AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Science and Technology Daily, on May 16, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications was among nine universities selected as the first batch to establish the new "Embodied AI" major, following the Ministry of Education's recent release of the 2026 undergraduate major directory. T

According to Nikkei News, Japan is developing cybersecurity guidelines that utilize Anthropic's Mythos for cyber defense operations.

According to analysts cited by Jin10, on May 16, investment strategists warned that rising Treasury yields could derail the current rally in technology and AI stocks. Multiple analysts identified 30-year U.S. Treasury yields sustaining above 5% as a critical threshold that could pose problems for AI

According to CoinDesk, Nof1, an AI research lab focused on financial markets, has secured $15 million in funding today, with Nasdaq-listed SUI Group and London-based hedge fund Karatage co-leading the round. The two investors previously co-invested in Recursive Superintelligence, a self-evolving AI

According to Reuters, on Saturday (May 16), OpenAI signed an agreement with Malta's government to provide all residents free access to ChatGPT Plus for one year after completing a free AI training course. The program will launch in May and expand as more Maltese residents complete the course. Malta

According to Fortune, OpenAI is considering legal action against Apple over how ChatGPT has been integrated into Siri, citing the feature's failure to drive meaningful paid subscription conversions. The collaboration, established roughly two years ago, was intended to enhance Siri's ability to

Dexa AI has announced a strategic partnership with VectorAI to strengthen market intelligence capabilities across the Web3 ecosystem, according to Dexa AI's official social media channels. The collaboration aims to combine advanced intelligence infrastructure with unified market analysis tools

According to an OpenAI 5/16 announcement and Euronews reporting the same day, OpenAI and the Maltese government have announced the world’s first “mass-market” AI deployment cooperation: all Maltese citizens and residents registered with the local online identity system, after completing the “AI for All” online literacy course designed by the University of Malta, can receive a one-year free ChatGPT Plus subscription. The first phase began in May and is handled by the Malta Digital Innovation Auth

Gate News, according to Gate’s official announcement on May 18, 2026, Gate will soon launch Warden Protocol (WARD) spot trading and instant exchange trading. Spot trading will begin on May 18 at 17:00 (UTC+8), instant exchange trading will start at 18:00 on the same day, and withdrawals are expected to open at 17:00 on May 19. Warden is building the stack for the intelligent internet, creating a global network of intelligent agents where AI agents live, earn, and collaborate, while also providin

According to BlockBeats, on May 17, Elon Musk announced that Grok V9, featuring 1.5 trillion parameters, will launch in 3 to 4 weeks following completion of training, cursor data integration, and reinforcement learning. Grok V8 (0.5T parameters) continues optimization every few

YZi Labs led a $11 million seed round for AI education platform VideoTutor today (May 17), according to an announcement on X. The funding supports VideoTutor's product launch, which uses AI to monitor, teach, and personalize learning experiences for each

According to Guru Club, leading AI models were ranked on a Mensa IQ test in April testing released May 15. Grok-4.20 Expert Mode and OpenAI GPT 5.4 Pro (vision-enabled) tied for first place with 145 points, while Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scored 141 points. Mistral's top model ranked lowest in the

According to Astarter's official announcement on May 15, Astarter and UXLINK announced a strategic partnership designed to accelerate the development of decentralized AI and social infrastructure within the Web3 ecosystem. The collaboration combines Astarter's AI-focused economic infrastructure with

According to PANews citing the Science and Technology Innovation Board Journal, Hongxin Electronics and Wuxi High-Tech Zone announced the deployment of Jiangsu Province's first Huawei Ascend 384 super-node AI cluster in Wuxi on May 17. Hongxin Electronics will establish a large-scale 'Token

According to TestingCatalog, OpenAI is developing a new capability for Codex that allows AI to operate software on locked or sleeping Mac systems remotely. Currently, all AI control features require the computer to be unlocked and active for the AI to view the screen and simulate mouse and

According to BlockBeats, on May 17, several new AI infrastructure projects on Base surged significantly as the ecosystem undergoes a generational shift. Liquid, supporting Venice ecosystem token DIEM, rallied 3x in 3 days to a $4.64 million valuation. GITLAWB, integrating Venice technology,

According to Beating.AI monitoring, a new model option named gemini-3.2-flash-lite-live-preview has appeared in Google Cloud's model selection list as of May 17. The "lite" and "live" suffixes indicate Google is creating a specialized version optimized for ultra-low-latency real-time

According to Beating, xAI announced today that X Premium subscribers with attached Grok access can now directly authorize and call Grok in the open-source Hermes Agent. Previously, this third-party mechanism was limited to accounts with separate Grok.com paid subscriptions. The expansion extends cal

According to Beating, Meta plans to cut approximately 8,000 employees on May 20. Despite management assurances that layoffs won't consider AI proficiency, the company deployed an internal AI leaderboard displaying token consumption and interaction duration, sparking anxiety among staff. Facing the r

According to Guru Club, OpenAI reached an agreement with Malta on May 16 to make ChatGPT Plus available to all residents of the country.