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Microbiotica, a Cambridge-based clinical-stage biopharma company, has raised £36 million in a Series C round led by British Business Bank. Existing investors Tencent, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Flerie Invest, and Seventure Partners also took part. IP Group invested £4 million. After the second completion, its undiluted holding will be 16.4%, valued at £24.1 million. The money will fund Phase 2 development of MB310, an oral microbiome medicine for ulcerative colitis. The Phase 1b COMPOSER-1 study met its primary and secondary endpoints, with statistically significant improvements in clinical remission versus placebo. Microbiotica was spun out of the Wellcome Sanger Institute in 2016.

Rokid and Tencent Mobility bring voice ride-hailing to AI glasses via Agent-to-Agent link. Published: October 16, 2026 Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? Users say a destination and the glasses handle pickup points, fare comparison, booking and password-free payment, with car details shown in view while they wait. Rokid has launched ride-hailing on its AI glasses in partnership with Tencent Mobility, letting wearers book a car by voice without taking out a phone. Rokid describes it as the industry's first native ride-hailing service for AI glasses, a claim made by the company. Once the Tencent Mobility agent is connected, a user only needs to say where they want to go. The glasses then handle the full flow: understanding the request, suggesting pickup and drop-off points, checking nearby cars, estimating fares and comparing vehicle types, placing the order and paying the fare. While the user waits, the license plate, car details and estimated arrival time are shown in their field of view, with voice reminders. According to Chinese tech outlet Leikeji, Android and iOS users need to update the Rokid AI app to version 1.15 to use the feature. The integration works as a split between two agents. Rokid's glasses agent handles understanding the user, conversation and on-lens display. Tencent Mobility's agent provides the ride-hailing service. The two connect directly over the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. Tencent Mobility has packaged its ride-hailing functions for wearable devices as standard services: location suggestions, pickup point selection, nearby vehicle lookup, fare estimates and comparison, one-tap booking, live order status and password-free payment. The glasses call these as needed. Rokid argues the main benefit is at the curb. Instead of repeatedly checking a phone for the car's position, plate and arrival time, users keep that information in view, which can make it easier to find the car in crowded stations, malls or roadsides. The company also says voice booking lowers the barrier for older people, children and others less comfortable with smartphone apps. Rokid is clear that the glasses are not meant to replace the phone. For payment issues, changing the destination or cancelling an order, the phone remains the more reliable fallback. In the company's view, glasses should start requests, give live reminders and handle interaction with the surroundings, while the phone takes care of complex confirmations, payment and exceptions. The companies have not said which glasses models or cities are supported.

Screenshots reveal cancelled "Assassin's Creed Destiny" Game set in China. Friday, October 16th 2026 One of the myriad projects Ubisoft scrapped in its recent restructuring, which has resulted in hundreds of layoffs and a reduction in scope of other games, was apparently an Assassin's Creed project called Assassin's Creed Destiny, which would have seen the franchise visit China in 205 BCE, around the time of the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, the shortest-lived dynasty in China's long history. According to a recent report by MP1st, the game was in development in collaboration with TiMi, a Tencent-owned game studio, but the studio announced a restructuring shortly after the 2025 prototype that recently surfaced, and the game was scrapped not long after that. In the leaked screenshots, which are sourced from the portfolios of artists associated with Assassin's Creed Destiny, there are intricate weapon designs, while an included video shows a female assassin hunting down a mysterious artifact housed in a besieged palace. As with other Assassin's Creed games, it was to feature historical figures, and one mentioned in the leaked game media is Xiang Yu, an ancient Chinese warlord that was besieging the palace and featured briefly in an early boss fight. Ubisoft and Tencent are still working on the mobile Assassin's Creed Jade, which will also take place in China, so it's possible the Destiny project could be revisited at a later date, depending on the success of Jade. It's also notable that Assassin's Creed Destiny was to feature a female protagonist, similar to Shadows and the upcoming Hexe game. It's clear that Ubisoft has been trying to iterate on the Assassin's Creed formula, perhaps to try to find a balance between what the series diehards like and a game that is capable of drawing in a new, younger audience.