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Saturday 23 May 2026
Tokens per joule: Microsoft's quiet metric for separating AI hype from reality
The AI race has no clear winner — and may never have one, a senior Microsoft executive argued on the third day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale.
Saturday 23 May 2026
Seoul as next frontier for global startups
At the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit 2026, industry leaders gathered for the "Seoul Forward: Where Global Startups Scale Next" session to discuss the city's rapid evolution...
Friday 22 May 2026
Global corporates take the pitch stage at Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit 2026
At Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit 2026, 12 global corporate leaders took the stage for a "Corporate Reverse Pitch," inviting potential partners to co-create solutions for...
Friday 22 May 2026
US-Japan cooperation could protect Taiwan '99%', defense investors told at Silicon Valley summit
Taiwan's semiconductor industry and the military implications of a potential cross-strait conflict dominated the aerospace and defense track on the second day of the Plug and Play...
Friday 22 May 2026
Innovation at the edge: Semiconductor startup highlights from Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit 2026
At the recent Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit, the semiconductor and supply chain sessions highlighted a critical shift toward hardware-level security, energy efficiency for...
Friday 22 May 2026
Two-year-old Chinese robotics firm claims to supply nine of world's top ten tech giants
Wayne Wang, senior director of commercialization at Robot Era, used the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale to present a two-year-old Chinese robotics company that has already supplied...
Thursday 21 May 2026
From anti-jamming drones to tumor-on-a-chip: Taiwan deep-tech courts Silicon Valley capital
Four Taiwanese deep-tech startups took the stage on the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit, pitching to international investors and corporations in a session...
Thursday 21 May 2026
From US$10m to US$2.2bn in 17 months: Starcloud bets on orbital fix for AI's energy crisis
Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, opened the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit in Sunnyvale with a proposition that would have sounded implausible...
Thursday 21 May 2026
How South Korea is pitching itself to Silicon Valley's startup elite
South Korea made its case to Silicon Valley investors and startups on the first day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale, positioning Seoul not as an emerging market but as...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Agibot claims 100% success rate in factory deployment as humanoid race shifts to real-world validation
Peng Chen, business development director at Agibot, used the robotics session of the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale to make a pointed argument: the humanoid robotics industry...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Japan's startup boom draws global capital as top US tech firms accelerate Asia pivot
Plug and Play has closed a 6 billion Japanese yen fund — approximately US$40 million — making it one of the largest first-time seed funds ever raised in Japan, the firm...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Universities and governments emerge as new pillars of AI commercialization, accelerator says
Saeed Amidi, founder and CEO of Plug and Play, opened the first day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale with a characteristically freewheeling address that wove together billion-dollar...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Sony, Nvidia, USC representatives discuss navigating the next wave of AI disruption
At the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit 2026, industry leaders from Sony, Nvidia, and USC gathered to discuss the next phase of the AI revolution during the opening panel discussion,...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
How a cold call in 2013 led to TSMC's US$165 billion Arizona bet
Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority, revealed at the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale on May 19 that the state's relationship with TSMC began with...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
McKinsey warns of pilot purgatory as robotics market eyes $400 billion by 2040
Sarthak Vaish, associate partner at McKinsey & Company, delivered a pointed reality check at the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale: the hardware for humanoid robots is ready,...