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Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷

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Academia Sinica Researchers Shrink Mandarin LLMs for Offline Township Chatbots

Academia Sinica teams won a National Science and Technology Council grant to compress Mandarin large language models so township governments can run offline chatbots on modest GPU servers without sending citizen queries to public clouds.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 11, 2026Taiwan

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Academia Sinica Researchers Shrink Mandarin LLMs for Offline Township Chatbots

Academia Sinica engineers cut a Mandarin instruction-tuned model to under four gigabytes so township offices can run citizen-service chatbots offline on existing PCs.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 11, 2026Taiwan

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AI Server Integrators Extend December Shipment Windows on CoWoS Wafer Allocation

Taiwanese AI server integrators told customers December rack shipments would slip one to three weeks as CoWoS advanced-packaging slots stayed fully booked.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 10, 2026Taiwan

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Phison Hosts Silicon-to-Steel Physical AI Roundtable With JMEMTEK and NeuroShine

Phison joined a Palo Alto Silicon-to-Steel mixer on Oct. 8 with JMEMTEK, NeuroShine, metAI, MORALE AI and APMIC, framing memory bottlenecks and factory-grade AI agents as Taiwan's physical-AI export story.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 8, 2026Taiwan

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Lai Asks Visiting U.S. Lawmakers to Co-Develop Drones and AI Military Decision Tools

President Lai Ching-te asked visiting U.S. House and Senate delegations to move beyond arms sales toward joint research on drones, counter-drone systems, and AI-assisted military decision tools ahead of National Day.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 8, 2026Taiwan

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Cybersecurity Institute Will Use Agentic AI Red Teams in Next Government Drill

Taiwan’s National Institute of Cybersecurity will deploy agentic AI to mimic hackers in next year’s government cyber defense exercise, extending MODA’s push to scan critical systems with frontier models.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 7, 2026Taiwan

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Agencies Must Log Training Data Sources for Chatbots Serving Citizens

The Ministry of Digital Affairs issued a logging template that requires ministries to document data sources and human review steps for citizen-facing chatbots under the AI Basic Act.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 6, 2026Taiwan

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MODA Publishes Agency AI Procurement Checklist Before Year-End RFP Wave

The Ministry of Digital Affairs released a procurement checklist for agencies buying generative AI tools, setting disclosure, data-residency, and benchmark requirements before a year-end wave of RFPs.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 5, 2026Taiwan

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Broadcasters Apply NCC AI News Labels as MODA Risk Framework Waits on Cabinet

Taiwan’s major broadcasters are rolling out on-screen AI labels required under National Communications Commission news guidance while the digital ministry’s risk-classification draft awaits cabinet review.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 4, 2026Taiwan

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National Development Council Backs CPO Pilot Lines Tied to Ten-AI Photonics Track

The National Development Council's Ten AI Initiatives plan treats co-packaged optics as a domestic rack-building priority, funding pilot lines that tie silicon photonics to on-island AI server assembly.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 3, 2026Taiwan

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NICT Partners Tainan Fab on Defect-Image Classifier Trained Without Customer Wafer Labels

The National Institute of Cyber Security and a Tainan wafer fab began testing an on-prem defect-image classifier trained only on anonymized scratch patterns, avoiding customer wafer labels that export-control lawyers block from cloud training sets.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 2, 2026Taiwan

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Digital Minister Says Taiwan Will Scan Government Systems With Partner AI Models

Digital Affairs Minister Lin Yi-ching said Taiwan is using partner AI models to hunt software flaws in government systems as agentic threats outpace new laws.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Oct 1, 2026Taiwan

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Yating FedGPT Places Fourth in MODA Sovereign AI Benchmark as Banks Test On-Prem Stacks

Yating Intelligence’s FedGPT ranked fourth among 188 models in the Ministry of Digital Affairs sovereign AI evaluation, as Taiwanese lenders pilot on-premise stacks that keep customer data off public clouds.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Sep 30, 2026Taiwan

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NDC Schedules Cross-Ministry AI Inventory Workshop After July Risk Taxonomy Took Effect

The National Development Council scheduled an October workshop for ministries to catalog civil AI uses under July's risk taxonomy.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Sep 29, 2026Taiwan

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NDC Drafts Mandatory Gen-AI Labels on Bids for Digital Ministry Procurement

The National Development Council is drafting mandatory generative-AI disclosure labels on government procurement bids so agencies can see which tools trained vendor proposals.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Sep 28, 2026Taiwan

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China Urges Joint AI Work in Summit Readout as Taipei Tracks Chip and Model Export Rules

China’s summit readout urges closer emerging-tech cooperation, but Taiwan’s chip and model export rules still hinge on MOEA list updates and NDC coordination, not communiqué language.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Sep 26, 2026Taiwan

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Digital Ministry Reviews Public AI Labels After Trump Renames Field Super Intelligence

Taiwan's Digital Ministry is reviewing public-facing AI labels after President Donald Trump said the field should be called 'super intelligence.' The review is about terminology, not capability testing—and no Taiwan rule currently defines the term.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Sep 25, 2026Taiwan

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FSC Adds Model-Trust Registry Entries for Three Bank Chatbots After Pilot Review

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission added three major bank customer-service chatbots to its AI model trust registry after a supervised pilot, requiring published model cards, escalation paths to human agents, and quarterly bias reviews under FSC fintech guidance.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Sep 23, 2026Taiwan

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Taipei Harbor Pilots Drone Hull Inspections for Incoming Cruise Ships at Keelung Berth

Taiwan International Ports Corp. piloted underwater and hull-skimming drones at Keelung cruise berths so Taipei Harbor agents can flag biofouling and dent panels before passengers disembark for Mid-Autumn shore tours.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Sep 22, 2026Taiwan

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Foxconn Tests On-Prem Nvidia LLM Rack for Hsinchu Plant Perimeter Security Crews

Foxconn Technology Group piloted an on-premises Nvidia LLM inference rack at a Hsinchu campus so perimeter security crews can query shift logs in Mandarin without sending video metadata to public clouds.

Ya-Ting Tsai 蔡雅婷 Sep 22, 2026Taiwan