Apex Dynamics is optimistic about its business outlook for the second half of 2026, with planetary gear reducers emerging as a key growth driver. The company said its results for the first half of the year posted double-digit profit growth, while the reducer business continued to lead expansion.

AI adoption continues to expand, but putting the technology to work and integrating it into everyday operations remain key hurdles. Speaking at the 2026 Taiwan Sustainability Summit, Yung-Hui Li, director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at the Hon Hai Research Institute, outlined Foxconn's approach to the generative AI era, covering the group's strategic direction, the technical path behind its in-house large language model FoxBrain, and the application of AI in smart manufacturing, energy conservation and carbon reduction.

The four major US cloud service providers (CSPs) have already rewritten their 2026 capital expenditure records, and ASIC vendors are increasingly confident that demand will remain strong through 2028 as customer spending and supply-chain visibility both extend farther out.

Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said at the HarmonyOS Ecosystem Conference 2026 in Shenzhen on August 28 that the HarmonyOS ecosystem now has more than 100,000 native applications, while HarmonyOS smartphones can access more than 400,000 apps. As of August 20, the number of devices running HarmonyOS 6 had exceeded 80 million and is expected to surpass 100 million in the fourth quarter of 2026.

KKCompany Technologies, parent of KKBOX, will officially list on the Taipei Exchange's Emerging Stock Board on August 31, with chairman and CEO Steve Wang detailing, for the first time, the group's integration of PressPlay during a pre-listing investor briefing. The transaction, completed in the second quarter of 2026, is designed to expand KKCompany beyond music and AI multimedia into knowledge learning and the creator economy.

A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the US Department of Defense from placing Anthropic on a supply-chain risk blacklist and ordered the Trump administration to lift restrictions on the company's technology. Bloomberg and Reuters reported that the Pentagon moved to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain threat after negotiations collapsed over the company's refusal to let the military use Claude for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons deployment.

Progress has reportedly stalled on an executive order draft circulating within the Trump administration about a public-private organization to supervise the release of AI models. While the White House is still figuring out its approach to regulating AI, it is also considering a ban on Chinese open models despite outcry from Nvidia and other tech companies.

At the Sustainability Environment Asia Conference 2026, Gunalan Kaniasan, principal for water resources in Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJC) at AWS, outlined strategies for water sustainability across the Asia-Pacific region. As data center demand grows, AWS is actively collaborating with governments and utilities to introduce recycled-water alternatives, navigate regulatory barriers, and test water-credit mechanisms.

At GATE 2026, Kaizhong, a major Chinese commutator maker, used its display to showcase how its automotive business has laid the groundwork for expansion into data centers, dexterous hands, and drones. The company is also targeting new opportunities in Southeast Asia as Chinese automakers deepen their regional footprint.

Huawei's Ascend 910C is already sold out in China, but domestic chips still cannot fully replace Nvidia's H200s. The shortage matters beyond China because AI compute constraints, pricing, and supply chain shifts are reshaping how quickly companies worldwide can deploy advanced inference systems.