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AI News Flash: At Nikkei Asia’s ‘2026 Future of Asia’ summit, Bank Malaysia Central Bank Governor Abdul Rashid Ghafour warned that the energy crisis triggered by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is spreading to broader economic sectors, impacting industrial material supply, logistics, food prices, and tourism, putting downward pressure on Asian economies in multiple ways. Besides Iranian geopolitical risks, the forum’s discussion also covered AI disinformation threats to regional stability.

AI News: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) partners with OpenAI to deploy trusted AI at global business scale. The core goal is making AI trusted and scalable across LSEG’s entire operations, not limited to specific departments or pilot projects. Three key outcomes: accelerating internal insight generation, shortening product and feature development cycles, and empowering around 4,000 non-technical staff to directly use AI tools in their daily work.

AI News Flash: Google announced Monday it will cut the monthly price of Google AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99, while doubling the cloud storage from 200GB to 400GB, with rollout to existing users expected over the next few days. Google AI Plus launched this January, positioned as the most affordable paid AI subscription in the US market, targeting individual users and students, featuring video generation tool Omni Flash, creative studio Google Flow, and AI research assistant NotebookLM.

AI News Flash: Japan is actively vying for greater influence in Asia’s subsea cable布局, driven by explosive AI demand fundamentally reshaping global data transmission infrastructure needs. In this transformation wave, industry veterans with 25+ years in subsea cables admit traditional methods are hitting bottlenecks, struggling to meet the new era’s high-bandwidth, low-latency demands. Notably, new entrants previously less involved in this highly specialized field—including Sumitomo Corp, equipment rental firms, and emerging telecom players—are entering this market considered a national strategic asset.

AI News Flash: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos (dev codename Fable 5) has sparked intense wariness in the crypto community. In April, hackers stole $629.7 million in cryptocurrency—the highest monthly total since February 2025—and analysts directly link this to the widespread adoption of AI tools. Moonrock Capital founder Simon Dedic has issued a public warning…

AI breaking news: Japan’s Mitsubishi HC Capital partners with Canadian investment group Brookfield via a UK joint venture to acquire renewable power plants across Europe, targeting wind and solar farms in the UK and France. The core driver is AI’s rapid expansion fueling global electricity demand, significantly boosting the strategic value of renewable energy assets. Mitsubishi HC has long specialized in equipment leasing and infrastructure financing…

AI News Flash: Notion recently revealed how it integrated OpenAI Codex into its workflow. According to official details, Notion’s engineering team achieved one-shot specs generation through Codex, letting AI produce executable technical specifications in a single prompt, significantly shortening the pre-implementation phase from requirements to execution. Additionally, Notion leveraged Codex to build a web-based AI voice input feature, allowing users to directly drive Notion’s AI workflows via voice. Regarding team efficiency gains, Notion emphasizes that Codex helps small engineering teams significantly amplify overall development capacity without hiring more people, essentially providing each engineer with an AI collaborator capable of parallel task execution.

AI News Flash: Nextdoor engineering team adopted OpenAI’s Codex paired with GPT-5.5, primarily applied in three areas: first, helping troubleshoot hard-to-reproduce production issues through AI-assisted complex scenario analysis, reducing the time engineers spend on repeatedly recreating problem environments; second, cross-platform development, enabling faster feature delivery across different operating systems and device environments; third, shifting engineering focus from technical details to product outcomes, letting the team concentrate more on delivery projects that have real impact on users.

AI News Flash: Apple officially kicked off the 2026 WWDC Developer Conference at Apple Park in California. This year’s conference has two special backgrounds: CEO Tim Cook announced he will officially hand over the reins to Senior VP of Hardware Engineering John Ternus on September 1st, making this his last WWDC; and there’s high external expectation for Apple to catch up in AI,弥补过去两年在 Siri…

AI news flash: GitHub Copilot CLI launches Custom Agents, letting developers preload agent settings with their tech stack background and team workflow rules so Copilot no longer needs full context each time. The core concept transforms fragmented one-off prompts into repeatable, auditable standard workflows. For teams, this means members can share agent configs for consistent operations and terminal interactions that follow dev standards.