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Saturday 27 June 2026

Zettabyte urges new standard for quality AI compute as demand surges over two years

AI infrastructure firm Zettabyte said AI token generation exploded more than 330-fold over two years and urged that compute be measured by delivered useful work rather than raw hardware...

Saturday 27 June 2026

SK On completes China battery joint-venture restructuring with Eve Energy

South Korean battery maker SK On has completed a share swap with China's Eve Energy, giving it full ownership of a battery manufacturing joint venture in Yancheng, Jiangsu province,...

Friday 26 June 2026

Samsung SDI targets US battery supply chains with US$20M Forge Nano investment

Samsung SDI, a battery and electronic materials manufacturer, has entered an agreement to help US-based Forge Nano build a 3 GWh per year battery manufacturing site in Morrisville,...

Friday 26 June 2026

Qualcomm HBC takes aim at HBM costs in AI data centers

Qualcomm has unveiled its latest AI data center platform, Dragonfly, at its annual investor day, highlighting a new technology it calls...

Friday 26 June 2026

Agility Robotics IPO strengthens Foxconn's long-term robotics ambitions

Humanoid robotics and physical AI pioneer Agility Robotics has announced plans to pursue a public listing, drawing significant attention from global capital markets...

Friday 26 June 2026

Seres' US$25bn wipeout tests the price of Huawei's EV halo

Seres Group, once the clearest listed proxy for Huawei's EV ambitions, has lost more than CNY180 billion (US$25 billion) in A-share market value from its peak, despite strong sales...

Friday 26 June 2026

Z.ai's HK$1tn rally tests China AI boom: model leap or market mirage?

Chinese AI startup Z.ai, also known as Zhipu AI, has turned GLM-5.2 into the clearest test yet of China's frontier AI gap with Anthropic and OpenAI. Its stock surge is now raising...

Friday 26 June 2026

AuthenX targets AI data center interconnects with plug-and-play FAU for CPO

AI-driven hyperscale data center expansion is pushing the global AI race beyond raw GPU computing power into a broader contest over high-speed interconnects and electro-optical integration...

Friday 26 June 2026

OpenAI to release GPT 5.6 model on staggered basis in face of US regulatory uncertainty

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff that its latest model, GPT 5.6, would be released on a staggered basis, with a small group of entities first gaining preview access to it after approval...

Friday 26 June 2026

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google turn to deployment engineers as AI focus shifts to enterprise use

AI companies are racing to hire forward deployed engineers, or FDEs, as the industry shifts from model-building to implementation. For global readers, the trend signals that the next...

Friday 26 June 2026

How big tech is nudging cloud emissions on customers

In a corporate interview, Alexis Bateman, Head of Sustainability at Amazon Web Services (AWS), promoted the tech giant's latest environmental milestones...

Friday 26 June 2026

Japan puts JPY101.6 trillion AI chip push at heart of JPY370 trillion growth roadmap

Japan is moving to anchor its long-term growth strategy around AI, semiconductors, and strategic infrastructure, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seeks to use state-backed investment...

Friday 26 June 2026

Qualcomm's Dragonfly push highlights shift from mobile chips toward cloud AI

Qualcomm used its Investor Day to formally launch Dragonfly, a new data center product line aimed at cloud AI, and set out an ambitious revenue path that would shrink its dependence...

Friday 26 June 2026

Agility Robotics eyes Nasdaq listing, boosting Ability Enterprise's 2H26 outlook

US humanoid robotics startup Agility Robotics announced it will list on the Nasdaq as early as September 2026, which would make it the first publicly traded humanoid robotics company...

Friday 26 June 2026

Amazon raises India bet to US$48 billion, adds US$13 billion for AI and cloud

Amazon on June 25 announced an additional US$13 billion investment in India's AI and cloud infrastructure by 2030, the third major commitment the company has made in as many years...

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