AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to official announcements on May 9, Quantra and FishWar announced a strategic partnership to combine AI-powered gaming experiences with real-world asset blockchain infrastructure. The collaboration, shared via both companies' official social media channels, aims to integrate Quantra's

According to Fortune, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed on May 10 that ChatGPT users across different age groups have distinct usage patterns. Older users treat the platform as a Google search replacement, while those in their 20s and 30s use it as a personal advisor. University students employ it as a

According to ChainCatcher, Base's x402 protocol payments totaled more than $100 million in Q1 2026. Over 90% of on-chain AI agent stablecoin transactions occurred on the Base network.

According to ChainCatcher, Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan released a written statement recently, outlining the Greater Bay Area's three core advantages: cutting-edge AI research, complete high-end

Enterprise AI data optimization new tool Blockify was compiled and promoted on May 9 by akshaypachaar, claiming that in a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) workflow it can compress an enterprise database by 40 times, reduce query token usage by 3 times, and improve vector search accuracy by 2.3 times. Blockify’s official GitHub notes that the product is introduced by Iternal Technologies; it replaces traditional chunking with a structured knowledge unit called “IdeaBlock,” and keeps the knowl

Chinese AI observer xiaohu shared a workflow example on May 10 that combines GPT and Gemini 3.1 Pro: first use GPT to generate images, then use Gemini 3.1 Pro to convert the images into interactive 3D content, enabling scientific applications on any knowledge topic that are rotatable and operable. The examples shown in xiaohu’s tweet include 3D planet displays, interactive science models, and more—concrete implementations of “multi-model workflows.” Workflow structure: GPT image generation → Gem

Throughout all of 2025, AI engineering communities have been debating endlessly over the question of whether “MCP vs CLI” is better suited for Agent tool calling. In November 2025, Anthropic’s paper “Code execution with MCP” redefined the problem from first principles. akshay\pachaar 5/10 summarized the thread explaining that the issue has never been the protocol itself, but the old habit of stuffing the descriptions of all tools into the context at the start of a session. Anthropic’s solution i

According to ChainCatcher citing Golden Data, ByteDance plans to increase AI infrastructure spending by 25% to 200 billion yuan this year, driven by rising memory chip costs and accelerated artificial intelligence

According to Odaily, Chinese A-share listed company Tianyang Technology announced it has signed an agreement to invest 35 billion to 40 billion yuan in a computing power services project with a 60-month lock-up period. The company's business spans artificial intelligence, blockchain, and fintech

According to Odaily, enterprise AI platform Pit announced the completion of a $16 million funding round led by a16z, with participation from Lakestar and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. Pit positions itself as "AI product team as a service," designed to replace

Garry Tan recently published a long-form post, 《Meta-Meta-Prompting: The Secret to Making AI Agents Work》, detailing exactly how he built a suite of an AI agent–driven “second brain system.” He said that over the past five months, AI has already brought him back to being a builder—and even fundamentally changed how he goes about his day-to-day work as the CEO of Y Combinator. YC CEO: The future belongs to people building compound AI systems Garry Tan believes most people still treat AI as a chat

According to UXLINK's announcement on May 9, the platform partnered with Haven AI to introduce AI agents capable of converting natural language commands into automated cross-chain DeFi strategies. The collaboration aims to simplify yield generation and reduce technical barriers for Web3 users

According to The Chosun Daily, Google is piloting hiring exams that let US software engineer candidates use AI tools in selected entry-level and mid-level positions. The trial includes code comprehension tasks where applicants review existing code, fix bugs, and improve performance. Interviewers

According to OpenAI's official announcement monitored by Beating, the company is discontinuing its self-serve Fine-tuning API for developers effective immediately. New users can no longer create fine-tuning tasks, while existing active users can access the service until January 6, 2027. Deployed fin

Sakana AI and Nvidia have open-sourced TwELL, a sparse data format that enables H100 GPUs to skip 80% of invalid computations in large language models without sacrificing accuracy. The solution delivers up to 30% faster inference and 24% faster training on H100s while reducing peak memory usage.

According to Beating, Microsoft recently open-sourced the Phi-Ground model family, designed to solve the problem of where AI should click on a computer screen. The 4-billion-parameter version, paired with larger language models for instruction planning, exceeded the clicking accuracy of OpenAI

According to Tilde Research, the Muon optimizer adopted by leading AI models including DeepSeek V4 and Kimi K2.5 has a hidden flaw: it causes over 25% of MLP layer neurons to permanently die during early training. The team designed Aurora, an alternative optimizer, and open-sourced it. A 1.1B

According to sources cited by Jinshi, Alibaba is set to integrate its Qwen AI platform with Taobao e-commerce service to enable shopping through conversational AI rather than keyword searches. The integration will allow consumers to browse, compare, and purchase items through dialogue with an AI

According to Decrypt, TeraWulf reported a net loss of $427 million for Q1 2026 on May 9, compared to a $61.4 million loss in the same quarter last year. The company generated $34 million in total revenue, with 60% ($21 million) coming from AI computing services, up 117% sequentially, while Bitcoin m

According to Onchain Lens, WorldCoin team transferred 30 million WLD tokens worth $8.17 million to BitGo Custody address today (May 10). The wallet now holds 153.65 million WLD tokens valued at $41.35 million.