AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Reuters, Microsoft has closed at least 15 Chinese branches and subsidiaries over the past five years, executing a strategic retreat amid geopolitical tensions and competitive pressures. The company's China operations represent only 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. While executives

According to BlockBeats, on August 14, X-Agent launched the 'AI MCP Hackathon 2026: Build, Verify, MCPize, Monetize' to enable global Web3 AI developers to build monetizable on-chain AI tools. The 4-week online hackathon features a 5-day warm-up phase followed by 14 days of development.

According to Beating monitoring, Google DeepMind is reportedly planning a major reorganization that could lay off more than one-third of its approximately 7,000 to 8,000 employees, focusing on redundant roles and positions misaligned with actual work. The company is halting near-term updates to its

According to Chosun Daily, South Korea-based AI semiconductor startup DeepX secured over $13 million in purchase orders for its DX-M1 on-device AI chip across more than 10 countries and regions by end of July 2026. The company recorded 77 total purchase orders, with 48 orders placed between April an

According to Axios, OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser will depart in coming weeks, with Dali Rajic, former president and COO of Google-owned cybersecurity firm Wiz, taking the role. The move comes as OpenAI Co-founder Greg Brockman expands operational responsibilities and builds a new

According to Foresight News, TLAY, an AI-driven machine economy embedded trust layer, announced it is building an embedded wallet and trust infrastructure for machine-to-machine (M2M) payments. The solution enables devices to autonomously hold value, assess price signals, and authorize

From Q4 2025 through Q2 2026, the combined hashrate of publicly listed Bitcoin mining companies fell 13.4%, exceeding the 10.6% decline in the global Bitcoin hashrate over the same period. The fundamentals of Core Scientific and TeraWulf have undergone a structural shift: Core Scientific’s Q2 AI hosting revenue reached $136.7 million, nearly five times its mining revenue. Six-Month Hashrate Decline of Listed Mining Companies Compared with the Global Hashrate According to the latest Miner Weekly

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek fully open-sourced the developer preview of its Agent framework, “DeepSeek Harness” v0.1, under the MIT License on August 13. Its GitHub star count approached 60,000 following the release. Harness is positioned as a competitor to Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, while taking an open-source framework approach. Harness v0.1 Architecture The DeepSeek Harness architecture is built on the Cordis pluggable microkernel. The model, tools, session state, file system

According to Jin10, a national standards launch meeting for humanoid robot test methods was held in Wuhan's Optics Valley on August 14. Seven standards covering general principles, environmental perception, decision planning, and motion control were initiated simultaneously for development.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, the second low-cost coding model it has launched in the three weeks since 3.6 Flash. The company said the new model was developed based on internal optimization work and developer feedback. Notably, Google’s flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, which it promised developers in May, has still not been released. Gemini 3.7 Flash Pricing: $0.75 per Million Input Tokens Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash pricing plan, effective from August 13, 2026, thr

OpenAI announced on its official blog on Aug. 13 that it was launching Ultrafast mode, enabling its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model to generate up to 750 tokens per second—14 times faster than Standard mode—using technology from chipmaker Cerebras’s Wafer-Scale Engine. Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine: An Entire Wafer as a Chip Traditional chip manufacturing cuts hundreds or thousands of small chips from a silicon wafer. Cerebras takes the opposite approach, using the entire wafer as a single complete chi

According to Jin10, LG Electronics plans to launch a bipedal humanoid robot powered by Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip in Q1 2027. The robot will be developed using Nvidia's Isaac GR00T humanoid AI foundation model and Holoscan for Robotics safety system. LG will integrate technologies from its

According to TechCrunch, Apple is in talks with publishers to pay for content used to power Siri AI, with negotiations ongoing in recent months. Apple has proposed a variable payment model that would compensate publishers each time their content is used, rather than a fixed licensing fee, and has co

Gate News, August 14 — According to Gate market data, as of press time, AEON (AEON) is trading at $0.0662, up 20.06% over the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.0713 and a low of $0.0532, with 24-hour trading volume reaching $354.2k. Its current market cap is approximately $12.4437 million. AEON is AI-native settlement infrastructure built specifically for the agent economy, designed to address the high fees, limited programmability, and settlement delays faced by traditional financial network

According to Zhitong Caijing, Kingdee International (00268) posted total revenue of 3.625 billion yuan (up 13.6%) in the first half of 2026, with subscription revenue reaching 2.028 billion yuan (up 20.4%). The company's AI-native product revenue hit 296 million yuan, surging 189%, while AI-native s

According to Beating monitoring, Denise Dresser stepped down as OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer after less than a year in the role. She is being replaced by Dali Rajic, former president and COO of Wiz, who will oversee corporate sales and revenue growth. This marks the second senior departure this

Xiaomi HyperOS 4 officially began rolling out its first public beta on Aug. 14, introducing a new glass-like design language centered on realistic refraction effects, expanded lock screen and home screen customization options, app loading speeds approximately 18% faster than HyperOS 3 after 9 hours of use, and Super AI Assistant 2.0 powered by Xiaomi’s self-developed low-level logic processor, MiMo. HyperOS 4 Glass-Like Design Language HyperOS 4 adopts a new glass-like design language, with real

US artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, preparing for what would be the largest IPO in history, did not discuss enterprise valuation or specific financial figures during recent pre-IPO investor meetings, according to a CNBC report citing sources familiar with the matter. CNBC anchor David

According to CNBC anchor David Faber, citing sources familiar with the matter, Anthropic did not discuss valuation or specific financial figures during recent investor meetings on August 13. The CFO-led sessions focused on high-level discussions rather than concrete numbers. While some investors

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 14th that the country's information and communication technology (ICT) exports reached $53.36 billion in July, marking a record high for the month and representing a 140.6% increase compared to July of the previous year. The surge was