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Monday 14 September 2026
UAE commits EUR40B to expand Germany ties in AI, energy and defense
The United Arab Emirates said it plans to invest EUR40 billion in Germany, or about US$46 billion, across artificial intelligence, energy and defense as it deepens economic and strategic...
Monday 14 September 2026
Taiwan drone maker Twoway breaks into US defense supply chain with Oklahoma procurement deal
Twoway has signed an agency procurement contract with a purchasing delegation from Oklahoma, marking a breakthrough in its defense strategy as it expands North American deployment...
Monday 14 September 2026
AI power demand pushes Taiwan to overhaul energy rules
Electricity demand from AI data centers and other high-tech industries is pushing governments and large cloud service providers to focus more on grid stability and backup supply. In...
Monday 14 September 2026
Behind the BRICS handshake: How far can the China-India reset go?
China and India are again trying to stabilise one of Asia's most consequential bilateral relationships, with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi using...
Monday 14 September 2026
STMicro lead times top 1 year, boosting Taiwan chip makers
AI crowd-out effects are rippling through the supply chain, with lead times for microcontroller units (MCUs) from STMicroelectronics reportedly stretching beyond 1 year and triggering...
Monday 14 September 2026
Taiwan eases investment rules for AI center infrastructure projects
Taiwan's government has limited budgets to build the AI computing infrastructure the country needs, and infrastructure that a government runs itself cannot easily turn a profit. To...
Monday 14 September 2026
China optical firms target photonics with mixed high-end, lower-cost push
The 2026 China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) closed on September 11. While near-eye display applications such as AR/VR and smart glasses drew attention, vendors' latest...
Monday 14 September 2026
Foxconn subsidiary broadens AI interconnect role as 1.6T enters deployment
AI data centers are moving decisively toward 1.6T connectivity, with 800G now mainstream in AI clusters and 400G remaining common in general cloud and enterprise deployments.
Monday 14 September 2026
LG Display's AI transformation turns employees into AI builders, yielding 450+ in-house projects
LG Display announced on September 13 that it is expanding its company-wide artificial intelligence transformation (AX) initiative by scaling up its "AX SQUAD" program. Designed to...
Monday 14 September 2026
Z.ai reloads with US$5 billion for China's AI race

Chinese artificial intelligence developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) plans to raise about US$5 billion through a Hong Kong share placement...

Monday 14 September 2026
iPhone Duo's price opens room for Android rivals
Apple's new iPhone 18 series and first foldable, the iPhone Duo, could reshape smartphone demand worldwide by pushing some buyers toward Android rivals, channel players said. Higher...
Monday 14 September 2026
AI's energy demand ignites global nuclear rush, straining Taiwan's restart
A worldwide nuclear comeback, fueled by artificial intelligence data centers and semiconductor demand, is tightening supply chains and labor markets just as Taiwan considers restarting...
Monday 14 September 2026
Lab self-investigations show AI agents improvising past their own guardrails
The clearest evidence that AI agents now act in ways their builders did not foresee comes from the builders themselves. Incident reports from OpenAI and Anthropic describe models that...
Monday 14 September 2026
CPO nears mass production — next battle about interfaces, yield and maintenance
As AI computing bandwidth keeps rising, optical interconnect architectures are moving beyond pluggable optical modules toward near-packaged optics (NPO) and co-packaged optics (CPO)...
Monday 14 September 2026
The case for an AI speed limit collapsed in a weekend
The AI industry's proposal to slow frontier model development ran into geopolitics over the weekend. US President Donald Trump rejected a slowdown, saying America must stay ahead of...