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Thursday 7 May 2026
ByteDance's Doubao tests paid AI tiers to challenge ChatGPT subscriptions
China's AI market has expanded rapidly through free and low-cost offerings, but rising computing costs and deeper enterprise adoption are beginning to reshape the sector's business models. ByteDance-backed Doubao is now testing paid subscription plans priced between CNY68–500 (US$9–69) per month, signaling a formal shift toward tiered monetization.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Yotta Data Services reportedly weighs IPO as India's AI infrastructure race accelerates
Yotta Data Services is considering an initial public offering in Mumbai that could raise as much as US$900 million, according to sources familiar with the matter, as reported by Bloomberg. The company has engaged ICICI Securities Ltd and SBI Capital Markets Ltd as advisers, with additional banks expected to join ahead of a draft prospectus filing in the next two to three months.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Commentary: The real AI war may be the models nobody sees

The global race in large AI models continues to intensify, with Chinese state-backed capital accelerating its push into the sector. According to foreign media reports, China's "Big Fund" — formally known as the China Integrated Circuit (IC) Industry Investment Fund — is in talks to lead an investment in AI startup DeepSeek, with the company's valuation approaching US$45 billion.

Thursday 7 May 2026
Taiwan brings 16 firms to AI EXPO Korea to pitch full AI supply chain to South Korea
Taiwanese companies showcased end-to-end AI infrastructure and applications at AI EXPO Korea 2026, aiming to address South Korea's urgent demand for high-performance computing, data sovereignty and industrial AI deployment. The Taiwan pavilion gathered 16 firms under the theme "From Chip to Application" to present hardware, edge devices, software and security solutions to South Korean buyers during the event in Seoul.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Flex says separate AI infrastructure company will better address hyperscaler power and thermal needs
Flex has announced a strategic plan to spin off its Cloud and Power Infrastructure (CPI) segment into an independent, publicly-traded company, with the transaction expected to be completed by the first quarter of calendar 2027. This move follows a record-setting fiscal year 2026, where the company reported total revenue of "US$27.9 billion, up 8% on continued strong growth in cloud, power, and industrial".
Thursday 7 May 2026
Nvidia, AMD and Intel starve the PC market to feed the AI boom
The AI boom is beginning to cannibalize the very consumer hardware market that once fueled the PC industry's growth.
Thursday 7 May 2026
China token prices rise while US hyperscalers flood AI infrastructure
Generative AI demand is intensifying the global race for computing power, widening the gap between China and the US in AI infrastructure investment. Yet while US hyperscalers continue to expand capex aggressively, China's AI market is seeing token prices rise rather than fall, signalling that pricing is increasingly shaped by supply constraints and evolving AI business models rather than investment scale alone.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Anthropic raises Claude usage limits with SpaceX compute deal
Anthropic announced immediate increases to Claude service limits following a compute partnership with SpaceX that will deliver over 300 megawatts of new capacity within the month.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Arm shifts focus to high-value silicon to bypass mobile growth plateau
The strategic significance of Arm's current transformation lies in its transition from a volume-dependent mobile component provider to a value-driven infrastructure architect. As the global smartphone market faces structural saturation, the organization is pivoting toward Agentic and Physical AI to redefine its commercial relevance. The core of this strategy is to increase the average selling price per chip by packing higher complexity—measured in core density and orchestration capabilities—into each unit, thereby ensuring revenue growth even as hardware shipment volumes stabilize.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Arm's $2 billion AGI CPU backlog signals strong hyperscaler demand
During the earnings call on May 6, Arm announced a significant expansion of its product strategy, centering on the emergence of "Agentic AI" and "Physical AI" as primary growth drivers for the next decade. The company defines agentic workloads as a shift from human-based queries to continuous, autonomous tasks where CPUs must coordinate data movement, manage memory, and orchestrate work across accelerators. To address this, Arm recently launched the Arm AGI CPU, a product purpose-built for these specific AI requirements.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Taiwan component maker Fositek rides AI server cooling demand
Fositek said strong demand from artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is driving rapid growth in its liquid cooling business and will prompt continued capacity expansion to meet customer needs. The company expects server-related revenue to rise quarter by quarter through 2026 and said second-half shipments of a customer's new foldable phones will further lift margins.
Thursday 7 May 2026
As AI expands, broadband upgrades fuel growth at Sercomm

Broadband equipment maker Sercomm reported a sharp surge in revenue for April, underscoring how demand for faster networks, fueled in part by artificial intelligence, is rippling through telecommunications infrastructure.

Thursday 7 May 2026
Supply chain walks pricing tightrope as AI demand lifts costs

The rapid spread of generative AI applications and rising demand for computing power have pushed global data center construction into a high-growth phase, further straining an already tight supply chain.

Thursday 7 May 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic chase AI consulting firms in new enterprise battle

The AI race is entering a new phase, and it may look far less like a pure software business than Silicon Valley once imagined.

Thursday 7 May 2026
Google, Microsoft, and xAI to give US early access to unreleased AI models

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI have signed agreements giving the US government early access to unreleased frontier AI models for national-security testing, expanding Washington's ability to assess advanced commercial systems before they reach the public.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Nvidia, AMD expand in Taiwan as US touts strategic ties at SelectUSA Summit
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said its A+ Industrial Innovation R&D Program has helped attract Nvidia to invest in Taiwan and set up an overseas headquarters in Taipei, while AMD has also received major ministry support to establish a research and development center in the southern city of Tainan.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
AI networking surge pushes Lumentum to record growth

The fiscal third quarter of 2026 results from Lumentum Holdings offered one of the clearest signals yet that a powerful new cycle in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is underway and that the bottleneck is no longer computing power, but the networks that connect it.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Anthropic strikes massive cloud pact with Google, highlighting AI industry concentration

A sweeping new agreement between Anthropic and Google Cloud is throwing into sharp relief just how concentrated — and how enormous — the artificial intelligence boom has become.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Personal feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI cracks open in court as IPO plans loom
The bitter feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI's leadership continues to spill into the open since a trial between the two began last week. This legal fight pits two of the world's most prominent AI creators against each other in a case that could have large ramifications for OpenAI's future.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
GlobalWafers reports weaker quarter as expansion weighs on margins

GlobalWafers said on May 4 that its first-quarter performance reflected a transitional period, as short-term cost pressures and capacity expansion weighed on margins even as demand tied to artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing began to strengthen.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Flex jumps on 2027 outlook beat, AI data-center unit spinoff plan

Flex shares rose 13% in after-hours trading on May 5 after the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider forecast fiscal 2027 results above Wall Street expectations and announced plans to spin off its Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment into a separate publicly traded company.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
AMD earnings call: AI is turning CPUs back into the main event

AMD's fiscal first-quarter 2026 earnings call was not just a victory lap for another data center beat. It was a strategic argument from management: AI infrastructure is no longer only an accelerator story. It is becoming a full compute-platform story, where CPUs, GPUs, memory, software, and rack-scale systems all have to move together.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
China's cloud providers raise AI prices as model usage surges
Rising demand for generative AI is prompting major Chinese cloud providers to raise prices for large-scale services and data products, with implications for global AI users and developers, as usage-based billing and efficiency become central to costs and deployment decisions across international markets and could soon influence provider strategies worldwide.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Analysis: The US$2.5 billion smuggling case hanging over Supermicro's US$40 billion year
Supermicro CEO Charles Liang used the opening of his fiscal third quarter of 2026 earnings call to address a topic unrelated to revenue or margins: the DOJ indictment of former employees for allegedly smuggling AI servers equipped with Nvidia GPUs to China through Southeast Asian transshipment networks.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Lumentum sees explosive expansion as AI demand fuels record results
Lumentum reported record third-quarter fiscal 2026 results, with revenue rising to US$808 million, reflecting strong year-over-year growth driven by demand for optical components used in AI infrastructure, according to the company.