China Parcel Volume Up 15.3% YoY; Other Markets Parcel Volume Up 159.5% YoY

HONG KONG, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — J&T Global Express Limited (01519.HK), a global logistics service provider, today announced its business update and operating metrics for the third quarter ended 30 September 2026. During the period, the Company’s global parcel volume reached 9.58 billion, up 24.8% YoY, with average daily parcel volume reaching 104.2 million and exceeding 100 million for the second consecutive quarter. In the first nine months of 2026, the Company’s global parcel volume reached 27.09 billion, up 25.0% YoY, with average daily parcel volume reaching 99.2 million. The Company’s overall business momentum continued to strengthen, with its leading position in Southeast Asia maintained, robust growth recorded in Other Markets and growth in China rising to its highest level of the year.

In Southeast Asia, J&T Express further consolidated its market leadership and continued to deliver rapid growth in the third quarter, with parcel volume reaching 2.89 billion, up 44.5% YoY, and average daily parcel volume reaching 31.4 million. Parcel volume for the first nine months reached 8.41 billion, up 61.0% YoY. The Company continued to enhance its regional network capacity and fulfillment capabilities, promote automation upgrades across its outlets, and further increase automation levels. As of September 30, 2026, the number of sorting centers in Southeast Asia had increased by 10 from the end of 2025 to 131, the number of line-haul vehicles had increased by approximately 100 to 5,900, and the number of automated sorting lines had increased by 17 to 81, supporting the region’s continued business growth.

In China, J&T Express proactively adapted to industry trends and deepened its engagement with diversified customer groups, with a focus on enhancing its service capabilities for customers in key categories such as apparel, beauty products and 3C electronics, as well as specialized segments including specialty agricultural products and fruit. In the third quarter, parcel volume in China reached 6.43 billion, with average daily parcel volume reaching 69.9 million, up 15.3% YoY, marking a quarter-by-quarter acceleration in growth. Parcel volume for the first nine months reached 18.04 billion, up 11.5% YoY. As of September 30, 2026, the number of line-haul vehicles in China had increased by approximately 500 from the end of 2025 to 7,700, including an increase of approximately 300 self-owned line-haul vehicles to 5,600, further strengthening the Company’s network transportation capabilities.

In Other Markets, parcel volume reached 270.8 million in the third quarter, up 159.5% YoY, with average daily parcel volume reaching 2.9 million as the YoY growth rate continued to accelerate. Parcel volume for the first nine months reached 635.8 million, up 135.2% YoY. The Company continued to seize e-commerce development and cross-border logistics opportunities in regions such as Latin America and the Middle East, deepening cooperation with global e-commerce and short-video livestreaming platforms including TikTok, SHEIN, Temu, Kwai and AliExpress, as well as local e-commerce platforms such as Mercado Libre, to further expand its business opportunities in emerging markets.

As its global business continued to expand, J&T Express further strengthened its global network. As of September 30, 2026, the Company’s global network comprised 20,300 outlets, an increase of approximately 1,000 from the end of 2025; 292 sorting centers, an increase of 46; and 457 automated sorting lines, an increase of 44. Going forward, J&T Express will continue to enhance its network capabilities, fulfillment efficiency and service quality, deepen localized operations in line with the development stage of each market, and advance AI applications, automation and digital capabilities to support the long-term, steady growth of its global business.

Medeo’s AI video agent now runs the full creative lifecycle, from spotting what’s trending to publishing and earning from the finished video

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Medeo, the AI video platform built by One2X, today announced its expansion into a Creative OS, an AI video generator and AI video agent that enables creators, marketers, and brands to take an idea from concept to audience and income within a single platform.

Video production remains fragmented across multiple tools. Creators typically rely on one product to research ideas, another to generate or edit footage, a third for social media management and publishing, and a separate channel for monetization. Each transition adds time and complexity, which is a significant constraint in a media environment where trends can lose relevance within days.

Medeo’s Creative OS addresses this by consolidating the process. Rather than limiting its role to generation, as a conventional AI video generator does, the platform supports a video from initial idea through distribution and revenue, keeping the entire workflow within one system.

A Continuous Workflow in Four Stages

The workflow begins with discovery. Medeo surfaces trends and cultural moments that merit content, allowing creators to act on opportunities before they peak.

Creation takes place through natural conversation. Users describe the video they want, and Medeo’s AI video generation produces publish-ready content. The AI video agent can manage different stages of production according to the requirements of each project, from concept through final edit.

Distribution follows. Completed videos can be published directly to the social media platforms where audiences are active. Because social media management is integrated into the platform, creators are not required to export files and transfer them to a separate publishing tool.

Monetization completes the cycle. A built-in creator marketplace connects creators with opportunities to earn from their work, converting finished content into income.

Featured Content Categories

Medeo’s featured categories address the formats most in demand among creators and businesses.

Visual Effects gives creators a simple way to produce viral content for social media. Users record footage of themselves, and Medeo generates an AI video based on viral templates, making it easy to join viral trends and share on social platforms, with no traditional production skills or equipment required.

For marketers and business owners, Creative Ads turns brand and product details into finished campaign assets. By entering that information, users can generate high-quality AI video ads, including TVC ads and e-commerce ad creatives, without the cost and lead time of a conventional production.

Faceless video creators and content writers expanding into video can use Explainers to convert written or spoken material into finished content. Users upload a text or audio script, and Medeo produces a polished, faceless explainer video that does not require the creator to appear on camera.

Music Videos is built for creators who want to turn audio into visual content. Users upload a music file and specify their creative requirements, and Medeo generates an AI music video with synchronized audio and visuals, a strong rhythm, and a high standard of visual quality.

From Trend to Published Video

By integrating discovery, creation, distribution, and monetization, Medeo shortens the path from idea to audience. A creator can begin with a query such as “What’s trending in my niche?” and proceed to a finished, published video within a single conversation with the AI video agent.

For e-commerce brands and marketing teams, the platform enables faster testing of ad concepts and more timely responses to cultural moments. For independent creators, it reduces time spent moving between applications and allows greater focus on original ideas. Creators operating faceless channels can also use Medeo to support YouTube automation, moving from topic research to scripted, finished videos with substantially less manual effort.

Medeo also provides tools that support repeatable production. Recipes allow creators to adapt popular video formats to their own concepts, Agent Mode manages individual stages of production, and characters, visual styles, and worlds can be saved as reusable personal assets for future projects.

Supporting the Creator Economy

By bringing the full creative lifecycle into one environment, Medeo aims to make professional-quality AI video creation accessible to a broader range of users. New creators gain a guided path from concept to finished content, while experienced creators, marketers, agencies, and teams gain a more efficient method of producing short-form video content at scale.

The inclusion of a marketplace also reflects the way creators now operate. Content creation is increasingly a business, and the tools supporting it must address distribution and revenue in addition to production. Medeo’s Creative OS has been developed to meet that need.

About Medeo

Medeo is a Creative OS and AI video generator built by One2X. Where most AI video tools end at generation, Medeo’s AI video agent supports the entire creative lifecycle: surfacing trends worth capturing, producing publish-ready video through simple conversation, distributing finished work across platforms, and enabling creators to earn through a built-in marketplace. Learn more at https://www.medeo.app/

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Alliant Energy customers in Iowa can earn up to $1,500 in enrollment incentives, plus ongoing payments, for helping strengthen the electric grid.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc.today announced that Alliant Energy customers in Iowa with FranklinWH Systems can now participate in Alliant Energy® Smart Hours, a residential battery program that rewards homeowners for supporting grid reliability while earning financial incentives.

Through the program, customers receive a one-time enrollment incentive of $100 per kilowatt-hour of battery capacity, up to $1,500 for a FranklinWH System. Participants also earn annual performance payments of $100 for every average kilowatt their system discharges when called upon to support the grid.

The FranklinWH System automatically dispatches stored energy to the homes of Alliant Energy customers during periods of peak electricity demand. Customers do not need to take any action when the utility calls on their battery. They can also customize how much stored energy they make available, so they maintain needed backup power for their home.

FranklinWH has partnered with energy technology company Derapi to streamline enrollment, helping FranklinWH systems connect to Smart Hours.

“Homeowners already rely on their FranklinWH System to keep the lights on during outages,” said FranklinWH chief commercial officer, Vincent Ambrose. “Now if they are also Alliant Energy customers in Iowa, they can put that same battery to work supporting the electric grid while earning financial incentives. Programs such as Smart Hours show how customers can play an active role in building a more reliable and resilient grid.”

Iowa gets a larger share of its electricity from wind than any other state, with wind supplying 63 percent of its electricity generation according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Smart Hours brings the number of virtual power plants (VPPs) FranklinWH participates in to more than 30 nationwide.

About FranklinWH

FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc. is a global leader in whole-home energy management and battery storage, with systems that integrate solar, generator and grid power. Its systems are engineered and manufactured in Santa Clara, California, home to the company’s U.S. Innovation Center, which leads product design, grid controls, testing and certification. FranklinWH systems participate in more than 30 utility-led virtual power plant (VPP) programs across the U.S., allowing homeowners to support the grid at peak times, receive program payments and retain backup power.

For more information, visit www.franklinwh.com.

About Derapi

Derapi is an energy enablement company helping unlock the full potential of distributed energy resources. Through one secure, manufacturer-sanctioned integration layer, Derapi makes it easier for OEMs, VPP operators, DERMS providers, and energy platforms to connect devices, authorize customers, access data, and control distributed resources across utility incentives, grid programs, financing platforms, and partner ecosystems. By combining purpose-built APIs with hands-on program support, Derapi helps energy innovators reduce integration complexity, scale participation, and bring distributed energy programs to market faster.

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Founded by veterans of TikTok’s AI and music teams, Sonilo is developing proprietaryAI-native music and sound models that adapt to the pacing, emotion and story of each video

SAN FRANCISCO, , Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sonilo, a generative audio company building proprietary video-native music and sound models, today announced an $11 million funding round led by B Capital, with participation from Redpoint. The funding will be used for compute infrastructure to scale model performance, go-to-market expansion across creator and developer platforms, and grow its music licensing.

At the core of Sonilo’s platform is its Sound World Model, a proprietary multimodal AI system that connects video understanding, audio generation, and temporal alignment. Rather than treating music and sound effects as isolated assets, the model reads the timing, movement, and emotional arc of a scene to generate audio that belongs to that specific story. Creators can generate a synchronized, commercially-ready soundtrack by dropping in a video, describing what they want in text, or combining both. Sonilo’s model development is built around the creator’s actual workflow rather than industry benchmarks, a philosophy the team developed over years of building recommendation and generation systems at platform scale.

“Almost every audio-generation experience starts with a text prompt. You have to describe the music you want, line it up to the exact moments in your videos, and find the perfect sound effects which can take hours for one piece of content,” said Shawn Song, CEO and Co-Founder of Sonilo. “We built Sonilo to understand the visual story. You give us the footage, and Sonilo understands what’s happening frame by frame, including the pacing, emotion, and story, and generates music and sound effects that naturally fit the scene. We believe the future of video isn’t just about generating better pictures but making those worlds feel real through audio that fits perfectly.”

Building a video-native sound workflow requires more than audio generation. It takes multimodal AI research, music licensing expertise, and products designed around how creators work. Sonilo’s founding team brings these capabilities together. CEO Shawn Song, a CMU-trained researcher and former multimodal AI tech lead at TikTok, and CTO Alex Yin, who holds a PhD in Computer Music from the University of York and worked alongside Song at TikTok, bring expertise in multimodal understanding and audio generation. COO Keli Li, who built and led global music at TikTok, brings deep experience in music licensing and industry partnerships. CMO Trista Taylor has helped incubate consumer AI apps featured in a16z’s Top 50 rankings and leads Sonilo’s product and go-to-market strategy.

“We believe generative audio will become an essential part of the AI-native video stack. Sonilo stands out because its multimodal technology gives creators two ways to generate music and sound effects: describe what they want in text, or provide a video and let the model create audio that fits the scene,” commented Daisy Cai, General Partner at B Capital. “That model-native approach, combined with Shawn’s deep expertise in multimodal music generation and the team’s focus on the creator workflow, gives Sonilo the opportunity to define a new category in generative media. We’re excited to support the team as they build the audio layer for the next generation of video.”

Sonilo’s platform generates music and sound effects directly from footage or text for short-form and short-drama creators, developer platforms building AI video workflows, and enterprise production teams. The platform also offers AI dubbing with synchronized lip-syncing, enabling short-drama and content studios to localize video across languages without manual post-production. Early distribution partners include TapNow, an AI creator aggregator, and ComfyUI.

The company is also building its commercial music infrastructure around licensed source material, with Shutterstock as an early licensing partner. Sonilo’s models are trained on licensed music datasets, with licensing fees and revenue share flowing to rights holders and artists. Sonilo is finalizing master recording and publishing deals with major rights organizations, with agreements expected to close in the coming weeks. Sonilo plans to launch a consumer app in Q4, bringing its video-to-music generation technology directly to individual creators.

About Sonilo

Sonilo builds video-native generative audio models for creators, developers, and media platforms. Its technology generates music and sound effects directly from footage or text, creating soundtracks built for each video’s story rather than pulled from a library. Sonilo is building a future where every video can have its own soundtrack, because when music truly fits a story, people don’t just watch. They feel. Sonilo is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by B Capital. Learn more at sonilo.com.

About B Capital

B Capital invests globally in extraordinary founders and businesses shaping the future through technology. With more than $9 billion in assets under management and dedicated stage-based funds, the firm focuses on seed to early- and late-stage venture growth investments, primarily in the technology, healthcare and resilience tech sectors. Founded in 2015, B Capital has an integrated, global team across nine locations in the U.S. and Asia. The firm’s value-add platform, together with the consulting expertise of its strategic partner, The Boston Consulting Group, provides entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to scale quickly and efficiently, expand into new markets and build market-leading businesses.