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Oracle charges for AI work in Fusion on top of per-seat fees
Chris Leone told investors in Las Vegas that pooled AI units let Oracle earn more as agents do more work, nearly six months after Forrester recorded no plan to charge for embedded agents
Toyota builds Waymo's bZ4X robotaxi in Japan from 2027
Toyota will assemble the cars and fit Waymo's self-driving hardware itself at its Takaoka plant. Other Waymo markets follow in later years, while its London tests still run on left-hand-drive Jaguars with specialists on board
Bytes sells AI licenses and funds a study saying licenses are not enough
Bytes Technology Group makes about half its gross profit on Microsoft. The research it commissioned cites 6% of firms earning at least 5% of profit from AI, and puts the fix in management, skills and redesigned work, not more tools
Microsoft goes quiet on Copilot seats as the meter starts running
Microsoft’s first-quarter results put Copilot growth in usage and credits, not paid seats. But for firms buying Copilot Business through resellers, metered billing is switched on by default from 1 December
Cisco reports attacks on a new firewall VPN flaw that forces reboots
An unauthenticated attacker can knock a Cisco firewall's remote access VPN offline, and the vendor offers no workaround – only fixed software or a mitigation that weakens login security
Ravical raises $17m for AI that spreads accountants’ expertise
The Ghent and London company, founded in 2025, sells accounting and tax firms a way to turn how their senior staff work into processes AI runs across every client
Illumion’s £1.7m round puts an optics group behind its battery imager
Zeiss Ventures has joined a £1.7m round for the Cambridge spinout that lets researchers watch battery particles charge. But the new backer belongs to a group that sells industrial metrology, and Illumion’s next platform is meant for selected industrial uses
Amazon asks its engineers to explain where AI does not help their work
Amazon has published the memo behind a new role guideline for its software engineers. It calls AI usage metrics deeply flawed, yet still asks managers to find the teams that are not adopting AI
Tailscale patches SSH flaws after researcher’s ‘Tailworm’ report
Tailscale says the researcher went public two hours after sending it the findings, and it is not recommending that every customer switch off its SSH feature
Hewlett and Packard formalize their partnership and toss for the name
The two Stanford graduates had begun in a Palo Alto garage with $538. Their first product was an audio oscillator, and an early customer, Disney, wanted it changed
Check Point turns the firewall refresh into a three-year subscription
From 1 November, partners can sell Check Point’s Force firewalls on monthly or annual terms with no upfront hardware bill. Resellers gain a three-year line, but Check Point’s own teams sit inside the services bundle
Haven runs holiday home Wi-Fi at 27 parks over Vodafone 5G, not fiber
A holiday park operator has picked a mobile network over cables to connect every holiday home on 27 of its sites, a multi-site deployment of fixed wireless access sold through Vodafone’s business arm