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Capital on Tap research reported by TechRadar shows about one in eight UK SMEs now pay for AI tools, with adoption rising to 12.8% in 2026. Anthropic’s Claude leads spending, while more than a quarter of buyers use two or more providers.
Tesla unveils a Roadster with SpaceX-built thrusters that can jump and drive inverted; preorders open, production set for 2028.
Chinese drone-display company Damoda is moving from light shows into equipment sales, overseas markets and low-altitude swarm embodied intelligence, and expects to file for an IPO in 2027, Leiphone reports.
Qwen Office CEO Chen Yusheng said e-commerce merchants account for more than 20% of paying users two months after launch. Its new e-commerce edition uses AI agents to automate multichannel operations, pricing, reporting and creative production, Leiphone reported.
Kling AI released Kling 4.0 on Oct 15, adding 30-second native clips, 10-bit HDR, and up to 15 combined reference assets per task as it targets production-grade video.
Sifted counts 94 European AI fintech startups rebuilding finance's back office, asks whether open-weight AI models are safe enough, scrutinises defence tech revenue, and profiles voice AI founder Thomas Kluiters.
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight MoE with 42B active parameters, 1M context, multimodal input, and deployment on two Mac Studios.
Tesla unveiled a redesigned Roadster concept with cold-gas thrusters, midair flips and a claimed 0.81-second 0-60 mph run.
BMW's new-generation iX3 will use a China-specific cockpit AI jointly developed with Alibaba, built on the Qwen model and integrated by Banma.
Meituan released its fourth North Star Medical Aesthetics List in Hangzhou, covering 181 institutions and 269 doctors, while promoting AI tools for clinics.
A 2021 internal Anthropic document, exposed through a copyright lawsuit, shows the company planned coding agents, tool use, long context and agent safety more than a year before ChatGPT appeared, according to Leifeng.com.
SK hynix showcased next-generation AI memory technologies at OCP Global Summit 2026, including MARS, High Bandwidth Flash progress and a second-generation 256GB CXL 3.2 product.
NVIDIA and IIT Madras' AI4Bharat plan to release Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, about 2.8 trillion tokens across 22 Indian languages, with an open GPU-accelerated pipeline for generating the data.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the China beta of Apple Intelligence will launch later this month without Siri AI, while Sspai also reported new AI, security, gaming and keyboard-PC products from SpaceXAI, Microsoft, HP and Step.
Tesla unveiled its long-delayed Roadster in Texas, showing thruster jumps, upside-down driving and hovering. Production: 2028.
Data center hardware startup Mueon has raised $65 million in a Series A round led by Maverick Silicon to develop Cubelet, a three-dimensional server architecture that stacks computing and memory components.
Perplexity AI has released SPACE, an open-source sandbox that runs autonomous AI agents inside isolated virtual machines, as CoreWeave, Akamai and Crusoe begin deploying it.
At its Elevate event in Chicago, LogicMonitor outlined AI-governed automation for enterprise observability, citing a 98% cut in alert noise at GlobalFoundries and efficiency gains among managed service providers.
Apple’s French site lists an unreleased iPad mini Smart Folio, model A3632, before a rumored OLED iPad mini launch.
BYD has launched the Han, a flagship electric sedan in China, priced at 235,900 yuan and offering almost 630 miles of CLTC range, nine-minute fast charging, and luxury features aimed at premium rivals.
Apple has won approval to bring its first Apple Intelligence features to users in China in a beta later this month, Tim Cook said in Shanghai, with Alibaba's Qwen model set to power the experience. DeepSeek, TSMC, Anthropic and Ramp also reported major developments.
Samsung Electronics said Friday that three products—the Galaxy S26 Ultra smartphone, the Bespoke AI Family Hub refrigerator and the Odyssey G8 G80HS gaming monitor—were named in TIME magazine's Best Inventions of 2026 list.
Intero Biosystems won TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026, with Apate runner-up after 20 startups competed.
Shield AI expects its first full-scale X-BAT VTOL combat drone by the end of October 2026 and flight tests later this year, after the U.S. Navy added $150 million to bring external funding to $200 million.