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The best iPhone 17 display feature is still coming, despite

As excited as we are about the upcoming iPhone 17 colors, there’s something far more important we should be watching out for: Whether Apple is finally going to improve the display on its next generation of smartphones. Don’t get me wrong, Apple offers one of the best screens available on any device. However, while it has become more fall-resistant over the years, it has also continued to struggle with abrasions and scratches.

That’s why a report suggesting Apple was working on a new scratch-resistant anti-reflective display layer for the upcoming iPhone 17 models had me so excited. Unfortunately, this rumor was later debunked as Apple wasn’t satisfied with the results it achieved.

Fortunately, MacRumors says Apple suppliers were actually able to achieve a “high enough yield on the anti-reflective glass to support mass production.” According to sources familiar with the matter, Apple plans to add this scratch-resistant anti-reflective display to the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max models.

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With that, we could see a less reflective and yet scratch-resistant display coming to Apple’s best phones, something Samsung did with the new S25 generation. While it doesn’t look like Apple will use the Gorilla Glass Armor technology, it seems the company was able to get something similar. In Gorilla Glass’s case, it’s able to cut down on reflection by up to 75% while improving contrast in bright lighting conditions.

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While this feature isn’t coming to the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air models, Apple might finally add ProMotion and Always-On Display technologies to these devices, even though some rumors suggest Apple might offer a fixed higher refresh rate for these models.

That said, the company has several new improvements expected for the iPhone 17 display, with even more coming in the following years, including a smaller Dynamic Island and, eventually, an all-display design with the Face ID and camera sensors underneath the panel.

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Openreach adds 21 locations in broadband upgrade footprint

As part of its stated mission to reach up to five million more homes and businesses with its broadband network during the year to March 2026, Openreach, the UK’s leading wholesale broadband provider, has announced that 19 million premises across the UK can now order its gigabit broadband technology.

Seven million UK premises already take services based on the full-fibre network of the BT-owned company, 37% of the growing footprint, and the further 21 locations added to the full-fibre roll-out will cover as many as 80,000 rural and urban premises across the country, including Belmont, in Lancashire; Cheriton Bishop, in Devon; Didcot, in Oxfordshire; Innsworth, in Gloucestershire; Silverdale, in Lancashire; and Woburn Sands, in Buckinghamshire.

“This is a UK infrastructure success story, so it makes sense for us, and the country, to push hard on the accelerator pedal,” said Openreach CEO Clive Selley.

“Our new network is helping to drive economic growth, create jobs, and will be the backbone of a prosperous, globally connected and competitive UK. Last year was our biggest year of build ever – reaching well over four million homes with this life-changing technology. No other build across Europe has achieved that kind of rate, and this year will be our biggest ever.”

In May 2024, while reporting a financial year of flat revenues and a significant fall in profits, BT announced it had reached a peak for its significant investments in full-fibre broadband, and BT Group chief executive Allison Kirkby stated that the company had reached an inflection point in its long-term strategy.

However, a year later, the comms giant told the industry it had turned the capital spending taps back on and given the green light to Openreach to dig further and faster.

Openreach claims to be building its new network to connect customers faster and further than any other provider in the UK – reaching an average of 85,000 new premises every week. In total, more than 3,500 UK towns, cities, boroughs, villages and hamlets have so far been included in Openreach’s build programme, with many more being reached through publicly funded partnerships.

In the year from April 2024, Openreach extended its network to another 4.3 million premises, which it said represented its biggest ever year of build, and that it was actively increasing the pace of the build to reach up to five million more in 12 months.

With the caveat of “a supportive economic and regulatory environment”, Openreach ultimately expects to make full-fibre available to 30 million premises in all corners of the UK by 2030.

In its yearly financial results, published in May 2025, BT said it had passed peak capital expenditure on its full-fibre broadband roll-out and achieved a £3bn cost and service transformation programme a year ahead of schedule.

Remarking on the telco’s performance, Kirkby described BT’s full-fibre deployment as a “UK infrastructure success story”, adding that it now made sense for the company, and the UK in general, to push on the accelerator pedal.

“The more full-fibre we build, the more customers choose to connect,” she said. “In a highly competitive market, and despite a challenging economic landscape, Openreach is building and connecting customers faster, and at a lower cost than anyone.”

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The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits

One of the questions everyone involved in quantum computing is asked is, “When will the technology become commercially viable?”

This very question was posed to a panel of experts at the inaugural Quantum Datacenter Alliance Forum in London by Austin Li, who is working on quantum computing standards at Google and serves as chair and head of the United States Delegation to the IEC/ISO Joint Technical Committee on Quantum Technologies Standards. 

Although there tends to be a lot of industry noise around logical qubits and error correction, which are needed to make quantum computers that are capable of performing useful tasks, numerous pieces of the jigsaw required for a fully working and scalable quantum computing system are missing. 

Esoteric hardware 

Speaking at the forum, Alexander Keesling, chief technology officer at QuEra, discussed the limits of lasers, which are being optimised for completely different application areas. “You can find very high-powered lasers, but these lasers do not have any kind of coherence,” he said, which makes them unsuitable for use in quantum computers. 

Another challenge the industry needs to resolve, according to Keesling, is scalability. Realistically, a system with twice the number of qubits should not require a machine that is twice the size, he said, adding that the infrastructure required by a quantum computer must be kept in check as the number of qubits increases.

“If we just build another system next to a quantum computer and then figure out how to connect it, I would say that it is extensible. It’s not scalable,” he said. 

Owen Arnold, vice-president of product development at Oxford Quantum Circuits, discussed the challenges in working with suppliers of dilution refrigerators, which are needed to achieve a superconductive environment, as required by some quantum computer systems. “These are very impressive, but they have largely been built for an academic market,” he said.

In Arnold’s experience, the manufacturers of dilution refrigerators need to consider how such specialised equipment can be scaled to operate in a datacentre environment. “If you need a dilution fridge, then you will need the expertise to run that dilution fridge,” he added. 

Another consideration is that quantum computers tend to be built for experimentation. “The experiment goes down; it fails, which is largely acceptable. A small number of people are affected by that,” he said. 

But when you consider the ambitions of the quantum computing industry to deploy such machines in datacentres, it is no longer just an experiment that can fail with limited disruption. Instead, five-nines (99.999%) uptime is required. “We want to have much better diagnostics for these units. We want to control the maintenance cycle, and we want to make sure the redundant power is there,” Arnold added. 

Even if the science behind quantum computing can progress to the point where it can perform with a high degree of reliability, and the industry can make datacentre-ready quantum computing systems, ease of programmability will need to be addressed to achieve datacentre-scale adoption. 

Ease of programming and hybrid complexity 

Josh Savory, director of offering management at Quantinuum, discussed the company’s 2029 roadmap at the forum, and the challenges it will need to overcome to deliver something commercially viable by then. He believes there needs to be industry alignment around standards.

Savory said QIR, the community-wide effort to design and implement the necessary compiler technology to accelerate advances in quantum programming language design, and CQASM, a programming language for quantum computing that provides a way of expressing quantum circuits as code, are needed to provide a uniform programming interface for application developers. 

The panel of experts also discussed how quantum computers would fit alongside classical high-performance computing (HPC) as a kind of coprocessor. While this approach could be the direction of travel for many quantum computing companies in deploying their machines in datacentres, such an architecture is hugely complex. 

“How the types of problems that we are trying to solve today can be accelerated with a quantum computer is still unknown,” said QuEra’s Keesling.

Factors like considering the application code that can be sent to a quantum computer with code that is best run on HPC architecture, and orchestrating between these different classes of compute resources, are questions the industry will need to answer if a hybrid approach is adopted.

There has been plenty of research into quantum computing that suggests the goals of the industry are achievable, at least from a technology perspective. But the message from the panel of experts at the Quantum Datacenter Alliance Forum was that a heck of a lot more work needs to be done before these machines can truly scale in a commercial datacentre setup.

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Check out the 8 new emoji coming to your iPhone

There are plenty of reasons to look forward to iOS 26 — the debut of Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language, custom backgrounds for text conversations, and CarPlay upgrades — but we are here to give you eight more. This week, the Unicode Consortium unveiled the emoji that will arrive as part of the Unicode 17.0 release this fall. It is a fairly eclectic crew, featuring a treasure chest, an apple core, and even Bigfoot. Sadly, they won’t join your iPhone’s emoji keyboard on day one, but a future iOS 26 update will include all eight.

New emoji coming in iOS 26

First, let’s take a look at the standard versions of all eight emoji characters that are being added to the Unicode Standard in Unicode 17.0:

New emoji coming in the Unicode 17.0 release. Image source: Unicode

Here’s a full list of the official names of all the new emoji, in case you’re curious:

  • Trombone
  • Treasure Chest
  • Distorted Face
  • Apple Core
  • Fight Cloud
  • Ballet Dancers
  • Hairy Creature 
  • Orca

Apple always creates its own variations of the emoji before rolling them out to its software. As a result, iPhone owners often have to wait a few months to get their hands on the new characters. The emoji that arrived in Unicode 16.0 didn’t hit iPhones until iOS 18.4 launched in March 2025. That was a full six months after Unicode 16.0 was released.

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Thankfully, this is a much more entertaining set than what we got in Unicode 16.0. I’m not sure when or where I’ll use half of them, but I could see “Fight Cloud” becoming a mainstay in group chats with family members. And that “Distorted Face” sure is something.

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Cloudflare to let customers block AI web crawlers

From today, Cloudflare users will be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers from accessing their web content without permission of monetary compensation by default, in a bid to stop AI models from scraping and using content in their training databases.

Use of intellectual property such as art, fiction, music, news media, video and other forms of creative endeavour and expression, to train AI models without recognition or recompense has become a major sticking point for creatives worldwide, fueled a wave of anti-AI sentiment, and led to lawsuits on both sides of the Atlantic.

Recognising the potential threat AI models pose to fundamental aspects of the human condition, Cloudflare said its new settings marked the “first step” towards a more sustainable future both content creators and AI innovators alike.

“If the internet is going to survive the age of AI, we need to give publishers the control they deserve and build a new economic model that works for everyone – creators, consumers, tomorrow’s AI founders, and the future of the web itself,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.

“Original content is what makes the internet one of the greatest inventions in the last century, and it’s essential that creators continue making it. AI crawlers have been scraping content without limits. Our goal is to put the power back in the hands of creators, while still helping AI companies innovate. This is about safeguarding the future of a free and vibrant Internet with a new model that works for everyone.”

Cloudflare, which handles over 15% of global internet traffic via its content delivery network (CDN) said that the internet has long operated on a simple exchange by which search engines index content and direct users to websites to generate traffic and ad revenue. While not perfect this system has proved fairly consistent in rewarding content creators with and web users alike.

However, the advent of AI crawlers has broken this bargain because in scraping content to improve the output of generative AI (GenAI) models without sending web users to the source, crawlers deprive content creators of views and revenues and cause them to become disincentivised to keep working, to the detriment of wider society.

Cloudflare had previously introduced a one-click block option to stop web crawlers in September 2024 – and said over a million customers have opted in to date. The introduction of a permission-based model adds more fine-grained controls to the equation.

The new settings will allow site owners to choose if they want AI crawlers to access their content and decide how AI companies are allowed to use it. AI companies, in turn, will be able to state the purpose of their crawlers – which is to say whether they are used for training, inference, or search purposes – to help site owners decide whether to allow them.

All new domain owners signing up to Cloudflare will now be asked if they wish to allow or block AI crawlers, with the default being to control their activity, meaning customers must make an explicit choice to opt in to allowing them. Existing customers can easily check their settings and allow AI crawlers at any point should they desire.

Multiple Cloudflare customers are already signing up, with many prominent publishers describing it as a “game changer” for content creators. Others said it could potentially help end the rush among news organisations to unpopular paywall-based business models.

Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast, said: “When AI companies can no longer take anything they want for free, it opens the door to sustainable innovation built on permission and partnership.

“This is a critical step toward creating a fair value exchange on the internet that protects creators, supports quality journalism and holds AI companies accountable.”

Kristin Heitmann, chief revenue officer at The Associated Press (AP) agency, added: “The information landscape continues to change rapidly but the value of accurate, factual, nonpartisan journalism has never been more essential.

“We’re pleased to participate in this important framework that will help ensure intellectual property is protected and all content creators are fairly compensated for their work.”

Sharon Moshavi, president of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), a Washington DC-based non-profit, and co-CEO of ICFJ+, a provider of critical infrastructure for journalists and technologists to deliver information, also voiced her support.

“We see journalists across the world providing vital, original reporting to their communities, yet AI bots scrape their work for free while newsrooms struggle to stay open,” said Moshavi.

“At ICFJ+, we are working with small news sites – beginning in Africa and across a variety of languages – to help them protect and reclaim the value of their original work in the age of AI. We welcome this very promising initiative from Cloudflare.”

Pay up or get off my site

At the same time, Cloudflare has also announced the private beta of another tool, dubbed Pay Per Crawl.

The idea of Pay Per Crawl originated during conversations with content creators during the development of the crawler blocking tool. Cloudflare said that while all agreed that creators should be able to block or allow all AI crawlers depending on their wishes, creators had expressed a “consistent desire” for a third path in which AI crawlers are allowed to access their content but they also get paid.

While theoretically possible already, this requires knowing the right people at an AI provider and negotiating with them, a challenge for creatives who may lack the scale and leverage to do so.

Cloudflare engineers Will Allen and Simon Newton said they had now hit on a way to allow creatives to charge AIs.

“We’re excited to help dust off a mostly forgotten piece of the web: HTTP response code 402,” they wrote in a blog post. “Pay per crawl integrates with existing web infrastructure, leveraging HTTP status codes and established authentication mechanisms to create a framework for paid content access. 

“Each time an AI crawler requests content, they either present payment intent via request headers for successful access (HTTP response code 200), or receive a 402 Payment Required response with pricing. Cloudflare acts as the Merchant of Record for Pay Per Crawl and also provides the underlying technical infrastructure.”

Its creators hope Pay Per Crawl may herald a fundamental shift in how content is controlled online by empowering creators to keep working.

Other future use cases for the tool could help support different rates for different content types or different AI crawlers, for example. Allen and Newton said the tool may have even greater potential as agentic AI develops, where people querying AI agents could set them a specific budget based on the topic at hand – more for legal advice, less for a restaurant booking, for example. They envisage a future where intelligent AI agents “can programmatically negotiate access to digital resources.”

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Apple Watch blood oxygen feature might finally return to the

Apple had been oddly silent about the blood oxygen feature removed from its Apple Watch models sold in the US. Now, however, Reuters reports that Cupertino has just asked a US appeals court to overturn a tribunal decision that forced it to remove the blood oxygen technology from its Apple Watch models.

According to the report, Apple attorney Joseph Mueller told the court that the decision had “deprived millions of Apple Watch users” of this functionality. Meanwhile, Masimo’s lawyer argued that Apple was trying to “rewrite the law.”

The judges questioned “whether Masimo’s development of a competing smartwatch justified the ITC’s ruling,” as Apple claimed the ban wasn’t justifiable because the device in question was still “purely hypothetical.”

Now, the judges must decide whether to take up Apple’s appeal or let Masimo’s favorable ruling stand.

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Apple Watch blood oxygen ban explained

The health sensors on the back of the Apple Watch Series 9. Image source: Christian de Looper for BGR

In December 2023, Apple announced it might have to stop selling the Apple Watch Series 9 in the US due to a legal battle with Masimo. At the time, the US International Trade Commission ruled that Apple had infringed on a couple of Masimo’s blood oxygen patents.

Apple had hoped the Biden administration would intervene during the Presidential Review Period, but that expired on Christmas, leading the company to remove the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 from sale.

By mid-January 2024, the court denied Apple’s request, and the company was allowed to resume sales of these watches, but without the blood oxygen feature. Interestingly, if someone replaces their old Apple Watch in the US, they’ll also lose this feature.

At this point, Apple has two options: keep fighting in court, which it appears to be doing, or wait until 2028, when the patent expires and the feature could return to Apple Watches in the US.

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BGR will keep you posted once we hear more about the judges’ decision. In the meantime, check out what’s expected for the Apple Watch Series 11 below.

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ChatGPT is getting a new ‘Study Together’ mode: Everything we

You’re not alone if it feels like it’s been rather quiet on the AI front. We haven’t had any major announcements recently from the main players in the industry, and something feels off. But that’s only because of the strange nature of product announcements in the AI age.

Companies like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and others don’t follow an annual announcement schedule. Instead, they roll out new AI products whenever the software is ready for mass use. They also regularly try to outdo one another by introducing new features or enhancing existing AI capabilities.

Even if things feel quieter than usual, we still have AI startups launching exciting ideas. Plus, the big players are always testing new features, and OpenAI is part of that group.

Some ChatGPT users have discovered what could be OpenAI’s next product, and it’s not the GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 model you might be waiting for. Instead, OpenAI appears to be working on a ChatGPT model that asks you questions instead of the other way around.

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It’s called ChatGPT Study Together, and it has already started showing up for some ChatGPT Plus users. The name suggests it’s geared toward students. If you’ve been following AI developments recently, you know OpenAI is catching up here, as some rivals already offer AI tutor modes for students.

Schools began banning ChatGPT use almost immediately after it went viral in late 2022. The chatbot could answer all sorts of questions and generate text with ease. In other words, ChatGPT made cheating a lot easier. The same applies to other AI chatbots that have launched since.

These models have become even more advanced since 2022, and most can now access the web to answer questions about current events. Cheating with AI has never been simpler.

Why we need AI tutors

That’s where the new ChatGPT Study Together mode could actually help students. Instead of simply answering questions or solving homework, Study Together aims to ask questions that guide students to find the answers themselves.

Having AI act like a knowledgeable tutor could be more helpful for students of all ages, supporting learning more effectively than just offering answers or writing essays. AI tutors have the potential to reshape education and make learning certain subjects easier.

That’s all still speculative. We don’t know when OpenAI will officially announce the new mode or what it will cost. But some ChatGPT users are already seeing the Study Together option in the app.

If you tap on Tools in the prompt composer, you might find Study Together listed under Deep Research mode. It may not be available to chat with just yet. It’s likely OpenAI is testing it with a subset of users, or perhaps the UI element was published earlier than planned.

I’m a ChatGPT user in Europe, and I don’t see the new Study Together model in the dropdown menu.

How much will it cost?

I’m pretty sure OpenAI wants to offer an AI tutor experience. This isn’t just about making ChatGPT a more powerful personal assistant. It’s also about matching features rivals already provide, especially for homework help.

Google already launched its LearnLM model for homework assistance. Just a few weeks ago, Google announced a Gemini for Education model for Workspace for Education users.

Earlier this year, Anthropic released a Learning Mode for Claude, which turns the AI into a tutor that can guide students during study sessions. Around the same time, Anthropic launched a Claude for Education program and partnered with select institutions to make Claude available to students and staff.

These efforts are commendable in a world where AI-assisted cheating is easier than ever. They also offer a potential revenue stream for AI companies. AI tutors aren’t likely to be free, but companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic can strike deals with schools. Those deals might pay off in the long run when students choose their own AI chatbots, agents, or assistants.

That’s another big reason OpenAI needs its own AI tutor. It’s not just about appearances. It’s a smart move to bring more users into the ChatGPT fold.

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7 biggest changes to your iPhone in iOS 26 beta

Following the release of iOS 26 beta 3 this Monday, Apple continues to tweak its upcoming major software update ahead of its fall launch. More interestingly, this is the first beta several iPhone users will try, as Apple usually offers the beta 3 build for its first public test version. That means the changes in this new beta represent the first experience many users will have with the new Liquid Glass UI and more.

With that in mind, these are the most important changes Apple made with iOS 26 beta 3.

Liquid Glass doesn’t look as liquid: Following complaints on social media after just the first beta, Apple has made the Liquid Glass UI more subtle in upcoming betas. In Control Center, Apple Music, App Store, and Apple Podcasts, the navigation bars are now more opaque. While Apple could still tweak them in later betas, it seems we’re getting closer to a Frosty Glass look instead of the original Liquid Glass idea.

New Wallpapers: With iOS 26 beta 3, Apple changed the main wallpaper and now offers four options. They’re also more distinct in Dark Mode.

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Commute Delays in Maps: With beta 3, Apple adds a new Apple Maps feature that can alert you if you might be delayed on your daily commute due to increased traffic. The company also added fog advisories, even when you’re using offline maps.

Aside from the iOS 26 beta 3 changes listed above, Apple also improved some of its other operating systems:

  • Safari gets better in macOS Tahoe: Apple fixed the annoying issue where unopened tabs would be highlighted instead of the one you’re using.
  • Liquid Glass expands on watchOS 26: The passcode entry screen now has the same Liquid Glass buttons as other parts of the UI.
  • iPadOS 26 gets Mac-like cursor: If you’re having a hard time finding the cursor on your iPad, just shake it back and forth rapidly to make it temporarily bigger.

iOS 26 beta 3 code reveals more features in the works

With the release of iOS 26 beta 3, BGR reported on two possible new features coming to Apple Maps in the future.

  • Natural-language search for Apple Maps: Apple is working on bringing natural-language search to Apple Maps. It already offers this feature in the App Store and other apps, and now it’s preparing to roll it out in Maps. Instead of searching for “trattorias,” you’ll be able to look for something like “Best trattorias with good Wi-Fi.”
  • Apple Maps behavior change: With a future iOS 26 update, Apple Maps will no longer keep your screen on so your iPhone can cool down.

You can learn more about these features here. Below, you can discover more details about iOS 26.

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GlobalLogic, Volvo Cars drive future of automotive mobility

As part of the Swedish auto giant’s plans to support the creation of next-generation digital mobility experiences and services, Volvo Cars has selected digital engineering firm GlobalLogic to be part of its partnership ecosystem and become one of its strategic partners in global engineering services.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, and boasting over 20 years of automotive software expertise, GlobalLogic operates design studios and engineering centres around the world, with a stated aim to integrate experience design, complex engineering and data expertise to help its clients “imagine what’s possible” and accelerate their transition into tomorrow’s digital businesses.

Founded in 1927, Volvo Cars sells to customers in more than 100 countries, and has the ambition to become a fully electric carmaker as part of its commitment to an ongoing reduction of its carbon footprint, achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

Within the terms of their collaboration, GlobalLogic and Volvo Cars will work together to create what they believe will be the next generation of faster, smarter and scalable digital mobility experiences and services, using the latest technologies and “best-in-class” talent to drive innovation, operational efficiency and long-term business value.

GlobalLogic believes the partnership validates its deep expertise in product engineering, building on expertise in creating in-vehicle software and connected car platforms. It allows Volvo to use the GlobalLogic global delivery engine, combining technical prowess with deep industry expertise and a scalable, distributed model to design and build software-upgradable applications across the vehicle’s entire lifecycle.

“Volvo Cars is one of the most trusted leaders in the automotive industry, and we’re honoured to be selected as a trusted supplier and innovation partner,” said Ramki Krishna, group vice-president and general manager of mobility and industrial business at GlobalLogic.

“This partnership is further validation recognising our proven ability to deliver best-in-class solutions for the mobility industry, and we’re thrilled to support Volvo Cars in providing the freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way.”

The GlobalLogic collaboration comes hot on the heels of the Swedish car giant expanding its partnership with IT behemoth Google to see the integration of Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate automotive innovation. Volvo​ Cars will now serve as one of Google’s reference hardware platforms for future Android development in cars.

Volvo models with Google technology built-in, in particular the Gemini AI platform, include the Volvo EX90, an all-electric Volvo EX90 sports utility vehicle. Volvo says that among the features of the seven-seat family vehicle is an “invisible shield” of safety enabled by sensing technology including cameras, radars and lidar. These are connected to the car’s high core computers running Volvo Cars’ in-house software to create a real-time, 360-degree view of the world.

The partnership also comes just days after GlobalLogic announced it was working with automotive cyber security provider PlaxidityX to deliver an integrated and secure development environment for software-defined vehicles (SDVs).

The collaboration focuses on creating a coherent cloud framework for SDVs aimed at helping original equipment manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers accelerate the development lifecycle and reduce engineering costs, while ensuring that all vehicle software meets high security standards.

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