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Wednesday 20 May 2026
Interview: Governments are losing the AI cybersecurity race, and Palo Alto Networks thinks it has the answer
Governments are losing the race against AI. That is the blunt assessment of Nicole Quinn, vice president of policy and government affairs for Asia-Pacific at Palo Alto Networks. Policy...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
AMD makes history with first overseas AI DevDay in Shanghai, targeting deeper China partnerships
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) chair and CEO Lisa Su led the company's China team in Shanghai for AMD AI DevDay 2026 on May 19. The event marks the first time it has been held outside...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Taiwan robotics hub aims to move suppliers beyond components

Taiwan has opened a new robotics R&D center in southern Taiwan, aiming to help local manufacturers move beyond component supply and...

Wednesday 20 May 2026
Anthropic buys Stainless, forcing OpenAI and Google to rebuild or migrate SDK tooling
Anthropic acquired developer tools startup Stainless and shut down its public SDK generator, removing an automated API-to-SDK workflow used by major AI providers and forcing rivals...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Microsoft warns GitHub could be displaced as rivals gain ground with AI coding tools
Microsoft has warned internally that GitHub faces an existential risk as competing AI coding tools from Cursor, Anthropic's Claude Code, and OpenAI threaten to erode GitHub's Copilot...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Google I/O 2026: Agents, multimodal models, and a sweeping search overhaul
At its I/O 2026 conference on May 19, Google unveiled an expansive suite of AI-powered products, models, and hardware aimed at advancing autonomous agents across consumer and enterprise...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Google I/O 2026: Stitch shakes up AI design and dev workflows
Google's announcement of its Stitch AI design platform triggered immediate market reactions, raising substantial questions about the future of design professions, competitive dynamics...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Google I/O 2026: Consumer hardware competition and smart glasses market entry
Google's announcement of Android XR smart glasses marks its direct entry into a fast-growing wearable AI market, signaling confidence in rapid consumer adoption and the category's...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Google I/O 2026: AI market competition and enterprise pricing strategy
Google's Gemini 3.5 model announcements mark a strategic shift toward enterprise cost competitiveness, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic's positioning in the frontier AI se...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Rare-earth shadows Boston Dynamics' Atlas ambitions ahead of IPO
Hyundai Motor Group's humanoid robot ambitions are moving closer to commercialization, with Boston Dynamics preparing for a broader capital-market push and factory deployment of its...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
China's OSATs chase bigger role as AI chips strain packaging supply

China's OSAT providers are trying to move deeper into advanced packaging as artificial intelligence (AI) demand strains global chip packaging...

Wednesday 20 May 2026
Phison taps overseas bond market for US$800 million storage push

Phison Electronics has completed pricing for its first overseas unsecured convertible bond sale, raising US$800 million as the NAND controller...

Wednesday 20 May 2026
Commentary: Musk, Huang, and H200—Nvidia's last chip in China
US President Donald Trump's trip to China with 17 business leaders thrust Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang back into the spotlight — as Beijing's position on Nvidia's...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Japan's startup boom draws global capital as top US tech firms accelerate Asia pivot
Plug and Play has closed a 6 billion Japanese yen fund — approximately US$40 million — making it one of the largest first-time seed funds ever raised in Japan, the firm...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Universities and governments emerge as new pillars of AI commercialization, accelerator says
Saeed Amidi, founder and CEO of Plug and Play, opened the first day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale with a characteristically freewheeling address that wove together billion-dollar...