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 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 Brief: OpenAI is mounting a comeback against Anthropic in the US enterprise market. Fresh data from corporate card and expense management company Ramp shows Anthropic first overtook OpenAI in market share among its paying enterprise users in May, hitting 41% versus 39%; by July the gap widened further to nearly 44% versus nearly 40%, with OpenAI still unable to reclaim the lead.
AI news brief: Micro1, a four-year-old AI training data annotation startup, has grown its gross annual run rate from $100M to $500M over the past eight months. Like its peers, Micro1 hires doctors, lawyers, scientists and other domain experts as contractors to label data, keeping roughly 60-70% of that gross revenue, which puts net annual run rate at roughly $150M to $200M.
AI News Brief: Google DeepMind recently published a retrospective tracing its 15-year history of using video games to drive AI research since its founding in 2010, and announced a new round of prototype collaborations with game developers. Key milestones mentioned include the 2015 Deep Q-Network (DQN) paper published in Nature.
AI news brief: Taiwan stock market data staleness false alarms recently gave a glimpse into the spread of cross-border scams across Southeast Asia. Nikkei Asia (Tokyo/Hanoi) reports that AI is helping scam networks and other cross-border criminal groups in Southeast Asia cut operating costs and scale up, creating a game of whack-a-mole. Under U.S. pressure, Cambodia has launched a major crackdown on scam compounds within its borders, forcing some scam operations to shut down or relocate—but these groups haven’t disappeared, they’ve just resettled in other countries like Sri Lanka to keep operating.
AI news brief: Bitdeer AI, the AI cloud computing subsidiary of Taipei-based Bitcoin miner Bitdeer, has signed a five-year contract with an undisclosed but creditworthy customer covering roughly 50% of the capacity at its Malaysia A102 facility, with the deal locked in before the facility even goes live. The agreement is expected to bring Bitdeer around $400 million in total revenue, with related revenue and costs recognized starting Q1 2027 when service…
AI News Brief: major exchanges like Binance and others are gradually opening up crypto markets to autonomous AI agents, with different players taking different strategic paths. Kraken launched an AI investment assistant in July that monitors markets and recommends trades based on users’ financial goals and risk preferences, but still requires user approval before execution—an ‘assisted decision, human gatekeeper’ model. OKX is going further, launching a beta marketplace where AI agents can find work opportunities on their own, trade with each other, and even…
AI news brief: Bitcoin mining companies are pouring big money into AI and high-performance computing (AI/HPC), but there’s still a massive gap between capital deployed and actual revenue. According to BlocksBridge Consulting’s latest Miner Weekly report, 15 public bitcoin miners and AI data center companies posted combined capex of $30…