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Tuesday 29 September 2026
Anthropic's US$2 trillion IPO bet comes with 80 pages of warnings
Confidential details of Anthropic's initial public offering (IPO) prospectus, reviewed by Reuters, reveal an enterprise operating at an unprecedented scale and making a historic wager that artificial intelligence will transform the global economy far more profoundly than industrialization, electricity, or the internet. To capture that future, the startup is targeting a public valuation of more than US$2 trillion.
Tuesday 29 September 2026
GF's MIPS bets on RISC-V physical AI, expands into autos and data centers
MIPS, a GlobalFoundries (GF) unit, said it has completed its integration with the ARC unit acquired from Synopsys earlier this year and is using the move to position RISC-V for physical AI, while expanding from AIoT into automotive and data center applications. MIPS said the strategy lowers the barrier for global customers to adopt GF platforms across process technologies and has pushed GF and MIPS to become the world's second-largest processor IP provider.
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Qualcomm, Liquid AI tout on-device AI potential at Snapdragon Summit
Qualcomm Technologies held its Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, Hawaii, from September 22 to 24. During the keynote on the second day, Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon spoke with co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI Ramin Hasani.
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Nvidia expands CUDA-Q platform to target fault-tolerant quantum software
Nvidia expanded its open-source CUDA-Q platform with CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer aimed at helping researchers build software for fault-tolerant quantum computers. The company said the platform already integrates with about 75% of publicly available quantum processing units (QPUs), giving developers a common environment across multiple hardware types.
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Column: Beyond Zero Trust – why AI supply chain resilience needs a plan B
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering enterprise operations, blurring the lines between cybersecurity and supply chain management. In the AI era, Zero Trust is no longer only about who can access a system. Enterprises must also ask whom and what they depend on, how concentrated those dependencies are, and what happens when a critical link fails.
Tuesday 29 September 2026
DeepSeek paper says AI agents are learning reward hacking during training
DeepSeek founder Wen-Feng Liang's latest paper says AI agents are already learning to exploit system loopholes and bypass intended problem-solving methods during training, underscoring a new challenge for model development: how to stop models from taking shortcuts.
Saturday 26 September 2026
Interview: Taiwan's H2U helps companies manage employee health with AI, eyes third markets with South Korea
When companies discuss ESG, they often emphasize environmental issues and compliance while paying less attention to employee health, a key component of the social dimension, according to Saxon Chen, founder and CEO of Taiwanese digital health technology company H2U Corp.
Friday 25 September 2026
Interview: Intel director talks physical AI, business models, and robotics' future
Physical AI is accelerating like never before. Autonomous intelligent machines can walk, run, fly, swim, and assemble car parts in under a minute. New advances in AI models and technologies like dexterous hands are also pushing the boundaries of how smart and useful humanoids can be.
Thursday 24 September 2026
Microsoft to invest US$10B in Middle East AI infrastructure, despite war risks
Microsoft announced that it will invest US$10 billion in expanding AI infrastructure in the Middle East by 2030. The commitment directs funding to a region facing threats from the war in Iran, where data center construction has continued despite the ongoing conflict.
Thursday 24 September 2026
Grab turns Taiwan into a launchpad for Southeast Asia expansion
Grab is expanding the scope of its Taiwan strategy beyond food delivery, launching an overseas expansion programme for merchants aimed at helping Taiwanese food and beverage (F&B) brands enter Southeast Asian markets.
Thursday 24 September 2026
Industrial software giants race to build industry world models
While generative AI has surged into mainstream consumer use thanks to ChatGPT, the adoption of AI across industrial sectors has progressed at a much slower pace. Industry analysts point out that the primary culprit is the tendency of current AI architectures to "hallucinate," a fatal vulnerability in manufacturing environments where there is no tolerance for error. As industrial AI development cannot rely on large language models (LLMs) alone, attention is rapidly shifting toward industry world models that anchor AI systems in the laws of physics. Recognizing this pivot, global industrial software giants are already aggressively positioning themselves in this space.
Wednesday 23 September 2026
LG Electronics, Microsoft enter partnership on AI data centers, physical AI
LG Electronics entered a partnership with Microsoft to cooperate on a range of AI initiatives. The two firms agreed to work together on AI data centers, LG Electronics' AI data transformation, and physical AI as the company known for appliances taps into growing AI-related industries.
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Alibaba expands full-stack AI push as cloud data centers target 20 GW by 2032
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. doubled down on its full-stack AI strategy at the 2026 Apsara Conference, which opened on Sept. 22 at the Hangzhou International Expo Center. Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai made a rare appearance at the opening ceremony and said AI is moving from frontier exploration toward real-world deployment and large-scale applications.
Monday 21 September 2026
Microsoft AI chief says regulation is not a bad thing
Silicon Valley's AI safety debate is increasingly splitting into two camps; Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says science and technology should serve humanity, that companies should not create things they cannot control, and that regulation should not automatically be seen as a bad thing.
Monday 21 September 2026
Dassault Systèmes: AI-native transformation emerges as Taiwan's next industrial frontier

Digital transformation is no longer the endpoint for Taiwan's technology industries. As artificial intelligence moves from individual applications into core business operations, companies are entering a new phase in which AI, engineering models, and industrial knowledge are increasingly integrated into product development and operations, Dassault Systèmes said.

Monday 21 September 2026
Analysis: The race to superintelligence meets a demand for restraint — and the industry is split
The extraordinary technological progress humanity has witnessed since AI first emerged has propelled a fundamental shift in industrial development. With experts hailing AI as the next phase of the digital revolution and an extension of Industry 4.0, the technology is increasingly reshaping how industries operate.
Saturday 19 September 2026
Ams OSRAM takes an automotive-qualified force sensor into robotic hands
Ams OSRAM is pushing its optical force sensor line into robotic hands on the argument that incumbent piezoelectric solutions cannot hold a reading, and it is using automotive qualification as the entry credential.
Friday 18 September 2026
Mobile SoC battle for 2026 centers on NPUs

More technical details on 2026 mobile systems on a chip (SoCs) from major vendors are emerging, and the biggest changes in chips such as Apple's A20 Pro and MediaTek's Dimensity 9600 Pro are clearly concentrated in the neural processing unit (NPU). Qualcomm also published a technical article on NPU development on September 10, saying its next-generation NPU will expand shared memory capacity to improve access efficiency and speed for model data, helping mobile AI maintain fast response times.

Thursday 17 September 2026
Deloitte Taiwan seminar highlights system integration as Physical AI moves into industrial applications
Taiwan's next opportunity in Physical AI may depend less on individual robot components than on its ability to integrate hardware, software, sensing and control into deployable industrial systems, industry and research leaders said at a Deloitte Taiwan seminar in Taichung on September 15.
Thursday 17 September 2026
Huawei aims to become 'China's Nvidia,' rules out building satellites or spacecraft

Huawei's internal Heart Voice Community recently published minutes from a discussion between Guo Ping, chairman of Huawei's supervisory board, and newly hired employees, offering a glimpse into the company's ambitions in AI, computing, semiconductors, and future technologies.

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Why Wiwynn chose El Paso for its first US plant

Wiwynn held the grand opening for its first US factory on September 14 local time, choosing El Paso, Texas, over larger cities such as Dallas and Houston. Chief manufacturing officer Robin Wang said the site gives the company the best support from its Ciudad Juarez, Mexico plant, which is less than an hour away.

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Astera says customers are rethinking HBM needs for AI accelerators

AI infrastructure customers are starting to reconsider how much high-bandwidth memory (HBM) needs to be placed alongside accelerators as external memory tiers create new options for storing key-value (KV) cache, according to Astera Labs.

Wednesday 16 September 2026
ITRI showcases AI robots, drones to push commercialization in southern Taiwan

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) held its ITRI Innovation Day on September 15 in Tainan, Taiwan, bringing together research groups and startup teams to highlight 25 cross-disciplinary technologies in AI, smart robotics, and unmanned vehicles. The event was designed to move more research and development results into industrial use through demonstrations, business matchmaking, and an innovation market.

Wednesday 16 September 2026
DeepSeek to hire its first CFO as it aims for public listing, expands workforce

DeepSeek is reportedly set to hire Wentao Yan, a partner at venture capital firm GL Ventures, as its first CFO. If the appointment takes place, it would happen at an important time for the Chinese AI startup as it seeks to go public, begins a large expansion of its workforce, and invests in chipmaking and computing capacity.

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Apple exits Musk's AI lawsuit, but the fight over iPhone AI access is only getting bigger
The recent AI antitrust case between two of the high-tech landscape's most powerful camps appears to have quietly ended following Elon Musk's legal retreat from Apple. But the battle over AI distribution control is far from settled, as pointed accusations from SpaceXAI and X regarding Apple's behind-the-scenes role in constraining generative-AI competition have left the broader industry unsettled over questions of AI access and app visibility amid Apple's increasingly open, multi-model ecosystem.