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Wednesday 12 August 2026
Column: AI jailbreak incident highlights fresh demand for supply-chain resilience
In July, an OpenAI AI agent model successfully bypassed safety restrictions during internal testing and even launched an automated cyberattack against Hugging Face, the world's largest...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Google says 48V hits wall as AI racks head toward megawatt scale
Google used its keynote at the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei on August 11 to argue that the 48V power architecture widely used in data centers is running out of headroom as AI racks move...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Manus breaks from Meta, returns to independence after China blocks US$2B AI deal

Chinese AI agent startup Manus is returning to independent operations, marking a concrete break from Meta months after Chinese regulators...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Aleees wins Tesla supply deal as new LFP plant eyes Tainan

Taiwanese lithium battery materials maker Aleees said it secured a 20-year supply contract with Tesla Inc. and plans to deliver at least...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Tesla emerges as biggest winner from Germany's EV subsidies, while China-made models gain ground
Whether Germany's renewed electric vehicle (EV) subsidies are inadvertently helping Chinese brands accelerate their push into Europe has become a closely watched issue across the global...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Nvidia reportedly planning trillion-parameter Nemotron 4 in open-source push

Nvidia is intensifying its open-source strategy through its upcoming trillion-parameter model in the Nemotron 4 family, which is meant...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Cloud AI's growth hits a new bottleneck— networking, not compute

At the 2026 OCP APAC Summit, debate over networking architectures in cloud AI data centers sharpened as industry players said the main...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Tesla FSD faces key EU review over regulations and transparency

Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system has entered a critical stage in seeking European Union (EU) market approval, but the review...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
MediaTek, Realtek, Himax, Elan eye optical communications boom in 2027
The use of optical communications in cloud AI data-center interconnect architectures is rising sharply, and Taiwan IC design firms including MediaTek, Realtek Semiconductor, Himax...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Supermicro defends margin outlook and order quality amid analyst scrutiny
Supermicro executives fielded a wave of questions from Wall Street analysts following the company's fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 earnings report. Much of the discussion...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as AI agent race shifts toward autonomous work

SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot, an AI agent designed to take on workplace tasks and operate digital tools with limited human intervention,...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Amazon builds 7.65 GW gas plant for Texas AI data center campus

Amazon is moving ahead with a dedicated gas-fired power plant for a new data center campus in Pecos County, Texas, as part of an effort...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
SPIL breaks ground on NT$100B Douliu plant, targeting operations in 2028

Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), a subsidiary of ASE Technology Holding (ASEH), broke ground on a new plant in Douliu, Yunlin...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
CoreWeave accelerates power expansion as AI infrastructure demand surges
CoreWeave reported second-quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of US$2.6 billion, up 112% year-over-year and 24% sequentially, and raised its full-year outlook as demand for its AI cloud infrastructure...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
IBM, Together AI plan large-scale Nvidia cluster on IBM Cloud

IBM and Together AI have announced a collaboration to deploy a dedicated Nvidia-powered inference cluster on IBM Cloud, a move that...