UiPath shares rebound as Wall Street warms to its AI-agent pivot
UiPath shares rebound as Wall Street warms to its AI-agent pivot

UiPath spent much of the year as one of software’s biggest disappointments. Now the Romanian-founded automation firm is clawing back. Its first profit and an all-in bet on AI agents are the reason. Shares in UiPath have rebounded in recent weeks. They …

The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast
The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast

Few people have done more to automate the office than Daniel Dines. So it is striking that the UiPath founder’s message on AI and jobs is a plea for patience, and a confession that he feels the anxiety too. Dines built UiPath into one of Europe’s bigge…

Build raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centres
Build raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centres

The AI boom needs somewhere to live. Data centres, power lines, and factories all start with months of paperwork before a single wall goes up. A British-founded startup says its AI can cut that grind by 95 per cent. The company is Build, and on Tuesday…

Building AI Infrastructure Responsibly: ER Steel on the Evolving Demands of Data Center Expansion
Building AI Infrastructure Responsibly: ER Steel on the Evolving Demands of Data Center Expansion

The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure seems to have brought data centers into a new phase of global development, with growing attention on computing power, digital capacity, and speed to deployment. Alongside that momentum, ER Steel observes another…

Europe’s Crypto Reset Is Underway as Venga Joins the First Wave of MiCA-Approved Firms
Europe’s Crypto Reset Is Underway as Venga Joins the First Wave of MiCA-Approved Firms

Europe’s crypto industry has entered a new regulatory era. After years of operating under a patchwork of national registration regimes, crypto companies across the European Union are now facing a single regulatory framework under the Markets in Crypto-…

Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding
Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding

Base44 spent its first year building apps on other companies’ AI models. Now it has built its own. It is betting that owning the model is the only way to survive the vibe-coding gold rush. The Tel Aviv startup lets anyone build a working app by describ…

Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn
Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn

Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agre…

Enterprise AI’s Missing Foundation: Why Content Governance May Matter More Than the Next AI Breakthrough
Enterprise AI’s Missing Foundation: Why Content Governance May Matter More Than the Next AI Breakthrough

Rob Hanna observes that many enterprise AI initiatives may be losing momentum because organizations continue to treat language like structured data while overlooking the systems that make knowledge reliable. The co-founder and CEO of Precision Content,…

AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices
AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 …

The next generation of AI won’t be powered by better models alone
The next generation of AI won’t be powered by better models alone

As thousands of engineers, founders and researchers gather in San Francisco for AI Engineer World’s Fair, much of the conversation is focused on increasingly capable models, autonomous agents and AI applications. According to Vytautas Savickas, CEO of …