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An estimated 10.6 million people in Pakistan will need humanitarian assistance in 2026, according to a new report by Action Against Hunger that ranks the country among the 10 worst-affected by the global hunger crisis. The report, Ten…
The Indian cybersecurity agency has confirmed that AI models undergoing testing broke into the live systems of Indian organisations and read confidential records without being detected, in the country’s first official account of such rogue…
Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll get a cold plunge, a blood panel and a protein muffin without needing a trust fund.
LinkedIn has announced several new creator monetization features. Most notably, the platform now lets creators earn revenue through pre-roll video ads on their content. In addition, creators can offer paid one-on-one consultations through…
UBTECH has published details of Thinker-WM, a world model developed by its Thinker team that encodes RGB video, metric depth and robot actions in a single shared representation. A technical paper is available on arXiv. The company says the…
Rokid has launched ride-hailing on its AI glasses in partnership with Tencent Mobility, letting wearers book a car by voice without taking out a phone. Rokid describes it as the industry's first native ride-hailing service for AI glasses…
Unitree Robotics has released UniUni, a swarm control system for choreographing and supervising groups of its robots. The software is free for all Unitree users. At launch it supports the company's H2 and G1 humanoid robots. UniUni is a…
Tencent Hunyuan has released version 2.0 of Hy Memory, its memory framework for AI agents, and open-sourced all three layers of the stack: a dedicated memory model, the framework itself and a local memory app called MemHub. The layers can…
DeepSeek has added two standalone tools to its API platform: a Search endpoint that queries the web and returns structured results, and a Fetch endpoint that retrieves a single page and returns its content as Markdown. According to the…
Amazon announced two new AI devices under its Bee brand earlier this week. The Bee Frontier, a next-generation wearable, costs $74.99 (approximately Rs. 21,000). The Bee Eclipse, a phone attachment, starts at $99.99 (approximately Rs.…
The 2026 Porsche Macan Turbo EV is a two-row crossover with 630 horsepower and a 100-kilowatt-hour battery.
Bitcoin traded near $82,000 on Friday as cryptocurrency markets stabilized following a rebound in South Korean technology stocks and declining expectations of a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in October. Bitcoin (BTC) held above the…
The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) plans to support at least 20 women-led technology startups annually under a proposed initiative aimed at promoting female entrepreneurship and strengthening women’s…
Pakistan aims to increase its mineral exports from $3 billion to $8 billion by improving policies, infrastructure and investment in the mining sector, as the country seeks to expand its role in global critical mineral supply chains.…
The Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA) has called for an independent review of the tariff data and calculations used in Pakistan’s National Tariff Policy (NTP), warning that inaccurate figures could affect domestic…
Pakistan’s net foreign direct investment (FDI) increased by 20% year-on-year to $720 million during the first three months of fiscal year 2026-27, according to State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) data compiled by Topline Securities. In September…
Pakistan’s short-term inflation declined by 0.04% in the week ended October 15, 2026, while year-on-year inflation remained elevated at 11.38%, according to the latest data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). The Sensitive…
The company will start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto's streets.
Pakistan has approved an additional 11% customs duty on 13 imported automobile parts and components that are now manufactured locally, a move aimed at protecting domestic manufacturers and promoting local production. The Economic…
Nathan Fielder's documentary about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has created a constellation of colliding personas that interrogate the very nature of authenticity.
Tressfecta builds products for textured hair. Its first project is a tool called Plait Pilot that helps braiders with the initial process of separating hair from packs before braiding begins.
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has earned two prestigious honors at the Dragons of Asia Awards 2026, with its social impact initiative, Dil Se Ba-Ikhtiar winning a Bronze Dragon in the Best in Digital category, while its…
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has explained how overseas Pakistanis aged 18 and above can apply for their first National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) through its official Pak ID mobile…
Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart , a TechNode Group publication. In 2023, AI software was DataCanvas’s business. By the first half of 2026, it was almost absent from its sales. The change is unusually stark. AI…
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Punjab’s Online College Admissions System (OCAS) has received more than 225,000 applications for intermediate admissions in public colleges across the province. The system was developed by the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) in…
This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.8 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. Europe has spent years talking about making it easier to build and scale…
GasLab (Generative AI Solutions Lab), a GenAI music platform created by DJ and producer Reinier Zonneveld, is launched this week, backed by $1 million in pre-seed funding. GasLab is on a mission to keep creatives in business in the age of…
Pakistan’s Cashless Pakistan Initiative has recorded significant growth in digital payments, with active digital commerce payment points reaching 2.03 million by June 2026, up 306% from the baseline of 500,000. The figures were shared in a…
The Punjab government has raised the annual fee for MBBS and BDS programs at public sector medical and dental colleges from Rs15,000 to Rs50,000, an increase of over 233 percent. The revised fee structure applies only to students admitted…
The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) received 148,204 complaints in 2026, up from 104,490 in 2025, according to details submitted to the National Assembly. The document shows a significant increase in complaints, with…
OMass Therapeutics , a UK BioTech company developing small molecule therapeutics against highly validated target ecosystems, announced an oversubscribed €275 million (£230 million) Series C round. The round was co-led by new investors Bain…
More than 90,000 Pakistani professionals, including managers, engineers, doctors, accountants, nurses, teachers, and IT workers, have gone abroad for employment in 2024, 2025, and 2026 so far, according to official overseas employment data…
More than 50 passports carrying foreign visas were stolen from a delivery bag belonging to a leading private courier company in Rawalpindi, putting the overseas travel and employment plans of dozens of Pakistanis at risk. According to…
Punjab may face a shortage of textbooks in the next academic year as delays in issuing printing tenders for primary school books raise concerns about timely publication. The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PECTAA) has issued tenders…
Tecno has expanded its Spark 50 lineup with two new smartphones, the Spark 50s and Spark 50C. The Spark 50s supports 5G connectivity, while the Spark 50C is a more affordable 4G model. Both phones feature 120Hz displays and large…
Q-Autos has announced delays in Kaiyi vehicle deliveries in Pakistan, citing disruptions in international shipping and port operations. In a notice to customers, the company said deliveries are now expected to take place later in November…
Any founder who has raised money knows what investor due diligence feels like from the receiving end. The questions about the model, the customer contracts, the gap in your CV, the calls to people you worked with years ago. Investors do…
Elon Musk has finally revealed the highly anticipated, second-generation Tesla Roadster. Unveiled during a livestreamed spectacle outside Waco, Texas, this new vehicle isn’t just an EV… it is the Tesla “Flying” Roadster! At the Thursday…
Pakistan is considering introducing specific legislation to address crimes involving artificial intelligence (AI), Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar has said. Speaking to Arab News on Thursday, Tarar said existing cybercrime provisions and…
Pakistan’s current account took a notable hit this month. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) just officially released new data regarding the country’s balance of payments. Pakistan posted a current account deficit of $356 million in…
Pakistan has been selected to chair the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in 2027, marking the country’s first such appointment since 1953. Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Ahad Khan…
Just a couple of days ago, developers Trollheim & Off-leash Interactive officially unveiled Trollheim: Gnomes. Currently available to wishlist on Steam, this PC-exclusive title throws players into a dangerous Nordic folklore fantasy realm.…
A UK fintech using AI to help startups better manage revenue has been sold to US software giant Intuit, in what is reported to be one of the largest exits by a UK AI startup with a female co-founder. Intuit has acquired Sequence , in a…
Peshawar’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system has received 27 additional buses, completing the delivery of all 52 newly purchased vehicles. The latest batch arrived at the Chamkani depot on Friday morning, October 16, according to…
Siemens has expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate computational lithography for next-generation AI chips, delivering up to 12x faster full-chip optical proximity correction (OPC) workloads. The companies are integrating…
Infineon Technologies has signed a multi-year agreement with Wolfspeed to secure supplies of 200mm silicon carbide (SiC) wafers, supporting its shift to larger-diameter manufacturing. The deal builds on a 20-year relationship between the…
Microbiotica , a British clinical-stage biopharma company developing a pipeline of orally-dosed, precision microbiome medicines, today announces the first close of a €42 million (£36 million) Series C financing. The financing was led by…
Neonomics , the Norwegian full-stack open finance platform that provides financial data, intelligence, verification, and payment infrastructure to businesses across Europe, has raised €3.55 million ($4 million). The company said the…
Controlling industrial equipment via a natural language voice interface is a growing challenge for many manufacturers. Noisy environments can make it difficult to detect voice commands and the complex nature of the control interface for…
AI has made it easier than ever to build a website, launch a product, or even create a software business without writing a line of code. But while the technology is advancing at breakneck speed, people's willingness to adopt it is lagging…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is preparing to test whether its European Sovereign Cloud can operate independently of foreign infrastructure – challenging if Europe can maintain greater control over its digital infrastructure. This also marks a…
For two decades, marketers obsessed over a single question: where do we rank on Google? A growing number now ask a stranger one: what does ChatGPT say about us when we are not in the room? The Wild Ventures, the Swedish-founded company…
Yesterday, the founders of EU–INC issued an urgent public appeal to Europe's Heads of State and Government, warning that months of negotiations are stripping away the very provisions that would make the proposed pan-European company…
Unravel Health , a London-based startup developing technology to measure hormones at home daily, has raised €2.96 million (£2.5 million) to develop the Micro Lab, a palm-sized device that reads multiple hormones from a saliva sample in…
AI video generation is no longer just about producing a visually impressive clip. For creators looking to use AI to make short films, advertisements or even feature films, the harder questions are whether characters can remain consistent…
Apple will release a beta version of Apple Intelligence in China later in October, executive chairman Tim Cook confirmed in an interview in Shanghai on October 15. Cook said the initial features and the associated Alibaba Qwen models had…
Shenzhen-based robot AI developer Ruoyu Technology has completed a nine-figure RMB Pre-A funding round led by Sunway Communication, 36Kr reported on October 15. Other investors include Jinmu Capital, Qindao Capital, Huanghai Capital and…
Xiaomi has open-sourced MiDashengLM-Spatial, an audio-language model that combines general sound understanding with spatial awareness. The company released model weights and inference code under the Apache 2.0 license. Built on Xiaomi’s…
XPENG opened presales for its MONA L05 five-seat SUV in China on October 15, with five variants priced between RMB 169,800 and RMB 191,800. The official launch is scheduled for October 29, with both battery-electric and extended-range…
Chinese desktop manufacturing startup InfiMaker has completed a Pre-A+ funding round worth tens of millions of dollars from IDG Capital and Kunlun Capital, STAR Market Daily reported on October 15. The company develops compact five-axis…
Transsion Holdings, the Chinese smartphone maker behind TECNO, Infinix and itel, began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 15 under stock code 02636. The company offered approximately 86.65 million H shares at HKD 35.30…
Ant Group has released the weights of Ling-3.1-flash, making its AI model available for developers to deploy on their own infrastructure. The model has approximately 560 billion total parameters, activates about 25 billion per token and…
Tencent's Toast App, the vibe-coding product under its MyApp store brand, now lets Pro users import external Android APKs and H5 source code, then keep editing inside Toast before filing for software copyright, filing for record and…
4Paradigm and RiseUnion have open-sourced ModelSphere, a production-oriented AI deployment platform that unifies compute management, model serving and runtime tuning under the Apache 2.0 license. The code is published on GitHub at…
WanNa Robotics has introduced NOVA21, a 21-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand aimed at research labs and robot developers, at the 2026 Hong Kong Autumn Electronics Fair. The company calls the debut a global first; that claim is its own…
AgiBot has begun rolling out its YuanSheng ecosystem program into Chinese universities, saying a first group of more than 20 schools will co-build teaching and research platforms for embodied AI. Named partners include Peking University…
Kuaishou's Kling AI says Kling 4.0 is now fully available on klingai.com, moving the model from preview access to a general rollout. The update focuses on longer native clips, richer multi-reference control and audio that ships with the…
Axera has unveiled the AX8860, a 6-nanometer edge AI chip series aimed at running large models on factory floors, warehouses and robots rather than in distant data centers. The company presented the line at CIIF 2026 in Shanghai and framed…
Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. Physical AI is moving beyond pre-programmed robots toward systems that can understand, decide, and adapt. But unlike digital AI, which can learn from vast amounts of…
LearnUpon , a Dublin-based enterprise learning platform, has secured a €44.5 million ($50 million) growth financing facility. The financing came from Claret Capital Partners, a London-based independent growth debt fund manager, which has…
Editor’s Note: RoboCT develops exoskeletons for rehabilitation and mobility assistance. IDC’s 2026 report on China’s 2025 exoskeleton market places RoboCT among the country’s leading vendors across medical rehabilitation, consumer…
Goodweek , a Los Angeles-headquartered French startup positioning itself as a one-stop AI management platform for small and medium-sized businesses, has raised a €10.69 million ($12 million) Seed round. The funding round was led by Spanish…
Hesai, a lidar company known for automotive sensors, has launched Kosmo, a 3D world data engine aimed at one of Physical AI's persistent bottlenecks: high-quality real-world data at scale. The stack pairs Kosmo One, which Hesai calls the…
Singapore’s office workers answer a 10.47pm message within 90 seconds to prove their commitment. Their bosses barely notice. The Jobstreet by SEEK Singapore Workplace Culture Study 2026, which surveyed 600 employees and jobseekers and 200…
Benchmark says the Valley’s rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.
Bitcoin currently trades at US$82,231.14, reflecting a 0.65 per cent gain over the last 24 hours. This movement mirrors a broader 0.84 per cent rise in the total crypto market capitalisation. Having operated in this industry for over 15…
Every humanoid robot looks brilliant in a launch video. The trouble begins on an ordinary weekday in a warehouse, when a parcel arrives in a shape nobody trained the machine for, a forklift reverses where it shouldn’t, and a worker strolls…
Partior CEO Humphrey Valenbreder The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain settlement network Partior to study whether the Bahraini dinar (BHD) can be settled on the Singaporean firm’s…
Almost every founder I meet reaches the same conclusion at roughly the same moment. You cannot outbid a funded competitor on salary, so you give people a stake in the outcome instead. The logic is sound. Equity turns salary-limited hires…
Thirty-seven per cent. Eleven per cent. Those two numbers, tucked deep inside Jobstreet by SEEK’s Singapore Workplace Culture Study 2026, may say more about the region’s productivity problem than any headline about AI or inflation. The…
Beijing-based commercial launch startup Welight says a preburner for its Huaguang-1 rocket engine has completed a long-duration hot-fire test. Huaguang-1 is a full-flow staged combustion engine that burns liquid oxygen and methane. The…
OpenCode, the open-source AI coding agent, says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now free to use on its platform. Calls to the model inside OpenCode no longer draw down plan credits. The free version has a smaller context window. According to IT…
Several domestic computing platforms moved quickly after StepFun opened the weights of Step 5 Preview on October 15. Huawei, MetaX, Biren and Moore Threads each announced Day-0 support for the model the same day, meaning it could be loaded…
Leju Robotics and auto parts maker Zhaofeng have put 15 humanoid robots into routine operation on a parts loading line at Zhaofeng's No. 3 plant in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou. The two companies presented the joint embodied AI loading solution at…
Xiaomi has released MiDashengLM-Spatial, a new member of its Dasheng audio model family that is designed to understand not only what a sound is, but also where it comes from. The company published the full model weights and inference code…
A lot of startup advice about predictive AI starts too early. It starts with the model, the tool, the data stack, or the dashboard. Those things matter, but they are not the first question. The first question is simpler: what decision…
The hypercar that flies Discussion | Link
Sit in the architecture review of almost any platform that has reached four ASEAN markets and the same diagram appears. One product on top. Underneath, four data stores, four payment integrations, four know-your-customer flows (the…
The new car used thrusters to leap over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 at a demo in Texas.
Indonesian fintech expansion into ASEAN looks different in 2026 than it did when Investree opened its Thailand operations in 2018 and its Philippines unit shortly after. The cohort of Indonesian platforms that pushed beyond the domestic…
A password manager for AI Discussion | Link
Intero Biosystems beat out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home the $100,000 grand prize at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.
The most capable US open weights model to date Discussion | Link
The executives argued that advertising isn’t the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.
Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.
SK Hynix’s Solidigm is reportedly seeking U.S. approval to send more chipmaking equipment to China as it weighs building a new NAND chip factory in America.
NVIDIA’s open multimodal model for specialized agents Discussion | Link
Munich-based Elevatry , an AI platform for strategic procurement, has closed a €3 million pre-Seed financing round in order to enhance its platform, expand its team, and support market entry in Europe before expanding to North America.…
The funding comes as Ramp's annualized revenue crosses $2B, and its customer count reaches 85,000.
Europe is an attractive place to live because of its high quality of life, job opportunities, and stability. However, attracting people to live here for the lifestyle is different from attracting talent and companies to move here and…
Every coding agent, every machine, one command center. Discussion | Link
At Tech.eu, I spend a lot of time talking to startups in sectors such as defencetech and spacetech. But startups are only one part of the innovation ecosystem. For founders, understanding how the defence primes operate matters: they can be…
Early in his talk, Georgios Chatzimilioudis, a Solutions Engineer at Oracle, asked the audience to raise a hand if they expected their business to use more AI in three years than today. Hands went up. He asked who expected to use more than…
“ Dear Europe, why are you killing EU Inc? ” That’s how many in the European startup community were greeted when they read this morning’s brief by the highly supported EU–INC initiative. Backed by some of Europe’s most prominent startup…
Rabot Energy , a provider of dynamic electricity tariffs, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round to expand its technology platform and support its next phase of growth. The round was led by Endeit, a growth capital investor…
European AI funding in H1 2026 was characterised by a high concentration of capital in a few large transactions, alongside a broad base of smaller investments. Several rounds exceeded €500 million, highlighting the capital-intensive nature…
Turn what your team learns into everyone’s agent setup Discussion | Link
A tiny OS for your always-on agents Discussion | Link
Milan’s Panakès Partners has raised 8.5 million euros from Lombardia Venture STEP, the venture capital fund of funds promoted by the Lombardy Region in order to invest in companies that are active in life sciences, MedTech and BioTech…
European AI infrastructure company Nebius says it has struck deals with a number of early-stage UK AI labs as it looks to accelerate its compute and infrastructure offering in the UK. Nebius, which is sometimes referred to as a neocloud…
NVIDIA has had a busy week on this side of the pond. From announcing new investments in British and French startups to launching collaborations in Sweden, supporting AI research and bringing developers together in Barcelona, Paris and…
As artificial intelligence reshapes how companies build, test and operate software, it is also transforming the cybersecurity landscape, leaving many organisations struggling to keep pace with emerging threats. Recent research from AI…
Proptech startup HomeTruth has appointed Graham Martin as Chairman following his acquisition of an equity stake in the company. Founded by fellow Tech.eu journalist and entrepreneur Monty Munford, HomeTruth is a PropTech platform that…
Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. The big picture : Nine UK life sciences companies participated in a business matchmaking event in Shanghai on October 12, as part of a three-day China trade mission…
Key points: How the .lumen glasses actually work: 3D environment perception, human-centred path planning, and in-house mapping and semantic surface understanding. The guide dog comparison – where the glasses match its benefits today, where…
StepFun released the weights of its Step 5 Preview model on October 15, keeping the open-sourcing date it announced when the model launched in September. The release includes BF16 and FP8 checkpoints on Hugging Face and ModelScope, a…
Holo , a Vilnius-based AI platform that plans and runs marketing for small businesses, has raised €5 million in a Seed round to develop its marketing autopilot, reach more small businesses, and expand its Vilnius team. The round was led by…
The British Business Bank has today announced it is investing £180m across six AI and deeptech VC funds, as investors continue to pile into the two hot sectors. The state-owned investor is investing £35m in London-based Crane Ventures…