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Nokia is reportedly planning further layoffs, facility closures, and a major reduction of its mainland China operations, potentially retaining only limited after-sales services. The retreat is part of a global restructuring toward AI and cloud businesses, but it may reduce Nokia’s access to China’s large-scale 5G deployment data needed for AI-RAN and future 6G research.
Kuaishou is spinning out its Kling AI video-generation model into a separately financed company, attracting investment from Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and other institutions at an implied valuation of $18 billion. Kling has surpassed 100 million global users and nearly 50,000 enterprise customers, but continues to generate substantial losses because of compute costs.
Alibaba Cloud has launched its third data center in South Korea, adding enterprise cloud capacity and six Agentic AI services. The expansion will contribute to a global network reaching 104 availability zones.
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.
鈦動科技 has completed a new funding round, according to the report. The company is presented as an AI venture focused on international expansion, with backing from prominent global investors.
The article examines how airlines can use market models to optimize pricing across complex, multi-connection journeys. These models can account for demand, seasonality, flight timing, current events, global markets, and competitor activity to identify additional revenue opportunities.
Accenture’s survey across 20 countries found that 57% of Japanese employees feel AI has improved their productivity, compared with 81% globally. Japan also trails in job satisfaction and perceived work outcomes, highlighting challenges in workforce and organizational transformation.
A Wall Street evaluation of eight leading global agents ranked Qwen first overall for office use. The comparison also highlights cost as an increasingly important factor in Agent commercialization.
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says technologists need to communicate the benefits of artificial intelligence more effectively. She warns that growing public opposition in the US could create risks for global AI progress.
Global long-term bond yields are rising sharply while equity markets remain heavily priced, increasing valuation pressure on AI and other growth companies. The article argues that surging AI infrastructure spending must now prove it can generate sufficient revenue, profit, and cash flow to justify elevated valuations.