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2026-07-02
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An archive of 20 AI news briefs collected on 2026-07-02. Check the original sources for details and updates.

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01News

Anthropic starts early development of self-made AI chips, planning to use Samsung's 2-nanometer process

Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of its proprietary AI chips, planning to utilize Samsung's 2nm process and advanced packaging technologies. The company also successfully recruited Clive Chen, a core member of OpenAI's first-generation chip team, signaling its strategic layout in the hardware sector. This move marks AI giants accelerating efforts to reduce dependence on traditional chip suppliers like Nvidia.

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03News

Wang Xuehong: HTC Has Successfully Transformed into an AI and XR Content Platform, Will Launch New AI Application Content in the Third Quarter of This Year

HTC has transformed into an AI and XR content platform. The VIVERSE platform has surpassed 1.5 million monthly active users, forming a creator ecosystem. New AI applications will be launched in the third quarter, and the AI smart glasses VIVE Eagle will enter the European and American markets

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06News

Microsoft announced it will spend 2.5 billion US dollars to establish a new company to help enterprises implement artificial intelligence technology

Microsoft announced the establishment of 'Microsoft Frontier Company', with an initial investment of 2.5 billion US dollars, aimed at helping enterprise customers such as Unilever and Novo Nordisk integrate self-developed and third-party AI tools, and ensuring that the output results are fully owned by the customers without being sent back to Microsoft. This move aims to address the pain points of high costs and long payback cycles for enterprises using multi-source AI technology, and to respond to enterprises' concerns about dependence on a single vendor's technology and data sovereignty.

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08News

Lenovo executive: in the long term, computing power is not in surplus

Abulikemu Abulimiti, Vice President of Lenovo Group, stated that in the long term there is still huge space for AI computing demand, mature C-end products are few, and B-end potential is yet to be unleashed. He also warned that the industry has issues of overly strong supply-side discourse power and imbalance between industry chain supply and demand.

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10News

Nvidia launches new support program to help AI startups access compute via revenue-sharing model

Nvidia launches new support program that, through cooperation with cloud service providers and via revenue-sharing and credit support models, lowers the financial barrier for AI startups to access high-performance compute. The first batch of pilot companies has landed, marking the formal launch of the program. This move aims to consolidate Nvidia's core position in the AI industry chain while broadening the application scenarios of its chip technology. #Nvidia #AI compute

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11News

Google AI construction causes 2025 electricity use to grow 37%

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16News

South Korea Unveils Physical AI National Strategy, Aiming for Global Leadership

South Korea released a unified strategy aimed at mastering full-stack physical AI technologies and promoting their implementation across all industries, including manufacturing and agriculture. The core focus is building an autonomous technology system, tackling three foundational technologies—foundation large models, world models, and edge computing—and establishing a comprehensive industrial ecosystem encompassing data, law, funding, and talent.

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17News

Nuclear-powered AI: Valar successfully powers Nvidia Blackwell chips with advanced reactor

US nuclear startup Valar Atomics used its Ward 250 advanced reactor to successfully power Nvidia Blackwell AI chips and ran a temporary website. The two parties announced they will cooperate to build a small data center in Utah, exploring the use of advanced nuclear energy and liquid cooling technology to power AI computing and reduce reliance on the power grid and water resources. This is the first such application achieved by a next-generation reactor in the United States.

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20News

Indian entrepreneur self-funds $30 million to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

Indian serial entrepreneur Bawin Tulakia self-funded 200 million yuan to found AI-native office platform Neo. He believes legacy software's approach of bolting on AI via 'patching' won't work and must be rebuilt from the ground up. Neo integrates project management, document editing and AI features, aiming to carve out a share of the enterprise AI market amid giants like Microsoft and Google.

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