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Monday 25 May 2026

DeepSeek makes 75% API discount permanent, intensifying global AI price war

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has permanently reduced the API pricing of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to one-quarter of its original...

Monday 25 May 2026

Exclusive: G2 Lithium battery rivalry heats up—US taps 4th-gen LFP to crack China's patent wall

The US is shifting from ternary batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs) toward lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for both energy storage and automotive applications. This is...

Monday 25 May 2026

Weekly news roundup: TSMC faces its first real rivals; Agibot claims 100% success rate in factory deployment

Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of May 18-24, 2026:

Monday 25 May 2026

Singapore launches physical AI testbed at Punggol Digital District

Singapore will launch a new testbed at the Punggol Digital District (PDD) later in 2026 to research, test, and deploy physical artificial intelligence (AI) systems, as the government...

Monday 25 May 2026

Stellantis and Qualcomm expand Snapdragon Digital Chassis deployment across global vehicle lines

Stellantis and Qualcomm expanded their multi-year collaboration to deploy Snapdragon Digital Chassis system-on-chip (SoC) solutions across Stellantis' global vehicle portfolio, affecting...

Monday 25 May 2026

Manus eyes US$1 billion buyback after Beijing blocks Meta deal

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Manus is reportedly evaluating a US$1 billion fundraising round to buy back control of the company from Meta Platforms, in response to...

Monday 25 May 2026

Nvidia, Intel, and AMD all in on AI: server supply chain faces shortage of orders, but does for three critical resources

Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all optimistic about AI development. However, server supply chain companies admit that orders are no longer the issue. Instead, what is most lacking are...

Monday 25 May 2026

Taiwan to showcase Open Source Team Taiwan pavilion at COMPUTEX to highlight AI and industry collaboration

Open Source Team Taiwan will debut at COMPUTEX / InnoVEX 2026 as a government-backed pavilion showcasing how open-source frameworks underpin corporate product strategy, AI commercialization,...

Monday 25 May 2026

Grok falters across government and enterprise as SpaceX pivots to lease idle compute

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI faced weak uptake for its chatbot Grok across US government, corporate, and consumer markets, and SpaceX moved to lease idle computing capacity to Anthropic...

Monday 25 May 2026

AI spending forces enterprises to shorten SaaS deals and demand new pricing protections

Rising enterprise investment in AI tools is prompting customers to compress traditional software-as-a-service contracts and extract stronger commercial protections, executives and...

Monday 25 May 2026

Column: World Models—taxonomy and technical foundations in embodied AI

"World models" have risen swiftly to prominence in AI discourse—and just as quickly become a source of confusion. Over the past two years, the term has grown simultaneously ubiquitous...

Monday 25 May 2026

China's EV price war gives way to rising costs

China's electric-vehicle market is entering an unfamiliar phase: cars are getting more expensive.

Monday 25 May 2026

Column: US summit signals shift to trusted supply chains, reshaping global manufacturing partnerships

At the 2026 SelectUS Investment Summit in Maryland, US officials used the flagship investment forum to outline a national industrial strategy prioritizing supply chain reconstruction...

Monday 25 May 2026

Tech Forum 2026: AI data centers turn to on-site power amid grid constraints

DIGITIMES analyst Sabrina Yu warned that artificial intelligence data centers face four major energy challenges — rising GPU thermal design power, a new high-voltage direct current...

Monday 25 May 2026

Syntec Technology profit hits record as AI drives factory automation demand

Syntec Technology reported record quarterly revenue and profit for the first quarter of 2026, as demand for high-end control systems and...

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