Ravi Bapna, a pioneering Indian American scholar in artificial intelligence and business analytics, has been named Dean of Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, tasked with deepening the school's ties across Silicon Valley and global markets.
The Financial Times' Climate & Impact Summit Latin America convened in São Paulo on August 19, bringing together global finance and sustainability leaders to discuss capital allocation and climate resilience.
Sino Jet and China Aviation Fuel have launched what they describe as China's first sustainable aviation fuel compliance service for foreign-registered business jets operating in the country.
Google, the UK Met Office and academic and government partners have launched Operation Blue Skies, a £5 million, 30-month trial to reduce aviation contrails across the North Atlantic Shanwick airspace.
Swiss biotech Vaderis Therapeutics has raised $152 million in Series B funding, led by Droia Oncology Ventures and Perceptive Advisors, to advance targeted therapies for rare vascular diseases.
Lovable, a platform enabling users to build software applications using natural-language prompts, has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, backed by Accel, DST Global and Salesforce Ventures among others.
Meta is entering a landmark trial involving 29 U.S. states over allegations that its platforms caused harm to young users, intensifying regulatory pressure on social media companies globally.
Reports of camera-equipped AirPods suggest Apple is preparing AI-enabled wearables that can visually perceive their surroundings, extending the company's push into ambient, contextual computing.
Chinese autonomous-driving company Pony.ai is lining up thousands of robotaxis for international markets, intensifying global competition in commercial self-driving transportation.
OpenAI has launched a teen-specific version of ChatGPT for users aged 13 to 17, blocking sensitive conversations and using age-prediction technology to automatically route minors into the safer experience.