AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Beating, Zhipu AI launched the 'Touch High' plan on July 12, committing to prioritize AGI research over the next two years without focusing on short-term application monetization. The plan concentrates on enabling models to execute complex long-horizon tasks, facilitating autonomous

According to CoinDesk, Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury company Empery Digital sold 1,400 bitcoin at an average price of $62,200 each on July 11, generating approximately $87.1 million in gross proceeds to fund a 25% stake in an AI data center project. The company announced earlier in July it would ne

According to PANews, Elon Musk unfollowed Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang on X (formerly Twitter) on July 12. The reason for the unfollowing was not disclosed.

According to a Facebook post by Kim Yong-beom, chief policy adviser to South Korea's presidential office, on June 10, competition in semiconductors during the AI era has shifted from technology innovation to production capacity race. Kim stressed that the most critical resource governments can

According to internal documents reviewed by Reuters, Meta has significantly reduced its AI computing infrastructure building costs to approximately $22 billion per gigawatt—nearly half of Bank of America Securities' prior estimate of $45 billion per gigawatt, analyst Justin Post said. BofA

According to Bloomberg TV, on July 11, Goldman Sachs' Chief Equity Portfolio Strategist said AI-driven earnings surprises are entering their final phase. While S&P 500 companies are expected to post 22% earnings growth this quarter versus year-ago levels, investor expectations have already risen

According to Guru Club, Meta suspended its AI image generation feature early this week after facing criticism over portrait rights and criminal risks. The function, which allowed users to reference public Instagram accounts via @mentions to generate images, was set to allow public content citation b

According to Guru Club, on July 12, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman engaged in a public exchange of accusations on social media following the GPT-5.6 release. Musk initiated the confrontation, accusing Altman of elevating fraud to new heights and sarcastically claiming his passion for

Empery Digital sold 1,400 bitcoin at $62,200 each, generating approximately $87.1 million in gross proceeds, according to an SEC 8-K filing. The company directed the funds toward acquiring a 25% ownership stake in a group purchasing a Midwest AI data center facility that requires $65 million to

On Friday, July 10, Apple sued OpenAI, OpenAI Foundation, and two former employees—Chang Liu and Tang Yew Tan—in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging theft of hardware trade secrets. Apple claims Liu, who left the company in January after eight years, exploited an

The Ethereum Foundation recently deployed AI agents to test blockchain software, discovering a genuine security vulnerability while exposing a critical verification challenge. The Protocol Security team found a real bug in gossipsub, the messaging layer used by Ethereum clients, which was

The Ethereum Foundation recently used AI agents to test blockchain software and discovered real bugs, including a critical flaw designated CVE-2026-34219, according to field notes published by its Protocol Security team. The vulnerability was found in gossipsub, the messaging layer used by Ethereum

Nine AI models forecast bitcoin's price for Aug. 1, 2026, with eight of nine predictions clustering between $63,420 and $67,940. The forecasts were generated from a July 10 baseline when bitcoin traded below $64,000, down more than 40% over the past 12 months and nearly 50% below its all-time high a

Nine AI models forecasted Bitcoin's price on August 1 at the request of Bitcoin.com, with eight clustering between $63,420 and $67,940, while Pi AI's outlier estimate reached $89,359 on July 10. The models—ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, Claude Fable, Deepseek, Grok, Meta AI, Gwen, Kimi, and Gemini—employed

According to Odaily, Sui announced on July 11 that its Tunnels AI agent experiment achieved a record-breaking throughput of 6.09 million transactions per second (TPS), surpassing the target of 1 million TPS. The breakthrough aims to advance agent-based applications on the Sui

Federal Reserve appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to its Productivity and Jobs task force on Thursday, days after Xbox announced plans to cut 3,200 roles in the largest restructuring in the company's history. The task force will study how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies could re

On Thursday, the Federal Reserve named Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to its Productivity and Jobs task force, which will examine artificial intelligence's impact on employment and economic productivity. Sharma joins Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz and Stanford economist Charles I. Jones on the

According to the company's filing, Empery Digital sold 1,400 bitcoins for approximately $87.1 million over the past 2 months, with the average sale price of $62,200 per bitcoin since May 7. This marks the company's largest

OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs, and Genlayer have formed the Internet Court, a dispute resolution protocol for transactions between AI agents. The protocol is led by the Genlayer Foundation and backed by 27 crypto and Web3 firms. The initiative addresses a gap in agentic commerce infrastructure, where A

According to the Genlayer Foundation, OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs, and 24 other firms have backed Internet Court, a dispute resolution protocol designed to handle transactions and disagreements between AI agents. The protocol, led by the Genlayer Foundation with 27 participating firms, aims to