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Thursday 1 October 2026
OpenAI claims to thwart model distillation attack tied to Moonshot
OpenAI said it detected and blocked an organized adversarial distillation attack, with some activity linked to Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI. The company said it first spotted the...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Nvidia ties AI agent security to BlueField-4, Vera CPU
Over the past year, Nvidia has repeatedly observed AI agents drifting beyond approved workflows. In some cases, agents quietly escalated read permissions to write access, sent requests...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Applied Materials' EPIC Center adds Kioxia for AI memory, 3D stacking push
Applied Materials announced that Kioxia will join its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center in Silicon Valley, California. The two companies will collaborate...
Thursday 1 October 2026
HPE secures US$1.2 B order from Vultr for first AMD Helios AI rack systems

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a major US$1.2 billion order from Vultr, which HPE describes as the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure...

Thursday 1 October 2026
Google to test AI computing in space with first orbital TPU launch
Google is preparing to send its in-house AI accelerator, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), into low Earth orbit for the first time as it explores whether AI computing can eventually...
Thursday 1 October 2026
ProLogium advances Dunkirk superfactory, deepens Europe battery autonomy
ProLogium, a maker of inorganic lithium ceramic batteries, said construction and infrastructure work at its Dunkirk superfactory in France has started in phases, including power infrastructure...
Thursday 1 October 2026
China's humanoid robot lead widens, with domestic vendors supplying over 95% of global shipments
China's humanoid robot market continued to expand rapidly in the first half of 2026, with shipments exceeding 19,000 units and accounting for about 77.9% of the global total. Chinese...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Nio, Geely turn battery swapping into shared infrastructure as China's EV rivalry changes course
For years, China's EV makers pursued aggressive energy infrastructure expansion, racing to offer faster charging and denser networks.
Thursday 1 October 2026
AI chip packaging demand meets labor pushback: ASE's NT$5.6B Taiwan snack factory deal sparks strike vote
ASE Technology Holding (ASEH) announced on July 30 that it would spend roughly NT$5.67 billion (approx. US$177.97 million) to acquire land and factory buildings in the Zhongli Industrial...
Thursday 1 October 2026
AWS Trainium 3 shipments stall as supply chain sees turnaround
AWS's latest Trainium 3 shipments appear to be running behind expectations, but the strain reflects broader pressures that global readers will recognize across the AI hardware supply...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Memory shortages deepen as AI demand keeps server prices climbing
The memory market is entering the fourth quarter of 2026 with a widening split between weak consumer demand and intense server buying, underscoring how artificial intelligence workloads...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Synopsys and OpenAI to share revenue from AI model built to run chip design tools
Synopsys is betting that the surest way to keep generative AI from eroding its electronic design automation (EDA) franchise is to build the model together with the AI developer and...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Jensen Huang wins Van Fleet Award as Nvidia, South Korea trio reunites
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended the Korea Society's annual dinner in New York on September 28 local time and received the 2026 Van Fleet Award, with Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Qualcomm says PC chip shortages are manageable; price swings hit harder
Qualcomm's senior vice president and general manager of the compute and gaming business, Kedar Kondap, said the biggest challenge facing the PC industry is not component shortages,...
Thursday 1 October 2026
AI boom drives Southern Taiwan Science Park revenue past NT$1.7 trillion in 1H26
The Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) posted revenue of NT$1.77 trillion (approx. US$55.66 billion) in the first half of 2026, up 28.57% from the same period in 2025. Growth was...