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Rising AI server power density is turning cabinet-level Battery Backup Units from an optional component into a required part of data-center power architecture. Global BBU cell shipments reportedly reached about 276 million units in the first half of 2026, intensifying shortages and competition among Asian battery suppliers.
Lightelligence is shifting from computing with light to connecting with light, signaling a more pragmatic focus on photonic interconnects. Despite strong investor enthusiasm following a 383.62% first-day stock surge in Hong Kong, the company faces concentrated customers, slow receivables, declining margins, and supply-chain risks.
ByteDance’s Seed foundation-model division has reportedly completed another internal restructuring. Its foundation-model organization now includes four first-level departments focused on pretraining data, reinforcement learning, product post-training for work, and product post-training for chat.
Kuaishou’s Kling AI video-generation business generated more than RMB850 million in second-quarter revenue. Revenue rose over 200% year on year and 30% quarter on quarter, reaching RMB1.5 billion in the first half of the year.
The Association for Advancing Automation says non-automotive industries accounted for 54.8% of North American robot orders in the first half of 2026. The shift is being driven by applications in semiconductors, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, food, and consumer products, while AI, collaborative robots, and mobile robots expand the market.
MORPHI made its first systematic domestic appearance at WRC, showcasing its newly released embodied-intelligence model architecture, MoRA. The demonstration focused on how a robot’s embodied brain supports practical long-horizon tasks.
Uber has begun offering autonomous rides in Zagreb, Croatia, marking its first European AV service. The rides are operated with Pony.ai and Verne, but vehicles still include a safety driver.
The article reports that Anthropic and Amazon have reportedly purchased large volumes of physical books, scanned them, and destroyed the originals to reduce copyright risk in AI training. It argues that this strategy is tied to differences in US and Chinese copyright law, while also raising concerns about the irreversible loss of cultural artifacts.
Taiwan plans to give each resident roughly $314 in cash next year, funded by stronger economic activity linked to the AI server boom. The 2027 central government budget allocates $7.4 billion for the payout.
Kingsoft Cloud reported second-quarter FY2026 revenue of 3.072 billion yuan, up 30.8% year over year and above market expectations. AI-related customers drove growth, while the company recorded its first GAAP operating profit and continued investing heavily in AI computing capacity.