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Friday 3 July 2026
Turn Cloud shifts to AI infrastructure

Turn Cloud Technology is accelerating its transformation from a solution as a service (SolaaS) provider into an AI infrastructure provider for physical spaces, as demand for digital transformation across real-world venues continues to rise. The company says its new Tomorrow Space (TSpace) architecture will anchor its next phase of growth.

Friday 3 July 2026
Microsoft launches US$2.5 B unit to guide enterprise AI adoption using embedded engineers
Microsoft unveiled plans for a new business unit called "Microsoft Frontier Company," which is aimed at helping large organizations move beyond pilot projects and turn AI investments into measurable business results. The initiative echoes new services offered by other AI firms like OpenAI and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to embed engineers within enterprises and guide their AI adoption.
Friday 3 July 2026
Xiaomi and Huawei turn phone AI into a system-level fight for user workflows

A public spat between Xiaomi and Huawei over large models has exposed growing anxiety in China's phone AI market this year, while Apple, Google, and Samsung Electronics pursue different routes to seize the AI agent entry point.

Friday 3 July 2026
SAP names Verena Siow Asia-Pacific President

Enterprise software company SAP announced on July 2 that it has appointed Verena Siow as president of the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, effective immediately. Based in Singapore, she will be responsible for driving customer business value and helping enterprises accelerate business transformation in the artificial intelligence (AI) era.

Friday 3 July 2026
AI server PMIC demand drives spillover orders for Taiwan chip designers

Taiwanese power management IC (PMIC) design houses have been expanding into new applications and broadening their product portfolios in recent years, aiming to move beyond consumer electronics into higher-spec, more stable markets as the AI boom accelerates.

Friday 3 July 2026
Meta's reported cloud push fuels debate over AI chip demand

Meta's reported plan to expand into cloud services is drawing fresh scrutiny from global investors and chip suppliers. The move could signal either excess AI infrastructure spending or a broader push to monetize capacity, with implications for cloud AI demand, chip purchases, and the pace of industry investment worldwide.

Friday 3 July 2026
Trend Micro and Check Point expand enterprise AI security integrations
Trend Micro and Check Point Software are expanding AI security partnerships as large language model use spreads across corporate systems worldwide. The moves, aimed at enterprise customers in the US and beyond, reflect growing pressure on security teams to govern the use of generative AI, limit data exposure, and improve oversight as businesses embed AI into daily operations.
Thursday 2 July 2026
PlayStation to end physical game discs for new releases from 2028
In a blog post on July 1, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) said it will stop producing physical discs for all new games released on PlayStation consoles beginning in January 2028, marking a major shift toward digital distribution after more than three decades of disc-based game sales. Existing games and titles scheduled for release before the deadline will remain available on physical media.
Wednesday 1 July 2026
Amazon's new US$1 billion division aims to embed AI engineers in clients' teams

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is rolling out a new engineering division aimed at helping companies move beyond experimenting with artificial intelligence and start running it at the core of their operations.

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Taiwan outpaces world in AI adoption, but firms lack strategy, Microsoft finds

Artificial intelligence is moving from a personal productivity aid into core business operations, and Taiwan is among the global leaders in adoption. Microsoft says local workers are advancing faster than corporate strategy, a gap that could shape how companies worldwide compete, reorganize work, and capture AI-driven gains.

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Schneider Electric to acquire industrial AI firm Cognite for US$3.1B

Schneider Electric, the French energy management and automation giant, announced that it has agreed to acquire Cognite, a Norwegian industrial data and AI software company, in an all-cash deal valued at US$3.1 billion. The deal is meant to reinforce the former's software line-up as it positions itself for a future of AI-powered industrial automation.

Wednesday 1 July 2026
H2U eyes AI health data opportunity with July Innovation Board listing
Growing demand for health data, AI applications and corporate wellness management is driving Taiwan's digital health industry. H2U, the country's largest digital health technology platform, announced that it will list on the Taiwan Innovation Board (TIB) at the end of July 2026.
Wednesday 1 July 2026
Industry 4.0 demand keeps TADC on track for double-digit growth in 2H26
Computer-aided engineering (CAE) solutions provider Taiwan Auto Design (TADC) held an earnings call on June 29, stating that, with collaborative product commerce (CPC) personnel now in place and Industry 4.0 projects entering a phase of intensive customer acceptance, the company is expected to see further growth in the second half of 2026.
Tuesday 30 June 2026
China's LineShine puts Beijing back on top of supercomputer race

A name largely absent from the global supercomputing stage for years returned to the spotlight at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany.

Tuesday 30 June 2026
Halos signals Nvidia's bid to make safety certification the robotics gateway

Nvidia does not make robots, but it is becoming a key force behind embodied intelligence companies. At Automate 2026, North America's largest industrial automation show, on June 22, Deepu Talla, vice president of Nvidia's robotics business, said on stage that the company hired 18,600 man-years of engineers to bring the safety architecture of autonomous driving to robots.

Friday 26 June 2026
OpenAI to release GPT 5.6 model on staggered basis in face of US regulatory uncertainty
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff that its latest model, GPT 5.6, would be released on a staggered basis, with a small group of entities first gaining preview access to it after approval by the US government. The case highlights the regulatory uncertainty many local AI developers are facing after US President Donald Trump announced a voluntary review system before the release of frontier models, with the industry remaining concerned that it is not so voluntary after all.
Friday 26 June 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google turn to deployment engineers as AI focus shifts to enterprise use
AI companies are racing to hire forward deployed engineers, or FDEs, as the industry shifts from model-building to implementation. For global readers, the trend signals that the next wave of AI competition may hinge less on smarter systems and more on whether businesses can actually use them effectively at scale.
Friday 26 June 2026
How big tech is nudging cloud emissions on customers

In a corporate interview, Alexis Bateman, Head of Sustainability at Amazon Web Services (AWS), promoted the tech giant's latest environmental milestones and tools built to track data center carbon metrics. This includes the AWS Sustainability Console, a tracking hub launched to build on the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT).

Thursday 25 June 2026
EverFocus launches Nvidia-based edge AI vision push into North America
EverFocus Electronics has announced a North America market expansion that includes participation in Automate 2026 and inclusion in Nvidia's official Interactive Ecosystem Map, aimed at bringing Taiwan supplier edge AI vision technology into US advanced manufacturing and logistics. The firm said it will leverage an Nvidia-based edge AI platform to demonstrate multimodal integration of imaging and voice, and to showcase a mobile robot connection model for smart factory inspections.
Wednesday 24 June 2026
Imoo overtakes Samsung to become No. 4 smartwatch brand
Imoo beat Samsung Electronics, Oppo, and Garmin to rank as the world's No. 4 smartwatch brand in global smartwatch sales in the first quarter of 2026. In fact, imoo's global smartwatch shipments have matched Samsung's in recent years, according to Counterpoint.
Wednesday 24 June 2026
US demands Meta oversight as defense conflict escalates

According to The New York Times, the Trump administration is putting pressure on Meta to submit its latest AI models for voluntary national security reviews. Meta remains the only major US developer that has not yet reached a formal agreement to share its technology with the federal government's newly established Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI). While rivals like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and xAI have quietly complied, Meta's policy team remains locked in tense negotiations with the Department of Commerce (DOC).

Wednesday 24 June 2026
Alibaba sues US Defense Department over military company label, raising contract and free-speech concerns
Alibaba Group Holding and its US subsidiary filed a suit on June 23, 2026, in federal court in California, seeking to overturn the Department of Defense's designation of Alibaba as a "Chinese military company." The case could affect the company's access to US government contracts and its standing in broader US supply chains.
Wednesday 24 June 2026
AI robot paths split as humanoid prices plunge, industrial orders hit record

China's Unitree Robotics has slashed its humanoid robot prices sharply, in stark contrast to the industrial robot market, where prices have remained stable, and orders have continued climbing to record highs. The divergence has intensified debate over whether AI robots will first break through via humanoid or non-humanoid models.

Tuesday 23 June 2026
NYCU, Phison join forces to build AI heterogeneous computing resource management platform
Taiwan's National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and Phison Electronics are teaming up to build a GPU resource management platform to improve the efficiency of computing resource utilization on campus.
Tuesday 23 June 2026
Microsoft's Satya Nadella warns against AI profits being absorbed by just a few companies
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned against allowing only a handful of companies to economically profit from the new AI era. In an interview with Bloomberg, he critiqued the current trajectory of the AI race while predicting that the next phase of the industry would rely more on cheaper models.