Tech

Google, Microsoft, and other Big Tech firms make large-scale investments in fusion companies Rising as a long-term energy source amid data center expansion Technological maturity and economic viability remain constraints, commercialization expected to take time

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Core LCD Material Polarizers Pushed Out by China, Forcing ‘Strategic Retreat’ Samsung and LGD Even Ceding Plants Under ‘Red Tech’ Offensive OLED Also at Risk as Chinese Players Gain Ground in Next-Generation Technologies Alongside semicondu

Korea’s Refining and Petrochemicals Sector Builds In-House Power Plants to Cut Energy Costs Using Lower-Carbon Fuels Like LNG to Boost Clean-Competitiveness GS Caltex Speeds Up Decarbonization by Building a Palm-Oil-Based Biodiesel Value Chain <

Renewed debate over growth expectations inflating valuationQuestions raised over sustainability of continuous capital raising

Equipment move-in schedule at Arizona Fab 2 brought forward Simultaneous pressure from surging AI demand and advanced packaging bottlenecks Strategic overhaul amid signs of customer defection TSMC has abruptly accelerated the timeline for moving

A deal largely aimed at easing SK Group’s financial burdenAcquisition capacity shaped by Doosan subsidiaries’ earnings

Semiconductor inventory shortfalls leave required volumes unsecured Production halts extend from North America to China and Japan U.S.

Judiciary Puts the Brakes on Tesla’s Autonomous Driving Marketing Gap Confirmed Between Technological Reality and Advertising Claims Regulatory Tightening Poised to Spread Across the EV Industry Photo=Tesla

Ford–LG Energy Solution Scraps Battery Supply Deal Worth About $6.5 Billion Renault Picked as Europe Partner, Set to Cooperate on EVs and Light Commercial Vehicles Renault Chooses Envision AESC as Battery Supplier, With Limited Ties to LG Energy Solution

Beyond efficiency gains, a shift in fixed-cost structuresRobots deployed for simple, repetitive, standardized tasks

Exploiting the pandemic-era surge in remote work through “disguised employment” Hundreds of laptops stockpiled in U.S.

Pornhub Suffers Massive User Data Breach After Third-Party Vendor Hack OpenAI Also Exposed in Same Vendor-Linked Security Incident, Hitting API Platforms Weak “Supply Chain Security” Seen as Potential Launchpad for APT Attacks A massive data

Technology sovereignty discourse presumes a finished-product contestReal value ultimately hinges on component-level capabilities

Internal shift in perception around “quasi-tourism businesses”From ad removals to property closures, administrative actions accumulate

Google’s “Gemini 3” rapidly gains ground, prompting OpenAI to move up the release of “GPT-5.2” As the generative AI race heats up, Google holds an edge when model performance is broadly comparable OpenAI steps up its counterplay, from a Disney licensing deal to an intensified talent push

China mobilizes state-led investment and infrastructure U.S.

Pricing and mass-production capacity offset earlier weaknessesPotential opening of a Samsung–SK Hynix duopoly

Ionic MT Confirms North America’s Largest Estimated Rare Earth Deposit China Controls the Entire Global Value Chain, Making a Rapid Reset Unlikely Trump Administration Expands Private-Sector Investment to Pursue “Rare Earth Self-Sufficiency”

Targeting a simultaneous rebound in memory and foundryTSMC raises prices backed by near-monopoly power