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NTT DATA will transition Niveus Solutions to the NTT DATA brand in October 2026, marking a further step in integrating the cloud engineering company it acquired in February 2025. The transition will see the Niveus brand gradually retired from the external market, while operational integration continues over time, NTT DATA
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Anthropic warned that small AI models might soon be able to copy themselves onto poorly secured smart devices without needing a data centre. The company gave examples like smart ovens and inexpensive Android TV boxes. This warning is based on new research from Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, which tests
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AirConsole is coming to Zeekr, its first partner inside Geely Auto Group, with a demonstration at the Paris Motor Show before a rollout in select models by the end of 2026. The same platform already runs in more than 5 million BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Škoda and Tata vehicles. AirConsole
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Hackers linked to China broke into the network of a regional group based in Suva, Fiji, the US Embassy in Fiji said on Monday. They stayed inside for several days in July and August. The embassy, which also covers Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu, did not name the group. Nor did
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Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and lined up Disney as the first bidder for some of its assets, the company said on Monday. The AI chatbot platform, owned by Character Technologies, filed in a federal court in Delaware. It plans to sell all or
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Ithaca Holdings is in advanced talks to buy Bumble and take the dating app private, in a deal that would value it at about $1 billion. Reuters reported the talks, citing one source familiar with the matter. We have not independently confirmed the report, and neither company replied when Reuters
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NTT Data Group is close to agreeing to a deal with Anthropic for a new data centre in Osaka, Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources. It would be the first site in Japan built just for Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI models. TNW has not independently confirmed
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Ursula von der Leyen wants companies in the EU to provide officials with the same details just once, with AI helping public bodies use them. The European Commission president made the pitch on Monday, Politico reported, citing a copy of her speech. She spoke at a closed-door gathering of the
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Microsoft is reshaping the leadership of Azure, its cloud computing business, and merging some of its units, The Information reported on Monday. Scott Guthrie, who runs Microsoft’s cloud and AI group, told staff about the changes that day, according to the report. As part of the shake-up, Arun Ulag,
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When someone asks ChatGPT about you, they don’t get a page of links to scroll through. They get a one-paragraph summary instead. That answer is fast becoming your first impression, and you can’t scroll past it or push it to page two. The good news is that you
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Atlassian does not run any Chinese AI models in its products, chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes said in an interview with 20VC, the podcast hosted by investor Harry Stebbings. The episode came out on Monday and was recorded in Amsterdam, where Atlassian held its Team ’26 Europe conference last week. Stebbings
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According to the Capgemini Research Institute’s latest report ‘Rewiring automotive product development: how organizations can pull ahead in the AI race’, automotive organizations are rapidly moving agentic AI from pilots into product development. Nearly seven in ten organizations already use (33%) or pilot (35%) the technology, while adoption across
