AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Foresight News, Binance's Agentic Wallet now supports tokenized securities Skills and CLI. Users' AI agents can execute buy and sell orders for tokenized securities, monitor positions, and manage investment portfolios using natural language

At Cannes Lions 2026, Adobe announced new agentic AI solutions and partnerships with Accenture and Omnicom.

According to Coinbase Markets, the exchange is launching pre-IPO perpetual contracts for Anthropic and OpenAI, with contract codes ANTHROPIC-PERP and OPENAI-PERP. Trading on both contracts will open on June 22 at 11:00 UTC (19:00 Beijing time) or

JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong called for international cooperation on artificial intelligence and robotics among APEC economies on June 21 at the 2026 APEC Business Leaders Forum in China. While acknowledging that logistics will eventually be automated, Liu expressed concern about ensuring

According to 9to5Mac, on June 22, Anthropic may use Apple Wallet's digital identity verification feature to authenticate Claude users' nationality and identity. The move follows U.S. government export restrictions that prompted Anthropic to close Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to foreign users due to

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson defended the company's recent experiments with AI-generated content after community members criticized a post shared through Input Output Global's X account. The controversy centered on an AI-generated influencer character created as part of the Midnight City

Charles Hoskinson recently defended Cardano's AI-generated content experiments after community criticism regarding a post shared by Input Output Global's X account. The AI content, created as part of the Midnight City project, was intended to demonstrate new technological capabilities rather than re

Gate News message, late-stage funding reached $7.46B across 126 disclosed deals in 2026, compared to $593M across 115 seed-stage rounds. This creates a 12.6x gap between late-stage and early-stage capital. AI remains the most popular funding category during this

According to H3 Zoom, the Singapore-based AI inspection software company closed an oversubscribed $3.6 million Series A round on June 22. The round was led by JRE Ventures, with participation from SGInnovate, M7 Holdings, Moringa Ventures, and others. H3 Zoom plans to use the funding to expand in

According to Reuters, Indonesia plans to use artificial intelligence in government programs between 2026 and 2029, including its $15 billion free meals scheme, under a draft presidential regulation awaiting President Prabowo Subianto's signature. The AI would assist in designing local menus,

According to Nikkei Asia, Japan's government announced recently that it plans to allocate approximately 10.5 trillion yen (about 442.3 billion yuan) to the physical AI sector as part of a larger investment strategy targeting over 370 trillion yen in public-private partnerships across 17 strategic se

According to Cailianshe, on June 22, SK Biopharmaceuticals and Insilico Medicine announced a collaboration on drug discovery for neuroimmune diseases at the BIO convention. Insilico will receive up to $18 million in upfront and near-term milestone payments, with the total deal value reaching over $2

According to Jin10, on Hong Kong market close on June 22, artificial intelligence stocks rose against the trend while the broader market declined. The Hang Seng Index fell 0.65% and the Tech Index dropped 1.19%. Minimax-W (00100.HK) surged about 24%, Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies (06869.H

According to Reuters, on June 22 China's AI data center renewable energy target faces mounting operational challenges. Beijing's March 2025 policy requires newly built national-hub data centers to source 80% of electricity from renewables by 2030. According to State

Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, a platform allowing artificial intelligence agents to connect to users' Coinbase accounts and perform financial transactions, according to CoinDesk. The platform enables AI agents such as ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude to handle transactions for users. This

According to CoinDesk, Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents today (June 2026), a new platform that allows artificial intelligence agents like ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude to connect directly to users' cryptocurrency accounts. The product enables AI agents to perform financial transactions on

According to JPMorgan Chase, Zhipu is expected to release its next-generation flagship model GLM-5.5 in August, with parameters potentially exceeding 1 trillion. The prediction comes as Zhipu released the 744-billion-parameter GLM-5.2 model in mid-June, which has shown strong performance on

According to Bloomberg, Tencent began testing Xiaowei, an AI assistant inside WeChat, on June 22 with a limited user group in China. The text and voice-based tool allows users to complete tasks through WeChat's mini-program ecosystem, running primarily on Weixin's WeLM large language model with

According to JPMorgan, semiconductor equipment suppliers will be the biggest beneficiaries of AI infrastructure expansion, not GPU makers, a shift highlighted in the bank's latest industry report. The investment focus is moving from GPU-centric demand to a broader semiconductor manufacturing

According to ChainCatcher, citing analyst Guo Ming-chi from Tianfeng International, Google has deepened its collaboration with MediaTek on TPU v9 to develop an upgraded Triggerfish chip targeted at AI agents and reinforcement learning applications. MediaTek has secured an exclusive order for 1–2