Britain’s economy was flat in January as restaurants, pubs and cafes saw weaker activity, leaving UK GDP stuck after modest gains late in 2025.
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Ireland kept a snow and ice warning for 11 counties on Friday as Met Éireann warned of wintry showers, poor visibility, rough seas and travel risks.
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BMW Group begins Germany’s first in-plant humanoid robot pilot, deploying Hexagon Robotics’ AEON at Leipzig to support battery and component production.
India and Finland launched a strategic partnership focused on digitalisation and sustainability, highlighting cooperation from AI and 6G to clean energy and quantum computing.
European Parliament disables built-in AI tools on work-issued devices in Brussels, citing cybersecurity and data-protection risks tied to cloud processing today.
Antonio Guterres called India a successful emerging economy, and said it is the right place to host the AI Impact Summit, now under way in New Delhi, Feb 16-20.
Maia 200 is Microsoft’s second-gen AI chip for inference, designed for Azure data centers with HBM3e memory, on-chip SRAM, and linked scaling.
Apple boosts wireless performance on supported Macs and iPads through software updates that unlock wider Wi-Fi channels and higher throughput on 5 GHz networks.
At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia introduced Alpamayo, an open AI model suite for autonomous vehicles, alongside new chips designed for training and inference workloads.
One in five EU enterprises now use AI, Eurostat reports, marking rapid growth in technology adoption across Europe in 2025.

