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Thursday 21 May 2026

Tech Forum 2026: Taiwan suppliers could win a critical role in humanoid robot supply chains as commercialization accelerates

AI-driven humanoid robots are entering a visible phase of commercialization. At the same time, software lags hardware, creating an opening for Taiwan component suppliers to target the joint module market through alliances, according to remarks at a DIGITIMES forum ahead of Computex 2026.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Auras Technology raises 2026 revenue outlook as AI-driven liquid cooling demand grows

Auras Technology said strong AI server demand will sustain growth in thermal management through 2028, driving the company to raise its full-year revenue growth forecast for 2026. Executives disclosed the supplier expects quarterly growth throughout 2026, lifted its revenue-growth target from 50% to 70%, and sees potential for higher gross margins as shipments expand.

Thursday 21 May 2026

OpenAI offers 1-3 year reserved AI capacity with discounts to attract enterprise contracts

OpenAI launched a Guaranteed Capacity program that lets enterprise customers reserve one to three years of AI computing resources in advance, aiming to provide a stable supply for products, AI agents, and workflows while giving both buyers and suppliers time to plan. The program opened with tiered discounts tied to commitment length and will remain available until the current allocation is sold out, with additional rounds planned in the future, a spokesperson announced.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in enterprise adoption amid rising compute and cost pressures

Anthropic overtook OpenAI in enterprise AI adoption in April 2026, according to spending data from Ramp, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and VentureBeat, as growing demand collided with compute bottlenecks and mounting cost pressures. Ramp's tracking of more than 50,000 US companies found that 34.4% of enterprise customers used Anthropic products in April 2026, versus OpenAI's 32.3%.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Vietnam issues AI regulations, requires OpenAI and Anthropic to appoint local government liaisons

Vietnam has issued artificial intelligence (AI) regulations requiring companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic to appoint representatives to communicate with the government, with affected firms needing to comply by March 2027.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Grab's Taiwan push goes beyond food delivery

As Grab Holdings pushes ahead with its proposed acquisition of foodpanda's Taiwan business, the Southeast Asian technology giant is betting that the future of delivery is no longer just about who can move food the fastest.

Thursday 21 May 2026

From anti-jamming drones to tumor-on-a-chip: Taiwan deep-tech courts Silicon Valley capital

Four Taiwanese deep-tech startups took the stage on the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit, pitching to international investors and corporations in a session organized by Plug and Play Taiwan.

Thursday 21 May 2026

TSMC's cautious capex is averting an AI bubble, says investor

TSMC's restrained expansion strategy is helping the global market avoid an AI bubble, according to veteran semiconductor investor Gavin Baker, the chief investment officer at Atreides Management. Speaking at the 2026 Sohn Investment Conference, Baker's view runs counter to market consensus at a time when tech giants are pouring money into AI chips and global chip manufacturing is under unprecedented strain.

Thursday 21 May 2026

White House plans voluntary frontier-model review, in bid to close gap with China and EU

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director briefed leading AI developers on Tuesday on a planned executive order that would establish a voluntary framework for pre-release government review of frontier models, with US President Donald Trump potentially signing the order as early as May 21, according to The Information.

Thursday 21 May 2026

SpaceX IPO reveals Musk's US$4 billion AI gamble

SpaceX's long-awaited initial public offering filing landed on Wednesday with all the spectacle investors expected from Elon Musk — and all the contradictions that have come to define his empire. The document revealed a company burning billions on artificial intelligence (AI), wagering its future on technologies that do not yet exist, and asking public shareholders to trust almost entirely in Musk's vision of humanity's future in space.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia introduces ACIE sub-segment, adds Anthropic as partner, and breaks out Physical AI

Nvidia introduced a new segment reporting framework on its first quarter of fiscal 2027 call, splitting data center revenue into Hyperscale and ACIE (AI Clouds, Industrial, Enterprise) and breaking out Edge Computing as a separate platform.

Thursday 21 May 2026

From US$10m to US$2.2bn in 17 months: Starcloud bets on orbital fix for AI's energy crisis

Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, opened the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit in Sunnyvale with a proposition that would have sounded implausible three years ago: the most economical place to build AI data centers may soon be in orbit.

Thursday 21 May 2026

How South Korea is pitching itself to Silicon Valley's startup elite

South Korea made its case to Silicon Valley investors and startups on the first day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale, positioning Seoul not as an emerging market but as a fully operational launch pad for global technology products.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia prices rivals out of AI factory race with Blackwell, Vera CPU, and Rubin

Nvidia used its first quarter of fiscal year 2027 earnings call on May 20, 2026 to lay out a three-tier silicon cadence that should make any rival roadmap look thin: a Blackwell ramp the company calls the fastest in its history, the first production silicon of Vera Rubin in the second half of this year, and a brand-new Arm CPU, Vera, that opens a US$200 billion TAM Nvidia has never touched.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia excludes China from its outlook while citing analyst estimates of US$1 trillion in hyperscaler capex by 2027

Nvidia continues to exclude Chinese data center compute revenue from its outlook, with CFO Colette Kress citing uncertainty around whether H200 imports will be allowed into the country despite recent US export license approvals.

Thursday 21 May 2026

OpenAI picks Singapore for first overseas applied AI lab

OpenAI will commit more than S$300 million (approx. US$235 million) to expand Singapore's artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, choosing the city-state for its first applied AI lab outside the US as Singapore pushes to strengthen its position as a regional AI hub.

Thursday 21 May 2026

South Korea bets on KIST, LG to catch up in humanoid robots

South Korea has launched a five-year public-private project to build a domestic AI humanoid robot platform, bringing together KIST, LG affiliates, universities, and a hospital as the country looks to narrow the gap with the US and China in next-generation robotics.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Moonshot AI abandons offshore structure to pursue landmark Hong Kong IPO

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based generative AI unicorn behind the widely popular Kimi chatbot, has informed its shareholders that it intends to dismantle its offshore corporate framework to clear a regulatory path for an initial public offering (IPO), likely in Hong Kong.

Thursday 21 May 2026

OSE targets AI server SMT growth as memory demand lifts outlook

Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) said that strong memory market demand is lifting its outlook and expanding its role in the memory supply chain, while also strengthening its importance in surface-mount technology (SMT) for AI server boards with major US clients.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Column: Agentic AI's autonomy problem—the security risks from machines that act

Artificial intelligence is undergoing a fundamental shift. Generative AI — passive, prompt-dependent, inert without input — has given way to agentic systems that reason, plan, and act on their own. The change is not incremental. It is architectural.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia revenue surges 85% as data center sales jump 92%

May 20, Nvidia reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of US$81.6 billion, up 85% year-over-year and 20% sequentially. GAAP diluted EPS reached US$2.39, up 214% year-over-year, and non-GAAP EPS was US$1.87, up 140% year-over-year. Both topped consensus estimates, with revenue near US$79 billion and non-GAAP EPS of US$1.77, S&P Global Market Intelligence reported.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Agibot claims 100% success rate in factory deployment as humanoid race shifts to real-world validation

Peng Chen, business development director at Agibot, used the robotics session of the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale to make a pointed argument: the humanoid robotics industry has moved past prototype competition into a phase where real-world deployment results are the only metric that matters.

Wednesday 20 May 2026

ASML to deliver first High-NA chips within months despite cost concerns

ASML expects its first advanced semiconductors made using next-generation High-Numerical Aperture (High-NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment to ship within months.

Wednesday 20 May 2026

SpaceX to purchase Cursor one month after potentially record-breaking IPO

SpaceX plans to follow through with its acquisition of Cursor, which provides AI coding tools, 30 days after the space company launches its IPO. The deal, worth US$60 billion, would shore up SpaceX's recently acquired xAI unit, whose Grok models are reportedly considered to be behind those of competitors Anthropic and OpenAI.

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Alibaba's T-Head doubles down on AI infrastructure with Zhenwu M890

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled the Zhenwu M890, a new proprietary AI training and inference chip developed by its semiconductor subsidiary T-Head Semiconductor, as the Chinese cloud group accelerates its push into full-stack AI infrastructure for the agentic AI era.

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