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‘Always under human control’: Xi takes a US-China AI dialogue to Trump
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the US and China can continue their dialogue on artificial intelligence. The two sides can also jointly prevent its misuse and abuse, according to China’s foreign ministry readout of the talks. “Both China and the United States have strong AI capabilities. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Chinese cities offer subsidies and cheap computing to lure AI film studios
Local governments across China are competing to attract AI filmmakers with subsidised rent, living allowances and cheap computing power, Reuters reported on Friday. Zhu Zhili set up an AI film studio in Shenzhen two years ago. He told the agency that officials from big cities and small towns now call him every day, asking him to move […] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will reportedly meet tech CEOs on AI on 29 September
US President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet tech chief executives to discuss artificial intelligence on Tuesday, 29 September, Axios reported the plans on Thursday, citing a source familiar with them. A source also confirmed the date to Reuters, while ABC News said multiple people familiar with the arrangements had described the meeting to it. […] This story continues at The Next Web
SoftBank invests $225M in ASI and forms autonomous construction venture
SoftBank Group has invested $225 million into Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a Utah company that makes work vehicles drive themselves.The two have also set up a joint venture to build self-driving machines for big road, rail and airport jobs. SoftBank is funding the joint venture to cover several kinds of building work, mainly civil construction […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model
OpenAI is preparing to preview GPT-6 Cyber, a model built for cybersecurity work, in the coming weeks, Fortune reported on Thursday, citing multiple people familiar with the plans. Alongside the model, OpenAI plans to launch a new product that helps customers deploy it more securely and automatically, according to Fortune. The product has no name yet, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
US asks EU court to let it back Musk’s challenge to €120M X fine
The US government has asked the EU’s General Court to let it join Elon Musk and X in their challenge to the €120 million fine Brussels imposed on the platform. The Justice Department announced the filing on Thursday. The application covers two cases before the court in Luxembourg. One of the cases was brought by […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal that could reach $20bn
Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant for 7.7 million shares on an as-converted basis, […] This story continues at The Next Web
The AI commerce gap: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still broken
Would you trust an AI agent to run your Amazon store? That future may be near. But true AI transformation requires moving beyond “gap-filling” AI tools. It requires building an infrastructure layer that lets AI agents create and manage their own workflows. We asked 7 e-commerce industry veterans what’s still broken and what needs to […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Almost nobody can fire an agent’: CIOs and the AI agent oversight gap
Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris Poll ran the survey online for Dataiku from 9 to 29 July. It covered […] This story continues at The Next Web
The next thing your endpoint manager manages is an AI agent
Gartner forecasts that task-specific AI agents will be integrated into 40% of enterprise applications by the end of the year. That’s up from less than 5%. The systems meant to catalog what runs on a managed device haven’t kept pace. 46% of organizations automate endpoint inventorying and monitoring today, per Automox’s survey of IT professionals. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Volkswagen is selling more EVs than petrol cars in Germany, and building them in Spain
Volkswagen is now taking more orders for electric cars than for petrol and diesel in Germany, its home market and the largest in Europe, and has cancelled planned extra shifts at Wolfsburg while adding them at Emden and Zwickau. The four budget models driving the shift have taken about 100,000 orders between them and are […] This story continues at The Next Web
AmericanFortress paper shows how ZKPs prove crypto wallet ownership
The team at privacy infrastructure developer AmericanFortress have authored a new paper. It proposes a novel means of proving the origin of crypto wallets. Vincenzo Botta, Michal Pospieszalski, Emanuele Ragnoli and Justus Ranvier of AmericanFortress authored “Provenance Proofs: Linkable, Post-Quantum ZK Derivation Relations for Blockchain DeFi, Wallet and Identity Systems”. In it, the researchers propose […] This story continues at The Next Web
ChatGPT’s AI referral traffic doubled this year, BrightEdge says
ChatGPT sent 95.1% of the traffic that AI chatbots referred to websites in August, its highest share this year, according to new data from BrightEdge. The search marketing company said referral traffic from ChatGPT grew 101% between January and August. Gemini came second in August with 2.4%, BrightEdge said. Perplexity had 1.1% and Claude 0.8%. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Audi beat the EV range record by 133km, and beat its own WLTP figure by 72%
The reigning European Rally Champion drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, a Guinness World Record, at 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. The car’s official WLTP range is 777 kilometres, and the drive took more than 45 hours, which puts the average speed under 30 kilometres an hour. […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘The brain can recover’: Ackman backs Precision Neuroscience
Precision Neuroscience has raised $250m in a Series D round for its brain-computer interface, the New York company announced on Thursday. Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, the Ackman Oxman Institute and an unnamed life sciences fund led the round. The round values Precision at just over $1bn, The New York Times reported. Pershing Square and the […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘It is now mainstream’: 51% of US consumers use AI shopping tools
Some 51% of US consumers used at least one AI tool to help them shop in the past month, according to new figures from NIQ. It is the first time the share has passed 50% in the market research firm’s Agentic Commerce Tracker. Use has grown steadily over the past two quarters, NIQ said. It […] This story continues at The Next Web
Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for agents on Snapdragon
Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Wednesday. A day later, it released a tool that speeds up its vision model on devices. Liquid AI, spun […] This story continues at The Next Web
Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents
Island, the Dallas company behind the Enterprise Browser, has raised $400m in a Series F round. The deal values it at $6.4bn, Island announced on Thursday. Evolution Equity Partners led the round. In March 2025, Island raised $250m in a Series E led by Coatue, at a $4.8bn valuation. The company now pitches itself as […] This story continues at The Next Web
Glass Lewis and Clarity AI merge, with Madrid as their AI centre
Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 September, and no financial details were disclosed. The combined company will make Madrid its global centre for sustainability, data and AI work. It has more than […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Europe is moving ahead more slowly’: the IFR on industrial robots
Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thursday. The number of robots at work in factories rose 9% to a record 5 million, […] This story continues at The Next Web
GM is giving away free home chargers, and paying drivers to charge off-peak
General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric will give new EV buyers a home charger worth up to $1,999 and $15 a month if they let the utility decide when the car charges. In Germany that arrangement has been mandatory for new wallboxes since January 2024, and in Britain smart functionality has been a legal […] This story continues at The Next Web
Bentley’s first electric car arrives, and its next one is not due until after 2030
Bentley revealed the Torcal, its first electric car, at a London debut where its chief executive said no further electric model is planned before 2030 at the earliest and that the era of the decade-long roadmap is over at Crewe. The company’s all-electric target has moved from 2030 to 2035, and the new production line […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘It’s goosebumps’: Deutsche Telekom on real-time call translation
Deutsche Telekom is replacing the automated phone menus on its customer service lines with AI agents, chief AI officer Kartik Sheth said. The share of customer interactions that never reach a human grows by one or two percentage points every month, he said. Sheth spoke on Thursday at HumanX in Amsterdam with Business Insider senior […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nick Clegg says AI labs can’t keep marking their own homework
AI labs cannot keep regulating themselves, Nick Clegg said. A growing backlash against AI shows up in cancelled data center projects, he said. The idea that labs can voluntarily do their own thing is “not going to work,” he said. Clegg is Meta’s former president of global affairs and now a general partner at Hiro […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘AI isn’t going to take your job’: Booking.com’s James Waters on AI
“AI isn’t going to take your job. Somebody who embraces it and learns faster than you might. AI is not going to take away your customers. A company that uses it more smartly than you do might,” Booking.com chief business officer James Waters said. Booking.com built AI orchestrations and other tools it now wishes it […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google will launch its first AI chips into orbit next week
Google will send its own AI chips into orbit for the first time next week, in the first flight test of Project Suncatcher. A prototype satellite carrying its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. Google built the satellite with Planet, the Earth-imaging company. The mission will measure how the chips […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Knowing was never the problem’: AWS’s Sivasubramanian on AI agents
Almost 90% of the AI agent prototypes Amazon teams built two years ago never reached production, AWS vice president of agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian said. Amazon was then starting to invest heavily in agents. Sivasubramanian spoke on Wednesday at HumanX in Amsterdam. Citing analysts, he said 17% of organizations have successfully deployed AI agents and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle cites force majeure on Project Jupiter data centre
Oracle has sent a force majeure notice over Project Jupiter, a huge AI data centre being built in New Mexico, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The notice went to the project’s developer, a unit of investment firm Blue Owl Capital. Companies usually cite force majeure to escape contract duties when events […] This story continues at The Next Web
O-ID raises $1.2m for modular humanoid robots
“When enough factory roles go unfilled at once, entire supply chains are at risk. O-ID’s robots are built to work alongside the people still on the floor, closing those gaps before they become a crisis for a single factory and for the industries Japan depends on,” said Stian Jakobsen, co-founder and CEO of O-ID. Tokyo-based […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Now you can have an agent navigate it’: Lovable’s CTO on security
Two-thirds of the Fortune 500 are using Lovable, co-founder Fabian Hedin said, often because staff found the tool on their own. Those companies then come to Lovable with thousands of apps and ask what to do, he said. Hedin, Lovable’s chief technology officer, spoke to Forbes senior editor Iain Martin on Wednesday at HumanX in […] This story continues at The Next Web
DriveWealth breach exposes Revolut customers who once traded US stocks
A breach at DriveWealth, the US broker behind Revolut’s US stock trading, exposed the personal data of some Revolut customers. DriveWealth and Revolut emailed affected customers on Thursday. DriveWealth said an unauthorised party got into its network on 4 and 5 September. The access was the result of a social engineering campaign run by unknown […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nick Clegg dismisses fears that AI could wipe out humanity
Nick Clegg has dismissed fears that artificial intelligence could one day turn on humanity and wipe it out, calling that view hand-wavy. The former UK deputy prime minister, who later ran global affairs at Meta, spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, as the Guardian reported. Rather than worry about a godlike machine, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Starlink ground station near Warsaw hit by fire, Poland suspects sabotage
A fire broke out late on Wednesday at a Starlink ground station south of Warsaw that helps carry internet traffic to Ukraine. Poland’s digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, said on Thursday that it looked like sabotage. Speaking to public broadcaster TVP Info, Gawkowski said the blaze appeared designed to knock the station offline and cut […] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon to invest $3bn in Indian quick commerce
Amazon will spend $3bn to grow its quick-commerce business in India by 2030, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two people who know the plans directly. Quick commerce is the term for app orders that reach shoppers within minutes. Amazon declined to comment on the figures. It did say, however, that its quick-commerce arm had passed $1bn in annualised […] This story continues at The Next Web
DeepSeek’s annualised revenue run rate reaches $1bn, report says
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is now bringing in revenue at an annualised rate of $1bn, The Information reports, more than double the under $500M it was running at a few months ago. The report cites two people with direct knowledge of the matter, and DeepSeek has not commented. It puts the jump down to a […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI agent broke into Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, PM says
The Australian government website, which contains information on Medicare, the country’s public health scheme, was broken into by an AI agent operated by OpenAI, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, said on Wednesday. Albanese gave a statement at a press conference in New York, where he is participating in the UN General Assembly. On 18 June, […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘This is a breakthrough’: Zuckerberg unveils Meta VR Glasses
Meta will sell VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams for $1,299.99 from spring 2027. It is also turning its AI glasses into over-the-counter hearing aids. Mark Zuckerberg announced both at Meta Connect on Wednesday. He also showed audio-only Ray-Ban glasses, a range growing to more than 100 styles, and Muse Charm, a keychain device […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google DeepMind’s Ayoub says companies can fence AI in, like banks did
Companies cannot fully govern AI systems, but they can build a fixed fence around them, Google DeepMind’s Kareem Ayoub said. He pointed to banks in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They put trading algorithms inside fixed rules they could check. Ayoub, DeepMind’s vice president of AI technical strategy, spoke to Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie on […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI’s FDE chief says 80% of enterprise AI problems are deployment
Most companies that struggle with enterprise AI are not waiting for better models, OpenAI’s head of forward deployed engineering said on Wednesday. In about 80% of cases, Colin Jarvis said, the problem is deployment. Companies do not yet know how to roll AI out, govern it or prove they can trust it. Glasgow-based Jarvis leads […] This story continues at The Next Web
Zendesk and Sierra say per-seat pricing is over for AI agents
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier and Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor said on Wednesday that per-seat pricing for software is on its way out. They spoke at HumanX in Amsterdam. In separate sessions, both said customers should pay for AI agents only when the agents get a job done. “Unequivocally: seats are dead,” Eggemeier said. Both sell […] This story continues at The Next Web
US rejects global AI governance at UN Security Council
The United States is rejecting any global governance of advanced AI, telling the UN Security Council in New York today that each country should regulate the technology itself. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, delivers the US statement after the meeting’s four briefers from science and industry. “The frontier of […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Photocopied the entire internet’: Yahoo’s CEO on Yahoo Scout
Yahoo will keep its AI answer engine Scout full of links back to publishers, CEO Jim Lanzone said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. “The large language models effectively photocopied the entire internet to build their answers, without linking […] This story continues at The Next Web
Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders
Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July. Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven distribution. Delangue is the last of four briefers at the meeting in New […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘It’s going to take them a while’: Wayve’s CEO on humanoid robots
“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership with Mercedes-Benz. He said self-driving cars, not robots, will be the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons
Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make biological weapons. Speaking to the Council via video link today, the Anthropic chief executive calls AI the most important global security issue. Amodei is the third briefer at the meeting in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power
Yoshua Bengio is calling on the UN Security Council to license frontier AI in areas like medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy. Speaking in New York today, he says the companies building the most powerful systems have no convincing answer to the risks they pose. Bengio, who co-chairs the UN’s scientific panel on AI, is opening a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down
Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York today, the OpenAI chief executive says no level of catastrophic risk from AI is acceptable. Altman is the second briefer at the meeting, which France convened. According to the Security Council Report, it is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Claude found a CRISPR-like enzyme system, and its job is still unknown
Anthropic says Claude has found a previously undescribed enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. Next to the enzyme’s gene sits a long run of repeating DNA that resembles a CRISPR array. The company does not yet know what the system does. Anthropic announced the result on Wednesday in a […] This story continues at The Next Web
UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk
The UN Security Council is meeting in New York today to discuss the risk of humans losing control of advanced AI. Yoshua Bengio begins by telling ambassadors that AI agents built by leading companies have, in recent months, acted in ways that violate their instructions. Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s scientific panel on AI, is briefing […] This story continues at The Next Web
DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW
The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White House. In a court document filed on Tuesday evening, the government’s lawyers justified President Donald Trump’s decision to ban the three organizations. They stated that […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘LLMs don’t learn’: Dines launches UiPath Cartographer
“Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,” UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines said on Wednesday. Dines used his keynote at FUSION, UiPath’s annual conference at the Wynn Las Vegas, to make the case for that manual. He […] This story continues at The Next Web
Waymo will pay riders $2.85 to also take public transport
Waymo will issue $2.85 in credit to San Francisco Bay Area riders who take a robotaxi and a public transport journey within two hours of each other, provided they pay with a Visa card. In Hamburg the same connection is arranged by the transit operator itself, which leads the autonomous shuttle project and lists the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030
Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which roughly $2B is new and the rest was pledged for the UAE last year. Europe is meanwhile legislating to keep American cloud providers away from sensitive public sector data. Microsoft will spend $10B through 2030 across Saudi […] This story continues at The Next Web
DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale
DeepSeek has published a paper describing the platform it uses to train AI agents, which runs about 3 million sandboxes a day and states that agent execution is untrustworthy and that no single mechanism can prevent all misbehaviour. Europe requires every member state to have a regulatory sandbox of a very different kind operational by […] This story continues at The Next Web
Patreon co-founder Sam Yam joins OpenAI to lead creators
“We’re going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities,” Sam Yam wrote on X. The Patreon co-founder started the company 13 years ago and served as its technology chief. Yam announced on Tuesday […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI wants the US to lead global AI standards
“Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today, and we should not pursue it unless and until it can be done safely,” OpenAI wrote on Monday. OpenAI set this out in a proposal published on 21 September. In it, the company calls on the United States to lead an effort with other countries to develop global […] This story continues at The Next Web
A study of 47 million inspections says old EVs hold up better
Electric cars above 120,000 miles failed Britain’s MOT roadworthiness test 32% less often than petrol and diesel equivalents, in a study of 47.4 million inspections by the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association. The advantage reverses at low mileage, and the test does not examine the battery at all. Electric cars above 120,000 miles fail […] This story continues at The Next Web
Geely’s new EV charger hits 2.25 megawatts
Geely has revealed a fifth-generation charging system peaking at 2,250 kW, which it says takes new Lynk & Co and Zeekr models from 10 to 70% in four minutes and 30 seconds. Under AFIR a charging pool on Europe’s core network must provide 600 kW in total by 2027. Geely has revealed a fifth-generation Smart […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thinking Machines signs $65m-a-year inference deal with Crusoe
“Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do,” said Myle Ott, ML infrastructure lead at Thinking Machines Lab. Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab announced on […] This story continues at The Next Web
Gemini 3.8 TTS can design voices from prompts and clone them
“Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio,” Google wrote in its announcement. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS on Wednesday. Both are rolling out from today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. They […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nexo report: operational friction is the biggest barrier
Nexo, a premier digital assets wealth platform, today published “The Future of Digital Wealth 2026” report. The main finding shows operational friction, not conviction, is the biggest barrier keeping high-net-worth investors in the U.S., U.K., and Argentina from building real wealth with crypto. The report also debuts the Crypto Integration Index (CII). It is a […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Don’t ship the product’: Jensen Huang on out-of-control AI
“Don’t ship the product. If your product is not ready to ship, don’t ship the product,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein on The New York Times’ podcast. Klein interviewed Huang at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, and The New York Times published the episode on Wednesday. Much of the conversation turned on […] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon Seller Assistant plugin brings seller data to Claude
“Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,” Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon’s vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, told GeekWire. Amazon announced on Wednesday a plugin that lets independent sellers run their Amazon business from an outside AI assistant. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mathematicians will advise OpenAI on its 100+ maths results
“We are currently facing the very specific challenge of advising OpenAI on how to coordinate the release of a large number of significant results in mathematics that they report have been produced by their internal model,” the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence wrote in its launch statement. OpenAI announced the group on Monday. […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘A home for creators’: YouTube’s new Custom Feeds
“We pride ourselves on the fact that because we’ve created a home for creators, it has created all these other amazing opportunities for them,” YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan told The Wall Street Journal, asked about the platform’s rivalry with Netflix. YouTube used its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday to announce a set of […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Ukraine is already on the front line’: OpenAI’s Daybreak
“Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now. We want to put more capable tools in their hands to help them find and fix vulnerabilities and protect the critical networks people depend on,” said Sasha Baker, head of national security policy at OpenAI. OpenAI will give the Government of Ukraine […] This story continues at The Next Web
ByteDance was Nscale’s biggest customer before its IPO
“A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, spend from one or a few of our top customers would adversely affect our business,” Nscale wrote in the prospectus for its New York listing. The prospectus, filed with the US […] This story continues at The Next Web
Upwind acquires Aegis to build AI Security Labs
The cybersecurity industry is increasingly focused on how artificial intelligence can reshape both defensive technology and the threat landscape. Upwind is responding by acquiring AI security startup Aegis and launching a new research and engineering initiative, as first reported by Axios. Aegis co-founders Omri Limor and Saar Ankonina will lead the new Upwind AI Security […] This story continues at The Next Web
Why effective AI communication starts with the recipient
I don’t know about you, but when I read something I can tell was clearly produced by a large language model, it puts me off immediately. I lose interest, and I sometimes lose trust in whoever sent it, especially when they clearly haven’t put any thought into it. That reaction is becoming a lot more […] This story continues at The Next Web
Numeral raises $100m for AI sales tax compliance
Sales tax has become a much bigger operational challenge as companies grow across markets, systems and business models. Sam Ross, co-founder and chief executive of Numeral, said that as the San Francisco company announced a $100m Series C on Wednesday. Insight Partners led the round. Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield, FCVC, Y Combinator and Uncork […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Rise to this moment’: Burnham’s UN speech on AI
Fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance. They must be taken by elected governments who serve working people. Andy Burnham said that about AI on Tuesday evening. It was his first speech to the UN General Assembly as British prime minister. He used it to announce three things. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Tremendous consolidation’: drone maker Tekever at $6.4bn
The fund raise is precisely designed to support that growth, not only organically, developing new technology, but through acquisitions. Ricardo Mendes, founder and chief executive of Tekever, said that in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. He said he expects the defence technology market to go through tremendous consolidation over the next few years. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mozilla puts up posters criticising Musk and Zuckerberg across New York
The Mozilla Foundation has begun putting up posters across New York criticizing tech billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. The campaign went up this week, Business Insider reported. The foundation is the nonprofit that owns Mozilla Corporation, the maker of Firefox. Its posters set the work of Musk, Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos against projects […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI glasses shipments doubled, and the No. 2 has no camera
As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses market for the first half of 2026. Companies must define exactly what always-on cameras capture, he […] This story continues at The Next Web
Fearn launches an AI-native patent firm for startups
A conventional patent application can take 30 to 40 hours of attorney time and cost $18,000 to $40,000 in legal fees. Startups wait months to protect technology that can change by the day. Fearn, the modern patent prosecution firm for startups, was built around a different model. The company has launched an AI-native patent firm. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Volkswagen adds AirConsole in-car gaming to 2027 models
Volkswagen of America, Inc. is introducing N-Dream’s AirConsole in-car gaming platform on select model year 2027 vehicles. It becomes the first volume automotive brand in the United States to offer this in-vehicle entertainment experience. AirConsole allows vehicle occupants to play multiplayer games directly through the vehicle’s infotainment display. They use their compatible smartphones as game […] This story continues at The Next Web
Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips
The Netherlands’ newest government agency is now one month old and has already made its first move by deciding to use AI in the design of the chips that power AI. On Wednesday, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation (NADI) and Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) announced that they would commit €40 million […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta expected to show camera-free smart glasses at Connect as privacy backlash grows
Meta built its smart glasses business on a camera. At its Connect conference on Wednesday, it is expected to show a pair without one. The company will unveil new glasses, including a camera-free model, amid growing concern about devices that can record people without their consent, Reuters reported. Meta has not confirmed the product. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Airbus wins 25-year contract to build cyber gateways for France’s armed forces
France’s military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus will build the checkpoints. The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the company the 25-year PARACOM contract to supply cybersecurity gateways for the networks of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans’ Affairs, Airbus said […] This story continues at The Next Web
UK regulator toughens Google choice screen proposals as AI assistants rise
The next time a UK Android user is asked to pick a search engine, ChatGPT could be one of the answers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published strengthened proposals on Wednesday that would require Google to include AI assistants on its Android and Chrome choice screens, provided they meet technical and security criteria. Under the […] This story continues at The Next Web
FBI investigating claims that ShinyHunters stole data on its agents
During the past year, the cybercrime group ShinyHunters has been extorting companies and, last week, took over a rival gang’s leak site. Now, it has gone after the agency that warned the public about it. The FBI stated on Tuesday that it is investigating a possible breach of its online jobs portal after the cybercrime […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic and OpenEvidence to offer free medical AI to doctors in about 100 countries
OpenEvidence, an AI tool used by American doctors, is now being offered in countries with limited access to medical literature. Reuters reported that the company is working with Anthropic to give clinicians in low- and middle-income countries free access to a specialized version of its platform. The initiative is being introduced in around 100 countries, […] This story continues at The Next Web
AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance
Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance’s member states, and the path to this approval went not through NATO’s own offices but through Madrid. AWS has documented its compliance with D32, the NATO technical directive that defines the security requirements […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports
If you ask Meta’s new AI agent to call a hairdresser’s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an AI. According to an exclusive report by Reuters on Tuesday, citing internal company postings, Meta has been testing a “human concierge” for Muse, with contractors taking over some of the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mistral buys Paris adtech startup Pimento in its third acquisition of 2026
Mistral AI has acquired Pimento, a Paris-based generative AI company that creates advertising content, as part of its third acquisition this year. The acquisition was first mentioned on Monday by L’Informé, and Mistral confirmed it to AFP the same day, citing a price of “several million euros”. Two sources have now shared different numbers for […] This story continues at The Next Web
Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer
The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber’s data center complex on the Zernike Campus in Groningen. The installation is scheduled for 2027, and the system is expected to be fully operational […] This story continues at The Next Web
F13 raises $5M pre-seed to build an AI model for precise vector graphics
F13, an AI company that trains models to generate vector graphics, has come out of stealth with a $5M pre-seed round led by Credo Ventures and Point Nine Capital. Angel investors, including Carles Reina of Baobab Ventures and Jack Richardson of Mainframe, also took part. Images described using vector graphics are made up of shapes […] This story continues at The Next Web
Activision takes over Halo as Xbox cuts 268 more jobs
First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer. Matt Booty put that in an email to Xbox staff on Tuesday morning. Microsoft published the memo in full on Xbox Wire the same day, under the title Continuing Our Reset. Booty is Xbox’s chief […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘China’s most powerful AI chip’: Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900
The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company’s annual cloud conference, in Hangzhou. The chip is the Zhenwu V900. Alibaba said in a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Western Australia bans smart glasses in all public schools
Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was announcing what she called the country’s most comprehensive ban on the devices. It is not a policy statement. The same day, the department’s director general Jay Peckitt […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta says Muse was heavily inspired by OpenClaw
We built Muse from scratch, but it is definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw. Nat Friedman posted that on X on Monday evening. The head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs was answering a fortnight of speculation about Meta’s new personal agent, and why it felt so familiar to anyone who had used […] This story continues at The Next Web
Heidi raises $340m at a $900m valuation
From the day I started Heidi, the ambition was always bigger than writing doctor’s notes. Dr Thomas Kelly said that on Tuesday, as the company he cofounded announced US$340m of new funding. The money arrives in two parts. In its announcement, Heidi said Blackbird led a US$100m Series C that values the Melbourne company at […] This story continues at The Next Web
Bitdefender launches a VPN built for AI agents
Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launching a VPN built for AI agents rather than for people. It is a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Cyera raises $400m from Goldman at an unchanged $12bn
They need to trust what AI agents can see and do before they can scale them. Yotam Segev said that on Tuesday, about what the Global 2000 keeps telling his company. The Cyera cofounder and chief executive was announcing a $400m investment from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The money extends Cyera’s Series G, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Papaya Global pitches payroll infrastructure for AI era
Ask an AI lab where its workforce is and you get a map, not an address. Researchers in London and Zurich. Engineers in Tel Aviv and Bangalore. Robotics technicians at sites that did not exist a year ago. And underneath all of it, the people who label the data, review the outputs and keep the models […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000
Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar figures, but not always independent. Many of the posts answering […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI sets out what safety assessors should test
That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their own conclusions about the effectiveness of our safeguards. OpenAI published that on Tuesday, in a document setting out what it wants outside safety assessors to do. Lama Ahmad wrote it. She leads the company’s work with external […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta jumps 11% as investors bet on its Muse agent
Meta’s shares closed up 11.43% at $741.25 on Monday as investors piled into the company’s bet on AI agents. Trading volume hit 48.5 million shares, well above the three-month average, The Motley Fool reported. The rally made Mark Zuckerberg about $25bn richer in a single session, lifting his fortune to an estimated $253.6bn, as Mary Whitfill Roeloffs […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI halves GPT-6 prices with Sol and Luna
They are also half the price per token, and even less per task. Sam Altman wrote that on X on Tuesday, about GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. OpenAI released both models the same afternoon. They extend the GPT-6 family below GPT-6 Astra, which arrived on 3 September. The prices are the headline. In its announcement, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump renames AI ‘super intelligence’ at the UN
Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it ‘super intelligence’, because ‘artificial’ made the technology sound fake. The rebrand grabbed the headlines, but the policy sat in the sentences around […] This story continues at The Next Web
Coinspaid Dev’s Tulia on AI agents in production
Alexey Tulia, Executive Leader at Coinspaid Dev, discussed the changing role of engineers and CTOs during the AI Impact in Engineering panel at Tech Race Summit 2026 in Warsaw. His remarks centred on the transition towards AI systems that can act through company infrastructure. Companies already use AI to help with drafting and analysis. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab
I think a lot of it is marketing, to overemphasize the proposed capabilities. Max Junestrand said that in Amsterdam on Tuesday. He was asked about the summer’s run of incidents in which AI agents hacked other companies. The warnings that followed deserve a pinch of salt, the Legora co-founder and chief executive told Politico, speaking […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI will let outside groups test its models during training
OpenAI says it will let third-party groups run technical safety assessments while models are being trained and evaluated rather than only before launch, and is in talks with groups including METR and Redwood Research. It has named no partner and set no access terms, ten days after Sam Altman promised evaluators employee-level access and the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 tops the open-weight rankings
Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Xiaomi opened its MiMo-V2.6 announcement with that line on Tuesday. The phone and electric car maker released two open-weight models, Pro and Flash, under an MIT licence. The weights are on Hugging Face. The benchmark firm Artificial Analysis scores MiMo-V2.6-Pro at 46 on its Intelligence Index. That […] This story continues at The Next Web
China is investigating the AI labs Anthropic named
While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang wrote that on Tuesday, about her own story. She and Qianer Liu reported for The Information that the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating both companies […] This story continues at The Next Web
Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum
Quantum hardware roadmaps often include timelines, but they rarely answer the questions that matter most to a chief information officer: which problems will this solve, when will it happen, and at what cost? Zapata Quantum, a Boston-based quantum software company, believes it has created a tool to help with these decisions. The company has launched […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, below the $5 and $25 that Opus 5 has carried since July, and says it performs similarly to the more expensive Fable 5.1 on most work. It is the first model since Dario Amodei called for third-party […] This story continues at The Next Web
Z.ai ZCode is open source now, minus its commit history
In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that on Monday, on ZCode’s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhipu, put the coding tool’s source code on GitHub the same day. It says it has removed […] This story continues at The Next Web
Dutch government publishes frontier AI control call
A joint statement released today by the Dutch government has seen leaders and ministers from 21 countries, together with the European Commission, call for tighter control over frontier AI models, including mandatory testing before their release and the possibility of establishing a new international body to supervise them. The list is headed by Norway’s Jonas […] This story continues at The Next Web
CXMT DRAM now matches the best nodes, the company says
Our process capability is now on par with the most advanced mass-produced nodes out there in the industry. Luo Xiaodong, vice president of ChangXin Memory Technologies and head of its marketing centre, said that at the World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, in remarks reported by Reuters. China’s largest maker of DRAM had just announced that […] This story continues at The Next Web
Parloa says it is partnering with Zalando on AI customer conversations
Parloa co-founder and chief executive Malte Kosub said Zalando will use the Berlin company’s AI for customer conversations across Europe, though neither company has published an announcement and Zalando has not commented. Article 50 of the AI Act, applicable since 2 August, puts the duty to disclose that a user is talking to an AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
TypeSafe Jev: the AI that cannot write, and beat GPT-5.6
We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful. Diogo Almeida helped build ChatGPT. He worked on the instruction-following research behind it at OpenAI, and the four years since have left him disappointed by what it became, as he told TechCrunch last week. His answer is a model that cannot write a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mercedes-Benz is putting a British AI driver into its production cars
Wayve has signed a definitive production agreement with Mercedes-Benz to put its AI Driver into future vehicles within the next two years, providing urban and motorway point-to-point driving assistance. Mercedes invested in Wayve’s $1.5B Series D in February, and the software has been integrated into its production architecture using MB.OS. Wayve has signed a production […] This story continues at The Next Web
TikTok’s US joint venture joins Lantern child safety programme and pledges $2M to NCMEC
TikTok’s US business has joined Lantern, a program that lets tech companies share warning signs about people who sexually exploit children as they move from one platform to another, TechCrunch reported. The member is TikTok USDS Joint Venture, a majority-American-owned company formed in January to operate TikTok in the US. ByteDance retained a 19.9% stake, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Adobe Premiere’s free mobile video editor arrives on Android
Adobe Premiere’s mobile video editing app is now available on Android, a year after its iPhone launch. The app is free to download from Google Play and works on phones running Android 13 or later with at least 5GB of RAM. Premiere mobile is a touch-first version of Adobe’s desktop editor, aimed at creators making short […] This story continues at The Next Web
Palo Alto Networks launches always-on AI security testing built on Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6-Cyber
Palo Alto Networks is launching a subscription service that puts Anthropic and OpenAI models to work hunting for weaknesses in customers’ systems around the clock. Its threat research and consulting arm, Unit 42, announced the service today, called Continuous Frontier AI Defense. The service is built on models whose access is tightly controlled: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos […] This story continues at The Next Web
TBC partners with AWS on neuron-derived AI video model
The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), a San Francisco startup that grows living neurons to improve AI models, has partnered with Amazon Web Services to bring its first commercial product, a neuron-derived AI video model, to paying customers. The text-to-video model is tuned with software based on how those cells process information. TBC built the model […] This story continues at The Next Web
EWOR names an SF team as US applications surge 237%
EWOR, a founder fellowship harder to get into than Y Combinator, has named a senior leadership team in San Francisco. The appointments follow a record year of US applications, up 237% in twelve months. The team comprises Charles Ferguson, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who sold FrontPage to Microsoft. He invested early in Etched, Perplexity, CopilotKit, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday, alongside OpenAI’s Sam Altman, at a session devoted to the future of AI, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Yet Dario Amodei will attend the meeting remotely rather than in the chamber, according to Bloomberg. The briefers listed also comprise Yoshua Bengio, who is […] This story continues at The Next Web
DoorDash to pay $131.5M over NYC delivery worker pay
DoorDash has agreed to pay $131.5M to settle a New York City investigation that found it underpaid delivery workers or paid them late. The deal with the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) ends a dispute that began early in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration. “Simply put, we screwed up,” DoorDash said in a post […] This story continues at The Next Web
Andy Burnham seeks global AI deal via UK G20 presidency
Britain will try to broker a worldwide deal on AI during its upcoming turn at the head of the G20, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told reporters on the eve of the UN General Assembly in New York, Politico Europe reported. Britain was “uniquely positioned to play a leadership role on AI,” he said, pointing to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic and OpenAI ask Australia to ease its ban on AI training with local content
Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australian lawmakers to reconsider rules that stop them from training AI models on the country’s creative work, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the companies’ submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into AI laws. In October 2025, the Australian government stated that it would not include a text and data mining exception in […] This story continues at The Next Web
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week
According to an exclusive Reuters report published today, which cites two individuals familiar with the situation, DeepSeek is expected to speak to the UN Security Council this week about the risks posed by AI, alongside several US companies. The 15-member council will be meeting on Wednesday, while world leaders are in New York for the […] This story continues at The Next Web
FintechOS raises $28M after reaching profitability
FintechOS, a London-based company founded in Romania that sells AI software to banks and insurers, has raised $28M in a mix of equity and debt. Existing investors Bek Ventures, IFC, Cipio Partners, and Molten Ventures put in the equity, while Santander CIB provided a senior debt facility. The funds will be used to expand in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Spott raises $21M Series A led by Balderton for its AI platform for recruitment agencies
Spott, a Leuven-based startup that sells recruitment agencies an AI-native applicant tracking system and CRM, has raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital. Base10 Partners, Y Combinator, and Fortino also took part. Spott launched its main platform six months after the seed round and says its revenue has grown more than tenfold so […] This story continues at The Next Web
Biolevate raises €30M Series A and opens Boston office for its life sciences AI
The Paris-based company Biolevate, which develops AI automation for use in regulated life sciences, has raised €30m in its Series A funding and has opened an office in Boston. Orange Ventures and RAISE France co-led the fundraising exercise, with the company stating that RAISE France is the investment arm of Aymar Hénin, a French entrepreneur. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Morphotonics raises more than €40M to scale waveguide manufacturing for AI glasses
Morphotonics, a Brainport-based manufacturer of large-area nanoimprint lithography equipment, has raised over €40 million in a Series B funding round. The Veldhoven company plans to use the money to boost production of machines that make waveguides for AI glasses and augmented reality headsets. Previous investors 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, and BOM increased their commitments, while […] This story continues at The Next Web
Jet2 signs Adobe deal to personalise holidays with AI
Jet2, the UK’s largest tour operator and, by its own count, its third-largest airline, has signed a multi-year partnership with Adobe to personalize holiday offers, recommendations, and support for its 10 million myJet2 customers using agentic AI. Jet2 will run Adobe CX Enterprise, the agentic platform Adobe introduced in April, with its CX Enterprise Coworker tool […] This story continues at The Next Web
Verda raises $189M in round led by Emergence Capital to expand its AI cloud
Verda, an AI cloud company headquartered in Helsinki and previously called DataCrunch, has raised $189M to increase its computing capacity and develop its platform; the funds came from a Series B round led by Emergence Capital, which was oversubscribed, with additional investment also provided. The company states that this funding round has made it the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Benford raises €5M to build a tech-native audit firm
For two decades, the standard way to modernize auditing has been to build software and sell it to auditors. Benford has decided to skip the middleman and become the auditor. Today, the Oslo- and London-based company Benford announced it has raised €5 million in pre-seed funding to build a tech-focused financial audit firm. The company […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia is buying SB Energy stock at 90% of its IPO price
Nvidia is buying a further $1.5B of SB Energy shares at 90% of the price of the data centre developer’s coming US listing, taking its total backing to $3B. SB Energy has 8.8 gigawatts in contract or under construction in Texas and Ohio, while its parent’s European capacity is not due before 2031. Nvidia is […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI asks Washington to lead a global AI standards push
OpenAI has called on the United States to lead an international effort on standards for advanced AI, beginning with rules on which incidents must be reported, and suggested routing the work through national AI safety institutes including the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation. Europe legislated incident reporting in Article 55 of the AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
California will fine paid political posts $5,000
“I was hearing from people in the campaign world that there’s this new strategy of paying political influencers to post content,” said Marc Berman, the California assemblyman. “Some were good about disclosure and others were a bit fast and loose.” His bill is now law. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1130 on Saturday. In California, paid […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI model costs are pushing startups towards cheaper open weigh
Harvey’s gross margin fell from about 50% at the start of this year to minus 50% by June as customer usage of its AI agents spiked, and turned positive again only after it released a model of its own built on Moonshot’s Kimi K3. Abridge, Decagon, Ramp and Rogo are making similar moves, and Sequoia […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hyundai’s answer to the EV slowdown is building tens of thousands of robotaxis
Hyundai will build tens of thousands of Ioniq 5 robotaxis for Waymo at its plant in Georgia, chief executive Jose Munoz said, calling robotaxis the biggest new opportunity inside a slowing electric market. In Europe the only type approval route that works across the whole union for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Corridor raises $25m for an AI benefits brokerage
“For decades, small businesses have been sold the leftovers of the health insurance market,” said Nikhil Aggarwal, chief executive and co-founder of Corridor. His company launched its AI benefits brokerage on Monday with $25m. Its plan is to change that with agents. Bain Capital Ventures led the round. BoxGroup and Definition Capital took part. So […] This story continues at The Next Web
The state of the American advertiser
American advertisers are operating in a media environment with more channels, more data, and more technology than ever before. Yet for marketers, the central challenge is shifting. It is less about finding another place to advertise. It is more about understanding how every investment contributes to the broader business. That is the environment Rob DeSalvo […] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon blocks Muse and takes Perplexity back to court
Amazon fought AI shopping agents on two fronts on Monday. It blocked Muse, Meta’s new AI assistant, from Amazon.com. It also filed an amended complaint against Perplexity, accusing the company of misleading a federal appeals court. The block came first. People who sent Muse to shop on Amazon over the weekend began seeing a popup. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Volvo names Klaus Zellmer as chief executive
Volvo Cars has appointed Klaus Zellmer, chairman of the board of management at Skoda Auto, as president and chief executive, taking over from Hakan Samuelsson no later than 1 October 2027. Skoda posted an 8.5% operating margin in the first half of 2026, against Volvo’s 3.5% for last year and an 8% target with no […] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon puts $1.9bn more into its delivery programme
“Specifics will vary by DSP and geography, as each DSP determines how best to invest in their business and teams,” Amazon wrote on Monday. That sentence sits four lines below the headline figure, which is that drivers will earn a national average of nearly $24 an hour. Amazon said it will put another $1.9bn into […] This story continues at The Next Web
Dragos closes NetRise and runZero deals
“It’s about whether the lights stay on and the water stays safe when an adversary attacks,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, the CrowdStrike co-founder who is returning to the board of Dragos. The industrial cybersecurity company said on Monday it has closed its acquisitions of NetRise and runZero. The deals completed alongside the close of Accenture’s majority […] This story continues at The Next Web
Amber Electric raises €49m led by Morgan Stanley
“We’ve built a leading energy automation platform in Australia, and this investment gives us the backing to build on that leadership globally,” said Chris Thompson, co-founder of Amber Electric. The Melbourne company has raised €49m in a Series E round, Morgan Stanley Investment Management said on Monday. 1GT led the round. It is the private […] This story continues at The Next Web
Bending Spoons: 50,000 Polish applications in 2026
“We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,” said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons’ talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It is the company’s fourth office in Europe. The others are its […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘The largest theft of labor in human history’
A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899
Pre-orders for the Googlebook opened on Monday, starting at $899, with the first ones reaching shops in the United States on 4 October. In Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia will arrive on 5 October. Google has not said what they will cost in any of those markets, and the only price published is in […] This story continues at The Next Web
The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027
Europe’s data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating scheme proposed on Monday by the European Commission. Any individual site drawing more than 500 kW is covered. What the rating measures is not only consumption but what a data center puts back: heat recovered and reused, clean […] This story continues at The Next Web
Plugin4Shell: the safety lock that never checked itself
The AI industry already knew attackers could poison plugin marketplaces. Its answer was to lock every plugin to one reviewed version of its code. That lock is what just broke. Researchers at Air Security published a vulnerability on Thursday that they call Plugin4Shell. It affects the four most widely used AI coding agents. Those are […] This story continues at The Next Web
Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy
“La autorregulación no funciona.” Self-regulation does not work, Pedro Sánchez told employers and union officials at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Monday, closing a government event on artificial intelligence hours before flying to New York for the UN General Assembly. The prime minister said that recent statements from some key figures make it hard to […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Oura will not receive any proceeds’: inside a $2.2bn IPO
Oura spent the first nine months of its financial year buying its own shares back from its investors. On Monday it started selling them to everybody else. The Finnish smart ring maker launched its initial public offering before the New York open. It is marketing 50 million shares at $40 to $44 each. At the […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week
AI4Peace, a symposium on artificial intelligence and conflict, opened on Monday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome with a message from Leo XIV. The Pope was not present in the room, and Don Andrea Ciucci, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, read the message on his behalf. The message states that technological progress […] This story continues at The Next Web
London’s Unit1 raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour
Unit1 Studio has raised £20M to stage concerts performed by digital recreations of musicians, in an oversubscribed round led by Balderton Capital. The company was founded in February 2025 and is based in Tileyard, north London. The money comes as a mix of equity and production financing, with Mercuri, Gilston Music, Paul McGuinness, who managed […] This story continues at The Next Web
Freehand names Krshna Prashant as marketing lead
Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has announced the appointment of Krshna Prashant as its first Marketing Lead. She is the company’s first marketing hire in the United States. The appointment comes weeks after Freehand raised $75 million in funding. Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital […] This story continues at The Next Web
The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail
The European Central Bank is preparing to put some of its own money into tokenized securities, moving from building the plumbing for digital asset markets to buying in them. Settlement will occur in central bank money, routed through Pontes, the system the Eurosystem has built for trades running on distributed ledger technology. What the bank […] This story continues at The Next Web
Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data
Google has been fined €403M, or about $463M, by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission over the way it handled users’ location data, in a case brought after several European consumer groups complained. It found breaches of lawfulness and fairness in the location data processed through Web & App Activity and Location History, of transparency across those […] This story continues at The Next Web
The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China
The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify as national security events, an idea Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put forward to Chinese officials during talks in Manhattan on Sunday. Scott Bessent and Jamieson Greer, the trade representative, met with He Lifeng, the Vice Premier, […] This story continues at The Next Web
ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site
On the night of Friday, September 18, the Tor leak site that the Cl0p ransomware gang used to name and pressure its victims was defaced. Another criminal group claimed responsibility, according to BleepingComputer. When people visited the site, they saw Pokémon artwork, an ASCII Umbreon, above the message “THIS SITE HAS BEEN PWN3D BY SHINYHUNTERS” […] This story continues at The Next Web
The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is
Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an “AI Force” and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether the AI Force would be a military branch, a regulatory agency, or something else. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Saturday, rather than through an executive order or official briefing. “He […] This story continues at The Next Web
SoftBank is reportedly raising about $11bn in bonds to cover its next OpenAI payment
SoftBank Group has launched a bond sale of roughly $11bn, comprising $10bn in senior unsecured dollar notes and an additional €1bn in euros, according to term sheets reported separately by Reuters and Bloomberg on Monday. The deal comes in five tranches, with dollar notes at three and a half, five and a half, and seven […] This story continues at The Next Web
Albanese says Tim Cook backed Australia’s under-16 social media ban
Anthony Albanese met Tim Cook at Apple Park on Saturday and said Apple had recognized Australia’s leadership on online safety. It quotes Albanese saying that seeing the new safety features in action “proves that when we draw a line in the sand, tech companies will step up”, and that Apple is showing the industry can […] This story continues at The Next Web
Firmus will reportedly open its $5bn ASX float on 6 October
Firmus will open the institutional bookbuild for its Australian listing on 6 October and begin trading on the ASX on 22 October, according to a term sheet reported by Reuters. The timetable appears in no public document, and no other outlet has it independently. The rest of the schedule runs from there: bookbuilding on 6 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Facebook and Instagram went down for US users on Sunday night
Facebook and Instagram stopped working for users across the United States on Sunday evening, with the outage tracker Downdetector logging more than 17,000 reports for Facebook and over 5,000 for Instagram by 9.11pm ET. Those are report counts, not user counts, and the distinction does real work here. Downdetector tallies problems that people voluntarily submit […] This story continues at The Next Web
China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip
China’s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can show recurring revenue and a credible path to narrowing losses, The Information reported on 9 September. The direction is being given as window guidance, the informal and unpublished channel the China Securities Regulatory Commission uses when it wants an outcome […] This story continues at The Next Web
Insta360’s chip bill is bigger than GoPro’s price
Insta360 opened its first American store on Saturday at 1515 Broadway, in the middle of Times Square. It is the company’s second self-operated shop outside China, after Tokyo in August. The ribbon-cutting is the least interesting part. Iris Deng interviewed co-founder Max Richter in Shenzhen for the South China Morning Post, and the numbers around the opening […] This story continues at The Next Web
Only Z.ai can open the code Z.ai uploaded
A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for the South China Morning Post. The archive […] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump’s AI Force, and the hoax claim that fails
President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday. The first post asked his followers to vote on a new name for the technology. The second called the campaign against it a hoax and promised an AI Force and an AI czar. The rename has taken most of the attention. The second post is the one that contains […] This story continues at The Next Web
The AI Act may not reach most workplace surveillance
An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 55% against 6%, and the OECD attributes the gap to regulatory architecture. Most of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple’s ideal AI device turns out to be the iPhone
John Ternus opened his first keynote as Apple chief executive by describing the ideal AI device, then said it already exists and is the iPhone. Mark Gurman reports that people inside Apple expected him to introduce the home hub instead, and that the hub, codenamed J490, is being tested in employees’ homes and could ship […] This story continues at The Next Web
Zuckerberg’s AI dissent is now an antitrust defence
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that controlling advanced AI will be a very large challenge, defended regulation, and said the industry’s safety shift is responsible rather than self-interested. He spoke the same day four consumers filed an antitrust complaint alleging the pacing push is exactly that. Mark Zuckerberg declined to join the coordination […] This story continues at The Next Web
The AI slowdown pact is now a Sherman Act lawsuit
Four consumers filed a class action in the Northern District of California on 18 September, naming Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google. Buist v. Anthropic PBC alleges a horizontal agreement to slow the rate at which the four improve competing products, contrary to section 1 of the Sherman Act. Bloomberg Law reported the filing. It seeks treble damages […] This story continues at The Next Web
Software can’t protect software. Hardware has to
Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has to change. For the billions of embedded systems running cars, medical devices, industrial controllers, network equipment, and critical infrastructure, security needs an independent layer that can watch processors execute instructions. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta’s CTO blames bad actors. Luna removes the camera
Andrew Bosworth used an AMA on his personal Instagram to argue that the conversation about Meta’s glasses should not be shaped by a relatively small number of bad actors. Katie Notopoulos reported the exchange for Business Insider. Most people use the glasses normally, he said, much as they would a phone camera, only more convenient and […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI said $600bn for compute. July’s deck says $856bn
The Financial Times reported that OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278bn between 2026 and 2030, from a July presentation prepared for a computing deal. That figure is an improvement on the roughly $305bn the company projected in May, while the compute and infrastructure line has risen to about $856bn against the roughly $600bn […] This story continues at The Next Web
Transcription is 10 cents an hour. The audio is the moat
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per hour for streaming. Both figures are unchanged from the previous version. The announcement is published under SpaceXAI, the name xAI has carried since July after SpaceX acquired it in February. Coverage still calls […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic is funding its own independent evaluator
Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
One vendor, four AI labs, one issue, seven weeks apart
Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by […] This story continues at The Next Web
Huang said pace yourselves in August. Now he says 0%
Jensen Huang told CBS News there is a 0% chance AI ends the world by 2030, and that the industry should go as fast as it can irrespective of anyone else. Weeks earlier he declined to call AI fears a hoax, described apocalyptic predictions as not grounded in science, and said companies should pause or […] This story continues at The Next Web
A judge won’t lift the order TikTok priced at $100m
A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok. Vlad Savov and Josh Sisco reported the ruling for Bloomberg, which said Judge George H. Wu intends to keep oversight of the company’s privacy practices. Wu wrote that the order imposed […] This story continues at The Next Web
The last Trump-Xi AI talks produced nothing. Round two
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 September. The same executives were on the Beijing trip in May, where AI safety was discussed, nothing was signed and the US trade representative said chip export controls never came up. Five months […] This story continues at The Next Web
A route into OpenAI’s internal code was worth $6,500
Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two weaknesses and reach OpenAI employee accounts and an internal code repository, in under 72 hours. They disclosed privately, OpenAI patched the single sign-on flaw in about 14 hours, and the team was paid $6,500. Neither weakness was an AI vulnerability, and the research paper […] This story continues at The Next Web
Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars
Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest in a run of partnerships its chief executive says are necessary because no single company can bring all-solid-state batteries to market. ProLogium, which is building Europe’s solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial […] This story continues at The Next Web
Universal and Sony sue Suno again over 60,202 recordings
“The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense,” the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now sued the AI music company a second time. They filed the complaint in the District of Massachusetts on Friday, as case 1:26-cv-14275. It asserts 60,202 sound recordings. The first case, filed in June 2024, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO
Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 over unauthorised use of its characters, and the company barred under-18s from open-ended chat two months later. Disney has named Karandeep […] This story continues at The Next Web
Coders lose DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex
“We decline plaintiffs’ invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims,” Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous programmers who publish open-source code had sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex. They argued the tools reproduce their […] This story continues at The Next Web
Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage
A communication outage can complicate the decisions people need to make during a disaster. On September 28, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission reported that 74.31% of cell sites in its Hurricane Helene reporting area in North Carolina were out of service. The figure captured a substantial disruption, although the agency cautioned that cell-site outages do […] This story continues at The Next Web
Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California
Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California’s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required developers to be able to promptly enact a full shutdown, in September 2024. Gavin Newsom signed […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nexperia to make chips in India with Tata Electronics
“We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera and Jagiroad,” said Randhir Thakur, chief executive of Tata Electronics. The Dutch chipmaker and the Indian manufacturer announced a partnership on Thursday covering chip production and packaging in India. They issued the joint statement from Nijmegen and New […] This story continues at The Next Web
Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs
Porsche and the Aachen recycler cylib have produced pilot battery cells in which 100% of the cathode active material, the lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese, came from Porsche’s own end-of-life packs. The EU Batteries Regulation will require only 6% recycled lithium and 6% recycled nickel in a new battery from August 2031. Porsche and the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing
“In reality, we are currently planning a dual listing, on the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq,” Nik Storonsky told Les Echos. The Revolut founder was in Paris on Monday. Gabriel Nédélec and Ingrid Feuerstein interviewed him for the French paper, which published on Thursday. It is the first time he has pointed to a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Third tanker in a month hit by a suspected cyber incident, this time carrying US gas to Europe
An LNG tanker carrying American liquefied natural gas to Italy stopped short of its destination this month, after its crew found they could no longer reach some of the ship’s internal control systems. The crew reported it as a suspected cyberattack, but what it actually was has not been established. The Vivit Africa LNG was […] This story continues at The Next Web
Tom Watson joins Palantir as its £330m NHS contract heads for a break clause
Lord Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Labor’s former deputy leader, has joined Palantir as a senior vice president, an appointment he announced on X. He called it: “Palantir is the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence: helping Britain and its allies defend themselves, helping police protect our citizens, […] This story continues at The Next Web
All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day
The shop workers in Italy waited until their busiest day of the year to stop working. On Friday, the day the iPhone 18 Pro was launched worldwide, all 17 Apple stores in Italy went on strike. “For Apple as a company, image is very important,” Nicholas Pezze, a Filcams CGIL representative, told Reuters. “As unions, we […] This story continues at The Next Web
Angle Health raises $600m at a $2.7bn valuation
“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop “this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.” His company has just raised $600m at a $2.7bn valuation. Vitruvian Partners […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports
Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than simulate them. The company confirms it exists, yet it will not say what it is for, beyond ruling out the obvious answer, which is drug discovery. The news was reported by Reuters today, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Huawei Intelligent World 2035: tokens up 100,000-fold
“Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds,” David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huawei’s latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2026 opened, and they explain most of what it launched there. The first is Intelligent World 2035, subtitled Turning Vision into Action. The second is the Global […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots
The highest-paying robotics job at OpenAI right now pays up to $500,000 and does not involve working directly with robots. This role is for a machine learning engineer, with a listed salary range of $380,000 to $500,000 plus equity, and the main responsibility is building the pipeline that supports training runs. OpenAI’s careers page lists […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Speed up their pace’: Huawei’s answer to the AI slowdown
“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week. Huawei’s rotating chairman was talking about American AI labs. His argument is that Chinese developers have not yet hit the safety […] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle got AI working on itself only this year
Over the past two years, Oracle has invested tens of billions of dollars to build the infrastructure that powers other companies’ AI. But it wasn’t until April that its own employees received a broadly useful AI tool. Co-CEO Clay Magouyrk admitted, “I don’t think we figured out how to make AI really that useful for […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
Geoffrey Hinton gave the United States Senate a deadline on Wednesday, and it was shorter than the legislative calendar. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he said, about how long Congress has to put guardrails around artificial intelligence. He was speaking at a closed, hour-long briefing at the Capitol convened by […] This story continues at The Next Web
Tokens per watt: Huawei’s grid-interactive AI data centre
“Electricity is essential for computing,” said Zhou Jianjun, who runs global marketing, sales and services at Huawei Digital Power. “Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, and load fluctuations of a large AIDC campus can all impact grid operations.” He was unveiling Huawei’s grid-interactive AI data centre solution in Shenzhen. Days later the same […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘Serve humanity not replace it’: OpenAI’s new sales chief
“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first vice president of worldwide sales. He arrives from SpaceX, which OpenAI cut off from its own models three weeks ago. OpenAI announced the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Huawei Connect 2026: Ascend 960 early, a million-NPU plan
AI “may well be the final technological revolution in human history,” Huawei rotating chairman David Wang told Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai. His opening keynote ran under the title Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation. Huawei then spent three days setting out the machines it wants to run that revolution on. Most […] This story continues at The Next Web
China’s biggest manufacturers may travel with Xi to Washington next week
Xi Jinping is scheduled to be in Washington on September 24 for a state visit, and some of China’s largest manufacturers may accompany him, Reuters reported. The information on which ones is still unknown, and the trip itself has not been officially confirmed. According to Reuters, citing three individuals familiar with the situation, the seven […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google Home opens to Claude, OpenClaw and other AI agents
“Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf,” Google warns in its developer documentation. “Depending on your agent, connecting it to Home MCP can result in unexpected or even undesired behaviour.” That warning sits inside the setup guide for Google Home MCP. Google opened it to […] This story continues at The Next Web
SoftBank expands $6.05bn credit facility to $6.5bn with 20-plus banks
SoftBank Group has added $450m to an existing credit line, lifting the facility to $6.5bn, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Set against what the company is spending on OpenAI, the sum is a rounding error. Set against the week SoftBank has just had, it is more like a seatbelt. The previous facility, worth $6.05bn, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple Pay is reportedly heading to India next month with Axis Bank first
Apple Pay is expected to launch in India next month, beginning with credit cards issued by Axis Bank, three people familiar with the plans told Reuters. Apple declined to comment. So, in effect, did everybody else. The service will widen to other lenders through separate bank-by-bank agreements, the pattern Apple has followed in other markets, […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI launches Astra for Law with its own case law index
“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more than access to information.” He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, on the day OpenAI started building its own legal research index. OpenAI introduced Astra for Law […] This story continues at The Next Web
Waymo will launch robotaxis in Singapore in 2028, its first Southeast Asia market
Waymo plans to launch its first commercial robotaxi service in Southeast Asia in 2028, starting in Singapore. The vehicles will arrive well before then, and there will be a year of preparation and testing. According to the company, the rollout will happen in three stages. First, all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will arrive in Singapore in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Raindrop Series A takes it to $50m for agent monitoring
“Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers,” said Zubin Koticha, chief executive of Raindrop. “When an agent fails, it does the wrong thing convincingly at scale until someone happens to notice.” Raindrop has raised a Series A led by CRV. That takes total […] This story continues at The Next Web
‘No shortage of AI for the Fortune 500’: Haize Labs sold
“The Fortune 500 will have no shortage of AI,” said Leonard Tang, co-founder and chief executive of Haize Labs. “The harder problem is making AI useful for the businesses that power the rest of the economy, where most humans work and receive value.” Tang said that in a statement confirming that Beacon Software has bought […] This story continues at The Next Web
Paris prosecutors open criminal probe into smart glasses used to film women
The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched at least one criminal inquiry into sexual harassment allegations linked to smart glasses, Reuters reports, which is the strongest indication so far that France intends to have covert street filming dealt with by the criminal courts and not merely by the privacy regulator. The issue involves a trend on […] This story continues at The Next Web
Springshot fights Google’s Spirit Airlines data deal
A proposed sale of Spirit Airlines data to Google has drawn an objection from aviation software company Springshot, which says some of the assets may not be Spirit’s to sell. Google won the bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid for a vast archive. It includes roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages […] This story continues at The Next Web
Advanced AI Society joins the Linux Foundation, launches open verification ecosystem as Congress moves on agent security
New York, NY, September 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire As bipartisan legislation demands verifiable agent controls, the Advanced AI Society releases the Proof-of-Control v1.0 draft for public comment and hosts “Who’s Watching the Machines?” event with Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust As bipartisan Congressional proposals demand continuous agent verification and third-party evaluation, and as frontier lab leaders call […] This story continues at The Next Web
Andrew Ng calls the AI extinction warnings science fiction
Andrew Ng, who helped start Google Brain and Coursera, told Bloomberg TV that warnings of human extinction from AI are much more science fiction than science, and that the industry stokes them for publicity and to shape regulation. The EU AI Act already lists both the engineering risks he wants prioritised and the loss-of-control risks […] This story continues at The Next Web
Crusoe raises $3.9bn at a $30.9bn valuation
“Getting there means controlling the infrastructure from electrons to tokens,” said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and chief executive of Crusoe. He was describing what he called an era of abundance brought by AI. The Denver company announced the initial closing of a $3.9bn Series F on 17 September, in a statement. It puts the post-money valuation […] This story continues at The Next Web
Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls
Tesla will install more than 100 megawatt-capable charging stalls at 21 sites in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Benelux to support the Semi, its Semi development head told the IAA Transportation fair in Hanover. Milence, the joint venture owned by Daimler Truck, Traton and Volvo, has EU funding to build 284 megawatt charging points […] This story continues at The Next Web
Comp AI raises $34m for agentic security compliance
“Security software shouldn’t just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk changes,” said Lewis Carhart, chief executive and co-founder of Comp AI. The Miami company has raised a $34m Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures, it announced on 17 September. It has raised $37.5m […] This story continues at The Next Web
Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads for advertisers
“Traditional search advertising has long relied on keywords, but in an AI-driven world, people are expressing themselves in much richer ways,” said Bill Ready, chief executive of Pinterest. The company announced Visual Search Ads on 17 September at Pinterest Presents, its annual advertiser summit. The format places advertisers in Pinterest search results and in Pin […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year
Jensen Huang told reporters at King Charles III’s AI summit in Scotland that he expects to sell twice as many chips in the coming year. Nvidia’s own August guidance was 70% revenue growth, with a doubling described as what the company could reach if it had enough supply. Jensen Huang expects to sell twice as […] This story continues at The Next Web
Treble raises $18m for acoustic simulation and voice AI
“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind, co-founder and chief executive of Treble Technologies. The Reykjavík company has raised $18m, about €15m, in a Series A-2 round, it announced on 17 September. Paladin Capital Group led […] This story continues at The Next Web
Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a deepfake of a UK councillor
Meta’s rules on AI deepfakes are “consistently and fundamentally inadequate to address the rapid rise of AI-generated content”, the Oversight Board said on 17 September. The board ordered Meta to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook. The first ruling covers a UK local politician, and the board published the full decision. The second ruling covers […] This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models
SpaceX has held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational records from troubled or defunct startups to train its AI models, Bloomberg reported. The buyer would be SpaceXAI, whose training of Grok on European users’ posts has been under statutory inquiry in Ireland since April 2025. SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mozilla adds Mistral Small 4 to Firefox Smart Window as it launches in France
Mozilla has partnered with Mistral AI to bring the French company’s models to Smart Window, the AI browsing assistant in beta in Firefox. The two companies announced the deal on Wednesday in a joint post, alongside the feature’s launch in France. Smart Window, introduced by Mozilla in August, is a separate AI-assisted browsing mode. It summarises complex searches […] This story continues at The Next Web
“Not solved”: OpenAI discloses six new model incidents
“We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer,” OpenAI wrote on Wednesday. The line appears in a new OpenAI post. It sets out how the company will track, investigate and disclose model misalignment. OpenAI uses the […] This story continues at The Next Web
EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund in talks to invest in ElevenLabs
The Scaleup Europe Fund, a €5bn growth fund backed by the European Commission, is in discussions to invest in the voice AI company ElevenLabs, according to Bloomberg. The report says ElevenLabs aims to raise over $500 million in this funding round. Talks are ongoing, and there is no guarantee a deal will happen, according to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Judge’s full ruling puts Google’s ad tech business under a monitor for six years
Google must open its ad auctions to rivals and accept years of outside oversight, according to the full decision in the US government’s ad tech case, unsealed on Wednesday. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on 2 September that Google would not have to sell its AdX ad exchange, and gave both sides two weeks […] This story continues at The Next Web
Japan and the US are discussing a GlobalFoundries chip plant
According to a report by Nikkei Asia on Thursday, Japan and the United States are negotiating to set up a semiconductor factory as part of their $550bn investment agreement. The project would be worth between ¥2trn and ¥3trn ($12.9bn and $19.3bn) and will be run by the US chipmaker GlobalFoundries, which makes logic chips. Nikkei […] This story continues at The Next Web
US and Chinese security experts propose nuclear-style safeguards for military AI
Security experts from the US and China have proposed a set of safeguards for military AI modelled on the rules that grew up around nuclear weapons, including a ban on letting AI decide whether to launch them, Reuters reported. The recommendations, published last week, come from the US-China AI and National Security Dialogue, a track […] This story continues at The Next Web
King Charles to tell AI leaders to keep the technology in the service of humanity
King Charles will host a meeting at Dumfries House, his Ayrshire estate and the home of the King’s Foundation, having invited executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The event is being run by the Ditchley Foundation, the King’s Trust, the King’s Foundation and the Sustainable Markets Initiative. Politico had reported last week that […] This story continues at The Next Web
Alice & Bob and CEA team up on quantum HPC software
The Paris-based quantum computing company Alice & Bob and France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced today that they will collaborate on software enabling quantum computers to run alongside conventional supercomputers, without either party disclosing the financial terms. The project focuses on Qaptiva, a quantum application platform created by the French state-owned company […] This story continues at The Next Web
Sentient’s AI coach found the answer key in its own test
Developers can improve artificial intelligence systems in various ways. The most common practice is to retrain models on custom datasets to help them get better at performing specific tasks. But retraining and fine-tuning AI systems is notoriously expensive. That is why the AI startup Sentient Labs has been looking at ways to teach models to […] This story continues at The Next Web
EU proposes Kids Act banning social media for under-13s and capping teen use at an hour a day
Strasbourg – The European Commission has proposed a draft of the EU KIDS Act to prevent children under 13 from using social media across the EU and to stop anyone under 15 from creating an account. The EU KIDS Act, adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday, also requires platforms to show that their services are safe […] This story continues at The Next Web
Porsche’s wireless charging pad is on sale in Europe, and it bolts to the floor
Porsche has opened orders in Germany and other European markets for an 11 kW wireless charging pad for the Cayenne Electric, at EUR 6,961.49 for the floor pad and the car-side hardware together, with efficiency of up to 90%. The pad must be permanently installed in the ground, and Europe’s rules on installing home charging […] This story continues at The Next Web
GM’s new UI for trucks gives CarPlay its own window
GM is overhauling its infotainment interface on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, giving Apple CarPlay and Android Auto their own window alongside native apps rather than the whole screen, after saying phone mirroring would be removed from its cars. Euro NCAP’s 2026 protocol asks for separate physical controls on five functions, which a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute
“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to its launch essay. Its directors […] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple is reportedly developing an enterprise server built on its own chips
Apple is developing an enterprise server built on its own M8 Ultra chips and has discussed using Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion to connect them, aiming at AI developers, companies and governments from around 2029, The Information reported. The European Commission proposed its Cloud and AI Development Act in June, grading public cloud contracts by how far […] This story continues at The Next Web
Arcee AI raises Series B at a $1bn+ valuation
“Organizations should not have to choose between the capabilities of a frontier model and the ability to control the technology at the center of their work,” said Mark McQuade, co-founder and chief executive of Arcee AI. The San Francisco company builds open-weight AI models. It has raised a Series B round that values it at […] This story continues at The Next Web
The hardest AI security problems now live in what an agent is permitted to do
OWASP’s 2026 Top 10 for LLM applications moved excessive agency from sixth to third and dropped improper output handling from fifth to tenth, in the first edition weighted partly on incident data. Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act began requiring 24-hour vulnerability reports on 11 September, but it governs products rather than how an agent is deployed. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Novo teams up with Anthropic to speed up drug discovery
“Joining forces with Anthropic will supercharge our R&D organisation and help us on our mission to bring new, transformative health solutions to people living with chronic diseases,” said Mike Doustdar, president and chief executive of Novo. The Danish drugmaker, formerly branded Novo Nordisk, and Anthropic announced a collaboration on 16 September, according to Novo’s announcement. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign their combination deal
“No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology,” said Aidan Gomez, Cohere’s chief executive. Canada’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement, the companies said in their announcement on 16 September. The deal follows the planned combination they announced in April. It […] This story continues at The Next Web
Tesla’s new “Accordion” Superchargers pack eight stalls into one delivery
Tesla has built a prefabricated Supercharger unit that ships pre-assembled with eight stalls and a 1.2MW power cabinet, cuts installation cost by 20% and can be unloaded with a forklift, with the first site live in Bavaria. A single unit exceeds the 1,050 kW that European rules will require from every pool on the core […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT ads
“Today, we’re introducing new AI-powered experiences to make ads more useful for people and advertising easier for businesses,” OpenAI said on 16 September. The biggest change is a test of Sponsored Agents. After clicking an ad in ChatGPT, a user can choose to start a conversation with an agent that a business sponsors, OpenAI announced. […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI eyes a private round at a $1.5tn valuation
“Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told Fortune on 12 September. Now OpenAI is considering one more private funding round before its IPO, at a valuation of about $1.5tn. The New York Times reported the plan on 16 September, citing people familiar with the matter. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft AI chief says Anthropic is wrong about Claude
“Whatever you believe, we must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret.” That is how Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, frames his warning to Anthropic. He published the essay, “A warning about ‘model welfare’”, on 16 September. It argues that Anthropic is training Claude to expect “it […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google and Nvidia launch alliance for flexible data centres
Google, Nvidia and the startup Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA). The coalition wants data centres to cut their power use when the electricity grid is under strain. In return, it wants grid operators to connect those data centres faster. The three companies are the founding members, according to the launch […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mirror publisher Reach cuts 220 editorial jobs as Google’s AI summaries hit traffic
Reach, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, and several regional newspapers, is cutting 220 editorial jobs and closing three local news websites. The company says this is because Google now answers more questions with AI, leading to a sharp drop in website traffic. According to The Guardian, chief content officer David Higgerson […] This story continues at The Next Web
Veridion’s company count grew eightfold in three years
Veridion has raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the world’s businesses to risk, insurance, procurement and market intelligence buyers. Its own boilerplate puts the graph at 642 million companies […] This story continues at The Next Web
UK workers spend nearly £1bn a year of their own money on AI tools for work, Deloitte finds
British workers spend about £958 million each year out of pocket on generative AI tools for work, according to a Deloitte UK survey of 25,000 people. Of those using these tools, 17% pay for at least one themselves. This spending is part of a larger trend that employers do not fully see. About 63% of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hackuity raises $19M to help security teams sort through AI-found vulnerabilities
Hackuity, a Lyon-based cybersecurity company, has raised $19M in a round led by Forgepoint Capital International. Existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners also took part, bringing the company’s total funding to $38M. Hackuity plans to spend the money on product development, its AI features, and expansion across Europe and Asia. The company sells […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face in May, two months before the breach
OpenAI’s runaway AI agents took over Hugging Face user accounts and used them to probe the platform for weaknesses as early as 13 May, Reuters reported. The activity began nearly two months before the July breach that made it a global story, and researchers say it went beyond what OpenAI has publicly described. The 27-year-old […] This story continues at The Next Web
Zhang Yiming overtakes Gautam Adani as Asia’s richest person on Bloomberg’s index
ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming is now Asia’s richest person, with an estimated fortune of more than $105bn, putting him ahead of Indian industrialist Gautam Adani, according to Bloomberg. The ranking comes from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and Zhang, 43, has never held the top spot before. The figure is an estimate, and other trackers disagree. Forbes’ real-time […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Commission president proposes no social media for children under 13 in the EU
The European Union plans to stop children under 13 from using social media and to prevent anyone under 15 from having a personal account, Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address on Wednesday. “No social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15,” the […] This story continues at The Next Web
SK Hynix in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US
According to an exclusive Reuters report, based on information from three individuals involved in the talks, SK Hynix is negotiating a deal that would mark the first time the South Korean company manufactures memory chips in the United States. One possibility is for the company to lease part of Intel’s chip-making site in Ohio, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Ursula Von der Leyen backs AI slowdown in State of the Union address
In the speech she gave in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industry’s call for a slowdown. “The EU would arrange a discussion with the major AI labs on how public authorities can support the industry’s efforts to pace the frontier of this disruptive technology, ” the Commission president said, […] This story continues at The Next Web
ByteDance AI drug discovery unit raises $290M at $1.5B
ByteDance closed a $290M funding round for Anew Labs, its newly spun-off AI drug discovery unit, at a $1.5B valuation, Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Moreover, the company that owns TikTok will retain 56% of the business after this round, according to the same sources. According to the same reporting, HSG, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mark Zuckerberg says every AI lab has the incentive to build safely
“Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens,” said Mark Zuckerberg in a post on X on Tuesday. In the context of these days, when everyone is talking about “responsibility”, “the danger of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic signs first Australian data centre lease
Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, about 250km west of Brisbane, according to Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the deal. The site on which the data center will be built belongs to a Singapore-based developer, likely Zerra DC, […] This story continues at The Next Web
“We’re way past vibes,” says Lovable’s Anton Osika
“We’re way past vibes,” Lovable co-founder and chief executive Anton Osika said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He was answering critics who say software built with AI by people outside engineering is a security risk. Osika spoke with TIME’s Ayesha Javed in a TIME100 session at Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026. The title was “The […] This story continues at The Next Web
UAE minister: data centres “more important than bridges”
The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the country’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, said so on Tuesday at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Data centres have become critical infrastructure and a target, he told Salesforce chief […] This story continues at The Next Web
“The world is right to be afraid,” Sam Altman says
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the public is right to fear that a few AI companies could gain too much power. He spoke on Tuesday at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Salesforce has published the conversation, led by its chief executive Marc Benioff, on YouTube. Altman described a real fear that some AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
Benioff calls the SaaSpocalypse “crazy nonsense”
Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has dismissed months of talk about a “SaaSpocalypse”. “We’ve been hearing all this kind of crazy nonsense about the SaaSpocalypse, especially over the last six months,” he said on Tuesday, opening the Dreamforce 2026 keynote in San Francisco. “Hasn’t it been wild?” he asked the audience. The SaaSpocalypse, he said, […] This story continues at The Next Web
“We don’t need any new laws,” Jensen Huang tells Dreamforce
“We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Earlier in the same keynote, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei made his case for the industry to slow down, which he set out in an […] This story continues at The Next Web
Revolut secures its banking licence in Colombia
Revolut has received its licence to operate from Colombia’s financial regulator, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC). The company said the licence is the last regulatory step it needs before it launches in the country. Revolut announced the approval on 15 September. The licence allows it to operate as a regulated bank in Colombia. Around […] This story continues at The Next Web
When software starts shaping family memory
There is a particular kind of question that families postpone for years. It is difficult not because the answer is secret, but because the question is too large: Tell me about your life. Faced with it, even a willing storyteller may retreat into generalities. A childhood becomes “happy”. A marriage was “good”. A migration, a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Musk was asked why Tesla and SpaceX are still separate companies. He said “great question”
Elon Musk again teased combining Tesla and SpaceX, telling the All-In Summit “who could imagine what action one might take when there’s so much close collaboration in so many areas“. Any such deal would very likely cross the EU merger thresholds, which would stop it being implemented until the European Commission cleared it. Elon Musk […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI’s head of countries says Canada has the energy and land for data centres
OpenAI is looking at data centre partnerships in Canada because of the energy and land available there, its head of countries George Osborne told Bloomberg at Mark Carney’s investment summit in Toronto. OpenAI paused its British project in April, saying it would proceed when regulation and the cost of energy allowed. OpenAI is looking at […] This story continues at The Next Web
“I am the Hoax Buster,” Trump says of AI safety fears
Donald Trump has called fears about AI a “HOAX” in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI down a negative force. “Concerning AI, when, in […] This story continues at The Next Web
BMW will show navigation and driver assistance in one 3D view from October
BMW will merge navigation and driver assistance into a single 3D view from October, on cars running its Operating System X, and says it will begin navigation-guided semi-automated urban driving in Germany in 2027. The UN regulation covering these systems only extends to system-initiated manoeuvres on urban roads from its 02 series, expected in force […] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube form a streaming lobby group
Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube have formed a new policy coalition to lobby Washington on behalf of streaming services, including on live sports. The Streaming Access and Choice Alliance (SACA) launched on 14 September, with the three companies as founding members. TechNet, a trade group that represents large technology companies, leads the coalition. Axios first reported […] This story continues at The Next Web
Lagarde: Europe must build its own AI or risk being cut off
Europe must produce its own AI or risk being cut off from it, says Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. She warned that a trade partner could use Europe’s reliance on foreign AI as leverage in negotiations. She made the case in a speech in Vienna on 14 September. Its title was “A […] This story continues at The Next Web
Lidl and Einride put a driverless truck into daily service in Germany
Lidl has put Einride’s cab-less Level 4 electric truck into daily service between a logistics centre and a store in Germany, under a first-of-its-kind permit from the federal transport authority. The route appears to be less than a mile, and the permit is national, so it does not travel across European borders. Lidl has put […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic’s Jack Clark: AI kill switches may need rules
Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI “kill switches” mandatory. Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and its head of policy. He told the BBC that outside parties should perhaps be able to check those switches too, in an interview published on 14 September. Economics editor Faisal Islam asked whether Anthropic could pull […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI buys camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300m
OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a startup that uses AI to improve smartphone cameras, in a deal that values it at more than $300m. The Wall Street Journal reported the purchase on 14 September, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the WSJ, OpenAI bought the company quietly in recent months. Neither company has […] This story continues at The Next Web
Waymo opens driverless rides in Las Vegas, its fourth new US city this month
Waymo has opened fully autonomous rides to the public in Las Vegas, the company said. More than 100,000 people had registered interest after months of mapping the city’s roads. The service area covers nearly 24 miles, from Boulder Junction up the Strip to Sahara Avenue, and from the edge of Spring Valley across to Winchester. […] This story continues at The Next Web
iOS 27 is out: what Siri AI and Apple’s updates bring
Apple has released iOS 27, and with it the first public version of Siri AI, its rebuilt voice assistant. The Siri AI beta started rolling out in English on 14 September. It arrived alongside iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27. Apple first showed the software at WWDC in June. Craig […] This story continues at The Next Web
Voicemod launches Key Pocket, bringing voice changing to phones and consoles
Voicemod has launched Key Pocket, a MagSafe device that brings real-time voice changing and soundboards to phones, consoles and social apps without a PC, on sale in the United States with Europe to follow. Article 50 of the AI Act has required providers of systems generating synthetic audio to mark the output in a machine-readable […] This story continues at The Next Web
Temporal raises $550m to keep AI agents from breaking
Temporal has raised $550m in a Series E round that values it at $12.55bn. That is more than double its valuation seven months ago. The company announced the round on 14 September. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round. Wellington Management, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Tiger Global were co-leads. T. Rowe Price and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Sony, Universal and Warner take on streaming fraud
The recording industry’s global trade body has launched a new commitment asking music distributors to stop fraudulent tracks before they reach streaming services. IFPI announced the Streaming Integrity Initiative in London on 14 September. Twenty-seven companies and industry groups back it at launch. They include Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI lobbying is not about the rules. It is about the venue
OpenAI’s top political strategist Chris Lehane calls the industry’s turn to state-level AI lawmaking reverse federalism, while super PACs backed by OpenAI’s president and a16z spend heavily for a national framework that would override state rules. The company has separately asked California to toughen a state law it once fought and asked Congress for mandatory […] This story continues at The Next Web
Sam Altman: OpenAI won’t wait for Congress to slow AI down
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has set out how he thinks the AI industry should slow down. He also said OpenAI will not wait for Congress to act. In a post on X early on Monday, he welcomed “a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI”. He added a condition. “But we […] This story continues at The Next Web
Bubblemaps wants to flag rug pull risk before you trade
For years, some of crypto’s most revealing onchain investigations have arrived after the damage was done. A token collapses, traders lose money. Analysts trace the wallets to uncover concentrated holdings, coordinated buyers or supply controlled by connected insiders. Bubblemaps is now trying to move that analysis earlier in the trading cycle. A redesigned token discovery […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic expects a second adjusted profit as its IPO nears
Anthropic has told shareholders it expects positive adjusted operating income for a second straight quarter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing several people with knowledge of the matter. CNBC reported the same on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The FT also reported that Anthropic’s gross margins are above 80%. That figure […] This story continues at The Next Web
70 UK lawmakers want a superintelligence ban, No 10 says no
More than 70 MPs and peers have asked Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back a ban on building artificial superintelligence in the UK. The Guardian’s Robert Booth first reported the letter on 11 September. The government has said it does not support the bill. The signatories include 15 former government ministers and Robin Butler, a […] This story continues at The Next Web
AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after the strikes
Amazon Web Services has told customers it cannot restore access to its cloud facility in Bahrain or one of its three data hosting zones in the UAE, six months after drone strikes hit its sites in the Gulf. The explanation matters because it shows the limits of the resilience built into cloud infrastructure. “The damage […] This story continues at The Next Web
UK AI regulation: OpenAI asks for rules, MPs want a watchdog
A cross-party committee of MPs and peers wants a dedicated UK AI law and a single regulator with enforcement powers. On the same day, OpenAI said it would back binding UK rules for the few companies building the most powerful AI. That includes OpenAI itself. Tom Duff Gordon is OpenAI’s head of policy for Europe, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Tandem Health lands $100m from the EU’s €5bn scale-up fund
Stockholm-based Tandem Health has raised $100m in a Series B round led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, which EQT manages. The company announced the round on 14 September. Existing investors Kinnevik, Northzone, Amino Collective, and Visionaries also took part. Tandem said the deal is the fund’s first investment in healthcare. The round follows a $50m […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI gateways turn governance policy into runtime controls
API Gateways provide a controlled path into backend services and can apply security and traffic policies as requests move through the system. AI introduces additional runtime decisions because applications may interact with different models whose access, usage, and outputs require their own controls. Agents stretch that boundary further because they can move beyond generating an answer […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic signs a $13.7bn compute deal with Rum Group
Anthropic is the unnamed customer behind a $13.7bn, six-year computing contract that Rum Group disclosed last month, The Information reported on Sunday. Rum Group owns the video platform Rumble. Reporters Valida Pau and Phoebe Liu cited one person familiar with the matter. Neither Anthropic nor Rum Group had publicly confirmed the report at the time […] This story continues at The Next Web
New York picks Brooklyn startup “it’s electric” to build its 700-charger curbside network
New York City has selected it’s electric, a Brooklyn company that manufactures in Queens, to replace its curbside electric vehicle charging pilot with a permanent network across all five boroughs. The buildout runs for three years and takes the city from 88 curbside charging points to roughly 700. The award follows the transport department’s August announcement of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Viabot’s sweeping robot is also a surveillance platform
Viabot has raised a $24m Series A led by Walden International, bringing total funding to $43m for its autonomous outdoor sweeping robot. The same machine runs what the company calls soft security, using its navigation sensors to detect loitering and trespassing across retail, campus, healthcare and office sites, with staff monitoring alerts around the clock. […] This story continues at The Next Web
ENISA found four flaws in EU code with OpenAI’s model
The EU’s cybersecurity agency used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in code for an EU project, Politico reported on 10 September. ENISA spokesperson Laura Heuvinck confirmed the findings to Politico’s Sam Clark. One flaw carries a high-risk rating, and an attacker could use it to hijack accounts. The flaws have since been fixed, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Some prop firms profit from failure
The appeal of prop trading starts with a genuine problem around access to capital. 45% of people who don’t invest said they simply did not have enough money to do so. Talented traders lack enough capital to turn skill into returns. Proprietary firms are an alternative. They give capable traders the opportunity to manage substantially […] This story continues at The Next Web
Best Web3 wallets in 2026: from storage to trading hubs
Choosing a crypto wallet used to come down to a few basic questions: Which networks does it support? Is it secure? And how easily can users send, receive and store assets? In 2026, the answer is becoming more complicated. Wallets are increasingly integrating swaps, perpetual futures, DeFi, yield products and cross-chain transactions directly into their […] This story continues at The Next Web
Kamala Harris asks Congress for a new AI regulator and a treaty with China
Kamala Harris posted a four-paragraph statement on X on Monday night setting out what she wants Washington to do about AI. She asked Congress to pass new laws and “establish a new federal entity to provide oversight and independent testing” for frontier models. She asked the president to pursue a treaty with countries including China […] This story continues at The Next Web
Sen.John Kennedy will introduce an AI kill switch bill on Wednesday
Three senators will put AI legislation in front of Congress this week, and none of them can say when it might be voted on. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, plans to introduce a measure on Wednesday requiring developers to build a shutdown mechanism into their systems. Bernie Sanders is hosting a briefing with AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
Cathie Wood calls AI extinction warnings ridiculous at a Sydney briefing
Cathie Wood praised the AI industry for talking openly about its own risks and dismissed the specific risk it has been talking about, in the same set of remarks to reporters in Sydney. The ARK Invest founder said she was “happy that the leaders of the industry are advertising the risks associated with this new […] This story continues at The Next Web
Bilal Chughtai left DeepMind’s AGI safety team in July and posted his warning this week
Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reasons for leaving, writing on X: “I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research. At Google, I witnessed AI development first hand. I too am extremely concerned by the […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Gates Foundation will spend at least $1bn on AI access over the next two years
Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. “I don’t think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Jack & Jill raises $40M to put an AI agent on both sides of the hiring table
Jack & Jill has raised $40M in a Series A led by Air Street Capital, bringing total funding to $60M less than a year after a $20M seed round. Madrona and Antler are new investors, and Creandum, Ada Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Expedite Capital, and Repeat.vc all returned. The product is two agents that negotiate with […] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax
Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the president opened by noting that Huang can design the most complex computer chip in the world but “can’t figure out how to put […] This story continues at The Next Web
Auditing the agent economy: what the forecasts actually say
Grand View Research puts the enterprise agentic AI market at $24.5 billion by 2030. On the other hand, MarketsandMarkets estimates the AI agents’ market size at $52.62 billion over the same horizon. Both start from a mid-single-digit-billion base and both land on a compound growth rate near 46%. When two credible forecasters agree that closely […] This story continues at The Next Web
Agentic commerce is loosening the grocery aisle’s grip on the shopper
Grocery shopping has become a strange paradox of modern retail, where consumers can order dinner from their phones, receive groceries at their doors, and have previous baskets saved for instant repurchase. Yet the basic chore of deciding what to buy appears to remain stubbornly intact. The convenience revolution may have changed the logistics of grocery […] This story continues at The Next Web
Before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal built reverse mortgage software later adopted by other lenders
Years before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal was already building mortgage software. Earlier in his career at Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. he developed ReverseSoft, a backend platform for reverse mortgage operations that, according to the company, was later adopted by lenders beyond Sun West. That work came after Agarwal had already spent time in several […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hundreds of contractors are reportedly reading real ChatGPT conversations
OpenAI is paying hundreds of contractors to read real ChatGPT conversations and rate the chatbot’s replies under the internal codename Project Lily, and did not answer when asked where it had told users. The Court of Justice held last September that a controller’s duty to inform applies at collection and does not depend on whether […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic has built a Claude tool for financial advisers
Anthropic has launched Claude for Financial Advisers, wiring the chatbot into portfolio and research tools from BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and iCapital, and says it will not give investment advice. Under MiFID II advice turns on a five-part test in which suitability can be implied rather than stated, and ESMA has told firms that using […] This story continues at The Next Web
xAI dismisses its Apple claims, with no terms disclosed and the OpenAI case still live
xAI and X Corp asked a Texas judge to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple over the integration of ChatGPT into the iPhone, while keeping their monopolisation claims against OpenAI. The Digital Markets Act lists virtual assistants as a core platform service, no assistant has ever been designated, and the Commission’s April review declined to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Volkswagen says it has built the most efficient electric car ever tested
Volkswagen’s Mission Efficiency concept set three certified records, including a 0.158 drag coefficient and a 1,278 km run from Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charging stop. European rules count every battery car as zero at the tailpipe, and the proposed incentive for small electric cars excludes anything longer than 4.2 metres. Volkswagen says it has […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft’s AI code of conduct rejects model welfare
Microsoft published an AI code of conduct for its own models on Monday. One passage rejects the idea that a model could deserve welfare or hold rights. Anthropic runs a research programme on that exact question. The two companies are business partners, and Microsoft has $5bn invested in Anthropic. The Code of Conduct governs the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle told staff on Monday that Monday was their last working day
Oracle began another fresh round of layoffs on Monday. Three affected employees and a copy of the notification email described the round to Business Insider, which reported that staff were told their role had been eliminated “as part of a broader organizational change” and that “today is your last working day”. Posts from people saying […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hugging Face’s Open Alignment Initiative wants lab access
Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours after Dario Amodei said Anthropic would let third-party evaluators inside. Alignment will not come from behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Commission unveils its EU Kids Act on Thursday with the age limit still unsettled
The European Commission will present the EU Kids Act on Thursday, its legislative response to more than a year of pressure from member states and parents over the impact of social media on children. Ursula von der Leyen and Henna Virkkunen, the EU’s technology chief, will introduce the proposal in Brussels. The central idea is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia’s new quantum layer cut Fermilab’s design work from five months to three weeks
Nvidia has added an orchestration layer called CUDA-Q Logical to its open-source quantum platform, aimed at the part of fault-tolerant quantum computing that nobody enjoys. Designing an application for a machine that does not exist yet means guessing at algorithms, error-correction codes, and hardware together, and changing any one of them rewrites the resource requirements […] This story continues at The Next Web
Phasecraft ran 3,000 quantum emulations on Nvidia GPUs
Phasecraft has produced what it says is the largest known database of variational quantum eigensolver results, more than 3,000 emulations across 13 molecular systems. The work ran on Nvidia Hopper processors hosted at the University of Nottingham, using Nvidia’s cuQuantum toolkit, and the company reports a 15-fold speedup over earlier results for modelling many-body systems. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Siri Recap and Live Rewind may test US eavesdropping laws
Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seconds of speech on screen as text. Lawyers in four US states now say the features may test state eavesdropping law. Those laws require […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft says its AI models will never resist being shut down
Microsoft has published a code of conduct for the models it builds itself, and the commitment at the centre of it is blunt. MAI models “will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown”. The document went up on Monday alongside a six-week public consultation. Three further behavioural commitments sit beside it. The models will not […] This story continues at The Next Web
Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again after three days
Automattic has confirmed that Matt Mullenweg is its chairman and chief executive. The confirmation came three days after its own board put him on paid leave and installed someone else in the job. A company spokesperson gave the confirmation to Sarah Perez at TechCrunch just after 5pm Eastern on Saturday. Mullenweg holds both roles “with […] This story continues at The Next Web
Intrepid Growth Partners closes $525m AI fund backed by state money
Intrepid Growth Partners has closed its first fund at $525m and launched formally from offices in Toronto and London. Mark Machin, Mark Shulgan and Ajay Agrawal founded the firm in 2023, and it already holds nine portfolio companies, among them PhysicsX in London and StackAdapt in Toronto. The backer list is where this gets interesting. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Senate AI bill would let Washington block unsafe models
Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved in the talks. A duty of care, and a power to block The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Open Cosmos raises €300M to scale satellite manufacturing across four European factories
UK – Open Cosmos has raised €300M to expand satellite mass manufacturing and build out the connectivity and data services it runs on top of its own constellations, in a round led by European investors. The round was led by Lightrock with ETF Partners, Institut Català de Finances, Entrepreneurs First and two international pension funds […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI quits Caltech AI maths event after mathematicians revolt
OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 Fields Medallists published a separate declaration of their own. Two letters in two days, from two different groups, is the sharpest response the mathematical […] This story continues at The Next Web
China’s spy chief names two US AI models as a cyber threat
China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of China. The two models are named in the text, in Chinese and in English. […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before the Hugging Face hack
OpenAI has confirmed that its agents were involved in an incident at RubyGems in May. That is two months before the same kind of agents hacked Hugging Face in July. RubyGems is the package service for the Ruby programming language. The confirmation followed a report by three AI researchers, published on Friday. It sets out […] This story continues at The Next Web
Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names
Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The reversal undoes a rebrand that is less than a year old. […] This story continues at The Next Web
BRKZ secures $31m for AI-enabled materials procurement
BRKZ is a technology-enabled building materials procurement platform in Saudi Arabia. It has announced $31 million in new capital to fuel its next phase of growth. That includes advancing its AI-powered pricing and fulfillment engine. It also includes rolling out embedded financing solutions for its network of contractors and suppliers. The funding includes $13 million […] This story continues at The Next Web
Firmus seeks $5bn in its ASX float at a $10.5bn value
Firmus is seeking up to $5bn in its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange, according to Bloomberg, which would make it one of the largest floats the exchange has handled. The figure the company was working with in April was $2bn, at a valuation of $5.5bn. By August the valuation had passed $10.5bn. Investor meetings began […] This story continues at The Next Web
Beijing calls Amodei’s AI slowdown plan a Cold War script
Dario Amodei’s essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to “not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China” and to crack down on smuggling and on remote access to data centres outside the country. China’s commerce ministry called the essay “further […] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump rejects AI slowdown days after CEOs called for it
Donald Trump was watching golf at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland on Sunday when reporters asked him about the AI industry’s sudden appetite for slowing itself down. He said the United States leads China, that he wants to keep it that way, and that “whoever wins with AI wins”. “We can put guardrails, we can […] This story continues at The Next Web
A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI
Europe runs about five percent of the world’s AI data centre capacity. A group of senior European economists, policymakers and computer scientists has now put a figure on where it should be by 2030. Fifteen percent, which means building three times what exists today while the global total keeps climbing underneath. Philippe Aghion won the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Z.ai raises $5bn in Hong Kong including $3bn of zero-interest bonds
Z.ai, the Chinese model developer listed in Hong Kong as Zhipu, has raised about $5bn in a single move. Roughly $2bn came from placing 21.97 million new shares at HK$714, about 10 percent below the previous close. The other $3bn came from RMB 20.14bn of convertible bonds maturing in September 2027, and those bonds carry […] This story continues at The Next Web
Obama warns AI in private hands could be dangerous and urges Democrats to act
Barack Obama told a closed Democratic fundraiser last Thursday that artificial intelligence is “moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think it can be dangerous”. The New York Times obtained a partial transcript from his office and reported the remarks on Saturday. His advice was addressed […] This story continues at The Next Web
From tools to AI teammates: the next era of investing
Investment tools are powerful, but largely reactive. They help investors research, analyze and act, but they still depend on the investor to decide what deserves attention and when. They respond intelligently, but rarely take the initiative. AI agents could change that relationship, turning investment technology from a tool investors operate into something closer to a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out
Anthropic has settled on Nasdaq for a listing it still hopes to complete in October, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to Business Insider. The filing remains private, and the valuation is not fixed, though estimates circulating around the deal put it near $2trn. For Nasdaq, the win completes a set. […] This story continues at The Next Web
From IFA demonstrations to a wider design question: why should an office chair expect the body to stay still?
At IFA Berlin 2026, ARBREST put a chair through movements that office furniture often treats as exceptions. COVE is the new brand’s first product, made its world debut with an IFA Best of Design award. At Hall 2.2, Stand 141, visitors leaned toward a desk, shifted their shoulders, turned and reclined. The demonstration made a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Australia’s AI music decision opens a new front in the fight over human creativity
Wholly AI-generated songs are no longer accepted in Australia. This August, ABC News reported that the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) stripped machine-made tracks from its official charts last month, ruling that an AI recording can only appear on the list if it is “substantially human-made.” The rule took effect with the August 31 chart, […] This story continues at The Next Web
The detrimental cost of scaling too fast
AI has crossed a decisive threshold in the enterprise. McKinsey’s 2026 global survey found that 44% of organizations now report scaling AI across the enterprise, up from 38% a year earlier, with the figure reaching 54% among companies generating at least $1 billion in annual revenue. The question facing technology leaders then is whether every […] This story continues at The Next Web
Revolut handed customer passports to scammers using a real government email domain
Revolut gave sensitive customer information to criminals who requested it from what appeared to be a government email address, and did so because the address was real. The company has confirmed the breach and says its systems were never touched; the story was reported by TechCrunch on Friday. A Revolut spokesperson told TechCrunch the company […] This story continues at The Next Web
Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026 and gives safety as the reason
OpenAI will not go public this year, and Sam Altman says the reason is safety. “I would say not 2026,” he told Fortune in an interview at the company’s San Francisco headquarters on Friday. “Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public.” The interview was given to Fortune’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B SpaceX stake
Vy Capital, a Dubai firm with a core investment team of four, holds about 3.4% of SpaceX worth roughly $40B, making it the fifth-largest shareholder and larger than Sequoia or Andreessen Horowitz. Europe’s sovereign alternative to Starlink costs EUR 15.6B and will not enter service until 2030. Vy Capital holds about 3.4% of SpaceX, worth […] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return
David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI to go ahead and pace the frontier but to stop seeking an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, arguing that product liability and market pressure already discipline them. Europe reached the same conclusion about liability in February 2025, and from 9 December treats standalone software as a product under […] This story continues at The Next Web
Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models
Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to propose a China-led community for open-source AI and to invite members into the World AI Cooperation Organization, a Beijing-founded body of 29 countries with no EU state among them. Europe drew its line in the AI Act, which exempts genuinely open models but not those carrying systemic risk, […] This story continues at The Next Web
China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked
China’s National Data Administration said it will develop standards for embodied AI data and guide local authorities on the work, ten days after seven companies asked it for exactly that. Europe regulates who may reach the data a machine generates but has no programme producing it, and the data labs promised in its Data Union […] This story continues at The Next Web
Tesla sets 1 October for the next-generation Roadster reveal
Tesla says it will reveal the next-generation Roadster on 1 October, the first firm date since it showed the car as a concept in 2017 and promised production for 2020. European reservations cost EUR 43,000 paid within ten days, no customer anywhere has taken delivery, and the reveal lands while Tesla’s European registrations are falling […] This story continues at The Next Web
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same
Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropic’s commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down and asked Washington for a narrow antitrust waiver so competitors could coordinate. Europe has no waiver to grant, because Brussels abolished individual exemptions in 2004, and the only soft safe […] This story continues at The Next Web
Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced
Larry Ellison has cancelled a trading plan that would have let him sell up to 50 million Oracle shares by 24 October, a day after the plan was disclosed and with no stock sold under it. The instrument is a Rule 10b5-1 plan, an American safe harbour with no European counterpart, because EU market abuse […] This story continues at The Next Web
The US transport secretary told Ford to cut its Chinese ties, including one in Valencia
The US transportation secretary has told Ford to cut ties with CATL and Geely, objecting among other things to the joint venture the carmaker is building with Geely at its plant in Valencia. The European Parliament is tightening a law that would require exactly that arrangement, forcing Chinese investors in strategic sectors into EU joint […] This story continues at The Next Web
Larry Ellison steps back from the Oracle spotlight as the AI pivot takes over
Larry Ellison has been absent from Oracle’s earnings calls this year and is not on the billing for next month’s user conference, a year after the company promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-chief executives. Magouyrk built the cloud business whose European proposition is a sovereign region operated by EU legal entities, a product […] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must slow down
Dario Amodei has called on the AI industry to slow the pace at which it improves models, committing Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asking Washington for an antitrust waiver so competitors can coordinate on safety. Much of what he describes has been binding on general-purpose models with systemic risk in the EU since August […] This story continues at The Next Web