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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,...

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia revenue surges 85% as data center sales jump 92%

May 20, Nvidia reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of US$81.6 billion, up 85% year-over-year and 20% sequentially. GAAP diluted EPS reached US$2.39, up 214% year-over-year,...

Thursday 21 May 2026

Agibot claims 100% success rate in factory deployment as humanoid race shifts to real-world validation

Peng Chen, business development director at Agibot, used the robotics session of the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale to make a pointed argument: the humanoid robotics industry...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

ASML to deliver first High-NA chips within months despite cost concerns

ASML expects its first advanced semiconductors made using next-generation High-Numerical Aperture (High-NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment to ship within months.

Wednesday 20 May 2026

SpaceX to purchase Cursor one month after potentially record-breaking IPO

SpaceX plans to follow through with its acquisition of Cursor, which provides AI coding tools, 30 days after the space company launches its IPO. The deal, worth US$60 billion, would...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Alibaba's T-Head doubles down on AI infrastructure with Zhenwu M890

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled the Zhenwu M890, a new proprietary AI training and inference chip developed by its semiconductor subsidiary T-Head Semiconductor, as the Chinese cloud group...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Tech Forum 2026: Physical AI poised to accelerate autonomous driving and robotics, analysts say

Physical AI is set to reshape autonomous driving and robotics. At the DIGITIMES Tech Forum 2026, held ahead of COMPUTEX 2026, analysts said advances in perception, decision-making,...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Amazon's AI chip push gains ground as Nvidia remains central to AWS

Amazon's yearslong push to build a credible alternative to Nvidia's AI chips is beginning to gain traction, as software improvements,...

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