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Machine learning, generative AI, and what it means for work, culture, and power.

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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, 2026

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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, 2026

Factory floor with tall black server chassis on rolling racks under industrial overhead lights, cables bundled, workers in antistatic coats seen from behind, no logos or readable text

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, 2026

Modern startup event lounge in Palo Alto with rows of empty chairs facing a small stage, floor-to-ceiling windows at dusk, and blurred audience silhouettes, no logos or readable text

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, 2026

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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, 2026

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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, 2026