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AWS Agrees to Acquire DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE28 days agoThe Amazon[5] News post (article:published_time 2026-08-26) says "Amazon has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs[3][4]", and DuckLabs' own release dated 2026-08-26 says it "today announced that it will become part of Amazon Web Services".Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.0.61ADAC Orders 14 EC145 T2 Rescue Helicopters, the Future H145
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE14.0 years agoHeliHub[4] reported the order was announced at the ILA Berlin Air Show on 13 September 2012, for 14 EC145 T2 and 3 EC135 P2e helicopters delivered 2013-2017.ADAC Luftrettung signs a framework order for 14 EC145 T2 (later renamed H145) and 3 EC135 P2e helicopters, built at what is now Airbus Helicopters' Donauwörth plant, the model whose build process this film documents.0.60AWS re:Invent 2026 Opens in Las Vegas
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEin 68 daysAWS's re:Invent page says "Join us Nov. 30 – Dec. 4 in Las Vegas for cloud and AI's biggest week" (title: "Nov 30-Dec 4, Las Vegas"), a fixed official schedule for an upcoming event.[1]AWS's annual cloud and AI conference fills six Las Vegas venues from Nov 30 to Dec 4 with more than 2,200 sessions, led by CEO Matt Garman's opening keynote at The Venetian on Dec 1. For 2026 the re:Inforce security conference is part of the week.0.60Royal Danish Navy Commissions the Flexible Support Ship HDMS Absalon
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE21.9 years agoWikipedia's[2] HDMS Absalon (F341) article gives 19 October 2004 as the commissioning date into the Royal Danish Navy, built by Odense Steel Shipyard.The Royal Danish Navy commissioned HDMS Absalon, lead ship of the Absalon-class flexible support ships built at Odense Steel Shipyard. The 137-meter vessel combines helicopter, troop, and vehicle capacity with modern weapon systems.0.59US, Denmark and Greenland Sign an Arctic Security Agreement
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE1 day agoStated as firm, per the agreement text: "Done at New York on the 22nd day of September, 2026"; the clock time is not reported (NBC6's schedule listed "10:40 AM: President Trump participates in a trilateral signing" but a White House[1][2] photo is stamped 11:19 AM EDT), so it is held as an all-day date.President Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed a pact at UN Headquarters letting the US add defense areas at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig and expand Pituffik Space Base. It bars non-NATO states from military installations in Greenland and has no end date.0.58EU Member States Vote on EU-Wide Approval of Tesla FSD (Supervised)
ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCEin 13 daysReported, not confirmed: Tech Times[1] says the TCMV 'is expected to hold a formal vote on October 6', while Reuters says only 'a vote could happen in October'; the Commission's comitology register lists no TCMV meeting after 30 June 2026 as of 22 September.The EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles is expected to vote on extending the Dutch approval of Tesla's FSD (Supervised) to all 27 member states; it needs 15 states with 65% of the EU's population.0.58Czech Republic and Sweden Sign a Joint Declaration to Extend the Gripen Lease
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoDefence trade press dates the Czech-Swedish joint declaration on extending the Gripen lease beyond 2027 to 31 August 2024. The binding contract, for 12 jets to 2035, was still under evaluation in April 2025, so this date is the declaration and not the lease contract.[1]Prague and Stockholm signed a joint declaration to keep the Čáslav-based Saab JAS 39 Gripen fleet flying beyond the lease's 2027 expiry, until Czech F-35s arrive; the binding contract covering 12 jets to 2035 was still being negotiated the following year. The deal underpins the fleet's ongoing depot-level overhauls, which strip and rebuild each jet roughly every few years.0.57NVIDIA Secures the PORTS-Pike AI Campus in Ohio With SB Energy and OpenAI
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE37 days agoThe release is dated August 17, 2026 ("NVIDIA[1] announced that it has secured land, power and shell (LPS) capacity through a partnership with SB Energy[5]"), and NVIDIA's 8-K says it announced the partnership and entered the residual value guaranties on August 17, 2026; the release gives no time, so the pin is all-day.NVIDIA guarantees leases on about 4.25 GW of AI factory capacity at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus on the old Portsmouth uranium-enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, with OpenAI as tenant and NVIDIA's exposure capped at $105 billion.0.57MI6's Vauxhall Cross Headquarters Officially Opens
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE32.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II accompanied by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on 14 July 1994".Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) moved into its purpose-built Vauxhall Cross headquarters, ending decades of hiding in increasingly compromised office buildings.0.57Airbus Inaugurates a Robotic A320 Fuselage Line in Hamburg
CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE7.0 years agoAirbus's[3] own October 1, 2019 press release, 'Airbus inaugurates new A320 structure assembly line in Hamburg', names the exact inauguration date.On October 1, 2019, Airbus opened a highly automated fuselage structure assembly line for the A320 Family at its Hamburg-Finkenwerder site, using 20 robots to drill, countersink and rivet fuselage joints. The line was built to help meet the type's order backlog of more than 6,500 aircraft.0.56Finland Elects Its First Post-NATO Parliament
SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEin 207 daysThe Ministry of Justice's own election service gives the election day as "Sunday 18 April 2027", matching Wikipedia's[1] "Parliamentary elections will be held in Finland on 18 April 2027".Finns elect the 200 members of the Eduskunta on 18 April 2027, the first parliamentary election since Finland joined NATO in 2023.0.56Airbus Delivers Its First A400M Atlas to the Luftwaffe
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