AI & RoboticsNews

Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life

Smartphones can be distracting with their dizzying array of apps and constant stream of notifications. A new app called Poppy aims to organize the chaos by combining your calendar, email, messages, and other sources into a single dashboard. The idea, per the company’s website, is that “Poppy pays attention so you don’t have to.” Users can connect various services to…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Toyota and Lexus just made EV road trips way easier

The new 2026 ES will be the first Lexus model to feature Toyota’s Arene software platform, unlocking new features including EV route planning. Toyota and Lexus EVs finally gain EV Routing If you’ve ever taken a road trip in a Tesla, you know how much easier it is with…
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Tesla invests $250M more in Giga Berlin battery cells, boosting capacity to 18 GWh

Tesla announced today that it will invest almost $250 million more in battery cell production at its Grünheide factory outside Berlin, more than doubling planned capacity to 18 gigawatt hours per year and creating over 1,500 battery-related jobs. The investment comes just two months after the automaker successfully scared workers away from IG Metall in a contentious works council election — a…
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DefenseNews

Baltic nations ponder biggest bang for their bucks in $14 billion arms spending spree

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are readying to spend around €12.2 billion ($14 billion) from the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) low-cost loans on new weapons, equipment and ammunition, with first contracts to be signed in the coming weeks. Baltic State officials insist that a large share of production must be located in the three countries, and partial…
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DefenseNews

Austrian jets intercept US military planes two days in a row

VIENNA — Austrian Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets scrambled two days in a row to intercept U.S. military aircraft, the government said. The interceptions took place on May 10 and 11 and were related to modified PC-12 turboprop aircraft that the U.S. military uses…
ComputersNews

Using Functional AI to Automate Document Workflows

A recent study conducted by Nitro found that 75-95% of the employees and executives surveyed use AI for document processing—including data extraction, PDF tasks, and contract summaries.To reinforce the importance of providing teams with the right AI tool for the right job, let’s look at the difference between chatbots and functional AI in terms of automating document workflows. However, when…
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