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SoftBank and Ericsson have tested AI-driven radio optimisation on a live 5G network in Japan. The result puts a practical question to operators: can real-time RAN AI deliver capacity gains without creating new assurance burdens?
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Guardant Health's updated Guardant360 Liquid CDx adds genomic and epigenomic signals to a blood-based cancer test. The approval sharpens the operational questions laboratories and oncology teams must answer before broader clinical use.
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New research on graphene networks formed during laser additive manufacturing addresses a persistent materials-engineering trade-off. The commercial question is whether repeatable processing can move laboratory strength-and-toughness gains into qualified parts.
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The SEC's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets would create tailored paths for certain crypto-asset offerings. Its significance lies less in headline relief than in how disclosure, eligibility and investor protection are operationalised.
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Discord's new discovery and social-play tools show how game marketing is moving beyond broad reach toward measurable community actions. Publishers must now weigh acquisition metrics against player trust and platform dependence.
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A new US national-security AI directive shifts attention from experimentation toward data, security and acquisition choices. Defence suppliers now face a more explicit governance baseline alongside the opportunity for accelerated adoption.
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The EU's 2026 sustainability reporting changes narrow and delay parts of the compliance timetable. For companies, the immediate task is to separate confirmed obligations from legacy planning assumptions and rebuild governance accordingly.
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A two-year study of Khanmigo gives school leaders a more concrete basis for assessing AI tutoring. Its findings place implementation, monitoring and student engagement alongside model capability in the buying decision.
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Oshen has raised $5 million to scale its wind- and solar-powered C-Star ocean robots, which have collected data inside a Category 5 hurricane. The Plymouth startup is expanding manufacturing to meet orders for persistent sensing systems serving climate, maritime, energy, and defense users.
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Amazon Web Services released Glue 6.0 with pricing reductions and full Apache Iceberg v3 support, addressing enterprise demand for cost-efficient data integration and open-source compatibility. The modernized runtime leverages Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.12, and Scala 2.13, signaling AWS's commitment to competitive pricing in the data engineering segment.
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Salesforce has embedded environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities into its annual Dreamforce conference, signaling enterprise-wide commitment to sustainability reporting and carbon accountability. The initiative reflects broader institutional pressure on software vendors to operationalize climate commitments across customer ecosystems and supply chains.
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Connecting has integrated demand forecasting with omnichannel campaign orchestration using machine learning models on Databricks, enabling retail and consumer goods teams to synchronize inventory, promotional, and store-level execution across fragmented operating systems. The platform addresses a critical operational gap where planning and execution teams work in isolation, creating demand forecasting errors and missed revenue opportunities.
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OpenAI's new Strategic Futures team has launched AI Futures, a blog tackling the most structurally demanding AI risk: how free society must be redesigned to preserve human agency and democratic institutions as transformative AI concentrates economic and political power.
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Merck and Moderna's personalised mRNA therapy intismeran autogene has beaten KEYTRUDA monotherapy on both recurrence-free and distant metastasis-free survival in 1,137 resected melanoma patients — marking the first positive Phase 3 readout for any mRNA-based cancer treatment.
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Linear's latest data reveals that AI agents now author just under half of all issues created on the platform—a milestone just two years after fewer than one issue per thousand came from AI. Yet teams tripled pull requests while development time rose, suggesting AI has reshaped execution speed but not strategic decision-making.
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Securing, in partnership with Palantir, has introduced machine learning-powered software security capabilities designed to accelerate vulnerability detection and remediation across enterprise development pipelines. The approach addresses growing pressure on organizations to maintain security velocity as AI-driven threats and deployment speeds increase.
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SAP's global president of Customer Success Jan Gilg details five AI-driven shifts already reshaping enterprise go-to-market operations, including an Amadeus deployment that autonomously cleared 40,000 incorrect transactions. The company is building a single AI-powered entry point connecting sales teams to a network of specialized agents across planning, outreach, quoting, and customer engagement.
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Chinese space startup LandSpace successfully landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on August 19, marking China's first land-based booster recovery using landing legs. The achievement places LandSpace as only the third company globally, after SpaceX and Blue Origin, to master vertical orbital booster landing—a capability that unlocks reusable spaceflight economics.
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Slack rolled out Slack Code on August 20, enabling teams to collaborate directly with AI coding agents in dedicated project channels. Available on all Slack plans with founding partnerships from Anthropic, Cognition, OpenAI, and GitHub.
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Tech leaders' rhetoric around sentient and rogue AI agents is distracting from substantive policy and regulatory frameworks needed to govern artificial intelligence systems. A new analysis examines how consciousness debates sideline practical governance challenges.
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Airbus has commenced construction on a 6,221-square-meter extension to its Belfast wing manufacturing facility, part of a multi-million-pound investment designed to support the ramp-up of A220 production to 13 aircraft per month by 2028. The project will add a third autoclave, specialized tooling, and cranage infrastructure to the UK site, which is now the exclusive global manufacturer of A220 composite wings following Airbus's acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems' operations.
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OpenRouter is joining Stripe under an acquisition agreement while promising that its product, name, roadmap and integrations remain unchanged. The combination could link multi-model routing more closely with token metering and billing, but developers still need to validate neutrality, data controls and costs.
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Binance Agent OS connects compatible AI applications to approved crypto market, wallet, payment and trading functions. Its dedicated sub-account, scoped permissions, no-withdrawal design and confirmation flow show why controlled execution—not autonomous trading—is the central product challenge.
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Beijing’s World Robot Conference showcased China’s humanoid-robot supply chain and investor momentum. The business test now is whether robots can perform constrained factory and logistics tasks reliably enough to earn repeat deployment, rather than simply impress an exhibition audience.
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