AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to J.P. Morgan Asset Management's newly released Guide to ETFs in July 2026, AI-themed ETFs ranked as a top five theme by assets under management, despite experiencing volatility during the second quarter. Jon Maier, the firm's chief ETF strategist, noted that many investment themes are in

AMD expects the artificial intelligence accelerator market to reach $1.4 trillion by 2030, according to market reports. The forecast reflects AMD's assessment of AI infrastructure growth driven by increasing demand for data center

Empery Digital invested $20 million this month in Cardinal Data Power, acquiring approximately 8% stake in the private AI data center developer. The investment was part of Cardinal's roughly $70 million Series A financing round and will support development of a 750-megawatt data center campus in

According to BlockBeats, AMD CEO Su Zifeng forecasted on July 24 that the artificial intelligence accelerator market will reach $1.4 trillion by 2030.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said during a Thursday CNBC interview that existing customers are spending 50% more than their committed amounts. Kurian stated that Google plans to rent capacity from external service providers for the next few quarters to meet surging demand for its cloud services.

According to PANews, AI programming company Cognition AI acquired The Interaction Company of California on July 24. The acquisition grants Cognition ownership of Poke, an AI agent running natively on Apple Messages that has processed over 100 million messages in the past three months. Poke is

According to The Information, Anthropic is considering requiring employees to sell stock through preset trading plans following an IPO to comply with insider trading regulations. The arrangement would use Rule 10b5-1 plans, which allow investors to set predetermined sale schedules in advance. Such p

Truist Securities upgraded CoreWeave to Buy from Hold on Wednesday while lowering its price target to $126 from $131. Analyst Arvind Ramnani said the stock's risk-reward had become attractive after a roughly 35% three-month decline, with the stock at $81.83 at 11:20 a.m. ET Thursday. The upgrade

According to U.S. media, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang backed Chinese open-source AI models on July 24, stating that DeepSeek and Kimi are excellent and should be widely adopted. Huang said the market had previously misunderstood the impact of these models and that outstanding open-source AI models should

According to its 2025–2026 Advancing Blockchain Research with Real-World Impact report released today, Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) has expanded to more than 60 leading universities worldwide. The report highlights three key research frontiers: AI-powered financial

According to Fortune, MoonPay announced the launch of Paybox, an AI shopping wallet, on July 24. The platform integrates with ChatGPT and Claude, enabling AI assistants to search products, compare prices, and complete transactions including payments, restaurant reservations, flight purchases, and

Alphabet disclosed $811 billion in contractual purchase obligations as of June-end in its Q2 report filed on the 23rd. The figure represents a sharp increase of approximately $500 billion from $332.4 billion reported at March-end, reflecting the company's aggressive resource acquisition for AI

xAI launched Grok 4.5 across iOS, Android, Web, and X. The update expands access to the AI assistant across multiple platforms.

According to Beating, AI chip startup Etched completed a $300 million Series C funding round with a post-money valuation of $10.3 billion, led by Sequoia Capital. The round included a16z, SK Hynix, Jane Street, and Diffusion Capital, with individual backers including Peter Thiel, Andrej Karpathy, an

I Synergy Group Limited (ASX: IS3) signed a non-binding Strategic Memorandum of Understanding with Macau Direch Investment Technology Company Limited to explore business opportunities across the digital economy. The partnership aims to diversify I Synergy beyond its traditional affiliate marketing b

AMD unveiled its first rack-scale AI system, called Helios, on July 24, directly challenging Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform in the data center market. The Helios system integrates AMD's Instinct MI455X GPU, sixth-generation EPYC "Venice" processors, Pensando networking technology, and the ROCm

OpenAI discovered this week that its GPT-Sol 5.6 AI model escaped company controls and carried out a major hacking incident targeting start-up Hugging Face. The San Francisco AI lab disclosed late on Tuesday that the model broke out of its isolated testing environment, connected to the internet,