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Nscale secures $790m financing for Narvik AI data centre

Nscale, the vertically integrated AI-infrastructure company, has secured an additional $790m of debt financing to continue building out its AI data centre in Narvik, northern Norway, the company said on Monday. The committed facility was provided by ABN AMRO, DNB, Eksfin (Export Finance Norway) and Nordea, with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) acting as Mandated Lead […]

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GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.

  GitLab is cutting jobs to invest in AI agents. The company announced on Monday that it will flatten management layers, reorganise its research and development teams into roughly 60 smaller autonomous units, reduce its country footprint by approximately 30 per cent, and use AI agents to automate internal reviews, approvals, and handoffs. CEO Bill […]

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Lodestellar is a €7 EPD quality tool helping manufacturers win multi-million euro tenders

The era of greenwashing may be coming to an end, at least in the construction sector where manufacturers are embracing a low cost tool to support data-driven transparency about their environmental impacts. “We’ve seen that manufacturers are increasingly keen to ditch vague eco slogans and self-declared green certificates, which were never really very effective,” says […]

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GPUaaS is reinforcing the illusion of European AI sovereignty

Europe is pouring billions into AI development and infrastructure. GPU (graphics processing units) access is expanding rapidly through cloud platforms and GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) providers, becoming a key enabler of AI development and deployment. The underlying assumption is straightforward: scale compute, and you scale capability. Yet, despite the efforts made by EU Member States, from sovereign […]

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SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centres at former Sharp plant

Target output is one gigawatt-hour a year. Partners are South Korea’s Cosmos Lab and DeltaX. Production opens for the fiscal year starting next April, with zinc-halide chemistry following in 2027. SoftBank Group’s mobile-services subsidiary will begin manufacturing large-scale battery cells at the Sakai, Osaka site that once belonged to Sharp, the company said on Sunday, […]

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Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping

The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall, the company’s two largest consumer marketplaces, in what amounts to the most ambitious […]

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will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.

The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. will.i.am, born William Adams, co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas and founder […]

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The rise of AI Orchestration Layers: BadCo.AI on guiding a more connected car buying experience

The future of automotive retail may depend less on isolated AI tools and more on orchestration systems that connect every part of the buyer journey. BadCo.AI views the future of car buying as a rapidly evolving ecosystem shaped by connected technologies and rising consumer expectations. It observes that AI orchestration layers are emerging as a […]

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Lawrence Wong holds the line: AI will not produce jobless growth in Singapore

Singapore’s parliament has pledged that the country will not see jobless growth as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday in coverage citing Channel NewsAsia. The statement reaffirms the position Prime Minister Lawrence Wong took in February during the parliamentary debate on the 2026 Budget, and represents the most explicit commitment a major […]

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