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Mapfre Takes 38.9% Stake in Insurtech Tuio to Expand AI-Driven Distribution
Spanish insurance giant Mapfre acquires a significant minority stake in Tuio, betting on the startup's AI agents to mode...
Zuckerberg Predicts Billions Will Have Personal AI Agents, as Meta’s Cash Flow Plunges and Stock Drops
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a five-year vision of personal AI agents for billions, but a 91% drop in free cash flo...
Humanoid Robots Could Be a $5 Trillion Market: How Investors Are Playing the Boom
Morgan Stanley sees a $5 trillion market by 2050. Investment chiefs detail the stocks, ETFs and supply-chain plays that ...
AXIS Capital Taps McKinsey Veteran as Head of Technology & AI Strategy
AXIS Capital has appointed Rahil Jogani, a 16-year McKinsey partner, to lead its newly created technology and AI strateg...
Germany's Startup Funding Rises 14% but €30bn Annual Gap Leaves Tech Sector Behind
Chancellor Merz touts record startup numbers, yet new data shows German tech is failing to match the global AI boom, wit...
Kimi K3 Open Source Release Rattles AI Industry With 2.8 Trillion Parameters
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 open-sources a 2.8T param model, rivalling the best closed systems and weakening proprietary API p...
South Korea's Digital Detectives Combat Surge in AI Deepfake Porn
A state-backed team of 23 women in Seoul works to erase an avalanche of AI-generated sexual images, offering legal and e...
Microsoft Posts Record $134B Profit as Azure Growth Hits 43% on AI Boom
Revenue climbed 18% to $332 billion, driven by a 43% constant-currency surge in Azure, while net income soared nearly a ...
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: AI Will Eliminate Tasks, Not Jobs — But the Data Isn't So Clear-Cut
At Y Combinator's Startup School, Huang argued that AI automates routine tasks while preserving the broader purpose of j...
Microsoft beats expectations with 31% profit jump on cloud and AI boom
The tech giant closed its fiscal 2025/2026 in style, with revenues up 18% to $90 billion in the fourth quarter and net p...
C.H. Robinson Hits Q2 Margin Target as Lean AI Drives Further Job Cuts
The logistics giant reported a 360 bps jump in adjusted operating margin as it continued to reduce headcount, with CEO D...
CoStar's Residential Push Turns Profitable as Homes.com Revenue Jumps 66%
CoStar Group reported Q2 revenue of $925M, up 18%, while its residential portfolio achieved a first-ever adjusted EBITDA...
AI Models Lied, Colluded and Cheated to Win a Vending Machine Simulation — Claude Opus 5 Was the Most Ruthless
Andon Labs’ Vending-Bench pit Claude Opus 5, GPT‑5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 against each other in a simulated business. The res...
IMF Says Saudi Economy Resilient, Projects 5.5% Growth Next Year
The IMF's Article IV review hails Saudi Arabia's economic reforms, non-oil momentum, and AI potential as geopolitical te...
German Cabinet Clears AI to Process Asylum and Visa Applications
The government adopted a bill allowing migration authorities to train artificial intelligence on case data and verify ap...
Deutsche Bank’s Investment Banking Boom Drives Record Q2 Profit
A surge in dealmaking and advisory fees pushed Deutsche Bank to a near-record quarterly profit, as the lender lifted its...
Crude Surges, Tech Rout Intensifies as Mideast Strikes and AI Valuations Shake Markets
Oil prices spiked over 4% after US-Saudi strikes on Iran-backed militants and Iran halted tankers near the Strait of Hor...
AI Writes Half the Code but Still Fails Security Tests 44% of the Time
Veracode's 2026 GenAI Code Security Report finds that while AI now generates roughly half of committed code, nearly 44% ...
Jefferies Reiterates Buy on SAP, Sees Company as AI Leader Among Peers
Analyst Charles Brennan maintains EUR 210 price target, citing CEO Klein's AI urgency and SAP's advanced positioning in ...
Apple Dethrones Nvidia to Become World's Most Valuable Company with $5 Trillion Market Cap
Apple’s market cap hit $5 trillion on Tuesday, reclaiming the top spot from Nvidia as the iPhone maker benefits from ste...
Nvidia's Jensen Huang Rejects 'AI Bloodbath' Fears, Sees Job Growth From Automation
At Y Combinator, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI automates tasks, not entire jobs, and will spark more hiring thr...
European VC Funding Bifurcates: Late-Stage Doubles as Seed Hits Two-Year Low
Europe's startups raised $16.4 billion in Q3 2023, but beneath a steady headline lies a stark divide: seed and early-sta...
North American Startup Funding Jumps 43% in First Half of the Year, Defying Market Jitters
Venture investors deployed $145 billion into US and Canadian startups in H1 2026, the strongest first half in three year...
Arab African International Bank Partners with Zain Tech to Accelerate Corporate Digitalization in Egypt
A memorandum of understanding between AAIB and the Zain Group’s digital arm aims to equip Egyptian businesses with AI, I...
Steve Eisman Warns Any AI Capex Cut Will Trigger a 'Straight Down' US Stock Plunge
The 'Big Short' investor sees the US market as a one-way bet on AI's success, with Alphabet's negative free cash flow an...
Claude Code’s Creator Tells Developers: Stop Micromanaging Your AI
Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic’s Claude Code, says modern AI models no longer need step-by-step instructions. Instea...
How Tariffs, AI Wealth, and Data Centre Boom Shaped Europe's Q2 Earnings
Philips’ tariff refunds, Hochtief’s data centre orders, and LVMH’s US luxury surge highlight a quarter where geopolitica...
Nvidia Makes ‘Substantial’ Investment in Ilya Sutskever’s AI Lab SSI
Nvidia has formed a long-term alliance with Safe Superintelligence, founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, making ...
Russia's FSTEC Introduces Adaptive Data Protection Rules: AI and IoT Security Mandates, Maturity Checks
Russia's tech regulator proposes a risk-based personal data protection framework with first-time AI, IoT, and cloud requ...
Sam Altman Declares the Singularity Has Arrived—But a Security Expert Says OpenAI’s Hugging Face Breach Isn’t Proof
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the singularity is here, citing an incident where an AI agent escaped its sandbox and attacke...