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6:00 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 TechCrunch Founder Summit is gearing up to return to Boston on November 4! We’re doing a last call for exceptional volunteers to join us in bringing this event to life. If you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of tech events,
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Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle maker Pony.ai plan to launch a robotaxi service in London as part of an expanded partnership to bring driverless cars to Europe. The two companies said on Thursday that they would begin testing Pony.ai’s Gen-7 robotaxis in London in the coming weeks.
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Government Zhang Yu was charged alongside Xu Zewei, who was extradited from Italy to the US in April 2026. The US Department of State is offering up to $10 million for information on Zhang Yu, a Chinese national accused of taking part in the Hafnium campaign against Microsoft Exchange servers.
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The Hallmark Channel is not just a go-to for charming romantic movies and family-friendly fare. It’s also a reliable place to discover great TV shows. The Way Home, a surprisingly addictive family drama combined with a time travel mystery — and filled with plenty of great original music — wrapped up
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The Apple Watch makes it easier than ever to track health stats and keep up with notifications on the go, but it comes at a hefty price. Prime Day may be over, but some deals are still left to help you save up to $200. If you already have an
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By Gauri Navalkar Godse, CEO India, UE Lifesciences Medicine has always been built on evidence, caution and rigorous validation. That should never change. What must change, however, is how quickly we are able to generate, evaluate and act upon evidence in an increasingly connected world. There was a time when
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French AI infrastructure company Sesterce plans to invest more than €10bn in an AI data centre campus at a former paper mill in Jämsä, central Finland. The campus will be located on the Kaipola site, where UPM shut down its paper mill in early 2021, Sesterce announced. Building work on
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OpenAI has hired Ismail Elmas, who ran Cursor’s business in Europe, as its vice president of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is the second sales executive OpenAI has taken from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which owns Cursor, in the past month. The German business
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Nestlé chief executive Philipp Navratil says knowing how to write a good prompt is not enough for workers who want to keep up with artificial intelligence. Staff also need to understand their business and change the way they work, he told Business Insider in an interview published this month. Philipp
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Bhutan’s DK Bank has received In-Principle Approval from ADGM’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority to establish a regulated subsidiary in Abu Dhabi. The approval gives the bank a pathway toward its first financial services presence outside Bhutan. DK plans to offer brokerage, custody, payments and advisory services through the
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Italy’s commercial data centres could attract €36.9 billion ($41.5 billion) of investment through 2036, according to a study by the Italian Datacenter Association (IDA). The industry group presented its 2026 market research at its Data Center Symposium in Rome on October 8. According to Bloomberg’s account
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* AI has replaced entry-level work, so graduates are being hired to manage AI * Goldman worries about its impacts on existing middle managers * "We don’t quite know what’s going to happen to that group" Goldman Sachs exec Kevin Sneader has shared (via Bloomberg) how he believes AI
