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Horizon

WRC 2026: 300 Companies, No Dominant Route - The Humanoid Stack Is Still Being Decided

The World Robot Conference 2026 brought together over 300 companies on a single floor to showcase embodied AI applications. The headline figure is striking. However, the more important detail from Pandaily's coverage is that the technical approaches remain unsettled. The competition is real, the applications are being deployed—but the winning architecture has not yet been determined.

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Aug 25, 2026 at 16:23 10 10

Jin-ho Park

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Build

Ramp builds its own AI model router—and the name is literally "Router"

The fintech company Ramp has launched an internal AI model routing layer—and open-sourced it as a product. The move reflects a broader pattern: companies that deploy AI at scale are building model management infrastructure that the market hasn't provided.

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Aug 20, 2026 at 22:32 11 12

Aiko Nakamura

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Infra & Compute

SK Hynix's $28.6bn buyback: the memory supercycle now returns cash to shareholders

A South Korean memory maker announcing a buyback larger than most European tech companies' market caps is the clearest signal yet that HBM demand has shifted from cyclical to structural.

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Aug 19, 2026 at 22:31 15 14

Ravi Nair

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Business

Japan Inc. raises full-year profit forecast 14% - and the driver is AI chips, not domestic demand

Japanese companies are collectively upgrading earnings guidance as global AI capital expenditure flows through the upstream supply chain—semiconductors, manufacturing equipment, and materials.

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Aug 18, 2026 at 09:30 9 9

Sarah Kline

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Business

AI funding spree shows signs of strain: SpaceX sell-off, rising borrowing costs, and the first cracks in the stack

The AI funding machine is still running—but Nikkei Asia documents the first visible pressure points: higher borrowing costs for AI companies, the SpaceX secondary sell-off, and institutional investors recalibrating risk.

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Aug 8, 2026 at 09:57 11 13

Sarah Kline

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Infra & Compute

Chinese AI firms are leasing Hong Kong data centers at scale—the compute arbitrage window

Facing mainland chip restrictions, Chinese AI companies are pushing aggressively into Hong Kong's data center market—a regulatory arbitrage that is real, and finite.

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Aug 7, 2026 at 10:54 11 10

Ravi Nair

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Society & Policy

Robotaxis Are Here - So Is the Political War Over Who Controls the Streets

Waymo is running commercial robotaxi service in multiple US cities. It's also doubling its lobbying budget. Those two facts are related. Autonomous vehicles have crossed from "science project" to "operating business" - which means they've crossed into the territory where politics, unions, and regulatory capture matter more than benchmarks.

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Aug 24, 2026 at 20:58 8 8

Yara Nasser

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Ground

Tencent takes control of Manus after Meta walks away - who owns the AI agent distribution layer

Tencent becomes Manus's dominant shareholder as a reported Meta deal unravels - a pivot that embeds the autonomous agent startup inside the WeChat ecosystem and raises a concrete question: where does AI agent distribution value actually sit?

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Aug 13, 2026 at 20:44 8 9

Mei Chen

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Security & Trust

OpenAI partners with Sophos for MSPs – AI cybersecurity arrives in SMEs via resellers

OpenAI/Sophos partnership targets managed service providers. Cybersecurity AI is becoming more accessible—and with it, the risks of large-scale defensive homogeneity.

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Aug 10, 2026 at 16:29 9 5

Sofia Adler

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Infra & Compute

Microsoft opens its fourth data center region in India - the subcontinent becomes a serious AI infrastructure bet

Microsoft's fourth India data center region signals a structural commitment to the subcontinent as a major AI compute market. It also sets the stage for a three-way race between Microsoft, Google, and Amazon for India's cloud-AI future.

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Aug 8, 2026 at 09:57 13 14

Ravi Nair

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Business

Four US hyperscalers burned $95B cash in Q2 - the AI capex machine has a debt problem

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta collectively spent approximately $95 billion in net cash during Q2 2026 on AI infrastructure. The market is already distinguishing winners from the rest—and debt service will be the ultimate judge.

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Aug 5, 2026 at 16:40 8 11

Sarah Kline

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Society & Policy

Growth without work: AI is restructuring jobs faster than safety nets can see it

Rest of World investigated the human cost of the AI labor transition across multiple countries. The finding: displacement is happening invisibly—inside firms, through attrition and role compression, not mass layoffs—and policy is blind to it.

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Aug 5, 2026 at 16:39 12 8

Yara Nasser

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