Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
Alphabet’s cloud unit is seeing broader use of artificial intelligence in Britain, with more companies pushing past experimentation into larger deployments and early returns, a Google Cloud executive said.
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The move highlights a push to make artificial intelligence better at reasoning about real-world physics and environments, a challenge that has lagged behind image and text understanding.
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The bank argues that both Brent and WTI could stay under pressure for the rest of the year, citing shifting expectations around Middle East risk and crude supply-demand fundamentals.
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Uber said it is pressing ahead with plans to scale robotaxi services internationally, pointing to a new WeRide launch in Zurich and a wider collaboration involving Stellantis and Wayve.
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Intel said it has begun “risk production” for the 18A-P variant of its 18A manufacturing platform, a milestone aimed at proving yields and ramp readiness. The update arrived as shares climbed in early trading alongside a broader chip-sector lift.
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The Competition and Markets Authority says Alphabet’s Google needs tighter rules around how search results are presented, and has moved a previously voluntary data-sharing tool into a legally required obligation.
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A recent market discussion tied Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program to Elon Musk’s broader space ambitions, with speculation centering on whether fleets of robots could someday support self-replicating activity beyond Earth. Tesla has not provided operational details to confirm how that would work.
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The chipmaker said its next-generation 18A-P manufacturing process has moved into early “risk production,” a milestone aimed at tightening the path to future factory output.
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A Yahoo Finance report says two senators have requested a federal investigation into whether Tesla overstated the real-world safety performance of its Full Self-Driving system, citing the company’s self-published safety materials and suggesting similar scrutiny may be warranted in Europe.
