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GlobalFoundries Inc. and Renesas Electronics Corp. have unveiled a multi-billion-dollar expansion of their manufacturing alliance, a move that underscores the deepening "friend-shoring" of the semiconductor industry as Washington and Tokyo scramble to insulate critical silicon from geopolitical volatility....

OpenAI's recruitment of personal AI specialist Peter Steinberg and public predictions from industry figures have intensified claims that most smartphone apps may disappear as AI agents assume data management and decision-making roles. Steinberg told Lex Fridman that "80% of apps will disappear," arguing that personal agents can better manage users' information and actions....

Under stage lights, humanoid robots walked, waved, and turned in a flawless sequence at a Lunar New Year gala in China, a brief demonstration that industry observers say highlights the robotics sector's move from prototypes toward on-site validation of integrated supply chains....

India has launched the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, marking the first time the global AI event is hosted in the Global South. The five-day gathering, running from February 16 to 20 at Bharat Mandapam, brings together heads of state, senior officials, and technology executives from across the world to discuss the development, deployment, and governance of artificial intelligence....

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the India AI Impact Expo 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on February 16, marking the opening of a five-day summit focused on artificial intelligence. The event brings together global leaders, technology executives, policymakers, researchers, and innovators to explore AI applications across industries....

A global shortage of memory chips is beginning to reshape product launch timelines across the tech industry, impacting everything from smartphones and laptops to gaming consoles and data center hardware, according to Bloomberg and other reports....

Thailand's Board of Investment (BoI) has approved a THB2.3 billion (US$73.81 million) research and development project for WD's Thai unit, Western Digital Storage Technology (Thailand) Co, to advance heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology to produce hard disk drives (HDDs) exceeding 100TB by 2029, according to reports from the Bangkok Post, Kaohoon and National Thailand....

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....