Internet Court, a new open protocol for agentic commerce, launched on July 10 with Starknet as its payments and settlement backbone. The protocol enables autonomous AI agents to negotiate, pay, and re…
Taiwan's King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) plans to invest up to $1.4 billion in a U.S. facility, driven by surging demand for Nvidia's AI chips. The move follows KYEC's exit from China due to U.S. sanctio…
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz is converting a former Bitcoin mining campus in Texas into a $15 billion AI data center complex, signing a 15-year lease with CoreWeave for 800 MW of capacity. The pr…
China temporarily banned helium exports on July 10, citing domestic supply needs amid US-Iran tensions, compounding a global shortage that threatens semiconductor manufacturing and AI hardware supply …
A consortium of 27 companies including GenLayer, OKX, and MetaMask launched Internet Court, an open infrastructure standard for AI agents to negotiate contracts, manage payments, and resolve disputes.…
SK Hynix priced its $26.5 billion American Depositary Receipt offering at $149 per share for a Nasdaq debut on July 10, amid a broader AI chip selloff that dragged down South Korea's Kospi index by ov…
OpenAI and Google have been providing AI model access to subsidiaries of Chinese tech firms Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, which are on the Pentagon's 1260H blacklist, through a loophole in US export co…
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its US share sale, surpassing Alibaba's 2014 IPO to become the largest debut offering by a foreign company in American market history. The South Korean chipmaker's off…
AI data center builders doubled their debt over five years to fund a historic spending spree, with U.S. secured debt reaching $25.4 billion in 2025. Former bitcoin miners like Core Scientific, TeraWul…
The US government is negotiating equity stakes in AI firms, with OpenAI offering a 5% stake and Senator Sanders proposing 50% with board seats. This dual role as investor and regulator could influence…
Revolut integrated AI assistants including Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini into its Revolut X crypto exchange, enabling users to trade, analyze portfolios, and backtest strategies through natur…
At least six leveraged and inverse ETFs tracking SK Hynix ADRs are set to debut next week, highlighting a broader institutional pivot toward AI equities that could pull capital from crypto markets. Is…
The AI Futures Project, led by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, published a report titled 'AI 2040: Plan A' calling for US-China cooperation to slow AI development and delay superintelligenc…
The Department of Energy announced $17.5 billion in loans to build ten new nuclear reactors across five sites, aiming to power AI data centers. The initiative targets construction by 2030 and quadrupl…
SK Hynix reached a $1 trillion market capitalization on May 27, 2026, driven by surging demand for its high-bandwidth memory chips used in NVIDIA's AI accelerators. The South Korean chipmaker, which w…
The European Central Bank has upgraded its economic forecasting models with AI and machine learning to better predict energy price shocks, finding that inflation will not return to its 2% target until…
Italian semiconductor testing firm Technoprobe has seen its stock surge 129% year-to-date through May 2026, driven by soaring demand for AI chip testing. The company reported Q1 2026 revenue of €187 m…
China dropped its numeric urban job creation target for the first time in 30 years in its 15th Five-Year Plan, citing uncertainty from AI-driven labor displacement. Roughly 70 million jobs are at high…
OpenAI and Google are selling AI models to Singapore subsidiaries of blacklisted Chinese firms Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exploiting a loophole in US export controls that restrict sales to mainland …
Japan's Cabinet approved amendments to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, creating a 'statistical processing' exception that allows companies to use sensitive data such as medical hist…