Medtronic announced on September 1, 2026 a strategic partnership with Cornerstone Robotics built around an approximately $700 million investment that includes rights to distribute Cornerstone's Sentire surgical system in select markets outside the United States where the system is market approved. Under the arrangement, Medtronic said it will distribute Sentire alongside its Hugo robotic-assi [...]
AI travel agents have improved rapidly over the past two years. KAYAK launched AI Mode in 2025 and expanded it with Ask AI in 2026. Booking.com has continued to expand the AI trip-planning tools it first introduced in 2023, while adding new products for specific parts of the journey, including AI-powered car rental search and assistance. Both illustrate travel search moving from lists of results t [...]
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The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under the bloc’s new tech competition regime. The Commission’s case rests on the long-running complaint that […]<br /> This story continues at [...]
Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference. Google first began previewing AI Mode with testers in its Labs program at the start of March. Since then, it has been gradually rolling out the feature to more people, including in recent weeks regular Search users.<br /> For the uninitiated, AI Mode is a c [...]