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Wednesday 23 September 2026

Li Auto opens Mach chips, SiC modules to external customers

Li Auto's move to open its in-house technologies to outside customers marks a broader shift in the electric vehicle maker's strategy,...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Qualcomm's agentic AI era begins with smartphones and new HBC architecture

Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon made agentic AI the sole theme of his keynote at Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, Hawaii.

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Einride builds its next autonomous truck on Nvidia Hyperion as the gap between fleet, driverless fleet stays wide

Nvidia's effort to make its autonomous-vehicle stack the default foundation for heavy freight gained a partner with paying customers...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

US energy storage faces a costly China battery exit

The US is accelerating its shift toward domestic battery manufacturing as the energy storage market expands, but the market's current growth still depends heavily on low-cost Chinese...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Trump rejects global AI controls, urges US to press ahead with "superintelligence"

US President Donald Trump used his September 22 address to the United Nations General Assembly to reject international efforts to control...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Taiwan's August export orders top US$100 billion as overseas production edges up

Taiwan's export orders topped US$100 billion in August 2026, reaching US$102.96 billion, up US$5.02 billion from the previous month,...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Malaysia reviews data centre benefits after 40-plus 2026 applications

Malaysia has received more than 40 applications to develop or expand data centres so far in 2026, underscoring the region's continued boom in data centre investment. But officials...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

CMC expects record 4Q revenue amid expanding model lineup

CMC expects fourth-quarter 2026 revenue to exceed the same period in 2025 and reach a new high, a signal that could matter beyond Taiwan as automakers worldwide seek growth despite...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI both cut frontier model prices, ten days after calling for a slowdown

Anthropic and OpenAI, the two AI labs that spent early September telling the world that model capabilities are outrunning the safeguards around them, shipped new frontier models within...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Analysis: Foxconn's EV push moves beyond demo and toward scale

Foxconn Group's electric vehicle business is entering a new phase as it shifts from proving the concept to preparing for mass production and wider regional expansion. The change could...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Taiwan uses AI to close drone thermal imaging gap

As drones, smart vehicles, and autonomous platforms advance, the ability to accurately identify people, vehicles and heat sources in darkness and low-visibility conditions has become...

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Seven Chinese AI companies hit US$10.7 billion ARR, but the harder race is paying for scale

China's leading AI developers are scaling revenue rapidly, but the gap with their US rivals remains substantial — and the cost...

Tuesday 22 September 2026

Anthropic, OpenAI expected to start buying memory directly in 2027

Anthropic and OpenAI are expected to start buying memory directly from manufacturers in 2027 as model developers take greater control of chip and data-center design, potentially broadening...

Tuesday 22 September 2026

Changs Ascending eyes AI data center backup power, storage growth

Changs Ascending's board approved an operating plan on Sept. 21 to launch an energy systems integration push into the AI data center sector, betting on structurally rising demand from...

Tuesday 22 September 2026

Meta's AI agent Muse tops app charts, driving AMD's market cap past US$1 trillion

Meta's new AI agent, Muse, has leapt to the top of app charts roughly two weeks after its release. Its popularity has helped push up...

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