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Google wants Search to work while you sleep, and its new information agents are the plan

Google has spent more than two decades refining a product built on a simple premise: you type a question, it returns a list of links. At I/O 2026 on Monday, the company signalled that premise is no longer enough. Among the biggest announcements was a new category of AI-powered tools called information agents, persistent, background […]

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Google partners with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster for Gemini-powered smart glasses

Google is having another go at smart glasses, and this time it is bringing fashionable friends along for the ride. At Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday, the company announced a new partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to produce AI-powered “audio glasses” designed in collaboration with Samsung. Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro and running on […]

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ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity

  Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is preparing to launch futures contracts tied to the cost of computing power, marking the latest sign that Wall Street sees AI infrastructure as the next great commodity market. ICE announced on Monday that it will team with Ornn, a financial-infrastructure firm whose […]

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Panasonic buys UK media server maker HIVE in push beyond hardware

Panasonic Projector & Display Corporation has acquired 100% of the issued shares of UK-based HIVE Media Control, the company behind the award-winning BeeBlade media server platform. The deal signals a decisive shift in Panasonic’s strategy, moving it from a projector and display manufacturer into what it calls a “broader visual solutions ecosystem provider,” encompassing software, […]

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Hitachi partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude across 290,000 employees and strengthen Lumada 3.0

Hitachi has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic that will see the Japanese industrial conglomerate deploy Claude AI models across its entire workforce of approximately 290,000 employees, in what it describes as a move to strengthen its “Lumada 3.0” business model. The deal positions Hitachi as one of the largest enterprise adopters of Claude globally, […]

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AMD’s Lisa Su meets China’s vice premier in Beijing as chip diplomacy intensifies

  AMD CEO Lisa Su sat down with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, a meeting that underscores how US chipmakers are scrambling to protect their foothold in the world’s second-largest semiconductor market even as Washington tightens the screws on technology exports. He, a member […]

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Meta’s $200 billion Hyperion data centre in Louisiana is the most expensive private infrastructure project in American history

Meta is building the most expensive single piece of private infrastructure in American history. Hyperion, the company’s AI data centre campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, now carries a projected cost of more than $200 billion, a figure that has grown steadily since the project was first announced at $10 billion in December 2024. The campus […]

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Unframe takes $50M more from Highland Europe on $100M TCV in 12 months

The Shay Levi-led enterprise AI delivery platform has doubled its total funding to $100m and is posting numbers, including 400% net revenue retention, that put it in the top decile of any enterprise-software vintage. Unframe, the Cupertino-based managed AI delivery platform co-founded by Shay Levi, has raised an additional $50m in funding led by Highland […]

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Barclays says humanoid robots can offset 60% of China’s 37M worker shortfall by 2035

The British bank’s new note estimates humanoid robots can offset 60% of the projected labour-force decline by 2035, with China’s workforce shrinking by 37 million people over the next ten years. Up to 24 million humanoids would be needed. Barclays published a research note estimating that China’s deployment of humanoid robots could offset as much […]

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Standard Chartered will cut 7,800 back-office jobs to ‘the machines’ by 2030

Bill Winters told investors in Hong Kong that the bank’s HR, risk and compliance functions will shrink by more than 15% over five years, with the headcount efficiency aimed at lifting income-per-employee 20% by 2028. Standard Chartered will cut more than 15% of its back-office roles by 2030, chief executive Bill Winters told investors at […]

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