AI News Brief: Coinbase now has over 95% of its code written with AI assistance, more than doubling the 40% figure announced back in February this year — a clear sign that its AI adoption pace is rapidly accelerating. This was disclosed by Coinbase platform lead Rob Witoff to Cointelegraph, coming shortly after the company laid off 700 employees (14% of its workforce) earlier this year. CEO Brian Arms…
AI News Flash: Lorde publicly blasted Meta AI glasses during her performance at Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival, declaring ‘F*** the glasses, don’t buy them, they’re not sexy at all.’ She said it’s getting harder to tell what’s real in today’s world — you can’t even tell if someone is wearing regular sunglasses or smart glasses with built-in cameras and AI features. Her comments are especially striking because the festival’s sponsor, Ray-Ban, is the very brand that partnered with Meta to launch these smart glasses, and the artist who took the stage right after Lorde — Jennie — is the face of Ray-Ban x Meta smart glasses. Lorde isn’t the only one raising privacy concerns; these camera-equipped AI glasses have already been used for harassment and extortion. Meta insists it takes privacy seriously and has safety features like recording indicator lights, but it’s currently facing multiple privacy lawsuits, including one alleging that contract workers in Kenya were forced to watch violent footage recorded by the glasses to help train Meta’s AI models (Meta has not publicly responded to that allegation). Despite the controversy, sales haven’t been affected at all: eyewear maker EssilorLuxottica reported selling over 7 million pairs of Meta AI glasses in 2025 — more than triple the roughly 2 million pairs sold in 2023 and 2024 combined. Those impressive numbers have Meta continuing to expand the product line.
AI News Brief: Short news related to Japan’s nuclear power, TSMC supply chain, and AI server manufacturing — this one falls under the latter category, with limited detail. Summary below: Nikkei Asia reports that several Taiwanese manufacturers involved in producing AI data center servers are integrating AI technology into their own production workflows to accelerate shipments and meet surging market demand for higher-performance systems. The article uses Foxconn (鴻海) as an example, noting that its server rack trays for Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform have achieved a rate of one tray per minute via fully automated production lines…
AI News Brief: Panasonic (formerly Matsushita Electric) was once the flagship enterprise of Japan’s home appliance industry. As early as two months before China launched its reform and opening-up policy in 1978, then-Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited Panasonic’s color TV factory in the suburbs of Osaka — a powerful symbol of Japan’s home appliance manufacturing prowess at the time and a model for China to learn from. But the home appliance market has shifted dramatically since then. Chinese and Korean manufacturers now dominate the global home appliance market, forcing traditional Japanese consumer electronics giants like Panasonic to transform in order to survive. The report notes that Panasonic has moved away from its old focus on home living products and is now developing data center-related businesses, reflecting how Japan’s old-school electronics makers are trying to find new growth momentum by shifting from hardware manufacturing into digital infrastructure. The original summary doesn’t go deeper on the specific scale, technical details, or financial figures of Panasonic’s data center business — see the original link for more.
AI News Brief: Nvidia and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are in talks for the Japanese industrial group to supply cooling systems and energy management equipment for Nvidia’s AI data centers. According to Nikkei, Nvidia is evaluating adopting MHI’s cooling and energy management systems in its AI factories to help improve overall energy use efficiency. The partnership is still in the negotiation stage, and the original summary does not provide specific contract size, timeline, or technical specs…
AI News Brief: CleanSpark shares surged as much as 22% on Tuesday after the Bitcoin miner announced a 20-year triple-net lease agreement with an unnamed investment-grade global tech company to build a 175MW data center at its Sandersville, Georgia campus. CleanSpark estimates the deal will generate approximately $6.6 billion in contracted revenue over the initial lease term, potentially increasing to $11.6 billion if the tenant exercises two five-year extension options…
AI News Brief: OpenAI published an article exploring how enterprises should manage AI investments in the agentic AI era. The core argument is that evaluation metrics should shift from simple input costs to how much useful work output you get per dollar spent, measuring AI investment effectiveness by effective work output per unit cost rather than just counting how many tools you deployed or how much model usage you have. The article recommends enterprises focus on two directions…
AI News Brief: SoftBank Group founder and chairman Masayoshi Son stated at the SoftBank World 2026 conference in Tokyo on July 14, 2026, that global AI infrastructure will require $5 trillion in annual investment by 2040. He noted that the expansion of data centers, power supply, and humanoid robots will support AI’s shift from a human-centered work model to a new labor structure. Son expects AI to account for 20% of global GDP by then, with AI agents and humanoid robots becoming the key forces shaping the future workforce.
AI News Brief: China’s trade performed strongly in the first half of 2026, with total trade volume up 21% year-over-year, driven by a global investment boom in AI-related industries, which successfully offset both geopolitical uncertainty and weak domestic household consumption. June exports rose 27% YoY, while imports surged 36% on rising chip prices. Container throughput at Shanghai’s Yangshan Port shows that global demand for AI-related supply chains (such as chips and server components) continues to support China’s overall export momentum.
AI news brief: In H1 2026, crypto hack losses dropped 46.8% YoY to $1.32B, but blockchain security firm CertiK told Cointelegraph the decline mainly reflects the inflated 2025 baseline caused by Bybit’s record $1.4B hack — not genuine defensive improvements across Web3.