Luxury NEV Maker SERES Reports 2026 First-Half Results: AITO M9 Retains Top Ranking in RMB 500,000+ Segment.

Chongqing, China

SERES (Stock Code: 9927.HK) announced its interim results today. In the first half of 2026, SERES reported the revenue of RMB 57.493 billion (~$8,525,941,682.90 USD) and R&D investment of RMB 7.007 billion (~$1,039,105,167.10 USD), increased by 34.8% YoY. AITO, the luxury brand of SERES group, deliveries grew 10.2% YoY in the first half, with the all-new AITO M9 and AITO M6 both launched and commencing deliveries during the period. The AITO M9 led the RMB 500,000+ vehicle segment in sales for two consecutive months.

AITO M9

SERES Reports RMB 57.493 Billion in First-Half Revenue, Demonstrating Operational Resilience

SERES stated that it maintains a healthy financial structure, sufficient cash reserves, and relatively low debt pressure, providing strong risk resilience and a solid foundation for sustainable growth. At the same time, improved asset utilization efficiency has helped reduce operating leverage risk, further strengthening the company’s financial resilience.

In the capital markets, SERES has leveraged a range of measures, including cash dividends, share repurchases, and shareholder share purchases, to enhance shareholder value and protect investor interests. As of July 2026, cumulative share repurchases exceeded RMB 587 million (~$87,049,752 USD). Meanwhile, directors, senior executives, and key team members completed share purchases totaling RMB 148 million (~$21,947,724 USD) within just three trading days, demonstrating confidence in the company’s long-term growth prospects.

AITO M9 Cumulative Deliveries Surpass 300,000 Units, Leading the Luxury Vehicle Segment

In the first half of the year, the all-new AITO M9 and AITO M6 achieved deliveries at scale, further expanding AITO’s luxury product portfolio and strengthening its leading position among luxury automotive brands in China. The flagship AITO M9 also ranked as the best-selling model in the RMB 500,000+ vehicle segment for two consecutive months, with cumulative deliveries surpassing 300,000 units. With the AITO M9 Ultimate set to begin deliveries soon at a starting price of RMB 600,000 (~$88,977.18 USD), the model is positioned to drive further growth in the luxury market.

Meanwhile, AITO’s brand value has also continued to strengthen. According to Brand Finance’s 2026 Automotive Industry 100, AITO achieved a brand value of US$3.448 billion, ranking among the Top 10 luxury automotive brands globally and standing as the only Chinese brand on the list.

R&D Investment Reaches RMB 7.007 Billion (~$1,039,105,167.10 USD), Accelerating Innovation and New Business Development

SERES continues to increase its investment in technology and accelerate the transformation of technological innovation into products and applications. In the first half of 2026, SERES’ R&D investment reached RMB 7.007 billion (~$1,039,105,167.10 USD), increased 34.8% YoY. Leveraging a unified, platform-based technology foundation, SERES continues to advance innovation across underlying architectures, core systems, user experiences, AI, and intelligent digital applications, strengthening the technological foundation for its long-term growth.

SERES continues to focus on the luxury intelligent electric vehicle segment, with technological innovation at the core of its growth strategy. Its proprietary innovations, including the SERES MF Platform 2.0, next-generation Super Range Extender, and intelligent safety technologies, are being progressively integrated into its products, strengthening the technological foundation for efficient product development and scalable deployment. Beyond automotive technologies, SERES is also accelerating its expansion into emerging fields including embodied intelligence and robotics. Its humanoid robots are already being deployed in diverse scenarios, from industrial manufacturing to service applications, opening up new avenues for business growth.

One of the SERES production plants

Overall, SERES has built comprehensive strengths across product competitiveness, brand value, and its industrial ecosystem, driven by its continued progress in the luxury segment, strengthening brand value, and forward-looking expansion into emerging businesses. With new products continuing to expand the portfolio and new business initiatives moving toward commercialization, SERES is positioned to generate stronger growth momentum in the second half of the year.

About SERES Group

Founded in 1986, SERES is a technology-driven company with new energy vehicles (NEVs) at the core of its business. Listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong, SERES is also recognized among China’s Top 500 Enterprises. The company specializes in the R&D, manufacturing, sales and service of new energy vehicles, as well as core electric powertrain technologies.

The name SERES is derived from the ancient Greek word for the “Land of Silk”, symbolizing the East, sophistication and luxury. Inspired by the spirit of the Silk Road, SERES is committed to building a luxury automotive brand that brings Chinese innovation to the global stage.

About AITO

The AITO brand is built on the philosophy of “Intelligence Redefining Luxury.” With outstanding intelligent features and refined luxury quality, it has become the top-selling Chinese luxury car brand in China in 2025. The AITO lineup surpassed one million cumulative deliveries in just 46 months, setting a new delivery speed record for Chinese luxury new energy vehicle brands.

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Single solution handles content transformation, social distribution, audience engagement and video monetization, growing revenue amid traffic declines

New York, USA

JWX, the technology company connecting premium content, engaged consumers, and the advertisers who reach them, today launched JWX Content Hub, the industry’s first unified platform built exclusively for publisher video. 

JWX Content Hub provides publishers with the tools they need to transform content into the formats each channel demands, distribute automatically across social and syndication partners, engage audiences on pages they own, and monetize everywhere their content travels.

 All of this is done through a centralized content library and a single view of revenue. 

The launch comes as publishers adapt to rapid, cascading changes driven by AI adoption. Research shows that 68% of Google searches now end without a click, while publishers are forecasting that traffic from search engines will decline by more than 40% over the next three years. 

Audience attention has shifted to social platforms that demand unique video formats, posting cadence, and workflows. JWX Content Hub turns these major social platforms into powerful, traffic-driving engines for publishers, utilizing content assets they already own.

“The search era is over, and that changes everything about how a publisher operates,” said John Nardone, CEO of JWX. “For 20 years, the deal was simple: publish great content and search sends the audience. Stacks grew one challenge at a time, with each tool solving one narrow problem. The problem publishers face is no longer narrow. They earn their audience everywhere it lives, and that takes a fundamentally different operating platform. We built JWX Content Hub for the publishers aggressively leaning into that future.” 

JWX Content Hub lets publishers control, track, and optimize every piece of content from one centralized, intelligent video hub that provides analytics for every video. Audience and editorial teams gain access to seamless delivery across the open web, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and global syndication partners. Meanwhile, monetization and ad ops teams can leverage one video player to maximize ad revenue, managing their direct and programmatic demand in one dashboard.

At the core of JWX Content Hub’s capabilities is a unified content library: one home for every video, every format, every version, and every team, with every derivative linked back to its original. That library then becomes publishers’ growth engine. The platform converts horizontal video to vertical with AI keeping the speaker in frame, clips long-form video into social-ready shorts, turns articles into video with expert editors in the loop, and translates and dubs content into additional languages.

JWX Content Hub offers multiple revenue-generating streams. Automated article distribution drives referral traffic back to publisher-owned pages, where the integrated JWX Player and ad engine monetize every view. Social video earns revenue directly on platforms including Facebook and YouTube. Publishers also have the opportunity to extend their library to streaming and syndication channels as those integrations expand. 

“JWX has become an important partner in how we distribute content to McClatchy audiences,” said Melissa Angle, Sr. Director, Audience, McClatchy Media. “The True Anthem automation tool helps us maintain a consistent social presence, identify and recirculate stories and videos with strong audience potential and drive meaningful traffic while giving our teams more ways to connect content with audiences across platforms.”

JWX Content Hub integrates technology from two 2026 acquisitions: AugieX Labs, acquired in January for AI content transformation, and True Anthem, acquired in March for AI-enabled social distribution. These join the video player and monetization infrastructure JWX has operated across the open web for two decades, following the completed platform unification from the JW Player and Connatix merger.

About JWX

JWX’s mission is to provide technology that empowers media businesses to connect their content with consumers across every platform. We help publishers transform content into multi-format experiences, reach audiences wherever attention moves, and strengthen monetization in a fragmented landscape. As part of the broader ecosystem, JWX also supports streaming companies and advertisers with solutions built for how modern media is distributed and consumed. Learn more at www.jwx.com.

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McKenzie Scott’s civil rights attorneys have secured three landmark verdicts and settlements that define their San Diego police misconduct and jail death litigation practices

San Diego, CA

When your family experiences the loss of a loved one due to police misconduct, jail negligence, or a wrongful death, securing the representation of an experienced San Diego civil rights lawyer with a proven record of winning against government agencies and large institutions is essential. McKenzie Scott PC is a San Diego-based civil rights and criminal defense law firm founded by Michele A. McKenzie and Tim Scott. Since 2000, the firm has built a reputation as one of the most successful civil rights litigation practices in California, and its trial team has now secured three record-setting case results, including:

• An $85 million police wrongful death jury verdict;
• A $16 million in-custody jail death settlement;
• A $1 million police wrongful death settlement.

Each of these outcomes set a new benchmark for accountability in San Diego County and beyond.

This article breaks down each case, explains why these results matter for families considering a wrongful death or police misconduct claim, and answers the most common questions people ask about McKenzie Scott PC’s record of results.

$85 Million Verdict: K.J.P. v. County of San Diego (The Lucky Phounsy Case)

In 2022, a jury awarded the family of Lucky Phounsy $85 million after finding that San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies were responsible for his death. At the time, it was the largest police in-custody death verdict in American history.

Phounsy called 911 in 2015 while experiencing a mental health crisis. Responding deputies used a taser, punches, and baton strikes before hogtying him and placing him in an ambulance, where he was restrained face down. Phounsy’s heart stopped before he reached the hospital. The County argued deputies acted in self-defense, but the jury sided with the family after hearing the evidence.

San Diego civil rights attorney Tim Scott, who tried the case for the family, said the verdict reflected both the truth of what happened to Phounsy and the community’s demand for justice.

The Phounsy verdict remains one of the most cited police misconduct cases in California and helped establish McKenzie Scott PC as a firm willing to take civil rights claims all the way to trial.

$16 Million Settlement: Estate of Hayden Schuck v. County of San Diego

In October 2025, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a record $16 million settlement in the case of William Hayden Schuck, a 22-year-old who died of dehydration and untreated drug withdrawal after just six days in San Diego Central Jail. It is the single-largest wrongful death settlement against San Diego County in its history and one of the largest in-custody wrongful death settlements ever recorded in the United States.

Schuck was held in a temporary cell block known as the “Back 40,” which lacked a mattress and basic hygiene items, and he was reportedly forgotten for days. The settlement followed a scathing 2022 California State Auditor report that found the Sheriff’s Department failed to adequately prevent and respond to in-custody deaths, citing 185 deaths in County jails between 2006 and 2020, one of the highest rates in the state.

Along with the $16 million payout, the settlement requires the County to implement mandatory deputy training reforms on recognizing the signs of mental illness and substance withdrawal. Attorney Tim Scott, who represented the Schuck family, said the County faced a choice between a record settlement now or a larger jury verdict later, and that the goal was to make continued neglect too costly for the County to ignore.

This result reinforces McKenzie Scott PC’s standing in jail death & injury litigation and demonstrates the firm’s ability to pair record damages with lasting institutional reform.

$1 Million Settlement: The Brian Umana Case, National City

In February 2025, the National City Council approved a $1 million settlement, the largest police wrongful death payment in the city’s history, resolving a lawsuit over the 2021 shooting death of Brian Umana. Umana, a 28-year-old father who lived with bipolar disorder, was shot at least ten times, including in the back, by National City police officers while experiencing a mental health crisis.

McKenzie Scott PC attorneys Tim Scott and Marcus Bourassa served as co-counsel on the trial, working alongside civil rights attorney Emily Howe of the Law Offices of Emily E. Howe. Attorney Bourassa argued that officers were trained to treat escalation as a substitute for de-escalation, a policy he said contributed directly to Umana’s death.

Umana’s brother, Roberto Umana, pointed to a pattern of similar in-custody deaths involving National City police, underscoring why the firm continues to pursue accountability in police misconduct and wrongful death cases across San Diego County.

Why San Diego Families Choose McKenzie Scott PC

McKenzie Scott PC’s three record-setting results – the $85 million Phounsy verdict, the $16 million Schuck settlement, and the $1 million Umana settlement – share a common thread. In each case, the firm’s civil rights attorneys took on a government agency in a case involving a preventable death connected to a mental health crisis. Moreover, in each case, the firm secured the largest result of its kind for the jurisdiction involved.

Families who are searching for a civil rights attorney or a wrongful death lawyer in San Diego turn to McKenzie Scott PC because the firm’s trial lawyers are willing to litigate through verdict, not just settle early, which has repeatedly produced record-setting outcomes for clients.

Frequently Asked Questions About McKenzie Scott PC’s Case Results

What is the largest wrongful death settlement against San Diego County in its history?

The largest wrongful death settlement against San Diego County in its history is the $16 million settlement McKenzie Scott PC secured for the family of Hayden Schuck, a 22-year-old who died of dehydration and untreated drug withdrawal while in County jail custody in 2022. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved the settlement in October 2025.

What was the largest police in-custody death verdict in the United States?

In 2022, a jury awarded $85 million to the family of Lucky Phounsy in the case K.J.P. v. County of San Diego. At the time it was announced, this was the largest police in-custody death verdict in American history. McKenzie Scott PC attorney Tim Scott tried the case for the family.

What is the largest police wrongful death settlement in National City history?

The largest police wrongful death settlement in National City history is the $1 million settlement McKenzie Scott PC and co-counsel Emily Howe secured in 2025 for the family of Brian Umana, a 28-year-old father who was fatally shot by National City police during a mental health crisis in 2021.

What kind of cases does McKenzie Scott PC handle?

McKenzie Scott PC handles civil rights cases, including police misconduct and jail injury and in-custody death claims, along with wrongful death lawsuits and criminal defense matters throughout San Diego County and Southern California.

How do I contact McKenzie Scott PC’s San Diego Civil Rights Lawyers?

Families can reach McKenzie Scott PC for a free case evaluation by calling (619) 794-0451 or by visiting the firm’s practice area pages to learn more about civil rights, police misconduct, jail injury, and wrongful death claims.

Talk to a Record-Setting San Diego Civil Rights and Wrongful Death Firm

If your family has lost a loved one because of police misconduct, jail negligence, or another preventable death involving a government agency, McKenzie Scott PC has the trial record to take on powerful institutions and win. McKenzie Scott PC’s results – an $85 million jury verdict, a $16 million settlement, and a $1 million settlement – speak to a San Diego civil rights law firm that consistently delivers the largest outcomes on behalf of the families it represents.

Call (619) 794-0451 today for a free, confidential case evaluation, or learn more about the firm’s civil rights, police misconduct, jail injury, and wrongful death practice areas.