
GXO, Apptronik plan up to 1,000 Apollo humanoid robots in warehouses
GXO and Apptronik signed a letter of intent on 12 November 2026 to scale Apollo humanoid robots, up to 1,000 over four years, from late 2027.

GXO and Apptronik signed a letter of intent on 12 November 2026 to scale Apollo humanoid robots, up to 1,000 over four years, from late 2027.

The UK named Ocean Infinity on 10 November 2026 to own and run a £90 million drone and sensor network, Atlantic Net, that will watch for submarines in the North Atlantic.

A Minneapolis council committee on 9 November 2026 backed rules limiting data centres to existing downtown buildings with a 150,000 sq ft cap; full vote on 12 November.

Palo Alto Networks is in talks to buy Israeli AI-agent security start-up Clutch Security for about $500 million, reports said on 5 November 2026.

Five9 agreed on 5 November 2026 to buy AI start-up Level AI for $325 million in cash; its shares fell about 21% after a forecast cut.

Coforge joined the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network on 6 November 2026 as a Transformation Partner to build and deploy Grok AI tools for enterprise clients.

Atlassian's quarterly revenue rose 24% to $1.77 billion, but its forecast of slower subscription growth sent shares down about 15% in premarket trade on November 6.

Attackers changed cold-room settings at three sites of France's blood service EFS through a supplier's remote system on 2 November 2026; no products were lost.

Datadog reported Q3 2026 revenue of $1.20 billion on 4 November, up 35%, raised its full-year forecast and flagged lower usage by one large AI customer.

Cyber insurance claims from Indian banks have passed Rs 150 crore so far in 2026-27, industry experts estimate, after a string of incidents; premium rates remain soft.

E2E Networks launched Blaze on 2 November 2026, a pay-per-token service that runs open AI models on India-hosted Nvidia GPUs through one OpenAI-compatible API.

Marvell agreed on November 2, 2026 to buy optical maker Lumentum (LITE) for 4.5 Marvell shares each, a deal valued at $115 billion.

Indian ad-tech firm Affle agreed on November 1, 2026 to buy Nasdaq-listed Perion Network for $11.70 a share in cash, about $420 million, a 34.5% premium.

Chinese robot maker AgiBot proposed a metric called Worken on 29 October 2026 to measure robots' productive work, and launched a new humanoid platform and industrial robot.

UPI processed a record 25.47 billion transactions worth about Rs 31.53 lakh crore in October 2026, with daily value above Rs 1 lakh crore for the first time.

The UK agreed a framework deal worth up to £2.5 billion on October 28, 2026, to help Rolls-Royce build a new engine for single-aisle jets due in the 2030s.

A Citi Institute report published around October 28, 2026 found nearly 60% of organisations still exploring or piloting AI, with about 40% in production.

Foxconn chairman Young Liu said on October 30, 2026, after meeting Sam Altman, that a new OpenAI partnership is in the works and that AI is not a bubble.

Zensar Technologies' Q2 FY27 revenue rose 11.5% to Rs 1,585.2 crore; AI-influenced deals made up 36% of its $151.5 million order book, it said on 28 October.

Hexaware's July-September revenue rose 4.3% to $411.9 million and profit 16.1%, as Vivek Jetley replaced R Srikrishna as CEO on October 28, 2026.

Microsoft priced $25 billion of bonds on October 29, 2026, its first big US debt sale since 2017, as AI and data-centre spending climbs.

Payments technology firm Pine Labs reported July-September 2026 profit of about Rs 39 crore, up from Rs 6 crore, on revenue of Rs 806 crore, up 24%.

Nvidia said on October 27, 2026, it will invest $3 billion in Meta's share offering and AMD $1 billion, as Meta raises money for AI data centres and its Muse models.

Data and AI services firm EXL reported Q3 2026 revenue of $634 million, up 19.7%, on October 27, with data and AI-led revenue up 36%, and raised its full-year forecast.

PayPal reported Q3 2026 revenue of $8.58 billion, up 2%, below estimates, while adjusted EPS of $1.45 beat forecasts and full-year guidance rose to about $5.60.

SK Hynix reported record Q3 2026 operating profit of about 83.3 trillion won on revenue of 104.6 trillion won, driven by AI memory chips, and set a 100 trillion won payout plan.

Volkswagen chose NXP's S32K5 microcontrollers for its software-defined car architecture on October 26, 2026; the first car using it is due in 2027.

Oracle on October 26, 2026, launched three agentic AI applications for supply chain planning, shipping and procurement, running on a new runtime called Fusion Claw.

Persistent Systems opened a qualified institutional placement of up to $450 million (about Rs 4,265 crore) on 21-22 October 2026 to refinance the bridge loan for its Nagarro acquisition.

Texas Instruments' July-September 2026 revenue rose about 28% to $6.06 billion as industrial chip sales grew over 40%; it guided Q4 above seasonal norms.

Fynd launched Fynd Forge, an AI-enabled factory floor system, on October 21, 2026, first deployed at NeoLync's electronics plant in Tirupati.

SAP's revenue passed €10 billion in a quarter for the first time, rising 12% to €10.3 billion in July-September 2026, as its cloud backlog grew 28% to €24.1 billion.

Ticketmaster named former Amazon Prime Video executive Jim Freeman chief technology officer on October 19, 2026, with a mandate to make every part of the company AI-first.

At Zoomtopia on October 20, 2026, Zoom unveiled a Unified Context Layer linking meetings, chats and apps for AI agents, and released ZoomMate Agent Teams.

Microsoft said on October 19, 2026 it is adding controls to Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception that score AI agents' risk and can limit, pause or shut them down.

National Australia Bank said on October 20, 2026 it will cut up to 2,500 jobs, about 6% of staff, by mid-2027, at a cost of about A$300 million.

Infosys and Truist said on October 19, 2026 that they will expand Truist's Hyderabad capability centre, with over 1,000 staff to be onboarded this month.

Toronto's Promise Robotics signed a multi-year deal, reported October 14-17, 2026, to make robot-built panels for over 1,250 D.R. Horton homes from 2027.

Colt DCS and RMZ began building Mumbai 3, a 64 MW AI-ready data centre in Navi Mumbai fully pre-let to a hyperscaler, they said on October 15, 2026.

Ralph Lauren replaced a sustainability measure with AI literacy and enablement goals in its executive bonus plan, it was reported on October 15, 2026.

CapitaLand unveiled its Rs 1,940 crore, 53 MW Chennai data centre in Ambattur on October 15, 2026; completion is targeted for the end of 2026.

Verizon and Ericsson said on October 15, 2026, they made the first outdoor 6G field call, using the 7 GHz band from a commercial site in California.

ServiceNow on October 15, 2026, unveiled AI Passport, a signed credential setting what each AI agent may do, plus shadow AI detection, due in Q4 2026.

Persistent Systems' July-September 2026 revenue rose to Rs 4,663.9 crore, but net profit fell 25.4% to about Rs 351.5 crore on Nagarro acquisition costs.

CoreWeave shares fell about 15% to $65.78 on October 14, 2026 as yields on its bonds neared 15%, sharpening investor worries about its heavy borrowing.

Tata Technologies shares fell about 5% on October 15, 2026 after Q2 FY27 earnings missed estimates, though revenue rose 28% to Rs 1,699 crore and it won a $138 million deal.
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