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Taiwan’s drone defence debate heats up as opposition pushes rival plan

The opposition KMT is proposing NT$240bn for unmanned systems just days after stalling the government’s plan, in a fight with real implications for the island’s defence. Few militaries have watche [...]

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Digital Realty to buy Blackstone’s stake in three Virginia data centres

Northern Virginia is where the internet physically lives, and a large piece of it just changed hands. Digital Realty has agreed to buy Blackstone’s majority stake in three fully leased data centres [...]

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Panasonic to localise US data-centre battery production, CEO says

The Japanese group plans to mass-produce data-centre battery cells in Kansas by fiscal 2028, redirecting a large slice of its AI infrastructure investment toward storage. The companies that built batt [...]

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Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care

Meta wants its own AI coding tools. To get there, it is telling its engineers to be careful with the rival tools they lean on today. Meta has placed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI di [...]

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StanChart’s former AI chief joins Accenture as Southeast Asia head

David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, will lead advanced AI for the region at a consultancy betting heavily on enterprise adoption. The corporate AI leadership market move [...]

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Uber cuts 10% of its workforce and shuts down in Nigeria and Uganda

Uber is cutting about 3,300 roles, roughly 10% of its workforce, and shutting down in Nigeria and Uganda as it redirects spending towards robotaxis. Its internal memo says everyone affected has been n [...]

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Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there

Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agents, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says. European governments have spent two [...]

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Oslo doesn’t need fast chargers everywhere, and it proves it daily

Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU’s own [...]

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Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion

Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company fa [...]

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