Broadcom has reached a deal with several financial firms for them to finance the purchase of US$63 billion worth of its chips for Anthropic. The agreement highlights how the line between supplier and lender is becoming blurred among some chipmakers, as well as Wall Street's growing involvement in funding arrangements as AI infrastructure spending continues to expand.
Mitsubishi Materials will expand production of thermistors, temperature sensors used in optical communications equipment, as the spread of generative AI drives demand for optical transceivers. Its Thailand facility will gradually add equipment and raise monthly capacity to about 12 million units by November 2027, roughly six times its 2025 capacity.
Expanding investment in AI data centers is putting pressure on memory supply and demand across the automotive industry. As semiconductor companies prioritize high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and server products, automotive memory faces rising prices and tighter supplies, making automakers' direct procurement, long-term partnerships, and in-house chip design increasingly strategic.
More than half of China's AI token usage is reportedly concentrated in short dramas and video generation, but ByteDance's Doubao has disputed the figure, saying video-generation models account for only about 10% of overall computing resources. The conflicting estimates highlight the difficulty of assessing AI compute consumption and its commercial value.
Anthropic's first public filing for its IPO has opened the books on one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, revealing extraordinary revenue growth alongside a headline net loss that substantially overstates the deterioration in its underlying operations.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Kazakhstan highlighted plans to build an AI computing hub for Europe, with projects spanning GPU clusters, data centers, talent, and physical AI. The initiative depends on power infrastructure, foreign technology, and Kazakhstan's ambition to develop and export its own AI capabilities across Central Asia.
Fujifilm Electronic Materials is expanding its advanced semiconductor materials footprint in South Korea by increasing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist capacity in Pyeongtaek and expanding chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry production in Cheonan. The investments will deepen local support for customers including Samsung Electronics as AI and advanced-process demand grows.
Japanese robot maker FANUC raised its fiscal year 2026 revenue forecast on October 23 as demand for AI and automation strengthened, putting sales on track to surpass JPY1 trillion for the first time. The company also expects operating profit and net profit to reach record highs.
After the GTC Berlin conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Silicon Valley technology investor Gavin Baker spoke with Yahoo Finance for about half an hour. Huang confirmed Nvidia GPUs can remain in service for up to eight years and said their high residual value could help unlock financing for AI infrastructure.
Meta Platforms has launched approximately US$35 billion of concurrent underwritten public offerings and plans an approximately US$60 billion at-the-market (ATM) program, as it funds capex it expects to reach US$135 billion to US$145 billion in 2026. The company said the equity raises complement operating cash flow, investment-grade debt, and strategic partnerships, and will further diversify its funding sources.
Nvidia opened GTC 2026 in Berlin on October 21 with a keynote highlighting AI infrastructure, security architecture, and Physical AI, while a Greenpeace protest briefly interrupted proceedings. A robot demonstration also exposed limits in motion control, instruction comprehension, and execution stability as Europe weighs innovation, energy demand, regulation, and competitiveness.
AWS has launched the open-source TorchNeuron tool, allowing developers to port PyTorch artificial intelligence (AI) applications to its custom Trainium chips without rewriting code. Google has followed with TorchTPU, while AMD and Intel are integrating AI software optimizations as chipmakers challenge Nvidia's market advantage built on the CUDA ecosystem.
South Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom (SKT) has reportedly established Hy-TF, a task force dedicated to AI collaboration with SK Hynix, to upgrade its digital-twin and data-platform businesses and develop new B2B services.
DRAM price growth has slowed sharply in the fourth quarter of 2026, but severe supply shortages are intensifying as manufacturers continue to restrict shipments. Industry sources expect DRAM supply from leading manufacturers to shrink by 30% to 50% for the next two to three quarters, widening the supply gap in 2027.
Tata Communications announced on October 26 that it plans to invest US$400-450 million in approximately 10,000 kilometers of long-haul fiber across India, linking data centers and AI hubs as it expands its connectivity business. The network will connect domestic corridors with its global backbone.
The claim that more than half of China's artificial intelligence (AI) computing power is being used to produce micro-dramas has reignited debate in China's technology sector over whether the country is directing too much of its AI computing resources to entertainment content while neglecting productivity applications.
Cadence Design Systems is betting that chipmakers will want AI models trained on its own design tools and run wherever customers choose. That puts it on a different route from rival Synopsys, which is building its specialized model with OpenAI on OpenAI-hosted infrastructure. On October 26, alongside its third-quarter results, Cadence introduced Maestro, a portfolio of domain-specialized AI models that power its AI super agents for chip and system design.
Meta has become the first of the four major US hyperscale cloud providers to report its latest earnings, with supply chain players closely monitoring changes in the company's capital expenditure plans and investment priorities.
DeepSeek and MiniMax have received approval to deploy their artificial intelligence models overseas, according to a post published October 22 by China Central Television’s Yuyuantantan account. The move signals that Beijing intends to permit Chinese AI companies to pursue global commercialization, even as proposed export controls could raise the threshold for transferring some advanced technologies abroad.
Meta Platforms’ long-term AI infrastructure spending is driving rising financial pressure, with free cash flow turning negative in Q3 2026 and future lease and non-cancelable contract commitments climbing to about US$825 billion. The company also raised the lower end of its 2026 capex forecast by US$5 billion to US$135 billion, signaling continued AI expansion as financing and investment returns become new challenges.
After GPT-6 Astra launched in early September 2026, researchers quickly put it through Physical AI and robotics benchmarks. In some tests, it outperformed specialized models trained on large amounts of robot data.
Moonshot AI's first visible overseas sales hire marks a new stage in how Chinese developers of open-weight models compete outside China. They have given away model weights to win developers and earned money through cloud platforms and license terms; Moonshot now appears to be adding staff on the ground to manage partners and large customers.
Since Elon Musk publicly confirmed that Tesla and SpaceX are evaluating a potential merger, the prospect has stirred widespread speculation over what could become the largest corporate transaction in history—and whether combining two of Musk's biggest technology platforms would actually create value beyond the sprawling ecosystem they already share.
The robotics industry has come a long way since robots were first built starting in the mid-20th century. Yet LEACHIM, a robot teacher and one of the world's first humanoids created back in the 1970s, may hold a key clue as companies seek to transition their technological advancements into on-the-ground deployment: develop machines that solve real-world problems.
