TSMC posted a 77.4% year-over-year profit jump to NT$706.6 billion ($22 billion) for Q2 2026, its fifth consecutive record quarter, as AI chip demand surged, but chip stocks showed muted reaction. Rev…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company posted June 2026 revenue of NT$442.68 billion ($14 billion), a 68% year-over-year jump, and first-half revenue of NT$2.4 trillion ($75 billion), up 35.6%, dr…
SK Hynix, the South Korean semiconductor company controlling roughly 57% of the global high-bandwidth memory market, landed on the Nasdaq on July 10 with a $28-29 billion American Depositary Receipt l…
Central banks including the Federal Reserve, Bank of Korea, European Central Bank, and London School of Economics converge on a two-phase theory: AI spending drives prices up now, but productivity gai…
Chinese AI firms have surged to over 30% of AI token usage among US firms weekly since US export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models in June 2026, with DeepSeek, Z.ai, and Alibaba's Qw…
Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot AI's Kimi, and Zhipu AI's GLM have released open-weight models under permissive licenses, challenging Anthropic's market dominance after U.S. restri…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup founded in March 2023 by Tsinghua University alumni, plans to launch its Kimi K3 model around July 15 to challenge Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8. The model features …
Alpaca, a developer-focused brokerage infrastructure company, has raised $435 million in a funding round split between $135 million in equity and $300 million in debt to explore prime brokerage servic…
SK Hynix completed a $26.5 billion American Depositary Receipt debut on Nasdaq on July 10, 2026, but shares fell 15.37% on July 13, dragging the Kospi index down over 9% and triggering trading halts. …
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs have announced a joint initiative on bioresilience, using AI to predict and defend against biological threats, building on AlphaFold technology. Isomorphic Labs, fo…
Senior US lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration to ban Chinese memory chip suppliers ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC), both on the Pentagon's 126…
TSMC posted record Q2 2026 revenue of NT$1.27 trillion ($39.6 billion), up 36% year-over-year, and net profit surged 77% to NT$706.6 billion ($22 billion), driven by AI chip demand. A fund manager war…
India has minted its second AI unicorn in a month, with Sarvam AI closing $234 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation and Emergent reaching a billion-dollar valuation through a $130 million Se…
China's Cyberspace Administration issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services on July 15, 2026, banning virtual intimate-relationship services for min…
Roughly 73% of global organizations have integrated AI into cybersecurity defenses, and nearly all plan to keep investing through 2025, as the AI industry faces rising physical threats and an 'AI vs. …
Nvidia announced partnerships with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, Fujitsu, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to advance physical AI robotics in Japan, joining the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition. CEO Jensen Huang said,…
The US Department of Commerce confirmed on March 3, 2025, that TSMC will invest $100 billion in Arizona, making it the largest foreign direct investment in American history. Combined with earlier comm…
Investors are growing cautious about AI-related debt as global borrowing is projected to reach nearly $570 billion by 2026, according to Motley Fool. Major companies including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, …
Airbus signed a multi-year partnership with Scaleway, the cloud computing arm of French telecom group Iliad, to build sovereign cloud infrastructure for defense and industrial workloads, migrating rou…
Japan is building a massive datacenter powered by NVIDIA's Vera Rubin GPUs, targeting a June 2028 launch, as the country races to become an AI infrastructure heavyweight. The facility will use NVIDIA'…