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• More than 70 UK lawmakers ask Burnham to back a superintelligence ban

  15-09-2026 16:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power

  17-09-2026 20:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  “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 […]
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• Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls

  17-09-2026 20:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring

  17-09-2026 20:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  “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 […]
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• Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads at its advertiser summit

  17-09-2026 20:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  “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 […]
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• Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year

  17-09-2026 20:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing

  17-09-2026 19:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  “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 […]
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• Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a deepfake of a UK councillor

  17-09-2026 19:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models

  17-09-2026 18:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control

  17-09-2026 18:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Those in our world who value deeply our humanity and its vital moral component are anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny, or our souls,” King Charles III told AI leaders on 17 September. The King spoke at a summit he convened at Dumfries House in East Ayrshire, Scotland, […]
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• Toyota’s hydrogen pickup beats its electric one on every number except where to refuel it

  17-09-2026 18:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Toyota has confirmed a hydrogen fuel cell Hilux for 2028, the first commercially available fuel cell mid-size pickup in Europe, targeting 400km of range, 2,500kg of towing and a five-minute refuel. Europe and the UK have 179 hydrogen stations between them, one more than in 2023, and the 700-bar dispensers a car needs are being […]
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• House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI

  17-09-2026 17:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  “This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. This is an American issue, and it is a global issue,” House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark said on 17 September. Her party is pressing Republicans to stay in Washington and legislate on AI. Clark spoke alongside Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar. The Associated […]
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• Bolt wants to put 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads

  17-09-2026 17:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lucid and Bolt have announced a non-binding partnership to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucid crossovers on European roads, with no vehicles ordered, no money committed and no deployment date. The only EU-wide type approval route for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 units a year per type, and national approvals stop at […]
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• Pentagon CTO Emil Michael says the US should not take stakes in AI firms

  17-09-2026 17:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We don’t want government to get in the middle,” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, told CNBC when asked about government stakes in AI companies. Michael appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on 16 September. Asked whether the Trump administration could nationalise AI companies or take partial stakes in them, he said: “I […]
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• Meta plans camera-free smart glasses this autumn, The Information reports

  17-09-2026 16:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We as a society have the right to at least know that someone is recording,” Polish developer Pawel Szydlowski told Business Insider about his ZuckOff app, which detects nearby smart glasses. Meta now plans to release a pair of smart glasses with no camera this autumn, The Information reported on 15 September, citing people familiar […]
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• Factory raises $200M at a $5B valuation for its AI coding agents

  17-09-2026 16:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Across the world’s largest enterprises, we are seeing a move from individual coding agents to software factories that serve as the core foundation from which an entire software company operates,” said Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory. The San Francisco company has raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, it said in a […]
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• Hackers extracted a Flock camera’s software and key, 404 Media reports

  17-09-2026 16:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one hacker told 404 Media. The hacker belongs to a collective called stegan0gram. The group pulled a Flock Safety camera down from above a roadway and copied almost all of its data. It shared the files […]
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• Euka expands to Instagram after helping brands generate $4B in TikTok Shop sales

  17-09-2026 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Euka has built its business helping brands recruit and manage the creators who sell their products on TikTok Shop. Now, it wants to follow those brands onto other platforms. The creator economy startup is launching an Instagram integration alongside Shopify-connected fulfillment. That gives brands a way to manage creator partnerships across both TikTok and Instagram. […]
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• “Regulate the products”: Nvidia’s Huang pushes back on AI rules at King Charles’s summit

  17-09-2026 15:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has stated that AI should not be subject to the same regulations as social media since it is a technology, not a product. According to POLITICO, Huang made these comments to journalists on Thursday at the AI event held by King Charles at Dumfries House in Scotland. As Huang pointed […]
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• Apple explains how the iPhone 18 Pro will prove a photo is real

  17-09-2026 15:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  “An image appearing photorealistic is no longer sufficient to establish its veracity,” Apple’s security engineers wrote as they set out how the iPhone 18 Pro will prove a photo is real. Apple published the design of Apple Reference Image on its Security Research blog on 15 September. The post comes from its Security Engineering and […]
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• German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook and Instagram

  17-09-2026 15:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  A German court has ruled that Meta is responsible for fake investment ads posted by others on Facebook and Instagram. The court ordered Meta to remove the ads and pay damages, Reuters reported. The Frankfurt Regional Court’s decision is not final and can be appealed. Finanzfluss, a German personal finance platform, and its co-founder Thomas […]
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• Spain’s data watchdog reports its first breach carried out by an AI agent

  17-09-2026 15:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  “The arrival of AI agents in offensive activity must drive an immediate review of security and data protection models,” wrote Francisco Pérez Bes of Spain’s data protection agency, the AEPD. The AEPD has received its first notification of a personal data breach carried out with an AI agent. Pérez Bes announced it in an agency […]
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• Former DeepMind world-model researchers’ startup Emulate in talks to raise $700M

  17-09-2026 15:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Emulate, a UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise up to $700mn in a seed round, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Both the FT and Bloomberg report that Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners will lead the round, with Creandum also participating. The two outlets provided different […]
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• Alexis Ohanian tells CNBC the tech industry has been tone deaf on AI

  17-09-2026 15:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  “There are risks, I do think they’re more benign, or they’re more banal than people are thinking,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said on Wednesday. Ohanian spoke to CNBC about the debate over AI risk. He said the tech industry has done a “pretty tone deaf job” of explaining AI to the public. The debate should […]
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• Viabot’s sweeping robot can work 12 to 24 hours by swapping its own batteries. The same sensors flag loitering to human staff.

  17-09-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Viabot has raised a $24m Series A led by Walden International for its autonomous outdoor sweeping robot. Each battery lasts about six hours and the machine can autonomously hot-swap batteries to work 12 to 24 hours, correcting TNW’s earlier report of a six-hour runtime. The company says sweeping is the primary function, that soft security […]
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• Sanders and Bannon call for an AI slowdown at the Pro-Human Assembly

  17-09-2026 14:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  “When you are racing towards a cliff, you hit the brakes,” Senator Bernie Sanders told the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Tuesday. Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Trump ally Steve Bannon both called for stronger AI oversight at the event, Reuters reported. The nonprofit Future of Life Institute hosted it. Several hundred people attended, according […]
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• Meta launches Meta One subscriptions worldwide, from $2.99 to $499 a month

  17-09-2026 14:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  “To be clear, the core experience in our apps stays free,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote on Threads on Tuesday, as Meta launched its Meta One subscriptions worldwide. Meta One is a new subscription service across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI, Meta announced on 15 September. It offers higher AI usage, extra expression features […]
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• PROSPER launches new structure for verifiable onchain performance data

  17-09-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  PROSPER has launched Performance Markets, a new framework built on Pharos Network. It allows third-party operators to connect verifiable onchain performance data with independently priced crypto-native assets. The framework introduces MemeRWA. In MemeRWA, observable economic performance serves as a reference for a crypto-native asset without tokenizing ownership of the underlying strategy. Vault Shares and p{VAULT} […]
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• Magentic raises $18M to put AI agents to work in manufacturers’ supply chains

  17-09-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The London-based Magentic, a start-up building AI agents for procurement and supply chain teams at large manufacturers, has raised $18M in a Series A round today, led by Felicis. Sequoia Capital and The Westly Group, which were existing investors, also took part. Also, this round comes a year after the company launched in July 2025, […]
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• Mozilla adds Mistral Small 4 to Firefox Smart Window as it launches in France

  17-09-2026 13:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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