Oracle and quantum computing leader Quantinuum have entered a multi-year strategic partnership to bring Quantinuum's next-generation quantum computer, Helios, directly into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The collaboration aims to create a unified computing ecosystem where enterprise customers, AI research labs, and scientific institutions can access quantum processing units (QPUs) alongside existing GPU clusters and high-performance computing (HPC) hardware.

Qisda Chairman Peter Chen said infrastructure is the foundation that must first be built as AI compute demand surges. He said Qisda will not be absent from the fast-growing race, as the company steps up work on AI servers, data centers, 1.6T switches, and silicon photonics (SiPh).

Typhoons and extreme heat have dominated headlines since the summer of 2026, while heavy rain and drought have alternated with increasing frequency in recent years. Amid this backdrop, weather forecasting has increasingly turned to AI. The shift is challenging numerical weather prediction (NWP), the supercomputer-driven approach that has underpinned the global meteorological industry for decades.

The Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI), a major industrial and manufacturing association in Taiwan, called for the government to speed up the restart of nuclear power on the island and addressed three major industry concerns, amid the rapid expansion of the artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor sectors.

Naver has reportedly invested in US artificial intelligence developer Anthropic, adding another global AI company to a widening network that now spans frontier models, AI agents and large-scale computing infrastructure.