Innovation

Warsaw's new immersive career centre uses glasses-free AR/VR to pipeline students into advanced manufacturing, robotics and logistics roles.

A $180m growth round backs LeapXpert's bet that governed WhatsApp and Signal conversations are the next frontier of enterprise intelligence.

The Association of Financial Mutuals calls for capital reform and deregulation to close three costly gaps in UK financial resilience.

The Philippine fintech's 100,000-user pilot signals a QR-native credit model that could reframe financial inclusion across Southeast Asia.

Factorial's solid-state cells delivered 30%-plus range gains in drone flight tests, pointing battery constraints as the next frontier for UAV performance.

The Canadian MTF pioneer enters public markets with $150m to hit key technical milestones by 2028, as fusion moves from lab curiosity to investable asset

A UNDP-backed MOU with Chinese EV maker TAILG targets Africa's petrol-to-electric mobility shift via solar-integrated charging infrastructure.

A Rafale F4 and an autonomous drone equipped with a new electronic warfare payload completed a joint strike-simulation flight, blurring the line between manned

Nuclear Diamond Batteries bolsters IP across its full stack, from carbon nanomaterial synthesis to power conversion, targeting space and defence markets.

Israel's ParaZero pitches its net-based DefendAir platform as the answer to low-cost FPV drones dismantling legacy armour economics.

FSN Capital moves its 148m-share block into a Jersey holding company weeks after the Danish installer's Nasdaq Copenhagen debut.

A JPL subcontract for the SkyFall mission marks Firefly's first commercial-speed composite technology transfer from Moon to Mars.

The Canadian fusion pioneer's Nasdaq listing marks a rare public-markets bet on commercial fusion energy reaching key milestones by 2028.

America's largest military shipbuilder scales distributed autonomous-vessel production across Louisiana, signalling a new model for defence-industrial surge capacity.

Long Ridge's growth equity bet targets AI-driven appraisal tech for community banks, where legacy credit workflows remain largely manual.

The Middle East's leading gifting platform has replaced rule-based chatbots with orchestrated AI agents, cutting service costs 15% at seasonal peaks.

The payments and commerce platform targets unattended retail's data gap with AI-driven insights, planogram automation, and visual recognition.

The partnership brings reusable, eIDAS 2.0-compliant identity wallets to European regulated industries ahead of mandatory public wallet rollout.

Perk's ADGM office targets tripling UAE travel spend by 2028, backed by Abu Dhabi's push to make AI 20% of non-oil GDP.

A BBB+ S&P rating and a $2bn syndicated facility underpin Afreximbank's push to shift Africa from raw-material exporter to industrial power.