Billed as the world’s most powerful tech event, CES 2026 opened on Tuesday, Jan. 6, with thousands of organizations showcasing their latest technologies. Among them, semiconductor behemoth AMD grabbed attention with its latest launches for artificial intelligence (AI) and gaming devices.
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) has opened its online case reporting system to the public, allowing citizens to directly submit reports of suspected anti-competitive practices through a digital platform.
The Philippines has renewed its call at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to convene a long-delayed Diplomatic Conference to conclude the Broadcasting Organizations Treaty, nearly three decades after negotiations began in Manila in 1997.
Graphics processing units (GPUs) have become the default upgrade for companies building AI systems, particularly for inferencing — the process by which trained models generate outputs from new data. But relying on GPUs alone can limit performance and drive up costs, according to semiconductor firm AMD.
Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said increasing funding for the Department of Agriculture (DA)’s digital agriculture program in the proposed 2026 national budget could help prevent corruption, including the emergence of “ghost farmers” and questionable projects, similar to issues flagged in recent flood-control infrastructure spending.
Under the plan, the DICT will adopt a multimodal strategy that integrates fiber, wireless, satellite, and submarine cable systems, supported by public–private sector collaboration to accelerate nationwide deployment.
A wave-powered electricity generator and a mobile application for identifying medicinal plants emerged as the top technologies in the 2025 Socially Relevant Technologies (SRT) Contest, a competition organized by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines.
The House of Representatives has urged the Senate to approve a ₱1-billion allocation for the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (Project Noah) as part of the ongoing bicameral conference committee discussions on the proposed 2026 national budget.
