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ByteDance robotics leader Kong Tao reportedly joined Xiaomi last summer and brought his entire team with him. The move has fueled speculation about a major Xiaomi robotics initiative, but no specific product or launch has been confirmed.
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said the company’s next-generation self-developed chip is nearing release. He provided no launch date, product name, or technical specifications, while noting that Xiaomi’s R&D spending rose 18.9% year over year to RMB9.2 billion.
Xiaomi reported its third consecutive quarterly decline in profit as a global memory shortage raised smartphone costs. Adjusted net income fell about 43% to 6.22 billion yuan, while reported net profit declined 20.5%.
Xiaomi’s robot is scheduled to make its first public appearance at the 2026 World Robot Conference. Xiaomi President Lu Weibing said the company does not plan to develop the robot as a standalone product, though further details were not disclosed.
Tactile robotics is expanding from sensor hardware into datasets, foundation models, and evaluation benchmarks. Research shows touch improves physical reasoning and robot success, but inconsistent sensor formats create major cross-device transfer challenges.
AWS Professional Services uses a multi-agent framework on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate enterprise cloud migrations end to end. Specialized agents cover discovery, infrastructure-as-code generation, portfolio governance, and post-migration operations, reducing IaC development time from weeks to minutes.
Serval has made Catalyst generally available as an administrative super agent that discovers repetitive work and builds governed enterprise automations. It can also create background agents that monitor connected systems, identify emerging issues, and suggest fixes before employees submit tickets.
Nvidia announced full-scale production of its Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics co-packaged optical switch for AI factories, using 200G-per-lane links. SK hynix simultaneously published a CPO technology roadmap targeting over 100 Tb/s per node, sub-1 pJ/bit energy consumption, and sub-10 ns chip-to-chip latency.
Slack is launching Slack Code, a dedicated channel experience for teams to collaborate with AI coding agents. Users can tag agents such as Anthropic’s Claude or Cognition’s Devin, compare code changes, and preview HTML output within project-specific channels.
Eagle Point Credit Management is providing about $1.3 billion to help build a large Texas data center that will house Anthropic. The loan is part of a much larger financing package supporting the infrastructure behind the AI boom.