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Kimi K3 under fire, part 1: Inside Washington's case against Moonshot AI

The US government is investigating Chinese artificial intelligence developer Moonshot AI over allegations that its Kimi K3 model improperly used outputs from Anthropic's Fable model and was trained with restricted Nvidia GB300 chips accessed outside China.

IEI pairs NANO-X100 with Ryzen AI for edge AI inference
Jul 24, 15:54
Industrial PC maker IEI Integration joined Castec International at AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco on July 21 and 22 to showcase the new NANO-X100 4-inch single-board computer and edge AI inference applications, underscoring the two companies' collaboration on integrated edge-computing hardware and software.

Benefiting from product mix optimization and a higher contribution from industrial applications, connector maker Sinbon on July 23, 2026, announced its unaudited operating results for the second quarter of 2026. Consolidated revenue and net profit after tax both hit the highest level for the same period on record, rising 16.58% and 19.02% year-over-year, respectively. However, operating profit edged down 1.76% quarter-over-quarter, weighed by higher strategic investment expenses.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has taken an increasingly forceful position against possible sanctions from the Trump administration, arguing that US companies should remain free to use Chinese open-source AI models.

Google has been fined EUR890 million (US$1.0 billion) under the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) due to anti-competitive practices in its Google Search tool. The fine illustrates Europe's growing willingness to curb the power of US tech giants, despite diplomatic pressure from the US.
Advantech deepens AMD tie-up for AI servers
Jul 24, 14:09

Industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech is deepening its collaboration with AMD, unveiling a next-generation AI and edge computing server platform at AMD Advancing AI 2026 that is powered by the latest AMD EPYC 9006 series processors. Through a full board-to-system product lineup, the company is extending AI applications from data centers to the edge.

AMD unveiled a next-generation open-source telecom large language model (LLM), OTel 2.0, with AT&T and Microsoft at its Advancing AI 2026 conference, completing a training pipeline of more than 1 trillion tokens. AT&T used AMD Instinct GPUs and Microsoft Azure Foundry compute for post-training, pushing the Open Telco AI initiative from proof of concept toward commercial deployment.
Alongside its expanding AI hardware portfolio, AMD is stepping up efforts to strengthen its AI software ecosystem in a bid to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA dominance. At its Advancing AI 2026 event, the company unveiled ROCm.ai, a new AI-native development platform that integrates AI coding assistants, deployment tools, and automated optimization capabilities to simplify AI application development and accelerate model deployment on AMD hardware.
AMD says AI shift to inference and agents will reshape data centers
Jul 24, 13:17
AMD said the artificial intelligence boom is entering a new phase that will force a major redesign of data centers, as demand shifts from model training toward inference, AI agents, and physical AI. At its Advancing AI 2026 event, the company introduced new server, accelerator, and rack-scale products to power the next generation of AI infrastructure.

Washington is opening a new front in its technology contest with China, moving beyond chips and artificial intelligence models to target humanoid robots and other autonomous systems over national security and data privacy concerns.

Agentic AI is spreading rapidly across personal computers and enterprise endpoints, prompting AMD to expand its local AI strategy with a new platform capable of running significantly larger models on-device.

NAN GreenMet Pvt. Ltd. has launched NAN MagneTech Pvt. Ltd. to develop what it says will be India's first fully integrated manufacturing facility for high-performance Neodymium-Iron-Boron (NdFeB) rare earth magnets. The company plans to invest INR12.5 billion (US$130 million) in the project, which will be located at the Naidupeta Industrial Park in Andhra Pradesh, with commercial production targeted for the first quarter of 2028.