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Thursday 6 August 2026

China steps up EV battery and smart-driving inspections on five automakers

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched surprise inspections in late July 2026 at five electric vehicle makers...

Thursday 6 August 2026

AI orders give Soonest visibility into 2027

Soonest Express said strong AI shipments and the traditional second-half peak are extending its supply-chain visibility into 2027....

Thursday 6 August 2026

Meta turns its engineers into trainers in coding race with Anthropic and OpenAI

Meta is trying to close the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding by combining a public product launch with an unusually aggressive internal training campaign.

Thursday 6 August 2026

Chunghwa Precision Test posts record July revenue on AI chip demand

Chunghwa Precision Test Tech. reported record monthly revenue in July 2026, as demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) testing products rose across data center and cloud...

Thursday 6 August 2026

Anthropic builds in-house chip design team, signaling AI firms' turn to custom silicon

Anthropic is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, according to Reuters, moving ahead...

Thursday 6 August 2026

Microsoft's OpenAI disclosure reveals an unshakable dependency

Microsoft Corp. has given the first clear accounting of its revenue from OpenAI: US$24.1 billion for the year ended in June, likely...

Thursday 6 August 2026

Jeter says AI shipping demand and geopolitics lifted first-half profit

Jeter reported stronger first-half 2026 earnings and said it expected momentum to continue in the second half as AI server shipments, semiconductor cargo, and tariff-related restocking...

Thursday 6 August 2026

Machvision July revenue hits record as AI and PCB demand strengthens

Machvision reported consolidated revenue of about NT$359 million (US$11.1 million) in July 2026, a record monthly high that was up 1.28% from June and 31.84% from a year earlier. The...

Thursday 6 August 2026

US locks down tungsten and battery scrap exports as great-power minerals race intensifies

Washington has moved to keep tungsten waste and recycled battery material inside its own borders, a step that underscores how deeply critical-minerals policy has become entangled with...

Thursday 6 August 2026

ByteDance's new "watch and listen" AI signals a broader Chinese push beyond chatbots

ByteDance's Seed research team has released SeedRealtime. This native audio-visual full-duplex large language model, the company says, marks the industry's first large-scale deployment...

Thursday 6 August 2026

Sandisk leans on multi-year supply deals as it bets on AI-driven NAND supercycle

Sandisk closed its fiscal 2026 with record revenue, gross margin, and earnings per share. Still, the bigger story for investors is how much of the company's future business is now...

Thursday 6 August 2026

Google loses Jeff Dean, sidelines Hassabis from operations in biggest AI shake-up since 2023

Google is restructuring the leadership of its AI division at a moment when the company can least afford instability at the top of its research organization, with chief scientist Jeff...

Thursday 6 August 2026

China automakers struggle as margins plunge and battery supply chains skew

China's automakers are still betting on a strategy of in-house batteries to complement their complete vehicle lineups, but the push remains hard to execute as profit margins slide...

Thursday 6 August 2026

Tung Yang July revenue rises 23% on stronger AM and OEM demand

Auto parts maker Tung Yang reported July consolidated revenue of NT$2.036 billion, up 23% from a year earlier and a record for the same month. The Taiwanese supplier said cumulative...

Thursday 6 August 2026

Dark fiber essential for next-gen distributed AI centers

All-photonic networks (APN) are emerging as critical infrastructure for 6G, AI computing and smart cities. Nvidia's plan to expand...

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