2026-07-13
South Korea flags a record $530bn budget, paid for by the AI chip boom
South Korea will draw up record budget spending of more than 800 trillion won ($530.97bn) for fiscal 2027, supported by stronger tax revenues from the booming AI chip industry, the government said on Monday. It is the clearest sign yet that Seoul intends to spend the semiconductor windfall rather than save it, an argument the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-13
TCS bets on 8,900 AI deployment engineers to defend India’s IT services model
Tata Consultancy Services plans to build a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed AI engineers and is looking for acquisition targets in AI and cybersecurity, chief executive K Krithivasan said. The move is India’s largest IT firm answering the question that has hung over the sector since the arrival of agentic AI in enterprise stacks, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-13
TSMC breaks ground on more advanced packaging fabs in Chiayi
TSMC will build additional advanced packaging fabs in the second phase of the Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, National Science and Technology Council minister Wu Cheng-wen said at a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday. Packaging is where the AI supply chain currently pinches, and it is the same constraint that Nvidia’s multi-year HBM4 deal with SK Hynix […]<br /> This story conti [...]
2026-07-13
Samsung pulls its first Yongin chip plant forward to 2029
Samsung Electronics is moving to begin operations at the first chip plant in its Yongin cluster in 2029, one to two years earlier than planned, industry sources told Yonhap. The pull-forward lands inside a national build-out that already carries an $880bn commitment to chips, data centres and robots, and it follows a year in which every […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-13
Google’s SensorFM turns messy wearable sensor data into a general-purpose health intelligence layer
Google Research's SensorFM is a foundation model trained on more than a trillion minutes of wearable data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. It beats existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 health and behavioral tasks. SensorFM could eventually power Google's AI health coach, but the company hasn't announced any integration plans yet.<br /> The article Google’s SensorFM [...]
