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Technology
Microsoft could unveil its next-generation Maia 300 AI accelerator as early as this month and is in talks with TSMC to secure capacity for more than 300,000 units for 2027 delivery, according to Reuters and The Information.
Sources Yahoo Finance
Technology
Samsung Electronics has begun raising prices on some advanced foundry services by up to 15 percent as sustained AI chip demand leaves TSMC fully booked and pushes customers toward alternative foundries.
Sources Reuters
Technology
Synology released ActiveProtect Manager 2.0 on Thursday, the latest software update for its ActiveProtect data protection appliances, expanding platform coverage and introducing cross-platform recovery alongside future AI-driven threat mitigation.
Sources Asia News Network
Technology
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max went on sale in stores on Friday, ten days after the Steve Jobs Theater unveiling that introduced the $1,999 iPhone Duo foldable.
Sources The New York Ledger
Football
Jay Dasilva scored the only goal in the 55th minute, assisted by goalkeeper Carl Rushworth, as Coventry City beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 at the City Ground on Saturday for a first Premier League victory since the 2000-01 season.
Sources Sky Sports
AI
Anthropic and Accenture detailed the next phase of their AI safety partnership this week, with Accenture naming Claude its preferred frontier model for regulated-industry rollouts across financial services, public sector and healthcare.
Sources CNBC
Football
Aston Villa beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday to claim a first Premier League win of the season, with Buendia laying on goals for Jackson and an 80th-minute long-range strike before late goals from Conor Gallagher and Jean Paul van Hecke set up a nervy finish.
Sources The Guardian
AI
Faraday Future used its 919 online launch on Friday to unveil nine new Embodied AI robot devices across humanoid, quadruped and mobile manipulator form factors, alongside four industry productivity packages for K-12 education, research, security and inspection.
Sources TMCnet
Football
Brighton ended Arsenal's nine-match Premier League winning run with a 3-0 victory at the Amex Stadium on Saturday, with Pascal Gross curling in the opener on 31 minutes before Charalampos Kostoulas added a long-range second seconds before half-time and Chema Andres headed in a Gross corner nine minutes after the break.
Sources Sky Sports
AI
GMKtec used IFA 2026 in Berlin on Friday to launch the EVO-X5 Pro, a compact desktop built around AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 with 16 Zen 5 cores, up to 192 GB of unified LPDDR5X memory and an XDNA 2 NPU delivering up to 55 TOPS.
Sources KXLG (Business Wire)
AI
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on Wednesday and opened early access to governments, healthcare providers and telecoms through a new initiative called the Fairwind Program, framing the release as its most capable cybersecurity model.
Sources The Hacker News
Economy / Markets
The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed Friday down 1.1 percent at 635.45, giving up almost all of its gains from the prior two sessions, with the FTSE 100, DAX and CAC 40 all shedding between 1.49 and 1.6 percent on the day.
Sources FXBus
Economy / Markets
Brent crude settled at $103.87 a barrel on Friday, down 0.91 percent, and West Texas Intermediate closed at $100.30, down 1.58 percent, as traders priced in progress on restoring flows through Saudi Arabia's damaged East-West Pipeline.
Sources Business News Report
Economy / Markets
Wall Street ended Friday's session mixed, with the S&P 500 up 0.17 percent to 7,650.50 and the Nasdaq Composite up 0.39 percent to 26,522.54 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.18 percent to 51,682.64.
Sources WAM (Emirates News Agency)
AI
OpenAI's global policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed on Tuesday that the three frontier-model labs have been meeting privately for several weeks on AI safety, with the talks originally prompted by Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis's July proposal for a US-led standards body modelled on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Sources CNBC