What’s New Today: Taiwan will keep producing its most advanced chips domestically to protect key technology amid growing Chinese military pressure.
Fast-Track Insights: Runware raised $50M to expand its single-API AI platform, boost inference performance, onboard millions of models, and scale real-time media generation.
Here’s a quick rundown of the biggest tech headlines making waves today. Let's dive into the day's top tech stories, from Taiwan's plans to safeguard advanced chip production at home to Indian employers prioritizing advanced skills in 2025 hiring.
Taiwan says it will continue producing the world’s most advanced chips at home, even as military pressure from China grows. Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Chih-chung Wu explained that keeping top-tier semiconductor technology on the island is essential for both national security and global supply chains. Taiwan already manufactures most of the world’s high-end chips, and officials believe staying indispensable in the semiconductor ecosystem is vital, especially during heightened geopolitical tensions.
Runware has raised $50 million in fresh funding to push its vision of a single API for all AI models. The company plans to onboard more than two million models from Hugging Face by 2026, backed by its custom Sonic Inference Engine and hardware. Runware already supports billions of media generations, helping developers build faster image, video, and audio tools. The new capital will fuel platform upgrades, hiring, and wider global deployment.
India's job market in 2025 saw a massive transition toward hiring based on skills, with companies offering salaries and valuing hands-on experience over formal education. The technology adoption especially sped up the focus of companies on AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analytics, and digital marketing as the technical skills that were most important. Besides these, adaptability, digital dexterity, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, and communication skills became very important as well. The employers' search for skilled talent was done with the help of lucrative salaries, but still, they were not able to find the people; the job seekers were pushed to create the hybrid skill sets that would combine the technical and the human-centric strengths.
The article highlights how 2026 will be a major turning point for advanced language models. The systems of GPT-5.5, Gemini Ultra 3, Claude 4.2, Llama 4, and Mistral Large 2 are stepping forward as the most impactful, and all of them are endowed with various capabilities like reasoning, multimodality, long-form writing, customization, or efficiency. With the gradual acceptance of these tools in various industries, LLMs are now being seen as a part of writing, coding, research, automation, and even complex decision-making support, making their role in improving productivity for both businesses and creators very clear.
Asian markets opened higher as Bitcoin edged above $92,000, supported by strong ETF inflows and upbeat global risk sentiment. Traders remained cautious, with long liquidations showing weak conviction despite the move higher. Analysts said upcoming Fed signals, Treasury reactions, and ETH/BTC trends will guide the next direction. Global indices hit new highs after the Fed’s rate cut, while Japan outperformed on SoftBank’s surge. Tech sentiment stayed mixed following Oracle’s sharp drop.