China's Moonshot AI is seeking to settle a shareholder dispute involving claims potentially exceeding US$700 million ahead of a potential US$5 billion Hong Kong initial public offering...

French AI startup Mistral has launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a 1-trillion-parameter AI model whose weights are scheduled for public release in late October 2026,...

LG Group is preparing to test five commercial components developed by LG Electronics, LG Innotek, and LG Energy Solution (LGES), including cameras and batteries, aboard a CubeSat carried...

Meta has teamed up with Walmart, Stripe, and AI startup Sierra to develop the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard designed to let AI agents interact with corporate websites and...

Meta and enterprise AI startup Sierra are leading Walmart, Stripe, Shopify, Genesys, Instinct and Rocket in developing an open standard for personal AI agents, aiming to define how...

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is poised to raise more than CNY80 billion (approx. US$11.9 billion) in its latest funding round, as it builds capital ahead of a potential domestic initial...

Chicony Electronics said it has entered the supply chain of a US robotics startup, expanding into embodied AI and physical AI as it seeks higher-value markets. The move could strengthen...

At IROS 2026, one of the world's top robotics conferences, held in Pittsburgh at the end of September, a robot startup's booth featured a dual-arm robot catching, in midair, sticks...

Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup that has cast itself as a US counterweight to China's open-model developers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says...

Anthropic has warned that GLM-5.3, the latest model from Chinese AI startup Z.ai, approached Claude Mythos Preview on an exploit-development benchmark but lacks sufficient safety protections,...

Anthropic is reportedly eyeing an IPO as early as mid-November that could become the biggest IPO to date. The AI startup's run-up to the listing coincides with a shaky relationship...

Semiconductor startup Volantis has raised US$88 million in Series A funding to develop an AI inference architecture that uses photonic interconnect technology to address memory bottlenecks...

Following its return to independent operations, AI startup Manus unveiled two new products in late September 2026: Manus 2.0 and "Cue," a personal agentic AI application. The product...

Silicon Valley data center optical interconnect startup CScale emerged from stealth on September 30 after raising US$145 million in a Series C funding round backed by Nvidia and Intel...

Taiwan energy management startup NextDrive said that it has secured the No. 1 market share in Japan's home energy management system (HEMS) segment and has received key support from...