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Wednesday 20 May 2026

Google I/O 2026: Stitch shakes up AI design and dev workflows

Google's announcement of its Stitch AI design platform triggered immediate market reactions, raising substantial questions about the future of design professions, competitive dynamics...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Google I/O 2026: Consumer hardware competition and smart glasses market entry

Google's announcement of Android XR smart glasses marks its direct entry into a fast-growing wearable AI market, signaling confidence in rapid consumer adoption and the category's...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Google I/O 2026: AI market competition and enterprise pricing strategy

Google's Gemini 3.5 model announcements mark a strategic shift toward enterprise cost competitiveness, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic's positioning in the frontier AI se...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Rare-earth shadows Boston Dynamics' Atlas ambitions ahead of IPO

Hyundai Motor Group's humanoid robot ambitions are moving closer to commercialization, with Boston Dynamics preparing for a broader capital-market push and factory deployment of its...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

China's OSATs chase bigger role as AI chips strain packaging supply

China's OSAT providers are trying to move deeper into advanced packaging as artificial intelligence (AI) demand strains global chip packaging...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Phison taps overseas bond market for US$800 million storage push

Phison Electronics has completed pricing for its first overseas unsecured convertible bond sale, raising US$800 million as the NAND controller...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Commentary: Musk, Huang, and H200—Nvidia's last chip in China

US President Donald Trump's trip to China with 17 business leaders thrust Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang back into the spotlight — as Beijing's position on Nvidia's...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Japan's startup boom draws global capital as top US tech firms accelerate Asia pivot

Plug and Play has closed a 6 billion Japanese yen fund — approximately US$40 million — making it one of the largest first-time seed funds ever raised in Japan, the firm...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Universities and governments emerge as new pillars of AI commercialization, accelerator says

Saeed Amidi, founder and CEO of Plug and Play, opened the first day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale with a characteristically freewheeling address that wove together billion-dollar...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Sony, Nvidia, USC representatives discuss navigating the next wave of AI disruption

At the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit 2026, industry leaders from Sony, Nvidia, and USC gathered to discuss the next phase of the AI revolution during the opening panel discussion,...

Tuesday 19 May 2026

McKinsey warns of pilot purgatory as robotics market eyes $400 billion by 2040

Sarthak Vaish, associate partner at McKinsey & Company, delivered a pointed reality check at the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale: the hardware for humanoid robots is ready,...

Tuesday 19 May 2026

Dell AI Factory crosses 5,000 enterprise clients on Nvidia-fueled demand

Dell Technologies has added 1,000 customers over the past quarter for its AI Factory servers, which use Nvidia chips and software to power AI applications for enterprises. The hardware...

Tuesday 19 May 2026

Jury clears OpenAI of Musk's claims, paving way for US$1 trillion IPO

A jury has ruled in OpenAI's favor in a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk that laid bare the personal feud between the world's richest man and the AI company's leadership. The jurors found...

Tuesday 19 May 2026

XPeng introduces mass-produced Robotaxi built on in-house AI chips

XPeng unveiled its first mass-produced robotaxi on Tuesday, marking a major milestone in China's rapidly accelerating race to commercialize Level 4 autonomous driving.

Tuesday 19 May 2026

AEM targets semiconductor and AI markets, begins sampling anti-warpage film and PTFE materials

Flexible copper clad laminate (FCCL) manufacturer Asia Electric Material (AEM) said that its long-term investment in new product development has begun to yield results, with the company's...

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