The US Supreme Court overturned President Donald Trump's Section 301 tariffs on January 20, a move that immediately promised relief to companies that had been paying the levies, including Apple Inc. Still, the administration responded with a new executive order imposing a 15% tariff on all imports for 150 days.
Amid intensifying China–Japan bilateral tensions, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has placed 20 Japanese companies and institutions on a heightened export-control watchlist, citing concerns over unverifiable end users and potential military applications of dual-use items.
Honor Device will unveil its first humanoid robot at MWC Barcelona this week, marking the Chinese smartphone maker's formal entry into a fast-emerging sector attracting intense interest across the country's technology industry, according to Bloomberg, Guancha, and MyDrivers.
IBM's sharp selloff underscores how artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to challenge long-standing technology moats in enterprise computing, raising broader questions about who controls modernization budgets and the future architecture of corporate IT systems.
Anthropic has sounded the alarm over a surge in so-called "distillation" attacks, accusing several Chinese AI companies of improperly extracting knowledge from its Claude chatbot to enhance their own models. The claims highlight intensifying competition in the global AI race and growing concerns over intellectual property (IP) protection, data security, and national security risks.
Memory supply shortages and rising prices for electronics components are expected to weigh on smartphone and notebook shipments in 2026, industry sources say. Mid- to low-end smartphone vendors face pressure to cut specs or raise prices amid thin margins and price-sensitive consumers.
Just ahead of the launch of Nvidia's next-generation GPU Vera Rubin, market sources indicate that the company will differentiate high-bandwidth memory (HBM) suppliers based on product performance tiers. Analysts suggest that Samsung Electronics may exclusively supply the sixth-generation HBM4 used in the highest-end products.
After the Lunar New Year holidays, the global AI large model race accelerated again. Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Pro, its new flagship model, posting record results across multiple advanced benchmarks. Shunyu Yao, a Tsinghua University alumnus, participated in the development, drawing attention within the AI community.
On February 23, OpenAI unveiled a new set of multi-year partnerships with global consulting firms aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI agents at scale, arguing that organizational design — not model intelligence — is now the primary bottleneck to capturing business value from artificial intelligence.
SenseTime faces sustained financial and geopolitical pressure, and a recent Bloomberg Intelligence note says the market may still be underestimating the strain on its balance sheet and exposure to external restrictions, despite two fundraising rounds in 2024.
Nokia recently initiated a patent lawsuit against Acer and Asus, obtaining an injunction from a German court that temporarily banned the sales of certain notebook and desktop products by both companies in Germany. Acer stressed its respect for intellectual property rights and stated it has prepared design-around solutions to quickly resume supply legally, minimizing the impact.
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