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Monday 20 July 2026

China's AI smartphone race pits ZTE, StepFun, and Honor against limits of agentic computing

China's smartphone industry is turning agentic AI into its next growth narrative, with ZTE's Nubia, StepFun and Honor presenting sharply...

Monday 20 July 2026

Alibaba open-sources AI chip software, launches Zhenwu cloud supernode service

Alibaba Group's chip design unit, T-Head, has open-sourced the software stack behind its Zhenwu AI processors while extending the platform from individual accelerators into rack-scale...

Monday 20 July 2026

Oracle's New Mexico data center reportedly hits cost overruns

Oracle's US$165 billion data center project in New Mexico is running into higher-than-expected costs due to local concerns about its...

Monday 20 July 2026

Samsung to cut over 800 US jobs amid market headwinds

Samsung Electronics is cutting over 800 jobs in the US from its smartphone, display, and consumer electronics business units. The division,...

Monday 20 July 2026

Musk brands US$52 billion SpaceX-Foxconn Nvidia server order 'fake news'

Elon Musk has publicly rejected reports that SpaceX placed a roughly US$52 billion order with Foxconn for Nvidia GB300 AI servers, calling the widely circulated claim "fake news" in...

Monday 20 July 2026

US and Chinese AI labs are quietly building on each other's models, even as distillation fight rages

The distillation dispute between US and Chinese AI labs has been framed as a one-way street: American firms accuse Chinese rivals of copying their models. However, a run of recent...

Monday 20 July 2026

Smart glasses race enters new phase as AI ecosystems eclipse hardware specs

The global smart glasses market is entering a decisive new stage in the second half of 2026, with competition expanding well beyond Meta's early dominance. Industry attention is rapidly...

Monday 20 July 2026

Commentary: Apple sues OpenAI, but Trump holds the whistle

Apple has filed a sharp antitrust-style complaint against OpenAI, turning a once-celebrated AI partnership into a legal clash over...

Monday 20 July 2026

Edge AI becomes China's next battleground as ModelBest tops US$2.8 billion valuation

China's latest wave of investment in edge AI signals a shift toward large-scale commercialization as the country accelerates the deployment of on-device AI across consumer and industrial...

Monday 20 July 2026

South Korea links physical AI, AI-RAN and data centers in export strategy

South Korea is combining physical AI, domestic semiconductors, AI-RAN networks, and gigawatt-scale data centers to turn intelligent...

Monday 20 July 2026

Taiwan-US 'co-make' white paper debuts amid investment boom

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) announcement of an additional US$100 billion investment into US manufacturing has...

Monday 20 July 2026

OpenRouter's rumored sale shows the value of AI 'middle layer'

OpenRouter, a startup whose software lets app developers reach hundreds of AI models through a single interface, has discussed selling...

Monday 20 July 2026

Interview: AI race is now a financing race, and Compute Labs wants to bankroll GPUs

As AI's bottleneck shifts from chips to capital, Compute Labs pitches GPUs as financeable assets.

Monday 20 July 2026

Meta, Anthropic in talks over potential US$10 billion compute deal

Meta Platforms is in early talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential deal worth up to US$10 billion over two years,...

Monday 20 July 2026

SpaceX reportedly eyes Pentagon AI infrastructure deal as defense demand for computing accelerates

SpaceX is in talks with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide billions of dollars' worth of data center capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, marking a potential...

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