Five years after the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, international actors, aid agencies, and diplomats remain deeply divided over the most effective way to engage the regime amid severe restrictions on women's rights and a sprawling humanitarian crisis.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation is planning to add equipment to its factories after surging demand for mature-node chips used alongside AI processors exceeded expectations.
SMIC and Hua Hong report substantial year-on-year profit increases of 261.7% and 385.9% to $479.2M and $38.6M, respectively, in Q2, driven by high demand for AI computing power, with Hua Hong's revenue reaching a record $717.5M.
CoreWeave's recent earnings report and executive commentary on the extended useful life of older AI chips like Nvidia's A100 provide strong validation for the artificial intelligence infrastructure trade, boosting data center stocks.
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has initiated pre-IPO tutoring with Citic Securities for a mainland listing, leveraging its small-model strategy amid US chip shortages.
Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies secured third place globally in NAND memory shipments in the second quarter, according to Counterpoint Research data.
China is accelerating its brain-computer interface industry through coordinated state initiatives, highlighted by the nation's first commercial insurance policy for BCI surgery in Hangzhou.
ModelBest, a Chinese AI startup, has initiated its pre-IPO tutoring process for a mainland China listing, leveraging demand for compact AI models and navigating chip shortages with lightweight, domestically optimized systems.
As the US and China consolidate AI dominance, the 2026 Global AI Innovation Index and Stanford's report highlight a wide gap between the two superpowers and European nations.
Nvidia partners with Wall Street firms to raise $500 billion for AI infrastructure, amid rising Middle East shipping attacks and Japan's currency slide.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang partnered with six major asset managers to build a $500 billion financing pipeline for data centers, betting that GPUs will act as long-term productive assets rather than fast-depreciating electronics.
Nvidia has partnered with major Wall Street investors including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to raise $500bn for artificial intelligence infrastructure, treating AI hardware as an independent asset class for the first time.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 44.7% year-on-year increase in July revenue to 467.58 billion New Taiwan dollars, driven by strong demand for artificial intelligence-related chips.
Startup Discovered Materials has raised a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners to use AI agent swarms and physics models to discover more efficient semiconductor materials that address AI hardware cooling challenges.
CXMT, China's leading DRAM maker, is fast-tracked into MSCI's main index 10 days post-IPO, expected to increase passive fund allocations and highlight China's semiconductor industry globally.
SpaceX plans to build natural gas power plants to power its upcoming Terafab semiconductor factory in Grimes County, Texas, relying on fossil fuels rather than solar power.
China's race to build advanced AI models faces a critical new threat beyond US chip controls: a severe shortage of high-quality training data that could stall tech ambitions.
Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to acquire Toronto-based startup Taalas to boost its AI inference capabilities with customized, hard-wired chips, expanding beyond general-purpose GPUs.
Guangdong-based Victory Giant is negotiating new US orders and expanding AI chip component production, acquiring land in Huizhou for a 3 billion yuan smart manufacturing facility.
Anthropic has confirmed it is hiring a custom silicon team to design its own chips for running AI models, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and improve performance through vertical integration.
China e Estados Unidos lideram iniciativas concorrentes para moldar a governança global da inteligência artificial. Os EUA promovem a Pax Silica com aliados restritos para controlar suprimentos, enquanto Pequim lança a Waico, apostando em código aberto e no Sul Global.
Um terremoto de magnitude 7,1 atingiu a província de Kumamoto, no sul do Japão, resultando em cortes de energia, interrupções no transporte, ordens de evacuação e danos a edifícios. Empresas como TSMC e Sony avaliam a situação, enquanto a Agência Meteorológica do Japão alerta para réplicas e deslizamentos de terra.
A agricultora Kayllane Sabrina, de Roraima, transformou a batata-doce cultivada pela família em chips para criar uma nova fonte de renda, comercializando-os na AgroBV 2026. Outros agricultores familiares também inovam, como Danielle Lira, que faz produtos de abacaxi, apesar das dificuldades climáticas enfrentadas na produção.
Taiwan's economy is experiencing a significant AI-driven boom, becoming the world's fifth-largest stock exchange by market cap and a top US import source. However, experts warn of long-term challenges from volatile international relations, particularly with the US and China, and domestic demographic issues.
