Leaks about the iPhone Air 2 suggest Apple would add a second 48-megapixel ultra-wide rear camera and a battery of around 3,500 mAh, compared with the 3,149 mAh in the current model. The device would be thinner, at around 5.2 mm, with an A20 Pro chip, 12 GB of RAM and a smaller Dynamic Island. Its launch is expected in spring 2027, alongside the iPhone 18.
Professional use of artificial intelligence is fragmenting into specialized tools, with memberships mostly around 20 dollars a month per platform. Combining ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Pro and Claude Pro can cost about 60 dollars a month, and adding design or video tools adds 20 to 30 dollars each. Against this backdrop, aggregator platforms are emerging that offer several models under a single subscription, while consultant Lalo Zanoni anticipates assistants that integrate all capabilities.
Meltio will display at its Formnext 2026 booth (hall 12.0, stand C119) a full-size Fiat Abarth 500 racing car that includes a metal part 3D-printed by DMZ using its DED technology. According to the company, the high-performance exhaust manifold has worked reliably in the vehicle, with more than 10,000 km driven. DMZ cut assembly time from 8 hours to one and met Stellantis Group requirements. Meltio will also show live printing and applications in defense, aerospace, energy and oil and gas.
Lenovo announced that the 2026 ISG Provider Lens® Digital Sustainability reports placed it as a Leader in the IT Solutions quadrant for Europe and the United States. ISG highlights its IT sustainability approach covering devices, infrastructure and services. The study estimates the global digital sustainability market at 34.3 billion dollars, up 12% from 2025; Europe accounts for 43% and the US for 33%. Lenovo is expanding its approach toward circular procurement, AI-ready infrastructure, managed lifecycle services and carbon intelligence.
Forterro will present at Veteco 2026, held November 10-13 at IFEMA Madrid, an offering focused on connecting the commercial, technical and production processes of the window and facade industry. At pavilion 10, stand E02, it will showcase Klaes, an ERP specialized for window, door and enclosure manufacturers; Logikal, focused on design, engineering and CNC data generation; and Unilink, a platform that connects design systems with CNC machines from different manufacturers.
SpaceX and Tesla have created a committee to study a possible merger of both companies, as announced by Elon Musk, CEO of both, on an analyst call. Musk said the combination would have "many advantages" and would be a "good idea", though he did not treat the deal as done. It would combine SpaceX's $2 trillion valuation and Tesla's $1.5 trillion, about $3.5 trillion, and would be the largest merger in history. The announcement came after SpaceX's results, with net profit of $4.404 billion in the third quarter of 2026.
Allianz Partners fully handles 50% of its roadside assistance calls with artificial intelligence, according to Marta Peña, its Global Digital Manager for roadside assistance, speaking at the Customer Experience Live Show in Madrid. The company uses LLM-based voicebots and an omnichannel strategy that answers 97% of calls in under 20 seconds, automatically identifies and validates the policy in 99% of cases, and operates in more than 10 languages, 24 hours a day, across several European markets.
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, known as PHP2Shell, were rated 9.2 out of 10 on the CVSS 4.0 scale by the PHP security team, dated October 20. The flaws, registered according to media as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, would allow remote code execution on a server. Patches are expected on October 21 at 14:00 UTC and would reach supported branches, from PHP 8.2. According to Mallory, about 884,000 servers use PHP 8.1 or earlier.
SpaceX and Tesla have set up a committee to study a possible merger, according to remarks by Elon Musk after presenting SpaceX's results. Musk said the combination would have "many advantages" and would be a "good idea", but did not treat the deal as done. If completed, it would be the largest corporate merger in history and would create a company worth about 3.5 trillion dollars in market capitalization. SpaceX earned 4.404 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2026, compared with a loss of 1.054 billion a year earlier.
Pre-orders for the iPhone Duo, Apple's first foldable, sold out in just three minutes after opening on Friday, despite a price of 2,330 euros. Mark Gurman said the company "made a big mistake" by launching it in more than 70 countries while knowing there would be severe supply constraints, instead of limiting it to the United States and China. According to the journalist, Apple prioritized having the device on the market at the start of its first fiscal quarter. Delivery times now stretch to late January.
Leroy Merlin uses CLARA, an artificial intelligence tool, to reconnect with candidates who had already shown interest in the company and match them with open vacancies. The agent holds voice conversations to update data on location, education, experience and professional interests. The project began as a pilot in June and has since reactivated more than 2,000 profiles: 1,000 expressed interest in open vacancies and 293 candidates were moved into new selection processes, with a 60% contact rate.
Spain's automotive sector ended 2025 with 590,183 workers, of whom nearly 47% are 45 or older and only 26% are under 35, according to Randstad Research data. Dealerships and repair shops raised their staff by 9.7% to 375,843 workers, while manufacturing fell 4.6% and ended with 214,340 employees. The arrival of electric platforms is driving demand for profiles in programming, electronics, batteries and automated systems.
The drone unit of Ukraine's 92nd Assault Brigade, together with the 30th Brigade and the 10th Army Corps, extracted a wounded soldier from the front line using an unmanned aerial vehicle, in what would be the first rescue of its kind. The soldier had spent nearly 500 days in an isolated position supplied by drones. Ground evacuation was ruled out due to mined terrain and Russian drone activity. A Heavy Shot Ayudag-6 hexacopter from Gurzuf Defence was used.
The Civil and Commercial Court No. 11 of Lomas de Zamora ordered two telephone companies to pay 16.5 million pesos plus interest to a couple who lived about 25 meters from a 48-meter communications tower in a residential neighborhood in southern Greater Buenos Aires. The lawsuit was filed in May 2000. The ruling dismissed the claim against the municipality and rejected the claims for physical and psychological harm.
The platform Kolsquare publishes the report "The trust dividend", in which it argues that brand safety should stop being a later filter and become a strategic and creative decision in influencer marketing. The document cites that 55% of consumers aged 16 to 34 have stopped buying from a brand over a values clash and that fewer than 5% of marketing professionals see brand safety as a challenge. It also notes that advertising transparency does not reduce performance.
SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to study a possible merger that would combine Elon Musk's two companies into an artificial intelligence-focused conglomerate with a potential value above three trillion dollars. Musk said he thinks it is "a good idea", but that shareholders must give their support and that the committees have not agreed on the terms of any transaction. SpaceX is valued at two trillion dollars and Tesla at almost 1.5 trillion.
Tenex, a firm with 75 employees, 90% of them engineers or AI strategists, pays its engineers by delivered story points instead of hours. Half of its clients are Fortune 2000 companies and the other half are mid-market firms with revenue between US$100M and US$500M. Alex Lieberman and CJ Hess presented the model on the Latent Space podcast at AI Engineer in New York and explained that the company recalibrates the value of a story point at least once a quarter.
Boeing presented Dataliner, an artificial intelligence platform to help airlines manage the maintenance and operations of their fleets. Developed with Microsoft, it combines Boeing's engineering with Azure AI Foundry to connect information from different sources and offer a joint view of aircraft status. Airlines can keep their data in their own systems and decide what they share; the platform includes access controls, encryption and monitoring.
Amazon agreed to help pay for the development of a 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its power. The project, announced with X-energy and American Electric Power, would install 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors of 80 MW each on the site of the former Breed Generating Station coal plant in Sullivan County. AEP would operate the plant, which would connect to the public grid. It is the second project in Amazon's plan to bring more than 5 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity online in the U.S. by 2039.
Juana Roig, the youngest of Juan Roig's four daughters and head of digital transformation and Mercadona Tech, said in an interview on the Itnig podcast that being "the boss's daughter" is "a drag that has its good side and its bad side." A business administration graduate from Esade, she recalled her time at Inditex and acknowledged that her surname opened the door for her to develop Mercadona Online. She is also a member of the company's board of directors.
