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Thursday 8 October 2026
China pushes six-network buildout as AI strains power links
China is accelerating construction of its so-called "six networks" — water, a new power grid, computing, next-generation communications, urban underground pipelines, and logistics...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Microsoft readies Windows for AI agents as third-party agents such as Meta's Muse spread
Beyond Surface hardware, Microsoft used its October 7 event to change how Windows runs, routes, and contains AI agents, as third-party agents such as Meta's Muse draw privacy complaints...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Anthropic expands cybersecurity program for advanced AI testing
Anthropic on October 6 expanded its AI cybersecurity testing program, giving vetted security teams access to higher-end models with fewer safeguards. The move builds on the results...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Huawei says Ascend tops Nvidia in China as demand gap remains
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said he believes the company's Ascend AI chips have surpassed Nvidia in market share in China, but that domestic demand still cannot be fully met....
Thursday 8 October 2026
Realtek 3Q26 revenue edges up, tracks guidance
Taiwanese IC design giant Realtek reported September 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$12.378 billion (US$388.5 million), down 0.7% month-over-month and up 23.35% year-over-year. Third-quarter...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Pricey local AI machines arrive as memory costs threaten PC shipments
As soaring memory prices are forecast to cut PC shipments, a new class of expensive machines built to run large AI models locally, from Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops to Apple's Mac Studio...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Huawei claims to have largely cut US tech reliance
Huawei executive director and consumer business group chairman Richard Yu said at a recent media roundtable that the company has worked with China's supply chain since US export controls...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Witchbox eyes Taiwan channels, hospitals for AI posture platform
South Korean health tech company Witchbox is extending AI posture analysis into gym operations management, using its iPosture Pro platform to integrate body assessments, workout programs,...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Meta unveils AI agent standard with Walmart, Stripe
Meta has teamed up with Walmart, Stripe, and AI startup Sierra to develop the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard designed to let AI agents interact with corporate websites and...
Thursday 8 October 2026
By keeping Terafab in-house, Musk shifts execution risk onto his own companies
Elon Musk has moved to quell uncertainty over Intel's position in the Terafab chip project, stressing that his companies will build and operate the planned semiconductor complex themselves...
Thursday 8 October 2026
AI agents fuel new CPU demand, lifting AMD
Before generative AI rose and Nvidia GPUs came to dominate the market, the central processing unit (CPU) was the main compute engine for servers. Now, as the personal AI agent boom...
Thursday 8 October 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic push Australia on AI rules
Senior executives from US artificial intelligence (AI) companies OpenAI and Anthropic flew to Sydney to attend a hearing and answer questions from Australian officials, as both firms...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Fed could hike again before year-end as liquidity is watched
The Federal Reserve raised rates by 1 quarter point in September, and with the standoff between the US and Iran still unresolved and US inflation remaining elevated, markets expect...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Nvidia's RTX Spark hits order books, taking on Apple's Macs
Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip for Windows PCs moved from stage demos to order books on October 7, as pre-orders opened for Windows laptops built to rival Apple's unified-memory Macs...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Ray Dalio warns high rates could burst AI bubble
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio has warned that technology giants are borrowing heavily to invest in AI, and that further increases in interest rates could become the trigger...