IMF: Gulf economies to shrink 4.8% this year as war hits exports
The war is now hitting the Gulf’s own economies, not just oil prices. The IMF expects the six GCC economies to sh…
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Power grids, not chips, may be the real bottleneck for AI infrastructure
NextDC crashes 42%, wiping A$3B, as power delays hit AI build-out. Australia’s biggest listed data centre operator…
IMF Lifts 2026 Global Growth to 3.1% as AI Boom Offsets War Shock
The IMF expects the world economy to grow 3.1% in 2026, slightly better than it forecast in July. But growth is now conc…
US freezes green-card pipeline for TCS, Infosys, Microsoft and five others
Washington has suspended eight tech and IT giants from the PERM labour-certification programme. That stalls the green-ca…
Elon's Fourth Carrier: SpaceX Spectrum Deal Rattles US Telecom
SpaceX has bought its way into the mobile business. Late Thursday in the US (overnight in India), SpaceX agreed to buy …
Gloomy shoppers, $1 trillion forecasts:
Even with consumer sentiment near record lows and inflation persisting, forecasters expect 2026 holiday sales to grow 2&…
Stanford Built a Biotech Project With 37,000 Employees. None of Them Are Human.
Researchers at Stanford have built a virtual biotech company made up of 37,000 AI agents that collaborate to ana…
Power, Oil and Algorithms: What the 81st UN General Assembly Is Telling the World’s Boardrooms
Every September, Manhattan turns into the world’s largest diplomatic trade fair. Presidents queue for the podium, …
Four for a Fifth Seat: Central Europe Lines Up Behind India's Security Council Bid
UN General Assembly week produces hundreds of handshakes, but some of them move the architecture. On the sidelines of th…
Europe Opens Its Door: EU Invites Canada to Become Its First Associate Member
The European Union has formally opened the door for Canada to become the first associate member of the 27-nation bloc. E…
Usio Appoints Linda Loof as SVP of Strategic Partnerships to Drive Payments Growth
Usio, Inc. ("Usio" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: USIO), a leading FinTech company that operates a full stack of integrate…
Caterpillar and FieldAI Advance Physical AI, Autonomy and Robotics for Jobsites and Manufacturing
As industries face growing labor shortages and increasing productivity demands, Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is collabor…
Nscale and Figure Partner to Scale AI Compute for Next-Generation Humanoid Robotics
Nscale, a full-stack AI cloud platform, announced it has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with humanoid robotic…
Vention Unveils AI-Defined Automation Platform Combining Physical AI and Agentic AI
Unified industrial automation platform combines two complementary layers of intelligence: Physical AI for robotics and…
KBRA Assigns A Rating With Stable Outlook to St. Louis Airport Revenue Bonds
KBRA assigns a long-term rating of A with a Stable Outlook to the City of St. Louis, Missouri (the City) Airport Reven…
Diligent Robotics Launches Moxi 2.0 with Physical AI Learning Flywheel for Smarter Hospital Automation
Diligent Robotics, a Serve Robotics (Nasdaq: SERV) company and the team behind Moxi, one of the world’s largest …
Enovis to Acquire eCential Robotics, Strengthening Its Surgical Robotics Portfolio
eCential Robotics, a leading developer of enabling technologies and surgical robotics, announced that Enovis™ Co…
AiM Medical Robotics Secures $2 Million NCI Award to Advance MRI-Guided Brain Cancer Surgery
AiM Medical Robotics, a leading developer of advanced robotic systems for MRI-guided neurosurgery, announced that it h…
KARL STORZ Expands Surgical Robotics Ecosystem Through Partnerships with Moon Surgical and Sovato
Through new strategic partnerships across the robotics ecosystem in the United States, the family-owned MedTech company …
XYZ Robotics Deploys RockyOne Robots to Automate Goods Receiving at BAUHAUS Warehouse in Germany
XYZ Robotics, a global leader and pioneer in the field of mobile manipulation robots, announces the launch of its auto…
Avnet and Weston Robot Collaborate to Advance Physical AI for Intelligent Industrial Inspection
Avnet and Weston Robot announced a collaboration to accelerate the adoption of Physical AI in industrial environme…
Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5 Million Seed Round to Scale AI-Powered Humanoid Workforce for Industry
Avatar Robotics, a startup building the unlimited workforce for industrial labor, announced it has raised a $6.5 million…
Gatsby Makes U.S. History with First Humanoid Robot Cleaning Service for a Consumer
Gatsby made U.S. history by performing the first humanoid robot cleaning service delivered to a consumer in the United S…
Johnson & Johnson and Abu Dhabi Launch Global Surgical AI Network to Accelerate AI Innovation in Surgery
Johnson & Johnson announced a collaboration with the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DOH), the regulator of …
Roboteon to Showcase Multi-Vendor Robotics Orchestration Platform at Automate 2026
Roboteon, the leading innovator in intelligent warehouse and manufacturing robotics software, announced that it will hol…