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AI News Flash: MetaMask has recently launched a self-custodial wallet supporting token swaps, perpetual futures trading, prediction markets, and liquidity provision across Ethereum-compatible networks and Hyperliquid. Its security system offers up to $10,000 in loss protection when it determines a transaction is safe. The product is currently limited to select users in an early access program, with broader availability expected later this summer. This wave of AI agent wallets…

AI news brief: OpenAI recently published a statement on its vision for the future of AI, built around three core pillars: expanding access, strengthening safety mechanisms, and ensuring that the benefits of AGI (artificial general intelligence) are shared by all of humanity rather than concentrated among a select few. The statement emphasizes that OpenAI’s long-term goal isn’t just technological breakthroughs, but making sure the dividends of this technology reach everyone fairly and responsibly, including…

AI News Flash: OpenAI has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), formally kicking off the pre-IPO process. The S-1 is the mandatory filing for U.S. companies going public, and a confidential submission means OpenAI hasn’t disclosed financial details publicly yet — it keeps negotiating room and doesn’t tip its financials to competitors before a formal listing. The company says there’s no confirmed timeline for what comes next…

AI News Flash: Panasonic Holdings announced plans to expand its AI infrastructure-related business sales to nearly four times its current size, targeting 2 trillion yen (about $12.5 billion) by fiscal year 2030. To hit that target, Panasonic will roll out new products and scale up production of data center batteries. Panasonic’s battery energy storage systems can optimize power usage efficiency across entire data centers, and as AI compute demand surges…

AI news brief: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a whirlwind visit to South Korea this week, touring several top tech companies, and on Monday held a joint press conference in Seoul with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to formally announce a partnership. Under the agreement, the two companies will work together to launch AI factory construction by 2027, deploying advanced data center infrastructure while jointly developing next-generation memory chips. SK Group’s affiliates include SK Hy…

AI news flash: OpenAI has officially announced the launch of its Economic Research Exchange, aimed at systematically studying AI’s real-world impact on the job market, productivity, and the broader economy. The program is now open for applications and will select specific research projects to collaborate on. Based on the direction of the announcement, OpenAI wants to use this platform to bring together outside academic researchers and policy analysts…

AI News Brief: Pakistan Notice Helper is a small AI safety tool built specifically for Pakistan’s local scam message problem, created by a developer for the Backyard AI track of the ‘Build Small’ hackathon. Pakistani users constantly get suspicious messages disguised as banks, courier companies, tax authorities, telecoms, or government agencies — spotting the fake isn’t the hard part, knowing what to do next is.

AI News Flash: Microsoft recently announced a major overhaul of GitHub Copilot’s pricing model, shifting from a fixed monthly subscription to pay-per-token usage — a move that’s sparked widespread discussion in tech circles, with Reddit users even dubbing it the ‘Tokenpocalypse.’ TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast points out that this shift…

AI News Flash: The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is reshaping demand across global metal markets. Analysts predict that over the next five years, tin demand from AI data center servers will grow to three times current levels, putting tin among the key industrial metals directly tied to the AI boom. Tin is widely used in circuit board solder and electronic component connections, and as tech companies keep expanding GPU clusters and inference servers, each large data center…

AI news brief: OpenAI plans to launch a major ChatGPT overhaul in the coming weeks, repositioning it from a pure conversational tool into a ‘super app’ that integrates coding tools and AI agent features. According to the Financial Times, the move aims to boost commercial competitiveness and narrow the path to profitability ahead of an IPO, especially in the enterprise market, putting it in direct competition with Anthropic.