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Monday 11 May 2026

DeepSeek's US$7bn funding bid puts China's AI race on notice

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seeking to raise as much as CNY50 billion (US$7.35 billion) in its first external funding round. The deal could value the company at more than CNY350...

Monday 11 May 2026

Anthropic's AI expansion reportedly fuels US$1.8 billion Akamai cloud deal

AI startup Anthropic has reportedly signed a US$1.8 billion computing agreement with Akamai Technologies as demand for generative AI services...

Monday 11 May 2026

Emtar: Building the 6G Satellite 'Brain' with Canadian Support

As Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite competition intensifies, satellite communication has evolved from a terrestrial supplement into a core infrastructure for AI and cloud...

Monday 11 May 2026

From Quantum Origins to Analog AI: How Irreversible is Redefining Edge Computing

As the global technology industry descends on Taipei for COMPUTEX 2026 this June, a Canadian startup is preparing to challenge the fundamental architecture of modern...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Seetel secures JC-STAR dual certification to enter Japan energy storage market

Taiwan startup Seetel New Energy announced on May 5 that its self-developed energy management and battery management systems have passed Japan Cyber STAR certification from the Information-technology...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

How Plug and Play is bridging Taiwan's deep tech startups with Silicon Valley capital

For much of the past decade, Taiwan watched from the sidelines as global venture capital poured into software. The island's world-class manufacturers, semiconductor giants, and precision...

Tuesday 5 May 2026

Tron Future Tech's T.MicroSat-2 completes downlink verification

Tron Future Tech's successful Ka-band downlink verification for T.MicroSat-1 and T.MicroSat-2 signals progress toward global low-earth-orbit (LEO) communication services, validating...

Monday 4 May 2026

Anthropic reportedly in talks with Fractile to buy inference chips amid AI compute crunch

Anthropic has been in talks with Fractile, a London-based startup, to purchase its inference chips for running its AI models more efficiently, as inferential AI tasks have pushed up...

Monday 4 May 2026

Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to accelerate humanoid robotics push amid AI infrastructure shift

Meta Platforms has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup focused on AI models for humanoid robots, marking another step in the company's broader push into physical-world...

Monday 4 May 2026

India roundup: India accelerates AI, semiconductor, and manufacturing push with major investments and startup bets

India's technology ecosystem is seeing rapid expansion across AI infrastructure, semiconductors,...

Thursday 30 April 2026

AGI, Inc. advances on-device agentic AI strategy as it targets cross-platform automation

AGI, Inc., also known as The AGI Company, is a San Francisco–based applied AI startup developing what it describes as "on-device superintelligence" for smartphones, computers...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Indian startup targets AI inference opportunity with full-stack compute platform

While global AI infrastructure investment remains concentrated around massive GPU clusters for training frontier models, Indian startup Turiyam.ai is betting on a different commercial...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Agentic AI sparks CPU demand surge, boosting ASIC and niche chip makers

The rise of agentic AI has transformed computing chip requirements, igniting a fierce CPU supply scramble. Traditional x86 giants like Intel and AMD are seeing growing CPU demand in...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

China blocks Meta-Manus deal, signaling tougher stance as unwinding poses complex fallout

China's decision to block and unwind Meta Platforms' acquisition of AI startup Manus is reverberating across the global technology sector, highlighting Beijing's increasingly assertive...

Monday 27 April 2026

Taiwan's Rapidtek establishes link with second IoT CubeSat in orbit

Rapidtek Technologies said its second 8U Internet-of-Things CubeSat, Black Kite-2, developed under a startup satellite program led by Taiwan...

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