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Tuesday 17 February 2026

Contract dispute escalates between Anthropic and Pentagon over military use of Claude

Tensions have intensified between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the company's AI model, Claude, may be used in US military operations, according to reports by Axios,...

Tuesday 17 February 2026

Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.5: a new frontier in multimodal AI agents

Alibaba Group on February 16 launched Qwen 3.5, positioning the new model as a flagship upgrade designed for the "agentic AI era," as competition in advanced artificial intelligence...

Tuesday 17 February 2026

Anthropic opens Bengaluru office, expands partnerships across sectors in India

Anthropic has opened a new office in Bengaluru and announced a series of partnerships across enterprise, education, agriculture and public services, marking an expansion of its operations...

Tuesday 17 February 2026

Bytedance pledges safeguards amid legal threats over seedance 2.0

ByteDance has pledged to strengthen safeguards around its AI video-generation model Seedance 2.0 following legal threats and criticism from major entertainment companies over alleged...

Tuesday 17 February 2026

LG Display uses Nvidia PhysicsNeMo for digital twin panel tool in South Korea

LG Display (LGD) announced that it has utilized Nvidia's physics artificial intelligence (AI) modeling platform PhysicsNeMo to develop a digital twin panel tool (DPS). At present,...

Tuesday 17 February 2026

EU's minimum price commitment pressures Chinese EV makers on value and pricing

The European Commission officially introduced a minimum price commitment mechanism in mid-January 2026 for imports of battery electric vehicles (BEV) from China to Europe, as an alternative...

Monday 16 February 2026

Taiwan rolls out AI push to transform its 1.71 million SMEs

Taiwan's small and medium enterprises — the backbone of the island's economy — are getting a major government push into the AI era. On February 12, the Ministry of Economic...

Monday 16 February 2026

OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger, transitions project to independent foundation

OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, founder of open-source AI agent OpenClaw, signalling a strategic shift toward autonomous personal AI...

Monday 16 February 2026

India seeks to democratize AI resources through global commons framework

India is positioning artificial intelligence at the center of its technology and geopolitical strategy as it prepares to host the India AI Impact Summit.

Monday 16 February 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang skips India AI Impact Summit citing unforeseen circumstances

Nvidia has not disclosed a detailed reason for Chief Executive Jensen Huang skipping the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, saying only that he is "unable to travel…...

Monday 16 February 2026

India has all ingredients to lead in AI, says Sam Altman before New Delhi summit

Ahead of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi from February 16–20, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said India has the potential to become a "full-stack AI leader," arguing the...

Sunday 15 February 2026

Taiwan's January exports jump nearly 70% on AI server boom, boosting 2026 growth optimism and tech defense push

Taiwan's export value in January 2026 surged 69.9% year-on-year, surpassing the NT$2 trillion (US$63.7 billion) mark for the first time, largely due to differences in the number of...

Sunday 15 February 2026

A Singaporean reality check for the semiconductor age

Joseph Liow, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, said in a recent public lecture that technology...

Saturday 14 February 2026

ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 aims to undercut the West's AI elite—then Disney strikes back

ByteDance has officially launched Doubao 2.0, a next-generation AI family that promises GPT-level intelligence at a disruptive price point...

Saturday 14 February 2026

China sets price guidelines to curb cutthroat EV competition

China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued a set of guidelines on February 12 aimed at regulating pricing throughout the automotive production process, as part...

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