AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

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

According to ChainCatcher, AI-focused on-chain financing platform keep.coffee recently received strategic investment from blockchain data service provider Bitquery. The platform operates using an on-chain financing model without Bonding Curves, internal fund pools, or user asset custody

Over the past ten trading days, SpaceX (SPCX) stock has provided a textbook example of a battle between bulls and bears. As of the U.S. market close on August 13 (Beijing time), SPCX had surged 9.65% to $146.15 after briefly touching an intraday high of $149.60. Compared with the interim low of approximately $104.83 on August 3, the rebound has reached roughly 40%. The AI capital expenditure black hole and the tsunami of lock-up expirations that had previously worried the market appear to have b

CK Hutchison Holdings (00001.HK) reported 上半年 basic earnings of HKD 32.774 billion for CKHGT, a 7% year-over-year increase in reporting currency, while basic EBIT fell 37% to HKD 1.787 billion. The EBIT decline was primarily attributed to a one-time treasury gain of approximately HKD 700 million

CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius (NBIS) stocks declined in Thursday's premarket session, with CRWV dropping 3.8% and NBIS falling 2.6% after substantial gains in the previous session. The pullback followed Wednesday's rallies of 19.3% for CRWV and 34.1% for NBIS, which came after both neocloud

According to Beating and influencer leo, Google is expected to launch Gemini 3.7 Flash today with significantly reduced API pricing. Input costs are projected to fall to $0.75 per million tokens and output costs to $3.75 per million tokens, compared to current Gemini 3.6 Flash rates of $1.50 and $7.

Anthropic may achieve a valuation exceeding $2 trillion at its October IPO, according to a Financial Times report citing expectations from some of the company's investors on May 28. The AI company's rapid revenue growth is driving investor optimism for a valuation more than double its current

According to ChainCatcher, B.AI launched Grok 4.6 API today, delivering enhanced performance in complex task handling, deep reasoning, and overall intelligence compared to Grok 4.5. The new version demonstrated significant leadership in the GPDVal-AA V2 benchmark. B.AI simultaneously opened

According to Zhitong Finance, JD Logistics (02618) reported on August 13 that its H1 2026 revenue reached 124.7 billion yuan, up 26.5% year-over-year, with adjusted operating profit of 3.6 billion yuan, up 39.9%. The company's integrated supply chain revenue totaled 59.4 billion yuan,

According to Jin10, Alibaba released the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B large-scale mixture-of-experts (MoE) model on August 13, with the FlagOS community completing simultaneous multi-chip adaptation across 9 AI processors including NVIDIA, Huawei Ascend, Mojo, Iluvatar CoreX, and others. The model has

According to Beating, Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3-billion-parameter vision-language model optimized for local deployment on mobile devices and computers. The model scored an average of 69.4 on 28 visual benchmarks—significantly outperforming the 8-billion-parameter Gemma-4-E4B (59.7) and co

SK Hynix, the world's leading high-bandwidth memory maker, is investing $720 billion to build what it describes as the largest network of memory factories globally in South Korea. The company raised $26.5 billion in July by listing shares on the Nasdaq, the largest amount ever raised by a foreign co

According to Business Insider, SpaceX stock rallied 9.65% to $146.15 on August 12, marking its highest close in the past month. CEO Elon Musk told employees that next month AI revenue would exceed all other business revenue combined, with the company leasing excess computing resources to Google

The KOSPI index rose 3.56% to close at 6813.34 on the 13th, marking its fourth consecutive day of gains and reaching its highest level since the 23rd of last month. The rally was driven by improved investor sentiment toward artificial intelligence stocks after US July consumer price inflation

Pepperstone appointed former Xero engineering executive Nigel Fernandes as Chief Technology Officer, with Fernandes joining the Melbourne-headquartered broker on 1 October and reporting directly to Group CEO Tamas Szabo. The appointment supports Pepperstone's strategy of building proprietary technology as it expands beyond its traditional CFD business into cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence and broader fintech services. The move reflects a broader shift across the retail trading industry, w