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DuckDB 2.0 is supported until at least October 2027 and 1.5 has been extended to March 2027. Files written by 2.0 cannot be read by any…

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From 31 October new sign-ups lose access to kimi-k2.6 and kimi-k2.7-code; existing API users keep them until a retirement Moonshot plans…

Funding news

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Blog

From the UAE on 30 October to Spain in October 2027, 14 e-invoicing deadlines fall in nine countries within a year. Clearance, Peppol and…

Business news

The Vietnamese IT services group starts with more than 60 Egyptian engineers already serving Gulf clients, plans about 200 staff within…

HR News

Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility

Under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program, Reliable Robotics flew cargo demonstrations at Albuquerque International Sunport with a…

Robotics & Automation

E-FOREST TECH DAY at the Uiwang research institute showed digital twins of real equipment, AI agents for factory staff and an in-house…

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Modern Cars

The first electric X5 adds up to 217 miles (WLTP) in ten minutes on an Alpitronic demonstrator at an IONNA site; Alpitronic says the 460…

Product News

ArtCraft's PhotoCraft, FilmCraft and LightCraft were first pushed to GitHub on 30 September and carry MIT or Apache-2.0 licences, but the…

Funding guides

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Oracle scores the Java gap 9.1 and pulls the eMudhra roots from every supported JDK line; Cisco lists Duo upgrades now, Meraki camera…

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DuckDB 1.4 support ends 17 November as 2.0 LTS ships

US Treasury widens outbound investment curbs to biotech and four more countries

Europe: funding calls and deadlines closing soon (week of 26 October 2026)

Cognizant agrees to buy DyFlex, an Australian SAP partner of 300 staff

China drafts mandatory car data security and automated parking standards

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Moonshot to retire its Kimi K2 API models by the end of December

Latin America: funding calls and deadlines closing soon (week of 26 October 2026)

Middle East and Africa: funding calls and deadlines closing soon (week of 26 October 2026)

Asia-Pacific: funding calls and deadlines closing soon (week of 26 October 2026)

Funding news

Vienna opens Wiener Wachstum, equity for digital and health firms

Former e& chief Hatem Dowidar invests in Cairo's Tactful AI

Higgsfield adds TCV and NVIDIA to its Series B for AI video

Kevel raises $52m to scale retail media ad infrastructure

Blog

E-invoicing mandates: 14 deadlines in nine countries over the next 12 months

What an AI task costs: a 200-fold spread across 38 priced models on our board

The change calendar: 171 software, tax and rule deadlines from our reports

Corporations joined 39 of the 102 startup rounds we covered but led only two

Business news

FPT opens its first African office in Cairo as an EMEA nearshore hub

Fintel buys Mortgage Brain outright for £38.4m

Zoom buys Onyx, keeping its enterprise search open source

Opaque Systems winds down as its confidential AI team joins Anthropic

HR News

Turkey's data regulator limits how employers read staff work email

Dayforce agrees to buy Ribbon, a Toronto AI job interviewer

Kenya raises the fringe benefit and deemed interest rates to 9%

BambooHR went offline for six hours to patch PHP, halting payroll work

Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility

Albuquerque becomes sixth FAA test site for autonomous and eVTOL flight

Nissan runs Kobe self-driving ride pilot from 8 December, aims to charge in 2027

Kodiak driverless truck ran 64 days without shutting down

Waymo starts driving in the Madrid region, aiming for riders in 2027

Robotics & Automation

Hyundai and Kia show 200 factory technologies for software-defined plants

AGCO to pilot Agility's Digit humanoid at its Kansas plant in 2027

NEURA Robotics launches Neuron AI, a robot model that hears and feels

Germany signs a physical AI pact with NVIDIA; Agile Robots gets backing

Artificial Intelligence

45 open-weight models, 53 closed ones and the licences between them

Seven decision models in ten days, and not one independent score

When the model you build on stops answering

The leaderboard carried none of September's thirty model releases

Modern Cars

BMW shows 460 kW charging for the iX5, but the US chargers are not on sale

NHTSA picks 2027 cars for crash, pedestrian and driver-assist tests

BMW starts Gen6 battery production in Shenyang for China-built Neue Klasse

Hyundai commits USD 15.5 billion to India and opens its Pune plant

Product News

ArtCraft publishes free open-source rebuilds of Photoshop, Premiere and Lightroom

Rutba Office: a free desktop office suite that opens Outlook archives and leaves your files alone

Two launches, one day: compliance tooling is starting to sell itself as a deal-closer

DeepSeek V4 Pro left preview, then its pricing changed four days later: what that teaches buyers

Funding guides

Small companies on stock exchanges: how 10 growth markets compare

Most public startup money cannot be applied for directly: how co-investment works

Tax relief on a 100,000 startup stake runs from nothing to half: five countries compared

How to raise money for a startup, step by step

Security advisories

Oracle and Cisco ship fixes that stop trusting eMudhra certificates

Pillow 13.0.0 closes 39 more flaws, two of them rated critical

Unbound 1.26.2 fixes a DNS-over-QUIC crash and two DNSSEC bypasses

Brotli fixes a critical decoder flaw that reaches far beyond Node.js

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Adlib acquires Paperbox to link AI insurance intake to an audit trail

Priority Technology Holdings agrees to go private in a CEO-led buyout

Softcat agrees to buy GDT, building a transatlantic IT services platform

Investor guides

How to evaluate an early-stage company before you invest

Angel investing explained: how it works, the risks and the tax reliefs

Finding early-stage deals and doing due diligence on them

Funding announcement

Savvy Wealth raises $100M as its AI-native advisory platform reaches $9B in assets

Lightfield raises $47M to build a CRM designed for AI agents, not people

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