🚢 Alfa Laval agreed to buy maritime software firm NAVTOR for $700M.
The deal is expected to close in Q1 2027, subject to approvals. Software is moving deeper into shipping.
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🔎 Microchip forecasts $1.573B–$1.638B in December-quarter sales.
The company says lead times are lengthening. This is guidance, not a reported result.
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đź’Ľ Lam Research approved a $25B buyback authorization.
That’s permission, not completed purchases: the program has no end date and requires no fixed amount of buying.
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🛏️ Record sales, uneven growth. Somnigroup’s $2.35B quarter got a lift from Leggett & Platt.
Mattress Firm sales fell. The acquisition is key to the numbers.
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⚖️ Ireland’s AI committee has issued 64 recommendations, including tougher safeguards against non-consensual intimate images.
These are proposals, not law.
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Morgan Stanley agrees to buy Vinyl Equity, bringing digital shareholder recordkeeping into its workplace platform for private and public companies.
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Lilly's Foundayo pill reduced sleep-apnea severity in two Phase 3 trials. It is not approved for sleep apnea; an FDA submission is planned.
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Google adds TPU 8tx for confidential AI and TPU 8i Max for huge context windows. Both build specialized systems around existing chip designs.
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Mitsui Chemicals agrees to buy chip-materials maker JSR in a ÂĄ1.84 trillion deal, including debt. Regulatory approvals still stand between signing and closing.
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NXP puts chips, open-source software and drone reference designs into one robotics platform. The SDK and first drone designs are available now.
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Meta releases Muse Ember for repetitive AI-agent work, from tool calls to coding subtasks. The new model is available through its API and Muse Code.
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Hesai shipped 729,673 lidar sensors in Q3. Revenue rose 34.3% but missed its forecast. Robotics lidar shipments also fell from Q2.
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Singapore opens a 500-tonne gold vaulting option for foreign central banks. A tax waiver for some wholesale gold services is planned for April 2027.
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On clears CHF 900 million in quarterly sales for the first time. Revenue rose 17.2% as the sportswear brand held to full-price selling.
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A new arena and 2,000 affordable homes: San Diego approves Midway Rising. Financing, permits and a final lease still lie ahead.
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Disney is putting its own worlds into custom AI tools. A new Adobe alliance brings Firefly Foundry models to its creative teams, with Imagineering already using them for concept art. news.digimass.cloud/articles…
RBC is expanding its Australian asset-management footprint. It has agreed to buy Yarra Capital Management, which oversees about A$18 billion. Completion is expected in the first quarter of 2027. news.digimass.cloud/articles…
M&G expands in Amsterdam: it has bought the 1,559-home OurDomain Southeast campus from Greystar for roughly €340 million, adding student and rental homes to its European property portfolio. news.digimass.cloud/articles…
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Malaysia’s AI buildout gets a proposed US$1.85 billion boost from SoftBank, Grab and PETROS. Two projects are planned, but funding is staged and final investment agreements are still to come. news.digimass.cloud/articles…
CNH is sharpening its focus on farming. Kobelco has agreed to buy 70% of its construction-equipment business at a $1 billion enterprise valuation. CNH will retain 30%. news.digimass.cloud/articles…
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