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Monday 27 April 2026

Smart cockpit's next test: Can AI deliver real value?

The 2026 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition opened on April 24 with a new focal point: the rapid ascent of large language models...

Monday 27 April 2026

DeepSeek cuts API prices 90%, sets new global low for LLM services

DeepSeek's 90% cut to fees for input cache hit, which occurs when the model reuses previously computed results for identical or similar inputs instead of recomputing them, across its...

Monday 27 April 2026

Exclusive: As cars go digital, cybersecurity emerges as industry's new battleground

As the global automotive industry moves toward deeper integration of electronic and electrical (E/E) architectures, a new axis of competition is emerging: digital sovereignty. Fueled...

Monday 27 April 2026

MediaTek ASIC revenue may overtake smartphone chips amid Google's TPU ramps

MediaTek's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) business is drawing market attention as volume production of Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) is expected to ramp from...

Monday 27 April 2026

South Korea's telecom giants unveil full-stack AI strategies at WIS 2026, highlighting agents, infrastructure, and 6G

South Korea's three leading telecom operators—SK Telecom (SKT), KT, and LG U+—signaled a decisive shift beyond connectivity at the World IT Show (WIS) 2026, held April...

Monday 27 April 2026

Tesla doubles down on robotaxi and FSD, recasting cars into revenue-generating assets

At its first-quarter 2026 earnings call, Tesla set out a clear shift in strategy: moving the auto industry away from ownership toward a usage-based mobility model. By aligning software,...

Monday 27 April 2026

Meta and Alibaba blur social media and e-commerce boundaries

The rise of generative AI has blurred the boundaries between the social media and e-commerce industries, driving a shift in their business models that has been exemplified by recent...

Monday 27 April 2026

Taiwan's NCSIST partners with Saronic to advance autonomous maritime capabilities

Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) said on April 24 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding...

Sunday 26 April 2026

BMW's color-changing car is no longer a concept — E Ink says it's ready for mass production

E-paper manufacturer E Ink stated that the BMW iX3 Flow Edition equipped with E Ink Prism technology was officially released at the Auto China 2026. This represents a major breakthrough...

Sunday 26 April 2026

Harman hits KRW15.78 trillion in revenue 10 years after Samsung acquisition

Samsung Electronics executive chairman Lee Jae-yong's bold acquisition of premium audio brand Harman for KRW9.4 trillion (approx. US$6.3 billion) a decade ago has paid off, with the...

Sunday 26 April 2026

BizLink expands optical interconnect push, sees uncertain CPO ramp timing

The artificial intelligence boom continues to drive demand for related hardware, particularly as server power delivery and high-speed...

Sunday 26 April 2026

Commentary: Sodium batteries reset EV cost structure and supply chain balance

For more than a decade, lithium-ion batteries have defined the global power battery market, concentrating technology, capital and supply...

Saturday 25 April 2026

China's Horizon Robotics aims at Tesla with new self-driving platform

As competition in intelligent electric vehicles shifts from incremental feature upgrades to full system-level redesign, China's Horizon...

Saturday 25 April 2026

Taiwan's industrial production surges on AI infrastructure demand

Data released by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on April 23 showed that major global cloud service providers continue to expand procurement of artificial intelligence...

Saturday 25 April 2026

Chinese AI firms push into deployment, shift focus to inference at GITEX Asia

Chinese artificial intelligence companies are reshaping global AI deployment strategies, accelerating a shift toward inference-driven,...

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