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Anduril Industries reportedly completed a $5 billion Series H financing at a $61 billion valuation, reinforcing its position as a major defense-technology company. The article highlights its Lattice AI platform, flexible Arsenal-1 manufacturing system, and Palmer Luckey’s view that China’s engineering and manufacturing efficiency could reshape future military competition.
Rapidus is pursuing mass production of advanced 2nm semiconductors through a large-scale Japanese national project. Instead of matching TSMC’s scale, the company plans to compete with RUMS, an integrated one-building production model designed for diverse, lower-volume manufacturing.
Nokia is reportedly planning further layoffs, facility closures, and a major reduction of its mainland China operations, potentially retaining only limited after-sales services. The retreat is part of a global restructuring toward AI and cloud businesses, but it may reduce Nokia’s access to China’s large-scale 5G deployment data needed for AI-RAN and future 6G research.
Nebius Group plans to raise $4.5 billion through convertible bonds to build artificial intelligence data centres. The offering includes $2.75 billion of notes maturing in 2030, with the remainder issued in a second tranche.
SMIC reported its first $3 billion quarter, with revenue rising 36.1% year over year and net profit nearly tripling to $479.2 million. The Chinese foundry is also raising wafer prices as US sanctions strengthen demand from China’s captive AI market.
ByteDance’s Seed foundation-model division has reportedly completed another internal restructuring. Its foundation-model organization now includes four first-level departments focused on pretraining data, reinforcement learning, product post-training for work, and product post-training for chat.
Autodesk presented its vision for design and manufacturing digital transformation at Design & Make Summit Japan 2026. The keynote emphasized connected data foundations and changes to design and manufacturing workflows in the AI era.
A developer is seeking reliable methods to estimate whether Git commits were created with AI coding tools. The discussion emphasizes probabilistic risk scoring, calibrated signals, and capturing provenance earlier in the development workflow.
LeadShine Technology Strategic Investment Director Nangle Zheng says China has reduced humanoid robot development cycles from years to months. He discusses the role of China’s robotics supply chain in an interview with Bloomberg Technology.
Meta reportedly ran advertisements for an app that promised to digitally undress female politicians. One ad included a pornographic video featuring a deepfake closely resembling a US politician.