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Tensions have intensified between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the company's AI model, Claude, may be used in US military operations, according to reports by Axios, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, and The Information....

Alibaba Group on February 16 launched Qwen 3.5, positioning the new model as a flagship upgrade designed for the "agentic AI era," as competition in advanced artificial intelligence systems accelerates across China and globally....

Anthropic has opened a new office in Bengaluru and announced a series of partnerships across enterprise, education, agriculture and public services, marking an expansion of its operations in India....

ByteDance has pledged to strengthen safeguards around its AI video-generation model Seedance 2.0 following legal threats and criticism from major entertainment companies over alleged copyright infringement....

Apple Inc. has announced a "special Apple experience" scheduled for March 4, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, according to invitations sent to media and industry guests....

GlobalFoundries and Renesas Electronics Corporation announced an expanded strategic collaboration through a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing agreement aimed at strengthening semiconductor supply chains and expanding production capacity across multiple regions....

Pentagon's brief blacklist reversal could ease US OEM access to Chinese memory suppliers, complicating Trump-Xi summit dynamicsWith President Donald Trump set to visit China in just over a month, the US Department of War's recent listing and rapid retraction of several Chinese firms has intensified tensions and exposed internal contradictions within the administration....

LG Display (LGD) announced that it has utilized Nvidia's physics artificial intelligence (AI) modeling platform PhysicsNeMo to develop a digital twin panel tool (DPS). At present, LGD is the only company in South Korea to have applied PhysicsNeMo in actual display production....

The European Commission officially introduced a minimum price commitment mechanism in mid-January 2026 for imports of battery electric vehicles (BEV) from China to Europe, as an alternative to punitive tariffs of up to 35%....

Samsung Electronics is reportedly accelerating preparations for next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM), moving to establish a hybrid bonding production line at its Cheonan campus in South Korea to support the higher stacking transition to high-bandwidth memory 4 (HBM4) and next-generation high-bandwidth memory 5 (HBM5)....

Intel's India engineering center made significant contributions to the recently launched Panther Lake client platform in the areas like x86 core, platform design, post-silicon validation, reference design and platform and systems validation, the company said....

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have expanded their strategic collaboration to develop rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure in India, including a planned 200-megawatt deployment based on AMD's "Helios" AI architecture....

The global memory industry is facing its most severe supply crunch in more than a decade. DRAM and NAND prices are rising at record speed, while high-bandwidth memory capacity is increasingly absorbed by artificial intelligence data centers....

Revenue data for January 2026 highlights uneven momentum across Taiwan's AI server supply chain, spanning power, substrate, and thermal management suppliers, and reflects shifting demand patterns, product mix upgrades, and capacity constraints....

Taiwan's small and medium enterprises — the backbone of the island's economy — are getting a major government push into the AI era. On February 12, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) unveiled a four-part plan to help SMEs adopt AI and navigate a world reshaped by labor shortages and supply chain upheaval. The roadmap goes beyond broad ambition, laying out concrete measures industry by industry, with a clear goal: break through the bottlenecks that have long stalled transformation....

The memory shortage and price surge have disrupted smartphone shipments, VisEra Technologies — a TSMC-affiliated optical component maker — warned, noting the global smartphone market is entering an adjustment phase as end-market demand forecasts grow more conservative. Mid- to low-tier models are expected to face initial shipment cuts....

Rising DRAM and CPU prices are feeding through the display supply chain, with AUO estimating that end-product prices could increase by 10% to 30%. While LCD panel prices have firmed on tighter supply, upstream semiconductor cost inflation is reducing demand visibility for consumer electronics in 2026....

OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, founder of open-source AI agent OpenClaw, signalling a strategic shift toward autonomous personal AI agents as a core product focus....

China's leading domestic GPU makers Moore Threads, MetaX, Iluvatar CoreX, and Biren Technology remained on standby during the Lunar New Year to adapt their chips to newly released large models....

The Pentagon briefly published an updated list of Chinese companies alleged to have ties to the People’s Liberation Army, then withdrew it within an hour. The episode highlights Washington’s attempt to ease trade tensions with Beijing while maintaining pressure on technology and national security ahead of an expected April meeting between President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping....