Smart Eye promoted its chief engineer to CTO and created a CIO role
The Gothenburg company moved the technology chief who had held the post since 2009 into a newly created information role and reorganized its senior team around two new positions.
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FPT to take over Nippon Seiki's Gdansk software unit and its roughly 50 engineers
Nippon Seiki's disclosure and FPT's own release together set out a business alliance, a newly formed Polish entity and a transfer price withheld under a confidentiality agreement.
Volvo Cars will close the Stockholm office it opened for software and AI work
Around 450 employees are based at the site, which the carmaker said it established to reach critical talent during its transformation and which will close on March 1, 2027.
Changan nominated Baidu's former intelligent driving chief as an independent director
The state-owned carmaker's board put forward Li Zhenyu, who led Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group and now chairs an embodied-AI startup, as a candidate for its next board.
Micware split its automotive software group around an SDV platform, effective September 1
The Kobe-based in-vehicle software house fixed the date and the boards for a reorganization that gathers its infotainment, driver-assistance and connected-services work under a single platform business.
Volvo Cars named Alexander Petrofski CTO and gave Anders Bell a platform role
The outgoing technology chief will lead a newly formed initiative defining how to scale the company's platform and digital technology, reporting to the chief executive.
Mercedes-Benz confirmed software chief Magnus Östberg is leaving after five years
The executive who held overall responsibility for the MB.OS operating system is going for personal reasons, and no successor has been named.