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Chinese AI startup Deepseek is developing its own AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, boosting Hong Kong stocks. The Hang Seng Index rose nearly 3% and the Hang Seng Tech Index surged up to 4.8%, with Aliba…
A developer evaluated AI coding tools including web interfaces, custom IDEs, and VSCode extensions, finding Claude Code and Codex to be the most consistent and powerful options as of July 2026. The article highlights the…
Will, an open-source autonomous agent built from 40+ cognitive engines, was released on GitHub. Unlike typical LLM chatbots, Will operates continuously with persistent memory, emotion, and self-reflection, using an LLM o…
SambaNova announced a $1 billion Series F first close on July 8, 2026, at an $11 billion post-money valuation, led by General Atlantic with participation from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price, and Capital Group. The AI-i…
Temasek Holdings plans to triple its AI investments from $25 billion to $75 billion by 2030, joining funding rounds for Anthropic, Waymo, and Isomorphic Labs as part of a broader restructuring to integrate AI across its …
A new interactive game called 'AI or Not: Wildlife' challenges users to distinguish between AI-generated and real wildlife images. The game presents photorealistic images and asks players to guess whether each is created…
Deutsche Bank's global head of macro research Jim Reid warned that AI productivity gains are years away, cautioning that overambitious timelines could lead to market corrections across asset classes, including crypto. Re…
A company accidentally spent $500 million on AI tokens in a single month due to a lack of employee usage limits, while Uber and ServiceNow burned through their annual AI budgets in months. Major providers like Anthropic …
Circle published the official USDC specification for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), enabling AI agents to pay via HTTP 402 and EIP-3009. Separately, ERC-8183 'Agentic Commerce' by Virtuals Protocol and Ethereum Fou…
A developer team found that AI-generated code can contain subtle bugs that the same AI fails to catch during self-review. Using a second AI model to review the code caught contradictions in permission lists and deploymen…
Naver Cloud and Mistral AI signed a comprehensive partnership to jointly pursue the manufacturing AI market, aiming to offer sovereign AI solutions to manufacturers in Europe and Asia. The partnership leverages their sha…
CJ Olive Young, Korea's largest health and beauty retail chain, introduced AI-powered kiosks in flagship stores to assist foreign shoppers with real-time conversations in eight languages, product recommendations, and nav…
Taihan Cable & Solution won a 45 billion won ($29.8 million) turnkey contract from Transgrid to build power grid infrastructure for an AI data center in Australia, marking its expansion into the global data center power …
Korea's digital industry expanded 9.3% in 2024 to 1,378 trillion won, driven by global AI investments and ICT exports, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT. The sector now accounts for 15.2% of the country's tota…
A developer revived his custom bytecode virtual machine UVM and built a Clang backend to compile real software, successfully porting Doom to run on it at 27 FPS on a MacBook Air M5.
A developer working on CliGate, a local control plane for AI assistants, discovered a bug where Feishu and Telegram failed to receive images even though the assistant confirmed sending them. The root cause was a capabili…
Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek added $7.7 billion in direct China investments in fiscal 2025, pushing its total portfolio to a record $324 billion. The fund is tripling down on AI, targeting $75 billion in AI in…
In June 2026, 16 AI startups achieved unicorn status, signaling a shift in venture capital towards applied AI and infrastructure rather than foundational models.
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek increased its investment in China by $7.7 billion, the largest rise in five years, with a focus on artificial intelligence infrastructure and value-chain investments. The move br…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B Mixture-of-Experts model with Apache 2.0 weights, achieving a 78.0 SWE-bench Verified score and leading open-weight models on tool and search benchmarks. A free API on OpenRouter is available…