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Monday 5 October 2026
US appoints new AI czar, task force; seeks balance between safety, competition
The US Trump administration has appointed a new AI czar and task force, which will have 120 days to report on AI's risks and opportunities and recommend the federal government's role...
Monday 5 October 2026
Musk raises Tesla AI5 memory to 96GB after cut
Tesla CEO Elon Musk first said on X that the capacity of the AI5 chip memory would be cut in half to 72GB, but later clarified that AI5 will use 96GB of LPDDR5 instead. The change...
Monday 5 October 2026
Shield AI expands Taiwan supply chain in sovereign AI push
US defense technology unicorn Shield AI is expanding its presence in Taiwan as the Russia-Ukraine war drives growing demand for asymmetric warfare capabilities and defense technologies...
Monday 5 October 2026
GM, Ford tap Silicon Valley to reshape software, smart driving
General Motors (GM) and Ford Motor are deepening their smart vehicle strategies with support from Silicon Valley technology companies, tapping AI, cloud, and computing capabilities...
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,...
Monday 5 October 2026
South Korea's AI chip budget goes unspent through August
South Korea's government is pushing to join the "global top three AI powers," but the AI semiconductor development program led by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR)...
Monday 5 October 2026
Weekly news roundup: Musk looms large as AI chip boom drives capacity expansion and geopolitical risks
Across the week, Taiwan-linked semiconductor groups and their partners continued expanding capacity, while AI demand, export controls, and financing structures shaped the industry...
Monday 5 October 2026
Japan to finalize AI growth investment plan this year
Japan plans to detail the first five years of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's more than JPY370 trillion (US$2.3 trillion) 14-year investment initiative, which is designed to spur investment...
Monday 5 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: AI data demand surges as power and cooling become new bottlenecks
As the number of AI computing transistors integrated within a single CoWoS package rises rapidly, DIGITIMES observes that moving massive volumes of data to compute chips fast...
Monday 5 October 2026
AI system integration eclipses chip specs
As AI develops rapidly across both cloud and edge environments, major chipmakers are devoting less attention to chip specifications and more to system-level design and ecosystems....
Monday 5 October 2026
AI-driven power crunch positions energy upstarts as key IT equipment buyers
Surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence, combined with growing public backlash against data center developments, is elevating energy developers into the new powerbrokers...
Saturday 3 October 2026
Synopsys reshapes EDA, IP business models as AI shifts revenue from seats to customer output
Synopsys is reshaping how it monetizes its two core businesses, electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP, as AI transforms engineering workflows. Announcements at the...
Saturday 3 October 2026
Interview: AI PCs reach 65% of Europe's notebook channel, but what brings buyers to the market?
The rapid iteration of AI-capable hardware, following an industry-wide push toward integrating AI-processing capabilities into PCs, is bringing renewed attention to what AI could offer...
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
Bull's France factory doubles capacity to capture growing orders as EU pushes AI sovereignty
Supercomputer maker Bull will double its production capacity using an expanded factory that reopened on October 1. The French creator of Europe's fastest supercomputers described unprecedented...