Large language models can reason about information, but many business decisions depend on understanding the physical world. Amap Platform is addressing that gap with Qianyu, a spatial-intelligence platform that packages mapping and location capabilities into agentic tools that developers and enterprises can operate through natural-language instructions. Unveiled at the 2026 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Qianyu…
Yeastar has launched NovoOne, an AI-native, multi-tenant communications platform designed for managed service providers, IT service providers, telecom resellers and carriers. The platform combines carrier-grade infrastructure with embedded AI capabilities, Kubernetes-based scaling and tenant-level controls aimed at helping communications providers support large customer bases from a single deployment. Yeastar is targeting the infrastructure layer behind…
Artificial intelligence is becoming an infrastructure issue for the energy sector as utilities contend with renewable generation, distributed power resources and rapidly growing electricity demand from data centers. At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei presented a strategy for applying AI and digital infrastructure across the power system, with particular attention to the low-voltage networks that connect…
Embodied AI is moving from controlled demonstrations into complex commercial environments. AGIBOT and Chimelong Group have begun deploying more than 300 robots across Chimelong Spaceship Park, hotels and visitor operations, creating a large-scale test of how autonomous machines can work together across entertainment, education and hospitality. The deployment is notable because the robots are not…
The 140th Canton Fair, opening October 15, is set to showcase a growing generation of AI-powered robots designed for homes, healthcare, food service, cleaning and emergency response. The emerging competition is moving beyond whether a robot contains AI toward how effectively it can perceive environments, make decisions and perform useful tasks with limited human intervention….
Snorkel AI has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation to expand its agentic data factory, which develops specialized datasets, environments and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI systems. The Series E round, led by Insight Partners and S32, comes as AI developers increasingly require expert-built data and testing environments rather than conventional annotation at…
PATEO has signed a strategic cooperation Memorandum of Understanding with Arm to explore physical AI applications for next-generation vehicles, including perception- and interaction-driven AI workloads. The collaboration brings together PATEO’s automotive software, hardware, chip and cloud capabilities with Arm’s compute architecture and automotive ecosystem as vehicle intelligence increasingly shifts from isolated AI features toward integrated,…
Tencent Cloud has officially launched DataBuddy, an agent-native Data + AI workbench designed to automate data engineering, governance, analytics and data science workflows. The platform embeds AI agents into the data stack and combines a business semantic layer, governed agent runtime and unified DataOps, MLOps and AIOps capabilities to let enterprise teams move from manually…
Huawei used HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai to outline how wide-area networks will need to evolve as AI agents, distributed computing and real-time AI workloads increase demand for bandwidth, deterministic performance and security. The company also released an Intelligent WAN white paper with GlobalData and detailed its Stellar AI WAN approach for building network infrastructure…
