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Jul 23
Kimi K3 under fire, part 1: Inside Washington's case against Moonshot AI

The US government is investigating Chinese artificial intelligence developer Moonshot AI over allegations that its Kimi K3 model improperly used outputs from Anthropic's Fable model and was trained with restricted Nvidia GB300 chips accessed outside China.

Washington is opening a new front in its technology contest with China, moving beyond chips and artificial intelligence models to target humanoid robots and other autonomous systems over national security and data privacy concerns.

Agentic AI is spreading rapidly across personal computers and enterprise endpoints, prompting AMD to expand its local AI strategy with a new platform capable of running significantly larger models on-device.

NAN GreenMet Pvt. Ltd. has launched NAN MagneTech Pvt. Ltd. to develop what it says will be India's first fully integrated manufacturing facility for high-performance Neodymium-Iron-Boron (NdFeB) rare earth magnets. The company plans to invest INR12.5 billion (US$130 million) in the project, which will be located at the Naidupeta Industrial Park in Andhra Pradesh, with commercial production targeted for the first quarter of 2028.

AMD redraws server chip strategy as AI workloads evolve
Jul 24, 11:07
AMD has launched its sixth-generation EPYC Venice server processor as the foundation of its next-generation AI data center platform, while CEO Lisa Su said the company is reshaping its roadmap for a world where AI workloads are spreading from training models to enterprise agents. The shift matters globally because it signals that data centers may need more balanced upgrades to CPU, GPUs, and networking.

India's central government has approved two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMCs) in Tamil Nadu, at Manallur and Pillapaikkam, with a combined project cost of INR10.12 billion (US$104.75 million), in a move aimed at strengthening the state's electronics ecosystem and advancing the country's self-reliance drive. Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the approvals in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on July 22, 2026, according to Project Monitor and Trade Brains.

Wistron's opening of its D1 AI smart factory in Fort Worth, Texas, marks a new milestone for Taiwan's downstream electronics manufacturers. The plant will support the first US mass production of Nvidia GB300 compute boards, a development with far-reaching implications for Taiwan, the US and the global AI industry.

Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model-routing startup OpenRouter in a deal that could value the company at around US$10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter. The report said an agreement could be announced soon, although negotiations could still collapse or another bidder could emerge. The acquisition would significantly expand Stripe's ambitions beyond payments into AI infrastructure.

AMD unveiled its sixth-generation EPYC 9006 server processors, widening its push into AI data centers with chips designed for agentic AI, cloud computing, enterprise workloads, and high-performance computing. The launch suggests CPUs may continue to gain importance even as much of the market remains focused on GPUs.
Much of Asia's manufacturing base is now subject to new US import duties of 10% to 12.5% after the White House finalized a Section 301 action against 60 economies, citing their failure to prohibit or effectively enforce a ban on goods made with forced labor. The presidential memorandum, dated July 23, 2026, took effect at 12:01 a.m. on July 24, according to the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post, and lands squarely on the region's textile, electronics, and assembly exporters.
AMD CEO Lisa Su said demand from cloud service providers and enterprise customers continued to climb rapidly, reinforcing AMD's view that the artificial intelligence (AI) market still has substantial room to grow. The CEO said AI adoption is now moving beyond efficiency gains and into new products, services, and business models.
AMD has formally introduced Helios, a next-generation rack-scale AI infrastructure platform designed for the fast-growing market of global AI factories and hyperscale data centers. The system is designed to boost compute density, lower deployment complexity, and offer an open alternative to competing rack-scale architectures for training and inference worldwide.