AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

At its Build 2026 developer conference on June 2, Microsoft announced seven AI models in its MAI series and a second-generation quantum chip, Majorana 2. The company unveiled its first advanced reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1, which features 35 billion active

According to Taipei Times, on June 3 at the opening of Computex Taipei, Taiwan President William Lai said the self-ruled island is vital to global AI development as it accounts for over 60% of global foundry revenue and more than 90% of leading-edge chip manufacturing. Lai emphasized that

Alibaba Qianwen (Qwen) series released the Qwen3.7-Plus model this week. Input pricing is $0.40 per million tokens, output pricing is $1.60 per million tokens, for a total of $2.00. This is an 80% reduction compared with Qwen3.7-Max. Cached input pricing can be as low as $0.04 per million tokens. The target scenarios are high-frequency, repetitive tasks. Qwen3.7-Plus confirmed pricing: fee rates for each billing mode According to pricing information published by Alibaba official: Standard input:

S2F model inventor and Dutch anonymous quant analyst PlanB posted on X on June 1, saying he personally believes Bitcoin’s true bottom has not formed yet, and gave a judgment of more than 50% probability of downside. The two technical reference levels he listed are the 200-week moving average line and the realized price of the on-chain overall cost basis (Realized Price, currently about $53,000). PlanB June 1 Post: 50/50 Market Split, No Bottoming Traits Seen Yet In the post, PlanB said whether t

According to Reuters, on June 3, DeepSeek planned to raise about $7 billion in its Series A funding round at a $59 billion valuation. Tencent and CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.) are set to become the largest external investors, with NetEase and JD.com also planned to

According to ZutaCore, the Foster City, California-based data center cooling startup raised $100 million in Series C on June 2. The round was backed by Mitsubishi Electric, Carrier Ventures, Samsung Ventures, and other investors. The funding will support commercialization and research and

Microsoft unveiled its Majorana 2 quantum chip on Tuesday during its annual Build conference, announcing the device is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor. The chip achieves average qubit lifetimes of 20 seconds, with some lasting up to one minute, improvements the company attributes to

According to Microsoft's announcement at its Build conference on Tuesday, the company unveiled Majorana 2, a new topological quantum chip that is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with average qubit lifetimes of 20 seconds and some lasting as long as one minute. Microsoft said the chip

According to Crowdfund Insider, Tether AI released a production-ready version of TurboQuant, a memory compression technology developed by Google Research, and integrated it into the latest QVAC SDK on June 3. TurboQuant compresses KV cache by up to 5x while maintaining output quality, enabling

According to Reuters, the Trump administration announced on June 2 a framework seeking voluntary agreements to allow federal agencies 30 days to test advanced AI models for cybersecurity risks before release outside the government. The Treasury, Defense, Commerce, and Homeland Security

At Computex Taipei 2026 on June 2, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that agentic AI will boost central processing unit (CPU) demand as AI systems take on multi-step work. Intel unveiled Xeon 6 data-center processors and said its Intel 18A process technology is now at full scale for Core Ultra

On June 2, OpenAI released six professional plug-ins for Codex, covering six roles: data analyst, creative production, sales, product designer, stock investor, and investment banker. In total, it integrates 62 popular business applications, covering 110 automation skills. According to an internal OpenAI report, non-engineer users account for 20% of Codex’s weekly active users, but their adoption rate is 3 times that of engineer users. Six Professional Plug-in Specs: Confirmed Roles, Integrated A

According to Sensor Tower, OpenAI's ChatGPT reached an estimated 1 billion monthly active app users worldwide in May, becoming the fastest app to reach that milestone roughly three years after launch. The app grew faster than Google Maps, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, per the market intelligence f

According to a June 1 report by 404 Media, Meta has confirmed that hackers exploited a security vulnerability in its AI customer service chatbot to successfully take over multiple well-known Instagram accounts. Affected accounts include the official Instagram account from the Obama White House period of former U.S. President Obama, well-known cosmetics brand Sephora, and the official account of the U.S. Space Force’s Chief Master Sergeant. Complete Attack Chain: How the AI Customer Service Was B

OpenAI announced on May 27 that it has launched the Secure MCP Tunnel service, allowing ChatGPT, Codex, and the Responses API to directly connect to private MCP servers within an enterprise network. OpenAI’s official support enables enterprises to deploy a single MCP server setup, which can be accessed by both ChatGPT and Claude systems. Reverse-connection architecture: how tunnel-client builds a connection from inside the intranet The core component of Secure MCP Tunnel is tunnel-client, which

Microsoft announced at the June Build conference that it is rolling out seven new AI models, covering reasoning, code, images, transcription, and speech. In four core programming benchmark tests, MAI-Code-1-Flash outperformed Claude Haiku 4.5 across the board, and on SWE-Bench Verified, token usage was reduced by up to 60%. List of 7 models: full coverage across five major areas At the Build conference, Microsoft has publicly released six models with complete names: MAI Thinking-1 (reasoning), M

Taiwan’s weighted index and Bitcoin markets decoupled on June 3. Driven by US stocks hitting consecutive five-day intraday closing highs and the AI boom, Taiwan stocks, led by TSMC, broke through the 46,000-point level. On the same day, Bitcoin’s single-day drop was about 6%, with a low around $66,100, triggering forced liquidation of more than $1.7 billion in long positions. K33 Research research head Vetle Lunde warned that AI stocks are snatching capital from Bitcoin. Taiwan stocks open with

Meta’s Vice President of the Supervised Intelligence Lab, Steven Castriel, announced in an internal memo on June 2 that Meta is partially rolling back its employee mouse movement and keyboard input tracking program. Employees can now pause the tracking software for up to 30 minutes at a time, and can apply for a full exemption. The program originally began on April 22, using software installed on U.S. employees’ laptop computers for training AI agent systems. Original Monitoring Plan: Started on

According to Sensor Tower data, ChatGPT, an OpenAI product, surpassed 1 billion monthly active users worldwide in May, becoming the fastest application to reach this milestone speed ever. The report said that among ChatGPT users who installed Anthropic Claude in the United States in Q1 2026, time spent on ChatGPT was 5% lower one month later than the average over the previous eight months. ChatGPT’s growth trajectory: from saturation warnings to 1 billion users From August to November 2025, Chat

According to Odaily and SoSoValue data, the crypto market experienced a sharp selloff on June 3, with Bitcoin down 6.03% to below $67,000 and Ethereum down 6.52% to below $1,900 in 24-hour trading. The AI sector fell 6.06%, with Bittensor (TAO) and Worldcoin (WLD) declining 7.67% and 8.17%