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Watching email marketers obsessively monitor their sender IP, checking it daily, warming it carefully, treating it like a rare orchid, is not only relatable, it’s a reminder of how much conventional [...]

IBM shares plunge after preliminary Q2 revenue falls short of estimates despite surging AI bookings

IBM issued preliminary second-quarter results on Monday showing revenue of roughly $17 billion, up one percent year over year but well below the $18 billion that analysts had expected. Shares fell as [...]

Austrian startup REPS raises $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity

Tyrol-based REPS has plugged its first “road power plant” into the Port of Hamburg. The next test is whether the economics survive contact with anywhere else. Tyrol-based REPS has raised $23.6m [...]

Taco Bell’s voice AI expansion shows the drive-thru has entered a new phase

Voice AI in the drive-thru is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operating decision for quick-service restaurants. Food On Demand recently reported that Taco Bell has expanded its voice AI [...]

Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

Motive Partners is leading the seed round, with WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures alongside. The 2025-founded startup is targeting case management, billing, and document handling rather than the [...]

Samsung union holds 21 May strike date as Monday mediation opens in Sejong

Talks resumed in Sejong on Monday. Choi Seung-ho walked into the National Labor Relations Commission building in Sejong on Monday morning, about 110 km south of Seoul, and told reporters he would ‘p [...]

A Berlin side project just became the orchestration layer of SAP’s AI platform. n8n is now worth $5.2 billion.

  Jan Oberhauser started n8n in 2019 as a side project in Berlin because the workflow automation tools he used at work were too expensive and too closed. Seven years later, SAP has embedded his compa [...]

Beijing put Huawei’s secret chip lab on national TV two days before Trump arrives. The message wasn’t for Chinese viewers.

  On Friday evening, China Central Television’s most-watched news programme broadcast footage that has never been shown publicly. The Chip Fundamental Technology Research Laboratory at Huawei’s L [...]

The man who took Tesla public just joined JB Straubel’s battery startup. It’s no longer just a battery startup.

  Deepak Ahuja, the chief financial officer who took Tesla public in 2010 and served two terms steering its finances through the most volatile period in automotive history, has joined Redwood Materia [...]