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Cupertino, 17 July 2026 – HSBC has upgraded Apple to Buy from Hold and raised its price target sharply to US$366 from US$260, citing the technology group’s emerging…
Hong Kong, 17 July 2026 – Zhongji Innolight has moved closer to completing a major Hong Kong secondary listing after clearing the exchange’s listing hearing, positioning the Chinese…
Beijing, 17 July 2026 – Chinese artificial intelligence developer Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a powerful open-weight model designed for advanced reasoning, long-duration coding and complex knowledge…
Singapore, 17 July 2026 – Databricks is raising a new strategic funding round at a valuation of US$188 billion, giving the data and artificial intelligence company additional capital…
Tokyo, 17 July 2026 – SoftBank, Sony Group, Honda Motor and NEC are spearheading a major Japanese initiative to develop a domestically produced multimodal artificial intelligence model using…
Singapore, 17 July 2026 – China’s advanced manufacturing sector is expected to become a major beneficiary of the artificial intelligence investment cycle as rising capital expenditure by technology…
Beijing, 17 July 2026 – A Chinese stock-exchange filing has offered rare insight into DeepSeek’s private-market valuation, implying that the artificial intelligence developer was valued at approximately 350.88…
San Francisco, 16 July 2026 – Google has delayed the launch of its Gemini 3.5 Pro artificial intelligence model after the technology failed to meet internal performance targets,…
Boise, 16 July 2026 – Micron Technology has signed long-term agreements with Qualcomm and several major automotive technology suppliers to provide memory and storage components for artificial intelligence-powered…
Tokyo, 16 July 2026 – A growing group of young Japanese investors is turning gains from the artificial intelligence-driven stock-market rally into luxury purchases, creating fresh opportunities for…
