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Monday 20 July 2026

Taiwan-US 'co-make' white paper debuts amid investment boom

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) announcement of an additional US$100 billion investment into US manufacturing has...

Monday 20 July 2026

OpenRouter's rumored sale shows the value of AI 'middle layer'

OpenRouter, a startup whose software lets app developers reach hundreds of AI models through a single interface, has discussed selling...

Monday 20 July 2026

Interview: AI race is now a financing race, and Compute Labs wants to bankroll GPUs

As AI's bottleneck shifts from chips to capital, Compute Labs pitches GPUs as financeable assets.

Monday 20 July 2026

Meta, Anthropic in talks over potential US$10 billion compute deal

Meta Platforms is in early talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential deal worth up to US$10 billion over two years,...

Monday 20 July 2026

SpaceX reportedly eyes Pentagon AI infrastructure deal as defense demand for computing accelerates

SpaceX is in talks with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide billions of dollars' worth of data center capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, marking a potential...

Monday 20 July 2026

Jensen Huang's week in Tokyo: what Nvidia's Japan trip reveals about future partners

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang spent last week in Tokyo meeting government officials, robotics makers and dozens of supply chain executives, as the company deepens its push into...

Monday 20 July 2026

China pushes AI agent interoperability and space computing at WAIC 2026

China unveiled two major AI initiatives at the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, highlighting efforts to standardize AI agent...

Monday 20 July 2026

Nvidia grappling with internal compute needs amid GPU shortages

TSMC recently posted strong earnings, helped in large part by Nvidia orders, but both companies are grappling with chips inside their own operations: TSMC says they are too expensive,...

Monday 20 July 2026

Alibaba pitches Qwen3.8 Max as 'second only to Fable 5' — without the benchmarks to prove it

Alibaba's decision to rank its newest flagship directly against a single American system — describing Qwen3.8 Max as "second only to" Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — underscores...

Monday 20 July 2026

Moonshot reportedly eyes IPO after Kimi K3 success forces cap on new users

Moonshot AI's latest model launch is rapidly reshaping perceptions of China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry, with overwhelming demand forcing the company to suspend new consumer...

Monday 20 July 2026

BYD targets Japan's Kei-car stronghold with low-cost EV challenge

BYD is pressing ahead with plans to enter Japan's all-electric kei-car market, stepping up promotional activity and appointing a brand ambassador in a sign of growing confidence about...

Monday 20 July 2026

Beyond Taipower: AI, semiconductors, and overseas grids reshape Taiwan's electromechanical supply chain

Taiwan's heavy-electrical and electromechanical industry is entering a new growth phase as demand expands beyond its long-standing reliance on Taiwan Power (Taipower). While Taipower's...

Monday 20 July 2026

Hotai Leasing plans August listing as mobility business expands

Hotai Leasing Co., Ltd. plans to list its shares in early August 2026 as the Taiwan-based vehicle leasing provider expands its mobility and used-car businesses.

Monday 20 July 2026

MiTAC packs 96 AMD GPUs into 52U liquid-cooled rack

MiTAC Computing Technology, a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings, showcased its server lineup and high-density liquid-cooled rack solutions at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference...

Sunday 19 July 2026

Three-tier humanoid robot architecture shift opens edge AI opportunities

The humanoid robot industry is converging on a "big brain, small brain" architecture, with AI compute shifting from the cloud to the edge, and even to hands, feet, and other endpoints...

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