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The lawsuit ​says that the company relied on factors such as productivity and AI token usage when it slashed thousands of jobs earlier this year....

Meta Used AI To Lay Off Workers With Medical Conditions: Lawsuit Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the company, alleging that AI-assisted systems used in its layoff process unfairly disadvantaged workers with disabilities, medical conditions, pregnancies, or family-care responsibilities. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Oakland, California. The employees, who are proceeding anonymously, claim Meta considered factors such as productivity scores and employees' use of AI tools when deciding which jobs to eliminate. According to the complaint, this approach penalized workers whose medical leave or caregiving obligations reduced their recorded activity. The plaintiffs were informed in May that their employment would end beginning July 22. They are asking the court to temporarily halt the layoffs while their discrimination and retaliation claims proceed through individual arbitration. Meta rejected the allegations. "Workforce management and organizational decisions were and are ma...

Die Wirtschaft des wohlhabenden Stadtstaats ist im ersten Halbjahr um sechs Prozent gewachsen. Zum Treiber entwickelt sich die starke Nachfrage nach KI-Rechenzentren....

Microsoft has announced an expanded 3,200-job cut at its Xbox division and is evaluating whether to split off or sell certain game studios. Analysts say the move is more than a routine gaming restructure and instead reflects how AI investment is reshaping capital allocation across the tech industry....

Japan's new growth strategy could ripple well beyond its borders as it channels public investment into AI, quantum technologies, and advanced networks that align with priorities already advancing in Taiwan and other economies. For global readers, the plan signals stronger competition for supply chains, talent, and strategic technology leadership....

The 2026 Taiwan Expo Japan opened in Tokyo on July 15, giving Taiwanese companies a platform to pursue business in AI, smart technology, robotics and the silver economy. Taiwan's trade promotion delegation had arrived in Japan a day earlier for the expo and a separate Taiwan-Japan AI technology forum....

Apple is reportedly evaluating AI model compression technology from Silicon Valley startup PrismML as it seeks to run more capable AI models directly on iPhones, a move that could improve performance while reducing reliance on cloud computing....

CATL is rapidly expanding into AI infrastructure. Through strategic investments in DeepSeek, data centres and power systems, the company is positioning itself at the energy layer of the AI computing value chain, extending its business well beyond electric vehicle batteries....

Taiwan and Japan are expanding deployment of the IOWN all-photonic network to improve research connectivity and provide backup AI computing capacity. The effort comes as Taiwan promotes digital resilience and sovereign AI infrastructure, while NTT extends APN links through Kumamoto to tighten industry connections between the two markets....

Der Baustopp soll Zeit für neue Regeln für energieintensive Rechenzentren schaffen. Die Tech-Branche warnt vor Nachteilen für den KI-Standort USA....

Die BIZ warnt vor Überkapazitäten bei Rechenzentren und Chips sowie einer steigenden Verschuldung großer Technologiekonzerne durch KI-Investitionen....

Tower Semiconductor is placing a roughly US$3 billion wager that the artificial-intelligence buildout will force data centers to move data with light rather than electricity, anchoring the bet in Japan with backing from Tokyo....

Nvidia and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are weighing a partnership under which the Japanese industrial group would supply cooling systems and energy management equipment for the artificial-intelligence data centers Nvidia is building with partners worldwide, Nikkei reported. The talks point to where the AI buildout is now bottlenecked: not chips, but the power and heat they generate....

A rare mid-quarter warning from IBM triggered the sharpest single-day decline in the company's 115-year history on Tuesday, and the reasons chief executive Arvind Krishna gave point to a broader shift: the AI-driven global memory shortage is pulling corporate technology budgets away from software and mainframes and toward supply-constrained hardware, a dynamic that could unsettle enterprise vendors well beyond IBM....

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As attention in the tech industry has centered on the US tech giants and TSMC, sovereign AI has emerged as a faster-growing blue ocean for AI infrastructure providers, supply-chain players and compute-rental operators seeking better margins....

China's IC exports surged in the first half of 2026, underscoring strong demand for AI, data center, and HPC hardware that lifted electronics supply-chain momentum. The General Administration of Customs said on July 14 that IC exports reached US$177.28 billion in the first half of 2026, up 96.1% year-over-year....

AI image sensor chips have become a key market for Taiwan's IC design firms, with major players such as Novatek Microelectronics, Realtek Semiconductor, and Himax Technologies, as well as mid-sized companies including Sunplus Technology, Egis Technology, and Etron Technology, all stepping up their efforts. Among firms also pushing into drone imaging solutions, including Elan Microelectronics and PixArt Imaging, a broad consensus is emerging: compute power and price are not the real winning factors in this market....

Huawei will publicly display its Atlas 950 SuperPoD AI computing system for the first time at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, placing domestic computing infrastructure at the centre of China's flagship AI gathering....

Shanghai Orient Computing Core Technology has launched the DF1000, a 14-nanometre AI accelerator that uses software-defined computing and 3D-stacked near-memory architecture to reduce reliance on advanced process nodes and high-bandwidth memory, as Sohu and ICsmart reported....