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VTEX CX recorded more than 200 trial activations as its AI customer-service product entered commercial acquisition, but paid conversion is undisclosed.

Powerfleet says Unity AI Video Safety cuts manual video review time by over 80%, while revenue, profit and claims effects remain undisclosed.

YHEKF said transaction value tied to merchant AI-generated videos rose over 2x in H1 2026, but it has not disclosed the product's revenue impact.

A four-month outage at Russia's 7.1mtpa NKHP terminal may redirect wheat flows and raise unhedged feed and flour costs.

Autodesk says Fusion's AI AutoConstrain has delivered over 3.8 million constraints, showing sustained use but no disclosed revenue or renewal impact.

The August 26 US grid equipment order covers battery storage, placing new orders, cell sourcing and project costs under scrutiny.

TD has automated about one-third of manual funding processes in Canadian auto finance, but it has not quantified AI-driven cost savings.

WSM says a personalized ecommerce visit generates roughly 9x the revenue of an average visit, but has not established causal or companywide revenue growth.

Prudential says PRUAction is live across 5,000 Singapore agents and regular users improved productivity by over 13%, but no financial impact was disclosed.

CIBC said organization-wide AI adoption saved 3 million productivity hours year to date, but it did not quantify cash, headcount or expense effects.

Bilibili's AI ad creative once covered over 30% of performance ad spend, but the Q2 2026 call offered no new disclosure on the application.

Glovo restaurants using Delivery Hero's vendor AI assistant grew orders 15%, but the AI's incremental revenue contribution remains unmeasured.

Tabcorp retained venues representing 97% of historical turnover, while The Lottery Corporation is negotiating retailer terms around customer registration.

WiseTech Global quantified its AI transformation for the first time on August 25, 2026: $34 million of annualized EBITDA savings after cutting about 1,200 product, development and support roles.

Kioxia will spend over 1 trillion yen on a new Kitakami memory building. On the K2 precedent, the first 28 months are Japanese construction and facility work, not wafer-fab tools.

DPC Dash's platform delivery rose 81% while its own-channel delivery fell 11.8%, showing how aggregator ordering may outlast subsidies.

Repairs at Novorossiysk's NKHP terminal may take four months, subtracting about 2.4 million tonnes of loading capacity and raising feed and flour costs at largely unhedged converters.

Huaneng's solar output rose 40% as profit fell 35.84%, while JinkoSolar said China's 2026 demand was down 30%-40%, mainly in utility projects.

Executive Order 14420 bans Covered Foreign Entity grid equipment. Batteries are about 84% of the covered value the US buys from China, so the constraint binds on storage cells, not transformers.