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Renault prices its first software-defined van from £38,000 before VAT
The Trafic E-Tech opens for pre-order with an 800V system that charges at up to 190kW, and fleets can run their own apps on the van’s dashboard
Bechtle buys Manchester’s Bespoke XYZ and Savvy
Bechtle has bought Bespoke XYZ, a Microsoft AI and Power Platform specialist, with its education MSP Savvy. The deal adds 52 staff, and founders Sam Bright and Jordan Brookes stay
Drax and Brookfield plan a 1GW AI data center in Yorkshire
Drax, Brookfield and its AI platform Radiant have agreed to develop more than 1GW of AI compute at Drax Power Station. Brookfield puts total investment, chips included, above £20bn
Virgin Media O2 halts fiber upgrades and trims O2 Business
Virgin Media O2 is targeting about £800m of annual savings by 2029. It will stop fiber upgrades on its own network beyond partner commitments and streamline the O2 Business product portfolio
Mobile robots from rival makers get one ISO language for shared floors
ISO 21423 sets out how industrial mobile robots, fleet managers and site systems such as lifts and doors exchange data. Robot makers and fleet-software vendors still have to build it into their products
London market maker LO:TECH raises $12m to open in New York and Singapore
MMC leads the Series A in a firm that trades crypto and tokenized assets around the clock. It is betting that tokenized shares keep gaining ground on speculative tokens
Onecom puts its AI receptionist online for any business to test free
The Halo platform was sold only to Onecom’s own customers until now. Any firm can set up an agent on its voice network, keep its number and pay from £30 a month once a 30-day trial ends
Navro adds Texas as its US payments map grows one license at a time
Navro’s Texas money transmitter license gives the payroll platforms built on it a compliant route into the state. But after 17 months the London firm’s US footprint is still three states and Washington DC
RWS values Acolad, a rival with £182m of revenue, at £22.4m
RWS has completed its purchase of the language group at about 12p for each £1 of its 2025 revenue. The price puts little value on Acolad’s translation revenue, and it buys RWS a client list for its AI tools
OpenAI puts ChatGPT and Codex on one token meter from December
ChatGPT Business seats will draw chat and coding work from one token-based allowance from December. The plan is still priced per user, but what each seat covers will depend on which models staff pick
HMRC picks Salesforce over Pega in CRM deal worth up to £2bn
Salesforce will run HMRC’s customer records under a deal worth up to £2bn that can last 15 years. A term that long is likely to make the contract a price and lock-in benchmark for large CRM buyers
Binance's $6.3bn theft may have begun on one laptop, and did not stop there
Binance says the largest crypto theft on record may have begun with a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop. But its own updates and Elliptic's reconstruction show the attacker got the exchange's systems to sign for them