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Wednesday 7 October 2026
Chicony pushes into robotics data systems as revenue declines
Chicony Electronics said it has entered the supply chain of a US robotics startup, expanding into embodied AI and physical AI as it seeks higher-value markets. The move could strengthen...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Column: Robots have learned to move. They haven't learned to think
At IROS 2026, one of the world's top robotics conferences, held in Pittsburgh at the end of September, a robot startup's booth featured a dual-arm robot catching, in midair, sticks...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, pitching an efficient US open model against Chinese rivals
Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup that has cast itself as a US counterweight to China's open-model developers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says...
Monday 5 October 2026
Z.ai GLM-5.3 security draws scrutiny as Anthropic flags weak defenses
Anthropic has warned that GLM-5.3, the latest model from Chinese AI startup Z.ai, approached Claude Mythos Preview on an exploit-development benchmark but lacks sufficient safety protections,...
Friday 2 October 2026
Anthropic aims for mid-November IPO as it juggles relationship with Trump administration
Anthropic is reportedly eyeing an IPO as early as mid-November that could become the biggest IPO to date. The AI startup's run-up to the listing coincides with a shaky relationship...
Friday 2 October 2026
Inside Volantis's photonic bid to break AI's memory wall after US$88 million raise
Semiconductor startup Volantis has raised US$88 million in Series A funding to develop an AI inference architecture that uses photonic interconnect technology to address memory bottlenecks...
Friday 2 October 2026
Life after Meta: Manus regains independence, debuting Manus 2.0 and 'Cue' AI agent
Following its return to independent operations, AI startup Manus unveiled two new products in late September 2026: Manus 2.0 and "Cue," a personal agentic AI application. The product...
Friday 2 October 2026
A look at the startup winning Nvidia, Intel backing for AI scale-up optics
Silicon Valley data center optical interconnect startup CScale emerged from stealth on September 30 after raising US$145 million in a Series C funding round backed by Nvidia and Intel...
Friday 2 October 2026
NextDrive tops Japan HEMS market, speeds IPO push
Taiwan energy management startup NextDrive said that it has secured the No. 1 market share in Japan's home energy management system (HEMS) segment and has received key support from...
Thursday 1 October 2026
OpenAI claims to thwart model distillation attack tied to Moonshot
OpenAI said it detected and blocked an organized adversarial distillation attack, with some activity linked to Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI. The company said it first spotted the...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Vulcan wins US Army drone magnet contract as China decoupling drives selection
US rare-earth magnet startup Vulcan Elements has reportedly won a supply contract for the US Army's SkyFoundry drone program, underscoring Washington's push to localize drone production...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Acer turns 50, marks it with a musical produced by its founder

Acer marked its 50th anniversary on September 28, 2026, with the premiere of Smile for Half a Century, a commemorative musical that...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
AMD pays US$8.2 billion for Fei-Fei Li's 3D world-modeling startup to shape future AI chips
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco AI research startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about US$8.2 billion. The chipmaker says it wants the...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Blade Hydrogen Green Technology targets waste hydrogen power for AIDC

As electricity demand from AI data centers and the semiconductor industry climbs rapidly, Blade Hydrogen Green Technology is tapping...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
DeepSeek bets on Huawei chips for model training as Nvidia's China sales slip

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng said during a call with investors that he aims to rely on Huawei chips to train the startup's models in the...