AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to ChainCatcher, AI infrastructure company Neurometric AI completed a $4 million funding round with participation from Betaworks, ex-Ante, and Everywhere.vc. The company has launched an automated token engineering platform designed to optimize cost and performance management for AI Agent w

According to Wedbush, Nvidia's Blackwell GPU prices are surging in China's black market despite government bans on the chips' export to the country.

According to ChainCatcher, Fortune, a prediction market infrastructure platform, recently unveiled its core AI products AI Bot and Sports Agent. Fortune AI serves as an "AI operating system" for prediction traders, enabling real-time detection of news, market sentiment, and arbitrage signals while a

According to Business Insider citing sources familiar with the matter, Tools For Humanity launched two external legal investigations last year into allegations that company executives misappropriated funds to artificially inflate Worldcoin's price and engaged in regulatory violations in

Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins urging the agency to explain its plans for regulating AI-powered trading tools. The lawmakers raised concerns about investor protection, market integrity, and

Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explain how it plans to regulate artificial intelligence-powered trading tools, according to a press release from Congressman Bill Foster earlier this month. The lawmakers raised

According to Jin10, Meituan LongCat today open-sourced VitaBench 2.0, the first benchmark for evaluating large language model agents in long-term, real-world dynamic user interaction scenarios. The benchmark systematically assesses the personalization and proactive capabilities of LLMs in

According to ChainCatcher, cloud computing startup Runpod completed a $100 million funding round today and disclosed that it has rejected multiple acquisition offers. Specific investor details have not been disclosed. The company provides GPU computing rental services for developers deploying open-s

Microsoft canceled most of its Claude Code licenses last month to reduce AI spending costs, according to The Verge. The move reflects a broader industry shift as companies begin managing AI expenses like traditional IT budgets rather than encouraging unrestricted adoption. CEO Satya Nadella

According to The Verge, Microsoft Corp. began cancelling most of its Claude Code licenses last month as companies increasingly manage AI spending like traditional operating expenses. This month, Chinese startup Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a model delivering comparable coding performance to OpenAI and

According to reports, Intel-backed AI inference chipmaker SambaNova Systems is seeking to raise up to $1 billion at a post-money valuation of $10 billion.

IBM announced a new chip architecture that integrates nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail, delivering nearly twice the transistor density of the company's previous generation of chip technology. The company describes the advancement as the 'world's first sub-1

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on June 24, 2026, a custom-designed AI accelerator chip built specifically for large language model inference. The chip represents OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor and the initial component in a planned multi-generation compute platform developed jointly

Amazon will invest an additional $13 billion in India by 2030 to expand AWS data centers and AI services across Mumbai and Hyderabad, the company announced. The investment aims to strengthen cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence capabilities in the

According to OpenAI, the company and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeno on June 25, a custom AI accelerator designed specifically for large language model inference. Developed in partnership with Broadcom and Celestica, Jalapeno represents the first component of a planned multi-generation compute platform a

According to Zhitong Finance, Chinese artificial intelligence company Zhiketalkcom (01956) saw strong dark-market performance as of market close on June 25, with dark-market quotes at HK$118.1 per share, representing a 94.56% gain from its IPO price of HK$60.70. At HK$200 shares per lot,

According to On-Chain Beats monitoring, OpenAI's ChatGPT subscription and quota system experienced widespread outages on June 25, causing major account permission and usage allocation misalignment. Some Plus

According to Beating, Notion announced a public beta of its External Agents platform for Business and Enterprise plans, enabling teams to integrate Anthropic's Claude and the AI coding tool Cursor directly into their workspace. Users can assign tasks to AI agents via @-mentions or task boards; Claud

According to ARC Prize, Zhipu's GLM-5.2 model recently achieved official verification on the ARC-AGI benchmark. On ARC-AGI-2, GLM-5.2 reached 22.8% accuracy with an average cost of $0.25 per task, while on the easier ARC-AGI-1 benchmark, it achieved 77.0% accuracy at $0.19 per run. GLM-5.2's

Omnisient, a South African-founded fintech and data analytics company, won the 'Best Technology Provider – Data, Analytics & Infrastructure' category at Britain's Credit Awards, an annual programme run by industry publisher Credit Strategy. The company was selected ahead of a shortlist that