Ofgem confirmed on August 26, 2026 that the UK household energy price cap will rise 4 percent to around GBP 1,723 a year from October. The cap only covers domestic tariffs - commercial energy users face the raw 11 percent wholesale gas jump directly, with no ceiling at all.
osapiens, a Mannheim, Germany-based compliance-software company, acquired Nasdaq's Metrio platform and its customer base on August 19, 2026 to accelerate its US market entry. For companies that built their mandatory CSRD reporting on Metrio, this is a migration, support-continuity, and audit-trail question, not a financial footnote.
Verdane has bought out Northzone, AirTree Ventures and management to take full majority control of HappyOrNot, the Finnish maker of the Smiley feedback terminals used by 4,000+ customers in 135 countries. The company is now pivoting from feedback collection to AI-driven operational intelligence.
INLEAP Photonics closed a EUR 20 million seed round on September 1, 2026, four months after signing a defense partnership and weeks after an explosive drone hit Leipzig Halle Airport.
PLD Space added EUR 108 million on September 1, 2026, taking total funding to EUR 488 million, while lead investor Mitsubishi Electric already holds priority access to Miura 5's first launches.
Cloover's EIF-backed financing capacity grew from EUR 1.04 billion to EUR 1.12 billion in eight months, funding solar and heat pump loans in Germany, the UK, France and Poland.
EuroHPC signed a EUR 387.8 million contract with French state-owned Bull to build LUMI-AI in Kajaani, Finland. The integrator changed from an American company to a European one - the AMD chip supplier did not.
A Steam server Valve retired in 2013 sat publicly reachable for thirteen years. On August 29, 2026, archivists pulled 12 to 13 terabytes from it, including unreleased betas belonging to EA/BioWare and WB Games/Rocksteady, not just Valve's own files.
France's new SVE law lets a prefect jump AI data centres to the front of an 11-gigawatt grid queue, but the fast-track expires March 10, 2027, weeks after a permanent readiness-based rule takes over.
Sony's Xperia 10 VIII launched August 25, 2026 at EUR 599 / GBP 549, up from EUR 449 / GBP 399, with an unchanged chipset, RAM, and storage. The jump lines up with the memory-chip shock Sony's own CEO named as the reason the PlayStation 6 still has no launch date.
The EU AI Office issued its first formal Requests for Information under the AI Act on August 29, 2026, 27 days after gaining enforcement power. Two separate tracks target model safety and training-data transparency.
The FTC and 22 states say Amazon secretly ran a phantom bidder in its ad auctions for seven years. Here is what the complaint alleges, and what Amazon says back.
Page 36 / 142
One considered note on infrastructure, governance, and measurement, most mornings. No theory.