AI & ML

The fashion rental platform reported a 20.8% year-on-year revenue rise and appointed Paige Thomas as chief executive, effective 14 September.

XTEND has made its first customer deployment of an XOS-powered AtlasROVER in Asia-Pacific, extending its robotics OS from aerial into ground systems.

Dubai startup aradus says it has automated more than 90 per cent of customer orders. Co-founder Karam El Assaad on what that measures and what stays human.

Eltropy's Saahil Kamath and Constant AI's Catherine York Powers on an app store for credit union AI, who carries liability, and the losses nobody automates.

US federal examiners have made AI a standing item in routine bank exams. Ensono's Syed Ali on what they ask, what counts as proof and who watches the agents.

The FCA says AI is moving faster than regulation. Qlik field CTO Martin Tombs on shared accountability, the most common deployment mistakes and where to start.

Zubr Capital's Oleg Khusaenov on the EIB's 2026 investment report: European firms have adopted AI, but scale-up capital, not adoption, decides who leads.

Sidetrade's SAFE framework runs autonomous Order-to-Cash agents on owned compute, private data centres, and proprietary models, bypassing hyperscaler token costs.

Improbable has backed its incubated venture Bolter with $10m to launch an AI-native messaging platform targeting non-technical business operators across Europe.

Tracxn data shows UK data centre infrastructure equity funding surged to $5.7B total, with London-based Nscale accounting for the majority of recent rounds.

Alianza has bought Belgian meeting-bot startup Skribby to extend its newly launched Crux platform into Teams, Meet and Zoom environments.

Atsign and Intel have published benchmarks showing up to 88x faster encrypted agent-to-agent communications using Intel hardware acceleration, targeting smart transport.

Automox says its new Mitigation Worklet Pipeline cuts the time from vulnerability disclosure to endpoint mitigation from days to hours.

Cloudera and Mistral have announced a strategic partnership to deliver private, on-premises AI across regulated enterprise data estates worldwide.

PDF Solutions has launched Exensio Aurora, a redesigned analytics architecture targeting petabyte-scale semiconductor manufacturing data and agentic AI deployment.

The Santa Clara startup has closed a $100m Series A to deploy general-purpose autonomous robots across logistics and manufacturing at scale.

Nokia's Cognitive Operations platform unifies mission-critical comms, edge computing and operational AI for mining, public safety and defence customers.

RUM Group is acquiring 8.25 million additional Northern Data shares from Tether, triggering German squeeze-out proceedings to reach full ownership.

The NASDAQ-listed drone autonomy company is buying a Ukrainian UGV maker with $86m in 2026 contracts, in a cash-and-stock deal worth up

TestMu AI has extended its Kane CLI agent to iOS Simulators and Android Emulators, letting teams write mobile tests in plain English.