MIT researchers placed 13 AI agents called Eko, powered by Claude Opus 4.7, on a simulated desert island for 30 hours without specific tasks, and the agents spontaneously created their own challenges. The experiment paper was posted on arXiv, and agents with play experience outperformed the control group in subsequent tasks.
Blacksmith announced a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital at a $1 billion valuation. The company helps enterprises manage the build and testing process for AI-written code, with annual recurring revenue growing 17x and over 90 million CI jobs run to date.
At the 2026 iMPSS Asia-Pacific Summit and the 9th Organoid and Organ-on-a-Chip Academic Conference, researchers demonstrated AI-integrated organ-on-a-chip technology. Experts said the combination of AI with organoids and organ-on-a-chip will create a humanized, data-driven drug development model. Zhang Yujian, CEO of Suzhou Beilun Bio, presented the progress of the world's first personalized mRNA tumor vaccine clinical study integrating organ-on-a-chip and AI.
At the 6th RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen, SpacemiT unveiled the server-class CPU V100, described as the industry's first general-purpose chip fully compliant with RISC-V server specifications. It uses a 46-core hybrid architecture, and the company also introduced three server platforms: C2201 computing server, G5201 AI server, and S5236 storage server.
Kaushik Basu, professor at Cornell University and former Senior Vice President of the World Bank, said in a group interview at the 2026 Bund Summit that AI boosts economic growth but reduces demand for some labor and concentrates income among a few. He called for China and the United States to jointly promote global policy coordination and proposed tax ideas such as an “accordion tax” to narrow income gaps.
At the 2026 Bund Summit, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert RUBIN discussed with Peking University's Huang Yiping the productivity gains and large-scale job loss risks from AI, and said that while a collapse in AI investment is unlikely, risk exposure remains significant.
At the 2026 Bund Summit, World Bank Managing Director Zhang Wencai said AI can expand financial inclusion if properly designed, lowering costs for small customers and enabling services in local languages. He stressed the importance of global AI governance cooperation, noting that only 11% of emerging-market financial regulators use AI tools, and called for jointly developed standards so developing countries are not passive recipients.
At the 6th RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen, Meng Jianyi, chief scientist of Alibaba DAMO Academy, said XuanTie chips have shipped over 6 billion units. The academy also unveiled its first automotive-grade enhanced E908A chip at the event.
At the Dublin International AI Summit, Anthropic's international business lead said open-weight AI models are riskier than Anthropic's own models and that he cannot guarantee their safety. He cited the company's experience securing its products, warned that small AI models could soon drive new botnets, and called for slowing AI development until international standards and unified evaluation mechanisms are established. He also said continued investment in frontier models is worthwhile, noting Claude Opus 5.5 is 40% cheaper than earlier versions.
AMD CEO Lisa Su, in a keynote at the OCP Global Summit, characterized 2026 as the "year of inference" and said the CPU market, driven by agentic AI workloads, is expected to exceed $200 billion by 2030 with a compound annual growth rate of about 50%, after AMD raised its forecast three times in the past nine months.