Taiwan investigated 166 cases in six years involving companies allegedly hiding China ties while pursuing chip talent and tech, alongside 67 trade-secret probes (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)

Taiwan’s authorities opened 166 investigations over six years into firms accused of concealing ties to China while recruiting semiconductor talent, alongside 67 separate trade-secret probes. In the same period, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3 with claimed coding and agentic performance gains, Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Microsoft announced it will begin reporting Azure quarterly revenue after a 42% year-over-year rise to $29.42 billion.