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Hitachi and FANUC Enter Strategic Partnership toward Joint Commercialization of Physical AI Implementation

Hitachi and FANUC have entered a strategic partnership to jointly commercialize Physical AI implementation. Additionally, Hitachi has entered a strategic co-creation partnership with Agile Robots to develop intelligence for AI robotics.

US Approves First Small Modular Reactor at Clinch River

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) a construction permit for the first small modular reactor (SMR) in the United States, the GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300, at the Clinch River site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The permit was issued 14 months after application, four months ahead of schedule. The 300 MW reactor will power about 300,000 homes, with commercial operation planned for the early 2030s. The U.S. Department of Energy is supporting the project with $400 million. The reactor aims to meet electricity demand from AI data centers, projected to consume 12% of U.S. power by 2030. Critics argue SMRs remain too expensive and slow, citing the cancellation of a NuScale project and higher-than-expected costs for Canada's first BWRX-300.

• NRC granted TVA a construction permit for the BWRX-300 SMR at Clinch River, Tennessee—the first for this reactor type in the U.S.
• The permit was issued 14 months after application, four months ahead of schedule.
• The reactor will have a 300 MW capacity, enough for about 300,000 homes.

Bosch Revenue Up, Profitability Down in H1

Bosch, the German technology and automotive supplier, reported a 3.6% increase in revenue to €46.4 billion in the first half of 2026, but its profitability declined. Adjusted EBIT fell to €2.2 billion, with the EBIT margin dropping to 4.6%. The revenue growth was largely driven by acquisitions, including the heating and cooling business from Johnson Controls and Hitachi. Special effects in the mobility business, such as impairments on production assets due to slower-than-expected e-mobility adoption, weighed on results. Net profit after taxes was around €1.1 billion. Despite the challenging environment, Bosch confirmed its full-year 2026 guidance of 2-5% revenue growth and an operating EBIT margin of 4-6%. CFO Markus Forschner emphasized cost reduction and competitiveness. Bosch also noted that it had posted a net loss in 2025, its first since the financial crisis.

• Bosch's H1 2026 revenue rose 3.6% to €46.4 billion.
• Adjusted EBIT fell from €2.3 billion to €2.2 billion in H1 2026.
• EBIT margin declined from 5.1% to 4.6% year-over-year.

How to Build a Tableau Dashboard and Story

Step-by-step tutorial showing how to create a published Tableau dashboard and a three-point narrative story from a real dataset. The guide uses the Telco Customer Churn dataset (7,043 customers) and a public GitHub repo for data-shaping code. It stresses shaping data upstream (one row per entity, 1/0 outcome column, readable names, ordered buckets), creating a single calculated field for rates (Churn Rate = AVG([Churned])), building four focused worksheets (one point each), assembling them into a dashboard, and sequencing three story points (problem, mechanism, action). It explains Tableau Public publishing requirements (workbooks must use extracts) and gives practical UI steps and common error fixes. The guide also covers visual rules (one-accent color, bar chart accuracy) and advises documenting limitations when publishing.

• Worked example uses the Telco Customer Churn dataset on Kaggle with 7,043 customers (one row per customer).
• Author provides a public GitHub repository (telco-churn-analysis) containing the Python script that shapes the data for the example.
• Recommended calculated field for the rate: Churn Rate = AVG([Churned]) (1/0 column average).