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In early 2026, leading academics effectively declared the “performance gap” separating U.S. and Chinese AI models closed. For China in particular, rapidly moving AI developments are the product of effective technology indigenization in the face of U.S. export controls, and a big bet on an open-weight model approach.

Nearly 70 applications, ten finalist teams, and over 120 guests at a sold-out event: On September 2, 2026, HTW Berlin, in partnership with Berliner Sparkasse, brought innovative startup ideas to the Spree River in Berlin. At the HTW Startup Challenge 2026, selected teams competed in the GreenTech and Impact Entrepreneurship categories. A total of 10,000…

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Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational AI to legacy systems never built for it, says Gaurav Anand, global head of the Customer Interaction Suite at Tata Communications.

Atlassian Corporation TEAM is seeing higher AI adoption help drive customer expansion. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, revenues increased 28% year over year, while cloud revenues grew 31% year over year. Further, RPO increased 44% year over year, and subscription ARR grew 23% year over year. Management said customers are signing larger deals,…