SoftBank Group plans to sell ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) in retail bonds, the largest bond issuance in Japan's history, to fund its investments in OpenAI, which now exceed $60 billion. The 7-year bond,…
Tungsten prices have surged as much as 622% in 2026 as Chinese export restrictions and soaring AI chip demand created a supply crisis, with Japan's Kanto Denka and Central Glass—accounting for about 2…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, its flagship Mythos-class model launched on June 9, 2026, has captured just 6% of total tokens purchased in its first two months, with revenue share at 11.4%, as customers …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported July 2026 revenue of NT$467.58 billion ($14.5B), up 44.7% year-over-year, driven by AI demand that accounted for 66% of second-quarter revenue. Mean…
Open-weight AI models accounted for 62% of all tokens processed through Vercel's AI Gateway on August 22, up from 28.4% on June 24, according to Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Despite this volume share, …
OpenAI and Anthropic have opened dedicated Washington, D.C. offices and spent a combined $3.17 million on federal lobbying in Q2 2026, a 23% increase from the prior quarter, as they seek to shape AI l…
UBS Global Wealth Management raised its S&P 500 year-end 2026 target to 8,100 from 7,900 and its mid-2027 target to 8,400 from 8,200, citing an earnings reset driven by AI, technology, and broad secto…
Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform led by CEO Clément Delangue, is exploring a sale that could value the company at more than $13 billion, nearly triple its $4.5 billion valuation from its Augu…
OpenAI reported 20 million weekly active users of its AI coding and agent features as of August 19, 2026, representing about 2% of its roughly 1 billion active ChatGPT users. The company's overall rev…
AMD announced on May 21, 2026, that it will invest over $10 billion (NT$315.58 billion) in Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem, focusing on advanced chip packaging technology developed with TSMC. The mul…
Microsoft Research published a paper showing that a 4-billion-parameter AI model trained with SocialRL, a cascade reinforcement learning approach, achieved an average utility score of 0.627 across six…
Representative Rich McCormick (R-GA) warned against slowing US data center expansion, calling construction moratoriums 'dangerous' as the US competes with China in AI. BloombergNEF projects US data ce…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, faces market skepticism over its ability to reach a $2 trillion valuation without substantial revenue growth and margin expansion, according to pre…
Nvidia is set to report fiscal Q2 2027 earnings on August 26, with analysts projecting revenue of roughly $92 billion, a 97% year-over-year increase from $46.7 billion, driven by AI infrastructure dem…
Microsoft released ThinkingBox, an open-source sandbox framework that tests AI agent reliability by verifying actual database changes rather than transcripts, paired with ThinkingBox-Bench. Testing 12…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announced a $10.2 billion share placement in Hong Kong, its largest-ever equity offering, to fund full-stack AI capabilities including custom chips, data centers, and AI mod…
Anthropic's flagship Claude models are losing users to cheaper Chinese rivals like DeepSeek, which offer comparable performance at 10x to 50x lower cost, forcing Anthropic to cut prices and segment it…
Scammers used AI-generated deepfake video to impersonate Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and other senior officials in a fabricated Zoom call, defrauding a business professional of at least S$4…
China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) has developed GLM-5.3, a cybersecurity model that reportedly outperforms Anthropic's Mythos 5 in CyberGym vulnerability-finding tests, according to social media reports. The mo…
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) aligned with former President Donald Trump's push for rapid AI development, warning that U.S. regulatory hesitation benefits China, which he called a 'China First' agenda…