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Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations

Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, exactly level with petrol. Hybrids remain the largest single category on 36.6%, and the spread between Norway at 98% and Croatia at 4% is […]

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US asks EU court to let it back Musk’s challenge to €120M X fine

The US government has asked the EU’s General Court to let it join Elon Musk and X in their challenge to the €120 million fine Brussels imposed on the platform. The Justice Department announced the filing on Thursday. The application covers two cases before the court in Luxembourg. One of the cases was brought by […]

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Proxy adviser Glass Lewis merges with Clarity AI to expand in Europe

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 September, and no financial details were disclosed. The combined company will make Madrid its global centre for sustainability, data and AI work. It has more than […]

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China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%

Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thursday. The number of robots at work in factories rose 9% to a record 5 million, […]

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Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says

Deutsche Telekom is replacing the automated phone menus on its customer service lines with AI agents, chief AI officer Kartik Sheth said. The share of customer interactions that never reach a human grows by one or two percentage points every month, he said. Sheth spoke on Thursday at HumanX in Amsterdam with Business Insider senior […]

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Nick Clegg calls the EU AI Act a ‘dog’s dinner’ built before ChatGPT

AI labs cannot keep regulating themselves, Nick Clegg said. A growing backlash against AI shows up in cancelled data center projects, he said. The idea that labs can voluntarily do their own thing is “not going to work,” he said. Clegg is Meta’s former president of global affairs and now a general partner at Hiro […]

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Booking.com says it built AI tools it wishes it had bought off the shelf

“AI isn’t going to take your job. Somebody who embraces it and learns faster than you might. AI is not going to take away your customers. A company that uses it more smartly than you do might,” Booking.com chief business officer James Waters said. Booking.com built AI orchestrations and other tools it now wishes it […]

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Lovable says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use it and revenue hit $600m

Two-thirds of the Fortune 500 are using Lovable, co-founder Fabian Hedin said, often because staff found the tool on their own. Those companies then come to Lovable with thousands of apps and ask what to do, he said. Hedin, Lovable’s chief technology officer, spoke to Forbes senior editor Iain Martin on Wednesday at HumanX in […]

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DriveWealth breach exposes data of Revolut customers who traded US stocks

A breach at DriveWealth, the US broker behind Revolut’s US stock trading, exposed the personal data of some Revolut customers. DriveWealth and Revolut emailed affected customers on Thursday. DriveWealth said an unauthorised party got into its network on 4 and 5 September. The access was the result of a social engineering campaign run by unknown […]

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Starlink ground station near Warsaw hit by fire, Poland suspects sabotage

A fire broke out late on Wednesday at a Starlink ground station south of Warsaw that helps carry internet traffic to Ukraine. Poland’s digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, said on Thursday that it looked like sabotage. Speaking to public broadcaster TVP Info, Gawkowski said the blaze appeared designed to knock the station offline and cut […]

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