chief operating officer at GensynAI, warns that users of real-world asset credit vaults may lack enforceable claims against borrowers despite receiving yield-bearing tokens. The structure common across RWA lending platforms creates a gap between the returns investors receive and the

According to The China Science Board Daily, DeepSeek will adjust its API pricing rules starting August 23, 2026. From that date, weekends (Saturday and Sunday) will no longer distinguish between peak and off-peak periods, with all day unified to off-peak rates. Existing fees generated before the

According to New York Times, Anthropic is pursuing an initial public offering at a valuation target of up to $2 trillion on August 22. The AI company's revenue has grown rapidly, driven by its Claude Code service for coding assistance. The IPO is intended to support large-scale investments in AI

According to Reuters, OpenAI announced yesterday (August 21) that it will reduce GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing by over 20% within three months to compete with Anthropic and Chinese AI models. Input Token costs for standard context will drop

According to IT House, on August 22, Honor's humanoid robot 'Lightning' completed a 100-meter test at the second World Humanoid Robot Sports Games in Beijing, recording a time of 9.32 seconds with a peak speed of 14.5 meters per second. The result surpassed the previous human world record of 9.58 se

According to analysis by Apollo Global Management's chief economist Torsten Slok and analyst Sania Edlich, artificial intelligence is dampening wage growth without causing significant job cuts. Jobs with high AI exposure are seeing wage growth 6.7 percentage points slower than low-exposure

Factblock CEO Andrew Park is driving South Korea's transition from retail-dominated cryptocurrency trading to institutional digital finance infrastructure. Policy frameworks now provide approximately 3,500 corporate entities with legal account access to trade digital assets in South Korea,

Binance launched Binance Agent OS on Aug. 20, 2026, a developer platform connecting artificial intelligence applications with its financial infrastructure. The platform provides AI agents standardized access to Binance trading systems, market data, wallets, payment services, and on-chain tools. The

Binance launched Agent OS on Aug. 20, 2026, a developer platform designed to connect artificial intelligence agents directly with its financial infrastructure. The platform provides standardized access to trading systems, market data, wallets, payment services and on-chain tools, supporting

According to The Information and Nvidia's statement on August 22, Nvidia denied reports that it planned to ship a customized AI chip to Chinese customers by year-end. The company's spokesperson clarified: "The Information's report about Nvidia's LPU is inaccurate. We currently have no LPU sales in C

According to Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee's analysis, Bitcoin mining stocks have weakened their correlation with BTC as they pivot toward AI data centers. Over a 90-day period, Strategy maintained 78% correlation with Bitcoin, while Core Scientific, Cipher Mining, TeraWulf and Hut 8 registered

According to ChainCatcher, citing Factblock CEO Andrew Park, South Korea's Financial Commission has proposed a framework to open enterprise virtual asset accounts to approximately 3,500 listed companies and registered professional investors. The South Korean National Assembly has formally passed ame

According to CryptoBriefing, OpenAI acquired InstantDB, a real-time database platform serving over 17,000 users and 400,000 applications that processed approximately 2.5 billion transactions, on August 22. InstantDB provides backend-as-a-service (BaaS) products for developers to handle real-time dat

According to TechCrunch, space computing startup Starcloud completed a $250 million Series funding round on August 22, with Manhattan West Ventures leading the round and Nvidia, Cisco, Benchmark, and EQT participating. Nvidia invested approximately $25 million in the round. The funding will

According to New York Times on August 21, AI company Anthropic is pursuing an initial public offering with a target valuation up to $2 trillion and plans to raise over $100 billion through underwriters' discussions with potential investors. If successful, Anthropic would surpass SpaceX's

According to Bloomberg, as of March 2026, the performance gap between U.S. and Chinese AI models has narrowed to 2.7%, with competition shifting from raw capability to cost efficiency. China's Kimi K3 model scored 60 points on Artificial Analysis benchmarks, approaching Anthropic's Claude Fable 5

According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Gemini 3.7 Flash broke the company's previous Gemini model growth record in its first week, becoming Google's fastest-growing Gemini model to date. Google did not disclose specific growth metrics or usage scale. According to Artificial Analysis, the model

According to MaxForAI, Gao Jianlin, core leader of Tencent's chip research and development, has left the company and launched a startup on August 22 to develop high-performance CPUs based on the RISC-V architecture for AI servers and Agentic AI applications. Gao was instrumental in building Tencent'

According to News.bitcoin, South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has launched a real-time artificial intelligence platform designed to detect cryptocurrency price manipulation. The system identifies short-term price manipulation tactics by referencing a historical database of known