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Tuesday 16 June 2026

Huawei's PanguLM comeback hinges on Richard Yu after credibility hit

Huawei is trying to restore the profile of PanguLM at a time when China's large AI model race is entering a tougher phase.

Tuesday 16 June 2026

ByteDance in talks for Iluvatar, Baidu Kunlunxin AI chips as Doubao demand grows

ByteDance is in talks to buy AI chips from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX and is also considering using Baidu's Kunlunxin chips, as...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Apple's Siri AI push drives 12GB DRAM demand for Samsung and SK Hynix

Apple is stepping up the AI capabilities of its Siri voice assistant, and analysts say memory chip demand will rise along with it,...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

AMD to acquire MEXT to expand AI memory optimization tools

AMD said it will acquire MEXT, a move aimed at strengthening its AI and data center portfolio amid rising global memory demand. The deal is intended to help customers improve performance,...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Supply security over cost: Google leads CSP charge to diversify InP substrate sourcing

China has recently eased controls on some indium phosphide (InP) substrates, relieving a bottleneck in optical communications capacity...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Salesforce agrees to buy Fin in US$3.6 billion AI customer service deal

Salesforce has agreed to acquire Fin, a customer agent company formerly known as Intercom, in a deal that could reshape how businesses worldwide automate support. The purchase highlights...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Nvidia reportedly tightens grip on AI inference market despite growing competition

Nvidia's dominance in AI is extending beyond model training and deeper into inference—the fast-growing segment of the AI market responsible...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

CATL's Hungary plant set to eclipse Europe's cell production capacity

Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. announced it would soon begin production at its new Hungary lithium battery plant, a facility...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Adani-Jabil partnership highlights India's push for domestic AI infrastructure

The deal between Gautam Adani's group and American engineering firm Jabil signals a broader shift toward domestic AI infrastructure in India, with potential consequences for global...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

EU industrial bill forces Chinese automakers to race for European factories

The European Commission proposed an Industrial Acceleration Act to curb foreign direct investment that it says could threaten domestic industry and jobs, and the draft rule prompted...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Foxconn and Schneider Electric strike strategic partnership to build next-generation data center reference architecture

Foxconn and Schneider Electric announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop a next-generation data center reference architecture, combining Foxconn's capabilities in advanced...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Yaskawa eyes physical AI boom with JPY25 billion capex

Yaskawa Electric is betting heavily on physical AI, the field that enables robots to operate autonomously, as it positions itself for a boom in AI robots. Since starting work with...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Apple leans on Google Cloud and Nvidia GPUs in a pragmatic AI reset

After Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote, online rumors claimed that only premium devices with 12GB of memory could run on-device AI, but DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin said on a podcast that that...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Interview: From language to motion— Japanese startup APTO builds the data backbone for physical AI

Physical AI is emerging as a new frontier of model development. Any model, however, is only as good as the data used to train it. Because...

Monday 15 June 2026

SAP says human-in-the-loop review is key to moving enterprise AI agents from POC to production

SAP reported that enterprise AI agents are shifting from proof of concept to real-world deployment as companies aim to embed generative AI into operational workflows such as finance...

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