Shares in Elice, a South Korean AI data centre company, fell 32% on their first day of trading in Seoul on Tuesday. It was the worst debut on record for a Korean IPO of $100m or more, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, as Yoolim Lee and Youkyung …
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports only DeepSeek-V4….
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined sticker price is over $35bn. Reuters reported the orders on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. TNW has not indepen…
Micron workers in Taoyuan, Taiwan, are set to go on strike on Thursday, 22 October, after months of failed negotiations over how the US chipmaker shares its profits with employees. The union announced the planned walkout on Monday, Reuters reported. It…
Samsung Electronics will make a core part of Nvidia’s custom memory chips on TSMC’s 3-nanometre process. The Seoul Economic Daily reported the move on Sunday, citing industry sources. It would be the first time the two have worked together on making hi…
The World Bank wants developing countries to build “small AI”, compact models that run on a mobile phone with a weak signal. Paschal Donohoe, the bank’s chief knowledge officer, said AI could speed up growth in emerging economies, but only if it fits l…
The Layzner from the anime of the same name has finally been given a nicely chunky Hi-Metal R toy that celebrates the host series’ 40th anniversary.
Ericsson’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) came in at SEK 10.1bn ($1bn) in the third quarter. Analysts had expected SEK 7.93bn on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shares rose as much as 11% in Stoc…
Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Microsoft said on Wednesday. Since January 2026, the three services enabled more than 1bn malicious messages …
TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose 51% to NT$1.49tn, or 41.2% to $46.72bn in US dollar terms, according to T…