AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to TechCrunch, AI code verification startup Blacksmith completed a $45 million Series B funding round, with Peak XV Partners leading the investment and GV and Y Combinator participating. The company, founded in 2024, is valued at $550 million. Blacksmith focuses on verifying the quality

According to Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart, Harbor Capital launched 5 actively managed AI ecosystem ETFs today: ANTW (Anthropic ecosystem), DEPW (Google DeepMind ecosystem), MTAW (Meta ecosystem), OAIW (OpenAI ecosystem), and XAIW (xAI ecosystem). The funds aim to capture AI industry

According to the New York Times, AI investment platform Thrive Holdings announced the completion of a $2 billion funding round, bringing the company's valuation to $12 billion. SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital are among the investors. Founded in 2025 by Thrive Capital founder

Twitch announced on Wednesday the addition of a control allowing users to opt out of having their channel content used to train generative AI models across Amazon, with the setting enabled by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the opt-out approach by stating 'if it was opt-in,

According to ChainCatcher, Lightspeed Venture Partners is currently seeking to raise approximately $600 million through secondary transactions to extend its exposure to OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies, while increasing its investment in AI model company Anthropic. The

According to ChainCatcher, AI code review platform CodeRabbit recently raised $143 million in Series B funding, bringing its valuation to $1.5 billion. Atomico and Smash Capital led the round, with BMW i Ventures and Datadog among participating investors. The company has now raised over $200 million

According to DeepSeek's official announcement on August 13, the company will implement a peak-valley pricing model for its API starting August 17 at 00:00 Beijing time. Off-peak rates will be set at half the peak-hour price. Peak hours are designated as 9:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 Beijing time,

According to Guru Club, DeepSeek announced on August 13 an updated API pricing model effective August 17, 2026 (00:00 Beijing time). The new structure introduces peak-valley pricing: off-peak rates are set at 50% of peak rates. Peak

According to Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research, in a recent CNBC interview, Nvidia is operating as a supplier, customer, and financing facilitator simultaneously in the AI computing sector. The company sells GPUs to firms like CoreWeave and Lambda while supporting them through long-term

Anthropic announced it will watermark all content processed by its AI models to comply with the European Union's AI Act, which requires AI system providers to watermark AI-generated or manipulated audio, image, text, and video outputs. The EU law applies to any AI model released after August 2 and p

According to Jin10 Data, on August 13, Wanbang Pharma released an announcement clarifying its relationship with DeepSeek. The company's stock experienced cumulative gains exceeding 100% over eight consecutive trading days from August 4 to 13, triggering abnormal trading protocols. The company

Anthropic announced it will deploy machine-readable watermarks to all content processed by its models, complying with the European Union's AI Act. The watermarking requirement applies to all AI system providers for content released after August 2, with a grace period until December 2026 for

According to Jin10, DeepSeek withdrew its DeepSeek-V4-Pro release announcement and platform notice on August 13, less than 24 hours after the silent launch on August 12. The model remains listed in the official API

Google DeepMind recently launched SL2T, a sign language-to-text model, integrating it into Pixel 11's Gboard and Live Transcribe. The model initially supports American Sign Language (ASL) to English translation, allowing users to search, compose messages, enter documents, and query Gemini by

According to Beating, Hone formally launches as an enterprise Agent system designed to run continuously over weeks or months on a single business objective. The platform, with team members from Cognition, Mercor, Ramp, and OpenAI, automatically breaks down tasks, schedules agents, and modifies

According to ChainCatcher, AI security startup Mindgard completed a $30 million Series A funding round led by Album VC on August 13. Karma Ventures, .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar participated in the round. Founded by Dr. Peter Garraghan in 2022 and incubated at

According to Odaily citing MSX.COM data, U.S. stock AI-related shares showed mixed performance in pre-market trading on August 13. CRWV fell 2.60%, ANET dropped 0.22%, and MU declined 0.20%, while GOOGL rose 0.48% and MRVL

According to the Wall Street Journal, Demis Hasabis has been pushing a new regulatory mechanism for frontier AI with U.S. government officials and other AI lab leaders as he steps down as DeepMind CEO. Hasabis first proposed establishing an independent AI ethics committee when DeepMind sold to

According to Bloomberg, IBM and OpenAI signed a strategic partnership today to accelerate safe AI deployment across enterprise operations. The collaboration will embed GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consulting's AI delivery platform, with IBM launching a dedicated OpenAI Practice

According to Financial Times, Anthropic is expected to pursue an initial public offering in October that could value the AI company at over $2 trillion, surpassing SpaceX's valuation. Some investors anticipate this could result in one of the largest IPOs on