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Salience Labs raises $125M for optical AI switches, then expands in California

Salience Labs has raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and the British Business Bank taking part. The Oxfordshire company will use it to scale manufacturing and open a second West Coast office. An Oxfordshire photonics company has raised $125M to build optical switches for AI data […]

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Kyndryl will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s live IT operations

Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will apply Kyndryl’s agentic AI framework to Toyota Finance’s IT change management, infrastructure design and impact analysis, in its production environment. No contract value, timeline or measured result has been disclosed. Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s IT operations. No contract value, timeline or measured result […]

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EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025

US EV sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter to almost 263,000, their highest in a year, against more than 437,000 in the same quarter of 2025. Europe registered 277,006 electric cars in July alone. American electric car sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter, their best in a year. They were still about 40% […]

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A London startup is putting AI cameras into Polish operating theatres

VitVio is deploying its Vetro camera and sensor platform at University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk, the first Polish hospital to take it. The AI Act category that covers systems monitoring workers’ performance was delayed to December 2027. A London startup is putting cameras into the operating theatres of a Polish public teaching hospital. It logs […]

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Humanly acquires CareerArc, adding recruitment marketing to its AI hiring tools

Humanly has acquired recruitment marketing company CareerArc, its fifth acquisition since 2025, with no price disclosed. The AI hiring tools it is consolidating fall into the EU AI Act’s high-risk employment category, whose duties were delayed to December 2027. Humanly has bought CareerArc, its fifth acquisition in two years. No price was disclosed, and the […]

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America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time

The US passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time, adding 4,106 in the third quarter, a 12% drop on a year earlier. The EU counted 212,439 public DC points in April and added nearly 18,000 of them in four months. America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time, after adding […]

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Scimplify raises $25M to speed up critical materials production with AI

Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures to supply specialty chemicals and critical materials outside China, with German customer Henkel joining as an investor. The new production network is going to the US and Japan, not Europe. Scimplify has raised $25M to supply specialty chemicals and critical materials from outside China. German […]

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US and European regulators question banks about AI agents and cyber risks

Banking regulators in the US and Europe are stepping up efforts to contain the risks AI poses to banks, Reuters reported, citing six people familiar with the matter. Some fear that cyberattacks or rogue AI agents could shake the financial system. In the US, the Federal Reserve and two other bank regulators are questioning banks […]

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Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the government

Anthropic has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the government. Neither comes with a figure or a headcount. The memorandum covers AI safety, security and model evaluation, research on adoption, and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors, the company said. Co-founder Ben Mann […]

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Anthropic’s international chief says open models carry more risk by definition

Anthropic’s head of international told Bloomberg TV in Dublin that open alternatives to its models carry more risk by definition. That is a broader claim than the one Dario Amodei set out in July, when he wrote that open-weight models without dangerous capabilities are a public good. Anthropic’s top sales executive outside the US says […]

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