AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

BNB Chain announced plans to launch a new Layer 1 blockchain in early 2027 specifically designed for agentic trading, targeting transaction pre-confirmation times below 50 milliseconds and transaction throughput exceeding 100,000 TPS with sub-second finality. The chain will eliminate public

Since early July, a deep fake video created using AI technology depicting Cristiano Ronaldo (C Ronaldo) has been widely circulated on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. In the video, the fake C Ronaldo claims, "If you invest all your money into USWR by the end of July, you'll be very happy," and directs viewers to a fake website; C Ronaldo has never made such statements. Source of the Deep Fake Video: An interview with La Vanguardia on July 3, where C Ronaldo praises Mod

According to NCS, the Singapore-based technology services company recently expanded its Sunshine.AI suite with tools for building AI agents and no-code application development. The enhanced platform targets enterprise AI deployments with built-in governance, safety, and data controls. The

Meta announced at a press conference in Calgary on July 8 that it will build a 1-gigawatt (1 GW), 2.9 million square foot AI data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada; the investment is estimated to exceed 13 billion CAD (about 9.2 billion USD), making it the company's first data center in Canada and its largest outside the United States. Data Center Specifications and Business Significance: 1 GW, 2.9 Million Square Feet According to Meta's official statement, the core specifications of th

According to Reuters, Chinese AI startup MiniMax Group is developing an open-weight language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, expected for release in the third quarter of 2026. If released, it would surpass China's current largest models, including Meituan's LongCat-2.0 and DeepSeek's V4-Pro,

According to Beating, Cognition released its new AI programming model SWE-1.7, now integrated into Devin. Built on Kimi K2.7 Code by Moon Dimension, SWE-1.7 performs near GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 levels while significantly reducing generation costs. The model achieves 1000 tokens per second

SpaceXAI officially released Grok 4.5 on July 8, positioning it as their most powerful AI model to date, designed for code writing, agentic tasks, and advanced knowledge work; the highlight of this release is its joint training with the well-known AI code editor Cursor. Benchmark results include a 64.7% success rate on SWE Bench Pro. Grok 4.5 Trained with Cursor: 64.7% on SWE Bench Pro According to SpaceXAI, Grok 4.5's performance on various benchmarks is as follows: SWE Bench Pro: 64.7% success

According to LinkedIn source Tal Shoham, Israeli AI startup Velocity raised $27 million in a seed round led by NFX and Red Dot Capital Partners on July 9, as it launched its AI advertising platform. The platform turns user messages in AI conversations into real-time advertising opportunities and

According to Fortune, Palmer Luckey, founder of defense-tech company Anduril, recently warned that the real gap in U.S.-China AI and advanced manufacturing competition is not technology itself, but talent cultivation systems. In an interview with the Hoover Institution, Luckey stated that the true c

AI startup General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte revealed in a July 8 interview on the TechCrunch podcast that the company is training AI world models using hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay videos, which can be fine-tuned in just 8 minutes with real-world data to enable smooth movement in actual environments. General Intuition completed a $320 million funding round at a valuation of $2.3 billion. The Core Advantage of Game Data: Why Precise Action Labels Outperform Ordinary Web Videos (Sou

According to Techcrunch, Swedish AI application development platform Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation. Menlo Ventures is expected to lead the round, following its recent announcement of a new $3 billion fund. The startup, founded less than three years ago,

According to Yahoo Finance, on Wednesday (July 8), Meta announced its first Canadian data center in Alberta as part of its AI infrastructure expansion. The facility will have 1 GW capacity and become Meta's 33rd global data center with an investment of approximately $9.18 billion. The construction i

According to MSX.COM data, U.S. stock indices closed mixed on July 9: the Dow Jones fell 1.09%, the S&P 500 declined 0.28%, and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. AI stocks broadly gained, with Arista Networks up 8.76%, CoreWeave up 7.75%, AMD up 7.31%, Baidu up 4.93%, and Broadcom up 4.83%.

According to Business Insider, Amazon issued $25 billion in corporate bonds on July 8 as Big Tech companies expand debt to finance artificial intelligence infrastructure investments. The offering attracted over $62 billion in investor demand, more than double the issuance amount. Morgan Stanley por

According to Calcalist, Alta, an Israeli AI startup for sales and marketing, has raised $25 million in a Series A round led by IN Venture, the investment arm of Sumitomo Corporation. The funding brings Alta's total capital raised to $32 million, following a $7 million seed round. Co-founders

According to Cryptopolitan, scammers have been using AI deepfake technology since early July to create convincing videos of Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo endorsing a cryptocurrency token called USWR. The fraudulent videos feature synthetic audio of Ronaldo's voice and are being widely c

According to Tencent Hunyuan, Hy3 experienced peak computing resource consumption on WorkBuddy on July 8, with queue rates exceeding 50% by afternoon. The team immediately scheduled additional resources to address the surge, completing the capacity expansion. The Hy3 service is now operating

According to Thailand's Board of Investment, the agency approved nine investment projects worth US$1.99 billion on July 8 across AI, advanced electronics, aviation, clean energy, and food sectors. The largest technology approvals included DataSection (Thailand)'s US$235.2 million investment in

According to Reuters, Singapore's state investor Temasek plans to raise its AI-related holdings to as much as 15% of its portfolio over the next five years, from 6% currently. The investor will focus on energy and data centers, semiconductors, cloud service providers, foundation models, AI

According to Elon Musk, xAI will release Grok 4.5 publicly on July 9 following a private beta at Tesla and SpaceX. Musk described Grok 4.5 as an Opus-class model that is faster, more token-efficient, and lower-cost than previous versions. Pricing details were not disclosed, though Musk noted