Lenovo Debuts Tab Plus Gen 2 with Upgraded Audio and Visuals for On-the-Go Entertainment

Lenovo has officially unveiled the Tab Plus Gen 2, a next-generation Android tablet engineered specifically to match the fluid ways modern users move between media consumption, multi-device workflows, and shared content. Building on the unique entertainment focus of its predecessor, the updated device introduces comprehensive hardware upgrades spanning cinematic audio, display brightness, and everyday versatility. According to Tony Chen, Vice President of Tablets at Lenovo, the device was intentionally developed to accommodate a lifestyle where recreation isn't tied to a single room—giving users the complete freedom to enjoy their digital content seamlessly across work, travel, and downtime.

The core aspect that has been upgraded from the last generation is the speaker system, as it uses a 9-unit JBL array tuned with Dolby Atmos, delivering richer sound with improved dialogue clarity and deeper bass. Lenovo has also retained Bluetooth speaker functionality, allowing the tablet to operate as a standalone wireless speaker controlled directly from a smartphone.

The LCD screen is also now larger at 12.1-inch 2.5K with Dolby Vision and HDR10 certification, while the integrated kickstand is now easier to use, with the 360-degree rotating mechanism being the top-requested addition. Additional modes include lean, theater, stand, and hanging configurations. When not actively in use, the tablet can also function as a digital picture frame through its standby mode.

Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 tablet to launch in Malaysia in September from RM2,099 2

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A10 Networks Acquires TrojAI to Strengthen Sovereign AI Security for Enterprise Workflows

Networking and cybersecurity leader A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) has officially announced the acquisition of TrojAI, an innovative security firm specializing in the protection, testing, and governance of artificial intelligence applications. The strategic move significantly enhances A10's security portfolio, allowing the company to deliver robust "sovereign AI" security solutions. By integrating TrojAI's specialized technology, A10 aims to provide enterprise customers with precise, localized control over how and where their proprietary AI models, corporate data, and autonomous agentic workflows are shielded from emerging digital threats.

“AI is changing both what enterprises build and the attack surface they have to defend, and traditional controls weren’t designed for non-deterministic models and autonomous agents,” said Dhrupad Trivedi, President and Chief Executive Officer of A10 Networks. “TrojAI is a natural fit for A10, strategically and operationally. Pairing our hardware-based AI firewall with TrojAI’s software-based red teaming and runtime protection helps customers adopt AI quickly and confidently, protecting their models, data, and agents without sacrificing the latency or availability they rely on us for, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. For customers with strict data-sovereignty requirements, it means embracing AI while keeping their most sensitive assets in environments they control.”

Following the acquisition, A10 expects to integrate TrojAI’s capabilities into its evolving security portfolio, letting customers run secured AI wherever their data resides.

“Enterprises and public-sector organizations are adopting AI at an unprecedented pace, and they need to innovate securely while maintaining sovereignty over their AI security infrastructure,” said Lee Weiner, Chief Executive Officer of TrojAI. “Together with A10, we can secure and govern the models, agents, and applications becoming core to how organizations operate. I’m proud of what our team has built, and excited to bring these capabilities to A10’s customers and channels.”

This acquisition is not a change in direction. It is an acceleration of a strategy we have been building for the past two years which is helping enterprises securely adopt AI technologies as data center architectures evolve and AI systems move into production at scale.

Key Takeaways

• A10 Networks' acquisition of TrojAI accelerates its enterprise AI security roadmap with red teaming, runtime firewall enforcement, and agentic protocol support

• TrojAI's native Model Context Protocol support positions A10 Networks ahead of the market in securing agentic AI workflows

• TrojAI's red-teaming findings feed back into A10's guardrail models in near real time, improving protection against production-scale threats

• The combined portfolio integrates AI security across ADC, DDoS, application, and API, serving Fortune 50 organizations at scale

TrojAI delivers capabilities that directly align with A10’s AI security strategy and materially accelerate our product roadmap. The acquisition of TrojAI directly advances A10’s long-term objective to build a comprehensive enterprise AI security suite. This is not an overlap or consolidation of similar tools. TrojAI adds production-grade AI security infrastructure that helps translate A10’s model intelligence into deployable protections for enterprise workflows. The synergy provides an immediate, low-friction acceleration of our AI security mission: no application instrumentation, no custom architecture work, and no heavy deployment lift.

TrojAI’s customer base includes Fortune 50 organizations, providing strong market validation of both the urgency of AI security challenges and the effectiveness of its solutions. Its platform maturity reflects repeated enterprise feedback cycles, and its team brings AI safety and infrastructure engineering expertise that strengthens A10’s execution capacity.

TrojAI’s strengths in production-grade red teaming, runtime AI firewall enforcement, agentic protocol support, and browser-based endpoint protection significantly expand the speed and scope of what we can deliver to customers.

Further, TrojAI’s native compatibility with the Model Context Protocol positions A10 early in securing agentic AI workflows — an area where enterprise demand is emerging rapidly and where TrojAI is meaningfully ahead of our internal roadmap.

One of the most powerful aspects of this acquisition is the feedback loop it creates. Red-teaming findings from Troj Detect inform model updates and guardrail intelligence improvements in near real time. This continuously trains A10’s AI models against threat vectors observed in production at Fortune 50 scale.

This acquisition expands not only our product capabilities, but also our engineering bandwidth and AI specialization at a critical moment in market evolution. Combined with A10’s proprietary guardrail models and model intelligence, the capabilities expand our enterprise AI security portfolio and strengthen the growth story for customers and investors: faster roadmap execution, and differentiated protection across ADC, DDoS, application, API, and AI security.

A10’s global footprint, operational scale, and deep enterprise relationships provide TrojAI with growth opportunities that would be difficult to achieve independently. The combined portfolio positions A10 distinctly in the market by offering capabilities that pure-play AI security vendors cannot match in terms of networking depth, deployment scale, and platform maturity, while also moving faster and more decisively than larger infrastructure providers that are still early in AI-specific security productization, all while preserving and strengthening A10’s established leadership in ADC, DDoS protection, and application security.

With this acquisition the A10 Networks portfolio is positioned to help customers deliver and secure AI-enabled applications at scale, to secure agentic applications and workflows, ensuring the ongoing operational safety of deployed models. Coupled with our existing infrastructure elements, and leading application and API defense platform, we are positioned to secure the applications of tomorrow, today. Together, we can bring AI security innovation to the world’s largest organizations with the reliability, scalability, and support they expect from A10.

A10 does not expect the acquisition to have a material impact on its financial results for fiscal year 2026. It is squarely positioned to help secure AI buildouts and application rollouts in the next 2-5 years.

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Dell Unveils PowerEdge XE8812 Server Built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 for Next-Gen AI Clusters

Dell Technologies has officially expanded its enterprise AI portfolio with the launch of the PowerEdge XE8812, an ultra-dense server platform engineered specifically around NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture. Designed to drive large-scale artificial intelligence models, advanced scientific simulations, and data-heavy research initiatives, the new system delivers massive generation-over-generation leaps in processing power. By packing significantly higher CPU core counts, expanded host memory, and broader GPU memory capacity compared to older GB200-based configurations, the XE8812 provides enterprise data centers with the raw computational bandwidth required to train and deploy complex, next-tier neural networks.

The brand is also pairing the new solution with its PowerRack infrastructure and ProDeploy services for actory-integrated, pre-validated rack-scale systems to cut down the time from placing the order to full systems online in just a matter of hours.

According to them, several institutions and organizations have plans to utilize the PowerEdge XE8812 and similar offerings to bolster their AI processing power, including the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), AI company InstaDeep, the Wellcome Sanger Institute from the UK, and Australia’s Monash University.

The Dell PowerEdge XE8812 is slated to launch globally early next year.

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Cadence Level-5 ChipStack Cuts Semiconductor Verification Cycles From Five Weeks to Under a Day

Chip verification bottlenecks may soon become a thing of the past following Cadence’s COMPUTEX 2026 launch of its Level-5 ChipStack™ AI Super Agent. Developed in deep collaboration with NVIDIA, the autonomous engineering framework integrates directly with Cadence’s signature Xcelium™ Logic Simulation and Jasper® Formal Verification engines to supercharge debugging cycles. In massive internal tests, thousands of engineers deploying these autonomous agents achieved a staggering 40X acceleration in RTL validation. By compressing a traditional, grueling five-week verification loop down to less than 24 hours, the platform resolves one of the costliest and most labor-intensive bottlenecks in modern semiconductor development.

“We see our customers using AI to let their expert engineers take on more ambitious silicon designs with greater speed and confidence,” said Paul Cunningham, senior vice president and general manager of the System Verification Group at Cadence. “With the ChipStack AI Super Agent, we’re taking the next step—moving from AI that assists engineers to autonomous virtual engineers that can implement real design and verification work, grounded in our signoff-accurate engines and running in secure, governed environments so teams can innovate faster with confidence.”

From AI Assistance to Autonomous Engineering

The ChipStack AI Super Agent now operates at Level-5 autonomy, independently executing complex chip design and verification workflows while allowing engineers to inspect, guide and collaborate as needed. Native integration with collaboration environments and compatibility with tools like Codex or Claude Code, provides transparency into autonomous activity, helping teams stay connected to the system’s progress and decisions.

Rather than relying on step-by-step prompts, the ChipStack AI Super Agent evaluates intermediate results, determines next actions and iterates toward closure across tasks such as specification understanding, RTL generation, verification planning, formal analysis, simulation, debug and design convergence. This shifts engineers from executing individual tasks to supervising outcomes and guiding intent, as autonomous verification workflows shrink validation cycles that traditionally took weeks down to less than a day in leading-edge deployments.

Grounded in Engineering Truth, Secured for Production

A key Cadence differentiator is that autonomous agent behavior is tightly coupled with the company’s core physics-based design and verification engines. This keeps AI-directed actions grounded in proven computational models and signoff-accurate results, creating the trust needed for high-stakes engineering programs.

To support production deployment, the ChipStack AI Super Agent is run within the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, a sandboxed environment for autonomous agents that enforces governance and helps protect sensitive IP through policy controls, isolation and managed access to tools, infrastructure and design data. Together, Cadence’s physics-based engines and OpenShell’s security architecture provide a practical path from supervised pilots to production-grade autonomous flows.

“As semiconductor designs grow more complex, engineering teams need AI agents that can accelerate verification without compromising security, control or trust,” said Timothy Costa, vice president and general manager of computational engineering at NVIDIA. “By securing Cadence's ChipStack AI Super Agent with NVIDIA OpenShell and powering it with Nemotron models, Cadence is bringing governed autonomy to chip design workflows — giving customers a faster, more secure path to develop and validate advanced semiconductors.”

Leading the Next Era of Agentic AI

This announcement reflects the speed of Cadence innovation in agentic AI, powered by NVIDIA. Following the acquisition of ChipStack in November 2025, Cadence launched its first product in February 2026 and expanded into a portfolio of AI super agents at CadenceLIVE in April, introducing ViraStack AI Super Agent for custom and analog design, InnoStack AI Super Agent for digital implementation and signoff, and Cadence AgentStack as the orchestration framework for coordinating agentic workflows across the design stack. Cadence is now extending those capabilities to full autonomy.

Availability

The Level-5 autonomous capabilities of the ChipStack AI Super Agent and the AgentStack orchestration framework are expected to be available to early-access customers in the second half of 2026.

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COMPUTEX 2026 Concludes in Taipei, Drawing Over 111,000 Global Buyers to Shape the New AI Ecosystem

COMPUTEX 2026, one of the world's premier exhibitions for AIoT and startup innovation, concluded its annual run today after successfully anchoring Taipei as the epicenter of international technology trade. Centered around the forward-looking theme "AI Together," the four-day event became a massive hub for cross-border industry collaboration and commercial matchmaking. The trade show drew a massive crowd of 111,312 buyers and visitors representing 152 countries and regions—with heavy participation from key tech markets including Japan, the United States, South Korea, India, and Malaysia—solidifying its position as the ultimate platform for accelerating global AI deployment.

Physical AI Emerges as the Next Frontier of Industrial Innovation

As AI rapidly evolves beyond digital environments into real-world deployment, industries are accelerating investments in physical AI applications. According to a report by Strategy&, part of PwC, Physical AI is expected to generate approximately €430 billion in global market value by 2030 and reach large-scale commercial adoption within the next three to five years across sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and aerospace.

Reflecting this trend, COMPUTEX 2026 returned to TWTC Hall 1 and introduced the inaugural AI Robotics Zone, bringing together ecosystem partners across the supply chain to showcase robotics, Embodied AI technologies, and integrated solutions. The exhibition highlighted the critical technologies enabling the transition from research and development to real-world deployment.

To further expand the exhibition’s technology landscape, COMPUTEX also launched the E-paper Pavilion and the TechXperience, featuring more than 180 exhibitors and adding new dimensions to this year’s showcase.

Global Technology Leaders Outline the Future of AI

COMPUTEX Keynotes once again gathered influential leaders from across the global technology industry to discuss the future of AI computing, edge computing, next-generation platforms, and intelligent mobility.

The keynote series opened with Cristiano R. Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm, followed by Matt Murphy, Chairman and CEO of Marvell, Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel, and Rafael Sotomayor, President and CEO of NXP. The keynote sessions attracted 6,000 attendees, reflecting the industry’s strong interest in the future of AI innovation.

The COMPUTEX Forum brought together 28 industry leaders and technology experts from leading global enterprises to discuss six major themes, including AI computing, robotics, and data governance. The forum drew over 13,200 visits, reflecting the rising industry focus on AI and its growing impact across sectors. Discussions covered topics ranging from infrastructure and computing platforms to enterprise adoption and governance strategies, helping businesses navigate opportunities for scaling AI deployment and accelerating commercialization.

InnoVEX Reaches a New Milestone with Global Startup Participation

As one of Asia’s leading startup platforms, InnoVEX 2026 reached a new milestone, featuring more than 500 startups—an increase of over 11% from last year. Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea ranked as the top three participating countries and regions, while startups from 23 countries took part in this year’s exhibition.

For the first time, InnoVEX partnered with Plug and Play Taiwan, one of the world’s largest open innovation platforms and accelerators, and Japanese startup exhibition organizer Everidge, further strengthening international innovation networks and market expansion opportunities.

In addition, nine national pavilions—including France, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, Israel, Canada, Italy, and the Czech Republic—showcased cutting-edge innovations in AI, robotics, and intelligent mobility, creating a truly global platform for technology exchange.

The InnoVEX Forum featured speakers from France, Japan, the United States, and other countries under the theme “AI in Action,” exploring topics such as AI infrastructure roadmaps, industrial implementation strategies, open-source business models, and AI-driven workflow and data transformation.

Meanwhile, the InnoVEX Pitch Contest continued to integrate three critical resources—capital, computing power, and industry validation—into a comprehensive innovation support platform that connects startups with global investors and industry partners. The competition’s grand prize was awarded to RLWRLD.

Sustainability and Lifestyle Experiences Redefine the Exhibition Journey

COMPUTEX 2026 continued to strengthen its commitment to sustainability by embracing the principles of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle (3R) and collaborating with exhibitors to create a lower-carbon, lower-pollution, and more energy-efficient exhibition environment.

This year’s Sustainable Design Award introduced two new categories—Flagship Scale and Rising Innovator—to encourage broader participation in sustainable exhibition practices. The awards were presented to ASUS and Transcend Information, respectively.

Beyond technology, COMPUTEX continued to bridge innovation with lifestyle experiences. In partnership with China Airlines and GQ, the exhibition launched the COMPUTEX Service Lounge, blending business hospitality, lifestyle experiences, and Taiwanese cultural elements. Interactive relaxation spaces created by Red Bull and Sleepy Tofu further enhanced the visitor experience.

In addition, COMPUTEX collaborated with renowned generative artist Aluan Wang to create a large-scale interactive art installation at the entrance of Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1. Visitors were invited to generate unique visual patterns displayed on six-meter-high LED columns, creating an immersive fusion of technology, creativity, and public participation.

COMPUTEX will take place from June 1–4, 2027, across Nangang Exhibition Halls 1 and 2 and TWTC Hall 1. Continuing the spirit of “AI Together,” the exhibition will further connect global partners to drive AI innovation and industrial advancement toward a smarter future.

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