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Wednesday 23 September 2026
China's BeiDou eyes US$150 billion industry scale with AI, services at the core

China's BeiDou satellite navigation industry continues to expand rapidly, with applications spreading from chips and modules to end...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Hotai expands MaaS push with FunNow stake

Hotai Motor said it will invest in lifestyle and entertainment booking platform FunNow to deepen its mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) ecosystem...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Taiwan's Master Bus scales 450 kW direct-drive motor for the intercity EV market

Master Transportation Bus Manufacturing (Master Bus) is deepening its electric-bus strategy around proprietary motors and chassis.

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Taiwan tire maker Cheng Shin turns 'virtual tires' into an EV development weapon

Taiwanese tire maker Cheng Shin Rubber, best known for its Maxxis brand, is nearing its 60th anniversary and using AI and digital twins...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
LG Energy enters Nvidia's ecosystem as it pivots batteries to data centers
LG Energy's battery energy storage system (BESS) has entered Nvidia's AI Factory ecosystem. Its qualification by the chipmaker comes as LG Energy is reorienting its North American...
Wednesday 23 September 2026
DeepSeek, Moonshot, the hidden cost of routing China's AI through Claude

China's internet regulator is reportedly investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over allegations that the two companies routed millions...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Gigabyte's Giga Computing sets up AI factory in Taiwan to accelerate rack validation

Gigabyte's AI server shipments continue to accelerate, lifting revenue and profit while prompting capacity expansion. For the first...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
China Steel expands recycled steel into EV motor market amid growing low-carbon demand

Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel (CSC) is actively expanding its high-recycled-content steel products, as the global automotive...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Meta's Muse gains users as human support raises privacy questions

Meta's new personal AI agent, Muse, is drawing strong early consumer interest while a test involving human contractors highlights the...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Li Auto opens Mach chips, SiC modules to external customers

Li Auto's move to open its in-house technologies to outside customers marks a broader shift in the electric vehicle maker's strategy,...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Qualcomm's agentic AI era begins with smartphones and new HBC architecture
Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon made agentic AI the sole theme of his keynote at Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, Hawaii.
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Einride builds its next autonomous truck on Nvidia Hyperion as the gap between fleet, driverless fleet stays wide

Nvidia's effort to make its autonomous-vehicle stack the default foundation for heavy freight gained a partner with paying customers...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
US energy storage faces a costly China battery exit
The US is accelerating its shift toward domestic battery manufacturing as the energy storage market expands, but the market's current growth still depends heavily on low-cost Chinese...
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Trump rejects global AI controls, urges US to press ahead with "superintelligence"

US President Donald Trump used his September 22 address to the United Nations General Assembly to reject international efforts to control...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Taiwan's August export orders top US$100 billion as overseas production edges up

Taiwan's export orders topped US$100 billion in August 2026, reaching US$102.96 billion, up US$5.02 billion from the previous month,...