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Tuesday 24 February 2026

Amazon's AI sovereignty push sparks internal clash over Claude ban

Amazon has officially banned its internal engineering teams from using Anthropic's coding assistant, Claude Code, mandating a full shift to Amazon's self-developed AI system. This...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Huawei tops US$128bn in 2025 — but growth cools to 2%

Huawei's 2025 annual revenue exceeded CNY880 billion (US$127.6 billion), driven by artificial intelligence and its HarmonyOS ecosystem...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

IBM opens AI GovTech Innovation Center in Lucknow, signals quantum and cloud investments in India

IBM on February 22 inaugurated an AI GovTech Innovation Center in Lucknow, India, as part of a broader push to position artificial intelligence (AI) as core infrastructure for public-sector...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Spring Festival Gala propels Unitree and three humanoid robot startups toward IPO spotlight

China Central Television's 2026 Spring Festival Gala became a showcase for humanoid robots. Unlike last year's polarizing yangko performance,...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Generative AI forces rethink of SaaS pricing and product design, Appier says

Generative AI has prompted market doubts about the traditional software-as-a-service growth model, contributing to recent weakness in SaaS stocks and eroding investor confidence, Appier...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

South Korean battery leaders ramp up LFP production for North American ESS market

The surge in demand for energy storage systems (ESS) in North America is fueling a competitive push among South Korea's three leading battery manufacturers—LG Energy Solution...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Infineon bets on humanoid robots, targets AI data center-level growth

In an interview with Germany's Handelsblatt, Infineon CEO Jochen Hanebeck said the emerging robotics market is expected to generate significant revenue growth and help support...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Supreme Court ruling leaves most US auto duties intact

The Supreme Court of the US has ruled unconstitutional the auto tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump's invocation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA),...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Billions in cash, trillions in tokens: China's AI model showdown

Around the 2026 Lunar New Year, China's large model market entered its most concentrated launch cycle to date. Z.ai, MiniMax, Alibaba, and ByteDance released or upgraded models across...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Waymo's Gen6 shift targets cost and climate barriers to autonomous taxi rollouts

Alphabet's Waymo has refocused competition from pure perception advances to real-world feasibility and business model viability with its sixth-generation autonomous driving hardware...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Honor to debut first humanoid robot and robot phone at MWC Barcelona

Honor Device will unveil its first humanoid robot at MWC Barcelona this week, marking the Chinese smartphone maker's formal entry into a fast-emerging sector attracting intense interest...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

AI-driven code automation jolts IBM and signals shift in enterprise technology leadership

IBM's sharp selloff underscores how artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to challenge long-standing technology moats in enterprise computing, raising broader questions about who...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Anthropic warns of rising AI 'distillation' attacks, accuses Chinese firms of data siphoning

Anthropic has sounded the alarm over a surge in so-called "distillation" attacks, accusing several Chinese AI companies of improperly...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Nvidia reportedly adopts tiered HBM4 supply strategy, Samsung set to secure high-end GPU orders

Just ahead of the launch of Nvidia's next-generation GPU Vera Rubin, market sources indicate that the company will differentiate high-bandwidth memory (HBM) suppliers based on product...

Tuesday 24 February 2026

"Buyer beware": Trump threatens steeper tariffs after court setback

U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a severe new warning to U.S. trading partners following a recent Supreme Court decision that quashed his previous global duties.

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