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Monday 13 July 2026
Tencent seeks control of Manus after China blocks Meta's US$2 billion AI deal

Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder in Manus, leading a proposed buyback of the AI agent startup after Chinese regulators...

Monday 13 July 2026
MiniMax bets US$2 billion on AI infrastructure as lock-up selloff deepens its split with Z.ai
Chinese artificial-intelligence developer MiniMax is raising HK$16 billion (approx. US$2.04 billion) through a share placement and convertible bonds to accelerate spending on AI infrastructure...
Monday 13 July 2026
Weekly news roundup: TSMC widens AI chip lead as HBM and CoWoS bottlenecks reshape supply chains

AI demand is still outrunning advanced semiconductor capacity, putting foundry output, HBM supply, packaging and server infrastructure at...

Monday 13 July 2026
China's Nvidia H200 pivot reveals why CUDA still rules AI

China is preparing to allow a limited number of Nvidia H200 AI accelerators into the country, giving Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek...

Monday 13 July 2026
Europe, UK, and US financial sectors respond differently as advanced AI reshapes industry and regulation
Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a growing focus for financial regulators and technology companies across Europe, the UK, and the US, with authorities placing increasing...
Monday 13 July 2026
AI buildouts accelerate MLCC shortages; Taiwan firms eye 2H26 spillover orders
As AI server supply chains move into the component stocking phase, the market for high-end passive components has heated up sharply, with tight supply of multilayer ceramic capacitors...
Monday 13 July 2026
SK Hynix hybrid bonding push signals next phase of HBM packaging race
SK Hynix is moving early to prepare hybrid bonding technology for next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM), as competition in AI memory shifts from stacking capacity toward packaging...
Monday 13 July 2026
AI shifts toward 'slow thinking' as agent era approaches, says Google DeepMind's VP of research
Ed Chi, vice president of research at Google DeepMind, said AI's next milestone will be its evolution from the fast, pattern-recognition-oriented thinking associated with System 1...
Monday 13 July 2026
Arm CEO: AI agents to drive CPU demand as infrastructure shifts beyond GPUs
GPUs have dominated AI infrastructure discussions over the past two years, powering everything from large language model (LLM) training and inference clusters to high-bandwidth memory...
Monday 13 July 2026
Egis sells part of iCatch stake as ASMedia becomes largest shareholder
Egis Technology on July 9 said it sold part of its stake in iCatch Technology as part of a routine adjustment to its group equity holdings. The IC design company said the move was...
Monday 13 July 2026
AI era accelerates Foxconn's shift to global 24-hour cybersecurity coverage

Foxconn is using AI and coordinated security teams across Asia, Europe and the Americas to defend against cyberattacks as enterprises...

Monday 13 July 2026
AI's new gatekeepers: US and China tighten grip on frontier models

The world's most powerful AI models are encountering a new constraint beyond chips, data and engineering talent: governments increasingly...

Monday 13 July 2026
MA-tek hits record June revenue on rising AI chip testing demand, CPO complexity
Semiconductor testing company Materials Analysis Technology (MA-tek) reported June 2026 revenue of NT$558 million (approx. US$17.41 million), up 2.56% from May and 11.01% year over...
Sunday 12 July 2026
Column: Compute is no longer the AI bottleneck. Memory is — and suppliers know it
After the semiconductor index nearly doubled in the first half of 2026 before a sharp pullback, the central question is whether the industry's AI-driven growth cycle has already peaked...