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Wednesday 18 March 2026

Nvidia partners with chipmakers to advance industrial robotics

At Nvidia's GTC 2026 conference, major chipmakers — including Texas Instruments (TI), Infineon Technologies AG, NXP Semiconductors, Analog Devices (ADI), and Synopsys —...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Asus, Foxconn take Taiwan smart city model global

Asus is teaming up with Foxconn and industry partners to develop a replicable "city-as-a-solution" model, positioning itself to capture...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Nvidia reportedly preparing Groq AI chips for the Chinese market

Nvidia is preparing Groq AI chips for sale in the Chinese market, according to Reuters. The move signals the company's intent to remain competitive in the global inference...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Jensen Huang's survival playbook: Nvidia navigates the next AI frontier

At GTC 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a blunt message to an industry fixated on raw compute: the next bottleneck in AI is not the chip — it is everything around it....

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Tencent joins OpenClaw as sponsor after copy dispute, aligns with OpenAI and Baidu

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger accused Tencent of copying a GitHub open-source project without providing support, prompting Tencent...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Chinese automakers navigate North America but face 2027 compliance barriers

Despite multiple tariffs and policy barriers imposed by the US on China's auto industry, Chinese automakers have avoided directly confronting the restrictions. Instead, they are adopting...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

How Meta's Manus acquisition ignited a new tech war

When Meta announced its US$2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, it was meant to be a victory lap for CEO Mark Zuckerberg. By bringing what it billed as the world's most advanced...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Nvidia GTC 2026: Memory, power, and deployment challenges reshape AI infrastructure

Amid tightening memory supply and surging demand for AI-ready infrastructure, hardware vendors are racing to redesign systems for the next phase of enterprise AI adoption — a...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

IBM completes Confluent acquisition to power real-time AI data

On March 17, IBM completed its acquisition of Confluent, Inc., the data streaming platform used by more than 6,500 enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 500 — to power...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

OpenAI teams with AWS to target US govt AI contracts

OpenAI has signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide its artificial intelligence tools to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, according...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Foxconn and SAP forge strategic alliance to drive enterprise AI in APAC

On March 18, Foxconn (Hon Hai) announced a strategic partnership with SAP to accelerate the adoption of next-generation enterprise artificial intelligence across the Asia-Pacific region...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

US Army inks US$20 billion deal with Anduril, consolidating procurement to accelerate AI-driven military modernization

The US Army has signed a sweeping corporate contract with defense tech startup Anduril Industries, valued at up to US$20 billion over 10 years. Covering software, hardware, infrastructure,...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Mitsubishi Electric weighs stake sale in auto unit amid Foxconn talks

Mitsubishi Electric is evaluating a partial stake sale in its automotive components subsidiary, Mitsubishi Electric Mobility, as reports emerge of potential investment discussions...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

OpenAI shifts from building data centers to leasing cloud capacity

OpenAI has appointed new leadership to oversee its Stargate computing initiative as the company pivots its infrastructure strategy away from building its own data centers and toward...

Wednesday 18 March 2026

In-depth: China's AI 'five-layer cake'— impressive on the outside, underbaked in the middle

Jensen Huang's "five-layer cake" model for AI is a tidy recipe: energy, chips, infrastructure, models, applications — stacked in order. Applied to China, the cake looks polished...

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