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Geely has revealed a fifth-generation charging system peaking at 2,250 kW, which it says takes new Lynk & Co and Zeekr models from 10 to 70% in four minutes and 30 seconds. Under AFIR a charging pool on Europe’s core network must provide 600 kW in total by 2027. Geely has revealed a fifth-generation Smart […]
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, below the $5 and $25 that Opus 5 has carried since July, and says it performs similarly to the more expensive Fable 5.1 on most work. It is the first model since Dario Amodei called for third-party […]
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Parloa co-founder and chief executive Malte Kosub said Zalando will use the Berlin company’s AI for customer conversations across Europe, though neither company has published an announcement and Zalando has not commented. Article 50 of the AI Act, applicable since 2 August, puts the duty to disclose that a user is talking to an AI […]
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Harvey’s gross margin fell from about 50% at the start of this year to minus 50% by June as customer usage of its AI agents spiked, and turned positive again only after it released a model of its own built on Moonshot’s Kimi K3. Abridge, Decagon, Ramp and Rogo are making similar moves, and Sequoia […]
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Volvo Cars has appointed Klaus Zellmer, chairman of the board of management at Skoda Auto, as president and chief executive, taking over from Hakan Samuelsson no later than 1 October 2027. Skoda posted an 8.5% operating margin in the first half of 2026, against Volvo’s 3.5% for last year and an 8% target with no […]
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“We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,” said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons’ talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It is the company’s fourth office in Europe. The others are its […]
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Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest in a run of partnerships its chief executive says are necessary because no single company can bring all-solid-state batteries to market. ProLogium, which is building Europe’s solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial […]
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Tesla will install more than 100 megawatt-capable charging stalls at 21 sites in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Benelux to support the Semi, its Semi development head told the IAA Transportation fair in Hanover. Milence, the joint venture owned by Daimler Truck, Traton and Volvo, has EU funding to build 284 megawatt charging points […]
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Toyota has confirmed a hydrogen fuel cell Hilux for 2028, the first commercially available fuel cell mid-size pickup in Europe, targeting 400km of range, 2,500kg of towing and a five-minute refuel. Europe and the UK have 179 hydrogen stations between them, one more than in 2023, and the 700-bar dispensers a car needs are being […]
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Lucid and Bolt have announced a non-binding partnership to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucid crossovers on European roads, with no vehicles ordered, no money committed and no deployment date. The only EU-wide type approval route for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 units a year per type, and national approvals stop at […]
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