AI News Brief: Japanese AI chip startup Tokyo Artisan Intelligence plans to officially mass-produce its self-designed AI chips next year and has signed a partnership with Malaysian chip design firm Oppstar, which will provide design support to accelerate production readiness. CEO Hiroki Nakahara attended the signing ceremony in Kuala Lumpur in June and confirmed the partnership direction to Nikkei Asia…
AI News Brief: The ECB and UK financial regulators have recently warned that current regulatory frameworks cannot keep pace with the rapid development of Agentic AI, calling for more effective safeguards. Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden noted at the ECB annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, that Agentic AI could amplify volatility during periods of market stress, and raised the question of whether guardrails similar to ‘circuit breakers’ or ’emergency stop switches’ should be established to forcibly halt all market trading when AI models spiral out of control and trigger a market crash…
AI News Brief: The crypto industry’s enthusiasm for AI Agent applications is heating up. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire both predict AI Agents will become the primary users of blockchain payments. Coinbase’s x402 payment protocol is seen as one driving force, with Layer 1 chains like Aptos and N…
AI news brief: French AI company Mistral AI has recently drawn wide attention amid Trump pressuring Anthropic to remove its models and rising calls for European tech sovereignty, but its positioning is widely misunderstood. Mistral isn’t aspiring to be the ‘European OpenAI,’ and its chat and Agent product Vibe (formerly Le Chat) has far less brand recognition than ChatGPT…
AI news brief: For the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Google dropped a tongue-in-cheek ad tagged ‘Group project, but make it 1776,’ imagining how the Founding Fathers would have drafted the document using Google Workspace. In the plot, Thomas Jefferson is drafting the text when he gets a nudge from Benjamin Franklin…
AI News Brief: This article is written by John Yasuda, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University, exploring the strikingly different approaches taken by regulators on both sides of the Pacific in response to the tech investment boom. The core argument points out that authorities in the U.S. and Japan (represented by the NYSE and TSE) are betting on opposing governance paths to handle the rapid expansion of AI and the tech industry. The original is opinion commentary in nature, and…
AI news brief: Alibaba is reportedly set to ban employees from using Anthropic’s coding tool Claude Code starting July 10, requiring them to switch to its in-house Qoder tool instead, with Claude Code internally classified as high-risk software. The background of this ban lies in Anthropic’s own terms of service, which explicitly prohibit Chinese companies and their overseas-controlled entities from using its…
AI news brief: Midjourney is striking back in copyright lawsuits against three major Hollywood studios — Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. — asking the court to compel the studios to fully disclose their own AI usage. The three studios sued Midjourney last year, alleging its image generation model can produce copyrighted characters like Bart Simpson from The Simpsons and Darth Vader from Star Wars, and claiming this constitutes infringement. Midjou…
AI News Brief: Japanese precision components giant MinebeaMitsumi (美蓓亞三美) has announced an investment of 58 billion yen (approximately 360 million USD) to expand production of precision bearings for AI data centers, planning to increase capacity by about 30%. The new facility will be set up at one of its existing manufacturing sites in Cambodia or Thailand, leveraging the established Southeast Asian supply chain to reduce construction costs and risks. These bearings are primarily used in cooling fans for data center cooling equipment…
OpenAI’s Scheduled Tasks let ChatGPT Plus/Pro users set up AI to run tasks on a timer. 5 real-world scenarios that non-technical users can configure by following along, with common issues and a Zapier comparison.