Tencent’s rapid rollout of agentic AI across WeChat could reshape the competitive dynamics of Chinese AI, with potential implications for global markets given WeChat’s 1.4 billion users and integrations across communication, payments, content, and services, possibly accelerating AI agent adoption and raising questions about competitors’ responses and timing.

OpenAI is planning to launch a “super app” combining its ChatGPT app, browser Atlas, and coding platform Codex, according to the Wall Street Journal. The strategic shift comes as the company faces competition from rival Anthropic in capturing the enterprise and engineering market.

TSMC built its dominance not just on cutting-edge fabs, but on closely guarded know-how that rivals cannot easily replicate. Now, that edge is at the center of a high-stakes legal fight. Former senior vice president Wei-jen Lo stands accused of walking out with the crown jewels — key parameters and trade secrets tied to the chipmaker’s most advanced processes — before crossing the Pacific to join rival Intel. The case has landed in Taiwan’s Intellectual Property and Commercial Court, and the outcome could set a precedent for how the island defends its most valuable technological assets.

Lumotive, a pioneer in programmable optical semiconductor technology, has demonstrated the world’s first programmable two-dimensional (2D) photonic beamforming chip. Built on its Light Control Metasurface (LCM) architecture, the chip enables electronic control of light across two dimensions within a single device — a capability long pursued in optical science and widely considered essential for scalable programmable optical systems.