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Tuesday 6 October 2026
Taiwan unveils new 5-year quantum tech program to speed adoption
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has announced the details of its next five-year quantum research program as Taiwan prepares to wrap up its current NT$8 billion (US$252.14...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets SDK for building AI devices
Meta has open-sourced the Muse Gadgets software development kit (SDK) and firmware code, allowing developers to build physical devices that interact with its AI assistant Muse and...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
The death of the software seat: cheaper AI tokens turn enterprise computing into metered labor
The ferocious push toward artificial intelligence is gathering momentum amid growing industry demand for higher AI inference and increasingly compute-intensive models.
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Schneider Electric's deal to buy PTC is the next step in its software push
Schneider Electric has agreed to purchase software company PTC in a deal valuing its equity at around US$22.6 billion. The all-cash acquisition marks the French energy and tech company's...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
DeepSeek closes in on US rivals despite chip curbs
China's leading AI models have narrowed their performance gap with US rivals to a record low, while DeepSeek's latest advances in memory efficiency and its deepening work with Huawei...
Monday 5 October 2026
Huawei counters chip-node limits with Ascend, SuperPoD and τ law
Huawei is increasingly framing its semiconductor strategy around a simple constraint: if advanced process nodes remain limited, more performance must come from architecture, interconnect...
Monday 5 October 2026
DeepSeek Harness challenges Agent lock-in with Claude Code Mods bridge and open plugin architecture
DeepSeek has released a new version of DeepSeek Harness, adding an experimental compatibility layer for Anthropic's Claude Code Mods and sharpening its broader effort to build an open,...
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
Lite-On invests NT$8.85 billion in Kaohsiung expansion; subsidiary Leotek to acquire AmpUp
Lite-On Technology is stepping up its strategic investment in server hardware manufacturing and electric vehicle (EV) charging software integration to support overall revenue growth...
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....
Friday 2 October 2026
Qbic expands edge AI on Arm, lifts smart access control above 60%
Industrial computer (IPC) maker Qbic held its pre-IPO presentation for the over-the-counter market on October 1, 2026, highlighting a strategy that differs from that of most Taiwanese...
Friday 2 October 2026
Meta hires MongoDB CEO to lead AI enterprise platform
Meta has launched a new business unit, "Meta Enterprise Platform," to package its artificial intelligence (AI) models, agent tools, and infrastructure for enterprise customers, and...
Friday 2 October 2026
Commentary: AMD challenges Nvidia in embodied AI as Lisa Su acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately US$8.2 billion. Following the closing, World Labs will operate as...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Google skips Gemini 3.5 Pro, launches Gemini 4 Argon at US$2/$10 per million tokens
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its new top-tier AI model, after months of delays and the cancellation of Gemini 3.5 Pro, launching it at introductory prices of US$2 per million...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Nvidia ties AI agent security to BlueField-4, Vera CPU
Over the past year, Nvidia has repeatedly observed AI agents drifting beyond approved workflows. In some cases, agents quietly escalated read permissions to write access, sent requests...