Alphabet's Stock Price Soars to Historic Highs Driven by AI Boom


AI unicorn Anthropic faces its first patent infringement lawsuit. The University of Tennessee Research Foundation alleges its systems infringe two patents, suing in Delaware federal court. This marks a new IP legal challenge for Anthropic.....
According to The Information, Alphabet's internally developed AI chip called "Frozen v2" is optimized for the Gemini model, and is expected to be released in 2028. Its token generation efficiency per watt could be 6-10 times higher than current chips. Google responded that the project may not go into mass production.
CloudBrain released the industry's first U2-Med Three-Medicine Large Model by upgrading its U2 foundation. This model focuses on the fields of medical care, medical insurance, and pharmaceuticals. The model is designed to deeply integrate into core businesses such as medical insurance and commercial insurance collaboration, aiming to enhance the digitalization level of the three medicine sectors, marking a further deepening of its smart healthcare strategy.
Competition in the AI video generation sector is intensifying. Singapore-based startup PixVerse has completed a $439 million C-round expansion financing, with its valuation exceeding $2 billion, signaling strong growth confidence. The company was co-founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu, former head of computer vision at ByteDance, and Jaden Xie, following a typical technology-driven development path.
On July 10, 2026, Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing it of stealing trade secrets and breaching contracts. The complaint states that Don Teng, former vice president of design at Apple and now Chief Hardware Officer at OpenAI, directed systematic espionage, misused Apple's confidential project codes during recruitment, and induced job candidates to leak information. This lawsuit marks the intensification of the AI competition between two major technology giants.