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European aerospace and defense group making commercial aircraft, helicopters, satellites, and military systems; a top global planemaker.
Airbus chief Guillaume Faury is understood to have written to the prime minister over the £2.4bn Skynet 6 contract, the Guardian reports. Lockheed Martin's rival bid includes a Durham factory that north-east politicians back.
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British Airways is refitting its A380s with what it calls the world's largest business-class cabin, 106 suites across the upper deck. The seat map puts the airline's money behind a forecast that premium long-haul demand will hold on its biggest jets.
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Bull spent 80 million euros doubling its Angers factory's output from six supercomputer racks a month to 12. The larger line lets it build France's 94-rack Alice Recoque and Finland's LUMI-AI at once, something executives said the old factory could not do.
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Azora says its portable optical ground receiver latched onto Artemis II's Orion capsule at 240,000 miles, working from a California parking lot. The result shows a drivable terminal can pick up a signal at lunar range, though buyers will want its data rate and price before signing up for a pilot.
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The New York meeting on September 20 produced no deliverables, and the US trade representative says he would extend the 20% tariff cap by three to six months. The next deadline would land in spring 2027.
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Greg Ombach, a senior vice president at Airbus, writes that vision-language-action models force a choice between capability and edge deployment, and that industrial buyers should validate one operating domain before expanding.
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Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed their combination. A regulated buyer that ran both model developers through the same evaluation is now choosing between one supplier and the sovereign stacks other vendors are assembling.
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AWS has made the Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows and pitched it to IT as the sanctioned answer to shadow AI. It runs in Frankfurt, London and Ireland, and not in the Brandenburg sovereign cloud.
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An August 2026 review grew IRIS² from around 290 satellites to 348 and its planned investment from 10.6 billion euros to more than 15.6 billion, and the largest single build order, 2.4 billion euros for 264 platforms, went to Belgium's Aerospacelab.
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Internal German notes reported by Politico Europe treat France's Arcadia as a fresh dependency, yet accept that Berlin will share data with it so a later German platform can sit alongside. That concession is the real decision.
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The European Launcher Challenge pays nothing up front and releases cash only against milestones, which makes ESA a tranched investor that takes no equity, and gives Isar, RFA and PLD until 2028 to reach orbit.
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European startups raised $24bn in Q2 2026, but the concentration underneath the topline turns growth-stage exposure into an access problem and early-stage diversification into a much harder trade.
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The AI memory buildout is now setting the price of ordinary servers. OVHcloud is passing on part of a 6x input move, and its purchasing runs month to month while Amazon's does not.
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Sealants, rubber, paints, bolts and cleaning agents are now on China's replacement list. Engines get the headlines; consumables are where incumbents book reorder revenue.
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KLM's first A350 will fly from October with all 34 business seats blocked. Lufthansa launched with four of 28. Bespoke premium layouts have outrun the approval queue.
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American will put 4K screens at every seat on new narrowbodies from 2028 and add premium seats fleetwide. The driver is a profit gap CNBC puts at about $3bn to United and nearly $5bn to Delta.
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The Industrial Accelerator Act sets origin quotas material by material, and none at all for the tools that design them. The automotive chapter has teeth; the headline percentage does not.
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