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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.

Japan loosens fiscal reins for JPY370 trillion AI, semiconductor strategy

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Tesla names TSMC, Samsung, Micron as key partners for Optimus robot scale-up

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SpaceXAI reportedly eyes Texas expansion in broader AI infrastructure push

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Samsung unveils new foldables and smartwatches to sharpen health and sports focus

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SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTAdvantech 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.

ICT MANUFACTURINGAMD advances telecom AI with AT&T and Microsoft

Jul 24, 13:45

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.

AIAMD launches ROCm.ai to accelerate agentic AI development, reporting up to 3.3x inference gains

Jul 24, 13:17

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.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTAMD 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.

AIUS moves to curb Chinese humanoid robots, opening a new front in the AI rivalry

Jul 24, 12:20

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.

AIAMD Advancing AI 2026: Gorgon Halo brings 300-billion-parameter models to local AI with Cisco governance

Jul 24, 12:05

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.

ICT MANUFACTURINGNAN GreenMet to invest US$130M in India's first integrated rare earth magnet plant

Jul 24, 11:32

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.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTAMD redraws server chip strategy as AI workloads evolve

Jul 24, 11:07

AMD has launched its sixth-generation EPYC Venice server processor as the foundation of its next-generation AI data center platform, while CEO Lisa Su said the company is reshaping its roadmap for a world where AI workloads are spreading from training models to enterprise agents. The shift matters globally because it signals that data centers may need more balanced upgrades to CPU, GPUs, and networking.

ICT MANUFACTURINGIndia approves two electronics manufacturing clusters in Tamil Nadu

Jul 24, 10:49

India's central government has approved two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMCs) in Tamil Nadu, at Manallur and Pillapaikkam, with a combined project cost of INR10.12 billion (US$104.75 million), in a move aimed at strengthening the state's electronics ecosystem and advancing the country's self-reliance drive. Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the approvals in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on July 22, 2026, according to Project Monitor and Trade Brains.

ICT MANUFACTURINGCommentary: Wistron's Texas AI factory shows why US manufacturing still needs Taiwan

Jul 24, 10:45

Wistron's opening of its D1 AI smart factory in Fort Worth, Texas, marks a new milestone for Taiwan's downstream electronics manufacturers. The plant will support the first US mass production of Nvidia GB300 compute boards, a development with far-reaching implications for Taiwan, the US and the global AI industry.

ICT MANUFACTURINGStripe reportedly eyes OpenRouter in potential US$10B AI infrastructure deal

Jul 24, 10:20

Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model-routing startup OpenRouter in a deal that could value the company at around US$10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter. The report said an agreement could be announced soon, although negotiations could still collapse or another bidder could emerge. The acquisition would significantly expand Stripe's ambitions beyond payments into AI infrastructure.

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