Global M&A activity is accelerating again in 2026, but the recovery remains heavily concentrated in large transactions. At the same time, artificial intelligence is reshaping what companies want to acquire, how assets are valued, and even whether companies should buy them outright.BCG’s 2026 M&A Report finds that global deal value increased 15% year over year during the first eight months of 2026, exceeding the ten-year average by 11%. Yet the recovery remains incomplete: megadeals and transactions above $1 billion are booming while...

Tesla has been granted a new patent for an “Electric Fan Car,” designed to increase downforce while simultaneously reducing aerodynamic drag.The design uses electrically driven ducted fans, typically shown as a row of four at the rear, powered by the vehicle’s high-voltage battery. The fans pull air from an underbody inlet, route it through ducts, and expel it from a larger rear outlet that functions as a diffuser. Faster flow under the floor lowers pressure there, pressing the car onto the road and adding downforce even at low speeds, wh...

The company’s AI chips keep making their way to China despite US curbs. Officials are asking why the company missed red flags.A widening global crackdown has exposed a sprawling black market that continues to funnel restricted Nvidia AI chips into China despite US export controls.One surveillance image released by US prosecutors showed brokers in a Southeast Asian warehouse using a hair dryer to remove serial-number stickers from server packages. Other investigations have ranged from intercepted cargo in Taiwan to a seized Singapore mansion...

Bose Corp. introduced a $99 wired pair of noise-canceling earbuds, offering a rare feature at a time when corded earphones have seen a resurgence among younger shoppers.The plainly named Bose Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds will be available Oct. 15, with preorders beginning Monday through the company’s website and Best Buy Co. It will be offered in three colors: white, black and a limited-edition mint green.In the lead-up to Monday’s announcement, Bose didn’t have any wired headphones for sale in its online store. In 2022, the company dis...

Earlier this year, people were buying Mac minis by the cartload just to give their OpenClaw agents somewhere to live, and Apple Store staff reportedly started calling it the “OpenClaw machine.” Pamir’s Lapis One looked at that trend and asked a very reasonable question: what if the agent’s computer was actually designed for the agent? The answer is a coaster-sized Linux box with a Rabbit R1 orange cap, an iMac G3 two-tone body, and a pixel robot snoozing on its little screen. Your AI assistant gets its own desk, its own internet connecti...

The global automotive landscape has undergone a striking visual transformation over the past three decades. Cars that once appeared in a broad spectrum of reds, greens, blues, golds and browns are increasingly being replaced by a much narrower palette dominated by white, black, gray and silver.The global automotive landscape has undergone a striking visual transformation over the past three decades. Cars that once appeared in a broad spectrum of reds, greens, blues, golds and browns are increasingly being replaced by a much narrower palette...

Ema, a startup that uses teams of AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, has raised $77 million in a new funding round as it aims to take on more of the work traditionally handled by enterprise software and IT services.The Series B round was led by Bengaluru-based venture firm Creaegis, with existing investors Accel, Section 32, and Prosus increasing their stakes. The financing brings the startup’s total funding to $140 million and more than quadruples its valuation from its last funding round in 2024. (Ema de...

For something that’s supposed to fix crowded cities, autonomous vehicles have developed a strange habit. They keep getting…larger. Auto.m Autonomous Vehicle clearly missed that meeting. Instead, it heads in the opposite direction, and honestly, it makes a pretty convincing argument. The concept borrows from Europe’s tiny city cars, the kind of vehicles that have spent decades squeezing through narrow streets while everyone else argues about parking spaces. Fiat Topolino, Renault Twizy, Citroën Ami…they all seem to have left fingerprints...

1. (PDF) McKinsey의 테크놀로지 트렌드 전망 보고서 2026 : 실물 세계로 파고드는 AI의 물결AI의 중심축이 소프트웨어에서 오프라인 실물 영역으로 이동: 2026년 기술 혁신의 주도권이 단순 콘텐츠 생성을 넘어 반도체 칩, 전력망, 로보틱스, 바이오, 물류 등 오프라인 인프라와 실물 AI(Physical AI)로 대전환.에이전트(Agentic) AI의 확산과 조직 프로세스 재설계 격차: 기업의 89%가 AI를 활용 중이나 실질적 EBIT 개선을 이룬 곳은 37%에 불과하며, 에이전트 코딩 도구 도입 시 인간-AI 팀 체제의 프로세스 재설계 여부가 성패를 좌우.전력망과 특화 반도체 칩이 초래하는 물리적 한...