DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 16, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 16, 2026 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares the beginning of Japan's AI era in Tokyo with physical AI partnerships spanning Fanuc, Toyota, NEC and Kawasaki plus a SoftBank plan to build Japan's largest AI factory. TSMC posts a fifth straight record quarter with net profit up 77 percent to roughly $22 billion on AI chip demand, while ASML beats second quarter estimates and raises full year guidance to as much as 45 billion euros. Apple Intelligence wins Chinese regulatory approval powered by Alibaba's Qwen models. Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, its first open weight model with 975 billion total parameters. Neko Health closes a $700 million Series C ahead of its US launch, AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with a $130 million round, and identity platform Oak emerges from stealth with a $60 million seed. 3M and Microsoft partner on AI data center infrastructure, President Trump announces nearly $10 billion in defense, AI and robotics investment at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, the EU AI Office publishes expert findings on frontier AI, and internet pioneer Vint Cerf joins an effort to build an open identity standard for AI agents. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Nvidia #AppleIntelligence #DXToday