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Thursday 21 May 2026

White House plans voluntary frontier-model review, in bid to close gap with China and EU

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director briefed leading AI developers on Tuesday on a planned executive order that would establish a voluntary framework for pre-release...

Thursday 21 May 2026

SpaceX IPO reveals Musk's US$4 billion AI gamble

SpaceX's long-awaited initial public offering filing landed on Wednesday with all the spectacle investors expected from Elon Musk — and all the contradictions that have come...

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia introduces ACIE sub-segment, adds Anthropic as partner, and breaks out Physical AI

Nvidia introduced a new segment reporting framework on its first quarter of fiscal 2027 call, splitting data center revenue into Hyperscale and ACIE (AI Clouds, Industrial, Enterprise)...

Thursday 21 May 2026

From US$10m to US$2.2bn in 17 months: Starcloud bets on orbital fix for AI's energy crisis

Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, opened the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit in Sunnyvale with a proposition that would have sounded implausible...

Thursday 21 May 2026

How South Korea is pitching itself to Silicon Valley's startup elite

South Korea made its case to Silicon Valley investors and startups on the first day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale, positioning Seoul not as an emerging market but as...

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia prices rivals out of AI factory race with Blackwell, Vera CPU, and Rubin

Nvidia used its first quarter of fiscal year 2027 earnings call on May 20, 2026 to lay out a three-tier silicon cadence that should make any rival roadmap look thin: a Blackwell ramp...

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia excludes China from its outlook while citing analyst estimates of US$1 trillion in hyperscaler capex by 2027

Nvidia continues to exclude Chinese data center compute revenue from its outlook, with CFO Colette Kress citing uncertainty around whether H200 imports will be allowed into the country...

Thursday 21 May 2026

OpenAI picks Singapore for first overseas applied AI lab

OpenAI will commit more than S$300 million (approx. US$235 million) to expand Singapore's artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, choosing...

Thursday 21 May 2026

South Korea bets on KIST, LG to catch up in humanoid robots

South Korea has launched a five-year public-private project to build a domestic AI humanoid robot platform, bringing together KIST, LG affiliates, universities, and a hospital as the...

Thursday 21 May 2026

Moonshot AI abandons offshore structure to pursue landmark Hong Kong IPO

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based generative AI unicorn behind the widely popular Kimi chatbot, has informed its shareholders that it intends to dismantle...

Thursday 21 May 2026

OSE targets AI server SMT growth as memory demand lifts outlook

Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) said that strong memory market demand is lifting its outlook and expanding its role in the memory supply chain, while also strengthening its...

Thursday 21 May 2026

Iron Force eyes North America production, AI server cooling shipments in 2Q26

Iron Force Industrial saw short-term pressure in its operations during the first quarter of 2026, due to tariff swings in the US-China trade war, adjustments to its product mix, and...

Thursday 21 May 2026

NXP pitches CoreRide as a shortcut to software-defined cars

NXP Semiconductors is positioning its CoreRide platform as a way for automakers and Tier 1 suppliers to shorten development cycles for software-defined vehicles, even as the chipmaker's...

Thursday 21 May 2026

NXP CoreRide Z248 leverages Inventec, Delta support in SDV push

Driven by software-defined vehicles (SDVs), the automotive supply chain is being reshaped, embracing a business model relying on highly collaborative ecosystems. At a showcase in Taipei...

Thursday 21 May 2026

Column: Agentic AI's autonomy problem—the security risks from machines that act

Artificial intelligence is undergoing a fundamental shift. Generative AI — passive, prompt-dependent, inert without input — has given way to agentic systems that reason,...

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