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Tuesday 2 June 2026
Alphabet signals heavier AI capex cycle with US$80 billion infrastructure raise
Alphabet said it will raise US$80 billion in equity to fund a rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure as demand for its services accelerates, signaling a more capital-intensive...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
OpenAI expands robotics ambitions, recruiting engineers for hardware and AI development
OpenAI is expanding its robotics efforts and recruiting engineers across hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning to develop robots capable of performing useful tasks in...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Agentic AI triggers widespread computing crunch across global supply chain
In 2026, a global compute shortage spanning chips, cloud services, servers, and data-center components is sweeping across the industry. The scarcity of compute and broad price hikes...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Foxconn and Nvidia scale agentic AI and nursing robots across Taiwan's hospitals
Foxconn and Nvidia announced at Nvidia GTC Taipei that they would expand agentic AI deployments across Taiwan's major medical centers this year to support the government-backed Healthy...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Advantech and Nvidia roll out agentic AI factory brain to automate real-time operations
Advantech on June 1 said it deepened its strategic partnership with Nvidia and launched an AI-native factory architecture centered on an agentic multi-agent system called AI Factory...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Foxconn, Nvidia advance robotaxi fleet plans, eye 2028 southern Taiwan launch
Nvidia announced at its GTC Taipei 2026 event that it will significantly expand the ecosystem of its Nvidia Drive Hyperion robotaxi-ready platform, bringing together global automakers,...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Analysis: Nvidia's RTX Spark launch could intensify competition in AI PCs and Windows on Arm
Nvidia and MediaTek have formally entered the AI PC and Windows on Arm market with the unveiling of RTX Spark at Computex 2026, ending two years of low-profile development. The first...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Solomon integrates Nvidia NemoClaw to enable more autonomous humanoid robots
Solomon, an AI 3D vision company, announced at COMPUTEX 2026 that it had integrated Nvidia's NemoClaw architecture to coordinate multiple AI agents for humanoid robots, combining inference,...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
KYEC chair CK Lee steps down; vice chair Chi-chun Hsieh takes over
Semiconductor testing company King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) recently convened its 2026 shareholders' meeting, during which it completed the election of nine board directors. Longtime...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
HPE pulls forward long-term targets as AI infrastructure demand surges
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) reported a record second fiscal quarter of 2026, with management saying accelerating demand for AI infrastructure, networking, and enterprise modernization...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Nvidia and MediaTek reveal how RTX Spark came together — and why Jensen Huang insisted on NVLink from day one
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held a global media session on June 2 with an unusual guest: MediaTek vice chairman and CEO Rick Tsai, who joined Huang to share the inside story of how the...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Nvidia's Vera CPU is built for agents, not humans; Jensen Huang says it opens a market that never existed before
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at GTC Taipei on June 1st that the company is launching Vera, a new CPU designed specifically for agentic AI workloads. The announcement reframes...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Enterprise AI spending slows as token costs outpace measurable returns
Corporate adoption of artificial intelligence tools has cooled as firms across technology and consumer sectors flagged soaring token costs and uncertain returns, according to recent...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
China bars AI as official reason for layoffs, pushing firms to hide cuts and retrain staff
China moved in late 2025 to prohibit companies from citing AI adoption as a reason for layoffs, directing employers to justify any workforce reductions as unrelated to AI, executives...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Naver launches defense AI unit to pursue military data and decision-making market
South Korean internet giant Naver said it has formed a dedicated defense AI organization to pursue military AI transformation, deploy field engineers to client sites, and develop defense-specific...