<?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>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla beat Q2 delivery estimates and the stock fell. Wednesday’s earnings face the same problem.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates with a 25% year-on-year increase. The stock dropped. That reaction tells you everything about where expectations sit ahead of Wednesday&rsquo;s earnings report. A beat is now the baseline. If exceeding delivery targets does not trigger a rally, meeting or slightly beating bottom-line earnings [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-beat-q2-delivery-estimates-and-the-stock-fell-wednesdays-earnings-face-the-same-problem/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-beat-q2-delivery-estimates-and-the-stock-fell-wednesdays-earnings-face-the-same-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Korean AI model scores every possible driving path for safety before the car moves. CVPR called it a highlight.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most self-driving AI models study how humans drive and try to copy them. They work well in normal conditions but struggle to explain why they chose one path over another, which becomes a problem when a split-second decision goes wrong. A team at Seoul National University led by professor Jun Won Choi has built a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-korean-ai-model-scores-every-possible-driving-path-for-safety-before-the-car-moves-cvpr-called-it-a-highlight/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-korean-ai-model-scores-every-possible-driving-path-for-safety-before-the-car-moves-cvpr-called-it-a-highlight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kai-Fu Lee&rsquo;s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, the former Google China chief told Bloomberg at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The company is unwinding its offshore holding structure, the same prerequisite that Moonshot dismantled in May to clear its own path to a Hong [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kai-fu-lee-stopped-building-ai-models-and-started-selling-enterprise-data-infrastructure-now-01ai-is-heading-for-a-hong-kong-ipo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kai-fu-lee-stopped-building-ai-models-and-started-selling-enterprise-data-infrastructure-now-01ai-is-heading-for-a-hong-kong-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neo exits stealth with $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a control layer for agentic AI software]]></title><description><![CDATA[Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating. The company, founded by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks executives, is building what it calls a real-time control layer for agentic software in the enterprise. The problem [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/neo-exits-stealth-with-100m-from-a16z-and-bessemer-to-build-a-control-layer-for-agentic-ai-software/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/neo-exits-stealth-with-100m-from-a16z-and-bessemer-to-build-a-control-layer-for-agentic-ai-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anduril and Archer unveiled an autonomous attack rotorcraft built on air taxi technology. First flight is planned for 2027.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anduril and Archer Aviation unveiled Thunder at the Farnborough International Airshow on Sunday, a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft built on a jointly developed dual-use platform. The aircraft is designed to multiply the combat power of crewed attack and assault helicopters by operating alongside them without a pilot. It uses a series hybrid-electric powertrain and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anduril-and-archer-unveiled-an-autonomous-attack-rotorcraft-built-on-air-taxi-technology-first-flight-is-planned-for-2027/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anduril-and-archer-unveiled-an-autonomous-attack-rotorcraft-built-on-air-taxi-technology-first-flight-is-planned-for-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close]]></title><description><![CDATA[California District Judge Araceli Mart&iacute;nez-Olgu&iacute;n granted a temporary restraining order on the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger on Monday, pausing the deal for 14 days. The order came after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California&rsquo;s Rob Bonta sued to block the acquisition last week, arguing it would violate the Clayton [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paramount-and-warner-bros-merger-blocked-by-temporary-restraining-order-one-day-before-close/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paramount-and-warner-bros-merger-blocked-by-temporary-restraining-order-one-day-before-close/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a year, one question has hung over China&rsquo;s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu, has started partially operating the site, Bloomberg reported, citing a person [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-ai-lab-just-built-a-giant-data-centre-with-no-nvidia-inside/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-ai-lab-just-built-a-giant-data-centre-with-no-nvidia-inside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD’s Helios puts 72 GPUs and 31 terabytes of HBM4 in one rack. It is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s NVL72.]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMD&rsquo;s Helios is a single rack containing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31 terabytes of HBM4 memory, and 2.9 exaflops of FP4 inference compute. It is AMD&rsquo;s first rack-scale AI system and its direct answer to Nvidia&rsquo;s Vera Rubin NVL72. The system uses 18 compute trays, each holding four MI455X accelerators on the new CDNA 5 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amds-helios-puts-72-gpus-and-31-terabytes-of-hbm4-in-one-rack-it-is-amds-answer-to-nvidias-nvl72/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amds-helios-puts-72-gpus-and-31-terabytes-of-hbm4-in-one-rack-it-is-amds-answer-to-nvidias-nvl72/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Google&rsquo;s AI answers a question, it is increasingly not reading a website. It is reading a Facebook post. New data suggests social platforms have become a core source for Google&rsquo;s AI answers. Often the user never visits the platform at all. The findings come from BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO firm. Its tool tracks roughly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-ai-cited-facebook-195-million-times-new-research-finds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-ai-cited-facebook-195-million-times-new-research-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini&rsquo;s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called &ldquo;Frozen v2,&rdquo; was reported by The Information and picked up by Reuters and Bloomberg Law. Alphabet [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-building-a-chip-with-gemini-baked-into-the-silicon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-building-a-chip-with-gemini-baked-into-the-silicon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting next month, OneDrive and SharePoint will block screen captures when enterprise users open certain sensitivity-labelled PDFs in Microsoft Edge. The restriction applies to documents carrying a Purview Information Protection label without the Copy (EXTRACT) permission. When those conditions are met, screenshot blocking activates by default. Personal OneDrive accounts and unlabelled files are not affected. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/onedrive-will-block-screenshots-of-sensitive-documents-but-only-in-microsofts-own-browser/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/onedrive-will-block-screenshots-of-sensitive-documents-but-only-in-microsofts-own-browser/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix used AI in 300 shows. Its biggest director calls AI a Trojan horse.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fight over AI in Hollywood used to be about the future. This month it turned into a fight about the present. Within days, a studio, a director and a union each drew a line. The lines do not agree. Taken together, they show an industry that has already let the technology in. Now it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-used-ai-in-300-shows-its-biggest-director-calls-ai-a-trojan-horse/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-used-ai-in-300-shows-its-biggest-director-calls-ai-a-trojan-horse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days. The flaw is the same one.]]></title><description><![CDATA[We spent two years asking whether AI would lie to us. The more useful question this summer is what happens once we hand it the keys. Give a model your Gmail, your calendar, a memory and the power to act, and its mistakes stop being embarrassing. They start being exploitable. Over roughly ten days in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/four-teams-just-broke-ai-agents-four-ways-in-ten-days-the-flaw-is-the-same-one/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/four-teams-just-broke-ai-agents-four-ways-in-ten-days-the-flaw-is-the-same-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electric cars outsold every other fuel type in Germany for the first time in June. The country&rsquo;s Federal Motor Transport Authority recorded 84,057 new EV registrations, a 78.2% year-on-year increase, putting battery-electric vehicles at 28.4% market share. Traditional hybrids came second with 83,315 registrations (28.1%), followed by petrol at 60,796 (20.5%), diesel at 33,862 (11.4%), [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/evs-outsold-petrol-and-diesel-in-germany-for-the-first-time-the-birthplace-of-the-car-just-changed-its-fuel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/evs-outsold-petrol-and-diesel-in-germany-for-the-first-time-the-birthplace-of-the-car-just-changed-its-fuel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Singles are feeding their dating app conversations into ChatGPT and Claude, asking the models to write replies, analyse what went wrong, and generate opening lines. The practice, called &ldquo;chatfishing,&rdquo; has produced a 5,000% spike in Google searches and a growing trail of Reddit posts and TikTok confessionals. Twenty-six per cent of US adults, and 49% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-writing-your-dates-messages-the-dating-apps-say-they-cannot-stop-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-writing-your-dates-messages-the-dating-apps-say-they-cannot-stop-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’]]></title><description><![CDATA[A farmer in rural India photographs a dying plant and wants to look it up. She does not speak English, and today&rsquo;s AI barely speaks hers. A nonprofit called Current AI thinks that is a problem worth fixing. Its goal is grand: a &ldquo;public option&rdquo; for AI, open and free to anyone, much like the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-400m-nonprofit-backed-by-france-and-deepmind-is-building-ais-public-option/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-400m-nonprofit-backed-by-france-and-deepmind-is-building-ais-public-option/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is broken on Android and iOS. Google says it is investigating.]]></title><description><![CDATA[YouTube&rsquo;s picture-in-picture mode is failing on both Android and iOS for a growing number of users. When the app is exited, the audio continues playing in the background but the floating video overlay does not appear. Google acknowledged the bug in a YouTube Help forum post, saying &ldquo;our teams are actively investigating the issue.&rdquo; Most [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtubes-picture-in-picture-mode-is-broken-on-android-and-ios-google-says-it-is-investigating/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtubes-picture-in-picture-mode-is-broken-on-android-and-ios-google-says-it-is-investigating/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. So the institution is building a sanctioned platform to bring that habit under control. The internal tool, called EPGenAI Hub, will give MEPs and staff access to models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-european-parliament-is-building-its-own-ai-to-stop-meps-pasting-draft-laws-into-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-european-parliament-is-building-its-own-ai-to-stop-meps-pasting-draft-laws-into-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ‘synthetic insider’: how AI deepfakes turned the fake employee into a corporate threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous person in your company might not work there at all. AI deepfakes are getting cheaper and better. Hackers now use them to pose as trusted staff, a threat the industry calls the &ldquo;synthetic insider.&rdquo; The tactic sits at the sharp end of an old problem. Insider threats run from a worker emailing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-synthetic-insider-how-ai-deepfakes-turned-the-fake-employee-into-a-corporate-threat/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-synthetic-insider-how-ai-deepfakes-turned-the-fake-employee-into-a-corporate-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba.]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the quiet winners of the AI boom is about to test the public markets. Zhongji Innolight, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has started gauging demand for a Hong Kong listing worth as much as $8bn. The Shenzhen-listed company won approval for the deal on Friday, Bloomberg reported. It began meeting analysts [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-firm-that-wires-ai-data-centres-is-chasing-hong-kongs-biggest-ipo-since-alibaba/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-firm-that-wires-ai-data-centres-is-chasing-hong-kongs-biggest-ipo-since-alibaba/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decart’s Lucy 2.5 unlocks new live video effects, but physical AI is the real winner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence startup Decart continues to stretch the boundaries of what&rsquo;s possible with the release of its latest live video model, Lucy 2.5, introducing real-time streaming visual effects capabilities for the first time. The startup claims that Lucy 2.5 is unique in its ability to generate AI VFX continuously, on the fly, and embed them [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/decarts-lucy-25-unlocks-new-live-video-effects-but-physical-ai-is-the-real-winner/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/decarts-lucy-25-unlocks-new-live-video-effects-but-physical-ai-is-the-real-winner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A British AI lab signed up Nvidia, Meta and Samsung to invent materials that don’t exist yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[A two-year-old British AI lab wants to build the search engine for materials that do not exist yet. On Monday it gathered an unusual crowd to help. Cambridge-based CuspAI launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of more than 45 companies and research labs, Reuters reported. The founding partners include Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai Motor [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-british-ai-lab-signed-up-nvidia-meta-and-samsung-to-invent-materials-that-dont-exist-yet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-british-ai-lab-signed-up-nvidia-meta-and-samsung-to-invent-materials-that-dont-exist-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-says-qwen38-is-the-worlds-no2-ai-model-it-has-shown-no-proof/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-says-qwen38-is-the-worlds-no2-ai-model-it-has-shown-no-proof/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s car market is heading for its worst year since 2021. Sales fell 20% in the first half.]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s passenger car sales fell 20.2% in the first half of 2026 to 8.7 million units, and the China Passenger Car Association has lowered its full-year forecast to a 14% decline, projecting 20.4 million deliveries, down from a record 23.7 million in 2025. Citic CLSA&rsquo;s Xiao Feng expects a 20% full-year drop. &ldquo;This is going [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-car-market-is-heading-for-its-worst-year-since-2021-sales-fell-20-in-the-first-half/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-car-market-is-heading-for-its-worst-year-since-2021-sales-fell-20-in-the-first-half/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba&rsquo;s AliExpress has been hit with a &euro;550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products off its site. The penalty, announced on Monday, is the biggest yet under the EU&rsquo;s Digital Services Act (DSA). That law forces very large platforms [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-just-fined-aliexpress-550m-its-biggest-dsa-penalty-yet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-just-fined-aliexpress-550m-its-biggest-dsa-penalty-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kenya investigates hack of Ruto’s official website after bitcoin ransom demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kenyan authorities are investigating a cyberattack that defaced President William Ruto&rsquo;s official website over the weekend, replacing the homepage with a ransom message and a cryptocurrency wallet address. The government pulled president.go.ke offline on Saturday and has since said it found no evidence that sensitive data was taken. The intruders demanded five bitcoins, worth roughly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kenya-investigates-hack-of-rutos-official-website-after-bitcoin-ransom-demand/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kenya-investigates-hack-of-rutos-official-website-after-bitcoin-ransom-demand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moonshot AI has a problem most startups would envy. Its new Kimi K3 model proved so popular that it ran out of computing power to serve everyone. So the Chinese lab has hit pause on new sign-ups. Over the past 48 hours, demand &ldquo;pushed close to the limits of our current capacity,&rdquo; the company said [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kimi-k3-is-so-popular-moonshot-ran-out-of-gpus-and-paused-new-sign-ups/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kimi-k3-is-so-popular-moonshot-ran-out-of-gpus-and-paused-new-sign-ups/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prysmian signs €5.5bn fibre deal with Molex to wire AI data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prysmian has signed a &euro;5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, Molex is putting &euro;550m on the table upfront, a rare piece of cash certainty in a market where most commitments arrive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prysmian-signs-55bn-fibre-deal-with-molex-to-wire-ai-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prysmian-signs-55bn-fibre-deal-with-molex-to-wire-ai-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world&rsquo;s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted the intrusion and picked it apart. The company disclosed the incident in a statement on 16 July. It called the attack different from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-hacked-hugging-face-another-ai-caught-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-hacked-hugging-face-another-ai-caught-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Media reportedly pitched traders a $100,000 feed of the president’s posts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump Media &amp; Technology Group has reportedly been asking financial-trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest possible feed of Donald Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;Truth Social&nbsp;posts, according to the Financial Times, a price tag that turns the president&rsquo;s typing into a subscription product. The pitch, described to the paper by people familiar with the discussions, offers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-media-reportedly-pitched-traders-a-100000-feed-of-the-presidents-posts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-media-reportedly-pitched-traders-a-100000-feed-of-the-presidents-posts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Display has begun shipping tandem OLED panels for laptops that reach 1,600 nits peak brightness, more than 40% above the 1,100-nit ceiling of conventional single-layer OLED. The panels meet VESA&rsquo;s new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification, announced this month, which requires 1,400 nits at 10% on-pixel ratio while maintaining black levels of 0.0005 nits [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-new-laptop-oled-hits-1600-nits-and-lasts-twice-as-long-as-the-panel-it-replaces/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-new-laptop-oled-hits-1600-nits-and-lasts-twice-as-long-as-the-panel-it-replaces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chica in Texas, and said it needed more time to finish work [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-pushes-starship-flight-13-to-thursday-after-aborted-countdown/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-pushes-starship-flight-13-to-thursday-after-aborted-countdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of the high-precision actuators that let machines move, in a wager that the least visible hardware in a robot is where the next returns will sit. The firm did not disclose the size of the investment or the stake it is taking, saying only that the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstone-invests-in-south-koreas-futronic-to-ride-the-robotics-boom/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstone-invests-in-south-koreas-futronic-to-ride-the-robotics-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X&rsquo;s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login &ldquo;from a new device&rdquo; in a location they have never been. The emails include X&rsquo;s logo, correct formatting, proper grammar, and the same colour scheme as real alerts. They ask the recipient to click a link [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-x-phishing-scam-copies-real-login-alerts-down-to-the-pixel-to-hijack-accounts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-x-phishing-scam-copies-real-login-alerts-down-to-the-pixel-to-hijack-accounts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states&nbsp;unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first national day of action against the industry pouring the concrete for artificial intelligence. The rallies were coordinated [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/data-centre-backlash-goes-national-as-protests-hit-42-us-states/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/data-centre-backlash-goes-national-as-protests-hit-42-us-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta&rsquo;s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them. Facebook and Instagram both faltered on 19 July, greeting users with login failures, frozen feeds, and error screens that promised a fix was on the way without saying when it would [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/facebook-and-instagram-stumble-for-users-in-sunday-morning-outage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/facebook-and-instagram-stumble-for-users-in-sunday-morning-outage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers with the V8 playing on one side and a live drummer on the other. Walking between the two revealed striking similarities in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bentley-hired-an-orchestra-to-solve-the-ev-silence-problem-drums-were-the-answer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bentley-hired-an-orchestra-to-solve-the-ev-silence-problem-drums-were-the-answer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK finance chiefs are warming to AI, even as they keep spending in check]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain&rsquo;s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group not given to exuberance. In Deloitte&rsquo;s latest quarterly UK CFO Survey, 73% expressed that optimism, up from 59% at the end of 2025 and just 39% two [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-finance-chiefs-are-warming-to-ai-even-as-they-keep-spending-in-check/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-finance-chiefs-are-warming-to-ai-even-as-they-keep-spending-in-check/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung cuts 739 New Jersey jobs as its US headquarters heads for Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[The glass campus in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, is barely a year old. Samsung opened it in September 2025 to replace the Ridgefield Park headquarters it had kept since 1992, and now roughly 739 of the people who work there are being told they can follow the company to Texas or start looking elsewhere. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-cuts-739-new-jersey-jobs-as-its-us-headquarters-heads-for-texas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-cuts-739-new-jersey-jobs-as-its-us-headquarters-heads-for-texas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch company ASML is $300bn from a trillion. AI could close the gap]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASML has spent 2026 getting steadily, expensively larger. The Dutch company whose machines print the world&rsquo;s most advanced chips is now Europe&rsquo;s most valuable listed business, worth around $700bn (&euro;600bn), and enough of the investors who own it now say the next round number out loud that the question has stopped sounding fanciful: could ASML [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-company-asml-is-300bn-from-a-trillion-ai-could-close-the-gap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-company-asml-is-300bn-from-a-trillion-ai-could-close-the-gap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea&rsquo;s $4 trillion equity market is now offering an early read on global AI risk appetite, as swings in SK Hynix and Samsung ripple through chip stocks worldwide. &ldquo;We are all Korean investors now,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/koreas-ai-chip-market-is-now-the-opening-bell-for-global-stocks/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/koreas-ai-chip-market-is-now-the-opening-bell-for-global-stocks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victoria&rsquo;s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused of online vilification. The &ldquo;demasking&rdquo; powers would be the first of their kind for an Australian state. Allan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/victoria-proposes-forcing-social-media-platforms-to-unmask-anonymous-accounts-accused-of-vilification/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/victoria-proposes-forcing-social-media-platforms-to-unmask-anonymous-accounts-accused-of-vilification/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people&rsquo;s willingness to say &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know&rdquo; from 44% to 3%. Accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%. Confidence, meanwhile, rose from 30% to 76%. &ldquo;People became much worse, the accuracy was only one third, but they were twice as confident,&rdquo; said [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-advice-made-people-three-times-less-accurate-but-twice-as-confident-researchers-found/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-advice-made-people-three-times-less-accurate-but-twice-as-confident-researchers-found/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is transforming how software is built, deployed, and secured. While AI has accelerated innovation across industries, it has also expanded the number of internet-facing assets organizations need to protect. According to Rob Gurzeev, CEO and Co-Founder of CyCognito, the challenge is no longer just identifying known vulnerabilities. It is understanding what is actually [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rob-gurzeev-on-why-ai-has-changed-cybersecuritys-biggest-blind-spot/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rob-gurzeev-on-why-ai-has-changed-cybersecuritys-biggest-blind-spot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common Sense Media says Google’s AI Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to students. Google cannot turn it off.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Common Sense Media concluded that Google&rsquo;s AI-powered Search poses an &ldquo;unacceptable risk&rdquo; to young users and recommended that students stop using it entirely until schools can disable the AI features. The child safety watchdog found that AI Mode readily completed homework assignments for minors, repeated misinformation with an air of authority, and exposed children to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/common-sense-media-says-googles-ai-search-poses-an-unacceptable-risk-to-students-google-cannot-turn-it-off/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/common-sense-media-says-googles-ai-search-poses-an-unacceptable-risk-to-students-google-cannot-turn-it-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founders eagerly bought into the promise of autonomous agents over the past year, and software usage skyrocketed across the industry as teams rushed to adopt the latest tools. Despite this massive investment in new technology, sales pipelines remained completely flat. This is the ultimate paradox facing modern revenue teams today. The average business-to-business go-to-market team [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-company-brain-and-the-future-of-go-to-market-strategy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-company-brain-and-the-future-of-go-to-market-strategy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moonshot AI has told investors it is preparing to list in Hong Kong in as soon as six months, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The company has distributed a shareholder resolution seeking backing for the IPO and is wrapping a fundraising round that may value the three-year-old startup at more than $30 billion. Annual recurring revenue [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moonshot-plans-to-list-in-hong-kong-within-six-months-at-a-30-billion-valuation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moonshot-plans-to-list-in-hong-kong-within-six-months-at-a-30-billion-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai this week, calling it the world&rsquo;s first agentic AI smartphone. The device, built under ZTE&rsquo;s Nubia brand, runs ByteDance&rsquo;s Doubao AI agent and can be activated by voice or a dedicated button. It comes in four colours and was prototyped in December at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-rebuilding-the-smartphone-around-ai-agents-ztes-navix-sold-out-in-hours/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-rebuilding-the-smartphone-around-ai-agents-ztes-navix-sold-out-in-hours/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software]]></title><description><![CDATA[France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir&rsquo;s military AI software. A joint declaration signed after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz committed the two countries to examine &ldquo;a European sovereign digital backbone&rdquo; covering data-centric security, AI, and cloud solutions. France&rsquo;s Arcadia, an AI-powered command-and-control platform, was named as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-and-germany-pledge-to-build-a-european-rival-to-palantirs-military-ai-software/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-and-germany-pledge-to-build-a-european-rival-to-palantirs-military-ai-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is now dictating which companies and entities get access to frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, CNBC reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Until now, the labs made that decision themselves. Anthropic controlled access to its Mythos cybersecurity model through an initiative called Project Glasswing. OpenAI ran [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-white-house-is-now-deciding-who-gets-access-to-frontier-ai-models-not-the-labs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-white-house-is-now-deciding-who-gets-access-to-frontier-ai-models-not-the-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. The tariff gap explains why.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brits bought 384 Chinese-made vehicles in 2015. Last year, they bought 285,000, according to automotive consulting firm Mobility Global. The growth is accelerating. BYD nearly doubled its UK sales in the first half of 2026 to over 37,000 units, and Chinese brands collectively hold roughly 13% of new car registrations in Britain, double their share [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-car-sales-in-the-uk-jumped-from-384-in-2015-to-285000-last-year-the-tariff-gap-explains-why/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-car-sales-in-the-uk-jumped-from-384-in-2015-to-285000-last-year-the-tariff-gap-explains-why/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. It has $40 billion more contracts to securitise.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nebius raised $775 million in its first secured debt facility, borrowing against deployed GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows from an investment-grade customer. The facility matures on October 31, 2030, and is priced at SOFR + 2.50%, roughly 6.8% at current rates. Together with the customer agreement&rsquo;s cash flows, the facility covers more than 100% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nebius-raised-775-million-by-borrowing-against-its-gpus-it-has-40-billion-more-contracts-to-securitise/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nebius-raised-775-million-by-borrowing-against-its-gpus-it-has-40-billion-more-contracts-to-securitise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta patented an AI system that listens to your voice all day and tracks your mood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has been granted a patent for an AI system that continuously records a user&rsquo;s voice, transcribes it, and feeds the audio through a machine learning model to detect their emotional state. The patent, published on July 2, describes a device that listens for &ldquo;audible communications&rdquo; including sighs, laughter, and vocal tone, and combines them [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-patented-an-ai-system-that-listens-to-your-voice-all-day-and-tracks-your-mood/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-patented-an-ai-system-that-listens-to-your-voice-all-day-and-tracks-your-mood/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kevin O&rsquo;Leary is making the golf course argument again. The &ldquo;Shark Tank&rdquo; investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor&rsquo;s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less water than America&rsquo;s golf courses. The comparison is technically correct today. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kevin-oleary-says-data-centres-use-less-water-than-golf-courses-the-numbers-are-more-complicated/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kevin-oleary-says-data-centres-use-less-water-than-golf-courses-the-numbers-are-more-complicated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba&rsquo;s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is designed to lower migration barriers for developers currently locked into Nvidia&rsquo;s CUDA ecosystem. T-Head said programmers can adapt SAIL to mainstream [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-open-sources-its-ai-chip-software-stack-at-waic-targeting-nvidias-cuda-lock-in/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-open-sources-its-ai-chip-software-stack-at-waic-targeting-nvidias-cuda-lock-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raidium, a Paris and Silicon Valley-based radiology startup, has launched its AI-native imaging platform in the US at Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the country&rsquo;s leading oncology research institutions. The platform, called Raidium Read, replaced Moffitt&rsquo;s legacy radiomics applications and is currently available for clinical trials and research use. FDA 510(k) clearance is expected before [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-french-startup-built-a-radiology-viewer-from-scratch-with-ai-at-its-core-moffitt-cancer-center-is-already-using-it/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-french-startup-built-a-radiology-viewer-from-scratch-with-ai-at-its-core-moffitt-cancer-center-is-already-using-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cybercriminals released 802,000 stolen accounts in one day during the World Cup group stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 12 million compromised streaming accounts tied to World Cup broadcasts are circulating on the dark web, representing nearly $220 million in potential black-market sales. The findings come from HUMAN Security&rsquo;s Satori Threat Intelligence team, which tracked accounts across 10 streaming services carrying tournament matches. On June 27, the final day of the group [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cybercriminals-released-802000-stolen-accounts-in-one-day-during-the-world-cup-group-stage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cybercriminals-released-802000-stolen-accounts-in-one-day-during-the-world-cup-group-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday. The update improves facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across changing lighting, camera angles, and partial face occlusions like glasses and hats. Queued videos now process in under a minute. The tool targets social [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/face-ai-upgrades-its-video-face-swap-tool-with-faster-processing-and-better-tracking/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/face-ai-upgrades-its-video-face-swap-tool-with-faster-processing-and-better-tracking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang&rsquo;s signature black Tom Ford leather jackets sold at Sotheby&rsquo;s on Friday for $960,000 after 65 bids from 45 collectors. The pre-sale estimate was $40,000 to $60,000. The jacket retails for just under $10,000. Huang wore it in 2023 at a Foxconn event in Taipei and signed it for the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huangs-leather-jacket-sold-for-960000-at-sothebys-96-times-its-retail-price/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huangs-leather-jacket-sold-for-960000-at-sothebys-96-times-its-retail-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed]]></title><description><![CDATA[On August 2, 1959, Pel&eacute; scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground. It was never filmed. For 67 years, the &ldquo;Gol da Rua Javari&rdquo; existed only in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-used-veo-and-gemini-to-reconstruct-the-greatest-goal-pel-ever-scored-which-was-never-filmed/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-used-veo-and-gemini-to-reconstruct-the-greatest-goal-pel-ever-scored-which-was-never-filmed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xpeng debuted its flying car in Germany. It has 7,000 orders and a factory that can build 10,000 a year.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xpeng debuted the Land Aircraft Carrier at a launch event in Munich on Wednesday, the first time the Chinese automaker has shown its modular flying car outside Asia. The vehicle is a six-wheeled ground unit, called the Mothership, with a detachable two-seat eVTOL flight module that stows in the back. The six-rotor flying module uses [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xpeng-debuted-its-flying-car-in-germany-it-has-7000-orders-and-a-factory-that-can-build-10000-a-year/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xpeng-debuted-its-flying-car-in-germany-it-has-7000-orders-and-a-factory-that-can-build-10000-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple raised the price of the iPhone 17 in Japan by roughly 10%, with the entry-level 256GB model now starting at &yen;142,800 ($879), up from &yen;129,800 previously, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The iPhone 17 Pro with the same storage rose 8.3% to &yen;194,800. Apple Watch and AirPods models also increased by up to 10%. Apple&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-raised-iphone-17-prices-by-10-in-japan-as-the-yen-hovers-near-a-four-decade-low/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-raised-iphone-17-prices-by-10-in-japan-as-the-yen-hovers-near-a-four-decade-low/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSMC posted record $40 billion revenue. Its stock fell 4%. Investors are no longer buying the AI spending story on faith.]]></title><description><![CDATA[TSMC posted record second-quarter revenue of over $40 billion, up 36% year on year, with net income rising 77%. The result should have been a triumph. Instead, shares fell 4%, dragging the Nasdaq 100 down 1.4% on Thursday and compounding losses from the day before. The problem was not the earnings but the spending. TSMC [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tsmc-posted-record-40-billion-revenue-its-stock-fell-4-investors-are-no-longer-buying-the-ai-spending-story-on-faith/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tsmc-posted-record-40-billion-revenue-its-stock-fell-4-investors-are-no-longer-buying-the-ai-spending-story-on-faith/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish satellite startup Sateliot wants €150 million to beam 5G directly to smartphones from orbit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sateliot, a Barcelona-based satellite startup, is seeking to raise up to &euro;150 million ($172 million), a 50% increase from the &euro;100 million round it announced in April. The company operates a network of low-Earth orbit satellites and plans to use the funding to deploy 16 more over the next year. By early 2028, it expects [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spanish-satellite-startup-sateliot-wants-150-million-to-beam-5g-directly-to-smartphones-from-orbit/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spanish-satellite-startup-sateliot-wants-150-million-to-beam-5g-directly-to-smartphones-from-orbit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company at $4.88 trillion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world&rsquo;s most valuable company for the first time since April 2025. Apple closed at roughly $4.88 trillion as its shares held steady, while Nvidia fell 3.5% to approximately $4.86 trillion. Nvidia had held the top spot for nearly a year after becoming the first company to surpass [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-overtakes-nvidia-to-reclaim-the-title-of-worlds-most-valuable-company-at-488-trillion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-overtakes-nvidia-to-reclaim-the-title-of-worlds-most-valuable-company-at-488-trillion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple is in early settlement talks with the DOJ over its iPhone antitrust case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple and the US Department of Justice are in early discussions about settling the 2024 antitrust lawsuit that alleges Apple violated competition law through its iPhone ecosystem, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Apple has made multiple offers this year to close the case. The discussions are active but there is no guarantee of an agreement, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-in-early-settlement-talks-with-the-doj-over-its-iphone-antitrust-case/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-in-early-settlement-talks-with-the-doj-over-its-iphone-antitrust-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla made a $225 balance bike for toddlers. It has no motor, no pedals, and is already sold out.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla launched a $225 balance bike for children aged 2 to 5. It has no motor, no pedals, no brakes, and is powered entirely by toddler legs. The lightweight white magnesium frame comes with a five-way adjustable seat, the Tesla wordmark on the side, and the T logo on the front. It sold out immediately, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-made-a-225-balance-bike-for-toddlers-it-has-no-motor-no-pedals-and-is-already-sold-out/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-made-a-225-balance-bike-for-toddlers-it-has-no-motor-no-pedals-and-is-already-sold-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft will stop syncing OneDrive on older Windows 10 versions next month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft will end OneDrive synchronisation support for Windows 10 versions before 22H2 on August 15. After that date, users on older builds will receive no more sync app updates, bug fixes, or security patches. The service itself will not immediately stop working, but Microsoft says &ldquo;future functionality is not guaranteed.&rdquo; Windows 10 22H2, the final [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-will-stop-syncing-onedrive-on-older-windows-10-versions-next-month/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-will-stop-syncing-onedrive-on-older-windows-10-versions-next-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion]]></title><description><![CDATA[AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A unit pricing error in the AWS Billing Console&rsquo;s estimated billing computation subsystem was the cause, Amazon confirmed. One Reddit user whose charges totalled $0.19 last month received an estimated bill of nearly $2.5 billion. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-aws-billing-bug-sent-users-estimated-charges-of-up-to-25-trillion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-aws-billing-bug-sent-users-estimated-charges-of-up-to-25-trillion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. CNBC confirmed the early-stage discussions. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a $1.25 billion-per-month arrangement with SpaceX to use the Colossus 1 data centre&rsquo;s Nvidia GPUs. The deal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-in-early-talks-to-lease-10-billion-in-compute-from-meta/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-in-early-talks-to-lease-10-billion-in-compute-from-meta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pentagon froze 155 wind projects in 24 states, claiming drones can hide in wind farms]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing concerns that drones can hide among wind turbines and evade radar detection. The affected projects have a combined capacity of 44 gigawatts, four times the generation capacity of the offshore wind projects the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pentagon-froze-155-wind-projects-in-24-states-claiming-drones-can-hide-in-wind-farms/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pentagon-froze-155-wind-projects-in-24-states-claiming-drones-can-hide-in-wind-farms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir’s CEO predicts AI will make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him &ldquo;20x wealthier,&ldquo; implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today. Middle-class workers, he said, might simply see their salaries double over the next decade. Karp called the disparity &ldquo;a complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth&rdquo; and said it is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantirs-ceo-predicts-ai-will-make-him-20x-richer-while-middle-class-workers-get-modest-raises/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantirs-ceo-predicts-ai-will-make-him-20x-richer-while-middle-class-workers-get-modest-raises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moonshot AI&rsquo;s Kimi K3 topped Arena&rsquo;s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis&rsquo;s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall Street, and academia was swift and pointed. TNW covered the model&rsquo;s capabilities at launch, but the political and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trumps-ai-advisor-says-kimi-k3-shows-how-you-lose-the-ai-race-khosla-blames-immigration-marcus-wants-a-congressional-investigation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trumps-ai-advisor-says-kimi-k3-shows-how-you-lose-the-ai-race-khosla-blames-immigration-marcus-wants-a-congressional-investigation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon&rsquo;s Zoox voluntarily recalled software in 105 of its robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle drove into heavy smoke at an active emergency fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20. The smoke obscured the scene, which had not been cordoned off with cones. The vehicle entered, braked hard while attempting to steer away, and came [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-zoox-recalls-105-robotaxis-after-one-drove-into-heavy-smoke-at-an-active-fire-scene/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-zoox-recalls-105-robotaxis-after-one-drove-into-heavy-smoke-at-an-active-fire-scene/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt]]></title><description><![CDATA[China will impose a consumption tax on lithium-ion and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, marking a policy shift as Beijing seeks to rein in overcapacity and destructive price wars in industries it spent years subsidising into global dominance. A 2% tax on lithium-ion batteries takes effect this September, rising to 4% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-will-tax-lithium-and-solar-batteries-for-the-first-time-in-a-decade-but-sodium-batteries-stay-exempt/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-will-tax-lithium-and-solar-batteries-for-the-first-time-in-a-decade-but-sodium-batteries-stay-exempt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASML will give every employee a €20,000 bonus as AI demand drives record sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASML will give all employees globally a one-time &euro;20,000 ($22,862) share award, the company confirmed on Friday. The bonus vests on January 1, 2030, for staff who remain with the company for the entire period. About 45,000 people work at Europe&rsquo;s most valuable company. The payout joins a wave of AI-boom bonuses across the chip [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asml-will-give-every-employee-a-20000-bonus-as-ai-demand-drives-record-sales/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asml-will-give-every-employee-a-20000-bonus-as-ai-demand-drives-record-sales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This CNC machine made us an Android figurine with just a photo!]]></title><description><![CDATA[This CNC machine made us an Android figurine with just a photo!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-cnc-machine-made-us-an-android-figurine-with-just-a-photo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-cnc-machine-made-us-an-android-figurine-with-just-a-photo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI industry is obsessed with models that write and talk. SAP has just completed a large bet on a different kind entirely, one built for structured data,&nbsp;as its acquisition of Prior Labs closed. The deal is now done, with regulatory approvals secured and the Freiburg-based lab operating inside SAP. The German software giant is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/while-everyone-builds-chatbots-sap-just-closed-a-1bn-plus-bet-on-ai-that-understands-your-spreadsheets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/while-everyone-builds-chatbots-sap-just-closed-a-1bn-plus-bet-on-ai-that-understands-your-spreadsheets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A healthcare AI startup has raised fresh funding to push AI agents deeper into hospital operations. Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m,&nbsp;HIT Consultant reports. The pitch is a platform, not a product. Its Carebricks system lets health systems build and run their own AI agents, rather [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/agentic-ai-is-moving-from-drafting-doctors-notes-to-routing-their-patients-bunkerhill-just-raised-on-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/agentic-ai-is-moving-from-drafting-doctors-notes-to-routing-their-patients-bunkerhill-just-raised-on-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. The plan is a secondary listing on top of its existing Shenzhen shares. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-booms-least-glamorous-winner-just-filed-for-a-5bn-listing-and-it-wires-google-and-amazons-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-booms-least-glamorous-winner-just-filed-for-a-5bn-listing-and-it-wires-google-and-amazons-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new Chinese AI model has rattled global markets, sending tech and chip stocks sharply lower. Moonshot&rsquo;s Kimi K3 surprised investors and helped fuel a broad selloff,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. Traders quickly labelled it a &ldquo;Kimi moment&rdquo;, echoing the DeepSeek shock of early 2025. The comparison is doing a lot of work, and not all of it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-open-source-model-just-triggered-another-ai-selloff-the-panic-says-more-about-us-spending-than-about-kimi/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-open-source-model-just-triggered-another-ai-selloff-the-panic-says-more-about-us-spending-than-about-kimi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why an AI browser might become part of your everyday life]]></title><description><![CDATA[The browser you already use every day is learning how to help you&nbsp;get things done. On a typical evening, you might have twenty tabs open comparing two mattresses, a half-written message to your landlord, and a recipe you keep scrolling back to. Sound familiar? You&rsquo;re not alone, and you&rsquo;re not disorganized. Traditional browsers were never [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-an-ai-browser-might-become-part-of-your-everyday-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-an-ai-browser-might-become-part-of-your-everyday-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cameras aren’t getting better — they’re just using more AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cameras aren’t getting better — they’re just using more AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cameras-arent-getting-better-theyre-just-using-more-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cameras-arent-getting-better-theyre-just-using-more-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-brainco-showed-a-platform-that-lets-you-control-robots-with-your-mind/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-brainco-showed-a-platform-that-lets-you-control-robots-with-your-mind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Bitcoin trading to financial super apps: what nine years of Binance reveal about crypto exchange evolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nine years later, Binance serves more than 316 million users across trading, payments, savings,&nbsp;tokenized securities, and traditional asset access. Its evolution from a spot cryptocurrency exchange into an integrated financial platform closely mirrors the broader maturation of the centralized exchange industry itself. A&nbsp;recent CoinDesk Research case study&nbsp;traces that transformation through five distinct phases, illustrating how [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-bitcoin-trading-to-financial-super-apps-what-nine-years-of-binance-reveal-about-crypto-exchange-evolution/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-bitcoin-trading-to-financial-super-apps-what-nine-years-of-binance-reveal-about-crypto-exchange-evolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, which values Runta at more than $100 million, The Information reported. &lsquo;Parenting&rsquo; AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a16z-is-backing-runta-a-startup-that-wants-to-parent-your-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a16z-is-backing-runta-a-startup-that-wants-to-parent-your-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move covers the applications Airbus needs to keep running as a &ldquo;minimum viable company.&rdquo; That is about 900 apps, starting with 70 now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airbus-is-moving-its-most-critical-apps-off-aws-to-a-french-cloud/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airbus-is-moving-its-most-critical-apps-off-aws-to-a-french-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board, an independent body funded by Meta to review its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-oversight-board-study-says-top-ai-models-are-stifling-political-speech/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-oversight-board-study-says-top-ai-models-are-stifling-political-speech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An FCC plan could end the anonymous burner phone in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie every American&rsquo;s identity to a number. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon be impossible in the US. A Federal Communications Commission proposal would force providers to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-fcc-plan-could-end-the-anonymous-burner-phone-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-fcc-plan-could-end-the-anonymous-burner-phone-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now]]></title><description><![CDATA[The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI models, Axios reported. Their diagnoses [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-fiercest-rivals-just-agreed-on-one-thing-regulate-frontier-ai-now/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-fiercest-rivals-just-agreed-on-one-thing-regulate-frontier-ai-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, TechCrunch reported. They will reach [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-will-alert-parents-to-teens-self-harm-chats-with-its-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-will-alert-parents-to-teens-self-harm-chats-with-its-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company&rsquo;s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the&nbsp;Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 4,500 staff to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-workers-rally-at-mountain-view-hq-demanding-a-floor-under-their-jobs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-workers-rally-at-mountain-view-hq-demanding-a-floor-under-their-jobs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepMind’s Hassabis says a STEM degree makes you 10x better with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video published on Wednesday. Knowing the fundamentals of software gives you an edge with AI, he told the audience, Business [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepminds-hassabis-says-a-stem-degree-makes-you-10x-better-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepminds-hassabis-says-a-stem-degree-makes-you-10x-better-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the philosopher inside Google DeepMind]]></title><description><![CDATA[What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? That question sits at the heart of a Guardian long-read on Iason Gabriel, who has worked inside Google DeepMind since 2017. For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel was the only philosopher at a frontier AI lab. His job was to anticipate the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meet-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meet-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind launched an AI biosecurity programme to fight biological threats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post. The aim is twofold. DeepMind wants to stop people misusing its models, and to help governments, scientists and biosecurity groups use AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-deepmind-launched-an-ai-biosecurity-programme-to-fight-biological-threats/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-deepmind-launched-an-ai-biosecurity-programme-to-fight-biological-threats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mick Jagger says AI is fine for musicians, as long as it does not sound like him]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mick Jagger has given a qualified blessing to musicians who reach for artificial intelligence, on the strict condition that whatever comes out is genuinely their own. &ldquo;If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead,&rdquo; he told&nbsp;Billboard&nbsp;in a cover story published this week. &ldquo;But it has to be original.&rdquo; The line arrives quickly, though, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mick-jagger-says-ai-is-fine-for-musicians-as-long-as-it-does-not-sound-like-him/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mick-jagger-says-ai-is-fine-for-musicians-as-long-as-it-does-not-sound-like-him/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away]]></title><description><![CDATA[A French startup has raised $30 million to tackle one of fashion&rsquo;s hardest waste problems. Syntetica recycles nylon, and it can process two grades at once that the industry has long struggled to pull apart, its founder told TechCrunch. The Ecotechnologies 2 fund, managed by France&rsquo;s public bank Bpifrance, led the round, worth &euro;26.1 million. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/french-startup-syntetica-raised-30m-to-recycle-the-nylon-fashion-throws-away/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/french-startup-syntetica-raised-30m-to-recycle-the-nylon-fashion-throws-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coca-Cola halted fairlife’s US production after a ransomware attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. A ransomware attack has stopped production at one of Coca-Cola&rsquo;s biggest dairy brands. The company said fairlife found unauthorised access to part of its systems, including production systems, in a statement. Coca-Cola disclosed the breach to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coca-cola-halted-fairlifes-us-production-after-a-ransomware-attack/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coca-cola-halted-fairlifes-us-production-after-a-ransomware-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mamdani wants NYC landlords to label the AI in their apartment photos]]></title><description><![CDATA[The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his administration published the&nbsp;Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda drawn from the testimony of more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mamdani-wants-nyc-landlords-to-label-the-ai-in-their-apartment-photos/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mamdani-wants-nyc-landlords-to-label-the-ai-in-their-apartment-photos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group&rsquo;s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son&rsquo;s firm has sold before and that lands squarely behind its swelling bet on OpenAI. The plan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-lines-up-a-new-60bn-bond-to-keep-its-openai-bet-funded/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-lines-up-a-new-60bn-bond-to-keep-its-openai-bet-funded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Electric weighs power-chip merger with Rohm and Toshiba]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan&rsquo;s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition. Mitsubishi Electric is exploring a combination of its power-semiconductor operations with those of Rohm and Toshiba, according to people familiar with the matter cited by&nbsp;Bloomberg. The talks are part of a wider scramble to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mitsubishi-electric-weighs-power-chip-merger-with-rohm-and-toshiba/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mitsubishi-electric-weighs-power-chip-merger-with-rohm-and-toshiba/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s record EU fine won’t just punish Google. It will quietly shrink what European taxpayers owe Brussels.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has finally paid its record EU antitrust fine, and the money is about to do something unexpected. The &euro;4.6bn will flow into the EU&rsquo;s central budget and reduce what member states owe Brussels,&nbsp;Politico reports. The mechanism is dry, but the effect is real. EU fines are not earmarked for anything, so they simply lower [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-record-eu-fine-wont-just-punish-google-it-will-quietly-shrink-what-european-taxpayers-owe-brussels/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-record-eu-fine-wont-just-punish-google-it-will-quietly-shrink-what-european-taxpayers-owe-brussels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Databricks hits $188bn valuation in Coatue-led round, landing above its own $175bn talks]]></title><description><![CDATA[$188bn is a large number for a company that keeps insisting it is in no rush to go public. That is the valuation Databricks has reached in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, a figure first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The mark sits well above the up-to-$175bn the firm was reportedly&nbsp;in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/databricks-hits-188bn-valuation-in-coatue-led-round-landing-above-its-own-175bn-talks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/databricks-hits-188bn-valuation-in-coatue-led-round-landing-above-its-own-175bn-talks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xi Jinping told the&nbsp;World AI Conference&nbsp;in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence &ldquo;should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,&rdquo; casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology. The line, aimed at the developing world and, by implication, at Washington, set the tone for a speech [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xi-tells-world-ai-conference-no-single-country-should-monopolise-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xi-tells-world-ai-conference-no-single-country-should-monopolise-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PayPal board rebuffs $53bn Stripe and Advent bid as too low, sources say]]></title><description><![CDATA[PayPal&rsquo;s board reckons that a $53bn (&pound;39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer short, the latest twist in a fast-moving round of&nbsp;payments consolidation. People familiar with the talks told&nbsp;Reuters&nbsp;the directors view the offer as inadequate and have yet to respond formally. The approach values PayPal at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paypal-board-rebuffs-53bn-stripe-and-advent-bid-as-too-low-sources-say/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paypal-board-rebuffs-53bn-stripe-and-advent-bid-as-too-low-sources-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most precise figure yet attached to DeepSeek&rsquo;s worth did not come from the lab, its bankers or its founder. It surfaced in a stock-exchange filing by Anhui Korrun, a Chinese luggage maker, which discloses a stake small enough to imply the Hangzhou AI startup is valued at around $52bn. The arithmetic is narrow but [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-luggage-makers-filing-just-pinned-deepseek-at-52bn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-luggage-makers-filing-just-pinned-deepseek-at-52bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Network School founder says Malaysia immigration probe risks its tech ambitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Balaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the &ldquo;network state,&rdquo; his theory that an&nbsp;internet country&nbsp;of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week a real one reminded him who still holds the passports. The former Coinbase chief technology officer and Andreessen Horowitz partner said on 15 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/network-school-founder-says-malaysia-immigration-probe-risks-its-tech-ambitions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/network-school-founder-says-malaysia-immigration-probe-risks-its-tech-ambitions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix beats on Q2 earnings but a soft Q3 forecast sends the stock down 9%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix cleared the quarter and stumbled on the outlook. The company posted second-quarter revenue of&nbsp;$12.56bn&nbsp;on Thursday, up 13% on the year, alongside earnings of $0.80 a share, a cent ahead of the $0.79 analysts had pencilled in. Then it guided the next three months lower, and the stock did the rest. Third-quarter revenue is forecast [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-beats-on-q2-earnings-but-a-soft-q3-forecast-sends-the-stock-down-9/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-beats-on-q2-earnings-but-a-soft-q3-forecast-sends-the-stock-down-9/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, the world’s largest open AI model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter system it bills as the world&rsquo;s largest open-weight AI model. The claim, made on 16 July, plants the firm squarely alongside the American frontier labs it has spent two years chasing. The model arrives weeks after Moonshot was reported to be&nbsp;seeking a $30bn valuation, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moonshot-unveils-kimi-k3-the-worlds-largest-open-ai-model/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moonshot-unveils-kimi-k3-the-worlds-largest-open-ai-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China just put its first commercial brain implant into a patient. It’s smaller than Neuralink’s, on purpose.]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has performed the world&rsquo;s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired hand movement,&nbsp;the South China Morning Post reports. The patient had lost hand function after a spinal cord injury in a car accident a decade ago. The procedure [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-just-put-its-first-commercial-brain-implant-into-a-patient-its-smaller-than-neuralinks-on-purpose/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-just-put-its-first-commercial-brain-implant-into-a-patient-its-smaller-than-neuralinks-on-purpose/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chinese AI startup is about to hit $1bn in sales while giving its best models away for free]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of China&rsquo;s leading AI startups is closing in on a milestone the rest of the industry keeps missing. Z.ai, the company behind the GLM models, is set to become the first independent Chinese AI firm with $1bn in annual sales,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. The claim is a projection, not a booked result. But the trajectory behind [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-ai-startup-is-about-to-hit-1bn-in-sales-while-giving-its-best-models-away-for-free/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-ai-startup-is-about-to-hit-1bn-in-sales-while-giving-its-best-models-away-for-free/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[KAIST and Stanford unveil clothing that climbs onto its wearer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Getting dressed is the sort of task nobody thinks about until they can no longer manage it. For millions of older and disabled people, pulling on a sleeve is a daily negotiation with buttons, shoulders, and gravity, and it usually needs a second pair of hands. A research team from South Korea and the United [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kaist-and-stanford-unveil-clothing-that-climbs-onto-its-wearer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kaist-and-stanford-unveil-clothing-that-climbs-onto-its-wearer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eoptolink files for Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eoptolink Technology, a Chinese maker of the optical parts that shuttle data between AI chips, has&nbsp;filed for a Hong Kong listing&nbsp;that could raise as much as $5bn, according to Bloomberg. The paperwork arrives roughly three months after the company&nbsp;picked banks&nbsp;for a deal then pegged at about $3bn, a target that has swelled alongside the market&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eoptolink-files-for-hong-kong-listing-that-could-raise-up-to-5bn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eoptolink-files-for-hong-kong-listing-that-could-raise-up-to-5bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI was supposed to kill the travel agent. Instead it just minted a billion-dollar one.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fora, a platform that lets ordinary people become travel agents and gives travellers a way to find them, has raised a $60m Series D at a $1bn valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures. It has 15,000+ advisors (97% new to the profession) who have booked over $3bn in travel, an accelerating curve. Fora is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-was-supposed-to-kill-the-travel-agent-instead-it-just-minted-a-billion-dollar-one/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-was-supposed-to-kill-the-travel-agent-instead-it-just-minted-a-billion-dollar-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roblox launches Build, a mobile tab that turns text prompts into playable games]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roblox announced Build on Wednesday, a new creation tab inside the Roblox mobile app that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a basic playable game without touching Roblox Studio or writing a line of code. A creator can describe something like a cozy forest adventure game with environmental obstacles, and Build will generate a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/roblox-launches-build-a-mobile-tab-that-turns-text-prompts-into-playable-games/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/roblox-launches-build-a-mobile-tab-that-turns-text-prompts-into-playable-games/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1Password lets Claude log you into websites without ever seeing your passwords]]></title><description><![CDATA[1Password has launched a browser integration that lets Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude use stored credentials to complete tasks on the web without the passwords ever reaching the AI model, according to a blog post published on Thursday. The company calls it a zero-exposure architecture: when Claude needs to sign in, 1Password shows the user which credential is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/1password-lets-claude-log-you-into-websites-without-ever-seeing-your-passwords/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/1password-lets-claude-log-you-into-websites-without-ever-seeing-your-passwords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen enters the robotaxi race with a shared shuttle service in Hamburg]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volkswagen&rsquo;s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time a major European automaker has launched an autonomous passenger service on its home continent. Up to five vehicles are operating at initial launch, with the fleet expected to expand to 10, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-enters-the-robotaxi-race-with-a-shared-shuttle-service-in-hamburg/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-enters-the-robotaxi-race-with-a-shared-shuttle-service-in-hamburg/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The driver who crashed a Tesla into a Texas home at 70 mph had pressed the accelerator to 100 percent, NTSB finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[The driver of a Tesla that crashed into a Texas home and killed a 76-year-old woman had manually overrode Full Self-Driving by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released on Wednesday. The 2025 Model 3 was travelling at more than 70 mph on a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-driver-who-crashed-a-tesla-into-a-texas-home-at-70-mph-had-pressed-the-accelerator-to-100-percent-ntsb-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-driver-who-crashed-a-tesla-into-a-texas-home-at-70-mph-had-pressed-the-accelerator-to-100-percent-ntsb-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle is one notch above junk after S&amp;P downgrade as AI data-centre spending burns through cash]]></title><description><![CDATA[S&amp;P downgraded Oracle to BBB- on July 9, placing the company one notch above junk status, as a $250 billion data-centre expansion plan burns through cash faster than revenue can replace it. Oracle is now the second-largest non-financial debt issuer in the Bloomberg US Corporate Bond Index after Amazon, with $117 billion outstanding. Shares fell [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-is-one-notch-above-junk-after-sampp-downgrade-as-ai-data-centre-spending-burns-through-cash/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-is-one-notch-above-junk-after-sampp-downgrade-as-ai-data-centre-spending-burns-through-cash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s next Gemini Pro is months behind schedule as coding capabilities fall short of internal goals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing 10 current and former employees. The company was widely expected to release the upgrade at its May developer conference but has been [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-next-gemini-pro-is-months-behind-schedule-as-coding-capabilities-fall-short-of-internal-goals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-next-gemini-pro-is-months-behind-schedule-as-coding-capabilities-fall-short-of-internal-goals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GameStop’s Ryan Cohen calls physical game sales ‘totally irrelevant’ and pivots every question back to eBay]]></title><description><![CDATA[GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed the decline of physical video game sales as &ldquo;totally, totally irrelevant&rdquo; to the company&rsquo;s business in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday. Cohen was responding to Sony&rsquo;s announcement earlier this month that it will end physical disc production for new PlayStation games in 2028. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter at all,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gamestops-ryan-cohen-calls-physical-game-sales-totally-irrelevant-and-pivots-every-question-back-to-ebay/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gamestops-ryan-cohen-calls-physical-game-sales-totally-irrelevant-and-pivots-every-question-back-to-ebay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visa launched a stablecoin platform that sent Circle shares tumbling six percent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform on Thursday, a new infrastructure product that lets banks and payment processors issue, manage, and settle stablecoin transactions through Visa&rsquo;s network. The platform launches with native support for Open USD, the stablecoin backed by a consortium of more than 140 firms including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and BlackRock. Jack Forestell, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visa-launched-a-stablecoin-platform-that-sent-circle-shares-tumbling-six-percent/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visa-launched-a-stablecoin-platform-that-sent-circle-shares-tumbling-six-percent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU is forcing Google to open Android to rival AI and share its search data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google will have to let rival AI assistants run on Android the way its own Gemini does. It must also hand some of its search data to competitors. The European Commission set out both requirements on Thursday. The two decisions fall under the EU&rsquo;s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Commission said. The law forces &ldquo;gatekeeper&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-is-forcing-google-to-open-android-to-rival-ai-and-share-its-search-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-is-forcing-google-to-open-android-to-rival-ai-and-share-its-search-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI and a brain implant restored a paralysed man’s movement and touch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to a man paralysed from the chest down. The results, published in Nature Medicine, suggest the technology partly rewired his nervous system. The system, called a &ldquo;double neural bypass,&rdquo; comes from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, the team [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-and-a-brain-implant-restored-a-paralysed-mans-movement-and-touch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-and-a-brain-implant-restored-a-paralysed-mans-movement-and-touch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verizon cuts 3,000 retail jobs as AI replaces customer service and stores move to franchises]]></title><description><![CDATA[Verizon is cutting about 3,000 employees from its corporate-owned retail stores and transferring 274 locations to independent operators, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The changes take effect on August 16 and will leave the largest US mobile carrier with 1,000 company-owned stores alongside roughly 5,000 independent franchises. A company spokesperson said many of the workers at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/verizon-cuts-3000-retail-jobs-as-ai-replaces-customer-service-and-stores-move-to-franchises/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/verizon-cuts-3000-retail-jobs-as-ai-replaces-customer-service-and-stores-move-to-franchises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement on 16 July to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), Reuters reported. China says the intergovernmental body aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in AI. China&rsquo;s foreign minister, Wang Yi, signed on behalf of Beijing. UN Secretary-General Ant&oacute;nio Guterres attended the ceremony. The founding members include Russia, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/29-countries-sign-a-treaty-to-establish-the-world-ai-cooperation-organization/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/29-countries-sign-a-treaty-to-establish-the-world-ai-cooperation-organization/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and expands code execution to Pro users]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding one of its most popular AI products into the Gemini brand while keeping it as a standalone tool. The company said on Thursday that the rebrand reflects how deeply the research assistant has been woven into the broader Google ecosystem, including the Gemini app and Google Search. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-renames-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook-and-expands-code-execution-to-pro-users/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-renames-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook-and-expands-code-execution-to-pro-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SWISSto12 raised $70M, and it is that rare thing: a profitable space startup]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most space-hardware startups raise money because they are burning it. SWISSto12 raised $70m while turning a profit, an unusual thing in the satellite business. The Swiss company closed the &euro;61m round days after ESA member states put $84.8m into its HummingSat programme, it said. That is more than $150m of fresh capital in a month. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/swissto12-raised-70m-and-it-is-that-rare-thing-a-profitable-space-startup/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/swissto12-raised-70m-and-it-is-that-rare-thing-a-profitable-space-startup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xpeng’s L03 is the first Chinese EV to put proprietary AI driving chips in a mass-market car]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets. The coupe-SUV is built around the company&rsquo;s proprietary Turing AI chips, with every trim shipping at least one and the top Ultra variant carrying three for a combined 2,250 trillion operations per second. It is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xpengs-l03-is-the-first-chinese-ev-to-put-proprietary-ai-driving-chips-in-a-mass-market-car/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xpengs-l03-is-the-first-chinese-ev-to-put-proprietary-ai-driving-chips-in-a-mass-market-car/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values the San Mateo startup at $17.5bn, it said. Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV led the round. Nvidia, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fireworks-raised-15bn-on-a-bet-that-companies-will-build-ai-not-rent-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fireworks-raised-15bn-on-a-bet-that-companies-will-build-ai-not-rent-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia to build an AI that runs product demos instead of humans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sable has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build an AI system called Aidan that runs live product demonstrations, answers customer questions in real time, and switches between languages mid-conversation. The company, which is less than a year old, calls Aidan an AI employee designed to replace not just chat support but [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sable-raised-45-million-from-sequoia-to-build-an-ai-that-runs-product-demos-instead-of-humans/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sable-raised-45-million-from-sequoia-to-build-an-ai-that-runs-product-demos-instead-of-humans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals]]></title><description><![CDATA[The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That takes its total funding to $55m. Sequoia, Felicis, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bunkerhill-health-raised-55m-to-put-ai-agents-to-work-inside-hospitals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bunkerhill-health-raised-55m-to-put-ai-agents-to-work-inside-hospitals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple is preparing an OLED iPad mini for October as its tablet lineup expands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is preparing the biggest overhaul of its iPad mini in half a decade, with plans to release a version featuring an OLED display by October, according to people familiar with the matter. The current model has kept the same design since 2021, receiving only a faster chip two years ago. Bloomberg reported the updated [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-preparing-an-oled-ipad-mini-for-october-as-its-tablet-lineup-expands/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-preparing-an-oled-ipad-mini-for-october-as-its-tablet-lineup-expands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is rebuilding its security business around AI, and cutting hundreds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is the biggest seller of cybersecurity software on the planet. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams. It has already cost several hundred jobs, The Information reported. The driver is fear, and money. Companies are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-rebuilding-its-security-business-around-ai-and-cutting-hundreds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-rebuilding-its-security-business-around-ai-and-cutting-hundreds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The UK won’t restrict VPNs after all, and its own research is why]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. &ldquo;We decided not to limit VPNs,&rdquo; he said. A VPN hides a user&rsquo;s real [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uk-wont-restrict-vpns-after-all-and-its-own-research-is-why/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uk-wont-restrict-vpns-after-all-and-its-own-research-is-why/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed round, it said. Its aim is an &ldquo;identity operating [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oak-raised-60m-to-give-every-user-machine-and-ai-agent-one-identity-system/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oak-raised-60m-to-give-every-user-machine-and-ai-agent-one-identity-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next fortune in AI is implementation, not models]]></title><description><![CDATA[The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies. That company is Ode with Anthropic, and it launched under its full name this week, the partners said. Anthropic, Blackstone, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-and-blackstone-bet-the-next-fortune-in-ai-is-implementation-not-models/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-and-blackstone-bet-the-next-fortune-in-ai-is-implementation-not-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that. Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol that lets the internet&rsquo;s independent systems talk to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-father-of-the-internet-wants-to-give-ai-agents-an-identity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-father-of-the-internet-wants-to-give-ai-agents-an-identity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unified Endpoint Management Platform: ManageEngine | SourceForge Podcast, episode #125]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unified Endpoint Management Platform: ManageEngine | SourceForge Podcast, episode #125]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unified-endpoint-management-platform-manageengine-sourceforge-podcast-episode-125/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unified-endpoint-management-platform-manageengine-sourceforge-podcast-episode-125/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OnePlus, as we know it, is over]]></title><description><![CDATA[OnePlus, as we know it, is over]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oneplus-as-we-know-it-is-over/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oneplus-as-we-know-it-is-over/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s official: OnePlus is changing forever]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s official: OnePlus is changing forever]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/its-official-oneplus-is-changing-forever/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/its-official-oneplus-is-changing-forever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the minds behind Apple&rsquo;s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain. His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is simple. It wants a brain test to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-face-id-pioneer-raised-52m-to-read-the-brain-like-a-blood-test/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-face-id-pioneer-raised-52m-to-read-the-brain-like-a-blood-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has never shipped a bigger security update. Its July Patch Tuesday fixed a record haul of flaws, and the company says AI is why the count keeps climbing. The scale is hard to ignore. By Microsoft&rsquo;s own count, the update patched 622 vulnerabilities. That more than tripled June&rsquo;s tally, which had set a record [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsofts-record-patch-tuesday-and-it-says-ai-found-the-bugs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsofts-record-patch-tuesday-and-it-says-ai-found-the-bugs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Washington wants it to counter Chinese hacking. Before the US shares more of its secrets with Japan, it wants Japan to lock them down. Oracle is now the front-runner to build the vault. Larry Ellison&rsquo;s company has pulled ahead [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-leads-the-race-to-build-japan-a-secret-air-gapped-cloud/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-leads-the-race-to-build-japan-a-secret-air-gapped-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nokia and Nvidia built the first commercial AI-RAN, aiming to double network capacity]]></title><description><![CDATA[The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry&rsquo;s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network, the gear that links phones to the wider network. An AI-RAN runs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nokia-and-nvidia-built-the-first-commercial-ai-ran-aiming-to-double-network-capacity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nokia-and-nvidia-built-the-first-commercial-ai-ran-aiming-to-double-network-capacity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google will start carrying rival app stores inside Google Play on 22 July]]></title><description><![CDATA[Android has always let people install apps from outside Google&rsquo;s store. Next week it goes much further. Google will start carrying rival app stores from inside Google Play itself. Google told a California court it is ready to begin on Wednesday 22 July, The Verge reported. The move came after Google and Epic Games jointly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-start-carrying-rival-app-stores-inside-google-play-on-22-july/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-start-carrying-rival-app-stores-inside-google-play-on-22-july/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AGCOM fined Google €750,000 over gambling videos on YouTube]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in a case that turns on a deceptively small question: whether a platform that shares advertising revenue with a creator is still merely hosting what that creator uploads. The dispute began on 19 July 2022, when AGCOM, Italy&rsquo;s communications authority,&nbsp;fined Google Ireland &euro;750,000&nbsp;and ordered it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/agcom-fined-google-750000-over-gambling-videos-on-youtube/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/agcom-fined-google-750000-over-gambling-videos-on-youtube/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan is building a 140MW AI factory for robots, and Nvidia is supplying all of it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia and a Japanese industrial consortium are building what Nvidia calls the world&rsquo;s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, and the specification is unusually concrete for an announcement of this kind. The AI factory will run 13,750 Nvidia Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs across 140 megawatts of data centre capacity,&nbsp;built on the Nvidia [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/japan-is-building-a-140mw-ai-factory-for-robots-and-nvidia-is-supplying-all-of-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/japan-is-building-a-140mw-ai-factory-for-robots-and-nvidia-is-supplying-all-of-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An F1 aerodynamicist just raised $55m to teach factory robots, using footage of people doing chores]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bercan Kilic got his dream job in 2023, designing aerodynamics for Red Bull Racing while it was winning everything. He found the engineering magnificent and the point of it thin. His Munich startup, microagi, has now raised $55m, which it says is the largest seed round a German company has secured. Hummingbird led, with Northzone, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-f1-aerodynamicist-just-raised-55m-to-teach-factory-robots-using-footage-of-people-doing-chores/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-f1-aerodynamicist-just-raised-55m-to-teach-factory-robots-using-footage-of-people-doing-chores/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump calls New York’s data centre pause a ‘terrible decision’. Hochul is not moving.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kathy Hochul signed the executive order on Tuesday. Donald Trump was demanding she undo it by Wednesday. The order pauses construction of new data centres drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York&nbsp;the first US state to pull the brake&nbsp;on the buildings powering the AI boom. State officials are to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-calls-new-yorks-data-centre-pause-a-terrible-decision-hochul-is-not-moving/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-calls-new-yorks-data-centre-pause-a-terrible-decision-hochul-is-not-moving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft executives spent an internal meeting on Tuesday teaching the sales force how to run down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which would be unremarkable except that two of those companies supply the models inside Microsoft&rsquo;s own products. The session was billed as a strategy kickoff for the fiscal year that began this month, and it&nbsp;leaned [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-coaching-its-salespeople-to-talk-down-the-models-it-still-runs-on/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-coaching-its-salespeople-to-talk-down-the-models-it-still-runs-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applied Computing raises $20m to build a foundation model for the refinery]]></title><description><![CDATA[A single refinery can carry thousands of sensors measuring temperature, pressure, velocity, and viscosity. According to Applied Computing, operators make decisions using less than 8% of what those sensors tell them. The London startup has raised a $20m Series A to close that gap,&nbsp;led by engineering giant KBR&nbsp;with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/applied-computing-raises-20m-to-build-a-foundation-model-for-the-refinery/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/applied-computing-raises-20m-to-build-a-foundation-model-for-the-refinery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WHO warns Europe’s AI health governance gap is becoming irreversible]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hans Kluge opened his speech in Lisbon with a number, which is not how the World Health Organization usually does this. &ldquo;Let me start with a number: 8%,&rdquo; the WHO Regional Director for Europe&nbsp;told delegates&nbsp;on 15 July. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the share of countries in the WHO European Region that have a health-specific AI strategy. Just 8%.&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/who-warns-europes-ai-health-governance-gap-is-becoming-irreversible/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/who-warns-europes-ai-health-governance-gap-is-becoming-irreversible/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company says the defendant engineered prompts to defeat Grok&rsquo;s safeguards. Courts on three continents are being asked whether the safeguards were ever the point. AI has sued one of its own users, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material in breach of the company&rsquo;s terms of service. It is understood to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xais-first-lawsuit-against-a-user-tests-who-is-responsible-for-what-grok-makes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xais-first-lawsuit-against-a-user-tests-who-is-responsible-for-what-grok-makes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber agrees $14.8bn Delivery Hero takeover, 26% above its May bid]]></title><description><![CDATA[The May bid was &euro;33 and landed below the close. Eight weeks later it is &euro;41.50, with 14 markets carved out to a New York firm before anyone asks about competition. Uber has agreed to buy Delivery Hero for &euro;41.50 a share in cash, a 26% improvement on the offer it put on the table [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-agrees-148bn-delivery-hero-takeover-26-above-its-may-bid/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-agrees-148bn-delivery-hero-takeover-26-above-its-may-bid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall Street just had its best investment banking quarter in years, and it is calling AI a super cycle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs booked $3.4bn in investment banking fees in the second quarter, a record, up 55% on a year earlier. Its chief executive has a name for what is driving it. &ldquo;We are in the middle of an AI CapEx super cycle where there are demands on financing into every single financing instrument, in every [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wall-street-just-had-its-best-investment-banking-quarter-in-years-and-it-is-calling-ai-a-super-cycle/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wall-street-just-had-its-best-investment-banking-quarter-in-years-and-it-is-calling-ai-a-super-cycle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s best earnings quarter in three years is an energy story, not an AI one]]></title><description><![CDATA[European companies are heading into their strongest quarterly earnings season in more than three years, and almost none of it is about AI. STOXX 600 constituents are forecast to grow second-quarter profits by 15.3% year on year, according to&nbsp;LSEG I/B/E/S data&nbsp;compiled by analyst Tajinder Dhillon and published on 9 July. That works out at &euro;156.8bn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-best-earnings-quarter-in-three-years-is-an-energy-story-not-an-ai-one/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-best-earnings-quarter-in-three-years-is-an-energy-story-not-an-ai-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safety Act: whether TikTok has adequate measures to work out that a given user is a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ofcom-opens-a-child-safety-investigation-into-tiktok/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ofcom-opens-a-child-safety-investigation-into-tiktok/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia signs up Japan’s robotics establishment for its open world models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has recruited most of Japan&rsquo;s industrial robotics establishment into the Cosmos Coalition, the open world-model programme it uses to seed its physical AI stack, in announcements timed to Jensen Huang&rsquo;s week in Tokyo. Twenty-two companies are named: AIRoA, classmethod, Enactic, FANUC, Fujitsu, GROOVE X, Hitachi, Honda R&amp;D, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, Mitsui &amp; Co., [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-signs-up-japans-robotics-establishment-for-its-open-world-models/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-signs-up-japans-robotics-establishment-for-its-open-world-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI&rsquo;s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated red-teamer: software that hunts for ways [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-built-an-ai-super-hacker-to-break-its-own-models-then-locked-it-away/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-built-an-ai-super-hacker-to-break-its-own-models-then-locked-it-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story. It trained its model by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from across the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-hack-just-showed-how-sunos-ai-music-was-really-built-millions-of-scraped-songs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-hack-just-showed-how-sunos-ai-music-was-really-built-millions-of-scraped-songs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company&rsquo;s hardware lineup. Annual plans went up by five dollars. The increases apply only to new sign-ups, meaning existing subscribers will keep their current [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-raises-applecare-prices-as-the-memory-shortage-spreads-from-hardware-to-services/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-raises-applecare-prices-as-the-memory-shortage-spreads-from-hardware-to-services/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media]]></title><description><![CDATA[YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-appeals-the-social-media-addiction-verdict-arguing-it-isnt-social-media/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-appeals-the-social-media-addiction-verdict-arguing-it-isnt-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple is shopping for chip companies because its own AI servers can’t keep up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple built a trillion-dollar business on chips it designs itself. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported. In recent months it has talked to bankers about deals and approached chip startups to ask if they [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-shopping-for-chip-companies-because-its-own-ai-servers-cant-keep-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-shopping-for-chip-companies-because-its-own-ai-servers-cant-keep-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boston Dynamics is testing Spot as a package delivery robot that walks from van to doorstep]]></title><description><![CDATA[Boston Dynamics is testing Spot, its four-legged robot, as a delivery worker that rides along in trucks and hops out to carry packages to customers&rsquo; doorsteps. The company posted a video on Tuesday showing a human driver loading packages onto a conveyor belt mounted on Spot&rsquo;s back, followed by the robot walking up to houses [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/boston-dynamics-is-testing-spot-as-a-package-delivery-robot-that-walks-from-van-to-doorstep/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/boston-dynamics-is-testing-spot-as-a-package-delivery-robot-that-walks-from-van-to-doorstep/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. &ldquo;If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren&rsquo;t ready, and they don&rsquo;t want them yet.&rdquo; That is Russ Tedrake, telling Bloomberg why his new [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walden-robotics-launches-with-300m-and-its-factory-humanoids-have-no-legs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walden-robotics-launches-with-300m-and-its-factory-humanoids-have-no-legs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise about $200m at a $2bn valuation, with Lightspeed in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-openai-researcher-is-leaving-to-build-a-2bn-ai-drug-startup-that-has-no-name-yet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-openai-researcher-is-leaving-to-build-a-2bn-ai-drug-startup-that-has-no-name-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange. The integration, first reported by the New York Times, shows real-time odds for 2026 FIFA World Cup matches with a &ldquo;Source: Kalshi&rdquo; label but no outbound links or Kalshi [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-showing-kalshis-world-cup-odds-inside-chatgpt-its-first-prediction-market-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-showing-kalshis-world-cup-odds-inside-chatgpt-its-first-prediction-market-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.&rdquo; That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati&rsquo;s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab&rsquo;s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has released Inkling. It is open-weight, so any developer or company can download the model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thinking-machines-debuts-inkling-a-giant-open-model-it-admits-is-not-the-best/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thinking-machines-debuts-inkling-a-giant-open-model-it-admits-is-not-the-best/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences&rsquo; Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he received China&rsquo;s Youth May Fourth Medal, the country&rsquo;s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35, for developing a sodium metal battery that charges in roughly four minutes, retains 90% capacity [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-scientist-built-a-sodium-battery-that-charges-in-4-minutes-it-could-break-chinas-75-lithium-dependence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chinese-scientist-built-a-sodium-battery-that-charges-in-4-minutes-it-could-break-chinas-75-lithium-dependence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. First stop is a Helsinki winter. Europe has another driverless car heading for its roads. Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicles on public roads, effective immediately. It is the second EU country to approve the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bliqai-gets-the-green-light-for-driverless-cars-in-finland/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bliqai-gets-the-green-light-for-driverless-cars-in-finland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify&rsquo;s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve gone into markets where health care is free, and hundreds of thousands of people line up in a queue&rdquo; to pay for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/neko-health-raises-700m-at-nearly-7bn-and-heads-to-new-york/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/neko-health-raises-700m-at-nearly-7bn-and-heads-to-new-york/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk&rsquo;s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to meet. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk&rsquo;s own back yard. Amazon said on Wednesday it will bring its Amazon Leo satellite [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-leo-will-launch-in-south-africa-in-2027-beating-starlink-in-musks-homeland/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-leo-will-launch-in-south-africa-in-2027-beating-starlink-in-musks-homeland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995. &ldquo;If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidia would not be here today.&rdquo; That is Jensen Huang, chief executive of the world&rsquo;s most valuable company, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huang-thanks-sega-for-the-5m-that-saved-nvidia-from-bankruptcy-in-1995/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huang-thanks-sega-for-the-5m-that-saved-nvidia-from-bankruptcy-in-1995/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emergent&rsquo;s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it. &ldquo;Most businesses don&rsquo;t need any software. They need a way to turn how they actually work into software.&rdquo; That is how Mukund Jha [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/emergent-hits-a-15bn-valuation-as-vibe-coding-mints-another-unicorn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/emergent-hits-a-15bn-valuation-as-vibe-coding-mints-another-unicorn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify launches a conversational AI that lets you shape what plays by talking to the app]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify launched a conversational AI feature that lets Premium users type or speak directly in the app to control what plays, learn about music, and explore their listening history. The beta is rolling out for users 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden on iOS and Android. Users can ask Spotify to &ldquo;play [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-launches-a-conversational-ai-that-lets-you-shape-what-plays-by-talking-to-the-app/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-launches-a-conversational-ai-that-lets-you-shape-what-plays-by-talking-to-the-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chai Discovery&rsquo;s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fast-rising star. Chai Discovery has raised a $400m Series C that values the San Francisco startup at $3.8bn, the company said. That [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chai-discovery-raises-400m-at-38bn-as-ai-drug-discovery-moves-from-promise-to-deployment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chai-discovery-raises-400m-at-38bn-as-ai-drug-discovery-moves-from-promise-to-deployment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OnePlus exits the US and Europe. The memory crisis and Apple’s lawsuit made staying untenable.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OnePlus, the Android brand that built a cult following with aggressively priced smartphones, will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week, Bloomberg reported. The shutdown is part of a broader restructuring at parent company Oppo. Realme, another Oppo mobile brand, will also exit the China market. While OnePlus [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oneplus-exits-the-us-and-europe-the-memory-crisis-and-apples-lawsuit-made-staying-untenable/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oneplus-exits-the-us-and-europe-the-memory-crisis-and-apples-lawsuit-made-staying-untenable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea&rsquo;s Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service agent available to all 52 million residents. The programme, called &ldquo;AI for Everyone,&rdquo; would make South Korea the first G20 nation to offer AI to its entire population as a public service. Two or three [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-will-give-all-52-million-citizens-free-ai-access-becoming-the-first-g20-nation-to-do-so/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-will-give-all-52-million-citizens-free-ai-access-becoming-the-first-g20-nation-to-do-so/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[iPhone 17 Pro After 10 Months: The Truth before iPhone 18 Pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[iPhone 17 Pro After 10 Months: The Truth before iPhone 18 Pro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iphone-17-pro-after-10-months-the-truth-before-iphone-18-pro/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iphone-17-pro-after-10-months-the-truth-before-iphone-18-pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s biggest memory chipmaker is about to test the public markets. ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 8.66 yuan ($1.28) a share, the South China Morning Post reported. The sale will raise about 57.9 billion yuan, or $8.5bn. That would make it the largest listing by a Chinese semiconductor [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cxmt-prices-a-record-85bn-shanghai-ipo-valuing-chinas-memory-champion-at-85bn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cxmt-prices-a-record-85bn-shanghai-ipo-valuing-chinas-memory-champion-at-85bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reflection AI has locked in more computing power. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. The agreement runs through 2029. It gives Reflection access to Nvidia&rsquo;s newest GB300 chips. Nebius confirmed the deal. Its shares have more than doubled this year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reflection-signs-a-1bn-ai-compute-deal-with-nebius-its-second-big-capacity-grab-in-a-month/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reflection-signs-a-1bn-ai-compute-deal-with-nebius-its-second-big-capacity-grab-in-a-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek is getting ready to go public. The Chinese AI lab has started laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. It could file as soon as this year, with a debut targeted for 2027. First, though, it wants to raise more in private. The Hangzhou lab closed its first-ever outside round [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-is-preparing-an-ipo-and-chasing-a-71bn-valuation-weeks-after-its-first-raise/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-is-preparing-an-ipo-and-chasing-a-71bn-valuation-weeks-after-its-first-raise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASML plans to build EUV machines 30% faster as AI demand outstrips its production capacity]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASML is working to cut the time it takes to build and test its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines by roughly a third, CFO Roger Dassen told reporters on Wednesday. The cycle time, the period between starting production in ASML&rsquo;s clean rooms and shipping, was about 22 weeks a few quarters ago. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re now looking at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asml-plans-to-build-euv-machines-30-faster-as-ai-demand-outstrips-its-production-capacity/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asml-plans-to-build-euv-machines-30-faster-as-ai-demand-outstrips-its-production-capacity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that shrinks large AI models to run directly on a phone. The company&rsquo;s on-device AI pitch could help Apple keep more of Siri&rsquo;s work off the cloud. PrismML chief executive Babak Hassibi told CNBC that Apple and other companies were evaluating its technology. He called the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-in-talks-with-the-startup-shrinking-a-27b-ai-model-onto-an-iphone/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-in-talks-with-the-startup-shrinking-a-27b-ai-model-onto-an-iphone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK proposes a midnight social media curfew for older teens]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off. The government set out the measures on Wednesday, as CNBC first reported. It said the plan aims to protect older [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-proposes-a-midnight-social-media-curfew-for-older-teens/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-proposes-a-midnight-social-media-curfew-for-older-teens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INMO GO3 | The smart glasses that do EVERYTHING right?!]]></title><description><![CDATA[INMO GO3 | The smart glasses that do EVERYTHING right?!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inmo-go3-the-smart-glasses-that-do-everything-right/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inmo-go3-the-smart-glasses-that-do-everything-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, money it will spend putting more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first time, in the United States. Plural and Hummingbird, both backers of the company&rsquo;s&nbsp;$25m round in early 2024, took part again. The Amsterdam company says the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-monumental-raises-32m-led-by-khosla-to-put-more-bricklaying-robots-on-site/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-monumental-raises-32m-led-by-khosla-to-put-more-bricklaying-robots-on-site/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba stock jumps 4% after Qwen is approved to run Apple Intelligence in China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba confirmed on Wednesday that its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for users in China. &ldquo;Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences,&rdquo; an Alibaba spokesperson told CNBC. China&rsquo;s Cyberspace Administration included Apple AI services on a list of approved providers alongside products from Huawei [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-stock-jumps-4-after-qwen-is-approved-to-run-apple-intelligence-in-china/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-stock-jumps-4-after-qwen-is-approved-to-run-apple-intelligence-in-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Velocity raises $38M to move business money with stablecoins]]></title><description><![CDATA[London fintech Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A to help businesses move money with stablecoins. The Velocity Series A, led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, brings the two-year-old company&rsquo;s total funding to nearly $50 million. Velocity builds treasury and settlement infrastructure for companies that want to use stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens now spreading across [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/velocity-raises-38m-to-move-business-money-with-stablecoins/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/velocity-raises-38m-to-move-business-money-with-stablecoins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of major book publishers and the author Scott Turow have sued Google, claiming it used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission. The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it &ldquo;one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history.&rdquo; The plaintiffs filed the complaint on 10 July in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/publishers-sue-google-over-gemini-ai-training/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/publishers-sue-google-over-gemini-ai-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia sets up a national Office of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His government billed it as a major speech on AI. It covered copyright, data-centre rules, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-sets-up-a-national-office-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-sets-up-a-national-office-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zipline is launching healthcare drone delivery with Cleveland Clinic. It hired Tesla and Waymo veterans to scale.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zipline said the number of businesses offering delivery through its app grew 13 times during the first half of 2026. The autonomous drone delivery company has now completed more than 2.5 million commercial deliveries, including one million in the last year alone, and says it operates more flights per day than major US airlines. Roughly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zipline-is-launching-healthcare-drone-delivery-with-cleveland-clinic-it-hired-tesla-and-waymo-veterans-to-scale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zipline-is-launching-healthcare-drone-delivery-with-cleveland-clinic-it-hired-tesla-and-waymo-veterans-to-scale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India pledges $20 billion to boost chips and smartphones as Modi pushes for an Indian mobile brand]]></title><description><![CDATA[India pledged 1.9 trillion rupees ($19.7 billion) in combined incentives for domestic chip and smartphone production on Wednesday. The cabinet approved 1.28 trillion rupees ($13.3 billion) for semiconductors, covering chip design, machine fabrication, research and development, and talent creation, and a separate 625 billion rupees ($6.5 billion) for mobile phone manufacturing. &ldquo;The Prime Minister has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-pledges-20-billion-to-boost-chips-and-smartphones-as-modi-pushes-for-an-indian-mobile-brand/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-pledges-20-billion-to-boost-chips-and-smartphones-as-modi-pushes-for-an-indian-mobile-brand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. In the UAE capital, a single app already renews your ID, books your doctor, and pays your parking fine, sometimes before you ask. Most governments are still drafting their first AI strategy. Abu Dhabi is running on one. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/abu-dhabi-already-runs-its-government-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/abu-dhabi-already-runs-its-government-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucid shares plunged 40% on a bankruptcy rumour from an EV blog. The denial came hours later.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucid Motors stock fell more than 40% at one point on Tuesday and was halted for volatility multiple times after an EV-focused publication reported the company was considering going private or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The stock recovered some losses and closed down 16% at $4.62 a share. The report said Lucid asked [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lucid-shares-plunged-40-on-a-bankruptcy-rumour-from-an-ev-blog-the-denial-came-hours-later/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lucid-shares-plunged-40-on-a-bankruptcy-rumour-from-an-ev-blog-the-denial-came-hours-later/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The notice read like housekeeping. Take screenshots while you still can, ByteDance told Doubao users, or export the text. On 15 July the custom agents they had built stopped working, and what is left is a read-only archive with a closing date attached: 15 October, after which the company says the data will be handled [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/doubaos-ai-companions-are-gone-users-get-3-months-to-screenshot-what-is-left/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/doubaos-ai-companions-are-gone-users-get-3-months-to-screenshot-what-is-left/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment]]></title><description><![CDATA[A look at Anthropic safety hiring shows exactly what it fears: analysts brought in to stop its models teaching anyone how to build nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Most job ads sell a mission. Anthropic&rsquo;s read like a threat assessment. The company has posted a run of openings for enforcement analysts whose job is to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-job-ads-read-like-a-threat-assessment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-job-ads-read-like-a-threat-assessment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia tells AI data centres to put back more power than they take out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out. Neither of those things is law yet. The prime minister used a speech at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-tells-ai-data-centres-to-put-back-more-power-than-they-take-out/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-tells-ai-data-centres-to-put-back-more-power-than-they-take-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House’s Gold Eagle wants to patch cyber flaws at machine speed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House wants frontier AI on cyber defence, and it wants it fast. Gold Eagle, a new AI-backed clearinghouse, will pool software vulnerability findings from government and industry. It ranks the worst, then coordinates fixes across US critical infrastructure. The pitch for AI-written malware is that it moves at machine speed. Washington has now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-white-houses-gold-eagle-wants-to-patch-cyber-flaws-at-machine-speed/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-white-houses-gold-eagle-wants-to-patch-cyber-flaws-at-machine-speed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CoreWeave looks to Wall Street to hedge memory chips, an asset with no market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Memory chips have roughly doubled in price this year, a squeeze that has emptied Apple&rsquo;s shelves&nbsp;and rewritten data centre budgets. CoreWeave is now working out what to do if they get cheaper. The AI cloud company is exploring financial derivatives as a hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices,&nbsp;Reuters reported on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coreweave-looks-to-wall-street-to-hedge-memory-chips-an-asset-with-no-market/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coreweave-looks-to-wall-street-to-hedge-memory-chips-an-asset-with-no-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox. For a century, Delaware has been the place where American [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/delaware-wants-to-give-ai-agents-their-own-legal-identity/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/delaware-wants-to-give-ai-agents-their-own-legal-identity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s first Jony Ive device is a screen-free speaker built to feel alive]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s consumer hardware push begins in the living room. The company&rsquo;s first device designed with Jony Ive is a mobile, screen-free smart speaker meant to sit in a home and behave like a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the project who spoke to Bloomberg. It surfaced the day before OpenAI&rsquo;s actual first shipping [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-first-jony-ive-device-is-a-screen-free-speaker-built-to-feel-alive/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-first-jony-ive-device-is-a-screen-free-speaker-built-to-feel-alive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s electric taxis are blunting the Hormuz oil shock, but only at the margins]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s crude oil imports fell 41.3% in June from a year earlier to 29.27 million tonnes, the lowest monthly total since October 2016,&nbsp;according to customs data&nbsp;released on 14 July. Five months into the Strait of Hormuz crisis, Beijing is buying less oil than at any point in a decade. Some of the slack is being [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-electric-taxis-are-blunting-the-hormuz-oil-shock-but-only-at-the-margins/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-electric-taxis-are-blunting-the-hormuz-oil-shock-but-only-at-the-margins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds]]></title><description><![CDATA[US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop images of child sexual abuse from being stored and shared through iCloud, finding that the claims sit inside the liability shield of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Judge No&euml;l Wise issued the order late on Monday. The dismissal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-wins-dismissal-of-icloud-child-abuse-imagery-lawsuit-on-section-230-grounds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-wins-dismissal-of-icloud-child-abuse-imagery-lawsuit-on-section-230-grounds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASML’s $400M chipmaking machine just shipped its first laptop processors]]></title><description><![CDATA[High NA EUV was supposed to debut on Intel&rsquo;s 14A node towards the end of the decade. It has turned up early, on Panther Lake, patterning layers that are also qualified to run on the old tools. A machine that costs about $400mn is now printing a handful of the layers inside a laptop processor. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asmls-400m-chipmaking-machine-just-shipped-its-first-laptop-processors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asmls-400m-chipmaking-machine-just-shipped-its-first-laptop-processors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe and Advent offer $60.50 a share for PayPal, valuing it above $53bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stripe and Advent International have offered $60.50 a share in cash for PayPal, a bid that values the payments company at more than $53bn and arrives backed by about $50bn in committed financing from banks, according to Reuters. The buyers would hold equal stakes in the business and, unusually for a proposal with a private [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stripe-and-advent-offer-6050-a-share-for-paypal-valuing-it-above-53bn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stripe-and-advent-offer-6050-a-share-for-paypal-valuing-it-above-53bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions to fund work on beneficial and responsible AI applications. The partnerships span Canada&rsquo;s three leading regional AI institutes, Amii in Edmonton, Mila in Montr&eacute;al, and the Vector Institute in Toronto, along with children&rsquo;s hospital CHEO, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Universit&eacute; Laval, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-commits-10-million-to-canadian-ai-research-across-eight-institutions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-commits-10-million-to-canadian-ai-research-across-eight-institutions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grok Build was uploading entire Git repositories to xAI’s cloud, including committed secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[A security researcher published a wire-level analysis on July 12 proving that xAI&rsquo;s Grok Build coding CLI was packaging developers&rsquo; entire tracked repositories, including full Git history, committed secrets, and API keys, and sending them to a Google Cloud Storage bucket. The upload volume was roughly 27,800 times greater than the data the coding task [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/grok-build-was-uploading-entire-git-repositories-to-xais-cloud-including-committed-secrets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/grok-build-was-uploading-entire-git-repositories-to-xais-cloud-including-committed-secrets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paramount Skydance is still aiming to close its roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery by the end of September despite a lawsuit filed by 12 state attorneys general seeking to block the deal on antitrust grounds. Jeffrey Kessler, Paramount&rsquo;s lead trial counsel, told CNBC on Tuesday that the company is prepared to take [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paramount-says-it-will-take-the-warner-bros-merger-to-the-supreme-court-if-states-block-the-deal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paramount-says-it-will-take-the-warner-bros-merger-to-the-supreme-court-if-states-block-the-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nintendo is pulling a console from Europe over battery rules. Meta’s glasses just got exempted from them.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has exempted wearable technology from rules requiring batteries that users can remove and replace. The change clears the biggest obstacle to Meta&rsquo;s latest smart glasses reaching the EU,&nbsp;Politico reports. The delegated act, adopted on Tuesday, adds six product categories to the exemption list. It covers wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nintendo-is-pulling-a-console-from-europe-over-battery-rules-metas-glasses-just-got-exempted-from-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nintendo-is-pulling-a-console-from-europe-over-battery-rules-metas-glasses-just-got-exempted-from-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta sued by 26 employees who say its AI systems targeted workers on medical leave for layoffs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken medical leave when selecting people for mass layoffs. The suit, filed Monday in Oakland, California, alleges that Meta relied on productivity metrics and AI token usage data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-sued-by-26-employees-who-say-its-ai-systems-targeted-workers-on-medical-leave-for-layoffs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-sued-by-26-employees-who-say-its-ai-systems-targeted-workers-on-medical-leave-for-layoffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM shares plunge after preliminary Q2 revenue falls short of estimates despite surging AI bookings]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM issued preliminary second-quarter results on Monday showing revenue of roughly $17 billion, up one percent year over year but well below the $18 billion that analysts had expected. Shares fell as much as 17 percent in premarket trading, erasing weeks of gains that had been fuelled by bullish analyst coverage and a stock rally [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ibm-shares-plunge-after-preliminary-q2-revenue-falls-short-of-estimates-despite-surging-ai-bookings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ibm-shares-plunge-after-preliminary-q2-revenue-falls-short-of-estimates-despite-surging-ai-bookings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upwind links compromise of multiple AsyncAPI npm packages to coordinated attack on software release process]]></title><description><![CDATA[Developers often assume that packages published through official channels have passed through a secure release process. That assumption is fundamental to modern software development, where&nbsp;open source components&nbsp;are routinely integrated into applications through automated dependency management. A new investigation suggests that confidence can be challenged when attackers gain access to the systems responsible for publishing software. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/upwind-links-compromise-of-multiple-asyncapi-npm-packages-to-coordinated-attack-on-software-release-process/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/upwind-links-compromise-of-multiple-asyncapi-npm-packages-to-coordinated-attack-on-software-release-process/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kalshi builds a forward curve for computing power as exchanges race to turn GPUs into a tradable commodity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kalshi, the prediction markets exchange, has built a forward curve that tracks the future price of computing power, joining a growing list of exchanges and index operators trying to turn GPU rental costs into a standardised financial instrument. The tool uses weekly and monthly event contracts related to compute prices, extending up to a year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kalshi-builds-a-forward-curve-for-computing-power-as-exchanges-race-to-turn-gpus-into-a-tradable-commodity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kalshi-builds-a-forward-curve-for-computing-power-as-exchanges-race-to-turn-gpus-into-a-tradable-commodity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions]]></title><description><![CDATA[JPMorgan Chase has cut jobs by as much as 40 percent in some parts of the bank using artificial intelligence, CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts during the company&rsquo;s second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. But investors hoping the technology will dramatically improve profit margins are likely to be disappointed. Dimon said that in a competitive market, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dimon-says-ai-already-eliminated-30-to-40-percent-of-jobs-in-some-jpmorgan-divisions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dimon-says-ai-already-eliminated-30-to-40-percent-of-jobs-in-some-jpmorgan-divisions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s Udaan secures $160 million in new funding as it races to fix its balance sheet before an IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indian B2B ecommerce platform Udaan has secured $160 million in a funding round that combines fresh equity from a new investor, additional debt, and the conversion of existing convertible bonds into equity, according to Bloomberg. Lightspeed Venture Partners and M&amp;G Investments are participating in the round. The deal is designed to clean up Udaan&rsquo;s balance [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-udaan-secures-160-million-in-new-funding-as-it-races-to-fix-its-balance-sheet-before-an-ipo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-udaan-secures-160-million-in-new-funding-as-it-races-to-fix-its-balance-sheet-before-an-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause]]></title><description><![CDATA[The man behind Google&rsquo;s AI thinks the world needs a referee. And he has drafted the rules. Demis Hassabis wants a US-led watchdog that vets frontier models before release. It is modelled on Wall Street&rsquo;s policeman, and it could slow the whole industry down. Demis Hassabis does not usually sound the alarm. On Tuesday he [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/demis-hassabis-wants-a-wall-street-style-referee-for-ai-with-the-power-to-hit-pause/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/demis-hassabis-wants-a-wall-street-style-referee-for-ai-with-the-power-to-hit-pause/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain wants to be an AI superpower. One of its flagship data centres cannot get the electricity to switch on. Nscale&rsquo;s &pound;2bn Essex site has the money, the planning permission, and a grid connection, but no power arriving in time. Nscale has the cash, the site, and the customer. What it does not have is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/britains-flagship-ai-data-centre-cant-get-the-power-to-switch-on/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/britains-flagship-ai-data-centre-cant-get-the-power-to-switch-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. Two stories this week suggest the reality can run the other way. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was not safe to trust. Marilyn Shuler spent 39 years reading [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/medical-ai-was-meant-to-help-this-week-it-replaced-nurses-and-dodged-its-own-checks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/medical-ai-was-meant-to-help-this-week-it-replaced-nurses-and-dodged-its-own-checks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-promised-to-be-carbon-negative-its-emissions-just-jumped-25/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-promised-to-be-carbon-negative-its-emissions-just-jumped-25/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why. Uber could not win the race to build a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-lost-the-self-driving-race-now-it-wants-to-write-the-rules/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-lost-the-self-driving-race-now-it-wants-to-write-the-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is pushing brands onto its AI ad tools. The results are a mess]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. A Business Insider investigation found the tools spitting out gibberish copy, mangled limbs and products that no longer look like the products. Meta&rsquo;s reply, in effect: that&rsquo;s your problem. Meta wants brands to let its AI build their ads. A Business Insider investigation shows [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-pushing-brands-onto-its-ai-ad-tools-the-results-are-a-mess/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-pushing-brands-onto-its-ai-ad-tools-the-results-are-a-mess/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch]]></title><description><![CDATA[France&rsquo;s Pasqal is heading to Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation, roughly 100 times its revenue. Its own filings spell out two things. Quantum computing might never pay off. And Paris can veto who owns the company. Pasqal, the French quantum-computing firm, is going public in the United States. It is merging with a blank-cheque company, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pasqals-spac-filings-reveal-a-2bn-french-quantum-bet-and-a-french-kill-switch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pasqals-spac-filings-reveal-a-2bn-french-quantum-bet-and-a-french-kill-switch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emails between regulators and xAI&rsquo;s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t do anything [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xai-is-running-59-unpermitted-gas-turbines-twice-what-it-has-admitted/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xai-is-running-59-unpermitted-gas-turbines-twice-what-it-has-admitted/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six months ago, Flex raised $60m and called it a Series B. On Tuesday it said it had raised another $70m, and rather than move down the alphabet, it settled on a Series B1. The round was led by Halo, the investment firm set up last year by Qualtrics founder Ryan Smith, who owns the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flex-raises-70m-from-ryan-smiths-halo-fund-to-take-its-ai-private-bank-global/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flex-raises-70m-from-ryan-smiths-halo-fund-to-take-its-ai-private-bank-global/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, and it’s testing London’s new private market to prove it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moneybox is Europe&rsquo;s newest unicorn, worth &pound;800m, or $1.1bn. But no fundraise set that price. Staff did, by selling shares on London&rsquo;s untested new private market. Moneybox, the British savings and investing app, is now a unicorn. It has put a value of about &pound;800m, or $1.1bn, on itself, the Financial Times first reported. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moneybox-is-europes-newest-unicorn-and-its-testing-londons-new-private-market-to-prove-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moneybox-is-europes-newest-unicorn-and-its-testing-londons-new-private-market-to-prove-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Listing is a must’: China’s LimX raises $200m as the humanoid IPO race heats up]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s humanoid gold rush just minted another contender. LimX Dynamics has raised $200m at a $2.21bn valuation. And its founder says the race to list has become do-or-die. A Shenzhen humanoid startup has become the latest name in China&rsquo;s robot boom to command a giant valuation. On Tuesday, LimX Dynamics said it had closed a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/listing-is-a-must-chinas-limx-raises-200m-as-the-humanoid-ipo-race-heats-up/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/listing-is-a-must-chinas-limx-raises-200m-as-the-humanoid-ipo-race-heats-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ECB names 36 payment firms for the digital euro pilot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Revolut, Stripe and Adyen made the list. The 12-month trial starts in the second half of 2027, and the money it moves will not be legal tender. The European Central Bank published the list on Tuesday: 36 payment service providers, drawn from more than 50 applicants, will run the first pilot of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ecb-names-36-payment-firms-for-the-digital-euro-pilot/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ecb-names-36-payment-firms-for-the-digital-euro-pilot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York freezes new data centres for a year, the first US state to pull the brake]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kathy Hochul stopped the diggers on Tuesday. New York became the first US state to halt construction of large new data centres, imposing a one-year moratorium on anything drawing 50 megawatts or more, on the grounds that the buildings powering the AI boom are pushing up household bills, draining water, and landing hardest on the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-york-freezes-new-data-centres-for-a-year-the-first-us-state-to-pull-the-brake/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-york-freezes-new-data-centres-for-a-year-the-first-us-state-to-pull-the-brake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The father of reinforcement learning is leaving Carmack to build his own AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most decorated minds in AI is striking out alone. Richard Sutton shared the 2024 Turing Award for founding modern reinforcement learning. On Monday he said he is leaving John Carmack&rsquo;s startup Keen Technologies to start a new one, Oak Lab. He announced it plainly on X. He praised Carmack and Keen, then [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-father-of-reinforcement-learning-is-leaving-carmack-to-build-his-own-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-father-of-reinforcement-learning-is-leaving-carmack-to-build-his-own-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tower Semiconductor puts $3bn into Japan, and Tokyo is paying for a third of it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tower Semiconductor said on Tuesday it will spend roughly $3bn expanding its 300mm operations in Japan, net of about $1bn in grants from the Japanese government, in a two-track build-out aimed squarely at the optical components that AI data centres are consuming faster than anyone can make them. The&nbsp;announcement, made with the backing of Japan&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tower-semiconductor-puts-3bn-into-japan-and-tokyo-is-paying-for-a-third-of-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tower-semiconductor-puts-3bn-into-japan-and-tokyo-is-paying-for-a-third-of-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Switzerland&rsquo;s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they switch on a new handset quietly stopped appearing on Swiss phones. The feature, known as the Choice Screen, asks users which search engine they want as their default [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/switzerland-opens-a-competition-probe-into-googles-vanishing-android-choice-screen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/switzerland-opens-a-competition-probe-into-googles-vanishing-android-choice-screen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huawei Digital Power now rivals Tesla’s energy division in revenue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ask most people what Huawei sells and you will get smartphones, or 5G, or a decade of geopolitical argument. Almost nobody says solar inverters. Yet Huawei Digital Power Technology, the division that makes them, along with battery storage systems and electric-vehicle charging kit, booked 68.7bn yuan of revenue in 2025, up 24.4% on the year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-digital-power-now-rivals-teslas-energy-division-in-revenue/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huawei-digital-power-now-rivals-teslas-energy-division-in-revenue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI&rsquo;s trade secrets lawsuit against it &ldquo;should never have been filed,&rdquo; and to make Elon Musk&rsquo;s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave notice that it intends to appeal. The case has been dismissed twice; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wants-its-legal-fees-from-xai-while-apple-comes-for-openai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wants-its-legal-fees-from-xai-while-apple-comes-for-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liang Wenfeng is now the wealthiest founder in artificial intelligence, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which revalued his stake in DeepSeek on 13 July and added roughly $19bn to his fortune overnight. His net worth is put at about $36bn, up from around $16.7bn, placing him above Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI president [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-overtakes-amodei-and-brockman-as-ais-richest-founder/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-overtakes-amodei-and-brockman-as-ais-richest-founder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ericsson revenue falls 6% as component costs bite and licensing income dries up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ericsson booked SEK 52.7bn of revenue in the second quarter, down 6% from SEK 56.1bn a year earlier, as&nbsp;weaker patent licensing income and currency movements&nbsp;outweighed growth in a handful of regional markets. The Swedish equipment maker published the figures on Tuesday morning. Profit, however, went the other way. Adjusted operating profit came in at SEK [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ericsson-revenue-falls-6-as-component-costs-bite-and-licensing-income-dries-up/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ericsson-revenue-falls-6-as-component-costs-bite-and-licensing-income-dries-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finland’s NestAI is building the AI layer Europe’s militaries want to own]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Helsinki lab barely a year old, bankrolled by Nokia and the Finnish state, is now writing battlefield software with two defence ministries. The technology matters less than who controls it. On the last day of June, officials from Finland&rsquo;s Ministry of Defence, the Estonian Defence Forces, and a Helsinki AI lab founded only last [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/finlands-nestai-is-building-the-ai-layer-europes-militaries-want-to-own/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/finlands-nestai-is-building-the-ai-layer-europes-militaries-want-to-own/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel commits $5.7bn to Xeon production in Ireland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel is spending &euro;5bn, or about $5.7bn, upgrading its campus at Leixlip outside Dublin,&nbsp;the company said on Monday. The money is not for a new fab. It is for getting more out of the ones already standing. The plan is to upgrade existing fabrication facilities, install leading-edge equipment, and extend the automated track system so [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-commits-57bn-to-xeon-production-in-ireland/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-commits-57bn-to-xeon-production-in-ireland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia finds serious gaps in Big Tech’s response to child sexual abuse online]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s online safety regulator has told the largest technology companies in the world that the tools to stop sexual extortion already exist, and that they are not using them. In a&nbsp;transparency report published on Tuesday, eSafety said companies including Apple, Meta, and Google have &ldquo;significant gaps&rdquo; in how they detect and prevent child sexual exploitation [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-finds-serious-gaps-in-big-techs-response-to-child-sexual-abuse-online/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-finds-serious-gaps-in-big-techs-response-to-child-sexual-abuse-online/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son says AI will cost $5tn a year by 2040, and calls bubble talk absurd]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Every year $5 trillion, or 800 trillion yen, you might think that&rsquo;s a lie, but I am confident that&rsquo;s what it will cost.&rdquo; That was Masayoshi Son on Tuesday, at SoftBank&rsquo;s annual corporate conference in Tokyo,&nbsp;telling the room what building artificial intelligence will require each year by 2040. Yet, he did not say how he [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/masayoshi-son-says-ai-will-cost-5tn-a-year-by-2040-and-calls-bubble-talk-absurd/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/masayoshi-son-says-ai-will-cost-5tn-a-year-by-2040-and-calls-bubble-talk-absurd/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seoul court suspends the order making Coupang’s founder its controlling person]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coupang has won the first round of its fight with South Korea&rsquo;s competition regulator. The Seoul High Court on Tuesday&nbsp;suspended the Fair Trade Commission&rsquo;s decision&nbsp;to name founder Bom Kim as the e-commerce group&rsquo;s controlling figure, freezing the disclosure obligations that came with it while the underlying lawsuit is heard. The court&rsquo;s Administrative Division 7 granted [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seoul-court-suspends-the-order-making-coupangs-founder-its-controlling-person/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seoul-court-suspends-the-order-making-coupangs-founder-its-controlling-person/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China smartphone shipments fall for a fifth quarter as memory costs bite]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the fifth quarter running, fewer phones left Chinese warehouses than a year earlier. Shipments fell 4.3% to 66 million units in the second quarter, according to figures published on Tuesday by IDC, as manufacturers raised prices to cover the rising cost of memory and other components. First-half shipments were down 4.2% on the same [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-smartphone-shipments-fall-for-a-fifth-quarter-as-memory-costs-bite/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-smartphone-shipments-fall-for-a-fifth-quarter-as-memory-costs-bite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House is preparing an event, expected within weeks, at which electric utilities, the companies that build and run data centres for Big Tech, and governors of the states hosting the biggest buildouts will be asked to promise that none of this will end up on household electricity bills. Three people familiar with the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-white-houses-next-ai-energy-pledge-targets-the-utilities/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-white-houses-next-ai-energy-pledge-targets-the-utilities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful camera in a phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most powerful camera in a phone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-most-powerful-camera-in-a-phone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-most-powerful-camera-in-a-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones]]></title><description><![CDATA[The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was &ldquo;a small number of roles&rdquo;. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500. Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology group that owns Reuters News, is cutting engineering jobs globally as it pushes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thomson-reuters-is-cutting-engineers-and-hiring-ai-native-ones/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thomson-reuters-is-cutting-engineers-and-hiring-ai-native-ones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia builds a white list: more than half of its Asian customers are off it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has more than halved the number of customers in Asia cleared to buy its artificial intelligence chips, according to the Financial Times, which cited three people with knowledge of the matter. The company has built a new white list of approved regional buyers and stepped up due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-builds-a-white-list-more-than-half-of-its-asian-customers-are-off-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-builds-a-white-list-more-than-half-of-its-asian-customers-are-off-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada’s banking regulator named Claude Mythos in a warning to banks]]></title><description><![CDATA[An April email to bank technology chiefs, released under access-to-information rules, shows OSFI naming Anthropic&rsquo;s frontier model as a reason the window for fixing flaws is closing. Regulators do not usually name products. They write about &ldquo;emerging technologies&rdquo; and &ldquo;advanced capabilities&rdquo; and leave the reader to work out which vendor they mean. So it is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canadas-banking-regulator-named-claude-mythos-in-a-warning-to-banks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canadas-banking-regulator-named-claude-mythos-in-a-warning-to-banks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon pauses the cyber audit rule that was pushing small suppliers out]]></title><description><![CDATA[The figure that seems to have finished the programme off is not a cost. It is a ratio: more than 100,000 companies in the American defence supply chain needing an independent cybersecurity audit, against roughly 100 accredited assessors licensed to carry one out. &ldquo;So the math just simply doesn&rsquo;t math,&rdquo; Kirsten Davies, the Pentagon&rsquo;s chief [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pentagon-pauses-the-cyber-audit-rule-that-was-pushing-small-suppliers-out/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pentagon-pauses-the-cyber-audit-rule-that-was-pushing-small-suppliers-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twelve states are suing to stop the Paramount-Warner deal that Washington already waved through]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dozen states have sued to block Paramount Skydance&rsquo;s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The suit, led by California attorney general Rob Bonta, was filed in federal court in California&rsquo;s Northern District,&nbsp;CNBC reports. The timing is pointed. The Justice Department approved the roughly $110bn deal last month without conditions or divestitures, after an eight-month review. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/twelve-states-are-suing-to-stop-the-paramount-warner-deal-that-washington-already-waved-through/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/twelve-states-are-suing-to-stop-the-paramount-warner-deal-that-washington-already-waved-through/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s Cybercab drove across a car park, and the real news happened two days earlier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla has said Cybercab employee rides are starting soon at its Texas factory. The announcement came with a clip of a gold Cybercab, butterfly doors up and no steering wheel or pedals, driving itself across the outbound lot,&nbsp;Mashable reports. Note the tense. Tesla said the rides are &ldquo;starting soon&rdquo;, not that they have started, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-cybercab-drove-across-a-car-park-and-the-real-news-happened-two-days-earlier/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-cybercab-drove-across-a-car-park-and-the-real-news-happened-two-days-earlier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s big Waze AI update includes a button that makes the app shut up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has given Waze a batch of new features, most of them powered by Gemini. The headline additions are a motorcycle mode, personalised routing, conversational map editing, and Gemini-powered destination search,&nbsp;The Verge reports. The most interesting one does the opposite of what you would expect. It is called less chatty mode, and it makes the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-big-waze-ai-update-includes-a-button-that-makes-the-app-shut-up/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-big-waze-ai-update-includes-a-button-that-makes-the-app-shut-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel is putting 5 billion euros into Ireland, and Europe just got one of the few EUV fabs on the continent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel is committing 5 billion euros, around $5.7bn, to expand its campus at Leixlip in Ireland. The money is aimed at data-centre processors for AI and high-performance computing,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. It is a serious share of the company&rsquo;s budget. The sum represents roughly 30% of Intel&rsquo;s $17bn capital expenditure planned for 2026, with most of it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-is-putting-5-billion-euros-into-ireland-and-europe-just-got-one-of-the-few-euv-fabs-on-the-continent/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-is-putting-5-billion-euros-into-ireland-and-europe-just-got-one-of-the-few-euv-fabs-on-the-continent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nadella says you pay for AI twice, and Microsoft helped build the trap]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft&rsquo;s Satya Nadella says every firm using AI is paying for it twice, once in cash, and once in the secrets it hands over to make the thing useful. He calls it the Reverse Information Paradox. He also runs the company that helped build the trap. Satya Nadella has a warning for everyone buying AI. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nadella-says-you-pay-for-ai-twice-and-microsoft-helped-build-the-trap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nadella-says-you-pay-for-ai-twice-and-microsoft-helped-build-the-trap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first]]></title><description><![CDATA[The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties,&nbsp;CNBC reports. Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupations are now exiting work at higher rates than before ChatGPT launched. The finding comes from Geoffrey Sanzenbacher at Boston College&rsquo;s Center for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-ending-older-workers-careers-early-and-it-is-coming-for-the-well-paid-ones-first/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-ending-older-workers-careers-early-and-it-is-coming-for-the-well-paid-ones-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company&rsquo;s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are inside. The internet just passed a strange milestone. Bots now generate more web requests than people do. By Cloudflare&rsquo;s count, automated [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-web-is-now-mostly-bots-cloudflare-is-rebuilding-its-defences-around-that/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-web-is-now-mostly-bots-cloudflare-is-rebuilding-its-defences-around-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it]]></title><description><![CDATA[A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it stopped being hypothetical this year. Valarian, a London-based sovereignty startup, has raised a $50m (&pound;37m) Series A led by the US venture fund NEA, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/valarian-raised-50m-to-help-governments-use-us-cloud-without-losing-control-of-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/valarian-raised-50m-to-help-governments-use-us-cloud-without-losing-control-of-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned Russia&rsquo;s cyber apparatus for the first time. The EU listed nine individuals and four entities, while the UK went further with 24,&nbsp;Politico reports. The language is what matters here. The EU&rsquo;s High Representative Kaja Kallas denounced not a group but an ecosystem, spanning intelligence services, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-has-stopped-sanctioning-russian-hackers-and-started-sanctioning-the-machine-that-makes-them/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-has-stopped-sanctioning-russian-hackers-and-started-sanctioning-the-machine-that-makes-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helsing raises $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, and its cap table tells a story]]></title><description><![CDATA[Munich&rsquo;s Helsing has raised $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, making it Europe&rsquo;s largest defence startup. The round is a bet on sovereign AI. A lot of the money paying for it is American. Europe&rsquo;s biggest defence startup just got a lot bigger. On Monday Helsing said it had closed a $1.8bn Series E that values [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/helsing-raises-18bn-at-an-18bn-valuation-and-its-cap-table-tells-a-story/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/helsing-raises-18bn-at-an-18bn-valuation-and-its-cap-table-tells-a-story/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s Hyperion data centre hit $50bn, and split a Louisiana town in two]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta&rsquo;s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. In a parish of 20,000 people, it has made some locals a fortune and priced others out of their homes. Meta just made its biggest AI bet bigger. On Monday the company said its Hyperion data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-hyperion-data-centre-hit-50bn-and-split-a-louisiana-town-in-two/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-hyperion-data-centre-hit-50bn-and-split-a-louisiana-town-in-two/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[200 economists just admitted they can’t see where AI is taking the economy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two hundred economists, sixteen of them Nobel laureates, have signed a statement on AI and the economy. The punchline: the smartest people in the room are telling you they cannot see the road. Economists do not usually panic in public. This week, more than 200 of them did it together. On Monday a group of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/200-economists-just-admitted-they-cant-see-where-ai-is-taking-the-economy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/200-economists-just-admitted-they-cant-see-where-ai-is-taking-the-economy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monzo founder Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic’s compute team]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tom Blomfield built two of Britain&rsquo;s best-known fintech companies. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to help crack the AI industry&rsquo;s hardest problem: compute. One of the biggest names in UK tech is heading to one of the most valuable companies in AI. Tom Blomfield co-founded the digital bank Monzo [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/monzo-founder-tom-blomfield-joins-anthropics-compute-team/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/monzo-founder-tom-blomfield-joins-anthropics-compute-team/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cutting the West&rsquo;s reliance on China would carry a staggering price. A new study puts the cost of decoupling from China at $23.6tn over 25 years, and warns the bill would land hardest on the industries building Europe&rsquo;s tech future. The West has spent three years talking about reducing its dependence on China. A new [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/decoupling-from-china-would-cost-the-west-236tn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/decoupling-from-china-would-cost-the-west-236tn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in]]></title><description><![CDATA[France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe&rsquo;s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants building data centres on French soil? When the head of Europe&rsquo;s biggest AI lab arrived at last month&rsquo;s G7 working lunch on artificial [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-thinks-cheap-power-is-its-ai-edge-now-it-must-decide-who-plugs-in/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-thinks-cheap-power-is-its-ai-edge-now-it-must-decide-who-plugs-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursor is building a Claude Cowork rival, and Musk may decide its fate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The race to automate the office just gained a third runner. Cursor is building Sand, a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowork. Whether it ever ships may come down to Elon Musk. Cursor made its name as a tool for people who write code. Now it is building one for people who do not. According [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cursor-is-building-a-claude-cowork-rival-and-musk-may-decide-its-fate/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cursor-is-building-a-claude-cowork-rival-and-musk-may-decide-its-fate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI boom broke the memory market, and the bust could be brutal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI boom has broken the memory market&rsquo;s oldest rule. Prices that should be falling are soaring instead, and the AI memory crunch will not ease until 2028. The hangover, when it comes, could be brutal. Memory is meant to be boring. For decades DRAM and NAND flash have behaved like any commodity, sliding through [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-boom-broke-the-memory-market-and-the-bust-could-be-brutal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-boom-broke-the-memory-market-and-the-bust-could-be-brutal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bosses want you to use AI. Then they credit the AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Companies are ordering staff to lean on AI, then handing the credit to the machine. Researchers call it the AI penalty, and workers say it is costing them promotions and raises. Aubrey spent more than a year on a project to speed up a costly medical manufacturing process. When she finished, her manager asked her [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bosses-want-you-to-use-ai-then-they-credit-the-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bosses-want-you-to-use-ai-then-they-credit-the-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s AI copyright fight now has a datacentre price tag]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fight over Australia AI copyright has a price tag: tens of billions in datacentres. The prize for AI firms is the right to train on the country&rsquo;s books, music and journalism. Australia has become the latest test of a question every government now faces. How much of a nation&rsquo;s creative work can AI companies [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-ai-copyright-fight-now-has-a-datacentre-price-tag/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-ai-copyright-fight-now-has-a-datacentre-price-tag/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s AI detector can’t catch its own cropped fakes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta&rsquo;s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was meant to be a fix for the deepfake problem, not an example of it. This week Meta previewed an image detector alongside Muse Image, its most advanced image generator yet, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-ai-detector-cant-catch-its-own-cropped-fakes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-ai-detector-cant-catch-its-own-cropped-fakes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s lawsuit is already hurting OpenAI, long before a verdict]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple&rsquo;s lawsuit against OpenAI may not reach a courtroom for years. It is already doing damage. When Apple sued OpenAI on Friday for stealing hardware trade secrets, the attention went to the lurid detail. There were &ldquo;show and tell&rdquo; interviews and an engineer who kept his work laptop. One even texted a colleague: &ldquo;LOL, I [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-lawsuit-is-already-hurting-openai-long-before-a-verdict/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-lawsuit-is-already-hurting-openai-long-before-a-verdict/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men who founded OpenAI spent the weekend calling each other frauds in public. It played out on X, in real time, in front of millions. By the end [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scam-altman-inside-musk-and-altmans-weekend-war-on-x/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scam-altman-inside-musk-and-altmans-weekend-war-on-x/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never-skilling: the research says juniors using AI never learn to debug]]></title><description><![CDATA[Research published this year has given a name to something employers have been circling for a while. Deskilling is what happens when an expert stops practising and gets worse. Never-skilling is what happens when a novice never gets good in the first place, and it is the more awkward problem, because the people it affects [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/never-skilling-the-research-says-juniors-using-ai-never-learn-to-debug/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/never-skilling-the-research-says-juniors-using-ai-never-learn-to-debug/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yann LeCun’s new VC fund lasted eight hours. Then it vanished]]></title><description><![CDATA[A shiny new VC firm named the AI pioneer as a partner on Friday morning. By Friday night, the fund did not exist. Yann LeCun has had a busy year. Now he has had a strange one. On Friday, a new venture firm called Extelligence Invest named the man often dubbed a &ldquo;godfather of AI&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/yann-lecuns-new-vc-fund-lasted-eight-hours-then-it-vanished/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/yann-lecuns-new-vc-fund-lasted-eight-hours-then-it-vanished/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most innovative calorie tracking apps of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in the mid-2000s, calorie and macro tracking was a niche practice. You weighed your food, looked it up in a database, and wrote down how many calories and how many grams of protein, fat, and carbohydrates you were eating each day. It was the domain of bodybuilders, strength athletes, and competitors trying to stay [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-most-innovative-calorie-tracking-apps-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-most-innovative-calorie-tracking-apps-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shein is set for its Hong Kong listing hearing on Thursday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shein is scheduled to face the Hong Kong stock exchange&rsquo;s listing committee on Thursday,&nbsp;Reuters reported&nbsp;on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. It is the final procedural gate before the fast-fashion group, which has spent three years and two continents trying to go public, can actually price a deal. The hearing follows approval from the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/shein-is-set-for-its-hong-kong-listing-hearing-on-thursday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/shein-is-set-for-its-hong-kong-listing-hearing-on-thursday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xi Jinping will give the keynote at China’s flagship AI summit for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and deliver a keynote speech, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson&nbsp;announced on Monday. It is the first time China&rsquo;s leader has appeared at the country&rsquo;s flagship AI event, and it comes at a moment when Beijing has been busy&nbsp;restricting overseas [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xi-jinping-will-give-the-keynote-at-chinas-flagship-ai-summit-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xi-jinping-will-give-the-keynote-at-chinas-flagship-ai-summit-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raxio raises its funding pool to $380m and heads for Tanzania]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raxio Group, the pan-African colocation operator, is entering Tanzania and has lifted its funding pool to $380m.&nbsp;The money comes from its two main shareholders, the French infrastructure investor Meridiam and the US-based Roha Group, both of which have&nbsp;put fresh equity in before. &ldquo;Demand for high-quality data centre infrastructure continues to accelerate across Africa, driven by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/raxio-raises-its-funding-pool-to-380m-and-heads-for-tanzania/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/raxio-raises-its-funding-pool-to-380m-and-heads-for-tanzania/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU to propose limits on children’s social media access, Ursula von der Leyen says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Union will propose limits on children&rsquo;s access to social media, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday, hours after an expert panel she convened delivered its recommendations on how the bloc should shield minors from harmful content. She has been building towards this since May, when she first told MEPs a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-to-propose-limits-on-childrens-social-media-access-ursula-von-der-leyen-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-to-propose-limits-on-childrens-social-media-access-ursula-von-der-leyen-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea flags a record $530bn budget, paid for by the AI chip boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea will draw up record budget spending of more than 800 trillion won ($530.97bn) for fiscal 2027, supported by stronger tax revenues from the booming AI chip industry, the government said on Monday. It is the clearest sign yet that Seoul intends to spend the semiconductor windfall rather than save it, an argument the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-flags-a-record-530bn-budget-paid-for-by-the-ai-chip-boom/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-flags-a-record-530bn-budget-paid-for-by-the-ai-chip-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TCS bets on 8,900 AI deployment engineers to defend India’s IT services model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tata Consultancy Services plans to build a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed AI engineers and is looking for acquisition targets in AI and cybersecurity, chief executive K Krithivasan said. The move is India&rsquo;s largest IT firm answering the question that has hung over the sector since the arrival of agentic AI in enterprise stacks, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tcs-bets-on-8900-ai-deployment-engineers-to-defend-indias-it-services-model/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tcs-bets-on-8900-ai-deployment-engineers-to-defend-indias-it-services-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSMC breaks ground on more advanced packaging fabs in Chiayi]]></title><description><![CDATA[TSMC will build additional advanced packaging fabs in the second phase of the Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, National Science and Technology Council minister Wu Cheng-wen said at a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday. Packaging is where the AI supply chain currently pinches, and it is the same constraint that&nbsp;Nvidia&rsquo;s multi-year HBM4 deal&nbsp;with SK Hynix [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tsmc-breaks-ground-on-more-advanced-packaging-fabs-in-chiayi/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tsmc-breaks-ground-on-more-advanced-packaging-fabs-in-chiayi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung pulls its first Yongin chip plant forward to 2029]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics is moving to begin operations at the first chip plant in its Yongin cluster in 2029, one to two years earlier than planned, industry sources told Yonhap. The pull-forward lands inside a national build-out that already carries an&nbsp;$880bn commitment to chips, data centres and robots, and it follows a year in which every [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-pulls-its-first-yongin-chip-plant-forward-to-2029/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-pulls-its-first-yongin-chip-plant-forward-to-2029/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ubisoft is in crisis, and a 13-year-old pirate game is part of the escape plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ubisoft has remade the best-loved game in its biggest franchise. Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Black Flag Resynced arrives 13 years after the original, and&nbsp;the BBC found it largely worth the wait. The Caribbean looks spectacular now. New underwater sections and coral reefs show off what modern hardware can do with a setting that was always the game&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubisoft-is-in-crisis-and-a-13-year-old-pirate-game-is-part-of-the-escape-plan/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubisoft-is-in-crisis-and-a-13-year-old-pirate-game-is-part-of-the-escape-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix is reportedly considering always-on channels and bundles, which is to say, cable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix executives have reportedly discussed adding always-on live channels to the service. The channels would run genre-based programming around the clock, all comedies or all action films, according to a Wall Street Journal report relayed by&nbsp;The Verge. They have also discussed folding rival streaming subscriptions into Netflix itself. Peacock was named specifically, appearing as a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-is-reportedly-considering-always-on-channels-and-bundles-which-is-to-say-cable/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-is-reportedly-considering-always-on-channels-and-bundles-which-is-to-say-cable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI build-out has done something the fossil-fuel industry could not do for itself. It has set off the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired power plants,&nbsp;the Associated Press reports. Aging coal plants are being kept alive past their retirement dates too. Utilities, plant owners, and the federal government have all pushed to postpone the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-has-triggered-the-biggest-gas-plant-building-boom-in-history-and-a-quiet-fight-to-stop-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-has-triggered-the-biggest-gas-plant-building-boom-in-history-and-a-quiet-fight-to-stop-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The founder of China&rsquo;s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu&rsquo;s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by&nbsp;Bloomberg. His argument inverts the usual security logic. Real safety comes from broad participation, sharing, and oversight, he [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zhipus-founder-says-frontier-ai-should-stay-open-to-everyone-his-own-government-may-disagree/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zhipus-founder-says-frontier-ai-should-stay-open-to-everyone-his-own-government-may-disagree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has had a miserable year on the market, flat while the Nasdaq-100 climbed 18%. That changed abruptly, with the stock posting its best week since early 2024,&nbsp;CNBC reports. Shares rose about 6% on Friday and roughly 15% across the week. The move was not driven by advertising, the business that actually makes Meta&rsquo;s money. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-spent-a-year-being-punished-for-its-ai-spending-then-it-told-investors-how-it-would-get-the-money-back/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-spent-a-year-being-punished-for-its-ai-spending-then-it-told-investors-how-it-would-get-the-money-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI race has quietly stopped being about who has the biggest model]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years the industry ran on one assumption, that the biggest model wins. That belief is now breaking down,&nbsp;CNBC reports. Companies are choosing models by task, cost, and control instead of benchmark position. The frontier still matters, but it is no longer the only thing being bought. The reason is unromantic. At enterprise scale, model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-race-has-quietly-stopped-being-about-who-has-the-biggest-model/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-race-has-quietly-stopped-being-about-who-has-the-biggest-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon has cut 57,000 jobs, and the people who kept theirs are not fine either]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon&rsquo;s cuts have reached a scale that is hard to absorb. The company has laid off more than 57,000 corporate staff since 2022, around 16% of that workforce,&nbsp;CNBC reports. The pace has accelerated sharply. Roughly 16,000 people went in late January, three months after more than 14,000 others, the steepest cuts in the company&rsquo;s history. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-has-cut-57000-jobs-and-the-people-who-kept-theirs-are-not-fine-either/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-has-cut-57000-jobs-and-the-people-who-kept-theirs-are-not-fine-either/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Neuralink drills into skulls, China’s BrainCo is betting brain tech will be something you wear]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most visible race in brain-computer interfaces involves surgery. But one of China&rsquo;s most valuable neurotech firms is deliberately not competing in it,&nbsp;CNBC reports. BrainCo, based in Hangzhou, builds devices that read the brain from outside the skull. Headbands and caps pick up electrical signals through the scalp, with no operating theatre involved. The company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/while-neuralink-drills-into-skulls-chinas-brainco-is-betting-brain-tech-will-be-something-you-wear/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/while-neuralink-drills-into-skulls-chinas-brainco-is-betting-brain-tech-will-be-something-you-wear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI bosses say demand is ‘almost unlimited’. The market is no longer taking their word for it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Executives building the AI boom are unwavering. Demand is effectively bottomless, they say, even as the stocks that ride on it wobble,&nbsp;CNBC reports. Pat Gelsinger, the former Intel chief now at Playground Global, put it plainly. He thinks of AI demand as almost unlimited, with energy availability &ldquo;the only real limiter&rdquo;. The order books support [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-bosses-say-demand-is-almost-unlimited-the-market-is-no-longer-taking-their-word-for-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-bosses-say-demand-is-almost-unlimited-the-market-is-no-longer-taking-their-word-for-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most Americans now say the public should own half of the big AI companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[An idea that sounded radical a year ago is now a majority position. Nearly seven in ten Americans support forcing AI companies to transfer half their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund,&nbsp;CNBC reports. The figure comes from a Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults, conducted in June. It found 69% backing for the policy. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-americans-now-say-the-public-should-own-half-of-the-big-ai-companies/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-americans-now-say-the-public-should-own-half-of-the-big-ai-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese developers are climbing the firewall to pay more for GPT-5.6, and doing the maths on why]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s new GPT-5.6 models are winning praise from an unlikely group. Users in mainland China, where the service is blocked and reachable only by VPN or third-party proxy, told the&nbsp;South China Morning Post&nbsp;the models are worth the extra cost. That is a striking verdict, because the extra cost is not small. Chinese frontier models undercut [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-developers-are-climbing-the-firewall-to-pay-more-for-gpt-56-and-doing-the-maths-on-why/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-developers-are-climbing-the-firewall-to-pay-more-for-gpt-56-and-doing-the-maths-on-why/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cure cancer, cage the chatbots: Congress’s contradictory week on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the space of about ten days, US lawmakers introduced a small mountain of artificial-intelligence legislation. The bills, rounded up by&nbsp;Nextgov/FCW, pull in two opposite directions at once. One set treats AI as a tool the government should be deploying faster. The other treats it as a hazard that needs fencing in. Both instincts are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cure-cancer-cage-the-chatbots-congresss-contradictory-week-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cure-cancer-cage-the-chatbots-congresss-contradictory-week-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beijing&rsquo;s cybersecurity warning against Anthropic is expected to speed up a shift already under way. Chinese developers are moving to domestic coding tools, analysts told the&nbsp;South China Morning Post. China&rsquo;s National Vulnerability Database, overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, issued an alert this week. It claimed multiple versions of Claude Code contained [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beijing-flagged-claude-code-as-a-back-door-and-chinese-coding-tools-are-lining-up-to-take-its-place/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beijing-flagged-claude-code-as-a-back-door-and-chinese-coding-tools-are-lining-up-to-take-its-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 6 best scar creams that complement today’s consumer beauty tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[The convergence of advanced skincare science and consumer electronics is rewriting the rules of personal care. For decades, individuals relied entirely on the passive application of topical formulas, smoothing a cream over the skin surface and hoping the active ingredients would absorb on their own. This approach often led to inconsistent results, as the human [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-6-best-scar-creams-that-complement-todays-consumer-beauty-tech/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-6-best-scar-creams-that-complement-todays-consumer-beauty-tech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump T1 review: The worst phone of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump T1 review: The worst phone of 2026]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-t1-review-the-worst-phone-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-t1-review-the-worst-phone-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU says autoplay and infinite scroll are illegal. Meta has until it responds to disagree.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission issued preliminary findings on Friday accusing Meta of building Facebook and Instagram to be addictive, giving the company a formal opportunity to respond before Brussels reaches a final decision that could trigger fines of up to 6% of its global annual revenue. Based on Meta&rsquo;s 2025 turnover of roughly $201 billion, that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-says-autoplay-and-infinite-scroll-are-illegal-meta-has-until-it-responds-to-disagree/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-says-autoplay-and-infinite-scroll-are-illegal-meta-has-until-it-responds-to-disagree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that merges its safety and research teams under a single leader, Wired reported on Friday. Chief Research Officer Mark Chen told staff in a memo that safety teams would now report to Mia Glaese, whose title has been expanded to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-has-folded-safety-into-research-again-its-head-of-safety-is-leaving/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-has-folded-safety-into-research-again-its-head-of-safety-is-leaving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta killed its Muse Image AI feature three days after launch. Hollywood had had enough.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has pulled its Muse Image AI feature from Instagram and the Meta AI app just three days after launch, saying the tool &ldquo;missed the mark&rdquo; on user privacy.&nbsp;The model, the first image generator to emerge from Meta Superintelligence Labs under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, launched on Tuesday with a design flaw that proved [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-killed-its-muse-image-ai-feature-three-days-after-launch-hollywood-had-had-enough/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-killed-its-muse-image-ai-feature-three-days-after-launch-hollywood-had-had-enough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US agency that defends federal networks did not have its own incident response playbook when it got hacked]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed in a postmortem report on Friday that it did not have a prepared response plan for handling a cybersecurity incident when one hit in May. CISA staff &ldquo;had to spend time building [a playbook] during the early stages of the incident,&rdquo; the agency said, recommending that organisations [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-agency-that-defends-federal-networks-did-not-have-its-own-incident-response-playbook-when-it-got-hacked/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-agency-that-defends-federal-networks-did-not-have-its-own-incident-response-playbook-when-it-got-hacked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple sues OpenAI for stealing hardware designs, alleging employees brought prototypes to “show and tell” interviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has sued OpenAI in a California federal court, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using current and former employees to steal hardware designs as it prepares to launch AI-focused consumer devices. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, names OpenAI&rsquo;s chief hardware officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu, and alleges a pattern of misconduct [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-sues-openai-for-stealing-hardware-designs-alleging-employees-brought-prototypes-to-show-and-tell-interviews/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-sues-openai-for-stealing-hardware-designs-alleging-employees-brought-prototypes-to-show-and-tell-interviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen will halve its model range, but stays silent on the 100,000 job cuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volkswagen has announced plans to gut its sprawling product range as it fights the worst crisis in its history. The carmaker will cut its model lineup by up to half over the coming years,&nbsp;CNBC reports. The group will also shrink production capacity to nine million vehicles a year. That is well below the 12 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-will-halve-its-model-range-but-stays-silent-on-the-100000-job-cuts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-will-halve-its-model-range-but-stays-silent-on-the-100000-job-cuts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New ‘Ex-Elon’ ETFs let investors track the market while skipping Musk’s companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[An investment firm is offering a way to invest in the broad market without owning Elon Musk&rsquo;s companies. New York-based Subversive ETFs has filed with the SEC for two &ldquo;Ex-Elon&rdquo; funds,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. One fund tracks the Nasdaq-100 and the other the S&amp;P 500. Both exclude any company &ldquo;founded, controlled or led by&rdquo; Musk. The products [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-ex-elon-etfs-let-investors-track-the-market-while-skipping-musks-companies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-ex-elon-etfs-let-investors-track-the-market-while-skipping-musks-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first flights of the US air-taxi program carried organs, not passengers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beta Technologies has completed the first flights in the US government&rsquo;s electric air-taxi pilot programme. The Amazon-backed company flew the debut missions of the scheme,&nbsp;CNBC reports. The flights did not carry passengers. Instead, they transported manufactured organs for United Therapeutics between airports in Maryland and Virginia, covering about 275 nautical miles. The programme, an eVTOL [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-first-flights-of-the-us-air-taxi-program-carried-organs-not-passengers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-first-flights-of-the-us-air-taxi-program-carried-organs-not-passengers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe torched its own rulebook to please business, and business is still unhappy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty months into the EU&rsquo;s campaign to slash red tape, many of the businesses that demanded it are unimpressed. Firms told&nbsp;Politico&nbsp;the &ldquo;simplification&rdquo; drive is too slow, too costly, and too complicated. Politico spoke to 17 companies, consultancies, and trade bodies across sectors. A common complaint was that an institution built to write laws is ill-suited [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-torched-its-own-rulebook-to-please-business-and-business-is-still-unhappy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-torched-its-own-rulebook-to-please-business-and-business-is-still-unhappy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixel 8 Pro is the best phone deal of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pixel 8 Pro is the best phone deal of 2026]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-8-pro-is-the-best-phone-deal-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-8-pro-is-the-best-phone-deal-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monitoring systemic drift may guide the next phase of organizational resilience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence seems to be creating increasingly interconnected enterprise ecosystems, expanding the complexity of how organizations govern technology across their operations. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in critical workflows, maintaining visibility into system dependencies appears to emerge as a significant leadership consideration. According to an&nbsp;AI sovereignty study, 91% of surveyed executives said they do [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/monitoring-systemic-drift-may-guide-the-next-phase-of-organizational-resilience/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/monitoring-systemic-drift-may-guide-the-next-phase-of-organizational-resilience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the best stablecoin payment solution?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Key Takeaways Stablecoin payments help businesses combine blockchain settlement speed with more predictable value. The best stablecoin payment solution should support acceptance, stablecoin settlement, fiat settlement, reporting, compliance, and payout capabilities. Stablecoins are useful for ecommerce businesses, SaaS companies, international merchants, marketplaces, affiliate networks, global payroll, and cross-border supplier payments. A provider should be evaluated [&hellip;]<br />
This story con]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/what-makes-the-best-stablecoin-payment-solution/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/what-makes-the-best-stablecoin-payment-solution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eval Stack: Proving the agents are right instead of claiming It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most AI research tools point a language model at the web and trust the output. Saarth Shah built Sixtyfour around the opposite instinct: grade everything, ship only what improves the score. Saarth Shah keeps a scoreboard. Every build of Sixtyfour&rsquo;s research agents is graded against questions a team of experts assembles by hand and checks [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eval-stack-proving-the-agents-are-right-instead-of-claiming-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eval-stack-proving-the-agents-are-right-instead-of-claiming-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tingyu Su on why AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic hire from the start of company building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated&nbsp;software development, making it easier than ever to transform ideas into working products. According to Stanford&rsquo;s&nbsp;recent report, AI performance on a key coding benchmark jumped from 60% to nearly 100% in a single year, while organizational AI adoption reached 88%. As AI capabilities continue to expand,&nbsp;Tingyu Su&nbsp;believes the challenge is no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tingyu-su-on-why-ai-startups-should-treat-the-founding-designer-as-a-strategic-hire-from-the-start-of-company-building/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tingyu-su-on-why-ai-startups-should-treat-the-founding-designer-as-a-strategic-hire-from-the-start-of-company-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A US senator has a plan to make AI answer for its harms. It starts with your local data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fight over AI&rsquo;s harms has played out state by state. One US senator wants to make it federal, all at once. Ed Markey has a long list of worries about artificial intelligence. Thirsty data centres. Workplace surveillance. Biased algorithms. Chatbots that prey on children. On Friday the Massachusetts Democrat tried to turn that list [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-senator-has-a-plan-to-make-ai-answer-for-its-harms-it-starts-with-your-local-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-senator-has-a-plan-to-make-ai-answer-for-its-harms-it-starts-with-your-local-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home robots already walk. 1X’s new hands try to solve the part that actually matters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands, and they are the most interesting thing about it. A robot can stride across a stage and still be useless in a kitchen. Lifting a wet glass takes precision, fast [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/home-robots-already-walk-1xs-new-hands-try-to-solve-the-part-that-actually-matters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/home-robots-already-walk-1xs-new-hands-try-to-solve-the-part-that-actually-matters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain is spending £2bn to train its army inside an AI war simulation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain is spending &pound;2bn to train its army inside a simulation. It has handed the job to an American defence giant, with a German one taking a slice. The UK has signed a &pound;2bn ($2.7bn) contract to train its soldiers with artificial intelligence. The deal, announced by the Ministry of Defence on Friday, runs for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/britain-is-spending-2bn-to-train-its-army-inside-an-ai-war-simulation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/britain-is-spending-2bn-to-train-its-army-inside-an-ai-war-simulation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malaysia’s PM is sending an autonomous AI double out to serve citizens, payment links and all]]></title><description><![CDATA[Malaysia&rsquo;s prime minister is trying something new: sending an autonomous copy of himself out to serve the public. Anwar Ibrahim is preparing to launch an artificial intelligence version of himself. The avatar is called PMX AI, a nod to his place as Malaysia&rsquo;s tenth prime minister. Bloomberg reports it could go live within days. A [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/malaysias-pm-is-sending-an-autonomous-ai-double-out-to-serve-citizens-payment-links-and-all/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/malaysias-pm-is-sending-an-autonomous-ai-double-out-to-serve-citizens-payment-links-and-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic built a tool that reads Claude’s unspoken thoughts. Then it caught the model scheming]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has built something close to a mind-reading tool for its own AI. What it found sits somewhere between a breakthrough and an unsettling party trick. Anthropic researchers now have the clearest view yet of what a large language model does while it thinks. In a paper published on the company&rsquo;s Transformer Circuits site, they [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-built-a-tool-that-reads-claudes-unspoken-thoughts-then-it-caught-the-model-scheming/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-built-a-tool-that-reads-claudes-unspoken-thoughts-then-it-caught-the-model-scheming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Tech’s AI debt just hit $350bn, and Europe is about to feel it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big Tech built its reputation on mountains of cash. It is building its AI empire on debt, and the bill is starting to land in Europe. The five biggest builders of AI data centres in the US have doubled their debt over five years. Together, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have piled on about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/big-techs-ai-debt-just-hit-350bn-and-europe-is-about-to-feel-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/big-techs-ai-debt-just-hit-350bn-and-europe-is-about-to-feel-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MiniMax’s CEO won’t take a salary until AGI. His company just raised $2bn after an 80% crash]]></title><description><![CDATA[The letter reads like a founder&rsquo;s article of faith. The share sale underneath it tells a harder story. The founder of MiniMax has told staff he will take no salary until the Chinese AI company builds artificial general intelligence. On the same day, MiniMax moved to raise as much as $2bn from investors. Its shares [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/minimaxs-ceo-wont-take-a-salary-until-agi-his-company-just-raised-2bn-after-an-80-crash/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/minimaxs-ceo-wont-take-a-salary-until-agi-his-company-just-raised-2bn-after-an-80-crash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 23-year-old’s AI startup wants a $20bn valuation, months after a breach cost it Meta]]></title><description><![CDATA[A three-year-old startup run by a 23-year-old is in talks to double its worth to $20bn. The numbers are dazzling. Read the footnotes. Mercor, the AI training marketplace, has told investors it can raise at a $20bn valuation. It says it already holds at least one term sheet at that price, Bloomberg reports. The talks [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-23-year-olds-ai-startup-wants-a-20bn-valuation-months-after-a-breach-cost-it-meta/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-23-year-olds-ai-startup-wants-a-20bn-valuation-months-after-a-breach-cost-it-meta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China just caught a rocket in a net, and SpaceX should be watching]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX lands its rockets on legs. Blue Origin uses a platform. China just caught one in a giant net. China has recovered the first stage of an orbital rocket for the first time. The milestone pulls it into a club with only two other members. On Friday, the booster of a Long March-10B lifted off [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-just-caught-a-rocket-in-a-net-and-spacex-should-be-watching/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-just-caught-a-rocket-in-a-net-and-spacex-should-be-watching/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is now worth $1.2 trillion on paper. Almost nobody can buy in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is the hottest stock in private tech. It is also one of the hardest to buy, and that is exactly why the price keeps climbing. Shares in Anthropic are changing hands on secondary markets at an implied valuation of $1.2 trillion, Business Insider reports. That is a 550% jump in a year. It puts [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-now-worth-12-trillion-on-paper-almost-nobody-can-buy-in/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-now-worth-12-trillion-on-paper-almost-nobody-can-buy-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From powerboat records to a $1bn war chest: meet Europe’s newest defence unicorn]]></title><description><![CDATA[First the Royal Navy shoved a robot boat out of a transport plane at 1,300 feet. Then its maker became Europe&rsquo;s newest defence unicorn. Kraken Technology Group, a British maker of uncrewed surface vessels, has raised $175m (&euro;152.9m) in a Series B round. It values the company at more than $1bn. Kraken announced the raise [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-powerboat-records-to-a-1bn-war-chest-meet-europes-newest-defence-unicorn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-powerboat-records-to-a-1bn-war-chest-meet-europes-newest-defence-unicorn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK shops are about to get a four-second line to the police, powered by your face]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walk into a shop with the wrong face on file, and the police could know within four seconds. That is the pitch, and the problem. A facial recognition system in more than 100 UK shops is about to start calling the police in real time. It will fire the moment it spots a flagged shopper. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-shops-are-about-to-get-a-four-second-line-to-the-police-powered-by-your-face/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-shops-are-about-to-get-a-four-second-line-to-the-police-powered-by-your-face/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The UK just declared Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle ‘critical’ to its financial system]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s banks run on four American clouds. The Treasury reckons two-thirds of UK firms lean on the same handful. Now the regulators are stepping in. The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as &ldquo;critical third parties&rdquo; to its financial system, as Reuters first reported. The designation takes effect on 13 July. These are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uk-just-declared-microsoft-google-amazon-and-oracle-critical-to-its-financial-system/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uk-just-declared-microsoft-google-amazon-and-oracle-critical-to-its-financial-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America&rsquo;s best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country. Three of China&rsquo;s biggest technology companies sit on a US military blacklist. All three can still reach some of America&rsquo;s most advanced artificial intelligence. The trick is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-singapore-side-door-openai-and-google-are-selling-frontier-ai-to-blacklisted-chinese-giants/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-singapore-side-door-openai-and-google-are-selling-frontier-ai-to-blacklisted-chinese-giants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU tells Meta to dismantle Facebook and Instagram’s ‘addictive’ design or face a fine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brussels has decided that infinite scroll is not a feature but a hazard. On Friday, the European Commission told Meta to dismantle the design tricks that keep people glued to Facebook and Instagram, or risk a fine that could run into billions, in a fresh set of charges under the EU&rsquo;s Digital Services Act. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-tells-meta-to-dismantle-facebook-and-instagrams-addictive-design-or-face-a-fine/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-tells-meta-to-dismantle-facebook-and-instagrams-addictive-design-or-face-a-fine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US wants to delete the steering wheel. The EU wants a camera on your face]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week, two of the world&rsquo;s biggest car regulators looked at the same question and reached opposite answers. The question is simple. What should sit between a human and a moving vehicle? In the United States, the top auto-safety official floated pulling the steering wheel out altogether. In Europe, new rules took effect that point [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-wants-to-delete-the-steering-wheel-the-eu-wants-a-camera-on-your-face/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-wants-to-delete-the-steering-wheel-the-eu-wants-a-camera-on-your-face/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nanya plans a $6bn spending surge in 2027 to ride the AI memory boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nanya Technology spent years as the also-ran of the memory business, the Taiwanese DRAM maker that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron never had to worry about much. The AI boom has changed the arithmetic. The company now plans to spend around $6bn in 2027 as it races to expand capacity into a memory shortage that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nanya-plans-a-6bn-spending-surge-in-2027-to-ride-the-ai-memory-boom/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nanya-plans-a-6bn-spending-surge-in-2027-to-ride-the-ai-memory-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude can now tell you that you use Claude too much]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has built a feature that does something odd for a tech company. It counts how much you lean on its product, then gently suggests you might want to lean a little less. The feature is called Reflect, and it landed in beta on Thursday. It is a dashboard, tucked into Claude&rsquo;s settings, that shows [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-can-now-tell-you-that-you-use-claude-too-much/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-can-now-tell-you-that-you-use-claude-too-much/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A €91M bet on the diamond microscope that could be Europe’s next ASML]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe uses about a fifth of the world&rsquo;s chips, but makes only a tenth of them. A three-year-old Munich startup thinks it can help close that gap, and Brussels has just backed the bet. QuantumDiamonds is a spin-out of the Technical University of Munich. It has raised &euro;91M to scale a new way of finding [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-91m-bet-on-the-diamond-microscope-that-could-be-europes-next-asml/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-91m-bet-on-the-diamond-microscope-that-could-be-europes-next-asml/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank and PayPay said to be in talks to invest in Seven &amp; i]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan&rsquo;s biggest payments app and its most famous convenience-store chain may be about to get closer. SoftBank and its payments arm PayPay are in talks to invest in Seven &amp; i Holdings, the retailer behind 7-Eleven, according to Bloomberg, which reported the discussions on Friday. Neither the size nor the structure of any deal has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-and-paypay-said-to-be-in-talks-to-invest-in-seven-amp-i/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-and-paypay-said-to-be-in-talks-to-invest-in-seven-amp-i/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanoid robots just removed organs from live animals for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two robots that look roughly like people just reached inside a live animal and removed an organ. No film studio staged the scene. It happened in a lab in California, and it is a first for medicine. Surgeons at the University of California San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots to remove the gallbladders from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/humanoid-robots-just-removed-organs-from-live-animals-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/humanoid-robots-just-removed-organs-from-live-animals-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch watchdogs urge Europe’s banks to pool buying power against US tech giants]]></title><description><![CDATA[A single European bank haggling with Amazon or Microsoft has almost no leverage. A few hundred of them haggling together might. That, stripped to its essence, is the recommendation Dutch regulators handed their government on Friday, in a report warning that Europe&rsquo;s reliance on American technology is deepening rather than easing. The proposals came from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-watchdogs-urge-europes-banks-to-pool-buying-power-against-us-tech-giants/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-watchdogs-urge-europes-banks-to-pool-buying-power-against-us-tech-giants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market]]></title><description><![CDATA[SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the German software group, closing an investigation into how SAP handles maintenance and support for its on-premise enterprise software and sparing it a penalty that could have run into the billions. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sap-averts-an-eu-antitrust-fine-by-opening-up-its-support-market/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sap-averts-an-eu-antitrust-fine-by-opening-up-its-support-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UN’s digital agency launches an initiative to make AI agents trustworthy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Nations&rsquo; digital agency has decided that AI agents are moving faster than anyone&rsquo;s ability to trust them, and it wants to do something about it. On 9 July, the International Telecommunication Union used its AI for Good Summit in Geneva to launch an initiative aimed at keeping increasingly autonomous AI systems&nbsp;identifiable, accountable and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uns-digital-agency-launches-an-initiative-to-make-ai-agents-trustworthy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uns-digital-agency-launches-an-initiative-to-make-ai-agents-trustworthy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tencent in talks to become Manus’ largest shareholder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manus was, briefly, one of the most valuable exits in Chinese AI. Meta agreed to buy the&nbsp;agentic AI&nbsp;startup for more than $2bn late last year, then watched Beijing block the deal on national-security grounds. Now the company is being bought back by the people who owned it in the first place, and Tencent looks set [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tencent-in-talks-to-become-manus-largest-shareholder/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tencent-in-talks-to-become-manus-largest-shareholder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s number two job]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fidji Simo announced her departure from OpenAI&rsquo;s senior leadership the way many people learn hard news about their own bodies, gradually and then all at once. In a message on Thursday, she said a three-month medical leave had not gone as hoped, that recovery would be longer and more complicated than expected, and that she [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-number-two-job/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-number-two-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to finish the job instead. The company has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agent inside ChatGPT that it says can take action across a user&rsquo;s apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-chatgpt-work-an-agent-built-to-finish-the-job/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-chatgpt-work-an-agent-built-to-finish-the-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Special delivery: Italy’s postal service joins the AI infrastructure race]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italy&rsquo;s postal service has spent a century and a half moving letters, parcels and pension payments around the country. Now it wants to move data. Poste Italiane, which still hands out state pensions through roughly 12,600 branches, has cast itself as an unlikely contender in Europe&rsquo;s scramble to build the infrastructure behind AI. The bet [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/special-delivery-italys-postal-service-joins-the-ai-infrastructure-race/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/special-delivery-italys-postal-service-joins-the-ai-infrastructure-race/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it. The company is targeting 9 August for deprecation,&nbsp;The Verge reports. Atlas only arrived in October 2025, pitched as a browser that could carry out tasks on a user&rsquo;s behalf. Nine months later, it is being retired. The move [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-killing-its-chatgpt-atlas-browser-less-than-a-year-after-launch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-killing-its-chatgpt-atlas-browser-less-than-a-year-after-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google will now tell you which ads were made with AI, if the advertiser admits it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is rolling out a feature that flags when an advertisement was made using AI. The label will indicate if an ad was created or edited with generative tools,&nbsp;TechCrunch reports. The disclosure appears in the &ldquo;My Ad Center&rdquo; panel, reachable via the three-dot menu or info icon on ads. It covers ads across Google Search, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-now-tell-you-which-ads-were-made-with-ai-if-the-advertiser-admits-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-now-tell-you-which-ads-were-made-with-ai-if-the-advertiser-admits-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bezos opens Blue Origin to outside investors for the first time in 26 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos is letting outside investors into Blue Origin for the first time since he founded it in 2000. The rocket company is seeking about $10bn in fresh capital at a $130bn pre-money valuation,&nbsp;according to CNBC. For 26 years, Bezos bankrolled the company himself, selling billions in Amazon stock rather than sharing ownership. That solo-funding [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bezos-opens-blue-origin-to-outside-investors-for-the-first-time-in-26-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bezos-opens-blue-origin-to-outside-investors-for-the-first-time-in-26-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News outlets ask a judge to sanction OpenAI in their landmark copyright fight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of news publishers has asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI. The New York Times, the Daily News, and others allege the ChatGPT maker is concealing evidence central to their copyright case,&nbsp;the Associated Press reports. A filing on Thursday in Manhattan federal court claims OpenAI &ldquo;chose obstruction&rdquo; over handing over datasets [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/news-outlets-ask-a-judge-to-sanction-openai-in-their-landmark-copyright-fight/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/news-outlets-ask-a-judge-to-sanction-openai-in-their-landmark-copyright-fight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Jersey could ban Tesla’s Robotaxi with one line about sensors]]></title><description><![CDATA[For more than a decade, the biggest fight in self-driving cars has played out in boardrooms and engineering labs. New Jersey now wants to settle it in law. A bill moving through the state legislature would force any company running fully driverless cars in New Jersey to fit them with a camera system plus two [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-jersey-could-ban-teslas-robotaxi-with-one-line-about-sensors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-jersey-could-ban-teslas-robotaxi-with-one-line-about-sensors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk says he always wanted SpaceX staff to get rich, and thousands just did]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk says SpaceX&rsquo;s blockbuster listing has probably made thousands of his employees millionaires. Asked on The Sean Hannity Show about a former welder whose stock topped $1m, he said the story was far from unique. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just one welder, it&rsquo;s several thousand people who were working on the production line,&rdquo; Musk said, adding [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-says-he-always-wanted-spacex-staff-to-get-rich-and-thousands-just-did/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-says-he-always-wanted-spacex-staff-to-get-rich-and-thousands-just-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI’s land rush is reaching Native American reservations]]></title><description><![CDATA[The scramble to build AI data centres is pushing developers toward Native American land. Indigenous-led group Honor the Earth says it is&nbsp;tracking more than 100 proposed projects&nbsp;on or near tribal and rural territory. The appeal for developers is practical. Large land-based tribes often have space, water rights, and power access, and reservations can offer tax [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-land-rush-is-reaching-native-american-reservations/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-land-rush-is-reaching-native-american-reservations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power &ldquo;makes sense&rdquo;, he said,&nbsp;according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO&rsquo;s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta had been said to be weighing a venture, dubbed Meta Compute, to&nbsp;rent out its spare AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zuckerberg-confirms-meta-is-eyeing-an-ai-cloud-business-to-rent-out-its-compute/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zuckerberg-confirms-meta-is-eyeing-an-ai-cloud-business-to-rent-out-its-compute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI companies are spending hundreds of millions on the midterms, and they want one thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI companies and their backers are pouring vast sums into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs. The spending runs into the hundreds of millions across the sector,&nbsp;CNBC reports, and their central demand is remarkably consistent. They want a single national framework for AI, not a patchwork of state laws. The industry argues that 50 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-companies-are-spending-hundreds-of-millions-on-the-midterms-and-they-want-one-thing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-companies-are-spending-hundreds-of-millions-on-the-midterms-and-they-want-one-thing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palo Alto’s CEO says AI prices must fall 90% before the tech really takes off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says the cost of running AI needs to plunge before businesses can deploy it at scale. He told CNBC on Thursday that token prices may need to fall by as much as 90%,&nbsp;according to CNBC. Arora was reacting to OpenAI&rsquo;s claim that its new GPT-5.6 model is 54% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palo-altos-ceo-says-ai-prices-must-fall-90-before-the-tech-really-takes-off/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palo-altos-ceo-says-ai-prices-must-fall-90-before-the-tech-really-takes-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Parliament has voted to advance a bill letting tech companies legally scan for child sexual abuse material. On Thursday in Strasbourg, lawmakers sent the proposal to EU member states for approval,&nbsp;Politico reports. The twist is that Parliament rejected this same bill in March. It was revived after a push by the centre-right European [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-parliament-revives-a-zombie-child-abuse-scanning-bill-it-rejected-in-march/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-parliament-revives-a-zombie-child-abuse-scanning-bill-it-rejected-in-march/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic puts the man who steered the Fed through 2008 on its AI oversight trust]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust. The AI company&nbsp;announced the move&nbsp;on Thursday, adding a central-bank-grade name to the body meant to keep it honest. Bernanke led the Fed from 2006 to 2014, steering it through the 2008 financial crisis. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-puts-the-man-who-steered-the-fed-through-2008-on-its-ai-oversight-trust/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-puts-the-man-who-steered-the-fed-through-2008-on-its-ai-oversight-trust/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI now wants half of America’s tech office space, and it’s all landing on a few streets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI boom is easy to measure in dollars raised and models shipped. It is harder to see where it physically lands. A new report from the real-estate platform VTS offers one answer, and it is striking. AI companies now account for nearly half of all the office space that America&rsquo;s tech firms are chasing. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-now-wants-half-of-americas-tech-office-space-and-its-all-landing-on-a-few-streets/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-now-wants-half-of-americas-tech-office-space-and-its-all-landing-on-a-few-streets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI just shrank the PC market and is killing the cheap phone. Your gadgets are next]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time in two years, the world bought fewer PCs. Global shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations fell 3.6% in the second quarter of 2026, to 65.7 million units, according to the analyst firm Omdia. The cause is not weak demand. It is the price of memory, and the reason it is soaring [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-just-shrank-the-pc-market-and-is-killing-the-cheap-phone-your-gadgets-are-next/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-just-shrank-the-pc-market-and-is-killing-the-cheap-phone-your-gadgets-are-next/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 to everyone after the US government signed off]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 publicly available after receiving approval from the Trump administration. The release ends weeks in which the model was restricted to a small group of government-vetted partners,&nbsp;CNBC reports. The model family comes in three tiers. Sol is the flagship, Terra a lower-cost enterprise option, and Luna the fastest and cheapest. OpenAI says [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-releases-gpt-56-to-everyone-after-the-us-government-signed-off/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-releases-gpt-56-to-everyone-after-the-us-government-signed-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of Gen Z feel guilty using AI at work. Employers now rank it above a degree]]></title><description><![CDATA[Half of young workers feel guilty when they use AI to do their jobs. Yet the same skills are fast becoming something their employers demand. That is the bind facing Gen Z at work, according to a new global survey from the employment platform Employment Hero. The company calls it &ldquo;the AI paradox.&rdquo; In the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/half-of-gen-z-feel-guilty-using-ai-at-work-employers-now-rank-it-above-a-degree/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/half-of-gen-z-feel-guilty-using-ai-at-work-employers-now-rank-it-above-a-degree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single Messi moment pushed Google Search to its busiest second ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Search recorded its highest usage ever this week, driven by a World Cup goal. The company says the most queries per second in Search&rsquo;s near-28-year history landed&nbsp;right after Argentina&rsquo;s winning goal, a spokesperson told CNBC. The spike followed Argentina&rsquo;s comeback victory over Egypt in the knockout rounds on Tuesday, with Lionel Messi at the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-single-messi-moment-pushed-google-search-to-its-busiest-second-ever/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-single-messi-moment-pushed-google-search-to-its-busiest-second-ever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alipay’s owner just open-sourced an entire robot brain in a single week]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company behind China&rsquo;s Alipay just gave away an AI that builds a playable video game world and keeps it running for a full hour. Robbyant, the robotics arm of fintech giant Ant Group, open-sourced its LingBot-World 2.0 world model this week. It generates an interactive 3D world in real time, at 720p and 60 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alipays-owner-just-open-sourced-an-entire-robot-brain-in-a-single-week/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alipays-owner-just-open-sourced-an-entire-robot-brain-in-a-single-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How organizations view AI-native transformation through better workflows, decisions, and organizational intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Organizations seem eager to bring AI into the workplace. Many begin the journey by focusing on the tool or the model.&nbsp;VarOps, a systems-level AI advisory specializing in capability building in organizations, believes that&rsquo;s the wrong place to start. According to VarOps, businesses should start by examining how work actually moves through the organisation, as this [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-organizations-view-ai-native-transformation-through-better-workflows-decisions-and-organizational-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-organizations-view-ai-native-transformation-through-better-workflows-decisions-and-organizational-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yann LeCun is not a natural contrarian, but he is playing one right now. The man often called a godfather of AI built the convolutional neural network in the late 1980s. That design still powers phone cameras, medical scans, and driver-assistance systems. He then spent 12 years as Meta&rsquo;s chief AI scientist. In November, he [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-four-year-old-has-seen-more-of-the-world-than-chatgpt-yann-lecun-is-betting-1bn-on-that/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-four-year-old-has-seen-more-of-the-world-than-chatgpt-yann-lecun-is-betting-1bn-on-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots swept RoboCup 2026, and they’re coming for the human World Cup by 2050]]></title><description><![CDATA[While the world watched the World Cup, robots played their own version in Incheon. RoboCup 2026 ran from 30 June to 6 July in Songdo, drawing teams from dozens of countries. When the whistle blew, one name was behind every winner. Teams using robots from Beijing&rsquo;s Booster Robotics swept all three humanoid football divisions. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/robots-swept-robocup-2026-and-theyre-coming-for-the-human-world-cup-by-2050/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/robots-swept-robocup-2026-and-theyre-coming-for-the-human-world-cup-by-2050/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs]]></title><description><![CDATA[On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing Intel on CPUs and Nvidia on GPUs. Its market [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amds-cto-agentic-ai-doesnt-just-need-gpus-it-needs-a-lot-more-cpus/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amds-cto-agentic-ai-doesnt-just-need-gpus-it-needs-a-lot-more-cpus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Waymo called the cops on two teens drinking and shooting toy guns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two 15-year-olds in San Mateo learned this week that a driverless taxi can still tell on you. The pair were drinking alcohol and shooting Orbeez, soft water-filled pellets, out of a moving Waymo on Monday afternoon. The car&rsquo;s remote monitors spotted it, called 911, and pulled the vehicle over to wait for police, the Associated [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-waymo-called-the-cops-on-two-teens-drinking-and-shooting-toy-guns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-waymo-called-the-cops-on-two-teens-drinking-and-shooting-toy-guns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A startup just 3D-printed kidney and liver tissue in space, a first]]></title><description><![CDATA[Auxilium Biotechnologies has bioprinted kidney and liver tissue aboard the International Space Station. It says that is the first time anyone has made either in space. The samples flew home last month on a SpaceX cargo capsule, and the company announced the results on Thursday. It was not a one-off. In the same mission, Auxilium&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-just-3d-printed-kidney-and-liver-tissue-in-space-a-first/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-just-3d-printed-kidney-and-liver-tissue-in-space-a-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Securing Shadow IT in the corporate environment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every organization has two technology environments. The one that IT built, documented, and maintains visibility over, and the one that employees assembled around it to get their work done faster. The second environment is shadow IT, and in most enterprises, it is larger, more varied, and more deeply embedded in daily operations than security teams [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/securing-shadow-it-in-the-corporate-environment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/securing-shadow-it-in-the-corporate-environment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bro, I'm begging you: Don't buy the Pixel 10]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bro, I'm begging you: Don't buy the Pixel 10]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bro-im-begging-you-dont-buy-the-pixel-10/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bro-im-begging-you-dont-buy-the-pixel-10/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This EU-first robocar tests at 120 km/h, and uses no AI to drive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limburg. Level 4 means the car handles everything, with no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-eu-first-robocar-tests-at-120-kmh-and-uses-no-ai-to-drive/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-eu-first-robocar-tests-at-120-kmh-and-uses-no-ai-to-drive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It is the largest right-to-repair win in the US so far. The fight was [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-john-deere-repair-win-isnt-about-tractors-its-about-software-lock-in/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-john-deere-repair-win-isnt-about-tractors-its-about-software-lock-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle&lsquo;s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an AI stack at all. They are chasing an outcome. Take a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracles-mark-hura-your-ai-advantage-is-your-data-not-the-model/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracles-mark-hura-your-ai-advantage-is-your-data-not-the-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator and others joined. The round takes the company&rsquo;s total funding to $88M, three years after it launched, and Ollama set out the plan in a blog post on Thursday. Founder and chief executive Jeff Morgan gave the details to TechCrunch, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ollama-raises-65m-as-its-open-model-runner-hits-nearly-9m-developers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ollama-raises-65m-as-its-open-model-runner-hits-nearly-9m-developers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company&rsquo;s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursday. The figure is striking for a firm that bootstrapped its way to the top. Oxylabs says [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lithuanias-oxylabs-raises-130m-from-warburg-pincus-at-a-36bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lithuanias-oxylabs-raises-130m-from-warburg-pincus-at-a-36bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France plans to triple penalties for AI-driven election disinformation]]></title><description><![CDATA[French prime minister S&eacute;bastien Lecornu has announced a bill to sharply increase penalties for spreading false content during elections. He set out the plan in the Senate on 8 July,&nbsp;according to Public S&eacute;nat, in response to a question about AI in the coming presidential campaign. Lecornu argued that current penalties are &ldquo;not sufficiently deterrent&rdquo;. He [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-plans-to-triple-penalties-for-ai-driven-election-disinformation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-plans-to-triple-penalties-for-ai-driven-election-disinformation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new EU car now needs a camera that watches the driver]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new wave of mandatory safety technology took effect for cars and vans across the EU on 7 July. Every newly manufactured passenger car and van must now carry advanced driver aids,&nbsp;the European Commission has confirmed. The headline additions are an advanced emergency brake that detects pedestrians and cyclists, and a driver distraction warning system. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/every-new-eu-car-now-needs-a-camera-that-watches-the-driver/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/every-new-eu-car-now-needs-a-camera-that-watches-the-driver/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jack Dorsey’s Block settles Cash App fraud claims with 46 states for $45m]]></title><description><![CDATA[Block, the payments company chaired by&nbsp;Jack Dorsey, has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims from 46 US states that it mishandled fraud on Cash App, its money-transfer and&nbsp;digital-banking app. The settlement is the latest sign that state regulators are moving into ground the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has vacated under the Trump [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jack-dorseys-block-settles-cash-app-fraud-claims-with-46-states-for-45m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jack-dorseys-block-settles-cash-app-fraud-claims-with-46-states-for-45m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspected Chinese spies are raiding university mailboxes via a Roundcube flaw]]></title><description><![CDATA[A suspected Chinese espionage group has been breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. It has stolen credentials from staff in physics, engineering, and national security research. Security firm Proofpoint disclosed the campaign this week, tracking the crew as UNK_MassTraction and dating it to at least May. The Register reported further [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/suspected-chinese-spies-are-raiding-university-mailboxes-via-a-roundcube-flaw/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/suspected-chinese-spies-are-raiding-university-mailboxes-via-a-roundcube-flaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. They call it a workflow-level jailbreak, and The Register reported the finding. The gap between the two settings is stark. In direct chat, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/researchers-broke-github-copilots-safety-by-hiding-harm-in-a-workflow/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/researchers-broke-github-copilots-safety-by-hiding-harm-in-a-workflow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta patches the mod that turned its Ray-Ban glasses into secret spy cams]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is updating its smart glasses to shut off the camera if the recording light has been physically tampered with or destroyed. The change,&nbsp;announced in a 7 July blog post, closes a loophole that let modders turn the glasses into covert recorders. A white LED lights up whenever the glasses capture photos or video, signalling [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-patches-the-mod-that-turned-its-ray-ban-glasses-into-secret-spy-cams/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-patches-the-mod-that-turned-its-ray-ban-glasses-into-secret-spy-cams/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain’s public sector runs on US cloud, and that is now a billion-pound risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on hyperscale cloud, with the dependency running into billions of pounds a year. Some 95% of central and local public-sector bodies spent on hyperscale [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/britains-public-sector-runs-on-us-cloud-and-that-is-now-a-billion-pound-risk/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/britains-public-sector-runs-on-us-cloud-and-that-is-now-a-billion-pound-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg’s terminal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Databento has raised $97M in Series B funding to build what it calls the market data platform for modern finance. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with DRW, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital joining. The company announced the raise on Thursday. Demand ran well past the target. The round was oversubscribed, drawing more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/databento-raises-97m-to-take-on-bloombergs-terminal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/databento-raises-97m-to-take-on-bloombergs-terminal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside IBM’s hidden ‘Court 19’, where Wimbledon becomes a test lab for AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[A serve flashes on the Wimbledon scoreboard before the ball stops bouncing. That number comes from a partnership older than most players on court. IBM has been Wimbledon&rsquo;s technology partner for 36 years, since it planted serve-speed radar behind the baselines in 1991. This year the two extended their deal to 2030, Fortune reported. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inside-ibms-hidden-court-19-where-wimbledon-becomes-a-test-lab-for-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inside-ibms-hidden-court-19-where-wimbledon-becomes-a-test-lab-for-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft’s Brad Smith: the US is regulating AI with rules nobody can read]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft president Brad Smith says the US is now regulating AI without a clear set of rules. The uncertainty, he warns, is a problem for the whole industry. He made the case to Fortune on the sidelines of the AI for Good Global Summit. &ldquo;What we really have right now is regulation without transparent or [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsofts-brad-smith-the-us-is-regulating-ai-with-rules-nobody-can-read/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsofts-brad-smith-the-us-is-regulating-ai-with-rules-nobody-can-read/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lyzr used its own AI agent to help raise a $100mn round]]></title><description><![CDATA[A startup that builds artificial-intelligence agents for large companies has turned that software on itself, using one of its own agents to help run a $100 million fundraise. Lyzr, an enterprise AI agents&nbsp;firm backed by Accenture, says the agent handled much of the investor legwork for a Series B round that would value the company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lyzr-used-its-own-ai-agent-to-help-raise-a-100mn-round/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lyzr-used-its-own-ai-agent-to-help-raise-a-100mn-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta to put its own AI chip into production in September, aiming to double computing capacity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta plans to put its own artificial intelligence chip into production in September and is aiming to roughly double the computing capacity across its data centres, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The chip belongs to Meta&rsquo;s in-house silicon line, the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, which the company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-to-put-its-own-ai-chip-into-production-in-september-aiming-to-double-computing-capacity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-to-put-its-own-ai-chip-into-production-in-september-aiming-to-double-computing-capacity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix’s Nasdaq listing draws more than seven times the shares on offer]]></title><description><![CDATA[SK Hynix&rsquo;s American listing has been more than seven times oversubscribed, according to people familiar with the deal, a sign of heavy demand for one of the largest share sales Wall Street has fielded from a foreign company. The South Korean memory-chip maker was due to price its offering of American depositary receipts on Thursday, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynixs-nasdaq-listing-draws-more-than-seven-times-the-shares-on-offer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynixs-nasdaq-listing-draws-more-than-seven-times-the-shares-on-offer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US power firms scramble for transformers and turbines as data centres strain supply]]></title><description><![CDATA[US power companies are locked in a scramble for the heavy electrical gear that keeps the lights on, as a wave of artificial-intelligence data centres pushes demand for transformers, turbines and switchgear well beyond what factories can supply. Lead times once measured in months now run into years, and developers are fighting over the same [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-power-firms-scramble-for-transformers-and-turbines-as-data-centres-strain-supply/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-power-firms-scramble-for-transformers-and-turbines-as-data-centres-strain-supply/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India scraps import duties on electronics and battery inputs to boost local manufacturing]]></title><description><![CDATA[India has removed import duties on a swathe of machinery and components used to make electronics, from lithium-ion battery cells to certain smartphone parts, in the latest push to lower costs for hardware built on its soil. The measure lands as the country presses to&nbsp;court iPhone and Samsung makers&nbsp;and pull more of the global electronics [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-scraps-import-duties-on-electronics-and-battery-inputs-to-boost-local-manufacturing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-scraps-import-duties-on-electronics-and-battery-inputs-to-boost-local-manufacturing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s antitrust probe into Nvidia is nearing its end, regulator says]]></title><description><![CDATA[France&rsquo;s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world&rsquo;s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence hardware. The company has long been tipped to face&nbsp;antitrust charges in France, and any decision could [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-antitrust-probe-into-nvidia-is-nearing-its-end-regulator-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-antitrust-probe-into-nvidia-is-nearing-its-end-regulator-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rubrik pledges more than $500m for the UK and makes London its European base]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rubrik, the US data-security company, said it will invest more than $500m in Britain over the next five years and make London its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The commitment, announced on Wednesday and worth about &pound;375m, lands as governments across the region press companies to keep sensitive information closer to home, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rubrik-pledges-more-than-500m-for-the-uk-and-makes-london-its-european-base/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rubrik-pledges-more-than-500m-for-the-uk-and-makes-london-its-european-base/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clicks Communicator: Your First Look at Working Hardware!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six months after unveiling Communicator at CES, Clicks is showing off the next major milestone: working hardware running real software.Six months after unveiling Communicator at CES, we're showing you the next major milestone: working hardware running real software.There are moments in every hardware project that matter more than the others.This is one of them.Back in January, we introduced Clicks Communicator to the world at CES. What everyone saw were beautifully crafted industrial design mode]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clicks-communicator-your-first-look-at-working-hardware/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clicks-communicator-your-first-look-at-working-hardware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Punkt. MC03 Is The Smartphone Giving Big Tech The Middle Finger]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is there any hope of any company out there breaking the stranglehold that Apple and Android have on the smartphone market? Maybe not...but if there was one I'd root for to pull off the impossible, it's the combined power of thePunkt. MC03 and AphyOS).I'm heads-down with the Clicks team right now. We've got the Clicks Power Keyboard shipping to customers right now (stay on top of shipping updates here), and we just gave a video first look at working pre-preproduction units of Clicks Communicator]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-punkt-mc03-is-the-smartphone-giving-big-tech-the-middle-finger/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-punkt-mc03-is-the-smartphone-giving-big-tech-the-middle-finger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quant fund Qube is hiring human stock pickers to sit beside its algorithms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qube Research &amp; Technologies, one of London&rsquo;s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to&nbsp;pick stocks. The move, reported by Business Insider, places the fund alongside a small group of systematic managers that have begun to blend algorithms with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quant-fund-qube-is-hiring-human-stock-pickers-to-sit-beside-its-algorithms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quant-fund-qube-is-hiring-human-stock-pickers-to-sit-beside-its-algorithms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwan&rsquo;s top central banker has urged investors to steer clear of heavy borrowing to chase the island&rsquo;s surging stock market, a rally powered by global demand for the AI hardware that Taiwanese firms supply. Yang Chin-long, governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), delivered the caution on Thursday while reporting to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwans-central-bank-chief-urges-caution-on-leverage-as-ai-stock-rally-runs-hot/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwans-central-bank-chief-urges-caution-on-leverage-as-ai-stock-rally-runs-hot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple supplier Luxshare slides in its record Hong Kong debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Luxshare Precision Industry began trading in Hong Kong on Thursday with a stumble, its shares sliding on a debut that had been trailed as the city&rsquo;s biggest listing of 2026. The stock fell as much as 9.6% below its offer price before clawing back part of the loss, an underwhelming opening for one of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-supplier-luxshare-slides-in-its-record-hong-kong-debut/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-supplier-luxshare-slides-in-its-record-hong-kong-debut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s drive for sovereign AI has rarely looked more urgent, yet the infrastructure meant to carry it may not be ready. As Washington tightens access to its most capable models&nbsp;and Brussels leans harder into the case for&nbsp;European AI sovereignty, a new survey from Onnec warns that the continent&rsquo;s ambitions could be strangled by the plain [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-sovereign-ai-ambition-risks-stalling-on-data-centre-limits-new-research-warns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-sovereign-ai-ambition-risks-stalling-on-data-centre-limits-new-research-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut hires ex-Chase UK boss Kuba Fast to lead its European bank]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolut has appointed Kuba Fast, the former chief executive of Chase UK, to run Revolut Bank UAB, the Lithuania-based entity that holds the fintech&rsquo;s European banking licence. The move hands one of the industry&rsquo;s most closely watched digital lenders a senior operator taken directly from JPMorgan Chase, as it presses on with a banking build-out [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-hires-ex-chase-uk-boss-kuba-fast-to-lead-its-european-bank/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-hires-ex-chase-uk-boss-kuba-fast-to-lead-its-european-bank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, survey finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has moved out of the office and the university lecture hall and into the primary school classroom, and a fresh survey suggests plenty of parents are uneasy about it. Half of those polled said they were worried their child &ldquo;relies on AI too much,&rdquo; according to Deloitte&rsquo;s annual back-to-school study. The figure comes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/half-of-parents-worry-their-children-rely-on-ai-too-much-survey-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/half-of-parents-worry-their-children-rely-on-ai-too-much-survey-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta CTO says employee-tracking data landed ‘where it wasn’t supposed to go’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta&rsquo;s chief technology officer has given the fullest account yet of the mishap that forced the company to halt its most contentious AI project, the keystroke-logging scheme it calls the Model Capability Initiative. Andrew Bosworth said a researcher had moved sensitive employee data somewhere it was never meant to sit, though he insisted there was [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-cto-says-employee-tracking-data-landed-where-it-wasnt-supposed-to-go/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-cto-says-employee-tracking-data-landed-where-it-wasnt-supposed-to-go/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia&rsquo;s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it. Jensen Huang said this week that his engineers have grown to prefer building AI agents over writing Python, a change he casts as a promotion rather than a threat. &ldquo;These agentic systems are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huang-says-his-engineers-would-rather-build-agents-than-write-code/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huang-says-his-engineers-would-rather-build-agents-than-write-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonos loses a decade of design talent as layoffs hit its top ranks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Senior design, product, and research leaders with 10 years or more at the company are out, in a restructuring the chief executive calls speed and some staff call cost-cutting. &ldquo;The design team is a little smaller now,&rdquo; Edward Mitchell, a Sonos designer of roughly 12 years&rsquo; standing, wrote on LinkedIn as the audio company parted [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sonos-loses-a-decade-of-design-talent-as-layoffs-hit-its-top-ranks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sonos-loses-a-decade-of-design-talent-as-layoffs-hit-its-top-ranks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recruiters chase specialised AI roles as their own jobs come under threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[The recruitment industry, one of the first white-collar businesses that automation was meant to hollow out, is trying to reinvent itself by selling the very thing that threatens it. Facing AI tools that can screen applicants and draft job posts in seconds, staffing firms are narrowing their focus to the specialised, hard-to-fill roles of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/recruiters-chase-specialised-ai-roles-as-their-own-jobs-come-under-threat/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/recruiters-chase-specialised-ai-roles-as-their-own-jobs-come-under-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alchemab lands £25m from British Business Bank in record life sciences bet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cambridge biotech Alchemab Therapeutics has extended its Series A round with a &pound;25 million ($34 million) investment from the British Business Bank, which the company says is the state-owned lender&rsquo;s largest backing of a life sciences company to date. The money will help the clinical-stage firm build its drug pipeline and expand a proprietary antibody [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alchemab-lands-25m-from-british-business-bank-in-record-life-sciences-bet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alchemab-lands-25m-from-british-business-bank-in-record-life-sciences-bet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US states could sue next week to block Paramount’s $110bn Warner Bros deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of US states could sue as soon as next week to block Paramount&rsquo;s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, opening a fresh front against a deal that federal regulators have already waved through. The threat lands weeks after the Justice Department&nbsp;cleared the merger without [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-states-could-sue-next-week-to-block-paramounts-110bn-warner-bros-deal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-states-could-sue-next-week-to-block-paramounts-110bn-warner-bros-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xiaomi unveils Sky Nomad, a boxy SUV series to chase China’s family-car money]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xiaomi has opened a second front in its rapid march into carmaking, confirming on Thursday a new SUV series called Sky Nomad and offering the first proper look at the boxy family hauler that will lead it. The move pushes the smartphone maker squarely into China&rsquo;s most lucrative vehicle segment, and away from the sports-saloon [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomi-unveils-sky-nomad-a-boxy-suv-series-to-chase-chinas-family-car-money/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomi-unveils-sky-nomad-a-boxy-suv-series-to-chase-chinas-family-car-money/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta to build C$13 billion Alberta data centre, its first in Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta will build its first data centre in Canada, a 1-gigawatt campus in central Alberta that the company values at C$13 billion (about US$9 billion), extending the same relentless build-out that produced its $200 billion Hyperion campus&nbsp;in Louisiana. The facility will rise in Sturgeon County, northeast of Edmonton, and become the company&rsquo;s 33rd data centre [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-to-build-c13-billion-alberta-data-centre-its-first-in-canada/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-to-build-c13-billion-alberta-data-centre-its-first-in-canada/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honeywell lifts 2026 profit guidance after one-for-two reverse split]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honeywell Technologies raised its profit targets for the second half and full year of 2026 on Wednesday, though the increase is almost entirely mechanical, reflecting a one-for-two reverse stock split rather than a stronger business. The move came from the same industrial group whose quantum computing arm&nbsp;staged one of the year&rsquo;s largest technology listings, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honeywell-lifts-2026-profit-guidance-after-one-for-two-reverse-split/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honeywell-lifts-2026-profit-guidance-after-one-for-two-reverse-split/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge approves Musk’s $1.5m SEC Twitter settlement despite ‘red flags’]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has approved the Securities and Exchange Commission&rsquo;s settlement with Elon Musk over his late disclosure of a Twitter stake, closing a case that has run for years. US District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan entered the consent judgment on Wednesday in Washington, DC, despite what she described as significant misgivings about the deal. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/judge-approves-musks-15m-sec-twitter-settlement-despite-red-flags/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/judge-approves-musks-15m-sec-twitter-settlement-despite-red-flags/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO is building an AI ‘Kill Web’ to stop a Russian attack before it starts]]></title><description><![CDATA[NATO is building a vast AI network along its eastern flank, designed to spot an attack early and strike back fast. The plan is called the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, and internal documents name one adversary outright: Russia. German tabloid BILD obtained the papers and shared them through the Axel Springer network, Business Insider reported. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nato-is-building-an-ai-kill-web-to-stop-a-russian-attack-before-it-starts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nato-is-building-an-ai-kill-web-to-stop-a-russian-attack-before-it-starts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We cannot choose to become idiots’: a Brown professor’s proof of mass AI cheating]]></title><description><![CDATA[An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his class cheated with AI, and he has the numbers to make the case. Roberto Serrano watched his take-home midterm average hit 96 out of 100. When he switched the final to an in-person test, the average fell to 48. He has taken the story public, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-a-brown-professors-proof-of-mass-ai-cheating/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-a-brown-professors-proof-of-mass-ai-cheating/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHTSA demands autonomous vehicle companies fix first responder interference by end of July]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a directive on Wednesday demanding autonomous vehicle developers present solutions to a &ldquo;clear pattern&rdquo; of driverless vehicles interfering with first responders and law enforcement. Administrator Jonathan Morrison said vehicles have driven into active emergency scenes, blocked ambulances and firefighters, and failed to recognise flashing lights, flares, smoke, fire, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhtsa-demands-autonomous-vehicle-companies-fix-first-responder-interference-by-end-of-july/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhtsa-demands-autonomous-vehicle-companies-fix-first-responder-interference-by-end-of-july/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI money watch: five funding rounds that matter today]]></title><description><![CDATA[A busy 24 hours for AI and deep-tech money, from a $300m quantum bet to Paris voice AI and Europe&rsquo;s energy startups. Here are the rounds worth knowing. The cash keeps flowing into AI and deep tech. The past day alone brought a $300m quantum raise, a fresh billion-dollar AI-agent valuation, and European bets on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-money-watch-five-funding-rounds-that-matter-today/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-money-watch-five-funding-rounds-that-matter-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irish drone delivery startup Manna is building a 1,000-person US factory in Tulsa to take on Zipline and Wing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manna Aero, the Ireland-based autonomous drone delivery startup, is setting up a US operations and manufacturing centre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will employ about 1,000 people over the next several years. Construction is underway, with manufacturing expected to begin in about a year. The expansion is fuelled by the $50 million in venture capital Manna [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/irish-drone-delivery-startup-manna-is-building-a-1000-person-us-factory-in-tulsa-to-take-on-zipline-and-wing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/irish-drone-delivery-startup-manna-is-building-a-1000-person-us-factory-in-tulsa-to-take-on-zipline-and-wing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s SynthID watermark just debunked its first high-profile deepfake: a hoax image of Mitch McConnell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google&rsquo;s SynthID watermarking system scored its first high-profile real-world win this week after Snopes used it to debunk an AI-generated image of Senator Mitch McConnell that had gone viral on Reddit and X. The image, which appeared to show McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in extreme distress, was confirmed as AI-generated after [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-synthid-watermark-just-debunked-its-first-high-profile-deepfake-a-hoax-image-of-mitch-mcconnell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-synthid-watermark-just-debunked-its-first-high-profile-deepfake-a-hoax-image-of-mitch-mcconnell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HubSpot tried to feed its AI with customer data. The revolt took four days]]></title><description><![CDATA[HubSpot has scrapped a plan to use its customers&rsquo; data for a new AI feature, just four days after announcing it. The CRM firm changed its terms on 1 July to pool customer data, including contact and employer details, for a tool that finds sales leads, The Information reported. It opted users in by default. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hubspot-tried-to-feed-its-ai-with-customer-data-the-revolt-took-four-days/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hubspot-tried-to-feed-its-ai-with-customer-data-the-revolt-took-four-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Squeezed on land, Samsung wants to put data centres out to sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[As data centres run into unhappy neighbours and water limits on land, Samsung wants to float them offshore. Samsung Heavy Industries plans to launch its first floating data centre by 2028, Seoul Economic Daily reported. It would be a purpose-built barge parked near the coast. The design is specific. Rather than convert an old ship, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/squeezed-on-land-samsung-wants-to-put-data-centres-out-to-sea/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/squeezed-on-land-samsung-wants-to-put-data-centres-out-to-sea/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will ship a joint system to run AI models. The AI-cloud firm Parasail will be its first customer, with the system due [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-teams-up-with-chip-rival-d-matrix-instead-of-fighting-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-teams-up-with-chip-rival-d-matrix-instead-of-fighting-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A £35bn plan to fill the UK with 14 mini nuclear reactors]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Polish billionaire has laid out plans to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across Britain, at an estimated &pound;35bn, TechRadar reported. Micha&#322; So&#322;owow&rsquo;s firm, SGE, says it wants to install 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites. It is targeting first power in 2034. The numbers are large. Together the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-35bn-plan-to-fill-the-uk-with-14-mini-nuclear-reactors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-35bn-plan-to-fill-the-uk-with-14-mini-nuclear-reactors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venus Aerospace raises $91M to build its ‘detonation’ rocket engine]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Texas startup has raised $91m to build a rocket engine most of the industry once wrote off as too hard. Venus Aerospace announced a $91m Series B to develop its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, or RDRE. Mercury Fund led the round. The backers read like a defence roll-call. Lockheed Martin Ventures joined, alongside MESH, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/venus-aerospace-raises-91m-to-build-its-detonation-rocket-engine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/venus-aerospace-raises-91m-to-build-its-detonation-rocket-engine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tritium ‘nuclear battery’ just reached orbit for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The nuclear age has quietly reached commercial spaceflight. City Labs, a Miami firm, has launched BOHR, which it calls the world&rsquo;s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and the first nuclear CubeSat. The craft is about the size of a softball. It flew on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare on 7 July, alongside 80 other payloads, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-tritium-nuclear-battery-just-reached-orbit-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-tritium-nuclear-battery-just-reached-orbit-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart glasses are having a privacy reckoning, and Meta is caught in the middle]]></title><description><![CDATA[The smart-glasses backlash has reached the courtroom. From 20 July, New York will ban recording eyewear from every one of its 1,240 courts. It is the first US state to go that far. An internal memo from the New York State Unified Court System sets out the rule, first reported by Syracuse.com. The ban is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/smart-glasses-are-having-a-privacy-reckoning-and-meta-is-caught-in-the-middle/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/smart-glasses-are-having-a-privacy-reckoning-and-meta-is-caught-in-the-middle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company&rsquo;s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup Cursor. This is the joint model the two firms had raced to ship. Elon Musk aimed it squarely at coding and agentic work, not casual chat. &ldquo;It is an Opus-class [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musks-spacexai-ships-opus-class-grok-45-to-undercut-openai-and-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musks-spacexai-ships-opus-class-grok-45-to-undercut-openai-and-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne&rsquo;s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI&rsquo;s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, have stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centres. The trigger was a contractor building Meta&rsquo;s new AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-ai-campus-flushed-a-rare-bacterium-into-cheyennes-water-the-city-hit-back/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-ai-campus-flushed-a-rare-bacterium-into-cheyennes-water-the-city-hit-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech loves a perk, but few go this far. Rilla, an AI startup that makes coaching software for sales teams, spends about $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff can live near its New York office, Fortune reports. The trade-off is a 72-hour week. Employees who live within a 10-minute bike ride of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-ai-startup-pays-17m-a-year-in-rent-so-staff-will-work-72-hour-weeks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-ai-startup-pays-17m-a-year-in-rent-so-staff-will-work-72-hour-weeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fi’s new collar taps Starlink’s direct-to-cell to track dogs off the grid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smart-collar maker Fi is putting Starlink in a dog collar. Its new Fi Ultra taps SpaceX&rsquo;s direct-to-cell satellites. A bolting dog stays trackable even where phone towers cannot reach. The next device to run on satellites is not a phone. It is a dog collar. Fi, a smart-collar startup, is launching the Fi Ultra. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fis-new-collar-taps-starlinks-direct-to-cell-to-track-dogs-off-the-grid/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fis-new-collar-taps-starlinks-direct-to-cell-to-track-dogs-off-the-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China’s, and it shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he says, hands China a lead well beyond cheap labour. He made the comments in a conversation with the Hoover Institution, highlighted by Fortune. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palmer-luckey-us-universities-are-falling-behind-chinas-and-it-shows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palmer-luckey-us-universities-are-falling-behind-chinas-and-it-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s new GPT-Live lets ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI wants you to talk to ChatGPT, not type at it. On 8 July it launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models. The company says they make talking to AI feel much closer to a real conversation. Two versions, GPT-Live-1 and a smaller GPT-Live-1 mini, reach ChatGPT users worldwide from today. The headline change [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-gpt-live-lets-chatgpt-listen-and-speak-at-the-same-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-gpt-live-lets-chatgpt-listen-and-speak-at-the-same-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ALL-IN Podcast took its live show to the Louvre this week for the RAISE Summit. It put ElevenLabs co-founder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski in the hot seat. Host Jason Calacanis opened where it stings: revenue, competition, and whether a voice startup can outlast OpenAI and Anthropic. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best time to be building,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elevenlabs-ceo-on-hitting-600m-revenue-and-outrunning-the-ai-labs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elevenlabs-ceo-on-hitting-600m-revenue-and-outrunning-the-ai-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed &ldquo;Teammate,&rdquo; and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Its own engineers have used the tool since May. The company made its name with an AI search [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/perplexity-is-quietly-building-an-ai-coding-tool-to-rival-cursor-and-claude-code/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/perplexity-is-quietly-building-an-ai-coding-tool-to-rival-cursor-and-claude-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[At RAISE Summit in Paris on Wednesday, &ldquo;Shark Tank&rdquo; investor Mark Cuban made the case for AI coding tools like Lovable and Replit, Business Insider reports. They can hold their own against the big AI labs, he argued. The reason: they now bundle services a raw language model does not. Cuban is a Lovable investor, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mark-cuban-thinks-lovable-and-replit-can-outlast-the-ai-labs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mark-cuban-thinks-lovable-and-replit-can-outlast-the-ai-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s ZML wants to break Nvidia lock-in with free cross-chip AI software]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Paris startup wants to loosen Nvidia&rsquo;s grip on AI, not with a new chip, but with software. ZML has released a free tool that runs open-source models fast across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Apple and Intel silicon alike. Nvidia still rules AI hardware, but its walls keep thinning. ZML, a Paris startup backed by AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-zml-wants-to-break-nvidia-lock-in-with-free-cross-chip-ai-software/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-zml-wants-to-break-nvidia-lock-in-with-free-cross-chip-ai-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped repository can walk an agent past its own safety prompt. The payoff is a planted key that hands an attacker the developer&rsquo;s machine. An ancient bug just tripped up the newest tools. Researchers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/one-symlink-trick-breaks-6-top-ai-coding-agents-from-amazon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/one-symlink-trick-breaks-6-top-ai-coding-agents-from-amazon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree]]></title><description><![CDATA[Young workers and their bosses do not see the same person. Almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds, 45 per cent, believe they entered work with the skills to succeed. Just 6 per cent of UK managers agree, according to the Chartered Management Institute. The body polled more than 1,000 managers and 514 young people for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/only-6-of-uk-managers-think-gen-z-is-work-ready-45-of-gen-z-disagree/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/only-6-of-uk-managers-think-gen-z-is-work-ready-45-of-gen-z-disagree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Businesses spent big on AI to answer their customers. The customers had other ideas. People are approximately three times more likely to use a third-party GenAI tool, such as ChatGPT, than a company&rsquo;s own chatbot to sort out a service problem, according to Gartner, Inc. The firm, a research and advisory company, surveyed 3,566 customers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-customers-would-rather-use-chatgpt-than-your-chatbot-gartner-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-customers-would-rather-use-chatgpt-than-your-chatbot-gartner-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone]]></title><description><![CDATA[NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about &euro;200 million with Accenture and Italy&rsquo;s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on Tuesday, struck at the NATO summit in Ankara. NATO calls the programme the Protected Business Network. It will give the Alliance a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nato-taps-accenture-and-leonardo-to-build-a-200m-secure-cloud-backbone/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nato-taps-accenture-and-leonardo-to-build-a-200m-secure-cloud-backbone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare has spent a year arming websites against AI crawlers. Now it wants to help one crawl better. The company said on Wednesday it is running a research pilot with OpenAI to test whether its network data can make AI search more accurate. Cloudflare sits in front of more than a fifth of the web. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-spent-a-year-blocking-ai-crawlers-now-its-helping-openai-index-the-web/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-spent-a-year-blocking-ai-crawlers-now-its-helping-openai-index-the-web/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI’s hacking skills are outgrowing the tests built to measure them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tools built to measure how dangerous AI can be have stopped working. Frontier models outpace the benchmarks meant to gauge their hacking skills, Axios reports. That leaves regulators and security teams half-blind to what these systems can really do. The timing bites. US federal agencies have until 1 August to stand up a classified [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-hacking-skills-are-outgrowing-the-tests-built-to-measure-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-hacking-skills-are-outgrowing-the-tests-built-to-measure-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI-Native CRM: Lightfield | SourceForge Podcast, episode #124]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI-Native CRM: Lightfield | SourceForge Podcast, episode #124]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-native-crm-lightfield-sourceforge-podcast-episode-124/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-native-crm-lightfield-sourceforge-podcast-episode-124/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI wants the work that once belonged to consultants. Its deployment arm has agreed to buy Northslope, an applied-AI firm, the company told Axios in an exclusive on Wednesday. It did not disclose terms, and the deal still needs regulatory clearance. The purchase marks its second in two months. The OpenAI Deployment Company launched in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-buys-northslope-to-put-its-engineers-inside-your-business/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-buys-northslope-to-put-its-engineers-inside-your-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI&rsquo;s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Midway through a RAISE Summit fireside chat on open-source AI, the Master Stage lost [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/raise-summit-hit-by-power-outage-during-keynote-with-mozilla-president-and-mistral-ceo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/raise-summit-hit-by-power-outage-during-keynote-with-mozilla-president-and-mistral-ceo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iluvatar CoreX seeks to raise $850m as China’s AI-chip rally lifts its shares]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year ago, Iluvatar CoreX was a Shanghai chipmaker that sold mostly to the Chinese state. This week it is trying to raise about $850m from investors who cannot seem to get enough of it, according to Bloomberg, riding a share price that has more than tripled since January. The rally is really the whole [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iluvatar-corex-seeks-to-raise-850m-as-chinas-ai-chip-rally-lifts-its-shares/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iluvatar-corex-seeks-to-raise-850m-as-chinas-ai-chip-rally-lifts-its-shares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple puts a $30bn US-manufacturing flag on its Broadcom chip deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is spending big to make chips at home. It has committed to a multi-year Broadcom deal worth more than $30 billion, Apple announced on Wednesday. That makes it Apple&rsquo;s largest US manufacturing pledge to date. The scale is the story. The deal should yield more than 15 billion US-made chips and support hundreds of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-puts-a-30bn-us-manufacturing-flag-on-its-broadcom-chip-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-puts-a-30bn-us-manufacturing-flag-on-its-broadcom-chip-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China and the US are now warning against each other’s AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US-China AI split hardened this week. Beijing branded Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Code a security back-door, just as US lawmakers moved against American firms that lean on cheap Chinese models. China has told companies to drop Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Code. Its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said its cybersecurity platform found the coding tool carries a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-and-the-us-are-now-warning-against-each-others-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-and-the-us-are-now-warning-against-each-others-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entire launches a distributed Git network built for AI coding agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Entire, the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke, has launched a preview of a distributed Git network built for the age of AI coding agents. The pitch is to spread code hosting across regions rather than lean on a single central provider. The reasoning is a familiar strain in the agent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/entire-launches-a-distributed-git-network-built-for-ai-coding-agents/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/entire-launches-a-distributed-git-network-built-for-ai-coding-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 25 years of self-funding, Bezos opens Blue Origin at a $130bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos is opening Blue Origin to outside money at last, in a round that values the rocket firm at $130 billion, CNBC reports. It follows Elon Musk&rsquo;s record SpaceX IPO and pits the two space fortunes against each other again. Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time. Jeff Bezos&rsquo;s rocket company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/after-25-years-of-self-funding-bezos-opens-blue-origin-at-a-130bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/after-25-years-of-self-funding-bezos-opens-blue-origin-at-a-130bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France orders Meta back to talks with news publishers over content payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has been told to go back and talk to France&rsquo;s newspapers about money. On Wednesday, the country&rsquo;s competition regulator ordered the company to reopen negotiations with news publishers over payment for their content, after an earlier round of talks fell apart. The order comes with a stopwatch attached. The Autorit&eacute; de la concurrence gave [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-orders-meta-back-to-talks-with-news-publishers-over-content-payments/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-orders-meta-back-to-talks-with-news-publishers-over-content-payments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple starts testing China’s state-backed memory chips, and Washington is watching]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has begun testing memory chips from China&rsquo;s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier Washington has flagged as a security risk. Apple has turned to Chinese memory chips for its own devices. It has begun testing DRAM from state-backed ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-starts-testing-chinas-state-backed-memory-chips-and-washington-is-watching/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-starts-testing-chinas-state-backed-memory-chips-and-washington-is-watching/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allianz to cut up to 1,800 jobs as AI takes over call-centre work]]></title><description><![CDATA[The job that AI seems keenest to take is the one on the other end of the phone. Allianz, the German insurance giant, is preparing to cut as many as 1,800 roles in its travel arm as automated systems take over work that used to need a person, according to Reuters. The figures are oddly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/allianz-to-cut-up-to-1800-jobs-as-ai-takes-over-call-centre-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/allianz-to-cut-up-to-1800-jobs-as-ai-takes-over-call-centre-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. Its new AI lab, run by a former Google DeepMind researcher, is betting on mastery before generality. A Polish robotics company has quietly done the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nomagics-warehouse-robots-got-an-ai-brain-and-it-halved-the-calls-for-human-help/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nomagics-warehouse-robots-got-an-ai-brain-and-it-halved-the-calls-for-human-help/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe&rsquo;s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU&rsquo;s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple&rsquo;s challenge to being labelled a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act, the designation that ties the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-loses-its-eu-court-challenge-over-gatekeeper-status-under-the-dma/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-loses-its-eu-court-challenge-over-gatekeeper-status-under-the-dma/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia tries to jam Starlink to counter Ukraine’s long-range drones]]></title><description><![CDATA[The war in Ukraine has become, among other things, a fight over signals. Russian forces are now trying to jam Elon Musk&rsquo;s Starlink network to blunt the cheap long-range drones that have reshaped the conflict, according to Ukrainian drone commanders and pilots who spoke to Reuters. The tool they describe has a name. Ukrainian crews [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/russia-tries-to-jam-starlink-to-counter-ukraines-long-range-drones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/russia-tries-to-jam-starlink-to-counter-ukraines-long-range-drones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘GitLost’: researchers tricked GitHub’s AI agent into leaking private repos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers tricked GitHub&rsquo;s AI coding agent into leaking private repositories with nothing but a politely worded issue. The flaw, named GitLost, has no code fix, and GitHub has yet to even document it. GitHub&rsquo;s new AI agent can be talked into handing over your private code. Security firm Noma Labs found a way to make [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlost-researchers-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlost-researchers-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MiniMax is building China’s biggest AI model yet, and plans to open-source it]]></title><description><![CDATA[MiniMax plans its biggest model yet, a 2.7-trillion-parameter system it intends to open-source, The Information reports. It would be the largest Chinese model on the market, and another squeeze on US labs&rsquo; margins. China&rsquo;s open-model push has a new heavyweight on the way. MiniMax plans a large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, The Information [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/minimax-is-building-chinas-biggest-ai-model-yet-and-plans-to-open-source-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/minimax-is-building-chinas-biggest-ai-model-yet-and-plans-to-open-source-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceXAI and Cursor could ship their first joint AI model as soon as today]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceXAI and Cursor could ship their first jointly built AI model as soon as Wednesday, according to The Information. An internal memo pits it against Anthropic&rsquo;s Opus 4.8 and OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-5.5. Elon Musk&rsquo;s freshly renamed AI company is about to test itself against the frontier. SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexai-and-cursor-could-ship-their-first-joint-ai-model-as-soon-as-today/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexai-and-cursor-could-ship-their-first-joint-ai-model-as-soon-as-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“It can literally kill your company”: n8n’s case for model-agnostic AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asked where his company sits in the AI stack, Jan Oberhauser reached for a car. The models, the n8n founder told a fireside audience at the Raise Summit&nbsp;in Paris this week, are the engine. Everything else, the vehicle, the streets, the rules that let the engine actually take you somewhere, is the part he is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/it-can-literally-kill-your-company-n8ns-case-for-model-agnostic-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/it-can-literally-kill-your-company-n8ns-case-for-model-agnostic-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Londoners fight a Brick Lane datacentre, and it is not even for AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Residents in east London are fighting a datacentre planned for Brick Lane, saying the site should hold homes, not servers. The twist: it would serve high-frequency trading, not AI. Britain&rsquo;s datacentre backlash has reached the heart of east London. Residents around Brick Lane oppose a plan for the old Truman Brewery site. It would put [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/londoners-fight-a-brick-lane-datacentre-and-it-is-not-even-for-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/londoners-fight-a-brick-lane-datacentre-and-it-is-not-even-for-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SambaNova raises fresh funding at an $11bn valuation as the Nvidia-alternative trade heats up]]></title><description><![CDATA[SambaNova has raised fresh funding at an $11bn valuation, according to Bloomberg, capping a run in which the AI chip startup has roughly quintupled its worth in a matter of months. The figure is up from the roughly $10bn valuation reported when the round was first taking shape in late June. The speed of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sambanova-raises-fresh-funding-at-an-11bn-valuation-as-the-nvidia-alternative-trade-heats-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sambanova-raises-fresh-funding-at-an-11bn-valuation-as-the-nvidia-alternative-trade-heats-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK tech secretary backs driverless cars as Burnham’s team gets cold feet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s tech secretary backs driverless cars and British AI startups. The likely next prime minister&rsquo;s team has doubts, and her own job is on the line. Liz Kendall wants Britain to back its own AI companies before someone else does. In a Sifted podcast, Kendall, the UK&rsquo;s science and technology secretary, made a pointed case [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-tech-secretary-backs-driverless-cars-as-burnhams-team-gets-cold-feet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-tech-secretary-backs-driverless-cars-as-burnhams-team-gets-cold-feet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s secret ‘Moonraker’ project pushes Alexa into the AI-agent race]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has an agentic upgrade for Alexa in the works, codenamed Moonraker. Internal documents show it is also one of the priciest bets in the Alexa+ overhaul. Amazon wants Alexa to act, not just answer. The company has a previously unreported project, codenamed Moonraker, that would let Alexa handle complex, multistep tasks, Business Insider reports, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-secret-moonraker-project-pushes-alexa-into-the-ai-agent-race/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-secret-moonraker-project-pushes-alexa-into-the-ai-agent-race/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UiPath’s Dines: not hiring juniors is a mistake]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis from Daniel Dines, chief executive of UiPath. He spoke at the RAISE CxO [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uipaths-dines-not-hiring-juniors-is-a-mistake/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uipaths-dines-not-hiring-juniors-is-a-mistake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fleek raises $25m to build the AI infrastructure behind global secondhand fashion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fleek, a London startup building the software plumbing behind the global secondhand clothing trade, has raised $25m in Series B funding to scale the AI it uses to sort, grade and price used garments. The round takes the company&rsquo;s total funding to $45m. It was led by Burda Principal Investments, an early backer of&nbsp;Vinted&nbsp;and a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fleek-raises-25m-to-build-the-ai-infrastructure-behind-global-secondhand-fashion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fleek-raises-25m-to-build-the-ai-infrastructure-behind-global-secondhand-fashion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise $300M at a $13.2bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lovable, the Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300m at a $13.2bn post-money valuation,&nbsp;Sifted reports, citing two people familiar with the deal. The figure would roughly double the $6.6bn valuation it commanded at its&nbsp;$330m Series B in December. The round is still under discussion rather than done, so the numbers could shift, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-300m-at-a-132bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-300m-at-a-132bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Telstra outage stopped Australian trains and froze taxi payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a few hours on Wednesday morning, chunks of Australia&rsquo;s daily infrastructure simply stopped answering. A nationwide outage at Telstra, the country&rsquo;s largest carrier, cut phone service for thousands of customers, froze tap-to-pay terminals and brought regional trains to a halt. The disruption began at about 4.30am and spread through systems that most people never [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-telstra-outage-stopped-australian-trains-and-froze-taxi-payments/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-telstra-outage-stopped-australian-trains-and-froze-taxi-payments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ResMed sells its MatrixCare software business to Frazier for $490m]]></title><description><![CDATA[ResMed has agreed to sell MatrixCare, its home-health and senior-care software business, to the private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners for $490m in cash. The deal lets the medical-device maker part with a unit it had owned for years to focus on the machines that remain its core. MatrixCare is a decent-sized business in its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/resmed-sells-its-matrixcare-software-business-to-frazier-for-490m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/resmed-sells-its-matrixcare-software-business-to-frazier-for-490m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI wins US clearance for a broad GPT-5.6 rollout after weeks of government testing]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has been cleared to release its most advanced model widely, after the US government signed off on a broader rollout of GPT-5.6 that had been held back for weeks under Washington&rsquo;s new oversight regime for frontier AI. Until now the model had been available only through a&nbsp;restricted preview to about 20 partners&nbsp;whose names were [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wins-us-clearance-for-a-broad-gpt-56-rollout-after-weeks-of-government-testing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wins-us-clearance-for-a-broad-gpt-56-rollout-after-weeks-of-government-testing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexity signs up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU as the chipmaker pushes past AI accelerators]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perplexity has become one of the first big AI names to say it will build on Nvidia&rsquo;s new Vera CPU, the general-purpose chip Nvidia is betting can carry it beyond the accelerators that made it the world&rsquo;s most valuable company. The AI search firm said it plans to run its agent workloads on Vera, joining [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/perplexity-signs-up-for-nvidias-vera-cpu-as-the-chipmaker-pushes-past-ai-accelerators/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/perplexity-signs-up-for-nvidias-vera-cpu-as-the-chipmaker-pushes-past-ai-accelerators/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon returns to the bond market for at least $25bn to fund its AI build-out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has gone back to the debt markets for at least $25bn, its largest bond sale of the year and the clearest sign yet of how much the company is prepared to borrow to keep pace in the artificial intelligence race. The offering is split across eight tranches with maturities running from 2029 out to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-returns-to-the-bond-market-for-at-least-25bn-to-fund-its-ai-build-out/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-returns-to-the-bond-market-for-at-least-25bn-to-fund-its-ai-build-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Zealand rules out a VPN ban after a fierce privacy backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Zealand government has ruled out restricting or banning VPNs as part of its planned under-16 social media ban. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford both moved to kill the idea after a rapid privacy backlash,&nbsp;TechRadar reports. &ldquo;I can reject that outright. There&rsquo;s no plan to ban VPNs at all,&rdquo; Luxon [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-zealand-rules-out-a-vpn-ban-after-a-fierce-privacy-backlash/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-zealand-rules-out-a-vpn-ban-after-a-fierce-privacy-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toyota moves some Tacoma output to Texas, and Trump claims the credit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toyota will invest $3.6bn to expand its San Antonio plant and move some Tacoma pickup production from Mexico to Texas. The carmaker announced the plan on Monday, adding a second assembly line,&nbsp;according to CNBC. President Donald Trump quickly claimed the move as proof his trade policy is working. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s what tariffs do, properly used,&rdquo; he [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/toyota-moves-some-tacoma-output-to-texas-and-trump-claims-the-credit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/toyota-moves-some-tacoma-output-to-texas-and-trump-claims-the-credit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony fight Belgium’s creator-pay law at the EU court]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony have taken Belgium to Europe&rsquo;s top court. They say its copyright law forces platforms to pay creators far beyond what the EU intended. Four of the biggest names in tech asked the EU&rsquo;s Court of Justice on Tuesday to rein in Belgium. They say the country rewrote who gets paid [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-meta-spotify-and-sony-fight-belgiums-creator-pay-law-at-the-eu-court/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-meta-spotify-and-sony-fight-belgiums-creator-pay-law-at-the-eu-court/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is hiring an investment banker to teach its AI the job]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is recruiting an investment-banking expert to help train its AI on the trade. The&nbsp;job listing&nbsp;seeks a &ldquo;subject matter expert&rdquo; with at least two years of investment experience for its Applied AI team in San Francisco. Base pay runs from $185,000 to $205,000, with equity on top,&nbsp;Business Insider reports. That equity sweetener carries new weight [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-hiring-an-investment-banker-to-teach-its-ai-the-job/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-hiring-an-investment-banker-to-teach-its-ai-the-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scotland could freeze new datacentres, threatening the UK’s AI plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scotland&rsquo;s governing party wants to freeze every new datacentre in the country. If ministers agree, a core pillar of the UK&rsquo;s AI strategy could stall. The Scottish government is weighing a sweeping moratorium on new datacentres. Last Sunday, the Scottish National Party (SNP) voted to freeze all new builds, the Guardian reports. The motion now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scotland-could-freeze-new-datacentres-threatening-the-uks-ai-plan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scotland-could-freeze-new-datacentres-threatening-the-uks-ai-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea’s FuriosaAI brings its Nvidia-challenger chips to Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Korean chip startup wants to sell Europe a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia. Its first &ldquo;renegade&rdquo; accelerators just went live in a Lisbon datacentre. FuriosaAI has switched on its RNGD AI accelerators in Europe. The South Korean startup is installing RNGD servers at Equinix&rsquo;s LS2 datacentre in Lisbon, it announced on Tuesday. The name [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-furiosaai-brings-its-nvidia-challenger-chips-to-europe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-furiosaai-brings-its-nvidia-challenger-chips-to-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s Claude Cowork breaks off the laptop and onto your phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has brought Claude Cowork, its Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work, to web and mobile. The tool&nbsp;launched as a desktop app in January&nbsp;and, from Tuesday, is rolling out in beta to Max subscribers first. The pitch is continuity across devices. Users can kick off a task at their desk, get status updates on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-claude-cowork-breaks-off-the-laptop-and-onto-your-phone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-claude-cowork-breaks-off-the-laptop-and-onto-your-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEW Pixel 11 leaks: Storage, colors, prices, more!]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW Pixel 11 leaks: Storage, colors, prices, more!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-pixel-11-leaks-storage-colors-prices-more/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/new-pixel-11-leaks-storage-colors-prices-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta debuts Muse Image, its first AI image model built under Alexandr Wang’s lab]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta launched Muse Image on Tuesday, its first image-generation AI model built under the Superintelligence Labs division led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang. The model is rolling out inside the Meta AI chatbot and will be embedded across Instagram and WhatsApp. Users can generate images from text prompts or alter existing pictures. The most [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-debuts-muse-image-its-first-ai-image-model-built-under-alexandr-wangs-lab/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-debuts-muse-image-its-first-ai-image-model-built-under-alexandr-wangs-lab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo’s robotaxis stalled, snarled traffic, and drove into fireworks on July 4]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo&rsquo;s robotaxis had a rough Fourth of July. In San Francisco they ran out of charge, snarled traffic for hours, and one drove over a lit firework and caught fire. Over the holiday weekend, driverless Waymo cars became the story instead of the technology. In San Francisco, dozens stalled in the gridlock after the Golden [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymos-robotaxis-stalled-snarled-traffic-and-drove-into-fireworks-on-july-4/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymos-robotaxis-stalled-snarled-traffic-and-drove-into-fireworks-on-july-4/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic out for its own AI in some apps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own AI in some product features,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. The shift routes selected tasks to Microsoft&rsquo;s in-house MAI models where cost or data residency favours them. The change is incremental rather than a clean break. OpenAI and Anthropic still handle most production traffic inside Copilot, with MAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-starts-swapping-openai-and-anthropic-out-for-its-own-ai-in-some-apps/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-starts-swapping-openai-and-anthropic-out-for-its-own-ai-in-some-apps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix is adding short-form video from Variety, Rolling Stone, and BuzzFeed as it competes with YouTube and TikTok]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix is licensing short-form video content from publishers including BuzzFeed Studios, Cond&eacute; Nast, Hearst Magazines, People Inc., Tastemade, and several Penske Media brands such as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Eater, and IndieWire. The content launches August 3 in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The videos range from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-is-adding-short-form-video-from-variety-rolling-stone-and-buzzfeed-as-it-competes-with-youtube-and-tiktok/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-is-adding-short-form-video-from-variety-rolling-stone-and-buzzfeed-as-it-competes-with-youtube-and-tiktok/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI writing tools can subtly steer public opinion, Oxford study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[You ask an AI to polish your post. It keeps your point, but tilts it. New Oxford research says those tiny tilts can move public opinion. AI writing tools that tidy up social media posts can quietly shift what they say, and those shifts can spread, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-writing-tools-can-subtly-steer-public-opinion-oxford-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-writing-tools-can-subtly-steer-public-opinion-oxford-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over 100 US-built autonomous ATVs have been fighting in Ukraine for nine months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in combat zones in Ukraine for the past nine months. The company says it is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in combat by any US defence tech company. Since arriving in October, the vehicles [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/over-100-us-built-autonomous-atvs-have-been-fighting-in-ukraine-for-nine-months/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/over-100-us-built-autonomous-atvs-have-been-fighting-in-ukraine-for-nine-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Predatorgate victims sue the spyware maker for €8M]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greece&rsquo;s Predator spyware scandal has reached the courts. Eight people it spied on want &euro;1 million each from the firm that built it. Eight victims of Greece&rsquo;s &ldquo;Predatorgate&rdquo; wiretapping scandal have sued the Athens surveillance firm Intellexa and 13 people linked to it, Reuters reports. Each is seeking &euro;1 million in moral damages, a combined [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/predatorgate-victims-sue-the-spyware-maker-for-8m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/predatorgate-victims-sue-the-spyware-maker-for-8m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX’s biggest bull sees a $10.5tn valuation. A famed bear bets on a crash]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX just joined the Nasdaq 100. On the same day, one Wall Street analyst put a $10.5 trillion price tag on it. A famed investor put the odds of a crash at 90 per cent. SpaceX has plenty of admirers on Wall Street. None goes further than Raymond James analyst Brian Gesuale. He opened coverage [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-biggest-bull-sees-a-105tn-valuation-a-famed-bear-bets-on-a-crash/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-biggest-bull-sees-a-105tn-valuation-a-famed-bear-bets-on-a-crash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romania leads its first private ESA mission with CyberCUBE launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the morning of 7 July, carrying a satellite roughly the size of a loaf of bread that will spend the next year probing how European spacecraft can be attacked. The payload, called CyberCUBE, is the first European Space Agency mission run [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/romania-leads-its-first-private-esa-mission-with-cybercube-launch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/romania-leads-its-first-private-esa-mission-with-cybercube-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hud CEO Roee Adler says runtime intelligence will define the next era of software operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, with&nbsp;coding agents&nbsp;now capable of producing large volumes of production-ready code in minutes. Yet while writing software has become faster, ensuring that software behaves correctly in production remains one of engineering&rsquo;s biggest challenges. For decades,&nbsp;observability&nbsp;platforms have helped teams monitor infrastructure through logs, metrics, and traces. But according to Roee [&hellip;]<br />
This st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hud-ceo-roee-adler-says-runtime-intelligence-will-define-the-next-era-of-software-operations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hud-ceo-roee-adler-says-runtime-intelligence-will-define-the-next-era-of-software-operations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quaise raises $134M to drill superhot rock with microwaves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Geothermal used to mean shallow wells and modest heat. Quaise wants to drill kilometres down and blast the rock with microwaves, and it just raised $134 million to try. Quaise Energy has raised $134 million to drill for superhot rock deep underground, Bloomberg reports. Prelude Ventures led the first close of the Series B, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quaise-raises-134m-to-drill-superhot-rock-with-microwaves/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quaise-raises-134m-to-drill-superhot-rock-with-microwaves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norm Ai raises $120M at a $1.2B valuation to build AI-native law]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most AI legal startups sell software to law firms. Norm Ai built its own firm instead, and investors just valued the bet at $1.2 billion. Norm Ai has raised $120 million in a Series C round that values the New York startup at $1.2 billion, Bloomberg first reported. Khosla Ventures, an early backer of OpenAI, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/norm-ai-raises-120m-at-a-12b-valuation-to-build-ai-native-law/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/norm-ai-raises-120m-at-a-12b-valuation-to-build-ai-native-law/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ECB tells Europe’s big banks to plan for AI cyber threats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s banking regulator has a new fear: an AI model clever enough to break into the financial system. It wants every big bank to have a plan by October. The European Central Bank has a warning for the euro area&rsquo;s largest banks. Frontier AI now poses a serious cyber threat, and lenders must draw up [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ecb-tells-europes-big-banks-to-plan-for-ai-cyber-threats/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ecb-tells-europes-big-banks-to-plan-for-ai-cyber-threats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pentagon calls this Chinese firm a military company. Its lidar runs US robotaxis anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lidar maker the Pentagon brands a Chinese military company quietly wires up America&rsquo;s robotaxis, trucks, and even an airport. Nvidia is one of its partners. Hesai makes many of the sensors self-driving machines use to see. The Shanghai firm also sits on a US Department of Defense blacklist of Chinese military companies, CNBC reports. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pentagon-calls-this-chinese-firm-a-military-company-its-lidar-runs-us-robotaxis-anyway/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pentagon-calls-this-chinese-firm-a-military-company-its-lidar-runs-us-robotaxis-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China weighs curbing overseas access to its top AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s open AI models have been a gift to developers everywhere. Now Beijing may pull them back in. Chinese officials have discussed limiting who outside the country can use the nation&rsquo;s best AI models, Reuters reports. The Ministry of Commerce ran the meetings over the past month, and Alibaba, ByteDance, and the startup Z.ai took [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-weighs-curbing-overseas-access-to-its-top-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-weighs-curbing-overseas-access-to-its-top-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why hackers are targeting your digital supply chain, not just your systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackers are constantly looking for new ways to gain access to businesses and it&rsquo;s rare that it&rsquo;s through the front door. For most organisations&nbsp;cybersecurity&nbsp;still focuses on protecting internal systems and preventing unauthorised access through measures such as firewalls, encryption and employee training. However, this approach assumes that attackers are trying to gain access directly. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-hackers-are-targeting-your-digital-supply-chain-not-just-your-systems/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-hackers-are-targeting-your-digital-supply-chain-not-just-your-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Axos buys AI fintech Arc Technologies to bolt modern software onto a bank]]></title><description><![CDATA[Axos is buying Arc Technologies, an AI-native fintech that banks tech startups, and bolting its software onto a chartered bank. Axos Financial, a US digital bank with about $29bn in assets, has agreed to acquire Arc Technologies, the company announced. Arc runs a financial platform for technology and growth companies, bundling cash management, debt financing, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/axos-buys-ai-fintech-arc-technologies-to-bolt-modern-software-onto-a-bank/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/axos-buys-ai-fintech-arc-technologies-to-bolt-modern-software-onto-a-bank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data from Estonia’s Odience shows niche creator communities are outselling mass reach]]></title><description><![CDATA[The internet fractured one giant audience into thousands of tight-knit communities, and the brands paying attention are following the trust, not the follower count. Having run performance-based influencer marketing campaigns across more than 2,000 brand partnerships, Tallinn-based&nbsp;Odience&nbsp;has started to notice some patterns. One of them, harder to ignore than the rest, is that creators driving [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/data-from-estonias-odience-shows-niche-creator-communities-are-outselling-mass-reach/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/data-from-estonias-odience-shows-niche-creator-communities-are-outselling-mass-reach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, electricity costs at the Belden Brick Company in Sugarcreek, Ohio, barely moved. Last year they jumped by 90%, driven largely by the data centres multiplying across the region to feed the AI boom. The 141-year-old manufacturer, whose bricks feature in landmarks including the Alamo and the University of Notre Dame, traced most of [&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-driving-up-power-bills-at-americas-rust-belt-factories/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-data-centres-are-driving-up-power-bills-at-americas-rust-belt-factories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bespoke Labs raises $40M to build the training grounds for reliable AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents can write code and answer questions, but they still fall apart on long, messy jobs. A Mountain View startup just raised $40M to build the training grounds that fix that. Bespoke Labs, which builds the environments that train and test AI agents, has raised $40 million, the company announced. The total spans a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bespoke-labs-raises-40m-to-build-the-training-grounds-for-reliable-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bespoke-labs-raises-40m-to-build-the-training-grounds-for-reliable-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek is reportedly designing its own AI chip to sidestep US curbs]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek is designing its own artificial-intelligence chip, according to a Reuters report&nbsp;published on Monday that cited people familiar with the matter. The move, if it holds up, would push China&rsquo;s most closely watched AI lab from writing software that runs on other companies&rsquo; silicon to specifying the silicon itself. The Hangzhou startup has spent the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-is-reportedly-designing-its-own-ai-chip-to-sidestep-us-curbs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-is-reportedly-designing-its-own-ai-chip-to-sidestep-us-curbs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI won’t restore an era of rapid growth, says Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobel Prize-winning economist has poured cold water on the idea that artificial intelligence will haul Western economies back into an era of rapid productivity growth, warning that the fast-growth years may already be gone for good. Christopher Pissarides, who shared the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics and teaches at the London School of Economics, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-wont-restore-an-era-of-rapid-growth-says-nobel-laureate-christopher-pissarides/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-wont-restore-an-era-of-rapid-growth-says-nobel-laureate-christopher-pissarides/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court lets Texas turn Apple and Google into the internet’s age gate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas can now make Apple and Google check how old you are before you download an app. The Supreme Court just let the rule stand. The US Supreme Court has refused to block a Texas law aimed at app stores, the Associated Press reports. The rule forces Apple and Google to verify users&rsquo; ages and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-supreme-court-lets-texas-turn-apple-and-google-into-the-internets-age-gate/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-supreme-court-lets-texas-turn-apple-and-google-into-the-internets-age-gate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BAE-backed Expeditions raises €197M fund for European defence startups]]></title><description><![CDATA[Expeditions, the Warsaw-based venture firm backed by BAE Systems and the NATO Innovation Fund, has closed a &euro;197m ($225m) fund to back the next wave of European defence startups. The raise caps a boom that has seen defence prime BAE commit &euro;50M to outside VCs&nbsp;and&nbsp;venture capital pour into the continent&rsquo;s defence tech&nbsp;at record speed. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bae-backed-expeditions-raises-197m-fund-for-european-defence-startups/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bae-backed-expeditions-raises-197m-fund-for-european-defence-startups/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google defends a ‘crisis actor’ video at Australia’s antisemitism inquiry]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Google executive told an Australian inquiry that a video smearing a shooting survivor as a &ldquo;crisis actor&rdquo; meets YouTube&rsquo;s standards. So it stays online. Google has defended keeping up a conspiracy video about a mass shooting in Sydney, the Associated Press reports. The clip falsely paints a wounded survivor of the antisemitic massacre as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-defends-a-crisis-actor-video-at-australias-antisemitism-inquiry/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-defends-a-crisis-actor-video-at-australias-antisemitism-inquiry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Automotive requirements management in 2026: 7 solutions compared]]></title><description><![CDATA[60-second summary Jama Connect &ndash; Best for supplier-OEM requirements exchange and live traceability across the automotive&nbsp;supply chain Visure &ndash; Best for mid-size suppliers needing compliance templates on a tighter budget Codebeamer &ndash; Best for software-centric ALM with ASPICE compliance templates Polarion &ndash; Best for teams embedded in the Siemens PLM ecosystem IBM DOORS &ndash; Best [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/automotive-requirements-management-in-2026-7-solutions-compared/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/automotive-requirements-management-in-2026-7-solutions-compared/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somalia backs India’s objection to WhatsApp’s username switch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somalia has thrown its weight behind India&rsquo;s objection to WhatsApp&rsquo;s plan to let people connect through usernames rather than phone numbers, widening a dispute that now spans two continents. The backing, makes Somalia the second national government in a week to formally query Meta over the usernames feature&nbsp;it began rolling out at the end of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/somalia-backs-indias-objection-to-whatsapps-username-switch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/somalia-backs-indias-objection-to-whatsapps-username-switch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Tesla Optimus scientist launches UMA to build Europe’s humanoid robot]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former Tesla scientist who helped build the intelligence behind Elon Musk&rsquo;s Optimus robot wants to do it all again from Paris, only this time for Europe. R&eacute;mi Cadene, chief executive and co-founder of the startup UMA, has unveiled plans for a lightweight, AI-powered humanoid called Northstar, Bloomberg first reported. he machine is being designed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-tesla-optimus-scientist-launches-uma-to-build-europes-humanoid-robot/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-tesla-optimus-scientist-launches-uma-to-build-europes-humanoid-robot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea’s ‘fake news’ law is live, and it can cost you five times the damage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Post something a South Korean court later rules false, and it could cost you five times the damage. The country&rsquo;s new &ldquo;fake news&rdquo; law is now in force, and journalists are alarmed. South Korea has begun enforcing a tough law against false information online, the Associated Press reports. Courts can now award punitive damages of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-fake-news-law-is-live-and-it-can-cost-you-five-times-the-damage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-fake-news-law-is-live-and-it-can-cost-you-five-times-the-damage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karina Portugal: learning to ask the right question]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, Karina Portugal was at advertising festivals like Cannes Lions, discussing campaigns and branding. Today, she sits across the table from some of the largest banks in Brazil, Europe, and the United States to discuss a much harder problem to sell: how do you know whether you can trust who, or what, is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/karina-portugal-learning-to-ask-the-right-question/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/karina-portugal-learning-to-ask-the-right-question/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best AI requirements management software: 8 tools leading the shift in 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI requirements management software is changing how engineering teams write, review, and validate requirements. For decades, this work meant drafting specifications by hand, checking them for quality manually, and verifying test coverage the same way. Every part of the process depended on human effort alone, and that approach no longer scales. New capabilities are shifting [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-best-ai-requirements-management-software-8-tools-leading-the-shift-in-2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-best-ai-requirements-management-software-8-tools-leading-the-shift-in-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luffy AI raises £8.1M to put self-tuning AI inside the world’s electric motors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Luffy AI, an Abingdon startup building what it calls neuroplastic AI for the real-time control of physical machines, has raised &pound;8.1m in a Series A round, the company said on Tuesday. The round was led by BGF, which bills itself as the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, and the money is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/luffy-ai-raises-81m-to-put-self-tuning-ai-inside-the-worlds-electric-motors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/luffy-ai-raises-81m-to-put-self-tuning-ai-inside-the-worlds-electric-motors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta says four states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has told a federal court that four US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, a figure the company put on the record in a filing on Monday. The sum,&nbsp;first reported by Reuters, sits uncomfortably close to Meta&rsquo;s own market capitalisation of about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-says-four-states-want-14-trillion-in-penalties-at-august-youth-safety-trial/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-says-four-states-want-14-trillion-in-penalties-at-august-youth-safety-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syntiant files for a US IPO, betting public markets want edge AI too]]></title><description><![CDATA[Syntiant, the chipmaker whose low-power processors run artificial intelligence directly on devices rather than in the cloud, has&nbsp;filed for a US initial public offering. The Irvine, California, company submitted its&nbsp;Form S-1&nbsp;to the Securities and Exchange Commission on 6 July, and plans to list Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker SYTN. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/syntiant-files-for-a-us-ipo-betting-public-markets-want-edge-ai-too/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/syntiant-files-for-a-us-ipo-betting-public-markets-want-edge-ai-too/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair, but keeps his board seat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Richard White, the billionaire co-founder of WiseTech Global, has stepped down as executive chair&nbsp;of the Australian&nbsp;logistics-software&nbsp;company, effective immediately, capping a fortnight of intensifying scrutiny. He is not, however, leaving the building. White will stay on the ASX-listed group&rsquo;s board as an executive director and&nbsp;keep his role&nbsp;as chief innovation officer, WiseTech said in a&nbsp;statement to the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wisetech-co-founder-richard-white-steps-down-as-chair-but-keeps-his-board-seat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wisetech-co-founder-richard-white-steps-down-as-chair-but-keeps-his-board-seat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nscale closes a $900m revolving credit facility to fund its data-centre build-out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nscale has closed a $900m revolving credit facility, a standing pool of borrowing it will draw on to speed up its data-centre build-out across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, the company said on Tuesday. The London firm, which raised $2bn in a Series C&nbsp;at a $14.6bn valuation in March, is now stacking debt almost as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nscale-closes-a-900m-revolving-credit-facility-to-fund-its-data-centre-build-out/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nscale-closes-a-900m-revolving-credit-facility-to-fund-its-data-centre-build-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synopsys pulls back from chip fab software to chase AI design margins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Synopsys, the US chip design software giant, is preparing to walk away from the manufacturing control software that helps run the world&rsquo;s semiconductor fabs, and to redirect the engineers behind it towards the far more lucrative business of&nbsp;AI chip design. The plan, reported by&nbsp;Reuters&nbsp;and attributed to six people briefed on the matter, is a pointed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/synopsys-pulls-back-from-chip-fab-software-to-chase-ai-design-margins/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/synopsys-pulls-back-from-chip-fab-software-to-chase-ai-design-margins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google and RWE back Proxima Fusion in record €411mn round]]></title><description><![CDATA[Munich-based Proxima Fusion has raised &euro;411mn ($468mn), the largest private fusion round Europe has ever seen and a rare vote of confidence in a technology that has yet to produce a watt of commercial power. The deal values the&nbsp;stellarator&nbsp;company at &euro;2.4bn and brings in Google and German utility RWE as strategic backers. XTX Ventures and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-and-rwe-back-proxima-fusion-in-record-411mn-round/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-and-rwe-back-proxima-fusion-in-record-411mn-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US cyber agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos to audit government code, sources say]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal defender is reportedly pointing a private, offensive-grade AI model at the government&rsquo;s own software, though almost nothing about the work is on the record. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is using Anthropic&rsquo;s AI model Mythos to hunt for bugs in government software, according to three people familiar with the matter who [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-cyber-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-to-audit-government-code-sources-say/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-cyber-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-to-audit-government-code-sources-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung’s Q2 profit jumps 19-fold to 89 trillion won on AI memory demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics&nbsp;guided to&nbsp;second-quarter operating profit of about 89.4 trillion won ($58.4bn) on Tuesday, roughly 19 times what it made in the same period a year earlier and, by most counts, the&nbsp;largest quarterly operating profit&nbsp;any technology company has ever reported. It is Samsung&rsquo;s third consecutive record quarter, and it came in ahead of the roughly 84 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-q2-profit-jumps-19-fold-to-89-trillion-won-on-ai-memory-demand/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-q2-profit-jumps-19-fold-to-89-trillion-won-on-ai-memory-demand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s under-16 social media ban stumbles at the first age check, testers find]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s first national ban on social media for under-16s is faltering at the very first gate, according to the testers who helped Australia&rsquo;s government design its age-check regime. In a follow-up study first reported by Reuters, the team opened 50 accounts across nine of the 10 platforms covered by the law, declaring the account [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-under-16-social-media-ban-stumbles-at-the-first-age-check-testers-find/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-under-16-social-media-ban-stumbles-at-the-first-age-check-testers-find/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gyre Energy raises $1.3m to make the world’s cold stores work less when power costs most]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across a scorching European summer, the least glamorous machines in the economy have been quietly straining. In cold stores and distribution depots, compressors run harder as the mercury climbs, pulling more power at exactly the hours power is dearest. It is a problem most operators have simply lived with. Gyre Energy, an Oxford-founded energy tech [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gyre-energy-raises-13m-to-make-the-worlds-cold-stores-work-less-when-power-costs-most/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gyre-energy-raises-13m-to-make-the-worlds-cold-stores-work-less-when-power-costs-most/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TechEx Europe 2026: eight events, 8,000 tech leaders, one enterprise agenda]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most large organisations now have the AI budgets approved and the transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what actually reaches production. That gap between strategy and delivery is the organising idea behind TechEx Europe 2026, which runs on 19 and 20 October at the RAI Amsterdam and gathers senior enterprise technology leaders from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/techex-europe-2026-eight-events-8000-tech-leaders-one-enterprise-agenda/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/techex-europe-2026-eight-events-8000-tech-leaders-one-enterprise-agenda/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TechnologyWire launches PR distribution platform engineered to secure brand visibility in AI search]]></title><description><![CDATA[MediaFuse.org, a newswire network dominant across finance, cybersecurity, blockchain, and gaming, today announced a major disruption to tech PR with the launch of&nbsp;TechnologyWire. TechnologyWire marks the latest expansion for MediaFuse, which scaled the targeted newswire model successfully across several verticals. After capturing a significant footprint in the blockchain and financial sectors through platforms like Chainwire [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/technologywire-launches-pr-distribution-platform-engineered-to-secure-brand-visibility-in-ai-search/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/technologywire-launches-pr-distribution-platform-engineered-to-secure-brand-visibility-in-ai-search/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge upholds the verdict that Musk defrauded Twitter investors]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has refused to overturn a jury&rsquo;s finding that Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors during his $44bn takeover of the platform in 2022. US District Judge Charles Breyer&nbsp;denied Musk&rsquo;s motion&nbsp;to set aside the verdict in most respects on Monday. A San Francisco jury&nbsp;ruled in March&nbsp;that two of Musk&rsquo;s May 2022 tweets about the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/judge-upholds-the-verdict-that-musk-defrauded-twitter-investors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/judge-upholds-the-verdict-that-musk-defrauded-twitter-investors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utah let an AI renew prescriptions without a doctor, and its medical board wants it stopped]]></title><description><![CDATA[Utah has quietly become the first US state to let an AI chatbot renew prescriptions without a doctor,&nbsp;according to the Associated Press. The programme, run by a company called Doctronic, launched in January and has set off a fierce medical debate. Residents can skip the doctor&rsquo;s office and refill prescriptions online through the chatbot. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/utah-let-an-ai-renew-prescriptions-without-a-doctor-and-its-medical-board-wants-it-stopped/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/utah-let-an-ai-renew-prescriptions-without-a-doctor-and-its-medical-board-wants-it-stopped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI agent just ran a full ransomware attack with no human at the keyboard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent,&nbsp;first reported by Business Insider. A large language model planned, executed, and adapted the entire operation, which Sysdig has named JadePuffer. The agent chained together every stage of the attack, from reconnaissance and credential theft to lateral [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-just-ran-a-full-ransomware-attack-with-no-human-at-the-keyboard/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/an-ai-agent-just-ran-a-full-ransomware-attack-with-no-human-at-the-keyboard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tencent moves to sell up to $1.6B of its Kuaishou stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tencent is seeking up to $1.6bn by selling down its stake in short-video platform Kuaishou,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. A term sheet seen by Reuters puts the block trade at&nbsp;up to $1.55bn. The deal covers about 273 million shares, a 7.5% stake, offered at HK$43.15 to HK$44.53 each. That represents a discount of 3.2% to 6.2% to Monday&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tencent-moves-to-sell-up-to-16b-of-its-kuaishou-stake/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tencent-moves-to-sell-up-to-16b-of-its-kuaishou-stake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How crypto payment processors can help businesses accept cryptocurrency]]></title><description><![CDATA[Businesses looking to modernize their payment systems may want to learn what a crypto payment processor is, how it works, and why it matters. Cryptocurrency and the crypto industry at large often appear most prominently in investing circles, but recent advancements in&nbsp;blockchain, the technology that supports crypto, have expanded crypto&rsquo;s usefulness. Today, businesses across industries [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-crypto-payment-processors-can-help-businesses-accept-cryptocurrency/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-crypto-payment-processors-can-help-businesses-accept-cryptocurrency/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WEF founder Klaus Schwab says he found a hidden listening device in his home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, says a routine security inspection found a covert listening device in his home office in Geneva,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. The 88-year-old has filed a criminal complaint against persons unknown. The device was reportedly discovered at his private home close to the WEF&rsquo;s premises. Who planted it, and when, is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wef-founder-klaus-schwab-says-he-found-a-hidden-listening-device-in-his-home/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wef-founder-klaus-schwab-says-he-found-a-hidden-listening-device-in-his-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell pledges $320M in stock to Trump Accounts]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell will donate a share of SpaceX stock to roughly 2 million children through the Trump Accounts programme,&nbsp;CNBC reports. At around $162 a share, the pledge is&nbsp;worth over $320m. The gift comes from Shotwell&rsquo;s and her husband&rsquo;s personal holdings, with extra emphasis on lower-income families near their central Texas home. It makes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-gwynne-shotwell-pledges-320m-in-stock-to-trump-accounts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-gwynne-shotwell-pledges-320m-in-stock-to-trump-accounts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond wires and batteries: Voltify’s new model for freight rail electrification]]></title><description><![CDATA[Freight rail is often described as the most&nbsp;energy-efficient&nbsp;way to move goods over land, yet it still runs on one of the dirtiest inputs in modern infrastructure: diesel. As rail operators face mounting pressure from volatile fuel costs, tightening emissions rules, and aging locomotive fleets, the question is no longer whether rail should&nbsp;decarbonize, but how. One [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beyond-wires-and-batteries-voltifys-new-model-for-freight-rail-electrification/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beyond-wires-and-batteries-voltifys-new-model-for-freight-rail-electrification/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pegasus hack of the EU’s own spyware investigator sparks calls for urgent action]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to act on spyware, after forensic evidence showed one of the EU&rsquo;s own spyware investigators was hacked with Pegasus. Civil society groups issued a&nbsp;joint statement&nbsp;demanding the abuse be met with accountability, &ldquo;not impunity&rdquo;. Citizen Lab confirmed last week&nbsp;that Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek former MEP, was infected in October [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pegasus-hack-of-the-eus-own-spyware-investigator-sparks-calls-for-urgent-action/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pegasus-hack-of-the-eus-own-spyware-investigator-sparks-calls-for-urgent-action/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly ten years after launch, the original Nintendo Switch will vanish from European shops next year. Blame a new EU rule on batteries, not the Switch 2. Nintendo will stop selling every version of the original Switch in Europe from mid-February 2027, The Verge reports. That lands weeks before the console&rsquo;s tenth birthday. The cull [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nintendo-will-stop-selling-the-original-switch-in-europe-next-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nintendo-will-stop-selling-the-original-switch-in-europe-next-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skello raises €200M and its founders end up owning more of the company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most big funding rounds shrink the founders&rsquo; slice. Skello&rsquo;s just grew it. The profitable French HR startup has raised &euro;200m to go shopping across Europe. Paris-based Skello has raised &euro;200m led by Bridgepoint, EU-Startups reports. The unusual part: its founders and managers came out owning more of the company, not less, as Tech Funding News [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skello-raises-200m-and-its-founders-end-up-owning-more-of-the-company/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skello-raises-200m-and-its-founders-end-up-owning-more-of-the-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Klarna applies for a US banking licence, its boldest American move yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Klarna wants to be a real American bank. The Swedish BNPL giant has applied for a US banking licence, betting a friendlier Washington will let it crack a market that has bruised European rivals. Klarna has applied to US regulators to set up its own bank, tech.eu reports. The Swedish fintech filed with the Utah [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/klarna-applies-for-a-us-banking-licence-its-boldest-american-move-yet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/klarna-applies-for-a-us-banking-licence-its-boldest-american-move-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Fold 8 Ultra, Flip 8, Galaxy Watch 9: What to expect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Fold 8 Ultra, Flip 8, Galaxy Watch 9: What to expect]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-galaxy-fold-8-ultra-flip-8-galaxy-watch-9-what-to-expect/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-galaxy-fold-8-ultra-flip-8-galaxy-watch-9-what-to-expect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit fights AI marketing ‘slop’ with its own AI, as GEO becomes the new SEO]]></title><description><![CDATA[People increasingly ask ChatGPT instead of Google. So marketers now plant fake opinions on Reddit, hoping the chatbots repeat them. Reddit is fighting back with AI of its own. Reddit has a new spam problem, and a strange one. Brands seed the platform with stealth marketing, Bloomberg reports. They plant posts and comments that pose [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-fights-ai-marketing-slop-with-its-own-ai-as-geo-becomes-the-new-seo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-fights-ai-marketing-slop-with-its-own-ai-as-geo-becomes-the-new-seo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft guts Xbox: 3,200 jobs cut and five studios divested, two of them European]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft told its Xbox staff the truth in blunt terms: the business &ldquo;is not healthy.&rdquo; The fix? 3,200 job cuts, five studios out the door, two of them European. Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma laid it out in an official memo on Monday. She called it the most significant restructure in the division&rsquo;s history. Xbox [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-guts-xbox-3200-jobs-cut-and-five-studios-divested-two-of-them-european/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-guts-xbox-3200-jobs-cut-and-five-studios-divested-two-of-them-european/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadcom extends its Apple chip work through 2031 in a fresh custom-silicon deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broadcom has extended its long-running relationship with Apple through 2031, signing new multi-year agreements to design and supply a range of custom chips for the iPhone maker. The deal deepens one of the most important supplier relationships in consumer electronics, and it sent Broadcom&rsquo;s shares up around 4% as investors read it as a guarantee [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/broadcom-extends-its-apple-chip-work-through-2031-in-a-fresh-custom-silicon-deal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/broadcom-extends-its-apple-chip-work-through-2031-in-a-fresh-custom-silicon-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber quietly pauses 5 of 7 European food-delivery launches as it chases Delivery Hero]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five months ago, Uber promised to storm five new European countries with its food-delivery app. It just quietly hit the brakes, and the reason looks a lot like a &euro;10bn takeover. Uber has paused five of its seven planned 2026 European launches, the Financial Times reported. Uber announced the push in February, targeting Austria, Norway, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-quietly-pauses-5-of-7-european-food-delivery-launches-as-it-chases-delivery-hero/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-quietly-pauses-5-of-7-european-food-delivery-launches-as-it-chases-delivery-hero/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has raised $150m at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported. Chinese giants Meituan and Tencent led the round. It makes the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/camera-free-smart-glasses-maker-even-realities-hits-1bn-on-a-150m-raise/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/camera-free-smart-glasses-maker-even-realities-hits-1bn-on-a-150m-raise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denmark steps into an EU court fight over what platforms owe publishers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Denmark has taken a side in one of the quieter but more consequential legal battles over how the internet pays for journalism. The Danish government has filed a written intervention at the Court of Justice of the European Union, backing Belgium in a case brought by a group of technology companies that dispute how Belgium [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/denmark-steps-into-an-eu-court-fight-over-what-platforms-owe-publishers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/denmark-steps-into-an-eu-court-fight-over-what-platforms-owe-publishers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cambridge’s Worldmodeldata raises £7M to turn video games into AI training data]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last wave of AI learned to describe the world. The next needs to learn how the world pushes back. A Cambridge startup thinks the answer hides inside video games. Worldmodeldata has raised &pound;7m (&euro;8m) to turn gameplay into AI training data, Tech Funding News reported. London&rsquo;s Iona Star Capital led the seed round. Lord [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cambridges-worldmodeldata-raises-7m-to-turn-video-games-into-ai-training-data/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cambridges-worldmodeldata-raises-7m-to-turn-video-games-into-ai-training-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hedge funds sold chip stocks for a fourth week, but not the AI trade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hedge funds cut their holdings of semiconductor stocks for a fourth straight week, according to Goldman Sachs prime brokerage data, in a run of selling that has made chipmakers and their equipment suppliers the most heavily net-sold corner of the US market. The move comes as parts of the AI trade wobble, and it will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hedge-funds-sold-chip-stocks-for-a-fourth-week-but-not-the-ai-trade/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hedge-funds-sold-chip-stocks-for-a-fourth-week-but-not-the-ai-trade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finland’s CurifyLabs raises $14M to 3D-print personalised medicine in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your prescription, printed to order. A Finnish startup wants to turn the back room of your pharmacy into a tiny, automated drug factory, and it just raised $14m to do it in America. CurifyLabs has closed a $14m (&euro;12m) Series A, the company announced. The Helsinki firm makes machines and software that let pharmacies 3D-print [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/finlands-curifylabs-raises-14m-to-3d-print-personalised-medicine-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/finlands-curifylabs-raises-14m-to-3d-print-personalised-medicine-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees your raw data, tech.eu reported. The Spanish company sells to banks, hospitals and governments, the customers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spains-sherpaai-raises-18m-for-ai-that-never-touches-your-data/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spains-sherpaai-raises-18m-for-ai-that-never-touches-your-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A senior FCA official says Britain should weigh regulating AI models directly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain should consider whether large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini ought to be regulated as they increasingly influence how consumers make financial decisions, a senior official at the Financial Conduct Authority has said. Sheldon Mills, an executive director at the FCA, argued that the existing rulebook will have to evolve as firms [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-senior-fca-official-says-britain-should-weigh-regulating-ai-models-directly/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-senior-fca-official-says-britain-should-weigh-regulating-ai-models-directly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought Machine crosses $100M revenue and delays its London IPO to 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most tech founders chase a bigger valuation. Thought Machine&rsquo;s boss would rather talk about revenue, and he has just crossed a milestone worth boasting about. The London core-banking company has passed $100m in annual revenue for the first time, tech.eu reported. It also took a fresh &pound;30m ($41m) from a &ldquo;tier 1&rdquo; bank, and pushed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thought-machine-crosses-100m-revenue-and-delays-its-london-ipo-to-2028/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thought-machine-crosses-100m-revenue-and-delays-its-london-ipo-to-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ITV sells its broadcasting arm to Comcast’s Sky for up to £1.6bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[ITV has agreed to sell its media and entertainment division to Sky, the Comcast-owned broadcaster, in a deal worth up to &pound;1.6bn that redraws the map of British television. The transaction hands Sky the ITV channels and the ITVX streaming service, and leaves the seller as a pure production business, a split that arrives as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/itv-sells-its-broadcasting-arm-to-comcasts-sky-for-up-to-16bn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/itv-sells-its-broadcasting-arm-to-comcasts-sky-for-up-to-16bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the &ldquo;greatest security challenge of the next decade,&rdquo; according to Bloomberg. She sets it out in an essay for the Chatham House think tank, published on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uks-cooper-warns-of-an-ai-hiroshima-and-calls-for-global-rules/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uks-cooper-warns-of-an-ai-hiroshima-and-calls-for-global-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan’s Turing takes AMD money and AMD chips to loosen Nvidia’s grip]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia powers almost every self-driving car project going. A small Japanese startup is quietly handing some of that work to AMD instead. Turing Inc. has added AMD Ventures to its backers and started running its AI on AMD chips, Bloomberg reported. The five-year-old Tokyo firm wants to put self-driving software in consumer cars and robotaxis [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/japans-turing-takes-amd-money-and-amd-chips-to-loosen-nvidias-grip/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/japans-turing-takes-amd-money-and-amd-chips-to-loosen-nvidias-grip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan’s Unimicron seeks up to $1.4bn as AI lifts the chip-substrate makers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unimicron Technology is looking to raise as much as $1.4bn from a sale of global depositary shares, joining the long line of companies cashing in on investors&rsquo; appetite for anything tied to artificial intelligence. The Taiwanese firm is selling 50 million shares at $26.96 to $27.76 each, a discount of roughly 3% to 6% to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwans-unimicron-seeks-up-to-14bn-as-ai-lifts-the-chip-substrate-makers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwans-unimicron-seeks-up-to-14bn-as-ai-lifts-the-chip-substrate-makers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla brings its Robotaxi to Miami, and drops the safety monitor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla&rsquo;s driverless cabs have reached a fifth US city. This time, there is no human minder in the car at all. The company rolled out its Robotaxi service in part of Miami on Friday, it announced on X. A map in the post showed a small patch of West Miami, well away from the busy [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-brings-its-robotaxi-to-miami-and-drops-the-safety-monitor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-brings-its-robotaxi-to-miami-and-drops-the-safety-monitor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midjourney turns the tables, demanding the studios suing it reveal their AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The studios suing Midjourney say it trained AI on their characters without permission. Midjourney&rsquo;s answer: prove you do not do exactly the same thing. The AI image generator wants a US federal judge to intervene. It has asked the court to force the studios suing it to reveal how they use AI internally, Variety reported. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/midjourney-turns-the-tables-demanding-the-studios-suing-it-reveal-their-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/midjourney-turns-the-tables-demanding-the-studios-suing-it-reveal-their-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple supplier Luxshare set to price Hong Kong’s biggest IPO of 2026 at the top]]></title><description><![CDATA[Luxshare Precision is set to price its Hong Kong listing at the top of its range, a sign of strong demand for one of the year&rsquo;s marquee share sales. The Apple supplier plans to fix the offer at the maximum HK$63.28 a share, according to people cited by Bloomberg, raising as much as $3.1bn and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-supplier-luxshare-set-to-price-hong-kongs-biggest-ipo-of-2026-at-the-top/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-supplier-luxshare-set-to-price-hong-kongs-biggest-ipo-of-2026-at-the-top/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solstice and Element Solutions weigh a $27bn merger of materials makers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Solstice Advanced Materials is in talks to merge with Element Solutions in a deal that would create a specialty-materials company worth about $27bn, according to a Financial Times report. The two would combine as a merger of equals, the paper says, and could reach an agreement as soon as this week, though nothing has been [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/solstice-and-element-solutions-weigh-a-27bn-merger-of-materials-makers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/solstice-and-element-solutions-weigh-a-27bn-merger-of-materials-makers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s Biren raises $892M to build GPUs that can take on Nvidia at home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia can barely sell its best chips in China. A crop of local challengers is racing to fill the gap. One of them just raised nearly $900m to speed up. Shanghai Biren Technology is selling HK$7 billion (about $892.5m) of new shares to boost GPU production. That is according to the South China Morning Post. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-biren-raises-892m-to-build-gpus-that-can-take-on-nvidia-at-home/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-biren-raises-892m-to-build-gpus-that-can-take-on-nvidia-at-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia&rsquo;s next flagship AI machine has hit a wall, and the culprit is a single circuit board. The Kyber rack meant to house its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips has slipped to 2028. Research firm SemiAnalysis flagged the delay, and CNBC reported it. Kyber is not a chip. It is a server cabinet. It packs 144 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidias-kyber-ai-rack-slips-to-2028-and-one-circuit-board-is-to-blame/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidias-kyber-ai-rack-slips-to-2028-and-one-circuit-board-is-to-blame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novartis buys UK biotech Myricx for up to $1.5bn to chase a new cancer-drug class]]></title><description><![CDATA[Novartis has agreed to buy Myricx Bio, a small British oncology company, for up to $1.5bn, adding an early-stage but potentially significant technology to a cancer pipeline the industry keeps racing to expand. The Swiss group will pay $1.1bn upfront, with up to $400m more tied to milestones, in a deal that fits the pattern [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/novartis-buys-uk-biotech-myricx-for-up-to-15bn-to-chase-a-new-cancer-drug-class/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/novartis-buys-uk-biotech-myricx-for-up-to-15bn-to-chase-a-new-cancer-drug-class/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung’s appliance workers plan a rally over the bonuses going to chip staff]]></title><description><![CDATA[The workers who build Samsung&rsquo;s phones, televisions, and washing machines are about to make their unhappiness visible. Their union says several thousand of them will gather near the company&rsquo;s Suwon headquarters on 16 July to protest the bonuses their colleagues in the chip division have won, a grievance that has been building since the&nbsp;semiconductor pay [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-appliance-workers-plan-a-rally-over-the-bonuses-going-to-chip-staff/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-appliance-workers-plan-a-rally-over-the-bonuses-going-to-chip-staff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shampoo and cookies get an AI makeover as consumer giants rewire their labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI story has mostly been told through chips, data centres, and the companies building the models. It is now being told through the shampoo aisle. The world&rsquo;s largest makers of everyday goods, the businesses behind the bottles and packets in most kitchens and bathrooms, say they are using artificial intelligence to design products and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/shampoo-and-cookies-get-an-ai-makeover-as-consumer-giants-rewire-their-labs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/shampoo-and-cookies-get-an-ai-makeover-as-consumer-giants-rewire-their-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The UN says AI is moving faster than the rules, and it has a report to prove it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Nations has put a number of its concerns about artificial intelligence into a single document, and the headline finding is not subtle. AI capabilities, the organisation says, are accelerating faster than any government&rsquo;s ability to understand, test, or regulate them. The warning arrives as delegates gather in Geneva for the opening of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-un-says-ai-is-moving-faster-than-the-rules-and-it-has-a-report-to-prove-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-un-says-ai-is-moving-faster-than-the-rules-and-it-has-a-report-to-prove-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung heads for an 18-fold profit jump as AI memory demand runs hot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analysts expect around 86 trillion won in second-quarter operating profit, a third straight record, as DRAM and NAND prices climb. Samsung Electronics is on course for one of the strangest earnings comparisons in its history. Analysts expect the company to report second-quarter operating profit of around 86 trillion won, roughly $56bn, when it publishes preliminary [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-heads-for-an-18-fold-profit-jump-as-ai-memory-demand-runs-hot/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-heads-for-an-18-fold-profit-jump-as-ai-memory-demand-runs-hot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ a myth? The real cost of AI-built software]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before replacing SaaS subscriptions with internally built AI software, executives should evaluate the full lifecycle cost of ownership rather than focusing on development cost alone. The key question is not whether the organisation can build a tool, but whether it has the capacity and resilience to maintain, secure, and continuously evolve it over time. This [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-the-saaspocalypse-a-myth-the-real-cost-of-ai-built-software/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-the-saaspocalypse-a-myth-the-real-cost-of-ai-built-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-native startups hire fewer juniors and more elites, Harvard study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Startups built around AI hire fewer entry-level workers than their peers, according to a&nbsp;working paper&nbsp;from Harvard Business School and INSEAD, first reported by&nbsp;Business Insider. The firms are leaner, flatter, and heavily weighted towards senior technical talent. Researchers Rembrand Koning and Hyunjin Kim examined Y Combinator startups from 2020 to 2024 alongside a broader set of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-native-startups-hire-fewer-juniors-and-more-elites-harvard-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-native-startups-hire-fewer-juniors-and-more-elites-harvard-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minions &amp; Monsters wins July 4 box office with a franchise-low $64M debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[[tldr]Universal&rsquo;s Minions &amp; Monsters topped the US July 4 box office with roughly $64m over its first five days, the weakest opening in Despicable Me franchise history and far below the $120m-plus debuts of its two predecessors. The soft start raises franchise-fatigue questions for Comcast&rsquo;s most reliable animation machine.[/tldr] Universal&rsquo;s Minions &amp; Monsters led the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/minions-amp-monsters-wins-july-4-box-office-with-a-franchise-low-64m-debut/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/minions-amp-monsters-wins-july-4-box-office-with-a-franchise-low-64m-debut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge grants Alibaba a reprieve from the lobbying ban tied to the Pentagon’s blacklist]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from a law that stripped it of every lobbyist it had in Washington,&nbsp;Bloomberg reports. The reprieve stands while the court considers whether the measure is constitutional. The case is shaping up as a test of how far the US can go in curbing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/judge-grants-alibaba-a-reprieve-from-the-lobbying-ban-tied-to-the-pentagons-blacklist/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/judge-grants-alibaba-a-reprieve-from-the-lobbying-ban-tied-to-the-pentagons-blacklist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech billionaires pour $120M into killing California’s wealth tax]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley&rsquo;s wealthiest are spending heavily to stop California&rsquo;s proposed billionaire tax, according to a&nbsp;Business Insider tally of campaign filings. Opponents have poured more than $120m into sinking or blunting the measure, roughly four times the $31m raised by its union backers. Proposition 40&nbsp;would impose a one-time 5% tax on residents and trusts worth over [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tech-billionaires-pour-120m-into-killing-californias-wealth-tax/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tech-billionaires-pour-120m-into-killing-californias-wealth-tax/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump arrives at next week&rsquo;s NATO summit in Ankara holding unusual leverage, because the US decides which allies get access to the world&rsquo;s most advanced AI,&nbsp;Politico reports. The alliance meets on 7 and 8 July with AI security questions hovering over the agenda. A new wave of models from Anthropic and OpenAI can find [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-control-of-frontier-ai-hangs-over-natos-ankara-summit/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-control-of-frontier-ai-hangs-over-natos-ankara-summit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser says the financial sector is running two AI races at once,&nbsp;she told the South China Morning Post. The first is applying AI to business models to drive revenue growth, shortening product development cycles and improving customer service. The second race is defensive. Fraser said Citi&rsquo;s job is to keep the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/citi-boss-jane-fraser-says-2-ai-races-will-decide-bankings-future/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/citi-boss-jane-fraser-says-2-ai-races-will-decide-bankings-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite]]></title><description><![CDATA[ByteDance&rsquo;s Doubao and Alibaba&rsquo;s Qwen, two of China&rsquo;s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features,&nbsp;the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before Beijing&rsquo;s new rules on humanlike AI interaction services take effect on 15 July. Doubao told users on Friday that its agent feature would go offline on 15 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-and-alibaba-kill-custom-ai-companions-as-chinas-new-rules-bite/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-and-alibaba-kill-custom-ai-companions-as-chinas-new-rules-bite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India orders Meta to remove Instagram ads promoting child abuse material]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s IT ministry has ordered Meta to immediately disable all Instagram advertisements and content promoting child sexual exploitation and abuse material,&nbsp;according to The Week. The company has seven days to explain how the ads were approved and to detail the safeguards it will put in place. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology also demanded [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-orders-meta-to-remove-instagram-ads-promoting-child-abuse-material/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-orders-meta-to-remove-instagram-ads-promoting-child-abuse-material/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea plans a ‘future response fund’ built on its AI chip tax windfall]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea will seek to create a &ldquo;future response fund&rdquo; financed by the tax windfall from its semiconductor boom,&nbsp;Yonhap reported. The proceeds would flow into AI, advanced manufacturing, and other long-term growth engines. Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said the fund would turn the extra tax revenue into&nbsp;investment resources for future generations. The government [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-plans-a-future-response-fund-built-on-its-ai-chip-tax-windfall/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-plans-a-future-response-fund-built-on-its-ai-chip-tax-windfall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a&nbsp;bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales&nbsp;on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain their momentum this quarter. June revenue alone reached NT$1.33tn (roughly $45bn),&nbsp;up 21.6% year on year. The company added [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-supplier-hon-hai-posts-40-sales-jump-on-ai-server-demand/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-supplier-hon-hai-posts-40-sales-jump-on-ai-server-demand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistral CEO warns closed AI models give providers ‘immense leverage’ over your business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arthur Mensch, cofounder and chief executive of French AI lab Mistral, has urged enterprise leaders to abandon closed AI models. In a&nbsp;LinkedIn post, he argued that closed providers are now forcing data retention and gaining &ldquo;immense leverage&rdquo; over their customers&rsquo; businesses. As companies connect models to their internal context, Mensch wrote, providers see it, learn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mistral-ceo-warns-closed-ai-models-give-providers-immense-leverage-over-your-business/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mistral-ceo-warns-closed-ai-models-give-providers-immense-leverage-over-your-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK parents warned against posting children’s photos publicly as AI abuse imagery surges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK&rsquo;s National Crime Agency&nbsp;has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity responsible for finding and removing child sexual abuse material online. The IWF identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-parents-warned-against-posting-childrens-photos-publicly-as-ai-abuse-imagery-surges/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-parents-warned-against-posting-childrens-photos-publicly-as-ai-abuse-imagery-surges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul]]></title><description><![CDATA[The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government&nbsp;has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&amp;E. The update is expected to reach 200,000 patients over the next year before [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhs-app-will-use-ai-to-triage-patients-as-part-of-10bn-tech-overhaul/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhs-app-will-use-ai-to-triage-patients-as-part-of-10bn-tech-overhaul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US government body paid $1M to hackers who never locked a single file]]></title><description><![CDATA[A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published,&nbsp;according to a case study&nbsp;by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind. The group behind the deal calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-government-body-paid-1m-to-hackers-who-never-locked-a-single-file/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-government-body-paid-1m-to-hackers-who-never-locked-a-single-file/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s CG Semi starts commercial chip production at $870M Gujarat plant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi&rsquo;s chip assembly and testing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The facility will initially turn out 200 million chips a year,&nbsp;according to ANI, with plans to scale to 500 million. The plant is an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, or OSAT, facility. That covers the packaging [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-cg-semi-starts-commercial-chip-production-at-870m-gujarat-plant/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-cg-semi-starts-commercial-chip-production-at-870m-gujarat-plant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong now handles more than half of China’s chip imports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hong Kong has become the main artery for high-tech goods flowing in and out of China, and its chip trade has hit record levels. The city accounted for more than half of China&rsquo;s $239bn in semiconductor imports in the first five months of 2026,&nbsp;according to a Bloomberg review of official data. That share stood at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hong-kong-now-handles-more-than-half-of-chinas-chip-imports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hong-kong-now-handles-more-than-half-of-chinas-chip-imports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starling Bank cuts 130 jobs as it bets on AI and looks beyond the UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starling Bank is cutting around 130 jobs, roughly 3% of its 4,000-strong workforce, as the London-based neobank restructures its banking and technology operations. Staff were told this week that the changes were intended to simplify how the company operates, reduce duplication, and accelerate product delivery. The cuts come as Starling pushes AI deeper into its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/starling-bank-cuts-130-jobs-as-it-bets-on-ai-and-looks-beyond-the-uk/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/starling-bank-cuts-130-jobs-as-it-bets-on-ai-and-looks-beyond-the-uk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday&nbsp;condemned senators who blocked amendments&nbsp;to the country&rsquo;s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech platforms time to destroy documents that could be used as evidence against them. The conservative Liberal Party and the minor Greens party referred the legislation to an eight-week Senate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-child-social-media-ban-is-failing-and-the-senate-just-delayed-the-fix/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-child-social-media-ban-is-failing-and-the-senate-just-delayed-the-fix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly a million investors lost $3.8 billion on the Trump memecoin. Trump made $636 million.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly a million people who bought President Donald Trump&rsquo;s $TRUMP memecoin have collectively lost $3.81 billion, according to&nbsp;an analysis by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The data, which covers all transactions through the end of June, found that 988,905 of the token&rsquo;s buyers are underwater. Trump earned $636 million from the same coin. His&nbsp;927-page financial disclosure, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nearly-a-million-investors-lost-38-billion-on-the-trump-memecoin-trump-made-636-million/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nearly-a-million-investors-lost-38-billion-on-the-trump-memecoin-trump-made-636-million/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is rewriting e-commerce law to tighten platform rules at home and shield its companies abroad]]></title><description><![CDATA[China released&nbsp;draft amendments to its e-commerce law&nbsp;on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that would expand the law&rsquo;s reach beyond platforms and merchants to cover a wider range of participants in the digital economy. The proposal, jointly issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Commerce, is open for public consultation until 4 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-rewriting-e-commerce-law-to-tighten-platform-rules-at-home-and-shield-its-companies-abroad/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-rewriting-e-commerce-law-to-tighten-platform-rules-at-home-and-shield-its-companies-abroad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China wants cinemas to sell you karaoke and coffee, not just tickets]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s cinemas are being told to stop relying on tickets alone. New guidelines from the National Film Administration and the State Administration for Market Regulation encourage theatres to add AI concierge agents, karaoke booths and coffee shops to their lobbies, according to&nbsp;Bloomberg. The same guidance nudges operators toward movie-themed merchandise stores, licensed products, art exhibitions [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-wants-cinemas-to-sell-you-karaoke-and-coffee-not-just-tickets/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-wants-cinemas-to-sell-you-karaoke-and-coffee-not-just-tickets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany’s most conservative banks are about to let millions of customers buy Bitcoin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany&rsquo;s cooperative banks and savings banks, the local institutions that handle mortgages, current accounts, and small business loans for tens of millions of customers, are&nbsp;rolling out their own cryptocurrency trading services. The move will bring digital asset trading to a population that could barely be persuaded to use credit cards a decade ago. Some of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/germanys-most-conservative-banks-are-about-to-let-millions-of-customers-buy-bitcoin/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/germanys-most-conservative-banks-are-about-to-let-millions-of-customers-buy-bitcoin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Macron and Modi are winning the AI infrastructure race with text messages and personal meetings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The global race for AI infrastructure has become a contest of personal relationships. French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have emerged as its most aggressive practitioners, personally courting the heads of the world&rsquo;s largest technology companies to&nbsp;secure data centre investments&nbsp;that will determine where the next generation of AI systems are trained [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/macron-and-modi-are-winning-the-ai-infrastructure-race-with-text-messages-and-personal-meetings/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/macron-and-modi-are-winning-the-ai-infrastructure-race-with-text-messages-and-personal-meetings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India summons Meta over Instagram ads promoting child sexual abuse material]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will summon Meta executives after a BBC investigation&nbsp;found that Instagram had been running paid advertisements promoting child sexual abuse material to users in the country. Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has directed ministry officials to seek a formal explanation from the company, according to&nbsp;Business Standard, which cited government [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-summons-meta-over-instagram-ads-promoting-child-sexual-abuse-material/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-summons-meta-over-instagram-ads-promoting-child-sexual-abuse-material/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI apparently never visited the site of its flagship UK AI project]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI apparently failed to visit a key site earmarked for its Stargate UK data centre project before the initiative was announced, the Guardian&nbsp;reported on Friday. The revelation deepens questions about whether the UK government&rsquo;s flagship AI infrastructure programme was built on press releases rather than due diligence. Stargate UK, a partnership between OpenAI, Nvidia, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-apparently-never-visited-the-site-of-its-flagship-uk-ai-project/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-apparently-never-visited-the-site-of-its-flagship-uk-ai-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima expansion to chase AI memory demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Micron Technology broke ground on Saturday on a &yen;1.5 trillion, roughly $9.3bn, expansion of its factory in Hiroshima, western Japan, the company&rsquo;s latest bet on the AI memory boom that has already pushed its market value past $1 trillion. The Boise, Idaho based chipmaker will use the site to produce high-bandwidth memory, the stacked DRAM [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/micron-breaks-ground-on-9bn-hiroshima-expansion-to-chase-ai-memory-demand/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/micron-breaks-ground-on-9bn-hiroshima-expansion-to-chase-ai-memory-demand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of&nbsp;Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The common thread is seclusion: a former monastery in the Colorado mountains, a rural compound in New Hampshire, and a pair of mansions on a gated Miami island. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ceo-of-americas-most-powerful-surveillance-company-spent-200-million-on-places-nobody-can-find-him/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ceo-of-americas-most-powerful-surveillance-company-spent-200-million-on-places-nobody-can-find-him/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best Android Phones of the Past 12 Months! 📱🤩]]></title><description><![CDATA[Best Android Phones of the Past 12 Months! 📱🤩]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/best-android-phones-of-the-past-12-months-/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/best-android-phones-of-the-past-12-months-/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic&rsquo;s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows&nbsp;weeks of escalating conflict between the two companies&nbsp;over allegations that Alibaba stole Anthropic&rsquo;s AI capabilities through industrial-scale distillation. &ldquo;As Claude Code was [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-bans-claude-code-after-anthropic-is-caught-tracking-chinese-users-with-hidden-code/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-bans-claude-code-after-anthropic-is-caught-tracking-chinese-users-with-hidden-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun]]></title><description><![CDATA[The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day. The&nbsp;PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had surged more than 80% in the first half, sank 6.3% on Wednesday and 5.4% on Thursday, a two-session decline of roughly 12%. While chip stocks [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-chip-trade-cracked-this-week-and-the-hunt-for-what-replaces-it-has-begun/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-chip-trade-cracked-this-week-and-the-hunt-for-what-replaces-it-has-begun/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who built Pegasus now sells governments the antidote, and Latin America is buying]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dream, the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup that tripled its valuation to $3 billion this year, is expanding into Latin America. The company is targeting governments aligned with Washington in a region where cyber attacks are reportedly growing 25% annually and national defences rank among the weakest in the world. The expansion is notable for what [&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-pegasus-now-sells-governments-the-antidote-and-latin-america-is-buying/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-built-pegasus-now-sells-governments-the-antidote-and-latin-america-is-buying/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but performing well on high-stakes exams like the SAT and ACT. On the face of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-building-ai-for-schools-is-harder-than-building-a-chatbot-inside-smartschools-approach-to-exam-prep/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-building-ai-for-schools-is-harder-than-building-a-chatbot-inside-smartschools-approach-to-exam-prep/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chevy Silverado EV is one of the best electric trucks ever built, so why is nobody buying it]]></title><description><![CDATA[General Motors sold roughly 14,000 Chevrolet Silverado EVs in the United States and Canada last year, according to GM Authority sales data. The petrol-powered Silverado moves more than ten times that volume in a single quarter. That gap, between what reviewers call one of the best electric trucks on the market and what buyers are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-chevy-silverado-ev-is-one-of-the-best-electric-trucks-ever-built-so-why-is-nobody-buying-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-chevy-silverado-ev-is-one-of-the-best-electric-trucks-ever-built-so-why-is-nobody-buying-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North Korea-linked npm packages impersonate Rollup polyfill tools to steal developer secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security researchers at JFrog have identified a set of malicious npm packages linked to North Korean threat actors that impersonate legitimate Rollup polyfill tooling to steal developer credentials and enable remote access to compromised machines. The packages, named &ldquo;rollup-packages-polyfill-core&rdquo; and &ldquo;rollup-runtime-polyfill-core,&rdquo; mimic the legitimate &ldquo;rollup-plugin-polyfill-node&rdquo; project down to its description, repository metadata, and package structure.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/north-korea-linked-npm-packages-impersonate-rollup-polyfill-tools-to-steal-developer-secrets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/north-korea-linked-npm-packages-impersonate-rollup-polyfill-tools-to-steal-developer-secrets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla launches the six-seat Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US at 61,990 dollars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla has launched the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the United States and Puerto Rico, a stretched, six-seat version of the world&rsquo;s best-selling electric vehicle that adds a third row and marks the company&rsquo;s most significant Model Y expansion since its redesign earlier this year. The Launch Series starts at 61,990 dollars and includes 12 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-launches-the-six-seat-model-y-long-wheelbase-in-the-us-at-61990-dollars/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-launches-the-six-seat-model-y-long-wheelbase-in-the-us-at-61990-dollars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market]]></title><description><![CDATA[The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration: leave the market alone, or the squeeze gets worse. The warning came in a letter from SEMI, a semiconductor industry group, to senior US officials. Any attempt to fix the shortage by steering prices [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-chip-industry-has-a-warning-for-trump-hands-off-the-memory-market/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-chip-industry-has-a-warning-for-trump-hands-off-the-memory-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European rules. They could limit what children play, and cost the sector billions in lost sales. A cluster of European regulations is taking aim at how games are sold to minors. Loot boxes are the main target. The shift could crimp sales worldwide, Bloomberg reported. Regulators [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-is-coming-for-loot-boxes-and-the-games-industry-is-bracing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-is-coming-for-loot-boxes-and-the-games-industry-is-bracing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors sue Oracle, say it hid how shaky the OpenAI deal was]]></title><description><![CDATA[The strain inside the AI boom&rsquo;s biggest infrastructure bet has reached a courtroom. Oracle&rsquo;s own investors are suing, saying the company hid how shaky its $300bn deal with OpenAI really was. A Michigan public pension fund, the City of Sterling Heights Police &amp; Fire Retirement System, filed the class action on Wednesday in a Tennessee [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/investors-sue-oracle-say-it-hid-how-shaky-the-openai-deal-was/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/investors-sue-oracle-say-it-hid-how-shaky-the-openai-deal-was/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The robot butler has been five years away for about twenty years. Weave Robotics thinks the trick is to aim lower. Its new home robot, Isaac 1, does not walk, has no fingers, and mostly just wants to do your laundry. It also costs a fraction of its humanoid rivals. The Y Combinator-backed startup unveiled [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/weaves-7999-isaac-1-bets-home-robots-dont-need-legs-or-fingers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/weaves-7999-isaac-1-bets-home-robots-dont-need-legs-or-fingers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP freezes hiring and travel to shovel cash into AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s biggest software company is tightening its belt to chase artificial intelligence. SAP is freezing most hiring and pausing non-essential travel, all to free up cash for its AI push. The plan landed in an internal email to staff on Wednesday evening. Bloomberg saw the memo, and SAP confirmed the move to The Register. Going [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sap-freezes-hiring-and-travel-to-shovel-cash-into-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sap-freezes-hiring-and-travel-to-shovel-cash-into-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other Dyson empire, measured in acres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, carrying their rows of fruit through the light like carriages at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-other-dyson-empire-measured-in-acres/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-other-dyson-empire-measured-in-acres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain&rsquo;s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock delivered the warning to reporters after the company posted its annual results, as Reuters [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-memory-squeeze-is-about-to-hit-europes-shopping-baskets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-memory-squeeze-is-about-to-hit-europes-shopping-baskets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude. Court documents released this week suggest it was about something bigger: who decides how the US military uses frontier AI. The emails came out on Tuesday, in one of the lawsuits Anthropic has filed against the Department of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-emails-that-broke-anthropic-and-the-pentagon-apart/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-emails-that-broke-anthropic-and-the-pentagon-apart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoom buys Common Room to push past the video call into AI sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoom made its name on the video call. Now it wants to own everything that happens before the call too. The company is buying Common Room, a Seattle startup whose AI reads the buying signals of potential customers, pushing Zoom deeper into enterprise sales software. Zoom announced the acquisition on Thursday. It did not disclose [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoom-buys-common-room-to-push-past-the-video-call-into-ai-sales/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoom-buys-common-room-to-push-past-the-video-call-into-ai-sales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank eyes an $8bn valuation as deposits quadruple]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bank that barely existed a year ago is now chasing a valuation most European lenders can only dream of. Erebor was founded by Anduril&rsquo;s Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel. It is in talks to raise at a valuation of at least $8bn, and its deposits have almost quadrupled in three months. That [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palmer-luckeys-erebor-bank-eyes-an-8bn-valuation-as-deposits-quadruple/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palmer-luckeys-erebor-bank-eyes-an-8bn-valuation-as-deposits-quadruple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe just put its first quantum computing company on a major American stock exchange. And it did so without leaving home. IQM, a Finnish maker of quantum machines, started trading on Nasdaq this week. The debut was equal parts landmark and reality check. IQM began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on 2 July [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iqm-becomes-the-first-european-quantum-company-to-list-on-a-major-us-exchange/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iqm-becomes-the-first-european-quantum-company-to-list-on-a-major-us-exchange/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain’s LALIGA piracy blocks knocked out 500,000+ innocent websites]]></title><description><![CDATA[For much of this year, Spanish internet users have lost access to huge parts of the web on match days. Not pirate streams, but human rights groups, climate charities and business tools. A new report puts hard numbers on the damage, and they are staggering. The culprit is Spain&rsquo;s football league, LALIGA, and its court-backed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spains-laliga-piracy-blocks-knocked-out-500000-innocent-websites/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spains-laliga-piracy-blocks-knocked-out-500000-innocent-websites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Argentina&rsquo;s government wants to let a company trade with no person in charge of it, and it has sent Congress a bill to make that legal. The proposal creates a new category called the non-human corporation, an entity run by AI agents or robots that can sign contracts and hold assets on its own, with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/argentinas-ai-run-companies-plan-still-cant-do-without-humans/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/argentinas-ai-run-companies-plan-still-cant-do-without-humans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s biggest seller of website addresses says a court order in India could make the internet less safe. GoDaddy is fighting new rules meant to stop fake sites impersonating famous brands. It warns the cure could expose millions of legitimate site owners, and not only in India. The order came from the Delhi High [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/godaddy-warns-indias-fake-site-crackdown-could-damage-the-internet/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/godaddy-warns-indias-fake-site-crackdown-could-damage-the-internet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon says it finally has enough satellites to switch on its Starlink rival]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has finally reached the starting line in the satellite-internet race. It says it now has enough spacecraft in orbit to switch on its Leo broadband network later this year. The target is clear: Elon Musk&rsquo;s Starlink. An overnight launch on 2 July tipped the balance. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carried 29 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-says-it-finally-has-enough-satellites-to-switch-on-its-starlink-rival/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-says-it-finally-has-enough-satellites-to-switch-on-its-starlink-rival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify pushes back on Kalshi and Polymarket after a song’s chart run looked rigged]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify has removed roughly 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd&rsquo;s song &ldquo;Earrings&rdquo; after the track&rsquo;s sudden rise to the top of its US daily chart lined up suspiciously well with a bet on the prediction market Kalshi. The company has also asked&nbsp;Kalshi and Polymarket to remove its logo&nbsp;from their sites and make clear that neither platform [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-pushes-back-on-kalshi-and-polymarket-after-a-songs-chart-run-looked-rigged/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-pushes-back-on-kalshi-and-polymarket-after-a-songs-chart-run-looked-rigged/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers say an AI agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the keyboard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ransomware has always needed a skilled human somewhere in the loop. Security firm Sysdig says that just changed. It has documented what it calls the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent, with no human at the keyboard. The researchers named the attacker JADEPUFFER, and say a large language model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/researchers-say-an-ai-agent-just-ran-a-ransomware-attack-from-start-to-finish-with-no-human-at-the-keyboard/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/researchers-say-an-ai-agent-just-ran-a-ransomware-attack-from-start-to-finish-with-no-human-at-the-keyboard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ElevenLabs in talks for tender offer at $22bn valuation, doubling February mark]]></title><description><![CDATA[The voice AI startup is reportedly weighing a staff share sale that would value it at nearly double its February funding round, according to people familiar with the discussions. ElevenLabs is in early talks with investors about an employee tender offer that would value the voice AI startup at roughly $22 billion, according to&nbsp;Bloomberg, which [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elevenlabs-in-talks-for-tender-offer-at-22bn-valuation-doubling-february-mark/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elevenlabs-in-talks-for-tender-offer-at-22bn-valuation-doubling-february-mark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crusoe is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion in a new funding round that could triple its valuation to roughly $30 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which cited people familiar with the matter.&nbsp; Crusoe did not respond to a request for comment, and no terms, structure or lead investors have been disclosed publicly. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crusoe-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-3-billion-tripling-its-valuation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/crusoe-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-3-billion-tripling-its-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anduril has become the poster child for a faster, software-speed kind of defence contractor. Last Friday, one of its rocket motors blew up on a test stand in Mississippi. The blast is a small setback that carries an outsized message about how hard building missiles really is. A solid rocket motor exploded during a test [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-rocket-motor-blew-up-at-andurils-mississippi-test-site-the-defence-darling-says-its-routine/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-rocket-motor-blew-up-at-andurils-mississippi-test-site-the-defence-darling-says-its-routine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch military backs Intelic’s drone software with tens of millions of euros]]></title><description><![CDATA[The three-year deal aims to let drones from different manufacturers operate under one command system, a lesson the Netherlands says it has drawn from Ukraine. The Netherlands&rsquo; Ministry of Defence is putting tens of millions of euros into Intelic, a Dutch startup whose software lets drones from competing manufacturers operate under a single command system. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-military-backs-intelics-drone-software-with-tens-of-millions-of-euros/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-military-backs-intelics-drone-software-with-tens-of-millions-of-euros/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China approves Unitree’s Shanghai listing registration, valuing IPO at $619M]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s securities regulator has approved Unitree Robotics&rsquo; registration to list on Shanghai&rsquo;s STAR Market, clearing the last formal hurdle before the humanoid robot maker can price and sell shares. The approval, confirmed by Reuters on Thursday, values the planned offering at roughly $619 million, or about 4.2 billion yuan, a figure that lines up closely [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-approves-unitrees-shanghai-listing-registration-valuing-ipo-at-619m/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-approves-unitrees-shanghai-listing-registration-valuing-ipo-at-619m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India widens its usernames crackdown to Telegram and Signal]]></title><description><![CDATA[A government source says the IT ministry has sent notices to both apps, a day after ordering WhatsApp to pause its own usernames rollout. India&rsquo;s technology ministry has sent notices to Telegram and Signal raising concerns over their usernames features, a government source told Reuters, extending a regulatory push that began with WhatsApp just a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-widens-its-usernames-crackdown-to-telegram-and-signal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-widens-its-usernames-crackdown-to-telegram-and-signal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HCLTech wins $1.14bn deal with a European firm, its biggest since 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[HCLTech has signed a $1.14 billion contract with a major European company, the Indian IT services group said Thursday, in what is its largest single deal since a $2.1 billion agreement with Verizon in August 2023. The client is described only as a Fortune Global 50 firm, and neither side has named it publicly. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hcltech-wins-114bn-deal-with-a-european-firm-its-biggest-since-2023/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hcltech-wins-114bn-deal-with-a-european-firm-its-biggest-since-2023/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU lawmaker who investigated spyware abuse was hacked with Pegasus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stelios Kouloglou spent two years on the European Parliament committee set up to investigate governments spying on their own citizens with commercial hacking tools. According to a report published Friday by Citizen Lab, the University of Toronto research group, his own phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware while that inquiry was under way. Kouloglou, a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-lawmaker-who-investigated-spyware-abuse-was-hacked-with-pegasus/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-lawmaker-who-investigated-spyware-abuse-was-hacked-with-pegasus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackstone’s QTS terminates its Digital Gateway data centre project in Virginia]]></title><description><![CDATA[QTS, the data centre operator owned by Blackstone, has terminated its Digital Gateway project in Prince William County, Virginia, and withdrawn the legal filings that were keeping it alive. The move, confirmed on Thursday, ends a fight that had already outlasted most of the other parties involved in it. The project was approved in December [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstones-qts-terminates-its-digital-gateway-data-centre-project-in-virginia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstones-qts-terminates-its-digital-gateway-data-centre-project-in-virginia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists built a cell from scratch that eats, divides and evolves. They just won’t call it alive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists in Minnesota have built a cell from scratch. It can feed, grow, and divide, and it competes with its own offspring. Its makers do not claim it is alive. But the line between chemistry and biology just got a lot thinner. The team at the University of Minnesota calls its creation SpudCell, and says [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scientists-built-a-cell-from-scratch-that-eats-divides-and-evolves-they-just-wont-call-it-alive/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scientists-built-a-cell-from-scratch-that-eats-divides-and-evolves-they-just-wont-call-it-alive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic and the Trump administration deny discussing a government stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration and Anthropic have not discussed the government taking an equity stake in the AI company, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The denial follows a Financial Times report earlier the same day that OpenAI had proposed handing Washington a 5% stake in itself, an arrangement said to potentially [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-and-the-trump-administration-deny-discussing-a-government-stake/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-and-the-trump-administration-deny-discussing-a-government-stake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI agent progress is slower than expected]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees on Thursday that the company&rsquo;s AI agents have not progressed as quickly as he expected, four months after a restructuring that was supposed to speed things up. &ldquo;The kind of trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn&rsquo;t really accelerated in the way that we [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zuckerberg-says-metas-ai-agent-progress-is-slower-than-expected/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zuckerberg-says-metas-ai-agent-progress-is-slower-than-expected/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum Systems raises $1.2bn and doubles its valuation to $8bn as defence money floods in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe has a new defence-tech heavyweight. Quantum Systems, a German maker of autonomous drones, has raised $1.2bn and more than doubled its valuation to about $8bn. It is one of the largest rounds ever for a European defence startup. The Bavarian company announced the Series D on Thursday. Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent co-led it. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantum-systems-raises-12bn-and-doubles-its-valuation-to-8bn-as-defence-money-floods-in/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantum-systems-raises-12bn-and-doubles-its-valuation-to-8bn-as-defence-money-floods-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba&rsquo;s Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba will bar its employees from using Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Code inside workplace environments from July 10, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by&nbsp;Reuters. The stated reason [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-to-ban-claude-code-over-alleged-backdoor-risk-source-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-to-ban-claude-code-over-alleged-backdoor-risk-source-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet decided what the chip would be used for, how powerful it would be, or how it would fit into a server, according to the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-in-talks-with-samsung-to-manufacture-a-custom-ai-chip/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-in-talks-with-samsung-to-manufacture-a-custom-ai-chip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary faces a whistleblower lawsuit over rushed software testing]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing&rsquo;s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after raising internal safety concerns about reduced software testing, the Seattle Times first reported. Briahna O&rsquo;Neill filed the suit in Santa Clara Superior Court, claiming wrongful termination and discrimination. According to the complaint, O&rsquo;Neill submitted [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/boeings-autonomous-air-taxi-subsidiary-faces-a-whistleblower-lawsuit-over-rushed-software-testing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/boeings-autonomous-air-taxi-subsidiary-faces-a-whistleblower-lawsuit-over-rushed-software-testing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kling AI raises two billion dollars as Kuaishou spins off its fastest-growing business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kling AI, the video generation unit of Chinese tech company Kuaishou, has raised an initial two billion dollars in venture capital funding, the company said on Thursday. Further investors could still join the round, potentially pushing the total to roughly three billion dollars and diluting Kuaishou&rsquo;s stake to about 68 percent, according to Kuaishou&rsquo;s statement. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kling-ai-raises-two-billion-dollars-as-kuaishou-spins-off-its-fastest-growing-business/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kling-ai-raises-two-billion-dollars-as-kuaishou-spins-off-its-fastest-growing-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucid Motors replaces its CFO and overhauls its entire leadership team as new CEO reshapes the company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucid Motors said on Thursday that its chief financial officer, Taoufiq Boussaid, will be leaving the company, the latest in a series of leadership changes under new CEO Silvio Napoli. Alexander De Bock, a veteran automotive finance executive who previously served as CFO of TI Automotive, will replace Boussaid after a transition period that will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lucid-motors-replaces-its-cfo-and-overhauls-its-entire-leadership-team-as-new-ceo-reshapes-the-company/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lucid-motors-replaces-its-cfo-and-overhauls-its-entire-leadership-team-as-new-ceo-reshapes-the-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my favorite phone of 2026 (so far)]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is my favorite phone of 2026 (so far)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-is-my-favorite-phone-of-2026-so-far/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-is-my-favorite-phone-of-2026-so-far/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My favorite phone of the first part of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[My favorite phone of the first part of 2026]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/my-favorite-phone-of-the-first-part-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/my-favorite-phone-of-the-first-part-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on delivering enterprise AI deployments using Microsoft&rsquo;s existing tools, with early partnerships including the London Stock Exchange Group, Unilever, Land O&rsquo;Lakes, and Accenture. Commercial Business CEO Judson [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-launches-a-25-billion-ai-deployment-business-with-6000-engineers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-launches-a-25-billion-ai-deployment-business-with-6000-engineers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford’s Q2 US sales fell 10.3% as EV sales dropped 40.7% and an aluminium shortage hit F-Series trucks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ford reported a 10.3% decline in US new vehicle sales for the second quarter, selling 549,200 vehicles compared with 612,095 a year earlier. Pure EV sales plunged 40.7% year on year. F-Series truck sales, including the F-150, fell 11% after Ford&rsquo;s top aluminium supplier suffered two factory fires late last year that disrupted production. Ford [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fords-q2-us-sales-fell-103-as-ev-sales-dropped-407-and-an-aluminium-shortage-hit-f-series-trucks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fords-q2-us-sales-fell-103-as-ev-sales-dropped-407-and-an-aluminium-shortage-hit-f-series-trucks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2, far exceeding the 406,000 Wall Street expected]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, far exceeding the Wall Street consensus of approximately 406,000. Production came in at 451,758 units. The delivery figure represents a 25% year-on-year increase and a 34% jump from Q1, when Tesla reported 358,023 deliveries. The Model 3 and Model Y accounted for 467,762 deliveries, or [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-delivered-480126-vehicles-in-q2-far-exceeding-the-406000-wall-street-expected/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-delivered-480126-vehicles-in-q2-far-exceeding-the-406000-wall-street-expected/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare has set the AI industry a deadline. From September, it will block the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training. Any page that carries ads becomes off-limits, unless the site&rsquo;s owner says otherwise. The pitch is simple: stop giving the web away for free. The company sits in front of a large share [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-gives-ai-crawlers-a-september-deadline-pay-publishers-or-get-blocked/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-gives-ai-crawlers-a-september-deadline-pay-publishers-or-get-blocked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the next leap in AI video is teaching avatars to see and listen]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past few years, progress in generative video and AI avatars has been measured almost entirely in fidelity, with each new model making significant progress in delivering sharper detail, better physics, and smoother motion packaged in longer clips. That race is far from over, but it is starting to miss a more interesting direction. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-the-next-leap-in-ai-video-is-teaching-avatars-to-see-and-listen/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-the-next-leap-in-ai-video-is-teaching-avatars-to-see-and-listen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getty scraps its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after a UK regulator won’t budge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A $3.7bn plan to merge the world&rsquo;s two biggest stock-photo libraries has collapsed. The reason is not America, where regulators waved it through. It is Britain, where a single condition proved a deal-breaker. Getty Images will terminate its merger with Shutterstock, the company said this week. Its board voted unanimously to walk away after the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/getty-scraps-its-37bn-shutterstock-merger-after-a-uk-regulator-wont-budge/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/getty-scraps-its-37bn-shutterstock-merger-after-a-uk-regulator-wont-budge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Lenovo best the MacBook? 🫨 #laptops #lenovo #lenovoyoga]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did Lenovo best the MacBook? 🫨 #laptops #lenovo #lenovoyoga]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/did-lenovo-best-the-macbook-laptops-lenovo-lenovoyoga/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/did-lenovo-best-the-macbook-laptops-lenovo-lenovoyoga/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheap Chinese AI model is closing in on Anthropic and OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese startup&rsquo;s latest AI model has landed fourth on one of the industry&rsquo;s most closely watched intelligence rankings, and it costs a fraction of what Anthropic or OpenAI charge for comparable performance. GLM-5.2, released last month by Beijing-based Z.ai, has become the talk of Silicon Valley for coding and agentic capabilities that edge close to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-cheap-chinese-ai-model-is-closing-in-on-anthropic-and-openai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-cheap-chinese-ai-model-is-closing-in-on-anthropic-and-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google loses final appeal over record €4.1 billion EU Android fine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed Google&rsquo;s final appeal against a &euro;4.1 billion antitrust fine, ending an eight-year fight over how the company built Android into a vehicle for its search and browser dominance. The ruling, handed down on Thursday, leaves the penalty intact and closes off any further judicial route [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-loses-final-appeal-over-record-41-billion-eu-android-fine/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-loses-final-appeal-over-record-41-billion-eu-android-fine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alva Industries raises €16M to scale its ultra-compact electric motors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alva Industries has raised &euro;16 million to scale production of its ultra-compact electric motors, the Trondheim based deep-tech company announced&nbsp;on 2 July. The round is led by Nysn&oslash; Climate Investments, Sandwater and Emerald Technology Ventures, the latter investing on behalf of the Nabtesco Technology Ventures fund. Existing backers Statkraft Ventures and EnvisionTech also took part. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alva-industries-raises-16m-to-scale-its-ultra-compact-electric-motors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alva-industries-raises-16m-to-scale-its-ultra-compact-electric-motors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNICEF says children are adopting AI three times faster than adults]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 10-country analysis finds 20 million children already using AI tools, with governance struggling to keep pace with a generation growing up inside what UNICEF calls &ldquo;a global experiment.&rdquo; An estimated 20 million children across ten countries have already used artificial intelligence, and they are picking it up more than three times faster than the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unicef-says-children-are-adopting-ai-three-times-faster-than-adults/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unicef-says-children-are-adopting-ai-three-times-faster-than-adults/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instead of just selling chips, Nvidia is offering AI clouds a revenue-sharing and credit-support model built to get GPUs into the hands of companies that could not otherwise afford them. Nvidia is changing how it gets paid. The company announced on Wednesday&nbsp;a new arrangement in which AI cloud providers can access large volumes of its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-offers-ai-startups-compute-now-payment-later/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-offers-ai-startups-compute-now-payment-later/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novo Nordisk’s owner backs an Italian fund to grow drug startups beyond Denmark]]></title><description><![CDATA[Novo Holdings, the investment company that controls Novo Nordisk and holds the wealth of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is backing a fund aimed at Italian drug startups, according to&nbsp;Bloomberg. The move extends a pattern that has seen the Danish investor push capital into&nbsp;life sciences hubs well outside Copenhagen, including European deep-tech vehicles backed alongside the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/novo-nordisks-owner-backs-an-italian-fund-to-grow-drug-startups-beyond-denmark/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/novo-nordisks-owner-backs-an-italian-fund-to-grow-drug-startups-beyond-denmark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India tells WhatsApp to pause its usernames feature pending consultations]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has ordered WhatsApp not to launch its planned usernames feature in the country until further consultations are complete, according to a letter seen by&nbsp;Reuters. The ministry, known as MeitY, has given Meta three days to explain why regulatory action should not follow the feature&rsquo;s announcement. WhatsApp said on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-tells-whatsapp-to-pause-its-usernames-feature-pending-consultations/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/india-tells-whatsapp-to-pause-its-usernames-feature-pending-consultations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has joined a consortium led by Singapore-based Lightstorm to build a new subsea cable connecting India with Singapore and Malaysia, the companies announced on Thursday. T he I-2SEA system will run 3,600 kilometres and is intended to support the AI, cloud and hyperscale workloads&nbsp;that have made India one of the world&rsquo;s most contested data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-joins-lightstorm-led-consortium-to-build-an-india-southeast-asia-subsea-cable/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-joins-lightstorm-led-consortium-to-build-an-india-southeast-asia-subsea-cable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raja Koduri’s Oxmiq raises $35m to rent out AI chip design instead of selling chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oxmiq Labs has closed a $35m Series A to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture the startup says lets chipmakers build custom AI silicon without running a full, multi-year design programme of their own.&nbsp;The round brings the company&rsquo;s total capital raised to $60m since its founding by veteran chip architect Raja Koduri. The pitch is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/raja-koduris-oxmiq-raises-35m-to-rent-out-ai-chip-design-instead-of-selling-chips/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/raja-koduris-oxmiq-raises-35m-to-rent-out-ai-chip-design-instead-of-selling-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US in talks with AI companies over voluntary standards for new models]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US government is negotiating voluntary standards with AI companies covering how new models get released, according to the Financial Times, with an announcement said to be possible within the next week. The standards would reportedly set benchmarks and timelines for advanced models, while clarifying who gets access to them inside the US and abroad. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-in-talks-with-ai-companies-over-voluntary-standards-for-new-models/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-in-talks-with-ai-companies-over-voluntary-standards-for-new-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank revives $10bn OpenAI-backed loan with a new sweetener for lenders]]></title><description><![CDATA[SoftBank has gone back to lenders with a $10bn loan proposal secured against its OpenAI stake, and this time it is offering to personally guarantee the debt, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the discussions. The concession gives banks recourse to SoftBank itself if the pledged OpenAI shares fall short of covering the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-revives-10bn-openai-backed-loan-with-a-new-sweetener-for-lenders/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-revives-10bn-openai-backed-loan-with-a-new-sweetener-for-lenders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Super Micro says two Taiwan staff detained in probe involving its AI servers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwanese court has ordered the detention of two Super Micro employees as part of a widening investigation into whether AI servers built with Nvidia chips were illegally routed to China. The Keelung District Court detained the pair, identified in Taiwanese press as managers surnamed Wang and Lin, on the night of June 30 into July [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/super-micro-says-two-taiwan-staff-detained-in-probe-involving-its-ai-servers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/super-micro-says-two-taiwan-staff-detained-in-probe-involving-its-ai-servers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BYD and Xiaomi shares surge after June delivery numbers show momentum holding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hong Kong-listed shares of Chinese EV makers surged on Thursday after June delivery figures beat expectations. BYD gained around 9% and Xiaomi climbed about 5%. BYD posted 403,472 vehicle sales in June, up 5.46% from the same month last year. Deutsche Bank said BYD&rsquo;s second-quarter sales volume rose 58% from the previous quarter to 1.1 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/byd-and-xiaomi-shares-surge-after-june-delivery-numbers-show-momentum-holding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/byd-and-xiaomi-shares-surge-after-june-delivery-numbers-show-momentum-holding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s next iPad Pro and MacBook Pro redesign are coming in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is preparing a refreshed iPad Pro lineup and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro for release in the first half of 2027, according to Bloomberg. The iPad Pro update keeps its current 11-inch and 13-inch sizes but focuses on internal changes, and the MacBook Pro overhaul brings the entry-level 14-inch model, codenamed K104, in line [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-next-ipad-pro-and-macbook-pro-redesign-are-coming-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-next-ipad-pro-and-macbook-pro-redesign-are-coming-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China and US risks leave Europe’s chip sector facing a bleak future, report warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new report from the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the French think tank Institut Montaigne warns that Europe&rsquo;s semiconductor sector faces a bleak future, squeezed between Chinese export controls and a growing dependence on US technology. The study, published on Thursday, forms part of an 18-month, EU-funded project called the Chips Diplomacy [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-and-us-risks-leave-europes-chip-sector-facing-a-bleak-future-report-warns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-and-us-risks-leave-europes-chip-sector-facing-a-bleak-future-report-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix will spend $51bn on a new NAND factory to catch the AI memory wave]]></title><description><![CDATA[SK Hynix will spend 80 trillion won, or roughly $51.46 billion, building a new NAND flash memory factory in Cheongju, South Korea, with production targeted to begin in the first half of 2029. Chief executive Kwak Noh-jung announced the plan at an event attended by President Lee Jae Myung, folding the new fab, called M17, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-will-spend-51bn-on-a-new-nand-factory-to-catch-the-ai-memory-wave/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-will-spend-51bn-on-a-new-nand-factory-to-catch-the-ai-memory-wave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung details $90bn plan for South Korea’s Chungcheong region]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Group has put a number on its next decade of domestic manufacturing: 140 trillion won, or roughly $90 billion, spread across displays, memory chips, batteries and chip-packaging materials in South Korea&rsquo;s central Chungcheong provinces. Samsung Display chief executive Yi Chung laid out the breakdown on Thursday at an event in Asan hosted by President [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-details-90bn-plan-for-south-koreas-chungcheong-region/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-details-90bn-plan-for-south-koreas-chungcheong-region/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google says it has passed its $1bn Africa investment target]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has exceeded a five-year pledge to invest $1 billion in Africa, the company said on Wednesday at the first Africa Cloud Summit in Johannesburg, alongside a batch of new infrastructure and AI initiatives. The announcement builds on Google&rsquo;s 2025 launch of a cloud region in Johannesburg, extending a bet on African digital infrastructure that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-says-it-has-passed-its-1bn-africa-investment-target/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-says-it-has-passed-its-1bn-africa-investment-target/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ubisoft taps ex-Amazon Games chief to run its Tom Clancy studio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ubisoft has hired Christoph Hartmann, until recently vice president of Amazon Games, to run the division that controls its Tom Clancy properties. He takes over as general manager of Creative House 2, the unit built around The Division, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell, according to&nbsp;Ubisoft&rsquo;s own statement. The appointment lands at a delicate moment for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubisoft-taps-ex-amazon-games-chief-to-run-its-tom-clancy-studio/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubisoft-taps-ex-amazon-games-chief-to-run-its-tom-clancy-studio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI has reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake worth $42.6bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a 5% equity stake in the company, according to the Financial Times, as the White House and Silicon Valley&rsquo;s best-funded startup edge closer to a deal that has been under discussion for more than a year. At OpenAI&rsquo;s $852bn valuation, struck in its record-breaking March funding round, a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-has-reportedly-offered-washington-a-5-stake-worth-426bn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-has-reportedly-offered-washington-a-5-stake-worth-426bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba will pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba and its US digital payment processor have agreed to pay 600 million dollars to resolve a federal investigation into whether they failed to prevent the sale and importation of illegal pharmaceuticals and controlled substances, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. Alibaba entered into a non-prosecution agreement to end a probe of alleged violations of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-will-pay-600-million-dollars-to-settle-a-us-probe-into-illegal-pharmaceutical-sales-on-its-platform/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-will-pay-600-million-dollars-to-settle-a-us-probe-into-illegal-pharmaceutical-sales-on-its-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Together AI raises 800 million dollars in Series C as open-source cloud demand surges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Together AI has raised 800 million dollars in a Series C round led by Aramco Ventures, valuing the company at more than eight billion dollars. The round also drew Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Nvidia, March Capital, Pegatron, and SentinelOne&rsquo;s S Ventures. Together AI says it now generates more than one billion dollars [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/together-ai-raises-800-million-dollars-in-series-c-as-open-source-cloud-demand-surges/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/together-ai-raises-800-million-dollars-in-series-c-as-open-source-cloud-demand-surges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX reportedly showed investors an AI device prototype, Musk says the report is false]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device before its record IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal. The prototype is reportedly slimmer than an iPhone, runs on a proprietary operating system, integrates technology from xAI, and uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. Elon Musk has denied the report, calling it &ldquo;utterly false&rdquo; on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-reportedly-showed-investors-an-ai-device-prototype-musk-says-the-report-is-false/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-reportedly-showed-investors-an-ai-device-prototype-musk-says-the-report-is-false/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to start a new VC firm with Morgan Beller]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago, to start a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, according to TechCrunch. The new firm will target early-stage investments in AI infrastructure, energy, and deep tech, areas where Kutcher believes the next generation of transformative companies will be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ashton-kutcher-is-leaving-sound-ventures-to-start-a-new-vc-firm-with-morgan-beller/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ashton-kutcher-is-leaving-sound-ventures-to-start-a-new-vc-firm-with-morgan-beller/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyundai and Kia built a UV system that kills bacteria inside a car while you are sitting in it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyundai and Kia have unveiled an in-vehicle sanitization system that uses far-ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses inside a car cabin, even while passengers are present. The technology, called Plasma Care UVC, is what the companies describe as the first system of its kind designed for production vehicles. Conventional ultraviolet sterilization poses a risk [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hyundai-and-kia-built-a-uv-system-that-kills-bacteria-inside-a-car-while-you-are-sitting-in-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hyundai-and-kia-built-a-uv-system-that-kills-bacteria-inside-a-car-while-you-are-sitting-in-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honda starts making batteries for data centres at a factory built for EVs it cancelled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honda has begun producing batteries for energy storage systems at its Ohio factory, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. The plant was originally built to supply cells for electric vehicles the company cancelled three months ago. Those batteries are now headed to data centres instead of driveways. The shift follows Honda&rsquo;s decision in March [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honda-starts-making-batteries-for-data-centres-at-a-factory-built-for-evs-it-cancelled/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honda-starts-making-batteries-for-data-centres-at-a-factory-built-for-evs-it-cancelled/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Brazilian banking trojan is targeting Santander and BBVA customers with fake PDF lures]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal, using fake PDFs, geofencing, and a payload hidden inside an image to steal credentials without triggering security tools. Fortinet&rsquo;s FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May and published its analysis this week. The attack starts with a phishing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-brazilian-banking-trojan-is-targeting-santander-and-bbva-customers-with-fake-pdf-lures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-brazilian-banking-trojan-is-targeting-santander-and-bbva-customers-with-fake-pdf-lures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Krafton agrees to pay Subnautica 2 bonuses after CEO who used ChatGPT to dodge them steps down]]></title><description><![CDATA[Krafton has agreed to pay bonuses to the entire staff of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, the studio behind Subnautica 2, after reaching a legal settlement with the company&rsquo;s chief executive and co-founders. CEO Ted Gill told Bloomberg he is stepping down as part of the deal. &ldquo;We mutually agreed to part ways,&rdquo; Gill said. The settlement [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/krafton-agrees-to-pay-subnautica-2-bonuses-after-ceo-who-used-chatgpt-to-dodge-them-steps-down/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/krafton-agrees-to-pay-subnautica-2-bonuses-after-ceo-who-used-chatgpt-to-dodge-them-steps-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hire in 150+ countries without setting up a single entity]]></title><description><![CDATA[You have found the perfect candidate. They have the skills, the experience, and the enthusiasm. There is just one problem: they are in a country where you have no legal entity. No tax registration. No idea how local employment law works. Sound familiar? This article contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hire-in-150-countries-without-setting-up-a-single-entity/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hire-in-150-countries-without-setting-up-a-single-entity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every summer the world&rsquo;s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in relative calm. This year the argument had a single organising subject, and it was not inflation in the usual sense. It was artificial intelligence, and specifically the awkward fact that nobody in the room [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-hopes-and-fears-take-over-the-worlds-big-central-bank-gathering/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ais-hopes-and-fears-take-over-the-worlds-big-central-bank-gathering/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta wants to rent out its spare AI compute, and Wall Street likes the idea]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reported plan to sell surplus computing power would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and give investors a reason to look past its spending. Meta has spent two years buying every scrap of AI computing power it can lay hands on. Now it appears to be working out how to sell [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-wants-to-rent-out-its-spare-ai-compute-and-wall-street-likes-the-idea/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-wants-to-rent-out-its-spare-ai-compute-and-wall-street-likes-the-idea/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swedish court orders Google to pay Klarna nearly $2 billion in antitrust damages]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay more than 14 billion kronor to Klarna&rsquo;s PriceRunner subsidiary for illegally favouring its own comparison shopping service in search results. The ruling, handed down on Tuesday by the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, is the largest competition damages award in Swedish history. Presiding judge Linda Kullberg [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/swedish-court-orders-google-to-pay-klarna-nearly-2-billion-in-antitrust-damages/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/swedish-court-orders-google-to-pay-klarna-nearly-2-billion-in-antitrust-damages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portuguese]]></title><description><![CDATA[A country of just over 10 million people now has a large language model that speaks its own version of the language. Portugal has released Am&aacute;lia, its first national AI model built specifically for European Portuguese, and it has done so in about the most deliberate way a government can. The model, its training data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/portugal-open-sources-amlia-its-first-national-ai-model-in-a-bet-on-european-portuguese/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/portugal-open-sources-amlia-its-first-national-ai-model-in-a-bet-on-european-portuguese/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sony will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation titles starting in January 2028, the company announced on Tuesday in a PlayStation Blog post. New games released after that date will be available only as digital downloads through the PlayStation Store. Existing disc-based games will continue to work on compatible hardware. The decision follows [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-will-stop-making-physical-playstation-game-discs-in-january-2028/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-will-stop-making-physical-playstation-game-discs-in-january-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full Android XR in GLASSES?! #XREAL #XREALPartner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Full Android XR in GLASSES?! #XREAL #XREALPartner]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/full-android-xr-in-glasses-xreal-xrealpartner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/full-android-xr-in-glasses-xreal-xrealpartner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM’s Q2 sales fell four percent as EV demand dropped and Toyota closed in]]></title><description><![CDATA[General Motors&rsquo; second-quarter US sales fell just over four percent as demand for its all-electric vehicles and Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks declined year over year. The Detroit automaker reported selling 714,896 vehicles from April through June, down from 746,588 units during the same period in 2025. First-half sales came in at roughly 1,300,000 units, down [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gms-q2-sales-fell-four-percent-as-ev-demand-dropped-and-toyota-closed-in/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gms-q2-sales-fell-four-percent-as-ev-demand-dropped-and-toyota-closed-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop &ldquo;tokenmaxxing.&rdquo; It is a pitch dressed as a principle. On Tuesday, Palantir posted its &ldquo;thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty&rdquo; on X. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantirs-ai-sovereignty-manifesto-is-a-war-on-how-ai-makes-money/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantirs-ai-sovereignty-manifesto-is-a-war-on-how-ai-makes-money/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UiPath shares rebound as Wall Street warms to its AI-agent pivot]]></title><description><![CDATA[UiPath spent much of the year as one of software&rsquo;s biggest disappointments. Now the Romanian-founded automation firm is clawing back. Its first profit and an all-in bet on AI agents are the reason. Shares in UiPath have rebounded in recent weeks. They are up around 15 per cent over the past five days, lifting the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uipath-shares-rebound-as-wall-street-warms-to-its-ai-agent-pivot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uipath-shares-rebound-as-wall-street-warms-to-its-ai-agent-pivot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s AI reads typed sentences from the brain, no surgery required]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta says it can turn brain activity into typed sentences without opening your skull. The leap is real. So is the catch: the system learns from typing, the one thing its intended users cannot do. On Monday, Meta unveiled the second version of Brain2Qwerty, a system that reads the brain signals people produce while typing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-ai-reads-typed-sentences-from-the-brain-no-surgery-required/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-ai-reads-typed-sentences-from-the-brain-no-surgery-required/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pie raises $19.5M to keep small businesses visible in AI search]]></title><description><![CDATA[For 30 years, small businesses fought to rank on Google. Now their customers are asking ChatGPT instead. A New York startup wants to make sure the local salon still shows up. The startup is Pie, and it has just stepped out of stealth with money to match its pitch. It raised a $19.5mn Series A [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pie-raises-195m-to-keep-small-businesses-visible-in-ai-search/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pie-raises-195m-to-keep-small-businesses-visible-in-ai-search/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few people have done more to automate the office than Daniel Dines. So it is striking that the UiPath founder&rsquo;s message on AI and jobs is a plea for patience, and a confession that he feels the anxiety too. Dines built UiPath into one of Europe&rsquo;s biggest software success stories by selling robots that do [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-automation-billionaire-is-telling-bosses-not-to-cut-too-fast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-automation-billionaire-is-telling-bosses-not-to-cut-too-fast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realta Fusion lights bulbs straight from its reactor, a commercial first]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fusion&rsquo;s hard problem was making more energy than you put in. The next one is turning that energy into cheap electricity. A Wisconsin startup says it has taken a first step, by lighting a few bulbs straight from its reactor. The company is Realta Fusion. On 30 June it announced the first demonstration of direct [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/realta-fusion-lights-bulbs-straight-from-its-reactor-a-commercial-first/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/realta-fusion-lights-bulbs-straight-from-its-reactor-a-commercial-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unboxing the Insta360 Luna Ultra 😍 #Insta360 #LunaUltra]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unboxing the Insta360 Luna Ultra 😍 #Insta360 #LunaUltra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unboxing-the-insta360-luna-ultra-insta360-lunaultra/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unboxing-the-insta360-luna-ultra-insta360-lunaultra/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI boom needs somewhere to live. Data centres, power lines, and factories all start with months of paperwork before a single wall goes up. A British-founded startup says its AI can cut that grind by 95 per cent. The company is Build, and on Tuesday it raised $8.5mn (&euro;7.4mn) in seed funding led by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/build-raises-85m-to-speed-up-the-paperwork-behind-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/build-raises-85m-to-speed-up-the-paperwork-behind-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s MDOTM raises $27M to put AI inside wealth managers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The buzziest corner of finance AI is not the trading desk. It is the dull middle office, where staff keep thousands of portfolios in line with spreadsheets. A London-founded startup just raised $27mn to automate exactly that. The company is MDOTM. It has closed a $27mn growth-equity round led by Expedition Growth Capital, it said. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/londons-mdotm-raises-27m-to-put-ai-inside-wealth-managers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/londons-mdotm-raises-27m-to-put-ai-inside-wealth-managers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queue raises $12.6M for a pharmacy that runs without a pharmacist]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Silicon Valley startup says it has built a pharmacy with no pharmacist behind the counter. Sealed bottles go in, filled and checked prescriptions come out, in about a minute. The company, Queue, came out of stealth on Tuesday with a working machine and fresh money. It has raised a $12.6mn seed round led by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/queue-raises-126m-for-a-pharmacy-that-runs-without-a-pharmacist/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/queue-raises-126m-for-a-pharmacy-that-runs-without-a-pharmacist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building AI Infrastructure Responsibly: ER Steel on the Evolving Demands of Data Center Expansion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure seems to have brought data centers into a new phase of global development, with growing attention on computing power, digital capacity, and speed to deployment. Alongside that momentum, ER Steel observes another conversation gaining importance: the challenge of building and powering these facilities responsibly and efficiently while maintaining long-term [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/building-ai-infrastructure-responsibly-er-steel-on-the-evolving-demands-of-data-center-expansion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/building-ai-infrastructure-responsibly-er-steel-on-the-evolving-demands-of-data-center-expansion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ottawa’s Dominion Dynamics raises CA$139M, a record for Canadian defence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada just produced the biggest Series A in its defence history. The money is going into autonomous drones and the software to run a war in the Arctic. Dominion Dynamics, an Ottawa defence-technology company, has raised CA$139mn ($100mn) in a Series A round. The raise is the largest of its kind in Canadian defence history, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ottawas-dominion-dynamics-raises-ca139m-a-record-for-canadian-defence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ottawas-dominion-dynamics-raises-ca139m-a-record-for-canadian-defence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Belgian cybersecurity unicorn has bought an Israeli startup with an unusual trick. Its AI agents fix an open-source flaw without breaking the app that depends on it, something most security tools cannot do. Aikido Security, based in Ghent, became Europe&rsquo;s fastest cybersecurity company to reach a $1bn valuation in January. It has now acquired [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aikido-buys-israels-root-to-patch-open-source-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aikido-buys-israels-root-to-patch-open-source-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s Crypto Reset Is Underway as Venga Joins the First Wave of MiCA-Approved Firms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s crypto industry has entered a new regulatory era. After years of operating under a patchwork of national registration regimes, crypto companies across the European Union are now facing a single regulatory framework under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The transition marks one of the biggest structural changes the industry has seen, replacing fragmented [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-crypto-reset-is-underway-as-venga-joins-the-first-wave-of-mica-approved-firms/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-crypto-reset-is-underway-as-venga-joins-the-first-wave-of-mica-approved-firms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Base44 spent its first year building apps on other companies&rsquo; AI models. Now it has built its own. It is betting that owning the model is the only way to survive the vibe-coding gold rush. The Tel Aviv startup lets anyone build a working app by describing it in plain language. It has now launched [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/base44-launches-base1-its-own-ai-model-for-vibe-coding/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/base44-launches-base1-its-own-ai-model-for-vibe-coding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s first hardware is a macro pad for Codex coders]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s first piece of hardware is not the mysterious gadget everyone is waiting for. It is a small keyboard for people who talk to an AI all day. On Monday, the OpenAI Developers account posted a short video on X. It showed a small square device with a grid of buttons, glowing through a cycle [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-first-hardware-is-a-macro-pad-for-codex-coders/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-first-hardware-is-a-macro-pad-for-codex-coders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NIH unveils the world’s largest genomics-and-health database]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US government has just handed scientists the largest map of human health ever assembled. It pairs more than half a million genomes with real medical records, and it arrives as the programme behind it faces deep budget cuts. The database comes from All of Us, a research programme run by the National Institutes of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nih-unveils-the-worlds-largest-genomics-and-health-database/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nih-unveils-the-worlds-largest-genomics-and-health-database/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Higgsfield AI did not exist before March 2025. Fifteen months on, the video startup is in talks to raise money at a $5bn valuation, four times its worth at the start of the year. The company is seeking $300mn to $500mn, The Information first reported. That would value it at $5bn before the new money, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-video-startup-higgsfield-is-in-talks-to-raise-at-a-5bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-video-startup-higgsfield-is-in-talks-to-raise-at-a-5bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“BioShocking” tricks AI browsers into leaking your passwords]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security researchers convinced six AI browsers they were playing a game. The browsers then handed over their users&rsquo; passwords and treated it as a win. The firm behind it, LayerX, calls the technique BioShocking, and says it worked on every agent it tried. The list reads like a roll-call of the new AI browser market: [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bioshocking-tricks-ai-browsers-into-leaking-your-passwords/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bioshocking-tricks-ai-browsers-into-leaking-your-passwords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek lit China&rsquo;s AI price war by making tokens absurdly cheap. Now it is doing something no rival has dared: charging more when demand runs high. The Chinese startup has told API customers it will double the price of its V4 models during busy hours, according to the South China Morning Post, which saw the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-breaks-chinas-ai-price-war-with-peak-hour-surge-pricing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-breaks-chinas-ai-price-war-with-peak-hour-surge-pricing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healthcare’s AI Revolution Has Forgotten the Human Being]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has arrived in healthcare with extraordinary promise. Every week brings another announcement of an AI assistant, a smarter chatbot, an automated workflow, or a digital caregiver. The excitement is understandable. Healthcare systems are under immense pressure, caregivers are overwhelmed, and aging populations are growing faster than the workforce that supports them. Yet I [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/healthcares-ai-revolution-has-forgotten-the-human-being/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/healthcares-ai-revolution-has-forgotten-the-human-being/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every year, more than $200 billion in employer-originated wages crosses international borders. The money moves through a patchwork of local banks, regional payroll vendors, and manual compliance processes. Anyone who managed international payments in 2005 would recognise the setup. The scale has changed. The plumbing has not. This is not a minor inefficiency. It is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cross-border-payroll-runs-on-200b-and-zero-shared-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cross-border-payroll-runs-on-200b-and-zero-shared-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it, and the world&rsquo;s first global scientific body on the technology says the moment to act is now. That is the conclusion of the preliminary report from the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, launched on Wednesday ahead of a major governance summit in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uns-first-global-ai-science-panel-warns-the-window-to-govern-the-technology-is-closing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uns-first-global-ai-science-panel-warns-the-window-to-govern-the-technology-is-closing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok weighs about 300 more job cuts at its Dublin hub]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its European hub in Dublin, according to an email to staff seen by&nbsp;Bloomberg. For the people affected, that number is not abstract. The proposed redundancies would fall on roughly a tenth of the company&rsquo;s local workforce of around 3,000, and they follow a similarly sized round of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-weighs-about-300-more-job-cuts-at-its-dublin-hub/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-weighs-about-300-more-job-cuts-at-its-dublin-hub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU tech chief and Tim Cook hold ‘constructive’ talks as Siri AI stays blocked in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple chief executive Tim Cook and the European Union&rsquo;s technology chief spoke by video call on Monday, and both sides came away describing the exchange as &ldquo;constructive&rdquo;. That word is doing a lot of work. Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees the bloc&rsquo;s digital rulebook, held the meeting with Cook on 30 June. An EU [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-tech-chief-and-tim-cook-hold-constructive-talks-as-siri-ai-stays-blocked-in-europe/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-tech-chief-and-tim-cook-hold-constructive-talks-as-siri-ai-stays-blocked-in-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OCBC to lift annual tech spending above $771mn as new CEO doubles down on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[CBC plans to raise its annual technology spending to more than $771mn, according to&nbsp;Bloomberg, as Singapore&rsquo;s second-largest lender leans harder into AI and digital banking. The increase marks one of the first strategic signals from Tan Teck Long, who took over as group chief executive on 1 January 2026. Tan succeeded Helen Wong, who&nbsp;retired at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ocbc-to-lift-annual-tech-spending-above-771mn-as-new-ceo-doubles-down-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ocbc-to-lift-annual-tech-spending-above-771mn-as-new-ceo-doubles-down-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bending Spoons prices IPO above range to raise $1.68bn ahead of Nasdaq debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bending Spoons, the Milan software group that owns Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote, has priced its US initial public offering above the marketed range to raise $1.68bn. The company and existing shareholders, including Baillie Gifford, sold 57.97 million shares at $29 each, according to a statement reported by&nbsp;Bloomberg. That is above the $26 to $28 range [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bending-spoons-prices-ipo-above-range-to-raise-168bn-ahead-of-nasdaq-debut/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bending-spoons-prices-ipo-above-range-to-raise-168bn-ahead-of-nasdaq-debut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run by an independent company named Open Standard, is a direct swipe at the economics that have made Circle and Tether the dominant issuers in the sector. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visa-mastercard-and-140-firms-launch-open-usd-a-stablecoin-built-to-undercut-circle/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visa-mastercard-and-140-firms-launch-open-usd-a-stablecoin-built-to-undercut-circle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber-backed Lime prices its IPO at $25 a share, raising about $174m]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lime has priced its US initial public offering at $25 a share, according to&nbsp;Bloomberg News. That is the midpoint of the $24 to $26 range the company had marketed. The offering raised roughly $174m in total. Neutron Holdings, the corporate entity behind Lime, sold 6.68 million shares in the deal. Shareholders including chief executive Wayne [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-backed-lime-prices-its-ipo-at-25-a-share-raising-about-174m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-backed-lime-prices-its-ipo-at-25-a-share-raising-about-174m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea accuses Google of abusing Android app-store power over ‘Project Hug’]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea&rsquo;s competition regulator has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the Android app market, and signalled it will recommend corrective measures and a financial penalty. The Korea Fair Trade Commission said on Wednesday that its Market Surveillance Bureau found conduct affecting 14.16 trillion won, or roughly $9.1bn, in relevant revenue,&nbsp;according to Reuters. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-accuses-google-of-abusing-android-app-store-power-over-project-hug/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-accuses-google-of-abusing-android-app-store-power-over-project-hug/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI hardware demand keeps Asia’s factories humming as the Iran war bites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asia&rsquo;s factories grew again in June, and the global scramble for AI hardware is doing much of the lifting, according to survey data published this week. Brisk demand for chips, servers, and data-centre equipment kept order books full even as the Iran war pushed up energy costs and lengthened shipping times across the region. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-hardware-demand-keeps-asias-factories-humming-as-the-iran-war-bites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-hardware-demand-keeps-asias-factories-humming-as-the-iran-war-bites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US lifts export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5, clearing the model’s return]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Commerce Department has lifted the export controls it placed on Anthropic&rsquo;s most advanced models, ending a roughly three-week freeze that had pulled the company&rsquo;s Claude Fable 5 offline. Reuters first reported the move on Tuesday, 30 June, citing a person familiar with the decision. Within hours, Anthropic confirmed it on the record in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-lifts-export-controls-on-anthropics-fable-5-clearing-the-models-return/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-lifts-export-controls-on-anthropics-fable-5-clearing-the-models-return/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft plans to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in a fresh round of layoffs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is preparing to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in another round of layoffs, according to a Business Insider report picked up on Tuesday. The reductions could be announced as soon as next week, and they would affect thousands of roles across the company. Sales and consulting teams are in the frame, alongside jobs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-plans-to-cut-under-25-of-its-workforce-in-a-fresh-round-of-layoffs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-plans-to-cut-under-25-of-its-workforce-in-a-fresh-round-of-layoffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge clears states to try claim that Meta hooked children on Facebook and Instagram]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta will have to defend in court the accusation that it built Facebook and Instagram to addict children, after a federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss the heart of a lawsuit&nbsp;brought by attorneys general from 29 states. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, sitting in Oakland, California, let the states press claims that Meta [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/judge-clears-states-to-try-claim-that-meta-hooked-children-on-facebook-and-instagram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/judge-clears-states-to-try-claim-that-meta-hooked-children-on-facebook-and-instagram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok settles second addiction case, leaving Meta and Snap to face a jury alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok has reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager who accused the platform of contributing to his mental health problems, removing itself from a jury trial scheduled to begin on July 27 in Los Angeles. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday, makes TikTok the second defendant to exit the case in recent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-settles-second-addiction-case-leaving-meta-and-snap-to-face-a-jury-alone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-settles-second-addiction-case-leaving-meta-and-snap-to-face-a-jury-alone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google releases Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and cheapest AI image generator yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2 Lite, the fastest and cheapest model in its Nano Banana family of AI image generators. The model produces images in four seconds and costs under four cents per thousand images, making it the company&rsquo;s most aggressive play yet for developers who need to generate visuals at scale. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-releases-nano-banana-2-lite-its-fastest-and-cheapest-ai-image-generator-yet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-releases-nano-banana-2-lite-its-fastest-and-cheapest-ai-image-generator-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired Communicator phone in new hands-on video]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clicks Technology released a video on Tuesday showing the pre-production hardware and internal software of its Communicator, a $499 smartphone with a physical keyboard that is the closest thing to a new BlackBerry anyone has built in years. The phone was first unveiled at CES in January and is scheduled to ship in the fourth [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clicks-shows-off-its-blackberry-inspired-communicator-phone-in-new-hands-on-video/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clicks-shows-off-its-blackberry-inspired-communicator-phone-in-new-hands-on-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The captive portal economy: how hotel WiFi sign-in pages became both a security vector and a hidden ad channel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month I checked into a hotel for a conference. Open laptop. Click WiFi. Hotel network. The familiar splash screen appears: enter your room number, your last name, accept the terms. Standard. What&rsquo;s no longer standard is what&rsquo;s running behind that splash screen. The captive portal, that login page you see before you can actually [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-captive-portal-economy-how-hotel-wifi-sign-in-pages-became-both-a-security-vector-and-a-hidden-ad-channel/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-captive-portal-economy-how-hotel-wifi-sign-in-pages-became-both-a-security-vector-and-a-hidden-ad-channel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper way to run agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model yet. It runs close to the flagship Opus 4.8 on many tasks, but costs less than half as much. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Sonnet 5 is available today across every plan. The company built it to act, not just answer. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-launches-claude-sonnet-5-a-cheaper-way-to-run-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-launches-claude-sonnet-5-a-cheaper-way-to-run-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agreed to acquire all of Cognite in an all-cash deal worth $3.1bn. Cognite builds software that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/schneider-electric-buys-industrial-ai-firm-cognite-for-31bn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/schneider-electric-buys-industrial-ai-firm-cognite-for-31bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher&rsquo;s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company&rsquo;s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Science is now available in beta. The company calls it an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-launches-claude-science-an-ai-workbench-for-the-lab/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-launches-claude-science-an-ai-workbench-for-the-lab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enterprise AI’s Missing Foundation: Why Content Governance May Matter More Than the Next AI Breakthrough]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rob Hanna observes that many enterprise AI initiatives may be losing momentum because organizations continue to treat language like structured data while overlooking the systems that make knowledge reliable. The co-founder and CEO of Precision Content, a technical communications consultancy, says, &ldquo;Longstanding technical publications teams already possess many of the capabilities needed to establish a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/enterprise-ais-missing-foundation-why-content-governance-may-matter-more-than-the-next-ai-breakthrough/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/enterprise-ais-missing-foundation-why-content-governance-may-matter-more-than-the-next-ai-breakthrough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 that it would pour $1bn into a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aws-is-spending-1bn-to-put-its-engineers-inside-customers-offices/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aws-is-spending-1bn-to-put-its-engineers-inside-customers-offices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal over the App Store contempt finding in Epic case]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Apple&rsquo;s appeal of the contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games over App Store fees. The justices will review lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 order requiring it to let developers direct consumers to cheaper payment options outside the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/supreme-court-will-hear-apples-appeal-over-the-app-store-contempt-finding-in-epic-case/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/supreme-court-will-hear-apples-appeal-over-the-app-store-contempt-finding-in-epic-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Origin still does not know why New Glenn exploded but plans to fly again this year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blue Origin still does not know why its New Glenn rocket exploded last month, CEO Dave Limp said in a blog post on Tuesday. Early analysis points to the aft section of the first stage, according to Limp, who said the company is pulling on &ldquo;extensive data from multiple camera angles and sensors&rdquo; to identify [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blue-origin-still-does-not-know-why-new-glenn-exploded-but-plans-to-fly-again-this-year/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blue-origin-still-does-not-know-why-new-glenn-exploded-but-plans-to-fly-again-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots]]></title><description><![CDATA[The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors&rsquo; chatbots, then logged the replies in spreadsheets. The effort was active as recently as April 21, 2026. The targets were OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-paid-contractors-to-pose-as-teens-and-probe-rival-ai-chatbots/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-paid-contractors-to-pose-as-teens-and-probe-rival-ai-chatbots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chamath’s AI coding startup 8090 raises $135M, and he’s CEO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salesforce led the Series A, which 8090 announced this week. The pitch behind it is blunt. AI can already write code. The hard part is stopping enterprise software from falling apart as dozens of agents and engineers change it every week. TechCrunch first reported the round, and the company confirmed the details. The investor list [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chamaths-ai-coding-startup-8090-raises-135m-and-hes-ceo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chamaths-ai-coding-startup-8090-raises-135m-and-hes-ceo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TECNO CAMON Slim: The most EYE-CATCHING phone of 2026? #TECNO #TECNOMobile #CAMONSlim #TECNOAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[TECNO CAMON Slim: The most EYE-CATCHING phone of 2026? #TECNO #TECNOMobile #CAMONSlim #TECNOAI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tecno-camon-slim-the-most-eye-catching-phone-of-2026-tecno-tecnomobile-camonslim-tecnoai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tecno-camon-slim-the-most-eye-catching-phone-of-2026-tecno-tecnomobile-camonslim-tecnoai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla starts testing its production Cybercab without steering wheel or pedals in Austin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla has begun testing a production version of its Cybercab on public roads in Austin, Texas, with no steering wheel and no pedals. The two-seat vehicle, which Tesla first revealed in October 2024, is being driven entirely by its autonomous software while a safety monitor rides in the right passenger seat. Tesla posted video of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-starts-testing-its-production-cybercab-without-steering-wheel-or-pedals-in-austin/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-starts-testing-its-production-cybercab-without-steering-wheel-or-pedals-in-austin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon built Prime Day to keep shoppers inside its own marketplace. This year, AI shopping sent its best customers in from outside: a chatbot made the recommendation. US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn across retail sites during the four-day Prime Day event, according to Adobe Analytics. The more interesting number is not the total. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-shopping-just-beat-search-at-its-own-game-on-prime-day/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-shopping-just-beat-search-at-its-own-game-on-prime-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI chip startup Etched has raised $800 million and revealed that its backers include trading firm Jane Street and VentureTech Alliance, a venture firm with a strategic partnership with TSMC. The company, which designs chips specifically for running AI models rather than training them, says it has signed one billion dollars in sales contracts and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-rival-etched-raises-800m-with-backing-from-jane-street-and-a-tsmc-linked-fund/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-rival-etched-raises-800m-with-backing-from-jane-street-and-a-tsmc-linked-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X launches hosted MCP server so AI tools can plug into its API directly]]></title><description><![CDATA[X has launched a hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Grok Build connect directly to its API using a user&rsquo;s own account permissions. The move eliminates the integration work developers previously had to do on their own, from building a custom MCP server to handling authentication. X joins [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-launches-hosted-mcp-server-so-ai-tools-can-plug-into-its-api-directly/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-launches-hosted-mcp-server-so-ai-tools-can-plug-into-its-api-directly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rakuten satellite project to get up to $926m Japanese government grant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan has decided it does not want to depend on Elon Musk to keep its phones connected from space. The government is set to provide up to &yen;150 billion, roughly $926 million, in subsidies to a consortium led by Rakuten Group to build a homegrown low-Earth-orbit satellite communications network. A project Tokyo frames explicitly as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rakuten-satellite-project-to-get-up-to-926m-japanese-government-grant/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rakuten-satellite-project-to-get-up-to-926m-japanese-government-grant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU opens antitrust probe into Align over Invisalign and scanner tying]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has decided to look closely at how you straighten teeth, or more precisely, at the machine a dentist uses to scan them. Brussels has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Align Technology, the American company behind Invisalign, over suspicions that it illegally ties its iTero intra-oral scanners to its clear aligners across [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-opens-antitrust-probe-into-align-over-invisalign-and-scanner-tying/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-opens-antitrust-probe-into-align-over-invisalign-and-scanner-tying/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irish court tells regulator to reconsider TikTok’s China data-transfer ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[The High Court upheld TikTok&rsquo;s GDPR liability and its &euro;530m fine, but sent the order suspending transfers to China back to the regulator for review. TikTok lost the argument that mattered most and won itself some breathing room on the rest. Ireland&rsquo;s High Court has upheld the Data Protection Commission&rsquo;s findings that the company breached [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/irish-court-tells-regulator-to-reconsider-tiktoks-china-data-transfer-ban/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/irish-court-tells-regulator-to-reconsider-tiktoks-china-data-transfer-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank of England’s Breeden warns AI agents could trigger market meltdowns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deputy governor Sarah Breeden says autonomous trading agents could amplify volatility if they all react the same way at once, and may demand new rules. The nightmare a central banker describes is rarely a crash. It is a feedback loop. Speaking at the European Central Bank&rsquo;s annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, the Bank of England&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bank-of-englands-breeden-warns-ai-agents-could-trigger-market-meltdowns/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bank-of-englands-breeden-warns-ai-agents-could-trigger-market-meltdowns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jon and Mindy Gray bet $55M on AI to catch cancer before it starts]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new institute at Penn&rsquo;s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease. The idea behind the gift is unusual enough to need its own word. Most cancer philanthropy funds treatment, the long campaign that begins once a tumour has announced itself. Jon [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jon-and-mindy-gray-bet-55m-on-ai-to-catch-cancer-before-it-starts/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jon-and-mindy-gray-bet-55m-on-ai-to-catch-cancer-before-it-starts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marc Andreessen joins the Pentagon’s board, and the old line blurs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andreessen now advises the Pentagon&rsquo;s leadership on the very decisions his firm has invested billions around. It is legal, and it raises a question the rules were built to answer. Pete Hegseth announced the membership of a freshly cleared-out Defense Policy Board, the advisory panel that counsels the Pentagon&rsquo;s civilian leadership on force structure, modernisation, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marc-andreessen-joins-the-pentagons-board-and-the-old-line-blurs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marc-andreessen-joins-the-pentagons-board-and-the-old-line-blurs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s Equirus weighs a fundraising round of up to $60m]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Mumbai investment bank is considering raising fresh capital through new shares and stake sales, a bet on the strength of India&rsquo;s public-listing pipeline. India&rsquo;s capital markets have been busy enough lately to make the firms that arrange the deals worth investing in themselves. Equirus Capital, a Mumbai-based investment bank, is considering raising as much [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-equirus-weighs-a-fundraising-round-of-up-to-60m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-equirus-weighs-a-fundraising-round-of-up-to-60m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP hands AI product oversight to its CEO and COO in a reshuffle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s largest software company is redistributing product and engineering responsibilities in its second top-level reorganisation of the year, with AI at the centre. When a company reorganises its leadership once in a year, it is housekeeping. When it does so twice, with the same word at the centre of both, it is a strategy under [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sap-hands-ai-product-oversight-to-its-ceo-and-coo-in-a-reshuffle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sap-hands-ai-product-oversight-to-its-ceo-and-coo-in-a-reshuffle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Harvey, vertical AI’s next $10B winner might be in agriculture]]></title><description><![CDATA[In legal, Harvey crossed an $11 billion valuation and Legora is racing to claim the European market behind it. In healthcare, Abridge has built a multi-billion-dollar business turning clinical conversations into structured medical records. In customer service, Sierra is now valued at over $15 billion, making it one of the fastest companies in AI history [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/after-harvey-vertical-ais-next-10b-winner-might-be-in-agriculture/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/after-harvey-vertical-ais-next-10b-winner-might-be-in-agriculture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visa says AI investment and digital commerce are carrying the global economy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The payments giant&rsquo;s midyear outlook forecasts 2.4% global growth in 2026, crediting an investment boom and online price competition for absorbing the strain of higher energy costs. The company that sees a slice of nearly every card swipe on the planet has a view on where the economy is heading, and the view is cautiously [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visa-says-ai-investment-and-digital-commerce-are-carrying-the-global-economy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visa-says-ai-investment-and-digital-commerce-are-carrying-the-global-economy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable]]></title><description><![CDATA[A guidance cut from Concentrix dragged the sector down and hardened a fear that automated agents are eroding the business of answering the phone. The fear that artificial intelligence would hollow out the call-centre business has been hanging over the sector for two years, more sentiment than spreadsheet. This week it acquired some numbers. A [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/call-centre-stocks-slide-as-investors-worry-ai-makes-them-uninvestable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/call-centre-stocks-slide-as-investors-worry-ai-makes-them-uninvestable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model, is the first of its size to be trained end-to-end on home-grown silicon, the company says, in a pointed answer to US export controls. The most striking claim about Meituan&rsquo;s new artificial intelligence model is not how large it is, though it is large, but what it ran on. The Chinese [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-meituan-says-its-new-ai-model-was-trained-on-domestic-chips/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-meituan-says-its-new-ai-model-was-trained-on-domestic-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panasonic to localise US data-centre battery production, CEO says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Japanese group plans to mass-produce data-centre battery cells in Kansas by fiscal 2028, redirecting a large slice of its AI infrastructure investment toward storage. The companies that built batteries for electric cars are discovering a new and hungrier customer: the data centre. Panasonic plans to localise production of data-centre battery cells in the United [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/panasonic-to-localise-us-data-centre-battery-production-ceo-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/panasonic-to-localise-us-data-centre-battery-production-ceo-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta wants its own AI coding tools. To get there, it is telling its engineers to be careful with the rival tools they lean on today. Meta has placed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Code and OpenAI&rsquo;s Codex, The Information reported. The worry is inadvertent distillation. One [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-telling-engineers-to-handle-claude-code-and-codex-with-care/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-telling-engineers-to-handle-claude-code-and-codex-with-care/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[StanChart’s former AI chief joins Accenture as Southeast Asia head]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, will lead advanced AI for the region at a consultancy betting heavily on enterprise adoption. The corporate AI leadership market moves quickly enough that a year now counts as a tenure. David Hardoon, Standard Chartered&rsquo;s former global head of AI enablement, has joined Accenture [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stancharts-former-ai-chief-joins-accenture-as-southeast-asia-head/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stancharts-former-ai-chief-joins-accenture-as-southeast-asia-head/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan’s drone defence debate heats up as opposition pushes rival plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The opposition KMT is proposing NT$240bn for unmanned systems just days after stalling the government&rsquo;s plan, in a fight with real implications for the island&rsquo;s defence. Few militaries have watched the war in Ukraine more closely than Taiwan&rsquo;s, and the lesson it has drawn is that cheap, mass-produced drones can blunt a far larger force. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwans-drone-defence-debate-heats-up-as-opposition-pushes-rival-plan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwans-drone-defence-debate-heats-up-as-opposition-pushes-rival-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Realty to buy Blackstone’s stake in three Virginia data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Northern Virginia is where the internet physically lives, and a large piece of it just changed hands. Digital Realty has agreed to buy Blackstone&rsquo;s majority stake in three fully leased data centres in the region, in a transaction that values the assets at $7.8 billion. It is the kind of number that has become routine [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/digital-realty-to-buy-blackstones-stake-in-three-virginia-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/digital-realty-to-buy-blackstones-stake-in-three-virginia-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s Nexchip seeks up to $890m in Hong Kong share sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nexchip Semiconductor is China&rsquo;s third-largest pure-play foundry, a sentence that until recently would not have led to a Hong Kong listing. It does now. The Hefei-based, state-backed chipmaker is seeking to raise up to HK$6.98 billion, or roughly $890 million, in a share sale that adds to a sudden rush of Chinese semiconductor companies floating [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-nexchip-seeks-up-to-890m-in-hong-kong-share-sale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-nexchip-seeks-up-to-890m-in-hong-kong-share-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia sues Amazon over Prime Video ads, citing unfair contract terms]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ACCC alleges Amazon buried unfair terms in Prime contracts, then used them to add ads to Prime Video for more than a million subscribers without offering refunds. The complaint Australia&rsquo;s consumer regulator filed against Amazon this week turns on a small print clause and a large grievance. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleges [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-sues-amazon-over-prime-video-ads-citing-unfair-contract-terms/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-sues-amazon-over-prime-video-ads-citing-unfair-contract-terms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marc Andreessen says ChatGPT beats 99% of doctors. The evidence says no]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marc Andreessen has a bold new claim about your health. The billionaire investor says &ldquo;Doctor ChatGPT&rdquo; is already a better doctor than 99% of human ones. Doctors, and the peer-reviewed evidence, strongly disagree. Andreessen made the remark on Joe Rogan&rsquo;s podcast in early June. The New York Post clipped the line, and it spread fast [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marc-andreessen-says-chatgpt-beats-99-of-doctors-the-evidence-says-no/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marc-andreessen-says-chatgpt-beats-99-of-doctors-the-evidence-says-no/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple says it is shipping security updates early as AI speeds up hacking]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years Apple released most of its security fixes the way it releases everything else, on a schedule, bundled into the next big version of iOS and delivered when the company was ready rather than when the flaw was found. That timetable now has a new constraint, and Apple has decided it can no longer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-says-it-is-shipping-security-updates-early-as-ai-speeds-up-hacking/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-says-it-is-shipping-security-updates-early-as-ai-speeds-up-hacking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US House passes kids online safety package, setting up a Senate fight]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years in which children&rsquo;s online safety bills passed the Senate and then died quietly in the House, the House moved first this time, and immediately reopened the argument that has stalled the effort for half a decade. On Monday it passed a sweeping youth online safety package by 267 to 117, the first time [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-house-passes-kids-online-safety-package-setting-up-a-senate-fight/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-house-passes-kids-online-safety-package-setting-up-a-senate-fight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK regulator proposes letting developers steer users off Apple and Google payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s competition regulator has decided that the cheapest place to buy a digital subscription should not be the one place an app is forbidden from mentioning. On Tuesday the Competition and Markets Authority proposed allowing UK app developers to steer users toward payment options outside Apple and Google&rsquo;s stores, a change aimed squarely at the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-regulator-proposes-letting-developers-steer-users-off-apple-and-google-payments/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-regulator-proposes-letting-developers-steer-users-off-apple-and-google-payments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[iPhone 18 Pro supplier list and parts exposed in Tata data leak]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most tightly held document in consumer electronics is the bill of materials, and a chunk of Apple&rsquo;s appears to be sitting on the dark web. Files posted by the ransomware group World Leaks contain component lists, supplier names, and photographs tied to the unreleased iPhone 18 Pro, stolen from Tata Electronics, Apple&rsquo;s manufacturing partner [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iphone-18-pro-supplier-list-and-parts-exposed-in-tata-data-leak/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iphone-18-pro-supplier-list-and-parts-exposed-in-tata-data-leak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s GV bets $30M on a stock exchange for space]]></title><description><![CDATA[The space industry can build rockets. Moving money around them is the hard part. A new startup called Nebex wants to fix that, and Google&rsquo;s venture arm is backing it with $30mn. GV, formerly Google Ventures, led the seed round, Bloomberg reported. Nebex also opened a banking relationship with JP Morgan. The company is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-gv-bets-30m-on-a-stock-exchange-for-space/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-gv-bets-30m-on-a-stock-exchange-for-space/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents are pouring into companies, and most security tools were never built to watch them. Straiker wants to fix that. The startup has just raised $64mn to police a workforce that does not clock in. The Series A was revealed first by Axios. It takes the Mountain View company&rsquo;s total funding to $85mn. Marathon [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/straiker-raises-64m-to-secure-the-ai-agents-running-your-company/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/straiker-raises-64m-to-secure-the-ai-agents-running-your-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chrome is putting things on your computer you never agreed to]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your browser has been busy on your behalf. This week brought two reminders that Chrome can put things on your machine you never agreed to. One came from Google. One came from an impostor. Both used the same quiet machinery. Chrome runs on billions of devices, which makes it one of the most powerful pieces [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chrome-is-putting-things-on-your-computer-you-never-agreed-to/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chrome-is-putting-things-on-your-computer-you-never-agreed-to/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court just made it harder for police to track your phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your phone keeps a minute-by-minute diary of where you go. The US Supreme Court has now ruled that police cannot simply demand it. In a major win for digital privacy, the court said geofence searches need a warrant. The 6-3 decision lands on a practice that has quietly spread through US policing. When investigators have [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-supreme-court-just-made-it-harder-for-police-to-track-your-phone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-supreme-court-just-made-it-harder-for-police-to-track-your-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google makes Gemini’s personalized image generation free for all US users]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is making Gemini&rsquo;s personalized AI image generation free for all eligible users in the United States, removing a paywall that had restricted the feature to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers since its launch in April. The expansion, announced on Sunday, lets any US user aged 13 or older generate images informed by their Google [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-makes-geminis-personalized-image-generation-free-for-all-us-users/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-makes-geminis-personalized-image-generation-free-for-all-us-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon seeks cheaper AI alternatives as Anthropic shifts to token-based pricing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon is looking for cheaper alternatives to Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude models after a renegotiated contract will shift to token-based pricing that could substantially increase the company&rsquo;s AI costs, according to The Information. The new pricing structure does not take effect until next year, but Amazon is already exploring options including OpenAI. The report highlights a deepening [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-seeks-cheaper-ai-alternatives-as-anthropic-shifts-to-token-based-pricing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-seeks-cheaper-ai-alternatives-as-anthropic-shifts-to-token-based-pricing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany wants Helsing to build the brain of its next air war]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany is quietly building its own brain for future air warfare, and it wants Helsing to write the code. Berlin is lining up a &euro;580mn contract for the Munich AI firm. The software would link fighters, drones, satellites and sensors, according to documents seen by Politico. The deal salvages something from the wreckage 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/germany-wants-helsing-to-build-the-brain-of-its-next-air-war/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/germany-wants-helsing-to-build-the-brain-of-its-next-air-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft’s three-year .NET support window is too short for enterprises, developers say]]></title><description><![CDATA[A developer has reopened a long-standing complaint about Microsoft&rsquo;s support policy for its .NET development platform, arguing in a new GitHub issue that the three-year window for long-term support releases is too short for enterprise upgrade cycles. The current release model gives even-numbered versions three years of free support and odd-numbered versions 18 months. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsofts-three-year-net-support-window-is-too-short-for-enterprises-developers-say/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsofts-three-year-net-support-window-is-too-short-for-enterprises-developers-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA hired a startup to catch its falling telescope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Swift has watched the sky since 2004, catching some of the universe&rsquo;s biggest explosions. Now it is sinking, and time is short. NASA is paying Katalyst Space Technologies about $30mn to save it, the Associated Press reported. Liftoff could come as early as Tuesday. The plan sounds simple and is anything but. Reach a satellite [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nasa-hired-a-startup-to-catch-its-falling-telescope/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nasa-hired-a-startup-to-catch-its-falling-telescope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan raids Super Micro’s office as Nvidia chip smuggling investigation widens]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwan&rsquo;s Keelung District Prosecutors Office raided Super Micro Computer&rsquo;s local office on Monday, widening an investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China through the company&rsquo;s servers. The raid also targeted the residences of six individuals and the sites of two other affiliated companies, according to Bloomberg. Super Micro shares fell more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwan-raids-super-micros-office-as-nvidia-chip-smuggling-investigation-widens/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taiwan-raids-super-micros-office-as-nvidia-chip-smuggling-investigation-widens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix after nearly three years of robotaxi collaboration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber&rsquo;s app in Phoenix, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city that served as the first test of whether the two former courtroom rivals could work together. Both companies confirmed the split to TechCrunch on Monday. Waymo said the vehicles have already been folded back into its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-and-uber-quietly-part-ways-in-phoenix-after-nearly-three-years-of-robotaxi-collaboration/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-and-uber-quietly-part-ways-in-phoenix-after-nearly-three-years-of-robotaxi-collaboration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Filming the World Cup with a RAZR! ⚽ #motorolarazr #foldablephone #worldcup2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Filming the World Cup with a RAZR! ⚽ #motorolarazr #foldablephone #worldcup2026]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/filming-the-world-cup-with-a-razr-motorolarazr-foldablephone-worldcup2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/filming-the-world-cup-with-a-razr-motorolarazr-foldablephone-worldcup2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba and Tencent lose their Washington lobbyists as new Pentagon rule takes effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Washington lobbying firms have been quietly dropping Alibaba and Tencent as clients ahead of a new Pentagon rule that takes effect on Tuesday. According to Bloomberg, Alibaba has lost five lobbying firms and Tencent has lost four since the Defense Department expanded its list of Chinese military companies earlier this month. The departures leave two [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-and-tencent-lose-their-washington-lobbyists-as-new-pentagon-rule-takes-effect/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-and-tencent-lose-their-washington-lobbyists-as-new-pentagon-rule-takes-effect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California gives all state agencies access to Claude at half price in first-of-its-kind Anthropic deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[California has struck a deal with Anthropic that gives all state agencies and local governments access to Claude at half price. The agreement, announced by Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday, makes Claude the first AI productivity tool available statewide through the California Department of Technology&rsquo;s shared services portal. Anthropic will also provide free workforce training [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/california-gives-all-state-agencies-access-to-claude-at-half-price-in-first-of-its-kind-anthropic-deal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/california-gives-all-state-agencies-access-to-claude-at-half-price-in-first-of-its-kind-anthropic-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, just became a 100 million dollar business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard that started as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023, has reached 100 million dollars in annualized revenue just eight months after launching its first commercial product. The platform is best known for letting users compare two anonymous AI model responses side by side and vote on which is better. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/arena-the-ai-leaderboard-everyone-uses-just-became-a-100-million-dollar-business/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/arena-the-ai-leaderboard-everyone-uses-just-became-a-100-million-dollar-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursor launches an iOS app that lets developers run coding agents from their phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cursor launched an iOS mobile app today that lets developers spin up and manage AI coding agents directly from their phone. The app connects to the desktop version of Cursor and allows users to start new coding sessions, review agent output, and interact with running agents while away from their computer. It is the clearest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cursor-launches-an-ios-app-that-lets-developers-run-coding-agents-from-their-phone/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cursor-launches-an-ios-app-that-lets-developers-run-coding-agents-from-their-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TIDAL will strip royalties from AI-generated music and tag every track it catches]]></title><description><![CDATA[TIDAL is cutting off the money supply for AI-generated music. The streaming service announced a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated tracks from earning royalties, collecting revenue from direct-to-fan sales, or being monetised in any way on its platform. TIDAL will also use automated tools to identify and remove AI-generated music that attempts to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tidal-will-strip-royalties-from-ai-generated-music-and-tag-every-track-it-catches/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tidal-will-strip-royalties-from-ai-generated-music-and-tag-every-track-it-catches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp is finally letting users reserve usernames so they never have to hand over their phone number]]></title><description><![CDATA[WhatsApp is opening username reservations starting today, allowing its more than three billion users to connect with people without sharing their phone number for the first time. The feature, which has been in development for several years, will officially roll out later this year. A phone number is still required to create an account, but [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whatsapp-is-finally-letting-users-reserve-usernames-so-they-never-have-to-hand-over-their-phone-number/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whatsapp-is-finally-letting-users-reserve-usernames-so-they-never-have-to-hand-over-their-phone-number/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Made Every Individual Stronger and Every Team More Fragmented. Yimao Zhou Is Building the OS to Reverse That]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 23-year-old founder of Emagen AI argues the entire agent industry is optimizing the wrong unit. His answer is an operating system where AI drives the work and calls on humans, not the other way around. Every week, another AI agent startup launches. They write code, draft emails, generate slides, analyze data. Each one promises [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-made-every-individual-stronger-and-every-team-more-fragmented-yimao-zhou-is-building-the-os-to-reverse-that/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-made-every-individual-stronger-and-every-team-more-fragmented-yimao-zhou-is-building-the-os-to-reverse-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A former Tesla Optimus engineer settled a trade secret lawsuit and raised $11M to build the robot hands his old employer still cannot crack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Proception, a robotics startup founded by former Tesla Optimus engineer Jay Li, has settled a year-long trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised an $11 million seed round led by First Round Capital to build dexterous robotic hands. The company told TechCrunch it is now shipping the first batch of its high-dexterity hand to researchers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-former-tesla-optimus-engineer-settled-a-trade-secret-lawsuit-and-raised-11m-to-build-the-robot-hands-his-old-employer-still-cannot-crack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-former-tesla-optimus-engineer-settled-a-trade-secret-lawsuit-and-raised-11m-to-build-the-robot-hands-his-old-employer-still-cannot-crack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a deadly heatwave grips Europe, Rome leans on a bracelet to watch its elderly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dina Gazzella is 85, and on her wrist is a small black band that looks like a watch and does rather more than tell the time. &ldquo;If I feel unwell, this is a lifesaver,&rdquo; she told Reuters. In a summer that has turned lethal across Europe, that is not a figure of speech.The bracelet is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/as-a-deadly-heatwave-grips-europe-rome-leans-on-a-bracelet-to-watch-its-elderly/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/as-a-deadly-heatwave-grips-europe-rome-leans-on-a-bracelet-to-watch-its-elderly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omen AI raises $31m to watch the water inside AI data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centres pack more GPUs into every rack and run them hotter, the fluid that keeps the chips from cooking has started, occasionally, to grow bacteria. That is the problem Omen AI has built a company around, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/omen-ai-raises-31m-to-watch-the-water-inside-ai-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/omen-ai-raises-31m-to-watch-the-water-inside-ai-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Cloud will sell specialist AI models built for science]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is adding SandboxAQ&rsquo;s &lsquo;large quantitative models&rsquo; to its cloud marketplace, pairing Gemini with AI trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. The large language models that power most of the AI industry are very good at words and surprisingly unreliable at numbers. Google&rsquo;s latest move is an admission that, for science, a different kind [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-cloud-will-sell-specialist-ai-models-built-for-science/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-cloud-will-sell-specialist-ai-models-built-for-science/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RELX lines up another £100M buyback as its 2026 repurchases roll on]]></title><description><![CDATA[RELX does not make headlines the way a chip foundry or an AI lab does, which is rather the point of the business. It sells data, analytics, and the dull certainty of recurring revenue, and it returns the proceeds to shareholders on a metronome. The latest beat of that metronome arrived this week. The company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/relx-lines-up-another-100m-buyback-as-its-2026-repurchases-roll-on/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/relx-lines-up-another-100m-buyback-as-its-2026-repurchases-roll-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocket Lab buys Iridium for $8bn in a bet to become a smaller Starlink]]></title><description><![CDATA[For most of its life Rocket Lab has sold the picks and shovels of the space economy: small rockets, satellite buses, components for other people&rsquo;s missions. It has now decided that selling the tools is not as valuable as owning the mine. The company agreed to acquire Iridium Communications for about $8bn, paying $54 per [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rocket-lab-buys-iridium-for-8bn-in-a-bet-to-become-a-smaller-starlink/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rocket-lab-buys-iridium-for-8bn-in-a-bet-to-become-a-smaller-starlink/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-driving firm Momenta opens $752mn Hong Kong IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Momenta is heading to the public markets. The self-driving software firm has opened its Hong Kong IPO, seeking up to $752mn to pour into AI research and robotaxis. The Momenta IPO would value the GM-backed company at close to $9bn. The Suzhou-based company started taking investor orders this week under stock code 6880. It is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/self-driving-firm-momenta-opens-752mn-hong-kong-ipo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/self-driving-firm-momenta-opens-752mn-hong-kong-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock’s surveillance cameras are spreading fast across the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most people call them automated licence plate readers, or ALPRs. They sit beside roads and log every car that passes. Flock Safety dominates the market. Engadget reports that Flock makes the vast majority of the 100,000-plus readers now blanketing the US. Calling them licence plate readers undersells them. Reading plates is the main job, but [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flocks-surveillance-cameras-are-spreading-fast-across-the-us/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flocks-surveillance-cameras-are-spreading-fast-across-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google earthquake alerts warned 11.4M before Venezuela’s quakes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Venezuela has no national earthquake warning system. Yet moments before two huge quakes hit on Wednesday, millions of phones lit up. Google earthquake alerts reached 11.4 million people, the company says, buying some of them up to two minutes to act. The warnings came from Google&rsquo;s Earthquake Alerts system, which turns ordinary Android phones into [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-earthquake-alerts-warned-114m-before-venezuelas-quakes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-earthquake-alerts-warned-114m-before-venezuelas-quakes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea bets $880bn to win the AI era]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea has placed its biggest bet yet on the AI era. The plan commits at least $880bn over a decade to chips, data centres and robots. It is the boldest South Korea AI investment to date, and the government says speed is now the only way to survive. President Lee Jae Myung unveiled the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-bets-880bn-to-win-the-ai-era/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-bets-880bn-to-win-the-ai-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surge]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s AI sector is not short of cash. If anything, American pressure is pumping more in. DeepSeek shows the pattern best. The Hangzhou lab closed a $7.4bn round, the biggest first-time raise by a Chinese startup, at a valuation above $50bn. It had run for three years on founder Liang Wenfeng&rsquo;s own wealth and never [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseeks-74bn-raise-is-one-symptom-of-chinas-ai-cash-surge/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseeks-74bn-raise-is-one-symptom-of-chinas-ai-cash-surge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI may delay its IPO to 2027 to hold out for $1tn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patience has a price, and someone else is paying it. OpenAI may wait until 2027 to go public. The wait is meant to buy a bigger number. OpenAI is weighing a listing as late as 2027, Bloomberg reported. That timeline could see it go public after its rival Anthropic. Altman has reportedly rejected an earlier [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-may-delay-its-ipo-to-2027-to-hold-out-for-1tn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-may-delay-its-ipo-to-2027-to-hold-out-for-1tn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump threatens 100% tariffs over digital services taxes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ink was barely dry. The EU had just signed a trade deal with Washington. A day later, Trump threatened to blow a hole in it. On Friday, the president posted the threat on Truth Social. Any country that imposes a digital services tax on US firms, he wrote, would face &ldquo;a 100% TARIFF on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-threatens-100-tariffs-over-digital-services-taxes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-threatens-100-tariffs-over-digital-services-taxes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peec AI doubles its valuation betting GEO is the new SEO]]></title><description><![CDATA[For 20 years, marketing meant one thing: rank on Google. That deal is breaking. A Berlin startup has just doubled its valuation on a bet about what comes next. Peec AI is in talks to raise new funding at a pre-money valuation of $200M, Sifted reported, citing three sources. That is roughly double its worth [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/peec-ai-doubles-its-valuation-betting-geo-is-the-new-seo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/peec-ai-doubles-its-valuation-betting-geo-is-the-new-seo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ETH Zurich’s bidirectional pixel could turn screens into cameras]]></title><description><![CDATA[A pixel has always done one job. On a screen it emits light to build a picture. In a camera it absorbs light to record one. A team in Switzerland has now made one that does both. Researchers at ETH Zurich have built the first bidirectional pixel, in work published in Nature. The same tiny [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eth-zurichs-bidirectional-pixel-could-turn-screens-into-cameras/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eth-zurichs-bidirectional-pixel-could-turn-screens-into-cameras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla settles a fatal Full Self-Driving crash lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A settlement is the sound a lawsuit makes when it stops. For Tesla, one just went quiet. The far louder problem, a federal safety investigation, is still talking. Tesla has settled a lawsuit tied to a fatal 2023 crash involving its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, Bloomberg first reported. Neither side disclosed the terms. TechCrunch laid [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-settles-a-fatal-full-self-driving-crash-lawsuit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-settles-a-fatal-full-self-driving-crash-lawsuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX wants its own gas pipeline to fuel Starship]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most rocket companies buy their fuel. SpaceX wants to pipe it in. Filings in Texas show the company plans to build its own natural gas pipeline, an unusual move for a space firm, and a telling one. SpaceX calls the line Starpipe. It would run eight miles, about 13km, to Starbase, SpaceX&rsquo;s company town on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-wants-its-own-gas-pipeline-to-fuel-starship/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-wants-its-own-gas-pipeline-to-fuel-starship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS raises GPU prices 20% as the memory crunch bites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Renting an AI chip is starting to feel like booking a hotel in a sold-out city. You pay to hold the room, and the rate keeps climbing. On AWS, it just climbed again. Amazon Web Services has raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by roughly 20%, starting in July. Business Insider first reported [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aws-raises-gpu-prices-20-as-the-memory-crunch-bites/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aws-raises-gpu-prices-20-as-the-memory-crunch-bites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Anthropic researchers raise $200M for self-improving AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mirendil, founded by two researchers who left Anthropic after barely a year, has raised $200m at a $1bn valuation. The pitch: sell the self-improving AI that the big labs build for themselves and guard from everyone else. The biggest AI labs share one private conviction. The fastest way to build better AI is to point [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-anthropic-researchers-raise-200m-for-self-improving-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ex-anthropic-researchers-raise-200m-for-self-improving-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI hires Apple’s Vision Pro chief Paul Meade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Meade, Apple&rsquo;s Vision Pro chief, is leaving to build OpenAI&rsquo;s devices. It is the most senior Apple defection yet, and it points the AI hardware talent war straight at Cupertino. Apple does not lose vice presidents to rivals. That is the unwritten rule, and for years it held. Designers slipped away to Jony Ive&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-hires-apples-vision-pro-chief-paul-meade/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-hires-apples-vision-pro-chief-paul-meade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany’s AI rollout is being sold as a fix for its worker shortage]]></title><description><![CDATA[The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enough workers, and AI is being pitched as a way to need fewer of them. The concrete version of that pitch is small and unglamorous. A homebuilder in the northwest of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/germanys-ai-rollout-is-being-sold-as-a-fix-for-its-worker-shortage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/germanys-ai-rollout-is-being-sold-as-a-fix-for-its-worker-shortage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright]]></title><description><![CDATA[A coalition that owns nearly 400 local US newspapers has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. The publishers call AI training on their reporting a death knell for local journalism. It is the largest copyright case the local press has brought yet. Local newspapers report the meetings no algorithm attends. The council vote, the school board row, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nearly-400-local-newspapers-sue-openai-and-microsoft-over-copyright/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nearly-400-local-newspapers-sue-openai-and-microsoft-over-copyright/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s rapid-delivery push wipes $15bn off India’s Eternal and Swiggy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon spent years circling India&rsquo;s quick-commerce market without committing to it. Investors have now decided the circling is over, and they have repriced the incumbents accordingly. Shares in Eternal, the parent of grocery-delivery leader Blinkit, and in rival Swiggy have fallen sharply as Amazon accelerates its rapid-delivery business in the country. Eternal has slipped about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-rapid-delivery-push-wipes-15bn-off-indias-eternal-and-swiggy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-rapid-delivery-push-wipes-15bn-off-indias-eternal-and-swiggy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosus profit roughly doubles as its e-commerce bets and Tencent stake pay off]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years Prosus was, in effect, a single bet wearing the costume of a diversified investor: a sprawling portfolio whose value rose and fell with one Chinese asset. Its latest results suggest the costume is becoming the company. Prosus reported revenue of about $7.3bn for the financial year ended 31 March 2026 and roughly $1.1bn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prosus-profit-roughly-doubles-as-its-e-commerce-bets-and-tencent-stake-pay-off/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prosus-profit-roughly-doubles-as-its-e-commerce-bets-and-tencent-stake-pay-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia moves to double Big Tech fines and arm its regulator over the under-16 ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the government has concluded that the platforms are not taking the rule seriously enough, and is preparing to make the consequences of ignoring it considerably more expensive. New legislation announced this week would roughly double the maximum penalty for a systemic [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-moves-to-double-big-tech-fines-and-arm-its-regulator-over-the-under-16-ban/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-moves-to-double-big-tech-fines-and-arm-its-regulator-over-the-under-16-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s CXMT wins a reported $3bn memory deal with Tencent]]></title><description><![CDATA[ChangXin Memory Technologies has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3bn of memory chips, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a deal that would bind one of China&rsquo;s largest cloud operators to its largest homegrown DRAM maker. Neither company has confirmed the agreement publicly, and the figure comes from sourcing rather than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-cxmt-wins-a-reported-3bn-memory-deal-with-tencent/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-cxmt-wins-a-reported-3bn-memory-deal-with-tencent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Austria asks the EU to consider giving Anthropic a home in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[European government has, in writing, asked the European Union to find a way to host an American artificial-intelligence company. The request is unusual enough that the official making it conceded, in the same breath, that people would doubt it could be done. The official is Alexander Pr&ouml;ll, Austria&rsquo;s state secretary for digitalisation, and the company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/austria-asks-the-eu-to-consider-giving-anthropic-a-home-in-europe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/austria-asks-the-eu-to-consider-giving-anthropic-a-home-in-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran’s cyberattacks on Israel tripled in a year, Israeli cyber chief says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel logged roughly 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, up from about 1,600 a year earlier, the head of its National Cyber Directorate told a German newspaper. The fighting between Israel and Iran has a ceasefire. The fighting in cyberspace does not, and the numbers from the past year show it widening rather than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/irans-cyberattacks-on-israel-tripled-in-a-year-israeli-cyber-chief-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/irans-cyberattacks-on-israel-tripled-in-a-year-israeli-cyber-chief-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to buy its semiconductors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Baidu&rsquo;s AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning to go public in Hong Kong at a target valuation of $50 billion, The Information reported on Sunday. In an unusual twist, the company asked prospective IPO investors to also commit to purchasing its semiconductors, according to the report. Reuters could not independently verify the report. The $50 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/baidus-chip-unit-kunlunxin-is-targeting-a-50-billion-hong-kong-ipo-and-asked-investors-to-buy-its-semiconductors/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/baidus-chip-unit-kunlunxin-is-targeting-a-50-billion-hong-kong-ipo-and-asked-investors-to-buy-its-semiconductors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia-backed Firmus will build a 360MW AI data centre in Indonesia and expects $30 billion in offtake deals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company valued at $5.5 billion, will build its first data centre in Indonesia through an eight-year partnership with Nvidia. The 360-megawatt Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, an island just off the coast of Singapore, is being developed with Singapore-based DayOne and is set to go live in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-backed-firmus-will-build-a-360mw-ai-data-centre-in-indonesia-and-expects-30-billion-in-offtake-deals/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-backed-firmus-will-build-a-360mw-ai-data-centre-in-indonesia-and-expects-30-billion-in-offtake-deals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers built an AI therapist that reads your smartwatch and earbuds to detect distress before you ask for help]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mental health chatbots all share the same limitation: the user has to reach out first. That is not always easy when someone is stressed, anxious, or unable to articulate how they feel. Researchers at the University of Ottawa are building an AI assistant called UbiMyTherapist that flips the model. It reads emotional cues in real [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/researchers-built-an-ai-therapist-that-reads-your-smartwatch-and-earbuds-to-detect-distress-before-you-ask-for-help/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/researchers-built-an-ai-therapist-that-reads-your-smartwatch-and-earbuds-to-detect-distress-before-you-ask-for-help/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron briefly surpassed Meta and Tesla in market value. Its stock is up 236% in a month.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Micron Technology briefly surpassed Meta and Tesla in market valuation on Thursday, closing the week at roughly $1.27 trillion. The stock has soared over 236% in the past month alone, reaching $1,132 a share. Before mid-2025, it spent years below $100. The surge followed blockbuster third-quarter earnings. Revenue quadrupled year on year to $41.45 billion. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/micron-briefly-surpassed-meta-and-tesla-in-market-value-its-stock-is-up-236-in-a-month/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/micron-briefly-surpassed-meta-and-tesla-in-market-value-its-stock-is-up-236-in-a-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California will tax downloaded software for the first time as part of a $351.7 billion budget deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[California Governor Gavin Newsom and top Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion state budget that will extend sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web. The tax is expected to raise $900 million for the state and another $1.1 billion for local governments starting in fiscal year 2028 and annually thereafter, according to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/california-will-tax-downloaded-software-for-the-first-time-as-part-of-a-3517-billion-budget-deal/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/california-will-tax-downloaded-software-for-the-first-time-as-part-of-a-3517-billion-budget-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The BIS warns an AI bust could hit credit markets as hard as the 2008 financial crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bank for International Settlements warned on Sunday that an AI investment bust could hit credit markets with disruption comparable to the 2008 financial crisis. In its annual report, the Basel-based institution listed AI-led risks alongside inflation and fiscal stress as &ldquo;pressure points&rdquo; that &ldquo;demand attention.&rdquo; &ldquo;Disappointment in returns could trigger a sudden pullback in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-bis-warns-an-ai-bust-could-hit-credit-markets-as-hard-as-the-2008-financial-crisis/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-bis-warns-an-ai-bust-could-hit-credit-markets-as-hard-as-the-2008-financial-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auto repair is one of the least digitised industries in America. AI is changing the economics of why.]]></title><description><![CDATA[North America has more than 280,000 independent auto repair shops. Most run on workflows a 1990s small business owner would recognise: phone-based scheduling, paper repair orders, manual parts ordering. The global auto repair software market is projected to grow from $3.4 billion in 2026 to $8.6 billion by 2033, a 14.2% CAGR, according to Persistence [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/auto-repair-is-one-of-the-least-digitised-industries-in-america-ai-is-changing-the-economics-of-why/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/auto-repair-is-one-of-the-least-digitised-industries-in-america-ai-is-changing-the-economics-of-why/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is rationing Gemini access to Meta because it cannot provide enough compute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has placed limits on Meta&rsquo;s use of its Gemini AI models because it cannot provide as much computing capacity as the social media company wanted, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The restrictions have affected several Google clients, with Meta hit particularly hard. The move has had a knock-on effect on Meta&rsquo;s internal projects. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-rationing-gemini-access-to-meta-because-it-cannot-provide-enough-compute/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-rationing-gemini-access-to-meta-because-it-cannot-provide-enough-compute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s payments chief says AI will drive UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of the body that oversees it says AI will be central to reaching a billion. Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India, told TechCrunch at Mumbai Tech Week that AI could drive the next half [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-payments-chief-says-ai-will-drive-upi-from-750-million-to-a-billion-daily-transactions/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-payments-chief-says-ai-will-drive-upi-from-750-million-to-a-billion-daily-transactions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instagram wants to make algorithm customisation a core part of the app, not a buried setting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instagram head Adam Mosseri previewed new ways to surface Your Algorithm, the feature that lets users specify which topics they want to see more or less of. In an Instagram post this week, Mosseri said the goal is to evolve the tool &ldquo;from a setting to something that feels central to your experience on Instagram.&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/instagram-wants-to-make-algorithm-customisation-a-core-part-of-the-app-not-a-buried-setting/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/instagram-wants-to-make-algorithm-customisation-a-core-part-of-the-app-not-a-buried-setting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce employees are confused about why the company is promoting a competitor inside Slack]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Tuesday, a high-profile AI product that works as a persistent teammate inside Slack channels, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. Salesforce promoted Anthropic&rsquo;s new product on social media even as it competes directly with Salesforce&rsquo;s own Slackbot and Agentforce platform, The Information reported. The tension is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/salesforce-employees-are-confused-about-why-the-company-is-promoting-a-competitor-inside-slack/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/salesforce-employees-are-confused-about-why-the-company-is-promoting-a-competitor-inside-slack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 33-year-old ex-Snap exec Nadella is trusting to fix Copilot now oversees 11,000 people]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old executive Satya Nadella promoted to run Copilot in March after just one year at Microsoft, now oversees more than 11,000 people. He has merged the consumer and enterprise Copilot teams, eliminated redundant product versions, and is building a super app that combines chat, coding, and a new agentic workflow called Autopilot, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-33-year-old-ex-snap-exec-nadella-is-trusting-to-fix-copilot-now-oversees-11000-people/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-33-year-old-ex-snap-exec-nadella-is-trusting-to-fix-copilot-now-oversees-11000-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs and then grew its engineering team by 45 percent, and its CEO says the pattern will repeat everywhere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare&rsquo;s engineering headcount surged 45 percent in the weeks after the company cut 1,100 jobs in May, according to BNP Paribas data drawn from LinkedIn profiles. The finding, first reported by Business Insider, shows Cloudflare&rsquo;s engineering staff grew from 1,308 to 1,894 even as its total workforce shrank by a fifth. CEO Matthew Prince confirmed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-cut-1100-jobs-and-then-grew-its-engineering-team-by-45-percent-and-its-ceo-says-the-pattern-will-repeat-everywhere/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-cut-1100-jobs-and-then-grew-its-engineering-team-by-45-percent-and-its-ceo-says-the-pattern-will-repeat-everywhere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley backed Trump to kill AI regulation, now the industry is begging for rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI industry that donated heavily to elect Donald Trump on the promise he would leave the technology alone is now asking for formal regulation, Politico reported on Friday. Executives at frontier AI companies told the outlet they view the administration&rsquo;s ad hoc approach to model oversight as more damaging than anything the Biden administration [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/silicon-valley-backed-trump-to-kill-ai-regulation-now-the-industry-is-begging-for-rules/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/silicon-valley-backed-trump-to-kill-ai-regulation-now-the-industry-is-begging-for-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI says Russian intelligence hackers have a new trick for reading your Signal messages, and it works even after you change phones]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FBI and CISA have warned that Russian intelligence hackers are now targeting Signal users&rsquo; backup recovery keys, an escalation of a phishing campaign that has already compromised thousands of accounts worldwide. The updated advisory, published Thursday, says that handing over the key once gives attackers the ability to restore an account&rsquo;s backup, read its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fbi-says-russian-intelligence-hackers-have-a-new-trick-for-reading-your-signal-messages-and-it-works-even-after-you-change-phones/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fbi-says-russian-intelligence-hackers-have-a-new-trick-for-reading-your-signal-messages-and-it-works-even-after-you-change-phones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI poaches Uber India’s chief to run its biggest market outside the United States]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has appointed Prabhjeet Singh, the outgoing president of Uber India and South Asia, as its first managing director for India. Singh will join in September and report to Kiran Mani, the company&rsquo;s managing director for Asia Pacific, OpenAI told TechCrunch. He will oversee consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations in what [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-poaches-uber-indias-chief-to-run-its-biggest-market-outside-the-united-states/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-poaches-uber-indias-chief-to-run-its-biggest-market-outside-the-united-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trustpilot just partnered with Shopify to put its reviews where AI search engines are already looking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trustpilot has struck a partnership with Shopify that will let the platform&rsquo;s merchants display and manage Trustpilot reviews directly inside their online stores. The integration goes live on June 29 and is the Danish review company&rsquo;s first native tie-up with a major ecommerce platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives at a moment [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trustpilot-just-partnered-with-shopify-to-put-its-reviews-where-ai-search-engines-are-already-looking/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trustpilot-just-partnered-with-shopify-to-put-its-reviews-where-ai-search-engines-are-already-looking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tokyo startup and a Beijing security firm just launched AI tools to fill the gap Anthropic’s export ban created]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two Asian AI companies launched products this week that position themselves as alternatives to Anthropic&rsquo;s suspended Mythos and Fable 5 models. Tokyo-based Sakana AI released Fugu, an orchestration model it says matches Fable 5 on key benchmarks, while Beijing cybersecurity firm 360 Security unveiled Tulongfeng, a vulnerability-discovery tool it claims can rival Mythos. Both launches [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-tokyo-startup-and-a-beijing-security-firm-just-launched-ai-tools-to-fill-the-gap-anthropics-export-ban-created/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-tokyo-startup-and-a-beijing-security-firm-just-launched-ai-tools-to-fill-the-gap-anthropics-export-ban-created/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next generation of AI won’t be powered by better models alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[As thousands of engineers, founders and researchers gather in San Francisco for AI Engineer World&rsquo;s Fair, much of the conversation is focused on increasingly capable models, autonomous agents and AI applications. According to Vytautas Savickas, CEO of Oxylabs, however, the industry&rsquo;s biggest shift is happening somewhere else. &ldquo;For the past three years, AI has largely [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-generation-of-ai-wont-be-powered-by-better-models-alone/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-generation-of-ai-wont-be-powered-by-better-models-alone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple wants US approval to buy chips from CXMT as memory prices quadruple]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has been lobbying Commerce Department officials and other members of the Trump administration for approval to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, according to the Financial Times. CXMT is China&rsquo;s largest DRAM manufacturer and sits on the Pentagon&rsquo;s list of companies with alleged ties to the Chinese military. Six people familiar with the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-wants-us-approval-to-buy-chips-from-cxmt-as-memory-prices-quadruple/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-wants-us-approval-to-buy-chips-from-cxmt-as-memory-prices-quadruple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FTC clears Musk to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh, the optical hardware company his data centers need]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission has cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers who build optical transceivers for AI data centers. The FTC granted early termination of its antitrust review on Wednesday, according to a pattern of Musk acquisitions that has accelerated since SpaceX went public this [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ftc-clears-musk-to-acquire-spacex-alumni-startup-mesh-the-optical-hardware-company-his-data-centers-need/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ftc-clears-musk-to-acquire-spacex-alumni-startup-mesh-the-optical-hardware-company-his-data-centers-need/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US clears Anthropic to restore Mythos 5 to a small group of cyber defenders, but Fable 5 stays dark]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US government has cleared Anthropic to restore access to Mythos 5, its most powerful cybersecurity model, for a select group of trusted partners. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote in a letter to Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown that the company&rsquo;s efforts to address security concerns had &ldquo;yielded significant progress,&rdquo; and that the model could be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-clears-anthropic-to-restore-mythos-5-to-a-small-group-of-cyber-defenders-but-fable-5-stays-dark/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-clears-anthropic-to-restore-mythos-5-to-a-small-group-of-cyber-defenders-but-fable-5-stays-dark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ford has admitted that it had to rehire experienced engineers after its AI systems failed to deliver the quality the company expected. Charles Poon, Ford&rsquo;s VP of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters that the automaker mistakenly believed it could swap in AI and still produce a high-quality product. The admission, first reported by The Verge, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ford-had-to-rehire-350-engineers-after-its-ai-got-vehicle-quality-wrong/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ford-had-to-rehire-350-engineers-after-its-ai-got-vehicle-quality-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian hackers were behind the Jaguar Land Rover attack that cost the British economy two and a half billion dollars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian hackers were behind last year&rsquo;s devastating cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover, according to a New York Times investigation published Thursday. The breach, which began on 31 August 2025, shut down production across JLR&rsquo;s factories for nearly six weeks and cost the British economy an estimated two and a half billion dollars, making it the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/russian-hackers-were-behind-the-jaguar-land-rover-attack-that-cost-the-british-economy-two-and-a-half-billion-dollars/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/russian-hackers-were-behind-the-jaguar-land-rover-attack-that-cost-the-british-economy-two-and-a-half-billion-dollars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI releases its most powerful AI model to just 20 partners, each one approved by the US government]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Sol, its most powerful model, to roughly 20 partners whose names were individually approved by the US government. The release is the first time an American AI company has launched a frontier model under a government-managed access list, a step beyond the voluntary pre-release review framework Trump&rsquo;s AI executive order established [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-releases-its-most-powerful-ai-model-to-just-20-partners-each-one-approved-by-the-us-government/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-releases-its-most-powerful-ai-model-to-just-20-partners-each-one-approved-by-the-us-government/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok is building a super app, and most of its users have not noticed yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok is no longer just a video app. The platform has spent the past year adding hotel bookings, in-app commerce, sports hubs, casual games, microdramas, and a fintech licence application, building out the infrastructure of what the industry calls a &ldquo;super app,&rdquo; a single destination that handles tasks users currently spread across a dozen different [&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-super-app-and-most-of-its-users-have-not-noticed-yet/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-is-building-a-super-app-and-most-of-its-users-have-not-noticed-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insta360 is coming for DJI’s spot with their new camera 🚀📸 #Insta360]]></title><description><![CDATA[Insta360 is coming for DJI’s spot with their new camera 🚀📸 #Insta360]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/insta360-is-coming-for-djis-spot-with-their-new-camera-insta360/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/insta360-is-coming-for-djis-spot-with-their-new-camera-insta360/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer]]></title><description><![CDATA[A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed a malicious code repository to silently execute commands on a developer&rsquo;s machine and steal their AWS credentials. Wiz Research discovered the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-12957, and reported it to Amazon on April 20. Amazon patched the issue on May 12, and the disclosure went public today. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-single-config-file-in-a-cloned-repository-could-steal-your-aws-credentials-through-amazon-q-developer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-single-config-file-in-a-cloned-repository-could-steal-your-aws-credentials-through-amazon-q-developer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xprize founder says global surveillance is a good thing because humans behave better when they are being watched]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who believe global surveillance is a good idea, writing on X this week that &ldquo;humans behave better when they&rsquo;re being watched.&rdquo; In a Substack essay titled &ldquo;Visibility, Transparency and Trust,&rdquo; he described what he called &ldquo;radical transparency&rdquo; as inevitable and positive, envisioning [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xprize-founder-says-global-surveillance-is-a-good-thing-because-humans-behave-better-when-they-are-being-watched/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xprize-founder-says-global-surveillance-is-a-good-thing-because-humans-behave-better-when-they-are-being-watched/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple skips its high-end M6 chips for an AI-first M7]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is breaking its own playbook. It will skip the high-end versions of its M6 chip and leap to an AI-focused M7 line. Apple M7 chips, not the M6, will power its best Macs from 2027. Apple has changed how it rolls out Mac chips, and the shift is bigger than it sounds. The company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-skips-its-high-end-m6-chips-for-an-ai-first-m7/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-skips-its-high-end-m6-chips-for-an-ai-first-m7/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aseon Labs raises ten million dollars to build parking-space-sized pods that charge and clean robotaxis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aseon Labs, a Redwood City startup building automated service pods for robotaxi fleets, has raised ten million dollars in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Y Combinator, Uber co-founder Garrett Camp&rsquo;s venture firm Expa, Robin Hood Ventures, and Founders Capital also participated, alongside angel investors including Mercury founder Immad Akhund, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aseon-labs-raises-ten-million-dollars-to-build-parking-space-sized-pods-that-charge-and-clean-robotaxis/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aseon-labs-raises-ten-million-dollars-to-build-parking-space-sized-pods-that-charge-and-clean-robotaxis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[onsemi to buy Synaptics in $7bn bet on ‘physical AI’]]></title><description><![CDATA[onsemi is buying Synaptics in an all-stock deal worth about $7bn. The onsemi Synaptics deal bets that AI&rsquo;s next wave lives not in the cloud, but in cars, factories and robots. The chip industry has spent three years building for AI that runs in giant data centres. Onsemi just placed a bet on the opposite [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/onsemi-to-buy-synaptics-in-7bn-bet-on-physical-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/onsemi-to-buy-synaptics-in-7bn-bet-on-physical-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no denying it anymore]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's no denying it anymore]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/theres-no-denying-it-anymore/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/theres-no-denying-it-anymore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2026 phones are going up in price. I guarantee it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[2026 phones are going up in price. I guarantee it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/2026-phones-are-going-up-in-price-i-guarantee-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/2026-phones-are-going-up-in-price-i-guarantee-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volkswagen reportedly wants to cut 100,000 jobs, about 15% of its workforce, and close German plants. It would be the biggest overhaul in the carmaker&rsquo;s history, and the unions are vowing to fight. Europe&rsquo;s car industry is shrinking, and its biggest name is leading the retreat. Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut around 100,000 jobs at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-reportedly-plans-to-cut-100000-jobs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-reportedly-plans-to-cut-100000-jobs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California built a tool to catch AI killing jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[California has built the first state tool to watch for AI wiping out jobs. The early read: no mass layoffs yet, but warning signs are flashing in the Bay Area and among college-educated workers. Everyone argues about whether AI is killing jobs. Almost nobody has hard data. California has now built a tool to find [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/california-built-a-tool-to-catch-ai-killing-jobs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/california-built-a-tool-to-catch-ai-killing-jobs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI told Cannes it is “clearly in the advertising business now.” The numbers say it is barely in the door.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI made its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival this week, but it did not book a beach club on the Croisette alongside Meta, Amazon, and Google. Instead, the company summoned reporters and agency executives to&nbsp;a semi-secluded villa near the harbour, a staging choice that doubles as metaphor: OpenAI is in the ad business, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-told-cannes-it-is-clearly-in-the-advertising-business-now-the-numbers-say-it-is-barely-in-the-door/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-told-cannes-it-is-clearly-in-the-advertising-business-now-the-numbers-say-it-is-barely-in-the-door/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patronus AI raises $50M to stress-test AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patronus AI has raised $50m to build simulated worlds where AI agents can be tested before they touch a real system. The pitch borrows from Waymo: train in a replica before you trust the road. AI agents are meant to do real work now. They book trips, write code and run financial analysis on their [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/patronus-ai-raises-50m-to-stress-test-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/patronus-ai-raises-50m-to-stress-test-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malaysia intercepts $13M AI chip shipment bound for re-export]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shipment passed through Kuala Lumpur declared as ordinary computer components. Inside the 72 server units, Malaysian customs officers found something the paperwork did not mention: advanced artificial-intelligence chips worth 52.9 million ringgit, or about $13m, sitting in the airport&rsquo;s free trade zone and waiting to move on. Malaysia&rsquo;s customs department announced the seizure on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/malaysia-intercepts-13m-ai-chip-shipment-bound-for-re-export/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/malaysia-intercepts-13m-ai-chip-shipment-bound-for-re-export/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zalando plunges after German regulator opens accounting review]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany&rsquo;s financial regulator is reviewing a disclosure tied to the About You takeover. Zalando says it is formal and not material. The market disagreed, briefly. It took one regulatory headline to wipe a fifth off Zalando&rsquo;s value. Shares in the German online fashion retailer fell as much as 20% in Tradegate premarket trading on Friday [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zalando-plunges-after-german-regulator-opens-accounting-review/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zalando-plunges-after-german-regulator-opens-accounting-review/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory]]></title><description><![CDATA[The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-service corps attached to the agency. The breach was detected on 19 June. What was taken, according to INSEE, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-statistics-department-hit-by-cyberattack-on-staff-directory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-statistics-department-hit-by-cyberattack-on-staff-directory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swatch wants $170m from Samsung over copied watch faces]]></title><description><![CDATA[A London court already found 26 of Samsung&rsquo;s smartwatch faces infringed Swatch trademarks. Now the two sides are fighting over the bill. The fight between a Swiss watchmaker and the world&rsquo;s largest phone maker has come down to a number, and the number is $170m. Swatch is asking the High Court in London to make [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/swatch-wants-170m-from-samsung-over-copied-watch-faces/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/swatch-wants-170m-from-samsung-over-copied-watch-faces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kobo rejected 45% of self-published books last year, mostly over AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo&rsquo;s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of the titles submitted to Kobo Writing Life, its self-publishing service, in 2025, and chief executive Michael Tamblyn attributes more than 80% of those rejections to books he judges to be manifestly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kobo-rejected-45-of-self-published-books-last-year-mostly-over-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kobo-rejected-45-of-self-published-books-last-year-mostly-over-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung’s $647bn home investment heads for the chip-starved southwest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Numbers in the trillions have a way of losing their edges, so it is worth holding this one still for a moment. Samsung is expected to announce plans to invest 1,000 trillion won, around $647.5bn, in South Korea over the next 10 years, according to local media reports that several outlets carried on 25 June. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-647bn-home-investment-heads-for-the-chip-starved-southwest/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-647bn-home-investment-heads-for-the-chip-starved-southwest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer by customer. For years the debate over slowing down powerful AI models was a matter for company safety teams and outside critics. Now it has a government request attached. The Trump administration has asked OpenAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-government-asks-openai-to-slow-its-next-models-release/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-government-asks-openai-to-slow-its-next-models-release/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cargo drone startup Elroy Air nears an $800m SPAC deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The maker of the autonomous Chaparral is in advanced talks to go public through a blank-cheque merger valuing the combined company at about $1bn. The SPAC, declared dead more than once over the past few years, keeps finding new uses, and the latest is a cargo drone. Elroy Air, a California startup that wants to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cargo-drone-startup-elroy-air-nears-an-800m-spac-deal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cargo-drone-startup-elroy-air-nears-an-800m-spac-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under 16 in Indonesia, the country&rsquo;s communications minister said on 25 June. The bulk of the cuts came from one platform: TikTok deactivated 4.1 million accounts, while YouTube removed 600,000, according to Communications [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-and-youtube-cut-47-million-under-16-accounts-in-indonesia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-and-youtube-cut-47-million-under-16-accounts-in-indonesia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX wants to sell Starlink phone service directly to US consumers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every satellite company eventually looks down at the much larger market on the ground, and SpaceX appears ready to make the move. The company has told investors it plans to launch a Starlink mobile service for US consumers, the Financial Times reported on 26 June, citing people familiar with the matter. If it happens, it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-wants-to-sell-starlink-phone-service-directly-to-us-consumers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-wants-to-sell-starlink-phone-service-directly-to-us-consumers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airwallex raises $320m at an $11bn valuation, betting on agentic finance]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 38% jump in valuation over six months is the kind of figure that tells you where investor appetite has gone. Airwallex, the global payments company, has raised $320m in a Series H round that values it at $11bn, up from $8bn in December 2025. The raise is being directed squarely at the part of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airwallex-raises-320m-at-an-11bn-valuation-betting-on-agentic-finance/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airwallex-raises-320m-at-an-11bn-valuation-betting-on-agentic-finance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise]]></title><description><![CDATA[The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little information to choose. The mechanics of a price rise can matter as much as the price itself, which is the question Italy&rsquo;s competition authority has now decided to examine. On 26 June, the regulator said it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italy-opens-an-antitrust-probe-into-microsoft-365s-ai-price-rise/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italy-opens-an-antitrust-probe-into-microsoft-365s-ai-price-rise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s teen social media ban works on paper, less so in practice]]></title><description><![CDATA[A law is only as strong as the door it actually closes, and Australia&rsquo;s ban on social media for under-16s appears to have left a window open. On 26 June, six months after the world-first measure took effect, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was keen to make the ban as strong as possible, after [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-teen-social-media-ban-works-on-paper-less-so-in-practice/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-teen-social-media-ban-works-on-paper-less-so-in-practice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hidden cost of complacency and Jay Roland’s mission against corporate America’s technical debt crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Corporate America is&nbsp;hemorrhaging money through&nbsp;inefficient IT business processes, and Jay Roland, founder of&nbsp;Varex Solutions, believes that the industry is complacent about it. Technical debt, which is the accumulated cost of deferred IT fixes, misconfigurations, and other&nbsp;operational inefficiencies, is projected to cost US&nbsp;enterprises&nbsp;$2.41 trillion&nbsp;a year, costing $1.52 trillion to fix. With numbers this staggering, Roland argues [&hellip;]<br />
This story conti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-hidden-cost-of-complacency-and-jay-rolands-mission-against-corporate-americas-technical-debt-crisis/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-hidden-cost-of-complacency-and-jay-rolands-mission-against-corporate-americas-technical-debt-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building trust in AI health intelligence: why privacy, transparency, and human oversight matter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly visible part of healthcare. From administrative workflows and&nbsp;clinical decision support&nbsp;to&nbsp;remote monitoring&nbsp;and wellness technologies, organizations are exploring how AI can help process information more efficiently and provide greater visibility into health-related data. Yet as adoption accelerates, one challenge continues to influence whether these technologies gain meaningful acceptance. Trust has become [&hellip;]<br />
This]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/building-trust-in-ai-health-intelligence-why-privacy-transparency-and-human-oversight-matter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/building-trust-in-ai-health-intelligence-why-privacy-transparency-and-human-oversight-matter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly 98 percent of OpenAI&rsquo;s employees now use Codex, the company&rsquo;s AI coding agent, up from roughly 40 percent in August 2025, according to a paper the company published on Wednesday titled &ldquo;The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex.&rdquo; The paper describes a fundamental change in how the company&rsquo;s own workforce interacts with AI, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-says-nearly-all-its-employees-have-switched-from-chatbots-to-codex-agents-but-every-number-comes-from-openai-itself/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-says-nearly-all-its-employees-have-switched-from-chatbots-to-codex-agents-but-every-number-comes-from-openai-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coinspaid Dev emerges as a dedicated blockchain infrastructure engineering brand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coinspaid Dev&nbsp;(stylized as {coinspaid.dev}), the engineering team behind the infrastructure powering Coinspaid Solutions, has separated from Coinspaid as an independent engineering brand after more than a decade of building&nbsp;blockchain infrastructure. With more than 120 engineers and over 11 years of industry experience, Coinspaid Dev brings together software engineering, infrastructure, security and R&amp;D teams with experience [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coinspaid-dev-emerges-as-a-dedicated-blockchain-infrastructure-engineering-brand/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coinspaid-dev-emerges-as-a-dedicated-blockchain-infrastructure-engineering-brand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market&rsquo;s website. Blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield estimated the losses at roughly three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency, drained from more than 11 victims. The company said in a post on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-stole-three-million-dollars-from-polymarket-users-through-a-compromised-third-party-vendor/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-stole-three-million-dollars-from-polymarket-users-through-a-compromised-third-party-vendor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job]]></title><description><![CDATA[Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, less than 18 months after making the email product available to users. The company said the decision reflects a broader shift in how people interact with email, with AI agents increasingly handling triage, responses, and scheduling without requiring anyone to open an inbox. More than half [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/notion-is-shutting-down-its-email-client-because-ai-agents-already-do-the-job/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/notion-is-shutting-down-its-email-client-because-ai-agents-already-do-the-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration&rsquo;s Department of Transportation proposed on Wednesday removing the federal requirement for brake pedals in vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems. The rule change, if adopted, would eliminate one of the largest remaining regulatory barriers for companies building purpose-built autonomous vehicles without traditional human controls. The proposal updates Federal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-dot-proposes-dropping-the-brake-pedal-requirement-for-fully-autonomous-vehicles/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-dot-proposes-dropping-the-brake-pedal-requirement-for-fully-autonomous-vehicles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude&rsquo;s paying consumer base and revenue have grown roughly 75 percent since January, based on Indagari&rsquo;s analysis of billions of anonymized transactions from about 28 million US consumers. The trend challenges [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-is-winning-over-paying-consumers-in-a-market-chatgpt-has-owned-credit-card-data-shows/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-is-winning-over-paying-consumers-in-a-market-chatgpt-has-owned-credit-card-data-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over efforts to keep her quiet]]></title><description><![CDATA[For more than a year, the legal action in the Sarah Wynn-Williams affair ran one way: Meta against its former executive. That has now reversed. Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of the Meta memoir Careless People, is suing the company over its efforts to silence her, according to The Wall Street Journal. The woman Meta spent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sarah-wynn-williams-sues-meta-over-efforts-to-keep-her-quiet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sarah-wynn-williams-sues-meta-over-efforts-to-keep-her-quiet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the third time in 13 months, pushing the Series X to $800]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is raising the price of every Xbox console by $100 to $150, effective August 1. The increases push the Xbox Series X with a disc drive to $800, up $300 from its original $500 launch price in November 2020. It is the third time Microsoft has raised Xbox prices in 13 months. The 512-gigabyte [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-raises-xbox-console-prices-for-the-third-time-in-13-months-pushing-the-series-x-to-800/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-raises-xbox-console-prices-for-the-third-time-in-13-months-pushing-the-series-x-to-800/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Klue says the hackers who stole its customer data are deleting it, but now a second group is making threats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Klue, the market intelligence firm whose breach earlier this month exposed customer data at LastPass, HackerOne, and nearly a dozen other companies, says the hacking group responsible is now cooperating and deleting the stolen data. But a second, unnamed group of hackers has emerged claiming to possess the same data and is attempting to extort [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/klue-says-the-hackers-who-stole-its-customer-data-are-deleting-it-but-now-a-second-group-is-making-threats/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/klue-says-the-hackers-who-stole-its-customer-data-are-deleting-it-but-now-a-second-group-is-making-threats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unconventional AI releases its first model, built on an oscillator architecture its founder says could cut power use by a factor of a thousand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unconventional AI, the startup founded by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, has released its first AI model, an image generation system called Un-0 that runs on a completely new kind of computing architecture. The model produces results comparable to state-of-the-art diffusion models like Stable Diffusion, according to an accompanying research paper. The catch is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unconventional-ai-releases-its-first-model-built-on-an-oscillator-architecture-its-founder-says-could-cut-power-use-by-a-factor-of-a-thousand/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unconventional-ai-releases-its-first-model-built-on-an-oscillator-architecture-its-founder-says-could-cut-power-use-by-a-factor-of-a-thousand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Finance exits beta with a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, and AI-powered scheduled briefings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Finance is exiting beta with a wave of new features, including a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, an AI-powered research tool, and scheduled market briefings. The updates mark the broadest expansion of the platform since Google began rebuilding it with Gemini AI in August 2025, and the company says an iOS version will follow [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-finance-exits-beta-with-a-dedicated-android-app-portfolio-tracking-and-ai-powered-scheduled-briefings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-finance-exits-beta-with-a-dedicated-android-app-portfolio-tracking-and-ai-powered-scheduled-briefings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail raises $80M to make AI agents cheaper to run]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sail Research has raised $80m to make AI agents cheaper to run. The startup, founded by ex-Apple and ex-NVIDIA engineers, says it can serve the tokens agents burn through at up to 10 times lower cost. AI agents are hungry. Leave one running for hours and it can chew through billions of tokens on a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sail-raises-80m-to-make-ai-agents-cheaper-to-run/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sail-raises-80m-to-make-ai-agents-cheaper-to-run/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coval raises $28M to stress-test AI voice agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coval has raised $28m to test AI voice agents before they reach real callers. Its founder built the same kind of safety checks for Waymo&rsquo;s self-driving cars, and thinks voice needs them just as badly. An AI voice agent can sound flawless in a demo and fall apart on a real call. It trips over [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coval-raises-28m-to-stress-test-ai-voice-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coval-raises-28m-to-stress-test-ai-voice-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taktile raises $110M to automate banking’s riskiest calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taktile has raised $110m in a Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The startup wants banks and insurers to hand their riskiest decisions to AI agents, the calls that cost millions when they go wrong. Banks and insurers spend billions on people to screen risky transactions, process claims and vet new customers. Get one [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taktile-raises-110m-to-automate-bankings-riskiest-calls/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/taktile-raises-110m-to-automate-bankings-riskiest-calls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round follows what the company says is 800 percent annual recurring revenue growth and more than 35 live deployments at GPU clusters around the world, including operations [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netris-raises-15m-series-a-from-a16z-to-automate-the-networking-that-slows-down-gpu-clouds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netris-raises-15m-series-a-from-a16z-to-automate-the-networking-that-slows-down-gpu-clouds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump administration bars Polestar from selling new EVs in the US under Connected Vehicle Rule]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has barred Polestar from selling new electric vehicles in the United States, denying the Geely-owned automaker authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The decision, first reported by TechCrunch, means Polestar will not be able to sell any new models in the US once the rule&rsquo;s software restrictions take effect for model year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-administration-bars-polestar-from-selling-new-evs-in-the-us-under-connected-vehicle-rule/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-administration-bars-polestar-from-selling-new-evs-in-the-us-under-connected-vehicle-rule/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The technology they are building could upend the American job market, and almost nobody [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-anthropic-and-amazon-are-funding-raise-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-anthropic-and-amazon-are-funding-raise-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning maker of AI image and video enhancement tools. The deal hands Adobe upscaling, restoration and on-device AI as creators blend captured and generated footage. Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, an AI company that sharpens, upscales and restores images and video. The two firms signed a definitive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobe-is-buying-topaz-labs-the-ai-video-enhancer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobe-is-buying-topaz-labs-the-ai-video-enhancer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toyota is gaining on General Motors in the race for America&rsquo;s sales crown, and the gap is now the narrowest it has been in half a decade. A new forecast from Cox Automotive, released on Wednesday, projects Toyota will sell approximately 1,250,000 vehicles in the United States through the first half of the year, up [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/toyota-is-closing-in-on-gm-as-americas-top-selling-automaker-as-hybrids-surge-and-evs-falter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/toyota-is-closing-in-on-gm-as-americas-top-selling-automaker-as-hybrids-surge-and-evs-falter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scaled Cognition raises $100M to build AI that won’t hallucinate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scaled Cognition has raised $100M led by Khosla Ventures to build AI that does not hallucinate. The startup says its model will not give a wrong answer, a bold claim in a field built on probability. Scaled Cognition, a Mountain View AI lab, has raised $100m in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scaled-cognition-raises-100m-to-build-ai-that-wont-hallucinate/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scaled-cognition-raises-100m-to-build-ai-that-wont-hallucinate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airwallex raises $320M at an $11bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn in December. The payments company is now pivoting to &ldquo;autonomous finance&rdquo; and AI agents that transact on your behalf. Airwallex, the global payments platform, has raised $320m in a Series H round. The deal values the company at $11bn, up from $8bn in December [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airwallex-raises-320m-at-an-11bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airwallex-raises-320m-at-an-11bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There’s a very real human problem at the heart of the AI revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[The era of AI was ushered in with dazzling displays of its seemingly endless capabilities and a promise to change the world. After OpenAI sparked the&nbsp;generative AI&nbsp;boom in 2022, the pace and scale of AI growth in just about every major industry have been staggering. These days, although many of the promises have been materializing, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/theres-a-very-real-human-problem-at-the-heart-of-the-ai-revolution/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/theres-a-very-real-human-problem-at-the-heart-of-the-ai-revolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan raises €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[French insurtech Alan has raised &euro;480M led by Prosus at a &euro;5.5bn valuation, just months after its last round. The Paris company is betting that AI-driven prevention can reshape health insurance. Alan, the French health insurance company, has raised &euro;480m ($550m). The deal values the Paris firm at &euro;5.5bn ($6.3bn). Dutch investor Prosus led the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alan-raises-480m-led-by-prosus-at-a-55bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alan-raises-480m-led-by-prosus-at-a-55bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pixel 10 Pro should be better…but I don’t care]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pixel 10 Pro should be better…but I don’t care]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pixel-10-pro-should-be-betterbut-i-dont-care/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pixel-10-pro-should-be-betterbut-i-dont-care/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixel 10 Pro one year later: I can't stop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pixel 10 Pro one year later: I can't stop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-10-pro-one-year-later-i-cant-stop/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixel-10-pro-one-year-later-i-cant-stop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep coming back to the Pixel 10 Pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[I keep coming back to the Pixel 10 Pro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/i-keep-coming-back-to-the-pixel-10-pro/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/i-keep-coming-back-to-the-pixel-10-pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 best contract management software tools for 2026 (compared)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most teams don&rsquo;t go shopping for the best contract management software until something slips. A renewal auto-fires nobody approved. A signed agreement sits in someone&rsquo;s inbox instead of a searchable record. An auditor asks for a contract trail and the scramble begins. The right platform turns that mess into one organized system, and in 2026 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/10-best-contract-management-software-tools-for-2026-compared/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/10-best-contract-management-software-tools-for-2026-compared/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aston Martin Aramco signs Zscaler as its global cybersecurity partner]]></title><description><![CDATA[The multi-year deal puts Zscaler&rsquo;s Zero Trust Exchange behind the team&rsquo;s car design, race strategy and trackside data, with branding on the AMR26 from the Austrian Grand Prix. A single Formula One race weekend can throw off more than a terabyte of telemetry, streaming in real time from hundreds of sensors on each car to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aston-martin-aramco-signs-zscaler-as-its-global-cybersecurity-partner/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aston-martin-aramco-signs-zscaler-as-its-global-cybersecurity-partner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brussels held talks with Washington over Anthropic access after Fable 5 ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brussels opened talks with Washington over Anthropic after a US export-control order cut Europe off from the company&rsquo;s two most capable models, ENISA included. To get its hands on an American AI model, the European Union has had to negotiate not with the company that makes it but with the government that can switch it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-held-talks-with-washington-over-anthropic-access-after-fable-5-ban/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-held-talks-with-washington-over-anthropic-access-after-fable-5-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chamath Palihapitiya: Meta “fumbled” its shot at AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[On The Axios Show, Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta &ldquo;fumbled&rdquo; its lead in AI, dismissed the jobs apocalypse, and finally called his SPAC incentives &ldquo;grossly misaligned.&rdquo; Here is what the investor told Axios. Chamath Palihapitiya does not do quiet interviews. On The Axios Show, the investor and All-In podcast co-host ranged across Meta&rsquo;s AI stumble, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chamath-palihapitiya-meta-fumbled-its-shot-at-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chamath-palihapitiya-meta-fumbled-its-shot-at-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cannes insights: What a two-time major champion knows about marketing that CMOs don’t]]></title><description><![CDATA[For one week every June, the advertising industry decamps to the French Riviera to take its own temperature. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, now in its 72nd year, ran from 16 to 20 June 2025 and drew roughly 15,000 delegates from 90 countries, the sort of crowd that turns a seaside town into [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cannes-insights-what-a-two-time-major-champion-knows-about-marketing-that-cmos-dont/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cannes-insights-what-a-two-time-major-champion-knows-about-marketing-that-cmos-dont/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple raises Mac and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch reaches the shelf]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI boom has been an abstract thing for most consumers, a story about data centres and model launches happening somewhere else. This week it arrived somewhere concrete: the price of a Mac. Apple is raising prices on Macs and iPads to offset the soaring cost of memory and storage chips, the bill for an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-raises-mac-and-ipad-prices-as-the-ai-memory-crunch-reaches-the-shelf/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-raises-mac-and-ipad-prices-as-the-ai-memory-crunch-reaches-the-shelf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildout]]></title><description><![CDATA[The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies&rsquo; idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes chips, and chips take capital. TensorX and Solstice said they would supply the second to help buy the first, announcing a partnership [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tensorx-and-solstice-line-up-1bn-to-finance-europes-sovereign-ai-buildout/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tensorx-and-solstice-line-up-1bn-to-finance-europes-sovereign-ai-buildout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upwind launches AI Sensor for Endpoints as security teams grapple with AI’s expanding reach]]></title><description><![CDATA[When cloud computing transformed enterprise IT, security vendors followed the workloads. Visibility into&nbsp;cloud infrastructure&nbsp;became a central requirement as organizations shifted applications and data into new environments. Artificial intelligence is now driving another change, but this time the challenge is not simply where applications run. It is understanding how actions move between developer devices, AI systems, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/upwind-launches-ai-sensor-for-endpoints-as-security-teams-grapple-with-ais-expanding-reach/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/upwind-launches-ai-sensor-for-endpoints-as-security-teams-grapple-with-ais-expanding-reach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kremlin demands an explanation from Apple after VK apps vanish from the App Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Thursday, a clutch of apps belonging to the Russian tech group VK disappeared from Apple&rsquo;s App Store, and by the afternoon the Kremlin was asking why. Dmitry Peskov, the presidential spokesman, said the government expected an explanation from Apple. He also offered Russians a workaround that doubled as a message: switch operating systems. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kremlin-demands-an-explanation-from-apple-after-vk-apps-vanish-from-the-app-store/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kremlin-demands-an-explanation-from-apple-after-vk-apps-vanish-from-the-app-store/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The wording matters more than it looks. Neither service meets the DMA&rsquo;s quantitative thresholds. Brussels wants them in anyway. That is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-moves-to-put-aws-and-azure-under-its-toughest-tech-rules/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-moves-to-put-aws-and-azure-under-its-toughest-tech-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic hires Orange’s AI chief as its European build-out accelerates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steve Jarrett, Orange&rsquo;s chief AI officer since 2019, will join the Claude maker in Paris in late August to adapt its products for European and African markets. The head of artificial intelligence at the French telecoms group Orange is leaving to join Anthropic, a hire that lands squarely inside the US company&rsquo;s push into Europe. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-hires-oranges-ai-chief-as-its-european-build-out-accelerates/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-hires-oranges-ai-chief-as-its-european-build-out-accelerates/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Michigan township killed a $2.4 billion Chinese battery plant, and now the company might bankrupt it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Less than three years ago, residents of Green Charter Township, a rural community of roughly 3,000 people in central Michigan, packed a hall to celebrate what they saw as a victory for local democracy. They had&nbsp;recalled every member of their town board&nbsp;and installed replacements who promptly killed a $2.36 billion electric vehicle battery plant proposed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-michigan-township-killed-a-24-billion-chinese-battery-plant-and-now-the-company-might-bankrupt-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-michigan-township-killed-a-24-billion-chinese-battery-plant-and-now-the-company-might-bankrupt-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda built on the opposite instinct. The European Union is set to join Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to coordinate AI chip supply chains and export controls against China. The decision is awkwardly timed. It arrives just [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-signs-up-to-pax-silica-the-us-led-chip-pact-france-called-colonisation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-signs-up-to-pax-silica-the-us-led-chip-pact-france-called-colonisation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public grid. That detail, dull as it sounds, is the whole point. China is encouraging its sprawling data centre industry to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-wants-its-green-power-wired-straight-into-the-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-wants-its-green-power-wired-straight-into-the-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks. Russian government unit broke into the iPhone of a detained opposition politician using a forensic tool made by Cellebrite, three months after the Israeli firm publicly announced it had [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/russia-cracked-an-activists-iphone-with-cellebrite-months-after-the-firm-said-it-left/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/russia-cracked-an-activists-iphone-with-cellebrite-months-after-the-firm-said-it-left/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance]]></title><description><![CDATA[TD&rsquo;s plan to monitor some staff has exposed a legal gap: in much of Canada, an employer can watch you work and owes you little more than a notice. Then Toronto-Dominion Bank told some of its staff that software would soon be watching how they worked, the employees did what most people do when handed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canadian-workers-have-few-defences-against-workplace-surveillance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canadian-workers-have-few-defences-against-workplace-surveillance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle cuts about 500 jobs in Romania as AI restructuring rolls on]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the morning of June 25, Oracle began telling roughly 500 of its Romanian employees that their jobs were gone, part of the company&rsquo;s long-running global reorganisation toward cloud and artificial intelligence. Oracle has not commented publicly on the exact number of local roles affected. It is the second such round in Romania in under [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-cuts-about-500-jobs-in-romania-as-ai-restructuring-rolls-on/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-cuts-about-500-jobs-in-romania-as-ai-restructuring-rolls-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM says it has built the first sub-1nm chip technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM announced that it has built the world&rsquo;s first sub-1nm chip technology, a transistor architecture at what it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, node. It is the kind of milestone the semiconductor industry has been straining toward for years, and the kind of claim that needs reading carefully, because a node name is no longer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ibm-says-it-has-built-the-first-sub-1nm-chip-technology/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ibm-says-it-has-built-the-first-sub-1nm-chip-technology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korean chip shares rally after Micron’s upbeat earnings]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korean chip stocks rallied on Thursday after Micron Technology reported a record quarter and an upbeat outlook, reviving optimism that demand for AI memory will stay tight well into next year. The benchmark KOSPI rose about 4.1%, with the country&rsquo;s two memory makers, which together account for more than 55% of the index, doing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korean-chip-shares-rally-after-microns-upbeat-earnings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korean-chip-shares-rally-after-microns-upbeat-earnings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin’s Almetra raises €16.3M to turn factory video into live data]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Berlin startup points cameras at production lines, converts the footage into live data, and says it has lifted output at Bosch and ABB plants. Now it wants the US. Berlin startup that films what happens on a factory floor and turns it into live production data has raised &euro;16.3M in Series A funding. Almetra, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-almetra-raises-163m-to-turn-factory-video-into-live-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-almetra-raises-163m-to-turn-factory-video-into-live-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon to invest an extra $13bn in Indian cloud and AI by 2030]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon will invest an additional $13bn in India by 2030, the company said on June 25, lifting its planned spending in the country to $48bn over the period and routing the new money into the part of the business that now drives almost everything Amazon does: cloud and artificial intelligence. Chief executive Andy Jassy announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-to-invest-an-extra-13bn-in-indian-cloud-and-ai-by-2030/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-to-invest-an-extra-13bn-in-indian-cloud-and-ai-by-2030/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two more Gemini researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Google are planning to leave for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on June 24, the latest departures from the team behind Gemini and the second pair to head for the Claude maker inside a week. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both regarded internally as key contributors to Google&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-more-gemini-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solo-maxxing: How tech taught Gen Z to monetise being alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[We can no longer pretend that the bridge between generations is invisible, because it stands before us, growing wider every day, harder to cross and harder even to name. Nor can we deny that technology has had its hand in this rupture, since it has not merely changed the tools we use but changed the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/solo-maxxing-how-tech-taught-gen-z-to-monetise-being-alone/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/solo-maxxing-how-tech-taught-gen-z-to-monetise-being-alone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombot raises $7m to bring its robotic dog Jennie to market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tombot, a Los Angeles-area company that makes a robotic dog for people who cannot keep a real one, has closed a $7m Series A3 financing round to move its flagship product from development into manufacturing. The company said on June 24 that the round drew investment from Caduceus Capital Partners, Wavemaker 360, the Lutheran Foundation [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tombot-raises-7m-to-bring-its-robotic-dog-jennie-to-market/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tombot-raises-7m-to-bring-its-robotic-dog-jennie-to-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[H.B. Fuller nears a $628 million deal for UK wound-care maker AMS, over its own investor’s objections]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US adhesives group has agreed a 285 pence-a-share cash offer for Advanced Medical Solutions, even as an activist shareholder demands it abandon the pursuit. H.B. Fuller, the St Paul, Minnesota adhesives maker, is closing in on a takeover of Advanced Medical Solutions Group, the AIM-listed British maker of wound-care and surgical-glue products, in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hb-fuller-nears-a-628-million-deal-for-uk-wound-care-maker-ams-over-its-own-investors-objections/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hb-fuller-nears-a-628-million-deal-for-uk-wound-care-maker-ams-over-its-own-investors-objections/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla sued over fatal Texas crash the driver says happened on Autopilot]]></title><description><![CDATA[A wrongful-death suit filed days after a Model 3 ploughed into a Katy home leans on the same argument that produced last year&rsquo;s $243m Florida verdict. The family of a 76-year-old woman killed when a Tesla crashed through the wall of her home near Houston has sued the carmaker and the driver, less than a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-sued-over-fatal-texas-crash-the-driver-says-happened-on-autopilot/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-sued-over-fatal-texas-crash-the-driver-says-happened-on-autopilot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OVHcloud confirms its outlook as public cloud growth accelerates past 20%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s largest cloud company posted faster third-quarter growth and reaffirmed full-year guidance, with its public cloud segment back above 20%. OVHcloud, the Roubaix-based group that France keeps nominating as Europe&rsquo;s answer to the American hyperscalers, reported faster revenue growth in its fiscal third quarter on Thursday and reaffirmed its full-year guidance, helped by a public [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ovhcloud-confirms-its-outlook-as-public-cloud-growth-accelerates-past-20/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ovhcloud-confirms-its-outlook-as-public-cloud-growth-accelerates-past-20/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness]]></title><description><![CDATA[The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media&rsquo;s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The context is disarmingly simple: your face, your voice, your name, treated as property you get to license or withhold. Cate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/actress-cate-blanchett-launches-a-free-registry-tool-to-keep-ai-from-using-your-likeness/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/actress-cate-blanchett-launches-a-free-registry-tool-to-keep-ai-from-using-your-likeness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White House officials that operators linked to Alibaba&rsquo;s Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude&rsquo;s capabilities between April and June. The letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg, described nearly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-running-the-largest-distillation-campaign-yet-against-claude/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-running-the-largest-distillation-campaign-yet-against-claude/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron’s revenue quadrupled as AI memory demand pushes gross margins above 81 percent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Micron Technology posted fiscal third-quarter revenue of nearly $42bn, quadrupling from just over $9bn a year earlier and beating Wall Street estimates by a wide margin. The results, reported on Tuesday, confirm that the company riding the AI memory boom hardest is the one whose stock has already climbed roughly 700 percent over the past [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microns-revenue-quadrupled-as-ai-memory-demand-pushes-gross-margins-above-81-percent/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microns-revenue-quadrupled-as-ai-memory-demand-pushes-gross-margins-above-81-percent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm lands Meta as first named customer for its Dragonfly data centre chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm has signed Meta as the first named customer for its new Dragonfly C1000 data centre processor, the strongest signal yet that the mobile chipmaker is serious about competing in the AI infrastructure market. The company announced the deal at its investor day in New York on Wednesday, alongside a new AI300 accelerator chip and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qualcomm-lands-meta-as-first-named-customer-for-its-dragonfly-data-centre-chips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qualcomm-lands-meta-as-first-named-customer-for-its-dragonfly-data-centre-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says smuggled data centres are a dead end and national security comes first]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told shareholders on Wednesday that if a commercial opportunity conflicts with US national security, the company would prioritise American interests. &ldquo;National security comes first,&rdquo; Huang said in a session shortly after the company&rsquo;s annual stockholder meeting concluded. Huang addressed the chip smuggling problem directly, arguing that anyone trying to build AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-smuggled-data-centres-are-a-dead-end-and-national-security-comes-first/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-smuggled-data-centres-are-a-dead-end-and-national-security-comes-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gemini 3.5 Flash can now see and control your screen, and Google wants enterprises to trust it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has made computer use a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash, the model it launched at I/O 2026 as its fastest agentic AI model. The capability, which lets AI agents see screens, click, type, and scroll across browsers, mobile devices, and desktops, previously required a separate standalone model and is now available as a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-35-flash-can-now-see-and-control-your-screen-and-google-wants-enterprises-to-trust-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-35-flash-can-now-see-and-control-your-screen-and-google-wants-enterprises-to-trust-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Runpod hits $1bn valuation as the AI compute crunch bites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Runpod has raised $100M and reached a $1bn valuation, a tenfold jump in under two years. The cloud startup rents out AI computing power, and it says it turned down buyout offers worth more than $500M. The great AI compute crunch is minting a new kind of winner. Runpod, a five-year-old startup that rents computing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/runpod-hits-1bn-valuation-as-the-ai-compute-crunch-bites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/runpod-hits-1bn-valuation-as-the-ai-compute-crunch-bites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tissium has raised &euro;60M to carry the world&rsquo;s only FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair system into US operating rooms. The Paris medtech wants to swap the surgeon&rsquo;s needle for a dab of light-cured glue. For a severed nerve, the standard repair has barely changed in decades. A surgeon stitches the two frayed ends together under a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tissium-raises-60m-to-take-its-sutureless-nerve-glue-to-the-us/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tissium-raises-60m-to-take-its-sutureless-nerve-glue-to-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress wants Big Tech to pay AI’s power bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech&rsquo;s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures. The aim is to put AI data centre energy costs back on the companies that create them. As AI drives up electricity bills, Congress wants Big Tech to pick up more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/congress-wants-big-tech-to-pay-ais-power-bills/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/congress-wants-big-tech-to-pay-ais-power-bills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deezer launches a remix tool that does not use AI and pays artists for every stream]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deezer has launched Remix Lab, a feature that lets fans remix songs directly inside the app using in-app tools rather than artificial intelligence. The feature requires the explicit consent of the original artists and rights holders, and Deezer says artists get paid for every stream of the remixed tracks. The tool is available on select [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deezer-launches-a-remix-tool-that-does-not-use-ai-and-pays-artists-for-every-stream/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deezer-launches-a-remix-tool-that-does-not-use-ai-and-pays-artists-for-every-stream/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley doubles its China robot forecast again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for China humanoid robot shipments again, to 50,000 this year. The bank says the machines are moving from stage demos to real factories, shops and restaurants. China&rsquo;s robots are leaving the showroom and reaching the shop floor. Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for China humanoid robot shipments for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/morgan-stanley-doubles-its-china-robot-forecast-again/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/morgan-stanley-doubles-its-china-robot-forecast-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riviera Partners acquires AI startup recruiter Lateral Labs as the talent war reshapes executive search]]></title><description><![CDATA[Riviera Partners, the Insight Partners-backed executive search firm that has placed technology leaders at companies including Uber, Snowflake, Figma, and Discord, is acquiring Lateral Labs, a recruiting firm that specialises in hiring for AI startups. The deal brings Lateral Labs&rsquo; client roster, which includes Cursor, ElevenLabs, Runway, Scale AI, and Luma Labs, under the umbrella [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/riviera-partners-acquires-ai-startup-recruiter-lateral-labs-as-the-talent-war-reshapes-executive-search/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/riviera-partners-acquires-ai-startup-recruiter-lateral-labs-as-the-talent-war-reshapes-executive-search/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyundai workers vote to strike over robot fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyundai workers have voted overwhelmingly to authorise a strike, and for the first time robots are part of the fight. A Hyundai robot strike would test who controls the factory floor as humanoid machines arrive. South Korea&rsquo;s largest carmaker is heading for a clash over robots. Hyundai&rsquo;s union has voted to authorise a strike, partly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hyundai-workers-vote-to-strike-over-robot-fears/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hyundai-workers-vote-to-strike-over-robot-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your AI coding tools may soon cost more than you]]></title><description><![CDATA[By 2028, the AI tools a developer uses could cost more than the developer&rsquo;s salary, Gartner warns. AI coding costs are climbing fast, and most companies cannot even see what they are spending. The AI coding boom has a bill, and it is growing fast. By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-ai-coding-tools-may-soon-cost-more-than-you/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-ai-coding-tools-may-soon-cost-more-than-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figma adds code layers to the canvas and lets users build custom AI plugins at Config 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Figma used the opening keynote of its Config 2026 conference on Wednesday to unveil code layers, a feature that brings executable code directly onto the collaborative design canvas. Teams can now clone repositories and extract flows from code into design layers for testing, collapsing a handoff step that has defined the design-to-development workflow for over [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/figma-adds-code-layers-to-the-canvas-and-lets-users-build-custom-ai-plugins-at-config-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/figma-adds-code-layers-to-the-canvas-and-lets-users-build-custom-ai-plugins-at-config-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistral OCR 4 targets the enterprise back office]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mistral OCR 4 reads a document like a structured map, not a wall of text. It is cheap, speaks 170 languages, and can run entirely on your own servers. Europe&rsquo;s AI champion is going after the enterprise back office. Mistral has a new model, and it is not a chatbot. The French company on 23 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mistral-ocr-4-targets-the-enterprise-back-office/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mistral-ocr-4-targets-the-enterprise-back-office/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[xLight’s $350m bet to break ASML’s chip monopoly]]></title><description><![CDATA[xLight, a US-backed startup chaired by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, is raising $350m to build an xLight EUV light source that could loosen ASML&rsquo;s grip on chipmaking. Days earlier, a Dutch rival took aim at Nvidia. Deep-tech chips are hot again. The hardware behind AI is pulling in venture money again. xLight, a Californian [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xlights-350m-bet-to-break-asmls-chip-monopoly/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xlights-350m-bet-to-break-asmls-chip-monopoly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferrari replaces its marketing chief one month after the Luce EV reveal wiped billions off its stock]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ferrari is replacing its Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer Enrico Galliera, who has held the role for more than 16 years, with former BMW Italy CEO Massimiliano Di Silvestre. The change takes effect July 1 and comes exactly one month after the controversial reveal of the Luce, Ferrari&rsquo;s first fully electric vehicle, which sent the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ferrari-replaces-its-marketing-chief-one-month-after-the-luce-ev-reveal-wiped-billions-off-its-stock/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ferrari-replaces-its-marketing-chief-one-month-after-the-luce-ev-reveal-wiped-billions-off-its-stock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slate Auto prices its Bezos-backed EV pickup at $24,950 and opens preorders with 180,000 reservations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slate Auto revealed Wednesday that its electric pickup truck will start at $24,950, making it the cheapest new truck available in the United States. The Bezos-backed startup simultaneously opened preorders, converting more than 180,000 existing reservations into $300 nonrefundable deposits. Deliveries are expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year. The price is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/slate-auto-prices-its-bezos-backed-ev-pickup-at-24950-and-opens-preorders-with-180000-reservations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/slate-auto-prices-its-bezos-backed-ev-pickup-at-24950-and-opens-preorders-with-180000-reservations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Telecom’s $1.7bn server deal hands Huawei a big win]]></title><description><![CDATA[China Telecom just ordered 40,000 servers worth $1.7bn. Huawei did not even bid, yet its ecosystem walked away with the bulk of the deal. That is not an accident. It is the template. A state-owned Chinese carrier has handed Huawei a major win without Huawei lifting a finger. China Telecom named the winners of a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-telecoms-17bn-server-deal-hands-huawei-a-big-win/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-telecoms-17bn-server-deal-hands-huawei-a-big-win/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoox redesigns its robotaxi interior ahead of commercial launch, with NHTSA approval still pending]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon&rsquo;s Zoox revealed a series of design upgrades to its custom-built robotaxi on Wednesday, refining the interior comfort and exterior communication of a vehicle that still lacks a steering wheel, pedals, or any traditional driver controls. The changes are based on rider feedback from the company&rsquo;s free ride programme and are timed to coincide with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoox-redesigns-its-robotaxi-interior-ahead-of-commercial-launch-with-nhtsa-approval-still-pending/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoox-redesigns-its-robotaxi-interior-ahead-of-commercial-launch-with-nhtsa-approval-still-pending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm, the king of the smartphone modem, is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance. The move would help it escape a shrinking phone market. It also shows US chipmakers will not give up on China. Qualcomm wants to be a chip designer for the AI age. Its first big customer could be Chinese. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qualcomm-in-talks-to-design-custom-chips-for-bytedance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qualcomm-in-talks-to-design-custom-chips-for-bytedance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China takes the supercomputer crown without US chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[A supercomputer in Shenzhen just topped the world rankings for the first time since 2017. The headline is the speed. The real story is the silicon: it runs without a single chip from Nvidia, AMD or Intel. China has taken back the supercomputing crown. On Tuesday, organisers declared a machine called LineShine the world&rsquo;s fastest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-takes-the-supercomputer-crown-without-us-chips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-takes-the-supercomputer-crown-without-us-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerebras doubled its revenue. The stock fell anyway.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cerebras nearly doubled its revenue and guided 2026 sales above Wall Street&rsquo;s estimates. Its stock still fell about 10%. The reason was a margin squeeze, caused not by a shortage of chips but by a shortage of buildings. Cerebras just learned the price of going public into a mania. On Tuesday the AI chipmaker posted [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-doubled-its-revenue-the-stock-fell-anyway/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-doubled-its-revenue-the-stock-fell-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI built its own AI chip. The target is Nvidia.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI just showed off Jalape&ntilde;o, its first home-grown AI chip, built with Broadcom. It is designed for inference, not training. And it is the clearest sign yet that the company most dependent on Nvidia wants a way out. OpenAI has a chip now. On Wednesday it unveiled Jalape&ntilde;o, the first piece of silicon it has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-built-its-own-ai-chip-the-target-is-nvidia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-built-its-own-ai-chip-the-target-is-nvidia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Launch Your Business With AI: one.com Aida AI | SourceForge Podcast, episode #123]]></title><description><![CDATA[Launch Your Business With AI: one.com Aida AI | SourceForge Podcast, episode #123]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/launch-your-business-with-ai-onecom-aida-ai-sourceforge-podcast-episode-123/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/launch-your-business-with-ai-onecom-aida-ai-sourceforge-podcast-episode-123/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s suppliers are racing to Hong Kong to fund their robot pivot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two of Apple&rsquo;s biggest Chinese suppliers are racing to Hong Kong in the same week. Luxshare wants about $3bn, Lingyi just banked $1.1bn. Both are using the cash to pivot from smartphone parts to AI hardware and humanoid robots. The companies that build your AirPods are quietly raising a fortune. This week two of them [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-suppliers-are-racing-to-hong-kong-to-fund-their-robot-pivot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-suppliers-are-racing-to-hong-kong-to-fund-their-robot-pivot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentient Foundation launches $42M program to back open-source AGI builders]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past several years, the artificial intelligence industry has been moving toward an uncomfortable reality: the most powerful models, infrastructure, and capabilities are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of well-funded companies. While billions of dollars continue to pour into proprietary AI platforms, the open-source ecosystem that helped drive much of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sentient-foundation-launches-42m-program-to-back-open-source-agi-builders/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sentient-foundation-launches-42m-program-to-back-open-source-agi-builders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Princeton grad’s $30M AI detector is selling to Superhuman]]></title><description><![CDATA[Superhuman, the company that used to be Grammarly, just bought GPTZero, the startup that catches AI writing. The contradiction is the point. As the internet fills with machine-made text, proving something is human is becoming a product. There is a neat irony at the centre of this deal. Superhuman&rsquo;s biggest product helps people write with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-princeton-grads-30m-ai-detector-is-selling-to-superhuman/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-princeton-grads-30m-ai-detector-is-selling-to-superhuman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bloomberg says defense-factory startup Hadrian is in talks to raise as much as $1bn at a $7.5bn valuation. Hadrian calls that &ldquo;inaccurate&rdquo;. Either way, the rumour shows how hot physical AI and US reindustrialisation have become. Here is a number, and a denial, in the same breath. Hadrian Automation has discussed a new funding round [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hadrians-reported-75bn-round-and-the-physical-ai-rush/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hadrians-reported-75bn-round-and-the-physical-ai-rush/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software]]></title><description><![CDATA[While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised &euro;5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital&rsquo;s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the next decade of value sits. Charly Zwemstra has spent 23 years buying software that almost nobody finds exciting. Think hospital appointment systems, municipal tax [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/main-capital-raised-the-netherlands-biggest-ever-fund-on-boring-software/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/main-capital-raised-the-netherlands-biggest-ever-fund-on-boring-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Home Speaker isn't what we hoped for 🥲 #smarthome #googlehome #tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Home Speaker isn't what we hoped for 🥲 #smarthome #googlehome #tech]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-home-speaker-isnt-what-we-hoped-for-smarthome-googlehome-tech/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-home-speaker-isnt-what-we-hoped-for-smarthome-googlehome-tech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Menlo Ventures raises $3bn on the back of one Anthropic bet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Menlo Ventures has raised $3bn, the biggest haul in its 50-year history. It is funded, in effect, by a single bet on Anthropic that is now worth about $14bn. Most venture funds are sold on a promise. Menlo Ventures&rsquo; new $3bn is sold on a receipt. The firm announced the raise on Tuesday, its largest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/menlo-ventures-raises-3bn-on-the-back-of-one-anthropic-bet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/menlo-ventures-raises-3bn-on-the-back-of-one-anthropic-bet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart buys Vibe.co for $1.4bn to chase Amazon in ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walmart is paying a reported $1.4bn for a connected-TV ad startup worth $410m nine months ago. The price tells you how far retailers will now go to catch Amazon in advertising. Walmart has agreed to buy Vibe.co, a connected-TV advertising platform. Two reports peg the deal at $1.4bn. It would be the retailer&rsquo;s biggest acquisition [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walmart-buys-vibeco-for-14bn-to-chase-amazon-in-ads/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/walmart-buys-vibeco-for-14bn-to-chase-amazon-in-ads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zhipu weighs multibillion-dollar raise after 2,000% surge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 2,000% rally has handed Beijing&rsquo;s Zhipu a rare fundraising window, and Anthropic&rsquo;s vanished Fable 5 widened it. The harder question is whether a deeply unprofitable lab can turn the moment into a durable business. Six months ago, Zhipu was a Chinese artificial-intelligence lab fresh off a $558M Hong Kong listing. Its shares priced at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zhipu-weighs-multibillion-dollar-raise-after-2000-surge/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zhipu-weighs-multibillion-dollar-raise-after-2000-surge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neel Somani breaks down the key factors behind East Coast power price spikes]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you live on the East Coast, you have probably opened a winter utility bill and wondered how your electricity costs could possibly be that high. Every few years, the story makes headlines: a cold snap hits the Northeast, power prices spike to hundreds of dollars, and politicians demand answers. But the real explanation rarely [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/neel-somani-breaks-down-the-key-factors-behind-east-coast-power-price-spikes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/neel-somani-breaks-down-the-key-factors-behind-east-coast-power-price-spikes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU moves to turn Europol into an operational police force as digital crime climbs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brussels wants to double the agency&rsquo;s staff and widen its data powers. Rights groups say it has written the surveillance before drawing the safeguards. The European Commission moved to give Europol a markedly bigger job. In a proposal set out as part of its drive to harden the bloc against organised, internet-based, and financial crime, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-moves-to-turn-europol-into-an-operational-police-force-as-digital-crime-climbs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-moves-to-turn-europol-into-an-operational-police-force-as-digital-crime-climbs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix sets a $29 billion US listing that could top every ADR deal ever done]]></title><description><![CDATA[SK Hynix has filed to raise up to 45.45 trillion won, roughly $29bn, through a listing of American depositary receipts on Nasdaq, the South Korean memory maker disclosed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. The company has tentatively set July 10 for the debut and intends to issue 17.79 million new shares to back the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-sets-a-29-billion-us-listing-that-could-top-every-adr-deal-ever-done/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-sets-a-29-billion-us-listing-that-could-top-every-adr-deal-ever-done/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI loses out to human wealth managers when the money actually moves, HSBC finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wealthy investors are using artificial intelligence to research and generate ideas, and then asking a human being whether to act on them. That is the headline finding of new HSBC research published on Wednesday, which surveyed nearly 10,000 affluent and high-net-worth individuals across 10 markets and concluded that, at the moment of decision, the adviser [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-loses-out-to-human-wealth-managers-when-the-money-actually-moves-hsbc-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-loses-out-to-human-wealth-managers-when-the-money-actually-moves-hsbc-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s Eddy Cue says the company wants to make ‘better’ and ‘more’ entertainment]]></title><description><![CDATA[The services chief, named Cannes Lions&rsquo; Entertainment Person of the Year, set out the logic behind Apple TV: no licensed reruns, fewer titles, and a belief that the story is the only thing that matters. Eddy Cue would like you to know that Apple is not finished. Accepting the title of Entertainment Person of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-eddy-cue-says-the-company-wants-to-make-better-and-more-entertainment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-eddy-cue-says-the-company-wants-to-make-better-and-more-entertainment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swiss study finds fewer job ads for career starters as AI reshapes entry-level work]]></title><description><![CDATA[An analysis of 7.3 million job advertisements shows entry-level postings down sharply since the years before generative AI, with the steepest declines in roles the tools can most readily take on. The number of Swiss job advertisements aimed at career starters in 2025 was just under a third lower than the average for the period [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/swiss-study-finds-fewer-job-ads-for-career-starters-as-ai-reshapes-entry-level-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/swiss-study-finds-fewer-job-ads-for-career-starters-as-ai-reshapes-entry-level-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance seeks a record $20bn offshore loan to fund its AI build-out]]></title><description><![CDATA[ByteDance is in preliminary talks with banks about an offshore loan of roughly $20bn, which would be the largest the TikTok owner has ever raised, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The company is said to be seeking a facility with a three-year tenor and an option to extend it to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-seeks-a-record-20bn-offshore-loan-to-fund-its-ai-build-out/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-seeks-a-record-20bn-offshore-loan-to-fund-its-ai-build-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GameStop’s Ryan Cohen gives up a pay package worth up to $35bn to chase eBay]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ryan Cohen has asked GameStop&rsquo;s board to remove the performance-based stock award it proposed for him in January scrapping a package that analysts had valued at as much as $35bn if every milestone were hit. Cohen, who is both chairman and chief executive and draws no salary, said he wanted the company&rsquo;s leadership focused on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gamestops-ryan-cohen-gives-up-a-pay-package-worth-up-to-35bn-to-chase-ebay/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gamestops-ryan-cohen-gives-up-a-pay-package-worth-up-to-35bn-to-chase-ebay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba sues the Pentagon to get off its Chinese military companies list]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba has taken the US Department of Defense to court over a label the company insists it does not deserve. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the federal court in San Jose, California, the Hangzhou group asked a judge to strike its name from the Pentagon&rsquo;s list of &ldquo;Chinese military companies&rdquo; and declared the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-sues-the-pentagon-to-get-off-its-chinese-military-companies-list/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-sues-the-pentagon-to-get-off-its-chinese-military-companies-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung plans a 90 trillion won buyback to fund a chip-worker bonus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics is preparing a share buyback worth about 90 trillion won, one of the largest repurchase programmes a South Korean company has attempted, the Yonhap News Agency reported&nbsp;on Wednesday, citing unidentified industry sources. The figure works out to $58.61bn at the won&rsquo;s current level, and the news sent Samsung shares up more than 6% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-plans-a-90-trillion-won-buyback-to-fund-a-chip-worker-bonus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-plans-a-90-trillion-won-buyback-to-fund-a-chip-worker-bonus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank’s Son says calling AI a bubble is ‘an insult’]]></title><description><![CDATA[At SoftBank Group&rsquo;s annual shareholders&rsquo; meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, the founder and chief executive was asked, as he is asked at almost every public appearance now, whether the artificial intelligence boom that has driven his fortune to record highs is a bubble waiting to deflate. He treated the question itself as the problem. To [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbanks-son-says-calling-ai-a-bubble-is-an-insult/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbanks-son-says-calling-ai-a-bubble-is-an-insult/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s Mythos found flaws in classified US systems during a government test]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of Anthropic&rsquo;s AI models identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive, classified US government computer systems during a testing exercise, a US official has told the Associated Press. The model in question was Mythos, Anthropic&rsquo;s most capable system, and it surfaced the flaws within hours. Crucially, finding a weakness within hours is not the same as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-mythos-found-flaws-in-classified-us-systems-during-a-government-test/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-mythos-found-flaws-in-classified-us-systems-during-a-government-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legion LegalTech sues US over Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Legion LegalTech says the export directive that shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide has done &ldquo;immediate, irreparable, and existential&rdquo; harm to its business. US legal-technology company has sued the federal government over the directive that, two weeks ago, forced Anthropic to switch off its two most capable AI models for everyone on Earth. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/legion-legaltech-sues-us-over-anthropic-fable-5-and-mythos-5-shutdown/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/legion-legaltech-sues-us-over-anthropic-fable-5-and-mythos-5-shutdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea is in talks with Samsung and SK Hynix over a second chip cluster]]></title><description><![CDATA[A presidential adviser says AI demand could pull forward the next phase of fab construction by more than a decade, and that the country needs somewhere to put it. South Korea&rsquo;s government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about the next phase of large-scale investment in chip manufacturing, a presidential adviser said [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-is-in-talks-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-over-a-second-chip-cluster/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-korea-is-in-talks-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-over-a-second-chip-cluster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube settles ahead of California’s second social-media addiction trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[A month before a Los Angeles jury was due to hear a Florida teenager&rsquo;s case, Google quietly stepped out of it, leaving Meta, Snap and TikTok to argue the rest. Google&rsquo;s YouTube has settled with a teenage plaintiff weeks before he was due to face the company in court, removing itself from the second bellwether [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-settles-ahead-of-californias-second-social-media-addiction-trial/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-settles-ahead-of-californias-second-social-media-addiction-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agility Robotics is reportedly going public via a $2.5B SPAC deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Agility Robotics, the Oregon startup behind the bipedal Digit robot, is in talks to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company in a deal valuing it at about $2.5bn, according to Wall Street Journal.&nbsp; The terms have not been confirmed, the SPAC partner has not been named, and the company has not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/agility-robotics-is-reportedly-going-public-via-a-25b-spac-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/agility-robotics-is-reportedly-going-public-via-a-25b-spac-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackstone plans $30B for Japan AI data centres, and is unbothered by bubble talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blackstone plans to invest roughly $30 billion in artificial-intelligence data centres in Japan over the next three to five years, the firm&rsquo;s president and chief operating officer, Jonathan Gray, told Nikkei&nbsp;in an interview published on Monday. The world&rsquo;s largest alternative asset manager is in discussions to develop facilities with a combined capacity exceeding one gigawatt, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstone-plans-30b-for-japan-ai-data-centres-and-is-unbothered-by-bubble-talk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstone-plans-30b-for-japan-ai-data-centres-and-is-unbothered-by-bubble-talk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A US spectrum auction just raised $3.5B to pay for ripping out Huawei]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission has raised about $3.5 billion from an auction of mid-band wireless spectrum, with most of the proceeds earmarked to fund the removal of Chinese-made telecom equipment from US networks. The agency&rsquo;s long-running &ldquo;rip and replace&rdquo; programme, which reimburses smaller carriers for swapping out gear from Huawei and ZTE, has spent years [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-spectrum-auction-just-raised-35b-to-pay-for-ripping-out-huawei/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-spectrum-auction-just-raised-35b-to-pay-for-ripping-out-huawei/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s $399 Kylie Jenner glasses will talk back in her voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most expensive pair in Meta&rsquo;s newly launched line of smart glasses is the one with a small gem on the lens and a celebrity attached. Meta revealed three frames built under its own name, and the priciest of them, a slim oval design called the Starfire, was made with Kylie Jenner. It costs $399, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-399-kylie-jenner-glasses-will-talk-back-in-her-voice/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-399-kylie-jenner-glasses-will-talk-back-in-her-voice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US is pressing Meta to let it review its AI, and Meta is the last holdout]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has been pressing Meta to submit its most capable AI models for federal security review, leaving the company the only major US developer that has not agreed to do so, according to a&nbsp;New York Times report. The push, the paper says, has come through emails as Washington steps up oversight of frontier [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-is-pressing-meta-to-let-it-review-its-ai-and-meta-is-the-last-holdout/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-is-pressing-meta-to-let-it-review-its-ai-and-meta-is-the-last-holdout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, a 30-second native 4K AI video model that accepts 50 reference inputs]]></title><description><![CDATA[ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 on Tuesday at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing, a video generation model that produces 30-second clips at native 4K resolution from a single prompt. The company skipped four intermediate versions entirely, jumping straight from its predecessor to signal what it described as a generational leap. An enterprise beta is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-unveils-seedance-25-a-30-second-native-4k-ai-video-model-that-accepts-50-reference-inputs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bytedance-unveils-seedance-25-a-30-second-native-4k-ai-video-model-that-accepts-50-reference-inputs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate that lives in your Slack channels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is launching Claude Tag in research preview, an &ldquo;always-on Claude&rdquo; that lives inside Slack and acts as a persistent AI teammate. The feature lets users tag @Claude to get insights in conversations and assign tasks. It is available to Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers starting today. Claude Tag is an evolution of Anthropic&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-launches-claude-tag-an-always-on-ai-teammate-that-lives-in-your-slack-channels/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-launches-claude-tag-an-always-on-ai-teammate-that-lives-in-your-slack-channels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fake AI agent skill passed every security scanner and reportedly reached 26,000 agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and promoted it with an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design, collecting only [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-fake-ai-agent-skill-passed-every-security-scanner-and-reportedly-reached-26000-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-fake-ai-agent-skill-passed-every-security-scanner-and-reportedly-reached-26000-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s new prediction market app Arena could bring betting to 3 billion users]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small team at Meta to build a smartphone app that would compete with prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The app, internally called Arena, would operate independently from Facebook and Instagram. Meta declined to comment. Arena would initially use a video-game-style points system [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-new-prediction-market-app-arena-could-bring-betting-to-3-billion-users/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-new-prediction-market-app-arena-could-bring-betting-to-3-billion-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% smaller than it would have been had the country voted to remain. On Monday, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-brexit-bill-comes-due-ten-years-seven-prime-ministers-and-an-economy-6-smaller-than-it-should-be/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-brexit-bill-comes-due-ten-years-seven-prime-ministers-and-an-economy-6-smaller-than-it-should-be/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX draws $89 billion in demand for its debut bond sale, one of the largest US offerings this year]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX has drawn roughly $89 billion in investor demand for its debut US bond sale, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, setting the stage for one of the largest investment-grade offerings this year. The company is seeking to raise between $20 billion and $25 billion from a five-tranche deal expected to price on Tuesday. At the lower [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-draws-89-billion-in-demand-for-its-debut-bond-sale-one-of-the-largest-us-offerings-this-year/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-draws-89-billion-in-demand-for-its-debut-bond-sale-one-of-the-largest-us-offerings-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle cut 21,000 jobs this year and its SEC filing explicitly blames AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle&rsquo;s global workforce fell to 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, down from 162,000 a year earlier, a net reduction of roughly 21,000 people. The company&rsquo;s annual regulatory filing&nbsp;stated plainly&nbsp;that &ldquo;the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce.&rdquo; It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-cut-21000-jobs-this-year-and-its-sec-filing-explicitly-blames-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-cut-21000-jobs-this-year-and-its-sec-filing-explicitly-blames-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is simultaneously the most dominant and most vulnerable it has ever been]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google&rsquo;s financial performance has never been stronger. Alphabet posted $109.9 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026,&nbsp;up 22 per cent year on year, the fastest growth rate in any quarter since 2022, with search advertising revenue climbing 19.1 per cent and queries hitting an all-time high. And yet the week before these numbers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-simultaneously-the-most-dominant-and-most-vulnerable-it-has-ever-been/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-simultaneously-the-most-dominant-and-most-vulnerable-it-has-ever-been/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stark Defence raises €500M led by Sequoia and Founders Fund at a valuation above €3.5 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stark Defence, the Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, has raised &euro;500 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel&rsquo;s Founders Fund, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The deal values the company at more than three and a half billion euros, roughly triple the &euro;1 billion mark it crossed earlier this year. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stark-defence-raises-500m-led-by-sequoia-and-founders-fund-at-a-valuation-above-35-billion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stark-defence-raises-500m-led-by-sequoia-and-founders-fund-at-a-valuation-above-35-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s biggest tech CEOs have formed a standing lobby group with a direct line to von der Leyen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seven of Europe&rsquo;s largest technology companies have created a permanent dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, pressing the bloc to deregulate faster and let European firms consolidate. The group, which calls itself the&nbsp;European Tech Creators, collectively generates &euro;417 billion in annual revenue, represents nearly &euro;1.1 trillion in market capitalisation, and employs close [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-biggest-tech-ceos-have-formed-a-standing-lobby-group-with-a-direct-line-to-von-der-leyen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-biggest-tech-ceos-have-formed-a-standing-lobby-group-with-a-direct-line-to-von-der-leyen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea’s chip worker bonuses are so large the central bank is treating them as an inflation risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea&rsquo;s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country&rsquo;s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy. The Bank of Korea warned this month that performance bonuses at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix could spread into broader wage increases and add upward [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-chip-worker-bonuses-are-so-large-the-central-bank-is-treating-them-as-an-inflation-risk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-chip-worker-bonuses-are-so-large-the-central-bank-is-treating-them-as-an-inflation-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honda signs multiyear solid-state battery deal with QuantumScape after scrapping its EV lineup]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honda R&amp;D, the independent research arm of Honda Motor Company, has signed a multiyear joint research agreement with California-based QuantumScape to develop and manufacture solid-state battery cells. The deal, announced on June 18, makes Honda the second major automaker to formally partner with QuantumScape after Volkswagen. The agreement follows Honda&rsquo;s completion of an in-depth technology [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honda-signs-multiyear-solid-state-battery-deal-with-quantumscape-after-scrapping-its-ev-lineup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honda-signs-multiyear-solid-state-battery-deal-with-quantumscape-after-scrapping-its-ev-lineup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LastPass says hackers stole customer data through a supply chain breach at Klue]]></title><description><![CDATA[LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case data were stolen after hackers breached Klue, a competitive intelligence vendor that held OAuth tokens granting access to LastPass&rsquo;s Salesforce environment. The breach did not compromise LastPass&rsquo;s own infrastructure or its customers&rsquo; encrypted password vaults. The stolen data includes names, phone numbers, email [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lastpass-says-hackers-stole-customer-data-through-a-supply-chain-breach-at-klue/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lastpass-says-hackers-stole-customer-data-through-a-supply-chain-breach-at-klue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CryptoProcessing’s MLRO on why banking access is still crypto’s biggest challenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crypto firms have spent years trying to convince banks that they&rsquo;re safe to do business with. Even now, with far more regulation in place than a few years ago, plenty of those firms still get turned away at the door. Jelizaveta Paskovskaja, Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) at&nbsp;CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid, has a clear explanation for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cryptoprocessings-mlro-on-why-banking-access-is-still-cryptos-biggest-challenge/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cryptoprocessings-mlro-on-why-banking-access-is-still-cryptos-biggest-challenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HaloBraid raises $7M to build the first robotic braiding assistant for hair salons]]></title><description><![CDATA[HaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, has raised seven million dollars in a seed round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian&rsquo;s venture firm Seven Seven Six. The device works alongside professional stylists rather than replacing them: a braider starts each braid by hand and then hands off to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/halobraid-raises-7m-to-build-the-first-robotic-braiding-assistant-for-hair-salons/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/halobraid-raises-7m-to-build-the-first-robotic-braiding-assistant-for-hair-salons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta launches its own smart glasses brand at $299, breaking from the Ray-Ban name]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has launched smart glasses under its own brand for the first time, pricing the Adventurer and Fury models at $299 each. The glasses match the hardware specifications of the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, which starts at $359, but ship without the Ray-Ban branding and licensing premium. A third model called Starfire, designed in collaboration [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-launches-its-own-smart-glasses-brand-at-299-breaking-from-the-ray-ban-name/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-launches-its-own-smart-glasses-brand-at-299-breaking-from-the-ray-ban-name/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The algorithm has a nose now, and perfume is better for it]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a former shop on Ginnekenstraat, a pedestrian street in the Dutch city of Breda, you can answer a short questionnaire about yourself and walk out less than an hour later holding a perfume that did not exist when you arrived. The questions are not the ones a sales assistant asks. What colour best represents [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-algorithm-has-a-nose-now-and-perfume-is-better-for-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-algorithm-has-a-nose-now-and-perfume-is-better-for-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude’s latest wobble lands in a worse week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic says it has identified a fix for elevated errors across multiple Claude models, just as the company is still explaining why it suspended access to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5. Anthropic&rsquo;s&nbsp;status page&nbsp;says the company began investigating elevated error rates across multiple models at 14:19 UTC on 23 June and moved to identified [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claudes-latest-wobble-lands-in-a-worse-week/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claudes-latest-wobble-lands-in-a-worse-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luminvera bets on immersive software for robotics]]></title><description><![CDATA[For most of Luminvera&rsquo;s short life, the pitch came with an AR wearable. The company, incorporated in March 2026 and run out of Silicon Valley, started as a bet that the right device could pull an industrial engineer out of what its founder, Lu Yang, likes to call the &ldquo;2D Stone Age.&rdquo; A flat monitor [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/luminvera-bets-on-immersive-software-for-robotics/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/luminvera-bets-on-immersive-software-for-robotics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU escalates its Meta probe over addictive design for kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook and Instagram of exploitative design that hooks children. The Meta addictive design probe could end in a fine worth up to 6% of global sales. Brussels is about to turn up the heat on Meta. The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-escalates-its-meta-probe-over-addictive-design-for-kids/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-escalates-its-meta-probe-over-addictive-design-for-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX lands $6.3bn compute deal with Reflection AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150mn a month for Nvidia chips at Colossus 2, a deal worth roughly $6.3bn by 2029. The SpaceX Reflection AI deal puts Nvidia on both sides of the trade. SpaceX has signed another giant compute tenant. This time it is Reflection AI, an open-source startup barely two years old. Reflection [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-lands-63bn-compute-deal-with-reflection-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-lands-63bn-compute-deal-with-reflection-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cybersecurity industry built a $200B business selling you problems. Nobody got paid to fix them.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity has never been better at finding risk. Organizations can identify vulnerable servers, dormant user accounts, excessive privileges, exposed cloud assets, and software flaws in near real time. The market has rewarded that capability handsomely, with global cybersecurity spending projected to exceed the half-trillion-dollar range as enterprises continue investing in tools that promise greater visibility [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-cybersecurity-industry-built-a-200b-business-selling-you-problems-nobody-got-paid-to-fix-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-cybersecurity-industry-built-a-200b-business-selling-you-problems-nobody-got-paid-to-fix-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best TECH DEALS For Prime Day 2026! | Smartphones, Watches &amp; More!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Best TECH DEALS For Prime Day 2026! | Smartphones, Watches &amp; More!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-best-tech-deals-for-prime-day-2026-smartphones-watches-amp-more/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-best-tech-deals-for-prime-day-2026-smartphones-watches-amp-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astral Systems raises £23M to make cancer isotopes by fusion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bristol fusion startup Astral Systems has raised &pound;23mn to scale the medical isotopes that cancer scans depend on. The Astral Systems &pound;23M round backs a rare fusion company that already runs reactors and earns revenue. Most fusion companies promise clean power in a decade or two. Astral Systems is trying something different, and getting paid [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/astral-systems-raises-23m-to-make-cancer-isotopes-by-fusion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/astral-systems-raises-23m-to-make-cancer-isotopes-by-fusion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Groq’s $650M raise: rebuilding after the Nvidia deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Groq has confirmed a $650mn raise to rebuild itself as an AI inference cloud, six months after Nvidia paid out its investors and hired away its founder. The Groq $650M round is a bet that purpose-built chips still beat GPUs. Groq spent years as one of the loudest challengers to Nvidia. Then, last December, Nvidia [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/groqs-650m-raise-rebuilding-after-the-nvidia-deal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/groqs-650m-raise-rebuilding-after-the-nvidia-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearfield Instruments raises a record $380M chip round]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam firm that inspects chips at the atomic scale, has raised $380mn at a $1.6bn valuation. It is the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, and sovereign funds are paying close attention. Everyone knows the headline names of the AI chip boom. Nvidia designs the chips. TSMC makes them. ASML builds the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nearfield-instruments-raises-a-record-380m-chip-round/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nearfield-instruments-raises-a-record-380m-chip-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm nears $4bn Modular deal to rival Nvidia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm is closing in on a deal to buy AI-software startup Modular for about $4bn. The Qualcomm Modular deal would hand the chipmaker fresh ammunition in its fight to rival Nvidia. Qualcomm has entered advanced talks to acquire Modular, according to Bloomberg. The deal would value the AI-infrastructure software company at roughly $4bn. An announcement [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qualcomm-nears-4bn-modular-deal-to-rival-nvidia/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qualcomm-nears-4bn-modular-deal-to-rival-nvidia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi&rsquo;s MGX AI fund has raised close to $50bn. For the first time, the emirate leaned on outside investors to do it, and the money is already going out the door. MGX is the Abu Dhabi investment firm built for the AI era. It has pulled in nearly $50bn for a single fund, according [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mgx-raises-a-50bn-ai-fund-and-is-already-spending-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mgx-raises-a-50bn-ai-fund-and-is-already-spending-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beatbot pool cleaners are on Prime Day sale. Join our LIVE!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beatbot pool cleaners are on Prime Day sale. Join our LIVE!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beatbot-pool-cleaners-are-on-prime-day-sale-join-our-live/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beatbot-pool-cleaners-are-on-prime-day-sale-join-our-live/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google taps its alumni network for a new AI startup incubator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is building an AI startup incubator that draws on its network of former employees, the so-called &ldquo;Xooglers&rdquo;, according to Bloomberg. The pitch is neat in its logic: as some of the company&rsquo;s most capable people leave to start their own AI ventures, an incubator built around alumni keeps Google close to them, and close [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-taps-its-alumni-network-for-a-new-ai-startup-incubator/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-taps-its-alumni-network-for-a-new-ai-startup-incubator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TensorX raises €8M to build sovereign AI inference for Europe on Nvidia Blackwell]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Irish startup is buying B300 GPUs to expand a GDPR-compliant inference platform aimed at the banks, hospitals, and law firms that cannot send their data abroad. TensorX, a startup building AI inference infrastructure that keeps European data inside Europe, has raised &euro;8m to buy Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, including the latest B300 chips, and expand [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tensorx-raises-8m-to-build-sovereign-ai-inference-for-europe-on-nvidia-blackwell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tensorx-raises-8m-to-build-sovereign-ai-inference-for-europe-on-nvidia-blackwell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tsuga raises $35m to keep AI-era observability inside the customer’s own cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris startup, founded by two former Datadog hands, wants to end the per-byte pricing model just as AI workloads make telemetry explode. Tsuga, a Paris startup building observability software for the age of AI agents, has raised a $35m Series A, a round that arrives barely six months after 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/tsuga-raises-35m-to-keep-ai-era-observability-inside-the-customers-own-cloud/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tsuga-raises-35m-to-keep-ai-era-observability-inside-the-customers-own-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tencent weighs exit from Marvelous and other Japanese game bets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tencent Holdings is in talks to walk away from several of the minority stakes it holds in Japanese game studios, among them the Tokyo-listed developer Marvelous Inc., as the company reassesses a global games portfolio it spent years assembling. The discussions, first reported by Bloomberg,&nbsp;would unwind part of a buying spree that ran through the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tencent-weighs-exit-from-marvelous-and-other-japanese-game-bets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tencent-weighs-exit-from-marvelous-and-other-japanese-game-bets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WiseTech shares fall as founder Richard White denies a trafficking claim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reports of an Australian police inquiry into a visa-for-sex allegation knocked billions off the logistics software firm, four months after White returned to its leadership. Richard White, the billionaire founder and executive chairman of the Australian logistics software company WiseTech Global, has denied any involvement in human trafficking after reports that police are investigating a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wisetech-shares-fall-as-founder-richard-white-denies-a-trafficking-claim/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wisetech-shares-fall-as-founder-richard-white-denies-a-trafficking-claim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosus launches ToqanClaw, an OpenClaw-style tool builder for its 5m merchants]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Amsterdam-listed group is putting conversational app-building in front of restaurants and shopkeepers, the users it says AI has so far left behind. Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a platform that lets people build apps, dashboards, and automations by describing what they want in plain language, the way they would explain a task to a colleague. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prosus-launches-toqanclaw-an-openclaw-style-tool-builder-for-its-5m-merchants/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prosus-launches-toqanclaw-an-openclaw-style-tool-builder-for-its-5m-merchants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workday must face California lawsuit over AI hiring bias, judge rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[A San Francisco judge cleared a proposed class action to proceed, in a case described as the first to broadly target the algorithms behind AI screening software. A US federal judge has ruled that Workday must face claims its AI-powered hiring software screened out job applicants at other companies in ways that allegedly broke California [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/workday-must-face-california-lawsuit-over-ai-hiring-bias-judge-rules/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/workday-must-face-california-lawsuit-over-ai-hiring-bias-judge-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UN urges AI firms to come clean on their environmental costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Nations wants artificial-intelligence companies to stop treating the environmental bill as somebody else&rsquo;s problem. In a call amplified this week by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the organisation is pressing the firms behind the AI boom to disclose the carbon, water, and land their systems consume, and to switch their data centres and supply chains [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/un-urges-ai-firms-to-come-clean-on-their-environmental-costs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/un-urges-ai-firms-to-come-clean-on-their-environmental-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son dismisses Musk’s space data centres as an AI-race bet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son does not think the future of artificial intelligence is in orbit. The SoftBank Group founder told shareholders on 23 June 2026 that there is little merit in building data centres in space, the idea Elon Musk has been championing, and predicted the AI race would be won by compute kept firmly on the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/masayoshi-son-dismisses-musks-space-data-centres-as-an-ai-race-bet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/masayoshi-son-dismisses-musks-space-data-centres-as-an-ai-race-bet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tata Electronics breach claims to expose Apple and Tesla trade secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[A ransomware group says it lifted more than 630 gigabytes from the Indian manufacturer, including purported design files belonging to two of its biggest customers. The authenticity of those files is unconfirmed. India&rsquo;s Tata Electronics has confirmed that it detected a cybersecurity incident on some of its systems a few weeks ago, after a ransomware [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tata-electronics-breach-claims-to-expose-apple-and-tesla-trade-secrets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tata-electronics-breach-claims-to-expose-apple-and-tesla-trade-secrets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK weighs forcing social media platforms to surface trusted news]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ministers are considering rules that would make BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 content easier to find on Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, as more Britons get their news from feeds. Britain&rsquo;s culture department said on Monday that it is considering requiring social media platforms to make content from public service media and other trusted news providers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-weighs-forcing-social-media-platforms-to-surface-trusted-news/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-weighs-forcing-social-media-platforms-to-surface-trusted-news/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron and Anthropic sign a multi-year AI memory supply deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chipmaker will supply high-bandwidth memory, DRAM, and SSDs for Claude&rsquo;s data centres, run Anthropic&rsquo;s models internally, and take a stake in its latest funding round. Micron Technology and Anthropic have signed a strategic agreement that ties the memory maker to the AI company across three fronts at once. A multi-year supply deal for the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/micron-and-anthropic-sign-a-multi-year-ai-memory-supply-deal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/micron-and-anthropic-sign-a-multi-year-ai-memory-supply-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Eyes alliance warns frontier AI cyber threats are ‘months’ away]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge offensive hacking, and that the window to prepare for it is closing fast. In a coordinated statement, the agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand said urgent action [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-eyes-alliance-warns-frontier-ai-cyber-threats-are-months-away/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-eyes-alliance-warns-frontier-ai-cyber-threats-are-months-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM joins OpenAI’s cyber program to bring frontier AI into enterprise security]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM has signed up to OpenAI&rsquo;s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, a tie-up the company says will put frontier AI models to work inside corporate security operations. The partnership comes with a concrete first product: a new application-security service that uses the cyber capabilities of OpenAI&rsquo;s models to find and confirm software vulnerabilities faster than conventional [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ibm-joins-openais-cyber-program-to-bring-frontier-ai-into-enterprise-security/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ibm-joins-openais-cyber-program-to-bring-frontier-ai-into-enterprise-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BP, Walmart and 7-Eleven sued over AI-set petrol prices in California]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of California drivers has sued six of the country&rsquo;s biggest fuel retailers, accusing them of using an artificial-intelligence pricing tool to coordinate the cost of petrol and keep it artificially high. The complaint, filed on 22 June 2026 in federal court in Sacramento, names BP, Circle K, Marathon Petroleum, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bp-walmart-and-7-eleven-sued-over-ai-set-petrol-prices-in-california/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bp-walmart-and-7-eleven-sued-over-ai-set-petrol-prices-in-california/</guid></item></channel></rss>