Governments are losing the race against AI. That is the blunt assessment of Nicole Quinn, vice president of policy and government affairs for Asia-Pacific at Palo Alto Networks. Policy moves too slowly, she argues, and overly rigid rules only make things worse.
Taiwan has opened a new robotics R&D center in southern Taiwan, aiming to help local manufacturers move beyond component supply and into higher-value robotics systems as automation demand spreads across healthcare, logistics, food service, and public safety.
U-leam said LEO satellites will remain its primary growth engine for the next few years, while quantum computing, medical devices, robotics, and drones will form the company's second wave of expansion. The firm reported full-year 2025 revenue of NT$5.88 billion (US$185.58 million), a 52% gross margin, operating profit of NT$233 million, and earnings per share of NT$4.69. It disclosed that about 90% of current revenue came from a single LEO satellite customer.
Anthropic acquired developer tools startup Stainless and shut down its public SDK generator, removing an automated API-to-SDK workflow used by major AI providers and forcing rivals to absorb engineering costs to rebuild or migrate their tooling, the firm announced, and reports confirmed. The acquisition price was not disclosed, though The Information reported the deal exceeded US$300 million.
Anthropic has revised its confidentiality policy to allow partners testing its Claude Mythos model to share threat intelligence with other organisations facing similar cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Microsoft has warned internally that GitHub faces an existential risk as competing AI coding tools from Cursor, Anthropic's Claude Code, and OpenAI threaten to erode GitHub's Copilot advantage and potentially the repository model itself, according to reporting from The Information and The Verge. The concern centers on developers shifting to integrated IDEs and terminal-based assistants that reduce the need to upload code to GitHub.
At its I/O 2026 conference on May 19, Google unveiled an expansive suite of AI-powered products, models, and hardware aimed at advancing autonomous agents across consumer and enterprise applications. The announcements span frontier AI models, a search engine redesign, productivity tools, a real-time design platform, and wearable hardware — positioning Google to embed autonomous agents throughout users' digital ecosystems. Taken together, these launches signal a strategic shift: from AI tools that assist users to AI agents capable of independent action and decision-making.
Google's announcement of its Stitch AI design platform triggered immediate market reactions, raising substantial questions about the future of design professions, competitive dynamics in design software, and the pace of AI-driven workplace automation.
Google's announcement of Android XR smart glasses marks its direct entry into a fast-growing wearable AI market, signaling confidence in rapid consumer adoption and the category's substantial growth potential.
Google's Gemini 3.5 model announcements mark a strategic shift toward enterprise cost competitiveness, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic's positioning in the frontier AI segment.
Supply chain optimism grows as Blackwell shipments ramp, Rubin approaches, and Intel CPUs re-enter the AI server spotlight.
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