EASE Holdings BV, a Netherlands-based medical equipment-as-a-service provider, has secured US$9.5 million in additional equity from AAFC Group Inc, a U.S.-based investor in emerging-market asset-backed finance, to scale its operations in South Africa and Ghana, the company announced on November 2, 2026. The investment brings EASE’s total equity to US$24 million. Combined with its debt…
Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC announced a multi-year partnership with OpenAI and G42 at ADIPEC on November 2, 2026, saying the agreement makes it the first energy company to deploy OpenAI Frontier, a platform for connecting and coordinating frontier AI agents across complex business operations. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu…
OpenAI will move Plus, Pro, and Business subscribers to a single usage allowance shared across ChatGPT and Codex starting in December 2026, according to a notice published on the company’s Help Center. Instant chat will not draw from the shared pool. Under the new structure, usage for ChatGPT and Codex will be measured in tokens,…
Ceva announced on November 2, 2026 that Mobilint has deployed Ceva’s SensPro AI DSP and NeuPro-Nano NPU in REGULUS, Mobilint’s edge AI system-on-chip, in what Ceva describes as the first production deployment of its NeuPro NPU family. Mobilint is a fabless AI semiconductor company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Seoul, specializing in NPUs and…
SemiAnalysis on November 2, 2026 released GDPx, a benchmark for general agentic capabilities spanning 11 professional domains, in an announcement authored by Max Kan, Andrew Megalaa, and Dylan Patel. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 leads the debut leaderboard with a score of 12.0%. The V1.0 Leaderboard The official GDPx site lists the first version at 206…
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Aramco announced on November 1, 2026, the closing of a transaction in which Aramco, through a wholly owned subsidiary, acquired a 49% stake in artificial intelligence company HUMAIN, with PIF retaining 51% ownership. Aramco acquired the stake by transferring key AI assets to HUMAIN and contributing approximately SAR…
A good podcast or interview can be full of moments worth sharing. The work is finding those moments, giving them a clean vertical frame, and turning them into videos that stand on their own. Klap and Submagic bring those steps together, but each has a different appeal. Klap makes a strong case for creators working…
Affle 3iL Ltd., the Israel-based step-down subsidiary of Affle 3i Limited, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Perion Network Ltd. for US$11.70 per share in an all-cash transaction valuing the advertising technology company at an implied equity value of approximately US$420 million, Perion announced on November 1, 2026. Perion said the price represents a 34.5%…
Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and ARP Group announced on November 1, 2026, a partnership to establish an AI-native and blockchain-enabled wholesale bank headquartered in Bahrain. The venture holds in-principle approval from the Central Bank of Bahrain and will begin regulated activities only after securing final…
Chunking divides source material into retrievable units whose boundaries and metadata strongly influence what evidence a RAG system can find and present together. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.