AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

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

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,

OpenAI announced that members of its Trusted Access for Cyber program must enable hardware-backed Advanced Account Security by September 1, 2026, to maintain access to its most advanced frontier models. Users who fail to comply will revert to default model access levels. The company said the progra

One River Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Eric Peters published a commentary article on July 13, citing the view of a US hedge fund CIO who founded a company in Asia. The CIO said that there is an AI shortage, and that the market penetration of such products in the global economy is still less than 10 basis points, adding: “We haven’t rolled out this technology at a scale sufficient to matter.” Anonymous CIO: AI global penetration is under 10 basis points Based on Eric Peters’s citatio

According to Jin10, Mitsubishi Estate plans to invest approximately 1.5 trillion yen ($93 billion) to build large-scale data centers across Japan, leveraging its prior experience from over $10 billion in AI data center projects in the United

According to Reuters, Meta plans to begin mass production of its self-designed data center AI chip Iris as early as September, with the company's stock rising approximately 6% on Friday (July 10). The chip, designed with assistance from Broadcom, will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor

According to a report by the Financial Times in the UK, Tencent is leading talks with Manus’s original investors about a buyback deal. It plans to buy back control of this AI agent company from Meta at a valuation of $2 billion (about 13.6 billion yuan). After the buyback is completed, Tencent is expected to become the largest single shareholder. Manus will continue to operate as an independent Singapore company, will not be consolidated into Tencent’s system, and aims to list its shares on the

According to Musk's statement posted on X today (July 13), Grok 4.5 outperformed Fable in several software development benchmarks. Musk noted that Fable itself is already an excellent model.

MIT professor Ricardo Caballero published a paper last month analyzing that artificial intelligence (AI)-generated wealth will likely concentrate among corporations and capital owners rather than workers, as AI functions as 'labor-like capital' that directly performs tasks previously handled by