Tech & AI Brief – December 29, 2025

ByteDance plans $5.6B Huawei AI chip purchase – Company announced today plans to buy over 40 billion yuan worth of Ascend chips for 2026 deployment. Move follows April 2025 halt of NVIDIA H20 chip exports to China. TechNode

South Korea unveils $150M deep-tech startup program – Ministry of SMEs announced yesterday Super-Gap Startup 2026 initiative funding 120 companies across 12 sectors. Focus areas include AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, and fusion energy. KoreaTechDesk

All news verified as <24h old at time of publication.