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Intel's Wildcat Lake chips bring 40 TOPS AI performance to budget laptops on the 18A node, but MacBook Neo benchmarks lead by 44% in single-core as 70+ OEM designs arrive.

Geely's EX5 starts at $15,300 with massaging seats, 1,000W audio, and 610 km range, now exported to 35 countries and undercutting European EVs by thousands.

Canva's Design Engine powers Claude Design, letting users create on-brand visuals from text in Claude, as Canva AI 2.0 introduces agentic orchestration and workspace connectors.

Allbirds sold its footwear brand for $39 million, secured $50 million in financing, and is rebranding as NewBird AI to lease GPUs - stock surged 600% then dropped 35%.

Dropbox has launched three ChatGPT apps covering file storage, enterprise search (Dash), and AI calendar management (Reclaim).

ONWARD Medical raises 40.6M in a private placement anchored by EQT Life Sciences to fund its Empower BP pivotal trial and expand ARC-EX commercial sales.

The European Commission has awarded its 180M sovereign cloud contract to Post Telecom, StackIT, Scaleway, and a Proximus-Thales-Google Cloud consortium over six years.

DeepL has launched Voice-to-Voice, a real-time spoken translation suite for meetings, conversations, and enterprise API.

AlixLabs closes a 15M Series A backed by Navigare, Industrifonden, Global Brain, and Stephen Industries to commercialise its APS.

Ericsson's Q1 2026 adjusted EBITA fell 20% to SEK 5.6B as North America reversed and semiconductor costs rose. CEO Ekholm cites AI demand on chip supply.