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CRRC Launches XUANKUN (VELFORCE) for Central Asia Industrial Rail at China-Eurasia Expo

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URUMQI, China, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At the 9th China-Eurasia Expo, CRRC Corporation Limited (CRRC) unveiled XUANKUN (VELFORCE), a serialized new-energy locomotive brand engineered for industrial rail operations across Central Asia and Belt-and-Road markets. The launch underscores CRRC’s deepening commitment to regional green freight corridors and heavy-industry rail solutions tailored to the mining, energy, and metallurgical sectors prevalent in Central Asian economies.

As the second addition to CRRC’s “Xuan” product family, the Xuankun name draws from the Kunlun Mountains—a range spanning the China-Central Asia border—evoking rock-solid engineering and clean-energy reliability. VELFORCE merges velocity and power. The series covers 1,000kW to 2,000kW via three powertrains: diesel-battery hybrid, pure battery, and hydrogen fuel cell. Designed for the harsh climates and rugged haulage demands of Central Asian mining and port railways, the platform offers modular configurations to match diverse operator requirements.

The locomotives deliver five integrated strengths: safety, green performance, efficiency, intelligence, and economy. Fail-safe architecture provides dual-level vehicle and component protection with real-time monitoring and automatic emergency braking. Hybrid units cut annual emissions by 4 tonnes of pollutants and 374 tonnes of CO₂—equivalent to planting 34,000 trees—while battery and hydrogen variants achieve zero emissions. Under 3,000-tonne traction, hybrid models exceed 1,100km range, 1.7× conventional units, saving over 45% in fuel. AI voice control, one-button departure, active obstacle avoidance, precision docking, and unmanned operation enhance safety and labor efficiency in remote industrial zones. Platform modularity enables climate-specific customization and extended service intervals, reducing lifetime operating costs.

Tian Jun, Chief Engineer of the National Railway Administration, noted the platform’s adaptability to varied scenarios and user needs, confirming its alignment with green rail evolution across Eurasian corridors. Wang Feng, CRRC General Manager, reaffirmed CRRC’s commitment to advancing China’s transportation-strong, brand-strong, and dual-carbon national strategies, with the Xuankun launch marking a new starting point for systematic, branded, and internationalized development of new-energy locomotives. He stressed that CRRC will continue to break through core technologies, refine full-lifecycle service systems, and deliver reliable Chinese solutions for global low-carbon transportation.

CRRC also showcased more than 30 frontier products, including its benchmark export locomotive for Uzbekistan—a key Central Asian rail project—alongside Lijiang tourist trams, maglev systems, double-deck container flatcars, KM98 heavy-haul coal hopper cars, and new-energy X12 buses. Energy offerings included 6.X storage platforms, “Yunshu 2.0” 3.45MW converters, grid-forming technology, and “Gobi-Desert” wind turbines, paired with the “Zhuolun” industrial AI model for predictive fleet maintenance.

By integrating green traction with intelligent digital services, CRRC is positioning Xuankun as a practical decarbonization pathway for Central Asia’s industrial rail networks and cross-border freight routes.

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Global Tech Shift: Tune Talk Launches World’s First Network-Enforced Child Safety Mobile Plan, Bypassing App-Level Limitations

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PETALING JAYA, Malaysia, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Malaysian mobile operator Tune Talk redefined the standard how child online safety is enforced. As governments work to regulate safety across multiple platforms and applications, Tune Talk is bringing enforcement to a single point, the network through the launch of Epik+ Family Safe, the world’s first family mobile plan with integrated one-tap parental control enforced entirely at the point of connectivity.

Built on Tune Talk’s cloud-native network and enabled in collaboration with Nokia, Epik+ Family Safe moves enforcement to the point where digital access begins. With a single tap, parents can activate one of three protection levels and restrict access across up to 56 content categories, helping manage children’s access to social media and other online content through the connectivity layer itself.

“Mobile connectivity has become a child’s gateway to the internet, and we believe safety should begin there. With Epik+ Family Safe, Tune Talk is showing how a Malaysia-built innovation offers a new global blueprint for telcos. Our ambition is to demonstrate a practical implementation model that challenges how the industry thinks about connectivity and inspires a broader conversation on how child online safety can be delivered,” said Gurtaj Singh Padda, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tune Talk.

This infrastructure pivot aligns with a growing global consensus: child’s online safety cannot be managed solely at the edge of the experience. While governments worldwide are setting the direction for child online safety, the gap between policy and everyday enforcement continues to widen. Tune Talk’s Epik+ Family Safe closes that gap, offering a tangible solution that works seamlessly in day-to-day family environments.

While Epik+ Family Safe is launching exclusively in Malaysia, Tune Talk believes the initiative demonstrates how telecommunications infrastructure can become part of the online safety ecosystem, offering a practical implementation model as policymakers around the world continue exploring new approaches to protecting children online.

Epik+ Family Safe is available as a dedicated 1 Parent + 1 Child prepaid mobile plan featuring integrated network-level parental controls, 700GB of high-speed data, and personal accident insurance coverage of up to USD125,000.*

The company said it hopes the launch will encourage broader industry discussion on how connectivity providers can complement existing regulation, platform safeguards and parental responsibility by making online safety easier to implement in everyday family life.

For more information: https://www.tunetalk.com/tune-talk-answers-national-call-for-online-safety-launches-malaysias-first-network-enforced-child-mobile-plan/

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Sonilo Refines Its Video-to-Music Model with V1.1 Update

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The update builds on Sonilo’s mission to help creators generate original music directly from their footage in seconds, without text prompts, stock libraries or copyright risk.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sonilo, the world’s first professionally licensed video-to-music AI platform, has released V1.1, an update that makes its AI-generated soundtracks fit video more precisely than ever.

The update sharpens the proprietary model’s ability to read a video’s structure and emotional arc, producing soundtracks that track the edit more closely and sound more polished as a result.

“With V1.1, we are improving how our model understands the rhythm, structure and emotion of a video, so the soundtrack can feel like it was made for the footage from the beginning,” said Shawn Song, CEO of Sonilo.

Since launching in April, Sonilo has built a following among filmmakers by removing the two biggest friction points in scoring a video: searching stock libraries and manually syncing music to the edit. The platform analyzes the pacing, mood and structure of the footage and generates an original soundtrack to fit automatically.

Each upload returns three soundtrack options for the same clip, letting users compare styles and choose what works best for their edit. Generation happens in real time, so creators can begin previewing audio before the full track has rendered. The music matches the exact video length automatically, with no prompt-writing or genre searching required.

While most AI music tools are trained on unlicensed content, Sonilo is built on professionally licensed catalogs. Artists are compensated for the work that trains the model, and every soundtrack the platform generates is cleared for commercial use.

“Adding music to a video used to mean choosing between speed, fit and legal clarity, and usually sacrificing at least one,” Song said. “Sonilo removes that choice entirely. Upload your footage, and you get an original, licensed soundtrack that fits in seconds.”

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Headquartered in San Francisco, Sonilo is the world’s first professionally licensed video-to-music AI platform, built for the creators defining the next era of content. Powered by its proprietary Sonilo v1.0 model, it composes original music directly from your footage in seconds, without a single text prompt. Trusted by professional creators and integrated with leading platforms, Sonilo is built on one belief: every original video deserves an equally original soundtrack.

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DEEPX and Sixfab Launch ‘DEEPX AI HAT’ to Drive Edge Physical AI on Raspberry Pi

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Partnership delivers high-performance, low-power AI acceleration directly to the global Raspberry Pi ecosystemEliminates cloud dependency for real-time inference in robotics and smart automationRolls out production-ready Starter Kit and SDKs to lower entry barriers for global developers

SEOUL, South Korea, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DEEPX, an on-device AI semiconductor pioneer, today announced that its ultra-low-power NPU technology is powering the Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, a new edge AI acceleration board developed by Sixfab, an edge AI hardware solutions company and Official Raspberry Pi Design Partner.

Marked as “Intelligentized by DEEPX,” the product brings high-performance, low-power AI inference capabilities to the Raspberry Pi 5 ecosystem, enabling developers and enterprises to build real-time Physical AI applications at the edge.

‘The DEEPX AI HAT’ integrates DEEPX’s proprietary NPU technology to run complex embedded AI models locally and in real time. It delivers an optimized balance of computational power and energy efficiency, enabling robust Physical AI inference in power-constrained environments such as robotics, smart agriculture, and factory automation.

“The DEEPX AI HAT offers our global community of enterprise developers and makers a highly efficient path to scale edge AI applications,” said Roger Thornton, Director of Applications at Raspberry Pi.

To accelerate commercial adoption, DEEPX is rolling out a comprehensive developer package globally:
– Developer-Friendly SDKs: Software tools optimized for seamless model compilation and instant edge deployment.

“The future of Physical AI does not reside within a handful of data centers; it belongs to the billions of devices, robots, and industrial endpoints in the real world,” said Lokwon Kim, CEO of DEEPX.

“By pairing Raspberry Pi’s versatility with our low-power NPU, we aim to drive the democratization of Physical AI so that anyone can build and deploy advanced AI solutions.” Kim added, “This launch is a cornerstone of our long-term strategy to cultivate future talent and developer ecosystems. DEEPX will expand collaborations with governments, academia, and industries worldwide to ultimately emerge as the definitive global standard platform for Physical AI.”

The DEEPX AI HAT will soon be available worldwide through authorized distribution channels. Moving forward, DEEPX and Raspberry Pi anticipate further technical cooperation to elevate the platform as an enterprise-grade AI edge node.

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