Taiwan’s leading NAND controller and storage solution provider, Phison Electronics Corp., recently announced that its enterprise SSD brand Pascari has partnered with US space data company Lonestar Data Holdings on the award-winning Freedom Mission, a milestone project highlighting the rising strategic importance of secure and resilient data storage in the AI era.

Taiwan has introduced an initiative to strengthen its air defense system by integrating US-made and domestically produced missiles and radars into a networked kill chain that it calls the “Taiwan Shield,” or “Taiwan Dome.” Such a program has drawn attention to the strategic value of integrated battle command systems (IBCS). Currently, proposals from US companies, Northrop Grumman and Anduril Industries, are under consideration by Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology (NCSIST).

Anthropic is aiming to narrow the gap with rival OpenAI as it boosts its revenue forecasts for the coming years. According to The Information, the company has raised its internal projections, with sales expected to nearly quadruple this year to as much as US$18 billion and climb to about US$55 billion in 2027—a roughly 20% increase in its forecast for 2026 compared with earlier estimates.