Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock
Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock

Dubai Chambers is putting more than 14,000 companies through training in agentic AI, the kind of software that carries out tasks on its own rather than answering questions. The body launched the courses on 1 September in front of 90 chairpersons of its…

Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates
Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates

Cognizant announced on Monday that it will hire 1,500 American college graduates this year and build a new job family for the AI era. The company’s own research says AI could take on $4.5tn worth of work Americans currently get paid to do. Both numbers…

Jaguar Land Rover cuts 4,000 jobs and resets break-even to 300,000 cars
Jaguar Land Rover cuts 4,000 jobs and resets break-even to 300,000 cars

The number that matters in Monday’s Jaguar Land Rover announcement is not 4,000. It is 300,000. That is the annual sales volume at which the company now intends to break even. Its brands have historically sold well over 400,000 vehicles a year. Just Au…

Cato raises €6m to sell AI into Italy’s €309.7bn tender market
Cato raises €6m to sell AI into Italy’s €309.7bn tender market

The investment case for Cato is unusual. Most software sells on the promise of making a hard thing easy. Cato’s backers are betting that a hard thing stays hard. The Milan startup has raised €6m in seed funding to sell AI to companies bidding for Itali…

Inside The European Factory Where Robots Are Building Robots

“Every single person on the planet will get a personal robot,” the founder and CEO of Agile Robots told me in Munich last week. “This is not going to be very far away.”

NEURA and SECO will build robot compute modules in Europe
NEURA and SECO will build robot compute modules in Europe

A German company designs the robot. An Italian company builds the board that goes inside it. An American company designs the chip that goes on the board. That is the European Physical AI stack as it actually exists. On Monday, two thirds of it signed a…

Audi built an efficient EV in Germany. It is 12cm too long for the rules meant to help
Audi built an efficient EV in Germany. It is 12cm too long for the rules meant to help

Audi has revealed the A2 e-tron, its cheapest electric car, built in Ingolstadt and priced from EUR 38,200 with up to 646km of WLTP range. At 4.32 metres it is 12 centimetres too long for M1E, the small-car category the Commission proposed in December …

UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports
UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports

For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to b…

ByteDance is preparing a real-time spatial video model under Zhang Yiming, Bloomberg reports
ByteDance is preparing a real-time spatial video model under Zhang Yiming, Bloomberg reports

ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the work and a launch possible as soon as next month, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to…

The ‘Lanterns’ Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Crashes After ‘Political’ Accusations

Lanterns had a very high Rotten Tomatoes audience score until it sunk after a certain episode went too political for some.