Apple is in discussions with Google about hosting a new version of Siri in Google's data centers, a move that could significantly deepen Apple's reliance on outside cloud infrastructure as it pushes to modernize its AI capabilities.
During German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's visit to China, the most closely watched stop was Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics. Footage showed Merz standing with arms crossed, nodding and reacting with visible surprise to a humanoid robot's martial arts demonstration.
By 2025, China had more than 140 humanoid robot OEMs, with over 330 products launched in a single year. The rapid increase in vendors and models is prompting synchronized expansion across the upstream, midstream and downstream supply chain.
Huawei has unveiled its Atlas 950 SuperPoD at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 in Barcelona, marking the first overseas showcase of its most advanced AI supercomputer and positioning it directly against Nvidia's AI data center systems.
Meta's push to design its own AI chips has reportedly hit major technical and strategic setbacks, forcing the company to scrap its most ambitious in-house training processor and lean more heavily on external suppliers, according to The Information.
