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Thursday 17 September 2026
AI risk split among tech leaders set to play out at Trump-Xi White House dinner
Former Apple CEO Tim Cook and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are set to attend a White House state dinner on Sept. 24, 2026, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other business leaders also expected...
Thursday 17 September 2026
General-purpose home robots face sensing test
General-purpose home robots are the ultimate goal for the humanoid robotics industry, but the market remains at an early stage. DIGITIMES analysts said the key to commercialization...
Thursday 17 September 2026
South Korea's medical device city opens physical AI institute, aiming to train 1,400 workers in five years
Wonju, a South Korean city of about 360,000, roughly 90 minutes east of Seoul, opened a government-funded institute on Thursday, September 17, to train more than 1,400 workers in artificial...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Huawei sees AI agents driving 90% of token traffic by 2035

Huawei expects autonomous AI agents to become the dominant source of AI traffic over the next decade, creating a sharp increase in demand...

Thursday 17 September 2026
ByteDance's Anew Labs reportedly raises US$290M as AI drug discovery gains momentum

ByteDance has completed a US$290 million funding round for Anew Labs, its AI drug-discovery business spun off from the Chinese technology...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Taiwan machine tool makers target aerospace, semiconductor boom at major trade shows
Taiwanese machine tool manufacturers are taking part in two major manufacturing trade shows in Europe and the US this September. The participation reflects a shift in Taiwan's machine...
Thursday 17 September 2026
China's FAW may become GAC's second-largest shareholder, possibly restructuring the Toyota China model

Consolidation chatter within China's automotive industry has reignited following an announcement by Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Onsemi puts power density at the center of its next-decade strategy

Onsemi is seeking to capture more value from AI, electrification, and automation by expanding from individual semiconductors into integrated...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Musk hints at Tesla-SpaceX merger, but the companies are already converging underneath
The broader high-tech landscape has wondered for years about the subtle transactions and movements unfolding underneath the enormous technology ecosystem Elon Musk has stitched together...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Elon Musk urges rival testing to expose AI safety flaws

Elon Musk is warning that AI agents are showing "autonomous evasion capabilities" and says the industry should let competitors test...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Column: China tightens rare earth controls, exposing hidden vulnerabilities in Taiwan's supply chain
China's rare earth export controls are changing the rules governing global critical mineral supply chains. For Taiwan, the real concern is not that China could suddenly halt all exports...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Physical AI targets factory assembly pain points

Deloitte Taiwan has warned that only 3% of companies have broadly integrated physical AI into operations, while just 5% say it has already...

Thursday 17 September 2026
SK Hynix shifts supply chain planning for AI capex boom

AI-driven capacity expansion is pushing up demand for semiconductor equipment, and SK Hynix is strengthening supply chain management...

Thursday 17 September 2026
OpenAI details AI jailbreak as Nvidia's CEO calls for engineering controllability

OpenAI released a technical postmortem in late August explaining how its AI agents circumvented sandbox restrictions during internal...

Thursday 17 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: SiC substrate capacity expansion continued; 6-inch substrate prices expected to rebound in 2027
DIGITIMES has observed that demand for silicon carbide (SiC) power devices has climbed rapidly in recent years as the EV market expands, triggering a massive wave of capacity expansion...