The Tai-Ex opened marginally higher this morning from yesterday's close, at

33,086 on turnover of 12.1-billion N-T.

The market ended at a high of just over 33,000 points on Tuesday as Taiwan

Semiconductor Manufacturing registered strong gains after its American

depositary receipts closed at a record price overnight.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs has set aside 30-billion N-T to support

Taiwan's automobile industry as it prepares for changes to tariffs under a

Taiwan-US trade agreement,

According to Economics Minister Kung Ming-hsin, initial assessments indicate

that the impact on domestic industrial output could exceed (超過) 1-per cent

but will remain "manageable."

Kung says the funding will help the automobile and auto parts industry absorb

(吸收)shocks, advance transformation and upgrading, and strengthen

independent research and development and exports.

Kung also says any tariff arrangements will apply only to US-made vehicles

and such vehicles will be defined only if they meet country of origin and

value-added content requirements consistent with existing international

standards.

The Ministry of the Interior says the island's population fell for a 25th

consecutive month in January -- with the number of live births falling by 304

from December of 2025.

According to the latest data, as of the end of January, the population

totaled 23,289,045, down 10,087 from December.

A total of 8,723 babies were born in January, 304 fewer than in December and

772 fewer than a year earlier.

The interior ministry says that translates to roughly one birth every 5.1

minutes and an annual crude birth rate (粗出生率) of 4.41 per 1,000 people.

Deaths totaled 17,529 in January, or about one every 2.5 minutes and the

crude death rate was 8.86 per 1,000 people

The White House has defended US President Donald Trump's threat to block the

opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Ontario with

Michigan.

Trump has told Canada his administration needs to be "fully compensated for

everything", despite (儘管) both countries co-owning the bridge.

Nick Harper reports from Washington on the White House press secretary

Karoline Leavitt's comments.

Chile has launched the first open-source AI language model trained on Latin

American culture.

Called Latam-GPT, the two-year effort is led by Chile's National Center of

Artificial Intelligence and supported by over 30 institutions.

It aims to reflect regional realities in AI.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric emphasized the importance of Latin America's

role in the AI revolution.

Latam-GPT, announced at the February 2025 Artificial Intelligence Action

Summit in Paris, addresses linguistic biases (語言的偏誤) in models trained

mainly on English data.

It uses Latin American data and will initially operate in Spanish and

Portuguese, with plans to include Indigenous languages later.

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