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South Korea plans to invest 5 trillion won in excess tax revenue from semiconductors to develop "sovereign AI" and purchase 10,000 GPUs to support a single team.
According to Beating's monitoring, the Korea Economic Daily revealed that South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT is in discussions with the Presidential Office and the Ministry of Finance, planning to utilize approximately 5 trillion won in excess tax revenue from the semiconductor industry to purchase about 10,000 of NVIDIA's most advanced Vera Rubin superchip GPU modules this year. This investment will be used to support elite teams developing world-class "sovereign AI" models. This decision stems directly from the sense of crisis caused by US export controls on cutting-edge AI models—Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 have been restricted from external access, forcing South Korean companies to urgently modify systems built on these models. The concept of "national strategic assetization" of AI models has thus become a reality. Currently, although four teams in South Korea—LG AI Research Institute, SK Telecom, Upstage, and Motif Technologies—are advancing independent basic model projects, each team only receives support from 700 to 800 GPUs. This dispersed investment makes it difficult to compete with globally leading models that utilize tens of thousands of GPUs. The government has therefore decided to shift to a "selection and concentration" strategy, allocating 10,000 GPUs to the best teams at once, and plans to include special funds in the supplementary budget for attracting top overseas AI talent. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung publicly stated last month that the GPU procurement pace was too slow and demanded that related funds be ensured when compiling the supplementary budget. The current global competitive window is extremely short, with companies like Anthropic and OpenAI iterating new models weekly. France, with its single-focus strategy, has surpassed Meta to become the seventh largest AI provider globally, thanks to Mistral AI. If South Korea cannot catch up in the short term, it risks becoming an "AI vassal state." The South Korean semiconductor academic community has given this positive feedback, believing that investing the funds gained from hardware prosperity into building software competitiveness is essentially an investment in the country's future. --------------------------------- Click the original link below to join the Beating · Lark AI news channel for 24/7 monitoring of global AI hotspots and news.
Xinxunda, which has seen two consecutive days of limit-up trading: Xinxing Optoelectronics' semiconductor laser chip project in East China is just starting up, and it is expected that this matter will have no or minimal impact on the company's revenue and net profit this year.
Mars Finance News, July 1st - Xinxunda issued an announcement regarding abnormal stock trading fluctuations. As of the date of this announcement, the company has discovered mentions on social media and stock forums about its capital increase in Zhejiang Xinxing Optoelectronic Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xinxing Optoelectronic"). The company clarifies the following: On June 30, 2026, the company completed its capital increase in Xinxing Optoelectronic, acquiring a 51% stake. Xinxing Optoelectronic's main business will be the foundry of compound semiconductor laser chips. Currently, Xinxing Optoelectronic's East China semiconductor laser chip project is in its initial construction phase, and completion and production will take a considerable amount of time. It is expected that this matter will have little or no impact on the company's operating revenue and net profit for this year (the company's current operations are stable, and its main business has not changed). Furthermore, the compound semiconductor laser chip foundry industry is a market monopolized by overseas giants, with high customer certification barriers and long cycles. After the project goes into production, it may face slow market expansion, lower-than-expected production capacity, and intensified market competition, posing risks of insufficient capacity utilization and lower-than-expected mass production benefits. (Company Announcement)
Public Bitcoin miners cut hashrate 13.4% as AI infrastructure revenue grows
AI and HPC are reshaping mining economics as operators repurpose power and data centers, while a smaller group of miners continues to expand Bitcoin capacity.
Hao Lishun, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Revenue of large-scale robot companies exceeded 90 billion yuan in the first five months of this year, with an average annual growth rate of over 20% in the past five years.
According to Mars Finance, at a press conference for the 2026 World Robot Conference, Hao Lishun, Deputy Director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that from January to May this year, the operating revenue of my country's large-scale robot enterprises exceeded 90 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.9%, with an average annual growth rate of over 20% in the past five years. The supporting capabilities for key components have significantly improved, the intelligence level of complete robot products has continued to rise, and the layout in cutting-edge areas such as humanoid robots is accelerating. The technological foundation, including operating systems and simulation platforms, is being built at a faster pace. High-value application scenarios are constantly being enriched, cultivating more new human-machine collaborative positions. The industry's development is gradually shifting from competition based on single-product technology and market size to the integration of supply chain collaboration and development ecosystem. (Reporter Li Mingming, Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
BitTorrent has officially launched a long-term BTT buyback program, with 100% of its decentralized business revenue to be repurchased quarterly.
Odaily Odaily reports that BitTorrent has officially announced the full launch of its long-term BTT token buyback program in the third quarter of 2026. According to the plan, 100% of the revenue generated by BitTorrent's decentralized service will be used for quarterly BTT token buybacks, aiming to inject long-term, stable liquidity support into the token ecosystem. Furthermore, after each buyback cycle, a detailed on-chain audit report will be released to ensure transparency in the flow of funds and the entire execution process. This landmark initiative not only strengthens BTT's value anchor as a core asset of the ecosystem but also marks BitTorrent's ecosystem officially entering a new stage of sustainable development driven by revenue and supported by value.
The window for the passage of the Clarity Act is narrowing: whether it can pass before Congress's summer recess remains uncertain.
According to Foresight News , citing CoinDesk, the CLARITY Act's original goal of being signed on July 4th has been missed, and the window for its passage before the midterm elections is rapidly closing. While most of the Senate's work can proceed behind the scenes during the summer recess, the House process is currently stalled. Negotiators remain optimistic about passing the bill by 2026, but key coordination needs to be completed before the Senate recess on August 7th. If the bill fails to pass before the midterm elections, and the Democrats gain control of Congress after the elections, they will likely demand significant changes to the bill.