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Kling AI Raises $3 Billion as Kuaishou Splits Strategy

Kling AI Raises $3 Billion as Kuaishou Splits Strategy

Kuaishou’s Kling AI raised nearly $3 billion at a post-money valuation of $18 billion, with Kuaishou’s stake falling to 68.33% and a potential Hong Kong IPO targeted by 2031. Despite strong revenue growth, Kling faces slowing momentum, talent departures, and intense competition from ByteDance’s Seedance and open-source video models.

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China’s AI Bottleneck May Be Social Security

Oxford researcher Carl Benedikt Frey argues that China’s biggest obstacle to large-scale AI deployment may be inadequate social protection for workers displaced by automation, not computing power or algorithms. The analysis compares China with historical British welfare systems and Denmark’s flexicurity model, while noting that the cited Chinese incidents do not prove a broad AI crackdown.

Samsung Foundry Raises Chip Prices Up to 15%

Samsung Foundry Raises Chip Prices Up to 15%

Samsung Foundry is reportedly raising prices for multiple process nodes as customer orders increase. In July, SF4 4nm wafer prices rose 10%–15% for US and Chinese customers, while Taiwan customers saw increases of about 5%–10%; SF5 5nm prices also increased 10%–15%.

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AI Borrowing Helps Push U.S. Bond Yields Higher

AI Borrowing Helps Push U.S. Bond Yields Higher

The U.S. government and major AI companies are competing for bond-market capital as federal debt approaches $40 trillion and AI infrastructure financing accelerates. Rising long-term Treasury yields could increase data-center funding costs, pressure AI investment returns, and force a repricing of high-growth technology stocks.

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