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Freshfields Considers Spinning Out Legal AI Unit

Freshfields partners have discussed spinning out the firm's internal legal technology unit, with options including external investment or a potential public offering.

October 15, 2026

Huawei Proposes Next Generation OTN for AI Data Center Networks

Huawei presented a Next Generation OTN system for networks centered on AI data centers. It supports data center interconnection and access with capacity from 800G to 2T, flexible bandwidth and quantum encryption.

October 15, 2026

Senators Question Meta Tax Credits for AI Data Centers

Seven Democratic senators are asking Meta to explain its use of federal research tax credits connected to AI data center construction.

October 15, 2026

Mistral AI Acquires New Material and Forms Solutions Design Team

Mistral AI has acquired design studio New Material and will create a Solutions Design team focused on customer deployments.

October 15, 2026

Fintech CMOs Plan Bigger Teams as AI Changes Marketing Work

The Fletcher Group found that 56% of surveyed women fintech marketing leaders plan to add staff in 2027, while 75% expect larger budgets.

October 15, 2026

IMF Warns AI Correction, Bond Yields and Cyberattacks Threaten Markets

The International Monetary Fund says an AI market correction, rising sovereign bond yields and cyberattacks could cause wider financial stress as borrowing and market links increase.

October 15, 2026

Legora and Laurel Partner on Automatic Legal Time Capture

Legora and Laurel are connecting their platforms to turn legal work completed in Legora into time entries assigned to the correct client and matter.

October 15, 2026

Rocket Software Acquires Geniez AI for Up to $100 Million

Rocket Software acquired Israeli startup Geniez AI in a deal estimated at up to $100 million. The startup develops AI agents that manage and modernize mainframe systems.

October 15, 2026

Neura Robotics Launches Neuron AI for Humanoid Robots

Neura Robotics introduced Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model that combines sensory data, language and memory to control robots.

October 15, 2026

Prime Intellect Acquires Moondream

Prime Intellect acquired Moondream and will integrate its Photon inference engine into its platform. Moondream's founders will join Prime Intellect to lead inference and multimodal model work.

October 15, 2026

JPMorgan Blocks Outside AI Agents From Customer Accounts

JPMorgan Chase is blocking outside AI agents from operating customer accounts, though approved connectors can provide read only access to some account data.

October 15, 2026

Ukrainian Strikes Disrupt Yandex Services Across Central Asia

Drone attacks damaged Yandex data centers in Russia, disrupting taxi, delivery and other digital services in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

October 15, 2026

Anthropic Licenses OPAQUE Technology and Hires Team Members

Anthropic will license OPAQUE technology and hire some of its employees under an agreement with undisclosed terms.

October 15, 2026

Ambio raises €5.1 million for recycled plastics procurement platform

Helsinki based Ambio raised €5.1 million to expand its AI procurement platform for recycled plastics. The seed round was led by b2venture.

October 15, 2026

Google Gives 200 European Scientists Access to AI Models

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will give up to 200 European scientists access to research models and $3 million in computing credits.

October 15, 2026

Sachin Katti to Leave OpenAI Infrastructure Role

Sachin Katti will leave his role as OpenAI's infrastructure and compute lead on November 15 but will remain an advisor. Compute CTO Uday Ruddarraju will replace him.

October 15, 2026

EU survey finds 42% of smaller companies use AI or automated management

A Eurobarometer survey found that 42% of surveyed European SMEs and mid cap companies use AI or automated management systems, while another 21% plan to adopt them.

October 15, 2026

DeepMind co-founder warns AI hacks could become major incidents

Demis Hassabis warned that recent hacking incidents involving AI agents are early warnings and called for stronger security practices and international standards.

October 15, 2026

OpenAI Accuses Former Employee of Sharing Device Plans With Apple

OpenAI alleges that an employee who joined Apple transferred more than 100 files about an unreleased device and later presented the product to Apple executives.

October 15, 2026

EOS survey finds 29% prefer AI for sensitive banking topics

An EOS Group survey of 4,400 bank customers across 11 European countries found that 29% would prefer discussing sensitive financial topics with AI rather than a human.

October 15, 2026