AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Guru Club, artificial intelligence company Owkin and German pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim signed a licensing agreement on September 2. Under the deal, Boehringer Ingelheim will use Owkin's AI research platform and patient data to accelerate the development of cancer and

According to Guru Club, on September 2, KKR hired former executives from Equinix and AES to advance a $10 billion artificial intelligence project.

According to Bloomberg, Lyte completed a $165 million Series C funding round on September 2, with Maverick Silicon leading and the company's valuation reaching $1.6 billion. The round also included participation from Fidelity Management & Research, Atreides Management, Key1 Capital, and Ora

According to ChainCatcher, AEGIS X (XDAO) will launch its mainnet on September 3, 2026. The project completed its genesis reserve steward program fundraising, accumulating $31.66 million across the global community building phase. AEGIS X uses USD1 as its core settlement asset and builds an

According to Bloomberg, voice AI startup ElevenLabs appointed Ashley Kramer, former Vice President of Enterprise Sales at OpenAI, as its first Chief Revenue Officer on September 2. The company said more than half its revenue now comes from enterprise customers, up from 40% last year, marking a

According to BlockBeats, Tether AI Research launched open-source AI translation models on September 2 that run directly on smartphones, laptops, and edge devices with offline translation capability, requiring no cloud uploads or data sharing with third parties. The TranslatePsy-AfriSLM model

According to Korean Economic Daily, Broadcom will report its fiscal 2026 third-quarter earnings on September 3, with the market closely watching its 2027 AI revenue and order guidance. JP Morgan forecasts Broadcom's AI revenue will exceed 130 billion dollars in fiscal 2027, surpassing the company's

According to CNBC, GoPro shares surged 40% yesterday after the company announced a merger and said it would expand into AI-driven data centers and defense markets. The stock move comes as oil prices jumped above $90 per barrel following U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, weighing on broader equity

According to Yahoo Finance, NVIDIA announced a $3.5 billion investment in Taiwan chip designer MediaTek this week to help customers develop custom AI chips that integrate deeply with NVIDIA's broader infrastructure ecosystem. Through NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion technology, customers can develop chips tha

According to Odaily, UBIK, a Meme coin on Robinhood Chain, surged over 70% intraday today to reach a market cap of approximately $13 million, based on GMGN data. The token's narrative centers on "AI, synthetic consciousness, and Philip K. Dick science fiction themes," though no official product or A

According to IEEE and Quantum Bit, erbium and yttrium—two rare earth elements critical to AI data center expansion—are concentrated in China's supply chain, with China accounting for nearly 100% of global production as of September 2. Erbium is embedded in long-distance optical communication

According to Guru Club, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and U.S. Commerce Secretary Marco Lutnick attended a G20 technology event in North Carolina on September 2, where Huang described artificial intelligence as a "great

According to Paul Graham, the co-founder of Y Combinator, on September 2, X (formerly Twitter) has begun aggressively marking AI-generated replies as spam. In one of his posts, 34 out of 59 replies were hidden for this

Telegraph, a machine intelligence protocol built on Base, launched to address verification gaps in autonomous agent interactions with AI APIs. According to Mark Basa, co-founder, the protocol routes agent requests to the highest-ranked provider for specific tasks through decentralized evaluation

According to Odaily, B.AI's Android app now officially supports Google account sign-in. Users can verify their identity by tapping the Google icon without entering additional information, enhancing both convenience and account security. The addition broadens B.AI's login ecosystem, enabling both

According to Moonshot AI's announcement on September 2, Kimi API now natively supports OpenAI's Responses API format and Anthropic's Messages API format. Users of Codex and Claude Code can now directly connect to Kimi models through custom model providers without format conversion or local

According to PANews, GAEA completed a $3.6 million strategic funding round on September 2 to accelerate development of its Emotional Layer, expand its global community, and advance emotionally-aware AI Agent deployment. Investors include MH Venture, CGV FOF, K24 Ventures, and M2M Capital. The

AI and technology companies issued $186.8 billion in convertible bonds globally across 362 deals as of Sept. 1, surpassing the prior year's total, according to data from Dealogic shared with Axios. The surge is driven by investor demand for exposure to artificial intelligence infrastructure, with 60

According to Foresight News, bitcoin miner and AI data center company Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) halted all bitcoin mining operations at its Michigan facility on September 1 to focus on deploying AI infrastructure under a master service agreement (MSA) with a California cloud services

According to Odaily, TSMC co-COO Chih-Wei Hou stated today that the company's quarterly chip manufacturing equipment procurement has been raised to approximately 1.9 times the December 2025 forecast level, driven by efforts to expand capacity for artificial intelligence demand and accelerating