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AI News Brief: Chinese AI smart glasses brand Rokid announced it has landed investment from an affiliate of Japanese auto giant Toyota, confirmed personally by Rokid CEO Zhu Mingming. This investment marks an important step in Rokid’s push to expand its presence in the Japanese market, coming right after the company completed a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign in Japan. Zhu Mingming said that although Japan’s population is smaller than the US or Europe, it’s a key market for Rokid because…

AI news brief: Travel booking platform Travala has launched a new protocol that lets AI agents automatically search for and book hotels, paying in USDC and settling on Coinbase’s Base network. This means AI agents can handle the entire search-and-compare process without human involvement and generate booking drafts, cutting way down on the time it takes to plan a trip. That said, to keep…

AI News Brief: Thousand Token Wood is a multi-agent economic simulation submitted to the Build Small Hackathon, using the small Qwen2.5-3B model to drive five forest animal characters trading five goods for pebble currency in a fictional market. The whole system runs on vLLM deployed on Modal, with a Gradio frontend…

AI news brief: US AI startup TinyFish announced its entry into the Japanese market, launching an AI agent platform that scrapes and analyzes live web data in real time. The platform’s core differentiator is solving a key limitation of current large language models (LLMs) — mainstream foundation models rely on historical training data and can’t perceive real-time changes in the outside world. TinyFish’s AI agent doesn’t replace reasoning models — it acts as a supplementary layer…

AI News Brief: Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) CEO Terry Duffy has publicly warned that if US regulators approve perpetual futures contracts for domestic listing, it could trigger serious market risk. He flagged two key hazards: retail investors may not fully understand how perpetual contracts work and could face liquidation losses, and these products inherently allow extremely high leverage, meaning excessive leveraged exposure could threaten overall market stability once markets swing sharply.

AI news brief: according to a report from blockchain security platform Immunefi, DeFi hacking losses fell to roughly $680 million in 2025, a massive 74% drop from the 2022 all-time peak. Immunefi frames this as a ‘structural security transformation’ happening across the DeFi industry — meaning the ecosystem’s defensive architecture has fundamentally changed, not just a temporary swing in the market cycle…

AI news brief: Bernstein has initiated analyst coverage on two bitcoin mining companies, TeraWulf and Cipher Digital, giving both an ‘Outperform’ rating with price targets of $36 and $32 respectively. The core thesis centers on long-term growth in AI compute demand — Bernstein projects both companies’ AI-related revenue will grow ninefold by 2030, driven by their existing low-cost power contracts and data center infrastructure.

AI News Brief: NVIDIA developed a five-stage ‘Task-Seeded SDG’ pipeline for the Nemotron model family — pulling roughly 70 public tasks (about 700 subtasks) from lm-eval-harness, split into knowledge-intensive (39 tasks, ~3M samples) and reasoning-intensive (34 tasks, ~1.5M samples) seed categories…

AI News Brief: OpenAI recently released a policy blueprint for frontier AI governance in the US, proposing a concrete framework to the federal government built around three core pillars: Safety, Resilience, and National Security. The blueprint pushes for unified federal-level regulation rather than fragmented state-by-state legislation, aiming to keep the US ahead in the global AI race.

AI news brief: Amazon’s smart doorbell brand Ring is facing a class action lawsuit. Filed by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt in Seattle, the suit targets Ring’s ‘Familiar Faces’ feature. The plaintiff alleges the feature automatically captures and stores facial images of passersby without their consent, constituting unlawful collection of personal biometric data.