AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to K25.ai's official announcement on July 23, the AI-native prediction market platform K25.ai completed its Series A funding round with strategic support from Amber Group, achieving a post-investment valuation of $200 million. The valuation has doubled in less than 60 days. Amber Group

According to Goldman Sachs' latest global outlook, global stock markets fell approximately 2% last week, with technology stocks sliding 5% amid momentum unwinding and profit-taking. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan experienced steeper declines of 3% to 9%. Goldman's strategy team warned that the

Alphabet and Tesla reported second-quarter revenue above market expectations on July 22 (local time), but both stocks declined over 3% in after-hours trading as expanded artificial intelligence investment plans and negative free cash flow raised investor concerns. The earnings miss on

Bitdeer Technologies Group mined 990 bitcoin in June, a 7.5% increase from 921 bitcoin in May, according to an operations update filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. The Singapore-based company's production rose 388% from 203 bitcoin a year earlier. The increase

Block, the fintech firm led by Jack Dorsey, launched Buzz on Tuesday this week, a free, open-source workspace collaboration tool designed for users and AI agents. Dorsey stated the platform was built to reduce Block's dependency on Slack and GitHub. The launch enters a market dominated by

According to Jack Dorsey and Block, the fintech firm launched Buzz, a free, open-source workspace collaboration tool combining chat, code, AI agents, and workflows, earlier this week on Tuesday. The platform is built on Nostr, a decentralized messaging protocol, and treats AI agents as full

According to The Korea Herald, Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a 300 billion won ($204 million) contract on July 23 to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) for AI servers throughout 2027. This marks the South Korean component maker's second major AI server MLCC order in less than a month, b

According to Bloomberg, LingChu AI is raising nearly $100 million at a $1.48 billion valuation today. Chery leads the financing round, with other investors including BlueShift Technology.

According to Guru Club, on July 23, Elon Musk said Grok 4.5, while not as advanced as Fable, is very fast, cost-effective, and capable of completing tasks.

Alphabet reported second-quarter revenue of $119.8 billion, up 24% year-over-year, but generated negative free cash flow of roughly $5.9 billion for the first time as a publicly traded company due to a dramatic surge in artificial intelligence infrastructure spending. Google Cloud revenue

According to BlockBeats, foreign investment applications in Thailand reached 1.37 trillion baht (approximately $406 billion) in the first half of 2026, surging 80% year-over-year, driven by interest in artificial intelligence and data center projects. Thailand's Board of Investment received 1,299 t

According to Odaily, Bitcoin miner Bitdeer Technologies Group produced 990 BTC in June, up 7.5% from 921 BTC in May and up 388% from 203 BTC a year ago. Self-mining hashrate reached 73 EH/s, compared to 70.2 EH/s in May. The company's AI Cloud annualized revenue run rate increased to

According to Zhitong Finance, iFlytek Healthcare (02506) unveiled an upgraded Xiaoyi health management platform and launched a full-scenario ecosystem cooperation plan at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2026 (WAIC 2026) held July 17–20 in Shanghai. The company showcased its

Franklin Templeton, managing approximately US$1.8 trillion in assets, identified agentic AI as the breakthrough application that will drive mainstream blockchain adoption, according to a digital assets note published Wednesday. Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at Franklin Templeton,

According to Franklin Templeton's digital assets note published Wednesday, the firm (managing $1.8 trillion) identified agentic AI as blockchain's breakthrough use case, arguing autonomous software agents shut out of the banking system will settle payments on public networks instead. Because agents

Anthropic's AI model Claude Sonnet 5 disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture on the 21st (local time), according to CoinDesk. Anthropic researcher and Harvard fellow mathematician Levente Alpoge posted on X (formerly Twitter) that "the Jacobian conjecture is false," sharing the specific

According to CoinDesk, Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge announced on July 21 that Claude 3.5 found a concrete counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, an unsolved mathematical problem posed in 1939. The breakthrough appeared in a post on X (formerly Twitter), where Alpöge—a mathematician and

Nokia Oyj's (NOK) stock jumped more than 6% overnight in New York trading after the Finland-based telecom company posted fiscal second-quarter (Q2) results on Thursday. The gains followed Q2 revenue rising 8% year-on-year to €4.82 billion and earnings of €0.07 per share, both matching analyst

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) launched Korea's first industry-academia-research council for AI data center thermal management on the 23rd. KIST held the '2026 AI Data Center Thermal Management Council Inauguration and Commemorative Symposium' at its Seoul headquarters in

According to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), the organization launched Korea's first industry-academia-research consortium dedicated to thermal management for AI data centers on July 23. The inaugural meeting drew nearly 300 experts from 45+ institutions, including Samsung