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Tuesday 19 May 2026
Google and Blackstone reportedly plan AI cloud venture to expand TPU business
Alphabet's Google and Blackstone are planning to launch a new artificial intelligence cloud company that would use Google's proprietary AI chips to compete in the fast-growing AI infrastructure...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Liquid cooling spreads beyond AI GPUs as memory and network cards join adoption wave
Nvidia's fanless Vera Rubin AI server racks, slated for mass production in the second half of 2026, are expected to accelerate global adoption of liquid cooling across server components,...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
GM settles for US$12.75 million over selling driver data as privacy rules reshape auto intelligence
General Motors (GM) agreed to pay US$12.75 million to California prosecutors and to delete most collected driving data within 180 days after state authorities found the automaker illegally...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
China doubles down on AI-driven manufacturing upgrade
Chinese officials have renewed calls to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) more deeply into manufacturing as Beijing seeks to modernize traditional industries, strengthen industrial...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
China's AI token boom fuels push for national compute network

China is accelerating plans for a national computing power network as artificial intelligence (AI) token usage surges, casting AI compute...

Tuesday 19 May 2026
Baidu says AI is now the majority of its business
Baidu said its core AI businesses became the majority of the company's revenue in the first quarter of 2026, driven by rapid growth in AI cloud infrastructure, expanded foundation-model...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Analysts divided on Baidu's AI monetization as cloud growth offsets ad weakness
Analysts offered mixed assessments of Baidu after the Chinese internet company posted first-quarter revenue that topped market expectations, with some pointing to stronger AI monetization...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Anthropic debuts Claude for Legal to embed generative AI into law firm workflows
Anthropic launched Claude for Legal, a specialized version of its Claude generative AI designed to integrate directly with law firms' existing tools and workflows, the company announced...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Anthropic urges US to close chip export loopholes and ban AI distillation attacks
Anthropic urged US policymakers to tighten chip export controls and pass legislation banning so-called distillation attacks, warning that failure to act could allow China to shape...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
CyCraft expands Japan push with NTT and Future for AI-managed security services
CyCraft announced an expansion of its Japan strategy at its CyCraft Day Japan partner summit, teaming with local cybersecurity providers, including NTT Security and Future Secure Wave,...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Anthropic to brief G20 financial regulators on Mythos cybersecurity risks
Anthropic agreed to brief members of the Financial Stability Board, the G20 body for finance officials and central bank governors, on the cyber risk profile of its Claude Mythos model...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
OpenAI surpasses 900 million users and signals possible new fundraising amid compute shortfall
OpenAI said it has crossed 900 million weekly active users for ChatGPT and completed a US$12.2 billion private financing round at the end of March, but executives signaled the company...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Acer's India PC push reaches a turning point as share climbs to 21.3%
Acer is gaining ground in India's PC market, with the Taiwanese PC vendor citing the latest market data showing it ranked second in the country in the first quarter of 2026.
Tuesday 19 May 2026
SanDisk: AI data centers still lack a cost case to replace HDDs with SSDs
AI-driven memory demand has sent NAND prices soaring more than 20-fold, but flash memory and hard drive makers alike remain cautious about large-scale capacity expansion. SanDisk argues...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Commentary: Sanctions reshaped China's foundry sector — just not in the way markets expected
China's foundry sector is charting a different course as the global semiconductor market remains focused on AI GPUs, the 2nm process node, and advanced packaging. Led by Semiconductor...