Artificial Intelligence
Carnegie Mellon Wired a Lab Robot to Claude in 8 Hours
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents run lab and factory hardware. Carnegie Mellon cut integration to 8 hours; QuEra's laser recovery hit 99.3 percent.
All news
Capital
Pasqal Starts Trading On Nasdaq With $360 Million
Pasqal's SPAC merger with Bleichroeder closed on 27 August 2026, and PSQL shares began trading the next day with about $360 million in cash. The Paris listing is still ahead.
Gaming
Ireland's Games Tax Credit Now Covers Post-Launch DLC
The European Commission approved Ireland's Section 481A extension to post-release game content on July 28, 2026. Here is the 32 percent rate, the 25 million euro cap, and what it means for EU studios competing with live-service publishers.
Law & Regulation
Chat Control Becomes Law Without a Single Yes Vote
Parliament voted 314 to 276 to reject Chat Control 1.0's extension, short of the 360 votes needed. The measure passed into law anyway, and stays in force until April 2028.
Consumer Tech
Apple Sets September 9 For Its First Foldable iPhone
Apple confirmed a September 9 event for its first foldable iPhone. Specs and pricing are still leaks, and Europe's price will likely run higher than the US number.
Digital Sovereignty
N26 Defaults Its App to Wero in Germany and France
N26 defaulted its banking app to Wero, Europe's instant-payment wallet, in Germany and France on August 11, 2026. What the EuroPA Alliance means for merchants.
Law & Regulation
A Freight Giant's Unit Faces a Chip Smuggling Probe
The US Commerce Department is investigating Kuehne+Nagel unit Apex Logistics over 47 shipments suspected of routing Nvidia AI chips to China via Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
Digital Sovereignty
Nscale's Biggest Deal Yet Is Built in America
Anthropic signed a $45 billion, six-year deal with Nscale for 460MW of Vera Rubin capacity. The build is in West Virginia, not at the British firm's home market.
Capital
NTT DATA's Second Nordic ServiceNow Bolt-On
NTT DATA is buying Stockholm's Netgain AB, its second Nordic ServiceNow acquisition in eight months. What EU and UK buyers mid-contract with independent ServiceNow shops should check now.
AI Policy
Anthropic's Wellbeing Grants Repeat OpenAI's Gap
Anthropic's new $5 million wellbeing grant program is 2.5x OpenAI's, but the funding and data-access gap critics flagged in OpenAI's program looks unchanged.
Law & Regulation
Momenta Beat Waymo to Germany's KBA Approval
Waymo says manual mapping starts in Munich within weeks, aiming for a robotaxi launch by end of 2027. It still lacks the KBA approval a Chinese rival, Momenta, secured four weeks earlier.
Decisions
Amazon's SVP Wrote 100,000 Lines With No Review Gate
Amazon's own blog celebrates an SVP's 100,000 lines of AI-written code. Five months earlier, it quietly made senior engineers sign off on the same kind of code.
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