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AI News Flash: Panasonic Holdings announced plans to expand its AI infrastructure-related business sales to nearly four times its current size, targeting 2 trillion yen (about $12.5 billion) by fiscal year 2030. To hit that target, Panasonic will roll out new products and scale up production of data center batteries. Panasonic’s battery energy storage systems can optimize power usage efficiency across entire data centers, and as AI compute demand surges…

AI news flash: OpenAI has officially announced the launch of its Economic Research Exchange, aimed at systematically studying AI’s real-world impact on the job market, productivity, and the broader economy. The program is now open for applications and will select specific research projects to collaborate on. Based on the direction of the announcement, OpenAI wants to use this platform to bring together outside academic researchers and policy analysts…

AI News Flash: Microsoft recently announced a major overhaul of GitHub Copilot’s pricing model, shifting from a fixed monthly subscription to pay-per-token usage — a move that’s sparked widespread discussion in tech circles, with Reddit users even dubbing it the ‘Tokenpocalypse.’ TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast points out that this shift…

AI News Flash: The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is reshaping demand across global metal markets. Analysts predict that over the next five years, tin demand from AI data center servers will grow to three times current levels, putting tin among the key industrial metals directly tied to the AI boom. Tin is widely used in circuit board solder and electronic component connections, and as tech companies keep expanding GPU clusters and inference servers, each large data center…

AI News Flash: This weekend, Notion’s integration with Anthropic experienced a brief outage. Sunday morning, Notion officially noted that Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 and 4.8 models suffered performance degradation, leading to higher request failure rates for Notion AI users who had selected these models.

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AI news flash: Hitachi and US chip giant Intel officially announced a strategic partnership on June 5, 2026, aimed at using AI technology to boost semiconductor manufacturing efficiency. According to Hitachi’s announcement, the two companies will jointly build an AI system that continuously analyzes production data accumulated during wafer manufacturing to optimize equipment maintenance processes. The partnership focuses on two core applications: first, automating early detection of potential faults in process equipment,…

AI News Flash: Rogo, a fintech AI startup co-founded in late 2021 by Princeton alumni Gabriel Stengel, John Willett, and Tumas Rackaitis, automates the most time-consuming daily work of Wall Street analysts — spreadsheet modeling, industry research, and investment banking pitch decks. All three founders came from J.P. Morgan or Lazard before starting the company.

AI News Flash: An XRP ETF (exchange-traded fund) is a financial product that tracks the price of the XRP token and trades on regulated traditional stock exchanges like the NYSE or Nasdaq. Unlike buying XRP directly on a crypto exchange and managing your own digital wallet, investors can buy and sell ETF shares through a regular brokerage account, with no need to deal with private key custody or on-chain transfers. This structure lets institutional and retail investors get…

AI News Flash: Travala is a blockchain-based travel booking platform that recently launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 chain. The protocol’s key highlights include two features: first, a gasless USDC booking payment mechanism, where users don’t need to pay additional gas fees when booking hotels on-chain, lowering the barrier to crypto payments; second, AI-assisted payment execution, where AI agents assist with completing the payment process instead of requiring users to manually handle each on-chain step.