AI News Brief: General Intuition is a startup building foundation models that train general-purpose AI agents to understand and navigate spatial and temporal relationships, currently in talks for a new funding round at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, with new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six.
AI News Flash: Instinct is an AI personal assistant currently in private beta, built by a small team led by former Sierra research scientist Noah Shinn. The company, Spear Street Technology, is based in San Francisco and currently operating in stealth mode. The assistant works by connecting to users’ email, messaging apps, calendar, and device audio…
AI News Flash: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is pushing to build a data-sharing platform that uses AI to analyze data provided by manufacturers, aiming to speed up new materials development by 10x. According to Nikkei, the platform is expected to launch in fiscal year 2027. The move reflects growing adoption of AI-driven discovery of new chemical compositions across the materials industry. See the original article for details.
AI news flash: Shares of Alibaba Group listed in Hong Kong plunged in early trading on Monday, after the company announced the prior trading day that it would raise HK$80 billion (about $10.2 billion) through a new share placement to fund its AI-related investments. This comes as competition between China and Western camps over frontier large models and the underlying compute infrastructure buildout keeps heating up. Alibaba’s decision to double down on AI at this moment shows the company is betting big on…
AI news brief: Linkdaze has launched a smart digital calendar tablet designed for families, timed for the back-to-school season. The device’s biggest selling point is broad calendar compatibility - it syncs with Google, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, and the family-focused organizing app Cozi, and color-codes each family member’s schedule so households running multiple calendar systems don’t have…
AI news brief: no extra technical details to dig into here, so this is a condensed version of the original summary: A mysterious new AI model called ‘Ox Alpha’ quietly showed up on OpenRouter on Thursday, immediately setting off a wave of speculation online about who actually built it.
AI News Brief: As the global AI boom keeps gathering steam, exchanges in Singapore and Thailand are moving to capture the trend, rolling out new measures to attract tech listings and stay competitive in regional capital markets. The report quotes SET President Asadej Kongsiri and SGX CEO Michael Syn on their respective strategies.
AI news flash: Taiwan’s AI community is once again focused on the legal controversy over AI companies training large language models on copyrighted books. The article points out that the AI models behind mainstream chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude have training databases covering hundreds of millions of published books, web articles, academic papers and more, most of which were used without the authors’ knowledge or consent, even though these AI tools could threaten their livelihoods.
AI news brief: Google has launched a new feature letting readers set a specific publisher as their ‘preferred source’ on Google Search, Discover, and Google News via a new button. The move aims to give publishers a new way to claw back traffic at a time when AI-driven search is displacing traditional search and cutting into the clicks that used to flow to their sites.
AI News Flash: CCSH (parent company of Yangtze Memory Technologies/YMTC) announced Friday that it plans to list on Shanghai’s STAR Market, aiming to raise at least RMB 33 billion (roughly $4.9 billion). CCSH’s YMTC is China’s leading memory chip maker and has climbed to become the world’s third-largest NAND flash memory manufacturer. The IPO plan comes as the AI boom drives strong earnings growth for data center suppliers, with memory chip demand rising alongside expanding AI infrastructure.