Dublin – October 15, 2026 -- Elsevier has pledged 4,000 complimentary AI product licenses and an estimated €1m a year in in-kind support and funding to the European Commission's AI in Science Enablers Initiative.

The commitment was announced at the AI in Science Summit in Dublin. More than 1,000 participants from the research, technology, business and policy communities attended the event, which launched the Commission's effort to mobilize private-sector and philanthropic support for European science.

Munich – October 15, 2026 -- TIER IV and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have established the TUM Autoware Research Center by TIER IV, a multi-year research collaboration that combines three TUM research groups to build safe, scalable autonomous driving systems on the open-source Autoware stack.

Linköping – October 15, 2026 -- Swedish authorities have approved Sectra's stationary Tiger/S phone for information at the SECRET security level, allowing authorities in Sweden to hold conference calls on highly classified matters between and within agencies.

Stationary Tiger/S adds point-to-point conference calling to the product family

The stationary phone is the newest product in the quantum-resilient Sectra Tiger/S family. The mobile version already holds approvals from national security authorities, the EU and NATO for use up to and including SECRET.

Helsinki – October 15, 2026 -- Nordea Bank Abp posted a third-quarter return on equity of 15.1% and earnings per share of EUR 0.35, while assets under management rose 13% year on year to a record EUR 509bn. Operating profit fell 4% to EUR 1.5bn.

Total income rises 2% to EUR 3.0bn as fee growth offsets weaker trading

Net fee and commission income increased 9% year on year, driven by a 14% rise in savings income. Net interest income grew 1% both year on year and quarter on quarter, as volume growth was partly offset by lower lending margins.

Groenlo – October 15, 2026 -- Nedap grew third-quarter 2026 revenue by 7% year on year, with its four key markets up 9% and year-to-date key-market growth at 12%. Recurring revenue rose 17% in the first nine months of 2026 and made up 42% of total revenue for the period.

Recurring revenue grew faster than total revenue and increased in all four key markets in the quarter. CEO Rob Schuurman said the company remains on track with its Step Up! strategy.

Stockholm – October 15, 2026 -- EQT AB has signed an agreement to acquire U.S. real estate manager Stockbridge for a base consideration of USD 375 million in cash, adding about USD 16.5 billion in fee-generating assets under management and USD 27 billion in gross asset value to EQT Real Estate.

Earnouts may become payable across 2027 to 2030, subject to performance targets. The base price is on a cash- and debt-free basis and will be funded from EQT's balance sheet.

PARIS – – October 14, 2026 -- XPENG is opening its full in-house technology stack and engineering toolchains to global automotive partners under a new "XPENG AI Engineering" strategy, after Chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng became the first Chinese automaker chief to deliver a keynote at the Paris Automotive Summit.

London – October 14, 2026 -- Eight in ten executives surveyed across Europe and the Middle East say an AI-related incident reached their board or C-suite in the past year, yet only 40% of those organizations changed AI governance policy or frameworks in response, according to new IBM research.

Paris – October 14, 2026 -- French bee has won Gold in the Overall International Carrier category of the 2026 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards, while preparing to add two seasonal long-haul routes from Paris-Orly in December 2026.

Punta Cana – October 14, 2026 -- CLERHP, the Spanish engineering and real estate group listed on BME Growth, projects $784 million in revenue, $252 million in EBITDA and $162 million in net income over 2026–28 under a new business plan, and will start paying dividends in 2027.

The Board of Directors approved the plan on September 30. It formalizes CLERHP's shift from an engineering-focused company into a vertically integrated group spanning the real estate value chain. The Dominican Republic becomes the group's primary strategic market.