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Uber has invested $10 million in Indian fleet management startup Carrum Mobility in a Series B round as the ride-hailing giant increases its reliance on large fleet operators to supply vehicles and drivers in the South Asian nation. The new investment values Carrum at ₹16 billion (about $168 million) post-money,
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More than 25 organisations from left and right have written to the White House asking it to publish the voluntary framework governing pre-deployment review of frontier AI models. The framework was completed on 1 August and previewed only with a selected group of companies, with smaller and open-source developers largely
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TL;DR Haier’s IFA 2026 stand replaces the usual feature-list chaos with a design-first smart home environment. Aura Collection\’s light-reactive grey finish unifies ovens, hobs and hoods into one visual plane. Multi Care Laundry Studio fits four independent drums in a 598mm-deep unibody. Maestro refrigeration uses AI to
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Per Ansgar, CEO of Geely Sweden Holdings, joins the Concordium Foundation Board, deepening a five-year Geely-Concordium partnership focused on verified identity infrastructure for AI agents and machine-initiated payments in connected vehicles. The Concordium Foundation today announced the appointment of Per Ansgar, Chief Executive Officer of Geely Sweden Holdings AB, to
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SumUp will appear on Manchester United shirt sleeves from Thursday under a multi-year deal that makes the London-based payments company the club’s official sleeve partner, replacing DXC Technology. The logo goes on the men’s, women’s and academy shirts across all competitions, with matchday presence at Old Trafford
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For decades, enterprise software has been designed primarily to record what businesses already know: customer information, financial transactions, employee activity, inventory, sales pipelines, and operational decisions. These platforms became the systems of record that organizations relied on to maintain a consistent version of the truth. Artificial intelligence is beginning to
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The last two years rewired how software gets made. AI went from autocomplete to writing entire features, and autonomous agents now build and ship software with barely a human in the loop. Every engineering organization on the planet is asking the same question: what does this mean for how we
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Analog Devices has agreed to buy Alif Semiconductor for $1.35bn in cash, with up to $200m more contingent on performance, adding a line of microcontrollers built to run neural networks inside devices rather than send data to a data centre. The deal was announced today, and it is expected
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Amazon has opened books on its first sterling bonds, a four-part deal running from three to 19 years, adding another currency to a borrowing programme that has already raised the equivalent of more than $92bn this year. The sale was reported by Reuters on Wednesday, with pricing expected the same
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The Pentagon’s most senior artificial intelligence official has said publicly what allied defence ministries have been hearing privately for the past two years: they do not have the same resources as the US, and they are unlikely to catch up anytime soon. Cameron Stanley, the Department of War’s
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Waymo’s driverless cars can now be booked through the Lyft app in Nashville, making it the first market where the same autonomous fleet is available through two competing rideshare platforms. The service covers central Nashville, including Downtown and Broadway, North Nashville and Germantown, East Nashville, Midtown and South Nashville.
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Fortinet on Tuesday released patches for 10 vulnerabilities across its products, including critical security defects. The first critical bug, tracked as CVE-2026-84390 (CVSS score of 9.6), is described as an inclusion of sensitive information in source code issue affecting the FortiMonitorOnSight web portal. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit
