AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to ChainCatcher, at Consensus Miami 2026, Zhao Changpeng (CZ) stated that YZi Labs allocates 70% of funding to blockchain, 20% to AI, and 10% to biotechnology. CZ added that BNB should be positioned as a native currency for AI agents, and all blockchains need to be "AI ready" to support

According to IQ AI's official announcement on May 6, Zypher Network integrated AIDEN, an artificial intelligence agent developed by IQ AI, to improve blockchain knowledge accessibility and strengthen auditability within AI-powered ecosystems. The collaboration introduces a dedicated wiki page

According to ChainCatcher, Public announced the acquisition of AI investment service platform Treasury App to strengthen its AI-driven brokerage business. The acquisition amount was not disclosed. Public currently supports trading in stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, a

Video Rebirth launched BACH on May 7, a tool that generates multi-shot videos of up to 30 seconds from text prompts and reference images. The tool maintains character consistency across shots, follows camera instructions, and produces native 1080p video with sound effects, voiceover, and

According to ChainCatcher, Blitzy, an AI coding company co-founded by former Nvidia architect Sid Pardeshi, has completed a $200 million funding round led by Northzone. Battery Ventures, Jump Capital, and Morgan Creek Digital participated in the round. The platform can parse complex systems with

According to Xinhua News Agency, on May 7, EU Parliament members and member states reached consensus to ban artificial intelligence systems from generating deepfake pornographic content. The prohibition will be incorporated into amendments to the 2024 Artificial Intelligence Act. European Parliament

According to Odaily, Tether AI Research Group released QVAC MedPsy, a medical AI model designed to run locally on smartphones and wearable devices without cloud dependency. The 1.7 billion-parameter version scored 62.62 on seven medical benchmarks, outperforming Google's MedGemma-1.5-4B by 11.42 poi

B.AI API has launched four new models: GPT-5.5 Instant, DeepSeek-v3.2, MiniMax-M2.7, and GLM-5.1. GPT-5.5 Instant completed underlying adaptation and interface integration within 48 hours of OpenAI's release, enabling zero-delay access to

According to Tether's AI research team, the company today launched QVAC MedPsy series medical language models designed for local deployment on smartphones and wearables without cloud dependency. The 1.7B-parameter version scored 62.62 on seven medical benchmarks, exceeding Google MedGemma-4B

According to Beating, Anthropic's implicit valuation on Jupiter's Pre-IPO market has surged to $1.26 trillion, surpassing OpenAI for the first time. The valuation has risen 20% over the past 7 days and climbed 900% since October 2025. Polymarket prediction market data shows an 86% probability that A

South Korea's stock market is experiencing unprecedented gains driven by artificial intelligence-related semiconductor stocks, with the KOSPI index up 78% this year, outpacing every other major market globally, according to Financial Modeling Prep data cited in an Axios analysis. AI

According to Bloomberg, translation tool company DeepL announced today, May 7, that it will lay off approximately 25% of its workforce, about 250 employees, to adapt to structural changes driven by artificial intelligence. CEO Jarek Kutylowski said on LinkedIn the company will reduce management

According to Virtuals Protocol official announcement, the OpenGradient Titan Launch airdrop is now live as of May 7. Eligible users can claim OPG tokens directly from their Virtuals accounts. A total of 500,000 OPG tokens are being distributed today to reward contributors to the Virtuals ecosystem.

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open-source multimodal model that integrates vision, speech, and language into a single model as the perception layer for AI agents. The core is a 30B-A3B MoE with a 256K context and 9x throughput. It supports inputs including text, images, audio, and video, and outputs text. In conjunction with Nemotron 3 Super/Ultra, it is suitable for scenarios such as computer operations, document intelligence, and audio-visual understanding, and it publishes weights and training data for deployment spanning local environments, NIM, and third-party platforms.

According to Cursor's recent disclosure, the company unveiled a training technique called autoinstall for its Composer model series: using a prior-generation model to automatically set up executable environments for the next generation's reinforcement learning. When training Composer 2, Cursor

OpenAI announced that DevDay 2026 will be held in person in San Francisco on 9/29, along with a submission contest created with GPT-5.5 and Image Gen. Codex will automatically filter 2–3 entries each week, and the winners will receive free tickets plus cross-city flights and hotel accommodations. The conference will focus on evaluating the GPT-5.5 ecosystem and human-machine collaboration. Participants must be over 18 and not be direct family members of OpenAI employees. Areas of observation include the new model, agent integrations, and multi-cloud strategies.

NVIDIA made a Series D expansion investment of $50 million into Legora, bringing Legora’s total fundraising to $600 million and its valuation to $5.6 billion. Atlassian, Adams Street Partners, and Insight Partners participated. Legora focuses on AI legal technology, providing tools such as automated review, contract analysis, and legal research; ARR exceeds $100 million, and headcount grew from 40 to 400. Jude Law became the global brand ambassador, with the advertising slogan: Law just got more attractive.

According to Steve Newman, Google Docs co-founder and chairman of the Golden Gate Institute, AI has completed approximately 65% of the quantified predictions outlined in the 2027 scenario forecast released last year. However, the most critical metric—AI's acceleration of its own software

According to ChainCatcher, AI Agent Economy project NeoSoul announced a strategic partnership with AllScale today (May 7) to explore credit formation and stablecoin settlement mechanisms for autonomous Agent collaboration. The partnership will focus on automating payment flows between Agents—such