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AI News Brief: iQiyi has announced what it calls the world’s first ‘hybrid AI’ TV drama, blending AI-generated visuals with live-action performances to test the technology in longer-form, paid content. The series, titled ‘Immortals Over Mortal Love,’ stars two professional actors whose performances are enhanced with AI-generated visual effects through iQiyi’s own NadouPro AI platform, producing a hybrid of real human performance and AI-generated imagery.

AI News Flash: Japan’s major commercial broadcasters are rolling AI into their production workflows, hoping efficiency gains can offset falling ad revenue while staying wary of risks like copyright. AI is already being used for special effects, sports analysis, and news anchoring. One concrete example: TBS used AI to create explosion effects depicting multiple Japanese hospitals in its drama Vivant.

AI News Flash: A Taiwan tech consortium led by Foxconn is pushing forward a multi-billion-dollar plan to build an AI server and EV component manufacturing hub in Poland. The plan surfaced in June during the ‘2026 Taiwan Expo Europe’ held in Warsaw, where multiple companies took part in matchmaking events. Analysts say the investment will accelerate EU industrial development while strengthening economic ties between the EU and Taiwan, boosting strategic resilience for both Taipei and Warsaw. The original summary only reveals the plan’s direction and scale (multi-billion-dollar range) — specific investment amounts, site locations, projected capacity, or timeline are not yet disclosed, so check the source link for details.

AI news brief: this story is fairly short on hard data, so here’s a summary. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) released its latest economic outlook on September 23, flagging that the growth gap among developing Asian economies is set to widen further this year. The Philippines and Cambodia are under heavier growth pressure from an energy crisis and a strong El Nino, while India, Malaysia, and Vietnam are riding an AI-driven tech export boom to relatively strong performance.

AI news brief: Amazon has partnered with San Francisco startup The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) to use living neurons to boost AI model compute speed and cut costs. TBC grows roughly 100,000 neurons on a 4,096-electrode grid in a petri dish, sourced from rat brain tissue and human skin cells induced into neurons, creating a ‘biological computing’ interface that reads neural electrical activity for computation.

AI News Brief: US President Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House this week for a state visit, with the two sides set to discuss a range of major issues just as the current US-China trade truce is about to expire, adding urgency to the meeting. Analysts expect both sides to take a ‘small concessions, avoid escalation’ approach rather than seek a breakthrough deal. This will be Trump and Xi’s second summit this year, following their May 14 meeting at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

AI News Flash: Alibaba Group unveiled on Tuesday what it’s calling China’s most powerful AI chip, part of a broader plan to expand global data center capacity to over 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2032. The announcement follows Alibaba’s earlier reveal of its massive data center expansion plans at its booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, signaling the company is ramping up investment in AI infrastructure.

AI News Flash: Chinese power infrastructure component suppliers have failed to fully catch the tailwind of the global AI investment boom, even as their American and European counterparts have clearly benefited from the same wave. Chinese makers’ stock performance remains relatively flat by comparison. The report notes that AI-driven investment has created shortages in power infrastructure components and pushed up order backlogs—normally a bullish signal—yet this surge in demand hasn’t shown up in the stock prices of Chinese companies. The core reason comes down to…

AI News Brief: Nikkei Asia reports that Japan is nurturing the next generation of space engineering talent by hosting a robot contest on the International Space Station (ISS). The contest, organized by the Space AI Robotics Association, requires participating teams to use AI to control robots, aiming to advance space exploration, AI, robotics, and simulation technology all at once.

AI News Brief: Based on 2026 context unrelated to North Korea/Okinawa, here’s the direct output. The US-China AI race is clearly accelerating, and the key reason is that AI itself is playing an increasingly deep role in its own R&D process, forming a self-reinforcing iterative loop. According to Nikkei, companies like Anthropic and DeepSeek have significantly sped up the release of new frontier model versions, with development cycles shrinking to a third of what they used to be. This means the model…