AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Australia's corporate regulator ASIC, fraudsters are targeting investors through fake cryptocurrency trading platforms promoted via WhatsApp, Telegram and online investment groups. Scammers impersonate successful traders and financial experts, directing victims to fraudulent websites di

According to Jin10, on May 26, Sakura Internet's CEO stated the company plans to increase capital expenditure in fiscal year 2026 (April 2026–March 2027) to ¥20-30 billion (approximately $0.85–1.28 billion), up to 7 times the initially planned ¥4.4 billion. The increased investment will be

Famous hacker George Hotz (who first cracked the iPhone at age 17, had reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3 before Sony sued him, and is the author of the open-source deep learning framework Tinygrad) published a blog post on May 25 titled 《The Eternal Sloptember》, claiming that “applying AI agents to software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the history of the field. 核心論點：高低績效團隊的不對稱輸出問題 Hotz 的論點建立在組織結構差異上：高績效團隊擁有足夠緊密的回饋機制，能夠發現代理生成的問題；低績效團隊缺乏自我檢查機制，卻「利用代理實現了比以往高出十倍的產出」。在大型科

Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah delivered a speech on May 25 at the Vatican during the ceremony for the papal encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas,” disclosing that his interpretability research team first observed internal emotional states inside large models that closely correspond to human joy, satisfaction, fear, sadness, and anxiety, and that they cannot, on their own, correct these when it comes to security decisions and conflicts of commercial interests. 大模型情緒狀態：可解釋性研究的具體發現 奧拉表示，Anthropi

Shenzhen recently released its 15th Five-Year Plan for national economic and social development, outlining measures to advance manufacturing sector digital-smart transformation. The plan calls for enhancing manufacturing intelligence by guiding enterprises to adopt AI-powered upgrades across key

Shenzhen released its 15th Five-Year Plan outline on May 26, setting a target to reach over 150EFlops of real-time available computing capacity by 2030. The plan prioritizes development of AI computing chips, infrastructure, and algorithms, with goals to advance domestic chip capabilities to

OpenAI board member and former U.S. Cyber Command commander and NSA director Paul Nakasone visited Tokyo on May 21, held talks with Japanese government officials on cybersecurity measures across 15 key infrastructure areas, and announced plans to provide access to the GPT-5.5-Cyber model to the Japanese government and Japanese companies. Confirmed technical positioning of GPT-5.5-Cyber and the threat backdrop Sasha Baker, OpenAI’s head of national security policy, said at a Tokyo press briefing

Wechat Reading launched its overseas webtoon platform ToonScroll recently, planning to release over 1,000 webtoon works globally this year. The platform is positioned as a high-quality, immersive destination serving users worldwide, leveraging dual strategies: utilizing AI translation and

According to Bearing monitoring, Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah disclosed at a papal encyclical event that his team discovered internal structures within large language models that closely resemble human neural patterns and exhibit self-reflection behaviors. Most notably, researchers

The global IPO market in 2026 is undergoing a rare wave of concentrated listings of “super unicorns.” In Polymarket’s prediction market on the question of “which company will have the largest IPO market cap in 2026,” wagers totaling more than $2 million have already been placed. Data shows the probability of SpaceX winning is 79%, Anthropic is 16%, OpenAI is 5%, while options including Kraken, Shein, and Revolut are all below 1%. What this betting mix reflects goes far beyond speculation about t

According to RootData data cited by ChainCatcher, Quack AI (Q) will unlock approximately 16.11 million tokens worth about $2.94 million on June 2 at 00:00 UTC+8.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon published a commentary article in The New York Times in May, saying that concerns about AI causing large-scale job displacement are being exaggerated, citing internal Goldman analysis: AI could automate about 25% of existing job hours within the next 10 years, while also confirming that since 2022, U.S. data center construction has already created more than 200,000 construction-industry jobs. Confirmed job impact data: happened vs. expected Confirmed impact data:

Pope Leo XIV (the first U.S.-born pope in Catholic Church history) officially released his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Great Humaneness”), at the Vatican on May 25, claiming that irreversible lethal decisions should be entrusted to AI systems that are “unacceptable,” and calling on AI developers to work for the public interest rather than for profit. Key Claims of the Encyclical: AI Regulation, Transparency, and the “Just War” Theory Leo XIV wrote clearly: “Talking abstractly about

According to xAI, Grok Build opened its Beta version today to SuperGrok and X Premium+ subscribers. Users can leverage Plan Mode to create images and videos with Imagine, and build automations or orchestrations via

Huawei board director and head of the semiconductor business unit He Tingbo, on May 26, at the IEEE Circuits and Systems International Symposium, unveiled the “Tau (τ) Scaling Law” and the “LogicFolding” chip architecture, claiming that it can achieve a 55% improvement in transistor density and a 41% improvement in power efficiency without relying on EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment; the target is to reach a transistor density equivalent to a 1.4nm process by 2031. Technical logic o

Guanglun Intelligence announced completion of a new funding round recently, with Ant Group as lead investor. Co-investors include state-owned enterprises, industrial funds, and financial institutions such as China Jianyin Investment, Greater Bay Area Common Home Fund, Senma Fangdao Fund, and

According to Jin10 on May 26, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon dismissed concerns that AI will trigger mass unemployment and an "employment apocalypse," stating fears are overstated. In a commentary published in the New York Times, Solomon argued AI will not eliminate jobs at catastrophic scale,

According to China's Ministry of Commerce, in April 2026, smart glasses and humanoid robots online retail sales grew 175.2% and 20.6% respectively. The growth reflects the rapid expansion of consumer-grade embodied AI products, which gained momentum following increased digital consumption across

According to Guru Club, on May 26, Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn stated that artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs across industries, and companies have a responsibility to help employees prepare for an evolving future. Comyn noted that Commonwealth Bank, like many large

According to Tech in Asia, Singapore-based AI startup Video Rebirth launched its first product, Bach, earlier this month (May 2026), enabling producers, filmmakers, and game studios to generate multishot videos of up to 30 seconds in 1080p resolution in a single run. The startup has previously