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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.

AI News Flash: Nikkei Asia’s latest Tech Latest Podcast features Taipei tech correspondent Lauly Li in conversation with host Katey Creel. The core topic: why the AI wave is triggering a full CPU revival. For a long time, AI training and inference workloads have been almost entirely dominated by GPUs, but as model sizes continue to balloon, GPU supply bottlenecks and high power consumption are getting increasingly severe. Chipmakers are actively reassessing the role of CPU in AI infrastructure—especially on the inference side—where CPUs offer cost and flexibility advantages in latency-sensitive, small-batch scenarios. Some vendors are also experimenting with heterogeneous architectures pairing CPUs with AI accelerators to diversify their over-reliance on a single GPU.

AI News Brief: Driven by the AI investment boom, global memory chip demand is surging, with prices climbing up to sixfold. This wave of price hikes is pushing up end prices across consumer electronics and causing shipments to drop at a record pace. Forecasts show combined smartphone and PC sales could fall by as much as 200 million units — a rare large-scale demand contraction in the consumer electronics market in recent years. Memory chips are the core components of phones, computers, and other end devices, and this demand pressure is transmitting straight into consumer wallets.

AI News Brief: Google DeepMind partners with India’s flagship Atal Innovation Mission (under NITI Aayog) to officially launch the ATL Saathi pilot program. This Gemini-powered web app is designed for educators at Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) serving over 11 million students across India, providing round-the-clock curriculum planning and teacher training support, with the goal of upgrading existing physical labs into ‘AI-Enhanced Exploration Labs’.

AI News Brief: Renowned Japanese voice actor Daisuke Namikawa officially launched his own voice AI licensing service this Tuesday, taking the fight against the flood of unauthorized AI voice clones by putting out an ‘official AI voice’ of his own. Alongside the launch, he released a video showing a virtual character speaking in AI-generated voice built on his own vocal timbre, to demonstrate the quality and legitimacy of the licensed version. The industry sees this as a viable model for voice actors and performers trying to reclaim control of their own voices in the AI wave — instead of passively waiting for regulation or platform takedowns, the move proactively builds an official licensing channel so legitimate users have a proper path to follow, while also lowering the credibility of unauthorized clones in the market.