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Tuesday 18 August 2026
Samsung deepens humanoid push with new robotics lab

Samsung Electronics has begun operating a dedicated physical AI research lab focused on humanoid control and manipulation, according...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia swaps credit support for exclusive chip sales in OpenAI's Ohio data center campus

Nvidia has reached a deal with OpenAI to provide up to US$105 billion in credit guarantees for the AI startup's upcoming 8GW data center...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia vs Broadcom: Dueling AI financing bets, Contrasting risks

Nvidia has unveiled a US$500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) compute financing plan with six Wall Street giants—Goldman...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
China's Horizon Robotics sets J7 against Nvidia, Tesla

Horizon Robotics is preparing its next-generation Journey 7 (J7) automotive AI chip family for mass production in 2027, aiming to extend...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Commentary: AMD's Taalas acquisition echoing Jensen Huang's Groq strategy

On February 20, 2026, Canadian AI chip startup Taalas unveiled its HC1 inference chip. Taalas said the chip ran the Llama 3.1 8B model...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI drives power semiconductors into at least a two-year shortage
The cloud AI data center boom is not close to bursting, according to chip supply-chain players. They say that analog ICs, including power semiconductors, will stay tight for years...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Eiso Enterprise's Guishan plant expansion doubles PCB capacity, eyes AI, aerospace, defense markets

Niche printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer Eiso Enterprise has officially opened the second-phase expansion of its new plant in...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI server supply chain ramps up capital, talent, and capacity
The AI server supply chain continues to expand capital expenditures, pouring in cash, building factories, and hiring aggressively, to heighten barriers to entry. On top of rapid product...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Why AMD still owns US$565M of SpaceX shares after Musk chose Nvidia
Elon Musk has made SpaceX's AI hardware strategy unusually clear: future infrastructure will rely exclusively on Nvidia chips and technology. Yet AMD, Nvidia's largest rival in AI...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
ByteDance and Hollywood reach copyright pact for AI video and image tools
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have reached an agreement to strengthen copyright safeguards for the Chinese tech giant's AI video and image-generation models, marking...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
SpaceX-Cursor acquisition closes the loop between AI compute, models and applications
As the AI race increasingly evolves around who can secure the most compute, develop the strongest models and convert them into commercially viable applications, SpaceX has moved another...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Hybrids dominate Taiwan's auto market, as carmakers intensify push with new models

Sales of hybrid vehicles have surged in Taiwan due to range anxiety and still-inadequate charging infrastructure, and carmakers are...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Column: Why model training needs distillation
Around 2019, a friend working at a large cloud services provider excitedly shared that his team had trained a CNN model for document text recognition with good results, but the computing...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Tech blocs of the new Cold War: US pushes allies to pick a side

The intensifying US-China technology rivalry is moving beyond export controls and semiconductor restrictions. What comes next could...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
SpaceX, Nvidia push space AI from lunar exploration toward orbital data centers

As SpaceX accelerates its push into space-based AI data centers and Nvidia brings Jetson GPUs into lunar exploration missions, the race...