AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to PANews, AI healthcare project Savior of Health completed a $4 million strategic funding round on July 13, 2026. Investors include Amber Group, Basics Capital, Animoca Brands, Candaq, TBV, Everwood Capital, Olaris Capital, MangoLabs, and Credit Scend. The funding will support

Byreal, a decentralised exchange incubated by Bybit, marked its first anniversary on July 13th, 2026, one year after launching on the Solana testnet on 30 June 2025. The platform announced cumulative trading volume exceeding $3.7 billion across 25.3 million total transactions, with close to half a m

According to The Information, Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI may jeopardize the company's first hardware device, scheduled for release as early as February 2027. The legal dispute also risks complicating OpenAI's IPO plans, which the company has secretly filed with regulators, adding uncertainty for

Over 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, issued a joint statement on Monday (July 13) warning governments and tech leaders to immediately establish policies and institutions to address AI's potential economic impact. The st

According to investment sector analysts, a securities firm projected the KOSPI index could reach 11,450 on July 13, citing continued upside potential from semiconductor and artificial intelligence investment cycles. The firm noted that while near-term momentum remains supported by chip and AI

According to a joint research effort by SK Hynix, TetraMem, and the University of Southern California, the companies unveiled a memristor-based in-memory computing (IMC) SoC chip recently, targeting neural network inference for edge AI devices. The 65-nanometer chip achieved 21.3 TOPS/W (trillion

Bybit has launched OpenAI (OPENAIUSDT) and Anthropic (ANTHROPICUSDT) pre-market perpetual futures contracts today, supporting up to 20x leverage on both trading pairs.

According to Reuters, the White House is pursuing voluntary commitments from companies on electricity costs related to artificial intelligence operations.

According to Tencent Hunyuan's latest test results, Grok 4.5 ranks first on the LHTB (Long Horizon Task Benchmark) with an average score of 0.505, completing 13 out of 46 tasks. The benchmark, developed jointly by Tencent Hunyuan and multiple universities, evaluates whether AI agents can

According to an SBI Holdings statement on July 13, the company and the Solana Foundation announced a strategic partnership to build an onchain financial market from Japan. SBI R3 Japan will adopt the trade name SBI Solana Global, with Solana Foundation taking a stake in the venture alongside

Tech strategist Dan Ives on Monday downplayed concerns around Nvidia Corp.'s (NVDA) recent underperformance, calling it a speed bump rather than anything else. During a CNBC interview, Ives attributed the underperformance of Nvidia and hyperscalers to the market flocking to memory stocks,

According to a federal court filing, Apple sued OpenAI on July 10 in California's Northern District, alleging the company deliberately recruited Apple employees to leak unreleased product information, components, and design documents. Apple demands OpenAI cease the conduct, destroy all proprietary m

B.AI revealed its latest platform developments at WebX 2026 in Tokyo, showcasing full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities spanning advanced AI models, scalable APIs, and developer tools to a global audience of developers and

According to ZhiTong Financial, mainland Chinese investors achieved net inflows of 90.38 billion HKD on the Hong Kong stock market on July 13, with Hong Kong Connect (Shanghai) accounting for 78.74 billion HKD and Hong Kong Connect (Shenzhen) for 11.64 billion HKD. Zhipu AI (02513) attracted the la

According to South China Morning Post, Chinese AI company Zhipu AI said it would prioritize artificial general intelligence research over near-term commercialization. In an internal letter, co-founder Tang Jie stated the company would spend the next two years on AGI-related research, including

According to Odaily, Meta Platforms on Monday announced an additional $40 billion investment in its Louisiana data center project, bringing the total projected investment to over $250 billion. The company plans to expand the rural facility to at least 5 gigawatts of computing capacity, supporting it

According to Beating, Omar Yaghi, who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left UC Berkeley to join Tsinghua University as a chair professor. He will lead the establishment of AIMATRY (AI Materials Chemistry Research Center), bringing together teams from chemistry, chemical engineering,

According to Morgan Stanley's July 10 report, the combined capital expenditure of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and SpaceX on AI infrastructure is expected to reach $1.4 trillion by 2028, representing over 3x growth from 2025. Available computing capacity will expand from 30GW to 120GW. Meta

Meta announced Monday that its Hyperion data center project in Richland Parish, Louisiana will expand to a 5-gigawatt facility costing over $50 billion, significantly higher than the $27 billion figure revealed in October when Meta and Blue Owl Capital formed a joint venture for the site. The

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire published a treatise in July 2026 titled 'The Agentic Economy: The Convergence of Intelligence and the Economy,' arguing that the AI agent economy and the on-chain economy form a single unified economic system. The treatise's central claim is that two operating