AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Winnow, the London-based AI food waste measurement company acquired Singapore-founded Lumitics on July 16 to expand in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 2017, Lumitics operates in more than 20 countries with customers including Accor,

According to Decrypt, PrismML released Bonsai 27B on July 16, the first 27-billion-parameter AI model to run on consumer smartphones. The model is compressed to 3.9GB and operates on iPhone 17 Pro Max at 11 tokens per second. The compression technique reduces model weights from 16-bit

Thinking Machines, backed by Nvidia, released Inkling, an open-weight AI model featuring a 1 million token context window and multimodal reasoning capabilities.

According to UBS, the S&P 500 is forecast to reach 7,900 by the end of 2026, driven by corporate earnings growth and accelerating AI monetization across sectors.

Nokia and Nvidia have unveiled the world's first commercial AI-RAN (Artificial Intelligence Radio Access Network) platform, with trial deployments expected by year-end 2026 and full commercial launch in 2027. The platform integrates Nokia's AI-native anyRAN software with Nvidia's Aerial AI-RAN platf

According to The Maeil Business Newspaper, Hanwha SemiConductor plans to build its eighth and largest production facility in South Korea next year (2027), driven by anticipated supply shortages in AI chip equipment. The new factory will be located adjacent to its seventh facility under

The Korean stock market triggered a circuit breaker on July 16 at 09:10:26 as the KOSPI index fell more than 5% in early trading, breaking below the 7,000 level for the second time. The Korea Exchange activated a sell-side sidecar — a temporary halt on program sell orders — after KOSPI200 futures

According to Yicai, Tencent Cloud partnered with RoboScience on July 15 to support robot research and development with cloud and AI infrastructure. The cooperation covers four areas: cloud computing and computing power, large models and AI capabilities, audio-video and perception data, and IoT

According to Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal, one-third of the team completed a 3-day AI-driven hackathon last week, producing 13 projects with a $15,000 prize pool. Six projects are now live, including one processing real transactions across five mainnet

According to CNBC, US-listed Alibaba shares rose about 4% in premarket trading on July 15 after the company confirmed that its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for users in

South Korea's Lee Jae-myung government announced the 'Three Mega Projects for National Leap Forward' on June 29, 2026 at the Blue House Yeongbingwan. Samsung Group Chairman Lee Jae-yong and SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won pledged large-scale long-term investments to establish advanced semiconductor p

The Lee Jae-myung government announced the '3 Mega Projects for Korea's Great Leap Forward' on June 29 at the Blue House. The initiative establishes semiconductor production hubs connecting Honam, Chungcheong, and Yeongnam regions to secure AI-era competitiveness. Samsung Group Chairman Lee

According to 36Kr, ModelBest, a Beijing-based startup specializing in on-device large AI models, has reportedly partnered with Samsung's mobile business. The company's MiniCPM on-device models are expected to launch on several Samsung flagship phones. This comes after China's cyberspace regulator an

According to Yonhap Infomax, South Korea's government announced on June 29 three mega infrastructure projects aimed at securing national competitiveness in the artificial intelligence era. The initiative, unveiled at the presidential office, focuses on establishing advanced semiconductor

IngDan Innovation (stock code 00400) completed a strategic upgrade from an AI hardware distributor to a vertical AI Token factory operator. The company accumulated signed service orders exceeding USD 1 billion,

Seeed Studio (00400) has completed its strategic upgrade from an AI hardware distributor to a vertical AI token factory operator, the company announced. The group has signed cumulative service contracts worth over $1 billion, with clients including global cloud service providers, embodied AI

According to OpenAI on July 15, the company built GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that tests AI systems for prompt injection vulnerabilities and helps adversarially train GPT-5.6 before deployment. OpenAI said GPT-5.6 Sol achieved 6x fewer failures on its hardest direct prompt-injec

According to NextTrade, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix saw shares decline in pre-market trading on July 16, as concerns over delayed artificial intelligence data center investments in the U.S. stock market triggered profit-taking in memory semiconductor stocks. Samsung Electronics fell 5.37% to 26

According to Xinhua Finance, President Donald Trump on Wednesday, July 16, criticized New York Governor Kathy Hochul's newly enacted data center moratorium, calling for an "immediate" policy shift. The executive order, signed by Hochul on Tuesday, prohibits new data centers with power consumption