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Google on May 12 unveiled Googlebook, a new line of laptops it describes as the first designed from the ground up for AI, merging Android's app ecosystem with ChromeOS's browser capabilities and centering Gemini as the core intelligence layer....

China's top foundry SMIC is entering a new growth phase after regulators approved a record CNY40.6 billion (US$5.98 billion) asset acquisition that strengthens its grip over one of its most profitable wafer fabs, while surging domestic AI infrastructure spending is rapidly reshaping the company's long-term outlook....

The global race for AI computing power continues to intensify, beyond ongoing GPU shortages. CPUs, long viewed as secondary components in servers, are once again becoming critical parts of data center infrastructure due to the rapid rise of AI inference and AI agent applications....

Of the 238 Taiwan-listed semiconductor and related companies tracked by Digitimes, 73% (173 companies) posted positive year-on-year revenue growth in April 2026, and 58% (139) grew month-over-month. Memory makers, AI server assemblers, and advanced packaging houses led the advance, while silicon wafer suppliers and a handful of fabless names faced ongoing headwinds....

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Acter Group reported record first-quarter 2026 results as sustained demand from semiconductor, AI data center, and high-tech electronics customers drove factory buildouts and expansions, the firm announced. Revenue rose 36% year on year to NT$11.6 billion (US$370 million), net profit climbed 146% to NT$1.58 billion, and earnings per share reached NT$12.76, also up 146% from a year earlier....

April results from Taiwan's power electronics sector underscored how deeply artificial intelligence infrastructure is reshaping demand for energy systems, with strong growth across data center power management, backup batteries, and advanced cooling solutions....

"Chicom Among Us": Maryland GOP Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Chinese-Born Delegate's AI Disclosure Bill Rooting out Chinese communist spies appears to be moving higher on the agenda at the U.S. Justice Department, with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche now at the helm. On Monday, the DoJ indicted Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang for working with the Chinese government. The larger concern is that Chinese communists have penetrated deeply into many levels of the U.S. government, as well as corporate America. Spies are like cockroaches: if there's one, there are likely many more. You are not gonna believe what I just found The California Mayor who admitted to being a Chinese spy donated to the Democrat Senate Campaign Committee Democrat Senators are being funded by Chinese spies If it was the other way around, it would be front page news for weeks pic.twitter.com/wlHyLYzdub — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 12, 2026 That brings us to a recent podcast appearance by Mark Fis...

ByteDance's Volcano Engine, the cloud unit that released an OpenClaw-based cloud agent tool ArkClaw, is betting that the next phase of artificial intelligence will hinge on cheaper tokens, higher inference efficiency and longer context windows. “Agent-related token consumption still accounts for a single-digit percentage of total token usage, but it is growing,” said Li Guodong, chief architect of ArkClaw, on Tuesday on the sidelines of OpenClaw's first mainland China event since the open-source......

Artificial intelligence has shortened drug development from years to just 18 months, the founder of METiS TechBio said, as the AI-driven drug design start-up made its Hong Kong debut on Wednesday amid strong investor appetite for AI-related stocks in the city. “We see ourselves like a SpaceX-style company,” Lai Tsai-Ta, co-founder and CEO of METiS TechBio, who obtained a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, said. “We use AI algorithms to design a large number of......

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Whether the U.S. will relax chip export restrictions will be a point of focus at the two leaders' summit....

There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time....

Taiwan's ASIC and design services sector is showing sharply diverging fortunes in 2026, with new monthly revenue data highlighting strong momentum for GUC while rivals Faraday and Alchip face a slower start to the year....

Moore Threads has entered a strategic partnership with Lightwheel Intelligent (Beijing) Technology (Lightwheel.ai) to jointly develop a domestic simulation and synthetic data infrastructure platform for embodied AI, highlighting China's broader push to reduce reliance on foreign AI computing and robotics software ecosystems....

At a time when the global semiconductor industry is undergoing a historic restructuring, the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association says Southeast Asia is evolving from a backend manufacturing base into one of the world's most resilient semiconductor supply chain hubs....

Taiwan's machinery exports expanded for the 15th consecutive month in April 2026, as sustained demand for AI infrastructure and semiconductors lifted shipments of electronic equipment as well as inspection and metrology tools, the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry said. The association reported a 16.9% year-on-year increase in April machinery exports and an 18% rise in cumulative exports for January–April 2026....

Chinese investors are heading into the earnings season demanding proof that billions in AI spending by tech giants are paying off....

China's artificial intelligence hardware suppliers have a problem: keeping up with insatiable demand for their products....