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The French lab is pitching Studio, built around its open-weight Mistral Large 4 model, as a way to run agents in the cloud, a private VPC or on-premises.
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The A330neo service continues to Bangkok and takes flights between Germany and Abu Dhabi to 49 a week, following Condor's recent Berlin route.
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The London company plans to simulate molecular interactions from physics to build training data for AI models, raising a seed round in the tens of millions of dollars.
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Four people said the Kimi developer discussed renting clusters of 8,000 or more GPUs from neoclouds, which US export rules on remote access do not yet cover.
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The course uses ABB's RobotStudio and Nvidia's Omniverse, and comes with a white paper finding that 84% of companies have not redesigned jobs around AI.
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Detection falls to 17% when a quarter of the words are swapped, and the AI Act sets no measurable threshold for how well text watermarks must work.
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Europe's chemical and industrial gas suppliers are adding plants in Taiwan, Korea and Arizona as chipmakers expand capacity for AI servers.
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The shipping group now expects underlying EBITDA of $14 billion to $14.5 billion, but third-quarter earnings missed analyst forecasts and its shares fell about 11%.
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Three companies, led by autonomous excavator maker Bedrock Robotics, took most of the money as contractors short of skilled workers look to machines.
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The non-binding pact runs to May 2027 and targets LNG-engine controls that can follow the sharp swings in power demand from AI computing at sea.
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The 8-1 vote came as energy costs from the Middle East conflict push inflation higher, and the Bank now expects CPI to reach around 5% by mid-2027.
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The Oaktree-backed operator, which runs a hyperscale campus on Abu Dhabi's Yas Island, says it has now raised more than $6.2 billion in 12 months.
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The Swiss private bank now has two UAE entities: a DIFC wealth management arm opened in June and the new Abu Dhabi unit, which advises on digital assets.
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Weak earnings, a stronger won and slow export orders have hit Hanwha Aerospace and Hyundai Rotem, while analysts question how well tank and artillery makers fit drone-era warfare.
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The London-based payments firm wants to offer merchant acquiring and card issuing in the UAE on one platform, but still needs final authorisation.
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More than 100 groups backing the Stop Dirty Data Centres campaign want moratoria on large projects, citing energy, emissions and housing costs.
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A study of 14 million UK bank and card accounts finds Anthropic's share of direct AI subscription spending quadrupled in seven months, though ChatGPT still takes most of it.
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The polyolefins producer formed from Borouge, Borealis and NOVA Chemicals signed AI and digital deals with Microsoft, Emerson, Immensa and Cognite at ADIPEC.
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It is the second setback in weeks for the Nvidia-backed British AI cloud company, which filed for a US listing in September with Microsoft expected to be a major customer.
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The three projects at solar plants in Extremadura and Andalusia are the partners' first storage assets and are due to start operating by the end of 2027.
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The new chief executive of the Austrian energy group, a long-time partner of ADNOC, says depleted inventories mean supply disruptions will take time to work through.
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The Commons business committee wants a critical minerals finance facility and says it cannot be confident the government will meet any of its 10 tests.
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China's top economic planner has told SoftBank it will not clear the deal, according to the Financial Times, leaving ABB holding a business it agreed to sell last year.
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The venture firm says it has raised about $10 billion in new funds and will flatten its partnership, with seven general partners now running the firm.
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The German wafer maker's chief executive says tight memory supply is pushing capacity towards AI, and he expects smartphone wafer use to fall about 14% this year.
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The DeepMind spinout would more than double the $2.1 billion it raised earlier this year, at a valuation reported to be about $50 billion.
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Chief executive Carl Pei calls it a screenless productivity tool that "couldn't have been an app," but he has not said what it is or given a release date.
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The Facebook owner is raising up to €9 billion in six tranches to fund its AI build-out, a day after selling $15 billion of dollar bonds at wider spreads than in April.
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Licence income grew 50 per cent but royalties rose just 8 per cent, and Arm says orders now support up to $2 billion of revenue from its own AGI CPU chip.
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The Brittany-based bank says attackers moved money from its own account to other banks and converted it into cryptocurrency, and Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation.
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Beijing said Britain was smearing it without evidence a day after the National Cyber Security Centre warned of an AI-powered ransomware attack on UK infrastructure by 2028.
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On all four models in the new wave, the watermark only applies at default sampling settings, so API users can avoid it by changing a single parameter.
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Most of the money is €440 million in grants from Brussels and member states, and the rest funds a shared design platform. The Commission says European firms earn under 1% of global chip design revenue.
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The French security firm says the attackers hijacked a Ukrainian analytics tracker for a week and used lookalike sites to deliver exploits that needed no click from victims.
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France's health ministry says no blood products were lost, but the attack on refrigeration monitoring systems widens a run of suspected hacks on connected cooling equipment in Europe.
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Mayor Carola Schouten, who leads a delegation of more than 50 mainly Rotterdam-area companies, told Gulf producers to start with blue hydrogen instead of waiting for green, and said the port already has CCS infrastructure in place.
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The memorandum signed in Paris follows EDGE's purchase of a controlling stake in the Italian propulsion specialist in October 2026.
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Announced at Euronaval 2026 in Paris, the deal pairs TII's extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle with Naval Group's experience in underwater combat drones and covers possible joint development and marketing.
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The Barcelona start-up, which Philips picked over Google TV for its 2026 models, now counts 30 million users and plans to use AI for content discovery and ad targeting.
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The Abu Dhabi and Vienna polyolefins group has hired Linde Engineering for work on two of its UAE ethane crackers, and says Borouge 4 and new European plants are moving ahead.
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The memorandum, signed during a Department of Municipalities and Transport visit, covers integrated planning, advanced technologies and better coordination of land use with transport networks.
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A São Paulo judge suspended part of Meta's new commercial terms for members of three national media associations, with fines of R$1 million a day for non-compliance.
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The Abu Dhabi Projects and Infrastructure Centre signed with Siemens, HENN, Patrizia, Partners Group and the German-Emirati chamber in Munich, as it looks for foreign capital and know-how for its $56 billion capital projects programme.
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First Abu Dhabi Bank is one of the new lenders backing the data centre developer as it raises money for land and power in Europe and the Middle East.
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The first £2.5 billion phase would bring up to 100 megawatts online in early 2028 at the North Yorkshire power station, but it still needs planning approval and a tenant.
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The Spanish energy group, formerly Cepsa, did not disclose a price for its minority stakes in three Berkine Basin fields as it shifts toward hydrogen and biofuels.
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Attackers reportedly pushed refrigeration temperatures as high as 50°C at stores in at least six countries, and retailers including ICA and Carrefour are now cutting equipment off the open internet.
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The ISAC System uses radio reflections picked up by several 5G sites to track drones that are not connected to the network, and is aimed at defence, public safety and critical infrastructure operators.
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The Manchester company's metadata and parallel file technology will go into NetApp's ONTAP platform and its Novus storage product for AI clouds and GPU-as-a-service providers, though the price was not disclosed.
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The Series A was led by Al Mada Ventures and co-led by Silicon Badia, with Du Ventures and Oraseya Capital joining, and will fund expansion from the Gulf into the US and Europe.
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