Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, potentially setting up one of the city's most closely watched technology listings and one of the largest Chinese AI IPOs in recent years.

Acer used its next@acer global press conference at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany, to unveil non-PC products as part of its strategy to enhance resilience. At the event, the company introduced an e-paper display, a foldable screen, an e-scooter, and its latest gaming handheld, with chairman and CEO Jason Chen noting that Acer will continue making new products to wow consumers.

India's refurbished smartphone market is expanding as rising handset prices steer consumers toward lower-cost premium models. The trend extends well beyond India, showing how rising device costs, trade-in programs, and formal resale channels could reshape smartphone access, sustainability, and upgrade cycles for buyers in other major markets as well.

Acer chairman and chief executive Jason Chen said artificial intelligence deployment is already underway, with enterprise customers showing a clear preference for running AI on-site rather than in the cloud. He said that trend is opening new business opportunities for Acer in on-premises AI hardware, even as the broader PC market faces inventory and pricing pressure.

Nvidia used IFA 2026 to argue that serious AI work can run locally as well as in the cloud, pairing an October launch date for its RTX Spark Windows PCs with free software that distributes independent inference requests across compatible machines already on a local network.

OpenAI said its Astra model has reached a critical level of cybersecurity capability, warning that advanced tools could help users find and exploit unknown flaws in hardened systems. The designation signals stronger safeguards before release, and it matters globally because such capabilities could reshape both cyber defense and cybercrime across markets.

Adobe's leadership change signals a broader shift in how major software companies are positioning themselves for an AI-driven market. The move may affect customers, partners, and investors worldwide as the company deepens its focus on agentic software, customer experience tools, and productivity products.

Nvidia's agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly US$13 billion is being framed by analysts less as a move into software than as insurance against three ways its core business could deteriorate: cheaper open-weight models eroding the frontier labs that buy its chips, those same labs diversifying their silicon, and enterprises pulling workloads out of hyperscaler bundles. On each of those paths, owning the industry's main model repository pays off.

The mechanics of Nvidia's US$12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face say as much about the deal's purpose as the strategic case does: a tenth of the consideration is set aside to stop the team from walking, part of the payout goes to Intel and AMD, and the whole transaction is framed against an open-weight model market in which the fastest-moving suppliers are Chinese.

Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion pushes the world's dominant AI chip supplier past silicon and into the layer where developers actually pick their models — a position that gives it early sight of demand shifts, a structural hedge against customers designing their own accelerators, and a neutrality problem it has already had to answer for in writing.

D-Wave has spent 26 years building one type of quantum computer. This week it told a Taipei audience why it started building another.