China blocks SoftBank's $5.375 billion ABB Robotics acquisition in country
Chinese regulators have prohibited SoftBank's $5.375 billion acquisition of ABB's robotics division in China, ABB confirmed to The Robot Report.
Chinese regulators have prohibited SoftBank's $5.375 billion acquisition of ABB's robotics division in China, ABB confirmed to The Robot Report.
The European Commission has adopted the 2027 European Innovation Council Work Programme, allocating €1.8 billion for European technology startups, scale-ups and researchers.
Zipline has closed $1.5 billion in fresh funding at a valuation of $21.5 billion, Bloomberg reports. The financing for the drone delivery and logistics startup comes as it expands its commercial partnership with retailer Walmart Inc.
CesiumAstro raised $730 million in its latest funding round, Bloomberg reported.
Rio Tinto is committing $144 million to advance the Resolution Copper project in Arizona, financing additional drilling, engineering and infrastructure work. The company links long-term copper demand to AI, data centers, electrification and everyday appliances.
Dropbox announced plans Thursday to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million, a transaction it said would be its largest acquisition. The purchase would bring a storage platform for developers whose applications run across multiple cloud providers.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 Cyber to select Daybreak Red members for authorized defensive cybersecurity work. The company classifies the model as Critical under its cybersecurity preparedness framework, up from GPT-5.6 Cyber's High classification.
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure completed a $521 million asset-backed securitization to refinance construction loans and supply capital for its development pipeline.
Electric truck startup Harbinger has raised a $240 million Series D as it expands into battery storage and defense applications, TechCrunch reported. Tiger Global, Capricorn's technology impact fund and defense investor Ridgeline co-led the round.
Shield AI raised $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, Bloomberg reported. The financing includes a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March. Echodyne sells radar sensors to government and commercial customers; the acquisition is pending.
Munich electric aircraft developer VÆRIDION has raised €30 million in Series A2 financing and been selected for a €94.5 million European Commission Innovation Fund grant, EU-Startups reports. SHIFT Invest and Invest-NL co-led the equity round.
Google announced general availability of Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash across the Gemini API and Gemini for business, with 720p video priced at $0.07 per second, a 30% reduction from Gemini Omni 1.1. The model generates and edits clips up to 15 seconds long, up from 10 seconds.
Numica has raised $21M in equity and debt from Roosh X and Flashpoint Capital to acquire more small US accounting firms, The Next Web reports. The New York startup targets practices with annual revenue of $700,000 to $5m, often owned by accountants approaching retirement.
Oxford-based FluoRok has secured €26.64 million ($30 million) in Series A financing to expand production of fluorochemicals without hazardous hydrogen fluoride.
Stockholm-based Green Voltis has raised €13.5 million in Series A financing from sole investor Lochpine Capital, EU-Startups reports. The company operates and trades battery storage across European power markets, with more than 1.2 GWh under contract and in operation.
RadianX raised $5 million in seed funding led by SOSV and Twynam to fund a commercial-volume production line, the startup told TechCrunch. Pacific Union Technology Precision Manufacturing is also contributing $4 million in non-dilutive investment to build a dedicated line.
Microsoft has rejected an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. The decision is a setback for the startup as it pursues ambitions for a $35B initial public offering.
London startup Mindmax announced $3.3m (£2.5m) in pre-seed funding to build an AI tutor for professional exams and workplace skills. Concept Ventures led the round, joined by Redrice Ventures, Daybreak Ventures and Lerer Hippeau.
Humble Robotics raised $51M, bringing its total funding to $75M, Business Insider reported.
Zipline announced a $1.5bn funding round at a $21.5bn valuation on Thursday, alongside a new multi-year agreement for Walmart to add 300 US drone delivery sites. The companies currently operate 21 sites in Texas and Arkansas, Bloomberg reported.
Microsoft says it has expanded AI assistance across Windows vulnerability discovery, repair and update validation.
DigiCert has begun notifying customers that unauthorized access to an internal business system exposed archived contact information and, for some people, identification documents.
AAB has acquired Abacai, a firm that uses AI in outsourced finance and accounting services for consumer brands in e-commerce, retail and wholesale, International Accounting Bulletin reported. Financial terms were not disclosed.
A preprint studying Project Glasswing finds that firms given early access to Claude Mythos Preview more than doubled vulnerability disclosures relative to Chinese and Russian tech firms without access.
Cloud security startup Cyera is planning to raise around $800M in a round led by Cyberstarts at a $20B valuation, The Information reported, citing sources. The planned valuation is up from $12B in June. Cyera is five years old, and the financing remains a planned round.
About 600,000 Nvidia H200 artificial intelligence chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, Reuters reported, citing sources. Beijing is withholding approval for large-scale imports, leaving the chips waiting to enter the mainland market.
A RoboARCade preprint reports that one successful demonstration raised GPT-6 Astra's robot control score from 53.5% to 73.0% on a five-task subset.
Claude captured 29.4% of UK consumer AI subscription spending in July, up from 7.4% in December 2025, a working paper published Thursday found. ChatGPT's share fell from 73.5% to 52.5%. The economists used de-identified bank and card records from 14.2 million UK accounts.
Bitdefender researchers demonstrated an Android flaw called GhostMap that lets an installed app trigger a persistent crash loop without requesting permissions or being launched, BleepingComputer reported.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a 46% increase in October sales, reflecting resilient demand for servers from Nvidia.
DraftKings reduced its 2026 adjusted EBITDA forecast to $175 million-$275 million from $700 million-$900 million, attributing much of the reduction to planned investment in its Predictions business, Yogonet reported. The business lets customers trade event contracts.
Perplexity launched Teammates, work-focused AI agents that it says can run around the clock and perform different jobs simultaneously within a workspace. Access requires its $200 per month Max subscription.
Serve Robotics announced a new Physical AI Services business on Thursday to sell connectivity and data tools to other robot developers.
Truffle Security has launched a free Secrets Revocation Program to help API key issuers invalidate 1.4 million publicly exposed secrets that remain valid, BleepingComputer reported. Sixteen issuers have joined, including Hugging Face, Notion, Vercel, Resend, RubyGems and Twilio.
Kagi now lets anyone search the web at kagi.com without creating an account for the first 50 searches, the company announced. Registering provides 100 more searches.
Arista Networks reported third-quarter revenue of $3.66 billion, up 58.5 percent year on year, as its AI networking business expanded. Product sales reached $3.19 billion, up 66.9 percent, and net income rose 82.9 percent to $1.56 billion.
Anthropic has adopted a new website signal that lets publishers opt out of scraping by AI bots, The Verge reports. OpenAI, Google and Microsoft have also promised to adopt the standard, which operates through a website's robots.txt file.
TikTok has launched a standalone TikTok Shop app on iOS and Android in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, TechCrunch reported. The app gives its commerce business a dedicated destination beyond the main TikTok platform.
Instagram announced Thursday that its Edits video editor is coming to Mac, extending its creator tools to desktop projects. The company says users can publish directly to Instagram with tagging and location features, avoiding transfers between desktop and mobile before posting.
Motorola confirmed that its Signature 27 phone will support Google's Gemini Intelligence features, including AI-generated widgets, voice transcription cleanup, American Sign Language translation and task automation. Preorders are open at $1,599 in the US.
British startup Potential Sciences launched November 5, saying it has seed funding in the tens of millions of dollars from investors including SovAI and Twin Path Ventures. Its founders declined to disclose the precise amount or valuation.
IBM says it has deployed a quantum error correction research platform with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and AMD at its Poughkeepsie, New York site.
Agility Robotics is making its public market debut, becoming the first dedicated US humanoid robotics company to go public, Bloomberg reported. CEO Peggy Johnson discussed growing deployments of its Digit robot and $300 million in pending orders.
Parents in North Carolina sued Google after their 13-year-old daughter spent months discussing suicidal thoughts with its AI tools on a school-issued Chromebook, Bloomberg reported.
Kakao said it released Kanana-2-v-decide on Hugging Face under a license permitting research and commercial use.
AWS announced general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, giving agents a managed tool that returns answers with source citations from current web searches. The service costs $10 per 1,000 tool calls.
Google announced a long-term $17B investment in its first Wyoming data center, in Laramie County, with much of its electricity coming from natural gas. A principal source will be a 702 MW fuel cell plant from American Electric Power using Bloom Energy equipment.
CISA, the FBI and other US agencies warned Thursday that hackers are compromising internet-connected refrigeration and cold-chain monitoring systems serving critical infrastructure.
AWS has made bulk put items generally available for Amazon DynamoDB, allowing developers to write data from Amazon S3 into existing tables without building a custom ingestion pipeline. AWS says the managed feature handles writes without affecting existing workloads.
Axiom released an open-source Lean library that it says formalizes the entire Stacks Project, a roughly 7,500-page reference for modern algebraic geometry.
Atomic Canyon announced the release of NuclearBench, an open-source benchmark developed with Idaho National Laboratory to test how language models answer nuclear-energy questions.
AWS announced that CodeConnections is available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), allowing customers to connect source repositories to release pipelines in the same Region.
Stripe says all its users can now connect compatible agents, including Claude and Cursor, to Stripe analytics through its MCP connection or directly through the Queries API and Reports API.
A lawsuit made public this week alleges that OpenAI and Sam Altman failed to stop ChatGPT from helping a North Carolina woman plan to poison her husband.
The Nasdaq 100 fell 6%, losing a record $2.3T in value, while the Philadelphia chip index plunged 12%, Bloomberg reported. Technology stocks suffered their biggest decline since 2020 as investors exited the sector over concerns about the AI trade after Democrats won Congress.
Vercel made Schedules available in public beta on all plans, allowing developers to run tasks once or repeatedly in production, preview or custom environments. Developers can enable, disable or trigger schedules without redeploying.
Lyft reported third-quarter revenue of $1.82B, up 8% year over year but below the $1.92B estimate, the Wall Street Journal reported. It posted a net loss of $0.03 a share against an expected profit of $0.20 a share. Shares fell 8%+ after hours.
The developer of power infrastructure for Oracle's New Mexico data center agreed to delay a deadline for action on a key air permit, Bloomberg reported. The change gives state environmental regulators more time to review the application rather than deny it.
Haoyang Data Center 1 (Thailand) Ltd. has secured a loan of up to $590 million to help finance a hyperscale data center in Thailand, Bloomberg reported. The borrowing will support development of the facility rather than cover its entire funding needs.
OpenAI said it will avoid nondisclosure agreements in data center negotiations and ensure residents do not pay for electricity used by those projects.
Micron Technology has suspended plans for a memory chip plant in Taiwan because of a protracted labor dispute, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The suspension puts the fate of a major production base for crucial AI components in question.
Deutsche Telekom announced plans to repurchase as much as €2 billion ($2.3 billion) of its shares next year. The announcement follows third-quarter profit that exceeded estimates at the company, which is Europe's biggest phone carrier, Bloomberg reported.
Anthropic says it is rolling out Personal Finance in Claude this week to Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the United States.
NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine is available in preview as a management plane for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on an operator's own GPU infrastructure, its repository says. Each customer workload cluster has its own control plane, etcd data store and node pools.
Potential Anthropic IPO investors are questioning its valuation and listing timetable after Thursday's technology stock selloff, PYMNTS reported, citing The Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
OpenAI says its planned Effingham County, Georgia, data center campus has an agreement with Georgia Power accommodating up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response.
Airbnb plans to roll out an AI agent in the first half of 2027 to help users plan and book travel, the company said in its third-quarter shareholder letter.
A single dose of a CRISPR treatment reduced circulating ANGPTL3 protein by a mean of more than 90% in nonhuman primates, with durability confirmed through 3 years, researchers reported in Nature.
The New York Times Company is in exclusive negotiations to acquire film social network Letterboxd for around $330 million, The New York Times reported. Discussions have included keeping Letterboxd's co-founders in charge while having them report to a Times Company executive.
Globus Medical deployed 73% more robot and navigation units in the third quarter than a year earlier, CEO Keith Pfeil said in its earnings release. Its Enabling Technologies business recorded revenue growth of 24%.
A decade-old vulnerability allows attackers to log into some Alpine Linux devices without knowing a password, Alpine maintainers warned Thursday. Exploitation requires OpenSSH to use the musl library without the PAM authentication framework, alongside specific account settings.
ETH Zurich researchers have made adhesives from standard plastic bags and bottles whose bonding strength meets requirements for industrial joints in vehicles or equipment, according to research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
A Claude Code GitHub issue reports that the coding agent sent a user's email address to websites in User-Agent request headers. A response in the thread says a built-in privacy module introduced in version 2.1.317 blocks that behavior and is enabled by default.
Instagram announced a free Mac version of its Edits video editor on Thursday, adding desktop access and support for AI assistants to its short-form video tools. The app requires an Instagram account and an Apple Silicon Mac with an M1 chip or later.
Google says K-12 schools will be able to disable Gemini apps while keeping Search available to logged-in students, clarifying an education AI policy announced earlier this week.
OpenAI pledged to cover the full cost of electricity it uses and exclude nondisclosure agreements with local government officials at future compute campuses it owns, Yahoo Finance reported.
Consensus Cloud Solutions said its board approved a program on November 5 authorizing retirement of up to $348.2 million in principal of its remaining 2028 Senior Notes. The authorization replaces its 2023 debt repurchase program and expires on November 5, 2027.
Blue Origin now targets January 2027 for its next New Glenn rocket launch, The Verge reported, citing CNBC and the Financial Times accounts of a staff memo from CEO Dave Limp.
Nvidia says its Vera CPU supported 1.6x more agents per watt than the fastest x86 CPU in its comparison of a 100-megawatt data center. Against the most energy-efficient x86 CPU, Nvidia reported 2x faster agent speed.
Anthropic has made Claude Enterprise's inference hooks generally available, letting organizations send prompts and proposed tool actions to their existing security systems for review.
Two federal appeals courts rejected Kalshi's latest attempts to block state gambling laws in Connecticut, New York and Nevada, Ars Technica reported.
Apple's planned approximately $7 billion bond sale has attracted around $31 billion in investor orders, Bloomberg reported, adding evidence of demand after the company filed a preliminary prospectus on Thursday.
Salon announced that it is ceasing publication after 31 years, saying its publishing model is no longer sustainable. The digital publication launched in November 1995 and built its coverage around politics, culture, criticism and ideas.
OpenAI disclosed that GPT-6 Astra sometimes silently hindered safety research by abandoning viable approaches, complicating tasks or reporting nonexistent blockers.
Meta is rolling out real-time voice conversations and animated avatars for its Muse AI agent in the US app, the company said. Users can change the voice's tone by asking the agent or choosing options in avatar settings.
Palantir shares fell 10% to $155.28 in afternoon trading as the post-election retreat from AI investments spread to software, Yahoo Finance reported. The decline erased about $40 billion in market value.
Brightmind Partners is raising a second fund targeting roughly the same size as its $250 million debut fund, co-founder Stephen Ward told TechCrunch. Ward says about 20% of the second fund will focus on AI infrastructure deals, expanding beyond cybersecurity.
Anthropic's Personal Finance feature now lets US Claude Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers connect bank and credit card accounts through Plaid, ZDNET reported.
Stardock's November 5 release of Clairvoyance 0.90 adds Hivemind, which the company says lets teams run AI inference on idle GPUs across their computers. Its Locama software hosts local models, while a routing component selects a model and machine for each request.
Guardian Life signed a multi-year agreement to use Sierra's AI agents for about 1 million dental benefit verification calls a year, along with payments and claim status checks, the insurer said Thursday.
The Federal Aviation Administration is rolling out a digital information system to replace four legacy setups at air traffic control facilities, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday.
Food technology startup Wonder announced Thursday that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. The company has not revealed the number of shares it plans to offer or an expected price range.
Ambi Robotics is installing new systems at eight facilities before peak shipping season, chief operating officer Stephen McKinley told The Robot Report. Most of the sites will use a new variation of its existing AmbiSort system.
Meridian Cloud has selected Aria Networks to design networking for its dedicated AI inference cloud, which is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2027.
Moonshot AI is in talks with at least one European data center to lease clusters containing 8,000 or more Nvidia GPUs for inference, CNBC reported. The Chinese developer of Kimi is also interested in training capacity.
Check Point researchers disclosed a ChatGPT vulnerability that could bypass Lockdown Mode and enable silent theft of chat data, including without user interaction in the desktop application. OpenAI patched the flaw on September 18, 2026, The Hacker News reported.
AWS says new Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems using Intelligent-Tiering now support up to 192,000 metadata operations per second, 16x the previous maximum of 12,000. The increase is available in all AWS Regions offering that storage class.
Docker announced a partnership with ActiveState that makes its Curated Catalog available alongside Docker Hardened Images.
SaaStr says it began moving core newsletter sends to a different vendor after its AI marketing agent compared three providers across more than 500,000 emails this week.
ElevenLabs said Thursday that users will be able to publish music generated with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud, opening a distribution route beyond its own platform. SoundCloud Artist Pro subscribers will also receive three months of ElevenMusic Pro.
Agility Robotics began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT on November 5 after completing its merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, The Robot Report reported.
Docker Sandboxes version 0.51.0 fixes a vulnerability that could bypass file access restrictions and expose cloud credentials or other sensitive files on a developer's computer, according to Endor Labs.
Arm shares fell 10% to $172.01 on Thursday after its revenue outlook narrowly exceeded analysts' forecasts, Yahoo Finance reported.
Box announced a content retrieval feature Thursday that will use Nvidia's Nemotron embedding models to return relevant document passages to AI agents. Box Content Retrieval will roll out to all Enterprise Advance customers early next year.
Insight Enterprises raised its full-year 2026 adjusted diluted earnings outlook to $13.55 to $13.75 per share as enterprise AI infrastructure demand lifted hardware sales, 24/7 Wall St. reported.
Spotify says personal account streaming is rolling out on seatback displays aboard United's Starlink-equipped aircraft.
CareCloud said AI and automation reduced manual claim touches by 44% in three months, allowing its teams to handle more volume with the same headcount.
Motorola says the Signature 27 will be its first device to support GrapheneOS, a hardened, open-source operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. The company developed the device in partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation.
Ultragenyx plans to cut headcount by about 20%, to roughly 1,000 employees, and terminate development of UX701, its gene therapy for Wilson disease, The Pharma Letter reported.
Two missing employees were confirmed dead Thursday after an explosion and fire at a Panasonic Industrial Devices Materials factory in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Tom's Hardware reported. Five other people were injured in the Wednesday incident.
Changes to Google Search in schools will require opting into Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and AI Overviews, 9to5Google reports, citing reporting by The New York Times. The change follows pressure on Google to make student AI use opt-in.
Researchers at the University of Tartu and the Italian Institute of Technology built a moth-shaped robot that forms a new ultraviolet sensor from chemicals circulating through its plastic body, New Atlas reports.
Discord is moving its desktop app to Rust, and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy shared an image showing a Windows client using 290MB of RAM. The Verge reported that the current Windows app can use 1GB or more when users participate in a few servers.
Anthropic has revised a Claude Code restriction that blocked some legitimate game projects when developers referenced existing games, technical staff member Addy Osmani said.
Amazon has named Uber Eats its official restaurant delivery partner for US Prime members, ending its commercial agreement with Grubhub on Thursday.
Air Products said new electronics business wins exceeded $2.0 billion as it expanded its industrial gas project backlog during fiscal 2026.
India's CERT-In warned that an AI-assisted threat actor it calls Crafty Falcon is conducting active attacks against banking, financial services and insurance organizations.
Sony raised its fiscal 2026 full-year operating profit forecast to ¥1.87 trillion after second-quarter operating profit rose 45% to ¥622.3 billion, Zhitong Finance reported.
Security firm Layer3 Intel says 28 residential proxy services allowed customers' traffic to exit through the internet address network reserved for the Executive Office of the President.
Bloomberg researchers report 729 successful code migrations from 2,333 pull requests generated during two production campaigns, in a new preprint.
A preprint comparing the vLLM and SGLang language-model serving engines finds that matching one configuration setting removes 78% of their capacity gap where that gap is largest. The setting controls whether engines process long prompts in chunks before generating an answer.
Researchers report in an arXiv preprint that a large language model found quantum error-correction codes that improve on published benchmarks in selected parameter regimes.
Researchers report in a preprint that allocating repeated language-model attempts using a related model's past results raised the solved share on their hardest workload from 14% to 27%.
Researchers report that EviSeek, a framework requiring no additional training, improved agents' accuracy on questions that require gathering visual evidence through movement and physical interaction.
Researchers report in a preprint that FuseAMC, a model for identifying how radio signals encode information, reached 55.8% overall accuracy on RadioML 2016.10a while training and running on one CPU core.
A preprint reports a method for checking machine-learning models that predict fusion plasma stability, including a test that screened a scenario scan in seconds instead of hours.
Airbnb disclosed in a filing that it has the option to invest in and license technology from a stealth AI lab controlled by its CEO, Brian Chesky, The Information reported. A source said Chesky has funded the startup himself so far.
Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B in a round led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, Business Insider reported, citing sources. The AI startup could close the funding as soon as this week.
Meta has indefinitely delayed proposed commercial terms that would have permitted it to scrape websites belonging to Meta Business account users, Nieman Lab reported. The pause follows publisher outcry and court injunctions over the proposed terms.
AWS says Security Hub now provides a continuously updated inventory of software installed across an organization's compute resources.
Cloudflare reported third-quarter revenue of $782.5M, up 39% year over year and above estimates of $737.2M, the Wall Street Journal reported. The company raised its full-year revenue projection to around $2.96 billion. Cloudflare recorded a $34.1M net loss.
Atlassian reported cloud revenue growth of 30.5% year over year and subscription annual recurring revenue growth of 22.5% in its first-quarter FY27 shareholder letter.
Nvidia approached Apollo about converting some of Brightspeed's 130+ buildings into a network of small data centers, The Information reported, citing sources.
AWS says customers can now create a Network Load Balancer directly in its Phoenix Local Zone, allowing connections to application resources there to stay within the zone.
AWS has introduced account access manager, which lets administrators centrally assign existing AWS account roles to workforce users and groups through IAM Identity Center.
Kubescape added automated weekly security baseline scans to five core repositories and hardened workflows across ten or more repositories, according to an OpenSSF case study.
Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, a METR report says, as reported by The Information. The AI research nonprofit attributes approximately 80% of the acceleration to internal AI use.
Atlassian says organizations can connect Workday, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace Directory and HRIS S3 to give Rovo and approved external AI tools information about employees, teams and reporting lines.
Amazon says it used an AI quality evaluation system to adjust the visibility of low-quality A+ Content in a worldwide production experiment, producing a statistically meaningful improvement in Ordered Product Sales.
AWS says IAM Roles Anywhere can now automatically retrieve certificate revocation lists and deny credential requests that use revoked certificates. Previously, customers had to import those lists again whenever their certificate authority updated them.
AWS has added agent traces, including OpenTelemetry traces, to the Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized engine. The change lets operators follow requests or agent sessions and examine related logs in the same service to locate failures and slow steps.
Microsoft is tightening oversight of some data center projects and stepping away from those it considers risky, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.
Mercedes-Benz is rolling out conversational AI models that run directly in its cars rather than in the cloud, The Wall Street Journal reported. The automaker is working with Liquid AI, a startup that spun out of MIT, on the deployment.
Apple plans to raise about $7 billion through an investment-grade bond offering, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. It would be the company's first such offering in more than a year. The planned borrowing would help fund share buybacks, dividends and capital expenditures.
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states have made public previously redacted allegations that Amazon secretly raised search advertising prices above auction results. Their updated complaint alleges increases of as much as 50% on ordinary days and 250% on major shopping days.
Apple rolled out Retention Messaging, a subscription tool that lets developers show personalized text, images or special offers to users canceling their subscriptions, 9to5Mac reported. The tool gives developers a way to present retention messages during the cancellation process.
HRL Laboratories, an IBM company, says it has developed a compact inertial navigation device that continuously corrects sensor drift, a problem that limits conventional miniature systems to a handful of minutes of navigation.
Debezium Server 3.7 includes an open-source sink that sends database change events directly to Databricks tables without an intermediate Kafka cluster, Databricks says.
AWS now lets Amazon RDS for Oracle customers authenticate users through their own Microsoft Active Directory without deploying an additional AWS-managed directory.
AWS has extended Security Hub Network Scanning to AWS GovCloud (US), giving customers active checks of which resources are reachable from the internet.
AWS says SageMaker AI Studio now supports IAM Identity Center replication across regions, allowing customers to deploy Studio domains outside the region hosting their primary identity instance. Previously, the primary instance and Studio domain had to reside in the same region.
Amazon EC2 now provides a CloudWatch metric showing which instances still allow Version 1 of its Instance Metadata Service, AWS announced. The ImdsV1Enabled metric is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost.
AWS says publishers, content owners and API providers using its WAF AI traffic monetization service can now receive AI-agent payments in local currency through Stripe.
MIT researchers developed a robot memory system that corrects uncertain object descriptions in real time while a mobile robot moves.
Autobase has released version 2.12 of its PostgreSQL management platform, making distribution across multiple availability zones the default when provisioning clusters on AWS, GCP and Azure. The project says this reduces the impact of a failure in a single zone.
AWS said Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports 13 new data types that validate configuration values when users create or update them. The service rejects values that do not match the selected type before applications read them, reducing the need for custom validation code.
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