In a Nov. 5 report on responsible AI, Alibaba said Alibaba Cloud is accelerating improvements in data-center resource and energy-use efficiency and targeting higher land power density. Unit IT capacity rose from 0.8 kW/sq m to 4.5 kW/sq m over the past two years; the company expects to double that to 9 kW/sq m by next March.

On Nov 4, 2026, China’s MFA Consular Department and the UAE Foreign Ministry held the third round of China–UAE consular consultations in Abu Dhabi. Discussions focused on consular relations, facilitation of travel, and protection of the safety and lawful rights of overseas citizens. Both sides agreed to implement leaders’ consensus, strengthen consular communication and coordination, further ease personnel mobility, and enhance protection for people and institutions to support people-to-people exchanges and practical cooperation.

Lingyun Optics said reports that Google placed a large OCS order with Polatis that Lingyun would manufacture are false. The company is Polatis’ agent in China and Southeast Asia, responsible for market development, sales and after-sales service and does not undertake production or contract manufacturing. Lingyun said it is discussing an ‘‘embodied-intelligence data capture + robotic platform’’ solution with a leading contract manufacturer; related revenue is currently small, not material to near‑term results, and timelines are uncertain. OCS has won small-volume orders in domestic optical module and device makers’ automated testing; datacenter-scale OCS deployment depends on network architecture upgrades and broad domestic adoption will take time.