Flexible copper clad laminate maker Taiflex Scientific Co. said downstream customers increased inventory purchases in the first quarter amid uncertainty over new US tariff policies, driving shipment momentum for standard materials. The Taiwan-based manufacturer expects consumer electronics demand to face headwinds from macroeconomic volatility, though it doesn’t anticipate destocking pressure in the second half of 2025.
Google has unveiled Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that embeds the Gemini model into the command line interface (CLI), aiming to revolutionize the way users interact with terminals. The service offers the industry’s highest free usage quota, allowing up to 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 daily requests without charge.
As the world shifts toward an “everything AI” paradigm, compute demands are rapidly outpacing hardware performance gains, ushering in what industry leaders are calling a golden decade for custom-designed AI chips (ASICs), beginning in 2025.