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Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.

Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in another, which are not equivalent claims. Roughly half the total is MGX, the state-backed […]

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Boston Dynamics spinoff looks to build robots for entertainment

Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europe’s Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January 2027, and the French company that created this category was sold to a Shenzhen buyer last year. Dynamic Creatures, […]

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Instacart says AI-built carts beat its $115 average basket. Shipt shipped the same feature and called it relief from mental load.

Shipt and Instacart both launched AI assistants that build a grocery cart from a prompt or a photo on 9 September. Instacart said orders placed through its assistant contain more items than a typical order and exceed its $115 average basket, while Shipt’s announcement gives no equivalent figure and frames the product as relief from […]

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Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,999

Apple has made a foldable iPhone. It is called the iPhone Duo, it opens to 7.6 inches, and it starts at $1,999. The price is the news. Analysts expected $2,500. Samsung, which has had this category almost to itself for seven years, sells its Z Fold8 Ultra at $2,099. Apple arrived last and priced below […]

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Apple’s new watches listen, summarise and chime while they do it

Apple’s new watches can replay the last 15 seconds of a conversation you just had. Press the Digital Crown twice and the words appear as text on your wrist. The feature is called Live Rewind. It arrives with the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watch Ultra 4. It will not work in the […]

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China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacturers for clear indicators when a camera or microphone is recording. Those rules regulate an act […]

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Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro has variable aperture, and no Siri AI in Europe

Apple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The headline feature is a camera that can change its aperture, which no iPhone has done before. Two of the phone’s flagship features will not work in Europe at launch. Apple announced both models on Wednesday. Pre-orders open on Saturday 12 September and […]

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The average American PC now costs more than $1,000

The average PC sold in the United States now costs more than $1,000. That has never happened before. Average sell-in prices crossed the line in the second quarter, up 12.0% year on year, according to Omdia. US shipments grew 1.0% in the quarter to 18.8 million units, after falling 7.0% in the first. Omdia expects […]

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Silver Lake is merging Cegid and Silae into a €10bn French software group

Silver Lake is merging two companies it already owns. Cegid and Silae are both French. Both are majority-owned by the American private equity firm. On Wednesday they announced their intention to merge. The deal is expected to value the combined group at more than €10bn in enterprise value. Silver Lake will remain the majority shareholder. […]

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A $1bn Spanish data centre deal, with no customer and no address

HSCALE has signed a contract worth more than $1bn with an American cloud provider it will not name, for a Spanish data centre campus it will not locate. The company announced the deal this week. It describes the customer only as “a significant global cloud provider” and the site only as “a strategic metropolitan area […]

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