SoftBank Group shares fell 12% on concerns that OpenAI's IPO timeline may be delayed, exposing the Japanese conglomerate's leveraged $60 billion bet on the AI company. The stock dropped 11% in early J…
The Trump administration has requested that OpenAI stagger the release of its GPT-5.6 AI model, citing national security concerns and potential misuse. OpenAI will initially limit access to trusted en…
Virtuals Protocol has enabled autonomous AI agents to trade tokenized versions of real US equities like Apple and Tesla directly on-chain through platforms such as Uniswap and xStocks, blurring the li…
Microsoft shares fell more than 24% year-to-date as of late June 2026, the worst start since the dot-com bust, driven by investor concerns over a $190 billion capital expenditure plan for AI infrastru…
Mysten Labs unveiled a Seal MPC prototype on Sui Network's testnet, enabling AI agents to transact onchain without controlling private keys. The system uses multi-party computation committees to autho…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) on June 25, 2026, the first public dashboard to correlate AI exposure metrics with unemployment claims. Initial …
China's STAR 50 Index surged 64% amid AI spending and tech policy support, with top holdings like Zhongji Innolight and Eoptolink Technology gaining around 33%. The rally has boosted ETFs tracking the…
Chinese AI models now process over three times the weekly token volume of US models on OpenRouter, handling 18 trillion tokens compared to 5.5 trillion. The shift began in February 2026 when Chinese m…
Liquid AI released its LFM2.5-230M foundation model on June 25, outperforming larger competitors like Alibaba's Qwen3.5-0.8B and Google's Gemma 3 1B on data extraction benchmarks. The 230-million-para…
Lingyi iTech, a Chinese electronics supplier to Apple, Huawei, and Samsung, priced its Hong Kong secondary listing at HK$10.18 per share, raising $1.06 billion. Trading begins June 26, 2025, with proc…
The Trump administration has requested that OpenAI delay the release of its upcoming AI model to allow for a 30-day voluntary review process assessing cybersecurity capabilities. This request, part of…
Anthropic has delayed its IPO to 2027, citing SpaceX's stock performance and market conditions, following a similar decision by OpenAI. The postponement reshapes expectations for the largest IPO by ma…
Qualcomm unveiled the Dragonfly platform, a China-specific data center chip designed to comply with US export restrictions while serving a market that generates 46% of its revenue. The platform includ…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI model distillation attack, involving 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts, and urged Congress to strengthen export …
Micron Technology's market capitalization surged by $100 billion in a single day after reporting $41.5 billion in quarterly revenue, a 350% increase year-over-year, driven by soaring demand for AI mem…
Alphabet faces a talent crisis as four senior AI researchers, including Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer, departed for OpenAI and Anthropic within a week, triggering Alphabet…
A study from the University of Edinburgh and UCLA found that large-language-model trading strategies underperformed a simple buy-and-hold approach over 20 years across 100+ stock symbols. The AI bots …
BitGo Holdings, Inc. went public on the NYSE in January 2026 and was named to the Fortune 500 in June 2026. The company reported approximately 566 full-time employees as of September 30, 2025. No cred…
NEA partner Lila Tretikov says AI companies are prioritizing immediate chip delivery over quality due to severe supply constraints, with GPU and memory prices more than doubling since February 2025. T…
The New York Times has amended its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, dropping one claim against OpenAI and modifying another against Microsoft. The case, which alleges unaut…