Europe’s top carriers in talks to take on Starlink, Bloomberg reports
Europe’s top carriers in talks to take on Starlink, Bloomberg reports

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone and Telefónica are in early talks to form a consortium that would bid for European satellite spectrum and offer calls, texts and data to ordinary phones from orbit, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The service would comp…

NYT Pips Answers For Tuesday, September 8

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Belgian chip researcher held since May over secrets allegedly sent to China
Belgian chip researcher held since May over secrets allegedly sent to China

Belgian prosecutors have held a 52-year-old man in pre-trial detention since 10 May on suspicion of passing chip-making secrets to China. He holds Belgian and Chinese nationality. Police arrested him at Brussels Airport as he was about to board a fligh…

Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived, and 400,000 more GPUs are coming
Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived, and 400,000 more GPUs are coming

Jensen Huang said it in four words. “AGI has arrived,” the Nvidia chief executive wrote on X late on Sunday, congratulating OpenAI on GPT-6 Astra. By Monday morning the post had passed 10 million views. The rest of the post is the part worth reading. H…

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…