Tensions have intensified between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the company's AI model, Claude, may be used in US military operations, according to reports by Axios, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, and The Information.
Alibaba Group on February 16 launched Qwen 3.5, positioning the new model as a flagship upgrade designed for the "agentic AI era," as competition in advanced artificial intelligence systems accelerates across China and globally.
Anthropic has opened a new office in Bengaluru and announced a series of partnerships across enterprise, education, agriculture and public services, marking an expansion of its operations in India.
ByteDance has pledged to strengthen safeguards around its AI video-generation model Seedance 2.0 following legal threats and criticism from major entertainment companies over alleged copyright infringement.
Apple Inc. has announced a "special Apple experience" scheduled for March 4, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, according to invitations sent to media and industry guests.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have expanded their strategic collaboration to develop rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure in India, including a planned 200-megawatt deployment based on AMD's "Helios" AI architecture.
Revenue data for January 2026 highlights uneven momentum across Taiwan's AI server supply chain, spanning power, substrate, and thermal management suppliers, and reflects shifting demand patterns, product mix upgrades, and capacity constraints.
Taiwan's small and medium enterprises — the backbone of the island's economy — are getting a major government push into the AI era. On February 12, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) unveiled a four-part plan to help SMEs adopt AI and navigate a world reshaped by labor shortages and supply chain upheaval. The roadmap goes beyond broad ambition, laying out concrete measures industry by industry, with a clear goal: break through the bottlenecks that have long stalled transformation.
The memory shortage and price surge have disrupted smartphone shipments, VisEra Technologies — a TSMC-affiliated optical component maker — warned, noting the global smartphone market is entering an adjustment phase as end-market demand forecasts grow more conservative. Mid- to low-tier models are expected to face initial shipment cuts.
OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, founder of open-source AI agent OpenClaw, signalling a strategic shift toward autonomous personal AI agents as a core product focus.
RISC-V gains traction in automotive and industrial markets despite ecosystem risks, while India's tech landscape sees heightened AI, semiconductor and smartphone activity—from Phison Electronics CEO Khein-seng Pua meeting Narendra Modi and Anthropic's trademark dispute, to Xiaomi's premium push, the launch of PRITVI-ACE by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, expanded deep tech support, and an arbitration case between Wingtech Technology and Luxshare Precision
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