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Wednesday 22 July 2026
Commentary: Gulf state's Sovereign Wealth Fund pours into ASEAN, eyeing stake in AI infrastructure supply chains

ASEAN's AI boom is taking on a dual role as both a "no-man's land" and an international hub from Singapore's perspective, while investors...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
US-China AI rivalry, part 2: Beijing weighs controls on model weights, training data, chip designs

The forthcoming AI dialogue between Washington and Beijing is less a sign of easing tensions than of a changing rivalry. Both governments...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
US-China AI rivalry, part 1: September talks to confront frontier models, IP theft, open-source risks

The US and China are preparing to hold their first official artificial intelligence (AI) dialogue under President Donald Trump, a notable...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Nvidia's Huang to meet Samsung, SK and Naver chiefs in Silicon Valley, reports say
Samsung Electronics executive chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver founder and board chairman Lee Hae-jin are reportedly preparing to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Foxconn's Jun Seki says L4 adoption will be in 80% of new cars by 2040
Foxconn group's EV strategy chief Jun Seki said on July 21 in Tokyo that Level 4 (L4) and above autonomous driving will likely be installed in 80% of new cars by 2040, and that the...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Nvidia details Vera CPU for agentic AI workloads
Nvidia has outlined the design of its Vera CPU, positioning the chip for agentic AI systems that rely heavily on the processor for code execution, tool calls, retrieval, and data handling...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
'Don't panic about Kimi K3': Jensen Huang claims everyone got the logic backwards

The AI industry may be riding a wave of momentum, but two clouds have recently unsettled the outlook: growing public opposition to...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Nvidia details AI rack strategy with Vera Rubin NVL72 and custom Vera CPU

Nvidia's newly detailed Vera Rubin NVL72 is being pitched less as a faster chip and more as a cheaper unit of AI output. This shift...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Microsoft's multibillion-dollar Mistral deal gives regulated industries European alternative to US-controlled AI
Microsoft's decision to pour billions of dollars into Mistral's European compute base is less about adding another model to Azure than about answering a question that has grown loud...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
WAIC 2026: Enflame debuts China's first glass-based CoPoS AI chip sample

Chinese AI chip developer Enflame said at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 that it had jointly showcased an AI chip...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Moonshot AI reportedly eyes Hong Kong listing as Kimi K3 narrows China's AI gap

A funding-and-listing push by Beijing-based Moonshot AI signals that China's frontier-model race is spilling over into the capital...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
WAIC 2026: Biren's 1,024-GPU NPO super node sharpens China's AI infrastructure race

Chinese GPU developer Biren Technology unveiled a next-generation near-packaged optics (NPO) super node at the World Artificial Intelligence...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Kimi K3 sparks new 'DeepSeek moment,' reshaping AI's winners and losers
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Moonshot AI launched its next-generation Kimi K3 model on July 17, delivering performance comparable with leading models from OpenAI and...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Taiwan tariff uncertainty slows US car sales and opens a window for local brands
Rumors of a possible zero-tariff deal for US-made cars in Taiwan have kept buyers and dealers in wait-and-see mode for months, with pricing and sales plans for imported vehicles still...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Taiwan auto market sees 2H26 recovery as sales and promotions improve
Taiwan's new-car market showed signs of recovery in the first half of 2026, with June sales rising more than 20% year on year and monthly volume returning to the level seen in the...