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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 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 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…

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.

AI news brief: Google Research and Google DeepMind recently demoed AMIE (their research medical AI system) performing real-time clinical video consultations for the first time. In an in-person visit, a doctor can pick up on non-verbal cues like a cough, gait, or a wince of discomfort, and now AMIE can do the same over video. Built on Gemini and Project Astra with a multi-agent architecture, it can read visual and audio cues, guide a virtual physical exam, and reason through a diagnosis in real time.

AI News Brief: OpenAI announced it’s testing ads in the free tier of ChatGPT, as one of the funding sources to keep supporting free users. According to the official announcement, ads will be clearly labeled so users can tell what’s an ad versus ChatGPT’s own generated answers, avoiding confusion. OpenAI stressed that ad content won’t influence or interfere with ChatGPT’s actual answers…

AI News Brief: Japanese listed companies posted sharp growth in their April-June quarter earnings, driven mainly by the weak yen and rising AI-related capital spending. The report notes that companies like Murata Manufacturing, Kioxia Holdings, and Fanuc all saw real profit contributions from the AI industry wave, showing that AI investment from US tech companies is benefiting a broad range of Japanese industries. The original summary only covers the overall trend direction and a list of representative companies.

AI News Brief: Keel Infrastructure announced in its Q2 report that it has fully shut down its US bitcoin mining operations to make way for high-performance computing (HPC) sites. Quarterly revenue came in at $30 million, down 50% year-over-year, driven by lower average bitcoin prices and the shutdown of the Moses Lake mining site in April 2026. Operating losses hit $141 million, a sharp reversal from $11 million in operating profit a year earlier, including $84 million in non-cash depreciation charges.

AI news brief: this piece doesn’t reveal specific implementation details, so here’s the gist in one line: Japanese tech group NEC has set up a new department made up entirely of AI agents, aiming to boost productivity through a clearer division of labor between humans and AI. The department is structured in two layers — ‘worker’ agents and ‘manager’ agents — where worker agents handle automated tasks and are supervised and coordinated by other AI agents acting as managers, who then…