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AI News Flash: On Friday, SoftBank Group’s stock price plummeted over 12% in a single day, becoming the market’s focal point. The trigger was foreign media reports indicating OpenAI is considering postponing its IPO timeline. Once the news spread, investors who had been betting on the OpenAI listing story cashed out in large numbers, causing SoftBank’s stock price to crash. SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son has long been aggressively building positions in OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, with substantial shareholdings. Once the IPO is delayed, market expectations for short-term profit realization from SoftBank immediately evaporate, with concentrated selling pressure erupting.

AI News Flash: Story Protocol announces brand transformation, officially rebranding to DATA Foundation, shifting focus from network IP licensing layer to AI training data infrastructure. CEO Andrea Muttoni explains that the original permissionless open architecture fundamentally conflicted with strict IP control demands from major brands and gaming companies, making commercial deployment challenging…

AI news flash: Based on anonymized transaction data from Indagari tracking over 28 million US consumers, paid Anthropic Claude users are growing steadily. The data covers weekly transactions from 2025 through May 10, 2026, including subscriptions and API token purchases, showing Claude’s paid user count and revenue has grown month-over-month since January 2026, with a cumulative increase of approximately 75%.

AI news flash: Hit by reports that OpenAI is considering delaying its IPO, Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group’s stock price plunged over 12% during Friday morning trading, sparking widespread market concern. After the news broke, investors rushed to lock in profits, causing tech stocks to tumble across the board and dragging the Nikkei average down nearly 4% for the day, with market sentiment turning clearly cautious. SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son has long viewed OpenAI as a core investment target, and his Vision Fund placed a highly concentrated bet on ChatGPT’s developer, making SoftBank’s stock price extremely sensitive to any OpenAI developments.

AI News Flash: OpenAI’s latest model GPT-5.6 will be released in a completely different way than before. According to The Information, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees this week in an internal meeting that the Trump administration is requiring the company to “review each customer’s access eligibility on a case-by-case basis” during the preview period, with no public release and limited to a few specific partners. If this limited release goes smoothly, OpenAI hopes to do a broader public release “in a few weeks”.

AI News Flash: Toshiba once had grand ambitions to dominate both memory chips and nuclear power, but after a management crisis broke out in 2016, it was forced to sell off these two core businesses. The memory unit changed hands at a low valuation, later rebranded as Kioxia; the US nuclear subsidiary Westinghouse Electric filed for bankruptcy protection. Ironically, about a decade later, both businesses Toshiba gave away have surged on AI demand—Kioxia is now worth ~$350B as a key NAND supplier, while Westinghouse’s value has skyrocketed as nuclear power becomes essential for AI data centers.

AI news flash: The South Korean government is expected to officially announce the plan for a new chip manufacturing cluster this Monday, a major policy move in response to the capacity pressure from explosive AI demand. According to a senior presidential adviser, South Korea must accelerate its semiconductor production capacity to maintain a competitive edge in the global AI race. Notably, the adviser highlighted that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix’s cluster construction timeline could be advanced by a full decade.

AI News Flash: Wall Street is re-evaluating the value of crypto companies—no longer just looking at Bitcoin holdings, trading volume, or mining revenue, but starting to focus on a brand new dimension: AI infrastructure. In June 2026, Galaxy Digital’s stock price surged significantly, but the driving force wasn’t the crypto market conditions—it was investors repositioning their large data center project ‘Helios Campus’ in Texas. The campus is specifically designed for AI and HPC, and Galaxy Digital’s management has hinted that Helios could account for a significant portion of the company’s total market value in the future, sparking positive market response.

AI News Flash: US AI company Anthropic has publicly accused Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba of launching the largest known distillation attack on its flagship model Claude to date. Model distillation attacks involve third parties mass-calling target model APIs to obtain outputs for training data, copying capabilities and bypassing authorization to directly steal model knowledge without developing from scratch.

AI News Flash: The American Arbitration Association (AAA) and blockchain middleware software company Integra Ledger jointly released the Legal Context Protocol (LCP) this Wednesday, endorsed by Google, IBM, Circle, Wayfair, Stellar Development Foundation, Ava Labs, Cardano, Hedera, Crossmint, Aptos Foundation, Sei Labs and Mysten Labs.