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AI News Brief: Tencent reported Q2 2026 results with revenue up 11% year-over-year to RMB 204.8 billion (about USD 30.3 billion), beating the LSEG market consensus estimate of RMB 201.8 billion. As China’s most valuable tech company by market cap, one of the standout highlights this quarter came from Tencent’s AI-related businesses: its desktop AI assistant WorkBuddy is gradually gaining traction, while user numbers for Tencent’s own Hy3 model are growing rapidly…

AI News Flash: According to Cathay/Nikkei sources, Foxconn, a key supplier to Nvidia, says it’s not worried about heating-up competition in AI server production. Foxconn’s newly rotated CEO Michael Chiang told investors on August 12 that the company’s massive manufacturing scale and vertically integrated supply chain will let it grow its AI server market share further, rather than lose ground to new entrants.

AI News Flash: The Bitcoin Policy Institute and other industry participants are calling on AI companies to give Bitcoin and open-source developers ’early access’ to flagship models, to help these developers strengthen their cybersecurity work. The original summary is fairly brief and doesn’t mention specific model names, a list of partner AI companies, an access timeline, or technical details — see the source link for more.

AI news brief: 63% of Gemini users talk to the assistant directly through voice, showing voice has become the mainstream way to interact; Google also revealed Gemini generates over 150 million images daily. See the original article for details.

AI News Flash: ChatGPT has officially launched its Linux desktop app in preview, extending ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex to Linux and closing a long-standing gap that previously left Windows and macOS as the only supported platforms. OpenAI says Linux has consistently been the most-requested platform for its desktop apps, and this launch g…

AI news brief: Moonshot AI CEO Yang Zhilin once had a shot at joining top US tech companies like Apple. After earning a PhD from a leading American university, he chose to return to China and start his own venture, co-founding Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi. The company has since grown into a Chinese rival capable of competing with US AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic. The report notes…

Circle publicly ran an experiment called Steve: 8 autonomous AI agents, each with its own USDC wallet, paid for data on their own via the x402 protocol and placed bets on the 2026 World Cup on Polymarket - with no human reviewing in real time. Writing from the front lines of building agentictrade, the author breaks down why the agent economy matters and why a spending cap is the key design that makes it safe for AI to spend money.

AI News Flash: Compal Electronics announced plans to expand production capacity across Taiwan, Vietnam, and the US, aiming to pivot from traditional PC manufacturing into the AI server supply chain and capture demand from the explosive growth in global AI infrastructure. Compal, a major supplier for HP and Dell laptops, has long relied on notebook manufacturing as its core business and is now pouring resources into AI server production.

AI News Brief: Keel Infrastructure announced in its Q2 earnings report released Monday that it has fully shut down its US Bitcoin mining operations and pivoted to building high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. The report showed quarterly revenue of $30 million, down 50% year-over-year, driven mainly by falling average Bitcoin prices and the shutdown of its Moses Lake crypto mining facility in April 2026. The company also reported…

AI news brief: OpenAI and AWS announced that OpenAI’s Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities are now available to enterprise customers through Amazon Bedrock, supporting enterprise security workflows. This lets companies call Daybreak’s features directly within their existing AWS Bedrock environment, which in theory streamlines the process of adopting AI-driven security tools without needing to integrate a separate OpenAI API or stand up extra infrastructure.