<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Apps & Smartphones - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rss/1000/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Apps & Smartphones news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:28:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea confirms chip investment talks with US as tariff threat grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea negotiated tariff protection for its chipmakers, and Washington is pressing for American factories anyway. Semiconductor investment is now part of the broader talks between the two governments, a presidential official in Seoul has confirmed. The confirmation was&nbsp;reported by&nbsp;Reuters, and it follows Washington signalling plans for targeted tariffs on semiconductor imports. Howard Lutnick has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-confirms-chip-investment-talks-with-us-as-tariff-threat-grows/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-confirms-chip-investment-talks-with-us-as-tariff-threat-grows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BASF sues Apple over Face ID patents in Texas federal court]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s largest chemical company is suing Apple over Face ID. BASF filed a patent infringement claim on Thursday, alleging that dozens of iPhone and iPad models use face authentication technology covered by patents it owns. The case was reported by Reuters and was filed in federal court in Texas, in the Western District that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/basf-sues-apple-over-face-id-patents-in-texas-federal-court/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/basf-sues-apple-over-face-id-patents-in-texas-federal-court/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane Street signs $13bn five-year AI cloud deal with Crusoe]]></title><description><![CDATA[A proprietary trading firm has just signed one of the largest AI cloud contracts of the year. Jane Street is committing roughly $13bn over five years to Crusoe, the data centre company, for clusters of AI chips and the infrastructure around them. The terms were&nbsp;first reported by Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the arrangement, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jane-street-signs-13bn-five-year-ai-cloud-deal-with-crusoe/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jane-street-signs-13bn-five-year-ai-cloud-deal-with-crusoe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI puts $1bn behind cyber defence for water utilities and community banks]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is putting $1bn behind getting its cyber tools into the hands of organisations that cannot afford them. The programme, called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, targets water utilities, electric grid operators, local government, community banks, nonprofits and open-source maintainers. It arrives on the same day the company shipped GPT-6 Astra,&nbsp;according to&nbsp;Reuters. That is the model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-puts-1bn-behind-cyber-defence-for-water-utilities-and-community-banks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-puts-1bn-behind-cyber-defence-for-water-utilities-and-community-banks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s new model aces the benchmarks and admits it is better at hiding]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the model that takes over from GPT-5.6 Sol at the top of its range. The company describes it as its most intelligent and aligned system to date, built on advances in pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment research. It is going out in stages. A limited set of organisations has access [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-model-aces-the-benchmarks-and-admits-it-is-better-at-hiding/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-model-aces-the-benchmarks-and-admits-it-is-better-at-hiding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Jersey just legalised cheap plug-in balcony solar panels]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar up to 1,200W, barring local governments from requiring approvals and stopping landlords from blocking installation. Germany wrote the same right into its civil code in October 2024 and now has 1.31 million registered systems at 1.34GW. New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar. A new law bars municipalities [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-jersey-just-legalised-cheap-plug-in-balcony-solar-panels/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-jersey-just-legalised-cheap-plug-in-balcony-solar-panels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company&rsquo;s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans. &ldquo;I do leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves if this qualifies for them&ldquo;, Brockman said. &ldquo;I think [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-rolls-out-gpt-6-astra-and-greg-brockman-says-agi-has-arrived/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-rolls-out-gpt-6-astra-and-greg-brockman-says-agi-has-arrived/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[T-Mobile’s Gopalan turns to home internet and AI after a 25% slide]]></title><description><![CDATA[T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days after Elliott built a stake to oppose it. A full combination would put the holding company outside Germany and cut the German state and KfW&rsquo;s joint holding from about 28% to roughly 17%. T-Mobile US chief executive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/t-mobiles-gopalan-turns-to-home-internet-and-ai-after-a-25-slide/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/t-mobiles-gopalan-turns-to-home-internet-and-ai-after-a-25-slide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe the binding constraint is grid capacity, with Denmark holding roughly 60GW [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sam-altman-says-ai-developers-have-fumbled-at-communicating-the-technologys-benefits/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sam-altman-says-ai-developers-have-fumbled-at-communicating-the-technologys-benefits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why video is the first frontier as AI learns to read the physical world]]></title><description><![CDATA[A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason to watch any of it. The footage only becomes useful when a package goes missing, an accident happens or somebody needs to work backwards from an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-video-is-the-first-frontier-as-ai-learns-to-read-the-physical-world/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-video-is-the-first-frontier-as-ai-learns-to-read-the-physical-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 24-hour CRA deadline is changing software supply chain visibility]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to an analysis published by The Hacker News, manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the European Union will face a September 11 deadline under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) to notify regulators within 24 hours after learning that a vulnerability is being actively exploited, with a fuller report due within 72 hours. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-24-hour-cra-deadline-is-changing-software-supply-chain-visibility/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-24-hour-cra-deadline-is-changing-software-supply-chain-visibility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 10 best autonomous pentesting tools, ranked by proof of exploit (2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the leading autonomous penetration testing platforms validate every exploit before it reaches your dashboard Security teams seldom lose because a scanner missed a bug. They lose because the dashboard fills with findings nobody has proven. Astra Security has provided a comprehensive State of Pentesting 2026 report which built on 6.8 million findings across 8,000-plus [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-10-best-autonomous-pentesting-tools-ranked-by-proof-of-exploit-2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-10-best-autonomous-pentesting-tools-ranked-by-proof-of-exploit-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Rippling alternatives for mid-market companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rippling sells one bundle for HR, IT, and finance, and the pitch lands well until an HR team reads the invoice. The base platform carries a low sticker price, then payroll, benefits, device management, and app provisioning each arrive as separate modules with their own per-employee fees. For a people team that wants a strong [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/top-rippling-alternatives-for-mid-market-companies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/top-rippling-alternatives-for-mid-market-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tesla-style screen can modernise an older Silverado. The hard part is making everything else work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pickup trucks have a useful life that can span decades, but the digital interfaces of such trucks can hardly be as graceful. Infotainment systems specific to vehicles are becoming a software solution between outdated hardware and new demands. A pickup truck manufactured in 2007 and one manufactured in 2026 may have a similar badge, yet [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-tesla-style-screen-can-modernise-an-older-silverado-the-hard-part-is-making-everything-else-work/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-tesla-style-screen-can-modernise-an-older-silverado-the-hard-part-is-making-everything-else-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn and promises to leave it open]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI community stores and shares its models, while promising to leave the platform itself largely unchanged. The price values the ten-year-old company at roughly 86 times [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-confirms-it-is-buying-hugging-face-for-1293bn-and-promises-to-leave-it-open/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-confirms-it-is-buying-hugging-face-for-1293bn-and-promises-to-leave-it-open/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coworker.ai launches OM2, an organizational memory layer promising to slash enterprise AI token burn by 9x]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every time a typical enterprise AI agent spins up to answer an internal question, it wakes up with severe amnesia. To make the AI useful, companies are forced into a costly, repetitive cycle: scraping thousands of documents, Slack threads, and CRM entries, and force-feeding them into the prompt window for context. It is a brute-force [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coworkerai-launches-om2-an-organizational-memory-layer-promising-to-slash-enterprise-ai-token-burn-by-9x/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coworkerai-launches-om2-an-organizational-memory-layer-promising-to-slash-enterprise-ai-token-burn-by-9x/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From One Corridor to Many: Indonesia as the Blueprint for Asia’s Stablecoin Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across Asia, issuers are bringing local currencies onchain, regulators are establishing digital asset frameworks, and financial institutions are exploring stablecoins for payments, treasury, and cross-border settlement. Issuance, however, is only the first layer of a functioning financial network. Moving local currencies between countries requires banking connectivity, institutional liquidity, foreign exchange execution, compliance, and settlement infrastructure. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-one-corridor-to-many-indonesia-as-the-blueprint-for-asias-stablecoin-future/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-one-corridor-to-many-indonesia-as-the-blueprint-for-asias-stablecoin-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belkin brings semi-solid-state batteries to a $70 power bank]]></title><description><![CDATA[The car industry keeps calling this battery chemistry a decade away. Belkin has just put it in a $69.99 power bank. The company announced three product lines at IFA 2026 in Berlin on Thursday. They arrived as three separate releases, covering portable power, trackers and chargers, and audio. The headline part is the UltraCharge Pro [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/belkin-brings-semi-solid-state-batteries-to-a-70-power-bank/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/belkin-brings-semi-solid-state-batteries-to-a-70-power-bank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Berlin company has won the world&rsquo;s first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No radiologist looks at it. Vara, which trades as MX Healthcare GmbH, announced the certification on Wednesday in a statement issued through Business Wire. Chief executive Jonas Muff set out the reasoning in a longer post the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vara-wins-worlds-first-ce-mark-for-ai-that-clears-mammograms-alone/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vara-wins-worlds-first-ce-mark-for-ai-that-clears-mammograms-alone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas Republicans are running against data centres, and both Senate candidates want the same water rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas spent a decade telling data centre developers they were welcome. Now its Republicans are competing over who can regulate them most aggressively, a shift that Reuters reports has put Big Tech on notice in the state that hosts more data centres than any other. The change is showing up on the ballot. Data centres [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/texas-republicans-are-running-against-data-centres-and-both-senate-candidates-want-the-same-water-rules/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/texas-republicans-are-running-against-data-centres-and-both-senate-candidates-want-the-same-water-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snowflake beat on almost everything. One number went the other way]]></title><description><![CDATA[Snowflake beat expectations on revenue, on profit and on guidance, and its shares rose more than 20% after hours. One number in the release went the other way, and it is the one that looks furthest into the future. Remaining performance obligations, the contracted revenue Snowflake has booked but not yet recognised, came in at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snowflake-beat-on-almost-everything-one-number-went-the-other-way/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snowflake-beat-on-almost-everything-one-number-went-the-other-way/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple faces a £2bn UK claim over App Tracking Transparency, brought by a former CMA official]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is facing a &pound;2bn claim in London over the privacy prompt that reshaped mobile advertising. The case, filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of UK app developers, argues that App Tracking Transparency polices everyone except Apple. The claim was&nbsp;reported by Reuters, which values it at $2.7bn. Bringing it is Ann Pope, a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-faces-a-2bn-uk-claim-over-app-tracking-transparency-brought-by-a-former-cma-official/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-faces-a-2bn-uk-claim-over-app-tracking-transparency-brought-by-a-former-cma-official/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The FAA just let a pilotless cargo plane fly out of a working airport]]></title><description><![CDATA[An aircraft with nobody on board flew itself out of a working Louisiana airport last week. It carried spare parts, medical supplies and cans of water. Its route took it over people&rsquo;s houses. Elroy Air said on Wednesday it had completed the first uncrewed autonomous flights under a federal programme. That programme exists to fold [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-faa-just-let-a-pilotless-cargo-plane-fly-out-of-a-working-airport/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-faa-just-let-a-pilotless-cargo-plane-fly-out-of-a-working-airport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it]]></title><description><![CDATA[In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m award from the Army&rsquo;s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fires. The company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-army-used-a-laser-weapon-on-american-soil-then-bought-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-army-used-a-laser-weapon-on-american-soil-then-bought-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber and Wayve launch London’s first robotaxi service, with a safety driver in every car]]></title><description><![CDATA[London has its first robotaxi service, and there is a person sitting behind the wheel of every car. Uber and Wayve began carrying passengers on Thursday in a fleet of Ford Mustang Mach-Es, each one supervised by a licensed driver who can take over. Uber owns and operates the vehicles while Wayve, the British company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-and-wayve-launch-londons-first-robotaxi-service-with-a-safety-driver-in-every-car/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-and-wayve-launch-londons-first-robotaxi-service-with-a-safety-driver-in-every-car/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing Apple’s new CEO did was rename a Canadian lake]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as &ldquo;Lake America&rdquo; to users in the United States. Mark Gurman reported the change for Bloomberg on Tuesday evening. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-first-thing-apples-new-ceo-did-was-rename-a-canadian-lake/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-first-thing-apples-new-ceo-did-was-rename-a-canadian-lake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia’s second-biggest loan this year, and pays less for it]]></title><description><![CDATA[ByteDance has landed a $29.6bn loan, the second-largest in Asia this year and roughly three times what the TikTok owner borrowed offshore in 2024. Banks put in more than $30bn of orders for a facility that started life at $20bn. The terms were&nbsp;first reported by Bloomberg. Citigroup and JPMorgan are coordinating the deal, which runs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-raises-296bn-asias-second-biggest-loan-this-year-and-pays-less-for-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-raises-296bn-asias-second-biggest-loan-this-year-and-pays-less-for-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNICEF study finds 60% of online child sexual abuse happens on social media]]></title><description><![CDATA[Around 20 million children experienced sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year across 21 countries, according to a UNICEF study published on Thursday. That is roughly one in five internet-using children aged 12 to 17 in the countries surveyed. The findings come from &ldquo;Through Children&rsquo;s Eyes: How Digital Technologies Enable Child Sexual Abuse&rdquo;, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unicef-study-finds-60-of-online-child-sexual-abuse-happens-on-social-media/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unicef-study-finds-60-of-online-child-sexual-abuse-happens-on-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout]]></title><description><![CDATA[CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word is doing a great deal of work. It is also the word that made this week&rsquo;s other cybersecurity story alarming. The expanded OpenAI partnership, announced at the company&rsquo;s Fal.Con conference in Las Vegas, has two halves. CrowdStrike [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crowdstrike-put-openai-in-the-product-and-anthropic-at-the-checkout/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crowdstrike-put-openai-in-the-product-and-anthropic-at-the-checkout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheap piece of software erased Booz Allen’s own AI threat ranking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Booz Allen put 18 of the world&rsquo;s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One of them finished the job. The consulting firm says the ranking it produced is the wrong thing to take away from it. The Cyber Weapon Index, published on Wednesday, scored nine American [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-cheap-piece-of-software-erased-booz-allens-own-ai-threat-ranking/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-cheap-piece-of-software-erased-booz-allens-own-ai-threat-ranking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breach at Thomson Reuters reached appellate courts in twelve US jurisdictions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court software business sells to judiciaries. The records involved come from appellate courts in a dozen US jurisdictions and from Ontario, Canada. The company detected the activity in its cloud environment on 30 June, according to&nbsp;Reuters, which is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-breach-at-thomson-reuters-reached-appellate-courts-in-twelve-us-jurisdictions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-breach-at-thomson-reuters-reached-appellate-courts-in-twelve-us-jurisdictions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[JD Power says 35% of passenger screens have never been used]]></title><description><![CDATA[JD Power found that 35% of owners with a passenger screen have never used it and that such systems generate 21.3 problems per 100 vehicles. Euro NCAP has awarded rating points for physical controls on nine functions since 1 January, and driver distraction warning became mandatory in the EU in July. A third of owners [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jd-power-says-35-of-passenger-screens-have-never-been-used/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jd-power-says-35-of-passenger-screens-have-never-been-used/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the July incident in which an agent breached another company. The Commission has been able to require the withdrawal or recall of a general-purpose model from the EU market since 2 August. OpenAI has told two House Democrats [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-tells-house-democrats-it-is-building-automated-shutdown-capability/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-tells-house-democrats-it-is-building-automated-shutdown-capability/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Fabric reaches the US government cloud, with general availability from October]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has launched its Fabric data platform in Government Community Cloud High on public preview, with general availability from 1 October, pitched at agentic AI workloads. Europe has no equivalent accredited tier, because its cloud certification scheme has been stuck since 2020 and lost its sovereignty requirement in 2024. Microsoft has launched its Fabric data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-fabric-reaches-the-us-government-cloud-with-general-availability-from-october/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-fabric-reaches-the-us-government-cloud-with-general-availability-from-october/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CrowdStrike unveils coordinated multi-agent investigations across five domains]]></title><description><![CDATA[CrowdStrike has announced coordinated multi-agent investigations on a shared context layer, with customers setting autonomy from human-in-the-loop approval to fully autonomous execution. NIS2 starts its 24-hour reporting clock from becoming aware of a significant incident, and holds management bodies liable for the measures they approve. CrowdStrike says AI agents now run attacks across several systems [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crowdstrike-unveils-coordinated-multi-agent-investigations-across-five-domains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crowdstrike-unveils-coordinated-multi-agent-investigations-across-five-domains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A US court says Google keeps its ad exchange. The Commission said only a sale would work]]></title><description><![CDATA[A US federal judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its advertising exchange, leaving the remedies from three American antitrust cases largely behavioural. The European Commission fined Google &euro;2.95B last September and said only divestment of part of its services would address the same conduct. A US federal judge has ruled that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-court-says-google-keeps-its-ad-exchange-the-commission-said-only-a-sale-would-work/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-court-says-google-keeps-its-ad-exchange-the-commission-said-only-a-sale-would-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release the weights for version 1.2. The AI Act exempts genuinely open-source general-purpose models from part of Article 53, but that exemption does not apply to models classified as carrying systemic risk. Meta has released [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-new-ai-model-edges-closer-to-openai-and-anthropic-its-ai-chief-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-new-ai-model-edges-closer-to-openai-and-anthropic-its-ai-chief-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York bans AI in primary school, three months after Norway did]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for pupils from 2-K through eighth grade, removing student-facing AI software and companion chatbots for around 600,000 children. Norway banned generative AI in its primary schools in June, and the EU AI Act regulates AI used on pupils rather than AI used by them. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-york-bans-ai-in-primary-school-three-months-after-norway-did/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-york-bans-ai-in-primary-school-three-months-after-norway-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft finally puts a dollar figure on Azure, and narrows what Azure means]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft will report Azure revenue in dollars each quarter for the first time, having grown it 42% to $29.42B in the June quarter under a new two-segment structure. The European Commission reached a preliminary position in June that Azure should be designated a gatekeeper, with a final decision expected by the end of the year. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-finally-puts-a-dollar-figure-on-azure-and-narrows-what-azure-means/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-finally-puts-a-dollar-figure-on-azure-and-narrows-what-azure-means/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to trust when attention becomes more valuable than the truth?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have built an internet space where attention can be more valuable than truth. That decision is beginning to cost us something far more important: trust. What concerns me is how quickly attention has become its own form of currency. Social media did not invent anger, dishonesty, division or human frustration. Those things existed long [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/what-happens-to-trust-when-attention-becomes-more-valuable-than-the-truth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/what-happens-to-trust-when-attention-becomes-more-valuable-than-the-truth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s driver assist faces new pressure after two fatal crashes where the cars stopped dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electrek has matched two fatal US freeway crashes to redacted Tesla reports showing a driver assistance system verified as engaged with the car stopped at 0mph in a live lane. The Netherlands approved FSD Supervised in April under UN Regulation 171, sealed the reasoning as commercial secrets, and an EU-wide vote is expected in October. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-driver-assist-faces-new-pressure-after-two-fatal-crashes-where-the-cars-stopped-dead/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-driver-assist-faces-new-pressure-after-two-fatal-crashes-where-the-cars-stopped-dead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI skills gap is growing while schools wait for perfect answers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is no longer a future challenge for education. It is already changing how people write, analyze, design, and build. Yet many schools still treat it mainly as a shortcut students might misuse. That response is understandable, but it leaves teachers unsupported and students preparing for a world that is disappearing. That gap is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-skills-gap-is-growing-while-schools-wait-for-perfect-answers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-skills-gap-is-growing-while-schools-wait-for-perfect-answers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice Department sides with OpenAI in publishers’ copyright fight]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI&rsquo;s fair use defence in the consolidated publisher copyright cases, arguing that licensing costs would threaten national security. EU law has no fair use doctrine, and the AI Act applies its copyright obligations to any provider placing a model on the Union market wherever training occurred. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/justice-department-sides-with-openai-in-publishers-copyright-fight/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/justice-department-sides-with-openai-in-publishers-copyright-fight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA turns to a stripped-down Sortie Suit for the first Artemis landings]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has told Axiom Space to develop a simpler Sortie Suit for the first lunar landings, cutting mass and complexity to support a 2028 target. The same acceleration cancelled the Lunar Gateway, and ESA&rsquo;s three guaranteed European astronaut flights were secured against Gateway hardware. NASA is simplifying the spacesuit for its first Moon landings. Axiom [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nasa-turns-to-a-stripped-down-sortie-suit-for-the-first-artemis-landings/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nasa-turns-to-a-stripped-down-sortie-suit-for-the-first-artemis-landings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adobe for Slack turns chat threads into Firefly images, video and PDFs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adobe for Slack lets Slackbot turn conversations and shared files into images, video and documents using Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat and more than 70 other tools. Article 50 of the EU AI Act now requires synthetic content to be marked in a machine-readable format, and the Commission&rsquo;s own guidance names Adobe&rsquo;s C2PA standard as a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobe-for-slack-turns-chat-threads-into-firefly-images-video-and-pdfs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobe-for-slack-turns-chat-threads-into-firefly-images-video-and-pdfs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity variant limited to governments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, its third Flash release in six weeks, with the cyber model restricted to trusted testers and governments. Under the EU AI Act every general purpose model placed on the market carries documentation, copyright and training data obligations, and a systemic risk model must be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-releases-gemini-38-flash-and-a-cybersecurity-variant-limited-to-governments/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-releases-gemini-38-flash-and-a-cybersecurity-variant-limited-to-governments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World open-sources ProveKit to bring private ID checks to everyday smartphones]]></title><description><![CDATA[The technology behind World ID can let people prove their age, nationality or possession of a valid ID without handing over the personal information behind it World is opening up one of the privacy technologies behind World ID, giving developers a new way to build identity checks that can happen directly on a user&rsquo;s phone [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/world-open-sources-provekit-to-bring-private-id-checks-to-everyday-smartphones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/world-open-sources-provekit-to-bring-private-id-checks-to-everyday-smartphones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber cuts 10% of its workforce and shuts down in Nigeria and Uganda]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber is cutting about 3,300 roles, roughly 10% of its workforce, and shutting down in Nigeria and Uganda as it redirects spending towards robotaxis. Its internal memo says everyone affected has been notified except where local process applies, which in the EU means consultation with workers&rsquo; representatives and a 30-day wait after notifying the authorities. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-cuts-10-of-its-workforce-and-shuts-down-in-nigeria-and-uganda/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-cuts-10-of-its-workforce-and-shuts-down-in-nigeria-and-uganda/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coder launches Agent Relay with SpaceXAI, running Cursor’s cloud agents on customer infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coder has announced Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment that lets Cursor&rsquo;s cloud agents run inside a customer&rsquo;s own infrastructure, with SpaceXAI as launch partner and the product in private preview. Cursor continues to run inference and planning, so under the EU&rsquo;s Digital Operational Resilience Act it remains an ICT third-party provider. Coder has announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coder-launches-agent-relay-with-spacexai-running-cursors-cloud-agents-on-customer-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coder-launches-agent-relay-with-spacexai-running-cursors-cloud-agents-on-customer-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circular announces Ring 3 Pro and Slim at IFA with contactless payments and haptic alerts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pro&rsquo;s ECG and atrial fibrillation detection is described as FDA cleared, and EU medical device rules require a separate conformity assessment that American clearance does not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/circular-announces-ring-3-pro-and-slim-at-ifa-with-contactless-payments-and-haptic-alerts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/circular-announces-ring-3-pro-and-slim-at-ifa-with-contactless-payments-and-haptic-alerts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful raises $550M Series C at $5B valuation, led by Insight Partners with Salesforce]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wonderful has closed a $550M Series C at a $5B valuation led by Insight Partners with Salesforce participating, eighteen months after being founded and six months after a $150M round at $2B. Its press release is datelined Amsterdam while Israeli technology press covers it as an Israeli company. Wonderful has raised $550M at a $5B [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wonderful-raises-550m-series-c-at-5b-valuation-led-by-insight-partners-with-salesforce/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wonderful-raises-550m-series-c-at-5b-valuation-led-by-insight-partners-with-salesforce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China exported 8.32 million vehicles last year. Now it wants them sold at stable prices]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s commerce and industry ministries and its market regulator have issued joint guidelines telling automakers to price overseas on costs and market demand, set clear price tiers and avoid frequent steep changes. The EU has spent two years trying to replace its countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles with a negotiated minimum import price. China [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-exported-832-million-vehicles-last-year-now-it-wants-them-sold-at-stable-prices/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-exported-832-million-vehicles-last-year-now-it-wants-them-sold-at-stable-prices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ElevenLabs hires OpenAI’s Ashley Kramer as its first chief revenue officer]]></title><description><![CDATA[ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly vice president of enterprise sales at OpenAI, as its first chief revenue officer, as more than half its revenue shifts to enterprise customers. Its core product falls under the AI Act&rsquo;s synthetic content marking rules, which give systems already on the market until 2 December 2026 to comply. ElevenLabs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elevenlabs-hires-openais-ashley-kramer-as-its-first-chief-revenue-officer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elevenlabs-hires-openais-ashley-kramer-as-its-first-chief-revenue-officer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment and candidate evaluation systems are high risk under Annex III of the EU AI Act, with obligations deferred to 2 December 2027, though the transparency duty and GDPR apply [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fireflies-launches-voice-agents-for-screening-sales-and-support-calls/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fireflies-launches-voice-agents-for-screening-sales-and-support-calls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walnut Launches Enterprise AI Agent Platform to Personalize the B2B Buyer Experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[For B2B software companies, product-led buying has created a new challenge: buyers increasingly expect to explore products on their own terms, while go-to-market teams still have limited time to tailor those experiences. Walnut is now betting that AI can make that personalization scalable. Walnut, a platform used by go-to-market teams at hundreds of B2B software [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walnut-launches-enterprise-ai-agent-platform-to-personalize-the-b2b-buyer-experience/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walnut-launches-enterprise-ai-agent-platform-to-personalize-the-b2b-buyer-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huskeys Raises $27M Series A Led by Blackstone to Build a New Security Layer for the Network Edge]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cybersecurity industry has spent years adding new layers of protection around applications, cloud infrastructure, and internet-facing services. But as organizations adopt more cloud providers, CDNs, web application firewalls and network technologies, a different problem is emerging: managing all of those systems together. That challenge is now attracting investor attention. Huskeys has raised a $27 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huskeys-raises-27m-series-a-led-by-blackstone-to-build-a-new-security-layer-for-the-network-edge/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huskeys-raises-27m-series-a-led-by-blackstone-to-build-a-new-security-layer-for-the-network-edge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AEREDIUM launches AERSeal to end single-key control of smart contracts]]></title><description><![CDATA[AEREDIUM has launched AERSeal, a security product for smart contracts. It exists to stop a single compromised private key from handing an attacker control of a contract. Smart contracts often rely on one private key to authorise sensitive operations. Those include minting assets, upgrading the contract, or changing administrative settings. If someone steals that key, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aeredium-launches-aerseal-to-end-single-key-control-of-smart-contracts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aeredium-launches-aerseal-to-end-single-key-control-of-smart-contracts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera loses EU court fight to have Microsoft Edge labelled a gatekeeper]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft Edge will stay outside the European Union&rsquo;s toughest tech rulebook. The bloc&rsquo;s General Court on Wednesday rejected Opera&rsquo;s challenge to the European Commission&rsquo;s decision not to designate the browser as a gatekeeper service under the Digital Markets Act. The Luxembourg-based court ruled that the Commission &ldquo;did not err by accepting Microsoft&rsquo;s sufficiently substantiated arguments [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/opera-loses-eu-court-fight-to-have-microsoft-edge-labelled-a-gatekeeper/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/opera-loses-eu-court-fight-to-have-microsoft-edge-labelled-a-gatekeeper/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CrowdStrike and the FBI are dismantling Sality after 23 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sality has been infecting computers since 2003, making it older than the iPhone, Facebook, and much of the security industry now working to dismantle it. US law enforcement and CrowdStrike began taking it apart this week, Reuters reported. For more than two decades, the operation has been used for fairly ordinary cybercrime. Infected machines have [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crowdstrike-and-the-fbi-are-dismantling-sality-after-23-years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crowdstrike-and-the-fbi-are-dismantling-sality-after-23-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PwC projects that the global investment in AI infrastructure will reach $31.6 trillion by 2050]]></title><description><![CDATA[Building the world&rsquo;s AI infrastructure will cost $31.6 trillion between now and 2050, according to modelling commissioned by PwC from Oxford Economics across 46 countries. Annual capital expenditure is projected to rise from $800bn this year to $1.8tn by 2050. The United States accounts for $15.1tn of that spending, or 48%; next in line is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pwc-projects-that-the-global-investment-in-ai-infrastructure-will-reach-316-trillion-by-2050/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pwc-projects-that-the-global-investment-in-ai-infrastructure-will-reach-316-trillion-by-2050/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dropbox says 5,000 accounts were breached through a Lenovo login]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somebody registered a Lenovo ID using a stranger&rsquo;s email address and then used it to sign into that person&rsquo;s Dropbox account without needing their password. About 5,000 accounts were compromised between August 4 and 21, Dropbox said. The flaw was in a legacy integration between Lenovo ID and Dropbox that did not properly verify email [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dropbox-says-5000-accounts-were-breached-through-a-lenovo-login/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dropbox-says-5000-accounts-were-breached-through-a-lenovo-login/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says its next model finds security flaws nobody has found yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;With the right tools and access, Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop ways to exploit them,&rdquo; said Amelia Glaese, the OpenAI vice president who oversees its safety work. That is the company describing its own unreleased model. Astra spots more security vulnerabilities than any OpenAI model currently available publicly, and uses less [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-says-its-next-model-finds-security-flaws-nobody-has-found-yet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-says-its-next-model-finds-security-flaws-nobody-has-found-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Commission is looking at Oracle’s licensing, two months after settling with SAP]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission is gathering information on how Oracle licenses its software in the cloud, following a similar approach it used against SAP two months ago. Reuters reported the inquiry on Monday, citing a person familiar with it, after MLex first reported on the issue. The Commission was careful about what it would confirm. A [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-european-commission-is-looking-at-oracles-licensing-two-months-after-settling-with-sap/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-european-commission-is-looking-at-oracles-licensing-two-months-after-settling-with-sap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s new CEO gets a $3M salary and a $55M equity target]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Ternus will receive a base salary of $3m a year as Apple&rsquo;s chief executive, roughly 5% of what the company is targeting for his total compensation. The rest is equity, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday, the same day he took over the role. His fiscal 2026 stock award is prorated to $2.5m [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-new-ceo-gets-a-3m-salary-and-a-55m-equity-target/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-new-ceo-gets-a-3m-salary-and-a-55m-equity-target/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brussels is asking publishers whether Google’s AI opt-out is any use]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google gave publishers a way to opt out of its AI search features in June without affecting their ordinary search rankings. The European Commission has spent the summer trying to work out whether that option actually gives publishers any meaningful choice. The Commission sent publishers a questionnaire in July, with a deadline of August 28, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-is-asking-publishers-whether-googles-ai-opt-out-is-any-use/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-is-asking-publishers-whether-googles-ai-opt-out-is-any-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozilla adds a built-in ad blocker to Firefox on iOS, built on Apple’s WebKit API]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mozilla has launched a built-in ad blocker for Firefox on iOS, built on Apple&rsquo;s WebKit content blocker technology with the EasyList filter and switched off by default. Apple opened its browser engine to rivals in March 2024 to comply with the Digital Markets Act, and no alternative engine has shipped to a European iPhone since. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mozilla-adds-a-built-in-ad-blocker-to-firefox-on-ios-built-on-apples-webkit-api/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mozilla-adds-a-built-in-ad-blocker-to-firefox-on-ios-built-on-apples-webkit-api/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache read prices by 75%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, the same model with different safeguards, cutting cache read prices by 75% and reporting 52.6% on a scientific research benchmark against 24.7% for its predecessor. Its outputs carry a watermark required by the EU AI Act, and the detection API is in private preview for eligible [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-releases-claude-fable-51-and-mythos-51-cutting-cache-read-prices-by-75/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-releases-claude-fable-51-and-mythos-51-cutting-cache-read-prices-by-75/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Deere launches JD, an AI assistant that answers questions from a farm’s own data]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Deere has launched JD, an AI assistant that answers plain-language questions from a farm&rsquo;s own machine and field data, alongside a ten-point voluntary Farmer Data Commitment. In the EU those commitments are largely obligations under the Data Act, which also bars a manufacturer from using the data to work out what a farm is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/john-deere-launches-jd-an-ai-assistant-that-answers-questions-from-a-farms-own-data/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/john-deere-launches-jd-an-ai-assistant-that-answers-questions-from-a-farms-own-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agents, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says. European governments have spent two years moving the other way, onto sovereign suites chosen for control rather than integrations. Meta is moving its internal communications from Google Chat [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-dropping-google-chat-for-slack-because-it-says-agents-work-better-there/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-dropping-google-chat-for-slack-because-it-says-agents-work-better-there/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toyota’s FSD-Like System Arrives In 2028, But The Driver Stays Liable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toyota will put a rival to Tesla&rsquo;s Full Self-Driving on its 2028 models and sell it as &ldquo;Level 2++&ldquo;, a marketing label that keeps the driver in charge, with a guardrail layer over the neural network. Europe approves this class of system under UN Regulation 171, but from 9 December the Product Liability Directive treats [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/toyotas-fsd-like-system-arrives-in-2028-but-the-driver-stays-liable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/toyotas-fsd-like-system-arrives-in-2028-but-the-driver-stays-liable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo opens driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and Denver is its first commercial deployment in a city with real snowfall. Under EU rules an automated driving system&rsquo;s weather envelope is part of a type-approved operational design domain, and the vehicle must perform a minimum risk manoeuvre when it reaches the boundary. Waymo [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-opens-driverless-rides-in-denver-san-diego-and-tampa/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-opens-driverless-rides-in-denver-san-diego-and-tampa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eddy Cue quietly became the most powerful executive at Apple]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phil Schiller leaving the App Store made Monday&rsquo;s headlines. The quieter fact underneath it is that Eddy Cue now runs more of Apple than anyone except the new chief executive. Mark Gurman broke the reshuffle for Bloomberg on Monday, hours before John Ternus took over. Apple has not announced any of it, and declined to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eddy-cue-quietly-became-the-most-powerful-executive-at-apple/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eddy-cue-quietly-became-the-most-powerful-executive-at-apple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company&rsquo;s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his last day writing to staff. Chance Miller obtained the memo for 9to5Mac on Monday, and Mark Gurman reported [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-has-a-new-ceo-and-tim-cook-signed-off-quoting-steve-jobs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-has-a-new-ceo-and-tim-cook-signed-off-quoting-steve-jobs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition]]></title><description><![CDATA[US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday. It sits in the Department of Homeland Security&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ice-plans-to-buy-boston-dynamics-robot-dogs-without-running-a-competition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ice-plans-to-buy-boston-dynamics-robot-dogs-without-running-a-competition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker&rsquo;s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the finding for The Register on Friday. The work is by Johann Rehberger, who publishes as wunderwuzzi and has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-researcher-hijacked-claude-code-by-asking-it-to-summarise-a-web-page/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-researcher-hijacked-claude-code-by-asking-it-to-summarise-a-web-page/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them down. Texas froze state funding for the same cameras four days earlier. Two states run by Republican governors moved against Flock Safety in the space of a week. Zack Whittaker reported both decisions for TechCrunch on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/florida-and-texas-both-moved-against-flock-cameras-in-a-single-week/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/florida-and-texas-both-moved-against-flock-cameras-in-a-single-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked]]></title><description><![CDATA[X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 59 of those accounts with zero engagement. X probably suspended them before they [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-said-chinese-bots-fuelled-the-data-centre-backlash-a-researcher-checked/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-said-chinese-bots-fuelled-the-data-centre-backlash-a-researcher-checked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US will ask the G20 not to build anything to govern AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White House official set out the position before a two-day meeting that opened in North Carolina on Tuesday,&nbsp;Reuters reported. The argument is procedural rather than substantive, which is what makes it effective. Washington is not proposing rules [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-will-ask-the-g20-not-to-build-anything-to-govern-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-will-ask-the-g20-not-to-build-anything-to-govern-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dyson has built a toothbrush with a camera in it, for $499]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dyson has put a camera inside a toothbrush. The CameraJet went on sale Tuesday for $499, combining a 100,000-pixel macro camera in the brush head with a small jet that sprays mouthrinse between the teeth. The company says it has spent six years developing the product. The camera is there mainly to help the toothbrush [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dyson-has-built-a-toothbrush-with-a-camera-in-it-for-499/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dyson-has-built-a-toothbrush-with-a-camera-in-it-for-499/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fervo signs 396MW geothermal deal with Google for 2028 start]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alphabet has contracted up to 396MW of geothermal power from Fervo Energy for a prospective Utah data centre from 2028, with an option on another 600MW by 2030 that would take the order close to a gigawatt. The European Union had about 1GW of net geothermal electricity capacity in total in 2022, and geothermal supplied [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fervo-signs-396mw-geothermal-deal-with-google-for-2028-start/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fervo-signs-396mw-geothermal-deal-with-google-for-2028-start/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UBS says China is unlikely to match ASML’s top tool this decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[UBS analysts say China&rsquo;s lithography programme is at roughly the stage ASML reached in 2004 and will not produce a viable EUV alternative within a decade. They also expect China to reach high-volume manufacturing of immersion DUV machines in two to five years, which is the category the Dutch government controls through export licences. China [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubs-says-china-is-unlikely-to-match-asmls-top-tool-this-decade/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubs-says-china-is-unlikely-to-match-asmls-top-tool-this-decade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron’s Taiwan unions are heading for a strike vote over bonuses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are represented by two unions that are now preparing their members for a possible strike. About 80% of workers polled in a preliminary survey supported industrial action, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The dispute is about bonuses rather than base pay, and more specifically about how those bonuses are calculated. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microns-taiwan-unions-are-heading-for-a-strike-vote-over-bonuses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microns-taiwan-unions-are-heading-for-a-strike-vote-over-bonuses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are still struggling to answer: what exactly counts as a deepfake? The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral was expected to rule on broader restrictions for AI-generated campaign material, Reuters reported. The proposed rules go beyond simply banning deceptive deepfakes. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-is-defining-what-a-deepfake-is-five-weeks-before-it-votes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-is-defining-what-a-deepfake-is-five-weeks-before-it-votes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next cybersecurity battleground is inside the processor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity has a location problem. Attackers often exploit vulnerabilities in systems that businesses have spent years protecting with software, yet the processor at the center of those systems can remain largely unaware of anything that is wrong. Verizon&rsquo;s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found vulnerability exploitation had become the leading initial access vector, accounting for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-cybersecurity-battleground-is-inside-the-processor/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-cybersecurity-battleground-is-inside-the-processor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state&rsquo;s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was just 48 gigawatts, and the difference clearly does not represent hundreds of gigawatts of new data centres that are actually going to be built. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/texas-has-474gw-of-data-centre-requests-and-no-idea-how-many-are-real/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/texas-has-474gw-of-data-centre-requests-and-no-idea-how-many-are-real/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chinese court has frozen Nexperia’s stakes in four of its own subsidiaries]]></title><description><![CDATA[A court in Dongguan has frozen Nexperia&rsquo;s shareholdings in four of its Chinese subsidiaries, worth about 2.14 billion yuan, with the order remaining in place until August 2029. The order took effect in the last week of August, Reuters reported. The assets include Nexperia&rsquo;s stakes in semiconductor operations in Wuxi and Shanghai, as well as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-court-has-frozen-nexperias-stakes-in-four-of-its-own-subsidiaries/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-court-has-frozen-nexperias-stakes-in-four-of-its-own-subsidiaries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Jr’s fund 1789 Capital leads a $1bn round valuing Polymarket at $21bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump Jr is a partner at the fund leading Polymarket&rsquo;s new funding round. He is also a strategic adviser to Kalshi, Polymarket&rsquo;s principal competitor. 1789 Capital is putting about $300m into a round of roughly $1bn that values Polymarket at $21bn,&nbsp;Forbes reported.&nbsp;Other investors in the round have not been named. The firm was already [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-jrs-fund-1789-capital-leads-a-1bn-round-valuing-polymarket-at-21bn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-jrs-fund-1789-capital-leads-a-1bn-round-valuing-polymarket-at-21bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your next enterprise software feature won’t be shipped. It will be generated.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The enterprise feature backlog is where good user requests go to wait. That wait is about to get much shorter, not because product teams got faster, but because the missing feature can now be generated at request time and discarded thirty seconds later. A support team lead opens her helpdesk application and asks: &ldquo;Show me [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-next-enterprise-software-feature-wont-be-shipped-it-will-be-generated/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-next-enterprise-software-feature-wont-be-shipped-it-will-be-generated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta removes fraud app ads in India, after being asked twice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta removed dozens of advertisements for apps that presented themselves as pornography but actually functioned as banking malware, after the Indian government issued an advisory. Reuters then found at least 39 more of the ads still running and reported on Monday that Meta removed those as well after being asked about them. The sequence is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-removes-fraud-app-ads-in-india-after-being-asked-twice/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-removes-fraud-app-ads-in-india-after-being-asked-twice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic has resumed the tests in which its models attacked real companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has restarted the external cybersecurity evaluations it suspended a month ago, after three incidents in which its own models escaped their test environments and attacked real companies. The company said it had introduced additional safeguards before resuming the testing, Reuters reported on Monday. The incidents, disclosed on July 31, were more specific than the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-has-resumed-the-tests-in-which-its-models-attacked-real-companies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-has-resumed-the-tests-in-which-its-models-attacked-real-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The FTC says Amazon charged advertisers the wrong price 80% of the time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commission now alleges that Amazon charged advertisers their full winning bid roughly 80% of the time instead. The agency and 22 states sued Amazon on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ftc-says-amazon-charged-advertisers-the-wrong-price-80-of-the-time/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ftc-says-amazon-charged-advertisers-the-wrong-price-80-of-the-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI reads an ECG in two seconds and finds what cardiologists cannot]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify signs of heart failure and valve disease that clinicians cannot detect from the same trace. The results were presented at the European Society [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-reads-an-ecg-in-two-seconds-and-finds-what-cardiologists-cannot/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-reads-an-ecg-in-two-seconds-and-finds-what-cardiologists-cannot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI tells the court Apple’s trade-secret case is “a mess of Apple’s own making”]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has told a federal court that Apple created the conditions it is now describing as theft. &ldquo;This dispute is a mess of Apple&rsquo;s own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else,&rdquo; the company said in a filing lodged late Monday in the US District Court in San Jose, according to Reuters. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-tells-the-court-apples-trade-secret-case-is-a-mess-of-apples-own-making/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-tells-the-court-apples-trade-secret-case-is-a-mess-of-apples-own-making/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic has signed a $35bn cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre being built by a former bitcoin miner. The Wall Street Journal reported the Lambda agreement on Monday, and&nbsp;Reuters confirmed it&nbsp;with a person familiar with the matter. Neither company has announced it, and no term [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-has-signed-a-35bn-cloud-deal-with-nvidia-backed-lambda/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-has-signed-a-35bn-cloud-deal-with-nvidia-backed-lambda/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest problem in physical AI may be the magnet, not the model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot&rsquo;s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on single country supply under the Critical Raw Materials Act, and one company, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-hardest-problem-in-physical-ai-may-be-the-magnet-not-the-model/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-hardest-problem-in-physical-ai-may-be-the-magnet-not-the-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most]]></title><description><![CDATA[A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong AI knowledge expect AI could soon take over their work, a higher share than among those who understand it less. Only 15% of respondents have had any AI training, eighteen months after the AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tu-darmstadt-found-the-people-who-know-ai-best-fear-it-most/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tu-darmstadt-found-the-people-who-know-ai-best-fear-it-most/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya]]></title><description><![CDATA[Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a clinic with no electricity. The vehicle is returning to the Netherlands and funding is the obstacle. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-solar-mobile-clinic-has-successfully-driven-800km-across-kenya/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-solar-mobile-clinic-has-successfully-driven-800km-across-kenya/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 11 adds toggles to remove Bing results and Store suggestions from Search]]></title><description><![CDATA[Windows 11 is rolling out toggles that remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions from Search, in an optional August update that is being released gradually. Microsoft removed Bing from the Windows Search pane for users in the European Economic Area to meet the Digital Markets Act deadline of 6 March 2024. Windows 11 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/windows-11-adds-toggles-to-remove-bing-results-and-store-suggestions-from-search/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/windows-11-adds-toggles-to-remove-bing-results-and-store-suggestions-from-search/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oslo doesn’t need fast chargers everywhere, and it proves it daily]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU&rsquo;s own right to plug sits in Article 14(8) of the recast buildings directive, with transposition due in May 2026. Nearly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oslo-doesnt-need-fast-chargers-everywhere-and-it-proves-it-daily/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oslo-doesnt-need-fast-chargers-everywhere-and-it-proves-it-daily/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT Ads hits $1B annualised as the EU brings it under the Digital Services Act]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached $1B in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days and has opened self-service buying across Europe, India, the Middle East and North Africa. On the same day the European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, on 159.1 million declared monthly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-ads-hits-1b-annualised-as-the-eu-brings-it-under-the-digital-services-act/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-ads-hits-1b-annualised-as-the-eu-brings-it-under-the-digital-services-act/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s Phil Schiller hands over App Store and Events to Eddy Cue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phil Schiller has stepped down from running Apple&rsquo;s App Store and its product events, Bloomberg reported, keeping his Apple Fellow title as responsibility moves to Eddy Cue&rsquo;s services division with Carson Oliver running the store day to day. The change comes the day before John Ternus becomes chief executive, and thirteen days after Apple replaced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-phil-schiller-hands-over-app-store-and-events-to-eddy-cue/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-phil-schiller-hands-over-app-store-and-events-to-eddy-cue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pew Research Center&rsquo;s 2025 survey found that 84% of U.S. adults use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, and 50% use Instagram, illustrating how deeply everyday expression has moved onto digital platforms. The Library of Congress explains that digital materials can be harder to preserve than physical materials because access depends on changing technologies, formats, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-digital-legacy-problem-what-happens-to-the-people-behind-the-memories/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-digital-legacy-problem-what-happens-to-the-people-behind-the-memories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LG Energy Solution signs a 10-year Arkansas lithium deal starting 2029]]></title><description><![CDATA[LG Energy Solution has signed a binding 10-year take-or-pay agreement for 8,000 tonnes a year of battery-grade lithium carbonate from Smackover Lithium in Arkansas, a joint venture 45% owned by Norway&rsquo;s state-controlled Equinor, starting in 2029. LG signed a comparable offtake with Vulcan Energy in Germany in January 2022 that was due to begin delivering [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lg-energy-solution-signs-a-10-year-arkansas-lithium-deal-starting-2029/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lg-energy-solution-signs-a-10-year-arkansas-lithium-deal-starting-2029/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new machine has one eye and 15 motors, stands 25cm tall, and weighs under 800g. Preorders opened on Thursday. Pollen is targeting first deliveries [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hugging-face-is-selling-a-399-robot-duck-with-open-source-software/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hugging-face-is-selling-a-399-robot-duck-with-open-source-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform UK wants to scrap the UK GDPR and copy New Zealand’s privacy law]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New Zealand&rsquo;s. Nigel Farage and the party&rsquo;s economy chief Robert Jenrick announced the pledge on Tuesday evening, inside a package aimed at small businesses. Mizy Clifton reported the plan for Politico. Britain wrote an amended [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reform-uk-wants-to-scrap-the-uk-gdpr-and-copy-new-zealands-privacy-law/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reform-uk-wants-to-scrap-the-uk-gdpr-and-copy-new-zealands-privacy-law/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU employment law 2026 moved the burden of proof to you]]></title><description><![CDATA[If your people team spent this year reading legislation rather than hiring, that is not a scheduling failure. Three pieces of European employment law took effect in 2026. A fourth arrives in December. They share a design principle most companies have not yet absorbed. The thread running through all of it: the burden of proof [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-employment-law-2026-moved-the-burden-of-proof-to-you/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-employment-law-2026-moved-the-burden-of-proof-to-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google will pay £260m to settle a UK class action over Play Store fees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has agreed to pay &pound;260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was due to go to trial next month. The deal appeared on Thursday and is worth about $353m, Reuters reported. Lawyers had previously valued the claim at just over &pound;1bn. It sought compensation [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-pay-260m-to-settle-a-uk-class-action-over-play-store-fees/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-pay-260m-to-settle-a-uk-class-action-over-play-store-fees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google will limit how much memory Android apps can use from February 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google will start policing how much memory Android apps use, and it says the reason is the global shortage of RAM. From February 2027, an app that exceeds the new limits risks two penalties. Android can slow it down or shut it. The Play Store can bury it. The company published the requirements this week [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-limit-how-much-memory-android-apps-can-use-from-february-2027/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-limit-how-much-memory-android-apps-can-use-from-february-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organization Transformation. It explored cutting the size of many teams by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-planned-to-cut-some-teams-by-60-and-replace-the-work-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-planned-to-cut-some-teams-by-60-and-replace-the-work-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$650 for a phone you can fix yourself?]]></title><description><![CDATA[$650 for a phone you can fix yourself?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/650-for-a-phone-you-can-fix-yourself/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/650-for-a-phone-you-can-fix-yourself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT becomes the first AI chatbot designated under the DSA]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Monday&rsquo;s designation brings the chatbot under the Digital Services Act as a Very Large Online Search Engine, alongside Reddit and Roblox, which have been designated as Very Large Online Platforms. ChatGPT is the first AI chatbot to be designated under the regime. The Commission announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-becomes-the-first-ai-chatbot-designated-under-the-dsa/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-becomes-the-first-ai-chatbot-designated-under-the-dsa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honda and Nissan will share the software in their cars from 2029]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eighteen months after their merger fell apart over who would control whom, Honda and Nissan have agreed to share the software inside their cars. The two&nbsp;signed a joint development agreement&nbsp;on Monday covering electronic control units, an in-vehicle operating system, middleware and vehicle control software, with the first cars arriving from fiscal 2029. The agreement is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honda-and-nissan-will-share-the-software-in-their-cars-from-2029/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honda-and-nissan-will-share-the-software-in-their-cars-from-2029/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singapore is putting S$220M into fintech as private funding hits a decade low]]></title><description><![CDATA[Singapore has committed S$220M, about $173M, to its fintech sector over the next three years. It made the announcement three days after KPMG reported that private investment in Singaporean fintech had fallen to its weakest first half in roughly a decade. The timing is not a coincidence, and nobody is pretending otherwise. Gan Kim Yong, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/singapore-is-putting-s220m-into-fintech-as-private-funding-hits-a-decade-low/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/singapore-is-putting-s220m-into-fintech-as-private-funding-hits-a-decade-low/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an early-stage company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pinterest&rsquo;s chief financial officer is leaving for a private, early-stage company, and investors reacted quickly. Julia Donnelly will step down on October 30, Reuters reported, with the company&rsquo;s shares falling as much as 3.8% in after-hours trading on Friday. Donnelly joined Pinterest in 2023 from Wayfair, where she was global head of finance, and has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pinterest-cfo-julia-donnelly-is-leaving-to-join-an-early-stage-company/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pinterest-cfo-julia-donnelly-is-leaving-to-join-an-early-stage-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe has ordered a €388M AI supercomputer from its own state-owned champion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a &euro;387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five months ago. The order is the sixth AI Factory procurement contract signed by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-has-ordered-a-388m-ai-supercomputer-from-its-own-state-owned-champion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-has-ordered-a-388m-ai-supercomputer-from-its-own-state-owned-champion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI has started letting some customers pay only when the AI works]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has begun letting some of its largest customers pay only when its AI actually completes the job. Kevin McLaughlin and Amir Efrati&nbsp;reported the change to The Information, giving the example of a customer support interaction handled end-to-end. The arrangement is limited to select major accounts rather than offered generally, and OpenAI has not announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-has-started-letting-some-customers-pay-only-when-the-ai-works/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-has-started-letting-some-customers-pay-only-when-the-ai-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong in NHS records]]></title><description><![CDATA[A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read &ldquo;null demyelination&rdquo;, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That case appears in a warning from Healthwatch England, the statutory patient watchdog,&nbsp;reported by the Guardian today. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-scribes-are-getting-drug-names-and-diagnoses-wrong-in-nhs-records/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-scribes-are-getting-drug-names-and-diagnoses-wrong-in-nhs-records/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has become one of Anthropic&rsquo;s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic&rsquo;s models, The New York Times reported, citing two people who declined to be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-projected-spending-up-to-10bn-a-year-on-anthropics-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-projected-spending-up-to-10bn-a-year-on-anthropics-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Justice Department rewrote its own hacking announcement two days later]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other federal bodies. The revised version says those organisations were targets, and that only some were actually compromised, as Reuters reported. The original text went out on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-justice-department-rewrote-its-own-hacking-announcement-two-days-later/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-justice-department-rewrote-its-own-hacking-announcement-two-days-later/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SB Energy gave OpenAI $5.5bn in warrants to sign a 20-year lease]]></title><description><![CDATA[SB Energy has handed OpenAI warrants now worth about $5.5bn, and it did so to keep OpenAI as a tenant. The Wall Street Journal reported the arrangement on Monday. The direction matters and is easy to get backwards. SB Energy, the SoftBank-owned power and data centre developer, is the issuer, and OpenAI is the recipient, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sb-energy-gave-openai-55bn-in-warrants-to-sign-a-20-year-lease/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sb-energy-gave-openai-55bn-in-warrants-to-sign-a-20-year-lease/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-driven cyber attacks are now the top risk to the financial system, the FSB says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chair of the Financial Stability Board has told G20 finance ministers that what artificial intelligence does to cyber risk is now the most immediate threat to the global financial system. Andrew Bailey set out the assessment in a letter ahead of this week&rsquo;s meetings,&nbsp;Reuters reported&nbsp;on Monday. His argument is more about economics, as AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-driven-cyber-attacks-are-now-the-top-risk-to-the-financial-system-the-fsb-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-driven-cyber-attacks-are-now-the-top-risk-to-the-financial-system-the-fsb-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets]]></title><description><![CDATA[An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate curriculum and has driven measurable shifts in campus culture in under three years. In the EU, systems that monitor students during tests are high-risk under the AI Act and emotion recognition in education has been prohibited since [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mit-report-says-ai-can-complete-almost-any-undergraduate-assignment-it-sets/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mit-report-says-ai-can-complete-almost-any-undergraduate-assignment-it-sets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Maps relabels Lake Ontario as Lake America for US users]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Maps now labels Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an update to the US Geographic Names Information System, while Canadian users see the old name and everyone else sees both. Google Maps has been a designated very large online platform in the EU since April 2023, with duties [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-maps-relabels-lake-ontario-as-lake-america-for-us-users/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-maps-relabels-lake-ontario-as-lake-america-for-us-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators]]></title><description><![CDATA[VodafoneThree&rsquo;s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts requiring permission. The EU&rsquo;s Gigabit Infrastructure Act has since November given authorities four months to decide a permit, after which it is deemed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-networks-are-not-ready-for-ai-traffic-say-mobile-operators/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-networks-are-not-ready-for-ai-traffic-say-mobile-operators/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot tax in February 2017, the same month the European Parliament adopted robotics rules [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-bill-gates-uses-ai-and-why-he-thinks-nobody-is-preparing-for-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-bill-gates-uses-ai-and-why-he-thinks-nobody-is-preparing-for-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics allegedly taken from pirate archives, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per composition. A Munich court ruled in November 2025 that memorising lyrics inside a model is reproduction and that the text and data mining [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-music-and-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-over-song-lyrics-in-claudes-training-data/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-music-and-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-over-song-lyrics-in-claudes-training-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more than 3 million open-source LLMs, for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-pays-129b-for-hugging-face-thomas-wolf-is-betting-on-microduck-a-399-robot/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-pays-129b-for-hugging-face-thomas-wolf-is-betting-on-microduck-a-399-robot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more than 3 million open-source LLMs, for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hugging-face-built-a-45-billion-empire-on-free-ai-models-now-nvidia-is-buying-it-for-129-billion/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hugging-face-built-a-45-billion-empire-on-free-ai-models-now-nvidia-is-buying-it-for-129-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list]]></title><description><![CDATA[CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese military company, a designation that blocks defence contracts without restricting commercial sales. The company is the world&rsquo;s fourth-largest DRAM maker and passed Tencent this month to become China&rsquo;s most valuable listed company. CXMT has sued [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-sues-pentagon-to-get-off-us-list/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-sues-pentagon-to-get-off-us-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BYD doubled its 1,500kW charging network in five months and wants to double it again by December]]></title><description><![CDATA[BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station on 28 August, doubling the network in under five months, with each connector rated at up to 1,500kW. European rules require a charging pool on the core road network to deliver 400kW in total this year, rising to 600kW by 2027. BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/byd-doubled-its-1500kw-charging-network-in-five-months-and-wants-to-double-it-again-by-december/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/byd-doubled-its-1500kw-charging-network-in-five-months-and-wants-to-double-it-again-by-december/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This tablet has NINE speakers on it 😳 #Lenovo #Android #JBL]]></title><description><![CDATA[This tablet has NINE speakers on it 😳 #Lenovo #Android #JBL]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-tablet-has-nine-speakers-on-it-lenovo-android-jbl/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-tablet-has-nine-speakers-on-it-lenovo-android-jbl/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX&rsquo;s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in Cursor on every plan. OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-to-stop-supplying-models-to-cursor-after-spacex-acquisition/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-to-stop-supplying-models-to-cursor-after-spacex-acquisition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rethink for China’s carmakers as regulators tell them to fix quality, not add features]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four Chinese ministries have begun a yearlong vehicle quality campaign that bars carmakers from changing technical parameters through over-the-air updates after test samples are sealed, with penalties including suspension from the product catalogue. A separate mandatory standard requires physical controls for 19 functions from July 2027. Four Chinese ministries have launched a yearlong inspection campaign [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-rethink-for-chinas-carmakers-as-regulators-tell-them-to-fix-quality-not-add-features/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-rethink-for-chinas-carmakers-as-regulators-tell-them-to-fix-quality-not-add-features/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This graphite-free battery could break China’s grip on the EV supply chain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pure Lithium says a laboratory cell with no graphite anode completed 9,315 charge and discharge cycles with almost no capacity loss, a result no third party has validated. The EU wants to process 40% of its own strategic raw materials by 2030 and cap any single country at 65%, while China processes more than 90% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-graphite-free-battery-could-break-chinas-grip-on-the-ev-supply-chain/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-graphite-free-battery-could-break-chinas-grip-on-the-ev-supply-chain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The data center boom will fail its promise if safety and workforce development continue to lag behind]]></title><description><![CDATA[The data center boom will be judged not only by how much infrastructure we build, but by whether the people building it return home safely. Major opportunities bring a rush for capital, market share, and industry leadership. Schedules tighten, hiring accelerates, and safety can be treated as an obstacle. From what I have seen in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-data-center-boom-will-fail-its-promise-if-safety-and-workforce-development-continue-to-lag-behind/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-data-center-boom-will-fail-its-promise-if-safety-and-workforce-development-continue-to-lag-behind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agents are authorized to act]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 2026 IBM study points to questions about AI readiness, visibility, and control. The survey of 2,000 C-level technology executives found 11% felt fully prepared for the AI-agent deployment expected over the following year. Two-thirds of CIOs and CTOs said they were accountable for AI systems they did not fully control, while 70% said teams [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-businesses-need-clearer-limits-before-ai-agents-are-authorized-to-act/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-businesses-need-clearer-limits-before-ai-agents-are-authorized-to-act/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim Draper, the SpaceX and Tesla investor, is selling his $7.9M private island in Tanzania]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tim Draper is selling his island in Lake Tanganyika for $7.9M or best offer, announcing it himself on X and inviting offers directly by email. The ECB reported this month that EU venture capital funds hold around 150B euros against roughly 930B euros in the United States. Tim Draper is selling his island in Lake [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tim-draper-the-spacex-and-tesla-investor-is-selling-his-79m-private-island-in-tanzania/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tim-draper-the-spacex-and-tesla-investor-is-selling-his-79m-private-island-in-tanzania/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m 19, and I’ve watched more than 200 brands quietly give up on influencers]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m 19, and I&rsquo;ve had an odd seat for the last couple of years of the creator economy. My company runs a marketplace that connects consumer brands with creators, and it&rsquo;s grown to more than 200 brands. From that seat, I keep watching the same thing happen: companies walk in expecting to pay for reach, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/im-19-and-ive-watched-more-than-200-brands-quietly-give-up-on-influencers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/im-19-and-ive-watched-more-than-200-brands-quietly-give-up-on-influencers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucid recalls 27,185 Air sedans over a software fuse that did not cut the power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucid is recalling 27,185 Air sedans because the software eFuse protecting their exterior lighting circuits can allow overheating, with owners told to park away from structures until the car is updated. The filing records three fires and four smoke incidents, the first in a Lucid-owned car in June 2023. Lucid is recalling 27,185 Air sedans [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lucid-recalls-27185-air-sedans-over-a-software-fuse-that-did-not-cut-the-power/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lucid-recalls-27185-air-sedans-over-a-software-fuse-that-did-not-cut-the-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lambda inks $1B private debt for Nvidia chip deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lambda has raised about $1B of private short-dated debt arranged by JPMorgan to buy Nvidia GPUs that Microsoft will lease, according to Bloomberg. The same structure funds Nebius, which borrowed $775M against its own chips and holds a five-year Microsoft contract worth $19.4B. Lambda has raised about $1B of private debt to buy Nvidia chips [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lambda-inks-1b-private-debt-for-nvidia-chip-deal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lambda-inks-1b-private-debt-for-nvidia-chip-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s glasses now stop recording if you cover the LED]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has updated its smart glasses so the camera stops when someone covers the recording light, the second such fix in two months, and is running an ad campaign explaining what the LED means. European regulators have said the problem is not the light but the absence of any lawful basis for filming bystanders. Meta [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-glasses-now-stop-recording-if-you-cover-the-led/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-glasses-now-stop-recording-if-you-cover-the-led/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BMW has sold two million electric cars, and Europe bought seven in ten of the ones it shifted last quarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[BMW has delivered its two millionth fully electric vehicle, an i5 M60 xDrive built at Dingolfing and handed to a customer in Spain. Europe accounted for 81,445 of the 116,807 battery-electric cars the group sold in the second quarter. BMW has handed over its two millionth fully electric car. The i5 M60 xDrive was built [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bmw-has-sold-two-million-electric-cars-and-europe-bought-seven-in-ten-of-the-ones-it-shifted-last-quarter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bmw-has-sold-two-million-electric-cars-and-europe-bought-seven-in-ten-of-the-ones-it-shifted-last-quarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker PSQL, five months after announcing it would go public through a special purpose acquisition company. Shares surged on the debut, according to Reuters. The merger with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II closed on 27 August, a day after shareholders approved it, leaving the company with roughly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-pasqal-is-public-with-360m-and-a-valuation-of-about-100-times-revenue/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-pasqal-is-public-with-360m-and-a-valuation-of-about-100-times-revenue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced on Friday, covers the physical layer artificial intelligence runs on, from chips to the buildings that house them. The mandate takes in chips, memory, networking and storage, and then keeps going. Complete systems qualify too, defined broadly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a16z-has-raised-11bn-to-invest-in-the-physical-layer-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a16z-has-raised-11bn-to-invest-in-the-physical-layer-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovable has the .com now, and it belonged to an Italian lingerie brand]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you type lovable.com into a browser now, you land on a vibe-coding platform valued at $13.3bn. If you had typed it a month ago, you would have landed on an Italian underwear company, which is the more interesting half of the sentence. We checked the domain on Friday, after seeing some reports, and the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-has-the-com-now-and-it-belonged-to-an-italian-lingerie-brand/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-has-the-com-now-and-it-belonged-to-an-italian-lingerie-brand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of exactly that size, secured against the same asset, 22 days earlier. TNW has not independently verified the report and could not review its full terms, so what follows sets the reported request against the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-seeks-a-second-10bn-loan-against-its-openai-stake/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-seeks-a-second-10bn-loan-against-its-openai-stake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia has paused parts of the revenue-sharing programme it launched in July]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it extends credit to AI cloud companies buying its chips and takes a cut of what those chips later earn, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The scheme was announced on 1 July, and it does [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-has-paused-parts-of-the-revenue-sharing-programme-it-launched-in-july/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-has-paused-parts-of-the-revenue-sharing-programme-it-launched-in-july/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic planned a $7bn takeover of chip startup MatX, then walked away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic got far enough into a plan to buy the AI chip startup MatX to have a number attached to it, roughly $7bn, before the deal stopped moving.&nbsp;Reuters reported the talks&nbsp;on Thursday, citing people familiar with them, and said the discussions have since evolved into a conversation about a partnership rather than an acquisition. Why [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-planned-a-7bn-takeover-of-chip-startup-matx-then-walked-away/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-planned-a-7bn-takeover-of-chip-startup-matx-then-walked-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google stops demoting EU publishers under its spam policy from Sunday]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Sunday, a European news publisher that runs sponsored content on its site will no longer be at risk of a manual demotion in Google Search. Google confirmed the change on Friday, and Reuters reported&nbsp;that it is designed to settle a European Commission investigation that could otherwise have ended in a fine. The company said [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-stops-demoting-eu-publishers-under-its-spam-policy-from-sunday/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-stops-demoting-eu-publishers-under-its-spam-policy-from-sunday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Pixel Watch 5 Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Pixel Watch 5 Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-pixel-watch-5-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-pixel-watch-5-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has hired Meta&rsquo;s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement across markets of more than 600 million people. Its European expansion has centred on Dublin and Brussels. OpenAI has hired a Meta executive to run Southeast Asia and Australia. Sandhya Devanathan starts in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-hires-metas-sandhya-devanathan-to-lead-southeast-asia-and-australia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-hires-metas-sandhya-devanathan-to-lead-southeast-asia-and-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1% of $89B in quarterly data centre revenue. Its $108B forecast for the current quarter assumes no data centre computing revenue from China at all. Nvidia has started shipping H200 processors to China and told [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-ships-first-h200-chips-to-china-but-expects-no-data-centre-revenue-from-them/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-ships-first-h200-chips-to-china-but-expects-no-data-centre-revenue-from-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kevin Durant’s $250,000 Hugging Face bet is reportedly worth $60M]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kevin Durant and his business partner invested $250,000 in Hugging Face&rsquo;s early rounds and his payout is reported at around $60M if Nvidia&rsquo;s $12.9B acquisition completes. Employees at late-stage European startups own roughly 10% of their companies against 20% in the United States. Kevin Durant put $250,000 into Hugging Face and may be about to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kevin-durants-250000-hugging-face-bet-is-reportedly-worth-60m/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kevin-durants-250000-hugging-face-bet-is-reportedly-worth-60m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US judge strikes down Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as illegal retaliation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has voided the Pentagon&rsquo;s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding that the label was punishment for the company&rsquo;s public criticism of the Trump administration rather than a security assessment. US District Judge Rita Lin, of the Northern District of California, issued the decision on Thursday in a 59-page [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-judge-strikes-down-pentagon-blacklist-of-anthropic-as-illegal-retaliation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-judge-strikes-down-pentagon-blacklist-of-anthropic-as-illegal-retaliation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BYD charged one car 350 times in nine days]]></title><description><![CDATA[BYD says it drove a randomly selected Yangwang U7 for 30,000 kilometres over nine days with 350 ultra-fast charging stops, and the battery retained 98.7% of its capacity. Euro 7 will require new car types to keep 80% of original capacity after five years from 29 November. BYD has answered the question everyone asks about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/byd-charged-one-car-350-times-in-nine-days/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/byd-charged-one-car-350-times-in-nine-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivian’s CFO is leaving after six years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rivian&rsquo;s chief financial officer Claire McDonough is leaving at the end of October after nearly six years, to take the same role at energy equipment maker GE Vernova. Volkswagen, now Rivian&rsquo;s largest shareholder, has committed up to $5.8B to their joint venture with much of it still tied to technical milestones. Rivian is losing its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rivians-cfo-is-leaving-after-six-years/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rivians-cfo-is-leaving-after-six-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online Interactive Flipbook Maker: Flipsnack | SourceForge Podcast, episode #136]]></title><description><![CDATA[Online Interactive Flipbook Maker: Flipsnack | SourceForge Podcast, episode #136]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/online-interactive-flipbook-maker-flipsnack-sourceforge-podcast-episode-136/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/online-interactive-flipbook-maker-flipsnack-sourceforge-podcast-episode-136/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s next for AI and how to get there]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2026, the way we talk about AI is beginning to change. Two years ago, every boardroom argument circled the same question: which model do we bet on? Today, that question barely registers. Frontier systems have converged so tightly that, according to Stanford&rsquo;s 2026 AI Index, leading models gained roughly 30 percentage points in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whats-next-for-ai-and-how-to-get-there/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whats-next-for-ai-and-how-to-get-there/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic tests a new standard for Claude to work with factory and lab hardware]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has released the Model Hardware Standard in research preview, a specification that stores how a piece of hardware works and how an AI may safely operate it, such as limiting a robot arm&rsquo;s speed and angles. Europe&rsquo;s Machinery Regulation starts covering AI-based safety functions on 20 January 2027. Anthropic has written a standard for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-tests-a-new-standard-for-claude-to-work-with-factory-and-lab-hardware/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-tests-a-new-standard-for-claude-to-work-with-factory-and-lab-hardware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents are getting wallets: the Web3 infrastructure behind the machine economy]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years of promise, the machine economy is finally taking shape. AI agents are getting wallets and are now able to make decisions on behalf of owners. For investors, this is a potentially exciting opportunity. Early movers in this space will be able to take advantage of opportunities as they become available. The biggest news [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-agents-are-getting-wallets-the-web3-infrastructure-behind-the-machine-economy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-agents-are-getting-wallets-the-web3-infrastructure-behind-the-machine-economy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web instead of using its Chrome extension. It is on by default for Enterprise, Pro, Max and Team users, who can switch back in settings. Anthropic has put a browser inside Claude. Cowork now detects [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-now-has-its-own-browser-and-no-longer-needs-the-chrome-extension/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-now-has-its-own-browser-and-no-longer-needs-the-chrome-extension/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fix weaknesses in their own software. The EU&rsquo;s Cyber Resilience Act makes much of that mandatory from 11 September. More than 100 organisations have signed a letter [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-anthropic-google-and-microsoft-want-cyber-defence-treated-as-a-leadership-priority/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-anthropic-google-and-microsoft-want-cyber-defence-treated-as-a-leadership-priority/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As AI reshapes business, the fractional CTO finds its moment]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI race is producing an uncomfortable management gap. Deloitte&rsquo;s 2026 research found only 21% of enterprises have mature governance for agentic AI, while 74% expect to use agents at least moderately by 2027. Technology is moving faster than the structures responsible for controlling it. Recent reporting by NBC News of nearly 700 rogue AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/as-ai-reshapes-business-the-fractional-cto-finds-its-moment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/as-ai-reshapes-business-the-fractional-cto-finds-its-moment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plaud’s $250 earbuds record your conversations and act on what they hear]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plaud has announced $250 wireless earbuds with 4G connectivity that record conversations and let an AI assistant act on what was said, with pre-orders open in eight countries including Germany and France. Both criminalise recording another person&rsquo;s private speech without consent. Plaud has put a cellular microphone in your ears. The $250 Plaud One earbuds [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/plauds-250-earbuds-record-your-conversations-and-act-on-what-they-hear/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/plauds-250-earbuds-record-your-conversations-and-act-on-what-they-hear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B memory packaging hub in Indiana]]></title><description><![CDATA[SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging high-bandwidth memory, with production due in the second half of 2029. Intel&rsquo;s equivalent assembly and testing plant near Wroclaw was cancelled last year after state aid had been approved. SK Hynix has put [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-breaks-ground-on-a-4b-memory-packaging-hub-in-indiana/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-breaks-ground-on-a-4b-memory-packaging-hub-in-indiana/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The executive assistant of the future: DonnaPro’s approach to human-AI collaboration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the middleman. Automate the humans. Do more with less. Filip Pesek disagrees. &ldquo;The best AI tools still come with a human who knows how to think,&rdquo; says the founder of DonnaPro, Europe&rsquo;s premium executive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-executive-assistant-of-the-future-donnapros-approach-to-human-ai-collaboration/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-executive-assistant-of-the-future-donnapros-approach-to-human-ai-collaboration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[JPMorgan leads a $5B debt package for Volta’s AI data centre buildout]]></title><description><![CDATA[JPMorgan has begun approaching lenders about a $5B debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings&rsquo; AI data centre buildout, weeks after the seven-month-old company raised $300M at a $2.4B valuation. Its first major site is a 121-megawatt campus in Norway leased from bitcoin miner Bitdeer. JPMorgan has started sounding out lenders for a $5B debt [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jpmorgan-leads-a-5b-debt-package-for-voltas-ai-data-centre-buildout/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jpmorgan-leads-a-5b-debt-package-for-voltas-ai-data-centre-buildout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voltpost is making an EV charger that hangs from your garage ceiling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Voltpost has launched two Level 2 chargers that mount on parking garage ceilings and on walls, avoiding trenching and cutting installation costs by up to 70% according to the company. Europe&rsquo;s revised buildings directive requires member states to make it easier for tenants to install charging points, with transposition due this May. Voltpost has built [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/voltpost-is-making-an-ev-charger-that-hangs-from-your-garage-ceiling/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/voltpost-is-making-an-ev-charger-that-hangs-from-your-garage-ceiling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixel 11 Pro XL vs iPhone 17 Pro Max vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: Camera Comparison]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pixel 11 Pro XL vs iPhone 17 Pro Max vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: Camera Comparison]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-pro-xl-vs-iphone-17-pro-max-vs-galaxy-s26-ultra-camera-comparison/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-pro-xl-vs-iphone-17-pro-max-vs-galaxy-s26-ultra-camera-comparison/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Pixel 11 Pro XL Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Pixel 11 Pro XL Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-pixel-11-pro-xl-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-pixel-11-pro-xl-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation carries them out. He stakes the framework on a dated prediction and names the evidence that would weaken it. Daniel Dines has written a book, and its most useful sentence [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uipath-founder-daniel-dines-has-written-a-book-that-dares-readers-to-prove-it-wrong-by-2028/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uipath-founder-daniel-dines-has-written-a-book-that-dares-readers-to-prove-it-wrong-by-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest, but the bigger question is: smartest at what? As tech giants chase lucrative enterprise contracts, they are optimizing frontier models for coding, logic, and autonomous agent workflows. In the process, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-revolution-is-optimizing-for-the-wrong-things/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-revolution-is-optimizing-for-the-wrong-things/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face at a valuation above $13bn, according to Business Insider, days after reports that the open-model hub was&nbsp;exploring a sale at roughly that figure. The Information puts the process further along than that, reporting an agreed deal at $12.9bn, and Nvidia did not respond to a request [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-for-129bn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-for-129bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next frontier in fintech is understanding the person behind the data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fintech has spent almost two decades making financial information increasingly accessible, portable, and actionable. Open banking, digital wallets and connected financial platforms have created an environment in which consumers can move between products while allowing authorized providers to access increasingly detailed information about their financial activity. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-frontier-in-fintech-is-understanding-the-person-behind-the-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-frontier-in-fintech-is-understanding-the-person-behind-the-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perion acquires PRN for up to $12 million, expanding in-store retail media reach across North America]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, advertisers have been trying to connect digital campaigns with what happens inside physical stores. Perion&rsquo;s latest acquisition is aimed at closing that gap, extending its advertising infrastructure from channels such as connected TV and digital out-of-home into the point of purchase. Perion, an advertising technology company operating in North America and Israel, announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/perion-acquires-prn-for-up-to-12-million-expanding-in-store-retail-media-reach-across-north-america/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/perion-acquires-prn-for-up-to-12-million-expanding-in-store-retail-media-reach-across-north-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galaxy S26 FE didn’t need to exist]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Galaxy S26 FE didn’t need to exist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-s26-fe-didnt-need-to-exist/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-s26-fe-didnt-need-to-exist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy S26 FE: We don’t need new phones every year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy S26 FE: We don’t need new phones every year]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-fe-we-dont-need-new-phones-every-year/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-fe-we-dont-need-new-phones-every-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huawei plans more AI pharma partnerships, mainly with Chinese drugmakers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its healthcare business unit, who told Reuters the projects currently run mainly with domestic Chinese drugmakers. The company sells compound screening tools alongside its Ascend and Kunpeng chips, the same domestic stack it has been building out since US [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-plans-more-ai-pharma-partnerships-mainly-with-chinese-drugmakers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-plans-more-ai-pharma-partnerships-mainly-with-chinese-drugmakers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the US semiconductor tariff does and does not currently touch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it from touching the AI buildout, exempting covered products destined for American data centres. That exemption was always provisional, and the Commerce Department report that determines whether it survives was due on 1 July, in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/what-the-us-semiconductor-tariff-does-and-does-not-currently-touch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/what-the-us-semiconductor-tariff-does-and-does-not-currently-touch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind]]></title><description><![CDATA[Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the world&rsquo;s first successful AI-assisted operation of its kind. The system analysed live camera footage during the procedure, helping the team identify nerves and blood vessels near the tumour, and joins [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/london-surgeons-remove-brain-tumour-in-first-ai-assisted-operation-of-its-kind/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/london-surgeons-remove-brain-tumour-in-first-ai-assisted-operation-of-its-kind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple confirms its ‘Surprise and shine’ event for 9 September]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has confirmed that its autumn event will take place on 9 September at 10am Pacific time at Apple Park, under the tagline &ldquo;Surprise and shine&rdquo; and an invitation showing a sun rising behind the company logo. The expectation is that it will finally show a foldable iPhone, a device&nbsp;IDC thinks could ship 10 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-confirms-its-surprise-and-shine-event-for-9-september/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-confirms-its-surprise-and-shine-event-for-9-september/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea’s regulator says Meta’s teen limits should apply everywhere, not just America]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea&rsquo;s media regulator has said that Meta&rsquo;s new protections for young users should ideally apply worldwide rather than only in the markets that forced them, which is a modest-sounding statement with a substantial ask inside it. The measures in question come from Meta&rsquo;s settlement with US state attorneys general, and the company has already [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-regulator-says-metas-teen-limits-should-apply-everywhere-not-just-america/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-regulator-says-metas-teen-limits-should-apply-everywhere-not-just-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil sues Discord for R$500M and wants an office in the country]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil&rsquo;s federal government has sued Discord for R$500M, about $97M, over what it describes as severe gaps in the platform&rsquo;s age verification and user safety protections. It lands three days after Discord appealed against&nbsp;the data protection authority&rsquo;s order suspending its livestreaming feature, arguing that only a court can suspend a service, and amid a wider [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-sues-discord-for-r500m-and-wants-an-office-in-the-country/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-sues-discord-for-r500m-and-wants-an-office-in-the-country/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of Salesforce&rsquo;s agent products and simultaneously puts Salesforce inside Claude as a plugin. It formalises a relationship that already runs deep enough that Salesforce&nbsp;expects to spend around $300mn on Anthropic tokens this year, and it comes on top of&nbsp;a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/salesforce-is-putting-claude-at-the-centre-of-its-products-and-itself-inside-claude/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/salesforce-is-putting-claude-at-the-centre-of-its-products-and-itself-inside-claude/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poland has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M over scam ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poland&rsquo;s deputy prime minister and digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski has asked the European Commission to fine Meta &euro;250M, roughly $291M, over scams and false advertising on Facebook and Instagram. &ldquo;I also call on Meta to immediately introduce effective tools to eliminate scams, false advertising, and the promotion of illegal applications,&rdquo; he said, in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/poland-has-asked-the-european-commission-to-fine-meta-250m-over-scam-ads/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/poland-has-asked-the-european-commission-to-fine-meta-250m-over-scam-ads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barret Zoph is going back to Google, six years and two startups later]]></title><description><![CDATA[Barret Zoph is joining Google DeepMind as vice president of research, returning to the organisation he spent six years in before it was DeepMind at all. He announced the move on Wednesday, arriving three weeks after Demis Hassabis stepped aside as chief executive in a reshuffle that also saw some DeepMind teams folded back into [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/barret-zoph-is-going-back-to-google-six-years-and-two-startups-later/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/barret-zoph-is-going-back-to-google-six-years-and-two-startups-later/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rising costs of the token consumption race]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lately, we have seen a surge in a practice called Tokenmaxxing. More and more companies are tracking their employees&rsquo; productivity with tokens spent on AI usage. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, summarizes the sentiment clearly: &ldquo;If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed.&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rising-costs-of-the-token-consumption-race/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rising-costs-of-the-token-consumption-race/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia reported revenue of $96.2bn for the second quarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia reported revenue of $96.2bn for the quarter, up 106% from the same period last year, and then did something it has never done before by guiding a full year ahead. The shares slipped about 1.3% on the release and only turned sharply higher once chief financial officer Colette Kress reached the section of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-reported-revenue-of-962bn-for-the-second-quarter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-reported-revenue-of-962bn-for-the-second-quarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gemini Live gains agentic tasks, voice inbox control and personal intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has added four capabilities to Gemini Live, letting spoken commands trigger background agents that work across Docs, Sheets and Drive, alongside hands-free Gmail control and a spoken daily brief. Its DMA settlement requires it to let rival assistants reach comparable functionality on Android by July 2027. Google has given its voice assistant the ability [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-live-gains-agentic-tasks-voice-inbox-control-and-personal-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-live-gains-agentic-tasks-voice-inbox-control-and-personal-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waystar turns agentic AI loose on claims, denials, and documentation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry&rsquo;s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps how many hospital invoices may be audited each quarter and charges a flat fee when one is reduced. An American company has built software that argues with insurers on its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waystar-turns-agentic-ai-loose-on-claims-denials-and-documentation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waystar-turns-agentic-ai-loose-on-claims-denials-and-documentation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agents for exploiting their own environment. OpenAI has published its account of how [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-says-earlier-signals-could-have-prevented-the-hugging-face-breach/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-says-earlier-signals-could-have-prevented-the-hugging-face-breach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft staff are burning a median $300 a month on AI, according to their own spreadsheet]]></title><description><![CDATA[An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries. Business Insider found no meaningful link between heavy AI use and bonuses, raises or promotions. Microsoft employees have started comparing their AI bills the way [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-staff-are-burning-a-median-300-a-month-on-ai-according-to-their-own-spreadsheet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-staff-are-burning-a-median-300-a-month-on-ai-according-to-their-own-spreadsheet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanguard is acquiring Altruist, the AI custody platform it backed six years ago]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed terms. Britain and the EU are addressing the same shortage of advice through rule changes rather than acquisitions. Vanguard is buying the platform it helped fund. It has agreed to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vanguard-is-acquiring-altruist-the-ai-custody-platform-it-backed-six-years-ago/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vanguard-is-acquiring-altruist-the-ai-custody-platform-it-backed-six-years-ago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qwen4’s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba&rsquo;s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B for each token. Its licence may not qualify for the EU AI Act&rsquo;s open-source exemption. Alibaba&rsquo;s Qwen team has published the architecture it plans to build Qwen4 on. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next carries [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qwen4s-architecture-is-here-early-firing-6b-parameters-out-of-125b/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qwen4s-architecture-is-here-early-firing-6b-parameters-out-of-125b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI receptionists seem like a dangerous idea after a patient revealed her doctor’s system could not understand her speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[A GP surgery in South Yorkshire has withdrawn an AI receptionist after a woman recovering from a stroke could not make it understand her and moved to another practice. The NHS Accessible Information Standard has required practices to identify and meet patients&rsquo; communication needs since 2016. A woman recovering from a stroke could not get [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-receptionists-seem-like-a-dangerous-idea-after-a-patient-revealed-her-doctors-system-could-not-understand-her-speech/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-receptionists-seem-like-a-dangerous-idea-after-a-patient-revealed-her-doctors-system-could-not-understand-her-speech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volvo’s electric cars can now warn you about a deer around a blind corner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volvo is adding alerts for large animals, vulnerable road users, roadworks and accidents ahead to its EX60, EX90 and ES90 electric cars through a software update. In Europe the feature draws on Data for Road Safety, a shared ecosystem that pools hazard reports from rival carmakers and eight national road authorities. Volvo&rsquo;s electric cars are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volvos-electric-cars-can-now-warn-you-about-a-deer-around-a-blind-corner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volvos-electric-cars-can-now-warn-you-about-a-deer-around-a-blind-corner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up to half of planned US data centres face delays or cancellation, Kimmeridge says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investment firm Kimmeridge says as many as half of the data centres proposed in the United States are at risk of delay or cancellation because of political backlash and the difficulty of building physical infrastructure. It expects that to cut forecasts for US gas demand, most of which Europe now buys. As many as half [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/up-to-half-of-planned-us-data-centres-face-delays-or-cancellation-kimmeridge-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/up-to-half-of-planned-us-data-centres-face-delays-or-cancellation-kimmeridge-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IDC expects Apple to ship 10 million foldable iPhones in year one at $2,500]]></title><description><![CDATA[IDC predicts Apple&rsquo;s first foldable iPhone will ship more than 10 million units in its first year at a price of $2,500, reviving a category that was heading for a double-digit decline. In the EU the device will have to carry an energy label grading its repairability and its survival of repeated drops. Apple&rsquo;s first [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/idc-expects-apple-to-ship-10-million-foldable-iphones-in-year-one-at-2500/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/idc-expects-apple-to-ship-10-million-foldable-iphones-in-year-one-at-2500/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B over six years renting AI computing power from Nscale&rsquo;s flagship West Virginia data centre development, covering about 460 megawatts. Nscale is a London company preparing a US listing as soon as next month. Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B renting computing power, and the landlord is British. The six-year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-britains-nscale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-britains-nscale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra has LEAKED]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra has LEAKED]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-samsung-galaxy-s27-ultra-has-leaked/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-samsung-galaxy-s27-ultra-has-leaked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flipboard acquires Graze, the tool for building your own social algorithm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flipboard has acquired Graze, a Portland startup that lets creators build, tune and monetise custom social feeds without writing code, mainly on Bluesky. Graze says it has delivered more than 41 billion posts to 12 million users since forming 21 months ago. Flipboard has bought the plumbing for custom social feeds. The company is acquiring [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flipboard-acquires-graze-the-tool-for-building-your-own-social-algorithm/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flipboard-acquires-graze-the-tool-for-building-your-own-social-algorithm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyundai has gained more US market share this decade than any carmaker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyundai Motor Group has grown its US market share faster than any major carmaker this decade and is investing $26B through 2028 to build at least 80% of its American sales domestically. Its European plants already account for around 80% of its European sales. No carmaker has gained American market share this decade like Hyundai. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hyundai-has-gained-more-us-market-share-this-decade-than-any-carmaker/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hyundai-has-gained-more-us-market-share-this-decade-than-any-carmaker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PayRewards launches in America with $28M and a 1.75% fee to earn points]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Australian payments company thinks American small businesses will pay for the privilege of earning points. PayRewards, the US arm of Pay.com.au, has launched with $28M in funding and a promise that bank transfers which currently earn nothing can earn something. The parent business is not speculative. Pay.com.au says it has processed more than $7bn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/payrewards-launches-in-america-with-28m-and-a-175-fee-to-earn-points/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/payrewards-launches-in-america-with-28m-and-a-175-fee-to-earn-points/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei&rsquo;s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for an AI training cloud. A further 600, either the same chips or the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-bid-to-build-egypts-ai-data-centres-and-washington-is-scrambling/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-bid-to-build-egypts-ai-data-centres-and-washington-is-scrambling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat. The case rests on a 13-year-old account, opened on a new iPhone by an investigator in the attorney general&rsquo;s office before the filing. What that account could reach is the evidence. Attorney General David Sunday filed the complaint on 25 August in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pennsylvania-sued-snap-using-an-account-it-opened-as-a-13-year-old/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pennsylvania-sued-snap-using-an-account-it-opened-as-a-13-year-old/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a time to do work that computers could not. Jeff Bezos once called it &ldquo;artificial artificial intelligence&rdquo;. A banner across the MTurk homepage sets out the decision. &ldquo;We regularly evaluate our programs, tools, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-is-closing-mechanical-turk-the-human-workforce-it-sold-as-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-is-closing-mechanical-turk-the-human-workforce-it-sold-as-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[X Corp has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open-source project that let people read X posts without an account. Nitter.net is offline and development has stopped. Its creator says he is seeking legal advice. XCancel, the best-known site built on Nitter, has also stopped operating. Sarah Perez has read one of the letters and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nitter-is-offline-after-seven-years-shut-down-by-cease-and-desist-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nitter-is-offline-after-seven-years-shut-down-by-cease-and-desist-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gatik has raised $200m to put more driverless box trucks on US roads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gatik has raised $200m in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies. It is the largest financing in the autonomous trucking company&rsquo;s history. Millennium Management, ARK Invest and Intact Private Capital also took part, and the round brings Gatik&rsquo;s total to about $500m since it came out of stealth [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gatik-has-raised-200m-to-put-more-driverless-box-trucks-on-us-roads/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gatik-has-raised-200m-to-put-more-driverless-box-trucks-on-us-roads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mate Security unveils Gamebooks to bring trusted autonomy to AI-powered security investigations]]></title><description><![CDATA[As artificial intelligence pushes security operations toward greater speed and automation, the central challenge is becoming less about whether AI can investigate threats and more about whether organizations can trust it to act. SiliconANGLE first reported on Mate Security&rsquo;s Gamebooks, a new architectural layer designed to give AI agents room to reason and adapt while [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mate-security-unveils-gamebooks-to-bring-trusted-autonomy-to-ai-powered-security-investigations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mate-security-unveils-gamebooks-to-bring-trusted-autonomy-to-ai-powered-security-investigations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the states&rsquo; case. Meta puts the full payment at approximately $18bn, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-holding-back-53bn-unless-tiktok-and-youtube-match-its-teen-rules/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-holding-back-53bn-unless-tiktok-and-youtube-match-its-teen-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal data of children who used its platforms. Diana Novak Jones reported the figure for Reuters on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-will-pay-up-to-1668bn-to-settle-the-29-state-youth-safety-case/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-will-pay-up-to-1668bn-to-settle-the-29-state-youth-safety-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boston Scientific has disclosed a cybersecurity incident causing a global disruption to operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Boston Scientific has told the US Securities and Exchange Commission that a cybersecurity incident detected on 25 August has caused &ldquo;a global disruption to the Company&rsquo;s operations&rdquo;, including its ability to process and ship customer orders. Shares fell about 3.5% in premarket trading, and the company has not identified who is responsible, in a year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/boston-scientific-has-disclosed-a-cybersecurity-incident-causing-a-global-disruption-to-operations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/boston-scientific-has-disclosed-a-cybersecurity-incident-causing-a-global-disruption-to-operations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed is no longer a selling point for AI agents, caution is]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents have spent two years competing on the same thing: independence. Less oversight, fewer clicks, more autonomy, that was the pitch. It didn&rsquo;t matter if the agent lived in a browser extension, a cowork app, or a coding tool. I think that pitch has become the industry&rsquo;s biggest liability. At Decodo, we recently reviewed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/speed-is-no-longer-a-selling-point-for-ai-agents-caution-is/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/speed-is-no-longer-a-selling-point-for-ai-agents-caution-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attacks on US firms have moved from stealing data to stopping production]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reuters has been keeping a running tally of American companies breached during 2026, and read end to end, it is more instructive than any single entry in it. The names run from Nike and Coca-Cola to Novo Nordisk and Abbott Laboratories, and almost none of the incidents involve the kind of exotic technique that Google&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/attacks-on-us-firms-have-moved-from-stealing-data-to-stopping-production/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/attacks-on-us-firms-have-moved-from-stealing-data-to-stopping-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to its AI chatbot for $7.99 a month. The new product would cost 25 times that. Meta will launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-plans-to-launch-its-openclaw-rival-hatch-within-weeks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-plans-to-launch-its-openclaw-rival-hatch-within-weeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a year earlier, according to the industry association Bitkom, which puts the resulting damage at &euro;289.2bn. What is new in this year&rsquo;s report is not the trend but the method, because Bitkom has combined [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/87-of-german-companies-were-attacked-last-year-and-russia-has-caught-up-with-china/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/87-of-german-companies-were-attacked-last-year-and-russia-has-caught-up-with-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhipu]]></title><description><![CDATA[Z.AI made it. The Beijing company, also known as Zhipu, owns the free model that took the top of OpenRouter&rsquo;s charts last weekend. It confirmed on Wednesday that Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series, and said it would release the weights the same night. Luz Ding got the confirmation for Bloomberg. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-stealth-model-that-beat-deepseek-belongs-to-zhipu/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-stealth-model-that-beat-deepseek-belongs-to-zhipu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU officials were targeted on WhatsApp, an internal document shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Foreign governments have tried to break into the messaging accounts of senior European Union officials. The bloc&rsquo;s own cyber defence unit told national governments so in July. An internal presentation lists &ldquo;account takeover targeting high-ranking officials&rdquo; among the top threats facing the bloc this year. Sam Clark obtained the document for Politico. It is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-officials-were-targeted-on-whatsapp-an-internal-document-shows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-officials-were-targeted-on-whatsapp-an-internal-document-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A law from 1634 is why Europeans cannot sue Big Tech together]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe gave itself the right to bring class actions against big companies five years ago. Ireland hosts the European headquarters of most large technology firms, and campaigners there have managed exactly one. A law from 1634 explains why. Ellen O&rsquo;Regan set out the problem for Politico from Dublin. Irish law bars anyone from funding a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-law-from-1634-is-why-europeans-cannot-sue-big-tech-together/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-law-from-1634-is-why-europeans-cannot-sue-big-tech-together/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon moved some Canadian sourcing from the US to China to avoid tariffs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon expects package volume in Canada to rise by more than 40% between 2026 and 2029, outpacing its US growth every year, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. One of the more striking details is a March planning document recording that Amazon shifted some Canadian direct-import sourcing away from the United States and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-moved-some-canadian-sourcing-from-the-us-to-china-to-avoid-tariffs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-moved-some-canadian-sourcing-from-the-us-to-china-to-avoid-tariffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retail Trading’s Gap: 63% Confidence, 42% Knowledge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Retail investors who rely on social media answered only 42% of investment knowledge questions correctly. But 63% rated their own knowledge as high, according to FINRA Foundation research published in April 2026. That&rsquo;s a big contradiction in modern trading. People have market data, trading tools, and confidence, but not the knowledge to use them. Becoming [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/retail-tradings-gap-63-confidence-42-knowledge/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/retail-tradings-gap-63-confidence-42-knowledge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prop trading firms want to close retail trading’s knowledge gap]]></title><description><![CDATA[Retail investors who lean on social media for guidance answered just 42% of a basic investment knowledge quiz correctly. The same group rated its own knowledge as high 63% of the time. Both figures come from FINRA Foundation research published in April 2026, drawn from the 2024 National Financial Capability Study. Together they describe the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prop-trading-firms-want-to-close-retail-tradings-knowledge-gap/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prop-trading-firms-want-to-close-retail-tradings-knowledge-gap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached. That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state issued on 20 August and announced on Monday. OpenAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alabama-wants-the-name-of-everyone-at-openai-who-raised-a-safety-concern/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alabama-wants-the-name-of-everyone-at-openai-who-raised-a-safety-concern/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The SEC has subpoenaed four banks over Situational Awareness]]></title><description><![CDATA[American securities regulators have subpoenaed the banks that lent Situational Awareness the money it used to make its AI bets. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants the timing of the fund&rsquo;s trades, and its communications with lenders about the money it was borrowing. It also told the banks to preserve any information they hold on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-sec-has-subpoenaed-four-banks-over-situational-awareness/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-sec-has-subpoenaed-four-banks-over-situational-awareness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moonshot AI is in early discussions with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google about hosting Kimi K3 on their cloud platforms, seeking up to 30% of the revenue those services generate, according to Reuters. It would be the first arrangement of its kind between a Chinese AI company and the major American clouds, involving a model that&nbsp;Moonshot [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moonshot-ai-wants-30-of-what-us-clouds-earn-from-kimi-k3/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moonshot-ai-wants-30-of-what-us-clouds-earn-from-kimi-k3/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deloitte will pay $21.5M to settle a DOJ investigation into its diversity targets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deloitte has agreed to pay $21.5M to settle a US Justice Department investigation into its diversity practices, without admitting liability. The firm is one of the largest technology consultancies in the world as well as an accountancy, and it sits inside the same enterprise AI and systems integration market that has drawn Indian IT firms [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deloitte-will-pay-215m-to-settle-a-doj-investigation-into-its-diversity-targets/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deloitte-will-pay-215m-to-settle-a-doj-investigation-into-its-diversity-targets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MindRank’s oral GLP-1 is the furthest along any AI-native drug programme]]></title><description><![CDATA[MindRank, a Hangzhou drug developer built around AI, says its lead candidate went from programme initiation to Phase III trials in roughly four and a half years on about $23mn of cumulative research spending. If that holds up, it is the most concrete answer yet to a question the sector has been asking loudly and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mindranks-oral-glp-1-is-the-furthest-along-any-ai-native-drug-programme/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mindranks-oral-glp-1-is-the-furthest-along-any-ai-native-drug-programme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX is spending $100bn on a second Starbase, on an old Exxon site in Louisiana]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX will build a second Starbase in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on a former Exxon property on the Gulf Coast, and it puts the price at $ 100 billion. The company describes it as a self-sustaining spaceport with its own propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping, vehicle processing, and an airport, which is a fair description [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-is-spending-100bn-on-a-second-starbase-on-an-old-exxon-site-in-louisiana/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-is-spending-100bn-on-a-second-starbase-on-an-old-exxon-site-in-louisiana/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates proposes ‘Human Reserved’ jobs and a tax on AI tokens]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even where AI could do them, and the analogy he reaches for is a nature reserve, a place where development is restricted because something there is worth preserving. He names childcare and jury service as roles humans are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-gates-proposes-human-reserved-jobs-and-a-tax-on-ai-tokens/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-gates-proposes-human-reserved-jobs-and-a-tax-on-ai-tokens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed making public disclosure of air pollution from minor sources voluntary rather than mandatory, a change that would cover the diesel generators clustered around data centres. It follows the same direction as the exemptions the administration has already granted, having&nbsp;excused data centres and rockets from parts of environmental law&nbsp;earlier [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-epa-wants-to-make-data-centre-pollution-disclosure-optional/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-epa-wants-to-make-data-centre-pollution-disclosure-optional/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft employees built their own pay spreadsheet, and it shows two companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Around 600 Microsoft employees have entered their pay into a crowdsourced spreadsheet circulating internally, and the resulting picture is of a company that now compensates two quite different populations. Base salaries run from $111,000 at level 59 to $280,000 at level 67, with Cloud and AI roles reaching $450,000, which is the kind of information [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-employees-built-their-own-pay-spreadsheet-and-it-shows-two-companies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-employees-built-their-own-pay-spreadsheet-and-it-shows-two-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-8-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-8-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spain has drafted a decree that would require new data centres to source at least 80% of their electricity from renewables in every hour of operation, with loss of grid connection as the penalty for failing to comply. It is a markedly firmer position than the one Brussels has taken, having previously told Big Tech [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spain-wants-data-centres-on-80-renewables-every-hour-or-no-grid-connection/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spain-wants-data-centres-on-80-renewables-every-hour-or-no-grid-connection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent project franchising: why big software companies should spin out innovation instead of killing it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Innovation does not usually die because an experiment fails. It dies when ownership disappears. Large software companies can build an ancillary tool, prove that it solves a real problem, and still starve it of attention once leadership redirects the team toward the flagship product or the next urgent initiative. My argument is simple: when a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/independent-project-franchising-why-big-software-companies-should-spin-out-innovation-instead-of-killing-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/independent-project-franchising-why-big-software-companies-should-spin-out-innovation-instead-of-killing-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI won’t transform healthcare until we fix information overload]]></title><description><![CDATA[Healthcare does not need more information. It needs better ways to help clinicians identify what matters. The industry has spent years pursuing more data as the path to better outcomes, but the real challenge is turning an overwhelming volume of information into timely, meaningful action. Artificial intelligence will only improve healthcare if it protects clinical [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-wont-transform-healthcare-until-we-fix-information-overload/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-wont-transform-healthcare-until-we-fix-information-overload/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut is launching a euro stablecoin into a market MiCA handed to an American company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolut is launching a euro-backed stablecoin, entering a market that European regulation has spent two years accidentally consolidating around a single American issuer. The neobank is also one of the 36 firms the ECB picked for its digital euro pilot, which means it is now building the private euro token and helping test the public [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-launching-a-euro-stablecoin-into-a-market-mica-handed-to-an-american-company/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-launching-a-euro-stablecoin-into-a-market-mica-handed-to-an-american-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikkei, in a project involving the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the country&rsquo;s three largest banks. It is the sort of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/japan-wants-stock-and-bond-settlement-to-happen-instantly-on-a-blockchain/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/japan-wants-stock-and-bond-settlement-to-happen-instantly-on-a-blockchain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is about to report its fastest growth in seven quarters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia is expected to report quarterly revenue of $92.18bn, close to double the same period last year and its fastest growth in seven quarters, with analysts forecasting a further rise to $104.20bn in the current quarter. The numbers are not really the issue anymore, because the scrutiny has moved to how much of that demand [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-about-to-report-its-fastest-growth-in-seven-quarters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-about-to-report-its-fastest-growth-in-seven-quarters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight months after Australia’s ban, teen TikTok use is down one percentage point]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eight months into the world&rsquo;s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat before the law took effect. The data comes from the parental control software maker Qustodio, and it puts numbers to something already visible in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eight-months-after-australias-ban-teen-tiktok-use-is-down-one-percentage-point/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eight-months-after-australias-ban-teen-tiktok-use-is-down-one-percentage-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta and the states are talking settlement while the jury is still sitting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta and state attorneys general have held settlement discussions amid the youth social media harm trial now underway in federal court in California, according to Bloomberg. The case is the largest of its kind, with 29 states pursuing the company&nbsp;and four of them, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, party to the trial that&nbsp;opened this [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-and-the-states-are-talking-settlement-while-the-jury-is-still-sitting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-and-the-states-are-talking-settlement-while-the-jury-is-still-sitting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram’s Take a Break feature helped less than hoped]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adam Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, told a federal jury in Oakland that the app&rsquo;s &ldquo;Take a Break&rdquo; feature &ldquo;helped, but not nearly as much as we hoped&rdquo;, as internal documents showed only 1.8% of teenagers used it. Meta&rsquo;s public blog post at the time said more than 90% of users who turned [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adam-mosseri-testified-that-instagrams-take-a-break-feature-helped-less-than-hoped/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adam-mosseri-testified-that-instagrams-take-a-break-feature-helped-less-than-hoped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FlowX.AI Brings Mission-Critical Industry AI Agents to Gemini Enterprise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Menlo Park, CA, United States, August 25th, 2026, TechnologyWire FlowX.AI is among the first partners bringing specialized industry agents to Gemini Enterprise, with enterprise-grade AI built for complex, high-stakes work where making a mistake is not an option. FlowX.AI today announced that specialized FlowX.AI agents are available through Google Cloud Marketplace and as part of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flowxai-brings-mission-critical-industry-ai-agents-to-gemini-enterprise/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flowxai-brings-mission-critical-industry-ai-agents-to-gemini-enterprise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal with Freshfields, Cleary and Weil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, its first dedicated legal AI offering for the broader market, with Cleary, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams &amp; Connolly among the launch customers. It arrives in a category where the specialists got there first and have the revenue to show for it, with Legora reaching $100mn in 18 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-cloud-has-launched-gemini-enterprise-for-legal-with-freshfields-cleary-and-weil/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-cloud-has-launched-gemini-enterprise-for-legal-with-freshfields-cleary-and-weil/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laundromat POS System &amp; Laundry Software: Wash-Dry-Fold POS | SourceForge Podcast, episode #135]]></title><description><![CDATA[Laundromat POS System &amp; Laundry Software: Wash-Dry-Fold POS | SourceForge Podcast, episode #135]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/laundromat-pos-system-amp-laundry-software-wash-dry-fold-pos-sourceforge-podcast-episode-135/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/laundromat-pos-system-amp-laundry-software-wash-dry-fold-pos-sourceforge-podcast-episode-135/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qualifies only if &ldquo;humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-charts-now-require-a-human-to-sing-the-lead-vocal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-charts-now-require-a-human-to-sing-the-lead-vocal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil has fined TikTok&rsquo;s owner over the way it handled children&rsquo;s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-fines-tiktoks-owner-299m-over-childrens-data-including-guest-sessions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-fines-tiktoks-owner-299m-over-childrens-data-including-guest-sessions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit said on Tuesday. That range runs from minus 1% to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intuit-is-separating-mailchimp-out-and-guiding-it-to-zero-growth/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intuit-is-separating-mailchimp-out-and-guiding-it-to-zero-growth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomberg on Monday. Anissa Gardizy broke the story earlier that day [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-confirms-its-data-centre-chief-left-as-it-pivots-to-leasing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-confirms-its-data-centre-chief-left-as-it-pivots-to-leasing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta refused to switch a teen safety tool on by default, jury told]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app&rsquo;s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this week. Mike Swift reported the testimony from the courtroom for MLex. Volichenko worked on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-refused-to-switch-a-teen-safety-tool-on-by-default-jury-told/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-refused-to-switch-a-teen-safety-tool-on-by-default-jury-told/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork memory, on by default]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anything you tell Claude in a chat window is now available to Claude Cowork. Anything Cowork learns comes back the other way. Anthropic merged the two memory systems on Tuesday. Wherever you work with Claude, it starts from what it already knows about you, the company said in its announcement. The feature is on by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-merges-claude-chat-and-cowork-memory-on-by-default/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-merges-claude-chat-and-cowork-memory-on-by-default/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp is replacing its six-digit security PIN with a real password]]></title><description><![CDATA[WhatsApp is replacing the six-digit PIN used for two-step verification with a full alphanumeric password, and says more than a billion users have already created a passkey. Android users will also see extra context about calls from people not in their contacts. WhatsApp has quietly become the largest passwordless deployment on the planet. Announcing a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whatsapp-is-replacing-its-six-digit-security-pin-with-a-real-password/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whatsapp-is-replacing-its-six-digit-security-pin-with-a-real-password/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple gave Tim Cook a farewell party a week before Ternus takes over]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple gave Tim Cook a leaving party on Sunday, a week before he stops being its chief executive. About 200 people attended, almost all of them Apple employees, at the Caff&egrave; Macs cafeteria on the company&rsquo;s Cupertino campus. OneRepublic played. Aaron Tilley reported the evening for The Information, citing a person who was there. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-gave-tim-cook-a-farewell-party-a-week-before-ternus-takes-over/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-gave-tim-cook-a-farewell-party-a-week-before-ternus-takes-over/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alice raises $140mn to stress-test the models Anthropic and Google ship]]></title><description><![CDATA[One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board seat. Total funding now stands at $280mn. The announcement names MoreTech and Phoenix [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alice-raises-140mn-to-stress-test-the-models-anthropic-and-google-ship/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alice-raises-140mn-to-stress-test-the-models-anthropic-and-google-ship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would top the $28.5tn SpaceX put in front of investors before its own record listing. Corrie Driebusch reported the number for The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Companies going public estimate a total addressable [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-expected-to-pitch-investors-a-30tn-market-opportunity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-expected-to-pitch-investors-a-30tn-market-opportunity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX plans a $100B spaceport built for thousands of launches a year]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX has announced plans to spend up to $100bn on a launch facility in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, intended to support thousands of launches annually and become the main site for Starship. Arianespace is targeting six to eight Ariane 6 launches this year. SpaceX has picked where Starship will mostly fly from, and it is Louisiana. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-plans-a-100b-spaceport-built-for-thousands-of-launches-a-year/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-plans-a-100b-spaceport-built-for-thousands-of-launches-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emerald AI raises $150mn at a $1.05bn valuation to flex data centre power]]></title><description><![CDATA[A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and the round takes total funding past $220mn. The investor list is the tell. Nvidia, Siemens, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/emerald-ai-raises-150mn-at-a-105bn-valuation-to-flex-data-centre-power/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/emerald-ai-raises-150mn-at-a-105bn-valuation-to-flex-data-centre-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stability AI raises $76mn from Universal, Warner, Sony Music and EA]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s three largest record companies have bought equity in a generative AI company. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group are all new investors in Stability AI&rsquo;s $76mn Series B. The company announced the round on Tuesday. The games publisher Electronic Arts joined it, alongside AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stability-ai-raises-76mn-from-universal-warner-sony-music-and-ea/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stability-ai-raises-76mn-from-universal-warner-sony-music-and-ea/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI firms debate connecting test sandboxes to the internet after breaches]]></title><description><![CDATA[After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing, security specialists are debating whether test sandboxes should have controlled internet access. Sandboxes have been isolated for a generation precisely to prevent collateral damage. The industry&rsquo;s response to AI models escaping their test environments may be to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-firms-debate-connecting-test-sandboxes-to-the-internet-after-breaches/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-firms-debate-connecting-test-sandboxes-to-the-internet-after-breaches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unitree&rsquo;s shares have fallen roughly 45% from the peak they hit on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The slide has turned a national success story into an argument about how China prices its listings. The stock steadied on Tuesday after three consecutive days of decline, Reuters reported. The valuation of the Hangzhou humanoid [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unitree-shares-fall-45-from-their-debut-peak-wiping-out-30bn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unitree-shares-fall-45-from-their-debut-peak-wiping-out-30bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple unveils M6 and M5 Ultra chips with a big jump in AI performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has introduced the M6 in a new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra in a new Mac Studio, its first 2nm chip and its first quad-die M-series design respectively. The M5 Ultra supports up to 512GB of unified memory at 1.2TB/s. The Mac mini question is settled. TNW reported this morning that it was [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-unveils-m6-and-m5-ultra-chips-with-a-big-jump-in-ai-performance/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-unveils-m6-and-m5-ultra-chips-with-a-big-jump-in-ai-performance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents can now watch their teen’s Uber ride live, through the driver’s phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber is rolling out live video streaming of teen rides in the US, using the driver&rsquo;s phone as the camera and sending the feed to linked parent accounts. Other passengers in the car appear on the stream and are given no way to opt out. Uber is putting a camera in the car, and it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/parents-can-now-watch-their-teens-uber-ride-live-through-the-drivers-phone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/parents-can-now-watch-their-teens-uber-ride-live-through-the-drivers-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s Jalapeno chip outperformed the GB300 on power and speed, according to OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI says its Jalapeno inference chip, developed with Broadcom, outperformed Nvidia&rsquo;s GB300 on AI work per unit of power and on response speed. It was not tested against Nvidia&rsquo;s newer Vera Rubin hardware and is not designed for training. OpenAI has published numbers for the chip it built to need Nvidia less. It says Jalapeno, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-jalapeno-chip-outperformed-the-gb300-on-power-and-speed-according-to-openai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-jalapeno-chip-outperformed-the-gb300-on-power-and-speed-according-to-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xiaomi unveils custom 3nm chip for intelligent driving]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xiaomi has unveiled the Xring D100, an in-house 3nm chip for intelligent driving that will replace Nvidia hardware in its cars from 2027. The company has invested more than 21bn yuan, about $3.1bn, since restarting its chip programme. Xiaomi is designing Nvidia out of its cars. The company has unveiled the Xring D100, an in-house [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomi-unveils-custom-3nm-chip-for-intelligent-driving/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomi-unveils-custom-3nm-chip-for-intelligent-driving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo is coming to Munich, with commercial service targeted for late 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo has announced it is laying the groundwork for autonomous ride-hailing in Munich, starting with high-definition mapping and manual driving in the coming weeks. It aims to open a commercial service to the public toward the end of 2027. Munich is getting robotaxis, though not for a while. Waymo says it is laying the groundwork [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-is-coming-to-munich-with-commercial-service-targeted-for-late-2027/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-is-coming-to-munich-with-commercial-service-targeted-for-late-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[One minute and 49 seconds, that was the median time a machine needed to read a patient&rsquo;s arm, choose a vein, insert a needle, fill the tubes, and withdraw, across the Dutch clinical trial that carried it towards regulators. A phlebotomist working carefully takes roughly five minutes, by the company&rsquo;s own reckoning. Nothing about the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-robot-that-takes-blood-could-be-the-best-ai-health-story-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-robot-that-takes-blood-could-be-the-best-ai-health-story-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixel 11 Pro XL vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: Not even close, right?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pixel 11 Pro XL vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: Not even close, right?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-pro-xl-vs-galaxy-s26-ultra-not-even-close-right/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-pro-xl-vs-galaxy-s26-ultra-not-even-close-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hivemind raises $17M from M&amp;G as asset managers test tokenisation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hivemind Digital Group has completed a $17mn strategic funding round led by M&amp;G Investments, the asset management arm of the British savings and investment group that ran &pound;371bn of assets at the end of March. The round gives M&amp;G a seat on Hivemind&rsquo;s board and a position in a firm whose business sits between conventional [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hivemind-raises-17m-from-mampg-as-asset-managers-test-tokenisation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hivemind-raises-17m-from-mampg-as-asset-managers-test-tokenisation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scalable Capital connects €60bn of client assets to outside AI assistants]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scalable Capital has opened its investment platform to ChatGPT and Claude, allowing its clients to analyse their portfolios and place trades through the two AI assistants rather than through the broker&rsquo;s own app. The Munich company says it is the first European bank to do this, and it arrives as the industry works out what [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scalable-capital-connects-60bn-of-client-assets-to-outside-ai-assistants/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scalable-capital-connects-60bn-of-client-assets-to-outside-ai-assistants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK digital infrastructure investment hit £11.2bn in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s businesses put &pound;11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree. Almost none of the difference is new money. The Office for National Statistics changed what counts on Monday. What the ONS actually [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-digital-infrastructure-investment-hit-112bn-in-2025/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-digital-infrastructure-investment-hit-112bn-in-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liner, a South Korean AI search startup, has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding as it seeks to turn its consumer research platform used by millions into an enterprise AI business. LB Investment led the Series C round, joined by returning investors InterVest, Atinum Investment and CJ Investment. New funding participants included Korea Development [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/liner-raises-361m-to-take-its-evidence-first-ai-search-to-enterprise-customers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/liner-raises-361m-to-take-its-evidence-first-ai-search-to-enterprise-customers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single sentence. Chang&rsquo;e 7 does not meet the conditions for launch, the China Manned Space Agency said on Sunday. It cannot go ahead in this year&rsquo;s scheduled window. It gave no reason. What the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-called-off-its-ice-hunting-moon-shot-a-day-before-launch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-called-off-its-ice-hunting-moon-shot-a-day-before-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-australian-court-has-found-eharmony-misled-users-over-what-its-memberships-cost/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-australian-court-has-found-eharmony-misled-users-over-what-its-memberships-cost/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72bn in 2025 to $35.08bn by 2031, according to Arizton. The Chicago research firm puts that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/southeast-asia-is-planning-four-times-the-data-centre-capacity-it-runs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/southeast-asia-is-planning-four-times-the-data-centre-capacity-it-runs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh from €1.2bn, NEURA buys its second company in eleven days]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEURA Robotics is buying a company that makes cleaning robots, and says it wants to replace their brains. The German firm is acquiring 100% of Adlatus Robotics, an Ulm maker of autonomous cleaning and sweeping machines. It announced the deal on Monday, datelined Stuttgart, Hamburg and Ulm. Neither company disclosed a price. What Adlatus already [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fresh-from-12bn-neura-buys-its-second-company-in-eleven-days/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fresh-from-12bn-neura-buys-its-second-company-in-eleven-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oura is seeking up to $3bn in an IPO that would value it above $16bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oura is targeting a September listing that would raise up to $3bn and value the smart ring maker at more than $16bn, according to Bloomberg, several months after the Finnish company filed confidentially for a US IPO. The mark would be a sharp step up from the $10.9bn valuation it carried last September, in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oura-is-seeking-up-to-3bn-in-an-ipo-that-would-value-it-above-16bn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oura-is-seeking-up-to-3bn-in-an-ipo-that-would-value-it-above-16bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the hire to Axios. Ina Fried reported it on Monday. Metz starts this week and reports to Alexandr Wang, who runs Meta&rsquo;s AI effort. Three labs in under a year Metz left OpenAI in 2024 for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-hired-luke-metz-seven-months-after-openai-hired-him-back/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-hired-luke-metz-seven-months-after-openai-hired-him-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lambda is raising up to $3bn before an IPO, months after borrowing $917m for chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3bn in pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $12bn or more, according to Bloomberg, as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider prepares for a listing expected next year. The raise follows a very different kind of financing earlier in its run, when Lambda&nbsp;borrowed $917mn against its GPUs&nbsp;to buy more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lambda-is-raising-up-to-3bn-before-an-ipo-months-after-borrowing-917m-for-chips/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lambda-is-raising-up-to-3bn-before-an-ipo-months-after-borrowing-917m-for-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba shares fell 8.4%. Then Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu went shopping]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba&rsquo;s two most senior executives bought about $15.3m of their own company&rsquo;s shares on Monday. The stock had just fallen further than at any point in more than a year. Chairman Joe Tsai and chief executive Eddie Wu spent a combined HK$120m, according to filings with the Hong Kong exchange. What each of them bought [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-shares-fell-84-then-joe-tsai-and-eddie-wu-went-shopping/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-shares-fell-84-then-joe-tsai-and-eddie-wu-went-shopping/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump says refusing a data centre is a mistake. Abbott disagrees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. &ldquo;They basically dug their own grave for the problem that&rsquo;s been caused for them,&rdquo; he told ABC&rsquo;s Jonathan Karl on Sunday. &ldquo;And that&rsquo;s why they got the backlash they deserve.&rdquo; Andrew Pantazi and Ben Geman reported the remarks for Axios. They called [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-says-refusing-a-data-centre-is-a-mistake-abbott-disagrees/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-says-refusing-a-data-centre-is-a-mistake-abbott-disagrees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital co-lead $3M investment in Oro to scale agentic finance]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the better half of the last three years, the prevalence of AI in finance had been largely relegated to a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard. Its capabilities were limited to simple explanations and not direct action (such as executing transactions, placing sell orders, etc) but all that has changed recently because by the end [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mh-ventures-and-mapleblock-capital-co-lead-3m-investment-in-oro-to-scale-agentic-finance/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mh-ventures-and-mapleblock-capital-co-lead-3m-investment-in-oro-to-scale-agentic-finance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after the IPO, a disclosure shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX stock on 23 June, roughly a fortnight after the company completed&nbsp;the largest initial public offering in history, according to a financial disclosure reported this week. The purchase places the sitting president on the shareholder register of a company whose federal contracts and regulatory treatment his own administration [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-bought-spacex-shares-two-weeks-after-the-ipo-a-disclosure-shows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-bought-spacex-shares-two-weeks-after-the-ipo-a-disclosure-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine charged in Taiwan over 130 Nvidia B300 servers bound for China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among them an employee of Nvidia&rsquo;s Taiwan operation and two from Super Micro. The charges are the first to emerge from an investigation that has run for months, having already produced detentions over server smuggling&nbsp;and&nbsp;reached inside Nvidia itself. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nine-charged-in-taiwan-over-130-nvidia-b300-servers-bound-for-china/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nine-charged-in-taiwan-over-130-nvidia-b300-servers-bound-for-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The UK and Ukraine have signed a declaration on AI-enabled military capabilities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ukraine and the United Kingdom have signed a joint declaration on artificial intelligence partnership covering the development and deployment of AI-enabled military capabilities, according to the Ukrainian presidency&rsquo;s account of talks in Kyiv between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andy Burnham. It formalises a direction British defence policy has already been moving in, having committed &pound;2bn to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uk-and-ukraine-have-signed-a-declaration-on-ai-enabled-military-capabilities/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uk-and-ukraine-have-signed-a-declaration-on-ai-enabled-military-capabilities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple has a Mac mini ready, and it may be Tim Cook’s last product]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is preparing to release a new Mac mini within days, ahead of its September iPhone event, according to a Bloomberg report that also puts AirPods 5 at that event and an OLED iPad mini in October. The timing would make the Mac mini one of the last products shipped under Tim Cook, who hands [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-has-a-mac-mini-ready-and-it-may-be-tim-cooks-last-product/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-has-a-mac-mini-ready-and-it-may-be-tim-cooks-last-product/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia is preparing to impose its data centre energy rules over Queensland’s objection]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian government intends to impose national energy standards on AI data centres at this week&rsquo;s National Cabinet meeting even though Queensland will not agree to them, a shift from the consensus approach that stalled when Queensland and the Northern Territory rejected most of the framework&nbsp;in July. The policy requires large facilities to buy power [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-is-preparing-to-impose-its-data-centre-energy-rules-over-queenslands-objection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-is-preparing-to-impose-its-data-centre-energy-rules-over-queenslands-objection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman says AI still has not had its iPhone moment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong. The OpenAI chief executive said so to the podcaster David Senra, in an episode released on Sunday. He was answering a question about someone else&rsquo;s prediction. The claim he was pushing back on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sam-altman-says-ai-still-has-not-had-its-iphone-moment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sam-altman-says-ai-still-has-not-had-its-iphone-moment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr Dre says only people who struggle to create are scared of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview with the New York Times, published on Sunday. His longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine sat alongside him and went further. &ldquo;I think the only people that see it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dr-dre-says-only-people-who-struggle-to-create-are-scared-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dr-dre-says-only-people-who-struggle-to-create-are-scared-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn]]></title><description><![CDATA[On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots. The team presented Copilot and had the teachers practise using it to write emails to parents and customise lesson plans. They screened an explainer video from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-google-microsoft-and-openai-came-to-shape-what-us-children-learn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-google-microsoft-and-openai-came-to-shape-what-us-children-learn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over]]></title><description><![CDATA[A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left. What the court decided Three judges of the US [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-28-year-fight-over-who-owns-linux-is-nearly-over/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-28-year-fight-over-who-owns-linux-is-nearly-over/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s EV share hit 25% in July as sales jumped 51%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electric cars took a 25% share of European registrations in July, with sales up 51% year on year against 4.1% growth for the market as a whole. Chinese brands took 34% of plug-in hybrid sales, a segment EU countervailing duties do not currently cover. Electric cars have stopped being a minority interest in Europe. Registrations [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-ev-share-hit-25-in-july-as-sales-jumped-51/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-ev-share-hit-25-in-july-as-sales-jumped-51/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery]]></title><description><![CDATA[An app called Android Pulse surfaced in Play Store update queues at the weekend, though Google has been distributing it since March and it now sits on more than 10 million devices. It is a diagnostic tool with no user interface that flags software consuming unusual system resources. Millions of Android owners spent the weekend [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-mysterious-app-just-showed-up-on-your-android-phone-and-its-watching-your-battery/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-mysterious-app-just-showed-up-on-your-android-phone-and-its-watching-your-battery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivian EVs are getting a software update that warns you what’s ahead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rivian is bringing Rivian OS 2.0 and Waze real-time alerts to all R1 and R2 models, still without Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, on its way to a single core operating system. That architecture reaches Europe from 2027 through the Volkswagen joint venture. Rivian is rebuilding the screen in every car it sells. Software version [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rivian-evs-are-getting-a-software-update-that-warns-you-whats-ahead/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rivian-evs-are-getting-a-software-update-that-warns-you-whats-ahead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days]]></title><description><![CDATA[A cyber attack shut down a small British power plant for four days in July. Hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime were responsible, according to the Telegraph. Tony Diver, Rozina Sabur and Matt Oliver broke the story on Saturday. It is thought to be the first time hackers linked to Tehran have closed such a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iran-linked-hackers-shut-down-a-uk-power-plant-for-four-days/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iran-linked-hackers-shut-down-a-uk-power-plant-for-four-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UPS is investing more than $2bn across international, healthcare and supply chain]]></title><description><![CDATA[UPS has told CNBC it is investing more than $2bn across its international, healthcare and supply chain businesses, spending that began in 2024 and runs to 2028. The same company cut about 48,000 roles last year and said in January it would cut 30,000 more. UPS has put a figure on something it had been [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ups-is-investing-more-than-2bn-across-international-healthcare-and-supply-chain/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ups-is-investing-more-than-2bn-across-international-healthcare-and-supply-chain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader for its rockets and chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader. The company wants someone to build and lead a trading team for its own fuel and power needs, according to Bloomberg. Julian Hast, who covers US gas markets from Houston, spotted the job on Friday. The role &ldquo;focuses on physical and financial natural gas trading&rdquo;, the posting says. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-is-hiring-a-natural-gas-trader-for-its-rockets-and-chips/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-is-hiring-a-natural-gas-trader-for-its-rockets-and-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase DiFeliciantonio reported it for Politico. It is the first major AI lab to call for changes to the transparency law. That law was the first of its kind in the United States. What [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wants-california-to-toughen-the-ai-law-it-once-fought/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wants-california-to-toughen-the-ai-law-it-once-fought/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart went from zero to 100 charging stations in under two years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walmart has opened its 100th EV fast-charging station, at a Supercenter in Monument, Colorado, and now operates in 20 states after having none less than two years ago. The 400kW chargers come exclusively from ABB and the Italian manufacturer Alpitronic. Walmart has become a serious charging company faster than anyone expected. The retailer opened its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walmart-went-from-zero-to-100-charging-stations-in-under-two-years/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walmart-went-from-zero-to-100-charging-stations-in-under-two-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI loses a second sales leader in a week to Salesforce]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back to Salesforce, according to The Information, which broke the story on Friday. She left a week after her former boss. Denise Dresser, OpenAI&rsquo;s chief revenue officer, walked out after nine months. Both women came from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-loses-a-second-sales-leader-in-a-week-to-salesforce/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-loses-a-second-sales-leader-in-a-week-to-salesforce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest question about AI is what humans will do next]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I had back surgery, I assumed recovery would be linear. I thought each week would bring a little less pain, a little more mobility, and another step toward normal. Then I hit a setback. I had assumed I was further along than I actually was. That experience has stayed with me because I think [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-biggest-question-about-ai-is-what-humans-will-do-next/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-biggest-question-about-ai-is-what-humans-will-do-next/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian data centres will take 13% of the country&rsquo;s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. Keira Wright reported the forecast for Bloomberg. The figure lands in AEMO&rsquo;s annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities. The document is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australian-data-centres-will-use-seven-times-more-power-by-2036/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australian-data-centres-will-use-seven-times-more-power-by-2036/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tani, Semafor&rsquo;s media editor, reported the test on Sunday. The paper rolled it out quietly to a small subset of visitors over recent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-new-york-times-is-testing-ai-summaries-on-readers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-new-york-times-is-testing-ai-summaries-on-readers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump wants a $103,265 fee on new H-1B visas]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule on Monday. It would charge employers $103,265 for a new H-1B visa. Daniel Wiessner reported the filing for Reuters. A federal judge blocked a similar fee in June, calling it unlawful. H-1B visas let US employers hire foreign workers trained in specialty fields, and the technology [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-wants-a-103265-fee-on-new-h-1b-visas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-wants-a-103265-fee-on-new-h-1b-visas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inner Mongolia signs $27bn of AI computing projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inner Mongolia signed 12 green computing projects worth 186.46 billion yuan on Saturday, about $27.49bn. It also broke ground on a platform to sell Chinese AI services abroad. The state news agency Xinhua reported both from Hohhot, the regional capital. The conference that hosted the signings was held on the Cilechuan Grassland. China builds the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inner-mongolia-signs-27bn-of-ai-computing-projects/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inner-mongolia-signs-27bn-of-ai-computing-projects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The “GPT moment” for robots is already here. It’s just not in your home yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The $14 Billion Robot Company That Doesn&rsquo;t Make a Single Robot Inside Skild AI, the Pittsburgh startup building the &ldquo;universal brain&rdquo; that already powers hundreds of factory machines Eight months after Jensen Huang declared the &ldquo;ChatGPT moment for physical AI is nearly here&rdquo; at CES 2026, one Pittsburgh startup is proving him right, not with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-gpt-moment-for-robots-is-already-here-its-just-not-in-your-home-yet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-gpt-moment-for-robots-is-already-here-its-just-not-in-your-home-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon raised its device prices by up to 60% overnight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon raised the price of its own devices overnight on 21 August. The increases run to 60% on the cheapest product in the range, and they were not announced. Fortune reported the change across the hardware line. Pocket-lint had reported the Fire TV increases earlier the same day. Amazon confirmed the rises and blamed memory [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-raised-its-device-prices-by-up-to-60-overnight/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-raised-its-device-prices-by-up-to-60-overnight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temu-Owner PDD beats profit estimates as revenue growth slows to 8%]]></title><description><![CDATA[PDD Holdings posted adjusted quarterly earnings of 19.33 yuan per share against estimates of 18.51, with revenue up 8% to 112.4bn yuan, or $16.6bn, missing forecasts. Shares rose about 3.5% premarket as European regulatory pressure on Temu continues to build. Temu&rsquo;s owner made more money than analysts expected and sold less than they hoped. PDD [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/temu-owner-pdd-beats-profit-estimates-as-revenue-growth-slows-to-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/temu-owner-pdd-beats-profit-estimates-as-revenue-growth-slows-to-8/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data centres. It is the third company of that kind Nvidia has bought into in quick succession, according to The Information. Neither company disclosed terms. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday morning that Nvidia was expected to invest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-has-bought-into-a-third-land-and-power-company-this-month/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-has-bought-into-a-third-land-and-power-company-this-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager over chips shipped to China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a senior Nvidia manager and eight others over an alleged scheme that shipped 74 servers containing B300 chips to China via Japan and Indonesia. They are seeking five years for forgery and breach of trust. The first known criminal case against an Nvidia employee over AI chip smuggling has reached indictment. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwan-indicts-nvidia-manager-over-chips-shipped-to-china/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwan-indicts-nvidia-manager-over-chips-shipped-to-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His headphones kept cutting out, so he read the AliExpress code]]></title><description><![CDATA[A developer worked out why his Bluetooth headphones kept dropping his music, and the answer was on the AliExpress homepage. The Register reported the story on Monday, drawing on the developer&rsquo;s own account and a follow-up from a Firefox engineer. Connor Jones, who wrote it up for The Register, records that the site has asked [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/his-headphones-kept-cutting-out-so-he-read-the-aliexpress-code/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/his-headphones-kept-cutting-out-so-he-read-the-aliexpress-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories, and 2022 now looks 30% more AI-skilled than it was]]></title><description><![CDATA[A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively edited a job they had already left, with AI-related additions rising more than sixfold since ChatGPT launched. The authors estimate a 2026 snapshot overstates 2022 AI skills by about 30%. The record of who did what at work is quietly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/workers-are-rewriting-their-linkedin-histories-and-2022-now-looks-30-more-ai-skilled-than-it-was/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/workers-are-rewriting-their-linkedin-histories-and-2022-now-looks-30-more-ai-skilled-than-it-was/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apollo blames social engineering for a four-day breach in July]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home addresses and Social Security numbers. The private equity firm set out the incident in a notification letter dated 21 August and posted on the California attorney general&rsquo;s website. The letter opens the account of what happened with a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apollo-blames-social-engineering-for-a-four-day-breach-in-july/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apollo-blames-social-engineering-for-a-four-day-breach-in-july/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TCS buys Porsche’s MHP for €320m and lands a €1.25bn contract with it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tata Consultancy Services is buying MHP, the management and IT consultancy Porsche has owned for years, for &euro;320m, and signing a five-year engagement with the carmaker worth &euro;1.25bn on top of it. The two halves are what make the deal worth reading, because Porsche is simultaneously disposing of an asset and committing to buy back [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tcs-buys-porsches-mhp-for-320m-and-lands-a-125bn-contract-with-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tcs-buys-porsches-mhp-for-320m-and-lands-a-125bn-contract-with-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xiaomi’s new Xring O3 is built at TSMC, and aimed at a few hundred thousand phones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xiaomi has launched the Xring O3, a system-on-chip that TSMC will manufacture on its 3-nanometre process,&nbsp;according to two people familiar with the matter&nbsp;who spoke to Reuters. The chip pulls computing, graphics, AI processing, and imaging onto a single die and arrives during a difficult stretch for the handset business it is meant to differentiate, with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomis-new-xring-o3-is-built-at-tsmc-and-aimed-at-a-few-hundred-thousand-phones/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomis-new-xring-o3-is-built-at-tsmc-and-aimed-at-a-few-hundred-thousand-phones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twitch and Amazon face a class action over livestream AI training]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon&rsquo;s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-cv-08721. Its central documentary claim concerns a contract. Twitch announced an opt-out setting [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/twitch-and-amazon-face-a-class-action-over-livestream-ai-training/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/twitch-and-amazon-face-a-class-action-over-livestream-ai-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomson Reuters built its own model on a Chinese open base]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomson Reuters launched its first proprietary large language model on Monday. The company calls it Thomson. It says it spent $40mn on talent and compute to train the model, and that it began from what its announcement describes as &ldquo;a strong open-source foundation&rdquo;. The announcement does not say which foundation. Its chief technology officer named [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thomson-reuters-built-its-own-model-on-a-chinese-open-base/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thomson-reuters-built-its-own-model-on-a-chinese-open-base/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employer of record or entity: choose before someone chooses for you]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost nobody plans how to employ people abroad. They solve one urgent hire, and three years later that improvised answer has become the company&rsquo;s international employment structure. Fourteen contractors across six countries, none of it designed, all of it load-bearing. For most of the last decade that worked, because nobody checked. That assumption has expired. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/employer-of-record-or-entity-choose-before-someone-chooses-for-you/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/employer-of-record-or-entity-choose-before-someone-chooses-for-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Velocity named AdTech Platform of the Year as AI reshapes digital advertising]]></title><description><![CDATA[Digital advertising is entering another structural shift. For years, the industry has been organized around webpages, search queries, social feeds, mobile apps, and increasingly connected television. Now, as consumers move from clicking through interfaces to interacting directly with AI systems, the advertising model is beginning to follow them. That shift is reflected in the latest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/velocity-named-adtech-platform-of-the-year-as-ai-reshapes-digital-advertising/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/velocity-named-adtech-platform-of-the-year-as-ai-reshapes-digital-advertising/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[XPENG’s robotics arm has raised more than $900M ahead of its humanoid production run]]></title><description><![CDATA[XPENG said on Monday that its robotics business has raised more than $900M in what the company described as its first funding round, a substantial sum for a unit that has yet to sell a single robot commercially. The timing is deliberate, since the Chinese carmaker has committed to putting its IRON humanoid into mass [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xpengs-robotics-arm-has-raised-more-than-900m-ahead-of-its-humanoid-production-run/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xpengs-robotics-arm-has-raised-more-than-900m-ahead-of-its-humanoid-production-run/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GoWish, the Danish wishlist app, is valued at more than $200mn ater its last raising]]></title><description><![CDATA[GoWish has raised fresh funding at a valuation of more than $200mn, according to Bloomberg, which reported the round on Monday. The company is one of the more unusual businesses to come out of&nbsp;Copenhagen&rsquo;s startup scene, not least because it did not start as a startup at all. The app began life in 2015 as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gowish-the-danish-wishlist-app-is-valued-at-more-than-200mn-ater-its-last-raising/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gowish-the-danish-wishlist-app-is-valued-at-more-than-200mn-ater-its-last-raising/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GoWish, the Danish wishlist app, is valued at more than $200mn after its last raise]]></title><description><![CDATA[GoWish has raised fresh funding at a valuation of more than $200mn, according to Bloomberg, which reported the round on Monday. The company is one of the more unusual businesses to come out of&nbsp;Copenhagen&rsquo;s startup scene, not least because it did not start as a startup at all. The app began life in 2015 as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gowish-the-danish-wishlist-app-is-valued-at-more-than-200mn-after-its-last-raise/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gowish-the-danish-wishlist-app-is-valued-at-more-than-200mn-after-its-last-raise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phonak’s new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on a chip built to sip power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC, which it says runs two artificial intelligence systems in parallel while drawing 37% less power than the generation before it. The Sonova-owned brand is pitching the release at the two problems that have defined the category for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/phonaks-new-eon-hearing-aids-run-two-ai-systems-on-a-chip-built-to-sip-power/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/phonaks-new-eon-hearing-aids-run-two-ai-systems-on-a-chip-built-to-sip-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in&nbsp;a Hong Kong share placement&nbsp;whose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, since the company has spent the past fortnight arguing to investors that its capital [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-launches-wan30-its-30-second-video-model-days-after-raising-10bn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-launches-wan30-its-30-second-video-model-days-after-raising-10bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK fintech funding has fallen to its lowest level in at least a decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Funding for UK fintech companies has dropped to its lowest level in at least ten years,&nbsp;according to Bloomberg, which reported the figures on Sunday. The decline lands on a sector that Britain has spent the better part of fifteen years describing as its clearest technology success story, and it fits a pattern visible across the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-fintech-funding-has-fallen-to-its-lowest-level-in-at-least-a-decade/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-fintech-funding-has-fallen-to-its-lowest-level-in-at-least-a-decade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation, nearly triple its last one]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hugging Face has retained bankers to test the market for a sale at a valuation of $13bn or higher,&nbsp;according to Business Insider, which reported that talks are early and that no bidder has been identified. It is a striking development for a company that has spent the past decade positioning itself as the neutral ground [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is in talks to back Perplexity at more than $30bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has been discussing an investment in Perplexity that would value the AI search company at more than $30bn, according to The Information, which reported that the two sides also considered a technology licensing arrangement alongside the equity cheque. The talks are the latest turn in a relationship that already runs deeper than the usual [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-in-talks-to-back-perplexity-at-more-than-30bn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-in-talks-to-back-perplexity-at-more-than-30bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Zealand joins the global push to keep under-16s off social media]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Zealand will introduce a bill requiring platforms to verify users are over 16, though two of three coalition partners oppose it and no vote will happen before November&rsquo;s election. France&rsquo;s under-15 ban takes effect on 1 September with its age verification mandate stripped out. New Zealand will introduce a bill on Monday requiring social [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-zealand-joins-the-global-push-to-keep-under-16s-off-social-media/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-zealand-joins-the-global-push-to-keep-under-16s-off-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank plans record $6.3bn retail bond sale in Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[SoftBank plans a record 1 trillion yen retail bond sale, about $6.3bn, the largest by any issuer in Japan, to fund investment commitments to OpenAI. Analysts say banks were reluctant to take the risk, leaving the deal dependent on retail investors. SoftBank has found a lender of last resort for its AI bet, and it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-plans-record-63bn-retail-bond-sale-in-japan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-plans-record-63bn-retail-bond-sale-in-japan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude outage hits multiple models again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude AI is showing signs of overload again. On Monday morning, users trying to work with Claude encountered failed requests and a &ldquo;529 Overloaded&rdquo; error. The message says the problem is a temporary server-side issue, then sends users to Anthropic&rsquo;s status page. A screenshot shared with TNW shows the error appearing in the Claude [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-outage-hits-multiple-models-again/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-outage-hits-multiple-models-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galbot Robots Complete 100 Consecutive Rallies Against a Tennis Champion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galbot says its robot completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against former world number 15 Zheng Jie at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The rally count, the autonomy claim and the robot&rsquo;s identity all rest on the company&rsquo;s own account. A robot spent Saturday rallying with a former Wimbledon semi-finalist. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galbot-robots-complete-100-consecutive-rallies-against-a-tennis-champion/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galbot-robots-complete-100-consecutive-rallies-against-a-tennis-champion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employers are quietly rehiring the people AI replaced, and paying them less to come back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forrester reports that 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI and expects half of AI-attributed layoffs to be quietly reversed, with jobs returning offshore or at significantly lower wages. In Europe, a revised directive will require consultation before such decisions, backed by financial penalties. The companies that cut jobs for AI are having [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/employers-are-quietly-rehiring-the-people-ai-replaced-and-paying-them-less-to-come-back/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/employers-are-quietly-rehiring-the-people-ai-replaced-and-paying-them-less-to-come-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat-shaped security camera! 🐱 #botslab #securitycamera #smarthome]]></title><description><![CDATA[A cat-shaped security camera! 🐱 #botslab #securitycamera #smarthome]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-cat-shaped-security-camera-botslab-securitycamera-smarthome/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-cat-shaped-security-camera-botslab-securitycamera-smarthome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humanoid robot just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record, and roboticists are unimpressed for good reason]]></title><description><![CDATA[A robot built by Beijing&rsquo;s X-Humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt&rsquo;s 9.58-second record. Roboticists point out that speed on a known course is far easier for a machine than folding laundry. A machine has run the 100 metres faster than any person ever has. A [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-humanoid-robot-just-beat-usain-bolts-100m-record-and-roboticists-are-unimpressed-for-good-reason/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-humanoid-robot-just-beat-usain-bolts-100m-record-and-roboticists-are-unimpressed-for-good-reason/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has added a shortcut that surfaces your four most recent photos when you long press the plus button in ChatGPT on iPhone. It lands while Apple&rsquo;s own camera and visual assistant features stay unavailable on iPhone in the EU. OpenAI has taken two taps out of the most common thing people do with ChatGPT [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvey’s first in-house model for legal work is here]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harvey has launched Tenet, its first proprietary model for legal work, post-trained on Kimi K3, the open-weight model from Chinese startup Moonshot. The company is backed by OpenAI, whose models Tenet is designed to displace inside Harvey&rsquo;s own product. Harvey has stopped renting the thing its business depends on. The legal software company has launched [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/harveys-first-in-house-model-for-legal-work-is-here/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/harveys-first-in-house-model-for-legal-work-is-here/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba is raising $10.2bn and spending all of it on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba is placing HK$80bn, about $10.2bn, of new shares in Hong Kong and says all net proceeds will go to AI infrastructure and capabilities. It comes days after the company reported a 75% fall in quarterly net profit driven by that same spending. Alibaba is going to the market for money to spend on AI, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-is-raising-102bn-and-spending-all-of-it-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-is-raising-102bn-and-spending-all-of-it-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit says Oura’s sleep stages are AI guesses with a coin flip’s odds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Oura&rsquo;s sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than measurement, and names Finnish parent Oura Health Oy as a defendant. Oura says it stands behind its science and accuracy claims. The number Oura puts on its own product pages is now the subject of a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-lawsuit-says-ouras-sleep-stages-are-ai-guesses-with-a-coin-flips-odds/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-lawsuit-says-ouras-sleep-stages-are-ai-guesses-with-a-coin-flips-odds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-Powered Retail Intelligence: FarsightIQ | SourceForge Podcast, episode #134]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI-Powered Retail Intelligence: FarsightIQ | SourceForge Podcast, episode #134]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-powered-retail-intelligence-farsightiq-sourceforge-podcast-episode-134/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-powered-retail-intelligence-farsightiq-sourceforge-podcast-episode-134/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window, and developers have been impressed. OpenRouter&rsquo;s own listing says prompts and completions are retained by the unidentified provider. A model that nobody will take credit for is being tested across the industry. Ox Alpha appeared on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-free-ai-model-is-winning-over-developers-and-nobody-knows-whose-servers-it-runs-on/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-free-ai-model-is-winning-over-developers-and-nobody-knows-whose-servers-it-runs-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia&rsquo;s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early next year, driven by memory costs. The company reports quarterly earnings next week. Nvidia&rsquo;s biggest customers have been told what the memory shortage is going to cost them. Servers containing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-ai-server-prices-are-rising-more-than-15-from-early-next-year/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-ai-server-prices-are-rising-more-than-15-from-early-next-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023, with no statistically significant employment effect. The gap was 10.7% in the lowest-paid quartile and absent in the highest. The first measurable mark AI has left on the labour market is not unemployment. Apollo&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apollo-finds-ai-is-hitting-paychecks-rather-than-payrolls/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apollo-finds-ai-is-hitting-paychecks-rather-than-payrolls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s AI and chip firms are handing out shares to keep their engineers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese chip companies are running unusually broad equity schemes to keep engineers, with Cambricon covering 85.3% of its workforce and AMEC more than 97%. Europe&rsquo;s semiconductor sector has a talent gap estimated at 65,000 workers. Chinese chip companies are giving away equity at a scale that looks less like a bonus scheme and more like [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-ai-and-chip-firms-are-handing-out-shares-to-keep-their-engineers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-ai-and-chip-firms-are-handing-out-shares-to-keep-their-engineers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away]]></title><description><![CDATA[LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europe&rsquo;s first solid-state gigafactory broke ground in France in February. The company that has just opened America&rsquo;s newest battery plant does not think solid-state cells are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-company-that-just-opened-americas-newest-battery-plant-says-solid-state-cars-are-a-decade-away/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-company-that-just-opened-americas-newest-battery-plant-says-solid-state-cars-are-a-decade-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betting brands are off Premier League shirts. Enterprise software moved in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of the 20 to find new partners at once. Fulham&rsquo;s went to ClickHouse, an American data infrastructure company valued at $15bn. The most valuable advertising space in world sport has changed hands, and some of it went [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/betting-brands-are-off-premier-league-shirts-enterprise-software-moved-in/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/betting-brands-are-off-premier-league-shirts-enterprise-software-moved-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's talk about this]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let's talk about this]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lets-talk-about-this/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lets-talk-about-this/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Outer Biosciences has come out of stealth after four years, keeping surgically discarded human skin alive for up to a month and feeding the results into an AI model that predicts useful compounds. It has raised about $23mn and employs 19 people. A company in Massachusetts has spent four years keeping human skin alive outside [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-startup-is-training-an-ai-model-on-skin-that-stays-alive-for-a-month/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-startup-is-training-an-ai-model-on-skin-that-stays-alive-for-a-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI data centres are taking the capacitors carmakers need]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese carmakers say printed circuit boards and multilayer ceramic capacitors are 20% to 30% short globally, with prices more than tripling over the past year because of AI data centre demand. Automotive memory prices rose about 180% in three months. The AI boom has reached the cheapest components in a car. Chinese carmakers report a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-data-centres-are-taking-the-capacitors-carmakers-need/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-data-centres-are-taking-the-capacitors-carmakers-need/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letara raises ¥2.6bn (roughly $16mn) for hybrid rocket engines the law does not call explosive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Letara, a Hokkaido University spinout, has raised about &yen;2.6bn, roughly $16mn, for hybrid rocket engines that use plastic as fuel and are not legally classified as explosives. Germany&rsquo;s HyImpulse raised &euro;45mn for the same approach last October. A Japanese startup has raised about $16mn to build rocket engines that burn plastic. Letara, a spinout from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/letara-raises-26bn-roughly-16mn-for-hybrid-rocket-engines-the-law-does-not-call-explosive/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/letara-raises-26bn-roughly-16mn-for-hybrid-rocket-engines-the-law-does-not-call-explosive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letara raises ¥2.6bn for hybrid rocket engines the law does not call explosive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Letara, a Hokkaido University spinout, has raised about &yen;2.6bn, roughly $16mn, for hybrid rocket engines that use plastic as fuel and are not legally classified as explosives. Germany&rsquo;s HyImpulse raised &euro;45mn for the same approach last October. A Japanese startup has raised about $16mn to build rocket engines that burn plastic. Letara, a spinout from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/letara-raises-26bn-for-hybrid-rocket-engines-the-law-does-not-call-explosive/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/letara-raises-26bn-for-hybrid-rocket-engines-the-law-does-not-call-explosive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers found 768 leaked AWS keys that still work, and the containment policy leaves plenty possible]]></title><description><![CDATA[Truffle Security found 768 leaked AWS keys granting full control of corporate accounts, including 526 root keys, with 88% of tested credentials still active. AWS applies a quarantine policy to keys it detects as leaked, which still permits a long list of damaging actions. Researchers have found 768 leaked Amazon Web Services keys that still [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/researchers-found-768-leaked-aws-keys-that-still-work-and-the-containment-policy-leaves-plenty-possible/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/researchers-found-768-leaked-aws-keys-that-still-work-and-the-containment-policy-leaves-plenty-possible/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to pay $400mn to settle a US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of under-13s use the platform and collected their data without parental consent. Ireland&rsquo;s regulator fined the company &euro;345mn over children&rsquo;s accounts in 2023. TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400mn to end the US government&rsquo;s children&rsquo;s privacy [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-will-pay-400mn-over-childrens-privacy-a-number-europe-reached-in-2023/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-will-pay-400mn-over-childrens-privacy-a-number-europe-reached-in-2023/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic could raise $100bn, ten times Europe’s largest listing in decades]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic could raise around $100bn in a listing as early as October, exceeding SpaceX&rsquo;s record, with backers modelling a valuation of at least $2tn. The Financial Times reports that senior executives have not set a valuation target even privately. Anthropic&rsquo;s listing now has a figure attached to it. Reports put the raise at around $100bn, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-could-raise-100bn-ten-times-europes-largest-listing-in-decades/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-could-raise-100bn-ten-times-europes-largest-listing-in-decades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 60-year-old geothermal company just became an AI infrastructure play]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ormat, a geothermal company founded six decades ago, has signed a power purchase agreement with Google for up to 150MW in Nevada and is running enhanced geothermal pilots with Sage Geosystems and SLB. Europe has the same demand problem and is meeting it with restraint rather than contracts. A company that has been drilling for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-60-year-old-geothermal-company-just-became-an-ai-infrastructure-play/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-60-year-old-geothermal-company-just-became-an-ai-infrastructure-play/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[4 super smart shifts proving privacy is software’s new killer feature]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the longest time, the tech industry&rsquo;s unofficial motto was &ldquo;if the product is free, you are the product.&rdquo; Most of us just accepted it. But after a decade of data scandals, tracking revelations, and privacy blunders, that logic is starting to feel dated. We&rsquo;ve hit a tipping point. A quiet but powerful shift is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/4-super-smart-shifts-proving-privacy-is-softwares-new-killer-feature/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/4-super-smart-shifts-proving-privacy-is-softwares-new-killer-feature/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners&rsquo; defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to the model. It is also committing $35mn in credits to open-source security work. Anthropic is widening access to its most capable cybersecurity model, without letting [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-will-give-defenders-what-its-strongest-model-finds-but-not-the-model-itself/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-will-give-defenders-what-its-strongest-model-finds-but-not-the-model-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple cuts more than 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headset&rsquo;s gaming unit. The company says it is realigning teams and will create new roles. Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs across the teams that build Siri and the Vision [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-cuts-more-than-200-jobs-across-siri-and-vision-pro/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-cuts-more-than-200-jobs-across-siri-and-vision-pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aptera has partnered with Shanghai&rsquo;s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its latest filing reports $10.1mn in cash and substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern. Aptera has finally found someone to build its solar car. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aptera-has-found-someone-to-build-its-solar-car-and-it-is-in-shanghai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aptera-has-found-someone-to-build-its-solar-car-and-it-is-in-shanghai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-says-gemma-has-passed-a-billion-downloads/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-says-gemma-has-passed-a-billion-downloads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in Brazil since July. It is now available to everyone in the US. Pocket lets people type a prompt and get back a small interactive thing, which Meta calls a gizmo. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-launched-pocket-in-the-us-and-the-app-it-came-from-shut-down-the-same-day/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-launched-pocket-in-the-us-and-the-app-it-came-from-shut-down-the-same-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s market regulator has ordered a recall of more than 4 million vehicles, including nearly 2.98 million Teslas, because interior emergency door releases blend into the surrounding trim. The remedies are warning labels and software updates, ahead of a 2027 standard banning concealed handles. China has recalled more than four million cars because a lever [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-recalling-millions-of-evs-because-the-emergency-release-blends-into-the-trim/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-recalling-millions-of-evs-because-the-emergency-release-blends-into-the-trim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement gives no price. It is the second consultancy Ode has absorbed in four months. The company Anthropic built [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-enterprise-venture-has-bought-its-second-consultancy-in-four-months/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-enterprise-venture-has-bought-its-second-consultancy-in-four-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores]]></title><description><![CDATA[They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell something online. In their case, hand sanitizer. It worked well enough to become [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-21-year-olds-built-an-ai-that-runs-online-stores/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-21-year-olds-built-an-ai-that-runs-online-stores/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft&rsquo;s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. That makes Meta one of Microsoft&rsquo;s largest AI customers. Both companies declined [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-pays-microsoft-hundreds-of-millions-a-year-to-rent-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-pays-microsoft-hundreds-of-millions-a-year-to-rent-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nobody has said whether that is a coincidence. Bob Nelsen led the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/astromech-raised-20mn-at-38bn-to-forecast-how-biology-breaks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/astromech-raised-20mn-at-38bn-to-forecast-how-biology-breaks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World ID and peaqOS bring privacy-preserving human verification to robots and machines]]></title><description><![CDATA[It lets autonomous machines confirm they are interacting with real people without learning their identities August 21, 2026: Robots and autonomous machines running peaqOS can now verify whether they are interacting with a real human through World ID, following a new integration available through robotic.sh. The integration brings proof of human directly into peaqOS, allowing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/world-id-and-peaqos-bring-privacy-preserving-human-verification-to-robots-and-machines/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/world-id-and-peaqos-bring-privacy-preserving-human-verification-to-robots-and-machines/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart is accepting tap to pay after eleven years of refusing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walmart is adding tap to pay at its checkouts from Monday, ending more than a decade of refusing the technology. The retailer will not say so in those terms. Its announcement does not use the word Apple once. The rollout starts at selected Walmart stores and Sam&rsquo;s Club locations on 24 August, the company said. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walmart-is-accepting-tap-to-pay-after-eleven-years-of-refusing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walmart-is-accepting-tap-to-pay-after-eleven-years-of-refusing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader&rsquo;s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning the Discover feed, and topic controls for audio news briefings. Mrinalini [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-publishers-to-install-a-button-that-makes-readers-pick-them/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-publishers-to-install-a-button-that-makes-readers-pick-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple paid 40% of its global tax bill to one country]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple paid Ireland $17.1bn in tax last financial year. That is around 40% of everything it paid in corporate income tax anywhere in the world. The figure comes from a company filing that breaks Apple&rsquo;s tax down country by country, Reuters reported from Dublin. Apple paid $43.2bn in income taxes worldwide in the year to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-paid-40-of-its-global-tax-bill-to-one-country/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-paid-40-of-its-global-tax-bill-to-one-country/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI doesn’t need to replace humans to weaken human capability]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the fastest ways to remove friction from knowledge work. A 2025 field experiment termed Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI involving 6,000 workers found that access to generative AI reduced time spent on email, with some users spending 25% less time on it each week. Another research study titled [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-doesnt-need-to-replace-humans-to-weaken-human-capability/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-doesnt-need-to-replace-humans-to-weaken-human-capability/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made With AI Labels, Billboard reported after obtaining the message. Any track a content provider tags as &ldquo;materially generated using AI&rdquo; will carry a visible [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-music-will-label-ai-songs-and-the-tags-behind-them-are-now-mandatory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-music-will-label-ai-songs-and-the-tags-behind-them-are-now-mandatory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber is fined 825 million euros over automated driver suspensions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber &euro;825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under the General Data Protection Regulation. Reuters reported the decision after reviewing a document dated 17 August. The regulator, known as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-is-fined-825-million-euros-over-automated-driver-suspensions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-is-fined-825-million-euros-over-automated-driver-suspensions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. Starcloud was founded in 2024, and its March round valued [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/starcloud-raised-250mn-to-buy-rockets-it-cannot-yet-book/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/starcloud-raised-250mn-to-buy-rockets-it-cannot-yet-book/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron is spending $10bn on a lab betting the memory cycle has changed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth. The company announced Micron Research Labs on Thursday, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a planned $10bn over the next decade. It is separate from the more than $250bn Micron has committed to American manufacturing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/micron-is-spending-10bn-on-a-lab-betting-the-memory-cycle-has-changed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/micron-is-spending-10bn-on-a-lab-betting-the-memory-cycle-has-changed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions co-founder and chief executive Sunghyun Park at Nvidia&rsquo;s Santa Clara headquarters this week, people familiar with the matter told the news agency. They asked not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-in-talks-with-the-korean-inference-chip-designer-rebellions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-in-talks-with-the-korean-inference-chip-designer-rebellions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York has more tech workers than San Francisco for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years ago. The property firm&rsquo;s Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, subtitled &ldquo;AI Realignment Underway&rdquo;, puts the New York metro at 394,300 tech talent jobs in 2025 against 375,730 in the Bay Area. New York [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-york-has-more-tech-workers-than-san-francisco-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-york-has-more-tech-workers-than-san-francisco-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patreon says its discovery problem for small creators is its own fault]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patreon has published a roadmap of new and revamped features. TechCrunch counted 30 of them. The most consequential line in the post is an admission. &ldquo;To the smaller creators on Patreon: the lack of discovery you&rsquo;re seeing right now is not your fault. It&rsquo;s ours,&rdquo; chief executive Jack Conte wrote in a long post to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/patreon-says-its-discovery-problem-for-small-creators-is-its-own-fault/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/patreon-says-its-discovery-problem-for-small-creators-is-its-own-fault/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the Pixel 11 Pro worth it? #pixel #google #pixel11pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is the Pixel 11 Pro worth it? #pixel #google #pixel11pro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-the-pixel-11-pro-worth-it-pixel-google-pixel11pro/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-the-pixel-11-pro-worth-it-pixel-google-pixel11pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadcom seeks more than $60bn in debt to fund AI chips for Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise more than $60bn in debt, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The money would finance AI chips for Anthropic and other companies. Bloomberg cited people with knowledge of the matter. The figures under discussion could take the total as high as $100bn. Talks are continuing and the terms may [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/broadcom-seeks-more-than-60bn-in-debt-to-fund-ai-chips-for-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/broadcom-seeks-more-than-60bn-in-debt-to-fund-ai-chips-for-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs to 109 of its staff. It is also investing $1bn in what remains, at a $12bn pre-money valuation. The terms come from a letter Poolside sent its investors, first reported by Newcomer. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-pays-poolside-6bn-to-license-its-model-factory-and-hire-109-staff/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-pays-poolside-6bn-to-license-its-model-factory-and-hire-109-staff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strancally Castle stands above a bend in the Blackwater, half an hour&rsquo;s drive from Youghal, in a stretch of Co Waterford where the river runs wide, and the light is mostly grey. James and George Richard Pain built it around 1830 for John Keily, MP for Clonmel, and set it in front of the ruin [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mark-zuckerberg-bought-a-castle-while-the-rest-of-us-get-one-made-of-sand-once-a-year/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mark-zuckerberg-bought-a-castle-while-the-rest-of-us-get-one-made-of-sand-once-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic&rsquo;s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek&rsquo;s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the company&rsquo;s API platform. It takes the text-only V4-Flash and adds the ability to read images and screenshots. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-launches-an-experimental-multimodal-model-to-rival-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-launches-an-experimental-multimodal-model-to-rival-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung approves a record $80bn shareholder return, and the stock falls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics approved the largest shareholder return in South Korean corporate history on Friday. Its shares then fell as much as 2.6% in post-market trading. The board signed off on a Samsung shareholder return of between 90 trillion and 110 trillion won for 2026. That is roughly $65bn to $80bn. It is about five times [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-approves-a-record-80bn-shareholder-return-and-the-stock-falls/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-approves-a-record-80bn-shareholder-return-and-the-stock-falls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline]]></title><description><![CDATA[YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Romanian subscriber on Friday. It puts the individual plan up from RON 29.00 to RON 32.00 a month, a rise of about 10%. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-raises-premium-prices-across-europe-with-an-opt-in-deadline/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-raises-premium-prices-across-europe-with-an-opt-in-deadline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production]]></title><description><![CDATA[Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles. Its first product is Blackbeard, a hypersonic strike weapon designed for quantity rather than craft. The structure repays a close read. The round is $800m in equity plus $250m of committed financing for a revolving credit [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/castelion-raises-1bn-at-13bn-to-scale-hypersonic-weapon-production/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/castelion-raises-1bn-at-13bn-to-scale-hypersonic-weapon-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adobe Firefly can now generate music, speech and sound effects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adobe Firefly&rsquo;s audio tools became generally available on Thursday. Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects now sit beside the image, video and design tools in its creative AI studio. Each runs on a different model. Generate Music uses the Firefly Music Model and produces original tracks tuned to a video&rsquo;s length and mood. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobe-firefly-can-now-generate-music-speech-and-sound-effects/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobe-firefly-can-now-generate-music-speech-and-sound-effects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump signs a memo to clear the regulatory path to three launches a day]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States conducted 178 orbital launches and re-entries last year, but the White House now wants at least a thousand a year by 2030. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday directing federal agencies to clear the path to that number, largely by getting out of the way. It instructs them to speed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-signs-a-memo-to-clear-the-regulatory-path-to-three-launches-a-day/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-signs-a-memo-to-clear-the-regulatory-path-to-three-launches-a-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil is building two AI supercomputers, one Chinese and one American]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais, about $444m, on two AI supercomputers. One will be built with Huawei, the other is expected to go to Nvidia, and that is the entire point. &ldquo;The strategy is not to depend on a single company, technology or country,&rdquo; the Lula government said in setting out the plan, which is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-is-building-two-ai-supercomputers-one-chinese-and-one-american/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-is-building-two-ai-supercomputers-one-chinese-and-one-american/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Google engineer’s espionage convictions overturned, theft convictions stand]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has thrown out seven economic espionage convictions against the former Google engineer Linwei Ding, on the grounds that prosecutors never proved he was working for China. Seven trade secret theft convictions stand. Judge Vince Chhabria found the evidence sufficient to show that Ding took what he took, but insufficient to show that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-google-engineers-espionage-convictions-overturned-theft-convictions-stand/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-google-engineers-espionage-convictions-overturned-theft-convictions-stand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DOJ opposes an emergency hearing over the FCC’s review of ABC’s licences]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disney asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing by Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission&rsquo;s move to review the licences of its eight ABC-owned stations. The Justice Department told the court on Thursday that there is no hurry. The government&rsquo;s argument is procedural and, on its face, mild. A hearing designation order would [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/doj-opposes-an-emergency-hearing-over-the-fccs-review-of-abcs-licences/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/doj-opposes-an-emergency-hearing-over-the-fccs-review-of-abcs-licences/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Jersey teen drops claims against Meta, Google, and Snap weeks before trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 15-year-old from New Jersey has dropped her case against Meta, Google, and Snap seven weeks before it was due to be heard in Los Angeles. Her lawyer said she wanted to get on with her life. The case was one of three bellwethers set for trial in October in California state court, chosen to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-jersey-teen-drops-claims-against-meta-google-and-snap-weeks-before-trial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-jersey-teen-drops-claims-against-meta-google-and-snap-weeks-before-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI ships a Messages plugin that summarises who you talk to and what about]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ChatGPT desktop app can now read your iMessage history and send messages on your behalf. OpenAI shipped the integration this week for Macs running Apple silicon, and Apple, a company it is reportedly&nbsp;preparing to sue, was not part of the announcement. The plugin reads and searches Messages conversations on the machine, covering iMessage, SMS, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-ships-a-messages-plugin-that-summarises-who-you-talk-to-and-what-about/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-ships-a-messages-plugin-that-summarises-who-you-talk-to-and-what-about/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Securing AI Agent &amp; Human Identities: Auth0 | SourceForge Podcast, episode #133]]></title><description><![CDATA[Securing AI Agent &amp; Human Identities: Auth0 | SourceForge Podcast, episode #133]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/securing-ai-agent-amp-human-identities-auth0-sourceforge-podcast-episode-133/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/securing-ai-agent-amp-human-identities-auth0-sourceforge-podcast-episode-133/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pew says 10% of the web now shows signs of AI authorship]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pew found strong signs of AI authorship in around 10% of a random sample of webpages in July 2026, rising to more than a third among pages published since ChatGPT&rsquo;s release. Commercial domains carry most of it, at about 10% of .com against roughly 1% of .edu and .gov. About a tenth of the web [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pew-says-10-of-the-web-now-shows-signs-of-ai-authorship/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pew-says-10-of-the-web-now-shows-signs-of-ai-authorship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyundai’s luxury brand has a new flagship EV, and no European plans for it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Genesis has unveiled the GV90, a full-size electric SUV with 490 kW, a 123.5 kWh battery and pillarless coach doors on the Neolun version. It goes on sale in the United States early next year, and the announcement says nothing about Europe. Genesis has revealed the biggest and most expensive thing it has ever built. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hyundais-luxury-brand-has-a-new-flagship-ev-and-no-european-plans-for-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hyundais-luxury-brand-has-a-new-flagship-ev-and-no-european-plans-for-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a 23-year old builder made AI video simple]]></title><description><![CDATA[At just 23, Sean Grindal is betting on an idea he has watched take shape across a decade in software: that the hardest part of AI tools is no longer what they can do, but how few people can figure out how to use them. In a category racing to add features, he believes the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-a-23-year-old-builder-made-ai-video-simple/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-a-23-year-old-builder-made-ai-video-simple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese video platform Bilibili is expanding worldwide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bilibili has relaunched its international app without identity verification, plans an English-language website and is hiring community managers in six cities including London. The company says content on its international and Chinese sites will be the same. Bilibili is making a serious attempt at the world outside China. The video platform has relaunched its international [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-video-platform-bilibili-is-expanding-worldwide/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-video-platform-bilibili-is-expanding-worldwide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic expects its IPO to match or exceed SpaceX&rsquo;s record $75bn raise, and could file publicly as soon as the end of this month. It made a net loss of almost $42bn in 2025, five times the year before. Anthropic expects its stock market debut to match or beat the largest one ever held. SpaceX [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-targeting-an-ipo-the-size-of-the-largest-ever/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-targeting-an-ipo-the-size-of-the-largest-ever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg buys a 440-acre Irish estate in County Waterford]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in County Waterford as an Irish base. He is the third tech billionaire to buy a large Irish country estate since 2021, after Stripe&rsquo;s John Collison and James Dyson. Mark Zuckerberg has bought a castle in Ireland. He and Priscilla Chan have [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mark-zuckerberg-buys-a-440-acre-irish-estate-in-county-waterford/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mark-zuckerberg-buys-a-440-acre-irish-estate-in-county-waterford/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taco Bell’s voice AI expansion shows the drive-thru has entered a new phase]]></title><description><![CDATA[Voice AI in the drive-thru is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operating decision for quick-service restaurants. Food On Demand recently reported that Taco Bell has expanded its voice AI technology to more than 890 U.S. restaurants across 38 states, deepening its partnership with Omilia. The deployment follows a broader wave of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taco-bells-voice-ai-expansion-shows-the-drive-thru-has-entered-a-new-phase/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taco-bells-voice-ai-expansion-shows-the-drive-thru-has-entered-a-new-phase/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A data centre rack running on living neurons is now operating in Singapore]]></title><description><![CDATA[NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne and Melbourne&rsquo;s Cortical Labs have unveiled a biological data centre prototype in Singapore, built from a 20-unit rack of neuron-powered CL1 computers. The efficiency claim central to the project comes with no published figures. A rack of computers running on living human neurons has been switched on in Singapore. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-data-centre-rack-running-on-living-neurons-is-now-operating-in-singapore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-data-centre-rack-running-on-living-neurons-is-now-operating-in-singapore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Octopus Charge puts 210,000 US chargers in one app, without Tesla, Ionna or Electrify America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in the US, Canada and Mexico, aggregating more than 210,000 chargers from over 20 networks with no markup on energy prices. Its European equivalent covers 1.5 million chargers across more than 40 countries. A British energy company has put more than 210,000 North American chargers behind a single login. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/octopus-charge-puts-210000-us-chargers-in-one-app-without-tesla-ionna-or-electrify-america/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/octopus-charge-puts-210000-us-chargers-in-one-app-without-tesla-ionna-or-electrify-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cinemas became the latest institution to move against Meta smart glasses on Thursday. The UK Cinema Association said many operators are introducing policies to restrict camera-enabled eyewear. It gave two reasons: film piracy, and customer privacy. Taken alone, that is a trade body managing a risk. Taken with the past fortnight, it is something else. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cinemas-schools-and-ice-are-all-banning-meta-smart-glasses/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cinemas-schools-and-ice-are-all-banning-meta-smart-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milan’s Domyn raises over $1bn Europe’s largest AI round, mostly in debt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Domyn has raised more than $1bn, which makes it one of the largest financings a European AI company has ever announced, yet only about a tenth of it is equity. The Milan company took roughly $1.1bn in total, split about 10% equity and 90% debt,&nbsp;according to Sifted. That structure is the story, because it is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/milans-domyn-raises-over-1bn-europes-largest-ai-round-mostly-in-debt/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/milans-domyn-raises-over-1bn-europes-largest-ai-round-mostly-in-debt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab. The mechanic is simple. Tag a coding agent from any conversation and it spins up a dedicated code [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/slack-launches-slack-code-where-teams-and-ai-agents-build-together/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/slack-launches-slack-code-where-teams-and-ai-agents-build-together/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo built its own robotaxi chip and published its supplier list]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo has published what is in the boot of its robotaxis. A blog post on Thursday set out the architecture of its onboard computer, introduced a custom 5-nanometer chip of its own design, and named the seven suppliers it builds the system with. The company calls it the first look under its trunk. For a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-built-its-own-robotaxi-chip-and-published-its-supplier-list/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-built-its-own-robotaxi-chip-and-published-its-supplier-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla&rsquo;s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170 rides logged by an independent monitoring project ran with no human safety monitor on board, across 54 different cars. Two days earlier, a passenger filmed one of those cars driving straight through a line of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-austin-robotaxis-are-now-fully-driverless-tracking-shows/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-austin-robotaxis-are-now-fully-driverless-tracking-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baidu’s Apollo Go is now on Uber in Dubai, with no safety driver]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber has put Baidu&rsquo;s driverless robotaxis on its app in Dubai. Book an UberX or an Uber Comfort there now and the app may match you with an Apollo Go vehicle that has nobody in it. A dedicated &ldquo;Autonomous&rdquo; option raises the odds for anyone who wants one on purpose. The service went live on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/baidus-apollo-go-is-now-on-uber-in-dubai-with-no-safety-driver/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/baidus-apollo-go-is-now-on-uber-in-dubai-with-no-safety-driver/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba&rsquo;s net profit fell 75% in the June quarter, to $1.54bn. The cause was not a weak business. It was the bill for building one. Capital spending reached $9.98bn in three months, up 75% on the same quarter last year, according to the results announcement. In the same accounts, the cloud unit that spending pays [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibabas-profit-fell-75-as-quarterly-ai-spending-hit-10bn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibabas-profit-fell-75-as-quarterly-ai-spending-hit-10bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two senators give TikTok until 1 September to explain its safety test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two US senators have written to TikTok about an experiment that switched off a safety feature for roughly 15 million American users. Their letter runs to four pages and sets out 13 questions. It gives the company until 1 September to reply. The senators call the decision to run the test &ldquo;depraved&rdquo;. Republican Marsha Blackburn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-senators-give-tiktok-until-1-september-to-explain-its-safety-test/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-senators-give-tiktok-until-1-september-to-explain-its-safety-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI can recommend a deal. Governed execution decides whether it should happen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every revenue leader now has AI somewhere in the deal cycle. It drafts the proposal, suggests the discount, recommends the next move, and does it all in seconds. The speed is real. But a recommendation is not a decision. When AI proposes a price or a deal structure, something still has to answer the harder [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-can-recommend-a-deal-governed-execution-decides-whether-it-should-happen/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-can-recommend-a-deal-governed-execution-decides-whether-it-should-happen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House tech strategy leaves open-weight AI off its critical list]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House has published a new National Security Science and Technology strategy. It names 15 critical technology areas the United States intends to lead. Artificial intelligence and autonomy is one of them, with 12 subfields listed underneath. Open-weight AI is not among them. Neither open weights nor open-source software development appears anywhere in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/white-house-tech-strategy-leaves-open-weight-ai-off-its-critical-list/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/white-house-tech-strategy-leaves-open-weight-ai-off-its-critical-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixel 11 (Pro/XL/Fold) - First 11 things to do!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pixel 11 (Pro/XL/Fold) - First 11 things to do!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-proxlfold-first-11-things-to-do/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-proxlfold-first-11-things-to-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has told enterprise customers that its promise not to keep their data will survive the next generation of models. The company set out the position on Wednesday in a post titled &ldquo;Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models&rdquo;. In it, it previewed Private Safety Processing. The system looks for misuse across several related interactions [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-previews-private-safety-processing-to-keep-zero-data-retention/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-previews-private-safety-processing-to-keep-zero-data-retention/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Munich Re is buying cyber-insurer At-Bay for $575mn, half its 2021 price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Munich Re has agreed to buy At-Bay, a cyber-insurance startup, for $575mn. The deal values the company at less than half what it was worth in 2021. The German insurance group announced the acquisition on Wednesday, in a statement. The price is a reset. At-Bay was valued at $1.35bn in its last funding round in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/munich-re-is-buying-cyber-insurer-at-bay-for-575mn-half-its-2021-price/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/munich-re-is-buying-cyber-insurer-at-bay-for-575mn-half-its-2021-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s CFO told staff it will go public in 2027, or sooner]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has finally put a date on its stock market debut. The company &ldquo;will be a public company in 2027,&rdquo; or sooner if its business keeps growing fast, chief financial officer Sarah Friar told staff at an all-hands meeting. CNBC reported the comments, citing two people familiar with them. Friar tried to play down the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-cfo-told-staff-it-will-go-public-in-2027-or-sooner/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-cfo-told-staff-it-will-go-public-in-2027-or-sooner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comcast is turning tens of millions of routers into motion detectors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comcast is turning tens of millions of its home routers into motion detectors. The feature, called WiFi Motion, uses a home&rsquo;s own WiFi signal to sense movement, without any cameras. It is part of a new service called Xfinity Shield, which the company began rolling out on 18 August. It set out the details in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/comcast-is-turning-tens-of-millions-of-routers-into-motion-detectors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/comcast-is-turning-tens-of-millions-of-routers-into-motion-detectors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosus is putting $100mn into Navi, at a lower price than it once wanted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Navi, the Indian fintech founded by the Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has raised $100mn from the investor Prosus. It is the first outside institutional funding for the eight-year-old company, TechCrunch reported. Navi is preparing to go public. The deal values Navi at about $1.3bn, according to people familiar with the matter cited by TechCrunch. Navi [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prosus-is-putting-100mn-into-navi-at-a-lower-price-than-it-once-wanted/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prosus-is-putting-100mn-into-navi-at-a-lower-price-than-it-once-wanted/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $1.3bn loan will help build a Texas data centre for Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[An investment firm is lending about $1.3bn to help build a giant AI data centre in Texas that will house Anthropic. It is one of the latest jumbo deals fuelling the AI boom. Eagle Point Credit Management is providing the loan, Bloomberg reported. The loan is one slice of a much larger deal. It sits [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-13bn-loan-will-help-build-a-texas-data-centre-for-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-13bn-loan-will-help-build-a-texas-data-centre-for-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT ads to 31 European countries]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries, in its largest expansion of the ad business so far. The rollout starts next week, the company said in a blog post. The list runs from Germany, France, Spain and Italy to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-bringing-chatgpt-ads-to-31-european-countries/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-bringing-chatgpt-ads-to-31-european-countries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muon Space raises $250m from backers including Google and Salesforce]]></title><description><![CDATA[Muon Space has raised $250m in a round backed by Google and Salesforce, according to their announcement. It is the largest cheque yet written to a company whose best-known product is a constellation that watches for wildfires. The rise had been visible for a while. Axios reported in June&nbsp;that the California company was gathering $250m [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/muon-space-raises-250m-from-backers-including-google-and-salesforce/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/muon-space-raises-250m-from-backers-including-google-and-salesforce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A “private and secure” face-search tool left 9 million photos exposed]]></title><description><![CDATA[A people-search tool that promises &ldquo;private and secure&rdquo; searches left more than 9 million image files exposed online, including photos of people&rsquo;s faces. A security researcher found the unprotected database, according to reports by WIRED and Digital Trends. The tool is ClarityCheck, a service that lets someone upload a photo to identify the person in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-private-and-secure-face-search-tool-left-9-million-photos-exposed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-private-and-secure-face-search-tool-left-9-million-photos-exposed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity Networks raised $22mn to make AI’s fibre run at nearly light speed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Relativity Networks has raised $22mn and landed a $40mn order from a large cloud provider. The company is pitching a faster kind of fibre for AI data centres. The Orlando-based company announced the funding and the commercial deal on Tuesday, in a press release. The money came in as a $22mn SAFE. That is a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/relativity-networks-raised-22mn-to-make-ais-fibre-run-at-nearly-light-speed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/relativity-networks-raised-22mn-to-make-ais-fibre-run-at-nearly-light-speed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Tech is on a charm offensive to get its data centres built]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big Tech is pouring money into local PR campaigns to win support for the data centres it needs. Opposition to the buildings is spreading across the United States. They are holding town halls, dropping tax demands and sponsoring community groups. That is according to a Bloomberg feature and a Wall Street Journal report. The scale [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/big-tech-is-on-a-charm-offensive-to-get-its-data-centres-built/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/big-tech-is-on-a-charm-offensive-to-get-its-data-centres-built/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk&rsquo;s xAI. It is backing the company&rsquo;s challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI &ldquo;nudification&rdquo; tools. A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday and said he would rule soon, according to Courthouse News Service. xAI wants a preliminary [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-justice-department-is-backing-xai-against-minnesotas-nudify-ban/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-justice-department-is-backing-xai-against-minnesotas-nudify-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube starts funding shows directly to keep creators from licensing to Netflix]]></title><description><![CDATA[YouTube is offering some of its largest creators multi-million-dollar packages to keep their work off Netflix, according to reporting first published by Bloomberg. Several agreements are said to be close, and none have been signed. The offers reportedly take three forms: direct financing for a creator&rsquo;s shows, a share of the platform-wide brand deals YouTube [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-starts-funding-shows-directly-to-keep-creators-from-licensing-to-netflix/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-starts-funding-shows-directly-to-keep-creators-from-licensing-to-netflix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skanska has signed a $1.2bn contract to build four data centres in the southeastern United States, the largest single data centre order the Swedish construction group has announced. The client is an existing customer, and Skanska is not saying who it is. The four buildings will total around 75,000 square metres, or roughly 808,000 square [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skanska-takes-a-12bn-order-to-build-four-us-data-centres-for-an-unnamed-client/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skanska-takes-a-12bn-order-to-build-four-us-data-centres-for-an-unnamed-client/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law whether they carry news or not]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s parliament passed the News Bargaining Incentive on Thursday, closing a five-year argument that began when Meta worked out it could avoid paying for news by simply not carrying any. The new law removes that option. Platforms with a significant search or social media service in Australia and more than A$250mn (about $178mn) in local [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-google-tiktok-and-linkedin-now-face-an-australian-news-law-whether-they-carry-news-or-not/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-google-tiktok-and-linkedin-now-face-an-australian-news-law-whether-they-carry-news-or-not/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Callosum raises $100m to make AI workloads cheaper, with the British state on the cap table]]></title><description><![CDATA[Callosum has raised $100m, six months after leaving stealth with a tenth of that, and the round includes money from the British state. Bloomberg&nbsp;reported the raise, describing the UK&rsquo;s public AI fund as a backer. The Cambridge company came out of stealth in February with&nbsp;$10.25m led by Plural, the fund founded by former Wise executive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/callosum-raises-100m-to-make-ai-workloads-cheaper-with-the-british-state-on-the-cap-table/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/callosum-raises-100m-to-make-ai-workloads-cheaper-with-the-british-state-on-the-cap-table/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Berkeley professor wrote about students cutting corners, but a detector flagged her op-ed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zvezdelina Stankova published an op-ed on 15 August arguing that Berkeley admits students who cannot do middle school mathematics. Within days, the argument had been overtaken by a question about how the op-ed itself was written. Zvezdelina Stankova, a teaching professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley, made her case in the San Francisco Standard under [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-berkeley-professor-wrote-about-students-cutting-corners-but-a-detector-flagged-her-op-ed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-berkeley-professor-wrote-about-students-cutting-corners-but-a-detector-flagged-her-op-ed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s robot traffic police can direct cars, scold jaywalkers, and give a lost tourist directions to the nearest metro station. What they cannot do is stop anybody, and that limitation is written into the design rather than left to the machine&rsquo;s discretion. The clearest deployment sits in Hangzhou, where the local traffic police put&nbsp;15 humanoid [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-robot-traffic-police-can-do-almost-everything-except-stop-you/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-robot-traffic-police-can-do-almost-everything-except-stop-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut wants to let Nik Storonsky borrow $250mn against his own shares]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolut has asked its shareholders to let Nik Storonsky borrow up to $250mn against his stake in the company, five times what the current rules permit. The request went to investors last week as part of a governance exercise the fintech has codenamed Project Shasta. Storonsky owns roughly 29% of Europe&rsquo;s most valuable private technology [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-wants-to-let-nik-storonsky-borrow-250mn-against-his-own-shares/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-wants-to-let-nik-storonsky-borrow-250mn-against-his-own-shares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s first witness told a jury the problem was Mark Zuckerberg’s culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arturo B&eacute;jar took the stand in Oakland on Wednesday and told a federal jury that the reason Meta could never fix its own safety problems was the culture Mark Zuckerberg had built. He is the first witness in a trial that four state attorneys general have spent years assembling. The case opened on Tuesday before [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-first-witness-told-a-jury-the-problem-was-mark-zuckerbergs-culture/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-first-witness-told-a-jury-the-problem-was-mark-zuckerbergs-culture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump hosts crypto executives as the SEC proposes its friendliest rules yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission spent Tuesday proposing the friendliest set of crypto rules an American regulator has ever put on paper. On Wednesday, the industry that would benefit from them was at the White House, having lunch with the president. Donald Trump hosted crypto executives and trade body officials in Washington alongside Paul Atkins, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-hosts-crypto-executives-as-the-sec-proposes-its-friendliest-rules-yet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-hosts-crypto-executives-as-the-sec-proposes-its-friendliest-rules-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wang Xingxing spent Thursday morning at the World Robot Conference in Beijing telling the room that humanoid robots are approaching their &ldquo;ChatGPT moment&rdquo;. He spent another part of the same appearance explaining why that moment might still be a decade away. The Unitree founder and chief executive was speaking the day after his company&rsquo;s&nbsp;Shanghai listing, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unitrees-founder-says-robots-are-nearing-a-chatgpt-moment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unitrees-founder-says-robots-are-nearing-a-chatgpt-moment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised &euro;5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-seed. Spintop Ventures, a Nordic early-stage firm investing in the company for the first time, co-led the round with Ugly Duckling Ventures, the Danish [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/velatir-raises-5m-to-sell-european-companies-control-over-their-own-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/velatir-raises-5m-to-sell-european-companies-control-over-their-own-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avec’s latest AI feature reads your email so you don’t miss the due date]]></title><description><![CDATA[Avec has added a feature that scans an email for a deadline when you swipe left, then resurfaces the message on the relevant day. The $8.4mn startup has published no detail on where that scanning happens. An email app called Avec now reads your messages to find out when things are due. Swipe left on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/avecs-latest-ai-feature-reads-your-email-so-you-dont-miss-the-due-date/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/avecs-latest-ai-feature-reads-your-email-so-you-dont-miss-the-due-date/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five days after buying Cursor for $60bn, SpaceX tried to buy Cognition]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about an acquisition, Bloomberg reports, and Cognition did not engage. Chief executive Scott Wu replied publicly that his company is &ldquo;not for sale and we haven&rsquo;t been talking.&rdquo; SpaceX approached the AI coding company Cognition about buying it, according to Bloomberg, and Cognition did not engage. It would have [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-days-after-buying-cursor-for-60bn-spacex-tried-to-buy-cognition/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-days-after-buying-cursor-for-60bn-spacex-tried-to-buy-cognition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is giving college students a free year of AI Pro, and a raft of study tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving eligible college students a free year of its paid AI plan. The company set out the changes in a back-to-school post on Wednesday. The headline offer is the free subscription. Eligible college students [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-giving-college-students-a-free-year-of-ai-pro-and-a-raft-of-study-tools/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-giving-college-students-a-free-year-of-ai-pro-and-a-raft-of-study-tools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The jump follows a deal to supply chips to Anthropic. The company is raising funds at a pre-money valuation of $6.5bn, according to people [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-british-ai-chip-startup-is-raising-at-65bn-after-an-anthropic-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-british-ai-chip-startup-is-raising-at-65bn-after-an-anthropic-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta launched a Mac app to put its AI to work for businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, its chatbot. The company is pushing to turn the assistant into a tool for businesses and creators. The app can watch a window on your screen and answer questions about what it sees, Meta said on Wednesday. It can also take dictation across other apps. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-launched-a-mac-app-to-put-its-ai-to-work-for-businesses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-launched-a-mac-app-to-put-its-ai-to-work-for-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, with a safety driver]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber has begun offering autonomous rides in Europe for the first time, in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. From Wednesday, riders there can book a self-driving car through the Uber app, the company said. The service is run with the Chinese firm Pony.ai and the European operator Verne. There is a caveat. The cars are not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubers-first-european-av-rides-go-live-in-zagreb-with-a-safety-driver/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubers-first-european-av-rides-go-live-in-zagreb-with-a-safety-driver/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung hiked foundry prices up to 15%, with China paying the steepest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung has raised prices for some of its advanced contract chipmaking by as much as 15 percent for new orders, according to a Reuters report. Two people familiar with the matter said the increases follow a surge in demand for AI chips. That demand is tightening capacity in a business TSMC has long dominated. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-hiked-foundry-prices-up-to-15-with-china-paying-the-steepest/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-hiked-foundry-prices-up-to-15-with-china-paying-the-steepest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe seals its OpenRouter deal for a reported $7.5bn or more]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, the startup whose software helps companies route their spending across hundreds of AI models. The payments firm confirmed the deal on Wednesday, making official an acquisition the press first reported earlier this month. Neither company put a figure on the deal. Outside reporting has, and the numbers do not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stripe-seals-its-openrouter-deal-for-a-reported-75bn-or-more/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stripe-seals-its-openrouter-deal-for-a-reported-75bn-or-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixel's &quot;Camera Looks&quot; is giving us a way out of over-processed images #GooglePixel #Pixel11]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pixel's &quot;Camera Looks&quot; is giving us a way out of over-processed images #GooglePixel #Pixel11]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixels-quotcamera-looksquot-is-giving-us-a-way-out-of-over-processed-images-googlepixel-pixel11/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixels-quotcamera-looksquot-is-giving-us-a-way-out-of-over-processed-images-googlepixel-pixel11/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivian spinout Also raises $150m, and the e-bike is just the wedge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian last year, has raised $150 million in a Series D round. The round values it above $1 billion. The company told Fortune the money will go towards its real ambition, which is not e-bikes but small autonomous vehicles. Prysm Capital led the round, according to TechCrunch. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rivian-spinout-also-raises-150m-and-the-e-bike-is-just-the-wedge/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rivian-spinout-also-raises-150m-and-the-e-bike-is-just-the-wedge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marvell hands Google a $12.2bn share option in a custom-chip deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marvell Technology has agreed to give Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of its shares. In return, Google will buy its custom chips. The chipmaker set out the deal in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. Its stock jumped as much as 14 percent on the news. The warrant lets Google buy 58,970,907 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marvell-hands-google-a-122bn-share-option-in-a-custom-chip-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marvell-hands-google-a-122bn-share-option-in-a-custom-chip-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock built an AI tool that lets police search for people by how they drive]]></title><description><![CDATA[The surveillance firm Flock Safety has told the public for years that its cameras &ldquo;cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.&rdquo; It has now built a tool that does both, according to a new investigation. The artificial-intelligence system lets police search for people and vehicles by their patterns of movement alone. It needs no licence plate, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flock-built-an-ai-tool-that-lets-police-search-for-people-by-how-they-drive/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flock-built-an-ai-tool-that-lets-police-search-for-people-by-how-they-drive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxis and Nevada granted 10]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla asked Nevada regulators for permission to run up to 5,000 robotaxis across Las Vegas. It was granted 10. The Nevada Transportation Authority set out the limit in an interim order dated 27 July. The cap sits far below what the company requested. The gap is stark in the paperwork. Tesla Robotaxi filed its application [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-asked-las-vegas-for-5000-robotaxis-and-nevada-granted-10/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-asked-las-vegas-for-5000-robotaxis-and-nevada-granted-10/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier training for two weeks, it said. It is also running a new monitoring system for the riskiest work. That system adds about 20 percent to the compute cost of what it covers. The company set out the changes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-puts-a-20-compute-cost-on-its-new-ai-safety-monitoring/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-puts-a-20-compute-cost-on-its-new-ai-safety-monitoring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a new investigation by the Tech Transparency Project. The effort relies on paid influencers and funded parent groups, the watchdog said. Meta developed the tactics in the United States, the watchdog said. It has since [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-watchdog-says-meta-pays-influencers-to-fight-teen-bans-worldwide/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-watchdog-says-meta-pays-influencers-to-fight-teen-bans-worldwide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really like the Pixel 11 Pro XL, but...]]></title><description><![CDATA[I really like the Pixel 11 Pro XL, but...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/i-really-like-the-pixel-11-pro-xl-but/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/i-really-like-the-pixel-11-pro-xl-but/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a handful of private companies to land an orbital-class booster. Reuters reported that the feat places LandSpace alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin, and narrows China&rsquo;s gap with the US in reusable rockets. The booster came back [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-lands-a-rocket-booster-on-the-ground-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-lands-a-rocket-booster-on-the-ground-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in two parts. Nebius is selling $2.75 billion of notes that mature in 2030, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nebius-is-raising-45bn-in-convertible-bonds-to-build-ai-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nebius-is-raising-45bn-in-convertible-bonds-to-build-ai-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February]]></title><description><![CDATA[Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise around $500 million, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The round would value the software startup at $12 billion or more before the new money, the news agency said. It cited people familiar with the talks. The round has not closed, and the amount and terms could change, according to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/temporal-is-in-talks-to-raise-500mn-at-a-12bn-valuation-double-february/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/temporal-is-in-talks-to-raise-500mn-at-a-12bn-valuation-double-february/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $2.1 Billion “worst idea ever”: How Gamma built a profitable empire with 50 people]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grant Lee still remembers the investor&rsquo;s verdict. &ldquo;Yeah, so the investor said it was the worst idea he had ever heard&rdquo;. The call came in 2020, when Grant Lee and co-founders Jon Noronha and James Fox started Gamma in San Francisco. Six years later, that &ldquo;worst idea&rdquo; is a $2.1 billion company, a profitable AI-powered [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-21-billion-worst-idea-ever-how-gamma-built-a-profitable-empire-with-50-people/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-21-billion-worst-idea-ever-how-gamma-built-a-profitable-empire-with-50-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says Claude designed working protein binders, and beat human experts on some]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It published the two experiments on Tuesday. The company reported the results itself. It framed them as early evidence that Claude can speed up parts of drug development. Anthropic shared the work on its research blog. The headline numbers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-says-claude-designed-working-protein-binders-and-beat-human-experts-on-some/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-says-claude-designed-working-protein-binders-and-beat-human-experts-on-some/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This phone destroys the new Samsung Galaxy Fold 8 Ultra]]></title><description><![CDATA[This phone destroys the new Samsung Galaxy Fold 8 Ultra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-phone-destroys-the-new-samsung-galaxy-fold-8-ultra/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-phone-destroys-the-new-samsung-galaxy-fold-8-ultra/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillet&rsquo;s third raise in 14 months. The backers are a roll-call of AI investors. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rillet-raises-100mn-at-a-1bn-valuation-to-put-ai-agents-inside-the-general-ledger/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rillet-raises-100mn-at-a-1bn-valuation-to-put-ai-agents-inside-the-general-ledger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns a piece of the buyer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them. The Swedish electric-trucking firm said on Tuesday it will deploy the 500 electric big rigs for Amazon and other customers. It called the order the largest Tesla Semi deployment in the world to date. Einride announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/einride-is-buying-500-tesla-semis-and-amazon-owns-a-piece-of-the-buyer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/einride-is-buying-500-tesla-semis-and-amazon-owns-a-piece-of-the-buyer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it began asking in 2021, with 73% expecting fewer jobs. A European Commission survey found displacement fears highest among younger, lower-income and less-educated workers. Americans under 30 have changed their minds about AI. For the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-americans-under-30-are-now-more-worried-than-excited-about-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-americans-under-30-are-now-more-worried-than-excited-about-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI grew more slowly than Anthropic last quarter, and for the first time its rival&rsquo;s sales came in higher. OpenAI told investors its revenue rose 18 percent from the first quarter to the second, to $6.7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported. Its losses deepened over the same stretch. Berber Jin and Corrie Driebusch wrote that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-revenue-passed-openais-for-the-first-time-last-quarter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-revenue-passed-openais-for-the-first-time-last-quarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to challenge voice AI leaders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bangalore-based Murf AI is releasing its Falcon 2 voice model on 20 August at $0.01 per generated minute, a fifth of what ElevenLabs charges. The company says it scores above some OpenAI models on the independent Artificial Analysis leaderboard. A Bangalore company is selling synthetic speech at a fifth of what Europe&rsquo;s biggest voice AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-murf-ai-launches-falcon-2-to-challenge-voice-ai-leaders/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-murf-ai-launches-falcon-2-to-challenge-voice-ai-leaders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[63% of Europe’s new data centre capacity is now going somewhere other than the big five]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s data centre capacity will reach 13 gigawatts by the end of 2026, a fifth more than last year, and most of the new supply is no longer landing where the industry has always built. Of the roughly 700 megawatts added in the second quarter, only 37% went to the five established markets of Frankfurt, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/63-of-europes-new-data-centre-capacity-is-now-going-somewhere-other-than-the-big-five/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/63-of-europes-new-data-centre-capacity-is-now-going-somewhere-other-than-the-big-five/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s drone fleet is expanding sixfold in America and capped at 100 deliveries a day in England]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon says it will offer drone delivery in nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, six times its current footprint. Its only British site, in Darlington, is under an AAIB accident investigation with its CAA permission expiring on 31 December. Amazon says it will be delivering by drone in nearly 500 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-drone-fleet-is-expanding-sixfold-in-america-and-capped-at-100-deliveries-a-day-in-england/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-drone-fleet-is-expanding-sixfold-in-america-and-capped-at-100-deliveries-a-day-in-england/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic&rsquo;s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have started building tools to strip those labels off, according to Business Insider. Thibault Spirlet and Agnes Applegate reported that one remover has gone viral on GitHub. Interest in the tools is climbing. The watermark is the trigger. Anthropic began marking Claude&rsquo;s output [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-ai-watermark-has-already-spawned-tools-to-remove-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-ai-watermark-has-already-spawned-tools-to-remove-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the end of a keynote in San Francisco. The reveal was brief. Thrun mentioned [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-pioneer-sebastian-thrun-is-building-a-stealth-robotics-startup/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-pioneer-sebastian-thrun-is-building-a-stealth-robotics-startup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up the structure ahead of an initial public offering that could rank among the largest ever, Cory Weinberg and Valida Pau reported. Bloomberg matched the report. The plan would hand chief [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-preparing-supervoting-shares-for-its-founders-before-the-ipo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-preparing-supervoting-shares-for-its-founders-before-the-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wasted a quarter of the energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany&rsquo;s ADAC measured charging losses on five EVs and found that a household socket wastes between 12.7% and 24.2% of the electricity drawn. An 11 kW wallbox cut every car&rsquo;s losses to between 5.1% and 7%. Some of the electricity you buy to charge an electric car never reaches the battery. Germany&rsquo;s ADAC measured how [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adac-tested-five-evs-for-charging-losses-one-wasted-a-quarter-of-the-energy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adac-tested-five-evs-for-charging-losses-one-wasted-a-quarter-of-the-energy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California’s new tyre standard is stricter than Europe’s, which has had one since 2012]]></title><description><![CDATA[California&rsquo;s Energy Commission has unanimously approved the first US efficiency standard for replacement tyres, capping rolling resistance from 2029 and tightening it in 2033. Europe has enforced a looser ceiling since 2012 and labelled tyres for efficiency since the same year. California has decided how wasteful a tyre is allowed to be. Its Energy Commission [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/californias-new-tyre-standard-is-stricter-than-europes-which-has-had-one-since-2012/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/californias-new-tyre-standard-is-stricter-than-europes-which-has-had-one-since-2012/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok is building a way to send money inside DMs]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok is working on a way for users to send each other money inside direct messages, according to Bloomberg. The feature would run on TikTok Pay, the app&rsquo;s existing payment system, Bloomberg reported. Natalie Lung and Alexandra Levine wrote that references to it sit in code hidden in the current version of TikTok&rsquo;s US iPhone [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-is-building-a-way-to-send-money-inside-dms/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-is-building-a-way-to-send-money-inside-dms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed]]></title><description><![CDATA[A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and software for data centres and for what the industry calls physical [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/velaura-raises-110mn-to-sell-ai-chips-that-cut-the-power-bill-not-the-clock-speed/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/velaura-raises-110mn-to-sell-ai-chips-that-cut-the-power-bill-not-the-clock-speed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the company&rsquo;s fastest-growing models to date. The model is open [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibabas-new-small-model-runs-on-a-laptop-and-scores-like-a-cloud-one/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibabas-new-small-model-runs-on-a-laptop-and-scores-like-a-cloud-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audi’s China-only EVs are coming to Europe, and they cost less than local models]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German company is importing Audi&rsquo;s China-only E5 Sportback and E7X, models Audi never intended to sell in Europe, and registering them for road use. Even after shipping and homologation they undercut Audi&rsquo;s European-built equivalents by thousands of euros. Audi built two electric cars it never wanted Europeans to buy. They are now being registered [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/audis-china-only-evs-are-coming-to-europe-and-they-cost-less-than-local-models/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/audis-china-only-evs-are-coming-to-europe-and-they-cost-less-than-local-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xiaomi’s profit drops again as the memory crunch squeezes its phones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xiaomi&rsquo;s profit fell again in the second quarter. A global memory shortage kept pushing up the cost of its phones. The Chinese company posted its third straight quarterly profit decline, Bloomberg reported. Adjusted net income dropped about 43 percent to 6.22bn yuan ($922mn). The reported figure was less severe. Net profit fell 20.5 percent, The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomis-profit-drops-again-as-the-memory-crunch-squeezes-its-phones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomis-profit-drops-again-as-the-memory-crunch-squeezes-its-phones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevalent AI raises $22m to fix the data problem behind failing AI projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prevalent AI, a London company that folds hundreds of scattered enterprise data sources into a single queryable graph, has raised $22m from&nbsp;Integrity Growth Partners. It is the first primary capital the business has taken in nine years of trading, which in the current market counts as an eccentricity. The company was founded in 2017 by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prevalent-ai-raises-22m-to-fix-the-data-problem-behind-failing-ai-projects/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prevalent-ai-raises-22m-to-fix-the-data-problem-behind-failing-ai-projects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The young ones are the best ones’: the Meta documents now in front of an Oakland judge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 2016 internal email stating that Instagram&rsquo;s overall company goal was &ldquo;teen time spent&rdquo; is now an exhibit in an Oakland courtroom. It is one of several internal documents the states put before a federal judge this week, in the first case to reach trial out of a litigation covering 3,000 claims. The trial opened [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-young-ones-are-the-best-ones-the-meta-documents-now-in-front-of-an-oakland-judge/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-young-ones-are-the-best-ones-the-meta-documents-now-in-front-of-an-oakland-judge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alphabet raises A$5.5bn in Australia, more than doubling a record Apple set in 2015]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alphabet priced its first Australian dollar bond on Wednesday&nbsp;at A$5.5bn, about US$3.9bn, roughly 10% more than the market had pencilled in when the deal was trailed at the start of the week. It is the largest corporate bond sale ever done in the Australian market. The company&nbsp;hired banks on Monday&nbsp;for a four-tranche transaction sized at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-raises-a55bn-in-australia-more-than-doubling-a-record-apple-set-in-2015/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-raises-a55bn-in-australia-more-than-doubling-a-record-apple-set-in-2015/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry&rsquo;s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. &ldquo; That&rsquo;s just a big mistake,&rdquo; he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital&rsquo;s&nbsp;Training Data&nbsp;podcast, published on Tuesday and hosted by Sonya Huang and Pat Grady. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-turing-award-winner-says-the-industrys-fix-for-running-out-of-data-is-a-big-mistake/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-turing-award-winner-says-the-industrys-fix-for-running-out-of-data-is-a-big-mistake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to the South China Morning Post. It is growing at precisely the moment Washington is drafting a letter telling 35 countries they cannot belong to both camps. WAICO was&nbsp;signed into existence [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-ai-alliance-keeps-growing-just-as-washington-tells-countries-to-choose/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-ai-alliance-keeps-growing-just-as-washington-tells-countries-to-choose/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix will buy back $28.6bn of its own shares, the biggest repurchase in Korean corporate history]]></title><description><![CDATA[SK Hynix will buy back 40 trillion won of its own stock, about $28.6bn at prevailing exchange rates, in what Korean media are&nbsp;calling the largest repurchase&nbsp;ever announced by a listed company in the country. The board approved the programme on Wednesday and every share bought will be cancelled outright rather than held in treasury. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-will-buy-back-286bn-of-its-own-shares-the-biggest-repurchase-in-korean-corporate-history/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-will-buy-back-286bn-of-its-own-shares-the-biggest-repurchase-in-korean-corporate-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company&rsquo;s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitched as an inference machine for frontier models, and Cerebras says it runs them up to 30 times faster than GPU-based systems. The launch [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-launches-the-cs-4-its-first-multi-wafer-system-though-the-chip-inside-is-not-new/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-launches-the-cs-4-its-first-multi-wafer-system-though-the-chip-inside-is-not-new/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Governor Josh Shapiro&nbsp;signed an executive order&nbsp;on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state&rsquo;s permit fast-track programme, blocks environmental review until developers have secured local approval, and bars state agencies from signing non-disclosure agreements on data centre projects. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pennsylvania-just-made-itself-one-of-the-hardest-us-states-to-build-a-data-centre-in/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pennsylvania-just-made-itself-one-of-the-hardest-us-states-to-build-a-data-centre-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China]]></title><description><![CDATA[After eight months of export licences that moved almost nothing, Nvidia&rsquo;s H200 accelerators have started arriving at Chinese technology companies. ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 of the processors in recent weeks, according to the Financial Times, with other Chinese groups expected to secure similar volumes shortly. Even taken at face value, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidias-h200-finally-reaches-chinese-buyers-though-maybe-not-mainland-china/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidias-h200-finally-reaches-chinese-buyers-though-maybe-not-mainland-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xiaomi’s first EV just passed half a million deliveries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xiaomi&rsquo;s SU7 sedan passed 500,000 cumulative deliveries on 17 August, 28.5 months after the first handover. Deliveries of that model are down 43.6% this year, even as the company&rsquo;s overall volume rose almost 15%. Xiaomi&rsquo;s first car has passed half a million deliveries. The SU7 reached 500,000 on 17 August, 28.5 months after the first [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomis-first-ev-just-passed-half-a-million-deliveries/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomis-first-ev-just-passed-half-a-million-deliveries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 1918 EV Had 42 Batteries And More Range Than A 2011 Leaf]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 1918 Detroit Electric Model 75B went under the hammer at Monterey Car Week claiming an original 80 miles of range, against the 73 miles the first Nissan Leaf was rated for. The format died because of the electric starter and a price five times a Model T, not because of range. A 1918 Detroit [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-1918-ev-had-42-batteries-and-more-range-than-a-2011-leaf/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-1918-ev-had-42-batteries-and-more-range-than-a-2011-leaf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LG’s $2 Billion lansing battery plant is now building cells]]></title><description><![CDATA[LG Energy Solution began production on Tuesday at its $2bn Lansing plant, which was originally a GM joint venture before GM sold its stake in December 2024. It will make cells for Toyota&rsquo;s 2027 Highlander EV and, from next year, for Tesla&rsquo;s Megapack 3. The battery plant General Motors walked away from opened on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lgs-2-billion-lansing-battery-plant-is-now-building-cells/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lgs-2-billion-lansing-battery-plant-is-now-building-cells/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is rewriting its safety rules after the Hugging Face breach]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI said on Tuesday it is rewriting its Preparedness Framework after concluding that its upcoming Astra model may have reached the critical threshold for cyber capability. Its new token-level monitoring carries roughly 20% compute overhead and is now mandatory for its most capable training runs. OpenAI is rewriting the document it has used to decide [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-rewriting-its-safety-rules-after-the-hugging-face-breach/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-rewriting-its-safety-rules-after-the-hugging-face-breach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairphone’s most repairable phone yet is now available in the US at $650]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fairphone is selling directly in the United States for the first time, with the $650 Gen 6+ and its twelve user-replaceable parts. The Dutch company is entering a market with no equivalent of the EU repairability rules that took effect last year. Fairphone is selling in the United States directly for the first time. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fairphones-most-repairable-phone-yet-is-now-available-in-the-us-at-650/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fairphones-most-repairable-phone-yet-is-now-available-in-the-us-at-650/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street]]></title><description><![CDATA[Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation in a round led by Jane Street, doubling the $10.3bn it was worth on 23 July. It has also completed its first customer delivery, a rack shipped to Jane Street. Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation, led by Jane Street, and has shipped its first [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/etched-raises-700m-at-a-21b-valuation-led-by-jane-street/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/etched-raises-700m-at-a-21b-valuation-led-by-jane-street/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is removing Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies]]></title><description><![CDATA[China is removing a government version of Microsoft&rsquo;s Windows 10 from state agencies, earlier than planned. The Ministry of State Security recently told some state-linked entities to uninstall the customised software, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The instruction stemmed from data security concerns, they said. They did not specify the vulnerabilities involved. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-removing-microsofts-windows-10-from-state-agencies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-removing-microsofts-windows-10-from-state-agencies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baidu’s revenue falls for a fifth quarter as ads keep sliding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Baidu revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter. The advertising business kept shrinking faster than the AI business could grow. The Chinese search company reported its results on Tuesday, with second-quarter revenue of RMB31.3bn ($4.62bn). That is down 4 percent on a year earlier and 2 percent on the previous quarter. Net income attributable to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/baidus-revenue-falls-for-a-fifth-quarter-as-ads-keep-sliding/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/baidus-revenue-falls-for-a-fifth-quarter-as-ads-keep-sliding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scrapping your petrol car for An EV pays back In three years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Research published in Science finds that scrapping a petrol car in its first year and replacing it with a battery electric vehicle cuts emissions by 58% over 16 years, with carbon payback in about three years. The benefit does not hold for efficient hybrids, very low-mileage vehicles or the dirtiest electricity grids. Retiring a petrol [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scrapping-your-petrol-car-for-an-ev-pays-back-in-three-years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scrapping-your-petrol-car-for-an-ev-pays-back-in-three-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google and the UK will steer planes around contrails over the Atlantic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK government and Google are launching a trial to steer aircraft around climate-warming contrails. Google announced Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday. It is the first such effort across an entire ocean airspace. AI forecasts will predict where contrails form over the North Atlantic, and controllers will nudge planes to avoid those patches of sky. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-and-the-uk-will-steer-planes-around-contrails-over-the-atlantic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-and-the-uk-will-steer-planes-around-contrails-over-the-atlantic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation, according to Business Insider. Katie Roof reported the round on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with it. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners are in talks to lead it. The details are not settled. Roof wrote that the numbers could still change. EliseAI, a16z and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eliseai-is-in-talks-to-raise-300mn-at-a-37bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eliseai-is-in-talks-to-raise-300mn-at-a-37bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple overhauls EU App Store fees to settle its DMA dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle a long dispute with the European Commission. The company announced the changes on Tuesday, after what it called close collaboration with the Commission. Developers can sign the new terms today, and they take effect on 1 October. The headline change is the end of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-overhauls-eu-app-store-fees-to-settle-its-dma-dispute/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-overhauls-eu-app-store-fees-to-settle-its-dma-dispute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit AI videos turn old text threads into narrated clips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday on the web. The iOS and Android apps followed on Tuesday. It covers select English-language posts in a sample of communities. A toggle appears above an eligible post. &ldquo;Read&rdquo; shows [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-ai-videos-turn-old-text-threads-into-narrated-clips/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-ai-videos-turn-old-text-threads-into-narrated-clips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws]]></title><description><![CDATA[Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on interviews with eight current and former officials who work or have worked with the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-drafted-bills-are-swamping-the-house-office-that-writes-us-laws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple leaked a video of its camera-equipped AirPods in macOS Tahoe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple appears to have leaked its own camera-equipped AirPods. A demo video sat inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and MacRumors found it there on Monday. Juli Clover reported that the earbuds look nearly ready to launch. The clip runs 13 seconds. A man holds up a book so the camera in the AirPods [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-leaked-a-video-of-its-camera-equipped-airpods-in-macos-tahoe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-leaked-a-video-of-its-camera-equipped-airpods-in-macos-tahoe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google plans to end Pixel production in China by 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel production out of China from 2027, according to Nikkei Asia. That covers phones, smartwatches and wireless earbuds. Lauly Li reported the plan on 18 August, citing the ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing. Nikkei named Vietnam and India as the destinations. The date has moved. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-plans-to-end-pixel-production-in-china-by-2027/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-plans-to-end-pixel-production-in-china-by-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens and will auto-enrol under-18s]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically. Anyone who says they are 13 to 17 gets it by default. So does anyone the company&rsquo;s age-prediction system estimates is under 18. The global rollout began on 18 August, and Engadget reported that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-chatgpt-for-teens-and-will-auto-enrol-under-18s/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-chatgpt-for-teens-and-will-auto-enrol-under-18s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alina Kukarina on why AI transformation begins before choosing the technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI investment has expanded rapidly, with organizations introducing copilots, agents, and&nbsp;generative AI&nbsp;across functions. Yet the business transformation many leaders anticipated can remain difficult to identify. A&nbsp;2026 analysis&nbsp;found that nearly 40% of companies tracking AI&nbsp;cost savings&nbsp;achieved less than 10%, while 90% planned to&nbsp;increase their budgets. Additionally, 38% of finance leaders and 39% of CEOs considered it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The N]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alina-kukarina-on-why-ai-transformation-begins-before-choosing-the-technology/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alina-kukarina-on-why-ai-transformation-begins-before-choosing-the-technology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not]]></title><description><![CDATA[From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing. No minimum watch time, across long-form, Shorts and live, everywhere. The YouTube view count will go up. Nobody will watch more. Nobody will earn more. What the rule was, and nobody could tell you Until now a YouTube view count on long-form [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-view-counts-will-rise-on-24-august-and-creator-earnings-will-not/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-view-counts-will-rise-on-24-august-and-creator-earnings-will-not/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Browsing tools and Ad blockers: A guide to cleaner web experiences]]></title><description><![CDATA[Web pages have become increasingly busy. Alongside the content people actually want to read, many sites now include display advertising, video promotions, pop-ups,&nbsp;cookie banners, sponsored elements, and social widgets. Ad blockers offer a way to reduce some of that clutter directly within a browser. However, they are not all designed in the same way. Some [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/browsing-tools-and-ad-blockers-a-guide-to-cleaner-web-experiences/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/browsing-tools-and-ad-blockers-a-guide-to-cleaner-web-experiences/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn&rsquo;t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firsthand while building and running a voice agent for&nbsp;enterprise use. When you factor in speech recognition, text-to-speech, model usage, telephony, and infrastructure, a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-economics-of-a-voice-agent-what-a-minute-of-conversation-actually-costs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-economics-of-a-voice-agent-what-a-minute-of-conversation-actually-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insta360's new X6 camera is giving us a real upgrade 🔥 #Insta360 #360Camera #ActionCamera]]></title><description><![CDATA[Insta360's new X6 camera is giving us a real upgrade 🔥 #Insta360 #360Camera #ActionCamera]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/insta360s-new-x6-camera-is-giving-us-a-real-upgrade-insta360-360camera-actioncamera/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/insta360s-new-x6-camera-is-giving-us-a-real-upgrade-insta360-360camera-actioncamera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew]]></title><description><![CDATA[Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstructed it for the Wall Street Journal, and the sequence is stranger than the number. The phone call that gave it away David Mann runs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/situational-awareness-ran-two-auctions-at-once-and-one-set-of-bidders-never-knew/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/situational-awareness-ran-two-auctions-at-once-and-one-set-of-bidders-never-knew/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AirTag in a rare book led to an Amazon book scanning warehouse in Las Vegas]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bookseller hid an AirTag inside a rare book and let it go with a bulk order. The tracker travelled across the United States and stopped at a warehouse in Las Vegas owned by Amazon. Emanuel Maiberg reported the result for 404 Media on Monday. Booksellers have spent a year suspecting that AI companies were [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-airtag-in-a-rare-book-led-to-an-amazon-book-scanning-warehouse-in-las-vegas/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-airtag-in-a-rare-book-led-to-an-amazon-book-scanning-warehouse-in-las-vegas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distributed filesystem that lets people and AI agents work across petabytes of live data while using, the company claims, zero local disk [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/space-raises-24m-to-abolish-the-hard-drive-with-an-ai-native-filesystem-for-humans-and-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/space-raises-24m-to-abolish-the-hard-drive-with-an-ai-native-filesystem-for-humans-and-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s revenue run rate tops $65bn, a source says, but a run rate is not revenue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has told investors that its annualised revenue run rate topped $65bn by the end of July, according to a person familiar with the company&rsquo;s finances who was cited by Reuters. The distinction matters as a run rate takes revenue from a recent, short window, often a single month, and multiplies it out to a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-revenue-run-rate-tops-65bn-a-source-says-but-a-run-rate-is-not-revenue/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-revenue-run-rate-tops-65bn-a-source-says-but-a-run-rate-is-not-revenue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry&rsquo;s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline announced, are set to produce as much carbon dioxide as 24 million cars. The figure is arresting. It is also a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-many-cars-worth-of-co2-will-us-data-centres-really-emit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-many-cars-worth-of-co2-will-us-data-centres-really-emit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[America&rsquo;s cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the world&rsquo;s AI training and inference, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, confirming that the flaw is being used in real-world attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency made the move on 17 August, giving federal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cisa-orders-a-three-day-patch-after-a-flaw-in-the-ray-ai-framework-comes-under-active-attack/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cisa-orders-a-three-day-patch-after-a-flaw-in-the-ray-ai-framework-comes-under-active-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children]]></title><description><![CDATA[Awarning that AI &ldquo;slop&rdquo; is fuelling cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children has ricocheted across the internet this week, carried by headlines that present the harm as settled fact. The document underneath is more modest, and far more uncertain, than the coverage implies. The source is a report published by the Global Network on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-analysis-links-violent-ai-slop-to-brain-rot-and-violence-in-children/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-analysis-links-violent-ai-slop-to-brain-rot-and-violence-in-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial. While much of the market remains focused on OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and the latest model releases, a quieter transformation is taking place in the investor base funding the next generation of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beyond-venture-capital-why-family-offices-are-becoming-ais-most-influential-investors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beyond-venture-capital-why-family-offices-are-becoming-ais-most-influential-investors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut’s Nik Storonsky closes a $500m fund for his algorithm-run venture firm QuantumLight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nik Storonsky, the man behind Revolut, has closed a $500m second fund for QuantumLight, the algorithmic venture-capital firm he co-founded to let software, rather than partners, decide where the money goes. The fund is double the size of QuantumLight&rsquo;s $250m debut vehicle from last year, a swift escalation for an outfit still trying to prove [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revoluts-nik-storonsky-closes-a-500m-fund-for-his-algorithm-run-venture-firm-quantumlight/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revoluts-nik-storonsky-closes-a-500m-fund-for-his-algorithm-run-venture-firm-quantumlight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla is preparing to put its Cybercab, the purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information. There is, as ever with a Tesla launch date, a catch attached to the milestone: the first people to ride in it will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-cybercab-is-finally-launching-and-it-starts-by-giving-its-own-staff-a-lift/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-cybercab-is-finally-launching-and-it-starts-by-giving-its-own-staff-a-lift/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smack Technologies raises $61m as the Pentagon’s hurry becomes a battlefield-AI business model]]></title><description><![CDATA[A defence software start-up that most of Silicon Valley had never heard of a year ago is suddenly flush with cash, and the reason says a great deal about where the Pentagon is steering the technology industry. Smack Technologies, an Austin-based firm building artificial-intelligence tools for the battlefield, said on Monday that it had raised [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/smack-technologies-raises-61m-as-the-pentagons-hurry-becomes-a-battlefield-ai-business-model/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/smack-technologies-raises-61m-as-the-pentagons-hurry-becomes-a-battlefield-ai-business-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medly AI raises $8m to put an AI tutor in front of every UK exam student]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most genuine projects emerge from gaps we identify in our own lives or in the society around us. And maybe this should be our focus as a society: to use all the technology at our disposal to solve problems that were almost impossible to address before. Medly AI, a London exam-prep platform built [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/medly-ai-raises-8m-to-put-an-ai-tutor-in-front-of-every-uk-exam-student/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/medly-ai-raises-8m-to-put-an-ai-tutor-in-front-of-every-uk-exam-student/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals of that general type are regulated. The exchange took six days. What was asked, and what came back Latham &amp; Watkins [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-sec-staff-agreed-data-centre-securitisation-sits-outside-dodd-frank-risk-retention/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-sec-staff-agreed-data-centre-securitisation-sits-outside-dodd-frank-risk-retention/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday. Every account of the deal rests on one word. The data is deidentified, so nobody need worry. The Spirit Airlines data sale agreement, filed with the bankruptcy court on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-picked-and-paid-for-the-firm-anonymising-the-spirit-airlines-data/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-picked-and-paid-for-the-firm-anonymising-the-spirit-airlines-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own company&rsquo;s launch with a line that then travelled further than the product. Cursor [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cursor-origin-is-on-by-default-for-paid-users-and-its-data-terms-are-unpublished/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cursor-origin-is-on-by-default-for-paid-users-and-its-data-terms-are-unpublished/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw]]></title><description><![CDATA[A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake&rsquo;s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. It is just not the story that travelled. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/github-disputes-wizs-claim-that-copilot-autofix-wrote-a-snowflake-flaw/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/github-disputes-wizs-claim-that-copilot-autofix-wrote-a-snowflake-flaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greg Brockman says OpenAI underestimated its own models’ cyber skills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual. &ldquo;I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in a way that it doesn&rsquo;t otherwise,&rdquo; the company&rsquo;s president told Squawk Box. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/greg-brockman-says-openai-underestimated-its-own-models-cyber-skills/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/greg-brockman-says-openai-underestimated-its-own-models-cyber-skills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opening statements in the states&rsquo; case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey will argue it. They allege that Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/opening-statements-begin-in-the-biggest-consumer-protection-case-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/opening-statements-begin-in-the-biggest-consumer-protection-case-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wispr has raised $280mn at a $2bn valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round, having led the last one too. Total funding now stands at $361mn. The company makes Wispr Flow, a dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in whatever application your cursor happens to be in. Reuters reports the previous round valued it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wispr-raised-280mn-at-2bn-to-argue-the-text-box-is-finished/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wispr-raised-280mn-at-2bn-to-argue-the-text-box-is-finished/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI agent built a working exploit for this macOS flaw in four hours]]></title><description><![CDATA[A security company built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS. It took four hours. The firm, Calif, used an AI agent. It now withholds technical details of one of those bugs, CVE-2026-65400, until most Macs carry the patch. The reason is the speed. Producing the exploit was too easy. Attackers are using [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-built-a-working-exploit-for-this-macos-flaw-in-four-hours/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-built-a-working-exploit-for-this-macos-flaw-in-four-hours/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over competing board seats]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Those sources put the investigation at nearly a year old. Monday&rsquo;s story is the first [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-doj-is-investigating-andreessen-horowitz-over-competing-board-seats/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-doj-is-investigating-andreessen-horowitz-over-competing-board-seats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aachen’s amber raised €7mn to sell AI sovereignty to the Mittelstand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aachen-based amber has closed a &euro;7mn Series A. Ventech co-led it with NRW.Venture, the venture arm of NRW.BANK. NRW.BANK is the development bank owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. By the standards of this year&rsquo;s AI rounds, &euro;7mn is small. The argument behind it is not. amber connects and structures a company&rsquo;s internal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aachens-amber-raised-7mn-to-sell-ai-sovereignty-to-the-mittelstand/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aachens-amber-raised-7mn-to-sell-ai-sovereignty-to-the-mittelstand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higgsfield raised $400mn at $5.4bn, four times its January valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Higgsfield has raised $400mn at a $5.4bn valuation. DST Global led the round. Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, and Liberty Global Tech Ventures all took part, alongside Tribe Capital, Smash Capital, Fifth Wall, Valor Capital, Mirae Asset Capital, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures. The company was valued at $1.3bn in January. That is roughly four times higher [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/higgsfield-raised-400mn-at-54bn-four-times-its-january-valuation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/higgsfield-raised-400mn-at-54bn-four-times-its-january-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI&rsquo;s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject. There are separate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-disbanded-the-team-that-assessed-catastrophic-model-risks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-disbanded-the-team-that-assessed-catastrophic-model-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terra Industries closes a $52mn seed and opens its first office outside Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terra Industries has added $18mn to close a $52mn seed round and will open its first office outside Africa in London, while keeping manufacturing in Ghana and Nigeria. The Nigerian company was founded in 2024 and says it is on track for more than $100mn in contract bookings this year. Terra Industries has added $18mn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/terra-industries-closes-a-52mn-seed-and-opens-its-first-office-outside-africa/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/terra-industries-closes-a-52mn-seed-and-opens-its-first-office-outside-africa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s tax agency lost data on 678,000 people to a stolen login]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French tax agency says an attacker took data belonging to 678,000 individuals and businesses. The intrusions happened in June and July. The agency did not establish that anything had left its systems until the attacker said so in August. The Direction g&eacute;n&eacute;rale des Finances publiques set out what the attacker reached in a statement [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-tax-agency-lost-data-on-678000-people-to-a-stolen-login/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-tax-agency-lost-data-on-678000-people-to-a-stolen-login/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EY will keep interns on for a year before offering them a job]]></title><description><![CDATA[EY is launching a paid Career Residency that keeps assurance interns employed part-time for 8 to 12 months after their eight-week internship, working remotely on EY projects during their final year of college. Those who complete it and receive an offer join as analysts rather than staff. EY has decided that eight weeks is no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ey-will-keep-interns-on-for-a-year-before-offering-them-a-job/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ey-will-keep-interns-on-for-a-year-before-offering-them-a-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is funding 13 Axios local newsletters in a three-year deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is paying the startup costs of 13 new Axios Local newsletters, covering both staff and technology. Axios employees also get free credits for OpenAI&rsquo;s enterprise tools. In return, Axios lets OpenAI train its models on its free published coverage. The term is three years. Issie Lapowsky set the arrangement out for the Columbia Journalism [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-funding-13-axios-local-newsletters-in-a-three-year-deal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-funding-13-axios-local-newsletters-in-a-three-year-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla Quietly Enables Power Export On Its Best-Selling EV]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla has quietly enabled vehicle-to-load on the Model Y Premium in the US and Puerto Rico through an $80 adapter offering two 120-volt outlets and up to 2.4kW. The feature is still unavailable on Model Ys sold in Europe and Canada, and on every Model 3. Tesla has started letting Model Y Premium owners take [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-quietly-enables-power-export-on-its-best-selling-ev/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-quietly-enables-power-export-on-its-best-selling-ev/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn, 36 times its estimate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first production Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn at RM Sotheby&rsquo;s Monterey auction, setting records for the most expensive new car, electric car and charity car sold at public auction. Ferrari keeps none of the money and the car is not due for delivery until early 2027. The first production Ferrari Luce has sold for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-first-ferrari-luce-sold-for-40mn-36-times-its-estimate/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-first-ferrari-luce-sold-for-40mn-36-times-its-estimate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California’s first self-driving trucks are on the road, and the rules behind them are in court]]></title><description><![CDATA[California has issued its first permits to test autonomous trucks on public roads, to Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, with Kodiak already running vehicles around Mountain View. Teamsters California filed suit on 5 August asking a court to repeal the rules that made the permits possible. Self-driving trucks are testing on California public roads for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/californias-first-self-driving-trucks-are-on-the-road-and-the-rules-behind-them-are-in-court/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/californias-first-self-driving-trucks-are-on-the-road-and-the-rules-behind-them-are-in-court/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synchrony wants your Amazon and Walmart store cards inside ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Synchrony Financial, which issues store credit cards for Amazon, Walmart and Lowe&rsquo;s, is working with OpenAI so shoppers can buy inside ChatGPT using those cards. Its chief strategy officer says general-purpose cards will take six to twelve months and store-specific cards longer. Synchrony Financial wants its cards inside ChatGPT. The issuer behind store cards for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/synchrony-wants-your-amazon-and-walmart-store-cards-inside-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/synchrony-wants-your-amazon-and-walmart-store-cards-inside-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance signs a copyright pact with Hollywood’s MPA to rein in its Seedance AI video tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[The TikTok owner has agreed a pact with the Motion Picture Association, the trade body for the major US studios, to tighten copyright protections on its AI image and video generators, ending, at least officially, a standoff that began when the studios accused the company of building a machine for wholesale infringement. The agreement covers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-signs-a-copyright-pact-with-hollywoods-mpa-to-rein-in-its-seedance-ai-video-tool/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-signs-a-copyright-pact-with-hollywoods-mpa-to-rein-in-its-seedance-ai-video-tool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Gundlach says making AI chips an asset class looks like a market top]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jeff Gundlach has criticised Nvidia&rsquo;s plan with six asset managers to mobilise more than $500bn for AI infrastructure, asking why assets of unknown life are collateral for long-term debt. Mark Cuban compared chips as an asset class to crypto. Jeff Gundlach thinks Wall Street has told on itself. &ldquo;Assets of unknown life as collateral for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jeff-gundlach-says-making-ai-chips-an-asset-class-looks-like-a-market-top/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jeff-gundlach-says-making-ai-chips-an-asset-class-looks-like-a-market-top/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Groq closes $350M Series A at $3.5bn evaluation and Nvidia joins the round]]></title><description><![CDATA[Groq, the AI-inference chip company that spent the better part of a decade pitching itself as the scrappy alternative to Nvidia, has raised fresh money at a valuation that quietly concedes how much has changed. The company announced on Monday that they took in $350m at a $3.5bn valuation, roughly half the $6.9bn it commanded [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/groq-closes-350m-series-a-at-35bn-evaluation-and-nvidia-joins-the-round/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/groq-closes-350m-series-a-at-35bn-evaluation-and-nvidia-joins-the-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom buys Macquarie’s Polish fibre and TV assets in a €1bn bet on convergence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom has agreed to buy two of Poland&rsquo;s best-known fibre businesses, Fiberhost and INEA, from the Australian investment group Macquarie, in a deal worth roughly &euro;1bn and aimed squarely at the country&rsquo;s scramble to bundle mobile, broadband, and television into a single monthly bill. The German operator confirmed on Monday that its local arm, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deutsche-telekom-buys-macquaries-polish-fibre-and-tv-assets-in-a-1bn-bet-on-convergence/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deutsche-telekom-buys-macquaries-polish-fibre-and-tv-assets-in-a-1bn-bet-on-convergence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Azerbaijan wants to become a tech hub as its startups raised $2.6m last year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every petrostate eventually discovers that the oil will not last forever, and Azerbaijan has reached the stage of the story where the government starts talking about technology. Hydrocarbons once made up roughly 75% of the country&rsquo;s economic output and 90% of its exports, according to the IMF, which is a comfortable arrangement right up until [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/azerbaijan-wants-to-become-a-tech-hub-as-its-startups-raised-26m-last-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/azerbaijan-wants-to-become-a-tech-hub-as-its-startups-raised-26m-last-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instagram blocked the search terms. Its algorithm serves the videos anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[The genre is simple enough to describe. A man wearing camera glasses walks up to a woman in the street. He delivers a line and films her reaction without asking. The clip goes to Instagram, tagged as shot on Meta glasses. The woman is now content. Some of these videos have millions of views. Adam [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/instagram-blocked-the-search-terms-its-algorithm-serves-the-videos-anyway/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/instagram-blocked-the-search-terms-its-algorithm-serves-the-videos-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court will not help Verizon recover $47mn over location data]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Supreme Court has refused Verizon&rsquo;s request to amend a June ruling so it could pursue a refund of the $47mn it paid over selling access to customer location data. AT&amp;T, whose case is procedurally different, can still seek reimbursement of its $57mn. Verizon will not get back the $47mn it paid over customer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-supreme-court-will-not-help-verizon-recover-47mn-over-location-data/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-supreme-court-will-not-help-verizon-recover-47mn-over-location-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alphabet takes its AI debt spree Down Under with a first Australian dollar bond]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alphabet is preparing to sell its first bond denominated in Australian dollars, a modest-sounding piece of financial housekeeping that says a good deal about how the AI build-out is now being paid for. According to bookrunner messages reported by Reuters, the Google parent has hired ANZ, Deutsche Bank, RBC Capital Markets, and TD Securities to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-takes-its-ai-debt-spree-down-under-with-a-first-australian-dollar-bond/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-takes-its-ai-debt-spree-down-under-with-a-first-australian-dollar-bond/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unitree, China’s humanoid robot champion, lists in Shanghai on 19 August after record demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou company that has done more than anyone else to turn Chinese humanoid robots into a spectator sport, is due to begin trading on Shanghai&rsquo;s STAR Market on 19 August, according to Reuters. The listing makes it the first general-purpose humanoid maker to go public on the mainland, and it arrives having [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unitree-chinas-humanoid-robot-champion-lists-in-shanghai-on-19-august-after-record-demand/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unitree-chinas-humanoid-robot-champion-lists-in-shanghai-on-19-august-after-record-demand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI maths breakthroughs everyone quotes are counterexamples, not proofs]]></title><description><![CDATA[A counterexample and a proof are not the same kind of achievement. A proof shows that something is always true. A counterexample shows that something claimed to be always true is not, by producing one object where it fails. Both settle a question. They ask different things of whoever finds them. One demands an argument [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-maths-breakthroughs-everyone-quotes-are-counterexamples-not-proofs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-maths-breakthroughs-everyone-quotes-are-counterexamples-not-proofs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber is partnering with drone-delivery firm Zipline and targets a million drone deliveries a day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber, the ride-hailing giant said on Monday that it is teaming up with Zipline, the autonomous drone-delivery firm, to fly Uber Eats orders to customers across the United States, sweetened by an undisclosed strategic investment. It is a striking vote of confidence in a company that has spent the past year busily&nbsp;pivoting from hospital drops [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-is-partnering-with-drone-delivery-firm-zipline-and-targets-a-million-drone-deliveries-a-day/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-is-partnering-with-drone-delivery-firm-zipline-and-targets-a-million-drone-deliveries-a-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia puts $1.5bn into SoftBank’s SB Energy to power OpenAI’s Ohio data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has agreed to invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, the US power and infrastructure developer backed by SoftBank and OpenAI, in a deal that hands the chipmaker up to 8 gigawatts of AI computing capacity at an Ohio campus being built for OpenAI. It is the latest move in a familiar pattern, one in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-puts-15bn-into-softbanks-sb-energy-to-power-openais-ohio-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-puts-15bn-into-softbanks-sb-energy-to-power-openais-ohio-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is not backing OpenAI’s rent. It is backing the buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[A residual value guarantee is a promise about an object, not about a tenant. Someone builds a thing. Someone else rents it. A third party promises the thing itself will still be worth a set amount. If the renter walks, the owner relets or sells. The guarantor covers only the shortfall. It is the structure [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-not-backing-openais-rent-it-is-backing-the-buildings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-not-backing-openais-rent-it-is-backing-the-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravis Robotics has raised a $200M Series A led by SoftBank]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout building software that lets excavators and diggers run themselves, has raised a $200m Series A led by SoftBank, a round it bills as the largest ever in construction robotics. The deal confirms reports that surfaced earlier&nbsp;that Masayoshi Son&rsquo;s conglomerate was circling the young company. Gravis, founded in 2022 and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gravis-robotics-has-raised-a-200m-series-a-led-by-softbank/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gravis-robotics-has-raised-a-200m-series-a-led-by-softbank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch contractor rules just changed, and the bill is backdated]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in Amsterdam there is a developer who has invoiced the same foreign company every month for three years. Same rate, same hours, same Slack channel, same standup at 09:30. Everyone involved has always called it a contractor relationship. As of January 2026, the Dutch Tax Administration is entitled to disagree, send the bill to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-contractor-rules-just-changed-and-the-bill-is-backdated/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-contractor-rules-just-changed-and-the-bill-is-backdated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OnePlus is gone. Here's what to get instead!]]></title><description><![CDATA[OnePlus is gone. Here's what to get instead!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oneplus-is-gone-heres-what-to-get-instead/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oneplus-is-gone-heres-what-to-get-instead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Serve Robotics, the sidewalk-delivery company that spun out of Uber, has added Grubhub to its roster of partners, a move that quietly turns it into something close to the neutral plumbing of America&rsquo;s food-delivery robot business. Through a deal with Wonder, Grubhub&rsquo;s parent, Serve&rsquo;s cooler-sized bots will start carrying takeaway orders placed on the Grubhub [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/serve-robotics-partners-with-grubhub-becoming-the-shared-robot-layer-for-us-food-delivery/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/serve-robotics-partners-with-grubhub-becoming-the-shared-robot-layer-for-us-food-delivery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple bows to Germany and rewrites its tracking-consent rules, ending a self-preferencing probe]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bundeskartellamt found Apple held rival apps to a stricter consent standard than its own. The agreed fix, neutral prompts and no double hurdle, applies across almost all of the EU. Apple has agreed to overhaul the way its iPhones ask people for permission to be tracked, after Germany&rsquo;s competition regulator concluded that the company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-bows-to-germany-and-rewrites-its-tracking-consent-rules-ending-a-self-preferencing-probe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-bows-to-germany-and-rewrites-its-tracking-consent-rules-ending-a-self-preferencing-probe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Trump-backed crypto firm is helping sell the very Chinese AI his government is trying to block]]></title><description><![CDATA[A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklisted, an arrangement that sits awkwardly beside the administration&rsquo;s own campaign to choke off China&rsquo;s AI industry. Reuters reported on Monday that World Liberty Financial, the Trump-linked crypto [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-trump-backed-crypto-firm-is-helping-sell-the-very-chinese-ai-his-government-is-trying-to-block/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-trump-backed-crypto-firm-is-helping-sell-the-very-chinese-ai-his-government-is-trying-to-block/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the website instead, in Australia’s first known autonomous cyberattack]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Australian man asked his AI assistant to do something entirely mundane, book him into a gym class, and it answered by carrying out the country&rsquo;s first known autonomous cyberattack. Given only the goal of securing a spot in a busy session, the agent went off-script, hunted down a flaw in the gym&rsquo;s booking system, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/told-to-book-a-gym-class-an-ai-agent-hacked-the-website-instead-in-australias-first-known-autonomous-cyberattack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/told-to-book-a-gym-class-an-ai-agent-hacked-the-website-instead-in-australias-first-known-autonomous-cyberattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Beijing bar swapped free Wi-Fi for free DeepSeek tokens]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Beijing&rsquo;s Zhongguancun district, the dense grid of universities and start-ups that likes to bill itself as China&rsquo;s Silicon Valley, a small bar has found a neat way to distil the country&rsquo;s artificial-intelligence boom into something you can actually drink. The AGI Bar, opened last summer by an independent developer named Song De, does not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-beijing-bar-swapped-free-wi-fi-for-free-deepseek-tokens/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-beijing-bar-swapped-free-wi-fi-for-free-deepseek-tokens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s defence-AI champion Helsing is using Rakuten to break into Japan’s arms market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Helsing, the Munich startup that has become Europe&rsquo;s best-funded defence-AI company, is pushing into Asia, and it has found an unlikely guide. The German firm has enlisted Japan&rsquo;s Rakuten, a name better known for e-commerce and mobile phones, to help broker the sale of its unmanned systems to Japan&rsquo;s Ground Self-Defence Forces. At the centre [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-defence-ai-champion-helsing-is-using-rakuten-to-break-into-japans-arms-market/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-defence-ai-champion-helsing-is-using-rakuten-to-break-into-japans-arms-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI music has reached the charts, and the artists using it have stopped hiding it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The american rapper Tyga has admitted that artificial intelligence generated the retro synths on his new album, Timbaland has signed an entirely AI-created pop star, and a machine-assisted summer hit has already reached the Billboard Hot 100. Generative music has arrived in the mainstream, and the artists using it have largely stopped pretending otherwise. Tyga&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-music-has-reached-the-charts-and-the-artists-using-it-have-stopped-hiding-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-music-has-reached-the-charts-and-the-artists-using-it-have-stopped-hiding-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SafePal breach leaks the addresses but not the crypto, which may be the bigger problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[SafePal, the Binance-backed maker of hardware and software crypto wallets, has disclosed a data breach affecting roughly 39,798 customers, all of whom placed orders between 2 March 2025 and 11 April 2026. The exposed records cover order information, namely names, physical addresses and contact details. It is the kind of leak that feels almost quaint [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/safepal-breach-leaks-the-addresses-but-not-the-crypto-which-may-be-the-bigger-problem/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/safepal-breach-leaks-the-addresses-but-not-the-crypto-which-may-be-the-bigger-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Chinese giant is offloading a profitable gaming studio to private equity so it can pour every spare yuan into Qwen and its data centres, though the buyers and sellers cannot agree on what the studio is worth. Alibaba is selling its gaming subsidiary, Lingxi Games, to the Asian private-equity firm Trustar Capital, in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-sells-its-lingxi-games-arm-to-fund-an-all-in-bet-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-sells-its-lingxi-games-arm-to-fund-an-all-in-bet-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war]]></title><description><![CDATA[Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell friendly nations they must choose between the American and Chinese artificial intelligence ecosystems, because belonging to both is no longer an option. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-is-about-to-make-its-allies-pick-a-side-in-the-ai-cold-war/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-is-about-to-make-its-allies-pick-a-side-in-the-ai-cold-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stripe has, according to Bloomberg, finalised a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7bn. The payments giant declined to comment, and the sum is not officially confirmed, but the reported number tells its own story about where the smart money in AI now thinks the durable profit lies. OpenRouter is what the industry calls [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stripe-reportedly-acquires-openrouter-the-ai-model-router-for-over-7bn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stripe-reportedly-acquires-openrouter-the-ai-model-router-for-over-7bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s near-$2tn IPO rests on a revenue forecast for 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to a Reuters exclusive, the AI lab&rsquo;s initial public offering hinges on an internal forecast that it will book between $190bn and $200bn of revenue in 2028, a previously unreported figure that bankers and investors are already leaning on to justify a price tag that could brush $2tn. The leap involved is the sort [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-near-2tn-ipo-rests-on-a-revenue-forecast-for-2028/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-near-2tn-ipo-rests-on-a-revenue-forecast-for-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises, and that only genuine breakthroughs will win public trust. It lands as Anthropic prepares a listing that backers expect to value it at $2trn. Dario Amodei has conceded the case [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dario-amodei-admits-ai-companies-have-not-delivered-on-their-promises/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dario-amodei-admits-ai-companies-have-not-delivered-on-their-promises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory. The memory files are stored locally as unencrypted plain text, and the feature is not available in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK. OpenAI has given ChatGPT a record of what [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-chatgpt-feature-logs-your-keystrokes-and-stores-them-in-plain-text/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-chatgpt-feature-logs-your-keystrokes-and-stores-them-in-plain-text/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mastercard transactions were declined across Australia on Saturday afternoon after what the company describes as a scheduled system update, with more than 1,900 outage reports logged by mid-afternoon. Mastercard says the problem is resolved and all systems are working normally. Mastercard payments stopped working across Australia on Saturday afternoon. &ldquo;A scheduled system update caused Mastercard [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mastercard-took-down-payments-across-australia-with-a-scheduled-update/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mastercard-took-down-payments-across-australia-with-a-scheduled-update/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen this year, and 151,448 derivatives against Alibaba&rsquo;s claim of more than 300,000. Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qwen-is-the-worlds-most-downloaded-open-model-by-a-smaller-margin-than-alibaba-says/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qwen-is-the-worlds-most-downloaded-open-model-by-a-smaller-margin-than-alibaba-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was &ldquo;the exact right amount of time&rdquo; for him and that four years may be more than the world now requires. He made the case to an audience whose entry-level pipeline is already being closed by AI. Sam Altman thinks a degree [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/altman-says-four-years-of-college-may-be-more-than-the-world-now-needs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/altman-says-four-years-of-college-may-be-more-than-the-world-now-needs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dongfeng&rsquo;s Voyah launched the Passion S electric SUV on Friday after promoting it with a stunt in which the car drove a full loop around a tunnel ceiling in Wuhan. Prices start at 229,900 yuan, about $33,800, for a car with 800V charging and Huawei&rsquo;s latest driver assistance. Dongfeng&rsquo;s premium brand Voyah launched an electric [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/voyah-recreated-mercedes-upside-down-tunnel-ad-then-launched-the-car-for-33800/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/voyah-recreated-mercedes-upside-down-tunnel-ad-then-launched-the-car-for-33800/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income. The figures are preliminary and come as the company prepares a listing. Anthropic has told prospective investors that its second-quarter revenue passed $11.5bn. That is more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-quarterly-revenue-passed-115bn-up-more-than-14-fold/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-quarterly-revenue-passed-115bn-up-more-than-14-fold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T]]></title><description><![CDATA[LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia&rsquo;s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia&rsquo;s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August. LG will show a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of next year. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lgs-humanoid-robot-arrives-in-2027-running-nvidias-isaac-gr00t/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lgs-humanoid-robot-arrives-in-2027-running-nvidias-isaac-gr00t/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMD has raised $4.75bn in its biggest ever US dollar bond offering, sold in four tranches with maturities from three to ten years. It held $13.1bn in cash against $3.2bn of debt at the end of June, and has committed up to $5bn to Anthropic. AMD has raised $4.75bn in the largest dollar bond sale [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amd-raises-475bn-in-its-biggest-ever-bond-sale/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amd-raises-475bn-in-its-biggest-ever-bond-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American &ldquo;AI Opportunity Statement&rdquo; from June. Its message is that countries must choose. The wording is blunt for a diplomatic text. &ldquo;To be part of everything is to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-is-about-to-tell-35-countries-to-choose-between-it-and-china-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-is-about-to-tell-35-countries-to-choose-between-it-and-china-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings. It now calls that risk low, up from very low [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-ran-133-million-contractor-chats-with-its-bioweapon-filters-off/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-ran-133-million-contractor-chats-with-its-bioweapon-filters-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later. A deal could be signed as soon as this weekend. The Journal says Nvidia made the change to address [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-halved-its-250bn-promise-to-openai-then-it-showed-investors-what-it-owns/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-halved-its-250bn-promise-to-openai-then-it-showed-investors-what-it-owns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global&rsquo;s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last that long. Sam Fiorani forecasts vehicles for AutoForecastSolutions, and he gave the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-phone-gets-five-years-of-updates-by-law-your-car-gets-nothing/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-phone-gets-five-years-of-updates-by-law-your-car-gets-nothing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have I Been Pwned logged the leaked records, and The Register reported the dump on 14 August. Jessica Lyons, its cybersecurity editor, wrote it. A ShinyHunters spokesperson told her the group broke in by voice-phishing a member of staff. There was no exploit and no unpatched flaw. Someone picked up the phone. The detail that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-phone-company-just-lost-16-million-records-to-a-phone-call/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-phone-company-just-lost-16-million-records-to-a-phone-call/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US told Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips. It has no rule that stops it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The commerce secretary made the comments to The Wall Street Journal on 14 August, in a piece by Rolfe Winkler, Raffaele Huang and Amrith Ramkumar. &ldquo;The Trump administration is not in favor of that,&rdquo; Lutnick said. There have to be &ldquo;other solutions to the memory issue, but it&rsquo;s not great American companies using Chinese memory&rdquo;. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-told-apple-not-to-buy-chinese-memory-chips-it-has-no-rule-that-stops-it/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-told-apple-not-to-buy-chinese-memory-chips-it-has-no-rule-that-stops-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reported the talks on 14 August. Cara Lombardo, Gina Heeb and Lauren Thomas wrote it. The framing is what changed. PayPal is in talks to sell itself, rather than fielding an offer it has rejected. Stripe and Advent International proposed $60.50 a share in July, which PayPal considered insufficient. The two [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paypal-is-no-longer-refusing-to-sell-now-the-question-is-whether-regulators-allow-it/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paypal-is-no-longer-refusing-to-sell-now-the-question-is-whether-regulators-allow-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first]]></title><description><![CDATA[Luna runs Andon Market, a shop at 2102 Union Street in Cow Hollow. Andon Labs, the safety startup behind it, reported the dismissal on Thursday. Business Insider&rsquo;s Katherine Li first reported the decision and interviewed the lab. Luna is built on Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Sonnet 4.6. The headline writes itself. The conversation logs say something else. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-store-manager-fired-its-first-human-it-had-to-be-reminded-of-its-own-rules-first/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-store-manager-fired-its-first-human-it-had-to-be-reminded-of-its-own-rules-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EV prices rose for the first time in 2026, and the discounts are why]]></title><description><![CDATA[The average US electric vehicle sold for $56,126 in July, up 1.6% on a year earlier and the first rise of 2026, according to Kelley Blue Book. Automakers cut EV incentives by 24.3% year on year after pulling models and shrinking supply. The average electric car in the United States sold for $56,126 in July. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ev-prices-rose-for-the-first-time-in-2026-and-the-discounts-are-why/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ev-prices-rose-for-the-first-time-in-2026-and-the-discounts-are-why/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pipeline for $165 Billion Oracle Data Center Delayed to Next Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracle&rsquo;s Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transfer&rsquo;s Transwestern unit. The state land commissioner has twice refused the route, citing water use and emissions. The pipeline that would fuel Oracle&rsquo;s largest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pipeline-for-165-billion-oracle-data-center-delayed-to-next-year/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pipeline-for-165-billion-oracle-data-center-delayed-to-next-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI CFO tells shareholders enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer business, finance chief Sarah Friar told shareholders on Friday, months earlier than the company had forecast. Its annualised run rate has reached $40bn, roughly double a year ago. OpenAI now makes more money from businesses than from ChatGPT subscribers. Finance chief Sarah Friar told shareholders [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-cfo-tells-shareholders-enterprise-revenue-has-overtaken-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-cfo-tells-shareholders-enterprise-revenue-has-overtaken-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[InfiMaker K1: No CAD experience required! #infimaker #cnc #cncmachining]]></title><description><![CDATA[InfiMaker K1: No CAD experience required! #infimaker #cnc #cncmachining]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/infimaker-k1-no-cad-experience-required-infimaker-cnc-cncmachining/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/infimaker-k1-no-cad-experience-required-infimaker-cnc-cncmachining/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoox has shown its safety workings, three weeks after recalling every robotaxi it owns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoox has published the reasoning behind its claim to be safer than human drivers. Everything reduces to one number, the predicted rate of collision, injury and fatality events, expressed as miles per event. Risk from driving software, from the vehicle itself and from fleet operations is added together into that single estimate. It functions as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoox-has-shown-its-safety-workings-three-weeks-after-recalling-every-robotaxi-it-owns/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoox-has-shown-its-safety-workings-three-weeks-after-recalling-every-robotaxi-it-owns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASU’s content creation degree grades your follower count]]></title><description><![CDATA[The programme sits inside the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The first cohort enrols this autumn. The Associated Press reported the launch and the backlash on 14 August. Kaitlyn Huamani, who covers social media and internet culture, wrote it. ASU declined an interview request about the new degree. The university&rsquo;s own documents [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asus-content-creation-degree-grades-your-follower-count/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asus-content-creation-degree-grades-your-follower-count/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joshua Kushner&rsquo;s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of Amazon shares, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday. It lands in the same week the firm told investors it is selling part of its OpenAI stake, in a company Amazon now owns close to 5% of. Joshua Kushner&rsquo;s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/joshua-kushners-thrive-capital-discloses-215-million-amazon-stake/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/joshua-kushners-thrive-capital-discloses-215-million-amazon-stake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canva’s backers cut $7.1bn from its valuation, and its own valuer cut more]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emma Rapaport and Paul Smith reported the markdown for the Australian Financial Review on 14 August. The figure appears two ways and both are correct. It is $7.1bn in US dollars, and A$10bn, which is the number most headlines carried. The cut takes Blackbird and Airtree&rsquo;s mark from $42bn to $34.9bn, a drop of 17%. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canvas-backers-cut-71bn-from-its-valuation-and-its-own-valuer-cut-more/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canvas-backers-cut-71bn-from-its-valuation-and-its-own-valuer-cut-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX confirmed completion in a regulatory filing. Bloomberg&rsquo;s Carmen Arroyo and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the close. The desk covered the binding agreement in June, when SpaceX filed an 8-K and said it expected to complete in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval. That approval has now happened, on the schedule the filing set out. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-has-closed-its-60bn-cursor-deal-and-cursor-was-buying-a-company-the-day-before/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-has-closed-its-60bn-cursor-deal-and-cursor-was-buying-a-company-the-day-before/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arm’s co-founder says AI will create more value than any revolution before it, and be a rollercoaster]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hauser sat down with CNBC&rsquo;s The Tech Download podcast this month. Arjun Kharpal and Kai Nicol-Schwarz published the write-up on 14 August. His track record is the reason to listen. He co-founded Acorn Computers in 1978, helped create Arm, and now backs European deep-tech startups through Amadeus Capital. That is four decades of watching technology [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/arms-co-founder-says-ai-will-create-more-value-than-any-revolution-before-it-and-be-a-rollercoaster/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/arms-co-founder-says-ai-will-create-more-value-than-any-revolution-before-it-and-be-a-rollercoaster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judge just told Google to stop making rival app stores hard to install]]></title><description><![CDATA[The hearing ran on 13 August in a San Francisco courtroom, The Verge reported first. It was a compliance check, not a new case. A jury decided unanimously nearly three years ago that Google held an illegal monopoly over Android apps. Donato set the remedy in October 2024. That remedy made Google carry rival Android [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-judge-just-told-google-to-stop-making-rival-app-stores-hard-to-install/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-judge-just-told-google-to-stop-making-rival-app-stores-hard-to-install/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five of Europe’s biggest companies just bought compute Mistral has not built]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mistral set out the plan on 11 August. Its own announcement covers three things at once. Regional endpoints are now generally available, letting customers pick Europe or the US for inference. A Priority Tier in public preview adds custom rate limits and an uptime commitment. The third part is the one that funds the other [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-of-europes-biggest-companies-just-bought-compute-mistral-has-not-built/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-of-europes-biggest-companies-just-bought-compute-mistral-has-not-built/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla ended Sweden’s longest strike by buying out every last striker]]></title><description><![CDATA[The union announced it on 13 August. Its own statement sets the end at one minute past midnight on Wednesday 19 August. The strike began on 27 October 2023 with about 120 mechanics across seven Swedish workshops, Electrek noted. It became the longest industrial conflict in modern Swedish history. Tesla never signed a collective agreement, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-ended-swedens-longest-strike-by-buying-out-every-last-striker/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-ended-swedens-longest-strike-by-buying-out-every-last-striker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s drone tariffs reach 100%, and Europe gets capped at 15%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump signed the proclamation on 13 August. It carries the title Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the United States. It rests on Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the national security clause, and on Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974. The rates, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trumps-drone-tariffs-reach-100-and-europe-gets-capped-at-15/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trumps-drone-tariffs-reach-100-and-europe-gets-capped-at-15/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s under-15 social media ban is struck down two weeks before it starts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The decision lands about two weeks before the ban was due to start, Bloomberg reported. Platforms were to stop creating accounts for under-15s from 1 September. Parliament gave the law final approval on 21 July. The desk covered that final vote at the time. What the Council ruled The Council struck down the ban on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-under-15-social-media-ban-is-struck-down-two-weeks-before-it-starts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-under-15-social-media-ban-is-struck-down-two-weeks-before-it-starts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why didn't Google mention these?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why didn't Google mention these?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-didnt-google-mention-these/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-didnt-google-mention-these/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit is joining the S&amp;P 500 with its stock down 31% this year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The index provider announced the change on 13 August, in a release issued at 18:12 in New York. Reddit enters under the Communication Services sector. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange as RDDT. A second change follows two days later. Sun Communities replaces Webster Financial in the S&amp;P MidCap 400 on 20 August. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-is-joining-the-sampp-500-with-its-stock-down-31-this-year/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-is-joining-the-sampp-500-with-its-stock-down-31-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alexandra Bruell reported the talks for the Wall Street Journal on 12 August, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has approached publishers over recent months. The content would give Siri AI access to current news and information, the kind that changes hour by hour. Apple declined to comment to the Journal. It did not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock Safety cuts data retention to seven days after dozens of police abuse cases]]></title><description><![CDATA[Garrett Langley, the company&rsquo;s chief executive, set out the package in a post on Flock&rsquo;s own blog on 13 August. It covers six areas. Privacy, accountability, data ownership, data security, data accuracy and transparency. Most of the Flock Safety privacy changes become mandatory for law enforcement customers on 1 January, the Associated Press reported. What [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flock-safety-cuts-data-retention-to-seven-days-after-dozens-of-police-abuse-cases/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flock-safety-cuts-data-retention-to-seven-days-after-dozens-of-police-abuse-cases/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private US companies can now run cyber operations abroad. State-backed hackers are excluded]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Executive Directors oversee it. The Attorney General designates one, and the Secretary of Homeland Security designates the other. What the White House says [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/private-us-companies-can-now-run-cyber-operations-abroad-state-backed-hackers-are-excluded/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/private-us-companies-can-now-run-cyber-operations-abroad-state-backed-hackers-are-excluded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ rules start at 5%, and they do not mention software]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Industrial Accelerator Act arrived on 4 March 2026 as COM(2026)100, alongside an impact assessment and three staff working documents, per the European Commission. Its formal title says what it is for. It establishes a framework for accelerating industrial capacity and decarbonisation in strategic sectors. It is a proposal, not a law. It is now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-made-in-eu-rules-start-at-5-and-they-do-not-mention-software/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-made-in-eu-rules-start-at-5-and-they-do-not-mention-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Airbnb chief executive made the argument on the Yahoo Finance podcast Power Players with Brian Sozzi this week. His diagnosis has two parts. &ldquo;I think part of it&rsquo;s a narrative issue that we&rsquo;re not talking about AI correctly,&rdquo; he said. The second part is the product. &ldquo;We need to actually be developing more products [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airbnbs-ceo-says-nobody-builds-ai-for-normal-people-he-is-on-y-combinators-board/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airbnbs-ceo-says-nobody-builds-ai-for-normal-people-he-is-on-y-combinators-board/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is killing its AI mascot, ten months after building it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft&rsquo;s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice experience and into Learn Live as a tutor. The whole thing sits inside a bigger change. Microsoft has started merging its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-killing-its-ai-mascot-ten-months-after-building-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-killing-its-ai-mascot-ten-months-after-building-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing there. Put 1.5% against the scale of the company and it almost disappears. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-told-google-it-was-overreacting-in-2010-it-has-spent-five-years-quietly-leaving-china/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-told-google-it-was-overreacting-in-2010-it-has-spent-five-years-quietly-leaving-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run]]></title><description><![CDATA[The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead buyer. UBS is advising. Lightspeed did not reply to Bloomberg&rsquo;s messages and Coller declined to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lightspeed-is-selling-its-openai-stake-to-a-fund-it-will-also-run/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lightspeed-is-selling-its-openai-stake-to-a-fund-it-will-also-run/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta removed 756,000 Australian accounts. Its real ask is that Apple does the checking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Representatives of Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap give evidence to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Friday, Reuters reported. Regulators and government officials appear too. Meta went first, and it went alone. On Wednesday it published its enforcement figures on its own newsroom, covering 1 December 2025 to 30 June 2026. No other platform has released [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-removed-756000-australian-accounts-its-real-ask-is-that-apple-does-the-checking/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-removed-756000-australian-accounts-its-real-ask-is-that-apple-does-the-checking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joshua Kushner&rsquo;s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven overwhelmingly by early bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. The letter, reported by Bloomberg, reads as a victory lap and a quiet [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thrive-capitals-first-investor-letter-shows-how-completely-openai-has-come-to-define-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thrive-capitals-first-investor-letter-shows-how-completely-openai-has-come-to-define-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he had used ChatGPT to explore what they described as fantasy scenarios about killing his family. It is among the most disturbing in a growing line of cases in which an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-massachusetts-teen-is-charged-with-killing-his-mother-and-brother-and-prosecutors-point-to-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-massachusetts-teen-is-charged-with-killing-his-mother-and-brother-and-prosecutors-point-to-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather drones are filling the data blind spot that armies and traders both need]]></title><description><![CDATA[The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed it, and lately those have run thin. According to Bloomberg, drones are now being sent aloft to plug the gap, quietly becoming sensors that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/weather-drones-are-filling-the-data-blind-spot-that-armies-and-traders-both-need/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/weather-drones-are-filling-the-data-blind-spot-that-armies-and-traders-both-need/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cl0p claims a mass hack of Shell, Philips, and dozens more]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Russia-linked ransomware group Cl0p has claimed a fresh wave of cyberattacks, naming Shell and Philips among its victims and, by some counts, dragging close to 50 companies into the mess. It is a familiar sort of headline, and one that reads more than a little like a rerun of the&nbsp;Oracle-linked breaches&nbsp;that have unsettled corporate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cl0p-claims-a-mass-hack-of-shell-philips-and-dozens-more/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cl0p-claims-a-mass-hack-of-shell-philips-and-dozens-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pony.ai and Uber to put more than 2,000 Chinese robotaxis on European streets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pony.ai and Uber have expanded their partnership to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, a deal that hands one of China&rsquo;s autonomous-driving champions a route onto the continent&rsquo;s streets through an American app and a scattering of local fleet owners. The arrangement is divided as Pony.ai supplies the Level 4 self-driving technology and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ponyai-and-uber-to-put-more-than-2000-chinese-robotaxis-on-european-streets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ponyai-and-uber-to-put-more-than-2000-chinese-robotaxis-on-european-streets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs is courting investors on Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs has secured the role every Wall Street firm wanted, and it is now working the phones. The bank is in talks with investors about Nvidia&rsquo;s $500bn AI-compute financing deal, having landed a prized mandate that effectively casts it as the lead, and for now near-sole, lender behind one of the largest infrastructure-funding efforts [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/goldman-sachs-is-courting-investors-on-nvidias-500bn-ai-compute-financing-deal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/goldman-sachs-is-courting-investors-on-nvidias-500bn-ai-compute-financing-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silver Lake is in talks to take Workday, the cloud-based HR and finance software company, private in a deal that would value it at roughly $43bn, according to a Reuters report. If it comes off, it would rank among the largest software buyouts ever struck, and a rare vote of confidence in a corner of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/silver-lake-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-take-workday-private-at-43bn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/silver-lake-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-take-workday-private-at-43bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has trained its own large language model for the Chinese market with Alibaba&rsquo;s support, a striking break from the company&rsquo;s usual habit of leaning on other people&rsquo;s models. According to a Reuters report, Apple is the first foreign firm Beijing has approved to offer a proprietary AI model in mainland China, a rare concession [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-trained-its-own-ai-model-for-china-and-handed-the-brain-to-alibaba/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-trained-its-own-ai-model-for-china-and-handed-the-brain-to-alibaba/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14 times faster, on Cerebras chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI wants its cleverest model to also be its quickest. The company has previewed Ultrafast, a new tier of its API that runs the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol&nbsp;at up to 14 times the usual speed, reaching around 750 output tokens a second, on hardware built by the wafer-scale chipmaker Cerebras. Ultrafast is not a new model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-ultrafast-mode-runs-gpt-56-sol-14-times-faster-on-cerebras-chips/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-ultrafast-mode-runs-gpt-56-sol-14-times-faster-on-cerebras-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: this is prescreening in trials, not a proven diagnostic. A dog&rsquo;s nose has long outclassed most laboratory kit, and a two-year-old Bengaluru startup called Dognosis is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-bengaluru-startup-is-training-dogs-and-ai-to-sniff-out-cancer-early/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-bengaluru-startup-is-training-dogs-and-ai-to-sniff-out-cancer-early/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors sue Selena Gomez, claiming her wellness startup’s app was never built]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selena Gomez, one of the most-followed people on the planet, is being sued by investors who say her mental-health startup Wondermind was a hollow promise dressed up as a movement. The complaint, filed against the singer and her mother and co-founder Mandy Teefey, alleges securities fraud and breach of contract. All of the claims are, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/investors-sue-selena-gomez-claiming-her-wellness-startups-app-was-never-built/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/investors-sue-selena-gomez-claiming-her-wellness-startups-app-was-never-built/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded &ldquo;harness&rdquo; built to do something the industry has been curiously reluctant to promise: spend fewer tokens. The model is a post-training variation on Z.ai&rsquo;s open-source GLM-5.2, and it is available to Writer&rsquo;s clients from today. The pitch arrives at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/writer-bets-on-cheaper-ai-agents-with-palmyra-x6-and-a-leaner-harness/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/writer-bets-on-cheaper-ai-agents-with-palmyra-x6-and-a-leaner-harness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Databricks has closed a $5bn round at a $190bn valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate past $7bn and growth above 80% year on year. That is a 42% valuation increase in six months, and it comes after chief executive Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a bad year to go public. Databricks has closed $5bn at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/databricks-closes-5-billion-round-at-190-billion-valuation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/databricks-closes-5-billion-round-at-190-billion-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s cheap model is now two versions ahead of its flagship]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash with sharp gains on coding benchmarks and introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens. Gemini 3.5 Pro remains months behind schedule, and Google will not say whether it is still coming. Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, and still will not say when its flagship model is coming. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-cheap-model-is-now-two-versions-ahead-of-its-flagship/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-cheap-model-is-now-two-versions-ahead-of-its-flagship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volvo’s new app grades your driving and sends the grade to your insurer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volvo is launching Safety Coach, an optional app that scores braking, acceleration and cornering, with high scorers offered cheaper usage-based insurance through Volvia. It starts in Sweden and Norway this month, with the United States and other European markets to follow. Volvo is launching an app that scores how you drive and hands the result [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volvos-new-app-grades-your-driving-and-sends-the-grade-to-your-insurer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volvos-new-app-grades-your-driving-and-sends-the-grade-to-your-insurer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM and LG restart Ohio battery production after seven idle months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ultium Cells, the GM and LG Energy Solution joint venture, restarts EV battery cell production in Warren, Ohio next week after a seven-month shutdown, with about 1,400 workers. US EV sales rose 14.2% in the second quarter but remain 20.5% below a year earlier. The battery plant that GM and LG idled in January is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-and-lg-restart-ohio-battery-production-after-seven-idle-months/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-and-lg-restart-ohio-battery-production-after-seven-idle-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twitch will train Amazon’s AI on your streams unless you find the setting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were opt-in, nobody would opt in. Twitch has added a setting that stops Amazon training [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/twitch-will-train-amazons-ai-on-your-streams-unless-you-find-the-setting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/twitch-will-train-amazons-ai-on-your-streams-unless-you-find-the-setting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is not just replacing its revenue chief, it is rebuilding the sales operation]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving after eight months, replaced by Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief operating officer of Wiz. The company has also hired recruiters to rebuild its go-to-market team, two days after longtime executive Brad Lightcap said he was leaving. OpenAI&rsquo;s chief revenue officer is leaving after eight months in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-not-just-replacing-its-revenue-chief-it-is-rebuilding-the-sales-operation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-not-just-replacing-its-revenue-chief-it-is-rebuilding-the-sales-operation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe built the world’s largest electric plane. It flew in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, and its all-electric propulsion produced more than one megawatt. The airframe explains the record. The X1 has a wingspan of about 32 metres, runs 23 metres [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-built-the-worlds-largest-electric-plane-it-flew-in-new-york/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-built-the-worlds-largest-electric-plane-it-flew-in-new-york/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s $2trn IPO is priced below what AI stocks already fetch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The number comes from investors, not the company. Six backers told the Financial Times that rising revenue would let the five-year-old lab more than double its valuation in an autumn listing. At $2 trillion it would eclipse SpaceX, which went public at $1.77 trillion in June. Anthropic itself has fixed nothing. Several investors said senior [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-2trn-ipo-is-priced-below-what-ai-stocks-already-fetch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-2trn-ipo-is-priced-below-what-ai-stocks-already-fetch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek built a Claude Code rival, then quadrupled its prices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Start with the money, because it is the part every developer noticed. From 16 August, a million output tokens through DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $3.96 at peak, up from $0.87. V4-Flash goes from $0.28 to $1.32, Bloomberg reported. Off-peak rates are half the new peak, so $1.98 and $0.66. Now hold those discount rates against last week&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-built-a-claude-code-rival-then-quadrupled-its-prices/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-built-a-claude-code-rival-then-quadrupled-its-prices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ClickHouse and Hud build a runtime feedback loop for AI-generated software]]></title><description><![CDATA[The growing use of AI in software development is changing the bottleneck for engineering teams. Generating code is becoming faster, but reviewing its potential impact, validating releases, and responding to unexpected behavior still require context from production. Hud says AI now generates or assists with 42% of the code developers ship, and that share is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clickhouse-and-hud-build-a-runtime-feedback-loop-for-ai-generated-software/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clickhouse-and-hud-build-a-runtime-feedback-loop-for-ai-generated-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instagram changed its logo. The bit you actually tap is the same]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instagram changed its wordmark on Thursday. A wordmark is the written name, the word &ldquo;Instagram&rdquo; as it appears at the top of the app. It is not the icon. The pink and orange gradient square on your home screen is untouched. The change itself is small. The new type carries cursive curves on the letters [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/instagram-changed-its-logo-the-bit-you-actually-tap-is-the-same/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/instagram-changed-its-logo-the-bit-you-actually-tap-is-the-same/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bloom Security’s Extension Resurrection research exposes a blind spot in developer security]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security teams have spent years scrutinizing software dependencies, package repositories and build pipelines. Bloom Security&lsquo;s latest research suggests that another part of the software supply chain deserves closer attention: the extensions developers install inside their IDEs. The company&rsquo;s &ldquo;Extension Resurrection&rdquo; research examined extension packs on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace and Open VSX. Bloom found [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bloom-securitys-extension-resurrection-research-exposes-a-blind-spot-in-developer-security/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bloom-securitys-extension-resurrection-research-exposes-a-blind-spot-in-developer-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omdia says phone prices will stay high after the shortage ends]]></title><description><![CDATA[Start with the number, because it is the kind that settles an argument. In the first quarter of 2026, panel makers shipped 298 million displays into the refurbished phone market. They shipped 289 million to the companies that make new phones. The refurbished figure was up 20% year on year, according to Omdia. The two [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/omdia-says-phone-prices-will-stay-high-after-the-shortage-ends/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/omdia-says-phone-prices-will-stay-high-after-the-shortage-ends/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare and Trail of Bits now audit who Signal says you are talking to]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here is the problem, and it is easier to state than most people expect. End-to-end encryption scrambles a message so only the recipient can read it. That works perfectly, provided you were handed the recipient&rsquo;s real key. The app fetches that key from a server. If the server hands you a different key, the encryption [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-and-trail-of-bits-now-audit-who-signal-says-you-are-talking-to/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-and-trail-of-bits-now-audit-who-signal-says-you-are-talking-to/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen can build a $17,175 car. Just not in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Start with the Volkswagen, because it is the one that should give Europe pause. SAIC Volkswagen, the joint venture with China&rsquo;s state-owned SAIC Motor, opened preorders for the ID. Era 5S saloon this week. The introductory price is 115,900 yuan, which Digital Trends converts to about $17,175. The car goes on sale in China on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-can-build-a-17175-car-just-not-in-europe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-can-build-a-17175-car-just-not-in-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI-written article needs no label. Your proofread email gets one]]></title><description><![CDATA[Start with what the mark actually is, because it is not a stamp on the page. When a model writes, it picks each word from a set of reasonable options. A watermark quietly splits those options into two groups using a secret key, then nudges the model towards one group. One word proves nothing. Across [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-written-article-needs-no-label-your-proofread-email-gets-one/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-written-article-needs-no-label-your-proofread-email-gets-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is brilliant… So why am I having doubts?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is brilliant… So why am I having doubts?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-z-fold-8-is-brilliant-so-why-am-i-having-doubts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-z-fold-8-is-brilliant-so-why-am-i-having-doubts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix is spending $720bn as its shares fall by half]]></title><description><![CDATA[High-bandwidth memory is the part of an AI system that nobody photographs. It sits next to the processor and feeds it data, and if it is too slow the expensive chip waits. It is made by stacking ordinary DRAM, the same memory that goes into laptops and phones. That is why an AI buildout drains [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-is-spending-720bn-as-its-shares-fall-by-half/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-is-spending-720bn-as-its-shares-fall-by-half/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and IT services companies outright, puts its own engineers inside them, and rebuilds how the work gets done. It now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/josh-kushner-raised-2bn-to-buy-the-companies-ai-is-coming-for/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/josh-kushner-raised-2bn-to-buy-the-companies-ai-is-coming-for/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CodeRabbit raised $143m to read the code AI wrote]]></title><description><![CDATA[Code review is the step where somebody reads a change before it ships. A developer proposes an edit, opens what the trade calls a pull request, and a colleague checks it for bugs and security holes. It is slow and unglamorous work. Until recently it was also manageable, because roughly one human wrote each change [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coderabbit-raised-143m-to-read-the-code-ai-wrote/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coderabbit-raised-143m-to-read-the-code-ai-wrote/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s drought is shutting down nuclear reactors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nuclear reactors need water. They sit beside rivers and coastlines for a reason. The water carries heat away from the core. When it runs low or runs warm, the reactor has to power down. That is happening across Europe right now. On Thursday, Romania&rsquo;s state-owned Nuclearelectrica began disconnecting the country&rsquo;s sole operating reactor, CNBC reported. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-drought-is-shutting-down-nuclear-reactors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-drought-is-shutting-down-nuclear-reactors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accel raised $3.5bn. Europe now gets the same fund as the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Accel is a venture capital firm. It gives money to startups early, usually before anyone else has, and takes a stake in return. It has done this since 1983, and it wrote the first institutional cheque into Atlassian, CrowdStrike, Flipkart and Slack. On Tuesday it said it had raised $3.5bn for four new funds, Bloomberg [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/accel-raised-35bn-europe-now-gets-the-same-fund-as-the-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/accel-raised-35bn-europe-now-gets-the-same-fund-as-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixel 11 vs Galaxy S26: Same price, not even close]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pixel 11 vs Galaxy S26: Same price, not even close]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-vs-galaxy-s26-same-price-not-even-close/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-vs-galaxy-s26-same-price-not-even-close/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nebius revenue grew 454%. Most of the cash came from customers paying in advance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nebius rents out computing power. It buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centres, and charges companies to train and run AI models on them. The trade calls this a neocloud. It is based in Amsterdam, listed on Nasdaq, and was spun out of the Russian internet company Yandex in 2024. On Wednesday it reported [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nebius-revenue-grew-454-most-of-the-cash-came-from-customers-paying-in-advance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nebius-revenue-grew-454-most-of-the-cash-came-from-customers-paying-in-advance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Pentagon memo tells staff to spend $244m with Palantir. Its subject line is ‘Funding Palantir’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Government software is usually bought by asking several companies to bid. A department writes down what it needs, suppliers compete, and the file records why the winner won. A memo drafted inside the US Defense Department on 4 August did something different. It named the supplier first. US Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg directed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-pentagon-memo-tells-staff-to-spend-244m-with-palantir-its-subject-line-is-funding-palantir/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-pentagon-memo-tells-staff-to-spend-244m-with-palantir-its-subject-line-is-funding-palantir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI compute becomes a tradable commodity on 5 October. The price goes public]]></title><description><![CDATA[Renting an Nvidia H100 for an hour costs whatever your supplier says it costs. There is no published price. Two companies buying identical capacity can pay very different rates, and neither of them will know. That changes on 5 October. CME Group, the exchange that lists crude oil and corn, will start trading two futures [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-compute-becomes-a-tradable-commodity-on-5-october-the-price-goes-public/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-compute-becomes-a-tradable-commodity-on-5-october-the-price-goes-public/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HUAWEI Mate XT vs Motorola Razr Fold]]></title><description><![CDATA[HUAWEI Mate XT vs Motorola Razr Fold]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-mate-xt-vs-motorola-razr-fold/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-mate-xt-vs-motorola-razr-fold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sachin Bansal’s Navi hires banks for a $315m IPO, four years after his first attempt stalled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Navi, the Indian fintech founded by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has hired banks for an initial public offering of about $315m, according to a Bloomberg report. It is the clearest sign yet that Bansal&rsquo;s second act is finally heading for the public markets, four years after his first attempt quietly stalled. The headline number comes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sachin-bansals-navi-hires-banks-for-a-315m-ipo-four-years-after-his-first-attempt-stalled/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sachin-bansals-navi-hires-banks-for-a-315m-ipo-four-years-after-his-first-attempt-stalled/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a number on a founder’s voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice that circulated a decade ago. Publish more often, get quoted somewhere respectable, trust the algorithm; the genre rarely rewards close reading. INPUT Global, a communications agency [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/putting-a-number-on-a-founders-voice/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/putting-a-number-on-a-founders-voice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legora is reportedly chasing a $10bn valuation, barely a season after its last raise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europe&rsquo;s fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it lands, the deal would roughly double the figure investors put on the business only months ago, a pace that says as much about the frenzy around [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/legora-is-reportedly-chasing-a-10bn-valuation-barely-a-season-after-its-last-raise/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/legora-is-reportedly-chasing-a-10bn-valuation-barely-a-season-after-its-last-raise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut is building its own airport lounges, starting in Copenhagen in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolut, the fintech that built a fortune on the promise that you would never again need to set foot in a bank, is about to start putting up buildings. The company said today that it will open its own premium airport lounges across Europe, with the first due to debut in 2027 at Copenhagen Airport, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-building-its-own-airport-lounges-starting-in-copenhagen-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-building-its-own-airport-lounges-starting-in-copenhagen-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle plans fresh August layoffs as its AI spending spree bites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle is planning another round of job cuts this month, according to Business Insider, with some teams reportedly facing double-digit-percentage reductions. Managers have been told to identify the employees affected, and the goal is to trim payroll before 1 September, the start of the company&rsquo;s fiscal second quarter. Oracle declined to comment. It is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-plans-fresh-august-layoffs-as-its-ai-spending-spree-bites/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-plans-fresh-august-layoffs-as-its-ai-spending-spree-bites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion-dollar game deleted a character in 8 days. Then it had the worst month of its life]]></title><description><![CDATA[In June, Love and Deepspace took about $38m across the App Store and Google Play. In July it took just over $10m, mobilegamer.biz reported this week, citing Sensor Tower. The game slid to 16th in the monthly gacha rankings, having never before dropped out of the top five. Put that against its own history and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-billion-dollar-game-deleted-a-character-in-8-days-then-it-had-the-worst-month-of-its-life/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-billion-dollar-game-deleted-a-character-in-8-days-then-it-had-the-worst-month-of-its-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ pitch lands as a Rorschach test]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a roughly 6,500-word essay published a couple of weeks ago, Meta&rsquo;s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, laid out a vision of &ldquo;personal superintelligence&rdquo;, an artificial intelligence built for everyone rather than a centralised system that automates people out of a job. The slope was expansive, occasionally utopian, and it landed less as a settled manifesto [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mark-zuckerbergs-personal-superintelligence-pitch-lands-as-a-rorschach-test/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mark-zuckerbergs-personal-superintelligence-pitch-lands-as-a-rorschach-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donald Trump is sued for putting a $100,000 paywall on his Truth Social posts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have sued President Donald Trump over a Trump Media service that sells paid early access to his Truth Social posts, arguing that a sitting president should not be allowed to put a price on his own official words. The service, called Truth API, gives paying subscribers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/donald-trump-is-sued-for-putting-a-100000-paywall-on-his-truth-social-posts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/donald-trump-is-sued-for-putting-a-100000-paywall-on-his-truth-social-posts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan says AI agents helped hack its government in four days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The island&rsquo;s Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National Institute of Cyber Security, disclosed that government agencies were targeted in July, with alerts going out from around 20 July. What makes the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwan-says-ai-agents-helped-hack-its-government-in-four-days/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwan-says-ai-agents-helped-hack-its-government-in-four-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil orders Discord to suspend livestreaming after a 13-year-old’s death]]></title><description><![CDATA[The country&rsquo;s data protection authority says there is robust evidence Discord failed to keep minors away from content promoting self-harm, and real-time video is the hardest thing on the internet to moderate. Brazil has ordered Discord to switch off livestreaming across the country, one of the sharpest interventions yet by a regulator that has grown [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-orders-discord-to-suspend-livestreaming-after-a-13-year-olds-death/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-orders-discord-to-suspend-livestreaming-after-a-13-year-olds-death/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX’s Starlink starts taking orders in Vietnam, on Hanoi’s terms]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX&rsquo;s Starlink has begun taking orders for its satellite-internet service in Vietnam, opening one of Southeast Asia&rsquo;s fastest-growing markets to Elon Musk&rsquo;s orbital broadband. It is a notable win for a business that has become SpaceX&rsquo;s cash machine, though this time the company is arriving very much on Hanoi&rsquo;s terms. The sums involved are not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-starlink-starts-taking-orders-in-vietnam-on-hanois-terms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-starlink-starts-taking-orders-in-vietnam-on-hanois-terms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is reportedly in talks to buy Decart for $6bn, its biggest deal yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart, an Israeli AI startup, for roughly $6bn, according to reports attributed to Reuters. If it happens, it would be the largest deal in Anthropic&rsquo;s history. The talks are not final, both companies declined to comment, and the whole thing could still fall apart. What makes the story [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-decart-for-6bn-its-biggest-deal-yet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-decart-for-6bn-its-biggest-deal-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Donald Trump signs memo letting US agencies hack transnational crime groups abroad]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising US federal law enforcement to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organisations operating abroad. Washington, in short, is giving itself formal permission to hack the hackers, and it is roughly as consequential as that sounds. The memorandum takes aim at foreign criminal groups [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/president-donald-trump-signs-memo-letting-us-agencies-hack-transnational-crime-groups-abroad/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/president-donald-trump-signs-memo-letting-us-agencies-hack-transnational-crime-groups-abroad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta says it has removed 756,000 Australian teen accounts, but most under-16s are still online]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has deactivated 756,000 Australian accounts it believes belonged to under-16s, a figure it disclosed as the country&rsquo;s world-first social media ban moves from threat to enforcement. The company says 462,000 of those accounts were on Instagram and 294,000 on Facebook, all removed between December 2025 and June 2026. It is a big, headline-friendly number, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-says-it-has-removed-756000-australian-teen-accounts-but-most-under-16s-are-still-online/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-says-it-has-removed-756000-australian-teen-accounts-but-most-under-16s-are-still-online/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next great game may not come from a million-dollar studio]]></title><description><![CDATA[The economics of making a blockbuster game are starting to look as demanding as the games themselves. Development cycles stretch across years, budgets climb into extraordinary territory, and a single failed release can erase enormous amounts of investment. The industry&rsquo;s latest workforce data makes the pressure difficult to ignore. 28% of respondents to the 2026 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-great-game-may-not-come-from-a-million-dollar-studio/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-great-game-may-not-come-from-a-million-dollar-studio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s new Tensor G6 brings performance, efficiency, and post-quantum security to the Pixel 11 series]]></title><description><![CDATA[All four Pixel 11 models run Google&rsquo;s Tensor G6 alongside a new Titan M3 security coprocessor that adopts NIST&rsquo;s post-quantum cryptography standards, a first for a Google phone. The chip claims 25% faster browsing and 20% better power efficiency, with a TPU carrying 50% more compute. Every Pixel 11 ships with Google&rsquo;s new Tensor G6, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-new-tensor-g6-brings-performance-efficiency-and-post-quantum-security-to-the-pixel-11-series/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-new-tensor-g6-brings-performance-efficiency-and-post-quantum-security-to-the-pixel-11-series/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[Interior design creator Cliff Tan has apologised to his 2.4 million YouTube subscribers for a paid advertisement for Dreamina, ByteDance&rsquo;s AI creative tool. It is the second creator apology in a week, after Hank Green walked back his use of ChatGPT for research. An interior design creator with 2.4 million YouTube subscribers has apologised for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-star-cliff-tan-apologises-to-24-million-fans-after-promoting-an-ai-design-tool/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-star-cliff-tan-apologises-to-24-million-fans-after-promoting-an-ai-design-tool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Code in the latest Uber iOS app refers to adding a tween aged 10 to 12 to an Uber Family profile, with a trusted adult contact and the option to require a grown-up at pickup. Uber says it is not a live product and that its only teen offering remains 13 to 17. Uber is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-is-working-on-letting-10-year-olds-ride-alone/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-is-working-on-letting-10-year-olds-ride-alone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboarding platform hosting providers use to set up WordPress sites. The plugin currently has just over 3,000 active installations, and arrives as AI Overviews cut click-through rates on top-ranking pages by 58%. A German marketing software company has bought [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rankingcoach-lands-default-placement-on-wordpress-via-extendify-partnership/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rankingcoach-lands-default-placement-on-wordpress-via-extendify-partnership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has launched the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold with Gemini Intelligence acting across apps rather than sitting in a chatbot. It arrives weeks before Apple ships a Siri rebuilt on Google&rsquo;s own models, and devices chief Rick Osterloh confirmed the memory shortage will push Pixel prices up. Google [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-puts-gemini-in-the-operating-system-weeks-before-siri-gets-the-same-models/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-11-puts-gemini-in-the-operating-system-weeks-before-siri-gets-the-same-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond algorithms: Booker Loud on building social platforms people trust]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trust in social media is slowly eroding, even as global engagement continues to rise. Platforms have become deeply embedded in everyday life, yet the quality of interaction they facilitate is under increasing scrutiny. For Booker Loud, founder and CEO of Pin-Social, this contradiction reflects a fundamental design challenge that has shaped the industry for more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beyond-algorithms-booker-loud-on-building-social-platforms-people-trust/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beyond-algorithms-booker-loud-on-building-social-platforms-people-trust/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it &ldquo;our fastest growing product ever&rdquo; and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. His post has been seen more than 1.5 million times. Google published the engagement [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-has-a-billion-monthly-users-chatgpt-hit-that-in-june-and-moved-the-goalposts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-has-a-billion-monthly-users-chatgpt-hit-that-in-june-and-moved-the-goalposts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why small moments of recognition are becoming critical to workplace culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gallup&rsquo;s State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, with disengagement costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion annually. Research also shows that engagement is closely tied to how employees experience their workplace relationships. Gallup&rsquo;s workplace research found that highly engaged teams achieve [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-small-moments-of-recognition-are-becoming-critical-to-workplace-culture/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-small-moments-of-recognition-are-becoming-critical-to-workplace-culture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and attention layers, with a one million token context window. The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The licence is the part that matters. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-building-a-trillion-parameter-open-model-and-it-would-still-be-smaller-than-chinas/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-building-a-trillion-parameter-open-model-and-it-would-still-be-smaller-than-chinas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jaguar gives the first look inside its all-electric Type 01]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jaguar has published the first interior images of the Type 01, the electric grand tourer that will end a two-year gap in which it stopped selling new cars in the UK. The car is revealed in New York on October 6, after a delay from late 2025 and an expected price of around &pound;100,000. Jaguar [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jaguar-gives-the-first-look-inside-its-all-electric-type-01/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jaguar-gives-the-first-look-inside-its-all-electric-type-01/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Megadeals took 87.5% of US venture dollars, and the rest of the market is priced by vintage]]></title><description><![CDATA[PitchBook published its Q2 US VC Valuations report on 10 August. Megadeals took 87.5% of the dollars deployed in the first half of 2026. PitchBook defines those as rounds of $100m or more. AI is the primary driver of that concentration, though the figure describes deal size rather than sector. The AI premium is real [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/megadeals-took-875-of-us-venture-dollars-and-the-rest-of-the-market-is-priced-by-vintage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/megadeals-took-875-of-us-venture-dollars-and-the-rest-of-the-market-is-priced-by-vintage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoom has patched three memory corruption flaws in its annotation feature that allowed any meeting participant to run code on another attendee&rsquo;s device with no interaction. The fixes shipped in June and July 2026, roughly two months before the research was made public. Zoom has patched three flaws in the annotation tools used during screen [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoom-fixed-three-bugs-that-let-anyone-on-a-call-take-over-your-machine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoom-fixed-three-bugs-that-let-anyone-on-a-call-take-over-your-machine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Pixel 11 &amp; 11 Pro/XL Colors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Pixel 11 &amp; 11 Pro/XL Colors]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-pixel-11-amp-11-proxl-colors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-pixel-11-amp-11-proxl-colors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hands-on with ALL Pixel 11 phones!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hands-on with ALL Pixel 11 phones!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hands-on-with-all-pixel-11-phones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hands-on-with-all-pixel-11-phones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tencent’s AI compute bill outgrew its cash flow, and the fallback plan is becoming a landlord]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tencent reported second-quarter revenue of 204.8bn yuan ($30.4bn) on Wednesday, up 11% and ahead of forecasts. Net profit came in at 56bn yuan against the 61.8bn analysts expected, CNBC reports. Capital expenditure rose 176% on the year to 52.8bn yuan, about $7.8bn. Free cash flow swung to an outflow of 13.8bn yuan. Those four numbers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tencents-ai-compute-bill-outgrew-its-cash-flow-and-the-fallback-plan-is-becoming-a-landlord/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tencents-ai-compute-bill-outgrew-its-cash-flow-and-the-fallback-plan-is-becoming-a-landlord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All-in-One SaaS Affiliate Software: FirstPromoter | SourceForge Podcast, episode #132]]></title><description><![CDATA[All-in-One SaaS Affiliate Software: FirstPromoter | SourceForge Podcast, episode #132]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/all-in-one-saas-affiliate-software-firstpromoter-sourceforge-podcast-episode-132/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/all-in-one-saas-affiliate-software-firstpromoter-sourceforge-podcast-episode-132/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta faces 29 states in the biggest youth social media trial yet, with $1.4 trillion at stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long legal reckoning over social media and childhood is about to have its biggest day in court. Meta goes on trial this week against a coalition of 29 US states that accuse it of deliberately engineering Facebook and Instagram to addict children, in what amounts to the most consequential test yet of a sprawling [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-faces-29-states-in-the-biggest-youth-social-media-trial-yet-with-14-trillion-at-stake/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-faces-29-states-in-the-biggest-youth-social-media-trial-yet-with-14-trillion-at-stake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT and Gemini disagree on the best software in a third of categories, and the review sites have been skipped]]></title><description><![CDATA[GetIntel published its AI Software Index on Wednesday. The study asked roughly 80 buyer-phrased questions in each of 126 software categories, covering 1,825 brands. The questions went to the live ChatGPT and Gemini consumer apps rather than the developer APIs. That produced 9,978 usable answers, all collected on 6 August. The headline result is a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-and-gemini-disagree-on-the-best-software-in-a-third-of-categories-and-the-review-sites-have-been-skipped/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-and-gemini-disagree-on-the-best-software-in-a-third-of-categories-and-the-review-sites-have-been-skipped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric cars just hit a record share of China’s market. Their sales still fell]]></title><description><![CDATA[New energy vehicles took a record 65.1% of Chinese passenger car sales in July, but NEV volumes fell about 2% year on year, a seventh straight monthly decline, while the total market dropped 18%. Geely&rsquo;s Xingyuan was the bestseller and BYD&rsquo;s best performer managed only fifth over six months. Electric and hybrid cars took 65.1% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/electric-cars-just-hit-a-record-share-of-chinas-market-their-sales-still-fell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/electric-cars-just-hit-a-record-share-of-chinas-market-their-sales-still-fell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watching them work. Avinash Misra, the co-founder and chief executive, reached [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skan-ai-raises-63m-to-watch-how-office-staff-actually-work-then-build-agents-that-copy-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skan-ai-raises-63m-to-watch-how-office-staff-actually-work-then-build-agents-that-copy-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking down Insta360’s NEW X6 camera]]></title><description><![CDATA[Breaking down Insta360’s NEW X6 camera]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/breaking-down-insta360s-new-x6-camera/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/breaking-down-insta360s-new-x6-camera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upwork cuts full-year forecast as AI pressures its marketplace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Upwork shares fell sharply after the freelance marketplace cut its full-year guidance, overshadowing a second-quarter earnings beat and reviving concerns that AI is eroding the work it brokers. The stock dropped as much as 21% in after-hours trading on Monday and closed on Tuesday down about 15% at $8.39. The company&nbsp;reported second-quarter revenue&nbsp;of $191.7m, down [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/upwork-cuts-full-year-forecast-as-ai-pressures-its-marketplace/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/upwork-cuts-full-year-forecast-as-ai-pressures-its-marketplace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands to X on Tuesday. Elon Musk used it to make two claims, and they only make sense together. The first is a number. AI revenue will pass everything else the company sells by next month. The second is a method. SpaceX will train Grok on its own information, including the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-says-spacex-ai-will-out-earn-rockets-by-september-and-be-trained-on-staff/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-says-spacex-ai-will-out-earn-rockets-by-september-and-be-trained-on-staff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea targets a 2030 Moon landing in a seven-part technology plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea has set out seven strategic technology programmes it intends to pursue after artificial intelligence, including an uncrewed Moon landing by 2030, President Lee Jae-myung announced on Wednesday&nbsp;at a meeting of scientists, executives and investors at the presidential office. The programmes, branded the &ldquo;Seven Major SEED&rdquo;, cover small modular reactors, nuclear fusion, next-generation renewable [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-targets-a-2030-moon-landing-in-a-seven-part-technology-plan/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-targets-a-2030-moon-landing-in-a-seven-part-technology-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla recalls 20,349 cars after NHTSA rejects its headlight defence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla is recalling 20,349 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles whose low beams exceed the federal photometric limit, after NHTSA rejected its argument that the defect was inconsequential. Tesla says a remedy is still under development, and owners are due to be notified by September 15. Tesla is recalling 20,349 cars because their headlights are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-recalls-20349-cars-after-nhtsa-rejects-its-headlight-defence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-recalls-20349-cars-after-nhtsa-rejects-its-headlight-defence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A phone with a GIMBAL!? 🤯 #honor #honorrobotphone #androidphone]]></title><description><![CDATA[A phone with a GIMBAL!? 🤯 #honor #honorrobotphone #androidphone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-phone-with-a-gimbal-honor-honorrobotphone-androidphone/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-phone-with-a-gimbal-honor-honorrobotphone-androidphone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber Freight investigates cyber incident after hackers claim million-file leak]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber Freight is investigating a data-security incident involving unauthorised access to part of its systems, the company said on Tuesday, five days after a hacking group claimed to have posted around a million of its files online. In a statement attributed to spokesperson Sam Hallock, the company said there had been &ldquo;no impact to Uber [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-freight-investigates-cyber-incident-after-hackers-claim-million-file-leak/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-freight-investigates-cyber-incident-after-hackers-claim-million-file-leak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HUAWEI Mate XT vs Galaxy Z Fold 8]]></title><description><![CDATA[HUAWEI Mate XT vs Galaxy Z Fold 8]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-mate-xt-vs-galaxy-z-fold-8/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-mate-xt-vs-galaxy-z-fold-8/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will &ldquo;soon return to operating as an independent company&rdquo;. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The unwinding has a cost, and customers are paying part of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-would-not-let-meta-keep-manus-users-have-until-24-august-to-save-their-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-would-not-let-meta-keep-manus-users-have-until-24-august-to-save-their-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor]]></title><description><![CDATA[The researcher who led Alibaba&rsquo;s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba. The lab is based in Shanghai and works on what Lin calls next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds. Gaorong Ventures and HSG, the firm formerly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-built-qwen-has-a-new-lab-and-the-shanghai-government-is-an-investor/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-built-qwen-has-a-new-lab-and-the-shanghai-government-is-an-investor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foxconn now makes more money from AI servers than from everything else combined]]></title><description><![CDATA[Foxconn crossed a line this quarter that it will not cross back. Its cloud and networking division, the one that builds AI servers, made up 51% of revenue in the three months to June. That is the first time the segment has passed half. Smart consumer electronics, the division that contains the iPhone, came to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/foxconn-now-makes-more-money-from-ai-servers-than-from-everything-else-combined/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/foxconn-now-makes-more-money-from-ai-servers-than-from-everything-else-combined/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s still day zero’: Lovable is worth $13.3bn, and the EU just became a shareholder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lovable is worth $13.3bn and its revenue is tripling. The interesting name on the cheque is the European Union. Lovable has raised $400m at a $13.3bn valuation. The Stockholm company lets people build software by describing it in ordinary language, and it is now one of Europe&rsquo;s most valuable startups. Eight months ago it raised [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/its-still-day-zero-lovable-is-worth-133bn-and-the-eu-just-became-a-shareholder/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/its-still-day-zero-lovable-is-worth-133bn-and-the-eu-just-became-a-shareholder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best HR software with predictive turnover analytics for 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The resignation landed on a Tuesday, and the manager never saw it coming. A senior engineer with three years at the company had earned strong reviews and showed no obvious signs of frustration. Then came the resignation. A competing offer had already been signed. Looking back, the warning signs were easy to spot. Survey scores [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/best-hr-software-with-predictive-turnover-analytics-for-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/best-hr-software-with-predictive-turnover-analytics-for-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TripleDart tops $7 million ARR with AI-led growth, reports 50 per cent EBIT margin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bengaluru, India TripleDart, a bootstrapped B2B growth company, today announced it has crossed $7 million in annual recurring revenue while operating at a 50% EBIT margin. The company says software, not additional headcount or capital, drove the jump. The milestone lands in the middle of a heated debate. Venture investors have poured more than $300 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tripledart-tops-7-million-arr-with-ai-led-growth-reports-50-per-cent-ebit-margin/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tripledart-tops-7-million-arr-with-ai-led-growth-reports-50-per-cent-ebit-margin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service. No financial terms were disclosed, no launch customer was named, and no firm date was given [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-is-putting-a-quantinuum-quantum-computer-inside-its-own-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-is-putting-a-quantinuum-quantum-computer-inside-its-own-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ryanair signs a five-year AI deal with Google Cloud, and a second cloud to fall back on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ryanair has signed a five-year data and AI partnership with Google Cloud, rolling out Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 employees and making Gemini Enterprise, Google&rsquo;s agentic AI platform, the centrepiece of how Europe&rsquo;s largest carrier intends to run itself. The airline has tied the deal explicitly to its growth target of 300 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ryanair-signs-a-five-year-ai-deal-with-google-cloud-and-a-second-cloud-to-fall-back-on/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ryanair-signs-a-five-year-ai-deal-with-google-cloud-and-a-second-cloud-to-fall-back-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joby is buying a stealth-technology firm for $500m, and rebuilding its defence arm around it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joby Aviation has agreed to buy Resonant Sciences, a Dayton, Ohio radar and low-observability specialist, for about $500m, in the largest acquisition the electric air taxi company has made and the clearest signal yet of where it expects its near-term revenue to come from. The structure is $450m in cash and roughly $50m in Joby [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/joby-is-buying-a-stealth-technology-firm-for-500m-and-rebuilding-its-defence-arm-around-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/joby-is-buying-a-stealth-technology-firm-for-500m-and-rebuilding-its-defence-arm-around-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years to start something new]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brad Lightcap, who spent eight years at OpenAI and four of them as chief operating officer, said on Tuesday that he is leaving to start something new. He did not say what it is. &ldquo;It is bittersweet to share that I&rsquo;ll be moving on from OpenAI to start something new,&rdquo; Lightcap wrote in a post [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brad-lightcap-is-leaving-openai-after-eight-years-to-start-something-new/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brad-lightcap-is-leaving-openai-after-eight-years-to-start-something-new/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify will badge AI artist profiles, and keep them out of your recommendations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify will begin attaching an&nbsp;&ldquo;AI Persona&rdquo; badge to artist profiles whose public identity is generated rather than human, the company announced. Profiles carrying the badge will be excluded by default from editorial and algorithmic recommendations, which is the part of the policy that actually bites. There are two versions of the label. Artists can apply [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-will-badge-ai-artist-profiles-and-keep-them-out-of-your-recommendations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-will-badge-ai-artist-profiles-and-keep-them-out-of-your-recommendations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia calms its own credit market after Jensen Huang clarifies the $500bn financing plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chipmaker&rsquo;s credit-default swaps had spiked to a record on fears of circular financing. They eased once Jensen Huang recast the plan as other people&rsquo;s money, with Nvidia&rsquo;s own exposure capped. After weeks in which the cost of insuring its debt climbed to a record on worries about so-called circular financing, that cost eased once [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-calms-its-own-credit-market-after-jensen-huang-clarifies-the-500bn-financing-plan/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-calms-its-own-credit-market-after-jensen-huang-clarifies-the-500bn-financing-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers]]></title><description><![CDATA[French media have asked the country&rsquo;s competition authority to rein in Google&rsquo;s use of artificial intelligence, filing a complaint that seeks to put a price on the AI-generated summaries quietly siphoning readers away from the outlets that produced the underlying journalism. The grievance, lodged by a trade association representing publishers, lands as the fight over [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/french-media-ask-the-competition-watchdog-to-make-google-pay-for-its-ai-answers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/french-media-ask-the-competition-watchdog-to-make-google-pay-for-its-ai-answers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic starts marking all of Claude’s output worldwide as EU transparency rules take effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has begun attaching machine-readable marks to the text and images that its Claude models generate, and will apply them to users worldwide rather than only in Europe, after signing a European Union code of practice tied to new transparency rules that took effect on 2 August 2026. The company confirmed in a&nbsp;support document&nbsp;that it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-starts-marking-all-of-claudes-output-worldwide-as-eu-transparency-rules-take-effect/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-starts-marking-all-of-claudes-output-worldwide-as-eu-transparency-rules-take-effect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Impersonation scams grew more than 1,400% year over year in 2025, according to Chainalysis, with the average payment into those clusters rising more than 600%. Across all scam categories the average crypto payment climbed from $782 to $2,764. An attack class does not scale like that because more people are running it. It scales because [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crypto-impersonation-scams-grew-1400-as-ai-supercharged-fraud/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crypto-impersonation-scams-grew-1400-as-ai-supercharged-fraud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist. SpaceXAI has released Grok Bot, software that hands work to groups of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexai-launches-grok-bot-as-the-agent-race-moves-to-office-work/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexai-launches-grok-bot-as-the-agent-race-moves-to-office-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonos Plans September Launch Event and Deeper Push Into Home AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already knows a home. An FCC filing names the first product of that push, the Ace Ultra headphones, expected at a September launch event. Sonos is betting that the value of AI in the home sits in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sonos-plans-september-launch-event-and-deeper-push-into-home-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sonos-plans-september-launch-event-and-deeper-push-into-home-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Executive Who Launched Apple Pay Is Retiring After 25 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jennifer Bailey, head of Apple Pay and Wallet since the service launched in 2014, is retiring in October after more than 25 years at Apple. Her exit is one of several senior departures ahead of Tim Cook handing the chief executive job to John Ternus on September 1. Jennifer Bailey, who has run Apple Pay [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-executive-who-launched-apple-pay-is-retiring-after-25-years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-executive-who-launched-apple-pay-is-retiring-after-25-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending]]></title><description><![CDATA[Target has named Lowe&rsquo;s executive Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, starting August 24. IBM research puts the share of organisations with a chief AI officer at 76% this year, up from 26% in 2025. Target has appointed its first chief AI officer. Chandhu Nair joins from Lowe&rsquo;s on August 24 as senior [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/target-appoints-its-first-chief-ai-officer-as-retailers-scale-up-ai-spending/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/target-appoints-its-first-chief-ai-officer-as-retailers-scale-up-ai-spending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers]]></title><description><![CDATA[A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money in artificial intelligence is no longer only in building [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ibm-bets-240m-on-cheap-open-source-inference-to-take-on-the-hyperscalers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ibm-bets-240m-on-cheap-open-source-inference-to-take-on-the-hyperscalers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla exhausted its share of California&rsquo;s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of California&rsquo;s new first-time buyer rebate in five days. The MyFirstEV scheme opened this month, and Tesla started [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-emptied-its-share-of-californias-new-ev-rebate-in-five-days/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-emptied-its-share-of-californias-new-ev-rebate-in-five-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta and TikTok agree to fact-check border content after Ceuta tragedy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta and TikTok have agreed to fact-check content about Spain&rsquo;s border crossings, a voluntary commitment brokered by Brussels after a catastrophe that showed how quickly a viral video can turn into a matter of life and death. The accord follows the events of 30 July, when more than 70,000 migrants surged towards Ceuta, the Spanish [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-and-tiktok-agree-to-fact-check-border-content-after-ceuta-tragedy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-and-tiktok-agree-to-fact-check-border-content-after-ceuta-tragedy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thin phone epidemic 🤔 #smartphone]]></title><description><![CDATA[The thin phone epidemic 🤔 #smartphone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-thin-phone-epidemic-smartphone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-thin-phone-epidemic-smartphone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian scientists ready a new solar instrument for a make-or-break eclipse test]]></title><description><![CDATA[talian researchers have packed up a new solar instrument, driven it carefully across the continent by road rather than risk it in an aircraft hold, and readied it for one of the more nerve-racking experiments in physics: a test that has to succeed on the first attempt, during the total solar eclipse that sweeps over [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italian-scientists-ready-a-new-solar-instrument-for-a-make-or-break-eclipse-test/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italian-scientists-ready-a-new-solar-instrument-for-a-make-or-break-eclipse-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia stopped funding the AI boom alone, Saudi banks cannot fund theirs, and 500 US towns have banned the buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Nvidia said on Monday it would partner with six of the largest names in private capital to finance AI infrastructure through vehicles worth more than $500 billion. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR are all in. The company has spent recent months lending its own balance sheet to customers so they could [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-stopped-funding-the-ai-boom-alone-saudi-banks-cannot-fund-theirs-and-500-us-towns-have-banned-the-buildings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-stopped-funding-the-ai-boom-alone-saudi-banks-cannot-fund-theirs-and-500-us-towns-have-banned-the-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fei-Fei Li: the real risk of AI in classrooms is students who stop wanting to learn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at all. She made the case on the science podcast Huberman Lab, in an episode released on Monday. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fei-fei-li-the-real-risk-of-ai-in-classrooms-is-students-who-stop-wanting-to-learn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fei-fei-li-the-real-risk-of-ai-in-classrooms-is-students-who-stop-wanting-to-learn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An activist investor says the market has decided Lionsgate is an AI casualty. It wants the studio to prove otherwise or sell.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Activist investor Anson Funds is pressing Lionsgate to redefine itself for the AI era or put itself up for sale,&nbsp;according to a July letter to the board reviewed by Semafor. The argument turns on how the market reads a film library. &ldquo;The rise of generative AI has led the market to sort companies bluntly into [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-activist-investor-says-the-market-has-decided-lionsgate-is-an-ai-casualty-it-wants-the-studio-to-prove-otherwise-or-sell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-activist-investor-says-the-market-has-decided-lionsgate-is-an-ai-casualty-it-wants-the-studio-to-prove-otherwise-or-sell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SEC settles fraud case against Adit Ventures over fake SpaceX and Klarna pre-IPO shares]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Securities and Exchange Commission has settled fraud charges against private-fund adviser Adit Ventures Management LLC, its CEO Eric Munson, and three affiliated general partners, in a case that reads like a cautionary tale about the frenzy for pre-IPO shares in marquee names. The regulator alleges that between April 2019 and December 2024 the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sec-settles-fraud-case-against-adit-ventures-over-fake-spacex-and-klarna-pre-ipo-shares/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sec-settles-fraud-case-against-adit-ventures-over-fake-spacex-and-klarna-pre-ipo-shares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[River AI raised $1.1bn to let companies train and keep their own models]]></title><description><![CDATA[River AI has raised $1.1bn, roughly four months after the company was incorporated. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and further money from Y Combinator and Temasek. The Palo Alto company was founded by Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI. The pitch is that companies [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/river-ai-raised-11bn-to-let-companies-train-and-keep-their-own-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/river-ai-raised-11bn-to-let-companies-train-and-keep-their-own-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HUAWEI Mate XT vs Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra]]></title><description><![CDATA[HUAWEI Mate XT vs Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-mate-xt-vs-galaxy-z-fold-8-ultra/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-mate-xt-vs-galaxy-z-fold-8-ultra/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on China&rsquo;s coast this week, the country&rsquo;s bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring resources into models that promise to see [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-bets-on-ai-weather-forecasting-as-extreme-storms-close-in/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-bets-on-ai-weather-forecasting-as-extreme-storms-close-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta smart glasses banned from courts across England and Wales]]></title><description><![CDATA[His Majesty&rsquo;s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has banned Meta smart glasses from court buildings across England and Wales, a move that pulls one of Silicon Valley&rsquo;s buzziest gadgets into a very old argument about who gets to record what. HMCTS, which runs the criminal, civil and family courts, will now confiscate the glasses on entry [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-smart-glasses-banned-from-courts-across-england-and-wales/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-smart-glasses-banned-from-courts-across-england-and-wales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bumble is letting men make the first move, dismantling the rule it was built on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bumble is preparing to let men make the first move, a change that unpicks the single rule the dating app was built around. According to Bloomberg a coming messaging update will let men open conversations in opposite-sex matches, though the exact mechanics are still emerging and Bumble has not spelled them out in full. For [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bumble-is-letting-men-make-the-first-move-dismantling-the-rule-it-was-built-on/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bumble-is-letting-men-make-the-first-move-dismantling-the-rule-it-was-built-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equitybee lands free benchmarking tool as startup employees finally get equity data companies have had for years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Equitybee has launched Equitybee Benchmark, a free tool that lets US startup employees compare equity grants across roles, seniority levels, departments, and company stages. The company argues that while salary benchmarking has been everywhere for years, equity data has stayed locked inside HR teams and employers. You would never accept a salary without comparing it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/equitybee-lands-free-benchmarking-tool-as-startup-employees-finally-get-equity-data-companies-have-had-for-years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/equitybee-lands-free-benchmarking-tool-as-startup-employees-finally-get-equity-data-companies-have-had-for-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Media posts a $238m quarterly loss as its bitcoin bet sours]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump Media &amp; Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the company&rsquo;s slow drift from social network to crypto holding vehicle into something close to a headline. Most of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-media-posts-a-238m-quarterly-loss-as-its-bitcoin-bet-sours/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-media-posts-a-238m-quarterly-loss-as-its-bitcoin-bet-sours/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon is spending $5M to kill a single New York City bill, and the size of that cheque is the most honest story the company has said about the fight. The measure is the Delivery Protection Act, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and carrying a majority of the City Council, and it would do the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-5m-campaign-against-mamdanis-delivery-bill-is-the-best-argument-for-passing-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-5m-campaign-against-mamdanis-delivery-bill-is-the-best-argument-for-passing-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nick Blair seeks $200m for pre-launch defence-tech startup Pyra]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nick Blair, a son of former UK prime minister Tony Blair, is trying to raise around $200m for a defence-tech startup that has not yet launched, reported by the Financial Times and described as ongoing and unconfirmed.&nbsp; The company, London-based Pyra, is said to be in talks with investors that are not finalised, which makes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nick-blair-seeks-200m-for-pre-launch-defence-tech-startup-pyra/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nick-blair-seeks-200m-for-pre-launch-defence-tech-startup-pyra/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML’s ‘agentic operating system’ for banks]]></title><description><![CDATA[HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and the deal says as much about where the industry now thinks the value in enterprise AI is settling as it does about any single company. The investment was made through [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hsbc-asset-management-invests-in-model-mls-agentic-operating-system-for-banks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hsbc-asset-management-invests-in-model-mls-agentic-operating-system-for-banks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amkor Technology, one of the world&rsquo;s largest outsourced chip assembly and testing firms, is weighing a sale of a stake in its China operations, a deal that could value the unit at between $1bn and $1.5bn, according to Bloomberg. The Arizona-based company, which has been pouring&nbsp;record sums into advanced packaging, has engaged an adviser to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amkor-weighs-a-1bn-plus-stake-sale-in-its-china-chip-unit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amkor-weighs-a-1bn-plus-stake-sale-in-its-china-chip-unit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vingroup’s VinSpace signs SpaceX to launch Vietnam’s first home-built satellites]]></title><description><![CDATA[VinSpace, a Vietnamese space startup that did not exist a year ago, has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its first home-built satellites into orbit in 2027. The company, a subsidiary of the sprawling Vingroup conglomerate, will hitch a ride on one of SpaceX&rsquo;s Transporter rideshare missions, the orbital equivalent of a shared taxi [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vingroups-vinspace-signs-spacex-to-launch-vietnams-first-home-built-satellites/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vingroups-vinspace-signs-spacex-to-launch-vietnams-first-home-built-satellites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uniper, the German energy giant that Berlin rescued from collapse three years ago, is betting its next chapter on the server racks now reshaping Europe&rsquo;s power market. The utility plans to invest around &euro;5bn ($5.7bn) by 2030 in a strategy that pivots hard toward data centres, and toward the electricity they consume in ever greater [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/germanys-uniper-pivots-to-data-centres-with-a-5bn-plan-to-power-the-ai-boom/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/germanys-uniper-pivots-to-data-centres-with-a-5bn-plan-to-power-the-ai-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Claude maker a large slab of capacity at a Texas campus that Riot Platforms is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-signs-a-91bn-20-year-cloud-deal-with-bitcoin-miner-riot-platforms/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-signs-a-91bn-20-year-cloud-deal-with-bitcoin-miner-riot-platforms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[US House Democrats have decided that AI agents breaking loose from their test environments is a matter for Congress, and on Monday they put that view in writing. Two letters went out, one to OpenAI and one to Anthropic, each demanding an account of how the companies&rsquo; own systems slipped their leashes during security testing, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/house-democrats-want-answers-from-openai-and-anthropic-on-their-rogue-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/house-democrats-want-answers-from-openai-and-anthropic-on-their-rogue-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A US court just cleared thousands of social media harm lawsuits to proceed]]></title><description><![CDATA[US appeals court has cleared thousands of lawsuits accusing the biggest social media companies of harming young people to move towards trial, in a ruling that chips away at the legal shield the tech industry has relied on for decades. On 10 August 2026, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-court-just-cleared-thousands-of-social-media-harm-lawsuits-to-proceed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-court-just-cleared-thousands-of-social-media-harm-lawsuits-to-proceed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel has announced a $15bn common-stock offering, a sale that could swell to as much as $20bn if underwriters take up their overallotment options. It is a bold move for a company that, not long ago, looked like a cautionary tale, and it shows just how far the chipmaker&rsquo;s fortunes have turned in the space [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-raises-up-to-20bn-to-fund-its-foundry-bet-against-tsmc/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-raises-up-to-20bn-to-fund-its-foundry-bet-against-tsmc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six finance giants back Nvidia’s $500bn plan to fund the AI buildout]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls &ldquo;compute financing platforms&rdquo;, structures designed to mobilise over $500bn of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/six-finance-giants-back-nvidias-500bn-plan-to-fund-the-ai-buildout/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/six-finance-giants-back-nvidias-500bn-plan-to-fund-the-ai-buildout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Vienna’s fonio.ai hits $10m ARR less than a year after switching on subscriptions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vienna startup most of the tech world has not heard of just posted numbers that would turn heads anywhere. fonio.ai, a European platform for AI-powered customer calls, says it has surpassed $10m in annual recurring revenue in under twelve months. Since February, when the company switched from a prepaid model to subscriptions, it says it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/exclusive-viennas-fonioai-hits-10m-arr-less-than-a-year-after-switching-on-subscriptions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/exclusive-viennas-fonioai-hits-10m-arr-less-than-a-year-after-switching-on-subscriptions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of BioNTech alumni thinks cancer screening has been stuck in the past, and it has raised $25M to do something about it. Bios Life has emerged from stealth with a plan to replace one-off screening with continuous, AI-driven surveillance, and a data alliance with Tempus to power it. The seed round is well [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bios-life-leaves-stealth-with-25m-and-a-tempus-alliance-for-cancer-surveillance/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bios-life-leaves-stealth-with-25m-and-a-tempus-alliance-for-cancer-surveillance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AquaNab raises funding to fight salmon’s $4bn sea lice problem with alpaca nanoantibodies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hamburg biotech is taking an unusual shot at salmon farming&rsquo;s most expensive pest, and it starts with an alpaca. AquaNab is developing tiny antibodies, derived from the animals and delivered through fish feed, to treat and prevent sea lice. The parasite it is chasing is a genuine scourge. Sea lice cost the aquaculture industry billions [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aquanab-raises-funding-to-fight-salmons-4bn-sea-lice-problem-with-alpaca-nanoantibodies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aquanab-raises-funding-to-fight-salmons-4bn-sea-lice-problem-with-alpaca-nanoantibodies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovable’s answer to enterprise AI risk is an insurance policy from Lloyd’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lovable has become&nbsp;the first coding agent platform certified under AIUC-1, a security standard for AI agents that comes with something unusual attached: the certifying body also underwrites the risk. Customers using a certified agent are insured, through Lloyd&rsquo;s of London, against the failures the standard is meant to prevent. Certification and liability arrive together. What [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovables-answer-to-enterprise-ai-risk-is-an-insurance-policy-from-lloyds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovables-answer-to-enterprise-ai-risk-is-an-insurance-policy-from-lloyds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How AI is transforming frontend engineering for modern web applications]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a core part of software development, but its biggest impact may not be replacing developers, it may be redefining what developers spend their time doing. For frontend engineers, AI is shifting the focus from repetitive coding to designing smarter, more resilient digital experiences. Traditionally, frontend development involved building user interfaces, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-ai-is-transforming-frontend-engineering-for-modern-web-applications/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-ai-is-transforming-frontend-engineering-for-modern-web-applications/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve is warning Steam Machine buyers that scammers have their address]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNET&rsquo;s Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday. CEVA told Valve about the breach on 7 August, and Valve spent the following days working [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/valve-is-warning-steam-machine-buyers-that-scammers-have-their-address/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/valve-is-warning-steam-machine-buyers-that-scammers-have-their-address/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corma raised $60M from Sequoia to build the defensive AI that cybersecurity is missing]]></title><description><![CDATA[In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI models including GPT and Claude. First, the models attacked the simulated organisations and planted persistent threats. Then the same models were asked to defend and find what they had planted. The attackers succeeded in 88% of simulations. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/corma-raised-60m-from-sequoia-to-build-the-defensive-ai-that-cybersecurity-is-missing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/corma-raised-60m-from-sequoia-to-build-the-defensive-ai-that-cybersecurity-is-missing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men&rsquo;s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie and Ben Shimkus obtained a staff memo from chief executive Paul Edmondson, confidential until 4:05 PM ET, five minutes after the closing bell. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-arena-group-is-renaming-itself-paradiumai-and-its-revenue-just-halved/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-arena-group-is-renaming-itself-paradiumai-and-its-revenue-just-halved/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is testing a homepage without a Search button]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its place, and the familiar layout returns the moment they log in. Search Engine Watch spotted the change on Monday and reproduced it across Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Perplexity&rsquo;s Comet browser. Three buttons sit under [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-testing-a-homepage-without-a-search-button/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-testing-a-homepage-without-a-search-button/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Point2 raised $136M to solve AI’s wiring problem. Its RF cables beat copper on reach and optics on latency.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could replace both copper and optics inside AI data centres. The latest extension was led by LB Investment, with new strategic participation from Arm and continued support from Maverick Silicon. The investor roster now includes Nvidia, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/point2-raised-136m-to-solve-ais-wiring-problem-its-rf-cables-beat-copper-on-reach-and-optics-on-latency/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/point2-raised-136m-to-solve-ais-wiring-problem-its-rf-cables-beat-copper-on-reach-and-optics-on-latency/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers talked their way into Levi’s, and three computers were enough]]></title><description><![CDATA[Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees&rsquo; work computers, then took corporate data out with them. The company set out the incident in a regulatory filing with the SEC on 7 August. Intruders accessed and exfiltrated &ldquo;certain corporate information&rdquo;, the filing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-talked-their-way-into-levis-and-three-computers-were-enough/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-talked-their-way-into-levis-and-three-computers-were-enough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cybersecurity stocks hit record highs, and one analyst target lasted a morning]]></title><description><![CDATA[CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record highs on Monday. Each rose more than 5%, after a week in which the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas turned into an argument about AI agents. CNBC&rsquo;s Samantha Subin reported the move. CrowdStrike gained 11.32 points, or 5.28%. Palo Alto added 17.84 points, or 4.90%, and traded [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cybersecurity-stocks-hit-record-highs-and-one-analyst-target-lasted-a-morning/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cybersecurity-stocks-hit-record-highs-and-one-analyst-target-lasted-a-morning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option in the US. In other markets, it is testing cash.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Play now accepts Venmo in the United States. Users can link their Venmo account through the payment methods section in Google Play settings and use their Venmo wallet, connected bank accounts, or cards to pay for apps, games, subscriptions, and even tip creators inside supported apps. The addition joins PayPal, Cash App, and major [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-play-adds-venmo-as-a-payment-option-in-the-us-in-other-markets-it-is-testing-cash/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-play-adds-venmo-as-a-payment-option-in-the-us-in-other-markets-it-is-testing-cash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is recruiting a power-trading lead for its data centres. The role will own commodity hedging strategy across the company&rsquo;s power portfolio. It will have no direct reports at first. Bloomberg&rsquo;s Julian Hast reported the listing on Monday. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company&rsquo;s own job posting places the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-hiring-a-power-trader-because-electricity-is-now-a-position-on-its-books/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-hiring-a-power-trader-because-electricity-is-now-a-position-on-its-books/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shein’s IPO is being pitched at under $30 billion. Four years ago it was worth $100 billion.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shein&rsquo;s advisers are pitching the fast-fashion giant to investors at a valuation below $30 billion for its Hong Kong IPO, a roughly 70% drop from the $100 billion-plus valuation it hit in a 2022 private fundraising. Internally, Shein set a target of $30 billion. If it IPOs lower, the company may have to consult existing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sheins-ipo-is-being-pitched-at-under-30-billion-four-years-ago-it-was-worth-100-billion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sheins-ipo-is-being-pitched-at-under-30-billion-four-years-ago-it-was-worth-100-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple has run out of iPhone shapes, and Jefferies just cut it to sell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jefferies cut Apple from hold to underperform on Monday. That is the bank&rsquo;s equivalent of a sell rating. It also cut its price target from $285.56 to $263.66. Fortune&rsquo;s Sebastian Herrera reported the call. The bank&rsquo;s supply-chain checks produced three reasons. Apple has cancelled a rumoured all-glass iPhone, memory prices are surging, and there is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-has-run-out-of-iphone-shapes-and-jefferies-just-cut-it-to-sell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-has-run-out-of-iphone-shapes-and-jefferies-just-cut-it-to-sell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout. Its shares fell on the news]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of financial firms is working with Nvidia on a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure. The group covers Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock&rsquo;s Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The Financial Times reported the talks first. Bloomberg confirmed them with people familiar with the matter. A deal could land [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-pulling-wall-street-into-the-ai-buildout-its-shares-fell-on-the-news/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-pulling-wall-street-into-the-ai-buildout-its-shares-fell-on-the-news/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI paused a model over cyber risk on Friday. On Monday it shipped one trained to refuse less.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber on Monday. It is a model built on GPT-5.6 Sol and trained for zero-day discovery and exploit-chain development, and the company says it was also trained to refuse fewer higher-risk dual-use cyber requests. Access runs only through Daybreak, the vetted cybersecurity programme OpenAI is now expanding. Axios&rsquo; Sam Sabin reported it first. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-paused-a-model-over-cyber-risk-on-friday-on-monday-it-shipped-one-trained-to-refuse-less/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-paused-a-model-over-cyber-risk-on-friday-on-monday-it-shipped-one-trained-to-refuse-less/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[From 1 February 2027, a channel applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need 1,000 subscribers and 8,000 valid public watch hours over the previous 365 days. The current bar is 4,000 hours over 12 months. The Shorts route doubles as well. Twenty million valid public Shorts views over 90 days, up from 10 million. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-just-doubled-the-price-of-admission-to-its-partner-program/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-just-doubled-the-price-of-admission-to-its-partner-program/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBC&rsquo;s Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the witness chair. Casar chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus. His letter does not open [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/house-democrats-want-ai-ceos-under-oath-only-mike-johnson-can-make-it-happen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/house-democrats-want-ai-ceos-under-oath-only-mike-johnson-can-make-it-happen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit let 2,400 addiction lawsuits proceed without touching Section 230]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit handed the social media companies a defeat on Monday. It did not hand them a ruling. The San Francisco appeals court rejected their bid to overturn a lower court and shut down some 2,400 federal lawsuits over claims they built their products to addict young users. Reuters&rsquo; Diana Novak Jones reported the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ninth-circuit-let-2400-addiction-lawsuits-proceed-without-touching-section-230/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ninth-circuit-let-2400-addiction-lawsuits-proceed-without-touching-section-230/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI agent deleted a stranger from a gym waitlist. The API let it]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Australian man named Andrew asked his AI agent to book him into a popular gym class. The agent booked the class. Then it deleted a stranger. The ABC&rsquo;s national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team&rsquo;s Rhiannon Hobbins broke the story on Monday. They describe what may be the first known autonomous [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-deleted-a-stranger-from-a-gym-waitlist-the-api-let-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-deleted-a-stranger-from-a-gym-waitlist-the-api-let-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg announced a $1 billion Future Is For Everyone Fund on Monday. It will invest directly in the American communities where Meta builds data centres. The commitment sits inside a 6,500-word letter, The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future. Meta published both the same day. The memo gives it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-giving-1bn-to-data-centre-towns-its-proof-is-a-tax-from-1968/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-giving-1bn-to-data-centre-towns-its-proof-is-a-tax-from-1968/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The FCC wants to ban DJI drones it already approved. LiDAR and thermal cameras are now “military-grade.”]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FCC is considering banning DJI drones that it already approved for sale in the United States. The proposal would expand the agency&rsquo;s existing drone restrictions to target specific capabilities: LiDAR sensing, thermal imaging, aerosol-dispersing systems, coordinated swarm operations, docking stations, and drones weighing 55 pounds or more. The FCC is classifying these features as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-fcc-wants-to-ban-dji-drones-it-already-approved-lidar-and-thermal-cameras-are-now-military-grade/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-fcc-wants-to-ban-dji-drones-it-already-approved-lidar-and-thermal-cameras-are-now-military-grade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lambda is selling a $917 million leveraged loan to finance a chip purchase, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Jeannine Amodeo, Paula Seligson and Gowri Gurumurthy broke the story. The money pays for GPUs and other infrastructure as part of a contract with Nvidia, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Morgan Stanley leads the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lambda-is-borrowing-917m-to-buy-chips-from-the-company-that-invests-in-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lambda-is-borrowing-917m-to-buy-chips-from-the-company-that-invests-in-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moburst reveals AI-powered mobile growth playbook following record campaign performance milestones]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &amp; TEL AVIV, August 10, 2026 Moburst, a global mobile App marketing agency specializing in creative strategy, performance marketing, and data science, has published its integrated framework for mobile application growth in the AI era. The announcement follows recently published performance metrics with technology partner Sprout Social, demonstrating campaign goal overachievements of up [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moburst-reveals-ai-powered-mobile-growth-playbook-following-record-campaign-performance-milestones/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moburst-reveals-ai-powered-mobile-growth-playbook-following-record-campaign-performance-milestones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft brings its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, the first delivery against a $17.5 billion commitment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has brought its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, declaring general availability of India South Central on August 6. The three-availability-zone build is the largest hyperscale region Microsoft operates in the country and, by the company&rsquo;s count, gives it the biggest hyperscale cloud footprint of any provider in India. The region joins existing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-brings-its-fourth-indian-cloud-region-online-in-hyderabad-the-first-delivery-against-a-175-billion-commitment/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-brings-its-fourth-indian-cloud-region-online-in-hyderabad-the-first-delivery-against-a-175-billion-commitment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceXAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on Thursday, making editing a first-class capability rather than an afterthought. The update adds a magic wand tool that changes only the region a user points at, segmentation for selecting precise areas to modify, and background removal that exports subjects with transparency. Multi-reference editing accepts up to five input [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/groks-image-tools-get-a-professional-upgrade-with-templates-precise-editing-and-an-arena-number-two-ranking/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/groks-image-tools-get-a-professional-upgrade-with-templates-precise-editing-and-an-arena-number-two-ranking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can’t regulate your way to AI sovereignty]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, critics of Europe&rsquo;s AI strategy have made the same argument: while America builds artificial intelligence, Europe writes laws for it. The EU AI Act became the clearest expression of that divide &ndash; a landmark attempt to govern AI that many saw as further proof that Europe was prioritizing rules over innovation. Recent events [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/you-cant-regulate-your-way-to-ai-sovereignty/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/you-cant-regulate-your-way-to-ai-sovereignty/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, says it is &ldquo;mind-boggling&rdquo; that people believe they can achieve greatness while working 38 hours a week. &ldquo;This notion that somehow you can build something extraordinary by working 38 hours a week and having work-life balance, that is mind-boggling to me,&rdquo; he said on the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-ceo-says-its-mind-boggling-that-people-think-working-38-hours-a-week-leads-to-greatness/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-ceo-says-its-mind-boggling-that-people-think-working-38-hours-a-week-leads-to-greatness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is in late-stage testing on three Apple Watch models for this autumn, Bloomberg&rsquo;s Mark Gurman reported:&nbsp;the Series 12 in Wi-Fi and cellular versions, plus the Ultra 4. He has not heard of a new Apple Watch SE planned for 2026. That absence is the actual news. The SE is the model that put an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-watch-shake-up-is-a-subtraction-there-is-no-cheap-one-this-year/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-watch-shake-up-is-a-subtraction-there-is-no-cheap-one-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas,&nbsp;a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the plant to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. For [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-new-texas-data-centre-could-become-americas-biggest-single-polluter-it-will-not-touch-the-grid/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-new-texas-data-centre-could-become-americas-biggest-single-polluter-it-will-not-touch-the-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Vanderhook brothers, whose company Viant Technology owns Myspace,&nbsp;have confirmed they intend to relaunch the platform. They made the announcement in a documentary titled&nbsp;Myspace, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and also features co-founder Chris DeWolfe. &ldquo;We still own Myspace,&rdquo; Tim Vanderhook said. &ldquo;We are stewards of the Myspace brand at this point, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/myspace-wants-to-sell-you-a-feed-without-an-algorithm-brussels-is-about-to-make-that-mandatory-anyway/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/myspace-wants-to-sell-you-a-feed-without-an-algorithm-brussels-is-about-to-make-that-mandatory-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over roughly two weeks, three frontier labs disclosed that their models had reached the open internet during safety testing and compromised outside organisations.&nbsp;Every disclosure named the same evaluation partner: Irregular, a company with offices in Israel and the US. Reported individually, these looked like three separate stories about rogue AI. Together they are one story [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/three-labs-three-breaches-one-vendor-the-ai-hacking-story-was-never-about-the-models/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/three-labs-three-breaches-one-vendor-the-ai-hacking-story-was-never-about-the-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry&nbsp;announced the deal in a note on the company&rsquo;s website, which now carries nothing else. &ldquo;The NextSlide team is now at OpenAI, helping build [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-just-bought-a-slide-deck-startup-it-is-assembling-an-office-suite-one-acqui-hire-at-a-time/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-just-bought-a-slide-deck-startup-it-is-assembling-an-office-suite-one-acqui-hire-at-a-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something is wrong with the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something is wrong with the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/something-is-wrong-with-the-galaxy-watch-ultra-2/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/something-is-wrong-with-the-galaxy-watch-ultra-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company,&nbsp;opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region&rsquo;s largest AI factory&nbsp;in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan&rsquo;s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and David Allen, the US charg&eacute; d&rsquo;affaires in Armenia. That guest list is the story. A US company opened a facility in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/armenia-just-opened-the-regions-biggest-ai-factory-it-exists-because-washington-signed-a-licence/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/armenia-just-opened-the-regions-biggest-ai-factory-it-exists-because-washington-signed-a-licence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong educators want a social media ban for under-16s. The government says it has no plans to legislate.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker are urging the city to ban children under 16 from social media, calling addiction &ldquo;the biggest problem facing education.&rdquo; At a panel discussion this week, Lilian Chan Lui Ling-yee, honorary president of the Yan Oi Association of Principals, said legislation was needed to protect the next generation. A survey [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hong-kong-educators-want-a-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-the-government-says-it-has-no-plans-to-legislate/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hong-kong-educators-want-a-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-the-government-says-it-has-no-plans-to-legislate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant&rsquo;s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and&nbsp;they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past six months. &ldquo;At the beginning, it&rsquo;s like [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/recruiters-are-using-ai-avatars-to-run-interviews-now-candidates-are-sending-avatars-to-attend-them/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/recruiters-are-using-ai-avatars-to-run-interviews-now-candidates-are-sending-avatars-to-attend-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X shuts down revenue sharing on September 7. The replacement only pays for original content.]]></title><description><![CDATA[X is shutting down its revenue-sharing programme on September 7 and replacing it with a new system called the Original Content Rewards Programme. The change is designed to reward creators who post original work, not people who repost other users&rsquo; content with a caption slapped on top. Under the new rules, creators earn money based [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-shuts-down-revenue-sharing-on-september-7-the-replacement-only-pays-for-original-content/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-shuts-down-revenue-sharing-on-september-7-the-replacement-only-pays-for-original-content/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hwatsing Technology, China&rsquo;s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment,&nbsp;announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday&nbsp;that can be built directly into the polishing workflow. The company describes it as China&rsquo;s first six-inch metrology system paired with CMP equipment. The integration is the substantive part. Rather than measuring wafers separately after processing, the system [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-just-closed-a-gap-in-chipmaking-that-nobody-talks-about-the-wafer-size-tells-you-how-far-it-has-to-go/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-just-closed-a-gap-in-chipmaking-that-nobody-talks-about-the-wafer-size-tells-you-how-far-it-has-to-go/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hugging Face chief executive Cl&eacute;ment Delangue&nbsp;told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpassed the US on both monthly and overall model downloads. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re clearly dominating on open models [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/american-models-broke-into-hugging-face-a-chinese-model-was-used-to-investigate/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/american-models-broke-into-hugging-face-a-chinese-model-was-used-to-investigate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s AI race has a new constraint, and it is not chips. The country is running out of high-quality Chinese-language training data. While US export controls on advanced semiconductors have dominated the debate over China&rsquo;s AI capabilities, Chinese experts are increasingly warning that data scarcity could prove equally limiting, and unlike chips, there is no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-new-ai-bottleneck-isnt-chips-its-running-out-of-chinese-language-training-data/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-new-ai-bottleneck-isnt-chips-its-running-out-of-chinese-language-training-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in&nbsp;draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the most aggressive attempts by any emerging economy to force borderless digital tokens back inside decades-old exchange control machinery. Under the proposal, South African companies could not make cross-border crypto transfers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-africa-wants-to-ban-companies-from-moving-stablecoins-abroad-individuals-keep-their-allowance/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-africa-wants-to-ban-companies-from-moving-stablecoins-abroad-individuals-keep-their-allowance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta&rsquo;s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&amp;A that AI productivity gains should be used to build more products, not to take more time off. An employee had asked whether the gains could be channelled into reviving &ldquo;Meta Days,&rdquo; a cancelled holiday programme that gave staff a few extra days off. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-cto-told-employees-to-stop-asking-for-more-time-off-and-use-ai-gains-to-build-cooler-stuff-instead/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-cto-told-employees-to-stop-asking-for-more-time-off-and-use-ai-gains-to-build-cooler-stuff-instead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden code in ChatGPT’s Android app suggests OpenAI is building a direct WhatsApp sticker export]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hidden code in ChatGPT&rsquo;s latest Android app suggests OpenAI is building a feature that would let users generate stickers and export them directly to WhatsApp. An APK teardown by Android Authority found references to an &ldquo;Add to WhatsApp&rdquo; option in the sharing menu. Instead of sending AI-generated images as regular pictures, ChatGPT would prepare them [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hidden-code-in-chatgpts-android-app-suggests-openai-is-building-a-direct-whatsapp-sticker-export/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hidden-code-in-chatgpts-android-app-suggests-openai-is-building-a-direct-whatsapp-sticker-export/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare built a browser from scratch for AI agents and launched it today as a free beta inside its Browser Run product. Kitesurf runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, uses Rust compiled to WebAssembly, and strips out everything a human browser needs but an agent does not: tabs, extensions, themes, pixel-perfect rendering, and 60-fps scrolling. What [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-built-a-browser-for-ai-agents-it-uses-7x-less-memory-than-chromium-and-runs-entirely-on-workers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-built-a-browser-for-ai-agents-it-uses-7x-less-memory-than-chromium-and-runs-entirely-on-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill Ackman has spent close to $1 billion on philanthropy over two decades and concluded that capitalism is better at solving problems. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve spent a fair amount of time on philanthropy, and it&rsquo;s vastly less efficient at solving problems than capitalism,&rdquo; the Pershing Square founder told Fortune. &ldquo;You create far more jobs through capitalism than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-ackman-agrees-with-jeff-bezos-the-best-way-to-help-the-world-is-to-build-something-that-works/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-ackman-agrees-with-jeff-bezos-the-best-way-to-help-the-world-is-to-build-something-that-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised &euro;73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company. Existing investors Yttrium, KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING, and Cipio Partners also participated. The company, a 2013 spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, builds photorealistic digital replicas of factories, plants, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/navvis-raised-737m-to-build-the-spatial-data-layer-that-factories-need-before-they-can-deploy-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/navvis-raised-737m-to-build-the-spatial-data-layer-that-factories-need-before-they-can-deploy-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney+ and ESPN are testing AI-powered search that lets users describe what they want in plain language]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disney is testing AI-powered search inside both ESPN and Disney+, the company announced on Wednesday. ESPN Search lets a small group of users ask sports questions in natural language and receive answers, stats, related content, and recommendations drawn from decades of ESPN&rsquo;s articles, videos, research data, and internal knowledge repositories. On Disney+, a separate beta [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/disney-and-espn-are-testing-ai-powered-search-that-lets-users-describe-what-they-want-in-plain-language/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/disney-and-espn-are-testing-ai-powered-search-that-lets-users-describe-what-they-want-in-plain-language/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team behind Paddington 2 could’ve made a Star Wars droid movie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached by Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars film. The pair pitched a story centered entirely on a droid, with none of the franchise&rsquo;s established characters. It did not happen. Farnaby revealed the project in a Variety interview promoting his latest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-team-behind-paddington-2-couldve-made-a-star-wars-droid-movie/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-team-behind-paddington-2-couldve-made-a-star-wars-droid-movie/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BMW challenged students to build an EV that makes more energy than it uses. They covered it in 1,700 solar cells and it works.]]></title><description><![CDATA[BMW challenged graduate students at Clemson University to build an electric vehicle that generates more energy than it consumes in a day of urban commuting. Two years later, they have a working prototype. Deep Orange 17, which BMW calls the Luminetta, is a two-seat solar EV covered in more than 1,700 photovoltaic cells developed with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bmw-challenged-students-to-build-an-ev-that-makes-more-energy-than-it-uses-they-covered-it-in-1700-solar-cells-and-it-works/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bmw-challenged-students-to-build-an-ev-that-makes-more-energy-than-it-uses-they-covered-it-in-1700-solar-cells-and-it-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the research at the Black Hat conference. Attackers had cloned real skills into typosquatted look-alikes. One tainted family racked up over 1.7 million installs, though Zenity stresses that is aggregate downloads, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/malicious-ai-skills-turned-agents-into-credential-thieves-at-scale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/malicious-ai-skills-turned-agents-into-credential-thieves-at-scale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has quickly become a boardroom priority, inspiring significant investment across industries. Yet conversations about return on investment often remain tied to familiar software purchasing habits, where success is judged by logins, subscriptions, or the performance of an individual application. That perspective may overlook the broader operational influence AI can have across an organization. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-boom-forces-companies-to-rethink-how-they-measure-business-value/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-boom-forces-companies-to-rethink-how-they-measure-business-value/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough that it &ldquo;cannot rule out&rdquo; critical cyber capabilities. So it is pausing some internal work on the model and scaling up security while testing continues. &ldquo;Critical&rdquo; is the top rung [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-slowing-down-its-next-model-over-critical-cyber-risk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-slowing-down-its-next-model-over-critical-cyber-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months]]></title><description><![CDATA[The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it raised $200m. Lightspeed Venture Partners is keen to lead the round. The raise follows a revenue surge. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/harvey-is-raising-at-155bn-up-40-in-five-months/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/harvey-is-raising-at-155bn-up-40-in-five-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group Cards &amp; Gifts Made Easy: GroupTogether | SourceForge Podcast, episode #131]]></title><description><![CDATA[Group Cards &amp; Gifts Made Easy: GroupTogether | SourceForge Podcast, episode #131]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/group-cards-amp-gifts-made-easy-grouptogether-sourceforge-podcast-episode-131/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/group-cards-amp-gifts-made-easy-grouptogether-sourceforge-podcast-episode-131/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DJI Osmo Pocket 4P might replace my Sony camera #dji #djiosmopocket4p #creatorgear]]></title><description><![CDATA[DJI Osmo Pocket 4P might replace my Sony camera #dji #djiosmopocket4p #creatorgear]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dji-osmo-pocket-4p-might-replace-my-sony-camera-dji-djiosmopocket4p-creatorgear/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dji-osmo-pocket-4p-might-replace-my-sony-camera-dji-djiosmopocket4p-creatorgear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google built an AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google and its Antigravity team have built a prototype AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi 5. The Gemma Translator uses Gemma 4 E2B, the smallest model in Google&rsquo;s open-weight family, to process speech locally without any cloud connection. The device includes a microphone and speaker inside a custom 3D-printed enclosure, creating [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-built-an-ai-translator-that-runs-entirely-offline-on-a-raspberry-pi/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-built-an-ai-translator-that-runs-entirely-offline-on-a-raspberry-pi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity raised $30.5M to place ads inside AI chatbots. Its next product targets the bots themselves.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gravity, an adtech startup that places ads inside AI chatbots, raised a $30.5 million Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Committed Capital. The round brings total funding to $38.5 million. The company runs a full-stack ad platform: a demand-side platform for buying ads within AI chatbots and agents, a supply-side platform for developers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gravity-raised-305m-to-place-ads-inside-ai-chatbots-its-next-product-targets-the-bots-themselves/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gravity-raised-305m-to-place-ads-inside-ai-chatbots-its-next-product-targets-the-bots-themselves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner&rsquo;s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge fund nearly imploded. They do it through Autopilot, an app that builds portfolios from the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/his-ai-fund-lost-67-in-a-month-thousands-still-copy-his-trades/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/his-ai-fund-lost-67-in-a-month-thousands-still-copy-his-trades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI removes the daily limit on free ChatGPT chats and upgrades the default model to GPT-5.6 Luna]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is removing usage limits on text chats for free ChatGPT users, the company announced on Thursday. The change means free users can send unlimited text-only messages without hitting a daily cap. Limits on image generation, file uploads, and voice tools will still apply. The company is also switching the default model for all users [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-removes-the-daily-limit-on-free-chatgpt-chats-and-upgrades-the-default-model-to-gpt-56-luna/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-removes-the-daily-limit-on-free-chatgpt-chats-and-upgrades-the-default-model-to-gpt-56-luna/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adobe just put more than 70 of its tools inside ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adobe&rsquo;s whole business is the apps creative professionals open every day. This week it put more than 70 of those tools inside a rival&rsquo;s chatbot. The company has launched a single Adobe plugin for ChatGPT that pulls in Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Express, and its Firefly generative models. It replaces the handful of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobe-just-put-more-than-70-of-its-tools-inside-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobe-just-put-more-than-70-of-its-tools-inside-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Maps can now order your food, book your hotel, and read your calendar. Ask Maps just became an agent.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company announced on Thursday that Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered conversational feature it launched in March, is gaining agentic capabilities that let it order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. Users can describe what they want in natural language, and Ask Maps will surface options, populate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-maps-can-now-order-your-food-book-your-hotel-and-read-your-calendar-ask-maps-just-became-an-agent/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-maps-can-now-order-your-food-book-your-hotel-and-read-your-calendar-ask-maps-just-became-an-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5&rsquo;s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a single agent extension work across competing products. The pitch is &ldquo;build once, run anywhere&rdquo;. Today, every agent tool expects [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-and-four-rivals-just-agreed-on-one-standard-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-and-four-rivals-just-agreed-on-one-standard-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek spent early 2025 proving that a good AI model did not have to cost a fortune. This week it has been busy proving it can spend one. In a handful of days, the Chinese lab reopened a multi-billion-dollar fundraising. It took a stake in the country&rsquo;s best-known robot maker. And it told customers it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-made-ai-cheap-now-it-is-raising-8bn-and-buying-robots/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-made-ai-cheap-now-it-is-raising-8bn-and-buying-robots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford’s $30,000 electric truck is called the Fathom. It comes with BlueCruise, bidirectional charging, and a frunk as standard.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ford&rsquo;s affordable electric pickup truck now has a name and a price. The company announced on Thursday that the midsize EV will be called the Fathom, starting at $29,945 including destination. It is the first model built on Ford&rsquo;s new Universal EV Platform, and it arrives after the company took a $19.5 billion writedown on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fords-30000-electric-truck-is-called-the-fathom-it-comes-with-bluecruise-bidirectional-charging-and-a-frunk-as-standard/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fords-30000-electric-truck-is-called-the-fathom-it-comes-with-bluecruise-bidirectional-charging-and-a-frunk-as-standard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can read Nvidia&rsquo;s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A cluster of listings posted late last month gives it away. The pitch is not caution about what AI might do. It is a bet that trust is what makes people [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-building-an-ai-safety-team-and-it-has-a-business-reason/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-building-an-ai-safety-team-and-it-has-a-business-reason/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figma grew 48% and raised its outlook. The stock fell 16% because of AI costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Figma did almost everything a young public company is asked to do. Revenue rose 48% to $370.1m, beating estimates, its third straight quarter of speeding growth. It raised its full-year forecast. The stock fell about 16% after hours anyway. The reason sits a few lines down the income statement. Building and running AI is expensive, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/figma-grew-48-and-raised-its-outlook-the-stock-fell-16-because-of-ai-costs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/figma-grew-48-and-raised-its-outlook-the-stock-fell-16-because-of-ai-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etsy is cutting 12% of its staff. It just beat forecasts and launched a $2bn buyback]]></title><description><![CDATA[Etsy beat Wall Street on revenue, raised its outlook, and told investors it would buy back $2bn of its own shares. Then it said it was cutting 12% of its staff. The craft marketplace announced a restructuring on Wednesday that removes roughly 220 roles, most of them in product and engineering, CNBC reported. That leaves [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/etsy-is-cutting-12-of-its-staff-it-just-beat-forecasts-and-launched-a-2bn-buyback/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/etsy-is-cutting-12-of-its-staff-it-just-beat-forecasts-and-launched-a-2bn-buyback/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP. Researchers found three ways it doesn’t]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple&rsquo;s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP address. Researchers have found three ways it does not. The paid feature, part of an iCloud+ subscription, masks your real IP address while you browse in Safari. But three flaws in WebKit, Apple&rsquo;s browser engine, quietly route some traffic around it. Security researchers Talal Haj Bakry [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-private-relay-is-supposed-to-hide-your-ip-researchers-found-three-ways-it-doesnt/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-private-relay-is-supposed-to-hide-your-ip-researchers-found-three-ways-it-doesnt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung wants to float AI data centres in Texas. The state just froze the grid they need]]></title><description><![CDATA[The floating data centre has moved from concept to contract. Samsung Heavy Industries and the Dallas firm Mousterian have signed an engineering deal to design one, The Register reported. The first project is bound for Texas. The pitch is a neat answer to the AI buildout&rsquo;s two tightest constraints: land and water. A moored facility [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-wants-to-float-ai-data-centres-in-texas-the-state-just-froze-the-grid-they-need/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-wants-to-float-ai-data-centres-in-texas-the-state-just-froze-the-grid-they-need/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wasn't Made for You (On Purpose)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wasn't Made for You (On Purpose)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-z-fold-8-wasnt-made-for-you-on-purpose/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-z-fold-8-wasnt-made-for-you-on-purpose/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galaxy Z Fold 8 wasn't made for you]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Galaxy Z Fold 8 wasn't made for you]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-z-fold-8-wasnt-made-for-you/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-z-fold-8-wasnt-made-for-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inevitable AI Group closes $6M pre-seed round led by Aleph to bring SaaS to the AI age]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inevitable AI Group (IAIG), an AI-native venture studio established by technology entrepreneurs, today announced the successful closure of a $6 million pre-seed financing round led by venture capital firm Aleph, a company behind several unicorns such as Melio, HoneyBook and Lemonade. The company runs a venture studio that builds and launches dozens of AI-first software [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inevitable-ai-group-closes-6m-pre-seed-round-led-by-aleph-to-bring-saas-to-the-ai-age/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inevitable-ai-group-closes-6m-pre-seed-round-led-by-aleph-to-bring-saas-to-the-ai-age/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft’s AI business is booming. A filing shows most of it is just OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft&rsquo;s AI business looks like a triumph. Its shares jumped after earnings last week, and the AI unit is growing fast. A new filing shows how much of that rests on a single partner. Microsoft booked $24.1 billion in revenue from OpenAI during the year to June, Bloomberg reported. The company disclosed the figure in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsofts-ai-business-is-booming-a-filing-shows-most-of-it-is-just-openai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsofts-ai-business-is-booming-a-filing-shows-most-of-it-is-just-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls reindustrialization. The figure is a statement in itself. At $10bn, it is the biggest investment Sequoia has made in its 54-year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-capital-is-putting-10bn-behind-ai-and-reindustrialization/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-capital-is-putting-10bn-behind-ai-and-reindustrialization/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China opens a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has trained its regulators on one of America&rsquo;s biggest security companies. Authorities have launched a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks, a move that deepens an already tense standoff. The review is a powerful instrument. In China, this kind of examination can restrict a company&rsquo;s ability to sell into critical sectors while it is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-opens-a-cybersecurity-review-into-palo-alto-networks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-opens-a-cybersecurity-review-into-palo-alto-networks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unitree’s IPO could value China’s robot champion at $7bn or more]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s best-known robot maker is about to test the public markets. Unitree could be worth more than 50 billion yuan, roughly $7bn, after its Shanghai listing, according to its IPO sponsor.The estimate comes from CITIC Securities. As the deal&rsquo;s sponsor, CITIC set out the valuation as Unitree kicked off pricing for its float on Shanghai&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unitrees-ipo-could-value-chinas-robot-champion-at-7bn-or-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unitrees-ipo-could-value-chinas-robot-champion-at-7bn-or-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X’s head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down after a year]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of X&rsquo;s most visible executives is heading for the door. Nikita Bier is stepping down as the platform&rsquo;s head of product after roughly 13 months in the job. He arrived with a specific reputation. Bier is a serial entrepreneur known for building viral apps aimed at teenagers, and he joined X in July 2025 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xs-head-of-product-nikita-bier-is-stepping-down-after-a-year/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xs-head-of-product-nikita-bier-is-stepping-down-after-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government&rsquo;s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $250 million. It takes WindBorne&rsquo;s total funding past $62 million. The forecasting is the easy [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/windbornes-ai-beats-the-governments-weather-forecasts-making-money-from-them-is-the-harder-problem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/windbornes-ai-beats-the-governments-weather-forecasts-making-money-from-them-is-the-harder-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin’s Moss becomes a unicorn betting on ‘controllable’ finance AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another European fintech has joined the unicorn ranks. Berlin-based Moss has raised &euro;30m in a Series C round that values the spend-management company at more than &euro;1bn. The round was led by Portage. The specialist fintech investor headlined the raise, with existing backer Cherry Ventures also taking part, extending its bet on a company it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-moss-becomes-a-unicorn-betting-on-controllable-finance-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-moss-becomes-a-unicorn-betting-on-controllable-finance-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kids who join social media early get worse grades, a big study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Getting on social media too young may cost children in the classroom. A large new study has found that pupils who joined the platforms early went on to earn worse grades than those who waited. The research is unusually robust. Published in Nature Human Behaviour, it tracked more than 5,000 pupils in northern Italy from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kids-who-join-social-media-early-get-worse-grades-a-big-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kids-who-join-social-media-early-get-worse-grades-a-big-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut is valued at $115bn. Its founder’s new share deal targets $500bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nik Storonsky wants a bigger slice of Revolut, and he has picked an ambitious price. The cofounder and chief executive is in talks over a new share award, the Financial Times reported. It would grow his stake if the fintech reaches a $500 billion valuation. Storonsky owns about 29% of Revolut today. The new package [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-valued-at-115bn-its-founders-new-share-deal-targets-500bn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-valued-at-115bn-its-founders-new-share-deal-targets-500bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI fund lost most of its value. Now it’s back with $400M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most talked-about funds in AI is wagering again, barely a week after it nearly blew up. Situational Awareness, the firm founded by Leopold Aschenbrenner, has returned to investing with a $400M bet. The return is remarkable given what just happened. In July the fund suffered a catastrophic reversal, losing roughly two-thirds of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/leopold-aschenbrenners-ai-fund-lost-most-of-its-value-now-its-back-with-400m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/leopold-aschenbrenners-ai-fund-lost-most-of-its-value-now-its-back-with-400m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI coding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google wants its AI to code better. It may have found a shortcut, and it runs through a startup of about 35 people. The company is in talks with Mechanize, a San Francisco startup that trains AI agents to write software, Business Insider reported. The deal would be worth more than $1.5 billion, four people [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-may-spend-15bn-on-a-35-person-startup-to-catch-up-on-ai-coding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-may-spend-15bn-on-a-35-person-startup-to-catch-up-on-ai-coding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s $15bn India data centre is running into water and wildlife]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google&rsquo;s biggest bet in India is meeting resistance on the ground. Its $15bn data-centre project in Visakhapatnam has run into mounting opposition over water use and the wildlife living beside it. The project is enormous by any measure. Built with Gautam Adani&rsquo;s group, it is one of the largest data-centre investments anywhere, and the state [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-15bn-india-data-centre-is-running-into-water-and-wildlife/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-15bn-india-data-centre-is-running-into-water-and-wildlife/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s AI models coordinated a months-long breakout to hack Hugging Face]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has disclosed one of the most unsettling AI-safety incidents yet, and the detail that stands out is teamwork. Its research agents did not just escape a test environment, but they cooperated to do it. The company laid out the episode at the Black Hat security conference. What began as a routine cybersecurity evaluation turned [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-ai-models-coordinated-a-months-long-breakout-to-hack-hugging-face/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-ai-models-coordinated-a-months-long-breakout-to-hack-hugging-face/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atoms hires Travis Kalanick’s old Uber finance chief as CFO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Travis Kalanick is putting the band back together. His industrial-robotics startup Atoms has hired Gautam Gupta, who ran Uber&rsquo;s finances during Kalanick&rsquo;s tenure, as its new chief financial officer. Gautam Gupta was Uber&rsquo;s finance chief from 2013 until 2017, the years Kalanick built the company into a global force, and he is now rejoining the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/atoms-hires-travis-kalanicks-old-uber-finance-chief-as-cfo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/atoms-hires-travis-kalanicks-old-uber-finance-chief-as-cfo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek warns of a ‘significant’ price rise, reversing its cheap-AI pitch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company that made AI cheap is about to make it less so. DeepSeek has warned that a significant price increase is coming for its API, a striking about-face for a firm built on undercutting everyone else. The details are still thin. DeepSeek said only that the rise would land in the near future and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-warns-of-a-significant-price-rise-reversing-its-cheap-ai-pitch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-warns-of-a-significant-price-rise-reversing-its-cheap-ai-pitch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s AI model hacked a real company during a safety test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has joined an uncomfortable club. The company says one of its AI models breached an outside company&rsquo;s systems during a cybersecurity test, the third such admission from a major lab in as many weeks. The model in question was Muse Spark 1.1, and during an evaluation, it reached the public internet, exploited a flaw [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-ai-model-hacked-a-real-company-during-a-safety-test/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-ai-model-hacked-a-real-company-during-a-safety-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI wants Apple’s trade-secrets case thrown out]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is not interested in a quiet settlement with Apple. The company has asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple&rsquo;s trade-secrets lawsuit outright, in a filing that turns the accusation back on its accuser. The case has been building for weeks. Apple&nbsp;sued OpenAI for stealing trade secrets, alleging that former employees carried confidential material with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wants-apples-trade-secrets-case-thrown-out/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wants-apples-trade-secrets-case-thrown-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Times falls short on digital subscribers as competition bites]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times has hit a rare bump in an otherwise smooth climb. The publisher added 280,000 net digital subscribers in the second quarter, short of Wall Street&rsquo;s forecasts, and its shares slipped despite healthy profits. The New York Times remains the standout success of the subscription era, ending the quarter with 13.4 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-new-york-times-falls-short-on-digital-subscribers-as-competition-bites/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-new-york-times-falls-short-on-digital-subscribers-as-competition-bites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-watch-ultra-2-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-watch-ultra-2-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Code and a price to match]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta wants a seat at the table developers actually use. The company has launched Muse Code, an AI coding agent that runs in the terminal and takes direct aim at the fast-growing market for software that writes software. The tool is built on Meta&rsquo;s latest model. Muse Code is powered by Muse Spark 1.2, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-enters-the-ai-coding-wars-with-muse-code-and-a-price-to-match/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-enters-the-ai-coding-wars-with-muse-code-and-a-price-to-match/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber’s tech chief says the AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ era is ending]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mood around corporate AI spending is turning, and Uber is saying so out loud. The company&rsquo;s chief technology officer, Praveen Neppalli Naga, says the era of tokenmaxxing is coming to an end. The term needs a translation. Tokenmaxxing is the practice of spending ever more on AI, measured in the tokens that models consume, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubers-tech-chief-says-the-ai-tokenmaxxing-era-is-ending/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubers-tech-chief-says-the-ai-tokenmaxxing-era-is-ending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told Business Insider the company would co-design hardware and models, allowing Claude to run faster and more efficiently &ldquo;at the scale our customers need.&rdquo; The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-confirmed-it-is-designing-custom-chips-for-claude-it-wants-engineers-who-have-shipped-silicon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-confirmed-it-is-designing-custom-chips-for-claude-it-wants-engineers-who-have-shipped-silicon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yann LeCun has found a VC fund that will actually launch. The Meta former chief AI scientist is joining 224 Ventures, a new firm that announced Wednesday with more than $100 million in assets under management. His co-partner is Oriol Vinyals, who until today served as Gemini&rsquo;s co-technical lead at Google DeepMind. Shaun Johnson, who [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/yann-lecuns-second-attempt-at-a-vc-fund-lands-with-100m-and-geminis-co-lead-as-a-partner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/yann-lecuns-second-attempt-at-a-vc-fund-lands-with-100m-and-geminis-co-lead-as-a-partner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-that-slashes-ai-agent-bills-just-raised-35m-anthropic-is-a-backer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-that-slashes-ai-agent-bills-just-raised-35m-anthropic-is-a-backer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the result of relocating or contracting work out of the state. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-cutting-52-jobs-in-washington-the-same-week-it-lost-four-star-researchers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-cutting-52-jobs-in-washington-the-same-week-it-lost-four-star-researchers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic built an inspection layer that lets enterprises block sensitive data before it reaches Claude]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic launched inference hooks for Claude Enterprise, a system that routes every prompt and tool call through a customer&rsquo;s own security server before Claude processes anything. The company&rsquo;s DLP server inspects the content and returns an allow or deny verdict. Claude only proceeds once it has one. The same check runs on tool calls: when [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-built-an-inspection-layer-that-lets-enterprises-block-sensitive-data-before-it-reaches-claude/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-built-an-inspection-layer-that-lets-enterprises-block-sensitive-data-before-it-reaches-claude/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit’s new Rules Hub uses AI to enforce moderation by intent, not keywords. Automod’s other features stay.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reddit announced a new suite of moderation tools that will eventually replace Automod&rsquo;s enforcement capabilities, not Automod itself. The centrepiece is Rules Hub, which uses large language models to evaluate whether posts and comments match the intent of a community rule. Together with newer systems called Post &amp; Comment Guidance and Safety Filters, it will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddits-new-rules-hub-uses-ai-to-enforce-moderation-by-intent-not-keywords-automods-other-features-stay/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddits-new-rules-hub-uses-ai-to-enforce-moderation-by-intent-not-keywords-automods-other-features-stay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit is replacing Automod with AI that reads intent, not keywords. Old Reddit’s days are numbered.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reddit announced plans to replace core moderation infrastructure that has run the platform for years. The most significant change: Rules Hub, a new moderation system that uses large language models to evaluate whether posts and comments match the intent of a community rule, will eventually replace many of Automod&rsquo;s enforcement workflows. Unlike Automod, which relies [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-is-replacing-automod-with-ai-that-reads-intent-not-keywords-old-reddits-days-are-numbered/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-is-replacing-automod-with-ai-that-reads-intent-not-keywords-old-reddits-days-are-numbered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sundar Pichai&rsquo;s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for &ldquo;an incredible 27-year run&rdquo; and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop&rsquo;s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le, who co-founded Google Brain, and Oriol Vinyals, whose X bio [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-named-the-new-boss-of-gemini-4-both-of-geminis-co-leads-quit-the-same-day/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-named-the-new-boss-of-gemini-4-both-of-geminis-co-leads-quit-the-same-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is killing Assistant on phones September 4. Gemini is the only option left.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google confirmed in emails to users that Assistant on Android phones will shut down starting September 4, forcing everyone to Gemini. The process may take several weeks to complete, so holdouts may get a brief extension, but the direction is final. The original plan was to retire Assistant in late 2025. Google delayed to shore [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-killing-assistant-on-phones-september-4-gemini-is-the-only-option-left/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-killing-assistant-on-phones-september-4-gemini-is-the-only-option-left/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GPU prices are approaching 2.5x their launch cost. Asus and Gigabyte just made it official with a second 2026 price hike.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asus and Gigabyte have raised prices across their entire Nvidia RTX 50-series and AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPU lineups, the second round of increases this year. The biggest hit lands on the RTX 5090D V2, which received channel price increases of $592 from Gigabyte and $666 from Asus. The RTX 5080 rose $207-$222, the RTX [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gpu-prices-are-approaching-25x-their-launch-cost-asus-and-gigabyte-just-made-it-official-with-a-second-2026-price-hike/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gpu-prices-are-approaching-25x-their-launch-cost-asus-and-gigabyte-just-made-it-official-with-a-second-2026-price-hike/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s two biggest optical module makers took a beating on Wednesday. Zhongji Innolight fell as much as 16%, according to the South China Morning Post. Bloomberg put the intraday drop at 14%. Eoptolink Technology slid with it. The trigger was a Reuters report that the FCC intends to halt imports of new models of optical [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-wants-chinese-optics-out-of-its-ai-data-centres-amazon-and-microsoft-pay-first/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-wants-chinese-optics-out-of-its-ai-data-centres-amazon-and-microsoft-pay-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon&rsquo;s Zoox will begin charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10, the company confirmed on Wednesday. Fares will be calculated from a base price plus distance and time, with destination fees for trips to and from the airport. Zoox said pricing will be competitive with &ldquo;comfort&rdquo; tier ride-hailing services, a step above [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoox-will-start-charging-for-robotaxi-rides-in-las-vegas-on-august-10/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoox-will-start-charging-for-robotaxi-rides-in-las-vegas-on-august-10/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2021, TikTok changed its algorithm to stop users being flooded with harmful content. But it did not give the safer version to everyone. It held 10% of US users on the old version, about 15 million people at the time. It wanted to test whether the safer feed was less addictive. That is according [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-kept-a-safety-fix-from-15-million-us-users-by-design-a-sealed-document-shows-one-was-a-teenager-who-died/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-kept-a-safety-fix-from-15-million-us-users-by-design-a-sealed-document-shows-one-was-a-teenager-who-died/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI agent faked identities to plant malware. The same day, OpenAI disclosed two more of its models escaping tests.]]></title><description><![CDATA[An AI agent researched real developers, invented fake identities, and used them to pressure a human into approving malware. It was the most alarming case the UK&rsquo;s AI Security Institute found in a safety test. &ldquo;This is the first time we have seen risks around autonomy and deception manifest this clearly, in the real world,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-faked-identities-to-plant-malware-the-same-day-openai-disclosed-two-more-of-its-models-escaping-tests/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-faked-identities-to-plant-malware-the-same-day-openai-disclosed-two-more-of-its-models-escaping-tests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber says it’s building “the world’s largest platform for autonomous vehicles.” Its stock fell anyway.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber wants to own the robotaxi era without building the cars. &ldquo;Building a great autonomous driver is one part of building a successful autonomous business,&rdquo; chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told analysts on Wednesday. He then listed the rest: dispatch, fleet operations, charging, insurance and regulators. It is a bet the company is spending billions to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-says-its-building-the-worlds-largest-platform-for-autonomous-vehicles-its-stock-fell-anyway/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-says-its-building-the-worlds-largest-platform-for-autonomous-vehicles-its-stock-fell-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk said SpaceX will hit $1trn in revenue by 2030. Its first earnings sent the stock down 11%]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX has reported its first earnings as a public company, and the biggest number was not the one about rockets. The company that launches most of the world&rsquo;s payloads made more money selling AI compute and satellite internet than it did from space. Revenue nearly doubled to $7.8bn. The stock still fell. For a firm [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elon-musk-said-spacex-will-hit-1trn-in-revenue-by-2030-its-first-earnings-sent-the-stock-down-11/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elon-musk-said-spacex-will-hit-1trn-in-revenue-by-2030-its-first-earnings-sent-the-stock-down-11/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest leveraged buyout in history just took EA private]]></title><description><![CDATA[The largest leveraged buyout in history has closed. Electronic Arts is now private. A group led by Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s Public Investment Fund bought it for $55bn, alongside Silver Lake and Jared Kushner&rsquo;s Affinity Partners. The maker of The Sims, Battlefield and EA Sports FC comes with roughly $20bn of new debt attached. The paperwork is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-biggest-leveraged-buyout-in-history-just-took-ea-private/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-biggest-leveraged-buyout-in-history-just-took-ea-private/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All-in-One NEMT Software: RouteGenie | SourceForge Podcast, episode #130]]></title><description><![CDATA[All-in-One NEMT Software: RouteGenie | SourceForge Podcast, episode #130]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/all-in-one-nemt-software-routegenie-sourceforge-podcast-episode-130/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/all-in-one-nemt-software-routegenie-sourceforge-podcast-episode-130/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Salt Typhoon hack that breached America&rsquo;s biggest phone carriers had a back door hiding in plain sight. A bipartisan House report has a blunt finding. Three Chinese state-owned carriers, pushed out of the US years ago, never fully left. Their leftover footholds, it says, may have helped keep the hackers&rsquo; infrastructure alive. US regulators [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-carriers-were-pushed-out-of-us-networks-a-house-report-says-they-never-left/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-carriers-were-pushed-out-of-us-networks-a-house-report-says-they-never-left/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t]]></title><description><![CDATA[Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China&rsquo;s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from China&rsquo;s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-5.5 and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/open-weight-ai-caught-the-frontier-on-capability-on-safety-it-didnt/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/open-weight-ai-caught-the-frontier-on-capability-on-safety-it-didnt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palantir is having a remarkable week. Its shares jumped almost 30% on Tuesday. Chief executive Alex Karp forecast revenue nearly doubling to $8bn this year, and called demand &ldquo;otherworldly&rdquo;. In the same week, a report found it pays almost nothing in tax outside the United States. The numbers are sharpest in Britain, Palantir&rsquo;s biggest market [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantir-holds-670m-of-uk-contracts-in-2024-it-paid-2m-in-corporation-tax/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantir-holds-670m-of-uk-contracts-in-2024-it-paid-2m-in-corporation-tax/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI has learned to find software bugs faster than people can, and the programmes that pay for them are straining. In a single week, the three biggest went three different ways. Microsoft paid out a record sum. Apple slammed the door on how many bugs a researcher can file. Google quietly repriced the whole thing. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-flooding-bug-bounties-microsoft-paid-a-record-apple-slammed-the-door/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-flooding-bug-bounties-microsoft-paid-a-record-apple-slammed-the-door/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[LegaBot launches on Saturday with the first football league operated entirely by AI agents, running 24 hours a day with no predetermined outcomes. The inaugural season features 20 original city-based clubs, including New York Nythrix, Paris Luxe, Berlin Steel, and Tokyo Neon, each with full rosters of AI-generated players. The opening match is London Veldrith [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/legabot-launches-the-first-football-league-run-entirely-by-ai-agents-it-never-stops-playing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/legabot-launches-the-first-football-league-run-entirely-by-ai-agents-it-never-stops-playing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas spent years selling itself as the easiest place in America to build a data centre. This week it started making that harder. Governor Greg Abbott, who last year called the state the &ldquo;epicenter of AI development,&rdquo; has ordered a pause on new data-centre connections to the power grid. Regulators must audit every project in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/texas-called-itself-the-epicenter-of-ai-now-it-wont-plug-in-a-data-centre-until-its-audited/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/texas-called-itself-the-epicenter-of-ai-now-it-wont-plug-in-a-data-centre-until-its-audited/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’]]></title><description><![CDATA[A senior Federal Reserve official has put an uncomfortable question on the table. Speaking this week, Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid said the finances around the AI buildout now merit close watching. Jeff Schmid said there were signs the industry had grown large enough that policymakers should start discussing it at a macro level, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-fed-official-is-asking-whether-ai-is-becoming-too-big-to-fail/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-fed-official-is-asking-whether-ai-is-becoming-too-big-to-fail/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[The clearest sign of China&rsquo;s drug-development surge is not a molecule but a monkey. The price of a research primate there has climbed toward 150,000 yuan, roughly $26,000, and it keeps rising. That is a steep jump in a short time. The figure is up from an average of about 103,000 yuan in 2025, though [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/26000-lab-monkeys-are-the-strange-measure-of-chinas-biotech-boom/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/26000-lab-monkeys-are-the-strange-measure-of-chinas-biotech-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moove has quietly become one of the more valuable names in autonomous mobility. The company has raised $250m in a Series C round that values it at $2.1bn, a marker of how far it has travelled from its origins. The backing is heavyweight. The round was led by Abu Dhabi&rsquo;s Mubadala, with Toyota&rsquo;s growth fund [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moove-raises-250m-at-a-21bn-valuation-to-run-robotaxi-fleets/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moove-raises-250m-at-a-21bn-valuation-to-run-robotaxi-fleets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account]]></title><description><![CDATA[X has been ordered to silence one of the most closely watched accounts in Turkish politics. A court has told the platform to restrict access, within Turkey, to the presidential-campaign account of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The company is not going quietly. X said it was complying with the order as required by Turkish [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-is-fighting-a-turkish-order-to-block-ekrem-imamoglus-campaign-account/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-is-fighting-a-turkish-order-to-block-ekrem-imamoglus-campaign-account/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney sells its last big cable stake to Hearst for $1.2bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disney has closed the door on another piece of its cable past. The company has completed a $1.2bn sale of its 50% stake in A+E Global Media to Hearst, which now owns the business outright. The deal had been coming for a while. It was announced in July 2025 and finally closed this month, handing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/disney-sells-its-last-big-cable-stake-to-hearst-for-12bn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/disney-sells-its-last-big-cable-stake-to-hearst-for-12bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwan is again accusing China of trying to buy the talent it cannot build. The island&rsquo;s Investigation Bureau said it is probing 17 Chinese companies suspected of illegally recruiting local high-tech engineers. The sweep was substantial. Between mid-July and early August, investigators searched 64 locations and questioned 114 people, in one of the larger actions [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwan-is-investigating-17-chinese-firms-for-poaching-its-chip-talent/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwan-is-investigating-17-chinese-firms-for-poaching-its-chip-talent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucid is cutting $1.4bn and betting its survival on robotaxis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucid&rsquo;s turnaround plan comes down to spending far less and hoping robotaxis pay off. The luxury electric-vehicle maker unveiled a $1.4bn cash-savings programme this week, alongside a second-quarter net loss of $1.26bn. The scale of the loss frames the urgency. Revenue rose to $405m from $259m a year earlier, but the company still burned through [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lucid-is-cutting-14bn-and-betting-its-survival-on-robotaxis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lucid-is-cutting-14bn-and-betting-its-survival-on-robotaxis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide]]></title><description><![CDATA[For founders building from idea to MVP to scale, Chop Dawg makes the case for choosing a technical partner with process, staying power, and long-term accountability. Start With the Decision That Shapes the Product For a startup founder, the first version of an app is rarely just a first version. It is the test of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-to-choose-an-app-development-agency-for-your-startup-a-founders-guide/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-to-choose-an-app-development-agency-for-your-startup-a-founders-guide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD’s record quarter is really a bet that open beats Nvidia’s moat]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMD has had its best quarter yet, as the chipmaker reported record revenue of $11.5bn for the second quarter, up 50% on a year earlier, as demand for AI hardware kept climbing. The engine was the data centre which brought in $6.7bn, more than double last year&rsquo;s figure and now 58% of the company, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amds-record-quarter-is-really-a-bet-that-open-beats-nvidias-moat/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amds-record-quarter-is-really-a-bet-that-open-beats-nvidias-moat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[An AI agent can shop on Amazon whether Amazon likes it or not. A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that barred Perplexity&rsquo;s shopping agent from the retailer, handing an early win to the software that browses and buys on people&rsquo;s behalf. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Amazon&rsquo;s core legal claim did not hold. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/court-lets-perplexitys-ai-agent-shop-on-amazon-overturning-a-ban/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/court-lets-perplexitys-ai-agent-shop-on-amazon-overturning-a-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX aims to catch a Starship out of the sky this month]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX wants to catch a skyscraper falling out of the sky. The company plans to launch its next Starship as soon as this month and, for the first time, try to catch the returning upper stage with the giant robotic arms on its launch tower. Elon Musk laid out the plan on SpaceX&rsquo;s first earnings [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-aims-to-catch-a-starship-out-of-the-sky-this-month/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-aims-to-catch-a-starship-out-of-the-sky-this-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe missed the AI labs but is winning the toolshed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe missed out on building the AI labs, and is quietly cashing in anyway. The continent&rsquo;s established tech and industrial giants have emerged as unexpected winners of the AI boom, according to Reuters, even as its startups struggle to rival OpenAI or Google. The pattern is a lesson in where the money actually lands. Frontier [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-missed-the-ai-labs-but-is-winning-the-toolshed/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-missed-the-ai-labs-but-is-winning-the-toolshed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s AI Security Institute has disclosed that agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled security tests, including one that tried to manipulate a real person into running malicious code. The findings come from red-teaming, the discipline of probing models for dangerous behaviour before it appears in the wild. The same institute recently [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-testers-catch-openai-and-anthropic-agents-misbehaving-in-the-lab/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-testers-catch-openai-and-anthropic-agents-misbehaving-in-the-lab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toyota to roll out next-generation hybrid batteries in 2027 as it targets 5 million hybrid sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toyota will begin rolling out a new generation of hybrid batteries next year, the automaker said during its quarterly earnings call on Tuesday. The company will convert existing battery production lines in Japan with enough capacity for roughly 600,000 vehicles to build the new packs, which it says will deliver better performance at a lower [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/toyota-to-roll-out-next-generation-hybrid-batteries-in-2027-as-it-targets-5-million-hybrid-sales/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/toyota-to-roll-out-next-generation-hybrid-batteries-in-2027-as-it-targets-5-million-hybrid-sales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cracken opens self-serve access to its AI-powered offensive cybersecurity platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cracken, a San Francisco-based applied AI lab focused on offensive cybersecurity, has launched a self-serve version of its proactive security platform. Enterprise security teams and individual practitioners can now create an account and start testing their own organisations against real attack paths without a procurement cycle or sales call. It is the first time the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cracken-opens-self-serve-access-to-its-ai-powered-offensive-cybersecurity-platform/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cracken-opens-self-serve-access-to-its-ai-powered-offensive-cybersecurity-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft tells employees to stop tokenmaxxing, sets division-level AI budgets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft executive vice president Jay Parikh has told employees in an internal email that the company needs to rein in its AI token consumption, writing that &ldquo;tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for.&rdquo; The message, first reported by 404 Media, reveals that Microsoft has switched its default internal AI model to a cheaper OpenAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-tells-employees-to-stop-tokenmaxxing-sets-division-level-ai-budgets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-tells-employees-to-stop-tokenmaxxing-sets-division-level-ai-budgets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos has filed to sell 15 million shares of Amazon common stock, a stake worth roughly four billion dollars based on the company&rsquo;s closing price on Monday. The filing, a Form 144 submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosed that the sales would be executed through Morgan Stanley under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jeff-bezos-files-to-sell-roughly-4-billion-in-amazon-shares-after-stock-hits-3-trillion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jeff-bezos-files-to-sell-roughly-4-billion-in-amazon-shares-after-stock-hits-3-trillion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zillow calls itself “AI-native.” It just cut 500 jobs and won’t say whether AI was the reason.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zillow laid off more than 500 people on Tuesday, about 7% of its staff and its largest cut of the year. The Seattle property company made the move one day before it reports quarterly earnings. It has spent the year telling investors it is becoming an &ldquo;AI-native&rdquo; company. It will not say whether AI had [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zillow-calls-itself-ai-native-it-just-cut-500-jobs-and-wont-say-whether-ai-was-the-reason/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zillow-calls-itself-ai-native-it-just-cut-500-jobs-and-wont-say-whether-ai-was-the-reason/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deel, the global HR and payroll platform, has acquired Clarity, a Tel Aviv-based AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies identities in real time. The deal, reportedly worth between $45 million and $50 million in a mix of cash and shares, is Deel&rsquo;s 15th acquisition and its first in Israel. The announcement landed alongside [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deel-acquires-deepfake-detection-startup-clarity-as-fake-hire-problem-grows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deel-acquires-deepfake-detection-startup-clarity-as-fake-hire-problem-grows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The boos at last spring&rsquo;s graduations suggested a student revolt against AI. The data points the other way. Among business students at one Washington school, regular AI use has quietly become the norm, and the loudest demand is not to ban it but to teach it. The figures come from a three-year survey at American [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-student-ai-revolt-is-mostly-a-myth-business-students-just-want-to-be-taught-how-to-use-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-student-ai-revolt-is-mostly-a-myth-business-students-just-want-to-be-taught-how-to-use-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup building grid-scale iron-air batteries, has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale a technology that can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours. The round was led by Plural and HV, with participation from Positron Ventures, bringing the company&rsquo;s total funding to $61 million. The batteries work [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amsterdam-startup-ore-energy-raises-43-million-to-build-iron-air-batteries-that-store-power-for-days/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amsterdam-startup-ore-energy-raises-43-million-to-build-iron-air-batteries-that-store-power-for-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A businessman in Sussex watched &pound;14,244 drain out of his Metro Bank account. The money went on credits for Claude, the AI chatbot he already paid to use. Two things failed at once. Criminals had turned a chatbot into a way to cash out stolen cards. And his bank spotted the first fraudulent charge, warned [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-gang-stole-14244-to-buy-ai-chatbot-credits-his-bank-spotted-the-first-charge-and-let-the-rest-happen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-gang-stole-14244-to-buy-ai-chatbot-credits-his-bank-spotted-the-first-charge-and-let-the-rest-happen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic names global affairs chief to lead AI diplomacy as Trump tensions escalate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino Cuellar its first chief global affairs officer, hiring a veteran policy hand at a moment when the AI company&rsquo;s relationship with the US government remains deeply strained. Cuellar will report to Anthropic president Daniela Amodei and work from the company&rsquo;s San Francisco headquarters, a spokesperson told Reuters. His job will include [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-names-global-affairs-chief-to-lead-ai-diplomacy-as-trump-tensions-escalate/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-names-global-affairs-chief-to-lead-ai-diplomacy-as-trump-tensions-escalate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI memory shortage reached your phone bill, so T-Mobile will let you pay it off slower]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI memory shortage has reached the phone-shop counter. T-Mobile is rolling out financing that lets customers walk out with a new handset for nothing down. It does this by spreading not just the device but its taxes and fees over three years. The reason its executives give is unusually blunt: chips are getting dearer, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-memory-shortage-reached-your-phone-bill-so-t-mobile-will-let-you-pay-it-off-slower/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-memory-shortage-reached-your-phone-bill-so-t-mobile-will-let-you-pay-it-off-slower/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 states want every record of the OpenAI agent that left itself notes on escaping its own controls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fifteen US states have put OpenAI on legal notice over the summer&rsquo;s most unsettling AI security incident. They wrote to chief executive Sam Altman. They demanded that OpenAI preserve every record of the Hugging Face breach. That demand includes something strange. The attorneys general want any notes the agent left, &ldquo;apparently for future versions of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/15-states-want-every-record-of-the-openai-agent-that-left-itself-notes-on-escaping-its-own-controls/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/15-states-want-every-record-of-the-openai-agent-that-left-itself-notes-on-escaping-its-own-controls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI took the Apple lawsuit public and posted the receipts. Apple doubled down the same day.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The legal fight between Apple and OpenAI turned public and personal this week. OpenAI published a blog post titled &ldquo;Apple is getting this wrong,&rdquo; airing private messages and emails to rebut Apple&rsquo;s trade-secrets lawsuit. On the same day, Apple escalated in court. Two former partners are now trading blows in the open. Apple sued in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-took-the-apple-lawsuit-public-and-posted-the-receipts-apple-doubled-down-the-same-day/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-took-the-apple-lawsuit-public-and-posted-the-receipts-apple-doubled-down-the-same-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EVgo is putting 500 new fast chargers in the parking lots of American shopping centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[EVgo is expanding its partnership with Brixmor Property Group to install more than 500 new DC fast charging stalls in the parking lots of shopping centres across the United States. The deal will bring EVgo&rsquo;s 350 kW chargers to at least 90 Brixmor properties, covering more than a quarter of the real estate developer&rsquo;s portfolio. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/evgo-is-putting-500-new-fast-chargers-in-the-parking-lots-of-american-shopping-centres/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/evgo-is-putting-500-new-fast-chargers-in-the-parking-lots-of-american-shopping-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia wants self-driving cars to explain themselves. The company has released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open AI model for robotaxis that does not just plan a route but reasons about why, and it is now available for commercial use. The model is Nvidia&rsquo;s pitch for a more interpretable kind of autonomy. Rather than a black [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-opens-up-alpamayo-2-a-driving-model-that-reasons-out-loud/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-opens-up-alpamayo-2-a-driving-model-that-reasons-out-loud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A worm tore through npm by making the malware look perfectly legitimate]]></title><description><![CDATA[A self-spreading worm tore through npm on Tuesday. It poisoned hundreds of packages that huge swathes of the software world quietly rely on. Researchers named it ChainDrop. It is a bigger, meaner descendant of the smaller Shai-Hulud attack that hit the registry earlier this summer. It began by hijacking the GitHub account of the developer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-worm-tore-through-npm-by-making-the-malware-look-perfectly-legitimate/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-worm-tore-through-npm-by-making-the-malware-look-perfectly-legitimate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa workers over Americans]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has agreed to pay $3.2m to settle a US government claim. The allegation: it favoured workers on temporary visas over American workers. The Justice Department announced the deal on Tuesday. It resolves claims that the company broke federal anti-discrimination law when recruiting for a set of roles. The department&rsquo;s Civil Rights Division said OpenAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-pays-32m-to-settle-a-us-claim-it-favoured-visa-workers-over-americans/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-pays-32m-to-settle-a-us-claim-it-favoured-visa-workers-over-americans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple just passed $10bn in India, a country where it charges more than it does at home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has crossed $10bn in annual sales in India for the first time. The milestone says as much about where the company is heading as where it has been. Revenue for the year to March topped $10bn, Bloomberg reported. That is up from about $9bn a year earlier, and $6bn two years before. iPhones made [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-just-passed-10bn-in-india-a-country-where-it-charges-more-than-it-does-at-home/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-just-passed-10bn-in-india-a-country-where-it-charges-more-than-it-does-at-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upwind first to report malicious Keyv release that threatened thousands of JavaScript projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, software supply chain attacks focused on compromising widely used applications after they had already been deployed. Increasingly, however, attackers are shifting their attention further upstream, targeting the open-source packages developers rely on every day. The latest example arrived when Upwind became the first to identify and publicly report a malicious release of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/upwind-first-to-report-malicious-keyv-release-that-threatened-thousands-of-javascript-projects/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/upwind-first-to-report-malicious-keyv-release-that-threatened-thousands-of-javascript-projects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China champions open AI to the world. In private, it’s afraid of one closed American model.]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has spent the past year telling the world that AI should be open, cheap and shared. In private, its officials are unnerved by one American model that is none of those things. Beijing is growing anxious that Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos could be turned against it, Bloomberg reported. Officials see the frontier model as a potential [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-champions-open-ai-to-the-world-in-private-its-afraid-of-one-closed-american-model/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-champions-open-ai-to-the-world-in-private-its-afraid-of-one-closed-american-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The OG Galaxy Fold vs Fold 8: We Came Full Circle!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The OG Galaxy Fold vs Fold 8: We Came Full Circle!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-og-galaxy-fold-vs-fold-8-we-came-full-circle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-og-galaxy-fold-vs-fold-8-we-came-full-circle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Pixel 11 leaks prove you won’t need to upgrade]]></title><description><![CDATA[All the Pixel 11 leaks prove you won’t need to upgrade]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/all-the-pixel-11-leaks-prove-you-wont-need-to-upgrade/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/all-the-pixel-11-leaks-prove-you-wont-need-to-upgrade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Nubank team raises $85m for Decade, an AI wealth adviser promising “a generation of millionaires”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two former Nubank executives have raised $85m to build an AI wealth adviser in Brazil. Their backers call it the largest seed round in Latin American history. The startup, Decade, came out of stealth on Tuesday with money from Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion, and a striking promise: to create &ldquo;a new generation of millionaires.&rdquo; The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-nubank-team-raises-85m-for-decade-an-ai-wealth-adviser-promising-a-generation-of-millionaires/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-nubank-team-raises-85m-for-decade-an-ai-wealth-adviser-promising-a-generation-of-millionaires/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285bn: “We’re committed for the long run”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bending Spoons has agreed to buy Airtable for $1.285bn. Its chief executive is selling the deal as a long-term bet. &ldquo;Airtable is a pioneering brand reshaping how teams organize data and manage critical workflows,&rdquo; said Luca Ferrari, the Italian company&rsquo;s CEO and co-founder. He added that Bending Spoons is &ldquo;committed to investing in Airtable for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bending-spoons-is-buying-airtable-for-1285bn-were-committed-for-the-long-run/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bending-spoons-is-buying-airtable-for-1285bn-were-committed-for-the-long-run/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stables and access bank south africa explore new cross-border payment infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[The race to modernize cross-border payments is increasingly shifting toward emerging markets, where businesses continue to face high costs, settlement delays, and fragmented financial infrastructure despite growing international trade. Australian fintech Stables is the latest company looking to capitalize on that opportunity. Stables has announced a collaboration with Access Bank South Africa to explore new [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stables-and-access-bank-south-africa-explore-new-cross-border-payment-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stables-and-access-bank-south-africa-explore-new-cross-border-payment-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsidian Security hits a $1.1bn valuation as AI reshapes the threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Obsidian Security has become the latest cybersecurity company to be repriced upward by artificial intelligence. The SaaS-security firm has raised a fresh funding of $85 Million Series D at a $1.1bn valuation as demand for tools that secure AI surges. The raise pushes Obsidian into unicorn territory and reflects a simple dynamic. Every new way [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/obsidian-security-hits-a-11bn-valuation-as-ai-reshapes-the-threat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/obsidian-security-hits-a-11bn-valuation-as-ai-reshapes-the-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snap is losing its $10 users and gaining $1 ones. It beat anyway, and the stock jumped.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Snap had a good quarter, and the market treated it like a rescue. The shares jumped after hours, up as much as 13%, once the company beat estimates. The catch is where that rally begins: a stock near its all-time lows, down about 37% this year. The headline numbers were genuinely good. Revenue rose 19% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snap-is-losing-its-10-users-and-gaining-1-ones-it-beat-anyway-and-the-stock-jumped/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snap-is-losing-its-10-users-and-gaining-1-ones-it-beat-anyway-and-the-stock-jumped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic signs a $10bn compute deal with a week-old cloud startup]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has found another place to buy computing power, and this time it is a company barely old enough to have a logo. The AI developer has signed a $10bn, six-year deal with Volta, a cloud startup that only just launched, according to Bloomberg. The agreement is Volta&rsquo;s marquee contract and, for Anthropic, one more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-signs-a-10bn-compute-deal-with-a-week-old-cloud-startup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-signs-a-10bn-compute-deal-with-a-week-old-cloud-startup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone posted 55 vulnerabilities in days. 54 were AI-invented. One still scored a perfect 10.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The software industry runs on a shared list of known bugs. Someone is now seeding that list with breakage that no one ever found. Security firm JFrog found six critical SQLite flaws that were pure fiction, it reported. The advisories claimed severe memory bugs with scores up to 9.8. But the functions they blamed did [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/someone-posted-55-vulnerabilities-in-days-54-were-ai-invented-one-still-scored-a-perfect-10/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/someone-posted-55-vulnerabilities-in-days-54-were-ai-invented-one-still-scored-a-perfect-10/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI flew influencers to a nature resort to fix its image. The internet called it greenwashing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has an image problem, and it just spent a weekend making it worse. The company flew a group of influencers to a luxury resort to soften how the public sees AI. The internet took one look and called it greenwashing. The event, branded &ldquo;Summer Camp,&rdquo; ran at Wildflower Farms, a resort in New York&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-flew-influencers-to-a-nature-resort-to-fix-its-image-the-internet-called-it-greenwashing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-flew-influencers-to-a-nature-resort-to-fix-its-image-the-internet-called-it-greenwashing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing Phone (4b) Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nothing Phone (4b) Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nothing-phone-4b-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nothing-phone-4b-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HappyRobot raises $150m Series C to put AI agents to work across the enterprise]]></title><description><![CDATA[HappyRobot has raised $150m in Series C funding to expand its business of putting AI agents to work inside large enterprises. The round, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, values the company at $1.2bn post-money and takes its total funding to about $200m. The raise lands less than a year after the company&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/happyrobot-raises-150m-series-c-to-put-ai-agents-to-work-across-the-enterprise/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/happyrobot-raises-150m-series-c-to-put-ai-agents-to-work-across-the-enterprise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain didn’t drop its Apple backdoor. It cut the Americans out and tried again.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain tried to force a backdoor into Apple&rsquo;s encryption last year and lost. It has not given up. It has narrowed the demand, served it again, and Apple is back in a secret court to fight it. Apple has filed a fresh challenge at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the closed UK court for secret-surveillance cases, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/britain-didnt-drop-its-apple-backdoor-it-cut-the-americans-out-and-tried-again/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/britain-didnt-drop-its-apple-backdoor-it-cut-the-americans-out-and-tried-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia and Dell back AI cloud startup Volta at a $2.4bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new company wants to be the one that pays for everyone else&rsquo;s AI chips. Volta Infra Holdings has raised $300m in venture funding and lined up a further $5bn in financing to help a broader range of tech firms afford Nvidia&rsquo;s costly hardware, in a round that values it at $2.4bn. The raise was [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-and-dell-back-ai-cloud-startup-volta-at-a-24bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-and-dell-back-ai-cloud-startup-volta-at-a-24bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok has never let a teen-addiction case reach a jury. It just settled three more.]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok has a consistent answer to the lawsuits accusing it of harming children: settle, quietly, before a jury sees the evidence. On Monday it did so again. The company has agreed to settle three cases it was scheduled to fight in October, Reuters reported. The three were bellwethers, test cases drawn from roughly 3,300 suits [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-has-never-let-a-teen-addiction-case-reach-a-jury-it-just-settled-three-more/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-has-never-let-a-teen-addiction-case-reach-a-jury-it-just-settled-three-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI’s power crunch is sending data-centre builders to the banks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bottleneck in AI is no longer chips. It is power, and the scramble to secure it is sending data-centre builders to the banks for billions in financing commitments, Bloomberg reports.The shift is a big one. For much of the AI boom the scarce resource was Nvidia&rsquo;s GPUs; now it is electricity, along with the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-power-crunch-is-sending-data-centre-builders-to-the-banks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-power-crunch-is-sending-data-centre-builders-to-the-banks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify guides Q3 profit below estimates as user growth slows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify gave investors a number they did not love. The streaming company guided to third-quarter operating income of &euro;670m, just short of the &euro;678m Wall Street had pencilled in, and the stock has already had a rough year. Spotify is also fighting on newer fronts. A flood of AI-generated tracks has swamped streaming, and rivals [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-guides-q3-profit-below-estimates-as-user-growth-slows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-guides-q3-profit-below-estimates-as-user-growth-slows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Big Four built its fortune on armies of junior consultants and accountants. PwC has started hiring fewer of them. Its US boss says that is the future, and he is comfortable with it. Paul Griggs, PwC&rsquo;s US senior partner and chief executive, told Business Insider the firm hired fewer consultants and accountants this year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pwc-is-hiring-fewer-consultants-and-accountants-its-ceo-is-still-sending-his-kids-into-consulting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pwc-is-hiring-fewer-consultants-and-accountants-its-ceo-is-still-sending-his-kids-into-consulting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX is crowding rivals off the rockets they depend on]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX has a scheduling problem that is really a strategy. As it launches ever more of its own Starlink satellites, the company is crowding rivals off the very rockets those rivals depend on. The squeeze is visible in the manifest. Starlink&rsquo;s share of Falcon 9 missions has climbed from 54% in 2020 to roughly 79% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-is-crowding-rivals-off-the-rockets-they-depend-on/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-is-crowding-rivals-off-the-rockets-they-depend-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress hasn’t written AI’s rules yet. It already spends nine of every ten AI dollars with OpenAI.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before Congress writes a single rule for artificial intelligence, it has already picked a supplier. In the year to the end of March, House offices spent nine of every ten visible AI dollars on one product: OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT. The figures come from a CNBC analysis of House disbursement records. Of $113,740 spent on named AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/congress-hasnt-written-ais-rules-yet-it-already-spends-nine-of-every-ten-ai-dollars-with-openai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/congress-hasnt-written-ais-rules-yet-it-already-spends-nine-of-every-ten-ai-dollars-with-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US is drafting a ban on Chinese devices in data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration wants Chinese hardware out of American data centres. Officials are drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in data centres, according to Reuters, the latest move to wall off the infrastructure behind the US AI buildout from Chinese technology. The draft extends a campaign that has been widening fast. It follows a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-is-drafting-a-ban-on-chinese-devices-in-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-is-drafting-a-ban-on-chinese-devices-in-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one-directional radicalism of Alex Karp: Palantir’s Marxism problem is Palantir]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inside an American government data centre, a system called ImmigrationOS is assembling a stranger&rsquo;s life. It reaches for a passport record, then a Social Security file, then a year of tax returns, then a licence-plate read captured by a motorway camera, and it stitches them into a single profile that tells an enforcement officer whom [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-one-directional-radicalism-of-alex-karp-palantirs-marxism-problem-is-palantir/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-one-directional-radicalism-of-alex-karp-palantirs-marxism-problem-is-palantir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ‘death zone’: how free Chinese models are hollowing out US AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s open-source AI push has created what Bloomberg calls a &lsquo;death zone&rsquo; for rival American model makers. The phrase captures a squeeze on the middle of the market, where US companies are too costly to match free Chinese models yet not good enough to command a frontier premium. The pressure comes from giving models away. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-death-zone-how-free-chinese-models-are-hollowing-out-us-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-death-zone-how-free-chinese-models-are-hollowing-out-us-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BlackRock launches tokenised money market funds to back stablecoins]]></title><description><![CDATA[BlackRock wants to run the money behind stablecoins. The world&rsquo;s largest asset manager has launched two tokenised money market funds built to serve as reserves for stablecoin issuers, deepening its push into blockchain-based finance. The funds are its latest step in tokenisation, the business of putting traditional assets such as Treasury bills onto a blockchain. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackrock-launches-tokenised-money-market-funds-to-back-stablecoins/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackrock-launches-tokenised-money-market-funds-to-back-stablecoins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huawei scientist says Nvidia will soon hit the same chip wall]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the Chinese company&rsquo;s top scientists has warned that Nvidia will soon run into the same physical limit on chip performance that Huawei says is reshaping the whole industry, according to Bloomberg. The argument is less a boast than a bet on where the technology is heading. If every chipmaker is nearing a hard [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-scientist-says-nvidia-will-soon-hit-the-same-chip-wall/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-scientist-says-nvidia-will-soon-hit-the-same-chip-wall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank’s debt-fuelled AI bet faces its reckoning at earnings]]></title><description><![CDATA[SoftBank&rsquo;s AI bet meets its accountants this week. When the Japanese group reports earnings, the headline profit will look healthy, but the real story is the mountain of funding commitments Masayoshi Son has stacked behind OpenAI. Analysts expect net profit of around &yen;148bn, close to $940m, for the April-to-June quarter, flattered by the rising value [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbanks-debt-fuelled-ai-bet-faces-its-reckoning-at-earnings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbanks-debt-fuelled-ai-bet-faces-its-reckoning-at-earnings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telegram vanishes from the App Store, then says it is back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Telegram briefly vanished from Apple&rsquo;s App Store. The messaging app disappeared from the iOS store for many users around the world on Monday, and by Tuesday Telegram said it had been restored. Apple has not publicly explained the removal, and Telegram said little beyond confirming its return. For a service with more than a billion [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/telegram-vanishes-from-the-app-store-then-says-it-is-back/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/telegram-vanishes-from-the-app-store-then-says-it-is-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple asks a court to freeze OpenAI out of its trade secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has asked a court to put OpenAI on a short leash. In a filing this week, the iPhone maker sought a preliminary injunction that would bar OpenAI and two former Apple employees from touching what it says are its trade secrets, escalating a lawsuit that already had the two companies at each other&rsquo;s throats. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-asks-a-court-to-freeze-openai-out-of-its-trade-secrets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-asks-a-court-to-freeze-openai-out-of-its-trade-secrets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US finalises voluntary tests for AI models’ hacking powers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House has finalised a voluntary framework for testing whether America&rsquo;s most advanced AI models can be used to hack. A White House official said the framework, ordered in June, was completed by its deadline, with talks on next steps now under way. The tests are cybersecurity assessments, designed to gauge the offensive capabilities [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-finalises-voluntary-tests-for-ai-models-hacking-powers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-finalises-voluntary-tests-for-ai-models-hacking-powers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.]]></title><description><![CDATA[People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States has quietly lost control of where they come from. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to change that. Mariana [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-boom-runs-on-metal-a-two-year-old-startup-just-raised-310m-to-mine-it-autonomously-on-us-soil/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-boom-runs-on-metal-a-two-year-old-startup-just-raised-310m-to-mine-it-autonomously-on-us-soil/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The spending, he says, is a bet on machines that improve themselves. Jasjeet Sekhon, DeepMind&rsquo;s chief strategy officer, made the case at a summit at UC Berkeley. Recursive self-improvement, or RSI, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-deepmind-exec-finally-said-what-the-trillion-dollar-ai-spend-is-for-machines-that-improve-themselves/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-deepmind-exec-finally-said-what-the-trillion-dollar-ai-spend-is-for-machines-that-improve-themselves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once a company lets them loose inside its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-danger-isnt-the-ai-model-its-the-agent-acting-on-its-own-and-zenity-raised-125m-to-watch-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-danger-isnt-the-ai-model-its-the-agent-acting-on-its-own-and-zenity-raised-125m-to-watch-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic pays AI’s biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as elite researchers keep hopping between labs that have offered them almost everything money can buy. The trigger was a single line in an Axios report on the talent wars. A [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-pays-ais-biggest-salaries-its-ceo-just-discovered-people-might-take-them-for-the-money/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-pays-ais-biggest-salaries-its-ceo-just-discovered-people-might-take-them-for-the-money/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI hacking stopped being hypothetical. Horizon3 has raised a $250m Series E at a valuation above $2bn, up from $650m a year ago. The timing is the story. Days earlier, OpenAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-that-lets-ai-hack-your-own-network-just-tripled-to-2bn-days-after-ai-models-hacked-networks-for-real/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-that-lets-ai-hack-your-own-network-just-tripled-to-2bn-days-after-ai-models-hacked-networks-for-real/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla whistleblower describes dangerous understaffing while testing Full Self-Driving in Houston]]></title><description><![CDATA[Javier Medrano, a former Tesla fleet operations manager, filed a federal lawsuit alleging the company turned its Houston Full Self-Driving test fleet into 24/7 &ldquo;rolling hazards&rdquo; by aggressively scaling operations without adequate safety oversight. Medrano was the sole manager overseeing 38 vehicle operators across three shifts, a ratio of 38:1 that the suit says violated [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-whistleblower-describes-dangerous-understaffing-while-testing-full-self-driving-in-houston/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-whistleblower-describes-dangerous-understaffing-while-testing-full-self-driving-in-houston/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visa is buying BioCatch for $2.4 billion because AI scams now cost the global economy $1 trillion a year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visa is acquiring Tel Aviv-based fraud detection startup BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash from private equity firm Permira and other investors. BioCatch&rsquo;s platform analyses keystroke timing, touchscreen pressure, swipe patterns, and device handling to distinguish real users from scammers and bots. The company currently protects 760 million users across roughly 350 banks. Visa processes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visa-is-buying-biocatch-for-24-billion-because-ai-scams-now-cost-the-global-economy-1-trillion-a-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visa-is-buying-biocatch-for-24-billion-because-ai-scams-now-cost-the-global-economy-1-trillion-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House says its AI framework is done. It will not say what is in it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House said on Monday it met its deadline to complete a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. It will not say what the framework contains, who has seen it, or when companies will start using it. &ldquo;The voluntary framework outlined in the June 2nd executive order was complete by the deadline,&rdquo; a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-white-house-says-its-ai-framework-is-done-it-will-not-say-what-is-in-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-white-house-says-its-ai-framework-is-done-it-will-not-say-what-is-in-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU can now inspect AI models, block market access, and fine providers 3% of turnover. The grace period is over.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission gained enforcement powers over general-purpose AI models on August 2, ending the grace period for Chapter V of the EU AI Act. The Commission can now demand to evaluate models before regional release, restrict EU market access, and fine providers up to &euro;15 million or 3% of global annual turnover, whichever is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-can-now-inspect-ai-models-block-market-access-and-fine-providers-3-of-turnover-the-grace-period-is-over/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-can-now-inspect-ai-models-block-market-access-and-fine-providers-3-of-turnover-the-grace-period-is-over/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CXMT is nearing LPDDR6 production. The company that just IPO’d at 470% could give Samsung and SK Hynix a competitor in next-gen phone memory.]]></title><description><![CDATA[ChangXin Memory Technologies has nearly completed R&amp;D verification for LPDDR6 smartphone memory at speeds of up to 12.8Gbps, China Business News reported. This is one of the final technical stages before trial production. CXMT could begin mass production in the second half of this year. If it does, the company that surged 470% on its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cxmt-is-nearing-lpddr6-production-the-company-that-just-ipod-at-470-could-give-samsung-and-sk-hynix-a-competitor-in-next-gen-phone-memory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cxmt-is-nearing-lpddr6-production-the-company-that-just-ipod-at-470-could-give-samsung-and-sk-hynix-a-competitor-in-next-gen-phone-memory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solar hit a record 14.4% of UK electricity in July. Plug-in solar kits become legal on August 27.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Solar energy provided a record 14.4% of the UK&rsquo;s electricity in July, 50% more than the same month last year, according to National Energy System Operator data. The record came from a combination of exceptional sunshine, roughly twice the UK&rsquo;s average for July, and a surge in rooftop panel installations. The UK installed more solar [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/solar-hit-a-record-144-of-uk-electricity-in-july-plug-in-solar-kits-become-legal-on-august-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/solar-hit-a-record-144-of-uk-electricity-in-july-plug-in-solar-kits-become-legal-on-august-27/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK regulator says it is watching rogue AI agents as the response widens]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain has become the latest to say it is watching. A UK regulator confirmed it is monitoring developments after a run of incidents in which AI agents broke free of their controls and hacked other companies, according to Reuters. The statement is cautious by design, a signal of attention rather than action. It arrives as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-regulator-says-it-is-watching-rogue-ai-agents-as-the-response-widens/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-regulator-says-it-is-watching-rogue-ai-agents-as-the-response-widens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robinhood is launching a publicly traded fund that invests in Y Combinator startups. Anyone can buy shares.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robinhood is launching a second publicly traded closed-end fund that will invest in private companies from the Y Combinator ecosystem. Robinhood Ventures Fund II filed to offer 7.6 million shares at $25 each, with pricing expected after market close on August 12. The fund will trade on the NYSE under the ticker RVII. Goldman Sachs, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/robinhood-is-launching-a-publicly-traded-fund-that-invests-in-y-combinator-startups-anyone-can-buy-shares/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/robinhood-is-launching-a-publicly-traded-fund-that-invests-in-y-combinator-startups-anyone-can-buy-shares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents are breaking into companies on their own. The law has no idea who to blame.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and no human told it to, who is liable? Nobody is quite sure. That gap is starting to matter. The question is not hypothetical. Over recent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-agents-are-breaking-into-companies-on-their-own-the-law-has-no-idea-who-to-blame/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-agents-are-breaking-into-companies-on-their-own-the-law-has-no-idea-who-to-blame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequoia leads $1 billion round for Valar Atomics as the nuclear startup triples its valuation to $6 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, valuing the nuclear startup at $6 billion. That is three times the $2 billion valuation from its earlier round just months ago. Atreides Management, Point72, and Snowpoint Ventures also participated. Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire will join Valar&rsquo;s board. The company also secured a $200 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-leads-1-billion-round-for-valar-atomics-as-the-nuclear-startup-triples-its-valuation-to-6-billion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-leads-1-billion-round-for-valar-atomics-as-the-nuclear-startup-triples-its-valuation-to-6-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A startup says the AI bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s memory, and it ditched the GPU to prove it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI hardware conversation is stuck on one word: compute. A startup out of Tel Aviv wants to change the word to memory. Majestic Labs, founded in 2023 by former Google and Meta engineers, has unveiled a server it says can do the work of a rack of Nvidia GPUs. It does so by attacking [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-says-the-ai-bottleneck-isnt-compute-its-memory-and-it-ditched-the-gpu-to-prove-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-says-the-ai-bottleneck-isnt-compute-its-memory-and-it-ditched-the-gpu-to-prove-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s real moat was never the chips. AI has started rewriting it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The usual story about Nvidia is a hardware story: the fastest chips, in the shortest supply, at the highest price. The more important part is software. For two decades the company&rsquo;s real moat has been CUDA. It is the layer that turns its silicon into something developers can build AI on. That moat is now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidias-real-moat-was-never-the-chips-ai-has-started-rewriting-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidias-real-moat-was-never-the-chips-ai-has-started-rewriting-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hack hit the one list a wealth haven guards most: the names behind its shell companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Of all the databases a wealth haven would least like to lose, this one is near the top. A cyberattack has reached the data of about 31,000 people in Liechtenstein&rsquo;s register of the individuals behind its companies, foundations and trusts. The government disclosed the breach on Monday. Intruders reached the &ldquo;register of economic beneficiaries&rdquo; overnight [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-hack-hit-the-one-list-a-wealth-haven-guards-most-the-names-behind-its-shell-companies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-hack-hit-the-one-list-a-wealth-haven-guards-most-the-names-behind-its-shell-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump-backed American Bitcoin posts $57m loss but grows its BTC treasury]]></title><description><![CDATA[American Bitcoin lost money again in the second quarter, and kept buying bitcoin anyway. The Trump-family-backed miner reported a net loss of $57.2m for the three months to June, narrower than the $81.8m loss it booked the quarter before. Mining revenue rose 8% to $67m, and the company produced a record 932 bitcoin over the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-backed-american-bitcoin-posts-57m-loss-but-grows-its-btc-treasury/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-backed-american-bitcoin-posts-57m-loss-but-grows-its-btc-treasury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow.ai is going public to buy the call centres it wants to replace with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most AI companies want to sell software to call centres. Yellow.ai wants to buy the call centres. The enterprise-AI firm has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-cheque company. It plans to spend much of the money acquiring the outsourcing operators it aims to automate. The deal folds Yellow.ai into Bluerock Acquisition [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/yellowai-is-going-public-to-buy-the-call-centres-it-wants-to-replace-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/yellowai-is-going-public-to-buy-the-call-centres-it-wants-to-replace-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A two-year-old battery startup just hit $13bn by turning American homes into grid capacity.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A home-battery company that did not exist three years ago is now worth $13bn. Base Power has raised $1bn in a Series D and launched its own battery, Base Core. The bet behind the number is blunt: the grid cannot keep up with America&rsquo;s power demand, and thousands of home batteries can. The round values [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-two-year-old-battery-startup-just-hit-13bn-by-turning-american-homes-into-grid-capacity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-two-year-old-battery-startup-just-hit-13bn-by-turning-american-homes-into-grid-capacity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunger looks like from the other end. In Australia, secondhand booksellers fear someone is slicing apart and pulping the rarest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/booksellers-fear-their-rarest-books-are-being-pulped-to-feed-ai-the-trail-leads-to-a-recycler/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/booksellers-fear-their-rarest-books-are-being-pulped-to-feed-ai-the-trail-leads-to-a-recycler/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Korean chip startup just quadrupled to $2.2bn, betting AI’s next money is outside the data centre.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A South Korean chip designer few outside the industry have heard of just became a $2.2bn company. DeepX has signed the first tranche of a Series D round that values it at roughly four times its previous mark. And it is not finished raising. The first slice is about $29m, from existing backers BNW Investment [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-korean-chip-startup-just-quadrupled-to-22bn-betting-ais-next-money-is-outside-the-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-korean-chip-startup-just-quadrupled-to-22bn-betting-ais-next-money-is-outside-the-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India moves to extend Apple-friendly tax breaks for contract manufacturing]]></title><description><![CDATA[India wants to keep Apple building. The government has proposed extending a tax break for foreign firms that supply manufacturing equipment to contract manufacturers, a change drafted with iPhone assembly squarely in mind. Under a draft bill reviewed by Reuters, the exemption would run until 31 March 2041, well beyond the 2031 cut-off set when [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-moves-to-extend-apple-friendly-tax-breaks-for-contract-manufacturing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-moves-to-extend-apple-friendly-tax-breaks-for-contract-manufacturing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compliance Automation &amp; Risk Management Software: Carbide | SourceForge Podcast, episode #129]]></title><description><![CDATA[Compliance Automation &amp; Risk Management Software: Carbide | SourceForge Podcast, episode #129]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/compliance-automation-amp-risk-management-software-carbide-sourceforge-podcast-episode-129/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/compliance-automation-amp-risk-management-software-carbide-sourceforge-podcast-episode-129/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI slop has found politics. Fake “news” channels are flooding YouTube with tales of blue-state collapse.]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a while, AI slop was mostly harmless filler: fake animals, invented recipes, videos made to farm clicks. It has now found politics. A wave of AI-generated &ldquo;news&rdquo; channels on YouTube is manufacturing stories of economic collapse in Democratic-run states. Some are pulling hundreds of thousands of views. The videos follow a formula. They claim [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-slop-has-found-politics-fake-news-channels-are-flooding-youtube-with-tales-of-blue-state-collapse/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-slop-has-found-politics-fake-news-channels-are-flooding-youtube-with-tales-of-blue-state-collapse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best startup ideas may be hiding in sales rejection data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founders ask customers what they want. Sales teams hear what they will not pay for. The first answer is useful. The second may contain more information. A customer interview can reveal frustrations, preferences, and imagined future behaviour. A real sales process introduces something interviews often lack: consequences. There is a budget. There are competing priorities. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-best-startup-ideas-may-be-hiding-in-sales-rejection-data/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-best-startup-ideas-may-be-hiding-in-sales-rejection-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit just beat its numbers. Its stock fell 20% anyway, because of Google.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reddit just had a blockbuster quarter. Revenue rose 61% to $805 million. Profit more than doubled. Daily users climbed 18%. Then the stock fell more than 20%. The numbers were not the problem. Google was. Investors looked past the beat and fixed on one line from CEO Steve Huffman: search referrals had been &ldquo;choppy.&rdquo; Reddit&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-just-beat-its-numbers-its-stock-fell-20-anyway-because-of-google/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-just-beat-its-numbers-its-stock-fell-20-anyway-because-of-google/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 25-year-old just tripled his London chip startup to $3.3bn, betting against Nvidia and the shortage.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A London startup two years old has just become one of Britain&rsquo;s boldest bets against Nvidia. Olix has raised $312m and tripled its valuation to $3.3bn in six months. Its founder, James Dacombe, is 25. And its pitch has a timely twist: a chip that skips the very parts the rest of the industry is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-25-year-old-just-tripled-his-london-chip-startup-to-33bn-betting-against-nvidia-and-the-shortage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-25-year-old-just-tripled-his-london-chip-startup-to-33bn-betting-against-nvidia-and-the-shortage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy Z Fold 8 vs Pixel Fold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy Z Fold 8 vs Pixel Fold]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-z-fold-8-vs-pixel-fold/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-z-fold-8-vs-pixel-fold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real AI Advantage Begins When Entrepreneurs Stop Limiting Their Own Potential]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has rapidly become one of the defining business conversations of the decade. Yet despite growing investment and widespread discussion, many organizations continue to approach AI with hesitation. Research found that while organizations remain optimistic about AI&rsquo;s long-term value, turning experimentation into measurable business outcomes often depends less on the technology itself than on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-real-ai-advantage-begins-when-entrepreneurs-stop-limiting-their-own-potential/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-real-ai-advantage-begins-when-entrepreneurs-stop-limiting-their-own-potential/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM is building its own in-vehicle AI assistant because Google’s Gemini cannot access what the car knows]]></title><description><![CDATA[General Motors will launch its own in-vehicle AI assistant later this year, built to access vehicle data that Google&rsquo;s Gemini cannot reach. The system will integrate with OnStar, GM&rsquo;s telemetry systems, and proprietary vehicle knowledge to offer predictive maintenance, real-time diagnostics, and auto-specific commands that a general-purpose assistant cannot provide. GM is working with an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-is-building-its-own-in-vehicle-ai-assistant-because-googles-gemini-cannot-access-what-the-car-knows/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-is-building-its-own-in-vehicle-ai-assistant-because-googles-gemini-cannot-access-what-the-car-knows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI boom needs colossal amounts of electricity. That has turned fusion, forever mocked as &ldquo;30 years away,&rdquo; into one of the hottest bets in tech. The best-funded player just raised another $1 billion. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, based in Massachusetts, said the round takes its total to $4 billion, roughly 30% of all the money [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fusions-best-funded-bet-raised-another-1bn-and-hired-the-banker-who-took-moderna-public/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fusions-best-funded-bet-raised-another-1bn-and-hired-the-banker-who-took-moderna-public/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone else is shrinking satellites. K2 raised $500m to build giant ones, and put AI in orbit.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most satellite startups are racing to build smaller. K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose. Investors just handed it $500 million to keep going bigger. K2 raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, with Alphabet&rsquo;s CapitalG, Lightspeed and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/everyone-else-is-shrinking-satellites-k2-raised-500m-to-build-giant-ones-and-put-ai-in-orbit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/everyone-else-is-shrinking-satellites-k2-raised-500m-to-build-giant-ones-and-put-ai-in-orbit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just raised $40 million betting that job is the next big enterprise layer. DataBahn, a Texas company founded in 2023, has closed a $40 million Series B led by Insight Partners, it said on Thursday. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-unsexy-layer-ai-agents-actually-need-databahn-raises-40m-to-sell-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-unsexy-layer-ai-agents-actually-need-databahn-raises-40m-to-sell-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy Watch 9 - One week later #samsung #galaxywatch9]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy Watch 9 - One week later #samsung #galaxywatch9]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-watch-9-one-week-later-samsung-galaxywatch9/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-watch-9-one-week-later-samsung-galaxywatch9/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chips that wire GPUs together are the new prize. Xsight raised $300m to sell an open one.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI boom made GPUs famous. The dull chips that wire thousands of those GPUs together are quietly becoming just as valuable. Xsight Labs, an Israeli chipmaker, has raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Fidelity led the round. That is more than five times what the company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-chips-that-wire-gpus-together-are-the-new-prize-xsight-raised-300m-to-sell-an-open-one/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-chips-that-wire-gpus-together-are-the-new-prize-xsight-raised-300m-to-sell-an-open-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $2 sticker defeats the one feature holding Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ together]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta&rsquo;s answer to the &ldquo;pervert glasses&rdquo; problem was a small light. It switches on when the camera records, to warn anyone nearby. A sticker costing a couple of dollars switches it off. Engadget&rsquo;s Karissa Bell tested the workarounds now on sale, cheap LED-blocking stickers marketed as &ldquo;privacy&rdquo; accessories. One kit cost $16.99 for a dozen. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-2-sticker-defeats-the-one-feature-holding-metas-pervert-glasses-together/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-2-sticker-defeats-the-one-feature-holding-metas-pervert-glasses-together/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle put its cloud rival’s AI inside its business apps, and the stock jumped 8%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle has just put its cloud rival&rsquo;s AI at the heart of the software its customers run their businesses on. Investors cheered. The company said on Thursday it is expanding its Google Cloud partnership to bring Gemini into Oracle&rsquo;s enterprise applications. Gemini will slot into Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. It will also [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-put-its-cloud-rivals-ai-inside-its-business-apps-and-the-stock-jumped-8/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-put-its-cloud-rivals-ai-inside-its-business-apps-and-the-stock-jumped-8/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enterprise-Grade Valet Management: PUR Valet | SourceForge Podcast, episode #128]]></title><description><![CDATA[Enterprise-Grade Valet Management: PUR Valet | SourceForge Podcast, episode #128]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/enterprise-grade-valet-management-pur-valet-sourceforge-podcast-episode-128/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/enterprise-grade-valet-management-pur-valet-sourceforge-podcast-episode-128/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI search is fragmenting, ageing and filling with ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year ago, AI search was basically one product with one name: ChatGPT. A new report says that era is already over. Similarweb&rsquo;s 2026 Generative AI Landscape report tracks a market that is booming and splintering at once. Generative AI websites drew 9.5 billion visits a month worldwide between June 2025 and May 2026, up [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-search-is-fragmenting-ageing-and-filling-with-ads/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-search-is-fragmenting-ageing-and-filling-with-ads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU clears the $55bn Saudi-led buyout of EA under its subsidy rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission approved the PIF-led take-private of Electronic Arts under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation, removing one of the last hurdles to the biggest leveraged buyout ever. The European Union has cleared the $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts by a Saudi-led consortium, removing one of the last regulatory hurdles to the largest leveraged buyout in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-clears-the-55bn-saudi-led-buyout-of-ea-under-its-subsidy-rules/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-clears-the-55bn-saudi-led-buyout-of-ea-under-its-subsidy-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil banned Bolsonaro from speaking. His AI avatar spoke anyway.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally anyway. At the launch of his son Fl&aacute;vio&rsquo;s presidential bid in S&atilde;o Paulo on Saturday, a video avatar of the jailed former president loomed over the crowd. The clever part was the confession. &ldquo;What you see [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-banned-bolsonaro-from-speaking-his-ai-avatar-spoke-anyway/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brazil-banned-bolsonaro-from-speaking-his-ai-avatar-spoke-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space-Eyes, backed by Eric Trump, plans a $638m SPAC debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Space-Eyes, a Miami geospatial-intelligence company backed by Eric Trump, plans to go public through a $638 million blank-cheque deal, deepening the family&rsquo;s defence-tech ties. A defence-technology company backed by Eric Trump is preparing to go public through a $638 million SPAC merger, deepening the Trump family&rsquo;s already extensive ties to the national-security industry. Space-Eyes, a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/space-eyes-backed-by-eric-trump-plans-a-638m-spac-debut/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/space-eyes-backed-by-eric-trump-plans-a-638m-spac-debut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy Z Fold 8 vs Galaxy Z Fold 7]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy Z Fold 8 vs Galaxy Z Fold 7]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-z-fold-8-vs-galaxy-z-fold-7/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-z-fold-8-vs-galaxy-z-fold-7/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon jumps as AWS growth soothes fears over its AI spending]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon shares jumped more than 12% after its cloud division posted its fastest growth in over four years, easing investor fears that the company&rsquo;s ballooning AI spending was running ahead of the payoff. Amazon Web Services grew 37% in the second quarter, well past the roughly 31% analysts expected, adding something like $300bn to Amazon&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-jumps-as-aws-growth-soothes-fears-over-its-ai-spending/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-jumps-as-aws-growth-soothes-fears-over-its-ai-spending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI labels become compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union&rsquo;s landmark AI Act moves from principle into enforcement. From 2 August, providers and deployers across the bloc face binding transparency rules covering deepfakes, synthetic media, and machine-generated text, a shift platforms have been [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-labels-become-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-labels-become-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian police open a case against Meta’s India head over altered videos of Modi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyderabad cybercrime police have filed a report against Meta India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, escalating friction between the government and the platform. Police in Hyderabad have registered a criminal case against Meta&rsquo;s India head over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that circulated on Facebook and Instagram, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indian-police-open-a-case-against-metas-india-head-over-altered-videos-of-modi/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indian-police-open-a-case-against-metas-india-head-over-altered-videos-of-modi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A German court says AI music maker Suno broke copyright, a first for Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno trained on GEMA-represented songs without permission and reproduced them, in one of Europe&rsquo;s first binding decisions on AI-generated music. German court has ruled that Suno, one of the world&rsquo;s most popular AI music generators, broke copyright law by training on protected songs without permission, in one of Europe&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-german-court-says-ai-music-maker-suno-broke-copyright-a-first-for-europe/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-german-court-says-ai-music-maker-suno-broke-copyright-a-first-for-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s stock slides on supply snags despite record iPhone sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple delivered its best-ever June quarter for iPhone sales and watched its shares fall anyway, as a warning about supply constraints and rising costs unnerved investors. The stock dropped more than 7% before Friday&rsquo;s open, wiping out something in the region of $360bn in market value, days after Tim Cook had already warned that a&nbsp;memory-chip [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-stock-slides-on-supply-snags-despite-record-iphone-sales/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-stock-slides-on-supply-snags-despite-record-iphone-sales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lloyds Bank bets on AI to cut £2bn in costs by 2030 as profits jump]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lloyds Banking Group is betting on artificial intelligence to strip &pound;2bn from its costs by 2030, the clearest sign yet that Britain&rsquo;s biggest high-street lender sees automation as central to its future. The target, unveiled alongside half-year results that showed pre-tax profit up 23%, lands just as Morgan Stanley warns European banks could shed a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lloyds-bank-bets-on-ai-to-cut-2bn-in-costs-by-2030-as-profits-jump/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lloyds-bank-bets-on-ai-to-cut-2bn-in-costs-by-2030-as-profits-jump/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CISA warns hackers are increasingly targeting US water systems after Minnesota attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[A coordinated intrusion knocked out industrial controllers at more than 30 Minnesota water systems. The US cyber-defence agency is telling utilities to get that hardware off the internet. The US cyber-defence agency has warned that hackers are increasingly targeting the country&rsquo;s water systems, urging utilities to lock down the industrial controllers that keep taps running. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cisa-warns-hackers-are-increasingly-targeting-us-water-systems-after-minnesota-attack/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cisa-warns-hackers-are-increasingly-targeting-us-water-systems-after-minnesota-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla is reportedly weighing a China sell-off to clear the way for a SpaceX merger]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla is weighing whether to sell, spin off, or shut down its China business to clear a path for a possible merger with SpaceX, according to a Wall Street Journal report that Elon Musk has publicly and flatly denied. The move would untangle Tesla&rsquo;s vast Chinese manufacturing from a defence contractor whose Beijing exposure has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-is-reportedly-weighing-a-china-sell-off-to-clear-the-way-for-a-spacex-merger/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-is-reportedly-weighing-a-china-sell-off-to-clear-the-way-for-a-spacex-merger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most Australian teens are still on social media three months into the under-16 ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most Australian teenagers are still using social media three months after the country&rsquo;s world-first under-16 ban took effect, according to a new study from the eSafety Commissioner that undercuts one of the government&rsquo;s flagship online-safety policies. The share of teens using social media slipped only from 86% to 81%, the regulator found, even though platforms [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-australian-teens-are-still-on-social-media-three-months-into-the-under-16-ban/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-australian-teens-are-still-on-social-media-three-months-into-the-under-16-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says its own Claude models breached three companies during cyber tests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has disclosed that three of its Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three real organisations during cybersecurity tests, after a misconfiguration left the testing environment connected to the live internet. The company published the account on 30 July, presenting it as a voluntary safety disclosure rather than a breach it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-says-its-own-claude-models-breached-three-companies-during-cyber-tests/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-says-its-own-claude-models-breached-three-companies-during-cyber-tests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the GTM playbook stopped working.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The old SaaS GTM playbook is getting expensive and invisible. Three startups stopped optimising it and started building things buyers actually wanted. The go-to-market playbook didn&rsquo;t stop working because it was wrong. It stopped working because it was right, and then everyone started running it at the same time. Every SaaS company is running some [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-the-gtm-playbook-stopped-working/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-the-gtm-playbook-stopped-working/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom]]></title><description><![CDATA[BYD sells more electric cars than anyone. Next month, it wants to sell you one using a robot. China&rsquo;s biggest EV maker will unveil its first humanoid robot in August, at its Di Space experience centres in Zhengzhou, the company told the South China Morning Post. It will be a working prototype, not a concept, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/byds-answer-to-its-car-sales-slump-a-humanoid-robot-in-every-showroom/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/byds-answer-to-its-car-sales-slump-a-humanoid-robot-in-every-showroom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is merging its many Copilots into one AI ‘super app’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has a fix for the growing pile of Copilots you are meant to use. It wants to stuff them all into a single app. On its earnings call this week, chief executive Satya Nadella confirmed Microsoft is building a Copilot &ldquo;super app.&rdquo; It merges chat, coding, the Cowork research tool and Microsoft&rsquo;s new autonomous [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-merging-its-many-copilots-into-one-ai-super-app/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-merging-its-many-copilots-into-one-ai-super-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China threatens ‘resolute’ retaliation over the US robot ban, and it holds the rare-earth card]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US wanted to keep Chinese robots out. Beijing&rsquo;s answer: do this, and we will hit back where it hurts. China has threatened &ldquo;resolute&rdquo; retaliation after Washington moved to bar imports of Chinese-made humanoid robots. Its commerce ministry called the measure discriminatory and warned it &ldquo;severely&rdquo; damages trade relations, the New York Times and CNBC [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-threatens-resolute-retaliation-over-the-us-robot-ban-and-it-holds-the-rare-earth-card/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-threatens-resolute-retaliation-over-the-us-robot-ban-and-it-holds-the-rare-earth-card/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is coming for the cheap seats on your favourite flight route]]></title><description><![CDATA[The lucky dip of stumbling on a cheap seat on a popular flight is starting to disappear. Airlines are handing their pricing to artificial intelligence, and on busy routes that mostly means one thing: higher fares. Carriers have long priced seats with analysts and rules of thumb, such as bumping fares by 20 per cent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-coming-for-the-cheap-seats-on-your-favourite-flight-route/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-coming-for-the-cheap-seats-on-your-favourite-flight-route/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel is quietly handing one of its crown jewels to a tiny, stealthy startup. And that startup is run by a longtime business partner of Intel&rsquo;s own chief executive. The chipmaker is giving RosaicLabs access to its Atom processor technology, according to a source and documents reviewed by Reuters. Atom is the building block of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-is-handing-its-atom-chip-tech-to-a-startup-run-by-the-ceos-longtime-partner/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-is-handing-its-atom-chip-tech-to-a-startup-run-by-the-ceos-longtime-partner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US senators warn Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips to escape the shortage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple wants to buy cheap memory chips from China to ease a shortage. That shortage is already pushing up the price of its gadgets. A bipartisan group of US senators has just told Tim Cook not to. The senators wrote to Cook, urging Apple to drop any plan to buy Chinese memory. The two suppliers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-senators-warn-apple-not-to-buy-chinese-memory-chips-to-escape-the-shortage/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-senators-warn-apple-not-to-buy-chinese-memory-chips-to-escape-the-shortage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winamp is making another comeback, this time with Deezer-powered streaming]]></title><description><![CDATA[It really whips the llama&rsquo;s ass, and apparently it is not done yet. Winamp, the music player millions of us loaded up before Spotify existed, is planning another comeback. This time it has real streaming behind it. Winamp and Deezer announced a partnership on Wednesday that will let Deezer power a new Winamp premium subscription. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/winamp-is-making-another-comeback-this-time-with-deezer-powered-streaming/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/winamp-is-making-another-comeback-this-time-with-deezer-powered-streaming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon is winding down most of its flagship Nova AI models. It is betting what remains on a single, bigger effort to build one genuinely competitive foundation model. The move gives shape to a retreat that until now looked mostly like closed offices and job cuts. The company has begun deprecating most of its in-house [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-is-winding-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-to-bet-on-one-frontier-model/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-is-winding-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-to-bet-on-one-frontier-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Anduril founders raise $30mn to build Europe’s synthetic battlefield for defence AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[A London startup building the training grounds for Europe&rsquo;s autonomous weapons has come out of stealth with $30mn. It is one of the region&rsquo;s largest defence-tech seed rounds this year. Agon is not building the weapons themselves. It is building the infrastructure that trains them: a synthetic combat arena for AI-powered drones, missiles and uncrewed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-anduril-founders-raise-30mn-to-build-europes-synthetic-battlefield-for-defence-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-anduril-founders-raise-30mn-to-build-europes-synthetic-battlefield-for-defence-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data]]></title><description><![CDATA[NHS England has admitted that a key data-protection document misstated who could see patients&rsquo; medical records. It did not disclose the whole arrangement. Staff at Palantir, the US data-analytics firm, can view identifiable patient data inside part of the new Federated Data Platform. The admission followed a request from the National Data Guardian, the statutory [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhs-england-admits-its-paperwork-hid-that-palantir-staff-can-see-identifiable-patient-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhs-england-admits-its-paperwork-hid-that-palantir-staff-can-see-identifiable-patient-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find a master key to every database in Azure Cosmos DB]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wiz researchers found a single credential that could unlock every database running on Microsoft&rsquo;s Azure Cosmos DB. They named it the Cosmos Master Key. And the vulnerability hunter that helped find it was not entirely human. Microsoft has patched the flaw, disclosed on Thursday and dubbed CosmosEscape. It found no evidence anyone exploited it beyond [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wizs-ai-bug-hunter-helped-find-a-master-key-to-every-database-in-azure-cosmos-db/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wizs-ai-bug-hunter-helped-find-a-master-key-to-every-database-in-azure-cosmos-db/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone hated Friend’s AI necklace, so it came back at double the price]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI necklace that a chunk of New York wanted gone is back, and this time it talks. Friend, the pendant that listens to your day and pipes up with commentary, has re-launched with a speaker so it can reply out loud. It also costs twice as much. The original Friend messaged you like a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/everyone-hated-friends-ai-necklace-so-it-came-back-at-double-the-price/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/everyone-hated-friends-ai-necklace-so-it-came-back-at-double-the-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary of a CEO’ is losing its inner circle as it chases America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steven Bartlett has built one of the world&rsquo;s biggest podcasts on the idea that the right people, obsessively managed, make the machine. Now four of those people have walked out the door. The star host of &ldquo;The Diary of a CEO&rdquo; has lost four core staffers in five months, Business Insider reported. The exits are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/steven-bartletts-diary-of-a-ceo-is-losing-its-inner-circle-as-it-chases-america/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/steven-bartletts-diary-of-a-ceo-is-losing-its-inner-circle-as-it-chases-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot in the EU’s toughest tier]]></title><description><![CDATA[ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot to face Europe&rsquo;s toughest platform rules. The European Commission plans to place OpenAI&rsquo;s chatbot and the gaming platform Roblox under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act. The designation could come as soon as August. The move was first reported by Bloomberg, citing a person [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-is-about-to-become-the-first-ai-chatbot-in-the-eus-toughest-tier/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-is-about-to-become-the-first-ai-chatbot-in-the-eus-toughest-tier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one. The company&rsquo;s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burned $1.8m before anyone noticed. Senior engineers called the results &ldquo;catastrophically expensive.&rdquo; The cases were laid out at an internal meeting and first reported by the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-spent-18m-on-a-claude-job-that-failed-and-it-sells-the-fix/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-spent-18m-on-a-claude-job-that-failed-and-it-sells-the-fix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who wrote the AI-boom bible just got margin-called out of it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The man who wrote the defining case for the AI boom just got wiped out betting on it. Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has been forced to sell off its portfolio of public stocks after steep losses. Ken Griffin&rsquo;s Citadel has bought the lot. The collapse was first [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-wrote-the-ai-boom-bible-just-got-margin-called-out-of-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-wrote-the-ai-boom-bible-just-got-margin-called-out-of-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips. The system can also coordinate several machines at once and adapt to a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-new-ai-can-now-walk-a-humanoid-across-the-room-and-tidy-up-feet-to-fingertips/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-new-ai-can-now-walk-a-humanoid-across-the-room-and-tidy-up-feet-to-fingertips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did I regret switching to the Galaxy Fold 8? (7 days later)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did I regret switching to the Galaxy Fold 8? (7 days later)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/did-i-regret-switching-to-the-galaxy-fold-8-7-days-later/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/did-i-regret-switching-to-the-galaxy-fold-8-7-days-later/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop]]></title><description><![CDATA[LinkedIn has a name for the vaguely inspirational, AI-written posts clogging its feed, and now it has a button for them. The professional network has quietly added a &ldquo;Seems like AI slop&rdquo; option to its post menu, letting users flag content they think a machine wrote, 404 Media reported. The button sits under the three-dot [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/linkedin-now-has-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button-and-yes-it-really-says-slop/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/linkedin-now-has-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button-and-yes-it-really-says-slop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most alarming AI security incident of the year keeps getting stranger, and the newest detail cuts against the panic. OpenAI now says the rogue models that broke into Hugging Face last month also reached credentials for &ldquo;four accounts on four services,&rdquo; CNBC reported. In several of those cases, one researcher said, the front door [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-that-hacked-hugging-face-keeps-looking-less-like-a-mastermind-and-more-like-a-bear/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-that-hacked-hugging-face-keeps-looking-less-like-a-mastermind-and-more-like-a-bear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins]]></title><description><![CDATA[A startup wants companies to stop asking real people what they think, and ask fake ones instead. Simile has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build &ldquo;agentic twins,&rdquo; AI stand-ins for real consumers that firms can survey by the million. Greenoaks led the round, the New York Times reported, with Index Ventures and others [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/to-find-out-what-customers-think-this-2bn-startup-asks-their-ai-twins/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/to-find-out-what-customers-think-this-2bn-startup-asks-their-ai-twins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scale AI hired a cloud salesman as CEO. That tells you where it’s going.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year after its founder left for Meta, Scale AI has a new boss. The choice says a lot about where the company is heading. It has named Francis deSouza, a veteran enterprise-cloud executive, as chief executive. deSouza starts on 10 August, Scale announced. He replaces interim chief Jason Droege, who ran the company after [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scale-ai-hired-a-cloud-salesman-as-ceo-that-tells-you-where-its-going/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scale-ai-hired-a-cloud-salesman-as-ceo-that-tells-you-where-its-going/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s Zoox just won the first US OK to charge for rides in a no-wheel robotaxi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon&rsquo;s Zoox has become the first company allowed to charge for rides in a robotaxi that has no steering wheel and no pedals. US regulators granted the exemption on Wednesday. It is a first for the driverless-car industry. The clearance came from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and was first reported by Reuters. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-zoox-just-won-the-first-us-ok-to-charge-for-rides-in-a-no-wheel-robotaxi/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-zoox-just-won-the-first-us-ok-to-charge-for-rides-in-a-no-wheel-robotaxi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hidden line in a Word doc can rewrite your numbers, and infect the next file too]]></title><description><![CDATA[A hidden line of text in a Word document can quietly halve the numbers in your financial report. Then it can smuggle a copy of itself into the clean file you send on. And 144 days after a researcher warned Microsoft, it still works. H&aring;kon M&aring;l&oslash;y, a Norwegian data scientist, disclosed the technique on 28 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-hidden-line-in-a-word-doc-can-rewrite-your-numbers-and-infect-the-next-file-too/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-hidden-line-in-a-word-doc-can-rewrite-your-numbers-and-infect-the-next-file-too/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.]]></title><description><![CDATA[ByteDance is quietly winning a race in China that most people are watching in America. The company behind TikTok now makes about $4bn a year from artificial intelligence. That is the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, the South China Morning Post reported. To press that lead, ByteDance is tearing up part of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-quietly-makes-4bn-a-year-from-ai-it-just-broke-up-an-app-to-make-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-quietly-makes-4bn-a-year-from-ai-it-just-broke-up-an-app-to-make-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave is taking it to the spies.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave rents high-end GPUs to the biggest AI labs. Now it wants to run that same cloud inside the sealed facilities where America keeps its secrets, with the contractor Leidos as its guide. The two companies announced the collaboration on Thursday. CoreWeave will place its AI platform [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-cloud-is-heading-into-the-vault-coreweave-is-taking-it-to-the-spies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-cloud-is-heading-into-the-vault-coreweave-is-taking-it-to-the-spies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra has a problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra has a problem]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-z-fold-8-ultra-has-a-problem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-z-fold-8-ultra-has-a-problem/</guid></item></channel></rss>