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Greenpeace East Asia’s International Communications Officer Xue Yujie warns in Nikkei Asia that the AI boom is driving massive surges in chip manufacturing and data center power consumption, quietly reopening the door to fossil fuels across East Asia. The piece uses Taiwan’s CPC Talin Refinery in Kaohsiung as a microcosm showing how nations are reverting to coal and gas to meet AI infrastructure demands, derailing the renewable energy transition.

AI News: China’s annual 618 shopping festival has faded amid a weak consumer environment, with Alibaba Group actively using AI technology to boost buying sentiment. Amid a weakening economy and tightening consumer wallets, Alibaba launched AI features like automatic price comparison search, aiming to attract users with more precise discount recommendations. Related advertisements have appeared in Hangzhou’s major subway stations, showing Alibaba is ramping up efforts for this year’s 618 event.

AI News Flash: The Japanese government unveiled an AI policy draft on Thursday, declaring it will ‘actively and continuously’ revise relevant laws to strengthen response capabilities against threats posed by high-performance AI models. The draft’s core concern targets ultra-high-performance models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos - if such models enter general public release, they could have far-reaching impacts on the security environment. The draft emphasizes that Japan needs to significantly compress the regulatory response time lag.

AI News Flash: Bitwise recently pointed out that Bitcoin’s current valuation is more attractive compared to AI-related stocks like NVIDIA — the latter has already溢价 above long-term trend levels, while Bitcoin’s Mayer Multiple remains in a historically undervalued zone. At the same time, the market is facing liquidity squeeze pressures: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI and other tech giants’ potential financing deals could collectively attract over $200 billion in investment demand…

AI News: MosaicLeaks is a new study on deep research AI agent privacy leaks, revealing a vulnerability called the ‘mosaic effect’: when agents simultaneously access local private files and external network tools, each seemingly harmless search query can accumulate to allow observers to piece together enterprise secrets. The study uses a medical institution as an example: to complete a multi-step question, the agent first queried cloud migration milestones…

AI News Flash: OpenAI recently improved ChatGPT’s health and medical Q&A capabilities, with the core upgrade coming from the GPT-5.5 Instant model. The adjustments focus on four areas: enhanced reasoning for more logically rigorous answers, improved context understanding to make conversations more relevant to users’ specific situations, optimized expression clarity to make medical information more readable, and introducing a mechanism where practicing physicians participate in evaluation…

AI News Flash: OpenAI recently rolled out new spend control and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations get better visibility into AI spending and usage. The key update lets admins set spending caps to prevent budget overruns, with detailed dashboards showing how different teams are actually using the tool. These controls are crucial for enterprises deploying AI at scale—without visibility, costs can become unpredictable, creating financial risk. With integrated spend monitoring, companies can push forward AI adoption with more confidence and evaluate expansion based on real returns. But since the summary lacks specific feature details or pricing info, check the original link for the full scoop.

AI News Flash: Hitachi Energy announces plan to acquire Canadian transformer materials and parts supplier Canduct, with the core goal of strengthening its North American local production capacity. The direct backdrop to this acquisition is the surge in data center construction across North America driving significant increases in grid infrastructure demand, particularly high-voltage transformer materials have become a bottleneck in the industry — companies without local supply chain support will struggle to respond quickly to market demand.

AI News Flash: Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital accelerates AI infrastructure transformation. Its HPC subsidiary BUZZ HPC plans to build a 320MW AI data center campus near Toronto, supporting over 100k GPUs. In FY2026, HIVE’s HPC segment revenue reached $19.5M, nearly doubling YoY…

AI News Flash: Researchers collaborate with OpenAI to use its reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, successfully identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolvable cases. The core of this achievement lies in the reasoning model’s deep step-by-step reasoning ability, which can systematically integrate patient symptoms, genetic data, and medical literature to propose hypotheses that traditional diagnostic processes struggle to reach. For rare disease patients, getting a definitive diagnosis often requires years or even decades of waiting, because these diseases have few cases and clinicians accumulate very limited diagnostic experience