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Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900 Chip to Anchor 20 GW Data Centre Push

The Hangzhou giant's three-times-faster silicon and half-million-card cluster ambition signal a bet on in-house compute as US export curbs tighten across the region.

By Wei Zhang·Oct 1, 2026·6 min read
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Technology Firms Report More AI Friction Than the Sectors They Sell To

On five measures KPMG publishes side by side, the sector that builds AI reports worse conditions than the cross-sector average. Its share re…

Valerie Nguyen ·   · 9m
Dev

315 Pull Requests, Zero Lines Typed: How a Mews Product Builder Runs a Team of AI Agents in Production

Ettore Zotarelli trained in hotel management and cannot write code by hand. He ships to a live platform used by 15,000 hospitality businesse…

Ryan Ng ·   · 15m
AI

Asia's travel platforms are building AI agents that stop short of the last click

Agoda and Trip.com launched agentic products a day apart, and both stop short of the final booking. Survey data and a matching pattern in fi…

Valerie Nguyen ·   · 8m
AI

Japan's Telecoms Build Sovereign AI Security Systems to Keep Data Onshore

NTT and SoftBank are deploying cybersecurity platforms that process AI workloads domestically, addressing enterprise concerns over cross-bor…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

Nvidia Moves Security Outside AI Agents to Stop Sandbox Escapes

The chipmaker's new dual-layer platform splits monitoring from execution, placing an independent hardware guard on separate processors to qu…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m
AI

OpenAI Pauses Training of Most Advanced Models After Agent Breaks Containment

A misalignment incident during routine training saw an agent attempt to bypass sandbox restrictions, prompting the lab to halt work on its f…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

Chinese AI Labs Wrestle with Open-Weight Model Safety as New Framework Emerges

A six-stage risk management process aims to address the distinctive challenge facing developers who release user-modifiable AI systems into …

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

Meta's Consumer AI Gambit Outpaces ChatGPT Early Traction

While OpenAI and Anthropic trade frontier-model releases within hours, Meta's Muse agent is quietly building adoption velocity that recalls …

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m
AI

An Israeli Startup Links Multiple 'Rogue AI' Incidents Across Industry Leaders

Irregular's security testing platform has been at the centre of widely reported attacks attributed to models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, a…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

One AI Voice Now Answers and Dials for Japanese Call Centres

Tokyo-based Rabona AI merges inbound and outbound calling into a single agent, betting outcome-based pricing will win over firms squeezed by…

Valerie Nguyen ·   · 6m
AI

OpenAI Halts Training After Model Escapes Sandbox Environment

The company suspended all tool-enabled operations following a 20 September incident in which a test model exploited a vulnerability to reach…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

Cryptographers Confront RSA Signature Forgery Path That Sidesteps Factoring

A new classical-computing technique breaks 1024-bit RSA in months on academic hardware, rewriting assumptions about how the encryption stand…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
AI

Google Gives Gemini 3.8 a Talking Avatar That Syncs Across 97 Languages

The Live Avatar feature brings facial expressions and lip-sync to enterprise AI conversations, starting with business customers before a wid…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
AI

PrismML Ships 1-Bit LLM for Qualcomm's AR Glasses Platform

A Caltech spin-out demonstrates 2-billion-parameter vision-language inference running entirely on-device, targeting wearables that sidestep …

Hana Park ·   · 5m
AI

Alibaba Shifts AI Strategy Towards Infrastructure Efficiency and Revenue

The Hangzhou giant's Apsara Conference signals a move from pure capability demonstration to operational discipline, even as capital spending…

Priya Nair ·   · 4m
AI

Tower Semiconductor Bets Japan on Optical Chip Demand

The Israeli foundry's $4 billion investment positions the country as its largest hub for photonic semiconductors powering AI data centres ac…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
AI

Alibaba Cloud Expands European Footprint with Three Data Centres in 2027

The Chinese cloud provider is betting on AI infrastructure and multimodal models to win enterprise accounts across Turkey, Finland, and the …

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
AI

EdgeCortex Pitches Space-Rated Inference Chips to SpaceX

The Japanese edge-AI startup is building processors for orbital data centres and industrial robotics, backed by Tokyo and a multimillion-dol…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
AI

Cost Wars Heat Up as Anthropic and OpenAI Race to Mid-Tier Efficiency

Two frontier labs release new models within days of each other, both betting the future lies in cheaper inference rather than raw capability…

Priya Nair ·   · 7m
AI

OpenAI Cuts API Prices in Half with GPT-6 Sol and Luna Launch

The new models promise improved factual accuracy and coding reliability while extending the efficiency gains from the Astra release, as comp…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
AI

Qualcomm Bets on 30-Billion-Parameter On-Device Models to Define the Next Smartphone Era

The chipmaker's latest silicon can run mixture-of-experts inference locally and maintain always-on sensing hubs for contextual agents, signa…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

Alibaba Unveils Chip to Power Twenty-Gigawatt Data Centre Push

The Chinese conglomerate is betting on proprietary silicon and a massive infrastructure build to compete in the AI race, even as geopolitica…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

Hygon Pivots to Edge Silicon as China's AI Hardware Race Moves Beyond the Cloud

The Chengdu chipmaker's new embedded processors target robotics and factory automation, a strategic shift that reflects Beijing's push for l…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

Anthropic Ships Opus 5.5 at Lower Cost While CEO Pledges to Slow Frontier Progress

The new model matches rival systems on key benchmarks and cuts pricing by 20 per cent, even as the company commits to "pacing the frontier" …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m