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Wednesday 14 October 2026
SEMICON West makes three-year commitment to Phoenix, home to over US$200B in chip investment
SEMI announced at a media event during SEMICON West 2026 that the exhibition will move to Phoenix, Arizona, in 2027 and shift to a spring schedule. SEMI Americas President Joe Stockunas...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Amazon's Decart talks point to a broader push from custom silicon to world models
As custom AI silicon proliferates alongside growing demand for heterogeneous compute, the ability to move and optimize workloads across different accelerators is becoming an increasingly...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Uber consolidates Taiwan, HK and Macau operations under one GM
Uber Technologies appointed a single general manager for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau on October 13, combining leadership across the three markets as the ride-hailing company seeks...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
OpenAI reportedly in talks with startup to bring Sora back to life
Sora, the AI video generation model created by OpenAI, may someday be revived after its services were shut down this year. A startup is reportedly in talks with OpenAI over access...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
DeepSeek expands into embodied AI with early bet on robotics startup Winverse
DeepSeek is expanding its reach beyond digital chatbots into the physical world, agreeing to lead a seed financing round for Winverse AI. According to sources familiar with the matter...
Saturday 10 October 2026
Unified memory lifts AI PC ambitions as Chinese open models gain local-inference ground
The hardware boundary separating cloud-scale AI from local inference is becoming increasingly porous as PC vendors expand memory capacity and software platforms make larger open-weight...
Saturday 10 October 2026
US plans for 'Autowarcom' deepen military's focus on autonomous weapons
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans for the creation of a combatant command focused on autonomous warfare and drones. Its planned establishment indicates the turn within...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Microsoft readies Windows for AI agents as third-party agents such as Meta's Muse spread
Beyond Surface hardware, Microsoft used its October 7 event to change how Windows runs, routes, and contains AI agents, as third-party agents such as Meta's Muse draw privacy complaints...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Anthropic expands cybersecurity program for advanced AI testing
Anthropic on October 6 expanded its AI cybersecurity testing program, giving vetted security teams access to higher-end models with fewer safeguards. The move builds on the results...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Huawei claims to have largely cut US tech reliance
Huawei executive director and consumer business group chairman Richard Yu said at a recent media roundtable that the company has worked with China's supply chain since US export controls...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
SpaceX's US$40 billion Nvidia financing spotlights rise of AI compute as an asset class
SpaceX is seeking roughly US$40 billion in financing to fund purchases of Nvidia AI chips, in a deal led by Apollo Global Management that could become one of the largest examples yet...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Schneider-PTC deal targets industrial AI across the lifecycle
Schneider Electric's roughly US$22.6 billion acquisition of US industrial software developer PTC is more than a bid to expand its computer-aided design (CAD) and product lifecycle...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Taiwan's next AI battle is all about data and partners, says former tech minister
Taiwan's tech industry has grown rapidly in recent years on the back of strengths in semiconductors, servers and the data center supply chain, lifting overall GDP. But companies that...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Hwacom shifts semiconductor business to SureWin, targets post-quantum security
Hwacom Systems has shifted its semiconductor-focused business to subsidiary SureWin, targeting growing demand from chipmakers for AI deployment, data governance, and cybersecurity,...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
ITRI sees hardware, AI, sensing drive quadruped robot rollout
As AI advances rapidly, the robotics industry is evolving from traditional automation equipment into a productivity tool for every industry, Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research...