Aston Martin said it will cut up to 20% of staff, target £40m annual savings and £15m cash costs, after a wider FY2025 loss and capex cuts.
Business
Bank of Italy said Italy logged a €27.4bn current account surplus in 2025, helped by a €3.4bn primary income surplus after a 2024 deficit.
Travel
European Commission adopted an EU visa strategy that could allow multiple-entry Schengen visas to last beyond five years, alongside digital visa reforms in 2026.
Technology
European Parliament disables built-in AI tools on work-issued devices in Brussels, citing cybersecurity and data-protection risks tied to cloud processing today.
Antonio Guterres called India a successful emerging economy, and said it is the right place to host the AI Impact Summit, now under way in New Delhi, Feb 16-20.
Maia 200 is Microsoft’s second-gen AI chip for inference, designed for Azure data centers with HBM3e memory, on-chip SRAM, and linked scaling.
Apple boosts wireless performance on supported Macs and iPads through software updates that unlock wider Wi-Fi channels and higher throughput on 5 GHz networks.
At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia introduced Alpamayo, an open AI model suite for autonomous vehicles, alongside new chips designed for training and inference workloads.
One in five EU enterprises now use AI, Eurostat reports, marking rapid growth in technology adoption across Europe in 2025.

