The SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group reported a 13.1% year-over-year rise in global silicon wafer shipment area to 3,275 million square inches in the first quarter of 2026, signaling stronger demand for wafers used in AI data centers and reshaping supply and production priorities across the global semiconductor supply chain.

The Pentagon has deployed more than 100,000 AI agents through its GenAI.mil platform, marking a broader shift toward algorithm-driven warfare and expanding the US military’s push into AI-powered combat operations.

APMIC announced that its Traditional Chinese language model ACE-1 ranked in the global top 5 overall and secured the top spot on a “Taiwan values” metric in a language-model evaluation published on May 6 by the AI Product and System Evaluation Center under the Ministry of Digital Affairs. The results highlighted ACE-1’s strength in local context understanding and reinforced the company’s push for sovereign AI capabilities tailored to Taiwan’s institutions and social and cultural environment.