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Bosch will move its semiconductor business into a dedicated division from January 2028, as the German supplier looks to expand chip sales beyond the automotive industry. The company is targeting annual semiconductor revenue of around €5bn by 2030, it announced today. The new unit, which will be called Semiconductors, will remain part of Bosch rather […] This story continues at The Next Web

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to buy Cresta, whose voice agents handle complex customer calls from start to finish, Salesforce said on Monday. The deal should close in the first quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2028, subject to regulatory approvals. Salesforce did not disclose a price. It agreed to pay $2.7bn, according to a […] This story continues at The Next Web

Syncere, the Palo Alto startup behind the Lume robot lamp, has raised $11m in pre-seed funding led by a16z Speedrun, Andreessen Horowitz’s programme for early-stage founders. Draper Associates, Physical World, Sequel and SeaX Ventures also took part in the round. The company plans to use the money to deliver its first Lume units, expand manufacturing […] This story continues at The Next Web

Adobe is adding fully licensed music from Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to Premiere mobile, its free video editing app, the company said on Tuesday. The deal brings songs by some of the world’s most-streamed artists into the editing process. UMG’s roster includes Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, while WMG represents artists such […] This story continues at The Next Web

San Francisco, California, USA, November 3rd, 2026, TechnologyWire Journify, the ad signal infrastructure company, today announced a $12 million Series A at four times its previous valuation. Al Mada Ventures led the round, co-led by returning investor Silicon Badia, with Shorooq and Bunat Ventures increasing their investment and Du Ventures and Oraseya Capital joining as […] This story continues at The Next Web

France’s Bull and Schwarz Digits, the IT arm of Germany’s Schwarz Group, plan to build a European AI and cloud infrastructure stack together. It would run from the servers to the software. The two companies agreed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), Bull said on Tuesday. They announced it at the German government’s 2026 Digital Summit […] This story continues at The Next Web

Corridian wants to move military cargo across contested oceans underwater, out of sight and without a crew. The New England defence startup came out of stealth on Tuesday with a $38 million seed round, according to its announcement. Point72 Ventures led the round, with Balerion Space Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, DCVC and Marlinspike taking part. Axios […] This story continues at The Next Web

Fourthline chief executive Paul Stoddart will run the identity verification group formed by his company’s merger with Spain’s Veridas, which closed on Tuesday. The two companies first announced the deal on 16 July. The combined company checks the identities of customers for banks and other regulated businesses. It handles know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering checks, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Samsung will use its second chip plant in Taylor, Texas, to make parts for AMD and Nvidia’s AI memory, South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing industry sources. The plant will produce base dies for high-bandwidth memory, the logic layer that sits at the bottom of the stacked memory chips feeding AI processors. […] This story continues at The Next Web

In commercial real estate, speed can make or break a deal. Offers move in hours and capital moves in seconds, yet legal paperwork can still take weeks. Athena is changing that. The company has raised a $2.5 million pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun. Athena’s proprietary AI agents work alongside experienced transactional attorneys at its […] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple says its first Apple Intelligence features will launch in China with iOS 27.3 in December, with a developer beta from 4 November. Alibaba’s Qwen model will work inside Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence. Siri AI and Apple’s newest features are not included. Apple will launch its first Apple Intelligence features in China in […] This story continues at The Next Web

Databricks and SAP are expanding their partnership, with Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway and Lakebase coming to SAP Databricks. SAP’s new Application Data Foundation will make data from its business software easier to reach. No release dates were given. Databricks is bringing more of its AI and data tools to SAP customers, the company said on […] This story continues at The Next Web

S&P lowered the outlook on Meta’s AA- credit rating to negative from stable, citing heavy AI spending. It expects Meta’s leverage to rise above 1.0x as soon as 2027, from about 0.1x last year. Meta says it disagrees. S&P Global Ratings has cut its outlook on Meta’s AA- credit rating to negative from stable, warning […] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon has set up a supplier financing facility to borrow up to $80B against the hardware it buys, usable from 2027 to late 2028. It had a $42.4B free cash outflow in the year to September, and its spending commitments reached $883B. Amazon has set up a loan facility that lets it borrow up to […] This story continues at The Next Web

Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have committed more than $3T to future spending on data centres, leases, equipment and energy, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet leads with more than $1T, followed by Meta with over $800B. Some of the leases run for 30 years. Five tech giants have lined up more than $3T in future spending […] This story continues at The Next Web

Cognizant formed an OpenAI Frontier Capability Group of more than 25,000 staff to deploy Codex and ChatGPT for clients. It will focus on software engineering, updating old systems and customer service. The move comes 11 days after Cognizant put 18,000 staff behind Google’s Gemini. Cognizant has formed a group of more than 25,000 staff to […] This story continues at The Next Web

New York has banned AI chatbots from pretending to be human with children. Bots also may not build emotional dependency, encourage self-harm or hold sexual conversations with them. Governor Kathy Hochul signed the law on Wednesday, with a second law on baby monitor security. The banned features are off limits to anyone under 18 and […] This story continues at The Next Web

San Francisco’s Biological Computing Co. released TBC Mischief 1, an image-to-video model built on Wan 2.2. It says insights from living neurons make it about five times faster at the same quality, priced at $0.005 per second of video. It has not published independent benchmarks. San Francisco startup The Biological Computing Co. has released an […] This story continues at The Next Web

Proton, the Swiss company behind Proton Mail, will “re-interview” some of its staff about how they use AI at work. The results may affect who keeps their job. Internal messages show chief executive Andy Yen telling engineers to stop hand-writing code and use AI instead, 404 Media reported. Joseph Cox revealed the plan for 404 […] This story continues at The Next Web

Thrive Holdings, the holding company set up by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital, has agreed to buy ADT for $10 a share in cash. ADT sells home security systems in the US. The deal values ADT at about $7.6bn in equity and $15.3bn in enterprise value. The price is a 45.6% premium to ADT’s close of […] This story continues at The Next Web