Stories
Tracks the technical systems, bottlenecks, and standards that reshape industrial power before they become mainstream narratives.
NSF's second batch of Regional Innovation Engines receives total funding of $180 million, with 12 university-led alliances set to advance technology clusters and workforce development within two years, and potential additional funding of up to $160 million.
The telecommunications industry is shifting from generative AI to agentic AI, achieving self-healing, intelligent orchestration, and improved customer experience through networks of autonomous agents. Research shows that carriers adopting AI can reduce fault tickets by 30-70% and network operations center costs by 55-90%. Leading operators such as Deutsche Telekom and Bell Canada have already achieved significant results.
TSMC commits to invest another $100 billion to expand US production capacity, possibly building four new wafer fabs in Arizona.
The AI infrastructure boom is driving Taiwanese suppliers to expand into the United States. Nightfood Holdings is evaluating an additional 100,000 square feet of capacity to support semiconductor and industrial automation customers.
Researchers believe that borrowing metaphors from fields such as physics, neuroscience, and psychology to understand LLMs can reveal certain aspects, but it also leads to anthropomorphic bias. They propose machine empiricism, emphasizing that LLMs build their own understanding based on the textual world, rather than imitating humans.
According to three sources, TSMC is expanding its advanced chip packaging capacity: Reuters says it will add two advanced packaging plants in Chiayi Science Park in Taiwan; another source says TSMC plans to build an advanced packaging plant in Arizona and has already started construction; a third source says Phase 2 in Chiayi is also seeing three advanced packaging facilities under construction. The sources agree on the core direction of advanced packaging expansion, but differ on plant counts, locations, and project timelines, and some key details cannot be confirmed from the provided sources.