According to BlockBeats, on July 23, driven by the investment boom in artificial intelligence and data center projects, foreign investors applied to invest 1.37 trillion baht (approximately US$40.6 billion) in Thailand in the first half of 2026, an increase of 80% compared to the same period last year.

Narit Therdsteerasukdi, Secretary General of the Thailand Board of Investment, stated that in the six months ending June 30, the board received a total of 1,299 domestic and foreign investment applications, amounting to 1.47 trillion baht, of which 877 were foreign direct investment projects. The digital sector alone accounted for 1.12 trillion baht, exceeding three-quarters of the total applications.

These investment projects also demonstrate that while the Middle East wars have driven up energy and other costs, they have not diminished Thailand's attractiveness.

According to BlockBeats, on July 23, Citigroup analysts noted in a report to clients that STMicroelectronics' (STM.N) stock price has already reflected the recovery in its end-market and the accelerated growth in data center revenue.

Analysts say the European chipmaker's second-quarter results and guidance were largely in line with market expectations, leading to a rise in its share price this year. Since January, STMicroelectronics' shares have more than doubled, a gain of nearly 160%.

Analysts said, "If today's expectations don't improve, the stock price may face resistance in the short term."

According to BlockBeats, on July 23, data from CoinGecko showed that Upbit's trading volume increased by 36.4% in the past 24 hours. The ERA/KRW trading pair led the Korean Won trading market with 8.61% of the trading volume, followed by BTC, ETH, RE, and XRP.

According to BlockBeats, on July 23, Alibaba's Zhenwu M890 supernode has successfully adapted to Qwen3.8 and launched on Alibaba Cloud's Bailian platform to provide model inference services, becoming the first supernode in China to successfully run a large model with over 2 trillion parameters.

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According to BlockBeats, on July 23, CCTV News reported that a special conference on the application and promotion of the national standards series "Interconnection of Intelligent Agents in Artificial Intelligence" was recently held at the Zhongguancun Exhibition Center in Beijing. Seven guiding national standards, GB/Z185-2026, were released at the event. This is the first interconnection standard system in China covering the entire lifecycle of intelligent agents, building a unified underlying rule network for collaborative AI across all domains.

Among the seven core components, the intelligent agent identity code is the key implementation carrier. A ceremony was held on-site to issue the first batch of intelligent agent identity codes, bringing the total number of codes issued to over 2,000 key industry intelligent agent identity codes to date. This assigns each intelligent agent a unique and traceable "digital ID card," building a trusted underlying trust system for interconnection. This system is currently the world's first systematic standard system for intelligent agent interconnection.