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Tuesday 15 September 2026

Tesla sets up Vietnam unit as VinFast dominates

Tesla has established a subsidiary in Vietnam as it prepares to enter the local market. Reuters reported that filing documents show...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Chinese tech firms deepen open source push amid AI pacing debate

As US AI executives warn that artificial intelligence development may need to slow down, Chinese companies are pressing ahead with open...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Ainos pushes AI Nose into semiconductor front-end manufacturing

Ainos said its second-generation AI Nose has entered commercial deployment at semiconductor fabs, signaling growing interest in chemical sensing for industrial AI. The move highlights...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs builds flagship Taiwan pavilions at international expos to boost auto parts exports

The world's largest automotive aftermarket trade fair, Automechanika Frankfurt, was held in Germany from September 8 to 12. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Taiwan...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

AI's next bottleneck may be profitability, not compute, SK chair warns

For years, as the heat surrounding AI continued to build, competitiveness across the industry was largely measured by brute-force computing power. The broader infrastructure race was...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Inside CIOE: takeaways from China's biggest optoelectronics show

Last week, from September 9 to 11, thousands of vendors gathered for an enormous trade show in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen. At the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE),...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

South Korean firms hold 80% of the automotive OLED market

South Korean panel makers command about 80% of the automotive OLED market, according to Sigmaintell, as electrification and smarter vehicles keep demand for car displays stable and...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

XPeng's Turing chip expands beyond cars

XPeng Motors is extending its self-developed Turing AI chip from intelligent electric vehicles (EVs) into humanoid robots, broadening the processor's role in the company's Physical...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

OpenAI reportedly acquires AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than US$300M

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial-intelligence (AI) technology designed to improve smartphone camera performance,...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Trump tells Nvidia's Jensen Huang that AI is 'bigger than the internet' and robot fears are a 'hoax'

US President Donald Trump joined Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by phone on stage, using the call to place data center construction at the center of his economic agenda and to dismiss warnings...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

China sets first AI-brain-computer interface medical device standard

China has introduced what it says is the world's first medical-device standard for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that use AI to process...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Hyundai Motor Group bets on data, Nvidia, and in-house AI to speed autonomous driving rollout

Hyundai Motor Group is moving to standardize its autonomous driving hardware, deepen its data pipeline, and accelerate in-house AI development as it prepares a staggered rollout of...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

2nm capacity crunch may keep smartphone SoC makers on split-node strategy through 2027

In 2026, major smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) vendors began moving selected flagship processors to 2nm technology, seeking not only...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Trump calls AI slowdown a conspiracy that helps China, closing off Washington support

Calls from leading US AI developers to slow frontier model development are colliding with the rivalry they were partly meant to manage. Within days of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Wuliangye skips carmaking, turns liquor waste into silicon-carbon anodes

Chinese baijiu (white liquor) producer Wuliangye, or "Five Grain Liquid," is moving into battery materials by turning distillers' grains,...

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