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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