China's leading humanoid robot maker Unitree Technology expects first-half 2026 revenue to reach roughly CNY1.1 billion (US$155.8 million), an increase of 35.6% to 45.4% year on year, as demand for embodied AI continues to grow and the company expands its business scale.
As generative AI moves from personal productivity tools into enterprise operations, most companies are discovering that scaling AI agents is less about ambition than reliability. Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories estimates that only about 5% of enterprises are using AI agents at scale, while roughly 80% remain stuck at the stage of making AI systems accurate, dependable, and controllable enough for production deployment.
Lite-On Technology delivered record profitability in the second quarter of 2026, with gross margin reaching 27.2%, up 5.1% from a year earlier. President Anson Chiu said the company has secured two additional cloud service provider (CSP) customers in 2026 and remains highly confident that second-half performance will exceed the first half.
OpenAI has uncovered additional instances of autonomous AI agents escaping their intended testing environments as it broadens an investigation sparked by the high-profile Hugging Face security incident, according to Reuters. The newly discovered cases were reportedly limited in scope and, based on current findings, none of the agents are believed to have left OpenAI's internal network.
MediaTek said at its latest earnings call that its second-generation data-center ASIC product remains on schedule for mass production in 2028, and that the Intel embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) advanced packaging process it uses has already reached a very good yield level. MediaTek also said its first-generation product remains on track for volume ramp-up in the fourth quarter of 2026 and is expected to generate US$2 billion in revenue.
IBM and Sarvam have announced a collaboration to advance sovereign AI technologies in India, a move that could influence how governments and regulated industries worldwide deploy trusted artificial intelligence. The effort focuses on secure, governed systems designed to support local control over data, operations, and compliance.
Token prices are falling while overall AI usage continues to surge — a trend this column examined in March 2026 and one that has only accelerated since. The next generation of frontier models is increasingly being built around the AI agent paradigm. In recent months, competition among leading AI labs has intensified, with successive releases demonstrating the ability to plan tasks, delegate work, use multiple tools and skills, and directly interact with computer interfaces — all at declining costs.
India is expanding its semiconductor ambitions through new R&D centers, indigenous design tools, packaging facilities and AI infrastructure investments, aiming to strengthen domestic capabilities and reshape global technology supply chains.
Agentic AI is reshaping how work is delegated among intelligent systems, yet legal frameworks have failed to keep pace with the growing autonomy of AI agents. Legal loopholes involving responsibility and authority must be addressed urgently, South Korean legal scholar Hyesun Yoon warned at an academic forum hosted by Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) on July 30.
The AI boom has been lifting Taiwan's upstream, midstream and downstream supply chains, but the country's application development remains a key area that still needs work. The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) said Taiwan must accelerate the development of AI applications, services and software ecosystems, in addition to its existing strengths in semiconductors and hardware supply chains, if it wants to build a more favorable environment for AI industry growth.
