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Taiwan Visit Highlights How AI Demand Is Pulling Chip Power, Capacity and Pricing Into One Orbit
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Taiwan Visit Highlights How AI Demand Is Pulling Chip Power, Capacity and Pricing Into One Orbit

Jensen Huang’s Taiwan visit was centered on partner meetings, a planned discussion with TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei, and Nvidia appearances tied to the Computex cycle. The episode points to a broader market phase in which AI chip demand is increasingly shaped by foundry access, packaging readiness, memory costs and ecosystem coordination. Investors, suppliers and device makers should watch whether Taiwan-related expansion signals translate into concrete capacity, site, and pricing outcomes.

May 30, 2026Read More →
Nvidia’s Taipei GTC underscores Taiwan’s rising role in the global AI infrastructure race
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Nvidia’s Taipei GTC underscores Taiwan’s rising role in the global AI infrastructure race

Nvidia will hold GTC Taipei from June 1-4, 2026, for the second consecutive year, alongside COMPUTEX Taipei. Jensen Huang is scheduled to keynote on June 1, with sessions focused on AI infrastructure, agentic AI, reasoning AI, science, robotics, and edge systems. The event matters because it reinforces Taiwan’s importance not just as a hardware supply base, but as a strategic stage for the next phase of AI platform competition.

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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 hits Cannes with 95-minute AI film ‘Hell Grind’
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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 hits Cannes with 95-minute AI film ‘Hell Grind’

ByteDance’s cloud platform Volcengine brought its Seedance 2.0 model to the 79th Cannes Film Festival and premiered Hell Grind, a 95-minute AI-generated feature film billed as the world’s first full-length AI movie. The film was produced by a team from US-based AI company Higgsfield using ByteDance-developed Seedance 2.0, with reported production taking 14 days, involving 15 people, and costing under $500,000. Its debut points to progress in long-form AI video generation while also raising questions about workforce displacement, authorship, and the role of human creators.

May 30, 2026Read More →
NHK lab showcases provenance technology that records who edited video and when
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NHK lab showcases provenance technology that records who edited video and when

NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories is showing a prototype system that records and verifies when, where and by whom news footage was shot and edited. The system is based on the C2PA standard and carries provenance data from filming through editing and distribution, including masking work. NHK is also demonstrating a web browser prototype that verifies provenance information and displays a Content Credential mark to help viewers judge trustworthiness.

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Japan's deep-tech startup Flosfia offers next-gen power chips that allow EVs to travel farther
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Japan's deep-tech startup Flosfia offers next-gen power chips that allow EVs to travel farther

Kyoto University startup Flosfia is developing gallium oxide power semiconductors as an alternative to silicon for devices including electric vehicles. The company says gallium oxide delivers far lower power loss than silicon and silicon carbide, while its mist CVD process can bring production costs close to silicon. Flosfia says its devices have met industry reliability criteria and is preparing for mass production with a target of 1 million units per month.

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Nvidia ‘likely the most concerned’ as Huawei bets on new chip architecture law
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Nvidia ‘likely the most concerned’ as Huawei bets on new chip architecture law

Huawei says its new Tau Scaling Law could support transistor density equivalent to a 1.4-nanometre process in high-end chips by 2031. Analysts said the move could weaken US-led export-control leverage as China pushes semiconductor self-sufficiency under sanctions. Omdia said Nvidia is likely the most concerned, while Chinese state media cast the effort as a technological Long March.

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Huawei's Tau Law redefines chip scaling with logic folding as the post-Dennard path to 1.4nm
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Huawei's Tau Law redefines chip scaling with logic folding as the post-Dennard path to 1.4nm

Huawei introduced the Tau Scaling Law at ISCAS 2026 in Shanghai as a semiconductor scaling framework built around temporal minimization through logic folding. The company said the approach could deliver transistor densities equivalent to 1.4nm by 2031, offering a path beyond geometric shrinking alone. Huawei also said it has already designed and shipped 381 chips using this architectural approach, with a new Kirin processor set to be the first commercial product with full logic folding technology.

May 30, 2026Read More →
Future Tech: How Many Steps to “Fit” a Startup into the World Artificial Intelligence Conference?
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Future Tech: How Many Steps to “Fit” a Startup into the World Artificial Intelligence Conference?

WAIC Future Tech said its Knowledge Base is now online as a core content asset centered on AI innovation projects, investor insights, event information, and activity updates. The platform said the database will be continuously updated with material ranging from venture capital roadshows and AI singularity talks to venture capital gatherings and AI private director meetings. WAIC Future Tech describes itself as the World Artificial Intelligence Conference’s official global innovation platform for connecting early-stage AI startups with investors, industry, and talent.

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Cisco study says AI is set to become a leading driver of Internet traffic growth
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Cisco study says AI is set to become a leading driver of Internet traffic growth

Cisco says consumer AI traffic is still a small share of Internet traffic today, but could become a major growth driver by the mid-2030s. Its WAN-focused study projects a 6.6x rise in consumer-driven network traffic from AI and agentic AI, with inference traffic reaching 25% of total network traffic by 2035. The report says AI traffic differs from typical web use by creating longer flows, more upstream demand and greater sensitivity to latency.

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Alibaba AI voice model beats OpenAI, xAI to bridge Chinese dialect gap
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Alibaba AI voice model beats OpenAI, xAI to bridge Chinese dialect gap

Alibaba’s Fun-Realtime-TTS-Preview ranked fifth on Artificial Analysis’ Speech Arena, ahead of rivals including OpenAI and xAI and as the only Chinese-engineered system in the global top five. A separate Artificial Analysis index placed Alibaba’s Fun-Realtime-ASR first on word error rate at 1.8 per cent. Alibaba says the model supports more than 30 languages, seven major Chinese dialects and over 20 regional accents, targeting a persistent weakness in speech systems trained on standard Mandarin.

May 30, 2026Read More →
Meta launches paid plans for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp as it tests AI subscriptions
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Meta launches paid plans for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp as it tests AI subscriptions

Meta has rolled out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp while keeping the core apps free. The company is also testing paid tiers for its AI assistant, with higher limits for image, video and reasoning tools. The move comes as Meta raises AI infrastructure spending and looks beyond advertising for revenue.

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JD.com founder vows to protect Chinese jobs from AI and robots
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JD.com founder vows to protect Chinese jobs from AI and robots

JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong said the company would protect jobs across its 900,000-strong workforce as it adopts automation. Liu said JD.com would not fire front-line workers replaced by machines and pointed to more than 80 training bases for new technical skills. His comments come after Chinese legal moves requiring retraining or reassignment before workers can be terminated.

May 29, 2026Read More →