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Monday 23 June 2025
Jony Ive deal removed from OpenAI site over trademark suit
Marketing materials and videos related to a blockbuster partnership between former Apple Inc. designer Jony Ive and OpenAI Inc. were removed from the web due to a trademark dispute...
Friday 20 June 2025
TDK acquires smart glasses startup SoftEye to expand AI hardware portfolio
Japanese electronics components giant TDK has announced the acquisition of SoftEye, a US-based smart glasses hardware and software developer, in a strategic push to diversify into...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Chunghwa Telecom kicks off 2025 digital innovative competition, focusing on 7 application areas
Taiwanese integrated telecommunications service provider Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) held a press conference on June 17 to announce the start of the CHT Digital Innovative Application...
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Unitree ups capital as China's robot pioneer readies next wave of intelligent machines
Unitree Robotics Limited, a Chinese startup specializing in high-performance humanoid and quadruped robots, has raised its registered capital from CNY2.594 million to CNY2.889 million...
Tuesday 17 June 2025
China joins US in brain implant race with clinical trial
China's first clinical trial of a technology that allows signals from the brain to control an external device has proved successful, making it only the second country after the US...
Friday 13 June 2025
Meta finalizes investment in Scale AI, recruits CEO to build AGI team
Meta has announced a finalized investment and strategic partnership with AI startup Scale AI, along with recruiting Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to join Meta. Scale AI issued...
Friday 13 June 2025
NYCU spinoff FaceHeart honored at VivaTech 2025, underscoring Taiwan's solid academic R&D prowess in AI health tech
Taiwan's AI health tech startup FaceHeart Corp., a spin-off from a research team at National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), has once again received international acclaim--this...
Friday 13 June 2025
Samsung and Nvidia invest in Skild AI to strengthen robotics ambitions
Samsung Electronics and Nvidia have taken minority equity stakes in US-based robotics software startup Skild AI in a move seen as a strategic push into the rapidly growing consumer...
Friday 13 June 2025
Mistral AI launches Magistral series, boosting multilingual reasoning and open-source offerings
French AI startup Mistral AI has unveiled its new Magistral series models, aiming to elevate logical reasoning performance in enterprise and open-source applications. The lineup includes...
Thursday 12 June 2025
Nvidia to build 20 AI factories in Europe, bets on quantum computing and sovereign AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an ambitious plan to multiply Europe's AI computing capacity tenfold over the next two years by constructing 20 new "AI factories" in partnership...
Thursday 12 June 2025
Amazon-backed rare earths startup to build recycling plant in Canada
Cyclic Materials, a startup backed by Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp., announced plans to build a rare-earths recycling plant and research center in Canada.
Thursday 12 June 2025
Meta taps top researchers from Google, Sesame for new AI lab
Meta Platforms Inc. has poached top engineers from multiple tech firms, including Alphabet Inc.'s Google, for a new team focused on achieving a more advanced form of AI called artificial...
Thursday 12 June 2025
Honda plans investment in Rapidus to support Japan's 2nm chip ambitions
Honda Motor is preparing to invest in Japanese semiconductor startup Rapidus during the second half of fiscal year 2025 (October 2025 to March 2026), with a commitment expected to...
Wednesday 4 June 2025
GUS Technology partners with TYFAST to develop high-efficiency vanadium batteries, eyes North American expansion
Taiwan-based battery manufacturer GUS Technology announced a strategic partnership on June 2, 2025, with California-based startup Tyfast Energy Corp. (TYFAST) to co-develop next-generation...
Wednesday 4 June 2025
Musk’s empire grows: xAI at $113B, Neuralink raises $650M
As Elon Musk returns to the helm of his business empire, two of his ventures are making headlines. AI startup xAI is reportedly raising US$300 million at a US$113 billion valuation,...