AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported a 67.9% year-on-year increase in June sales on Monday, ahead of its second-quarter earnings release later this week. The surge is driven by demand for artificial intelligence chips and infrastructure investments. TSMC, the world's largest

According to Swyftx on Jul 13, AI-native gig economy workers could increasingly use stablecoins to bypass slow and expensive traditional payment rails.

President Lee Jae-myung announced on the 13th the creation of a 'Future Response Fund' to utilize additional tax revenue generated from the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor boom for strategic investment in future preparedness. The announcement was made while presiding over the '2026

At the 2026 IEEE/JSAP VLSI conference, research teams from South Korea's UNIST and Japan's University of Tokyo independently announced two new high-bandwidth memory (HBM) architectures—V-Die and MOSAIC—that rotate DRAM chips from a horizontal to vertical orientation to improve thermal dissipation an

Taiwanese wuxia game 《HuaXia Chuan》 (developed by the original “Diao Xiong”) has already surpassed 300,000 units in global sales. It recently attracted attention in Japan and even briefly climbed into the top 20 of Japan’s Steam best-seller chart. A community team that produces unofficial Japanese mods was interviewed by Japanese media outlet 《Game Spark》, revealing how they built a workflow for AI and human collaboration using Claude Fable 5. Alpaca self-funded a subscription to Claude Fable 5;

According to BlockBeats, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung pledged on July 13 that the government will support three strategic priority projects: semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence data centers, and physical

According to Beating, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a statement urging enterprises to retain the learning outcomes generated by AI systems rather than inadvertently transferring valuable internal knowledge to model manufacturers. Nadella criticized certain AI companies for learning from

According to Indeed's recruiting laboratory, U.S. software developer job postings grew nearly 15% since Anthropic's Claude Code launched in February 2025, while overall Indeed job postings declined 7% during the same period. Indeed emphasized that the two trends appeared concurrently but noted the c

According to Guru Club, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized on July 13 that artificial intelligence agents should not be over-anthropomorphized. In a recent interview, Huang stressed that AI agents lack consciousness and are essentially software and tools, comparable to household appliances like

According to Beating, Design Arena released its single-round frontend design leaderboard results, with GPT-5.6 Sol ranking first at 1353 Elo, slightly above GLM 5.2's 1351 score and Claude Fable 5's 1345 score. GPT-5.6 Sol ranks 18 positions ahead of GPT-5.5 with a 60 Elo advantage. In this

According to Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, the company recently published a thesis titled 'Agentic Economy' outlining how AI agents and blockchain form components of a single new economic system. Allaire proposed a three-layer framework: the base monetary layer, where stablecoins serve as

According to Goldman Sachs' latest research, AI-driven demand is fueling global inflation, with the United States facing the most severe pressure. The bank estimates AI-related demand currently pushes up the Fed's preferred inflation gauge—core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE)—by 0.2

Robinhood and Coinbase are accelerating the convergence of traditional finance and digital assets through super-app strategies that integrate stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies. Robinhood announced its expansion strategy on May 1 (local time) at the 'The World is Flat' event in London, while Coinbas

According to Jin10, China's National Industrial Information Security Development Center on July 13 launched a collaborative initiative to establish comprehensive AI safety evaluation benchmarks and is now recruiting partner organizations. The framework covers six core security dimensions: content sa

According to OpenRouter data, Chinese AI models recorded 27.58 trillion token API calls in the week of July 6-12, representing 17.61% week-over-week growth and marking the seventh consecutive week of expansion. In the same period, U.S. AI models generated 6.33 trillion token calls with 47.9% week-ov

Apple (蘋果) has officially filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of California, accusing OpenAI of misappropriating trade secrets and breaching a contract. The complaint names current OpenAI Hardware Lead Tang Yew Tan and former Apple senior system electrical engineer Chang Liu. According to The New York Times, OpenAI has leaned toward postponing its IPO to 2027. Specific allegations against Tang Yew Tan: probing with confidential code names and downloading files w

According to Beating, Keyu Tian, first author of a NeurIPS 2024 best paper, has launched a startup focused on world models, raising tens of millions of dollars with a valuation of approximately $200 million. The project is incubated and funded by Five Sources Capital partner Mengxing Meng. Tian, a

Claude’s official account announced on X on July 13 that the no-extra-charge usage period for Claude Fable 5 has been extended again by 7 days—pushing the end date from July 13 to July 19. This is the latest in a series of postponements of Claude’s switch to a usage-based pricing model due to tight compute capacity. Claude Official Announces: Fable 5’s No-Extra-Charge Usage Extended to July 19 According to an announcement from Claude’s official X account, as the original deadline of July 13 arri

According to Foresight News at WebX 2026, Tom Lee, chairman of BitMine, set a long-term price target of $250,000 for Ethereum and stated that ETH is entering a "2.0 stage" driven by factors including a new foundation era, Agentic-AI, financial settlement layers, and Ethereum as a monetary asset. Bi

According to Beating, Tencent's Hunyuan 3 (Hy3), officially launched on July 6, topped OpenRouter's weekly LLM leaderboard, processing 613 trillion tokens in a single week—outpacing Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 (595 trillion) and DeepSeek V4 Flash (522 trillion). The free API access runs through July 21,