AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Mirae Asset Securities, top 1% investors by one-month returns net purchased SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics on September 8, with the former surging 3.87% to 1,852,000 Korean won and the latter rising 2.41% to 276,500 won. The buying spree follows OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch, which

Entrepreneur Liron Shapira predicted on X on Sept. 6, with “50% confidence,” that Bitcoin’s price would plunge more than 50% within the next two years because “AI has weakened the security and robustness guarantees that outsiders previously assumed.” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly refuted this claim on Sept. 7, saying he was “quite optimistic” about long-term cybersecurity and had effectively bet approximately 90% of his net worth on it. Liron Shapira Predicts Bitcoin Will Plunge M

According to Odaily Xingqiu Daily citing SoSoValue data, the crypto AI sector rose 4.29% in 24 hours on Sept 8, with Worldcoin (WLD) climbing 21.62%, Venice Token (VVV) up 10.74%, Akedo (AKE) gaining 14.92%, and Pieverse (PIEVERSE) rising 17.31%. The Meme sector advanced 2.07%, led by BUILDon (B) u

According to Beating AI, independent developer cozyblaze recently connected GPT-6 Astra to Valve's puzzle game Portal with a single instruction: complete the game independently without looking up walkthroughs online. Astra successfully finished the game in approximately 23 hours and 43 minutes,

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an article titled “Alien Thinking” on OpenAI’s website on Sept. 6, calling on the AI industry to voluntarily slow its development pace before common safety standards are established. However, OpenAI released data the same day showing that, as of mid-August, for every human workday, there were 3.1 agent workdays, while human labor input still exceeded machine input before June. Core Arguments of “Alien Thinking” and Three Ways Chain-of-Thought Monit

Gate News: On September 8, according to Gate market data, ZULU (Zulu Network) is currently priced at $0.00335 as of press time, up 115.90% over the past 24 hours. It reached a high of $0.00861 and fell to a low of $0.002, with 24-hour trading volume reaching $20,200. Its current marketcap is approximately $1,255,100. Zulu Network is the first native Bitcoin DePIN layer, optimized for AI and DePIN applications. Through Zulu, users can stake assets, help operate various DePIN and AI protocols, and

According to PANews, DeepSeek opened approximately 150 backend engineer positions on September 8, as announced by Tianyi Cui, a technical lead at the company's Harness team. The new positions are driven by increased system complexity and rising demands for data processing, infrastructure scaling, an

According to Yonhap News, Samsung SDS announced on September 8 a multidimensional AI full-stack strategy, becoming South Korea's first enterprise to join OpenAI's Daybreak security cooperation program. The company simultaneously signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Anthropic to expand

Gate News reported on September 8 that, according to Gate’s market data, SOPH (Sophon) was trading at $0.00558 as of press time, up 71.64% over the past 24 hours. The token reached a high of $0.00717 and fell to a low of $0.00414. Its current marketcap is approximately $11.154 million. Sophon is a platform dedicated to monetizing and rewarding data through practical consumer products for everyday use, with the goal of powering real-world applications that people love and use daily. Sophon has sh

Korean brokerage firms issued target price revisions for three major stocks on September 8 morning. Hana Securities lowered Alteogen's target from 580,000 won to 450,000 won while maintaining a Buy rating, citing share dilution from a stock split following the company's $3.233 billion technology

According to Yicai, Samsung Electronics plans to unveil a humanoid robot prototype at CES 2027 in Las Vegas next January. The company is also accelerating robot development by becoming the largest shareholder in Rainbow Robotics. Product details, pricing, and commercial launch timelines beyond the p

According to WeChat's official course, WeChat Pay launched its smart glasses SDK today, September 8, making the payment capability available to compatible smart glasses manufacturers. Users can now complete payments on adapted smart glasses devices using the scan-to-pay feature. Rokid's AI glasses b

According to a Sept. 7 Reuters report, Huawei and Xiaomi each held new product launch events in Beijing ahead of Apple’s Sept. 9 event. The Huawei Mate XT2 series is equipped with Kirin 9050 Pro chips and LogicFolding architecture, with a starting price of 19,999 Yuan. The Xiaomi 18 Fold features the company’s self-developed XRing O3 AI processor, with a starting price of 10,999 Yuan. Huawei Mate XT2 Series Specifications The Huawei Mate XT2 series is a tri-fold smartphone that can be folded twi

According to Bloomberg, Anthropic has terminated its planned acquisition of AI startup Decart AI, valued at approximately $6 billion, on September 8. The company had previously conducted due diligence on the deal but ultimately decided to abandon it. Both parties may explore alternative

OpenAI's latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-6 Astra, was evaluated as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) on the 7th. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declared that 'AGI has arrived' following Astra's 99.9% score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, which evaluates a model's ability to learn autonomously in new environments. Market analysts project that Astra's capabilities will expand AI demand across hardware sectors, while traditional software business models face disruption from AGI's ability to perf

South Korean stocks rose on the 8th as nuclear power plant-related companies surged following reports that the South Korean government is negotiating with the United States to build up to 8 large nuclear reactors in the US. KOSPI climbed 1.34% to 7089.21 as of 10:00 AM, marking its first breach of t

According to Yonhapinfomax, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared on September 7 that OpenAI's latest AI model GPT-6 Astra represents the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI). The model achieved a 99.9% score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, which evaluates an AI system's ability to learn

Harmony, a Layer 1 blockchain, recently proposed a plan to fully shut down the Harmony Layer 1 network launched in 2019, migrate the native token ONE to Ethereum, and shift the project’s focus to the generative AI-centered audiovisual “Remix Economy.” The current plan is non-binding, and the final block production time, complete governance procedures, and some migration details may still be adjusted. Harmony Layer 1 Shutdown Proposal Under the current proposal, Harmony plans to take a snapshot a

According to Yoon Kyung-hoon, OpenAI's Korea general manager, speaking at Samsung SDS Real Summit 2026 on September 8, the productivity gap between the top 10% AI-adopting enterprises and median-level companies widened from 2.6x to 8.6x during the January-June 2026 period, with the manufacturing

According to Bloomberg, Malaysia is considering Huawei Technologies to supply AI chips for its 2 billion ringgit ($494 million) sovereign AI initiative, announced September 7. The project, run by state-linked Telekom Malaysia Bhd. following a public tender, aims to keep sensitive government data