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Tuesday 19 May 2026
Baidu says AI is now the majority of its business
Baidu said its core AI businesses became the majority of the company's revenue in the first quarter of 2026, driven by rapid growth in AI cloud infrastructure, expanded foundation-model...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Analysts divided on Baidu's AI monetization as cloud growth offsets ad weakness
Analysts offered mixed assessments of Baidu after the Chinese internet company posted first-quarter revenue that topped market expectations, with some pointing to stronger AI monetization...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Anthropic debuts Claude for Legal to embed generative AI into law firm workflows
Anthropic launched Claude for Legal, a specialized version of its Claude generative AI designed to integrate directly with law firms' existing tools and workflows, the company announced...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Anthropic urges US to close chip export loopholes and ban AI distillation attacks
Anthropic urged US policymakers to tighten chip export controls and pass legislation banning so-called distillation attacks, warning that failure to act could allow China to shape...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
CyCraft expands Japan push with NTT and Future for AI-managed security services
CyCraft announced an expansion of its Japan strategy at its CyCraft Day Japan partner summit, teaming with local cybersecurity providers, including NTT Security and Future Secure Wave,...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Anthropic to brief G20 financial regulators on Mythos cybersecurity risks
Anthropic agreed to brief members of the Financial Stability Board, the G20 body for finance officials and central bank governors, on the cyber risk profile of its Claude Mythos model...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
OpenAI surpasses 900 million users and signals possible new fundraising amid compute shortfall
OpenAI said it has crossed 900 million weekly active users for ChatGPT and completed a US$12.2 billion private financing round at the end of March, but executives signaled the company...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Acer's India PC push reaches a turning point as share climbs to 21.3%
Acer is gaining ground in India's PC market, with the Taiwanese PC vendor citing the latest market data showing it ranked second in the country in the first quarter of 2026.
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Silergy Gen4 ramps early as AI and auto demand drive 2026 growth above 20%
Silergy, a major power management IC (PMIC) supplier, said its new Gen4 products ramped ahead of schedule in the first half of the year, as tight PMIC supply supported growth in AI...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
SanDisk: AI data centers still lack a cost case to replace HDDs with SSDs
AI-driven memory demand has sent NAND prices soaring more than 20-fold, but flash memory and hard drive makers alike remain cautious about large-scale capacity expansion. SanDisk argues...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Commentary: Sanctions reshaped China's foundry sector — just not in the way markets expected
China's foundry sector is charting a different course as the global semiconductor market remains focused on AI GPUs, the 2nm process node, and advanced packaging. Led by Semiconductor...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Google teases Gemini Robotics push one day before Google I/O
Kristin White, transportation industry executive and field strategist at Google, delivered a keynote at the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale that outlined the company's vision for...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Humanoid race will produce only one or two winners, Plug and Play CEO predicts
The humanoid robotics industry is heading for a brutal shakeout. Despite more than 100 startups currently active across the US, Europe, and China, Saeed Amidi, founder and CEO of Plug...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Humanoid robotics opens 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity for auto suppliers, says Hyundai Mobis
Hyundai Mobis is moving to become a core supplier to the humanoid robotics industry, announcing a direct actuator supply agreement with Boston Dynamics and outlining a sweeping strategy...
Monday 18 May 2026
TI says safety will decide 800V AI data center adoption and supplier wins
Pradeep S. Shenoy, a computing technology expert at Texas Instruments's (TI) US headquarters, recently shared his views on 800V architectures for AI data centers in a media appearance...