Hyundai’s Singapore innovation center runs a fully automated indoor farm using robotics and AI, donating part of its harvest to local families facing food insecurity through a partnership with The Food Bank Singapore.
The Food Standards Agency has published the agenda and papers for its September 2026 Board meeting in Swansea, scheduled for 16 September and open to the public.
The Charity Commission criticised former trustees of Coventry City of Culture Trust for financial mismanagement, including inadequate oversight and failure to report risks, leading to the charity’s removal from the...
Hyundai Motor Group and Oman’s Ministry of Transport signed an MOU to support Oman Vision 2040 through smart city development and green mobility initiatives, including a hydrogen bus pilot and EV charging deployment.
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region, offering improved performance for compute-intensive workloads.
NVIDIA will acquire Hugging Face to expand open AI model access while preserving platform neutrality, ensuring developers retain choice across tools and infrastructure.
The SEC proposed rescinding its 2010 pay-to-play rule for investment advisers, citing operational challenges and unintended consequences, while maintaining other regulatory requirements.
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, expanding access to high-performance AI training and inference capabilities.
Microsoft introduces MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model surpassing competitors in speed, accuracy, and cost efficiency, with new features like diarization and word-level timestamps.
Google launched the free Google AI Educator Series to help teachers integrate AI tools into classrooms through bite-sized training and monthly modules, culminating in a virtual Badge-a-thon on September 19.
Xbox will introduce monthly hour limits for cloud gaming included with Game Pass starting in November, with additional playtime purchasable via the Xbox Store.
Solana introduced payment channels to reduce onchain friction for agentic payments by authorizing a spending limit once and settling in batches, enabling up to one million payments per second.
NVIDIA, Microsoft and partners announced at IFA 2026 tools to simplify local AI agent deployment on RTX and DGX systems, including new RTX Spark Windows PCs and streamlined setup for popular agent apps.
Solana has reduced rent requirements, leaving excess lamports in token accounts and program-owned accounts that can now be reclaimed using new instructions.
Singapore’s central bank, MAS, published draft amendments on 1 September 2026 to bring its single-currency stablecoin framework into force under the Payment Services Act, with a consultation closing 16 October 2026.
The SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting on Sept. 10 to discuss artificial intelligence in markets and Regulation NMS rules, with findings to be submitted to the Commission.
The BMW Art Car exhibition at BMW Welt concluded with over 120,000 visitors, showcasing 50 years of the collection through 20 artworks, including Olafur Eliasson’s hydrogen-powered installation.
Collateral mobility is transitioning from pilot projects to live production environments across capital markets, driven by tokenisation and distributed ledger technology.
The Bank of Canada introduced a new vertical $20 bank note featuring King Charles III, the first monarch portrait on the denomination in over 70 years, alongside advanced security features and cultural design elements.
GeForce NOW adds 28 new games in September, including NBA 2K27 with NVIDIA DLSS 5, The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword, available for cloud streaming.
Meta enables bill payments on WhatsApp in India, allowing users to pay household and utility bills directly within the app using the Bharat Connect network.
The Justice Department asked Maryland to stop charging military families nonresident vehicle fees that violate federal law, citing double taxation and SCRA protections.
The UK Health Security Agency reports the first detection of invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitoes breeding in the UK, detected in east London through its surveillance programme.
The UK’s Veterinary Medicines Directorate has updated guidance to allow QR codes on veterinary medicine packaging to link to public-facing educational and instructional material, expanding access to product information...
AWS has released Amazon Linux 2027 in public preview, offering a cloud-native OS with updated kernel, security defaults, and toolchains for modern workloads.
The New Zealand Government has launched a single online service for survivors of State redress to access information, submit claims, or seek updates through www.redress.govt.nz, replacing multiple agency contacts.
Sui outlines its decentralized finance stack, featuring DeepBook’s on-chain liquidity, gasless stablecoin transfers, and institutional Bitcoin access via Hashi, emphasizing speed, cost efficiency, and native integration.
Associate Transport Minister James Meager announced the appointment of Jonathan Moore to Maritime New Zealand’s board for a one-year term, citing his extensive maritime and port leadership experience.
Sui outlines how its 390-millisecond deterministic finality and low transaction costs enable institutional finance applications that require real-time settlement and predictable performance.
Sui outlines how its blockchain infrastructure supports AI agents performing autonomous economic tasks, emphasizing atomic transactions, speed, and programmable spending limits for safe, scalable agentic commerce.