<?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>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:10:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is entering the late stage of its hype cycle. Not a collapse. A correction. For the past two years,&nbsp;AI has dominated venture capital flows, with capital pouring into the sector at unprecedented scale and startups multiplying rapidly as funding concentrates around AI-driven businesses. What began as acceleration has now started to show the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-hype-cycle-will-slow-down-whats-next-decides-the-winners/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-hype-cycle-will-slow-down-whats-next-decides-the-winners/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synthesia partners with Cinder to scale moderation before a frame renders]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI video company is adding moderation infrastructure built for AI-generated content, doubling down on a screen-at-creation model it has run since 2017. Synthesia decides whether a video is allowed before it exists. The London AI video company, which lets users generate avatar-led clips&nbsp;from a script, announced on 4 June that it is extending its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/synthesia-partners-with-cinder-to-scale-moderation-before-a-frame-renders/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/synthesia-partners-with-cinder-to-scale-moderation-before-a-frame-renders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s new Proteus robot takes plain-language orders, headed to Europe in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pitch for Amazon&rsquo;s new warehouse robot is that you talk to it. At its &ldquo;Delivering the Future&rdquo; event at the Dartford fulfilment centre east of London on 4 June, Amazon unveiled a next-generation Proteus that takes instructions in plain language, no technical commands and no programming interface, alongside a plan to invest more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-new-proteus-robot-takes-plain-language-orders-headed-to-europe-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-new-proteus-robot-takes-plain-language-orders-headed-to-europe-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta keeps delaying the Muse Spark API developers were promised]]></title><description><![CDATA[The model shipped in April. The interface developers need to build on it has slipped repeatedly, with no firm date until Meta said this week it would arrive this month. A model without an API is a demo, not a platform. That is the awkward position Meta&rsquo;s Muse Spark has occupied since April, when the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-keeps-delaying-the-muse-spark-api-developers-were-promised/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-keeps-delaying-the-muse-spark-api-developers-were-promised/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantinuum prices its IPO at $1.68bn, setting a new bar for quantum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The marketed range was $53 to $55. Quantinuum priced at $60. That gap, the willingness of investors to pay above what the bankers asked, is the real news in the Honeywell-backed company&rsquo;s initial public offering, which raised $1.68bn and set a valuation the entire quantum-computing sector will now be measured against. The mechanics are straightforward. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantinuum-prices-its-ipo-at-168bn-setting-a-new-bar-for-quantum/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantinuum-prices-its-ipo-at-168bn-setting-a-new-bar-for-quantum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank&rsquo;s PayPay pushes into insurance with a 70.2% T&amp;D Life stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[The SoftBank-backed payments app is taking a 70.2% stake in T&amp;D Financial Life, its most capital-intensive move yet from payments into full financial services. PayPay is buying its way into life insurance. The SoftBank-backed payments company has agreed to acquire a 70.2% stake in T&amp;D Financial Life Insurance from T&amp;D Holdings for roughly &yen;134.3bn, about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbankrsquos-paypay-pushes-into-insurance-with-a-702-tampd-life-stake/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbankrsquos-paypay-pushes-into-insurance-with-a-702-tampd-life-stake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity is the ceiling: software design in the age of AI coding]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI has made writing code faster than ever. The harder work is understanding a system and changing it without breaking it. That has not gotten cheaper, and it now decides how much you can hand to a machine. Introduction In 1987, in an essay called &ldquo;No Silver Bullet,&rdquo; Fred Brooks predicted that no tool or [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/complexity-is-the-ceiling-software-design-in-the-age-of-ai-coding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/complexity-is-the-ceiling-software-design-in-the-age-of-ai-coding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[KPMG puts Claude in front of all 276,000 staff in an Anthropic alliance]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Big Four firm is embedding Claude in the platform its people and clients actually work in, starting with tax and legal, and is named Anthropic&rsquo;s preferred partner for private equity. The number that defines the deal is 276,000. That is how many KPMG employees will get access to Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude under a global alliance [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kpmg-puts-claude-in-front-of-all-276000-staff-in-an-anthropic-alliance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kpmg-puts-claude-in-front-of-all-276000-staff-in-an-anthropic-alliance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merantix Capital closes a €103m fund to back early-stage European AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Merantix Capital has closed a &euro;103m fund to invest in early-stage, AI-native teams across Europe, the Berlin firm announced on 4 June. The fund is more than three times the size of its first vehicle, which co-founders Rasmus Rothe and Adrian Locher raised at roughly &euro;30m, and it widens the firm&rsquo;s remit from companies built [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/merantix-capital-closes-a-103m-fund-to-back-early-stage-european-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/merantix-capital-closes-a-103m-fund-to-back-early-stage-european-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerebras says it will work with everyone in AI hardware except NVIDIA]]></title><description><![CDATA[The strategy is defined by a single exclusion. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Wednesday, Cerebras chief executive Andrew Feldman said the AI chipmaker is working with every major hardware maker in the industry apart from one: NVIDIA. The line was not a complaint. It was the pitch. Feldman&rsquo;s argument is that the buyers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-says-it-will-work-with-everyone-in-ai-hardware-except-nvidia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-says-it-will-work-with-everyone-in-ai-hardware-except-nvidia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX wins Texas county approval for Terafab reinvestment zone]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reinvestment zone is the unglamorous first step, the procedural gate that has to open before any of the larger numbers attached to a project can flow. On 3 June, the commissioners of Grimes County, Texas, opened it, voting 4-1 to designate a reinvestment zone for SpaceX&rsquo;s proposed Terafab semiconductor plant. The vote is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-wins-texas-county-approval-for-terafab-reinvestment-zone/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-wins-texas-county-approval-for-terafab-reinvestment-zone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benchmark breaks its own rule with a $2bn raise and a first growth fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[The discipline was the whole identity. For more than twenty years Benchmark kept its funds around $425m and backed only young companies, taking a roughly 20% stake in each and trusting that selectivity, not scale, would produce the returns. That model has now bent. The firm has closed $2bn across two new funds, according to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/benchmark-breaks-its-own-rule-with-a-2bn-raise-and-a-first-growth-fund/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/benchmark-breaks-its-own-rule-with-a-2bn-raise-and-a-first-growth-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber’s bet on Nuro is bigger than it let on, at close to $500m]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber said &ldquo;multi-hundred-million&rdquo; and meant something closer to half a billion. The ride-hailing company&rsquo;s commitment to self-driving start-up Nuro is near $500m, according to sources directly aware of the matter, a figure that reframes a partnership Uber had described in vaguer terms and reveals a follow-on investment significantly larger than its first. The new detail [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubers-bet-on-nuro-is-bigger-than-it-let-on-at-close-to-500m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubers-bet-on-nuro-is-bigger-than-it-let-on-at-close-to-500m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman tells Congress to fund AI testing, not to require model approvals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman spent the week in Washington making a careful distinction. He is asking lawmakers to spend more money testing artificial intelligence, and asking them not to require AI companies to win government approval before releasing a model. The first is a request for resources. The second is a request for a particular kind of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sam-altman-tells-congress-to-fund-ai-testing-not-to-require-model-approvals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sam-altman-tells-congress-to-fund-ai-testing-not-to-require-model-approvals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A UK MP’s lawsuit could decide whether xAI answers for what Grok makes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The case turns on a question of authorship. When a user types a prompt and Grok returns a sexualised image of a real woman, who made it, the person at the keyboard or the company that built the machine? On 3 June, Labour MP Jess Asato filed a claim at the High Court in England [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-uk-mps-lawsuit-could-decide-whether-xai-answers-for-what-grok-makes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-uk-mps-lawsuit-could-decide-whether-xai-answers-for-what-grok-makes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta accuses Australia of breaching trade pact over news bargaining tax]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has reached for a bigger weapon. The company accused the Australian government of breaching the US-Australia free trade agreement with its proposed News Bargaining Incentive, and pointed Washington towards the &ldquo;trade action&rdquo; it has taken against other countries that taxed American technology firms. The dispute over paying for news, now in its fifth year, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-accuses-australia-of-breaching-trade-pact-over-news-bargaining-tax/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-accuses-australia-of-breaching-trade-pact-over-news-bargaining-tax/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foxconn and Intel join SambaNova to build rackscale AI infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most consequential line in Intel&rsquo;s Computex announcement was not about a chip. It was about a ratio. As AI workloads move from training to inference, the company argued, the long-standing arrangement of four GPUs to every CPU collapses towards something closer to one to one, and the processor Intel actually sells well moves back [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/foxconn-and-intel-join-sambanova-to-build-rackscale-ai-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/foxconn-and-intel-join-sambanova-to-build-rackscale-ai-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix turns to generative AI to fix a problem it helped create]]></title><description><![CDATA[The streaming service that taught a generation to scroll endlessly now wants to sell them the cure. At the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Netflix&rsquo;s chief product and technology officer, Elizabeth Stone, said the company is deploying generative AI to help subscribers cut through the volume of content it has spent two [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-turns-to-generative-ai-to-fix-a-problem-it-helped-create/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-turns-to-generative-ai-to-fix-a-problem-it-helped-create/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft dropped the one survey question its employees actually cared about]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, one question in Microsoft&rsquo;s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a &ldquo;good deal at Microsoft,&rdquo; defined as &ldquo;a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft and what I get in return.&rdquo; When the scores dropped low enough, the company&nbsp;responded with significant [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-dropped-the-one-survey-question-its-employees-actually-cared-about/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-dropped-the-one-survey-question-its-employees-actually-cared-about/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history]]></title><description><![CDATA[The public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion.&nbsp;Alphabet&rsquo;s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equity offering of any kind, in any industry, ever. The company had initially planned to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-just-raised-85-billion-for-ai-smashing-the-largest-equity-offering-in-history/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-just-raised-85-billion-for-ai-smashing-the-largest-equity-offering-in-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did]]></title><description><![CDATA[No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap.&nbsp;Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts&nbsp;over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta&rsquo;s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else&rsquo;s account. The bot complied without verifying the requester&rsquo;s identity, and the attacker then reset the password and locked out the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-asked-metas-ai-chatbot-to-hand-over-instagram-accounts-and-it-did/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-asked-metas-ai-chatbot-to-hand-over-instagram-accounts-and-it-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A popular OpenAI Codex tool with 29,000 weekly downloads has been quietly stealing developer tokens for a month]]></title><description><![CDATA[The npm package looked legitimate. It had an active GitHub repository, steady development history, and roughly 29,000 weekly downloads. For developers using&nbsp;OpenAI Codex, it offered exactly what it advertised: a remote web UI for the AI coding tool. But for the past month, every invocation of codexui-android has also been silently reading the contents of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-popular-openai-codex-tool-with-29000-weekly-downloads-has-been-quietly-stealing-developer-tokens-for-a-month/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-popular-openai-codex-tool-with-29000-weekly-downloads-has-been-quietly-stealing-developer-tokens-for-a-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its People and Places division, the unit responsible for human resources, recruitment, workplace facilities, and culture. The cuts, many targeting senior roles, represent less than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-cuts-nearly-a-quarter-of-its-hr-division-as-new-president-reshapes-the-company-from-the-inside/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-cuts-nearly-a-quarter-of-its-hr-division-as-new-president-reshapes-the-company-from-the-inside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta spent $400 million and fought the US government to buy a VR fitness app, then let its creators take it back]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2023, Meta fought an&nbsp;eight-month antitrust battle&nbsp;with the Federal Trade Commission for the right to acquire Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. The deal was reportedly worth around&nbsp;$400 million. Mark Zuckerberg even testified in court to get it done. Less than three years later, Meta is handing it back. The company announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-spent-400-million-and-fought-the-us-government-to-buy-a-vr-fitness-app-then-let-its-creators-take-it-back/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-spent-400-million-and-fought-the-us-government-to-buy-a-vr-fitness-app-then-let-its-creators-take-it-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One click on GitHub.dev is all it takes to hand over your private repositories]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every developer who has ever pressed the period key on a GitHub repository, launching the convenient browser-based VS Code editor known as&nbsp;GitHub.dev, has unknowingly accepted a bargain. In exchange for a lightweight coding environment, GitHub silently passes an OAuth token to the session, one that grants read and write access to every repository the user [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/one-click-on-githubdev-is-all-it-takes-to-hand-over-your-private-repositories/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/one-click-on-githubdev-is-all-it-takes-to-hand-over-your-private-repositories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic picks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, with a SpaceX computing deal worth $1.25 billion per month buried in the fine print]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also working on the deal,&nbsp;Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The Claude developer is weighing going public as soon as October after filing confidentially for a listing on Monday. More banks could be added to the lineup, and details of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-picks-morgan-stanley-and-goldman-sachs-to-lead-its-ipo-with-a-spacex-computing-deal-worth-125-billion-per-month-buried-in-the-fine-print/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-picks-morgan-stanley-and-goldman-sachs-to-lead-its-ipo-with-a-spacex-computing-deal-worth-125-billion-per-month-buried-in-the-fine-print/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has called on households across the bloc to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours, citing the rapid growth of AI data centres, accelerating electrification, and rising overall digital infrastructure demand as factors straining European power grids. The Commission simultaneously published a Data Centre Energy Efficiency Package on 3 June that introduces a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-is-asking-households-to-cut-electricity-use-during-peak-hours-because-ai-data-centres-are-straining-the-grid/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-is-asking-households-to-cut-electricity-use-during-peak-hours-because-ai-data-centres-are-straining-the-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure for security teams, because AI-enabled applications can introduce&nbsp;unfamiliar attack surfaces, unpredictable behavior, and new ways for attackers to manipulate inputs, access data, or chain weaknesses across [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/virtual-barbarians-at-the-gate-securing-the-ai-blind-spot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/virtual-barbarians-at-the-gate-securing-the-ai-blind-spot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Commission&rsquo;s &lsquo;AI continent&rsquo; rhetoric sits atop draft laws that would let it override chip supply contracts and keep US providers away from sensitive government data. The European Commission unveiled its long-delayed technological sovereignty package on Wednesday, a bundle of four measures meant to loosen the bloc&rsquo;s dependence on American and Asian technology across semiconductors, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-tech-sovereignty-package-chip-emergency-powers-and-curbs-on-us-cloud/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-tech-sovereignty-package-chip-emergency-powers-and-curbs-on-us-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using a Galaxy S26 Ultra to vlog and edit an entire day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using a Galaxy S26 Ultra to vlog and edit an entire day]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/using-a-galaxy-s26-ultra-to-vlog-and-edit-an-entire-day/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/using-a-galaxy-s26-ultra-to-vlog-and-edit-an-entire-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tata licenses a Chinese EV platform to rescue its stalled premium push]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s biggest electric carmaker will build its delayed Avinya models on a Chery platform, the latest Indian firm to borrow Chinese tech while avoiding a Chinese partner. Tata Motors has a premium electric-vehicle problem and a Chinese solution to it. India&rsquo;s largest EV maker plans to license a vehicle platform from China&rsquo;s Chery to get [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tata-licenses-a-chinese-ev-platform-to-rescue-its-stalled-premium-push/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tata-licenses-a-chinese-ev-platform-to-rescue-its-stalled-premium-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is saving workers hours a week. Most of it is being thrown away]]></title><description><![CDATA[The promise of workplace AI was always time: hours handed back to employees buried in routine work. A new study suggests the hours are real and that most companies are quietly losing them again. According to research from Workday, surveying 3,200 business leaders, 85% of employees now save between one and seven hours a week [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-saving-workers-hours-a-week-most-of-it-is-being-thrown-away/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-saving-workers-hours-a-week-most-of-it-is-being-thrown-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suno raises at a $5.4bn valuation, more than doubling its worth in six months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eighteen months ago Suno was the AI company the music industry wanted to destroy. Every major record label had sued it, accusing it of training its models on copyrighted songs without permission. Now the labels are its partners, and investors have repriced the company accordingly. Suno has raised new capital at a $5.4bn valuation,&nbsp;more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/suno-raises-at-a-54bn-valuation-more-than-doubling-its-worth-in-six-months/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/suno-raises-at-a-54bn-valuation-more-than-doubling-its-worth-in-six-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovable makes Google Cloud a primary partner to win over corporate buyers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Swedish app-builder, processing a million new projects a week, is making Google Cloud a primary partner, with Gemini models and a security layer aimed at corporate buyers. The pitch behind Lovable has always been that anyone can build software by chatting with an AI. The harder pitch, the one that turns a viral tool [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-makes-google-cloud-a-primary-partner-to-win-over-corporate-buyers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-makes-google-cloud-a-primary-partner-to-win-over-corporate-buyers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple agrees to hand India the financials it spent months trying to withhold]]></title><description><![CDATA[For months the fight in India&rsquo;s App Store antitrust case was not really about app stores. It was about a spreadsheet. The Competition Commission of India wanted Apple&rsquo;s financial records; Apple did not want to give them up, least of all the global ones. On 3 June, Apple agreed to submit the financials, removing the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-agrees-to-hand-india-the-financials-it-spent-months-trying-to-withhold/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-agrees-to-hand-india-the-financials-it-spent-months-trying-to-withhold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in]]></title><description><![CDATA[The General Court annulled the Commission&rsquo;s designation of Marketplace under the Digital Markets Act, faulting its reasoning, while upholding the same label for Messenger. Meta walked into the EU&rsquo;s General Court asking it to strike down two gatekeeper labels and walked out having shed one. On 3 June the Luxembourg court annulled the European Commission&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-court-frees-metas-marketplace-from-gatekeeper-rules-but-keeps-messenger-in/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-court-frees-metas-marketplace-from-gatekeeper-rules-but-keeps-messenger-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX fixes IPO at $135 a share for a $1.75tn valuation and a record listing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Companies going public almost always leave the price for last. They set a range, send executives on a roadshow, take the temperature of the institutions, and let demand decide where the shares land. SpaceX has decided to do it backwards. The company plans to fix its IPO price at $135 a share before the roadshow [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-fixes-ipo-at-135-a-share-for-a-175tn-valuation-and-a-record-listing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-fixes-ipo-at-135-a-share-for-a-175tn-valuation-and-a-record-listing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Factorial raises $150M at a $2.5bn valuation, with General Catalyst betting twice]]></title><description><![CDATA[General Catalyst has decided it wants exposure to Factorial in two ways at once. The Barcelona software company has closed a $150M Series D led by the firm at a $2.5bn valuation, and General Catalyst is committing a further $540M through a separate vehicle that ties its return to the value Factorial creates for customers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/factorial-raises-150m-at-a-25bn-valuation-with-general-catalyst-betting-twice/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/factorial-raises-150m-at-a-25bn-valuation-with-general-catalyst-betting-twice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Science can already tell you what a molecule is and what it looks like. What it has never been able to tell you, cheaply and at scale, is how the thing behaves once it meets the messy conditions of the real world. That gap is where drugs quietly fail in trials, where food products miss [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apoha-emerges-from-stealth-with-36m-to-teach-machines-how-matter-behaves/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apoha-emerges-from-stealth-with-36m-to-teach-machines-how-matter-behaves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applied Aerospace &amp; Defense raises $650M in an IPO the market wanted ten times over]]></title><description><![CDATA[The appetite was the story. Applied Aerospace &amp; Defense priced its initial public offering on Tuesday at $20 a share, raising $650M, and by the time the book closed the deal was said to be about ten times oversubscribed. A company that makes fuselage sections and solid rocket motor cases does not usually inspire that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/applied-aerospace-amp-defense-raises-650m-in-an-ipo-the-market-wanted-ten-times-over/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/applied-aerospace-amp-defense-raises-650m-in-an-ipo-the-market-wanted-ten-times-over/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek has spent eighteen months as the most talked-about AI lab that almost nobody could invest in. That is about to change. The Chinese startup is slated to raise roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in its first external funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would value it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-lines-up-its-first-outside-money-a-7bn-round-at-up-to-59bn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-lines-up-its-first-outside-money-a-7bn-round-at-up-to-59bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most quantum-computing startups ask the world to build them an entirely new industry: exotic materials, bespoke fabrication, supply chains that do not yet exist. Quobly is making a quieter bet. The Grenoble company thinks the path to a useful quantum machine runs through the silicon chip industry that already exists, and on Wednesday it raised [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-quobly-raises-115m-to-put-a-quantum-computer-on-a-silicon-chip/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/frances-quobly-raises-115m-to-put-a-quantum-computer-on-a-silicon-chip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flok Health raises $12.5M to scale an AI physiotherapist the NHS lets work unsupervised]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cambridge clinic has regulatory approval to triage, treat and discharge patients without a human in the loop. Now it wants to do the same for hip, knee and pelvic-health conditions. The unusual thing about Flok Health is not that an AI runs a physiotherapy appointment. It is that the NHS has signed off on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flok-health-raises-125m-to-scale-an-ai-physiotherapist-the-nhs-lets-work-unsupervised/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/flok-health-raises-125m-to-scale-an-ai-physiotherapist-the-nhs-lets-work-unsupervised/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Megaport raises A$827M to build a distributed AI cloud and chase the inference market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Megaport spent a decade as a company you used to connect to other people&rsquo;s clouds. On Wednesday it announced a plan to become one. The Australian networking firm secured four new AI infrastructure contracts worth a combined A$458.9M (about $329M) and launched a fully underwritten entitlement offer to raise A$827.3M (about $594M),&nbsp;according to its filing. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/megaport-raises-a827m-to-build-a-distributed-ai-cloud-and-chase-the-inference-market/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/megaport-raises-a827m-to-build-a-distributed-ai-cloud-and-chase-the-inference-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gigaton raises $26M to rip out the control software running heavy industry]]></title><description><![CDATA[A cement kiln is one of the least forgiving machines in industry. It runs at fourteen hundred degrees, it cannot easily be stopped, and the software deciding its fuel mix and oxygen levels is often older than the engineers tending it. Gigaton wants to throw that software out and let an AI run the kiln [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gigaton-raises-26m-to-rip-out-the-control-software-running-heavy-industry/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gigaton-raises-26m-to-rip-out-the-control-software-running-heavy-industry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s competition regulator has stopped consulting and started ordering. On Wednesday the Competition and Markets Authority imposed new conduct requirements&nbsp;on Google&rsquo;s search services, the first concrete obligations to follow from its decision to designate the company as holding strategic market status. Among them is a provision with sharp implications for the AI era: publishers will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-regulator-imposes-new-rules-on-google-search-including-an-ai-training-opt-out/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-regulator-imposes-new-rules-on-google-search-including-an-ai-training-opt-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring]]></title><description><![CDATA[GitLab is cutting about 14% of its full-time workforce, roughly 350 people, and pulling out of 22 countries, based on their report for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2027, &nbsp;in which it grew revenue 23% and beat Wall Street&rsquo;s expectations. The restructuring, the company said, is meant &ldquo;to realign its operating structure to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlab-to-cut-14-of-staff-and-exit-22-countries-in-agentic-era-restructuring/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlab-to-cut-14-of-staff-and-exit-22-countries-in-agentic-era-restructuring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Department of Government Efficiency is gone, quietly wound down&nbsp;after a year that produced more controversy than confirmed savings. Two of its former staffers have decided the idea was sound and the venue was wrong. On Tuesday they unveiled Special, a firm that intends to buy companies outright and cut their costs by running artificial [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-allies-back-a-private-sector-doge-as-ex-staffers-launch-special/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-allies-back-a-private-sector-doge-as-ex-staffers-launch-special/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kodesage raises $6.6M to drag enterprise legacy software into the AI era, without it leaving the building]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London and Budapest startup runs its modernisation AI entirely on-premise, aimed at the banks and insurers whose core systems still run on COBOL and Oracle Forms. The most important software in a bank is often the software nobody fully understands any more. It runs the core processes, it has run them for decades, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kodesage-raises-66m-to-drag-enterprise-legacy-software-into-the-ai-era-without-it-leaving-the-building/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kodesage-raises-66m-to-drag-enterprise-legacy-software-into-the-ai-era-without-it-leaving-the-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anti-reflecting coating of the Galaxy S26 Ultra screen: still the best?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The anti-reflecting coating of the Galaxy S26 Ultra screen: still the best?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-anti-reflecting-coating-of-the-galaxy-s26-ultra-screen-still-the-best/</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-anti-reflecting-coating-of-the-galaxy-s26-ultra-screen-still-the-best/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[S26 Ultra AI features explained]]></title><description><![CDATA[S26 Ultra AI features explained]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/s26-ultra-ai-features-explained/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/s26-ultra-ai-features-explained/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligent RIM for Medical Device Manufacturers: RegDesk | SourceForge Podcast, episode #119]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intelligent RIM for Medical Device Manufacturers: RegDesk | SourceForge Podcast, episode #119]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intelligent-rim-for-medical-device-manufacturers-regdesk-sourceforge-podcast-episode-119/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intelligent-rim-for-medical-device-manufacturers-regdesk-sourceforge-podcast-episode-119/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy S26 Ultra AI features EXPLAINED]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy S26 Ultra AI features EXPLAINED]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-ultra-ai-features-explained/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-ultra-ai-features-explained/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth Platform for Digital Assets: Nexo | SourceForge Podcast, episode #118]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wealth Platform for Digital Assets: Nexo | SourceForge Podcast, episode #118]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wealth-platform-for-digital-assets-nexo-sourceforge-podcast-episode-118/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wealth-platform-for-digital-assets-nexo-sourceforge-podcast-episode-118/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomi-smart-band-10-pro-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomi-smart-band-10-pro-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xiaomi 17T Pro Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xiaomi 17T Pro Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomi-17t-pro-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomi-17t-pro-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI company xAI is running its data centres on unregulated natural gas turbines, with plans to buy $2.8 billion more. Tesla, the company Musk built on the promise [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-ipo-filing-reveals-musks-clean-energy-contradiction-xai-burns-gas-while-tesla-sells-solar/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-ipo-filing-reveals-musks-clean-energy-contradiction-xai-burns-gas-while-tesla-sells-solar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. The patches can’t keep up.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic disclosed on Friday that Project Glasswing, its restricted cybersecurity initiative, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerability candidates across some of the most systemically important software in the world since the programme went live one month ago. Of those, 1,726 have been validated as true positives. 1,094 are confirmed high- or critical-severity [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-claude-mythos-found-10000-critical-vulnerabilities-in-one-month-the-patches-cant-keep-up/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-claude-mythos-found-10000-critical-vulnerabilities-in-one-month-the-patches-cant-keep-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin’s Peec AI more than doubled revenue to $10M ARR in six months. Its product helps brands show up in ChatGPT.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peec AI, a Berlin-based startup that helps brands track and improve their visibility in AI-generated search results, has crossed $10 million in annualised revenue, according to internal dashboard data seen and verified by TechCrunch. The milestone comes six months after the company raised a $21 million Series A at a valuation above $100 million, when [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-peec-ai-more-than-doubled-revenue-to-10m-arr-in-six-months-its-product-helps-brands-show-up-in-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-peec-ai-more-than-doubled-revenue-to-10m-arr-in-six-months-its-product-helps-brands-show-up-in-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea&rsquo;s Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said the wealth created by artificial intelligence must benefit the wider public, warning that the labour tensions that nearly shut down Samsung Electronics this week are not an isolated event but a preview of what the AI era will produce. Speaking to CNBC on Friday, Bae said that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-deputy-pm-says-ai-wealth-must-benefit-the-public-the-samsung-strike-showed-why/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 12:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-koreas-deputy-pm-says-ai-wealth-must-benefit-the-public-the-samsung-strike-showed-why/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SEO teams are tracking keywords. But are they tracking what ChatGPT says about their brand?]]></title><description><![CDATA[When someone searches Google, you can see exactly where you rank. When someone asks ChatGPT for a software recommendation, you have no idea whether your brand comes up at all. That gap is widening, and most rank-tracking tools were not built to close it. This article contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seo-teams-are-tracking-keywords-but-are-they-tracking-what-chatgpt-says-about-their-brand/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seo-teams-are-tracking-keywords-but-are-they-tracking-what-chatgpt-says-about-their-brand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla finally launched FSD in China. Its rivals have been selling self-driving cars there for years.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla announced on Thursday that its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system is now available in China, listing the country among 10 markets where the technology can be accessed. The announcement on X was short on details and marks the first time Tesla has confirmed FSD availability in the world&rsquo;s largest EV market. It comes a week [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-finally-launched-fsd-in-china-its-rivals-have-been-selling-self-driving-cars-there-for-years/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-finally-launched-fsd-in-china-its-rivals-have-been-selling-self-driving-cars-there-for-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX launched Starship V3 three weeks before its IPO. The booster exploded.]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX launched the 12th test flight of its Starship rocket on Friday evening from Starbase, Texas, marking the debut of the upgraded Version 3 vehicle. The flight successfully deployed 20 mock Starlink satellites and beamed live video from space, but the Super Heavy booster was destroyed after separation, failing to achieve a controlled descent. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-launched-starship-v3-three-weeks-before-its-ipo-the-booster-exploded/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-launched-starship-v3-three-weeks-before-its-ipo-the-booster-exploded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corsair is now using Chinese DRAM in its DDR5 kits. Memory prices could finally drop.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Corsair, one of the most recognisable names in PC components, is shipping DDR5 memory modules built with DRAM manufactured by ChangXin Memory Technologies, China&rsquo;s largest memory chipmaker. Screenshots posted on X by hardware enthusiast @wxnod show a Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 module, part number CMK5X16G3E60C36A2, with CPU-Z and HWiNFO64 identifying the DRAM manufacturer as ChangXin Technologies [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/corsair-is-now-using-chinese-dram-in-its-ddr5-kits-memory-prices-could-finally-drop/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 11:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/corsair-is-now-using-chinese-dram-in-its-ddr5-kits-memory-prices-could-finally-drop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo’s robotaxis keep driving into floods. The software patch didn’t work. Five cities are now shut down.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo suspended robotaxi service across five US cities on 21 May after a software patch it pushed to its entire 3,791-vehicle fleet less than two weeks earlier failed to prevent another autonomous vehicle from driving into standing water. An unoccupied Waymo robotaxi got stuck on a flooded street in Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday evening during [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymos-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods-the-software-patch-didnt-work-five-cities-are-now-shut-down/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymos-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods-the-software-patch-didnt-work-five-cities-are-now-shut-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xiaomi’s CEO admitted his SUV wasn’t cheap enough to beat Tesla. Then he launched one that is.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most CEOs would not go on stage and admit their product was not competitively priced against a rival. Lei Jun did exactly that on Wednesday evening, and then launched a model that fixes it. At Xiaomi&rsquo;s &ldquo;Human x Car x Home&rdquo; launch event on 21 May, the founder and CEO unveiled the YU7 True Standard [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomis-ceo-admitted-his-suv-wasnt-cheap-enough-to-beat-tesla-then-he-launched-one-that-is/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 10:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xiaomis-ceo-admitted-his-suv-wasnt-cheap-enough-to-beat-tesla-then-he-launched-one-that-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over three decades, I&rsquo;ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching happen right now is different. And I know I am not alone. Every seasoned marketing professional I speak to, whether they built their career in offline [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-rise-of-llms-is-not-an-accident/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-rise-of-llms-is-not-an-accident/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce is selling the AI future harder than it is delivering it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salesforce has a problem that no amount of marketing can fix. The company has built its entire narrative around Agentforce, its AI agent platform, and the numbers look impressive on paper: 29,000 deals closed, $800 million in annual recurring revenue, and a roadmap that promises to replace entire categories of human work. But Wall Street [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/salesforce-is-selling-the-ai-future-harder-than-it-is-delivering-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/salesforce-is-selling-the-ai-future-harder-than-it-is-delivering-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new standalone app sits on top of Facebook Groups, adds an AI tab called &ldquo;Ask&rdquo; and an admin assistant, and arrives the same month Mark Zuckerberg told staff he and Chris Cox had discussed whether they could build 50 new apps. Meta has released a new standalone app called Forum, without a launch event, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/forum-is-metas-new-facebook-groups-app-and-it-looks-a-lot-like-reddit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/forum-is-metas-new-facebook-groups-app-and-it-looks-a-lot-like-reddit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wingtech Technology has filed a lawsuit against its own subsidiary, Nexperia, in a Chinese court. The case, lodged at the Dongguan Intermediate People&rsquo;s Court, seeks at least 8 billion yuan, roughly $1.1 billion, in damages. It is the first major legal challenge to a European government&rsquo;s forced seizure of a Chinese-owned chipmaker. The dispute centres [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wingtech-sues-nexperia-in-chinese-court-over-dutch-governments-semiconductor-seizure/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wingtech-sues-nexperia-in-chinese-court-over-dutch-governments-semiconductor-seizure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starbucks pulls its AI inventory tool nine months in, after it kept confusing the milks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chain is reverting to manual counts across North America, ending one of CEO Brian Niccol&rsquo;s more visible technology bets and adding another data point to the file marked &ldquo;enterprise AI pilots that did not survive contact with the real store.&rdquo; Starbucks has retired the AI-powered inventory tool it rolled out across its North American [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/starbucks-pulls-its-ai-inventory-tool-nine-months-in-after-it-kept-confusing-the-milks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/starbucks-pulls-its-ai-inventory-tool-nine-months-in-after-it-kept-confusing-the-milks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norway&rsquo;s Government Pension Fund Global, the world&rsquo;s largest sovereign wealth fund, has withheld its vote on the reappointment of John Elkann to Meta&rsquo;s board of directors. The fund said it believes the Stellantis chairman and Exor CEO does not have enough time to devote to the role. Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the $2.3 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/norways-23-trillion-wealth-fund-objects-to-john-elkanns-reappointment-to-metas-board/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/norways-23-trillion-wealth-fund-objects-to-john-elkanns-reappointment-to-metas-board/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Skill Assessment Platform for the AI Age: Canditech | SourceForge Podcast, episode #117]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Skill Assessment Platform for the AI Age: Canditech | SourceForge Podcast, episode #117]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-skill-assessment-platform-for-the-ai-age-canditech-sourceforge-podcast-episode-117/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-skill-assessment-platform-for-the-ai-age-canditech-sourceforge-podcast-episode-117/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new Android Auto! 🚗 #androidauto]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new Android Auto! 🚗 #androidauto]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-new-android-auto-androidauto/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-new-android-auto-androidauto/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s Fresha hits unicorn status with KKR-led $80M raise]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London-based beauty and wellness booking platform has joined the UK unicorn club at a $1bn-plus valuation, in a deal that lands while the broader SaaS complex is busy arguing about its own funeral. Fresha, the London-based booking and payments platform for salons and spas, has raised $80m from funds managed by KKR in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/londons-fresha-hits-unicorn-status-with-kkr-led-80m-raise/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/londons-fresha-hits-unicorn-status-with-kkr-led-80m-raise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most data breaches start with a stolen password. Here’s how to fix that]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in your organisation right now, an employee is reusing a password they created in 2019. Another is sharing login credentials for a team account through a Slack DM. A third is storing client portal access in a browser&rsquo;s built-in autofill, synced to a personal Google account your IT team does not control. None of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-data-breaches-start-with-a-stolen-password-heres-how-to-fix-that/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-data-breaches-start-with-a-stolen-password-heres-how-to-fix-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kawasaki Heavy ties up with Nvidia on physical AI, and the rideable robot horse gets a foundation model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shares jumped 12% as the Japanese industrial group opened a San Jose development base with Nvidia, Analog Devices, Microsoft, and Fujitsu, with its four-legged CORLEO mobility concept as the first showcase. Kawasaki Heavy Industries said on Friday it will partner with&nbsp;Nvidia&nbsp;and a handful of other US and Japanese firms on physical AI for robots, opening [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kawasaki-heavy-ties-up-with-nvidia-on-physical-ai-and-the-rideable-robot-horse-gets-a-foundation-model/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kawasaki-heavy-ties-up-with-nvidia-on-physical-ai-and-the-rideable-robot-horse-gets-a-foundation-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s EV brands cross 15% in Europe, with Britain leading the charge]]></title><description><![CDATA[BYD and Chery led a doubling of Chinese EV deliveries in April, even as Brussels keeps its tariff wall up and Stellantis quietly hands the keys to underused European plants. Chinese brands accounted for more than 15 per cent of Europe&rsquo;s electric-vehicle sales in April, the first time the threshold has been crossed in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-ev-brands-cross-15-in-europe-with-britain-leading-the-charge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-ev-brands-cross-15-in-europe-with-britain-leading-the-charge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Operazione Tutto Chiaro hit more than 100 sites across Italy, France, and Germany, targeting a system that rebroadcast legitimate subscription codes every three minutes. Italy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Guardia di Finanza&nbsp;said on Friday it had dismantled an audiovisual piracy operation that streamed paid content from Sky, DAZN, Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify to thousands of subscribers using an app called [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italian-police-seize-a-piracy-app-that-streamed-sky-dazn-and-netflix-through-hijacked-real-accounts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italian-police-seize-a-piracy-app-that-streamed-sky-dazn-and-netflix-through-hijacked-real-accounts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Austrian startup REPS raises $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tyrol-based REPS has plugged its first &ldquo;road power plant&rdquo; into the Port of Hamburg. The next test is whether the economics survive contact with anywhere else. Tyrol-based&nbsp;REPS&nbsp;has raised $23.6m to scale a technology with an unusually literal premise: install a slab into a road, let trucks drive over it, harvest the energy they would otherwise [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/austrian-startup-reps-raises-236m-to-turn-road-traffic-into-electricity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/austrian-startup-reps-raises-236m-to-turn-road-traffic-into-electricity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market without its model]]></title><description><![CDATA[The OpenAI-backed family animation that was meant to prove generative AI could ship a real movie has missed its festival window, in part because the video model it was built on no longer exists. Critterz, the OpenAI-backed animated feature that was being positioned as the first mainstream commercial film made through a generative AI pipeline, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sora-shutdown-leaves-critterz-at-the-cannes-market-without-its-model/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sora-shutdown-leaves-critterz-at-the-cannes-market-without-its-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA&rsquo;s NVentures adds Alice &amp; Bob to its quantum portfolio]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris-based cat-qubit company adds NVentures to a cap table already backed by FFC, AVP and Bpifrance, and deepens its CUDA-Q tie-up with Nvidia. Alice &amp; Bob, the Paris- and Boston-based quantum hardware company building fault-tolerant machines on its proprietary cat-qubit architecture, has added NVentures, Nvidia&rsquo;s venture arm, to its cap table in an extension [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidiarsquos-nventures-adds-alice-amp-bob-to-its-quantum-portfolio/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidiarsquos-nventures-adds-alice-amp-bob-to-its-quantum-portfolio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lenovo Q4 revenue tops estimates on strong PC sales, shares jump 15%]]></title><description><![CDATA[$21.6bn quarter, AI revenue nearly doubles, full year crowned the best in the company&rsquo;s history. Lenovo posted Q4 revenue of $21.6bn, up 27% year-on-year and roughly $2.2bn ahead of consensus, sending shares up about 15% on Friday in Hong Kong. Net profit attributable to shareholders jumped 479% to $521m, almost double the $271m analysts had [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lenovo-q4-revenue-tops-estimates-on-strong-pc-sales-shares-jump-15/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lenovo-q4-revenue-tops-estimates-on-strong-pc-sales-shares-jump-15/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek founder declares AGI as the goal as $10bn funding round advances]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liang Wenfeng tells prospective investors the Hangzhou lab will prioritise frontier research over revenue, in its first-ever external raise. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has told prospective investors in the company&rsquo;s first outside funding round that the lab intends to pursue artificial general intelligence as a primary goal, and will keep releasing open-source models rather than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-founder-declares-agi-as-the-goal-as-10bn-funding-round-advances/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 09:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-founder-declares-agi-as-the-goal-as-10bn-funding-round-advances/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta settles bellwether Kentucky case, ending first school-district trial over youth mental health]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Breathitt County settlement closes the trial that had been set for June 12 in Oakland. Roughly 1,200 similar school-district suits sit behind it. Meta has settled the first US school-district lawsuit set for trial seeking to make social media companies pay for the cost of addressing a youth mental health crisis its critics say [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-settles-bellwether-kentucky-case-ending-first-school-district-trial-over-youth-mental-health/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 09:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-settles-bellwether-kentucky-case-ending-first-school-district-trial-over-youth-mental-health/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ClickUp cuts 22 per cent of staff and introduces $1 million salary bands for those who remain]]></title><description><![CDATA[ClickUp, the $4 billion productivity platform, has cut 22 per cent of its workforce. CEO Zeb Evans announced the layoffs in a post on X, framing them not as a cost-cutting exercise but as a structural bet on AI. The savings, he said, will flow back to the employees who stay in the form of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clickup-cuts-22-per-cent-of-staff-and-introduces-1-million-salary-bands-for-those-who-remain/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 23:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clickup-cuts-22-per-cent-of-staff-and-introduces-1-million-salary-bands-for-those-who-remain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code]]></title><description><![CDATA[GitLab has released version 19.0, its first major version bump in a year, built around a concept the company calls intelligent orchestration. The pitch is that AI coding assistants have made writing code faster, but reviews, pipelines, security scans, and deployments remain manual bottlenecks. GitLab wants to close that gap. The release expands the GitLab [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlab-190-bets-that-the-real-bottleneck-in-software-delivery-is-everything-after-writing-the-code/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 23:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlab-190-bets-that-the-real-bottleneck-in-software-delivery-is-everything-after-writing-the-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s AI search overhaul is great for Google and bad for everyone who makes the web worth searching]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google called it the biggest change to its search box in 25 years. At I/O 2026, the company unveiled a&nbsp;complete overhaul&nbsp;of Search built around AI mode, conversational follow-ups, and autonomous agents that monitor the web on your behalf. Head of Search Elizabeth Reid described the result as &ldquo;AI search through and through.&rdquo; For users, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-ai-search-overhaul-is-great-for-google-and-bad-for-everyone-who-makes-the-web-worth-searching/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 23:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-ai-search-overhaul-is-great-for-google-and-bad-for-everyone-who-makes-the-web-worth-searching/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mozilla has officially unveiled Project Nova, the largest visual overhaul of Firefox since 2020. The redesign touches tabs, icons, spacing, colour palette, and settings, with the goal of making the browser feel warmer and faster without losing its identity as the only major browser not built on Chromium. The changes start with the tabs. They [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/firefox-is-getting-its-biggest-redesign-in-six-years-and-compact-mode-is-coming-back/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 22:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/firefox-is-getting-its-biggest-redesign-in-six-years-and-compact-mode-is-coming-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk&rsquo;s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of&nbsp;SpaceX&rsquo;s historic IPO&nbsp;reveal that the company secured a $20 billion bridge loan from a group of major banks. That loan was used to retire $17.5 billion of high-interest junk debt accumulated by X and xAI. The financial [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-used-a-20-billion-bridge-loan-to-slash-musks-debt-costs-in-half-ipo-filing-reveals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 22:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-used-a-20-billion-bridge-loan-to-slash-musks-debt-costs-in-half-ipo-filing-reveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodbye home screen: How NEED is turning Telegram into a digital marketplace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobody gets excited about downloading a new app anymore. The little ritual, tap the store, wait for the icon, set up an account, trust it with a credit card, has turned into friction most people just avoid. So they stop downloading. Instead, they gravitate toward places where things just work without asking for another piece [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/goodbye-home-screen-how-need-is-turning-telegram-into-a-digital-marketplace/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/goodbye-home-screen-how-need-is-turning-telegram-into-a-digital-marketplace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from &ldquo;pay and chase&rdquo; to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched an artificial intelligence initiative aimed at detecting fraud and waste across federal health programmes, building on a strategy first outlined in [&hellip;]<br />
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This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oura-files-confidentially-for-us-ipo-as-ring-sales-accelerate/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oura-files-confidentially-for-us-ipo-as-ring-sales-accelerate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russell Nicolet: Finding his purpose as a client-centered attorney]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russell Nicolet&rsquo;s personal journey in law shows that being committed to learning and client care can change lives, even if you do not have a map. Russell Nicolet had no family or mentor to guide him when he entered the legal world, yet he had to find his way. As the first person in his [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/russell-nicolet-finding-his-purpose-as-a-client-centered-attorney/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/russell-nicolet-finding-his-purpose-as-a-client-centered-attorney/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UN draft protocol would expand nations’ right to tax tech giants]]></title><description><![CDATA[A May 5 draft, due to be discussed in New York in August, takes aim at where digital revenue is taxed and by whom. A new draft protocol circulating inside the United Nations tax process would let countries tax companies like Google, Amazon and Meta based on where their users are, rather than where the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/un-draft-protocol-would-expand-nations-right-to-tax-tech-giants/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/un-draft-protocol-would-expand-nations-right-to-tax-tech-giants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside the quiet reinvention of the clinical judgment call]]></title><description><![CDATA[Neurovascular care remains one of the more complex and uncertain areas of modern medicine. Millions of people live with conditions such as intracranial aneurysms without symptoms, yet when an event occurs, the consequences are often catastrophic, carrying high mortality rates and a substantial risk of long-term neurological disability. For neurospecialists, one of the most critical [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inside-the-quiet-reinvention-of-the-clinical-judgment-call/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/inside-the-quiet-reinvention-of-the-clinical-judgment-call/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we getting a Galaxy S27 Pro? 🤔 #samsunggalaxy #phoneleaks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are we getting a Galaxy S27 Pro? 🤔 #samsunggalaxy #phoneleaks]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/are-we-getting-a-galaxy-s27-pro-samsunggalaxy-phoneleaks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/are-we-getting-a-galaxy-s27-pro-samsunggalaxy-phoneleaks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware company that Brett Adcock began funding out of his own pocket late last year, has raised more than $700m in a Series A that values it at $6bn, according to&nbsp;Bloomberg. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brett-adcocks-ai-hardware-startup-hark-raises-700m-at-6bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brett-adcocks-ai-hardware-startup-hark-raises-700m-at-6bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify and Universal sign licensing deal for AI covers and remixes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Premium subscribers will be able to generate AI versions of songs by participating UMG artists. The financial terms were not disclosed. Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed licensing agreements that will let premium subscribers generate AI covers and remixes of songs by participating UMG artists, the two companies&nbsp;said on Thursday. It is the first [&hellip;]<br />
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This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-go-to-market-accelerator-for-ai-startups-launches/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-go-to-market-accelerator-for-ai-startups-launches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only ONE thing I care about at Google I/O]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's only ONE thing I care about at Google I/O]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/theres-only-one-thing-i-care-about-at-google-io/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/theres-only-one-thing-i-care-about-at-google-io/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic to open a Milan office, lining the Italy push up behind a Vatican-led repositioning]]></title><description><![CDATA[EMEA is already Anthropic&rsquo;s fastest-growing region, with run-rate revenue up roughly 9x and large-business accounts up 10x year-on-year. The Milan office is the commercial operationalisation of an Italy strategy the company has been seeding politically through Rome. Anthropic will open a Milan office to anchor its expanding Italian commercial footprint. The Milan launch extends a [&hellip;]<br />
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This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/groks-federal-stall-is-undercutting-spacexs-ipo-growth-story/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/groks-federal-stall-is-undercutting-spacexs-ipo-growth-story/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan moves to detain three over alleged illegal high-end AI server exports to China]]></title><description><![CDATA[The investigation is the island&rsquo;s first formal semiconductor-smuggling crackdown and ties back to the wider Supermicro-linked diversion network that has been routing Nvidia Hopper systems into Chinese customers through Hong Kong and third-country relays. Taiwanese prosecutors are seeking the detention of three individuals over the alleged use of forged documents to export high-end Nvidia AI [&hellip;]<br />
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This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-blocks-nvidias-rtx-5090d-v2-imports-while-jensen-huang-was-in-beijing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 10:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-blocks-nvidias-rtx-5090d-v2-imports-while-jensen-huang-was-in-beijing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX files S-1, opening the path to what would be the largest IPO in history]]></title><description><![CDATA[The prospectus shows $18.7bn of 2025 revenue, a $4.27bn Q1 net loss, an accumulated deficit of $41.3bn, and a balance sheet that includes 18,712 bitcoin worth $1.29bn at quarter-end. SpaceX will list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. SpaceX has filed its S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, opening the path to what [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-files-s-1-opening-the-path-to-what-would-be-the-largest-ipo-in-history/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-files-s-1-opening-the-path-to-what-would-be-the-largest-ipo-in-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA beats again, guides to $91bn for Q2 and authorises another $80bn of buybacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Q1 revenue $81.6bn (+85% YoY), data centre $75.2bn, net income $58.3bn. The quarterly dividend moves from a penny to 25 cents per share. The buyback is the second $80bn authorisation in three quarters. Nvidia&nbsp;reported first-quarter revenue of $81.6bn on Wednesday, up 85% year-on-year and 20% from the prior quarter, and guided second-quarter revenue to about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-beats-again-guides-to-91bn-for-q2-and-authorises-another-80bn-of-buybacks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-beats-again-guides-to-91bn-for-q2-and-authorises-another-80bn-of-buybacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump to sign an AI oversight order this week as MAGA security pressure mounts on frontier-model labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The draft executive order, expected as early as Thursday, sets up a voluntary 90-day pre-release model-disclosure framework with the federal government, with critical-infrastructure providers including banks brought in early. Steve Bannon and Amy Kremer have been pressing for a harder, mandatory line. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on AI oversight [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-to-sign-an-ai-oversight-order-this-week-as-maga-security-pressure-mounts-on-frontier-model-labs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-to-sign-an-ai-oversight-order-this-week-as-maga-security-pressure-mounts-on-frontier-model-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris and New York-based start-up, founded in 2023, will use the new capital to deepen ERP integrations and push its agentic procurement platform into more enterprise environments. DoorDash, Lemonade and Flix are already on the customer list; $3bn in invoices already run through the system annually. Pivot, the Paris and New York-based procurement-software start-up, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pivot-raises-40m-series-b-to-pitch-an-agentic-ai-procurement-os-at-the-enterprises-legacy-software-has-not-fixed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pivot-raises-40m-series-b-to-pitch-an-agentic-ai-procurement-os-at-the-enterprises-legacy-software-has-not-fixed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canva launches inside Google Gemini, completing its push to be the design layer for every major AI assistant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canva has spent the past year quietly embedding itself into every major AI assistant. First came&nbsp;Claude, then ChatGPT, then Microsoft Copilot. Now Google Gemini gets the same treatment, and the strategy is complete. The company launched its Connected App for Google Gemini at Google I/O, giving Gemini users the ability to generate, edit, and search [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canva-launches-inside-google-gemini-completing-its-push-to-be-the-design-layer-for-every-major-ai-assistant/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canva-launches-inside-google-gemini-completing-its-push-to-be-the-design-layer-for-every-major-ai-assistant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Airbnb started as a way to book someone else&rsquo;s spare room. It is now trying to become the app you never leave during a trip. The company&rsquo;s summer 2026 release adds boutique hotels, car rentals, luggage storage, and thousands of new experiences to the platform. The hotel push is the most significant shift. Airbnb [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airbnb-is-adding-hotels-car-rentals-and-luggage-storage-as-it-evolves-from-a-home-sharing-app-into-a-full-travel-platform/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airbnb-is-adding-hotels-car-rentals-and-luggage-storage-as-it-evolves-from-a-home-sharing-app-into-a-full-travel-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla&rsquo;s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the Netherlands became the first. Greece and Belgium are expected to follow shortly. The Lithuanian transport safety administration adopted the Dutch RDW&rsquo;s prior certification rather than running [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-full-self-driving-software-just-landed-in-its-second-european-country-with-more-in-the-queue/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-full-self-driving-software-just-landed-in-its-second-european-country-with-more-in-the-queue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI industry&rsquo;s most consequential race is no longer about building the best model. It is about getting to public markets first. OpenAI appears to have taken the lead. The company is preparing to confidentially file a draft of its IPO prospectus as soon as this week, according to CNBC, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-about-to-file-for-an-ipo-and-prediction-markets-think-anthropic-just-lost-the-race-to-go-public-first/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-about-to-file-for-an-ipo-and-prediction-markets-think-anthropic-just-lost-the-race-to-go-public-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again]]></title><description><![CDATA[If your LinkedIn feed has felt like it was written by one person with 10 million accounts, you are not imagining things. The platform has become a petri dish for AI-generated posts that say nothing while sounding vaguely inspirational. Now LinkedIn says it is doing something about it. The company announced changes that will target [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/linkedin-is-finally-cracking-down-on-ai-slop-and-the-feed-might-actually-become-readable-again/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/linkedin-is-finally-cracking-down-on-ai-slop-and-the-feed-might-actually-become-readable-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s EV sales are surging as the Iran war sends petrol prices through the roof]]></title><description><![CDATA[War has a way of rewriting consumer habits overnight. Since US and Israeli airstrikes hit Iran at the end of February, crude oil has soared past $100 a barrel for the first time since Russia&rsquo;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The result at Europe&rsquo;s petrol pumps has been immediate and painful. The result at EV dealerships [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-ev-sales-are-surging-as-the-iran-war-sends-petrol-prices-through-the-roof/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-ev-sales-are-surging-as-the-iran-war-sends-petrol-prices-through-the-roof/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your watch is getting Gemini Intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your watch is getting Gemini Intelligence]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-watch-is-getting-gemini-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-watch-is-getting-gemini-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a &euro;86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to more than a third of total revenue by 2028, supported by plans to hire [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/primer-secures-100m-series-c-to-fuel-us-expansion-and-autonomous-ai-payments/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/primer-secures-100m-series-c-to-fuel-us-expansion-and-autonomous-ai-payments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Figma is launching its own AI agent that operates directly on the collaborative design canvas, letting users generate, edit, and iterate on designs through natural language prompts. The move follows partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI and the $200 million Weavy acquisition. &nbsp; For months, Figma has been opening its canvas to other people&rsquo;s AI. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/figma-builds-its-own-ai-assistant-that-can-design-alongside-you-on-the-canvas/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/figma-builds-its-own-ai-assistant-that-can-design-alongside-you-on-the-canvas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; It is an unsettling irony when the world&rsquo;s largest code-hosting platform becomes the victim of its own ecosystem. GitHub confirmed on Tuesday that a threat actor exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal repositories after compromising an employee&rsquo;s device through a&nbsp;poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, marking one of the most significant breaches the Microsoft-owned company has ever [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/github-confirms-hackers-stole-thousands-of-internal-code-repositories-after-employee-installed-a-poisoned-vs-code-extension/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/github-confirms-hackers-stole-thousands-of-internal-code-repositories-after-employee-installed-a-poisoned-vs-code-extension/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuous Quality for AI Coding: Checksum | SourceForge Podcast, episode #116]]></title><description><![CDATA[Continuous Quality for AI Coding: Checksum | SourceForge Podcast, episode #116]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/continuous-quality-for-ai-coding-checksum-sourceforge-podcast-episode-116/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/continuous-quality-for-ai-coding-checksum-sourceforge-podcast-episode-116/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. A consortium of French companies led by Iliad&rsquo;s cloud subsidiary Scaleway has bid roughly $10bn to build one of the European Union&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/french-companies-bid-10bn-for-one-of-the-eus-five-planned-ai-gigafactory-sites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/french-companies-bid-10bn-for-one-of-the-eus-five-planned-ai-gigafactory-sites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will arrive anyway. In the spring of 2024, a Tow Center researcher at Columbia Journalism [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-claude-gemini-and-grok-are-not-ready-to-brief-american-voters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chatgpt-claude-gemini-and-grok-are-not-ready-to-brief-american-voters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched this week, Wove bills itself as the first mobile app that scans everyday garments for PFAS, microplastic shedding potential, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-new-app-scans-your-clothes-for-pfas-microplastics-and-hidden-toxins/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-new-app-scans-your-clothes-for-pfas-microplastics-and-hidden-toxins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good (and bad) at Google I/O 2026!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The good (and bad) at Google I/O 2026!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-good-and-bad-at-google-io-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-good-and-bad-at-google-io-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QIZ Security teams up with Google Cloud to help enterprises brace for the quantum cryptography threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The race to protect sensitive data from future quantum computers just gained fresh momentum. QIZ Security, a cryptographic posture management startup, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud designed to help enterprises accelerate their migration to quantum-resistant cryptography, a shift that regulators and technologists increasingly regard as urgent. The partnership combines QIZ&rsquo;s platform, which [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qiz-security-teams-up-with-google-cloud-to-help-enterprises-brace-for-the-quantum-cryptography-threat/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/qiz-security-teams-up-with-google-cloud-to-help-enterprises-brace-for-the-quantum-cryptography-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lambda wins a cloud deal with Hudson River Trading to supply access to NVIDIA chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[The IPO-bound GPU-cloud start-up adds one of the largest US quantitative trading firms to a customer list that already includes Microsoft and NVIDIA itself. Lambda has signed a cloud-infrastructure deal with Hudson River Trading, one of the largest US quantitative trading firms, to supply HRT with access to NVIDIA chips, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lambda-wins-a-cloud-deal-with-hudson-river-trading-to-supply-access-to-nvidia-chips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lambda-wins-a-cloud-deal-with-hudson-river-trading-to-supply-access-to-nvidia-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox &lsquo;strongly disputes&rsquo; the claims; the FTC has declined to comment. Two children&rsquo;s advocacy groups, Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, asked the US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate Roblox, Reuters reported, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fairplay-and-ncse-ask-the-ftc-to-investigate-roblox-over-child-safety-and-unfair-and-deceptive-marketing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fairplay-and-ncse-ask-the-ftc-to-investigate-roblox-over-child-safety-and-unfair-and-deceptive-marketing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How one startup turned backers into believers: MAGFAST broke the crowdfunding mold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Picture Kevin. It&rsquo;s 2014, and on Kickstarter he has just backed the Coolest Cooler, a portable cooler with a built-in blender, a Bluetooth speaker, and a USB charger. Finally, an innovative product that lets him host the perfect beach party. To Kevin, it feels like he&rsquo;s caught onto something unique, fresh, exciting, before everyone else. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-one-startup-turned-backers-into-believers-magfast-broke-the-crowdfunding-mold/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-one-startup-turned-backers-into-believers-magfast-broke-the-crowdfunding-mold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the coming months. Google unveiled Pics at the I/O 2026 developer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-announces-pics-a-workspace-native-ai-image-generator-that-goes-after-canva-on-precision-editing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-announces-pics-a-workspace-native-ai-image-generator-that-goes-after-canva-on-precision-editing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first model in DeepMind&rsquo;s new Omni family will generate and edit video from any combination of image, audio, video, and text inputs. Speech-editing is being withheld; SynthID watermarking is on by default. Google introduced Gemini Omni on Tuesday at the I/O 2026 developer conference, a new multimodal model family from Google DeepMind designed to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-launches-gemini-omni-flash-a-conversational-video-generation-model-with-avatar-mode-held-back/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-launches-gemini-omni-flash-a-conversational-video-generation-model-with-avatar-mode-held-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta starts the 10% cut, with the Singapore office getting the 4 am note first]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notified early in their own time zones on the same day. The cuts implement the 10%-workforce-reduction [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-starts-the-10-cut-with-the-singapore-office-getting-the-4-am-note-first/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-starts-the-10-cut-with-the-singapore-office-getting-the-4-am-note-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&amp;D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe&rsquo;s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based deeptech company building autonomous infrastructure for materials R&amp;D, announced plans on Wednesday for a 6,000-square-metre, &euro;280m facility in Berlin called GigaLab, designed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-dunia-innovations-commits-280m-to-an-autonomous-ai-materials-gigalab/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-dunia-innovations-commits-280m-to-an-autonomous-ai-materials-gigalab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens]]></title><description><![CDATA[T-Head&rsquo;s new GPU lands inside US export controls, a Trump-Xi summit on AI chips, and a Chinese domestic accelerator market, the company says, is already in scaled mass production. Alibaba&rsquo;s T-Head chip unit unveiled detailed specifications of the Zhenwu M890 on Wednesday, the company&rsquo;s latest GPU-class AI chip designed as a domestic alternative to NVIDIA&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-unveils-the-zhenwu-m890-as-chinas-nvidia-alternative-push-hardens/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-unveils-the-zhenwu-m890-as-chinas-nvidia-alternative-push-hardens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms]]></title><description><![CDATA[After January&rsquo;s blanket ban and March&rsquo;s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then a fee. Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal that would give rival AI chatbots, including OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT, Perplexity, Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude and others, free [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-offers-rival-ai-chatbots-a-limited-free-pass-into-whatsapp-on-brussels-terms/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-offers-rival-ai-chatbots-a-limited-free-pass-into-whatsapp-on-brussels-terms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company will scale to about 200 staff in the city-state and align the lab&rsquo;s work to Singapore&rsquo;s public-sector, finance, healthcare, and digital-infrastructure priorities. OpenAI said on Wednesday it will open its first applied-AI lab outside the United States in Singapore, with a S$300m (about $235m) commitment alongside a staffing ramp to roughly 200 people [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-plants-its-first-overseas-applied-ai-lab-in-singapore-with-a-235m-commitment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-plants-its-first-overseas-applied-ai-lab-in-singapore-with-a-235m-commitment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona&rsquo;s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be &lsquo;larger, faster, and more consequential&rsquo; than anything they had so far lived through. The former Google chief executive was attempting, on the published account, to be reassuring. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gen-z-is-not-booing-ai-it-is-booing-its-own-job-market/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gen-z-is-not-booing-ai-it-is-booing-its-own-job-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Warsaw- and Munich-based ex-Meta engineering team hit $15m annualised recurring revenue in ten weeks. The angel list reads like a who&rsquo;s who of European and US software. Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-agent company built by former Meta engineers Peter Albert and Fryderyk Wiatrowski, has raised a $75m Series A led by Accel. Bek [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/viktor-takes-75m-from-accel-to-put-an-ai-coworker-inside-slack-and-teams/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/viktor-takes-75m-from-accel-to-put-an-ai-coworker-inside-slack-and-teams/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cambridge-rooted, Massachusetts-based automated electronics factory has delivered more than two million boards across 20,000 engineers. Plural&rsquo;s bet is on the trillion-dollar reshoring tailwind behind it. CircuitHub, the automated-electronics-manufacturing company founded by Andrew Seddon, has raised $28m in funding led by Plural. The round is the largest CircuitHub has disclosed in its 15-year history, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/circuithub-takes-28m-from-plural-to-make-pcbs-the-way-clouds-make-compute/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/circuithub-takes-28m-from-plural-to-make-pcbs-the-way-clouds-make-compute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RemotePass raises $17.4m Series B from EBRD as global employment meets fintech]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dubai-founded global employment and payroll platform reached profitability in early 2025 before taking the round. EBRD Venture Capital led; 500 Global is the new strategic name alongside.\ RemotePass, the global employment, payroll, and spend platform co-founded by Kamal Reggad and Karim Nadi, has raised $17.4m in Series B funding led by EBRD Venture Capital, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/remotepass-raises-174m-series-b-from-ebrd-as-global-employment-meets-fintech/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/remotepass-raises-174m-series-b-from-ebrd-as-global-employment-meets-fintech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at the frontier of large language model development. Karpathy is joining&nbsp;Anthropic&rsquo;s&nbsp;pre-training team, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-to-supercharge-claudes-pre-training-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-to-supercharge-claudes-pre-training-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, placing a major bet that the&nbsp;insatiable energy demands of AI data centres&nbsp;will keep chipmakers scrambling for better power-delivery technology. The deal, announced on Monday, gives the Wilmington, Massachusetts-based chipmaker access to Empower&rsquo;s integrated voltage regulators, which sit directly beneath AI accelerators and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/analog-devices-snaps-up-empower-semiconductor-for-15bn-to-tackle-ais-power-problem/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/analog-devices-snaps-up-empower-semiconductor-for-15bn-to-tackle-ais-power-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX expects to complete its&nbsp;$60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor&nbsp;roughly 30 days after it begins trading publicly, according to Bloomberg, a timeline that would place the deal in July if the company&rsquo;s blockbuster IPO proceeds on schedule. The rocket, satellite, and artificial intelligence conglomerate is planning to file its public IPO prospectus as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-plans-to-buy-cursor-for-60-billion-once-its-record-ipo-wraps/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-plans-to-buy-cursor-for-60-billion-once-its-record-ipo-wraps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI adopts C2PA standard and Google’s SynthID to make AI-generated images easier to identify]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has announced two new measures designed to help the public determine whether an image was created by its AI models. The company is formally joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) open standard while simultaneously partnering with Google to embed its invisible SynthID watermark across OpenAI&rsquo;s image outputs. The moves represent a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-adopts-c2pa-standard-and-googles-synthid-to-make-ai-generated-images-easier-to-identify/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-adopts-c2pa-standard-and-googles-synthid-to-make-ai-generated-images-easier-to-identify/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord now encrypts every voice and video call by default, and not even it can listen in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discord has flipped the switch on end-to-end encryption for every voice and video call on its platform, a move that means not even the company itself can access what its hundreds of millions of users say on calls. Mark Smith, Discord&rsquo;s VP of core technology, confirmed the rollout in a blog post on Monday, stating [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/discord-now-encrypts-every-voice-and-video-call-by-default-and-not-even-it-can-listen-in/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/discord-now-encrypts-every-voice-and-video-call-by-default-and-not-even-it-can-listen-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[H2O.ai launches tabH2O, a foundation model that makes predictions from tabular data without any training]]></title><description><![CDATA[H2O.ai has unveiled tabH2O, a foundation model purpose-built for tabular data that can generate high-accuracy predictions from structured datasets using a single API call, with no model training required. The company announced the product at&nbsp;Dell Technologies World 2026, positioning it as a significant shift in how enterprises handle predictive AI. Rather than spending weeks on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/h2oai-launches-tabh2o-a-foundation-model-that-makes-predictions-from-tabular-data-without-any-training/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/h2oai-launches-tabh2o-a-foundation-model-that-makes-predictions-from-tabular-data-without-any-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitLab cuts 7% of workforce and flattens management in sweeping ‘agentic era’ restructuring]]></title><description><![CDATA[GitLab is slashing jobs, shrinking its geographic footprint, and reorganising its engineering teams as it bets its future on a world where AI agents, not humans, write most of the code. The DevOps platform company announced on 19 May that it will cut approximately 7% of its workforce, reduce its country presence by up to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlab-cuts-7-of-workforce-and-flattens-management-in-sweeping-agentic-era-restructuring/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlab-cuts-7-of-workforce-and-flattens-management-in-sweeping-agentic-era-restructuring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weeks after Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos AI model sent shockwaves through the financial system, America&rsquo;s top banking regulators are stepping back from the exam room to give the country&rsquo;s largest lenders time to shore up their defences. The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are pausing some cyber-related examinations of the biggest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-regulators-pause-bank-cyber-exams-so-wall-street-can-patch-mythos-vulnerabilities/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-regulators-pause-bank-cyber-exams-so-wall-street-can-patch-mythos-vulnerabilities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gemini gets a morning routine, a new look, and an AI agent that never sleeps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google used the opening keynote of&nbsp;I/O 2026&nbsp;to unveil a wave of updates to its Gemini app, headlined by a feature called Daily Brief, a personalised morning digest that pulls from a user&rsquo;s inbox, calendar, and task list to deliver a prioritised overview of the day ahead. The feature does not merely summarise, it also suggests [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-gets-a-morning-routine-a-new-look-and-an-ai-agent-that-never-sleeps/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-gets-a-morning-routine-a-new-look-and-an-ai-agent-that-never-sleeps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Android CLI 1.0 arrives to give AI coding agents full access to Android Studio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has released Android CLI at a stable version 1.0, giving AI coding agents a direct line into Android Studio&rsquo;s capabilities without ever opening the IDE. The announcement, made at&nbsp;Google I/O 2026&nbsp;on 19 May, is a frank acknowledgement that many developers now build for Android using third-party AI agents rather than Google&rsquo;s own tools. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/android-cli-10-arrives-to-give-ai-coding-agents-full-access-to-android-studio/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/android-cli-10-arrives-to-give-ai-coding-agents-full-access-to-android-studio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google wants to own your entire shopping journey with Universal Cart and agent-led payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has unveiled Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping hub announced at&nbsp;I/O 2026&nbsp;that lets users add products from across its ecosystem, Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, into a single persistent cart. The feature, rolling out in the US today, represents the company&rsquo;s most ambitious bid yet to become the default middleman in online commerce. Universal Cart [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-to-own-your-entire-shopping-journey-with-universal-cart-and-agent-led-payments/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-to-own-your-entire-shopping-journey-with-universal-cart-and-agent-led-payments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant you can email like a colleague]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O 2026, an always-on agentic AI assistant built on Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity harness. It runs on dedicated cloud VMs, integrates natively with Gmail and Workspace, and will be available to AI Ultra subscribers next week.[/tldr] Google has unveiled Gemini Spark, an always-on personal AI agent that can receive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-spark-a-247-agentic-assistant-you-can-email-like-a-colleague/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gemini-spark-a-247-agentic-assistant-you-can-email-like-a-colleague/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google wants you to talk to Docs, Keep, and Gmail instead of typing]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Google is betting that the future of productivity software starts with your voice, not your keyboard. At its&nbsp;I/O 2026 developer conference&nbsp;on Monday, the company unveiled voice-based prompting features for Docs, Keep, and Gmail, all powered by its Gemini AI models. The headline feature is Docs Live, which lets users create and edit documents entirely [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-you-to-talk-to-docs-keep-and-gmail-instead-of-typing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-you-to-talk-to-docs-keep-and-gmail-instead-of-typing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google turns Antigravity into a full agentic development platform with desktop app, CLI, and SDK]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google just made its most aggressive move yet in the&nbsp;rapidly evolving agentic coding market. At I/O 2026 on Monday, the company unveiled Antigravity 2.0, transforming what started as a Cursor competitor into a sprawling developer platform complete with an updated desktop app, a new command-line tool, and an SDK for building custom agents. The original [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-turns-antigravity-into-a-full-agentic-development-platform-with-desktop-app-cli-and-sdk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-turns-antigravity-into-a-full-agentic-development-platform-with-desktop-app-cli-and-sdk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google wants you to talk to your Gmail inbox, and it might actually work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is betting that the future of email search is not typing, but talking. At&nbsp;Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled Gmail Live, a voice-powered conversational search feature that lets users ask their inbox questions out loud instead of fumbling with keywords. The feature is built on Gemini, Google&rsquo;s flagship AI model, and works a bit [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-you-to-talk-to-your-gmail-inbox-and-it-might-actually-work/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-you-to-talk-to-your-gmail-inbox-and-it-might-actually-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google just replaced the search box with an AI agent, and the web will never be the same]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a quarter of a century, Google Search has opened with the same proposition: a blank white rectangle, a blinking cursor, and the implicit instruction to reduce your question to a handful of keywords. On Monday, at its annual I/O developer conference, Google declared that era over. The company unveiled what it calls an &ldquo;intelligent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-just-replaced-the-search-box-with-an-ai-agent-and-the-web-will-never-be-the-same/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-just-replaced-the-search-box-with-an-ai-agent-and-the-web-will-never-be-the-same/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google wants Search to work while you sleep, and its new information agents are the plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has spent more than two decades refining a product built on a simple premise: you type a question, it returns a list of links. At I/O 2026 on Monday, the company signalled that premise is no longer enough. Among the biggest announcements was a new category of AI-powered tools called information agents, persistent, background [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-search-to-work-while-you-sleep-and-its-new-information-agents-are-the-plan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-search-to-work-while-you-sleep-and-its-new-information-agents-are-the-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash doesn’t just write code, it builds entire operating systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere inside Google&rsquo;s campus, an AI agent recently built an operating system from scratch. Not a toy demo, not a sanitised benchmark exercise, but a full OS assembled by software agents spawning off to handle separate components before stitching everything together. That, at least, is what Google showed the world at&nbsp;I/O 2026&nbsp;on Monday, and it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-gemini-35-flash-doesnt-just-write-code-it-builds-entire-operating-systems/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-gemini-35-flash-doesnt-just-write-code-it-builds-entire-operating-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind plugs Street View into its world model, and you can explore simulated cities today]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google DeepMind has connected its Project Genie world model to 20 years of Street View imagery, allowing users to wander through AI-generated simulations of real places. The integration, announced at the Google I/O developer conference on Monday, marks one of the most tangible demonstrations yet of what generative world models can do when paired with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-deepmind-plugs-street-view-into-its-world-model-and-you-can-explore-simulated-cities-today/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-deepmind-plugs-street-view-into-its-world-model-and-you-can-explore-simulated-cities-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google partners with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster for Gemini-powered smart glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is having another go at smart glasses, and this time it is bringing fashionable friends along for the ride. At&nbsp;Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday, the company announced a new partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to produce AI-powered &ldquo;audio glasses&rdquo; designed in collaboration with Samsung. Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro and running on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-partners-with-warby-parker-and-gentle-monster-for-gemini-powered-smart-glasses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-partners-with-warby-parker-and-gentle-monster-for-gemini-powered-smart-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is preparing to launch futures contracts tied to the cost of computing power, marking the latest sign that Wall Street sees AI infrastructure as the next great commodity market. ICE announced on Monday that it will team with Ornn, a financial-infrastructure firm whose [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ice-plans-compute-futures-contracts-as-wall-street-races-to-turn-gpu-power-into-a-tradable-commodity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ice-plans-compute-futures-contracts-as-wall-street-races-to-turn-gpu-power-into-a-tradable-commodity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cropin scales global AgTech analytics with Sisense-powered intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it comes to feeding the planet, the old ways of farming are running up against hard limits. Climate volatility, supply-chain disruption, and the sheer complexity of managing crops across dozens of countries have made data-driven agriculture not just a nice-to-have but an operational imperative. Cropin, the India-headquartered SaaS AgTech company, is leaning into that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cropin-scales-global-agtech-analytics-with-sisense-powered-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cropin-scales-global-agtech-analytics-with-sisense-powered-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously. motif, an AI wealth advisory company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, is betting it can do better. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/temasek-backed-motif-launches-clarity-an-ai-system-that-wants-to-give-wealth-platforms-a-brain/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/temasek-backed-motif-launches-clarity-an-ai-system-that-wants-to-give-wealth-platforms-a-brain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amprius and Matternet partner to bring silicon anode batteries to drone delivery]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Amprius Technologies, the Fremont-based maker of high-energy-density silicon anode batteries, has announced a partnership with Matternet, one of the few drone delivery companies to hold both FAA Type Certification and Production Certification. The collaboration will see Amprius supply its SiCore&reg; lithium-ion cells for Matternet&rsquo;s autonomous delivery drones, a move that could meaningfully extend the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amprius-and-matternet-partner-to-bring-silicon-anode-batteries-to-drone-delivery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amprius-and-matternet-partner-to-bring-silicon-anode-batteries-to-drone-delivery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panasonic buys UK media server maker HIVE in push beyond hardware]]></title><description><![CDATA[Panasonic Projector &amp; Display Corporation has acquired 100% of the issued shares of UK-based HIVE Media Control, the company behind the award-winning BeeBlade media server platform. The deal signals a decisive shift in Panasonic&rsquo;s strategy, moving it from a projector and display manufacturer into what it calls a &ldquo;broader visual solutions ecosystem provider,&rdquo; encompassing software, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/panasonic-buys-uk-media-server-maker-hive-in-push-beyond-hardware/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/panasonic-buys-uk-media-server-maker-hive-in-push-beyond-hardware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitachi partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude across 290,000 employees and strengthen Lumada 3.0]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hitachi has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic that will see the Japanese industrial conglomerate deploy Claude AI models across its entire workforce of approximately 290,000 employees, in what it describes as a move to strengthen its &ldquo;Lumada 3.0&rdquo; business model. The deal positions Hitachi as one of the largest enterprise adopters of Claude globally, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hitachi-partners-with-anthropic-to-deploy-claude-across-290000-employees-and-strengthen-lumada-30/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hitachi-partners-with-anthropic-to-deploy-claude-across-290000-employees-and-strengthen-lumada-30/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this fun gimmick worth the price? 🎤 #insta360 #creatortools]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is this fun gimmick worth the price? 🎤 #insta360 #creatortools]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-this-fun-gimmick-worth-the-price-insta360-creatortools/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-this-fun-gimmick-worth-the-price-insta360-creatortools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GTA 6 is entirely handcrafted with zero generative AI, Take-Two CEO confirms]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the most anticipated game in history finally arrives on 19 November 2026, not a single building, street corner, or neighbourhood in its sprawling open world will have been conjured by a large language model. That is the unequivocal message from Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick, who confirmed that generative AI has &ldquo;zero part&rdquo; in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gta-6-is-entirely-handcrafted-with-zero-generative-ai-take-two-ceo-confirms/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gta-6-is-entirely-handcrafted-with-zero-generative-ai-take-two-ceo-confirms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD’s Lisa Su meets China’s vice premier in Beijing as chip diplomacy intensifies]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; AMD CEO Lisa Su sat down with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, a meeting that underscores how US chipmakers are scrambling to protect their foothold in the world&rsquo;s second-largest semiconductor market even as Washington tightens the screws on technology exports. He, a member [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amds-lisa-su-meets-chinas-vice-premier-in-beijing-as-chip-diplomacy-intensifies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amds-lisa-su-meets-chinas-vice-premier-in-beijing-as-chip-diplomacy-intensifies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s $200 billion Hyperion data centre in Louisiana is the most expensive private infrastructure project in American history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is building the most expensive single piece of private infrastructure in American history. Hyperion, the company&rsquo;s AI data centre campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, now carries a projected cost of more than $200 billion, a figure that has grown steadily since the project was first announced at $10 billion in December 2024. The campus [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-200-billion-hyperion-data-centre-in-louisiana-is-the-most-expensive-private-infrastructure-project-in-american-history/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-200-billion-hyperion-data-centre-in-louisiana-is-the-most-expensive-private-infrastructure-project-in-american-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geely-backed ECARX signs $750 million deal to build purpose-built robotaxis for May Mobility]]></title><description><![CDATA[ECARX, the automotive technology company backed by Geely founder Li Shufu, has signed a strategic framework agreement with May Mobility to supply thousands of autonomy-enabled vehicles for the American robotaxi operator&rsquo;s commercial fleet. The deal, valued at approximately $750 million, pairs a Chinese-founded hardware supplier with one of the few US robotaxi companies that has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/geely-backed-ecarx-signs-750-million-deal-to-build-purpose-built-robotaxis-for-may-mobility/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/geely-backed-ecarx-signs-750-million-deal-to-build-purpose-built-robotaxis-for-may-mobility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unframe takes $50M more from Highland Europe on $100M TCV in 12 months]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Shay Levi-led enterprise AI delivery platform has doubled its total funding to $100m and is posting numbers, including 400% net revenue retention, that put it in the top decile of any enterprise-software vintage. Unframe, the Cupertino-based managed AI delivery platform co-founded by Shay Levi, has raised an additional $50m in funding led by Highland [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unframe-takes-50m-more-from-highland-europe-on-100m-tcv-in-12-months/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unframe-takes-50m-more-from-highland-europe-on-100m-tcv-in-12-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feldwerke pulls a €12M revolving credit facility behind a 100 MW agri-PV roll-out]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Munich-based developer behind Germany&rsquo;s largest agri-PV facility plans to build 100 MW across the next 18 months. The new debt line is the working-capital plumbing that turns a 250 MW pipeline into deliverable projects. Munich-based agri-PV developer Feldwerke has secured a &euro;12m revolving credit facility to underwrite the construction of a 100 MW portfolio [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/feldwerke-pulls-a-12m-revolving-credit-facility-behind-a-100-mw-agri-pv-roll-out/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 12:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/feldwerke-pulls-a-12m-revolving-credit-facility-behind-a-100-mw-agri-pv-roll-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypershell takes $50M more on $120M Series B series as consumer exoskeletons step out of niche]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ant Group and Meituan Dragonball co-led the $50m Series B+; Sofina and Granite Asia joined. Total Series B funding now stands at $120m at a near-$400m post-money valuation, ahead of Wednesday&rsquo;s global X-Series launch. Hypershell, the Shanghai-based consumer-exoskeleton company, has raised a $50m Series B+ co-led by Ant Group and Meituan Dragonball (referred to in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hypershell-takes-50m-more-on-120m-series-b-series-as-consumer-exoskeletons-step-out-of-niche/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hypershell-takes-50m-more-on-120m-series-b-series-as-consumer-exoskeletons-step-out-of-niche/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barclays says humanoid robots can offset 60% of China’s 37M worker shortfall by 2035]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British bank&rsquo;s new note estimates humanoid robots can offset 60% of the projected labour-force decline by 2035, with China&rsquo;s workforce shrinking by 37 million people over the next ten years. Up to 24 million humanoids would be needed. Barclays published a research note estimating that China&rsquo;s deployment of humanoid robots could offset as much [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/barclays-says-humanoid-robots-can-offset-60-of-chinas-37m-worker-shortfall-by-2035/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/barclays-says-humanoid-robots-can-offset-60-of-chinas-37m-worker-shortfall-by-2035/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$20bn Kimi developer Moonshot abandons VIE structure for HK listing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The $20bn Kimi developer has informed shareholders it will dismantle its variable-interest-entity structure, after Beijing made it clear an exemption was unlikely. The IPO would be one of the biggest Chinese AI listings on record. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, has told shareholders it intends to dismantle its variable-interest-entity (VIE) structure [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/20bn-kimi-developer-moonshot-abandons-vie-structure-for-hk-listing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/20bn-kimi-developer-moonshot-abandons-vie-structure-for-hk-listing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nintendo jumps 6.8% as Japanese investors rotate out of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nintendo jumped as much as 6.8% on Tuesday for its longest winning streak since mid-March. Bandai Namco and Konami each gained more than 9%. The trade is about what isn&rsquo;t AI as much as what is. Nintendo&rsquo;s stock climbed as much as 6.8% in Tokyo on Tuesday for its third straight day of gains, Bloomberg [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nintendo-jumps-68-as-japanese-investors-rotate-out-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nintendo-jumps-68-as-japanese-investors-rotate-out-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Standard Chartered will cut 7,800 back-office jobs to ‘the machines’ by 2030]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill Winters told investors in Hong Kong that the bank&rsquo;s HR, risk and compliance functions will shrink by more than 15% over five years, with the headcount efficiency aimed at lifting income-per-employee 20% by 2028. Standard Chartered will cut more than 15% of its back-office roles by 2030, chief executive Bill Winters told investors at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/standard-chartered-will-cut-7800-back-office-jobs-to-the-machines-by-2030/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 10:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/standard-chartered-will-cut-7800-back-office-jobs-to-the-machines-by-2030/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Left Lane Capital led the Milan-based startup&rsquo;s Series B, eight months after its $19m Series A. Lexroom is selling 8,000+ law firms a verified-source legal AI built around six million documents. Milan-based Lexroom, the legal AI startup focused on civil-law jurisdictions, has raised a $50m Series B led by Left Lane Capital. Base10 Partners, Eurazeo, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italys-lexroom-hits-73m-total-raised-on-50m-series-b-for-civil-law-legal-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italys-lexroom-hits-73m-total-raised-on-50m-series-b-for-civil-law-legal-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s largest pension fund sees agentic AI as a disruption-class technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[The A$410bn pension fund is comparing the disruption to what retail and consumer services have already experienced. ASIC is already monitoring frontier-AI risks across the Australian financial system. AustralianSuper, the country&rsquo;s largest pension fund with A$410bn ($293bn) under management, has said agentic artificial intelligence could fundamentally reshape how it serves its 3.5 million members, Bloomberg&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-largest-pension-fund-sees-agentic-ai-as-a-disruption-class-technology/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-largest-pension-fund-sees-agentic-ai-as-a-disruption-class-technology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackstone takes the majority position in Google’s new TPU cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two have formed a joint venture to build a US-based AI compute-as-a-service business on Google&rsquo;s TPUs, with $5bn of Blackstone equity, $25bn total deal value including leverage, and 500 MW of capacity targeted for 2027. Blackstone and Google have formed a joint venture to build a US-based AI compute-as-a-service business on Google&rsquo;s tensor processing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstone-takes-the-majority-position-in-googles-new-tpu-cloud/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstone-takes-the-majority-position-in-googles-new-tpu-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel and Qualcomm circle Tenstorrent as the NVIDIA-alternative trade comes due]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports early-stage takeover conversations with the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, which raised $800m at a $3.2bn valuation last year and counts Bezos Expeditions and Samsung among its backers. Tenstorrent, the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, has held early-stage takeover conversations with Intel and Qualcomm, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing 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/intel-and-qualcomm-circle-tenstorrent-as-the-nvidia-alternative-trade-comes-due/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-and-qualcomm-circle-tenstorrent-as-the-nvidia-alternative-trade-comes-due/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Project Glasswing partners can now share Mythos findings beyond the programme]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Project Glasswing partners can now pass vulnerability findings to other security teams, industry bodies, regulators, open-source maintainers and the press, under responsible-disclosure norms. The defender pool just got wider. Anthropic said on Monday that it is revising its earlier disclosure policy on Mythos, the unreleased cybersecurity-focused AI model deployed under its Project Glasswing controlled-access [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/project-glasswing-partners-can-now-share-mythos-findings-beyond-the-programme/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/project-glasswing-partners-can-now-share-mythos-findings-beyond-the-programme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analog Devices near $1.5bn cash deal for Empower Semiconductor’s AI power chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Milpitas-based vertical-power-delivery firm puts more than 3,000 amps of current directly under the GPU. The deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday. Analog Devices is in advanced talks to acquire Empower Semiconductor, the closely held Californian power-management chip company, for $1.5bn in cash, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/analog-devices-near-15bn-cash-deal-for-empower-semiconductors-ai-power-chips/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/analog-devices-near-15bn-cash-deal-for-empower-semiconductors-ai-power-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta moves 7,000 people into AI roles the same week it cuts 10%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chief People Officer Janelle Gale&rsquo;s Monday memo described &lsquo;smaller teams&rsquo; and a &lsquo;flatter&rsquo; structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later this week. The Meta Saga continues with layoffs and &ldquo;reassigning&rdquo;. Meta Platforms is reassigning 7,000 workers to new artificial-intelligence-focused jobs as part of a broad corporate restructuring, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-moves-7000-people-into-ai-roles-the-same-week-it-cuts-10/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-moves-7000-people-into-ai-roles-the-same-week-it-cuts-10/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistral buys Vienna’s Emmi AI to put physics into its industrial pitch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris-based open-weights lab is acquiring an Austrian startup whose models handle airflow, heat transfer, and material stress, targeting aerospace, automotive, and semiconductor customers. Terms were not disclosed. Mistral AI, Europe&rsquo;s most prominent open-source AI lab, has acquired Vienna-based Emmi AI for an undisclosed sum, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Emmi specialises in models that simulate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mistral-buys-viennas-emmi-ai-to-put-physics-into-its-industrial-pitch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 08:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mistral-buys-viennas-emmi-ai-to-put-physics-into-its-industrial-pitch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenClaw creator’s $1.3 million monthly OpenAI bill reveals the real cost of autonomous AI coding at scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw and an engineer at OpenAI, racked up $1.3 million in API costs in a single month by running approximately 100 Codex instances simultaneously on his open-source project. The bill, which covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests over 30 days, is the most visible demonstration yet of what [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openclaw-creators-13-million-monthly-openai-bill-reveals-the-real-cost-of-autonomous-ai-coding-at-scale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openclaw-creators-13-million-monthly-openai-bill-reveals-the-real-cost-of-autonomous-ai-coding-at-scale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX raises Starlink prices across every consumer plan and doubles the cost of Standby Mode]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX has raised the price of every consumer Starlink plan in the United States, adding $5 to $10 per month across its residential and mobile tiers while doubling the cost of its budget Standby Mode from $5 to $10. The increases, which took effect immediately for new subscribers and will apply to existing customers from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-raises-starlink-prices-across-every-consumer-plan-and-doubles-the-cost-of-standby-mode/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-raises-starlink-prices-across-every-consumer-plan-and-doubles-the-cost-of-standby-mode/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta begins cutting 8,000 jobs this week as record profits fund a $145 billion AI infrastructure bet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta will begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs on 20 May, the largest single round of layoffs the company has undertaken since its 2023 restructuring, in a move that lays bare the scale of Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s bet that artificial intelligence infrastructure is worth more than the people it replaces. The company is also cancelling 6,000 open [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-begins-cutting-8000-jobs-this-week-as-record-profits-fund-a-145-billion-ai-infrastructure-bet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-begins-cutting-8000-jobs-this-week-as-record-profits-fund-a-145-billion-ai-infrastructure-bet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, produce a structured overview, and deliver it as an audio episode narrated by two [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-new-alexa-feature-generates-entire-podcast-episodes-using-ai-and-licensed-journalism-from-200-newsrooms/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-new-alexa-feature-generates-entire-podcast-episodes-using-ai-and-licensed-journalism-from-200-newsrooms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including fingerprints, in a breach affecting at least 1.8 million people. The organisation reported the figure to the US Department of Health and Human Services, making the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-stole-fingerprints-and-medical-data-from-18-million-people-in-nycs-largest-public-hospital-breach/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-stole-fingerprints-and-medical-data-from-18-million-people-in-nycs-largest-public-hospital-breach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit as jury unanimously rules his claims were filed too late]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. A nine-person jury in Oakland returned a unanimous verdict on Sunday finding that Musk&rsquo;s claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, ending the most consequential corporate governance trial in the history of artificial intelligence without reaching the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-loses-openai-lawsuit-as-jury-unanimously-rules-his-claims-were-filed-too-late/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 19:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-loses-openai-lawsuit-as-jury-unanimously-rules-his-claims-were-filed-too-late/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HistoSonics gets Taiwan approval for its tumour-destroying ultrasound system as it pushes into Asia]]></title><description><![CDATA[HistoSonics has received regulatory approval from Taiwan&rsquo;s Food and Drug Administration for its Edison Histotripsy System, a non-invasive cancer treatment device that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumours without cutting, radiation, or thermal damage. The TFDA authorisation, announced on 18 May, marks a significant step in the company&rsquo;s expansion into Asia and adds Taiwan to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/histosonics-gets-taiwan-approval-for-its-tumour-destroying-ultrasound-system-as-it-pushes-into-asia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/histosonics-gets-taiwan-approval-for-its-tumour-destroying-ultrasound-system-as-it-pushes-into-asia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year and positioning the San Francisco-based company as one of the most aggressively valued players in the business intelligence market. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sigma-computing-doubles-valuation-to-3-billion-in-series-e-as-agentic-analytics-race-heats-up/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sigma-computing-doubles-valuation-to-3-billion-in-series-e-as-agentic-analytics-race-heats-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iPhone made me love Android]]></title><description><![CDATA[The iPhone made me love Android]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-iphone-made-me-love-android/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-iphone-made-me-love-android/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Coursera has announced a $500 million share repurchase programme, its first buyback since going public in 2021 and one that arrives exactly one week after the online learning company completed its merger with Udemy. The board approved the programme on Sunday 18 May 2026, funding it from existing cash balances and cash flow from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coursera-announces-500-million-buyback-one-week-after-closing-its-25-billion-udemy-merger/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coursera-announces-500-million-buyback-one-week-after-closing-its-25-billion-udemy-merger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grafana Labs refuses ransom after hackers steal already-open-source code]]></title><description><![CDATA[The hackers exfiltrated a codebase that was already open source, then demanded payment to keep it from being released. Grafana said no, and cited the FBI&rsquo;s standing advice. It is the second high-profile extortion case in seven days. Grafana Labs, the open-source monitoring and visualisation company, disclosed on Monday that hackers had broken into its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/grafana-labs-refuses-ransom-after-hackers-steal-already-open-source-code/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/grafana-labs-refuses-ransom-after-hackers-steal-already-open-source-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s co-founder will speak at the Vatican launch of the pope’s AI encyclical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical,&nbsp;Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican&rsquo;s Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic. The Vatican announced the details on Monday, confirming that the document will address the protection of human dignity in the age of artificial [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-co-founder-will-speak-at-the-vatican-launch-of-the-popes-ai-encyclical/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-co-founder-will-speak-at-the-vatican-launch-of-the-popes-ai-encyclical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy Fold 8 and Flip 8: What to expect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy Fold 8 and Flip 8: What to expect]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-fold-8-and-flip-8-what-to-expect/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-fold-8-and-flip-8-what-to-expect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[The P&aacute;tria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil&rsquo;s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pec&eacute;m, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America. Omnia, the P&aacute;tria Investimentos-backed data-centre developer, has signed a roughly $2bn energy-supply agreement with Casa dos Ventos, Brazil&rsquo;s largest independent renewable-power generator, according to Reuters. The contract [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The N]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/omnia-and-casa-dos-ventos-sign-2bn-power-deal-anchoring-tiktoks-brazil-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/omnia-and-casa-dos-ventos-sign-2bn-power-deal-anchoring-tiktoks-brazil-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before. At the same time, traffic often looks stable &ndash; sometimes even growing. The disconnect comes from a shift that isn&rsquo;t immediately visible in dashboards. Buyers are forming [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-next-pipeline-miss-may-start-in-ai-search/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-next-pipeline-miss-may-start-in-ai-search/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia&rsquo;s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy for about $67bn in an all-stock deal, Bloomberg reported on Monday, in what would be the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nextera-agrees-67bn-all-stock-deal-for-dominion-in-largest-power-acquisition-ever/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 16:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nextera-agrees-67bn-all-stock-deal-for-dominion-in-largest-power-acquisition-ever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk’s xAI promised employees $420 for their tax data. Two months later, nothing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI lab promised employees a 420-dollar payment for handing over their personal tax data to train Grok ahead of the April 15 deadline. Two months on, Bloomberg reports, the money has not been paid. Elon Musk&rsquo;s xAI asked its own employees earlier this year to hand over their personal US tax returns as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musks-xai-promised-employees-420-for-their-tax-data-two-months-later-nothing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musks-xai-promised-employees-420-for-their-tax-data-two-months-later-nothing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and world models, announced on Monday it had raised $300m in new funding led by Radical Ventures. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/decart-raises-300m-to-put-a-real-time-world-model-in-front-of-amazons-chips/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/decart-raises-300m-to-put-a-real-time-world-model-in-front-of-amazons-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google has sold so much TPU capacity that its own researchers are queueing for the rest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the most enviable position in AI infrastructure: a healthy cloud business, its own custom chips, and supply [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-has-sold-so-much-tpu-capacity-that-its-own-researchers-are-queueing-for-the-rest/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 15:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-has-sold-so-much-tpu-capacity-that-its-own-researchers-are-queueing-for-the-rest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[XPeng starts its robotaxi line in Guangzhou, three years behind the leaders and ahead of any other Chinese automaker]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first car off the line on Monday marks the start of a slow ramp. Public pilots arrive in the second half, fully driverless by early 2027. XPeng said on Monday that the first robotaxi had rolled off its production line in Guangzhou, making the Chinese carmaker, in its own framing, the first automaker in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xpeng-starts-its-robotaxi-line-in-guangzhou-three-years-behind-the-leaders-and-ahead-of-any-other-chinese-automaker/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 15:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/xpeng-starts-its-robotaxi-line-in-guangzhou-three-years-behind-the-leaders-and-ahead-of-any-other-chinese-automaker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The United States and the Philippines are moving &ldquo;very, very quickly&rdquo; on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Helberg visited the proposed site on Monday with more than a dozen American companies, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-is-building-a-4000-acre-ai-hub-in-the-philippines-and-the-sovereignty-questions-are-already-piling-up/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-is-building-a-4000-acre-ai-hub-in-the-philippines-and-the-sovereignty-questions-are-already-piling-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dust raises $40M to push enterprise AI past the single-player era]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris- and San Francisco-based platform&rsquo;s Series B is co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with Snowflake and Datadog participating. Total funding is now north of $60m. Dust, the Paris- and San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform, has raised a $40m Series B co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with participation from Snowflake and Datadog, the company said [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dust-raises-40m-to-push-enterprise-ai-past-the-single-player-era/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dust-raises-40m-to-push-enterprise-ai-past-the-single-player-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19&ndash;20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to formalise a set of announcements that Google began rolling out a week early [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-io-2026-everything-announced-so-far-from-gemini-intelligence-to-the-death-of-the-chromebook/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-io-2026-everything-announced-so-far-from-gemini-intelligence-to-the-death-of-the-chromebook/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe&rsquo;s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a &ldquo;spiral of annihilation.&rdquo; Speaking at Rome&rsquo;s La Sapienza University on Wednesday, the pontiff called for tighter monitoring of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pope-leo-xiv-calls-ai-directed-warfare-a-spiral-of-annihilation-in-historic-la-sapienza-address/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 13:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pope-leo-xiv-calls-ai-directed-warfare-a-spiral-of-annihilation-in-historic-la-sapienza-address/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two crypto billionaires sit behind both the Trump family token and Iran’s sanctions-evasion engine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reuters traced $2.3bn in Iranian exchange Nobitex&rsquo;s flows since 2023 to Tron and BNB Chain, the blockchains established by World Liberty Financial&rsquo;s two most prominent early backers. No party at WLF has been accused of knowing about it. A Reuters investigation published on Monday documents that Nobitex, Iran&rsquo;s largest crypto exchange, has processed at least [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-crypto-billionaires-sit-behind-both-the-trump-family-token-and-irans-sanctions-evasion-engine/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-crypto-billionaires-sit-behind-both-the-trump-family-token-and-irans-sanctions-evasion-engine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank&rsquo;s frontier-AI build-out. Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first Chief AI Scientist on Monday, recruiting one of the country&rsquo;s best-known AI researchers from the University of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cba-names-ai-researcher-professor-mary-anne-williams-as-chief-ai-scientist/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cba-names-ai-researcher-professor-mary-anne-williams-as-chief-ai-scientist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset]]></title><description><![CDATA[L Catterton has sold its majority stake at a steep discount to the DTC era&rsquo;s peak valuation. Common stockholders get nothing. The Everlane board signed on Saturday. Shein, the Chinese-founded ultra-fast-fashion giant, is acquiring Everlane, the San Francisco-based direct-to-consumer apparel brand, from majority owner L Catterton, according to reports in Bloomberg. The transaction values Everlane [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/shein-buys-everlane-at-100m-and-the-radical-transparency-brand-becomes-a-fast-fashion-asset/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/shein-buys-everlane-at-100m-and-the-radical-transparency-brand-becomes-a-fast-fashion-asset/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed. Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, has acquired Tangent, the London-based digital experience consultancy, the company said on Monday. Terms were not disclosed. Tangent will continue to operate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/exadel-buys-london-consultancy-tangent-to-bolt-experience-design-onto-its-ai-engineering-line/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/exadel-buys-london-consultancy-tangent-to-bolt-experience-design-onto-its-ai-engineering-line/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s India App Store case gets a procedural compromise from the Delhi bench]]></title><description><![CDATA[An order posted on Saturday tells Apple to hand over financial information to India&rsquo;s competition regulator. It also tells the regulator not to issue a final ruling before 15 July.&nbsp; The Delhi High Court told Apple over the weekend to &lsquo;fully cooperate&rsquo; with the Competition Commission of India in its ongoing antitrust investigation of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-india-app-store-case-gets-a-procedural-compromise-from-the-delhi-bench/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-india-app-store-case-gets-a-procedural-compromise-from-the-delhi-bench/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is briefing the Financial Stability Board on what Mythos has been finding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, who chairs the global financial-risk watchdog, has invited the company to present to G20 finance ministries and central banks. The model that worried him is the model now being explained. Anthropic is preparing to brief the Financial Stability Board on the cybersecurity vulnerabilities its Mythos model has been identifying [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-briefing-the-financial-stability-board-on-what-mythos-has-been-finding/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-briefing-the-financial-stability-board-on-what-mythos-has-been-finding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s largest bank is putting a dedicated facility behind Chinese solar, battery, EV and data-centre exporters expanding overseas, citing demand that has accelerated alongside the Iran war. HSBC has set up a dedicated $4bn credit facility to help Chinese clean-technology companies expand overseas, the bank said on Monday. The &lsquo;Sustainability and Transition Credit Facility&rsquo; covers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hsbc-opens-a-4bn-credit-line-for-chinese-clean-tech-to-go-global/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 09:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hsbc-opens-a-4bn-credit-line-for-chinese-clean-tech-to-go-global/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung union holds 21 May strike date as Monday mediation opens in Sejong]]></title><description><![CDATA[Talks resumed in Sejong on Monday. Choi Seung-ho walked into the National Labor Relations Commission building in Sejong on Monday morning, about 110 km south of Seoul, and told reporters he would &lsquo;participate in this second round in good faith&rsquo;. The head of Samsung Electronics&rsquo; largest union, on Friday&rsquo;s evidence, had been preparing to talk [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-union-holds-21-may-strike-date-as-monday-mediation-opens-in-sejong/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 09:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-union-holds-21-may-strike-date-as-monday-mediation-opens-in-sejong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motive Partners is leading the seed round, with WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures alongside. The 2025-founded startup is targeting case management, billing, and document handling rather than the parts of legal work most AI vendors are chasing. LawX, the Berlin legal-tech startup founded by Dr Norman Koschmieder, has raised a &euro;7.5M 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/berlins-lawx-raises-75m-to-build-the-backoffice-layer-of-legal-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 09:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/berlins-lawx-raises-75m-to-build-the-backoffice-layer-of-legal-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s Siri app in iOS 27 will auto-delete your chats. It may also launch as a beta, again.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple&rsquo;s first standalone Siri app, coming in iOS 27, will include an auto-delete function for chat histories that borrows from the Messages app. Users will be able to configure the app to retain conversations for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. The feature, reported by Bloomberg&rsquo;s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter on Sunday, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-siri-app-in-ios-27-will-auto-delete-your-chats-it-may-also-launch-as-a-beta-again/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-siri-app-in-ios-27-will-auto-delete-your-chats-it-may-also-launch-as-a-beta-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seven new job titles that AI created, from Claude Evangelist to Chief AI Officer]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI companies are not just changing the way people work. They are changing the kinds of roles that exist. Org charts are morphing as an entirely new class of jobs emerges, some with titles that did not exist two years ago, others that represent old professions reborn inside the technology industry. The hiring sprees stand [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-seven-new-job-titles-that-ai-created-from-claude-evangelist-to-chief-ai-officer/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-seven-new-job-titles-that-ai-created-from-claude-evangelist-to-chief-ai-officer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh&rsquo;s &ldquo;John Lennon: The Last Interview&rdquo; premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew from their home in New York&rsquo;s Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, hours before Lennon was shot and killed, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/soderbergh-used-metas-ai-in-his-lennon-documentary-critics-hated-it-he-says-thats-the-point/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/soderbergh-used-metas-ai-in-his-lennon-documentary-critics-hated-it-he-says-thats-the-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman. The side quests are over.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company&rsquo;s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product organisation. In an internal memo seen by Wired, Brockman wrote that OpenAI will &ldquo;invest in a single agentic platform and to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-merges-chatgpt-and-codex-under-greg-brockman-the-side-quests-are-over/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-merges-chatgpt-and-codex-under-greg-brockman-the-side-quests-are-over/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown on rethinking hormone health through advanced testing]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a healthcare environment shaped by&nbsp;protocols and time constraints, many people often experience long journeys marked by inconclusive answers and persistent symptoms. Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown, founder of&nbsp;Hormone Health with Dr. Brown, positions his work in response to this gap. According to him, his approach centers on uncovering underlying imbalances rather than assigning clinical labels, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dr-jeffrey-l-brown-on-rethinking-hormone-health-through-advanced-testing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dr-jeffrey-l-brown-on-rethinking-hormone-health-through-advanced-testing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How workplace infrastructure supports business performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every strong business is built on a firm foundation. This &ldquo;infrastructure&rdquo; is critical to surviving the demands of a startup, the pressures of scaling and the momentum of success. Workplace infrastructure is key to how a company performs. It enables activities, efficiencies and productivity. These components collectively help a company sink or swim over time. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-workplace-infrastructure-supports-business-performance/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-workplace-infrastructure-supports-business-performance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers they did not bother to read]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; ArXiv, the open-access repository that has served as the primary distribution channel for preprint research in computer science, mathematics, and physics for more than three decades, will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing obvious signs of unchecked AI generation. Thomas Dietterich, chair of arXiv&rsquo;s computer science section, announced the policy [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/arxiv-will-ban-researchers-for-a-year-if-they-submit-papers-they-did-not-bother-to-read/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/arxiv-will-ban-researchers-for-a-year-if-they-submit-papers-they-did-not-bother-to-read/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump calls Taiwan arms deal a “negotiating chip” after three days with Xi in Beijing]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Donald Trump flew home from Beijing on Friday having told China&rsquo;s Xi Jinping that a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan is &ldquo;a very good negotiating chip,&rdquo; a remark that reframes American security commitments to a democratic ally as a bargaining token in a broader great-power relationship. The comment, made during a Fox News [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-calls-taiwan-arms-deal-a-negotiating-chip-after-three-days-with-xi-in-beijing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-calls-taiwan-arms-deal-a-negotiating-chip-after-three-days-with-xi-in-beijing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM, Ford, and Stellantis have cut 20,000 white-collar jobs. AI is about to accelerate the trend.]]></title><description><![CDATA[General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis have together eliminated more than 20,000 US salaried jobs from their recent employment peaks this decade, a 19% reduction of their combined white-collar workforces, according to public filings and employment data analysed by CNBC. The cuts accelerated this week when GM laid off between 500 and 600 IT workers in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-ford-and-stellantis-have-cut-20000-white-collar-jobs-ai-is-about-to-accelerate-the-trend/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 14:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-ford-and-stellantis-have-cut-20000-white-collar-jobs-ai-is-about-to-accelerate-the-trend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cerebras Systems closed its first day on the Nasdaq at $311.07, up 68% from its $185 IPO price, giving the wafer-scale chip company a market capitalisation of approximately $95 billion. The offering raised $5.55 billion, making it the largest US tech IPO since Snowflake&rsquo;s $3.8 billion debut in 2020. CEO Andrew Feldman rang the bell [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-just-had-the-biggest-us-tech-ipo-since-snowflake-spacex-openai-and-anthropic-are-next/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 14:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-just-had-the-biggest-us-tech-ipo-since-snowflake-spacex-openai-and-anthropic-are-next/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung and its union meet Monday in a last attempt to prevent an 18-day chip factory strike]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics and its largest labour union will resume negotiations on Monday in what South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-Seok has described as &ldquo;virtually the last chance&rdquo; to prevent an 18-day strike at the world&rsquo;s biggest memory chipmaker. If the talks fail, the union&rsquo;s 41,000 confirmed participants, a number expected to exceed 50,000, will walk [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-and-its-union-meet-monday-in-a-last-attempt-to-prevent-an-18-day-chip-factory-strike/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-and-its-union-meet-monday-in-a-last-attempt-to-prevent-an-18-day-chip-factory-strike/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destinus is raising €200M ahead of an IPO. The cruise missile maker wants a €5B valuation.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Destinus, the Netherlands-headquartered defence startup that manufactures cruise missiles and autonomous drones, is in talks to raise approximately &euro;200 million ahead of a planned initial public offering, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is seeking a valuation north of &euro;5 billion based on forecast annual revenues of roughly &euro;500 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/destinus-is-raising-200m-ahead-of-an-ipo-the-cruise-missile-maker-wants-a-5b-valuation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/destinus-is-raising-200m-ahead-of-an-ipo-the-cruise-missile-maker-wants-a-5b-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asus crammed an RTX 5080 into a 3-litre box. It costs $4,400 and the performance gain is 2.3%.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asus has launched the 2026 ROG NUC 16 in China, pairing Intel&rsquo;s Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 laptop GPU inside a 3-litre chassis that weighs 3.12 kilograms. The black version starts at CNY 29,999 (approximately $4,400). A Moonlight White edition costs CNY 31,999 (approximately $4,700). Global pricing has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asus-crammed-an-rtx-5080-into-a-3-litre-box-it-costs-4400-and-the-performance-gain-is-23/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asus-crammed-an-rtx-5080-into-a-3-litre-box-it-costs-4400-and-the-performance-gain-is-23/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese EVs are arriving in Canada. Nearly 400 dealers are already fighting to sell them.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael MacGillivray, the CEO of Century Auto Group and Sigma Auto Group, oversees 10 dealerships across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In April, he flew to the Beijing Auto Show to shake hands with Chinese automakers and drive their cars. He came back impressed. &ldquo;They have materials that are second to none,&rdquo; he told CNBC. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-evs-are-arriving-in-canada-nearly-400-dealers-are-already-fighting-to-sell-them/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-evs-are-arriving-in-canada-nearly-400-dealers-are-already-fighting-to-sell-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malta just became the first country to give every citizen free ChatGPT Plus. There’s one condition.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has signed a deal with the government of Malta to provide all Maltese citizens and residents with free access to ChatGPT Plus for one year. There is one condition: they must first complete an AI literacy course developed by the University of Malta. It is the first partnership of its kind between OpenAI and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/malta-just-became-the-first-country-to-give-every-citizen-free-chatgpt-plus-theres-one-condition/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 12:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/malta-just-became-the-first-country-to-give-every-citizen-free-chatgpt-plus-theres-one-condition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asus ROG and Xreal built the first 240Hz AR gaming glasses. They cost $849 and ship in June.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asus Republic of Gamers and Xreal have opened pre-orders for the ROG Xreal R1, the world&rsquo;s first 240Hz micro-OLED gaming AR glasses. The device costs $849 on Best Buy, with Xreal&rsquo;s own store accepting orders from 17 May. Worldwide shipping begins on 1 June. The headline specification is the refresh rate. At 240Hz, the R1 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asus-rog-and-xreal-built-the-first-240hz-ar-gaming-glasses-they-cost-849-and-ship-in-june/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asus-rog-and-xreal-built-the-first-240hz-ar-gaming-glasses-they-cost-849-and-ship-in-june/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A student with a laptop and a radio stopped four high-speed trains. The crypto keys hadn’t been changed in 19 years.]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 23:23 on 5 April, a 23-year-old university student in Taichung transmitted a falsified General Alarm signal into the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation&rsquo;s internal radio system. Four trains travelling at up to 300 km/h received the highest-priority emergency alert and switched to manual braking. The entire high-speed rail network was disrupted for 48 minutes. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-student-with-a-laptop-and-a-radio-stopped-four-high-speed-trains-the-crypto-keys-hadnt-been-changed-in-19-years/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-student-with-a-laptop-and-a-radio-stopped-four-high-speed-trains-the-crypto-keys-hadnt-been-changed-in-19-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who put a Roomba in every home wants to replace your dog with a plush robot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Colin Angle, the robotics engineer who co-founded iRobot and spent 25 years turning the Roomba into the world&rsquo;s most widely adopted home robot, has unveiled the prototype for his next act: a four-legged, plush-covered AI companion designed to follow you around your house, adapt to your daily habits, and make you feel something when it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-put-a-roomba-in-every-home-wants-to-replace-your-dog-with-a-plush-robot/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-put-a-roomba-in-every-home-wants-to-replace-your-dog-with-a-plush-robot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung and Apple deleted this feature, BUT Sony brought it back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung and Apple deleted this feature, BUT Sony brought it back]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-and-apple-deleted-this-feature-but-sony-brought-it-back/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-and-apple-deleted-this-feature-but-sony-brought-it-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony Xperia 1 VIII vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: CAMERA VS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sony Xperia 1 VIII vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: CAMERA VS]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-xperia-1-viii-vs-galaxy-s26-ultra-camera-vs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-xperia-1-viii-vs-galaxy-s26-ultra-camera-vs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faraday Future raised $25 million for its robotics pivot. The fine print tells a different story.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Faraday Future announced on Thursday that it has raised $25 million through convertible promissory notes, bringing its total financing over the past two months to $70 million. The company says the capital is sufficient to fund Phase 1 of its robotics business plan through the end of 2026. The stock, which trades on Nasdaq under [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/faraday-future-raised-25-million-for-its-robotics-pivot-the-fine-print-tells-a-different-story/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 14:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/faraday-future-raised-25-million-for-its-robotics-pivot-the-fine-print-tells-a-different-story/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four OpenClaw flaws let attackers steal data, escalate privileges, and plant backdoors through the agent’s own sandbox]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity researchers at Cyera have disclosed four vulnerabilities in OpenClaw that, when chained together, allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, escalate privileges, and establish persistent control over a compromised host. The flaws, collectively dubbed &ldquo;Claw Chain,&rdquo; affect OpenClaw&rsquo;s OpenShell managed sandbox backend and its MCP loopback runtime. All four have been patched in OpenClaw [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/four-openclaw-flaws-let-attackers-steal-data-escalate-privileges-and-plant-backdoors-through-the-agents-own-sandbox/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/four-openclaw-flaws-let-attackers-steal-data-escalate-privileges-and-plant-backdoors-through-the-agents-own-sandbox/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RJ Scaringe has raised $12 billion across three startups, and investors are still queueing up]]></title><description><![CDATA[RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across three startups, and the pace is accelerating. The Rivian founder and CEO, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT, is now simultaneously running an electric vehicle manufacturer, an autonomous micromobility company, and an industrial AI robotics startup, each attracting capital at a speed that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rj-scaringe-has-raised-12-billion-across-three-startups-and-investors-are-still-queueing-up/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rj-scaringe-has-raised-12-billion-across-three-startups-and-investors-are-still-queueing-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most CEOs think their boards are rushing AI, and BCG’s survey shows why]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Sixty-one per cent of chief executives say their boards are pushing AI transformation too fast, according to a global survey of 625 leaders published by Boston Consulting Group. The research, titled&nbsp;Split Decisions, polled 351 CEOs and 274 board members at companies with at least $100 million in annual revenue and found a consistent pattern: [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-ceos-think-their-boards-are-rushing-ai-and-bcgs-survey-shows-why/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-ceos-think-their-boards-are-rushing-ai-and-bcgs-survey-shows-why/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe’s John Collison says agentic commerce will completely transform online shopping]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Collison thinks keyword search is a &ldquo;ridiculous&rdquo; way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-founder told Bloomberg that agentic commerce, in which AI agents shop on behalf of consumers, will completely transform the online shopping experience, reshaping not just how people purchase but how retailers sell. The argument is structural. For more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stripes-john-collison-says-agentic-commerce-will-completely-transform-online-shopping/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stripes-john-collison-says-agentic-commerce-will-completely-transform-online-shopping/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. In an interview with the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal&nbsp;originally published in October 2025 and republished by&nbsp;Fortune&nbsp;this week, Bengio argued that AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-most-cited-computer-scientist-alive-says-ai-could-make-humanity-extinct-within-a-decade/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-most-cited-computer-scientist-alive-says-ai-could-make-humanity-extinct-within-a-decade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast published on Friday, calling AI coding agents &ldquo;awesome&rdquo; and Anthropic &ldquo;awesome&rdquo; in the same breath, before adding that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/salesforce-expects-to-spend-300-million-on-anthropic-tokens-this-year-and-benioff-wants-coding-inside-slack-next/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/salesforce-expects-to-spend-300-million-on-anthropic-tokens-this-year-and-benioff-wants-coding-inside-slack-next/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle school addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta to face trial alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Snap, Google&rsquo;s YouTube, and ByteDance&rsquo;s TikTok have reached settlements in the first lawsuit brought by a public school district over claims that social media addiction has disrupted learning and forced schools to spend heavily on combating a youth mental health crisis. The settlements, filed on Friday in federal court in Oakland, California, leave Meta Platforms [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snap-youtube-and-tiktok-settle-school-addiction-lawsuit-leaving-meta-to-face-trial-alone/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 10:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snap-youtube-and-tiktok-settle-school-addiction-lawsuit-leaving-meta-to-face-trial-alone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI wants ChatGPT to see your bank account. The pitch is convenience. The risk is everything else.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has launched a personal finance experience inside ChatGPT, letting subscribers connect their bank accounts, credit cards, investment portfolios, and loan accounts to the chatbot and ask questions grounded in their actual financial data. The feature, released on 15 May, is available in preview to US-based ChatGPT Pro subscribers on web and iOS, with support [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wants-chatgpt-to-see-your-bank-account-the-pitch-is-convenience-the-risk-is-everything-else/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-wants-chatgpt-to-see-your-bank-account-the-pitch-is-convenience-the-risk-is-everything-else/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan’s Monster Wolf robot is a $4,000 scarecrow with red LED eyes, and it actually works]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Somewhere on a golf course in rural Hokkaido, a mechanical wolf with glowing red eyes is turning its head from side to side, howling at nothing in particular. It looks absurd. It is also, by most available evidence, working. Monster Wolf is the product of Ohta Seiki, a small Hokkaido-based manufacturer that has been [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/japans-monster-wolf-robot-is-a-4000-scarecrow-with-red-led-eyes-and-it-actually-works/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 10:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/japans-monster-wolf-robot-is-a-4000-scarecrow-with-red-led-eyes-and-it-actually-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese parts already power American cars, and that’s exactly why Congress is panicking]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Somewhere in the wiring of the car you drove this morning, there is almost certainly a Chinese component. An airbag inflator. A windshield. A steering column bearing. According to global consulting firm AlixPartners, more than 60 US-based auto suppliers are now owned by Chinese companies, making everything from axles to electronic control units for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-parts-already-power-american-cars-and-thats-exactly-why-congress-is-panicking/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-parts-already-power-american-cars-and-thats-exactly-why-congress-is-panicking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are betting $200 million that AI can do more than make money]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Anthropic has committed $200 million over four years to a partnership with the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest deal of its kind between an AI company and a global philanthropy. The money, a mix of grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support, will fund programmes in global health, life sciences, education, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-and-the-gates-foundation-are-betting-200-million-that-ai-can-do-more-than-make-money/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-and-the-gates-foundation-are-betting-200-million-that-ai-can-do-more-than-make-money/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighteen48 raises EUR175 million to back the private equity deals no one else sees]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Eighteen48 Partners, the London-based alternative asset manager co-founded by Julien Sevaux, Tarek AbuZayyad, and Edward Clive, has closed &euro;175 million for the first tranche of its inaugural private equity fund. The fund is targeting &euro;350 million in total and will back mid-market buyouts across Europe, sourced exclusively through independent sponsors, dealmakers who find and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eighteen48-raises-eur175-million-to-back-the-private-equity-deals-no-one-else-sees/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eighteen48-raises-eur175-million-to-back-the-private-equity-deals-no-one-else-sees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's free 15GB going away? 🤔 #google #technews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google's free 15GB going away? 🤔 #google #technews]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-free-15gb-going-away-google-technews/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-free-15gb-going-away-google-technews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday,&nbsp;Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant with Taobao, its largest marketplace, giving the chatbot access to a catalogue of more than four billion products. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-tech-giants-are-replacing-the-search-bar-with-ai-agents-that-shop-for-you/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-tech-giants-are-replacing-the-search-bar-with-ai-agents-that-shop-for-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Revolut&rsquo;s chief executive, Nik Storonsky, has told employees across the company that business banking is now its top priority, and is offering each of them &pound;1,000 to prove he means it. In a memo sent to staff on Friday, Storonsky asked everyone, regardless of department, to help bring in new business customers, send pitches [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-offering-every-employee-gbp1000-to-sell-business-banking-the-real-prize-is-a-200-billion-ipo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-offering-every-employee-gbp1000-to-sell-business-banking-the-real-prize-is-a-200-billion-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bolt is betting that South Africa’s next ride will be a Chinese electric car]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Bolt Technology, the Estonian ride-hailing company that has spent roughly $180 million building a dominant position in South Africa, has struck a deal with China&rsquo;s Dongfeng Motor Group to roll out an electric-vehicle fleet in the country. The partnership will start in Cape Town, with Dongfeng&rsquo;s Box hatchback and its more premium 007 sedan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bolt-is-betting-that-south-africas-next-ride-will-be-a-chinese-electric-car/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bolt-is-betting-that-south-africas-next-ride-will-be-a-chinese-electric-car/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How tokenized real-world assets are solving crypto’s counterparty dilemma]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modern derivatives and digital asset markets operate under a persistent drag of operational friction. A recent Nasdaq survey reveals that 70% of global firms experience settlement failures on a daily basis. This structural inefficiency forces institutions to maintain excess overnight collateral buffers, tying up capital that could otherwise generate returns. The inability to mobilize assets [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-tokenized-real-world-assets-are-solving-cryptos-counterparty-dilemma/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-tokenized-real-world-assets-are-solving-cryptos-counterparty-dilemma/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI gave North Korean hackers a $600 million month. DeFi is still working out how to respond.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The two hacks came a little over two weeks apart. On 1 April, attackers drained roughly $285 million from Drift Protocol, a Solana-based derivatives exchange, after spending months posing as a quantitative trading firm to trick employees into authorising malicious transactions. On 18 April, a separate group exploited a single-verifier flaw in Kelp DAO&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-gave-north-korean-hackers-a-600-million-month-defi-is-still-working-out-how-to-respond/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-gave-north-korean-hackers-a-600-million-month-defi-is-still-working-out-how-to-respond/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony Xperia 1 VIII vs iPhone 17 Pro: CAMERA Battle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sony Xperia 1 VIII vs iPhone 17 Pro: CAMERA Battle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-xperia-1-viii-vs-iphone-17-pro-camera-battle/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-xperia-1-viii-vs-iphone-17-pro-camera-battle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Structured Truth for Enterprise AI: Paligo | SourceForge Podcast, episode #115]]></title><description><![CDATA[Structured Truth for Enterprise AI: Paligo | SourceForge Podcast, episode #115]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/structured-truth-for-enterprise-ai-paligo-sourceforge-podcast-episode-115/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/structured-truth-for-enterprise-ai-paligo-sourceforge-podcast-episode-115/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the Sony Xperia 1 VIII worth it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is the Sony Xperia 1 VIII worth it?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-the-sony-xperia-1-viii-worth-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-the-sony-xperia-1-viii-worth-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asked what kind of guardrails on the way out, the US president told reporters on Air Force One: &lsquo;standard guardrails that we talk about all the time&rsquo;. H200 deliveries to ten cleared Chinese buyers remain stalled. Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday that he and Xi Jinping discussed AI guardrails and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-leaves-beijing-saying-he-and-xi-talked-ai-guardrails-nothing-was-signed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-leaves-beijing-saying-he-and-xi-talked-ai-guardrails-nothing-was-signed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk’s X commits to UK regulator on hate speech, with Grok probe still open]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk&rsquo;s platform has agreed to review illegal hate and terrorism posts within a day on average, restrict UK-proscribed groups, and report quarterly to the regulator. A separate Ofcom investigation continues. X has agreed to a set of commitments on illegal hate speech and terrorist content with Ofcom, Britain&rsquo;s communications regulator said on Friday, after [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musks-x-commits-to-uk-regulator-on-hate-speech-with-grok-probe-still-open/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musks-x-commits-to-uk-regulator-on-hate-speech-with-grok-probe-still-open/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Winklevoss twins paid 2.5x the share price to lift Gemini off the floor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gemini Space Station shares surged more than 20% in premarket on Friday after the Winklevoss Capital Fund bought $100m of stock at $14, well above Thursday&rsquo;s $5.26 close, and the exchange reported a smaller Q1 loss than expected. The Winklevoss twins have written a $100m cheque to their own company. Winklevoss Capital Fund, the family [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-winklevoss-twins-paid-25x-the-share-price-to-lift-gemini-off-the-floor/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-winklevoss-twins-paid-25x-the-share-price-to-lift-gemini-off-the-floor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Polacek on AI, creative agility, and the future of design practice amidst a digital takeover]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has held an indomitable presence within conversations surrounding architecture, design, and other creative industries. Though Robert Polacek, co-founder and creative director of&nbsp;RoseBernard Studio, believes the most important discussions have left the bandwagon of replacement and uncertainty. Instead, his focus pivots to how technology can&nbsp;expand creative capacity&nbsp;and create stronger opportunities for collaboration across the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/robert-polacek-on-ai-creative-agility-and-the-future-of-design-practice-amidst-a-digital-takeover/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/robert-polacek-on-ai-creative-agility-and-the-future-of-design-practice-amidst-a-digital-takeover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fitbit Air unboxing! 🏃 #fitbitair #giftfromgoogle #googlehealth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fitbit Air unboxing! 🏃 #fitbitair #giftfromgoogle #googlehealth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fitbit-air-unboxing-fitbitair-giftfromgoogle-googlehealth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fitbit-air-unboxing-fitbitair-giftfromgoogle-googlehealth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Ackman moves into Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed today]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pershing Square has taken a new position in Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed in a 13F filing later on Friday. The stock is down roughly 16% year-to-date. Bill Ackman has bought Microsoft. Pershing Square&rsquo;s chief executive said on X on Friday morning that the fund had taken a new position in the software [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-ackman-moves-into-microsoft-with-the-size-to-be-disclosed-today/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-ackman-moves-into-microsoft-with-the-size-to-be-disclosed-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[The round, led by Schroders Capital, follows January&rsquo;s acquisition of Berlin-based StackFuel and 50% year-on-year revenue growth. Customers include the AA, Babcock, and Capital. Multiverse, the London-based AI- and tech-upskilling platform founded by Euan Blair, said on Friday it had raised $70m in primary funding led by Schroders Capital, at a $2.1bn valuation. Existing investors, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/multiverse-raises-70m-at-a-21bn-valuation-to-push-its-ai-adoption-pitch-across-europe/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/multiverse-raises-70m-at-a-21bn-valuation-to-push-its-ai-adoption-pitch-across-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal judge holds back on Anthropic’s $1.5bn author settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge in San Francisco wanted more detail on lawyers&rsquo; fees and lead-plaintiff payments before signing off on what would be the largest copyright settlement in US history. A federal judge in San Francisco declined on Thursday to give final approval to Anthropic&rsquo;s proposed $1.5bn settlement with authors who say the company trained its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/federal-judge-holds-back-on-anthropics-15bn-author-settlement/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/federal-judge-holds-back-on-anthropics-15bn-author-settlement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[STT Global Data Centres lines up a $500m Mumbai listing, in front of a crowded 2026 IPO queue]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Singapore-controlled, Tata-minority data-centre operator has invited banks to pitch this month. The listing would slot in ahead of Sify and Yotta in India&rsquo;s first wave of pure data-centre IPOs. STT Global Data Centres India is preparing an initial public offering in Mumbai that could raise up to $500m, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stt-global-data-centres-lines-up-a-500m-mumbai-listing-in-front-of-a-crowded-2026-ipo-queue/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stt-global-data-centres-lines-up-a-500m-mumbai-listing-in-front-of-a-crowded-2026-ipo-queue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung offers to talk; the union says June, after the strike]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company dropped its preconditions on Friday. The NSEU said it would hear new offers from 7 June, three days after the planned 18-day walkout ends. Samsung Electronics asked its largest union on Friday to come back to the bargaining table without conditions. The union said yes, eventually. Talks could resume on 7 June, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-offers-to-talk-the-union-says-june-after-the-strike/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-offers-to-talk-the-union-says-june-after-the-strike/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do]]></title><description><![CDATA[Barclays Climate Ventures and Two Seas Capital led the British precision-liquid-cooling company&rsquo;s Series B, with existing backers ABC Impact, Northern Gritstone, Edinv, and British Patient Capital all returning Iceotope, the British precision-liquid-cooling company, has closed a $26 million Series B round to expand its product line and patent portfolio as the AI hardware cycle pushes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iceotope-raises-26m-as-ai-rack-densities-push-past-what-air-cooling-can-do/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/iceotope-raises-26m-as-ai-rack-densities-push-past-what-air-cooling-can-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greer told Bloomberg TV the bilateral did not address chip controls, even as Reuters reported the Trump administration cleared Nvidia H200 sales to several Chinese firms after the Xi meeting. Semiconductor export controls were not a major topic at this week&rsquo;s US-China bilateral meetings in Beijing, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg TV on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chip-export-controls-were-not-a-major-topic-in-beijing-us-trade-rep-greer-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chip-export-controls-were-not-a-major-topic-in-beijing-us-trade-rep-greer-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury deliberations to begin in OpenAI nonprofit trial after Musk skips closing for Beijing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three weeks of testimony in Judge Gonzalez Rogers&rsquo;s Oakland courtroom end with Musk in Beijing on Trump&rsquo;s state-visit delegation and deliberations beginning Monday. Closing arguments in Musk v. Altman wrapped on Thursday afternoon in Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers&rsquo;s Oakland courtroom, sending the nine-person jury home for the weekend and into deliberations that begin Monday. Three [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jury-deliberations-to-begin-in-openai-nonprofit-trial-after-musk-skips-closing-for-beijing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jury-deliberations-to-begin-in-openai-nonprofit-trial-after-musk-skips-closing-for-beijing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; For ten months, Figma has been a case study in how quickly Wall Street can fall out of love. The company went public on 31 July 2025 at $33 a share, soared past $140 on its debut, and has spent most of 2026 in freefall, &nbsp;battered by Google&rsquo;s free Stitch design tool, Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/figmas-numbers-say-ai-is-a-tailwind-its-stock-price-says-the-market-isnt-sure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/figmas-numbers-say-ai-is-a-tailwind-its-stock-price-says-the-market-isnt-sure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joshua Kushner&rsquo;s Thrive Capital has taken a roughly $100 million stake in Shopify, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The investment is notable less for its size, $100 million is a rounding error in a firm that raised more than $10 billion for its latest fund, than for what it signals [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thrive-capital-bets-100-million-on-shopify-because-sometimes-the-best-ai-trade-is-a-beaten-down-stock/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thrive-capital-bets-100-million-on-shopify-because-sometimes-the-best-ai-trade-is-a-beaten-down-stock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In the week through 13 May, individual investors were net sellers of $82 million worth of Palantir shares, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantirs-numbers-are-working-for-the-first-time-the-story-is-not/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantirs-numbers-are-working-for-the-first-time-the-story-is-not/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polestar says ‘pump anxiety’ has replaced range anxiety. Its balance sheet tells a more complicated story.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; For years, the electric vehicle industry&rsquo;s biggest problem had a name: range anxiety. Now, according to the chief executive of Polestar, the anxiety has moved to the other side of the forecourt. &ldquo;People are concerned, &lsquo;how much do I pay at the gas station?&rsquo;&rdquo; Michael Lohscheller told CNBC&rsquo;s Squawk Box Europe on Wednesday, coining [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/polestar-says-pump-anxiety-has-replaced-range-anxiety-its-balance-sheet-tells-a-more-complicated-story/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/polestar-says-pump-anxiety-has-replaced-range-anxiety-its-balance-sheet-tells-a-more-complicated-story/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; OpenAI&rsquo;s partnership with Apple, announced to considerable fanfare in June 2024, is fracturing. The AI company&rsquo;s lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on options that could include sending Apple a formal notice alleging breach of contract, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the deliberations. No lawsuit has been filed, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-preparing-to-sue-apple-over-a-partnership-that-was-supposed-to-be-the-next-google-search-deal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-preparing-to-sue-apple-over-a-partnership-that-was-supposed-to-be-the-next-google-search-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carta acquires a law firm and bets the future of private capital runs on a single platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Carta has spent the past eight months buying its way toward something that did not exist a year ago: a single platform that handles dealmaking, fund operations, investor relations, and now legal and compliance work for the private capital industry. The acquisition of Avantia, a UK-based AI-powered law firm for asset managers, is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/carta-acquires-a-law-firm-and-bets-the-future-of-private-capital-runs-on-a-single-platform/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/carta-acquires-a-law-firm-and-bets-the-future-of-private-capital-runs-on-a-single-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Two-thirds of American women between 38 and 50 say they felt better prepared to go through puberty than perimenopause. The statistic, from a nationally representative survey commissioned by Flo Health and conducted by Wakefield Research, captures something that decades of public health messaging have failed to fix: most women arrive at one of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/66-of-women-felt-more-prepared-for-puberty-than-perimenopause-flo-health-is-betting-it-can-fix-that/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/66-of-women-felt-more-prepared-for-puberty-than-perimenopause-flo-health-is-betting-it-can-fix-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The name is the tell. Graphon AI, which emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $8.3 million in seed funding, is named after a mathematical object that most people in AI have never heard of and that its two most prominent advisors helped invent. A graphon is the limit of a sequence of dense graphs: a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/graphon-ai-exits-stealth-with-83m-to-build-the-data-layer-that-llms-are-missing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/graphon-ai-exits-stealth-with-83m-to-build-the-data-layer-that-llms-are-missing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[97% of marketers use AI daily – 78% of consumers wish they wouldn’t]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Nearly every marketer in the world is now using AI to make creative work. Nearly every consumer would still rather that a person had made it. That tension, between the industry&rsquo;s enthusiasm and the public&rsquo;s unease, is the central finding of Canva&rsquo;s State of Marketing and AI report for 2026, and it suggests that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/97-of-marketers-use-ai-daily-78-of-consumers-wish-they-wouldnt/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/97-of-marketers-use-ai-daily-78-of-consumers-wish-they-wouldnt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BCG is training its AI sales agent on what not to do – and that might be the smarter bet]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Boston Consulting Group is doing something slightly unusual with its new AI sales agent. It is teaching it how to fail. The agent, called Jamie, is being trained not only on the call transcripts, engagement patterns, and conversational habits of BCG&rsquo;s strongest-performing sellers, but also on the behaviours that did not work, the approaches [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bcg-is-training-its-ai-sales-agent-on-what-not-to-do-and-that-might-be-the-smarter-bet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bcg-is-training-its-ai-sales-agent-on-what-not-to-do-and-that-might-be-the-smarter-bet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The idea that an AI system could improve itself, then use those improvements to improve itself again, faster, in an accelerating loop that eventually outpaces every human researcher on earth, has been a fixture of computer science folklore since at least the 1960s. For most of that time, it remained comfortably theoretical. Now someone [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-four-month-old-startup-just-raised-650-million-to-build-ai-that-improves-itself/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-four-month-old-startup-just-raised-650-million-to-build-ai-that-improves-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven million cameras on seven million faces: the smart glasses privacy crisis no one can stop]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The woman was shopping in London when she noticed something odd about the man approaching her. He wore sunglasses indoors, asked her name, told her she was gorgeous. What she did not notice was the almost invisible camera embedded in the frames of his Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, quietly recording every second of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seven-million-cameras-on-seven-million-faces-the-smart-glasses-privacy-crisis-no-one-can-stop/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seven-million-cameras-on-seven-million-faces-the-smart-glasses-privacy-crisis-no-one-can-stop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; HM Revenue and Customs has awarded a 175 million pound, ten-year contract to Quantexa, a London-based AI company, to modernise the tax authority&rsquo;s data infrastructure and deploy artificial intelligence to detect fraud, fix errors, and close the tax gap. The contract is one of the largest AI deals in UK public sector history. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uk-spent-900-million-on-palantir-now-it-is-spending-175-million-on-a-british-ai-company-to-fix-the-tax-gap/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uk-spent-900-million-on-palantir-now-it-is-spending-175-million-on-a-british-ai-company-to-fix-the-tax-gap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coutts raised its minimum to £3 million. Revolut just set its at £500,000. The mass-affluent gap is the point.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Revolut is planning to launch a private banking unit in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe as soon as this summer, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The eligibility threshold is 500,000 pounds, roughly 675,000 dollars. Coutts, the private bank owned by NatWest that has served the British establishment since [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coutts-raised-its-minimum-to-3-million-revolut-just-set-its-at-500000-the-mass-affluent-gap-is-the-point/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coutts-raised-its-minimum-to-3-million-revolut-just-set-its-at-500000-the-mass-affluent-gap-is-the-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorola Signature thinness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motorola Signature thinness]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-signature-thinness/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-signature-thinness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony Xperia 1 VIII vs Pixel 10 Pro XL: CAMERA COMPARISON]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sony Xperia 1 VIII vs Pixel 10 Pro XL: CAMERA COMPARISON]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-xperia-1-viii-vs-pixel-10-pro-xl-camera-comparison/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-xperia-1-viii-vs-pixel-10-pro-xl-camera-comparison/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Coinspaid became one of fintech’s top remote-first employers]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Fintech is a sector known for speed and pressure. Employment is usually described in the language of momentum: rapid growth, market disruption, fast-paced decisions. However, this language has stopped resonating with strong candidates. Millennials and Gen Z in particular tend to seek a sense of purpose at work, with roughly 9 out of 10 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-coinspaid-became-one-of-fintechs-top-remote-first-employers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-coinspaid-became-one-of-fintechs-top-remote-first-employers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galaxy S26 is Android 17 ready 😀 #oneui #oneui9]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Galaxy S26 is Android 17 ready 😀 #oneui #oneui9]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-s26-is-android-17-ready-oneui-oneui9/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-galaxy-s26-is-android-17-ready-oneui-oneui9/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 best ITGC tools and software for automated IT controls in 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every SOX audit season, IT teams scramble to collect evidence across dozens of systems, validate user access permissions, and document change management procedures. IT General Controls (ITGCs) cover the foundation of IT operations that auditors examine: access controls, change management, IT operations, and backup and recovery. When these controls are managed through spreadsheets and screenshots, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/10-best-itgc-tools-and-software-for-automated-it-controls-in-2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/10-best-itgc-tools-and-software-for-automated-it-controls-in-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jumia is cutting another 10% of staff. AI is the framing. Profitability is the deadline.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Francis Dufay told Bloomberg TV the African e-commerce company is implementing AI across operations, logistics, finance, and marketing, and intends to be profitable by the end of the year. The 200 jobs disappearing now sit on top of a workforce that has already shrunk by more than half since 2022. Jumia Technologies is preparing to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jumia-is-cutting-another-10-of-staff-ai-is-the-framing-profitability-is-the-deadline/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jumia-is-cutting-another-10-of-staff-ai-is-the-framing-profitability-is-the-deadline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall Street’s six largest banks cut 15,000 jobs and posted $47 billion in profits. The CEOs stopped pretending.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The six largest American banks shed 15,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 while posting 47 billion dollars in collective profits, up 18 per cent year on year. The chief executives are no longer hedging. Jamie Dimon said artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs and that people should stop sticking their heads in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wall-streets-six-largest-banks-cut-15000-jobs-and-posted-47-billion-in-profits-the-ceos-stopped-pretending/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wall-streets-six-largest-banks-cut-15000-jobs-and-posted-47-billion-in-profits-the-ceos-stopped-pretending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is doing to factory robots what Android did to phones. Fanuc just became the Samsung of the equation.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Fanuc makes more industrial robots than anyone on the planet. Google makes more software platforms than anyone on the planet. On Wednesday, the two companies announced a partnership that merges those positions: Fanuc will integrate Google Cloud&rsquo;s Gemini Enterprise and Google&rsquo;s Intrinsic robotics platform into its industrial robot systems, giving the 1.1 million Fanuc [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-doing-to-factory-robots-what-android-did-to-phones-fanuc-just-became-the-samsung-of-the-equation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 14:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-doing-to-factory-robots-what-android-did-to-phones-fanuc-just-became-the-samsung-of-the-equation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Unitree Robotics has unveiled a 2.8-metre transformable mecha that a human pilot climbs inside and operates from an open cockpit in the torso. The GD01 walks on two legs, folds into a quadruped configuration in seconds, weighs roughly 500 kilograms with a passenger, and is priced from 3.9 million yuan, approximately 650,000 dollars. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-company-that-outsells-tesla-on-humanoid-robots-just-unveiled-a-pilotable-mecha-unitree-is-filing-for-a-7-billion-ipo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-company-that-outsells-tesla-on-humanoid-robots-just-unveiled-a-pilotable-mecha-unitree-is-filing-for-a-7-billion-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CMA opens its fourth Strategic Market Status case into Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Windows, Office, Teams, Copilot, server operating systems, and the cloud licensing the regulator already flagged last July. A nine-month investigation, a February 2027 designation decision, and the first CMA SMS case to walk straight through the door the cloud market inquiry left ajar. The UK&rsquo;s Competition and Markets Authority has opened a Strategic Market Status [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-cma-opens-its-fourth-strategic-market-status-case-into-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-cma-opens-its-fourth-strategic-market-status-case-into-microsoft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 25 years of writing the cheques himself, Bezos is opening Blue Origin to outsiders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dave Limp told an all-hands meeting that external funding is now on the table, weeks before SpaceX is expected to price the largest IPO in history at $1.75tn. The launch-cadence target is 100 a year. The cumulative bill so far is roughly $28bn. Blue Origin is preparing to take outside money for the first time [&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-writing-the-cheques-himself-bezos-is-opening-blue-origin-to-outsiders/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/after-25-years-of-writing-the-cheques-himself-bezos-is-opening-blue-origin-to-outsiders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta and Google fund the kids groups they cite back at regulators]]></title><description><![CDATA[An eight-month investigation arc, a $6m bellwether verdict, and a National PTA that has now resigned its Meta sponsorship. The line between independent expert and corporate spokesperson is, on the evidence, a budget item. Meta and Google have spent years funding a network of US parent and child-safety organisations that turn up, again and again, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-and-google-fund-the-kids-groups-they-cite-back-at-regulators/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-and-google-fund-the-kids-groups-they-cite-back-at-regulators/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why global businesses are moving to crypto mass payouts]]></title><description><![CDATA[As gig platforms continue to expand globally, one of the biggest operational challenges they face is managing cross-border disbursements to an ever-growing network of freelancers, creators, and partners across multiple regions. While the gig economy thrives on flexibility and rapid growth, traditional banking systems, particularly wire transfers, struggle to keep up. These payment methods are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-global-businesses-are-moving-to-crypto-mass-payouts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-global-businesses-are-moving-to-crypto-mass-payouts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung wants its union back at the table. The union wants the bonus formula in writing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A week after Samsung Electronics passed $1tn in market value, its largest union is preparing an 18-day strike that could disrupt the AI memory chips inside that valuation. The wage gap with SK Hynix is the spark. The bonus formula is the fight. Samsung Electronics sent a letter to its two largest unions on Thursday [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-wants-its-union-back-at-the-table-the-union-wants-the-bonus-formula-in-writing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-wants-its-union-back-at-the-table-the-union-wants-the-bonus-formula-in-writing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix is about $50bn away from being a trillion-dollar company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two AI memory rallies, one country, and a market cap chart that has gone up 9x in two years. If SK Hynix crosses the threshold, South Korea becomes the first country outside the US to host two trillion-dollar companies at the same time. SK Hynix is roughly $50bn away from a trillion-dollar market capitalisation. Its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-is-about-50bn-away-from-being-a-trillion-dollar-company/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-is-about-50bn-away-from-being-a-trillion-dollar-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake]]></title><description><![CDATA[Priced at $185, above the marketed range, the wafer-scale chip company opens trading on Thursday at a $56.4bn valuation. The OpenAI deal is what got the book covered. The customer concentration footnote is what the next quarter has to answer. Cerebras Systems priced its IPO at $185 per share on Wednesday evening, above the marketed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-raises-555bn-in-the-biggest-us-tech-ipo-since-snowflake/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-raises-555bn-in-the-biggest-us-tech-ipo-since-snowflake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Every probe humanity has sent to Venus has died. The Soviet Venera landers survived between 23 minutes and two hours on a surface where the temperature exceeds 460 degrees Celsius. Their electronics, designed to endure heat that would melt lead, still failed. The longest-lived mission in the history of Venus exploration lasted 127 minutes. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-memory-chip-works-at-700-degrees-celsius-the-startup-behind-it-is-already-building-ai-chips-that-compute-where-gpus-cannot/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-memory-chip-works-at-700-degrees-celsius-the-startup-behind-it-is-already-building-ai-chips-that-compute-where-gpus-cannot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says no user data was touched in the TanStack npm worm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two corporate laptops, some credential material, and a forced macOS app update. The interesting part is how the malicious packages got published in the first place: not by a stolen npm password, but by TanStack&rsquo;s own legitimate release pipeline, after the attacker code took over the runner mid-build. OpenAI said on Wednesday that it found [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-says-no-user-data-was-touched-in-the-tanstack-npm-worm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-says-no-user-data-was-touched-in-the-tanstack-npm-worm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is quietly shopping for an OpenAI replacement]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company that put $13bn into OpenAI now wants the option not to need it. Cursor was the first try and fell apart over GitHub Copilot; talks with Stanford diffusion-LLM startup Inception are alive, and the broader strategy belongs to Mustafa Suleyman. Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing five people familiar with the matter, that the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-quietly-shopping-for-an-openai-replacement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 10:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-is-quietly-shopping-for-an-openai-replacement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US clears H200 sales to 10 Chinese firms, but not a single chip has shipped]]></title><description><![CDATA[Washington has approved Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com, and six others to buy Nvidia&rsquo;s H200, with each licence good for up to 75,000 units. Beijing has told its tech sector to wait, and Jensen Huang has now been added to Trump&rsquo;s Beijing trip to try to break the deadlock. The US has cleared roughly 10 Chinese [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-clears-h200-sales-to-10-chinese-firms-but-not-a-single-chip-has-shipped/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-clears-h200-sales-to-10-chinese-firms-but-not-a-single-chip-has-shipped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software engineering’s bottleneck is no longer code]]></title><description><![CDATA[For most of the history of software, planning was sacred. You had to plan before anyone touched a keyboard, because the cost of building the wrong thing could be so punishing, especially for startups, that getting it right upfront was the only rational strategy. Implementation was expensive, engineering time was scarce, and changing direction once [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/software-engineerings-bottleneck-is-no-longer-code/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/software-engineerings-bottleneck-is-no-longer-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it&rsquo;s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-tools-are-everywhere-so-why-do-most-people-still-use-them-like-its-2015/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-tools-are-everywhere-so-why-do-most-people-still-use-them-like-its-2015/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsApp, the first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new mode runs Meta AI on WhatsApp inside the company&rsquo;s Private Processing enclave, with conversations deleted by default and no server-side record retained. Meta has launched an Incognito Chat mode for Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, an effort to address the awkward fact that its assistant, like every other major [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-launches-incognito-chat-on-whatsapp-the-first-ai-mode-it-says-even-meta-cannot-read/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-launches-incognito-chat-on-whatsapp-the-first-ai-mode-it-says-even-meta-cannot-read/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production]]></title><description><![CDATA[Accel led the London chip startup&rsquo;s round, with Pat Gelsinger joining as an angel investor, weeks after Anthropic was reported to be in early discussions to become a customer. Fractile, the London-based startup designing inference chips that put compute and memory on the same die, has raised $220 million to take its hardware to production, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fractile-raises-220m-to-take-its-in-memory-compute-inference-chip-into-production/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fractile-raises-220m-to-take-its-in-memory-compute-inference-chip-into-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon puts Alexa inside the search bar as agentic commerce heats up]]></title><description><![CDATA[The unified Alexa for Shopping assistant absorbs Rufus and arrives in the main search flow as Amazon sues to keep external AI agents like Perplexity&rsquo;s Comet off its marketplace. Amazon is moving its AI shopping assistant into the main search bar. Starting this week, US customers typing into the search field on Amazon.com or in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-puts-alexa-inside-the-search-bar-as-agentic-commerce-heats-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-puts-alexa-inside-the-search-bar-as-agentic-commerce-heats-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft&rsquo;s professional network becomes the latest name on a list that now includes Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and IBM, even as the same companies are guiding $725 billion of AI capital spending this year. LinkedIn is cutting roughly 5% of its staff, the latest reduction at a Microsoft-owned business and the most recent entry in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/linkedin-becomes-the-latest-name-on-a-100000-job-tech-layoff-list/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/linkedin-becomes-the-latest-name-on-a-100000-job-tech-layoff-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorola Signature Brilliant Crystal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motorola Signature Brilliant Crystal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-signature-brilliant-crystal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-signature-brilliant-crystal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Modern Loan Origination System: LendingPad | SourceForge Podcast, episode #114]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Modern Loan Origination System: LendingPad | SourceForge Podcast, episode #114]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-modern-loan-origination-system-lendingpad-sourceforge-podcast-episode-114/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-modern-loan-origination-system-lendingpad-sourceforge-podcast-episode-114/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation, doubling in eleven months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz led the round on the back of $2bn+ in 2025 revenue and a $20bn Pentagon enterprise agreement signed in March. Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion in a round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, doubling its valuation to $61 billion eleven months after its previous mark. The Costa [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anduril-raises-5bn-at-61bn-valuation-doubling-in-eleven-months/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anduril-raises-5bn-at-61bn-valuation-doubling-in-eleven-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China sharpens criticism of US chip-equipment bill as Trump arrives in Beijing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beijing&rsquo;s foreign ministry hit the MATCH Act on the eve of the Xi summit, with a 150-day alignment deadline for Japan and the Netherlands at the heart of the legislation Beijing has sharpened its criticism of US legislation that would tighten controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, on the morning Donald Trump arrived in the Chinese [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-sharpens-criticism-of-us-chip-equipment-bill-as-trump-arrives-in-beijing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 13:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-sharpens-criticism-of-us-chip-equipment-bill-as-trump-arrives-in-beijing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Copenhagen company says its Symphony model has outscored OpenAI on HealthBench Professional, and is offering credits and regulatory help to founders building healthcare AI worldwide. Corti, the Copenhagen-based clinical AI company, has launched a no-equity accelerator for healthcare and life sciences startups, opening its Symphony model stack to founders worldwide at a moment when [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/corti-opens-its-clinical-ai-stack-to-startups-as-europes-regulatory-bill-rises/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/corti-opens-its-clinical-ai-stack-to-startups-as-europes-regulatory-bill-rises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most startups don’t have a burn problem. They have a decision problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Running out of money is a story as old as startups, and still highly relevant in 2026. According to recent findings of CB Insights, based on an analysis of 431 VC-backed companies that shut down since 2023, &ldquo;ran out of capital&rdquo; tops the list at 70%.&nbsp; Yet, while burn is often treated as the core [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-startups-dont-have-a-burn-problem-they-have-a-decision-problem/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/most-startups-dont-have-a-burn-problem-they-have-a-decision-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mythos goes to Tokyo: Japanese banks to get Anthropic’s vulnerability-hunting AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[MUFG, Mizuho, and SMFG would be the first Japanese institutions added to Anthropic&rsquo;s restricted Project Glasswing rollout, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters Japan&rsquo;s three megabanks are set to gain access to Claude Mythos, Anthropic&rsquo;s vulnerability-hunting AI model, within roughly two weeks, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mythos-goes-to-tokyo-japanese-banks-to-get-anthropics-vulnerability-hunting-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 11:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mythos-goes-to-tokyo-japanese-banks-to-get-anthropics-vulnerability-hunting-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain holds the line on social media and AI rules as US tech lobbying intensifies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Digital transformation minister &Oacute;scar L&oacute;pez says &lsquo;the profit of four tech companies cannot come at the expense of the rights of millions&rsquo; as Madrid&rsquo;s regulatory package moves through parliament. Spain&rsquo;s digital transformation minister, &Oacute;scar L&oacute;pez, said on Wednesday that Madrid would press ahead with a slate of rules targeting social media platforms and high-risk artificial [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spain-holds-the-line-on-social-media-and-ai-rules-as-us-tech-lobbying-intensifies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 11:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spain-holds-the-line-on-social-media-and-ai-rules-as-us-tech-lobbying-intensifies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta employees protest new mouse-tracking software days before mass layoffs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flyers framing the Model Capability Initiative as an &lsquo;Employee Data Extraction Factory&rsquo; appeared in US offices on Tuesday, with a petition and a UK unionisation drive in train By Tuesday afternoon, the flyers were everywhere. Meta employees at several US offices walked into meeting rooms, broke for coffee at vending machines, and used the restrooms [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-employees-protest-new-mouse-tracking-software-days-before-mass-layoffs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-employees-protest-new-mouse-tracking-software-days-before-mass-layoffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic in talks to raise $30bn at a $900bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A round at the proposed terms would push the Claude maker past OpenAI on paper, less than three months after its last record-setting raise. Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30bn in a new financing round at a pre-money valuation above $900bn, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-in-talks-to-raise-30bn-at-a-900bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-in-talks-to-raise-30bn-at-a-900bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta loses Italian publisher pay case at EU’s top court]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Court of Justice has ruled that Italy&rsquo;s AGCOM can require Meta to pay publishers for news snippets, the first time the bloc&rsquo;s top court has weighed in directly. Meta lost its bid to overturn an Italian regulatory order requiring it to compensate publishers for the use of their news snippets, after the Court of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-loses-italian-publisher-pay-case-at-eus-top-court/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-loses-italian-publisher-pay-case-at-eus-top-court/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s cloud dependency is a political risk, not just a technical one]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s external dependency exposes more than its AI sovereignty. It also affects its data sovereignty and creates political exposure. In a previous article, we discussed how Europe is heavily dependent on external providers for AI development, particularly through GPUaaS and the semiconductor industry. US companies such as Nvidia and AMD provide the GPU chips powering [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-cloud-dependency-is-a-political-risk-not-just-a-technical-one/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-cloud-dependency-is-a-political-risk-not-just-a-technical-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok asks Europe’s top court to scrap its gatekeeper status]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Grand Chamber of the CJEU heard ByteDance&rsquo;s appeal in Case C-627/24 P on Tuesday, the first DMA gatekeeper challenge to reach the bloc&rsquo;s highest court. ByteDance&rsquo;s TikTok went before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union on Tuesday in a last attempt to escape its designation as a &ldquo;gatekeeper&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-asks-europes-top-court-to-scrap-its-gatekeeper-status/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-asks-europes-top-court-to-scrap-its-gatekeeper-status/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Webidoo raises $25m to build an ‘AI operating layer’ for small businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Milan- and Chicago-based startup, backed by Azimut Libera Impresa&rsquo;s IXC3 fund, plans to scale agentic AI for SMBs and pursue acquisitions in the US. Webidoo, an Italian-American AI company building software for small and medium-sized businesses, has closed a $25m funding round led by the IXC3 fund managed by Azimut Libera Impresa SGR. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/webidoo-raises-25m-to-build-an-ai-operating-layer-for-small-businesses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/webidoo-raises-25m-to-build-an-ai-operating-layer-for-small-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI just acquired the consulting firm it was born alongside. The model company is now the services company.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Tomoro was created in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI. The Edinburgh and London-based firm built AI concierges for Virgin Atlantic, in-game support agents for Supercell, and deployment systems for Fidelity International, Tesco, Red Bull, Mattel, and the NBA. It grew monthly revenue tenfold in 12 months. It pledged 10 million pounds to Scottish AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-just-acquired-the-consulting-firm-it-was-born-alongside-the-model-company-is-now-the-services-company/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-just-acquired-the-consulting-firm-it-was-born-alongside-the-model-company-is-now-the-services-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Berlin side project just became the orchestration layer of SAP’s AI platform. n8n is now worth $5.2 billion.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Jan Oberhauser started n8n in 2019 as a side project in Berlin because the workflow automation tools he used at work were too expensive and too closed. Seven years later, SAP has embedded his company&rsquo;s software inside Joule Studio, the agent-building environment at the centre of the Autonomous Enterprise platform that SAP unveiled at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-berlin-side-project-just-became-the-orchestration-layer-of-saps-ai-platform-n8n-is-now-worth-52-billion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-berlin-side-project-just-became-the-orchestration-layer-of-saps-ai-platform-n8n-is-now-worth-52-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[JPMorgan just filed for its second tokenized fund on Ethereum. Wall Street’s blockchain moment is no longer theoretical.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; JPMorgan Chase filed paperwork on Tuesday for its second tokenized money market fund, four months after becoming the largest global systemically important bank to put a fund on the Ethereum blockchain. The JPMorgan OnChain Liquidity-Token Money Market Fund, ticker JLTXX, will issue digital tokens on Ethereum representing shares in a portfolio of US Treasuries [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jpmorgan-just-filed-for-its-second-tokenized-fund-on-ethereum-wall-streets-blockchain-moment-is-no-longer-theoretical/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jpmorgan-just-filed-for-its-second-tokenized-fund-on-ethereum-wall-streets-blockchain-moment-is-no-longer-theoretical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google killed the Chromebook. Its replacement turns your cursor into an AI agent.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Google killed the Chromebook. It took 15 years, but the company that invented the browser-as-operating-system has concluded that a browser is not enough. At the Android Show on Monday, Google unveiled Googlebook, a new category of premium laptops running Android with Gemini embedded at the operating system level. The devices will ship this autumn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-killed-the-chromebook-its-replacement-turns-your-cursor-into-an-ai-agent/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-killed-the-chromebook-its-replacement-turns-your-cursor-into-an-ai-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP’s CEO asked if it will still be a software company. Its stock price already answered.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christian Klein opened the SAP Sapphire keynote on Monday with a question that no chief executive of Europe&rsquo;s most valuable technology company should need to ask. &ldquo;Will SAP be a software company in the future?&rdquo; The answer, delivered by SAP&rsquo;s own AI assistant Joule at the end of the presentation, was that SAP is becoming [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/saps-ceo-asked-if-it-will-still-be-a-software-company-its-stock-price-already-answered/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/saps-ceo-asked-if-it-will-still-be-a-software-company-its-stock-price-already-answered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BMS just signed a $15.2 billion drug deal with China’s biggest pharma company. The patent cliff left it no choice.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a deal worth up to 15.2 billion dollars with Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, China&rsquo;s largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalisation. The agreement covers 13 early-stage drug programmes across oncology, haematology, and immunology. None of the drugs have entered human clinical trials. The deal was announced on the same day that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bms-just-signed-a-152-billion-drug-deal-with-chinas-biggest-pharma-company-the-patent-cliff-left-it-no-choice/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bms-just-signed-a-152-billion-drug-deal-with-chinas-biggest-pharma-company-the-patent-cliff-left-it-no-choice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beijing put Huawei’s secret chip lab on national TV two days before Trump arrives. The message wasn’t for Chinese viewers.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; On Friday evening, China Central Television&rsquo;s most-watched news programme broadcast footage that has never been shown publicly. The Chip Fundamental Technology Research Laboratory at Huawei&rsquo;s Lianqiu Lake campus in Shanghai appeared on Xinwen Lianbo, the state-run bulletin that reaches more than 200 million viewers nightly, in a segment showing Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei hosting [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beijing-put-huaweis-secret-chip-lab-on-national-tv-two-days-before-trump-arrives-the-message-wasnt-for-chinese-viewers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/beijing-put-huaweis-secret-chip-lab-on-national-tv-two-days-before-trump-arrives-the-message-wasnt-for-chinese-viewers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who took Tesla public just joined JB Straubel’s battery startup. It’s no longer just a battery startup.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Deepak Ahuja, the chief financial officer who took Tesla public in 2010 and served two terms steering its finances through the most volatile period in automotive history, has joined Redwood Materials as CFO. He told TechCrunch it is &ldquo;too early&rdquo; to talk about an IPO. Companies that are not thinking about an IPO do [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-took-tesla-public-just-joined-jb-straubels-battery-startup-its-no-longer-just-a-battery-startup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-took-tesla-public-just-joined-jb-straubels-battery-startup-its-no-longer-just-a-battery-startup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nadella feared Microsoft would become ‘the next IBM.’ The trial reveals how much he paid to make sure it didn’t.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Satya Nadella told a federal jury on Monday that he feared Microsoft would become &ldquo;the next IBM&rdquo; while OpenAI became the next Microsoft. The admission, drawn from an April 2022 internal email presented by Elon Musk&rsquo;s lead attorney, reveals the strategic anxiety that drove the largest corporate investment in artificial intelligence history. Microsoft did [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-make-sure-it-didnt/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-make-sure-it-didnt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google found the first AI-generated zero-day exploit. It stopped the attack before it started.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Google has identified the first zero-day exploit it believes was developed with artificial intelligence. The criminal threat actor that built it planned to use it in a mass exploitation event. Google&rsquo;s Threat Intelligence Group discovered the vulnerability before it was deployed, worked with the affected vendor to patch it, and disrupted the operation. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-found-the-first-ai-generated-zero-day-exploit-it-stopped-the-attack-before-it-started/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-found-the-first-ai-generated-zero-day-exploit-it-stopped-the-attack-before-it-started/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM is firing 600 IT workers and hiring AI engineers. It calls it transformation, not termination.]]></title><description><![CDATA[General Motors is laying off 500 to 600 salaried IT workers and replacing them with engineers who know how to build AI systems. The cuts, centred in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, represent more than 10 per cent of GM&rsquo;s IT department. The company is not reducing headcount for cost savings. It is executing what [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-is-firing-600-it-workers-and-hiring-ai-engineers-it-calls-it-transformation-not-termination/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-is-firing-600-it-workers-and-hiring-ai-engineers-it-calls-it-transformation-not-termination/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expanding pathways to opportunity through apprenticeship degrees in a changing workforce landscape]]></title><description><![CDATA[Picture a woman in her mid-30s assessing her options, balancing household expenses with a long&#8209;held ambition to enter a more purpose&#8209;driven profession. A transition into teaching or nursing holds deep meaning, yet most degree pathways require time away from a steady income and a financial commitment that demands careful planning. The desire to move forward [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/expanding-pathways-to-opportunity-through-apprenticeship-degrees-in-a-changing-workforce-landscape/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/expanding-pathways-to-opportunity-through-apprenticeship-degrees-in-a-changing-workforce-landscape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Android's BIGGEST year ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Android's BIGGEST year ever]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/androids-biggest-year-ever/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/androids-biggest-year-ever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI launches Daybreak to take on Anthropic’s Mythos in cyber defence]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new platform pairs GPT-5.5 variants with Codex Security and a roster of enterprise security partners, all aimed at defenders. OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative aimed at finding software vulnerabilities, generating patches, and validating fixes inside enterprise codebases. The launch positions OpenAI directly against Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos, which has spent the past few months [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-daybreak-to-take-on-anthropics-mythos-in-cyber-defence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-daybreak-to-take-on-anthropics-mythos-in-cyber-defence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kevin Hartz’s A* takes a ‘less-is-more’ approach with new $450m fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[While AI peers chase billion-dollar megafunds, the Eventbrite founder&rsquo;s venture firm has gone the other way. Kevin Hartz, the Eventbrite co-founder turned long-time seed investor, has closed a $450m fund at A*, his San Francisco venture firm, according to Bloomberg. The vehicle pointedly avoids the multi-billion-dollar AI megafund template that has dominated venture fundraising for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kevin-hartzs-a-takes-a-less-is-more-approach-with-new-450m-fund/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kevin-hartzs-a-takes-a-less-is-more-approach-with-new-450m-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo recalls 3,791 robotaxis after a vehicle drove into a flooded road]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo is recalling 3,791 robotaxis in the United States after federal regulators identified a software flaw that could send the vehicles into flooded roads at higher speeds, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday. The recall covers vehicles running both the fifth- and sixth-generation Waymo Driver, the Alphabet unit&rsquo;s automated driving system. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-recalls-3791-robotaxis-after-a-vehicle-drove-into-a-flooded-road/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/waymo-recalls-3791-robotaxis-after-a-vehicle-drove-into-a-flooded-road/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[eBay tells GameStop to keep the carpet: $56bn bid “neither credible nor attractive”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ryan Cohen offered $125 a share, partly to be funded by a $20bn TD Securities commitment letter and, briefly, by selling old store signs on eBay itself. The eBay board, which had to ban and then unban him during the process, says no. eBay has formally rejected GameStop&rsquo;s $56bn takeover bid, telling the video-game retailer&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ebay-tells-gamestop-to-keep-the-carpet-56bn-bid-neither-credible-nor-attractive/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ebay-tells-gamestop-to-keep-the-carpet-56bn-bid-neither-credible-nor-attractive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHS England gives Palantir contractors broader access to patient data]]></title><description><![CDATA[A leaked internal briefing note describes a new admin role on the &pound;330m Federated Data Platform that lets external staff bypass case-by-case data approvals. Patient groups and Labour MPs have called the change dangerous. NHS England has decided to allow external personnel from contractors, including Palantir, to access identifiable patient data through a new administrative [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhs-england-gives-palantir-contractors-broader-access-to-patient-data/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhs-england-gives-palantir-contractors-broader-access-to-patient-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vapi raises $50m Series B led by Peak XV for enterprise voice AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peak XV leads. M12, Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer Venture Partners join; earlier investors return. Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life are named enterprise customers; total funding now stands at $72m. Vapi, the San Francisco-based enterprise voice-AI platform, has raised $50m in a Series B round to scale its voice-agent infrastructure, the company said on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vapi-raises-50m-series-b-led-by-peak-xv-for-enterprise-voice-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vapi-raises-50m-series-b-led-by-peak-xv-for-enterprise-voice-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So. The ChatGPT phone.]]></title><description><![CDATA[So. The ChatGPT phone.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/so-the-chatgpt-phone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/so-the-chatgpt-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is earning roughly $500m an hour from exports, and AI-related goods are doing the heavy lifting]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s export earnings have reached roughly $500m an hour, according to a Bloomberg calculation based on the latest customs data, with AI-related goods accounting for about half of the year-on-year growth that has driven the figure to record levels. Total Chinese exports rose 14.1% year-on-year in April to a record $359.4bn, comfortably ahead of consensus [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-earning-roughly-500m-an-hour-from-exports-and-ai-related-goods-are-doing-the-heavy-lifting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-is-earning-roughly-500m-an-hour-from-exports-and-ai-related-goods-are-doing-the-heavy-lifting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ilya Sutskever discloses $7bn OpenAI stake during Musk-OpenAI litigation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The former OpenAI chief scientist, who now runs Safe Superintelligence, gave the figure under oath. It places him among the largest individual shareholders in the company. Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI who now runs Safe Superintelligence Inc., disclosed during testimony in the Musk-OpenAI litigation on Monday that his ownership stake in OpenAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ilya-sutskever-discloses-7bn-openai-stake-during-musk-openai-litigation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ilya-sutskever-discloses-7bn-openai-stake-during-musk-openai-litigation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ServiceNow lines up $4bn bond sale to refinance Armis acquisition debt]]></title><description><![CDATA[ServiceNow is looking to raise approximately $4bn in a US high-grade bond sale to refinance debt taken on to fund its acquisition of cybersecurity firm Armis Security, Bloomberg reported on Monday. JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Barclays and Citigroup organised investor calls on Monday ahead of the issuance. The trade will replace a $4bn unsecured term [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/servicenow-lines-up-4bn-bond-sale-to-refinance-armis-acquisition-debt/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/servicenow-lines-up-4bn-bond-sale-to-refinance-armis-acquisition-debt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ursula Von der Leyen pushes EU-wide social-media age protections for children]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission president said an EU age-verification app is technically complete and that bloc-level rules on minimum social-media ages are next. France, Spain, and several others are already moving alone. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday set out the EU&rsquo;s plan to extend protections for children online, telling MEPs the bloc&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ursula-von-der-leyen-pushes-eu-wide-social-media-age-protections-for-children/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ursula-von-der-leyen-pushes-eu-wide-social-media-age-protections-for-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US Commerce Department deletes website details of Microsoft, Google, and xAI security-test deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Commerce Department has removed from its website the details of an agreement under which Microsoft, Google, and xAI agreed to submit new AI models to government scientists for security testing before release, Reuters reported on Monday. The original page, posted on 5 May, said the three companies would hand over their frontier AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-commerce-department-deletes-website-details-of-microsoft-google-and-xai-security-test-deal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-commerce-department-deletes-website-details-of-microsoft-google-and-xai-security-test-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jensen Huang skips Trump’s China business delegation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Nvidia CEO is not on the list of US executives travelling to Beijing for the Trump-Xi summit. Apple&rsquo;s Tim Cook and Tesla&rsquo;s Elon Musk are among those attending; the trip&rsquo;s focus is reportedly agriculture, manufacturing, and aviation. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will not join President Donald Trump&rsquo;s business delegation to China this week, Reuters [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huang-skips-trumps-china-business-delegation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huang-skips-trumps-china-business-delegation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas AG sues Netflix over alleged spying and addictive design]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the suit on Monday, alleging Netflix collects user data without consent and uses autoplay to keep children watching. Netflix calls the suit meritless. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Netflix on Monday, alleging the streaming company collects user data without consent and designs its platform to be addictive, particularly for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/texas-ag-sues-netflix-over-alleged-spying-and-addictive-design/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/texas-ag-sues-netflix-over-alleged-spying-and-addictive-design/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosus targets $3.6bn from Just Eat in European food-delivery push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prosus is targeting $3.6bn in annual revenue from Just Eat Takeaway, the European food-delivery business it bought for &euro;4.1bn last year, the Napers-controlled investor said in a strategy update on Tuesday. The figure sets a near-term commercial target for the asset that Prosus has spent the past nine months integrating. The company said it plans [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prosus-targets-36bn-from-just-eat-in-european-food-delivery-push/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/prosus-targets-36bn-from-just-eat-in-european-food-delivery-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ditto, an Amsterdam-based health-tech building AI-generated summaries of medical appointments for patients, has raised &euro;7.6m, the company said on Monday. The round is led by Heal Capital with participation from Rubio Impact Ventures. Earlier backer Chris Oomen, chair of Optiverder, has also participated. The funding will support expansion into Germany, the UK, and Spain this [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/duch-ditto-raises-76m-for-patient-side-ai-summaries-of-medical-appointments/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 09:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/duch-ditto-raises-76m-for-patient-side-ai-summaries-of-medical-appointments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adfin raises $18m Series A from Index Ventures for agentic business finance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visionaries Club returns; St&eacute;phane Kurgan (ex-King COO) and Miro founder Andrey Khusid join. Total funding now over $30m in less than two years. The London fintech says its customers see late-payment rates 7x lower than the UK SME average. Adfin, the London-based fintech building an agentic money-movement platform, has raised $18m in a Series A [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adfin-raises-18m-series-a-from-index-ventures-for-agentic-business-finance/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adfin-raises-18m-series-a-from-index-ventures-for-agentic-business-finance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White Circle raises $11m Seed for production AI control platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[Senior figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, Mistral, Datadog and Sentry have backed the Seed. The platform claims more than one billion API requests served and lists Lovable and two of the world&rsquo;s largest digital banks among its customers. White Circle, a platform that helps companies monitor, secure and control AI models in production, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/white-circle-raises-11m-seed-for-production-ai-control-platform/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/white-circle-raises-11m-seed-for-production-ai-control-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paymentology raises $175m co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paymentology, the London-based global issuer-processor, has raised $175m in a round co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners, the company said on Tuesday. Apis invested through its Apis Growth Fund III vehicle, which the firm said takes its total payments-sector investment count to 16. For Aspirity, a pan-European private-equity firm focused on financial technology and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paymentology-raises-175m-co-led-by-apis-partners-and-aspirity-partners/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paymentology-raises-175m-co-led-by-apis-partners-and-aspirity-partners/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nscale secures $790m financing for Narvik AI data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nscale, the vertically integrated AI-infrastructure company, has secured an additional $790m of debt financing to continue building out its AI data centre in Narvik, northern Norway, the company said on Monday. The committed facility was provided by ABN AMRO, DNB, Eksfin (Export Finance Norway) and Nordea, with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) acting as Mandated Lead [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nscale-secures-790m-financing-for-narvik-ai-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nscale-secures-790m-financing-for-narvik-ai-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happl raises $11m Series A to scale its global benefits operating system]]></title><description><![CDATA[Happl, the London- and New York-based provider of an AI-native employee-benefits platform for multinational employers, has raised $11m in a Series A round. The round was led by Portage Ventures, with participation from F Capital and continued backing from Y Combinator, 6 Degrees Capital, Haatch, and Ventures Together. The investment will be used to accelerate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/happl-raises-11m-series-a-to-scale-its-global-benefits-operating-system/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/happl-raises-11m-series-a-to-scale-its-global-benefits-operating-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; GitLab is cutting jobs to invest in AI agents. The company announced on Monday that it will flatten management layers, reorganise its research and development teams into roughly 60 smaller autonomous units, reduce its country footprint by approximately 30 per cent, and use AI agents to automate internal reviews, approvals, and handoffs. CEO Bill [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlab-is-cutting-jobs-for-the-agentic-era-it-does-not-yet-know-how-many/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gitlab-is-cutting-jobs-for-the-agentic-era-it-does-not-yet-know-how-many/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise left London for Nasdaq. It is also applying for a US banking charter. The migration is not just a listing change.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Wise began trading on Nasdaq on Monday under the ticker WSE. Shares opened at 15.96 dollars. The London-founded fintech, which went public on the London Stock Exchange in July 2021 via a direct listing that valued it at 11 billion dollars, has moved its primary listing to New York while keeping a secondary listing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wise-left-london-for-nasdaq-it-is-also-applying-for-a-us-banking-charter-the-migration-is-not-just-a-listing-change/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 23:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wise-left-london-for-nasdaq-it-is-also-applying-for-a-us-banking-charter-the-migration-is-not-just-a-listing-change/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZoomInfo beat earnings, cut 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price. Its database is being repriced by AI.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; ZoomInfo beat its first-quarter earnings estimates, cut its full-year revenue guidance by 62 million dollars, announced a restructuring that will eliminate 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price in a single trading session. The company reported 310.2 million dollars in revenue, up 1.5 per cent year over year. Adjusted earnings [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoominfo-beat-earnings-cut-600-jobs-and-lost-29-per-cent-of-its-stock-price-its-database-is-being-repriced-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 23:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoominfo-beat-earnings-cut-600-jobs-and-lost-29-per-cent-of-its-stock-price-its-database-is-being-repriced-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I built a machine learning model to predict who leaves tech jobs early. The results surprised me.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I went into this research convinced I already knew the answer. After more than a decade in People Analytics, the last few years at Meta, I had a working theory about why tech employees leave their jobs within the first year. Two things, I believed, were doing most of the damage: whether someone was getting [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/i-built-a-machine-learning-model-to-predict-who-leaves-tech-jobs-early-the-results-surprised-me/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/i-built-a-machine-learning-model-to-predict-who-leaves-tech-jobs-early-the-results-surprised-me/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lodestellar is a €7 EPD quality tool helping manufacturers win multi-million euro tenders]]></title><description><![CDATA[The era of greenwashing may be coming to an end, at least in the construction sector where manufacturers are embracing a low cost tool to support data-driven transparency about their environmental impacts. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve seen that manufacturers are increasingly keen to ditch vague eco slogans and self-declared green certificates, which were never really very effective,&rdquo; says [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lodestellar-is-a-7-epd-quality-tool-helping-manufacturers-win-multi-million-euro-tenders/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lodestellar-is-a-7-epd-quality-tool-helping-manufacturers-win-multi-million-euro-tenders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santa Clara County sues Meta over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram]]></title><description><![CDATA[The complaint, filed on behalf of California residents, alleges Meta earns up to $7bn a year from &ldquo;high-risk&rdquo; scam ads and tolerated the practice. The county wants restitution, civil damages, and an injunction. Santa Clara County has sued Meta Platforms in California state court, alleging the company profits from scam advertising on Facebook and Instagram [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/santa-clara-county-sues-meta-over-scam-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/santa-clara-county-sues-meta-over-scam-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novo Nordisk hands shelved Parkinson’s cell therapy to Zuckerberg-backed Cellular Intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Novo will take an equity stake in Cellular Intelligence and is in line for future milestone payments and royalties. The startup plans to apply its AI platform to STEM-PD, a stem-cell-derived treatment Novo discontinued last October. Novo Nordisk has handed over STEM-PD, an experimental stem-cell therapy for Parkinson&rsquo;s disease, to Cellular Intelligence, an AI biotech [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/novo-nordisk-hands-shelved-parkinsons-cell-therapy-to-zuckerberg-backed-cellular-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/novo-nordisk-hands-shelved-parkinsons-cell-therapy-to-zuckerberg-backed-cellular-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shein takes Temu to London’s High Court over “industrial-scale” copyright theft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two-week trial opened Monday. Shein&rsquo;s complaint covers around 2,300 product images; Temu has abandoned its defence of those images and is countering with anti-competition claims. Shein accused Temu of copyright infringement &ldquo;on an industrial scale&rdquo; as a two-week trial opened at London&rsquo;s High Court on Monday. Shein&rsquo;s barrister, Benet Brandreth, told the court Temu [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/shein-takes-temu-to-londons-high-court-over-industrial-scale-copyright-theft/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/shein-takes-temu-to-londons-high-court-over-industrial-scale-copyright-theft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alphabet adds the yen to its bond programme, in a debut Samurai issue, funding the AI build]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mizuho, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have the mandate. Pricing is expected this month. The trade follows Alphabet&rsquo;s record CHF, sterling and euro issuances in February and last week&rsquo;s $17bn euro-Canadian-dollar combination, all targeted at the $180-190bn capex programme. Alphabet plans to sell yen-denominated bonds for the first time, the company disclosed in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-adds-the-yen-to-its-bond-programme-in-a-debut-samurai-issue-funding-the-ai-build/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-adds-the-yen-to-its-bond-programme-in-a-debut-samurai-issue-funding-the-ai-build/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI launches $4bn Deployment Company with TPG, Advent, Bain, and Brookfield]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has set up a new venture called OpenAI Deployment Company, with more than $4bn in initial funding from a syndicate of 19 firms led by TPG and including Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield as co-lead founding partners, the company said on Monday. The new entity, which will be majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-4bn-deployment-company-with-tpg-advent-bain-and-brookfield/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-4bn-deployment-company-with-tpg-advent-bain-and-brookfield/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates’s backed Fervo Energy raises IPO target to $1.82bn on $7.4bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The geothermal developer increased its share count by 26% and its top-of-range price by about 8% in an SEC filing on Monday. The revision points to the demand for clean baseload power that AI data-centre buyers have been ready to pay for. Fervo Energy raised its IPO target on Monday to as much as $1.82bn, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-gatess-backed-fervo-energy-raises-ipo-target-to-182bn-on-74bn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-gatess-backed-fervo-energy-raises-ipo-target-to-182bn-on-74bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude AI agents are driving record Mac mini demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tyler Cadwell runs a small Arizona business called Everything Etched. He sells custom-engraved glassware on Etsy and Shopify. When he wants to brainstorm or build something new, he drives his Ford Bronco out into the canyons around Flagstaff and Tucson with a Mac mini in the passenger seat. The desktop is wired to a portable [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-ai-agents-are-driving-record-mac-mini-demand/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claude-ai-agents-are-driving-record-mac-mini-demand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $13,500 Unitree robot was ‘ordained’ at Seoul’s Jogyesa Temple]]></title><description><![CDATA[At about ten in the morning on Wednesday, in the courtyard of Daeungjeon Hall at Jogyesa, a 130-centimetre humanoid in brown robes pressed its palms together and bowed. A monk asked the figure whether it would devote itself to the holy Buddha. The reply, in a recorded voice supplied by a temple manager, was &ldquo;Yes, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-13500-unitree-robot-was-ordained-at-seouls-jogyesa-temple/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-13500-unitree-robot-was-ordained-at-seouls-jogyesa-temple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MASSIVE Pixel 11 leaks!]]></title><description><![CDATA[MASSIVE Pixel 11 leaks!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/massive-pixel-11-leaks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/massive-pixel-11-leaks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s cumulative EV investment passes €200bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[New AutoMotive&rsquo;s data tracker, reported by Reuters on Sunday, marks the threshold and puts the question to industrial policy: how much of the headline number will end up producing cells at scale, given that roughly 600 GWh of announced European battery capacity has already been delayed or cancelled. Europe has now invested cumulatively &euro;200bn into [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-cumulative-ev-investment-passes-200bn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-cumulative-ev-investment-passes-200bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon prepares its first Swiss franc bond in six-part AI-capex push]]></title><description><![CDATA[BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan have the mandate. Maturities run from three years to 25 years. The trade follows Alphabet&rsquo;s record Swiss issuance in February and Amazon&rsquo;s $37bn dollar deal in March, and is the latest demonstration that hyperscalers are now multi-currency borrowers. Amazon is preparing its first-ever Swiss franc bond issuance, Bloomberg reported [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-prepares-its-first-swiss-franc-bond-in-six-part-ai-capex-push/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-prepares-its-first-swiss-franc-bond-in-six-part-ai-capex-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch eyeo raises €40m to commercialise NCOS color-splitting image sensors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Innovation Industries leads the Series A. imec.xpand, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, QBIC, HTGF, and BOM return. Total funding now stands at &euro;55m. The money funds in-house chip design and a push toward volume sensors built on the company&rsquo;s NCOS color-splitting technology. Eindhoven-based eyeo has raised &euro;40m in Series A funding to commercialise a sensor technology [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-eyeo-raises-40m-to-commercialise-ncos-color-splitting-image-sensors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dutch-eyeo-raises-40m-to-commercialise-ncos-color-splitting-image-sensors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jensen Huang tells Carnegie Mellon’s class of 2026 their career starts at the AI revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[NVIDIA&rsquo;s CEO delivered the keynote at CMU&rsquo;s 128th commencement on Sunday and received an honorary doctorate. The address framed AI as a reindustrialisation moment for the US, and pressed both engineers and policymakers to advance capability and safety in step. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University&rsquo;s 128th [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huang-tells-carnegie-mellons-class-of-2026-their-career-starts-at-the-ai-revolution/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jensen-huang-tells-carnegie-mellons-class-of-2026-their-career-starts-at-the-ai-revolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Istanbul’s Grand Games lands a $70m Series B as Balderton doubles down on Turkey’s puzzle-game pipeline]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bek Ventures, Laton Ventures, and angel investor Mert G&uuml;r are back. Total funding for the two-year-old studio reaches $103m. The round arrives weeks after Scopely&rsquo;s $1bn buyout of Loom Games and CVC&rsquo;s $5bn deal for Dream Games. Grand Games Oyun ve Yaz&#305;l&#305;m, the Istanbul-based mobile gaming studio behind Magic Sort and Car Match, has raised [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/istanbuls-grand-games-lands-a-70m-series-b-as-balderton-doubles-down-on-turkeys-puzzle-game-pipeline/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/istanbuls-grand-games-lands-a-70m-series-b-as-balderton-doubles-down-on-turkeys-puzzle-game-pipeline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GPUaaS is reinforcing the illusion of European AI sovereignty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe is pouring billions into AI development and infrastructure. GPU (graphics processing units) access is expanding rapidly through cloud platforms and GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) providers, becoming a key enabler of AI development and deployment. The underlying assumption is straightforward: scale compute, and you scale capability. Yet, despite the efforts made by EU Member States, from sovereign [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gpuaas-is-reinforcing-the-illusion-of-european-ai-sovereignty/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 11:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gpuaas-is-reinforcing-the-illusion-of-european-ai-sovereignty/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNW, Oneflow, and Flexas are hosting a free networking evening in Amsterdam]]></title><description><![CDATA[A speaker panel, food, and a room full of people who actually want to connect. The gathering takes place on 3 June at Flexas.com in the heart of the city. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from attending the wrong networking event. You know the type: a cavernous venue, a cash bar, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tnw-oneflow-and-flexas-are-hosting-a-free-networking-evening-in-amsterdam/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tnw-oneflow-and-flexas-are-hosting-a-free-networking-evening-in-amsterdam/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m, alleging her photo has been selling its TVs without permission since 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[The complaint says a backstage shot from the 2024 Austin City Limits Festival ended up on Crystal UHD packaging in retail and online channels worldwide, and that Samsung ignored her cease-and-desist requests. Dua Lipa filed a $15 million federal lawsuit against Samsung Electronics on Friday, alleging that the company has been using a 2024 photograph [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dua-lipa-sues-samsung-for-15m-alleging-her-photo-has-been-selling-its-tvs-without-permission-since-2025/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 10:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dua-lipa-sues-samsung-for-15m-alleging-her-photo-has-been-selling-its-tvs-without-permission-since-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company has traced its model&rsquo;s most uncomfortable behaviour to the corpus of science fiction it was trained on. The fix it describes is unsettling in a different way: teaching the model the reasons behind being good, not just the rules. In a fictional company called Summit Bridge, a fictional executive named Kyle Johnson is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-says-claude-learned-to-blackmail-by-reading-stories-about-evil-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-says-claude-learned-to-blackmail-by-reading-stories-about-evil-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nintendo shares fall 7% as Switch 2 price hike and thin pipeline land in the same forecast]]></title><description><![CDATA[FY27 hardware guidance is for 16.5m Switch 2 units, down 17%. Memory and shipping costs add a &yen;100bn drag. The US price moves to $499.99 in September; Japan goes to &yen;59,980 from 25 May. Nintendo shares dropped roughly 7% in Tokyo trading on Monday after Friday&rsquo;s full-year results paired a record fiscal year with a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nintendo-shares-fall-7-as-switch-2-price-hike-and-thin-pipeline-land-in-the-same-forecast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nintendo-shares-fall-7-as-switch-2-price-hike-and-thin-pipeline-land-in-the-same-forecast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft-G42 Kenya data centre stalls over government offtake demands]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company asked the Kenyan government for a guaranteed annual capacity offtake. The government did not commit at the level Microsoft requested. Talks have broken down for now; the project is not formally cancelled. A $1bn Microsoft data-centre project in Kenya, structured as a partnership with UAE-based G42, has stalled after the two companies failed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-g42-kenya-data-centre-stalls-over-government-offtake-demands/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 09:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-g42-kenya-data-centre-stalls-over-government-offtake-demands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centres at former Sharp plant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Target output is one gigawatt-hour a year. Partners are South Korea&rsquo;s Cosmos Lab and DeltaX. Production opens for the fiscal year starting next April, with zinc-halide chemistry following in 2027. SoftBank Group&rsquo;s mobile-services subsidiary will begin manufacturing large-scale battery cells at the Sakai, Osaka site that once belonged to Sharp, the company said on Sunday, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-to-manufacture-large-scale-batteries-for-ai-data-centres-at-former-sharp-plant/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 09:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-to-manufacture-large-scale-batteries-for-ai-data-centres-at-former-sharp-plant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Tohme Accounting sees AI elevating cross-border accounting]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Tohme Accounting, a cross-border tax and advisory firm serving clients throughout Canada and the United States, sees artificial intelligence becoming increasingly influential in modern accounting. It observes that as financial activity expands across jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks continue to evolve, firms are adapting to larger volumes of data, faster reporting expectations, and more complex [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-tohme-accounting-sees-ai-elevating-cross-border-accounting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-tohme-accounting-sees-ai-elevating-cross-border-accounting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why LaceLocker® believes the next breakthrough in wearables may begin beneath the laces]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The next wave of wearables may rely less on adding new devices and more on embedding connectivity into products people already use every day. LaceLocker&reg; believes the next generation of wearables will emerge through integrated hardware platforms that fit naturally into everyday life while welcoming collaboration across technology sectors. Instead of relying on oversized [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-lacelocker-believes-the-next-breakthrough-in-wearables-may-begin-beneath-the-laces/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 08:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-lacelocker-believes-the-next-breakthrough-in-wearables-may-begin-beneath-the-laces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only XR glasses you'll ever need? 😎 VITURE Beast #viture #xrglasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[The only XR glasses you'll ever need? 😎 VITURE Beast #viture #xrglasses]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-only-xr-glasses-youll-ever-need-viture-beast-viture-xrglasses/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-only-xr-glasses-youll-ever-need-viture-beast-viture-xrglasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall&rsquo;s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall, the company&rsquo;s two largest consumer marketplaces, in what amounts to the most ambitious [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-integrates-qwen-ai-with-taobao-for-end-to-end-agentic-shopping/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alibaba-integrates-qwen-ai-with-taobao-for-end-to-end-agentic-shopping/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA tops $40bn in AI equity bets in 2026, anchored by $30bn OpenAI investment]]></title><description><![CDATA[$30bn went to OpenAI; the rest is spread across CoreWeave, IREN, Corning, Nebius, and roughly two dozen private rounds. The pattern is closer to vertical integration than to venture investing, and is starting to draw the inevitable circular-deal questions. NVIDIA has committed more than $40 billion to AI equity investments in the first four months [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-tops-40bn-in-ai-equity-bets-in-2026-anchored-by-30bn-openai-investment/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-tops-40bn-in-ai-equity-bets-in-2026-anchored-by-30bn-openai-investment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Media reports $405.9m Q1 loss, almost entirely from crypto markdowns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump Media &amp; Technology Group reported a $405.9 million net loss for the first quarter of 2026, the company said on Friday, almost all of it driven by unrealised losses on the cryptocurrency holdings it has spent the past nine months building. Operating cash flow was a positive $17.9 million; total financial assets stood at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-media-reports-4059m-q1-loss-almost-entirely-from-crypto-markdowns/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-media-reports-4059m-q1-loss-almost-entirely-from-crypto-markdowns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ONLY flip phone you should buy in 2026 😀 #motorolarazr #foldablephone]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ONLY flip phone you should buy in 2026 😀 #motorolarazr #foldablephone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-only-flip-phone-you-should-buy-in-2026-motorolarazr-foldablephone/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-only-flip-phone-you-should-buy-in-2026-motorolarazr-foldablephone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ&rsquo;s Cyber Accelerator, has launched AI pentesting agents that replicate the methodology of a human [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-manual-pentest-costs-50000-dollars-intruder-built-an-ai-that-does-it-in-minutes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-manual-pentest-costs-50000-dollars-intruder-built-an-ai-that-does-it-in-minutes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantinuum filed for an IPO worth 20 billion dollars. It has 31 million in revenue and a quantum computer that does not exist yet.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Quantinuum filed for a US initial public offering on Thursday that could value the company at more than 20 billion dollars. In the year ended 31 December 2025, Quantinuum reported revenue of 30.9 million dollars and a net loss of 192.6 million dollars. The company is asking public market investors to pay a premium [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantinuum-filed-for-an-ipo-worth-20-billion-dollars-it-has-31-million-in-revenue-and-a-quantum-computer-that-does-not-exist-yet/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 13:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantinuum-filed-for-an-ipo-worth-20-billion-dollars-it-has-31-million-in-revenue-and-a-quantum-computer-that-does-not-exist-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Akamai’s stock had its best day in 22 years. It took one AI contract.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Akamai Technologies disclosed a 1.8 billion dollar, seven-year cloud infrastructure deal with a customer it described only as &ldquo;a leading frontier model provider.&rdquo; Bloomberg identified the customer as Anthropic. The stock rose 27 per cent in a single day, the largest rally in the company&rsquo;s 28-year history. A company that built its business delivering [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/akamais-stock-had-its-best-day-in-22-years-it-took-one-ai-contract/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/akamais-stock-had-its-best-day-in-22-years-it-took-one-ai-contract/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Google launched a 99 dollar screenless fitness tracker and a 9.99 dollar per month AI health coach powered by Gemini. One day later, Whoop announced that it would add on-demand video consultations with licensed clinicians to its app. Google is betting that artificial intelligence can interpret your health data. Whoop is betting that you [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-built-a-99-dollar-ai-health-coach-whoop-responded-with-real-doctors/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 12:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-built-a-99-dollar-ai-health-coach-whoop-responded-with-real-doctors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The Fed chair called the banks.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Anthropic built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The Federal Reserve chair and the Treasury secretary called bank CEOs to discuss it. The company says there is a six-to-twelve month window to patch the flaws before adversaries build models that can do the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-mythos-found-thousands-of-zero-day-vulnerabilities-the-fed-chair-called-the-banks/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-mythos-found-thousands-of-zero-day-vulnerabilities-the-fed-chair-called-the-banks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth more than some countries. Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial revealed this week that the stake carries a target redemption value of two billion dollars. A university endowment made [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-university-of-michigan-invested-20-million-dollars-in-openai-before-chatgpt-existed-court-documents-show-the-stake-is-now-worth-two-billion/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-university-of-michigan-invested-20-million-dollars-in-openai-before-chatgpt-existed-court-documents-show-the-stake-is-now-worth-two-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHTSA says the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass its new safety tests. The agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass NHTSA&rsquo;s new advanced driver assistance safety tests. The same agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Tesla vehicles for crashing while using the company&rsquo;s more advanced self-driving system. The announcement celebrates Tesla for passing a test that measures [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhtsa-says-the-tesla-model-y-is-the-first-car-to-pass-its-new-safety-tests-the-agency-is-simultaneously-investigating-32-million-teslas-for-crashing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nhtsa-says-the-tesla-model-y-is-the-first-car-to-pass-its-new-safety-tests-the-agency-is-simultaneously-investigating-32-million-teslas-for-crashing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocket Lab’s revenue grew 64 per cent, its backlog hit 2.2 billion dollars, and its stock hit a record. Neutron still has not flown.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Rocket Lab&rsquo;s revenue grew 64 per cent, its stock hit a record high, and its backlog reached 2.2 billion dollars. The company sold more launches in the first quarter of 2026 than in the entire previous year. The only thing that has not launched yet is the rocket the market is pricing in. First-quarter [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rocket-labs-revenue-grew-64-per-cent-its-backlog-hit-22-billion-dollars-and-its-stock-hit-a-record-neutron-still-has-not-flown/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rocket-labs-revenue-grew-64-per-cent-its-backlog-hit-22-billion-dollars-and-its-stock-hit-a-record-neutron-still-has-not-flown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Cloudflare beat Wall Street&rsquo;s revenue and earnings estimates on Wednesday, announced it would cut 1,100 employees because artificial intelligence agents now do their work, and watched its stock fall 24 per cent on Thursday. The sequence is becoming the template for the technology industry in 2026: record revenue, record layoffs, record doubt about what [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-beat-earnings-cut-1100-jobs-because-ai-agents-do-the-work-now-and-lost-a-quarter-of-its-stock-price-in-a-day/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cloudflare-beat-earnings-cut-1100-jobs-because-ai-agents-do-the-work-now-and-lost-a-quarter-of-its-stock-price-in-a-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Department of War launched a website on Friday called war.gov/ufo. It contains 162 files, including photographs from the Apollo 17 mission that NASA cannot explain, infrared videos of objects the military cannot identify, and internal memos describing sightings in Iraq and Syria that no agency has resolved. Two-thirds of the documents are partially redacted. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pentagon-published-162-ufo-files-on-wargovufo-two-thirds-are-redacted-the-government-says-it-is-being-transparent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pentagon-published-162-ufo-files-on-wargovufo-two-thirds-are-redacted-the-government-says-it-is-being-transparent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants in 2025, gaining access to the industrial control systems that regulate pumps, filters, and chemical dosing. In some facilities, the attackers could have altered the operational parameters of equipment that determines what comes out of the tap. The attack vector, in every case, was unremarkable: weak passwords and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-breached-five-polish-water-treatment-plants-the-attack-vector-was-default-passwords-seventy-per-cent-of-american-water-utilities-fail-the-same-test/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-breached-five-polish-water-treatment-plants-the-attack-vector-was-default-passwords-seventy-per-cent-of-american-water-utilities-fail-the-same-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, Uber&rsquo;s autonomous vehicle partner, after identifying 16 crashes and one minor injury in the four months since the company launched its robotaxi service in Dallas. The regulator&rsquo;s language is unusually blunt: the vehicles displayed &ldquo;excessive assertiveness and insufficient capability,&rdquo; a phrase that could [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubers-robotaxi-partner-crashed-16-times-in-four-months-the-regulator-called-it-excessively-assertive-and-insufficiently-capable/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ubers-robotaxi-partner-crashed-16-times-in-four-months-the-regulator-called-it-excessively-assertive-and-insufficiently-capable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s H-1B proposal would push entry-level tech salary floor near $162,000]]></title><description><![CDATA[An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March, The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York, $132,000. The increases run nearly 30% above the current minimums in each [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trumps-h-1b-proposal-would-push-entry-level-tech-salary-floor-near-162000/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trumps-h-1b-proposal-would-push-entry-level-tech-salary-floor-near-162000/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Intel&rsquo;s stock has tripled in twelve months. Its chief executive still has not told most of his employees what the plan is. Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in March 2025, has spent the first fourteen months of his tenure building relationships outside the company rather than restructuring the one inside it. He has won [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intels-stock-tripled-under-lip-bu-tan-he-still-has-not-told-most-employees-the-plan/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intels-stock-tripled-under-lip-bu-tan-he-still-has-not-told-most-employees-the-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI industry’s model and agent skill repositories are full of malware. The infrastructure built to accelerate development is now the vector for compromising it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The two most important software supply chains in artificial intelligence have been systematically compromised. Hugging Face, the repository that hosts more than a million machine learning models used by virtually every AI company on the planet, has been found to contain hundreds of malicious models capable of executing arbitrary code on the machines of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-industrys-model-and-agent-skill-repositories-are-full-of-malware-the-infrastructure-built-to-accelerate-development-is-now-the-vector-for-compromising-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-industrys-model-and-agent-skill-repositories-are-full-of-malware-the-infrastructure-built-to-accelerate-development-is-now-the-vector-for-compromising-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advanced Print Management Software: MyQ | SourceForge Podcast, episode #113]]></title><description><![CDATA[Advanced Print Management Software: MyQ | SourceForge Podcast, episode #113]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/advanced-print-management-software-myq-sourceforge-podcast-episode-113/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/advanced-print-management-software-myq-sourceforge-podcast-episode-113/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday, lost $394 million on Thursday, and went dark on Friday because a data centre overheated]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday. It reported a 394 million dollar quarterly loss on Thursday. On Friday, a data centre overheated in Virginia and the exchange went dark for seven hours. The company that told its remaining engineers that AI could do weeks of work in days spent the end of the week [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coinbase-cut-700-jobs-on-monday-lost-394-million-on-thursday-and-went-dark-on-friday-because-a-data-centre-overheated/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coinbase-cut-700-jobs-on-monday-lost-394-million-on-thursday-and-went-dark-on-friday-because-a-data-centre-overheated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. will.i.am, born William Adams, co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas and founder [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/william-taught-75-college-students-to-build-ai-agents-the-tech-industry-spent-the-same-semester-firing-73000-people/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/william-taught-75-college-students-to-build-ai-agents-the-tech-industry-spent-the-same-semester-firing-73000-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorola Razr Fold second look: What to expect!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motorola Razr Fold second look: What to expect!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-razr-fold-second-look-what-to-expect/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-razr-fold-second-look-what-to-expect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorola Razr Fold: Reality check]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motorola Razr Fold: Reality check]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-razr-fold-reality-check/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-razr-fold-reality-check/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PR &amp; Media lessons from EU-Startups Summit 2026: what works, what does not]]></title><description><![CDATA[A panel in Valletta laid out a working playbook for startup PR, from the friends-and-family headline test to the case for hiring an agency. Founders looking for media coverage at this year&rsquo;s EU-Startups Summit in Valletta got a fairly direct briefing from the people who decide what gets published. The session, titled &ldquo;The Startup Media [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pr-amp-media-lessons-from-eu-startups-summit-2026-what-works-what-does-not/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pr-amp-media-lessons-from-eu-startups-summit-2026-what-works-what-does-not/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify’s AI DJ now speaks French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify has just released an expansion of its premium AI DJ feature that promises to enhance the experience for users in Europe and Brazil, adding the DJ function to new markets and four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.&nbsp; The AI DJ feature is an interactive AI-powered DJ that functions as a radio [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotifys-ai-dj-now-speaks-french-german-italian-and-brazilian-portuguese/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotifys-ai-dj-now-speaks-french-german-italian-and-brazilian-portuguese/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS was hit by overheating in northern Virginia, knocking Coinbase offline and rattling CME]]></title><description><![CDATA[A single data centre&rsquo;s cooling system fell behind. AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected. Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data centres in northern Virginia was running hot enough to disrupt customer workloads, and that engineers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aws-was-hit-by-overheating-in-northern-virginia-knocking-coinbase-offline-and-rattling-cme/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/aws-was-hit-by-overheating-in-northern-virginia-knocking-coinbase-offline-and-rattling-cme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[G2A names CVC veteran Krzysztof Krawczyk as advisory board chair after taking minority stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[The digital marketplace with Polish origins, which has scaled to nearly $400m in annual GMV without external funding, brings in one of Central Europe&rsquo;s most experienced private-equity operators to guide its next phase of M&amp;A and global expansion. After 16 years of organic growth, G2A is letting an outsider into the room. The Polish-founded digital [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/g2a-names-cvc-veteran-krzysztof-krawczyk-as-advisory-board-chair-after-taking-minority-stake/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/g2a-names-cvc-veteran-krzysztof-krawczyk-as-advisory-board-chair-after-taking-minority-stake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lime files for a Nasdaq IPO under the LIME ticker, the first big micromobility test in eight years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The San Francisco scooter-and-e-bike operator goes public as Neutron Holdings with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as joint book-runners. $686m in 2024 revenue and two consecutive years of free cash flow give it a financial profile that the rest of the category never reached. Lime, the Uber-backed shared scooter and e-bike operator, filed for a US [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lime-files-for-a-nasdaq-ipo-under-the-lime-ticker-the-first-big-micromobility-test-in-eight-years/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lime-files-for-a-nasdaq-ipo-under-the-lime-ticker-the-first-big-micromobility-test-in-eight-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[7 Best Global HR Software Options for International Companies in 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Global HR is no longer just about compliance. It&rsquo;s becoming an operational infrastructure layer for distributed companies. As a seasoned HR professional, I used to think working for an international company was a peak career flex. Unfortunately, in 2026, the reality can be far less glamorous. Picture running an HR team for a global company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/7-best-global-hr-software-options-for-international-companies-in-2026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/7-best-global-hr-software-options-for-international-companies-in-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA takes $2.1bn warrant in IREN as part of 5GW AI data-centre deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[NVIDIA will invest up to $2.1bn in IREN as part of a deal that pairs the chipmaker&rsquo;s reference architecture with the data-centre operator&rsquo;s 5-gigawatt infrastructure pipeline. The two companies announced the partnership on Thursday. The structure is unusual. Rather than a straight equity round, IREN has issued Nvidia a five-year warrant for up to 30 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-takes-21bn-warrant-in-iren-as-part-of-5gw-ai-data-centre-deal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-takes-21bn-warrant-in-iren-as-part-of-5gw-ai-data-centre-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank cuts OpenAI-backed margin loan target by 40% to $6bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lenders pushed back on valuing OpenAI shares as collateral. The downsize lands a fortnight after the $10bn ask first surfaced and is the clearest signal yet that even an $852bn primary round has not closed the gap between sticker and what banks will lend against. SoftBank Group has trimmed the size of a margin loan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-cuts-openai-backed-margin-loan-target-by-40-to-6bn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-cuts-openai-backed-margin-loan-target-by-40-to-6bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI launches GPT-Realtime-2 and two new voice API models]]></title><description><![CDATA[GPT-Realtime-2 brings GPT-5-class reasoning to live voice. A separate translation model covers 70+ input languages. A streaming Whisper variant handles transcription. The pricing is aggressive enough to make the comparison unavoidable. OpenAI released three new voice models in its API, broadening the range of surfaces where developers can plug GPT-class reasoning into live audio. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-gpt-realtime-2-and-two-new-voice-api-models/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-gpt-realtime-2-and-two-new-voice-api-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony forecasts 11% profit lift and $3.2bn buyback as music and sensors offset PS5 memory shock]]></title><description><![CDATA[FY26 guidance puts operating profit at &yen;1.6 trillion. The PS5 install base, royalty income from streaming, and a smartphone-camera business with no obvious challenger are doing the work while the gaming hardware unit absorbs a memory-cost shock. Sony Group on Friday set out FY26 guidance the market had largely priced in: operating profit of &yen;1.6 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-forecasts-11-profit-lift-and-32bn-buyback-as-music-and-sensors-offset-ps5-memory-shock/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sony-forecasts-11-profit-lift-and-32bn-buyback-as-music-and-sensors-offset-ps5-memory-shock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[US prosecutors believe a company at the centre of Thailand&rsquo;s national AI strategy helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China, with Alibaba among the eventual customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company is OBON Corp., a Bangkok-based AI infrastructure firm that has been a public partner of Thailand&rsquo;s National AI Strategy [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-thai-end-of-the-supermicro-chip-smuggling-case-has-a-name-and-it-sits-inside-bangkoks-national-ai-plan/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-thai-end-of-the-supermicro-chip-smuggling-case-has-a-name-and-it-sits-inside-bangkoks-national-ai-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The person who connected Jeff Bezos to one of the most ambitious electric vehicle startups in America has left its board. Melinda Lewison, who manages the Bezos family office and was listed as a director on Slate Auto&rsquo;s corporate filings, has departed the company&rsquo;s board months before its first truck is scheduled to roll [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jeff-bezoss-representative-just-left-the-board-of-a-startup-that-raised-14-billion-on-his-name-the-first-truck-has-not-been-built/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jeff-bezoss-representative-just-left-the-board-of-a-startup-that-raised-14-billion-on-his-name-the-first-truck-has-not-been-built/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla trademarked a supercar badge for a car it promised nine years ago. The logo is the most tangible thing about the Roadster.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Tesla has filed a trademark for a bespoke Roadster badge that looks like it belongs on a Lamborghini. The car it will adorn was first promised nine years ago. A prototype debuted in November 2017 with a 200 kilowatt-hour battery, a claimed 620-mile range, a 1.9-second zero-to-60 time, and a starting price of 200,000 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-trademarked-a-supercar-badge-for-a-car-it-promised-nine-years-ago-the-logo-is-the-most-tangible-thing-about-the-roadster/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-trademarked-a-supercar-badge-for-a-car-it-promised-nine-years-ago-the-logo-is-the-most-tangible-thing-about-the-roadster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Wide — EVERYTHING We Know So Far]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Wide — EVERYTHING We Know So Far]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-wide-everything-we-know-so-far/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-wide-everything-we-know-so-far/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta takes Ofcom to the High Court over how the UK calculates Online Safety Act bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first invoices arrive in September. Meta wants the basis changed before they do. Meta has filed a judicial review against Ofcom over the way the regulator calculates fees and penalties under the UK&rsquo;s Online Safety Act, the High Court was told on Thursday. The dispute is narrow on its surface and substantial underneath. Ofcom&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-takes-ofcom-to-the-high-court-over-how-the-uk-calculates-online-safety-act-bills/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-takes-ofcom-to-the-high-court-over-how-the-uk-calculates-online-safety-act-bills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s $100 Fitbit Air has no screen. The product it is actually selling is a $10-a-month AI health coach.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Google spent 2.1 billion dollars buying Fitbit in 2021, three years dismantling the brand, and on Thursday launched a 100 dollar device with no screen, no buttons, and no independent functionality to bring it back. The Fitbit Air is a soft fabric band with a five-gram sensor pack underneath that tracks heart rate, steps, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-100-fitbit-air-has-no-screen-the-product-it-is-actually-selling-is-a-10-a-month-ai-health-coach/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-100-fitbit-air-has-no-screen-the-product-it-is-actually-selling-is-a-10-a-month-ai-health-coach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fire at a data centre in Almere on Thursday morning knocked a university offline, disabled the emergency communication system for public transport across an entire province, triggered an NL-Alert to residents across Flevoland, and required a crash tender from Lelystad Airport to cool a diesel tank on site. The fire broke out at approximately [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-data-centre-fire-in-almere-disabled-a-university-a-transport-emergency-system-and-the-assumption-that-physical-infrastructure-is-someone-elses-problem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-data-centre-fire-in-almere-disabled-a-university-a-transport-emergency-system-and-the-assumption-that-physical-infrastructure-is-someone-elses-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Fitbit Air launch: What it means for you!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Fitbit Air launch: What it means for you!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-fitbit-air-launch-what-it-means-for-you/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-fitbit-air-launch-what-it-means-for-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powerful Compliance Operations: Process Street | SourceForge Podcast, episode #112]]></title><description><![CDATA[Powerful Compliance Operations: Process Street | SourceForge Podcast, episode #112]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/powerful-compliance-operations-process-street-sourceforge-podcast-episode-112/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/powerful-compliance-operations-process-street-sourceforge-podcast-episode-112/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school. It was an attack on a vendor.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school. It was an attack on a vendor. On 30 April, hackers exploited a vulnerability in the systems of Instructure, the company that makes Canvas, the learning management system used by 41 per cent of higher education institutions across North America. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-largest-education-data-breach-in-history-was-not-an-attack-on-a-school-it-was-an-attack-on-a-vendor/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-largest-education-data-breach-in-history-was-not-an-attack-on-a-school-it-was-an-attack-on-a-vendor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went inside Dreame's biggest launch ever (A3 AWD Pro and L60 series)]]></title><description><![CDATA[We went inside Dreame's biggest launch ever (A3 AWD Pro and L60 series)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/we-went-inside-dreames-biggest-launch-ever-a3-awd-pro-and-l60-series/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/we-went-inside-dreames-biggest-launch-ever-a3-awd-pro-and-l60-series/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley has spent more than 25 million dollars trying to make one of its own the next governor of California. The candidate is polling at four per cent. The June 2 primary is less than four weeks away. And the most instructive thing about the campaign of Matt Mahan, the 43-year-old mayor of San [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/silicon-valley-spent-25-million-on-a-california-governor-candidate-he-is-polling-at-4-per-cent/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/silicon-valley-spent-25-million-on-a-california-governor-candidate-he-is-polling-at-4-per-cent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of AI Orchestration Layers: BadCo.AI on guiding a more connected car buying experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[The future of automotive retail may depend less on isolated AI tools and more on orchestration systems that connect every part of the buyer journey. BadCo.AI views the future of car buying as a rapidly evolving ecosystem shaped by connected technologies and rising consumer expectations. It observes that AI orchestration layers are emerging as a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-rise-of-ai-orchestration-layers-badcoai-on-guiding-a-more-connected-car-buying-experience/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-rise-of-ai-orchestration-layers-badcoai-on-guiding-a-more-connected-car-buying-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung makes your phones feel brand new, with even more goodies to come!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung makes your phones feel brand new, with even more goodies to come!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-makes-your-phones-feel-brand-new-with-even-more-goodies-to-come/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 13:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-makes-your-phones-feel-brand-new-with-even-more-goodies-to-come/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tata and JSW to spend $1bn building India’s way out of Chinese battery dependence]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two conglomerates are funding separate R&amp;D centres focused on next-generation battery chemistries and advanced EV systems. The investment is a hedge: both groups currently buy critical battery components from Chinese suppliers and want options when Beijing tightens export rules again. India&rsquo;s two largest steel-and-everything-else conglomerates are putting close to $1bn behind a question that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tata-and-jsw-to-spend-1bn-building-indias-way-out-of-chinese-battery-dependence/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tata-and-jsw-to-spend-1bn-building-indias-way-out-of-chinese-battery-dependence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon retreats from Singapore groceries, leans on cross-border instead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Fresh and the local fulfilment network shut on 6 July. A small number of Singapore roles go with them. AWS, retail, and Global Selling stay; the bet is that Singaporean shoppers want US, Japanese, and German catalogues, not local replenishment. Amazon is closing Amazon Fresh in Singapore and shutting down its local fulfilment operations, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-retreats-from-singapore-groceries-leans-on-cross-border-instead/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-retreats-from-singapore-groceries-leans-on-cross-border-instead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum Motion lands $160m in EU’s first major late-stage commitment]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London company building silicon-CMOS spin qubits has been one of the cleaner technical credentials in European quantum hardware. The choice of investee for the EU&rsquo;s first major late-stage venture commitment, announced post-Brexit, is itself the news. The European Union&rsquo;s new Scaleup Europe Fund has made its first investment, leading a $160m round in UK-based [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantum-motion-lands-160m-in-eus-first-major-late-stage-commitment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantum-motion-lands-160m-in-eus-first-major-late-stage-commitment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brussels strikes deal to thin out AI Act and outlaw nudification apps]]></title><description><![CDATA[After two failed trilogues, Parliament and Council finally landed a compromise that pushes the high-risk compliance deadline to December 2027, lightens paperwork for smaller firms, and writes a long-promised ban on non-consensual intimate imagery into Europe&rsquo;s flagship AI law. The European Commission confirmed on Wednesday that negotiators from the Parliament and the Council had finally [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-strikes-deal-to-thin-out-ai-act-and-outlaw-nudification-apps/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-strikes-deal-to-thin-out-ai-act-and-outlaw-nudification-apps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silex Microsystems shares soar on Stockholm debut as MEMS foundry IPO clears at SEK 8.9bn EV]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bure Equity- and Creades-backed pure-play MEMS foundry priced at SEK 81 per share, with the offering oversubscribed several times. Cornerstone investors, including Capital Research, Fidelity, AFA, AP2, AP3, AP4, Swedbank Robur, and Carnegie, took roughly three-quarters of the deal. Silex Microsystems opened sharply higher on its Nasdaq Stockholm debut on Wednesday, with the chipmaker&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/silex-microsystems-shares-soar-on-stockholm-debut-as-mems-foundry-ipo-clears-at-sek-89bn-ev/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/silex-microsystems-shares-soar-on-stockholm-debut-as-mems-foundry-ipo-clears-at-sek-89bn-ev/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Nexus Luxembourg has become a fixture in Europe’s AI calendar]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 10&ndash;11 June, the Grand Duchy hosts the third edition of its flagship tech summit, weeks before the EU AI Act&rsquo;s most consequential provisions enter into force. Here is what the event has become, and why it matters this year in particular. Luxembourg, with a population smaller than Manchester&rsquo;s and an outsized role in European [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-nexus-luxembourg-has-become-a-fixture-in-europes-ai-calendar/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-nexus-luxembourg-has-become-a-fixture-in-europes-ai-calendar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skyroot becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn ahead of June Vikram-1 launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[GIC and BlackRock-managed funds anchor a fresh round that more than doubles the company&rsquo;s 2023 valuation. The round is timed to the planned orbital launch of Vikram-1 from Sriharikota, the first private Indian rocket to attempt the milestone. Skyroot Aerospace, the Hyderabad-based private launch-vehicle developer, has crossed into unicorn territory with a fresh round backed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skyroot-becomes-indias-first-space-tech-unicorn-ahead-of-june-vikram-1-launch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skyroot-becomes-indias-first-space-tech-unicorn-ahead-of-june-vikram-1-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonshot AI’s $20bn valuation seals one of China’s fastest AI funding trajectories]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meituan Dragon Ball is leading a $2bn round in the Beijing-based maker of the Kimi chatbot, with China Mobile and CITIC Private Equity Funds participating. The valuation is roughly seven times the figure Moonshot carried sixteen months ago. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is closing a $2bn funding round at a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moonshot-ais-20bn-valuation-seals-one-of-chinas-fastest-ai-funding-trajectories/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/moonshot-ais-20bn-valuation-seals-one-of-chinas-fastest-ai-funding-trajectories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawrence Wong holds the line: AI will not produce jobless growth in Singapore]]></title><description><![CDATA[Singapore&rsquo;s parliament has pledged that the country will not see jobless growth as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday in coverage citing Channel NewsAsia. The statement reaffirms the position Prime Minister Lawrence Wong took in February during the parliamentary debate on the 2026 Budget, and represents the most explicit commitment a major [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lawrence-wong-holds-the-line-ai-will-not-produce-jobless-growth-in-singapore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 08:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lawrence-wong-holds-the-line-ai-will-not-produce-jobless-growth-in-singapore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous Defense Department deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The agreement was signed with the Pentagon&rsquo;s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-network deals the same week. Scale AI has won a $500m contract from the US Department of Defense, Bloomberg reported [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scale-ai-wins-500m-pentagon-contract-five-times-its-previous-defense-department-deal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/scale-ai-wins-500m-pentagon-contract-five-times-its-previous-defense-department-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corgi reaches a $1.3bn valuation four months after its Series A, with TCV leading a $160m round]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier closed its Series A in January at a $630m valuation. The Series B doubles that figure and funds expansion beyond startup insurance into trucking, where the company says quoting and risk modelling can be similarly compressed. Corgi, a Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier built for startups, has raised a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/corgi-reaches-a-13bn-valuation-four-months-after-its-series-a-with-tcv-leading-a-160m-round/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 07:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/corgi-reaches-a-13bn-valuation-four-months-after-its-series-a-with-tcv-leading-a-160m-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pit launches in Stockholm with $16M to build custom AI-native software for enterprise operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Voi co-founder, Adam Jafer, is the chief executive. Lakestar joined a16z on the round, with strategic angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. Early customers, including Voi, Tre, Stena Recycling, and Kry, are reporting deployment timelines of days to weeks. Pit, a Stockholm-based AI-native software platform for enterprise operations, has launched publicly with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pit-launches-in-stockholm-with-16m-to-build-custom-ai-native-software-for-enterprise-operations/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pit-launches-in-stockholm-with-16m-to-build-custom-ai-native-software-for-enterprise-operations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpsMill raises $14m Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy enough for AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[IRIS led the Paris- and London-based startup&rsquo;s round, with BGV joining alongside existing investors Serena and Partech. The company&rsquo;s Infrahub platform is in production at TikTok and at one European cloud provider that says it has cut deployment times from five days to fifteen minutes. OpsMill, the Paris-headquartered infrastructure data management company, has raised $14m [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/opsmill-raises-14m-series-a-to-make-it-infrastructure-data-trustworthy-enough-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/opsmill-raises-14m-series-a-to-make-it-infrastructure-data-trustworthy-enough-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s AI Overviews killed 58 per cent of publisher clicks. Now it is adding a ‘Further Exploration’ section to bring some back.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has a publisher problem. AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that now appear at the top of search results for a growing share of queries, have been correlated with a 58 per cent reduction in click-through rates to the websites whose content those summaries are built on. Penske Media has filed an antitrust lawsuit. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-ai-overviews-killed-58-per-cent-of-publisher-clicks-now-it-is-adding-a-further-exploration-section-to-bring-some-back/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-ai-overviews-killed-58-per-cent-of-publisher-clicks-now-it-is-adding-a-further-exploration-section-to-bring-some-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snap lost a 400 million dollar AI deal, 20 million dollars a month to the Iran war, and 24 per cent of its stock price. The AR glasses had better work.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Snap reported first-quarter earnings on Tuesday that should have been unremarkable: revenue up 12 per cent to 1.53 billion dollars, adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to 233 million dollars, free cash flow nearly tripled to 286 million dollars. The stock fell four per cent. The reason was not in the numbers Snap reported but in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snap-lost-a-400-million-dollar-ai-deal-20-million-dollars-a-month-to-the-iran-war-and-24-per-cent-of-its-stock-price-the-ar-glasses-had-better-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snap-lost-a-400-million-dollar-ai-deal-20-million-dollars-a-month-to-the-iran-war-and-24-per-cent-of-its-stock-price-the-ar-glasses-had-better-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nyobolt’s batteries charge in seconds and last 20,000 cycles. The customer that made it a unicorn is a warehouse robot.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The battery that made Nyobolt a unicorn does not power a car. It powers a warehouse robot. The Cambridge-based startup announced on Tuesday that it has closed a 60 million dollar Series C round at a one billion dollar valuation, led by Symbotic, the Nasdaq-listed AI robotics company whose SymBot autonomous mobile robots already run [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nyobolts-batteries-charge-in-seconds-and-last-20000-cycles-the-customer-that-made-it-a-unicorn-is-a-warehouse-robot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nyobolts-batteries-charge-in-seconds-and-last-20000-cycles-the-customer-that-made-it-a-unicorn-is-a-warehouse-robot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine says robots seized enemy territory for the first time. The company behind them is now worth a billion dollars.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his forces had, for the first time in the history of warfare, seized an enemy position using only unmanned systems. No infantry. No human soldiers entering the contested ground. Drones and ground robots identified the target, suppressed defensive fire, and captured the position without a single Ukrainian [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ukraine-says-robots-seized-enemy-territory-for-the-first-time-the-company-behind-them-is-now-worth-a-billion-dollars/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ukraine-says-robots-seized-enemy-territory-for-the-first-time-the-company-behind-them-is-now-worth-a-billion-dollars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber missed its revenue target. The stock jumped 10 per cent. Wall Street is pricing a different company.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber missed its revenue estimate on Tuesday. The stock jumped 10 per cent. The divergence between the number Wall Street expected and the number the market rewarded tells the story of a company that has crossed a threshold: Uber is no longer being priced as a ride-hailing business that also delivers food. It is being [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-missed-its-revenue-target-the-stock-jumped-10-per-cent-wall-street-is-pricing-a-different-company/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-missed-its-revenue-target-the-stock-jumped-10-per-cent-wall-street-is-pricing-a-different-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The UAE’s AI champion just leased a converted Minneapolis office. The irony writes itself.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The building at 1001 Third Avenue South in downtown Minneapolis used to be an office. Now it is a data centre, and its anchor tenant is not a Silicon Valley hyperscaler but Core42, the cloud and AI infrastructure subsidiary of Abu Dhabi&rsquo;s G42 Group. The lease, reported by Bloomberg on Wednesday, covers 20 megawatts of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uaes-ai-champion-just-leased-a-converted-minneapolis-office-the-irony-writes-itself/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-uaes-ai-champion-just-leased-a-converted-minneapolis-office-the-irony-writes-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is not building a consultancy. It is writing a licensing agreement. That may be the smarter play.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI built a ten billion dollar consulting company. Anthropic built a 1.5 billion dollar consulting company. Google is writing a licensing agreement. The difference in approach may determine which AI lab captures the largest new enterprise distribution channel to emerge since the birth of cloud computing itself: the portfolio companies of the world&rsquo;s biggest private [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-not-building-a-consultancy-it-is-writing-a-licensing-agreement-that-may-be-the-smarter-play/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-not-building-a-consultancy-it-is-writing-a-licensing-agreement-that-may-be-the-smarter-play/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google offers EU concessions on news-search ranking to head off a fresh DMA fine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The proposals filed in Brussels aim to settle the European Commission&rsquo;s investigation into whether Google has been demoting publishers&rsquo; pages with third-party advertising content. Failure to settle could expose Alphabet to penalties up to 10 per cent of global revenue. Google has filed a remedies offer with the European Commission proposing changes to how it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-offers-eu-concessions-on-news-search-ranking-to-head-off-a-fresh-dma-fine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-offers-eu-concessions-on-news-search-ranking-to-head-off-a-fresh-dma-fine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court refuses to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Justice Elena Kagan denied Apple&rsquo;s emergency stay application on Wednesday on behalf of the court, declining to refer the request to the full bench. Apple now returns to Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland to argue over what commission, if any, it can lawfully charge on external-link app purchases. The US Supreme Court on Wednesday [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/supreme-court-refuses-to-pause-the-order-holding-apple-in-contempt-in-the-epic-case/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/supreme-court-refuses-to-pause-the-order-holding-apple-in-contempt-in-the-epic-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claude Code&rsquo;s five-hour rate limits double across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans from Tuesday, with peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. The capacity behind the change is a new Anthropic agreement to take all of SpaceX&rsquo;s Colossus 1 data centre. Anthropic raised the rate limits on Claude Code and the Claude Opus [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-raises-claude-code-and-opus-api-rate-limits-citing-spacex-colossus-1-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-raises-claude-code-and-opus-api-rate-limits-citing-spacex-colossus-1-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London-based AI expert-matching platform, founded by ex-DeepMind and ex-McKinsey alumni, is being valued at the moment hiring is becoming the part of the labour market AI has most visibly degraded. Andreessen Horowitz now leads the round; General Catalyst, the seed lead, is back in. Generative AI has, in the space of about 30 months, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ethos-lands-2275m-series-a-to-fix-what-ai-broke-about-hiring/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ethos-lands-2275m-series-a-to-fix-what-ai-broke-about-hiring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA takes warrants for $500m in Corning stock as fibre-optics partnership goes structural]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deal pairs a 15-million-share warrant at $180 with a pre-funded warrant for 3 million more, against a Corning commitment to build three new US optical-connectivity plants and grow capacity tenfold. Corning shares closed up roughly 14 per cent. NVIDIA is taking an equity-linked stake of $500m in fibre-optics manufacturer Corning as part of a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-takes-warrants-for-500m-in-corning-stock-as-fibre-optics-partnership-goes-structural/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-takes-warrants-for-500m-in-corning-stock-as-fibre-optics-partnership-goes-structural/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX files for a $55bn Texas semiconductor fab, with combined chipmaking investment reaching $119bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Terafab project sits alongside the existing Bastrop packaging operation. Combined, the two facilities could anchor a $119bn Texas chipmaking footprint. SpaceX has not yet disclosed the process technology Terafab will run, or the construction timeline. SpaceX has filed paperwork for a semiconductor fabrication facility in rural Texas with a planned investment of approximately $55bn. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-files-for-a-55bn-texas-semiconductor-fab-with-combined-chipmaking-investment-reaching-119bn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-files-for-a-55bn-texas-semiconductor-fab-with-combined-chipmaking-investment-reaching-119bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese chamber of commerce puts a $432bn price tag on the EU’s cybersecurity overhaul]]></title><description><![CDATA[A KPMG-conducted study commissioned by the CCCEU estimates that phasing Chinese suppliers out of 18 critical EU sectors between 2026 and 2030 would cost &euro;367.8bn. Reuters&rsquo; headline rounds that down. The actual figure is materially higher. China&rsquo;s chamber of commerce in the EU has put a number on the cost of the European Commission&rsquo;s plan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-chamber-of-commerce-puts-a-432bn-price-tag-on-the-eus-cybersecurity-overhaul/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinese-chamber-of-commerce-puts-a-432bn-price-tag-on-the-eus-cybersecurity-overhaul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hut 8 signs a 15-year, $9.8bn lease for the first phase of its Texas AI data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Beacon Point lease, anchored by an unnamed investment-grade tenant, lifts Hut 8&rsquo;s contracted AI capacity to 597 MW and $16.8bn in base-term value. The Bitcoin-miner-to-AI-landlord pivot is now substantially complete. There is a particular kind of corporate transformation that is supposed to take years, and Hut 8 has done it in roughly 18 months. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hut-8-signs-a-15-year-98bn-lease-for-the-first-phase-of-its-texas-ai-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hut-8-signs-a-15-year-98bn-lease-for-the-first-phase-of-its-texas-ai-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Berlin geospatial-AI company has closed the first slice of a new round, with defence VC Helantic alongside Nordic Ninja, MMC, and the EIC. Most of the money funds the same product. The strategic shift is who else gets to buy it. European defence-tech rounds, in 2026, are no longer being raised on a pure-defence [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/liveeo-raises-28m-to-take-its-civil-infrastructure-satellite-stack-into-european-defence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 13:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/liveeo-raises-28m-to-take-its-civil-infrastructure-satellite-stack-into-european-defence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ametek to buy Indicor&rsquo;s instrumentation businesses for $5bn, the largest CD&amp;R partial exit of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clayton, Dubilier &amp; Rice banks one of the cleanest mid-market industrial partial exits of 2026, three and a half years after carving the portfolio out of Roper Technologies. Ametek pays a full multiple for picks-and-shovels exposure to the AI-infrastructure trade. Ametek, the Pennsylvania-based scientific-and-industrial-instrumentation company, has agreed to acquire the test-and-measurement businesses of Indicor for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ametek-to-buy-indicorrsquos-instrumentation-businesses-for-5bn-the-largest-cdampr-partial-exit-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ametek-to-buy-indicorrsquos-instrumentation-businesses-for-5bn-the-largest-cdampr-partial-exit-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bangkok&rsquo;s Board of Investment cleared six major investments on Wednesday. Three of them are data centres. The headline is the TikTok number, but the larger story is what Thailand is becoming inside the regional AI infrastructure trade. Thailand&rsquo;s Board of Investment is, on most readings, an institutional body whose press releases attract limited international attention. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thailand-approves-29bn-in-projects-with-tiktoks-842bn-data-centre-expansion-alone-worth-25bn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/thailand-approves-29bn-in-projects-with-tiktoks-842bn-data-centre-expansion-alone-worth-25bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[vivo didn't need to go THIS hard 📹 #vivox300ultra #smartphonevideography]]></title><description><![CDATA[vivo didn't need to go THIS hard 📹 #vivox300ultra #smartphonevideography]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vivo-didnt-need-to-go-this-hard-vivox300ultra-smartphonevideography/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vivo-didnt-need-to-go-this-hard-vivox300ultra-smartphonevideography/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round]]></title><description><![CDATA[After selling Silo AI to AMD for $665m, the Helsinki entrepreneur is doing it again. Qutwo&rsquo;s angel round prices a quantum-classical orchestration layer with no quantum hardware shipping yet, and customers already paying tens of millions for it. There is a particular kind of European startup story that is not supposed to happen at this [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/peter-sarlins-qutwo-hits-380m-valuation-in-an-angel-round/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/peter-sarlins-qutwo-hits-380m-valuation-in-an-angel-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sergei Vassilvitskii, distinguished scientist at Google since 2012, has written to Brussels warning that the Commission&rsquo;s proposed anonymisation scheme for forced search-data sharing is, by his red team&rsquo;s own demonstration, breakable in 120 minutes. The decision deadline is 27 July. There is a familiar genre of corporate complaint in EU regulatory proceedings: a US technology [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-top-differential-privacy-scientist-tells-the-eu-its-data-sharing-plan-can-be-reversed-in-two-hours/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-top-differential-privacy-scientist-tells-the-eu-its-data-sharing-plan-can-be-reversed-in-two-hours/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris-based AI-native real-estate company, founded by Entrepreneurs First alumni Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, has Heartcore and Balderton co-leading the round, an unusual cap-table for a pre-seed. The technical pitch is more interesting than the headline. There is a particular shape of European AI seed round that has, in 2026, become harder to land [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/davis-raises-55m-pre-seed-to-compress-real-estate-development-from-months-to-days/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/davis-raises-55m-pre-seed-to-compress-real-estate-development-from-months-to-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[What started in mid-April as a $300m raise at a $10bn valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent talking, is now an FT-reported deal at $45bn led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. The strategic logic has changed substantially. There is, in venture-capital pricing, a particular kind of ascent that does not normally happen to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-big-fund-is-now-leading-the-deepseek-round-and-the-price-has-more-than-doubled-in-two-weeks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-big-fund-is-now-leading-the-deepseek-round-and-the-price-has-more-than-doubled-in-two-weeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung&rsquo;s stock has more than quadrupled in a year. The KOSPI broke 7,000 for the first time. Two Korean chipmakers now account for 42% of the index. The supercycle that built this rally is, by Samsung&rsquo;s own forecast, not yet at its peak. There is a particular type of market moment that does not happen [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-electronics-crosses-1tn-joining-tsmc-as-the-ai-memory-cycle-pulls-korea-into-a-record/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-electronics-crosses-1tn-joining-tsmc-as-the-ai-memory-cycle-pulls-korea-into-a-record/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple settles the consumer Siri lawsuit for $250m. The shareholder case is still live.]]></title><description><![CDATA[iPhone 16 and 15 Pro buyers in the US between June 2024 and March 2025 will get $25&ndash;$95 per device. Apple admits no fault. The settled action covers consumers; the parallel securities-fraud case Apple is still trying to dismiss is structurally separate. On Tuesday afternoon, Apple agreed to pay $250m to settle a US federal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-settles-the-consumer-siri-lawsuit-for-250m-the-shareholder-case-is-still-live/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-settles-the-consumer-siri-lawsuit-for-250m-the-shareholder-case-is-still-live/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel will arrive at Computex 2026 in Taipei on 2 June with something it has not had in a decade: a product in every computing category built on a single manufacturing story. Panther Lake, the laptop chip launched at CES in January, is expanding to handhelds with Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors designed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-is-bringing-a-chip-to-every-computing-category-at-computex-the-last-time-it-could-do-that-it-was-the-company-everyone-was-trying-to-catch/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-is-bringing-a-chip-to-every-computing-category-at-computex-the-last-time-it-could-do-that-it-was-the-company-everyone-was-trying-to-catch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has more than 150 humanoid robot companies. It shipped roughly 90 per cent of the world&rsquo;s humanoid robots in 2025. Its two largest makers, Unitree and AgiBot, are preparing initial public offerings that would value them at a combined 13 billion dollars. Morgan Stanley doubled its delivery forecast for the Chinese market this year [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-humanoid-robot-boom-faces-reality-check-as-150-companies-chase-a-market-where-only-23-of-buyers-are-satisfied/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-humanoid-robot-boom-faces-reality-check-as-150-companies-chase-a-market-where-only-23-of-buyers-are-satisfied/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-native spending surged 94 per cent. Traditional SaaS grew at eight. The enterprise software industry is watching the clock.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The enterprise software industry spent two decades selling seats. Buy a licence for every employee who needs access, multiply by the number of employees, and the revenue model was as predictable as the quarterly earnings calls that reported it. Then AI agents arrived, and the arithmetic broke. In the first quarter of 2026, AI-native spending [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-native-spending-surged-94-per-cent-traditional-saas-grew-at-eight-the-enterprise-software-industry-is-watching-the-clock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-native-spending-surged-94-per-cent-traditional-saas-grew-at-eight-the-enterprise-software-industry-is-watching-the-clock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States government now has a chief brand architect. Peter Arnell, the designer whose four-decade career includes creating the DKNY brand identity, redesigning the Pepsi logo in a project accompanied by a 27-page strategy document that referenced the Mona Lisa and the Parthenon, and overseeing the Tropicana packaging redesign that caused a 20 per [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-designer-whose-tropicana-rebrand-crashed-sales-20-per-cent-is-now-branding-the-us-government-he-has-two-months/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-designer-whose-tropicana-rebrand-crashed-sales-20-per-cent-is-now-branding-the-us-government-he-has-two-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, and watched its investment surge to more than 15 billion dollars on Rivian&rsquo;s first day of trading. Four years later, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-just-became-rivians-biggest-investor-it-is-not-buying-trucks-it-is-buying-the-software-its-own-engineers-could-not-build/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagen-just-became-rivians-biggest-investor-it-is-not-buying-trucks-it-is-buying-the-software-its-own-engineers-could-not-build/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psychiatrist, that she had attended Imperial College London&rsquo;s medical school, that she was licensed to practise in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom, and that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chatbot-told-a-state-investigator-it-was-a-licensed-psychiatrist-it-gave-a-fake-licence-number-pennsylvania-just-sued/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-chatbot-told-a-state-investigator-it-was-a-licensed-psychiatrist-it-gave-a-fake-licence-number-pennsylvania-just-sued/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duolingo beat every estimate Wall Street had. Then it told investors it was going to slow down on purpose. The stock dropped 14 per cent.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Duolingo beat every Wall Street estimate for the first quarter of 2026. Revenue rose 27 per cent year on year to 292 million dollars. Earnings per share came in at 89 cents against expectations of 76 cents. Daily active users grew 21 per cent to 56.5 million. Paid subscribers grew 21 per cent to 12.5 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/duolingo-beat-every-estimate-wall-street-had-then-it-told-investors-it-was-going-to-slow-down-on-purpose-the-stock-dropped-14-per-cent/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/duolingo-beat-every-estimate-wall-street-had-then-it-told-investors-it-was-going-to-slow-down-on-purpose-the-stock-dropped-14-per-cent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then walking three miles to OpenAI&rsquo;s headquarters to threaten to burn the building down, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to two counts of attempted murder and nine other state charges. Moreno-Gama, wearing an orange [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/he-carried-a-kill-list-of-ai-ceos-and-a-jug-of-kerosene-his-lawyer-called-it-a-property-crime-the-charges-carry-life-in-prison/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/he-carried-a-kill-list-of-ai-ceos-and-a-jug-of-kerosene-his-lawyer-called-it-a-property-crime-the-charges-carry-life-in-prison/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recycling industry loses 40 per cent of its workers every year. A humanoid robot trained by VR headsets is the replacement plan.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The recycling industry has a labour problem that no amount of recruitment can solve. Staff turnover at waste sorting facilities runs at 40 per cent annually. The fatality rate is eight times the national average across all industries. Work-related injury and ill-health runs 45 per cent higher than other sectors. The work involves standing beside [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-recycling-industry-loses-40-per-cent-of-its-workers-every-year-a-humanoid-robot-trained-by-vr-headsets-is-the-replacement-plan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-recycling-industry-loses-40-per-cent-of-its-workers-every-year-a-humanoid-robot-trained-by-vr-headsets-is-the-replacement-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In April 2025, Intel&rsquo;s stock was trading at 18 dollars. The company had fired its CEO three months earlier, lost the AI chip race to Nvidia so completely that analysts had stopped including it in competitive comparisons, and was being discussed in the financial press primarily as an acquisition target or a candidate for dismemberment. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/in-april-2025-intel-was-trading-at-18-fourteen-months-later-it-hit-an-all-time-high-the-turnaround-was-not-built-by-intel-alone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/in-april-2025-intel-was-trading-at-18-fourteen-months-later-it-hit-an-all-time-high-the-turnaround-was-not-built-by-intel-alone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sign In with Google: Why you should AVOID this!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sign In with Google: Why you should AVOID this!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sign-in-with-google-why-you-should-avoid-this/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sign-in-with-google-why-you-should-avoid-this/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of young Europeans turn to AI to talk about intimate matters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before we talk about the technology, we need to talk about what it is taking from us, or teaching us to give away. As journalists and writers covering tech, our job is not only to report what is being built, funded, launched, or regulated. It is also to pay attention to what these systems are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/half-of-young-europeans-turn-to-ai-to-talk-about-intimate-matters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/half-of-young-europeans-turn-to-ai-to-talk-about-intimate-matters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five major publishers are suing Meta over Llama. They have evidence that the previous plaintiffs did not.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill, joined by author Scott Turow, filed a proposed class action in Manhattan on Tuesday alleging Meta pirated millions of their works to train Llama. After Judge Chhabria&rsquo;s June 2025 ruling, plaintiffs with stronger market-harm evidence have been waiting their turn. On Tuesday morning, five of the world&rsquo;s largest [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-major-publishers-are-suing-meta-over-llama-they-have-evidence-that-the-previous-plaintiffs-did-not/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-major-publishers-are-suing-meta-over-llama-they-have-evidence-that-the-previous-plaintiffs-did-not/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic ships ten financial-services agents and pulls Moody’s inside Claude. The bank-software business is being rewritten.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tuesday&rsquo;s New York event added Claude Opus 4.7, a library of ~10 pre-built finance agents, an FIS-built AML investigator going live at BMO and Amalgamated Bank, and a Moody&rsquo;s native app covering 600 million companies. The day after the $1.5bn Wall Street joint venture, the product side caught up. On Monday, Anthropic announced a $1.5bn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-ships-ten-financial-services-agents-and-pulls-moodys-inside-claude-the-bank-software-business-is-being-rewritten/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-ships-ten-financial-services-agents-and-pulls-moodys-inside-claude-the-bank-software-business-is-being-rewritten/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QuantWare lands €152m to build the world’s largest open-architecture quantum processor fab in Delft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Series B is the largest ever raised by a Dutch deeptech company, and the largest private round any dedicated quantum-processor company has closed. Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, and ETF Partners are joining a syndicate that already had FORWARD.one and Invest-NL. There is, in 2026, a very specific kind of European deeptech success story that policy-makers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantware-lands-152m-to-build-the-worlds-largest-open-architecture-quantum-processor-fab-in-delft/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantware-lands-152m-to-build-the-worlds-largest-open-architecture-quantum-processor-fab-in-delft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce, roughly 660 employees from a company of 4,700, two days before it reports the worst quarterly earnings in its history as a public company. CEO Brian Armstrong announced the layoffs on Tuesday in a letter to staff that mentioned the crypto market downturn in passing and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coinbase-is-cutting-14-per-cent-of-its-workforce-the-reason-it-gave-was-not-the-crypto-downturn-it-was-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coinbase-is-cutting-14-per-cent-of-its-workforce-the-reason-it-gave-was-not-the-crypto-downturn-it-was-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2018, four thousand Google employees signed a petition against Project Maven, a Pentagon contract that used the company&rsquo;s AI to analyse drone surveillance footage. Google did not renew the contract. It published a set of AI principles pledging not to develop weapons or surveillance technology that violates international norms. It built an AI ethics [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/in-2018-4000-google-employees-killed-a-pentagon-contract-in-2026-google-signed-a-bigger-one-now-the-ai-researchers-are-unionising/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/in-2018-4000-google-employees-killed-a-pentagon-contract-in-2026-google-signed-a-bigger-one-now-the-ai-researchers-are-unionising/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five AI labs now let the US government test their models before release. The arrangement is voluntary, has no legal basis, and is the closest thing America has to AI oversight.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Mythos crisis forced the United States government to confront a question it had been avoiding: what happens when an AI model is powerful enough to threaten national security and the government has no formal mechanism to evaluate it before the public gets access? On Tuesday, the Commerce Department announced that Google, Microsoft, and xAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-ai-labs-now-let-the-us-government-test-their-models-before-release-the-arrangement-is-voluntary-has-no-legal-basis-and-is-the-closest-thing-america-has-to-ai-oversight/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/five-ai-labs-now-let-the-us-government-test-their-models-before-release-the-arrangement-is-voluntary-has-no-legal-basis-and-is-the-closest-thing-america-has-to-ai-oversight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crypto miner became Europe’s most valuable AI startup in two years. Now it is spending $812 million to prove the model scales.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Nscale was a cryptocurrency mining operation. On Tuesday, the company announced &euro;695 million ($812 million) in new infrastructure investment in Portugal, an expansion of its partnership with Microsoft that will deliver more than 66,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs to a site with 1.2 gigawatts of permitted capacity. Nscale is now valued at $14.6 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-crypto-miner-became-europes-most-valuable-ai-startup-in-two-years-now-it-is-spending-812-million-to-prove-the-model-scales/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-crypto-miner-became-europes-most-valuable-ai-startup-in-two-years-now-it-is-spending-812-million-to-prove-the-model-scales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google will kill your Fitbit account if you don't do this RIGHT NOW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google will kill your Fitbit account if you don't do this RIGHT NOW]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-kill-your-fitbit-account-if-you-dont-do-this-right-now/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-will-kill-your-fitbit-account-if-you-dont-do-this-right-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The IronSource founders sold an ad tech company for $4.4 billion. Their next bet is that AI agents will replace the ad buyers their old company served.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The founders of IronSource spent a decade building tools that helped mobile app developers monetise their products through advertising. They sold that company to Unity for $4.4 billion in 2022, watched Unity dismantle the ad network they had built, left in 2024, and have now returned with a company whose premise is that the entire [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ironsource-founders-sold-an-ad-tech-company-for-44-billion-their-next-bet-is-that-ai-agents-will-replace-the-ad-buyers-their-old-company-served/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ironsource-founders-sold-an-ad-tech-company-for-44-billion-their-next-bet-is-that-ai-agents-will-replace-the-ad-buyers-their-old-company-served/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday, Fervo Energy formally launched its IPO roadshow, offering 55,555,555 shares of Class A common stock at an indicated range of $21 to $24 each. At the high end of the range, the geothermal-energy developer would raise as much as $1.33bn and become the largest climate-tech IPO of 2026 to date. The company has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fervo-energy-launches-133bn-ipo-the-largest-climate-tech-listing-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fervo-energy-launches-133bn-ipo-the-largest-climate-tech-listing-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ServiceNow projects $30bn by 2030, with a third of ACV from AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[ServiceNow has, in 2026, become one of the more carefully watched test cases for whether enterprise software companies can ride the AI wave or be displaced by it. On Monday, the company gave investors its strongest answer yet. Bloomberg reported that ServiceNow projected $30bn in subscription revenue by 2030, with chief financial officer Gina Mastantuono [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/servicenow-projects-30bn-by-2030-with-a-third-of-acv-from-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/servicenow-projects-30bn-by-2030-with-a-third-of-acv-from-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk&rsquo;s public confidence about Tesla&rsquo;s Full Self-Driving rollout in Europe is, on the available evidence, not shared by the European regulators who would actually have to approve it. Reuters published an exclusive analysis of regulator emails and records on Tuesday, showing that several EU national authorities have expressed sustained skepticism toward FSD&rsquo;s claimed safety [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-fsd-rollout-in-europe-runs-into-the-regulator-scepticism-musk-has-been-projecting-through/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-fsd-rollout-in-europe-runs-into-the-regulator-scepticism-musk-has-been-projecting-through/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel hires Qualcomm veteran Alex Katouzian to lead a new Client Computing and Physical AI group]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lip-Bu Tan&rsquo;s leadership of Intel has, since the early months of his tenure, run on a single recognisable pattern: hire from rivals, restructure around the new hires, and rebuild the bench. On Monday Intel announced its latest such move. Alex Katouzian, a 25-year Qualcomm veteran most recently running its mobile, compute, and extended-reality businesses, joins [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-hires-qualcomm-veteran-alex-katouzian-to-lead-a-new-client-computing-and-physical-ai-group/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-hires-qualcomm-veteran-alex-katouzian-to-lead-a-new-client-computing-and-physical-ai-group/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is raising $13bn for one Texas data centre, a new ceiling for single-site AI financings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The financing scaffolding around AI infrastructure keeps growing. Bloomberg reported on Sunday that Meta Platforms is working with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase on a financing package of roughly $13bn for a single data centre in El Paso, Texas. If completed at the size discussed, it would be one of the largest single-site digital-infrastructure financings [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-raising-13bn-for-one-texas-data-centre-a-new-ceiling-for-single-site-ai-financings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-raising-13bn-for-one-texas-data-centre-a-new-ceiling-for-single-site-ai-financings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[eleQtron closes €57m Series A, one of Europe’s largest quantum-computing rounds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quantum computing has, for most of its commercial existence, been a category in which European labs do exceptional research and US and Asian companies do most of the venture funding. On Tuesday, the German trapped-ion quantum-computing scale-up eleQtron announced that it has closed a &euro;57m Series A round, one of the largest of its kind [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eleqtron-closes-57m-series-a-one-of-europes-largest-quantum-computing-rounds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eleqtron-closes-57m-series-a-one-of-europes-largest-quantum-computing-rounds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firecrawl is becoming AI’s default web layer.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Open source is a hard place to fake traction. You either solve a real problem developers keep hitting, or you don&rsquo;t, and the GitHub graph tells the truth either way. Firecrawl&rsquo;s tells a clear story. The project has more than 100,000 GitHub stars, the largest open source repo in its category. More than a million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/firecrawl-is-becoming-ais-default-web-layer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/firecrawl-is-becoming-ais-default-web-layer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk settles SEC Twitter-disclosure case for $1.5m, the maximum penalty for the violation]]></title><description><![CDATA[After four years of litigation, Elon Musk has agreed to pay a $1.5m civil penalty over his late 2022 Twitter stake disclosure. The harm to other shareholders, the SEC alleged, was $150m. Elon Musk has, after nearly four years of litigation, settled the Securities and Exchange Commission&rsquo;s case against him over his late disclosure of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-settles-sec-twitter-disclosure-case-for-15m-the-maximum-penalty-for-the-violation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-settles-sec-twitter-disclosure-case-for-15m-the-maximum-penalty-for-the-violation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple explores Intel and Samsung for chipmaking, ending TSMC’s solo run on M-series]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports Apple is in early-stage discussions with Intel and Samsung about producing some of its M-series chips. The talks are exploratory; the signal is significant. Apple&rsquo;s silicon strategy has, for nearly a decade, run on a single foundry relationship. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the company is now exploring early-stage discussions with Intel and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-explores-intel-and-samsung-for-chipmaking-ending-tsmcs-solo-run-on-m-series/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 11:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-explores-intel-and-samsung-for-chipmaking-ending-tsmcs-solo-run-on-m-series/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three months after a $30bn multi-currency raise, Google&rsquo;s parent is back. The euro tranches expand one of the most active corporate borrowing programmes of the AI cycle. Three months after raising more than $30bn in a multi-currency global debt issue, Alphabet is back at the bond market. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Google&rsquo;s parent has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/three-months-after-raising-30bn-alphabet-taps-the-euro-market-again/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 10:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/three-months-after-raising-30bn-alphabet-taps-the-euro-market-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pinterest reported its first billion-dollar quarter last week. Revenue hit $1.008 billion in the first three months of 2026, up 18 per cent year on year, with monthly active users reaching 631 million for the tenth consecutive quarter of double-digit user growth. The stock jumped on guidance that projects second-quarter revenue of $1.133 billion to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pinterest-just-crossed-1-billion-in-quarterly-revenue-the-bet-that-made-it-work-was-not-social-media-it-was-search/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pinterest-just-crossed-1-billion-in-quarterly-revenue-the-bet-that-made-it-work-was-not-social-media-it-was-search/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. AI data centres are overloading it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Denmark generates more than 80 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. Its wind farms, both onshore and offshore, have made the country a global model for clean energy transition. Its grid operator, Energinet, has spent decades building the infrastructure to support a decarbonised power system. In March, Energinet paused all new grid [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/denmark-built-europes-cleanest-grid-ai-data-centres-are-overloading-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/denmark-built-europes-cleanest-grid-ai-data-centres-are-overloading-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every government has an AI strategy. Dubai just gave its private sector a deadline.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every major government now has an AI strategy. Most involve pilot programmes, task forces, and multi-year roadmaps that promise transformation without specifying a deadline. Dubai has taken a different approach. On Sunday, Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched an initiative to transition the emirate&rsquo;s entire private sector toward agentic AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/every-government-has-an-ai-strategy-dubai-just-gave-its-private-sector-a-deadline/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/every-government-has-an-ai-strategy-dubai-just-gave-its-private-sector-a-deadline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple spent a decade waiting for developers to build Wallet passes. Now it is letting users build their own.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has spent more than a decade trying to get every gym, cinema, airline, and transit system on Earth to build native passes for its Wallet app. Most have not. The gym down your street still gives you a QR code in a standalone app. The cinema chain still emails you a PDF. The local [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-spent-a-decade-waiting-for-developers-to-build-wallet-passes-now-it-is-letting-users-build-their-own/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-spent-a-decade-waiting-for-developers-to-build-wallet-passes-now-it-is-letting-users-build-their-own/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crypto VC raised $1 billion to fund AI agents. The bet is that finance, not models, is what they need.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Katie Haun has raised $1 billion for two new venture funds at Haun Ventures, split evenly between early and later-stage vehicles to be deployed over the next two to three years. The capital will go into crypto and blockchain companies, which have been the firm&rsquo;s focus since Haun left Andreessen Horowitz in 2022 to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-crypto-vc-raised-1-billion-to-fund-ai-agents-the-bet-is-that-finance-not-models-is-what-they-need/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 21:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-crypto-vc-raised-1-billion-to-fund-ai-agents-the-bet-is-that-finance-not-models-is-what-they-need/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why removing humans from care may undermine outcomes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pitch deck version of digital health goes something like this: AI replaces the clinician, costs drop, access expands, outcomes improve, everyone wins. The pitch has been effective. Venture capital has poured billions into companies built around the premise that removing humans from the care loop is both possible and desirable. The premise has a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-removing-humans-from-care-may-undermine-outcomes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-removing-humans-from-care-may-undermine-outcomes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is now an F1 sponsor, a strategist, and a tech director. The race weekend has changed.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eight AI partnerships signed in six months. Williams runs Claude. McLaren runs Gemini. Red Bull runs Oracle. The 2026 regulation overhaul has turned the paddock into one of the largest live commercial AI deployments in sport. The teams in the Formula One paddock have always quietly run on data. They have just become noisier about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-now-an-f1-sponsor-a-strategist-and-a-tech-director-the-race-weekend-has-changed/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-now-an-f1-sponsor-a-strategist-and-a-tech-director-the-race-weekend-has-changed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space weather could cost the satellite industry $40 billion in a single storm. A 15-person startup is building the forecast.]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are more than 8,000 active satellites in orbit. By 2030, there will be more than 25,000. A single geomagnetic storm, the kind the sun produces several hundred times during a solar maximum, could cost the satellite industry $40 billion. In February 2022, a moderate storm knocked 40 freshly launched Starlink satellites out of orbit, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/space-weather-could-cost-the-satellite-industry-40-billion-in-a-single-storm-a-15-person-startup-is-building-the-forecast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/space-weather-could-cost-the-satellite-industry-40-billion-in-a-single-storm-a-15-person-startup-is-building-the-forecast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[STMicroelectronics targets more than $3bn from space, riding the satellite constellation boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Geneva-based chipmaker has shipped over 5 billion RF antenna chips to Starlink and now expects its low-Earth-orbit business alone to deliver more than $3bn in cumulative revenue between 2026 and 2028. Orbital data centres are an option for later. When STMicroelectronics first qualified its chips for the European Space Agency in 1977, the satellite [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stmicroelectronics-targets-more-than-3bn-from-space-riding-the-satellite-constellation-boom/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stmicroelectronics-targets-more-than-3bn-from-space-riding-the-satellite-constellation-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk tried to settle the OpenAI case two days before trial. Then he promised to make Brockman the most hated man in America.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman two days before trial to ask about settling. Brockman suggested Musk drop all claims against the individuals. Musk replied: &ldquo;By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be.&rdquo; The exchange, disclosed in a court [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-tried-to-settle-the-openai-case-two-days-before-trial-then-he-promised-to-make-brockman-the-most-hated-man-in-america/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-tried-to-settle-the-openai-case-two-days-before-trial-then-he-promised-to-make-brockman-the-most-hated-man-in-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GameStop wants to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. Its own revenue fell 27 per cent last year.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ryan Cohen announced on Saturday that GameStop has submitted an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire eBay for $125 per share, a cash-and-stock offer valuing the e-commerce company at approximately $55.5 billion. GameStop&rsquo;s market capitalisation at the time of the offer was $11.9 billion. eBay&rsquo;s was $46.2 billion. The company proposing to buy is roughly a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gamestop-wants-to-buy-ebay-for-555-billion-its-own-revenue-fell-27-per-cent-last-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gamestop-wants-to-buy-ebay-for-555-billion-its-own-revenue-fell-27-per-cent-last-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid achieves the highest CCSS security certification level]]></title><description><![CDATA[As institutional crypto adoption accelerates, security standards are becoming a defining factor in provider selection. CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid, a regulated crypto payment gateway serving enterprise and institutional merchants globally, has achieved Level 3 certification under the Cryptocurrency Security Standard (CCSS) for its Institutional-Grade Key Management and Wallet Infrastructure, the highest designation granted by the CryptoCurrency [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cryptoprocessing-by-coinspaid-achieves-the-highest-ccss-security-certification-level/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cryptoprocessing-by-coinspaid-achieves-the-highest-ccss-security-certification-level/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP buys Prior Labs to anchor a European frontier AI lab around tabular foundation models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eighteen months after a &euro;9m pre-seed, the Freiburg-based pioneer of TabPFN is being acquired by SAP and will receive more than &euro;1bn over four years. The terms are not disclosed; the strategic intent is unmistakable. When Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann, and Sauraj Gambhir founded Prior Labs in early 2024, the AI world was paying attention [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sap-buys-prior-labs-to-anchor-a-european-frontier-ai-lab-around-tabular-foundation-models/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sap-buys-prior-labs-to-anchor-a-european-frontier-ai-lab-around-tabular-foundation-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brussels reissues its Huawei warning, six years on, and prepares to make it stick]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has formally recommended that member states keep Huawei and ZTE out of their connectivity infrastructure. The same restrictions are now moving toward becoming legally binding. China has already threatened to retaliate. When the European Commission first asked its member states to keep Huawei and ZTE out of their 5G networks, in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-reissues-its-huawei-warning-six-years-on-and-prepares-to-make-it-stick/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brussels-reissues-its-huawei-warning-six-years-on-and-prepares-to-make-it-stick/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s finance chiefs want Mythos access to defend their banks. Washington has so far said no.]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Anthropic AI model that can find zero-days in every major operating system has become a geopolitical and prudential question. The Eurogroup met in Brussels on Monday with no answer in hand. Brussels on a Monday morning in early May is not, by tradition, the place where the world&rsquo;s most powerful AI model gets discussed. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-finance-chiefs-want-mythos-access-to-defend-their-banks-washington-has-so-far-said-no/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-finance-chiefs-want-mythos-access-to-defend-their-banks-washington-has-so-far-said-no/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospital websites are still leaking patient data to advertisers, four years after the warnings]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new Bloomberg-Feroot investigation finds that nine of the 10 largest US health companies are still loading advertising trackers on the very pages where patients log in and register. The story keeps repeating because nothing has stopped it. There is, by now, a familiar shape to investigations of online tracking. A reporter or researcher loads [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hospital-websites-are-still-leaking-patient-data-to-advertisers-four-years-after-the-warnings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hospital-websites-are-still-leaking-patient-data-to-advertisers-four-years-after-the-warnings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy’s largest vertical SaaS round: Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trentino-based Smartness tech travel startup has just raised &euro;47 million Series B, in a round including primary and secondary equity and debt, being the largest round completed for an Italian vertical SaaS company. Smartness is a tech company that offers business-to-business (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS), offering several products to hospitality businesses, to facilitate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italys-largest-vertical-saas-round-smartness-raises-47m-to-scale-ai-operations/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italys-largest-vertical-saas-round-smartness-raises-47m-to-scale-ai-operations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI closes The Deployment Company, a $10bn enterprise AI bet on private equity]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has finalised the most structurally novel enterprise AI deal of 2026: a $10bn vehicle anchored by TPG, with 19 investors and a 17.5% guaranteed annual return over five years. The strategy is to make PE portfolios a captive distribution channel. We wrote about the venture&rsquo;s outline last month; Monday&rsquo;s confirmation closes the funding question. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-closes-the-deployment-company-a-10bn-enterprise-ai-bet-on-private-equity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-closes-the-deployment-company-a-10bn-enterprise-ai-bet-on-private-equity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust will list on the NYSE under BXDC, targeting newly built data centres leased to hyperscalers. It is the most direct way Wall Street has yet packaged the AI build-out for public investors. For most of the past 18 months, the financial story behind the AI build-out has been a story about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstone-wants-175bn-for-the-first-ai-era-data-centre-reit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blackstone-wants-175bn-for-the-first-ai-era-data-centre-reit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir’s earnings test arrives in the middle of an AI software sell-off]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a 30% year-to-date drawdown, Monday&rsquo;s Q1 results are Palantir&rsquo;s first chance to argue, not assume, that it does not belong in the broader AI software multiple compression. Until two weeks ago, Palantir was, by some measures, the best-performing large-cap software stock of the AI cycle. It had outpaced Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantirs-earnings-test-arrives-in-the-middle-of-an-ai-software-sell-off/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantirs-earnings-test-arrives-in-the-middle-of-an-ai-software-sell-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cerebras files updated IPO terms: $3.5bn raise at $26.6bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three days after suggesting it might target up to $4bn at $40bn, the AI chipmaker has marketed 28 million shares at $115-$125 each, lining the deal up with its February private valuation rather than above it. Cerebras Systems was preparing to seek up to $4bn at a roughly $40bn valuation in its long-awaited initial public [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-files-updated-ipo-terms-35bn-raise-at-266bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cerebras-files-updated-ipo-terms-35bn-raise-at-266bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iPhone 18 Pro's design will change, RIP Apple Robot, Zuck is Zuck is Zuck is Zuck]]></title><description><![CDATA[The iPhone 18 Pro's design will change, RIP Apple Robot, Zuck is Zuck is Zuck is Zuck]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-iphone-18-pros-design-will-change-rip-apple-robot-zuck-is-zuck-is-zuck-is-zuck/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 13:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-iphone-18-pros-design-will-change-rip-apple-robot-zuck-is-zuck-is-zuck-is-zuck/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Belgian pharma is buying a two-year-old San Diego biotech for $2bn upfront, the second TCE bet it has placed in months. The thesis: B-cell killers built for cancer can rewire how autoimmune diseases are treated. Candid Therapeutics is two years old. It does not have an approved drug. Its lead programme has been tested [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ucb-pays-up-to-22bn-for-candid-therapeutics-doubling-down-on-t-cell-engagers-in-autoimmune-disease/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ucb-pays-up-to-22bn-for-candid-therapeutics-doubling-down-on-t-cell-engagers-in-autoimmune-disease/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The West keeps asking how much China subsidises its industries. That is the wrong question.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Western debate about China&rsquo;s industrial rise keeps circling the same question: how much of it is subsidised? The European Commission&rsquo;s anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines have produced tariff schedules that treat government funding as the primary explanation for Chinese competitiveness. The US Treasury and Commerce departments have imposed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-west-keeps-asking-how-much-china-subsidises-its-industries-that-is-the-wrong-question/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-west-keeps-asking-how-much-china-subsidises-its-industries-that-is-the-wrong-question/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix jumps 12% as Big Tech doubles down on AI memory]]></title><description><![CDATA[A $725bn hyperscaler capex ramp and a 20% HBM price rise have made the South Korean chipmaker the second-most valuable company on the KOSPI. The harder question is when supply catches demand. There is a small joke in semiconductor circles about which part of an AI server is most expensive. The graphics processor used to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-jumps-12-as-big-tech-doubles-down-on-ai-memory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sk-hynix-jumps-12-as-big-tech-doubles-down-on-ai-memory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic and Wall Street are building a $1.5bn pipeline into private equity]]></title><description><![CDATA[A joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman &amp; Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic will sell Claude into the buyout firms&rsquo; portfolio companies. OpenAI&rsquo;s DeployCo arrived first; this one is bigger. There is a kind of business school question that has been quietly answered over the past month, without anyone formally asking it. The question is: [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-and-wall-street-are-building-a-15bn-pipeline-into-private-equity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-and-wall-street-are-building-a-15bn-pipeline-into-private-equity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta would rather leave New Mexico than rebuild its apps for kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bench trial in Santa Fe could force algorithm changes, age verification, and a $3.7bn mental health fund. Meta has threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from the state instead. In March, a New Mexico jury reached a verdict that no American jury had reached before. Meta, the company once known as Facebook, had violated [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-would-rather-leave-new-mexico-than-rebuild-its-apps-for-kids/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-would-rather-leave-new-mexico-than-rebuild-its-apps-for-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung swaps its TV chief for the first time in two years as TCL closes in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Won-Jin Lee, a marketing veteran, takes over the Visual Display business after a quarter of declining TV profits. His predecessor moves to AI and robotics. Samsung Electronics has changed the head of its television business for the first time in more than two years, an unusually direct admission that something is not quite right at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-swaps-its-tv-chief-for-the-first-time-in-two-years-as-tcl-closes-in/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-swaps-its-tv-chief-for-the-first-time-in-two-years-as-tcl-closes-in/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s robot-hand unicorn Linkerbot is hunting a $6bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two years after a Beijing engineer started building dexterous hands inspired by a Japanese cartoon, his company holds 80% of the global market and is doubling its valuation in months. Robotic hands are not, conventionally, the part of a humanoid robot that investors get excited about. The legs walk, the arms lift, and the head, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-robot-hand-unicorn-linkerbot-is-hunting-a-6bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/chinas-robot-hand-unicorn-linkerbot-is-hunting-a-6bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which sounds like an abstraction, is producing a data governance framework that is structurally different [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-satisfactory-standard-for-data-governance-may-not-come-from-brussels-it-may-come-from-beijing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-next-satisfactory-standard-for-data-governance-may-not-come-from-brussels-it-may-come-from-beijing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US has banned the world’s best drones. It has not figured out how to make them.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skydio, the largest American drone manufacturer, announced in late April that it would invest $3.5 billion over five years to expand US drone production, open a factory five times larger than its current facility, create more than 2,000 direct jobs and 3,000 supplier jobs, and build a domestic component supply chain through an initiative it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-has-banned-the-worlds-best-drones-it-has-not-figured-out-how-to-make-them/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 01:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-has-banned-the-worlds-best-drones-it-has-not-figured-out-how-to-make-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into the backend for the most popular open-source project in history. Anthropic banned it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Sam Altman posted on X at 2:33 a.m. on 2 May: &ldquo;you can sign in to openclaw with your chatgpt account now and use your subscription there! happy lobstering.&rdquo; The announcement, delivered with the casual register of a founder pushing a minor product update, is anything but minor. OpenAI has made its ChatGPT subscription [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-just-turned-chatgpt-into-the-backend-for-the-most-popular-open-source-project-in-history-anthropic-banned-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-just-turned-chatgpt-into-the-backend-for-the-most-popular-open-source-project-in-history-anthropic-banned-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Model 3 available in Canada was the Long Range AWD built at Tesla&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-is-selling-chinese-made-cars-in-canada-to-escape-the-tariffs-that-both-china-and-america-imposed-on-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 21:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-is-selling-chinese-made-cars-in-canada-to-escape-the-tariffs-that-both-china-and-america-imposed-on-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $599 Mac Mini is dead. AI data centres killed it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has discontinued the 256 gigabyte Mac Mini worldwide. The company&rsquo;s cheapest desktop computer, the M4 Mac Mini with 16 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage, was available for $599 until last week. It is gone. The Mac Mini now starts at $799 with 512 gigabytes of storage. The 256 gigabyte configuration has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-599-mac-mini-is-dead-ai-data-centres-killed-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 21:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-599-mac-mini-is-dead-ai-data-centres-killed-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Academy has not banned AI from the Oscars. It has defined what it means to be the author of a film.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new eligibility rules on 2 May for the 99th Academy Awards, and the two that matter most are about seven words each. Acting nominations will be limited to roles &ldquo;demonstrably performed by humans with their consent.&rdquo; Screenplays must be &ldquo;human-authored.&rdquo; Producers will be required to sign [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-academy-has-not-banned-ai-from-the-oscars-it-has-defined-what-it-means-to-be-the-author-of-a-film/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 21:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-academy-has-not-banned-ai-from-the-oscars-it-has-defined-what-it-means-to-be-the-author-of-a-film/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every AI company now wants to ride shotgun. The car dashboard is becoming the last screen that matters.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Grok iOS app now contains a placeholder that reads &ldquo;Grok Voice mode coming soon to CarPlay.&rdquo; It is a single line of interface text, and it means that Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI chatbot is about to follow ChatGPT and Perplexity onto the car dashboards of every iPhone user in the world. The car, it turns [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/every-ai-company-now-wants-to-ride-shotgun-the-car-dashboard-is-becoming-the-last-screen-that-matters/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/every-ai-company-now-wants-to-ride-shotgun-the-car-dashboard-is-becoming-the-last-screen-that-matters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planet Labs is not selling satellite images. It is selling a subscription to watch the entire planet change in real time.]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time on 3 May, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 45 satellites, three of which belonged to Planet Labs. Pelicans 7, 8, and 9 are the latest additions to Planet&rsquo;s next-generation constellation of high-resolution Earth observation satellites, bringing the Pelican fleet to nine spacecraft. Each [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/planet-labs-is-not-selling-satellite-images-it-is-selling-a-subscription-to-watch-the-entire-planet-change-in-real-time/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 20:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/planet-labs-is-not-selling-satellite-images-it-is-selling-a-subscription-to-watch-the-entire-planet-change-in-real-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DJI invented the consumer drone. Now it cannot sell one in Washington or Beijing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the morning of 1 May, staff at DJI&rsquo;s flagship retail store in Beijing&rsquo;s Guomao business district began clearing drones from the shelves. The Neo, the Mavic, the Mini, every model that had made DJI the most dominant consumer electronics brand in its category, all of it pulled from display. The store was not closing. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dji-invented-the-consumer-drone-now-it-cannot-sell-one-in-washington-or-beijing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dji-invented-the-consumer-drone-now-it-cannot-sell-one-in-washington-or-beijing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skio never hired a sales team, never ran an ad, and just sold for $105 million cash to the company it was built to replace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kennan Frost dropped out of college, worked as an engineer at Pinterest, had a panic attack, quit, applied to Y Combinator in 2020, and by his own account failed his way through the programme until a pivot to subscription payments changed everything. Five years later, on 30 April 2026, the company he built, Skio, was [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skio-never-hired-a-sales-team-never-ran-an-ad-and-just-sold-for-105-million-cash-to-the-company-it-was-built-to-replace/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 19:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/skio-never-hired-a-sales-team-never-ran-an-ad-and-just-sold-for-105-million-cash-to-the-company-it-was-built-to-replace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s best quarter in years was half-built on a $16.8 billion paper gain from Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon reported first-quarter 2026 net sales of $181.5 billion, a 17 per cent increase year on year that exceeded analyst estimates by more than $4 billion. Net income reached $30.3 billion, nearly doubling from $17.1 billion in the same period last year. Earnings per share came in at $2.78, crushing the $1.64 consensus. AWS revenue [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-best-quarter-in-years-was-half-built-on-a-168-billion-paper-gain-from-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-best-quarter-in-years-was-half-built-on-a-168-billion-paper-gain-from-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim Cook returned $1 trillion to shareholders. John Ternus is being given permission to keep it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; For nearly 15 years, Apple&rsquo;s financial strategy has been defined by a single number: more than $1 trillion returned to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. Tim Cook inherited a company sitting on a cash mountain that Steve Jobs had accumulated out of institutional memory of near-bankruptcy in the 1990s. Cook reversed Jobs&rsquo; stance [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tim-cook-returned-1-trillion-to-shareholders-john-ternus-is-being-given-permission-to-keep-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tim-cook-returned-1-trillion-to-shareholders-john-ternus-is-being-given-permission-to-keep-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The factory that built your iPhone is now building the robot that will assemble the next one]]></title><description><![CDATA[In April, a humanoid robot called the Honor D1 completed the Beijing half-marathon in 48 minutes and 19 seconds under remote control and 50 minutes and 26 seconds in fully autonomous mode, beating every other robot in the 112-team field. The machine that won the race was built using liquid-cooling technology originally developed for Honor&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-factory-that-built-your-iphone-is-now-building-the-robot-that-will-assemble-the-next-one/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-factory-that-built-your-iphone-is-now-building-the-robot-that-will-assemble-the-next-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign automakers are not staging a comeback in China. They are learning to be the junior partner.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In January and February 2026, Volkswagen reclaimed the top position in China&rsquo;s passenger vehicle market with a 13.9 per cent share, narrowly ahead of Geely at 13.8 per cent. Toyota&rsquo;s joint ventures held 7.8 per cent. BYD, which dominated 2024 and much of 2025 as the world&rsquo;s largest EV maker, slipped to fourth at 7.1 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/foreign-automakers-are-not-staging-a-comeback-in-china-they-are-learning-to-be-the-junior-partner/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/foreign-automakers-are-not-staging-a-comeback-in-china-they-are-learning-to-be-the-junior-partner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building the car, the road, and the toll booth. The market is pricing accordingly.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Alphabet&rsquo;s share price rose nearly 10 per cent after the company reported first-quarter revenue of $109.9 billion, a 22 per cent increase year over year that beat analyst estimates by almost $3 billion. Google Cloud crossed $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, growing 63 per cent. The cloud backlog nearly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-built-the-ai-engine-alphabet-is-building-the-car-the-road-and-the-toll-booth-the-market-is-pricing-accordingly/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-built-the-ai-engine-alphabet-is-building-the-car-the-road-and-the-toll-booth-the-market-is-pricing-accordingly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A quality assurance supervisor identified only as Zhou joined a technology company in Hangzhou in November 2022. His job was to work with AI large language models, optimising their outputs and filtering sensitive content. He earned 25,000 yuan per month, roughly $3,640. In 2024, the company decided that its AI systems had improved to the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-has-decided-that-firing-a-worker-because-an-ai-can-do-their-job-is-illegal-no-western-country-has-done-the-same/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-has-decided-that-firing-a-worker-because-an-ai-can-do-their-job-is-illegal-no-western-country-has-done-the-same/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VITURE Beast XR Glasses | My new portable 174-inch display]]></title><description><![CDATA[VITURE Beast XR Glasses | My new portable 174-inch display]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/viture-beast-xr-glasses-my-new-portable-174-inch-display/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/viture-beast-xr-glasses-my-new-portable-174-inch-display/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EVs America is losing in 2026 are not failing. They are being tariffed out of existence.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; At least a dozen electric vehicle models have been discontinued, paused, or cancelled in the United States this year. The list includes some of the most recognisable names in the industry: Tesla&rsquo;s Model S and Model X, Honda&rsquo;s entire 0 Series, the Volvo EX30, the BMW i4 and iX, the Hyundai Kona Electric and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-evs-america-is-losing-in-2026-are-not-failing-they-are-being-tariffed-out-of-existence/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 14:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-evs-america-is-losing-in-2026-are-not-failing-they-are-being-tariffed-out-of-existence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC&rsquo;s partners want to fund. Eight of them require capital, hardware, or both. The list includes AI for low-pesticide agriculture, counter-swarm drone defence, inference chips for space, lunar manufacturing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/y-combinator-built-its-empire-on-software-its-latest-investment-thesis-says-the-garage-is-no-longer-enough/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/y-combinator-built-its-empire-on-software-its-latest-investment-thesis-says-the-garage-is-no-longer-enough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan took seven minutes. By car, depending on the time of day, the same journey takes between 60 and 120 minutes. On Friday, Joby Aviation landed its all-electric air taxi at the heliport as part of a demonstration hosted [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seven-minutes-from-jfk-to-midtown-joby-just-flew-the-route-it-plans-to-sell/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seven-minutes-from-jfk-to-midtown-joby-just-flew-the-route-it-plans-to-sell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company that built TikTok&rsquo;s recommendation algorithm, the system that predicts with unsettling accuracy what a person wants to watch next, is now using a related class of AI to predict how molecules will behave inside a human body. ByteDance&rsquo;s drug discovery unit, Anew Labs, presented its first AI-designed therapy at the American Association of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-company-that-built-tiktoks-algorithm-is-now-designing-drugs-for-diseases-pharma-called-undruggable/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 11:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-company-that-built-tiktoks-algorithm-is-now-designing-drugs-for-diseases-pharma-called-undruggable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk’s case against OpenAI lands roughly in its first week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three days of cross-examination in Oakland produced a $130bn lawsuit&rsquo;s most awkward admissions, including that xAI trains on OpenAI&rsquo;s models. The judge, not the jury, will decide. Elon Musk took the stand in Oakland on Tuesday with a story he has been telling for two years. He had founded OpenAI in 2015, he said, to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musks-case-against-openai-lands-roughly-in-its-first-week/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 09:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musks-case-against-openai-lands-roughly-in-its-first-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s $599 Mac mini is gone. Blame the AI agents.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has quietly raised the desktop&rsquo;s starting price to $799 after demand from developers building local AI tools cleared its shelves. Tim Cook says it could take months to catch up. For five years, the Mac mini has been the cheapest way into Apple&rsquo;s desktop ecosystem. Since the M4 refresh in late 2024, that price [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-599-mac-mini-is-gone-blame-the-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apples-599-mac-mini-is-gone-blame-the-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why a Canadian bank is trying to predict earthquakes with quantum computers]]></title><description><![CDATA[BMO has filed a provisional patent on a quantum algorithm for seismic forecasting, and is sending mobile branches to wildfire zones with AI dispatch. The bank says it is the future of risk. Banks are not, as a rule, in the earthquake business. They are in the business of pricing risk, which is adjacent. Still, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-a-canadian-bank-is-trying-to-predict-earthquakes-with-quantum-computers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 09:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-a-canadian-bank-is-trying-to-predict-earthquakes-with-quantum-computers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall Street says Oracle is a buy. The investors selling it can count to $300 billion.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle&rsquo;s stock has fallen nearly 50 per cent since hitting a record in September and dropped 14 per cent in the six sessions through Thursday, its worst stretch in months. Of the 51 Wall Street analysts tracked by Bloomberg who follow the company, 41 have buy ratings and only one rates it a sell. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wall-street-says-oracle-is-a-buy-the-investors-selling-it-can-count-to-300-billion/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/wall-street-says-oracle-is-a-buy-the-investors-selling-it-can-count-to-300-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI chipmaker Cerebras targets up to $4bn IPO at $40bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a CFIUS-induced retreat in 2024, the wafer-scale chip startup is back with an OpenAI deal in its pocket and a sharper bet against Nvidia. Eighteen months ago, Cerebras Systems looked like a cautionary tale. The Sunnyvale-based AI chip startup had filed for an initial public offering in September 2024, only to see its plans [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-chipmaker-cerebras-targets-up-to-4bn-ipo-at-40bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-chipmaker-cerebras-targets-up-to-4bn-ipo-at-40bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GameStop eyes eBay takeover in audacious $46 billion bet on Ryan Cohen’s e-commerce vision]]></title><description><![CDATA[The video game retailer that meme traders saved from oblivion is now eyeing one of the internet&rsquo;s oldest marketplaces. GameStop Corp is preparing a bid to acquire eBay Inc, according to a Wall Street Journal report published on 1 May 2026, sending eBay shares surging more than 13% in after-hours trading. The move would be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gamestop-eyes-ebay-takeover-in-audacious-46-billion-bet-on-ryan-cohens-e-commerce-vision/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gamestop-eyes-ebay-takeover-in-audacious-46-billion-bet-on-ryan-cohens-e-commerce-vision/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lerrel Pinto co-founded Fauna Robotics, a startup that built an approachable bipedal robot called Sprout. He left in 2025.&nbsp;Amazon acquired Fauna in March, along with its 50 employees and its $50,000, three-and-a-half-foot-tall dancing humanoid, to enter the consumer robotics market. Pinto then co-founded Assured Robot Intelligence with Xiaolong Wang, a former Nvidia researcher and associate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-missed-mobile-it-is-building-the-operating-system-for-humanoids/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-missed-mobile-it-is-building-the-operating-system-for-humanoids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 8 Best Apps for Renters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keeping track of rent due dates, scheduling apartment maintenance, even figuring out how to split utilities with roommates &ndash; when it comes to renting, there are plenty of chores on your to-do list. Thankfully, these days, there&rsquo;s an app for everything. I&rsquo;ve rounded up a list of the top 8 apps to help busy renters [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-8-best-apps-for-renters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-8-best-apps-for-renters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump is breaking the Turnberry deal over cars. Semiconductors are next in line.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Turnberry Agreement was supposed to be the floor. Signed at Donald Trump&rsquo;s golf resort in Scotland last July, the deal between the United States and the European Union set a 15 per cent tariff ceiling on nearly all EU goods entering America, including cars, car parts, semiconductors, and pharmaceutical products. In exchange, the EU [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-is-breaking-the-turnberry-deal-over-cars-semiconductors-are-next-in-line/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-is-breaking-the-turnberry-deal-over-cars-semiconductors-are-next-in-line/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question nobody asked Zuckerberg]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s earnings call on Wednesday was about AI. It was about the $125 billion to $145 billion Meta plans to spend on capital expenditure in 2026. It was about Llama models and recommendation engines and the advertising systems that generate $56 billion in quarterly revenue. It was not about children. No investor asked Zuckerberg [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-question-nobody-asked-zuckerberg/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-question-nobody-asked-zuckerberg/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nebius paid $643 million for 20 people because inference is where the money is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nebius Group, the Dutch cloud computing company that split from Russian internet provider Yandex in 2024, has agreed to acquire Eigen AI for approximately $643 million in stock and cash. The deal, announced on 1 May, is for a 20-person startup founded by alumni of MIT&rsquo;s HAN Lab. In a market where the largest AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nebius-paid-643-million-for-20-people-because-inference-is-where-the-money-is/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nebius-paid-643-million-for-20-people-because-inference-is-where-the-money-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven AI companies signed the Pentagon’s terms. The one that refused is worth $900 billion.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pentagon announced on 1 May that it has signed agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI for expanded use of advanced artificial intelligence on classified military networks. The deals bring the total number of companies with such agreements to seven, following similar arrangements with SpaceX, OpenAI, and&nbsp;Google, which signed its own [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seven-ai-companies-signed-the-pentagons-terms-the-one-that-refused-is-worth-900-billion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seven-ai-companies-signed-the-pentagons-terms-the-one-that-refused-is-worth-900-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The venture fund that spent $4.6 billion in a year just raised $6 billion more]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, closed a $6 billion growth fund on 1 May, its largest ever and its fourth dedicated late-stage vehicle. The majority of the capital, $4.5 billion, came from limited partners including sovereign wealth funds. The remaining $1.5 billion came from the firm&rsquo;s own partners and employees, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-venture-fund-that-spent-46-billion-in-a-year-just-raised-6-billion-more/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-venture-fund-that-spent-46-billion-in-a-year-just-raised-6-billion-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung might REMOVE this Ultra feature?! 🤯 #galaxys27ultra #samsungphones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung might REMOVE this Ultra feature?! 🤯 #galaxys27ultra #samsungphones]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-might-remove-this-ultra-feature-galaxys27ultra-samsungphones/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-might-remove-this-ultra-feature-galaxys27ultra-samsungphones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s $22 billion answer to the question the Hormuz crisis asked]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on 27 March, following weeks of US and Israeli air strikes, Brent crude hit $126 a barrel and the World Bank warned that energy prices would surge by 24 per cent, the largest increase since the Russia-Ukraine shock of 2022. For most oil-importing nations, this was an economic [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-22-billion-answer-to-the-question-the-hormuz-crisis-asked/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-22-billion-answer-to-the-question-the-hormuz-crisis-asked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tech industry built the infrastructure that is replacing the press]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time in the 25-year history of the World Press Freedom Index, more than half of the world&rsquo;s countries now fall into the &ldquo;difficult&rdquo; or &ldquo;very serious&rdquo; categories for press freedom. The share is 52.2 per cent, up from 13.7 per cent when Reporters Without Borders first published the index in 2002. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-tech-industry-built-the-infrastructure-that-is-replacing-the-press/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-tech-industry-built-the-infrastructure-that-is-replacing-the-press/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clause that lets Netflix raise your price might not be legal in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix can afford to lose this case. The company reported $12.25 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, a 16 per cent increase from the prior year, with net income of $5.28 billion. It has 325 million paying subscribers worldwide. In March, it raised prices again, pushing the Premium plan in the United [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-clause-that-lets-netflix-raise-your-price-might-not-be-legal-in-europe/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-clause-that-lets-netflix-raise-your-price-might-not-be-legal-in-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion on Starship and is racing to make rocketry resemble an airline schedule]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its Starship megarocket and is pushing for a launch cadence that would make space access resemble an airline schedule rather than a government programme, Reuters reported on Friday, drawing on the company&rsquo;s confidential pre-IPO prospectus. The figure quantifies, for the first time, the cumulative cost of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-has-spent-more-than-15-billion-on-starship-and-is-racing-to-make-rocketry-resemble-an-airline-schedule/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-has-spent-more-than-15-billion-on-starship-and-is-racing-to-make-rocketry-resemble-an-airline-schedule/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China built the AI content factory that Silicon Valley imagined but never shipped]]></title><description><![CDATA[In January 2026, a new AI-generated micro-drama went live on a Chinese streaming platform every 90 seconds. By March, approximately 50,000 AI-native titles had been added to Douyin in a single month. The production cost was roughly one-tenth of a live-action shoot. The usable rate of AI-generated footage had climbed above 90 per cent. And [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-built-the-ai-content-factory-that-silicon-valley-imagined-but-never-shipped/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-built-the-ai-content-factory-that-silicon-valley-imagined-but-never-shipped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber acquires rival Fly Taxi in Hong Kong, Sing Tao reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber has acquired the main remaining alternative taxi-hailing app in the city. Acquired five months before Hong Kong&rsquo;s new ride-hailing licences are expected to come into force, the move locks in Uber&rsquo;s consolidated position before competitors Didi, Tada and Amap can use the licensing transition as an opening. Uber is acquiring Hong Kong&rsquo;s Fly Taxi, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-acquires-rival-fly-taxi-in-hong-kong-sing-tao-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-acquires-rival-fly-taxi-in-hong-kong-sing-tao-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McKinsey’s new AI report argues the productivity payoff is real but conditional]]></title><description><![CDATA[The firm&rsquo;s new &lsquo;AI productivity gains and the performance paradox&rsquo; report concludes that most current AI applications &lsquo;accelerate existing work&rsquo; without redesigning workflows, a finding McKinsey is publishing while targeting 1:1 parity between its 40,000 human consultants and 40,000 AI agents by year-end. McKinsey&rsquo;s strategy practice has published a new analysis arguing that the corporate [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mckinseys-new-ai-report-argues-the-productivity-payoff-is-real-but-conditional/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mckinseys-new-ai-report-argues-the-productivity-payoff-is-real-but-conditional/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world’s oldest cord blood bank is building the stem cell platform the field has been missing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of the umbilical cord blood collected at birth is discarded. The tissue is clamped, cut, and disposed of as medical waste, along with the stem cells it contains, cells that are immunologically naive, genetically diverse, and capable of being reprogrammed into virtually any cell type in the human body. The New York Blood Center [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-worlds-oldest-cord-blood-bank-is-building-the-stem-cell-platform-the-field-has-been-missing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-worlds-oldest-cord-blood-bank-is-building-the-stem-cell-platform-the-field-has-been-missing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit Q1 revenue jumps 69% to $663m, and shares rally 9%]]></title><description><![CDATA[The social platform beat Wall Street estimates across every line, raised Q2 guidance above consensus, and reported $1m in capital expenditure, a striking contrast to the hyperscaler capex arms race. Reddit reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $663 million, up 69% year on year and 8.5% above the $611 million Wall Street consensus, in earnings released [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-q1-revenue-jumps-69-to-663m-and-shares-rally-9/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/reddit-q1-revenue-jumps-69-to-663m-and-shares-rally-9/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg tells Meta employees the layoffs are about capex, not AI productivity]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a Thursday town hall, the Meta CEO made the explicit trade-off he had previously left implicit: &lsquo;We basically have two major cost centres in the company: compute infrastructure and people-oriented things.&rsquo; The chief people officer also declined to rule out additional layoffs Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attributed the company&rsquo;s upcoming layoffs to its rising [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zuckerberg-tells-meta-employees-the-layoffs-are-about-capex-not-ai-productivity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zuckerberg-tells-meta-employees-the-layoffs-are-about-capex-not-ai-productivity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US government and the AI industry are both betting on debt. They are drawing from the same pool.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States government now owes more than the country produces. Data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on 30 April showed that debt held by the public stood at $31.27 trillion at the end of March, while nominal GDP over the preceding 12 months was $31.22 trillion, pushing the ratio to 100.2 per [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-government-and-the-ai-industry-are-both-betting-on-debt-they-are-drawing-from-the-same-pool/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-government-and-the-ai-industry-are-both-betting-on-debt-they-are-drawing-from-the-same-pool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI-backed 1X opens California factory targeting 10,000 home humanoid robots in year one]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Norway-founded company&rsquo;s vertically integrated NEO factory in Hayward marks the first US-scale push to put a general-purpose humanoid robot into private homes, with shipments planned this year and a competitive field that is already crowded 1X Technologies has opened a 58,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Hayward, California, to produce its NEO humanoid robot at consumer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-backed-1x-opens-california-factory-targeting-10000-home-humanoid-robots-in-year-one/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-backed-1x-opens-california-factory-targeting-10000-home-humanoid-robots-in-year-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta cancelled the contract with the people who saw what its glasses see]]></title><description><![CDATA[In February 2026, workers at Sama, a Nairobi-based outsourcing company contracted by Meta, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and G&ouml;teborgs-Posten that they had been reviewing footage captured by users of Meta&rsquo;s Ray-Ban smart glasses. The footage included people having sex, going to the toilet, undressing, and handling bank details. The workers&rsquo; job was to label [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-cancelled-the-contract-with-the-people-who-saw-what-its-glasses-see/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-cancelled-the-contract-with-the-people-who-saw-what-its-glasses-see/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilio raises full-year revenue forecast as voice AI drives fastest growth in three years and shares jump 18%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Q1 revenue of $1.41 billion grew 20% year on year, the highest reported rate since 2022, as the cloud communications platform repositions itself as enterprise voice AI infrastructure. Twilio raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth forecast to 14-15%, up from 11.5-12.5%, after reporting first-quarter results that beat expectations across every major metric on Thursday. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/twilio-raises-full-year-revenue-forecast-as-voice-ai-drives-fastest-growth-in-three-years-and-shares-jump-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/twilio-raises-full-year-revenue-forecast-as-voice-ai-drives-fastest-growth-in-three-years-and-shares-jump-18/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s Mythos is moving between governments faster than regulators can agree on what to do with it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic&rsquo;s most controversial product has spent its first three weeks moving between state actors who cannot agree on whether it is theirs to use, theirs to block, or someone else&rsquo;s problem entirely. On Wednesday morning, an unnamed Trump administration official told the Wall Street Journal that the White House opposed Anthropic&rsquo;s plan to expand access [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-mythos-is-moving-between-governments-faster-than-regulators-can-agree-on-what-to-do-with-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-mythos-is-moving-between-governments-faster-than-regulators-can-agree-on-what-to-do-with-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple posted its best quarter ever by not building an AI model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple reported its best March quarter in history on Thursday, posting revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 per cent year over year, with net profit of $29.6 billion. iPhone revenue reached a March quarter record of $58 billion, up 22 per cent, driven by what Tim Cook called &ldquo;extraordinary&rdquo; demand for the iPhone 17, which [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-posted-its-best-quarter-ever-by-not-building-an-ai-model/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-posted-its-best-quarter-ever-by-not-building-an-ai-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The companies burning the most electricity are buying carbon credits from genetically engineered trees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Octopus Energy Generation has committed $500 million to Living Carbon, a San Francisco biotech company that plants trees on degraded land to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The deal, announced on 30 April, will fund reforestation projects across North America with the goal of removing up to 50 million tonnes of CO&#8322; over 40 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-companies-burning-the-most-electricity-are-buying-carbon-credits-from-genetically-engineered-trees/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-companies-burning-the-most-electricity-are-buying-carbon-credits-from-genetically-engineered-trees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI president says AI is now writing 80% of the company’s code]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greg Brockman&rsquo;s comments at Sequoia&rsquo;s AI Ascent 2026 conference fit a pattern of AI lab leaders citing self-reinforcing productivity numbers, but the underlying evidence on AI coding productivity remains substantially more contested than the headline figure suggests. OpenAI president Greg Brockman said AI is now writing roughly 80% of the company&rsquo;s code at Sequoia Capital&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-president-says-ai-is-now-writing-80-of-the-companys-code/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-president-says-ai-is-now-writing-80-of-the-companys-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who built Internet Explorer wants to teach AI to think on 20 watts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser that turned Microsoft from a software company into an internet company and triggered the most consequential antitrust case in technology history. In 2015, he co-founded CTRL-labs, a neural interface startup that built a wristband capable of translating electrical [&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-internet-explorer-wants-to-teach-ai-to-think-on-20-watts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-man-who-built-internet-explorer-wants-to-teach-ai-to-think-on-20-watts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive&rsquo;s crawlers, a decision the Archive&rsquo;s own director has called being &lsquo;collateral damage&rsquo; in a war that is not really about them. The Internet Archive has preserved more than one trillion [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/news-publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archives-wayback-machine-to-stop-ai-companies-from-using-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 08:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/news-publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archives-wayback-machine-to-stop-ai-companies-from-using-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung’s founding family doubled its wealth in a year. Its workers want a share.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Lee family of South Korea, which controls Samsung, has doubled its wealth in twelve months. Bloomberg&rsquo;s Billionaires Index now values the dynasty&rsquo;s holdings at $45.5 billion, up from $22.7 billion a year ago, propelling the Lees from tenth to third among Asia&rsquo;s richest families. The catalyst is not a new product or a management [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-founding-family-doubled-its-wealth-in-a-year-its-workers-want-a-share/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsungs-founding-family-doubled-its-wealth-in-a-year-its-workers-want-a-share/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI now lets you lock your ChatGPT account with a hardware key. Here is why it thinks you should.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has released a security feature for ChatGPT accounts that treats them the way banks treat online banking: hardware keys, no passwords, no email recovery, and no help from customer support if you lose access. The feature, called Advanced Account Security, is an opt-in setting that requires users to authenticate with two passkeys, two hardware [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-now-lets-you-lock-your-chatgpt-account-with-a-hardware-key-here-is-why-it-thinks-you-should/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-now-lets-you-lock-your-chatgpt-account-with-a-hardware-key-here-is-why-it-thinks-you-should/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta posted its best quarter ever. The stock dropped 9 per cent.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta posted the most profitable quarter in its history and the stock dropped 9 per cent. Revenue rose 33 per cent to $56.31 billion, beating Wall Street&rsquo;s estimate of $55.49 billion. Net income reached $26.8 billion, up 61 per cent year over year. And for the first time since Meta began reporting its &ldquo;family&rdquo; of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-posted-its-best-quarter-ever-the-stock-dropped-9-per-cent/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-posted-its-best-quarter-ever-the-stock-dropped-9-per-cent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access]]></title><description><![CDATA[Euro-area finance ministers will discuss Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos AI model with banking supervisors on Monday, according to a senior EU official. The technology that will be on the agenda is one that no government in the European Union has access to, built by a company that the United States Pentagon has designated a national security supply [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-finance-ministers-are-about-to-discuss-an-ai-model-none-of-them-can-access/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-finance-ministers-are-about-to-discuss-an-ai-model-none-of-them-can-access/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI integration demands integrity, not just innovation: Amy Trahey on building accountability into an AI-driven world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has already embedded itself into the rhythms of modern life, shaping decisions in ways that often go unnoticed. Amy Trahey, founder of Great Lakes Engineering Group, believes that integration is exactly what makes it powerful and, in many cases, risky. From her perspective in engineering, she sees AI as something that directly influences [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-integration-demands-integrity-not-just-innovation-amy-trahey-on-building-accountability-into-an-ai-driven-world/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-integration-demands-integrity-not-just-innovation-amy-trahey-on-building-accountability-into-an-ai-driven-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk calls himself ‘a fool’ on the stand as OpenAI’s lawyer dismantles his nonprofit narrative]]></title><description><![CDATA[The tense day three of Musk v. Altman saw OpenAI&rsquo;s lead attorney William Savitt use Musk&rsquo;s own emails, pledge shortfalls, and Shivon Zilis texts to argue the lawsuit is a competitive grievance dressed as a charitable principle. Elon Musk called himself &ldquo;a fool&rdquo; for funding OpenAI, accused its leadership of &ldquo;looting the nonprofit,&rdquo; and clashed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-calls-himself-a-fool-on-the-stand-as-openais-lawyer-dismantles-his-nonprofit-narrative/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-calls-himself-a-fool-on-the-stand-as-openais-lawyer-dismantles-his-nonprofit-narrative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Owl made 10x its money on SpaceX and has already sold half its position]]></title><description><![CDATA[The alternative asset manager&rsquo;s co-CEO disclosed the returns on a Q1 earnings call, framing the SpaceX gain as a hedge against potential software credit losses from AI disruption, a revealing window into how private credit firms are navigating the AI era Blue Owl Capital has sold approximately half its SpaceX investment at a $1.25 trillion [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blue-owl-made-10x-its-money-on-spacex-and-has-already-sold-half-its-position/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/blue-owl-made-10x-its-money-on-spacex-and-has-already-sold-half-its-position/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify launches a verified badge for artists, and AI-persona accounts won’t qualify]]></title><description><![CDATA[The green checkmark, rolling out over the coming weeks, requires consistent listener engagement, platform policy compliance, and a real-world, identifiable presence. Content farms and AI-generated artist profiles are explicitly excluded at launch. Spotify has introduced a Verified by Spotify badge, a green checkmark that will appear on artist profiles and next to artist names in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-launches-a-verified-badge-for-artists-and-ai-persona-accounts-wont-qualify/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-launches-a-verified-badge-for-artists-and-ai-persona-accounts-wont-qualify/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Navigating AI complexity with strategic finance: Sapphire CFO Solutions on the evolving role of CFOs in startups]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heather Hall, a fractional CFO and founder of Sapphire CFO Solutions, observes a growing sense of AI overwhelm among startup founders. &ldquo;New tools may promise greater automation and efficiency, but they also add layers of complexity to financial choices,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;With more options on the table, many founders find that experienced financial guidance can [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/navigating-ai-complexity-with-strategic-finance-sapphire-cfo-solutions-on-the-evolving-role-of-cfos-in-startups/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/navigating-ai-complexity-with-strategic-finance-sapphire-cfo-solutions-on-the-evolving-role-of-cfos-in-startups/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of platform-led games and why 2025 marked a shift]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a long time, games and the platforms they lived on were treated as separate layers. One was the product. The other was distribution. That distinction is becoming less relevant. Across the industry, there are signs that engagement is no longer driven by the game alone, but by the broader system around it. Features that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-rise-of-platform-led-games-and-why-2025-marked-a-shift/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-rise-of-platform-led-games-and-why-2025-marked-a-shift/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jan Lane illuminates the cybersecurity illusion leaders can no longer afford]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: AI-driven threats are accelerating as security stacks grow louder. Jan Lane argues that leadership clarity, AI integration, workforce awareness and diligence now determine cyber resilience. Rising cybersecurity budgets suggest preparedness, yet outcomes tell a different story. Global cybersecurity spending is projected to exceed $522 billion in 2026, while cybercrime damages are expected to reach [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jan-lane-illuminates-the-cybersecurity-illusion-leaders-can-no-longer-afford/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jan-lane-illuminates-the-cybersecurity-illusion-leaders-can-no-longer-afford/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Agent Platform for Customer Support: Forethought | SourceForge Podcast, episode #111]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI Agent Platform for Customer Support: Forethought | SourceForge Podcast, episode #111]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-agent-platform-for-customer-support-forethought-sourceforge-podcast-episode-111/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-agent-platform-for-customer-support-forethought-sourceforge-podcast-episode-111/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why building frontier tech isn’t about solving equations but surviving uncertainty and skepticism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Developing frontier technology is often framed as a technical challenge, as if the entire endeavor could be reduced to solving a single equation. In my experience, that framing is incomplete and misleading. The real work has very little to do with arriving at one correct answer and far more to do with navigating an environment [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-building-frontier-tech-isnt-about-solving-equations-but-surviving-uncertainty-and-skepticism/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-building-frontier-tech-isnt-about-solving-equations-but-surviving-uncertainty-and-skepticism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber expands to hotel bookings, AI voice assistant, and more, thanks to AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber announced the launch of a hotel-booking, AI voice assistant, among other new features, on Wednesday, April 29th, during its annual Go-Get event in New York City. The new service comes as a partnership with Expedia Group, expanding the capabilities of both platforms to offer a more complete travel experience for users. The new features [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-expands-to-hotel-bookings-ai-voice-assistant-and-more-thanks-to-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-expands-to-hotel-bookings-ai-voice-assistant-and-more-thanks-to-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SPRIND opens applications for €125M competition to build Europe’s first frontier AI labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Next Frontier AI Challenge, announced at EurIPS in December, explicitly tells applicants not to try to catch up with OpenAI, but to leapfrog to the next architectural S-curve, with up to &euro;1 billion in follow-on funding dangled for the three winning labs. SPRIND, Germany&rsquo;s federal agency for breakthrough innovation, opened applications today for its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sprind-opens-applications-for-125m-competition-to-build-europes-first-frontier-ai-labs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sprind-opens-applications-for-125m-competition-to-build-europes-first-frontier-ai-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China launches months-long campaign against AI misuse targeting deepfakes, fraud, and disinformation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cyberspace Administration&rsquo;s annual &lsquo;Qinglang&rsquo; campaign arrives in a materially different regulatory environment to last year&rsquo;s edition, and in the same week the White House accused China of running &lsquo;industrial-scale&rsquo; AI theft operations. China has launched a months-long enforcement campaign targeting the misuse of artificial intelligence, according to Reuters. The campaign, initiated by the Cyberspace [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-launches-months-long-campaign-against-ai-misuse-targeting-deepfakes-fraud-and-disinformation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-launches-months-long-campaign-against-ai-misuse-targeting-deepfakes-fraud-and-disinformation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy’s antitrust authority closes probes into DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova AI over AI hallucination disclosures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AGCM accepted binding commitments from all three chatbot providers, establishing a concrete benchmark for what &lsquo;adequate&rsquo; hallucination transparency must look like in practice, and a 120-day compliance window before potential fines. Italy&rsquo;s competition and consumer protection authority, the AGCM, has closed its investigations into three AI chatbot providers, China&rsquo;s DeepSeek, France&rsquo;s Mistral AI, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italys-antitrust-authority-closes-probes-into-deepseek-mistral-and-nova-ai-over-ai-hallucination-disclosures/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/italys-antitrust-authority-closes-probes-into-deepseek-mistral-and-nova-ai-over-ai-hallucination-disclosures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorola should get a bouncer, Apple admits the truth, and OnePlus makes a gaming phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motorola should get a bouncer, Apple admits the truth, and OnePlus makes a gaming phone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-should-get-a-bouncer-apple-admits-the-truth-and-oneplus-makes-a-gaming-phone/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-should-get-a-bouncer-apple-admits-the-truth-and-oneplus-makes-a-gaming-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system]]></title><description><![CDATA[The M1, an overhead rail-mounted robot that charges up to 10 vehicles per unit without human intervention, enters pilot deployment now and rolls out at scale in 2027, backed by Scania Invest and Capricorn Partners. There is a quiet irony at the heart of the robotaxi industry. The vehicles driving themselves to pick up passengers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rocsys-raises-13m-and-launches-the-worlds-first-multi-bay-hands-free-robotaxi-charging-system/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rocsys-raises-13m-and-launches-the-worlds-first-multi-bay-hands-free-robotaxi-charging-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia B300 servers sell for $1 million in China, nearly double the US price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prices have surged from roughly 4 million yuan late last year to 7 million yuan ($1 million) today, driven by the Supermicro co-founder&rsquo;s arrest, tighter enforcement, and voracious demand from Chinese AI companies unwilling to hold restricted hardware on their own books. NVIDIA&rsquo;s B300 AI servers are now selling in China for approximately 7 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-b300-servers-sell-for-1-million-in-china-nearly-double-the-us-price/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-b300-servers-sell-for-1-million-in-china-nearly-double-the-us-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alphabet and Amazon outpace Meta in AI as Big Tech’s Q1 2026 earnings confirm cloud dominance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Cloud grew 63%, AWS 28%. Meta raised its full-year capex guide to $125-$145 billion, sending its shares down 6% after hours. Combined 2026 AI spending across five hyperscalers is now on track to exceed $650 billion. The question hanging over Wednesday&rsquo;s earnings calls was whether the AI investment supercycle was producing commensurate returns, or [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-and-amazon-outpace-meta-in-ai-as-big-techs-q1-2026-earnings-confirm-cloud-dominance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-and-amazon-outpace-meta-in-ai-as-big-techs-q1-2026-earnings-confirm-cloud-dominance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is considering a funding round that would value it at over $900 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company is entertaining offers for approximately $50 billion at a valuation of $850&ndash;$900 billion, with a board decision expected in May and a potential IPO as early as October 2026. Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round at a valuation of more than $900 billion, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-considering-a-funding-round-that-would-value-it-at-over-900-billion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-considering-a-funding-round-that-would-value-it-at-over-900-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More banks join SoftBank’s $40 billion OpenAI loan as syndication enters soft-launch phase]]></title><description><![CDATA[HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Intesa Sanpaolo are among eight institutions that have submitted commitments as sub-underwriters, in one of the largest tests of creditor appetite for AI-linked debt. The $40 billion bridge loan SoftBank signed in March to fund its investment in OpenAI is attracting more lenders, with at least eight banks now having submitted [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/more-banks-join-softbanks-40-billion-openai-loan-as-syndication-enters-soft-launch-phase/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/more-banks-join-softbanks-40-billion-openai-loan-as-syndication-enters-soft-launch-phase/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has told Anthropic it disagrees with a controlled rollout that would bring its dangerous cyberattack-capable AI to roughly 120 organisations in total, even as the White House simultaneously explores an executive order to bring Anthropic back into federal government use. The White House has told Anthropic it opposes the company&rsquo;s plan to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/white-house-opposes-anthropics-plan-to-expand-mythos-access-to-70-companies-citing-compute-and-security-concerns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/white-house-opposes-anthropics-plan-to-expand-mythos-access-to-70-companies-citing-compute-and-security-concerns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA and Atlassian back Legora’s $600m Series D in a $50m extension that values the legal AI startup at $5.6 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Stockholm-founded company, which crossed $100m in ARR in 18 months, has now raised $866m in total, and Nvidia&rsquo;s entry marks the chip giant&rsquo;s first investment in legal tech. Legora has added $50 million to its Series D round, bringing the total to $600 million and maintaining its $5.6 billion valuation, the company exclusively told [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-and-atlassian-back-legoras-600m-series-d-in-a-50m-extension-that-values-the-legal-ai-startup-at-56-billion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-and-atlassian-back-legoras-600m-series-d-in-a-50m-extension-that-values-the-legal-ai-startup-at-56-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Berlin firm, founded in 1997, has raised a new fund every three to four years through every market cycle. Fund VIII is oversubscribed, manages &euro;2.5 billion across strategies, and bets heavily on AI infrastructure, foundation models, and deeptech. Earlybird Venture Capital has closed its eighth early-stage fund at &euro;360 million, the largest in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/earlybird-closes-360m-fund-viii-its-largest-ever-with-a-new-perpetual-ownership-model-and-a-deeptech-first-thesis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/earlybird-closes-360m-fund-viii-its-largest-ever-with-a-new-perpetual-ownership-model-and-a-deeptech-first-thesis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five months after a beta launch in Tirana, before some of the world&rsquo;s leading architects, the Austrian-Albanian startup has 60,000 users, hundreds of paying customers, and Plug and Play on its cap table. In November 2025, Synaps, a Vienna-based AI design startup founded by three Albanian-born entrepreneurs, chose an unusual venue for its beta launch: [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/exclusive-synaps-raises-36m-to-build-an-ai-design-canvas-for-architects-that-could-challenge-autocad/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/exclusive-synaps-raises-36m-to-build-an-ai-design-canvas-for-architects-that-could-challenge-autocad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorola Razr (2026) impressions: We're too broke!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motorola Razr (2026) impressions: We're too broke!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-razr-2026-impressions-were-too-broke/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-razr-2026-impressions-were-too-broke/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m too broke for the new Motorola Razr phones]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m too broke for the new Motorola Razr phones]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/im-too-broke-for-the-new-motorola-razr-phones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/im-too-broke-for-the-new-motorola-razr-phones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility]]></title><description><![CDATA[The discussions, triggered by a visit from Nvidia&rsquo;s Madison Huang, would deepen LG&rsquo;s physical AI ambitions and give Nvidia another major consumer electronics partner at a moment when physical AI is moving from lab to factory floor. LG Electronics confirmed on Wednesday that it has been in discussions with Nvidia over potential cooperation in three [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lg-electronics-and-nvidia-are-in-talks-on-robotics-ai-data-centres-and-mobility/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lg-electronics-and-nvidia-are-in-talks-on-robotics-ai-data-centres-and-mobility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China threatens the EU with broad retaliation if Huawei and ZTE are banned from European networks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beijing&rsquo;s commerce ministry has formally submitted a 30-page document warning the European Commission that its draft Cybersecurity Act, which would make vendor removal mandatory for the first time, could trigger reciprocal measures against European companies in China. China has formally threatened the European Union with retaliation if a sweeping new cybersecurity law leads to the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-threatens-the-eu-with-broad-retaliation-if-huawei-and-zte-are-banned-from-european-networks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-threatens-the-eu-with-broad-retaliation-if-huawei-and-zte-are-banned-from-european-networks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your messages aren't safe unless you do this, also look at these cool phones!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your messages aren't safe unless you do this, also look at these cool phones!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-messages-arent-safe-unless-you-do-this-also-look-at-these-cool-phones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-messages-arent-safe-unless-you-do-this-also-look-at-these-cool-phones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[mbiomics raises €30M Series A to take its microbiome cancer co-therapy into clinical trials]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Munich techbio company is developing a live bacterial product designed to enhance immune checkpoint inhibitor response in advanced melanoma, with a Phase 1B study planned for 2027 mbiomics GmbH, a Munich-based techbio company developing microbiome-based therapeutics, has completed the third and final closing of its Series A funding round, bringing the total raised to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mbiomics-raises-30m-series-a-to-take-its-microbiome-cancer-co-therapy-into-clinical-trials/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mbiomics-raises-30m-series-a-to-take-its-microbiome-cancer-co-therapy-into-clinical-trials/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founded by a former Atomico talent adviser, Dex charges employers agency fees only on successful hires, and has gone from zero to $1.8 million ARR in under six months of charging. Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 European startups on hiring at Atomico, one of Europe&rsquo;s largest venture capital firms. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-recruiting-startup-dex-raises-53m-seed-to-match-ai-engineers-with-the-companies-that-need-them-most/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-recruiting-startup-dex-raises-53m-seed-to-match-ai-engineers-with-the-companies-that-need-them-most/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The over-the-air update replaces Google Assistant across model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles, but arrives under the shadow of GM&rsquo;s data-sharing controversy and a looming FTC consent order. General Motors has announced that Google Gemini is rolling out to approximately four million vehicles in the United States, in what the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-brings-google-gemini-to-four-million-vehicles-in-one-of-the-largest-in-car-ai-deployments-yet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gm-brings-google-gemini-to-four-million-vehicles-in-one-of-the-largest-in-car-ai-deployments-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deal, Cognizant&rsquo;s fourth major acquisition in 18 months, is designed to plug a specific gap in its AI builder strategy: the ability to design, build, and run the physical data centre infrastructure that enterprise AI actually runs on. Cognizant has agreed to acquire Astreya, a San Jose-based IT managed services firm specialising in AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cognizant-to-acquire-ai-infrastructure-specialist-astreya-for-600-million/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cognizant-to-acquire-ai-infrastructure-specialist-astreya-for-600-million/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Spanish solar developer is betting that co-locating renewable generation with battery storage adjacent to data centres is the answer to AI&rsquo;s power hunger, and investors are oversubscribed at 6.7x. Europe has a data centre problem. Electricity grids across the continent are struggling to keep pace with the power demands of the AI boom, planning [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spains-solaria-raises-300m-to-power-data-centres-with-solar-and-battery-storage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spains-solaria-raises-300m-to-power-data-centres-with-solar-and-battery-storage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London-founded startup wants to replace the entire construction value chain, from architect&rsquo;s brief to move-in-ready building, using AI and a purpose-built on-site robot called the Mantis. Construction is the world&rsquo;s largest industry by value and one of its least automated. A typical building project today involves roughly the same sequence of hand-offs, on-site labour, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/all3-raises-25m-to-automate-construction-with-legged-robots-and-ai-design-software/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/all3-raises-25m-to-automate-construction-with-legged-robots-and-ai-design-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta has violated DSA obligations requiring it to prevent underage children from accessing its platforms, a charge previously levelled only at adult content sites. The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta is in breach of the Digital Services Act for failing to keep children off [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-found-in-breach-of-eu-law-for-failing-to-keep-children-off-facebook-and-instagram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-found-in-breach-of-eu-law-for-failing-to-keep-children-off-facebook-and-instagram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month]]></title><description><![CDATA[The collapse of Tuesday&rsquo;s trilogue exposes deep divisions over whether high-risk AI systems embedded in consumer products should be exempt from the world&rsquo;s strictest AI rules After 12 hours of negotiations on Tuesday, EU member states and European Parliament lawmakers failed to reach a deal on proposed changes to the bloc&rsquo;s landmark AI Act. Talks [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-and-parliament-fail-to-agree-on-ai-act-changes-after-12-hours-of-talks-pushing-deal-to-next-month/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-and-parliament-fail-to-agree-on-ai-act-changes-after-12-hours-of-talks-pushing-deal-to-next-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amadeus agrees to buy IDEMIA’s public security unit for $1.2 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deal would give the Spanish travel technology company a global footprint in biometric border control, airport identity systems, and law enforcement fingerprint databases A passenger boarding a flight at one of the world&rsquo;s 250 airports equipped with IDEMIA biometric gates does not think about who owns the face recognition system verifying their identity. Amadeus, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amadeus-agrees-to-buy-idemias-public-security-unit-for-12-billion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amadeus-agrees-to-buy-idemias-public-security-unit-for-12-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Africa&rsquo;s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National AI Safety Institute, and an AI Insurance Superfund. It outlined five pillars of AI governance: skills capacity, responsible governance, ethical [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-africa-used-ai-to-write-its-ai-policy-the-citations-were-fake/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/south-africa-used-ai-to-write-its-ai-policy-the-citations-were-fake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI called the report &ldquo;prime clickbait.&rdquo; It said its business is &ldquo;firing on all cylinders.&rdquo; It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are &ldquo;totally aligned.&rdquo; None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had missed internal revenue and user growth targets, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-called-the-growth-report-clickbait-the-market-disagreed-by-tens-of-billions-of-dollars/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-called-the-growth-report-clickbait-the-market-disagreed-by-tens-of-billions-of-dollars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The founder of Scholly sold his scholarship app to Sallie Mae. He says they fired him for asking why they were selling students’ data.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christopher Gray built Scholly to help students like himself find scholarships. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, became the first in his family to attend college after winning $1.3 million in scholarships to Drexel University, and turned that experience into a mobile app that matched students with financial aid based on their profiles. The app [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-founder-of-scholly-sold-his-scholarship-app-to-sallie-mae-he-says-they-fired-him-for-asking-why-they-were-selling-students-data/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-founder-of-scholly-sold-his-scholarship-app-to-sallie-mae-he-says-they-fired-him-for-asking-why-they-were-selling-students-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk told the jury the OpenAI case is simple. The consequences of his testimony are anything but.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk told a federal jury on Tuesday that his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders is not about him. &ldquo;It is not okay to steal a charity, that&rsquo;s my view,&rdquo; Musk said from the witness stand in Oakland, California, in his first testimony under oath in the case he filed in 2024. &ldquo;If we [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-told-the-jury-the-openai-case-is-simple-the-consequences-of-his-testimony-are-anything-but/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-told-the-jury-the-openai-case-is-simple-the-consequences-of-his-testimony-are-anything-but/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day. The line it drew is not the one its employees asked for.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its Gemini AI models for classified military work under terms that permit &ldquo;any lawful government purpose,&rdquo; the company confirmed on Tuesday, one day after&nbsp;more than 580 Google employees signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse&nbsp;exactly this kind of arrangement. The agreement provides the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-signed-the-pentagons-classified-ai-deal-and-walked-away-from-its-drone-swarm-contest-on-the-same-day-the-line-it-drew-is-not-the-one-its-employees-asked-for/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-signed-the-pentagons-classified-ai-deal-and-walked-away-from-its-drone-swarm-contest-on-the-same-day-the-line-it-drew-is-not-the-one-its-employees-asked-for/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its Gemini AI models for classified military work under terms that permit &ldquo;any lawful government purpose,&rdquo; the company confirmed on Tuesday, one day after&nbsp;more than 580 Google employees signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse&nbsp;exactly this kind of arrangement. The agreement provides the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-signed-the-pentagons-classified-ai-deal-and-walked-away-from-its-drone-swarm-contest-on-the-same-day/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-signed-the-pentagons-classified-ai-deal-and-walked-away-from-its-drone-swarm-contest-on-the-same-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“They stole a charity.” “He didn’t get his way.” The Musk-Altman trial opened with two stories that cannot both be true.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today because the defendants in this case stole a charity.&rdquo; That was how Steven Molo, Elon Musk&rsquo;s lead trial lawyer, opened the most consequential technology trial in a generation on Tuesday morning in an Oakland federal courtroom. Molo told the nine-person advisory jury that without Musk, &ldquo;there would be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/they-stole-a-charity-he-didnt-get-his-way-the-musk-altman-trial-opened-with-two-stories-that-cannot-both-be-true/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/they-stole-a-charity-he-didnt-get-his-way-the-musk-altman-trial-opened-with-two-stories-that-cannot-both-be-true/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is no longer just selling the shovels. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the company’s most aggressive move into AI models.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Tuesday, an open-weight multimodal AI model that unifies vision, audio, and language understanding in a single architecture designed to power autonomous AI agents on edge devices. The model has 30 billion parameters but activates only three billion per forward pass through a mixture-of-experts design, a ratio that allows [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-no-longer-just-selling-the-shovels-nemotron-3-nano-omni-is-the-companys-most-aggressive-move-into-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-is-no-longer-just-selling-the-shovels-nemotron-3-nano-omni-is-the-companys-most-aggressive-move-into-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services announced a set of AI-powered business applications on Tuesday that move the company from selling cloud infrastructure to selling the software that runs on it, a strategic shift that puts Amazon in direct competition with Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce in the $300 billion software-as-a-service market. The new products, Amazon Connect Decisions for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-tried-selling-office-software-and-failed-now-it-is-betting-that-office-software-itself-is-obsolete/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-tried-selling-office-software-and-failed-now-it-is-betting-that-office-software-itself-is-obsolete/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services will begin selling OpenAI&rsquo;s models to its cloud customers, the company announced on Tuesday, one day after Microsoft agreed to end the exclusive reselling arrangement that had given Azure sole access to OpenAI&rsquo;s technology for the first three years of the generative AI era. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s something that our customers have asked for, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-models-are-now-available-everywhere-the-question-is-whether-everywhere-is-enough/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-models-are-now-available-everywhere-the-question-is-whether-everywhere-is-enough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Anomaly raised $1 billion to build weapons for a programme the Pentagon has not committed to building]]></title><description><![CDATA[True Anomaly, the Colorado-based startup that builds autonomous spacecraft for orbital combat, has raised $650 million in Series D funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, bringing total capital raised to $1 billion since its founding in August 2022. The round was co-led by Eclipse and Riot Ventures, with new investors Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared, The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/true-anomaly-raised-1-billion-to-build-weapons-for-a-programme-the-pentagon-has-not-committed-to-building/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/true-anomaly-raised-1-billion-to-build-weapons-for-a-programme-the-pentagon-has-not-committed-to-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venture capital is moving beyond code because the next tech boom will be built, not programmed]]></title><description><![CDATA[For more than two decades, software has defined the trajectory of venture capital. It was efficient, scalable, and, for a long time, unmatched in its ability to generate outsized returns. Investors poured capital into SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and digital infrastructure, confident in a model that prioritized speed, low marginal costs, and rapid growth. I was [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/venture-capital-is-moving-beyond-code-because-the-next-tech-boom-will-be-built-not-programmed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/venture-capital-is-moving-beyond-code-because-the-next-tech-boom-will-be-built-not-programmed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freepik rebrands as Magnific: a bootstrapped, profitable $230M ARR AI creative platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new name unifies what was previously fragmented across Freepik (stock assets), Magnific (AI upscaling), and several other products. One million paying subscribers. 250 enterprise customers, including BBC, Puma, and Amazon Prime Video. CEO Joaqu&iacute;n Cuenca has never taken outside investment. The company is profitable. Freepik, the M&aacute;laga-founded AI creative platform, announced on Tuesday that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/freepik-rebrands-as-magnific-a-bootstrapped-profitable-230m-arr-ai-creative-platform/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/freepik-rebrands-as-magnific-a-bootstrapped-profitable-230m-arr-ai-creative-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy S26: The one MOST people should buy!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy S26: The one MOST people should buy!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-the-one-most-people-should-buy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-the-one-most-people-should-buy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy S26 after two months: The people's choice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy S26 after two months: The people's choice]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-after-two-months-the-peoples-choice/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-after-two-months-the-peoples-choice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut is opening its first physical store in Barcelona]]></title><description><![CDATA[The store is a permanent pilot, not a pop-up. If successful, it will be replicated in other markets. Spain is Revolut&rsquo;s third-largest market globally. Last week &nbsp;the company&rsquo;s IPO target valuation was up to $200 billion, with no listing before 2028. Revolut, Europe&rsquo;s most valuable startup at $75 billion, is opening its first physical retail [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-opening-its-first-physical-store-in-barcelona/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-is-opening-its-first-physical-store-in-barcelona/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next-gen Galaxy hype, iPhone Ultra might be a black sheep, and Google considers fixing your phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Next-gen Galaxy hype, iPhone Ultra might be a black sheep, and Google considers fixing your phone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/next-gen-galaxy-hype-iphone-ultra-might-be-a-black-sheep-and-google-considers-fixing-your-phone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/next-gen-galaxy-hype-iphone-ultra-might-be-a-black-sheep-and-google-considers-fixing-your-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense]]></title><description><![CDATA[True Anomaly&rsquo;s Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles can manoeuvre near other satellites in orbit for inspection, space situational awareness, and, under Golden Dome, potential interception of ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Total funding now exceeds $1 billion. True Anomaly, the Colorado-based space defense startup that builds autonomous orbital vehicles and supporting software for US national security missions, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/true-anomaly-raises-650-million-as-the-only-space-startup-exclusively-focused-on-orbital-defense/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/true-anomaly-raises-650-million-as-the-only-space-startup-exclusively-focused-on-orbital-defense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blackbird is doubling down: it led both the pre-seed and now the seed, and now holds 34% of the company. Icehouse Ventures also participated. The founders -Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, and Ben Robertson, retain ~27% each. US expansion is next. Marloo, the London-based AI company for financial advisers, has raised $10 million in a seed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marloo-raises-10m-led-by-blackbird-ventures-to-replace-the-ai-notetaker-with-an-ai-operating-system-for-financial-advisers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marloo-raises-10m-led-by-blackbird-ventures-to-replace-the-ai-notetaker-with-an-ai-operating-system-for-financial-advisers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accenture deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees]]></title><description><![CDATA[97% of Accenture employees report Copilot helped complete routine tasks up to 15 times faster. 89% monthly active usage among the 200,000-person cohort tested. Microsoft has over 450 million M365 enterprise users; only ~3% currently pay $30/month for Copilot. Its shares are down 12% this year. Microsoft is rolling out its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/accenture-deploys-microsoft-365-copilot-to-all-743000-employees/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/accenture-deploys-microsoft-365-copilot-to-all-743000-employees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok’s local revenues if they refuse to pay news publishers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The News Bargaining Incentive applies from 1 July 2026. Platforms that deal with news organisations get full or partial offsets against the levy. The legislation explicitly excludes pure AI chatbot services from coverage. Communications Minister Anika Wells and PM Albanese both announced the draft on Tuesday. The Australian government released draft legislation on Tuesday for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-unveils-a-225-levy-on-meta-google-and-tiktoks-local-revenues-if-they-refuse-to-pay-news-publishers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australia-unveils-a-225-levy-on-meta-google-and-tiktoks-local-revenues-if-they-refuse-to-pay-news-publishers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social media scams cost Americans $2.1 billion in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[New FTC data published Monday show that nearly 30% of all reported scam losses last year began on social media. Investment scams alone cost $1.1 billion. Shopping scams were the most frequently reported. Romance scams started on social media in 60% of reported cases. All age groups except the over-80s lost more to social media [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/social-media-scams-cost-americans-21-billion-in-2025/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/social-media-scams-cost-americans-21-billion-in-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[3TS Capital Partners led the round with Grazia Equity and existing investors. 25,000 users, 85% daily wear rate, 500,000+ emergency calls handled. The company is building an AI companion for the watch to address loneliness in the hours when no family member is present. Patronus, the Berlin-based senior safety startup, has closed an &euro;11 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/patronus-raises-11-million-to-turn-senior-emergency-smartwatches-from-bedside-decoration-into-daily-worn-devices/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/patronus-raises-11-million-to-turn-senior-emergency-smartwatches-from-bedside-decoration-into-daily-worn-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Information reported the deal on Tuesday. The agreement allows the DoD to use Google&rsquo;s AI models without the restrictions that led Anthropic to be blacklisted in February. Google becomes the latest in a line of AI companies, alongside OpenAI and xAI, to supply classified AI capability to the US military. Google has signed a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-signs-classified-ai-deal-with-the-pentagon-for-any-lawful-government-purpose/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-signs-classified-ai-deal-with-the-pentagon-for-any-lawful-government-purpose/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta prepares to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition after China’s block]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is preparing to unwind its approximately $2 billion acquisition of the agentic AI startup Manus after China&rsquo;s National Development and Reform Commission formally ordered the deal&rsquo;s cancellation on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Beijing has given Meta and Manus a preliminary deadline of several weeks to reverse [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-prepares-to-unwind-its-2-billion-manus-acquisition-after-chinas-block/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-prepares-to-unwind-its-2-billion-manus-acquisition-after-chinas-block/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[The round brings total raised to &euro;9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model. Competitors include Scale AI, Appen, and Defined.ai, all annotation-first; Redpine is API-native. Redpine, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/redpine-raises-68m-led-by-nordicninja-to-build-a-licensed-data-api-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/redpine-raises-68m-led-by-nordicninja-to-build-a-licensed-data-api-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is THIS the Pixel Watch 4 killer? #oppo #oppowatch #wearos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is THIS the Pixel Watch 4 killer? #oppo #oppowatch #wearos]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-this-the-pixel-watch-4-killer-oppo-oppowatch-wearos/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-this-the-pixel-watch-4-killer-oppo-oppowatch-wearos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is building a phone that would make apps obsolete. The supply chain says it might actually ship.]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is developing a smartphone built around AI agents rather than apps, with Qualcomm and MediaTek jointly designing the custom processor and Luxshare Precision Industry co-designing and exclusively manufacturing the device, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, the TF International Securities analyst whose Apple supply-chain intelligence has made him the most closely followed hardware analyst in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-building-a-phone-that-would-make-apps-obsolete-the-supply-chain-says-it-might-actually-ship/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-is-building-a-phone-that-would-make-apps-obsolete-the-supply-chain-says-it-might-actually-ship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s AI researchers told management to refuse classified military work. Management spent three years making sure it could say yes.]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 580 Google employees, including over 20 directors, senior directors, and vice presidents, have signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse classified military AI work for the Pentagon, according to Bloomberg. The letter, which includes senior researchers at Google DeepMind, was sent to Pichai on Monday. &ldquo;We are Google employees who are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-ai-researchers-told-management-to-refuse-classified-military-work-management-spent-three-years-making-sure-it-could-say-yes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/googles-ai-researchers-told-management-to-refuse-classified-military-work-management-spent-three-years-making-sure-it-could-say-yes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft drops its exclusive licence to OpenAI’s technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Both companies announced the revised agreement in a joint statement on Monday. Microsoft retains a non-exclusive licence to OpenAI&rsquo;s intellectual property through 2032, remains the primary cloud partner, and keeps its 27% equity stake. OpenAI will continue paying Microsoft a revenue share through 2030, capped at a total amount. Microsoft shares fell ~3% on the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-drops-its-exclusive-licence-to-openais-technology/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-drops-its-exclusive-licence-to-openais-technology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Arpit Grawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arpit Agrawal&rsquo;s career has been shaped by a single, consistent focus: expanding access. For more than a decade, he has worked at the intersection of global brands and emerging markets, building distribution and retail ecosystems that connect products with consumers who have historically been underserved.&nbsp; As Executive Director at Vishal Group, Agrawal has played a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-arpit-grawal-designed-distribution-ecosystems-for-25-billion-consumers-in-emerging-markets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-arpit-grawal-designed-distribution-ecosystems-for-25-billion-consumers-in-emerging-markets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap. What it has is a thesis, and a founder whose track record is worth a billion dollars to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-and-nvidia-back-alphago-creator-david-silvers-ineffable-intelligence-at-51-billion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-and-nvidia-back-alphago-creator-david-silvers-ineffable-intelligence-at-51-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vinted reaches €8 billion valuation in €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schroders Capital and Teachers&rsquo; Venture Growth join as new investors. The transaction gives early investors and long-serving employees a route to liquidity. Vinted says it is &lsquo;IPO-ready&rsquo; but has set no timetable. FY2024 revenue grew 36% to &euro;813 million; net profit quadrupled. Vinted, the Lithuanian second-hand marketplace that has become one of Europe&rsquo;s largest consumer-to-consumer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vinted-reaches-8-billion-valuation-in-880-million-secondary-share-sale-led-by-eqt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vinted-reaches-8-billion-valuation-in-880-million-secondary-share-sale-led-by-eqt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy Plus phones: It's time to go]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy Plus phones: It's time to go]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-plus-phones-its-time-to-go/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-plus-phones-its-time-to-go/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta signs a deal to beam solar energy from space to its AI data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Overview&rsquo;s satellites will collect sunlight continuously in geosynchronous orbit and beam it as near-infrared light to existing ground solar installations, which convert it to electricity. The approach extends solar farm output through the night without new land, new grid connections, or new infrastructure on the ground. Meta has signed an agreement with Overview Energy, a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-signs-a-deal-to-beam-solar-energy-from-space-to-its-ai-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-signs-a-deal-to-beam-solar-energy-from-space-to-its-ai-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify expands from soundtrack to sweat session: Peloton partnership puts 1,400 classes inside the app]]></title><description><![CDATA[Available from today in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Austria, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, and Spain.Peloton bike workouts are not included, the classes cover strength, cardio, yoga, meditation, pilates, and outdoor runs, requiring no specialist equipment. Financial terms of the Peloton partnership are undisclosed. Spotify has launched a new fitness category within its app, making guided [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-expands-from-soundtrack-to-sweat-session-peloton-partnership-puts-1400-classes-inside-the-app/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-expands-from-soundtrack-to-sweat-session-peloton-partnership-puts-1400-classes-inside-the-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk v. Altman goes to trial in Oakland]]></title><description><![CDATA[A four-week federal case over OpenAI&rsquo;s soul, a diary entry, $150 billion in claimed damages, and the question of whether a nonprofit can become the world&rsquo;s most valuable AI company.&nbsp; The years-long legal battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over the future of OpenAI moved from social media to a federal courtroom in Oakland, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-v-altman-goes-to-trial-in-oakland/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-v-altman-goes-to-trial-in-oakland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind to open its first AI campus in the world in Seoul]]></title><description><![CDATA[Demis Hassabis met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at Cheong Wa Dae on Monday and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Science and ICT. The campus will be operational this year. Hassabis accepted a request to send at least 10 Google engineers from US headquarters. He presented Lee with a Go board signed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-deepmind-to-open-its-first-ai-campus-in-the-world-in-seoul/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-deepmind-to-open-its-first-ai-campus-in-the-world-in-seoul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world’s largest EV battery maker is raising $5 billion in Hong Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s largest EV battery maker priced its Hong Kong listing at HK$263 in May 2025. Its shares touched HK$701 before the placement was announced. The deal builds on a week of shareholder activity: a Sinopec unit sold $770M of CATL stock at HK$708 on 22 April; a Shenzhen block trade of 58 million A-shares [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-worlds-largest-ev-battery-maker-is-raising-5-billion-in-hong-kong/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-worlds-largest-ev-battery-maker-is-raising-5-billion-in-hong-kong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sereact raises $110 million Series B to build robots that simulate the consequences of their actions before they act]]></title><description><![CDATA[The round is led by Headline, with new investors Bullhound Capital, Felix Capital, and Daphni. Valuation is undisclosed. Sereact&rsquo;s vision language action models already run in BMW, Daimler Truck, and logistics customers. The $110M is more than four times the &euro;25M Series A raised just 15 months ago. Sereact, the Stuttgart-based AI robotics software company, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sereact-raises-110-million-series-b-to-build-robots-that-simulate-the-consequences-of-their-actions-before-they-act/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sereact-raises-110-million-series-b-to-build-robots-that-simulate-the-consequences-of-their-actions-before-they-act/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China orders Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus]]></title><description><![CDATA[The NDRC&rsquo;s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review issued a formal cancellation order on Monday, four months after the deal was announced. Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao have been barred from leaving China since March.&nbsp; China&rsquo;s National Development and Reform Commission has formally ordered Meta to unwind its $2 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-orders-meta-to-unwind-its-2-billion-acquisition-of-manus/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-orders-meta-to-unwind-its-2-billion-acquisition-of-manus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India’s Acko hires Kotak, ICICI Securities, and Morgan Stanley for a $350 million IPO targeting a $2.5 billion valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The digital insurer, backed by General Atlantic, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and Accel, plans to file its DRHP confidentially with SEBI in H2 2026. In FY25 it grew revenue 35% to Rs 2,837 crore and cut net losses by 37%. It has raised over $583 million in total funding. Acko, the Bengaluru-based digital-first general [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-acko-hires-kotak-icici-securities-and-morgan-stanley-for-a-350-million-ipo-targeting-a-25-billion-valuation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/indias-acko-hires-kotak-icici-securities-and-morgan-stanley-for-a-350-million-ipo-targeting-a-25-billion-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copenhagen’s Atech raises pre-seed from Sequoia, a16z, and Lovable to build ‘vibe-engineering’ for hardware]]></title><description><![CDATA[The round amount is undisclosed. Backers include Nordic Makers, Emblem, the Lovable company itself, the Sequoia Scout Fund, and the Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund. Lovable CEO Anton Osika personally endorsed the team. Atech lets users describe a hardware concept in natural language and receive a working prototype. Atech, a Copenhagen-based AI hardware startup, has raised [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/copenhagens-atech-raises-pre-seed-from-sequoia-a16z-and-lovable-to-build-vibe-engineering-for-hardware/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/copenhagens-atech-raises-pre-seed-from-sequoia-a16z-and-lovable-to-build-vibe-engineering-for-hardware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iran war is hitting the AI supply chain where it hurts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran&rsquo;s strike on SABIC&rsquo;s Jubail petrochemical complex in early April halted production of the resin used to make PCB laminates. Goldman Sachs analysts say prices surged 40% in April alone. A South Korean supplier to Samsung and AMD says epoxy resin wait times have stretched from three weeks to fifteen. The Iran war that began [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-iran-war-is-hitting-the-ai-supply-chain-where-it-hurts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-iran-war-is-hitting-the-ai-supply-chain-where-it-hurts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth]]></title><description><![CDATA[The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the pricing strategy of US AI providers at a moment when the Trump administration has accused Chinese firms of distilling American AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-cuts-v4-pro-prices-by-75-and-slashes-cache-costs-across-its-entire-api-to-a-tenth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-cuts-v4-pro-prices-by-75-and-slashes-cache-costs-across-its-entire-api-to-a-tenth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequoia is giving away the hardware for an AI project it cannot invest in. That is the point.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sequoia Capital co-steward Alfred Lin personally purchased 200 Mac Minis, had each one custom-engraved with a design mixing old cartography and machine learning contour plots, and distributed them to attendees at Sequoia&rsquo;s &ldquo;AI at the Frontier&rdquo; event. Each machine contained two easter eggs: Sequoia&rsquo;s ethos statement about creative spirits and underdogs, and a quote generated [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-is-giving-away-the-hardware-for-an-ai-project-it-cannot-invest-in-that-is-the-point/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-is-giving-away-the-hardware-for-an-ai-project-it-cannot-invest-in-that-is-the-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A startup with a bankrupt fintech CEO and a president’s son wants to build America’s robot army]]></title><description><![CDATA[Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in April 2024, has secured $24 million in research contracts with the US Army, Navy, and Air Force to test humanoid robots designed to breach enemy positions. The company&rsquo;s Phantom MK-1 is a 5-foot-9, 176-pound humanoid with 19 upper-body degrees of freedom, five-fingered hands, a camera-first vision [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-with-a-bankrupt-fintech-ceo-and-a-presidents-son-wants-to-build-americas-robot-army/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-startup-with-a-bankrupt-fintech-ceo-and-a-presidents-son-wants-to-build-americas-robot-army/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brockman’s diary called it a lie. Now a jury will hear it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jury selection begins Monday in Oakland federal court for the trial that will determine whether OpenAI&rsquo;s conversion from a nonprofit to one of the most valuable companies in the world was a breach of charitable trust. Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and donated at least $38 million to it, is suing Sam Altman, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brockmans-diary-called-it-a-lie-now-a-jury-will-hear-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/brockmans-diary-called-it-a-lie-now-a-jury-will-hear-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU sanctioned Chinese firms for arming Russia. China retaliated by threatening Europe’s ability to arm itself.]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s Ministry of Commerce issued a formal condemnation on Saturday after the European Union included approximately 27 Chinese and Hong Kong entities in its 20th sanctions package against Russia, the largest round of listings in two years. Beijing said the move &ldquo;runs counter to the spirit of the consensus reached between Chinese and EU leaders, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-sanctioned-chinese-firms-for-arming-russia-china-retaliated-by-threatening-europes-ability-to-arm-itself/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-sanctioned-chinese-firms-for-arming-russia-china-retaliated-by-threatening-europes-ability-to-arm-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China orders its apps to stop sending orders to exhausted drivers. The algorithm is now subject to collective bargaining.]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s most powerful governing bodies, the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council, issued comprehensive labour rules for gig workers on Sunday, the first time the party&rsquo;s highest authority has formalised protections for the more than 200 million people who deliver food, drive cars, and livestream products through online platforms. The mandate requires [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-orders-its-apps-to-stop-sending-orders-to-exhausted-drivers-the-algorithm-is-now-subject-to-collective-bargaining/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-orders-its-apps-to-stop-sending-orders-to-exhausted-drivers-the-algorithm-is-now-subject-to-collective-bargaining/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call of Duty Mobile: Live with PhoneArena stream]]></title><description><![CDATA[Call of Duty Mobile: Live with PhoneArena stream]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/call-of-duty-mobile-live-with-phonearena-stream/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/call-of-duty-mobile-live-with-phonearena-stream/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI knew. It chose not to call the police. Now Sam Altman is sorry.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman published an open letter to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Thursday, apologising for OpenAI&rsquo;s failure to alert law enforcement after its own systems flagged a user who went on to carry out the deadliest school shooting in Canada in nearly four decades. &ldquo;I am deeply sorry that we did not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-knew-it-chose-not-to-call-the-police-now-sam-altman-is-sorry/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-knew-it-chose-not-to-call-the-police-now-sam-altman-is-sorry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US wants to cut off China’s chip equipment. China says the supply chain will break for everyone.]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s Ministry of Commerce warned on Friday that US legislation advancing through Congress would &ldquo;severely disrupt the international economic and trade order and seriously undermine the stability of the global semiconductor industry chain and supply chain.&rdquo; The legislation in question is the MATCH Act, the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware, which passed the [&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-cut-off-chinas-chip-equipment-china-says-the-supply-chain-will-break-for-everyone/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-us-wants-to-cut-off-chinas-chip-equipment-china-says-the-supply-chain-will-break-for-everyone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI rally looks like the dot-com bubble. The companies do not.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Shiller cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio for the S&amp;P 500 stands at approximately 38 to 40, depending on the day you check. In 155 years of recorded data, the CAPE has been higher exactly once: March 2000, when it reached 44.19, one month before the Nasdaq began a decline that would erase 78% of its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-rally-looks-like-the-dot-com-bubble-the-companies-do-not/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-ai-rally-looks-like-the-dot-com-bubble-the-companies-do-not/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle needed the world’s biggest bond fund to finance the world’s biggest data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Oracle closed a $16.3 billion financing for a single data centre campus in Saline Township, Michigan, the largest single-facility technology debt package ever assembled. PIMCO anchored roughly $10 billion of the bond tranche because US banks retreated from the deal, citing doubts about AI infrastructure demand sustainability. The financing is part of $72 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-needed-the-worlds-biggest-bond-fund-to-finance-the-worlds-biggest-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-needed-the-worlds-biggest-bond-fund-to-finance-the-worlds-biggest-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porsche built one of the best electric SUVs ever made, and does not expect the world to buy enough of them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Porsche unveiled the Cayenne Coupe Electric at Auto China in Beijing, a 1,139 hp electric SUV that does 0-60 in 2.4 seconds with up to 669 km WLTP range and 16-minute fast charging, starting at $113,800. It launches during the worst financial year in Porsche&rsquo;s history, a 93% operating profit decline, a first-ever quarterly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/porsche-built-one-of-the-best-electric-suvs-ever-made-and-does-not-expect-the-world-to-buy-enough-of-them/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/porsche-built-one-of-the-best-electric-suvs-ever-made-and-does-not-expect-the-world-to-buy-enough-of-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Stanford professor James Zou is reportedly raising approximately $100 million at a valuation targeting $1 billion for a startup called Human Intelligence that applies AI to research on the human body, according to Bloomberg. Zou&rsquo;s research includes an FDA-cleared cardiac AI (EchoNet), a Nature-published Virtual Lab that designed novel nanobodies, and a Virtual Biotech [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-stanford-professor-behind-an-fda-cleared-cardiac-ai-wants-1-billion-for-his-next-company/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-stanford-professor-behind-an-fda-cleared-cardiac-ai-wants-1-billion-for-his-next-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon&rsquo;s Graviton5 ARM CPU cores in AWS data centres for agentic AI workloads. The chips are general-purpose processors, not AI accelerators, handling the CPU-intensive inference and orchestration tasks behind real-time reasoning and multi-step agents. The deal is one piece of a procurement [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-signs-multibillion-dollar-deal-for-amazon-graviton5-chips-as-ai-compute-demand-outstrips-135b-capex-budget/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-signs-multibillion-dollar-deal-for-amazon-graviton5-chips-as-ai-compute-demand-outstrips-135b-capex-budget/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Meta and Microsoft announced workforce reductions on the same day, April 23, affecting up to 23,000 positions combined. Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs (10% of staff) and cancelling 6,000 open roles effective May 20, while Microsoft launched its first-ever voluntary retirement programme offering buyouts to up to 8,750 US employees whose age plus years [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-firing-8000-people-microsoft-is-paying-8750-to-leave-both-are-spending-the-savings-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-firing-8000-people-microsoft-is-paying-8750-to-leave-both-are-spending-the-savings-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From web to Artificial Intelligence: Building the missing links]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, the web intelligence industry has been a reliable support system for major data-powered developments across industries. As big data kept getting bigger, the infrastructure requirements to ensure sustained data flow became harder. In recent years, AI has been taking the biggest leaps forward. The story of how the web intelligence industry responded to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-web-to-artificial-intelligence-building-the-missing-links/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-web-to-artificial-intelligence-building-the-missing-links/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Securing ⁠‍the ؜futu‍re ‍؜of ⁠AI: How ‌T‍resor ‌​Lisungu ‍؜‌Oteko ؜is ⁠bri‍dgi‍ng ؜​cloud ⁠sy‍stems ​‌؜and ‌post-quantum ؜‍​؜security]]></title><description><![CDATA[As &#8203;artificial &zwj;&zwnj;intelligence &#8203;&#1564;&zwj;&#1564;sys&zwj;tems &#1564;&zwnj;sc&zwj;&zwj;ale &#1564;rapidly &zwj;&#8288;&zwj;&#1564;across &#8203;&zwnj;enterprise &zwj;&#1564;&#8288;environments, a &#8203;cr&zwj;iti&zwj;cal &#8203;&#8288;&zwnj;&#1564;gap &#1564;is &#8203;becoming &zwnj;&#8203;&#8288;harder &#1564;&zwj;to &#8203;igno&zwj;re: security &#8288;&#1564;&zwnj;&#1564;is &#8203;not &#8288;evolving &#8203;&zwnj;&zwj;at &#1564;the &zwnj;s&zwj;&zwj;ame &#8288;&zwj;pace]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/securing-the-future-of-ai-how-tresor-lisungu-oteko-is-bridging-cloud-systems-and-post-quantum-security/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/securing-the-future-of-ai-how-tresor-lisungu-oteko-is-bridging-cloud-systems-and-post-quantum-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denis Brovarnyy: Tech education that starts where theory ends]]></title><description><![CDATA[The gap between finishing a course and actually being useful on a team, Denis Brovarnyy has seen it from both sides. And in an era where AI is reshaping every technical role, that gap is getting more expensive to ignore. Companies are no longer experimenting with AI. They are implementing it. And they need people [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/denis-brovarnyy-tech-education-that-starts-where-theory-ends/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/denis-brovarnyy-tech-education-that-starts-where-theory-ends/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s child safety laws require collecting the data its privacy laws forbid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Europe&rsquo;s effort to protect children online has collided with its own privacy architecture. The ePrivacy derogation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning expired on April 3 after Parliament voted 311-228 to reject its extension, the EU&rsquo;s new age verification app announced April 15 was hacked in under two minutes, and the CSA Regulation (&ldquo;Chat Control&rdquo;) remains [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-child-safety-laws-require-collecting-the-data-its-privacy-laws-forbid/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-child-safety-laws-require-collecting-the-data-its-privacy-laws-forbid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X-Energy’s failed $1 billion SPAC became a $1 billion IPO. The reactor did not change. The market did.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: X-Energy raised $1.02 billion in the largest nuclear IPO on record, pricing at $23 (21% above range) on the Nasdaq, with shares surging 31% on opening to imply a $12 billion market cap. The offering was 15x oversubscribed. The same company failed to close a $1 billion SPAC in 2023. The difference is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-energys-failed-1-billion-spac-became-a-1-billion-ipo-the-reactor-did-not-change-the-market-did/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/x-energys-failed-1-billion-spac-became-a-1-billion-ipo-the-reactor-did-not-change-the-market-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US government’s Intel stake jumps 300% to $36B after CHIPS Act grants were converted to equity under Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: The US government&rsquo;s 9.9% stake in Intel, acquired for $8.9 billion last August by converting CHIPS Act grants and Secure Enclave funds into equity at $20.47/share, is now worth approximately $36 billion after Intel&rsquo;s stock surged 20%+ on a massive Q1 earnings beat. The $26.5 billion unrealised gain is one of the most [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-governments-intel-stake-jumps-300-to-36b-after-chips-act-grants-were-converted-to-equity-under-trump/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-governments-intel-stake-jumps-300-to-36b-after-chips-act-grants-were-converted-to-equity-under-trump/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank is converting a Sharp LCD factory into a battery plant for AI data centres. The data centres cannot wait five years.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: SoftBank Corp. plans to convert part of the former Sharp LCD factory in Sakai, Osaka into one of Japan&rsquo;s largest battery production lines for AI data centres, with production expected within five years (~2031). The move completes a vertical integration stack spanning chips (Arm, Graphcore, Ampere), modular data centre manufacturing (Lordstown), energy generation (SB [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-is-converting-a-sharp-lcd-factory-into-a-battery-plant-for-ai-data-centres-the-data-centres-cannot-wait-five-years/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-is-converting-a-sharp-lcd-factory-into-a-battery-plant-for-ai-data-centres-the-data-centres-cannot-wait-five-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic ($10B cash now at $350B valuation, $30B conditional on performance targets) plus five gigawatts of compute over five years, bringing its total commitment to ~$43B. The deal arrives as Anthropic&rsquo;s revenue hit $30B ARR (up from $1B in January 2025) and its secondary market valuation [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-investing-up-to-40-billion-in-a-company-that-is-beating-gemini-that-is-the-point/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-investing-up-to-40-billion-in-a-company-that-is-beating-gemini-that-is-the-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a Google Gemini robot! 🤯 #googlecloudnext #googlegemini]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a Google Gemini robot! 🤯 #googlecloudnext #googlegemini]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-is-a-google-gemini-robot-googlecloudnext-googlegemini/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-is-a-google-gemini-robot-googlecloudnext-googlegemini/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secure Managed File Transfer Software: Progress MOVEit | SourceForge Podcast, episode #110]]></title><description><![CDATA[Secure Managed File Transfer Software: Progress MOVEit | SourceForge Podcast, episode #110]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/secure-managed-file-transfer-software-progress-moveit-sourceforge-podcast-episode-110/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/secure-managed-file-transfer-software-progress-moveit-sourceforge-podcast-episode-110/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Own a #samsunggalaxy phone and a Windows PC? Check this!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Own a #samsunggalaxy phone and a Windows PC? Check this!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/own-a-samsunggalaxy-phone-and-a-windows-pc-check-this/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/own-a-samsunggalaxy-phone-and-a-windows-pc-check-this/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey’s parliament passes social media ban for under-15s, one week after a school shooting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Erd&#335;gan has 15 days to sign the bill into law. The legislation enters into force six months after publication in the Official Gazette. The main opposition CHP criticised it as a political censorship tool rather than child protection. Turkey has previously blocked Instagram, Roblox, and restricted platforms during the &#304;mamoglu protests. Turkey&rsquo;s Grand National Assembly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/turkeys-parliament-passes-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-one-week-after-a-school-shooting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/turkeys-parliament-passes-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-one-week-after-a-school-shooting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel beats expectations for the sixth straight quarter as AI demand for CPUs surges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Q1 revenue of $13.6 billion beat the $12.4 billion consensus by 9.4%. Data Centre and AI revenue rose 22% to $5.1 billion. Non-GAAP EPS of $0.29 beat the 1-cent consensus by a factor of 29. The stock is up more than 80% this year. Intel is working with Elon Musk on his planned Terafab chip [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-beats-expectations-for-the-sixth-straight-quarter-as-ai-demand-for-cpus-surges/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-beats-expectations-for-the-sixth-straight-quarter-as-ai-demand-for-cpus-surges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China plans to block US investment in its top AI firms without government approval]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two parallel moves in 24 hours mark a significant escalation of the US-China AI war from chips and exports into capital and models.&nbsp; China plans to restrict its leading technology companies, including top AI startups, from accepting US capital without first obtaining government approval, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-plans-to-block-us-investment-in-its-top-ai-firms-without-government-approval/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/china-plans-to-block-us-investment-in-its-top-ai-firms-without-government-approval/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-Energy raises $1.02 billion in IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[X-Energy sold 44.3 million Class A shares at $23 each, above the $16&ndash;$19 marketed range, and began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker XE on 24 April. The company has $1.8 billion in prior private capital, a $500 million Amazon-led Series C-1, and a binding commitment from Amazon to buy up to 5 gigawatts of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-backed-nuclear-startup-x-energy-raises-102-billion-in-ipo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-backed-nuclear-startup-x-energy-raises-102-billion-in-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce merger in Berlin, creating a $20 billion transatlantic AI company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cohere&rsquo;s shareholders will receive approximately 90% of the combined entity; Aleph Alpha&rsquo;s shareholders approximately 10%, making this effectively a Cohere acquisition in merger framing. The German government is set to become an anchor customer. Both digital ministers attended the Berlin announcement. Cohere, the Toronto-based enterprise AI company, and Aleph Alpha, the Heidelberg-based German AI startup, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cohere-and-aleph-alpha-announce-merger-in-berlin-creating-a-20-billion-transatlantic-ai-company/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cohere-and-aleph-alpha-announce-merger-in-berlin-creating-a-20-billion-transatlantic-ai-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls &ldquo;marginally short&rdquo; of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1-Pro, a gap DeepSeek says is &ldquo;approximately 3 to 6 months.&rdquo; Both models are open-source. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-returns-with-v4-pro-and-v4-flash-a-year-after-its-sputnik-moment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepseek-returns-with-v4-pro-and-v4-flash-a-year-after-its-sputnik-moment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Helsinki-based company, formerly DataCrunch, is backed by Lifeline Ventures, byFounders, Tesi, Varma, and a group of Nordic lenders. It is already cash-flow positive, holds Nvidia Preferred Partner status, and plans to hire more than 100 people this year. Verda, the Helsinki-based AI cloud infrastructure company formerly known as DataCrunch, has raised $117 million in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/verda-raises-117-million-to-expand-its-gpu-cloud-platform-from-the-nordics-into-the-us-uk-and-asia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/verda-raises-117-million-to-expand-its-gpu-cloud-platform-from-the-nordics-into-the-us-uk-and-asia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms]]></title><description><![CDATA[The minority Labour government, led by PM Jonas Gahr St&oslash;re, announced the legislation on Friday. The age threshold has been raised from the 15-year limit proposed in the 2025 consultation, aligning Norway with Australia&rsquo;s world-first ban that came into force in December. Ireland is also considering similar legislation. Norway&rsquo;s minority Labour government announced on Friday [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/norway-plans-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-16-and-shift-age-verification-liability-to-platforms/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/norway-plans-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-16-and-shift-age-verification-liability-to-platforms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is email ever going away? The head of Google Workspace says...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is email ever going away? The head of Google Workspace says...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-email-ever-going-away-the-head-of-google-workspace-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/is-email-ever-going-away-the-head-of-google-workspace-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked a Google lead about people who hate #ai]]></title><description><![CDATA[I asked a Google lead about people who hate #ai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/i-asked-a-google-lead-about-people-who-hate-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/i-asked-a-google-lead-about-people-who-hate-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is putting AI in everything, but what about privacy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is putting AI in everything, but what about privacy?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-putting-ai-in-everything-but-what-about-privacy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-putting-ai-in-everything-but-what-about-privacy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Meta is cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its workforce) beginning 20 May, cancelling 6,000 open roles, and planning additional cuts for H2 2026. The layoffs, announced via an internal memo from HR head Janelle Gale, are structural rather than performance-based, reorganising teams into AI-focused &ldquo;pods&rdquo; while Meta spends $115-135 billion on AI infrastructure [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-cutting-8000-jobs-to-pay-for-ai-it-is-also-asking-the-survivors-to-train-their-replacements/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-cutting-8000-jobs-to-pay-for-ai-it-is-also-asking-the-survivors-to-train-their-replacements/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are just slowing the bleeding.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: US petrol prices passed $4/gallon for the first time in four years (+30% YoY), driven by the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruption. Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles in Q1 2026, up 6% against a weak comparison quarter but missing estimates by 7,600 units. Consumer EV interest is rising (Edmunds: 23.8% consideration) but overall [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/high-gas-prices-are-not-saving-tesla-they-are-just-slowing-the-bleeding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/high-gas-prices-are-not-saving-tesla-they-are-just-slowing-the-bleeding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI shares at SOFR + 425 basis points (~7.88%), a two-year term with one-year extension. The loan sits atop a $40 billion bridge loan from March and brings SoftBank&rsquo;s total OpenAI commitment to ~$64.6 billion for a ~13% stake. At OpenAI&rsquo;s $852 billion [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-wants-to-borrow-10-billion-against-its-openai-stake-the-spread-tells-you-what-the-banks-think/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/softbank-wants-to-borrow-10-billion-against-its-openai-stake-the-spread-tells-you-what-the-banks-think/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence]]></title><description><![CDATA[The McLean, Virginia startup&rsquo;s Caspian platform sits as a command layer above existing security stacks, deploying pre-trained AI agents into air-gapped and compliance-restricted environments. One of its co-founders is Nick Pompeo, son of former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Rilian, a McLean, Virginia-based startup building agentic AI systems integration for defence and national security [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rilian-raises-175-million-to-bring-agentic-ai-to-sovereign-defence/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rilian-raises-175-million-to-bring-agentic-ai-to-sovereign-defence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House accuses China of industrial-scale AI model distillation, commits to intelligence sharing with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: The White House OSTP released a policy memo accusing China of &ldquo;industrial-scale&rdquo; distillation of US AI models, committing to share intelligence with US AI companies and explore accountability measures. OpenAI accused DeepSeek of distilling its models in February; Anthropic named DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI as having created 24,000 fraudulent accounts generating 16+ million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/white-house-accuses-china-of-industrial-scale-ai-model-distillation-commits-to-intelligence-sharing-with-openai-anthropic-google/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/white-house-accuses-china-of-industrial-scale-ai-model-distillation-commits-to-intelligence-sharing-with-openai-anthropic-google/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The oversubscribed financing, led by Triatomic Capital, caps a restructuring that addressed $18.7 million in debt, converted $10 million of that to equity, and preserved 60-plus patents. The company had been days away from liquidation in late 2024. Zapata Quantum announced on 23 April 2026 that it has completed an oversubscribed $15 million financing led [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zapata-quantum-raises-15-million-after-emerging-from-bankruptcy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zapata-quantum-raises-15-million-after-emerging-from-bankruptcy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US workers in first-ever buyout programme amid $80B AI spending push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to approximately 7% of its US workforce (~8,750 of 125,000 employees) in the first such programme in its 51-year history, using a &ldquo;Rule of 70&rdquo; formula (age + years of service). The offer, disclosed by CPO Amy Coleman, targets senior director level and below, with details arriving 7 May [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-offers-voluntary-retirement-to-7-of-us-workers-in-first-ever-buyout-programme-amid-80b-ai-spending-push/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-offers-voluntary-retirement-to-7-of-us-workers-in-first-ever-buyout-programme-amid-80b-ai-spending-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5]]></title><description><![CDATA[The model, codenamed &ldquo;Spud,&rdquo; is designed to complete complex multi-step tasks with minimal human direction. It sets new benchmarks in agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work, while matching GPT-5.4&rsquo;s per-token latency. API access is delayed pending additional safety work. For months, the AI industry&rsquo;s open secret has been that Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude is winning the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-gpt-55-its-first-fully-retrained-base-model-since-gpt-45/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-gpt-55-its-first-fully-retrained-base-model-since-gpt-45/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claim Clarity on the role of specialized AI in advancing workers’ compensation decision precision]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claim Clarity suggests that workers&rsquo; compensation represents a significant yet often less visible segment of the broader healthcare ecosystem. Founder and CEO Jamie LaPaglia says, &ldquo;Its scale and impact continue to expand, but it&rsquo;s sometimes approached as an extension of general healthcare, even though its regulatory and operational dynamics are different.&rdquo; Within this context, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claim-clarity-on-the-role-of-specialized-ai-in-advancing-workers-compensation-decision-precision/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/claim-clarity-on-the-role-of-specialized-ai-in-advancing-workers-compensation-decision-precision/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From enterprise IT to entrepreneurship: How Kostiantyn Gitko is building tech businesses across global markets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kostiantyn Gitko built his career in a very different environment. Before starting his own company, he worked inside large systems where reliability was expected every day. That experience still shapes how he approaches business. He began as a software engineer and gradually moved into leadership roles, managing infrastructure, teams, and operations. Today, he leads Devox [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-enterprise-it-to-entrepreneurship-how-kostiantyn-gitko-is-building-tech-businesses-across-global-markets/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/from-enterprise-it-to-entrepreneurship-how-kostiantyn-gitko-is-building-tech-businesses-across-global-markets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is TOO much AI in the #honor 600 🥲]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is TOO much AI in the #honor 600 🥲]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/there-is-too-much-ai-in-the-honor-600-/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/there-is-too-much-ai-in-the-honor-600-/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Biobank’s 500,000 genomes were listed for sale on Alibaba. The breach came from inside the system.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Genetic, medical, and lifestyle data from all 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers was listed for sale on Alibaba after three Chinese research institutions with legitimate access violated their data-sharing agreements. The data was de-identified but includes genome sequences, hospital diagnoses, and biological measures that experts say can be re-identified. Alibaba removed the listings before any [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-biobanks-500000-genomes-were-listed-for-sale-on-alibaba-the-breach-came-from-inside-the-system/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-biobanks-500000-genomes-were-listed-for-sale-on-alibaba-the-breach-came-from-inside-the-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU is about to tell Google that Gemini cannot have Android to itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI assistants, escalating a regulatory confrontation that will determine whether artificial intelligence becomes the next great platform lock-in or the first to be broken before it sets. EU watchdogs are poised to lay out what Alphabet must do to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-is-about-to-tell-google-that-gemini-cannot-have-android-to-itself/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-is-about-to-tell-google-that-gemini-cannot-have-android-to-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pentagon just picked the companies that will put nuclear reactors on Air Force bases]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: The Pentagon has narrowed its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) programme from eight companies to three, advancing microreactor deployment at Buckley Space Force Base (Colorado) and Malmstrom Air Force Base (Montana) by 2030. The original eight vendors included BWXT, Oklo, X-energy, Kairos Power, Radiant, General Atomics, Westinghouse, and Antares. The commercially owned reactor [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pentagon-just-picked-the-companies-that-will-put-nuclear-reactors-on-air-force-bases/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-pentagon-just-picked-the-companies-that-will-put-nuclear-reactors-on-air-force-bases/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor Magic 8 Pro has a magical camera grip]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honor Magic 8 Pro has a magical camera grip]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honor-magic-8-pro-has-a-magical-camera-grip/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/honor-magic-8-pro-has-a-magical-camera-grip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new model reasons about composition, searches the web for context, generates up to eight coherent images from one prompt, and renders text in non-Latin scripts with near-flawless accuracy. It also took the number one spot on the Image Arena leaderboard within 12 hours of launch, by the largest margin ever recorded. Two years ago, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-image-model-reasons-before-it-draws/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-image-model-reasons-before-it-draws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic reportedly hits $1 trillion implied valuation on secondary markets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Secondary share trading platforms are pricing Anthropic at approximately $1 trillion, just three months after its primary fundraising round valued it at $380 billion. OpenAI is trading at $880 billion on the same platforms, a meaningful reversal of the previous order. The valuations are not primary rounds and carry no guarantee of liquidity. Anthropic, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-reportedly-hits-1-trillion-implied-valuation-on-secondary-markets/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-reportedly-hits-1-trillion-implied-valuation-on-secondary-markets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix authorises $25 billion share buyback after stock falls 10% on Q1 earnings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The $25B programme has no expiration date and sits on top of a December 2024 authorisation that still had $6.8B remaining. Netflix&rsquo;s board approved it on 22 April. Shares rose 1.5% in premarket trading on the news, after falling as much as 10.8% following the Q1 report on 16 April. Netflix&rsquo;s board authorised an additional [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-authorises-25-billion-share-buyback-after-stock-falls-10-on-q1-earnings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-authorises-25-billion-share-buyback-after-stock-falls-10-on-q1-earnings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s largest sovereign wealth fund lost NOK636 billion ($68 billion) in investment returns in the first quarter, driven by the equity slide among large US technology companies. The S&amp;P 500 posted its deepest quarterly decline since 2022. The fund marginally outperformed its benchmark. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway&rsquo;s Government Pension Fund [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/norways-22-trillion-sovereign-wealth-fund-posts-a-19-loss-in-q1-2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/norways-22-trillion-sovereign-wealth-fund-posts-a-19-loss-in-q1-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain]]></title><description><![CDATA[TCV led the Series B one year ago and now doubles down on the Series C. Insight Partners also returns. The thesis: AI coding agents are generating software so fast and at such volume that human code review is no longer sufficient, and enterprise artifact management must function as the primary control and security layer. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/belfasts-cloudsmith-raises-72m-series-c-to-secure-the-ai-generated-software-supply-chain/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/belfasts-cloudsmith-raises-72m-series-c-to-secure-the-ai-generated-software-supply-chain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT, Nscale, and Nvidia announce UK sovereign AI partnership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nscale will construct the data centres at existing BT infrastructure sites; BT will provide connectivity. Both companies are founding members of the new UK Sovereign AI Industry Forum. The deal deepens Nscale&rsquo;s position as a central plank of the UK government&rsquo;s national AI infrastructure strategy. BT Group and Nscale announced on 23 April 2026 that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bt-nscale-and-nvidia-announce-uk-sovereign-ai-partnership/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bt-nscale-and-nvidia-announce-uk-sovereign-ai-partnership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla raises 2026 capex to $25 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company will go negative on free cash flow for the rest of 2026, CFO Vaibhav Taneja confirmed. But Q1 delivered an unexpected $1.4 billion positive free cash flow beat, and Tesla ended the quarter with $44.7 billion in cash. The capex uplift from $20B to $25B is a $5 billion revision to guidance issued [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-raises-2026-capex-to-25-billion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tesla-raises-2026-capex-to-25-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029]]></title><description><![CDATA[The investment is Microsoft&rsquo;s largest-ever in Australia and builds on an A$5 billion commitment from October 2023. It includes expanding Azure AI supercomputing capacity by more than 140%, extending the Microsoft-ASD Cyber-Shield to additional government agencies, and training three million Australians in AI skills by 2028. Microsoft has announced A$25 billion (approximately USD 18 billion) [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-commits-a25-billion-to-australia-by-2029/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-commits-a25-billion-to-australia-by-2029/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bain Capital seeks buyer for stake in Bridge Data Centres at $5 billion valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sources tell Reuters that Bain is looking to sell a stake in BDC, Singapore-headquartered, with nine data centres across Malaysia, Thailand, and India, at a $5 billion valuation. Citi and JPMorgan are running the process. ByteDance is the anchor tenant. No deal has been agreed and talks are preliminary. Bain Capital is seeking a buyer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bain-capital-seeks-buyer-for-stake-in-bridge-data-centres-at-5-billion-valuation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bain-capital-seeks-buyer-for-stake-in-bridge-data-centres-at-5-billion-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[The round is split between &euro;16M from Eiffel Investment Group for project deployment and &euro;6M led by SET Ventures for product and expansion, alongside existing investors Ananda Impact Ventures and Contrarian Ventures. The company targets 100MW+ of BESS projects across France, with Germany, the Nordics, and Poland to follow. Decade Energy, the Paris-based company building [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/decade-energy-raises-22m-to-build-power-infrastructure-for-electric-truck-depots-across-europe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/decade-energy-raises-22m-to-build-power-infrastructure-for-electric-truck-depots-across-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founded in 2022 and formerly called Constellation Technologies &amp; Operations, Univity is targeting a constellation of at least 1,600 satellites in very low Earth orbit, using telecom operators&rsquo; own 5G mmWave spectrum rather than competing with them. The Series A takes total financing to &euro;68M across equity, debt, subsidies and contract revenues. Univity, the Paris-based [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/french-satellite-startup-univity-raises-27m-series-a/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/french-satellite-startup-univity-raises-27m-series-a/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pre-event CoD:M stream!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pre-event CoD:M stream!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pre-event-codm-stream/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pre-event-codm-stream/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: SpaceX&rsquo;s confidential S-1 pre-IPO filing warns that its orbital AI data centre plans &ldquo;involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability,&rdquo; contradicting Elon Musk&rsquo;s January claim at Davos that space-based AI was a &ldquo;no-brainer&rdquo; achievable within two to three years. The filing comes as SpaceX targets a $1.75 trillion [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-ipo-filing-says-its-orbital-data-centres-may-never-work-three-months-ago-musk-called-them-a-no-brainer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-ipo-filing-says-its-orbital-data-centres-may-never-work-three-months-ago-musk-called-them-a-no-brainer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: VAST Data raised $1 billion in a Series F at a $30 billion valuation, more than tripling from $9.1 billion, with Drive Capital and Access Industries co-leading and Nvidia, Fidelity, and NEA participating. More than $500 million is secondary capital. The company reports $4 billion in cumulative bookings, $500 million-plus in committed ARR, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vast-datas-30-billion-valuation-is-a-bet-that-the-data-layer-is-the-real-bottleneck-in-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vast-datas-30-billion-valuation-is-a-bet-that-the-data-layer-is-the-real-bottleneck-in-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a persistent Gemini side panel integrated with Workspace, and on-device AI APIs via Gemini Nano. Chrome Enterprise Premium at $6/user/month adds real-time DLP, data masking, and AI governance [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-chrome-to-be-your-ai-colleague-and-it-is-betting-38-billion-users-agree/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-wants-chrome-to-be-your-ai-colleague-and-it-is-betting-38-billion-users-agree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary:BMW revealed the facelifted 2027 i7 simultaneously at Grand Central Terminal and Auto China with Gen6 cylindrical cells from Rimac, rare-earth-free motors with SiC inverters, and 250 kW charging. The i7 60 xDrive targets 350-plus miles EPA and 728 km WLTP; the i7 50 reaches 611 km and the M70 targets 686 km. BMW dropped [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bmws-i7-gets-rimac-batteries-rare-earth-free-motors-and-drops-level-3-driving/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bmws-i7-gets-rimac-batteries-rare-earth-free-motors-and-drops-level-3-driving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozilla patched 271 Firefox bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos, and says the zero-day era has an expiration date]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Mozilla released Firefox 150 with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier AI model distributed under the restricted Project Glasswing programme. The collaboration began with Claude Opus 4.6 finding 22 bugs in Firefox 148 earlier this year; Mythos produced more than twelve times as many. Firefox CTO [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mozilla-patched-271-firefox-bugs-found-by-anthropics-mythos-and-says-the-zero-day-era-has-an-expiration-date/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mozilla-patched-271-firefox-bugs-found-by-anthropics-mythos-and-says-the-zero-day-era-has-an-expiration-date/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Sundar Pichai opened Cloud Next 2026 with Google Cloud at $70 billion in annual revenue, 48% growth, a $240 billion backlog that doubled in a year, and $175-185 billion in planned capital expenditure. The Gemini app has 750 million monthly users, AI Overviews reach two billion, and the Gemini API processed 85 billion requests [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pichai-opens-cloud-next-2026-with-240b-backlog-750m-gemini-users-and-a-plan-to-turn-search-into-an-agent-manager/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pichai-opens-cloud-next-2026-with-240b-backlog-750m-gemini-users-and-a-plan-to-turn-search-into-an-agent-manager/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google puts $750 million behind the consultants it needs to close the cloud gap]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Google announced a $750 million fund at Cloud Next 2026 to finance partners&rsquo; agentic AI development, the largest single partner investment from any hyperscaler. Accenture has built 450+ agents, Deloitte committed its &ldquo;largest investment yet,&rdquo; KPMG pledged $100M, PwC $400M, and NTT DATA dedicated 5,000 engineers. With partners capturing up to $7.05 for every [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-puts-750-million-behind-the-consultants-it-needs-to-close-the-cloud-gap/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-puts-750-million-behind-the-consultants-it-needs-to-close-the-cloud-gap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google just launched its agentic enterprise play, and it runs from chip to inbox]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Google rebranded and consolidated its AI platform at Cloud Next 2026, renaming Vertex AI to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and absorbing Agentspace into a unified Gemini Enterprise product. The announcements include Workspace Studio (no-code agent builder), 200+ models in the Model Garden including Anthropic Claude, partner agents from Box, Workday, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-just-launched-its-agentic-enterprise-play-and-it-runs-from-chip-to-inbox/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-just-launched-its-agentic-enterprise-play-and-it-runs-from-chip-to-inbox/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your phone is quietly becoming a gaming beast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your phone is quietly becoming a gaming beast]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-phone-is-quietly-becoming-a-gaming-beast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-phone-is-quietly-becoming-a-gaming-beast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligent Freight Management Software: LIVE Connect | SourceForge Podcast, episode #109]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intelligent Freight Management Software: LIVE Connect | SourceForge Podcast, episode #109]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intelligent-freight-management-software-live-connect-sourceforge-podcast-episode-109/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intelligent-freight-management-software-live-connect-sourceforge-podcast-episode-109/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google splits its next TPU in two, and the AI chip war just became a design philosophy fight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Google made Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU, generally available at Cloud Next 2026 while previewing its eighth-generation architecture: TPU 8t (Sunfish), a Broadcom-designed training chip, and TPU 8i (Zebrafish), a MediaTek-designed inference chip, both targeting TSMC 2nm and late 2027. Ironwood delivers 4.6 petaFLOPS per chip and 42.5 exaFLOPS in a 9,216-chip superpod. The v8 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-splits-its-next-tpu-in-two-and-the-ai-chip-war-just-became-a-design-philosophy-fight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-splits-its-next-tpu-in-two-and-the-ai-chip-war-just-became-a-design-philosophy-fight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HUGE UPSET for blind camera test! #smartphones]]></title><description><![CDATA[HUGE UPSET for blind camera test! #smartphones]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huge-upset-for-blind-camera-test-smartphones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/huge-upset-for-blind-camera-test-smartphones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX secures option to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60B]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX announced the deal on X, pre-empting a New York Times report that framed it as a completed acquisition. The structure gives SpaceX optionality: exercise the call by year end or walk away having paid $10B for shared compute access and joint model work. Cursor CEO Michael Truell called it a partnership to &lsquo;scale up [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-secures-option-to-buy-ai-coding-startup-cursor-for-60b/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacex-secures-option-to-buy-ai-coding-startup-cursor-for-60b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung breaks the battery curse, and Trump loves that Tim Cook kissed his ass]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung breaks the battery curse, and Trump loves that Tim Cook kissed his ass]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-breaks-the-battery-curse-and-trump-loves-that-tim-cook-kissed-his-ass/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-breaks-the-battery-curse-and-trump-loves-that-tim-cook-kissed-his-ass/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads just went cost-per-click, and the AI advertising war has its battle lines]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: OpenAI has shifted ChatGPT&rsquo;s advertising from CPM to cost-per-click pricing, with bids between $3 and $5, after the $60 CPM it charged at launch in February eroded to as low as $25 within ten weeks. The move puts OpenAI in direct competition with Google and Meta for performance ad budgets, while Perplexity and Anthropic [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-chatgpt-ads-just-went-cost-per-click-and-the-ai-advertising-war-has-its-battle-lines/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-chatgpt-ads-just-went-cost-per-click-and-the-ai-advertising-war-has-its-battle-lines/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida launches criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Florida State University shooting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attorney General James Uthmeier said prosecutors reviewed chat logs showing ChatGPT advised the suspect on weapons, ammunition, and timing. The probe is the first criminal investigation into an AI company over an alleged role in a mass shooting in the US. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Tuesday that the state&rsquo;s Office of Statewide [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/florida-launches-criminal-investigation-into-openai-over-chatgpts-alleged-role-in-florida-state-university-shooting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/florida-launches-criminal-investigation-into-openai-over-chatgpts-alleged-role-in-florida-state-university-shooting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Japanese TV shopping company bet on Anthropic in 2021, and now it is quadrupling its fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Japanet Holdings, the Japanese TV shopping company based in Nagasaki, has quadrupled its venture capital fund to $200 million after early investments through Pegasus Tech Ventures in Anthropic, xAI, SpaceX, and OpenAI generated extraordinary paper returns. Anthropic alone has appreciated from a $550 million valuation in 2021 to $380 billion in 2026. The expansion [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-japanese-tv-shopping-company-bet-on-anthropic-in-2021-and-now-it-is-quadrupling-its-fund/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-japanese-tv-shopping-company-bet-on-anthropic-in-2021-and-now-it-is-quadrupling-its-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is installing tracking software on employees’ computers to capture mouse movements and keystrokes for AI agent training]]></title><description><![CDATA[The move, disclosed in an internal memo seen by Reuters, is framed as a way to teach AI agents how humans navigate software. Critics say it is workplace surveillance under a different name. Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees&rsquo; work computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screenshots, which will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-installing-tracking-software-on-employees-computers-to-capture-mouse-movements-and-keystrokes-for-ai-agent-training/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-installing-tracking-software-on-employees-computers-to-capture-mouse-movements-and-keystrokes-for-ai-agent-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bond wants AI to cure your doomscrolling, then monetise your memories]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Bond, a new &ldquo;post-feed&rdquo; social network founded by former Index Ventures principal Dino Becirovic and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Arthur Brazinskas, launched on 21 April with no infinite scroll and no algorithmic feed, instead using AI trained on users&rsquo; photos, videos, and audio to recommend real-world activities. The app enters a growing &ldquo;healthier social [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bond-wants-ai-to-cure-your-doomscrolling-then-monetise-your-memories/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bond-wants-ai-to-cure-your-doomscrolling-then-monetise-your-memories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Meta faces a convergence of lawsuits across the US, Australia, and the UK alleging the company knowingly profited from scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, with its own internal documents projecting that 10% of 2024 revenue, roughly $16 billion, came from fraudulent advertising. The cases span a $500 million pump-and-dump scheme, deepfake celebrity [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-projected-16-billion-in-scam-ad-revenue-now-the-lawsuits-are-piling-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-projected-16-billion-in-scam-ad-revenue-now-the-lawsuits-are-piling-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI to commit up to $1.5B of its own capital to DeployCo, a joint venture with PE firms valued at $10B]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FT reports that OpenAI&rsquo;s $500M initial equity stake, with an option for $1B more, will go into a Delaware LLC designed to accelerate AI adoption across PE portfolio companies. OpenAI is guaranteeing backers a 17.5% annual return. A close is expected in early May. OpenAI is set to commit up to $1.5 billion of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-to-commit-up-to-15b-of-its-own-capital-to-deployco-a-joint-venture-with-pe-firms-valued-at-10b/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-to-commit-up-to-15b-of-its-own-capital-to-deployco-a-joint-venture-with-pe-firms-valued-at-10b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Palo Alto startup, spun out of Ohio State University by Yu Su, argues that current agents complete tasks as intended only half the time, a reliability gap it plans to close by giving agents a mechanism to build world models of the domains they operate in, learning on the job as a specialist rather [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/neocognition-raises-40m-seed-to-build-ai-agents-that-specialise-through-experience-rather-than-pre-training/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/neocognition-raises-40m-seed-to-build-ai-agents-that-specialise-through-experience-rather-than-pre-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ATMOS Space Cargo raises €25.7M to build Europe’s first routine orbital return service]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year after flying and recovering the continent&rsquo;s first private re-entry capsule, the German-French startup is moving from demonstration to operations. Three PHOENIX 2 vehicles, a new defence entity, and a next-generation 1-tonne capsule are all funded by the round. ATMOS Space Cargo, the European company developing orbital transport and re-entry vehicles, has closed a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/atmos-space-cargo-raises-257m-to-build-europes-first-routine-orbital-return-service/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/atmos-space-cargo-raises-257m-to-build-europes-first-routine-orbital-return-service/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic’s restricted Mythos AI model on launch day via a third-party contractor’s environment]]></title><description><![CDATA[A small group communicating via a private Discord channel accessed Claude Mythos Preview by guessing the model&rsquo;s URL on the same day Anthropic announced Project Glasswing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has found no evidence of impact to its core systems. The breach highlights the risks of restricting access to frontier AI capabilities through [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unauthorized-users-gained-access-to-anthropics-restricted-mythos-ai-model-on-launch-day-via-a-third-party-contractors-environment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/unauthorized-users-gained-access-to-anthropics-restricted-mythos-ai-model-on-launch-day-via-a-third-party-contractors-environment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple is betting John Ternus will bring back Jobs-era decisiveness at the worst possible time to be behind on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Bloomberg frames Apple&rsquo;s CEO transition as a bet on &ldquo;Jobs-era decisiveness,&rdquo; with John Ternus expected to centralise decision-making and move faster on AI, where Apple&rsquo;s models trail year-old competitors and the Siri overhaul has been delayed three times since 2024. He inherits a product roadmap spanning a foldable iPhone, smart glasses, and a HomePad, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-betting-john-ternus-will-bring-back-jobs-era-decisiveness-at-the-worst-possible-time-to-be-behind-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-is-betting-john-ternus-will-bring-back-jobs-era-decisiveness-at-the-worst-possible-time-to-be-behind-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is MORE than a phone | OPPO Find X9 Ultra review]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is MORE than a phone | OPPO Find X9 Ultra review]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-is-more-than-a-phone-oppo-find-x9-ultra-review/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/this-is-more-than-a-phone-oppo-find-x9-ultra-review/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OPPO Find X9 Ultra review: What a flagship SHOULD be]]></title><description><![CDATA[OPPO Find X9 Ultra review: What a flagship SHOULD be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oppo-find-x9-ultra-review-what-a-flagship-should-be/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oppo-find-x9-ultra-review-what-a-flagship-should-be/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump says Anthropic Pentagon deal is ‘possible’, weeks after blacklisting the company as a national security risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US president told CNBC on Tuesday that Anthropic is &lsquo;shaping up&rsquo; following a White House meeting last Friday at which the company&rsquo;s CEO Dario Amodei discussed its Mythos AI model with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Pentagon&rsquo;s blacklisting of Anthropic remains in legal limbo, with a federal appeals [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-says-anthropic-pentagon-deal-is-possible-weeks-after-blacklisting-the-company-as-a-national-security-risk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-says-anthropic-pentagon-deal-is-possible-weeks-after-blacklisting-the-company-as-a-national-security-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mobile gaming just changed forever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mobile gaming just changed forever]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mobile-gaming-just-changed-forever/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mobile-gaming-just-changed-forever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung and IKEA just made the $6 smart home real, and your TV is already the hub]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Samsung SmartThings and IKEA announced that 25 new IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices can now connect directly to a SmartThings hub without requiring IKEA&rsquo;s own DIRIGERA hub, with smart bulbs starting at $5.99 that undercut competitors by half. The integration leverages Thread border routers already embedded in Samsung TVs, soundbars, and appliances since 2022, meaning [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-and-ikea-just-made-the-6-smart-home-real-and-your-tv-is-already-the-hub/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-and-ikea-just-made-the-6-smart-home-real-and-your-tv-is-already-the-hub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI recruits Cognizant and CGI to take Codex into enterprise software shops worldwide]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is building a systems integrator channel for Codex, enlisting large consulting firms to carry the coding agent into organisations it cannot reach through direct sales. Cognizant and CGI are the first named SI partners in the programme, announced on the same day. Codex has grown 6x among ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users since January. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-recruits-cognizant-and-cgi-to-take-codex-into-enterprise-software-shops-worldwide/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-recruits-cognizant-and-cgi-to-take-codex-into-enterprise-software-shops-worldwide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovable left thousands of projects exposed for 48 days, and the vibe coding security crisis is only getting worse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Lovable, the $6.6 billion vibe coding platform with eight million users, has faced three documented security incidents exposing source code, database credentials, and thousands of user records, with the most recent BOLA vulnerability left open for 48 days after the company closed a bug bounty report without escalation. The incidents are representative of a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-left-thousands-of-projects-exposed-for-48-days-and-the-vibe-coding-security-crisis-is-only-getting-worse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-left-thousands-of-projects-exposed-for-48-days-and-the-vibe-coding-security-crisis-is-only-getting-worse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cabless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock]]></title><description><![CDATA[The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver&rsquo;s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather than rule-based systems. Humble, a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup, has emerged from stealth with a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/humble-emerges-from-stealth-with-24m-and-a-cabless-autonomous-electric-truck-built-to-go-dock-to-dock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/humble-emerges-from-stealth-with-24m-and-a-cabless-autonomous-electric-truck-built-to-go-dock-to-dock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock]]></title><description><![CDATA[The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver&rsquo;s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather than rule-based systems. Humble, a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup, has emerged from stealth with a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/humble-emerges-from-stealth-with-24m-and-a-cableless-autonomous-electric-truck-built-to-go-dock-to-dock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/humble-emerges-from-stealth-with-24m-and-a-cableless-autonomous-electric-truck-built-to-go-dock-to-dock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buyers by AlixPartners found that 58% had seen Chinese EVs on TikTok, 76% of 18-to-25-year-olds were aware of Chinese EV brands, and 69% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-is-making-americans-want-chinese-evs-they-cannot-buy-and-tariffs-were-not-designed-for-this/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-is-making-americans-want-chinese-evs-they-cannot-buy-and-tariffs-were-not-designed-for-this/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple gets new CEO, the S26 Ultra gets display problems, and the Xperia gets new leaks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple gets new CEO, the S26 Ultra gets display problems, and the Xperia gets new leaks]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-gets-new-ceo-the-s26-ultra-gets-display-problems-and-the-xperia-gets-new-leaks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-gets-new-ceo-the-s26-ultra-gets-display-problems-and-the-xperia-gets-new-leaks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitHub freezes new Copilot sign-ups as agentic AI breaks the economics of flat-rate developer subscriptions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Agentic coding workflows are now routinely generating costs that exceed what users pay per month. GitHub&rsquo;s response, pausing new sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightening usage caps, signals that the era of unlimited AI assistance at fixed prices is ending. GitHub has paused new sign-ups for its Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/github-freezes-new-copilot-sign-ups-as-agentic-ai-breaks-the-economics-of-flat-rate-developer-subscriptions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/github-freezes-new-copilot-sign-ups-as-agentic-ai-breaks-the-economics-of-flat-rate-developer-subscriptions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofcom opens formal investigation into Telegram over child sexual abuse concerns]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK&rsquo;s online safety regulator has opened a formal investigation into Telegram under the Online Safety Act, examining whether the messaging platform has complied with its duties to protect UK users from child sexual abuse material. It is Ofcom&rsquo;s most significant enforcement action against a major messaging platform to date. The UK&rsquo;s online safety regulator [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ofcom-opens-formal-investigation-into-telegram-over-child-sexual-abuse-concerns/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ofcom-opens-formal-investigation-into-telegram-over-child-sexual-abuse-concerns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s the Best Medical Alert System of 2026? Comparing 7 major brands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Medical alert systems have become an essential safety tool for older adults who want to maintain their independence while ensuring help is available at the press of a button. These devices connect users to trained emergency operators 24/7, providing peace of mind for both seniors and their families. In recent years, the medical alert industry [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whats-the-best-medical-alert-system-of-2026-comparing-7-major-brands/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whats-the-best-medical-alert-system-of-2026-comparing-7-major-brands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seapoint raises €7.5M and opens to all UK and Irish founders]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dublin and London-based fintech, founded by ex-Stripe and ex-Tide engineers, has processed over 100,000 transactions and 40,000 invoices across 80+ early customers. Its &euro;7.5M seed round, led by 13books, brings total funding to &euro;10M and opens the platform to any startup in the UK and Ireland. Seapoint, the AI-powered financial operations platform for startups, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seapoint-raises-75m-and-opens-to-all-uk-and-irish-founders/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/seapoint-raises-75m-and-opens-to-all-uk-and-irish-founders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX’s public IPO filing confirms Musk and insiders retain dominant voting control]]></title><description><![CDATA[The now-public S-1 prospectus shows Musk controls roughly 79% of SpaceX&rsquo;s votes despite owning approximately 42% of its equity, a gap created by a dual-class share structure. The company is targeting a June listing at a $1.75 trillion valuation, a raise of up to $75 billion, and an unusually large 30% retail investor allocation. SpaceX&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-public-ipo-filing-confirms-musk-and-insiders-retain-dominant-voting-control/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spacexs-public-ipo-filing-confirms-musk-and-insiders-retain-dominant-voting-control/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid]]></title><description><![CDATA[In summary: Meta has hired five founding members of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup built by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, after she rejected a reported $1 billion acquisition offer. The most expensive individual hire, co-founder Andrew Tulloch, reportedly received a $1.5 billion package over six years. The talent raid is part of a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-has-hired-five-founding-members-of-mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-in-a-systematic-talent-raid/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-has-hired-five-founding-members-of-mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-in-a-systematic-talent-raid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Ternus built Apple’s hardware for 24 years and now he has to figure out AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: John Ternus, Apple&rsquo;s incoming CEO effective 1 September, is a 50-year-old mechanical engineer who reversed a period of declining product quality, personally lobbied for the creation of iPadOS, oversaw the Apple Silicon transition, and now controls products generating roughly 80% of Apple&rsquo;s revenue. His leadership style prioritises systemic problem-solving over blame, but critics note [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/john-ternus-built-apples-hardware-for-24-years-and-now-he-has-to-figure-out-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/john-ternus-built-apples-hardware-for-24-years-and-now-he-has-to-figure-out-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dutch startup, the only company offering a dedicated commercial solution for quantum chip testing, raised a &euro;3M extension to its June 2025 seed round from the European Innovation Council Fund. The accompanying MAX Partnership Programme gives quantum chip makers a structured way to shape the next generation of OrangeQS&rsquo;s high-throughput test equipment. OrangeQS, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/orangeqs-raises-15m-and-brings-hardware-makers-into-the-solution/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/orangeqs-raises-15m-and-brings-hardware-makers-into-the-solution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepWay closes $310M in pre-IPO financing as it seeks to take Baidu-backed autonomous electric trucks global]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hefei-based company, which has delivered 6,400 intelligent electric heavy-duty trucks in China and is targeting a Hong Kong stock market listing, has attracted an Australian superannuation fund among its latest investors, a sign that its clean freight story is reaching institutional capital well beyond its home market. It has yet to turn a profit. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepway-closes-310m-in-pre-ipo-financing-as-it-seeks-to-take-baidu-backed-autonomous-electric-trucks-global/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepway-closes-310m-in-pre-ipo-financing-as-it-seeks-to-take-baidu-backed-autonomous-electric-trucks-global/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Osnabr&uuml;ck startup&rsquo;s camera-based self-checkout, which identifies food and drinks without barcodes in under 10 seconds, is already running at 43 points of sale inside the Orlando Magic&rsquo;s NBA arena and across about a third of German university campuses. The Series A was led by eCAPITAL and Simon Capital. VisioLab, a German startup that makes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visiolab-raises-11m-to-scale-its-ai-powered-ipad-checkout-to-stadiums-canteens-and-campuses-worldwide/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/visiolab-raises-11m-to-scale-its-ai-powered-ipad-checkout-to-stadiums-canteens-and-campuses-worldwide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Project Prometheus, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding, is developing AI systems that understand the physical world, targeting engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, and drug discovery. The round has not yet closed. Jeff Bezos is close to finalising a $10 billion funding round for his AI laboratory at a $38 billion valuation, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jeff-bezos-physical-ai-lab-is-close-to-raising-10-billion-at-a-38-billion-valuation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jeff-bezos-physical-ai-lab-is-close-to-raising-10-billion-at-a-38-billion-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clarifai says it deleted 3 million OkCupid user photos and the facial-recognition models trained on them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI company received the photos from OkCupid in 2014 without users&rsquo; knowledge, in a data transfer that breached OkCupid&rsquo;s own privacy policy. The FTC&rsquo;s late March settlement with OkCupid and Match Group brought no financial penalties. Clarifai was not accused of wrongdoing. Clarifai, a Delaware-based facial-recognition AI company, has confirmed that it deleted approximately [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clarifai-says-it-deleted-3-million-okcupid-user-photos-and-the-facial-recognition-models-trained-on-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/clarifai-says-it-deleted-3-million-okcupid-user-photos-and-the-facial-recognition-models-trained-on-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon puts up to $25 billion more into Anthropic and secures 10-year cloud commitment in return]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deal is Amazon&rsquo;s second consecutive mega-round with a frontier AI lab, following a near-identical $50 billion investment in OpenAI two months ago. Anthropic&rsquo;s annualised revenue has reached $30 billion. The arrangement locks Anthropic into AWS&rsquo;s Trainium chips through Trainium4 and secures up to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity for Claude. Amazon has agreed to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-puts-up-to-25-billion-more-into-anthropic-and-secures-10-year-cloud-commitment-in-return/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-puts-up-to-25-billion-more-into-anthropic-and-secures-10-year-cloud-commitment-in-return/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: OpenAI&rsquo;s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI&rsquo;s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files to give the AI assistant passive context about user activity. The feature is unavailable in the EU, UK, and Switzerland, requires a $100+/month [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-codex-for-mac-now-watches-your-screen-to-build-context-but-sends-the-screenshots-to-its-servers-first/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-codex-for-mac-now-watches-your-screen-to-build-context-but-sends-the-screenshots-to-its-servers-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing &ldquo;Agentic Search Optimisation&rdquo; as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, traditional search, and autonomous AI agents, drawing on 213 million LLM prompts. The framework arrives as organic click-through rates have dropped 61% on queries with AI Overviews, 62% of brands [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/semrush-launches-a-framework-for-measuring-brand-visibility-in-ai-search-as-the-old-seo-playbook-breaks-down/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/semrush-launches-a-framework-for-measuring-brand-visibility-in-ai-search-as-the-old-seo-playbook-breaks-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after nearly 15 years, with hardware chief John Ternus taking over]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO on 1 September after nearly 15 years, during which Apple&rsquo;s market capitalisation grew from $348 billion to roughly $4 trillion and annual revenue quadrupled to $416 billion. John Ternus, the 50-year-old SVP of hardware engineering who oversees roughly 80% of Apple&rsquo;s revenue-generating products, will become the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tim-cook-is-stepping-down-as-apple-ceo-after-nearly-15-years-with-hardware-chief-john-ternus-taking-over/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tim-cook-is-stepping-down-as-apple-ceo-after-nearly-15-years-with-hardware-chief-john-ternus-taking-over/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp is testing a paid subscription at EUR 2.49 per month as Meta rolls out premium tiers across its apps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: WhatsApp has begun testing a paid consumer subscription called WhatsApp Plus at approximately EUR 2.49 per month, offering cosmetic upgrades including 18 chat themes, custom icons, exclusive ringtones, and expanded pinned chats, following Instagram Plus which launched in three markets on 30 March. The subscriptions represent Meta&rsquo;s first simultaneous consumer-facing paid tiers across its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whatsapp-is-testing-a-paid-subscription-at-eur-249-per-month-as-meta-rolls-out-premium-tiers-across-its-apps/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/whatsapp-is-testing-a-paid-subscription-at-eur-249-per-month-as-meta-rolls-out-premium-tiers-across-its-apps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is building a four-partner chip supply chain to challenge Nvidia in AI inference]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Google is building the AI industry&rsquo;s most diversified custom chip supply chain, with four design partners (Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, Intel) and a roadmap stretching from the Ironwood TPU now shipping in the millions to TPU v8 chips at TSMC 2nm in late 2027. The strategy, detailed ahead of Google Cloud Next, splits the next [&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-four-partner-chip-supply-chain-to-challenge-nvidia-in-ai-inference/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-building-a-four-partner-chip-supply-chain-to-challenge-nvidia-in-ai-inference/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk fails to appear before Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of child sexual images]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Elon Musk failed to appear for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors investigating Grok&rsquo;s generation of an estimated 23,000 sexualised images of children and 3 million sexualised images overall over an 11-day period, as the US DOJ refused to assist the French probe. The case, which covers five suspected criminal offences including complicity in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-fails-to-appear-before-paris-prosecutors-investigating-groks-generation-of-child-sexual-images/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-fails-to-appear-before-paris-prosecutors-investigating-groks-generation-of-child-sexual-images/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 8 best supplier management software platforms: The 2026 buyer’s guide]]></title><description><![CDATA[As of 2026, I&rsquo;ve spent more than 10 years analyzing procurement technology and supply chain logistics for public companies. If there&rsquo;s one thing I&rsquo;ve learned from these audits, it&rsquo;s that managing suppliers effectively can make or break a business. Third-party risk is at an all time high. Tariffs, taxes, and supply chains are introducing much [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-8-best-supplier-management-software-platforms-the-2026-buyers-guide/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-8-best-supplier-management-software-platforms-the-2026-buyers-guide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligent Investing founder Arnout Ter Schure on integrating AI capabilities with human market insight and structure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intelligent Investing, a research-driven market analysis platform, works from the premise that artificial intelligence can expand financial forecasting by processing large datasets, accelerating strategy development, and enabling systematic execution. Alongside these capabilities, human interpretation remains essential, providing the context needed to translate data into meaningful market perspectives.&nbsp; This philosophy is reflected in the work of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intelligent-investing-founder-arnout-ter-schure-on-integrating-ai-capabilities-with-human-market-insight-and-structure/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intelligent-investing-founder-arnout-ter-schure-on-integrating-ai-capabilities-with-human-market-insight-and-structure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Op-Ed: SaaS is not dead. You are just being sold the funeral]]></title><description><![CDATA[The &ldquo;AI has killed software&rdquo; narrative has a handful of very loud beneficiaries and a lot of quiet evidence against it. The companies that will survive the next five years are the ones that refuse to treat the hyperscalers as the new gods. Whenever I make an affirmation, I like to do my research first, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/op-ed-saas-is-not-dead-you-are-just-being-sold-the-funeral/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/op-ed-saas-is-not-dead-you-are-just-being-sold-the-funeral/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York startup has built AI that reads handwritten fax forms, processes prior authorisations, and completes patient intakes in under five minutes, all without asking providers to change how they work. It has reached multiple millions in revenue in under a year and is targeting 4x growth by end of 2026. Coral, the New [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coral-raises-125m-to-automate-healthcares-administrative-back-office/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coral-raises-125m-to-automate-healthcares-administrative-back-office/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Monday, April 20, 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Monday, April 20, 2026)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-monday-april-20-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-monday-april-20-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AirTrunk acquires Lumina CloudInfra to enter India with 600MW of planned capacity]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deal is an internal Blackstone consolidation, both AirTrunk (acquired for A$24 billion in 2024) and Lumina CloudInfra (launched by Blackstone in 2022) sit within the same portfolio. By folding Lumina into AirTrunk, Blackstone gives its Asia-Pacific data centre platform a foothold in India&rsquo;s hyperscale market without a third-party acquisition. Terms were not disclosed. AirTrunk, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airtrunk-acquires-lumina-cloudinfra-to-enter-india-with-600mw-of-planned-capacity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airtrunk-acquires-lumina-cloudinfra-to-enter-india-with-600mw-of-planned-capacity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humanoid robot passed an eight-hour factory shift at Siemens’ Erlangen plant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siemens, Nvidia, and UK robotics startup Humanoid have successfully deployed an AI-powered wheeled humanoid robot in live logistics operations at a Siemens electronics factory in Germany. The HMND 01 Alpha completed over eight hours of autonomous tote-handling at 60 moves per hour with a pick-and-place success rate above 90%, and was integrated directly into Siemens&rsquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-humanoid-robot-passed-an-eight-hour-factory-shift-at-siemens-erlangen-plant/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-humanoid-robot-passed-an-eight-hour-factory-shift-at-siemens-erlangen-plant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question AI providers hope VPs of Engineering never ask]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI coding adoption is exploding. But most engineering leaders are still measuring usage instead of outcomes. That creates a costly blind spot. There is a question that nobody in the AI industry wants you to ask. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Google. Not the dozens of startups selling AI coding agents to your engineering team. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-question-ai-providers-hope-vps-of-engineering-never-ask/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-question-ai-providers-hope-vps-of-engineering-never-ask/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASIC joins global regulators monitoring Anthropic’s Mythos AI for banking system risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s markets regulator has publicly confirmed it is watching the development of Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos model alongside peer regulators worldwide, adding to a rapidly expanding international regulatory response that began with the Bank of England, the US Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department. ECB President Lagarde has warned no governance framework is yet in place. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asic-joins-global-regulators-monitoring-anthropics-mythos-ai-for-banking-system-risks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/asic-joins-global-regulators-monitoring-anthropics-mythos-ai-for-banking-system-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s NEXTDC launches A$2.2 billion capital plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ASX-listed data centre operator is raising A$1.5 billion in a fully underwritten equity offering and expanding its hybrid securities programme by A$700 million, with La Caisse de d&eacute;p&ocirc;t et placement du Qu&eacute;bec now committed to a total of A$1.7 billion. The raise will fund accelerated development of the S4 Western Sydney campus, where contracted [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-nextdc-launches-a22-billion-capital-plan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/australias-nextdc-launches-a22-billion-capital-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut’s IPO is two years away and it’ll be in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[The CEO of Europe&rsquo;s most valuable startup gave his clearest IPO timeline yet in a Bloomberg interview, narrowing his December &lsquo;two to three years&rsquo; estimate to &lsquo;two years.&rsquo; It came as Revolut marked the biggest regulatory milestone in its history and filed for a US bank charter, both developments that make an eventual listing meaningfully [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revoluts-ipo-is-two-years-away-and-itll-be-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revoluts-ipo-is-two-years-away-and-itll-be-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humanoid robot just beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes in Beijing]]></title><description><![CDATA[A humanoid robot named Lightning completed the Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by nearly seven minutes. The robot, built by Shenzhen Honor Smart Technology Development Co., navigated the 21-kilometre course autonomously, without remote control, using multi-sensor fusion and real-time decision-making algorithms. A second Lightning unit, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-humanoid-robot-just-beat-the-human-half-marathon-world-record-by-seven-minutes-in-beijing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-humanoid-robot-just-beat-the-human-half-marathon-world-record-by-seven-minutes-in-beijing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump wants to stop states from regulating AI. States and Congress keep saying no.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: The Trump administration is waging a multi-front campaign to prevent states from regulating AI, using a DOJ litigation task force, Commerce Department evaluations of &ldquo;burdensome&rdquo; state laws, and a legislative framework urging Congress to preempt state-level regulation with a &ldquo;minimally burdensome national standard.&rdquo; But states have accelerated in the opposite direction &ndash; 1,208 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-wants-to-stop-states-from-regulating-ai-states-and-congress-keep-saying-no/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trump-wants-to-stop-states-from-regulating-ai-states-and-congress-keep-saying-no/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is in talks with Marvell to build custom AI inference chips as it diversifies beyond Broadcom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new AI chips &ndash; a memory processing unit and an inference-optimised TPU &ndash; adding a third design partner alongside Broadcom and MediaTek in its custom silicon supply chain. The discussions, which have not yet produced a signed contract, came days after Broadcom locked in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-in-talks-with-marvell-to-build-custom-ai-inference-chips-as-it-diversifies-beyond-broadcom/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-is-in-talks-with-marvell-to-build-custom-ai-inference-chips-as-it-diversifies-beyond-broadcom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Stanford&rsquo;s 2026 AI Index Report finds the performance gap between the best American and Chinese AI models has collapsed to 2.7%, down from 17.5-31.6 percentage points in May 2023, despite the US spending 23 times more on private AI investment ($285.9 billion vs $12.4 billion). China leads in AI patents (69.7% of global [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stanfords-ai-index-finds-china-has-nearly-closed-the-performance-gap-with-the-us-despite-spending-23-times-less/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stanfords-ai-index-finds-china-has-nearly-closed-the-performance-gap-with-the-us-despite-spending-23-times-less/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threads is redesigning its website and finally adding direct messages to the desktop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Threads head Connor Hayes previewed a redesigned web interface that adds direct messages, a navigation sidebar with shortcuts to saved posts and insights, and a cleaner single-feed layout replacing the current multi-column design. DMs, which launched on mobile in June 2025, will roll out on web &ldquo;over the coming weeks,&rdquo; bringing one-on-one chats, group [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/threads-is-redesigning-its-website-and-finally-adding-direct-messages-to-the-desktop/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/threads-is-redesigning-its-website-and-finally-adding-direct-messages-to-the-desktop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta targets 20 May for 8,000 layoffs as it redirects billions toward AI infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Meta will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its 78,865-person workforce), with additional cuts planned for the second half of 2026. The restructuring, which follows earlier rounds that brought Zuckerberg&rsquo;s total cuts since 2022 to roughly 25,000, is driven by a reallocation toward AI infrastructure costing $115-135 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-targets-20-may-for-8000-layoffs-as-it-redirects-billions-toward-ai-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-targets-20-may-for-8000-layoffs-as-it-redirects-billions-toward-ai-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Investment Fund is raising a &euro;15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to &euro;80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany&rsquo;s WIN initiative is targeting &euro;12 billion by 2030. France&rsquo;s Tibi programme has pledged &euro;7 billion in private capital and labelled 92 VC and growth funds with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-is-pouring-tens-of-billions-of-public-money-into-vc-the-hard-part-is-making-it-work/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-is-pouring-tens-of-billions-of-public-money-into-vc-the-hard-part-is-making-it-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s Huang warns DeepSeek running on Huawei chips would be ‘horrible’ for the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that DeepSeek optimising its AI models for Huawei&rsquo;s Ascend chips instead of American hardware would be &ldquo;a horrible outcome&rdquo; for the United States, as the Chinese AI lab prepares to launch its V4 foundation model on Huawei&rsquo;s Ascend 950PR processor. The migration from Nvidia&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidias-huang-warns-deepseek-running-on-huawei-chips-would-be-horrible-for-the-us/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidias-huang-warns-deepseek-running-on-huawei-chips-would-be-horrible-for-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s Amodei meets Wiles and Bessent at the White House in first step toward resolving Mythos standoff]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday in what the White House called &ldquo;productive and constructive&rdquo; talks over access to Mythos, the frontier AI model capable of finding thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The meeting signals a thaw in the standoff that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-amodei-meets-wiles-and-bessent-at-the-white-house-in-first-step-toward-resolving-mythos-standoff/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-amodei-meets-wiles-and-bessent-at-the-white-house-in-first-step-toward-resolving-mythos-standoff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir, Thales, and a startup are competing to build the FAA’s predictive air traffic AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: The FAA is developing SMART (Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories), an AI system that would extend air traffic conflict prediction from 15 minutes to two hours, with Palantir, Thales, and Air Space Intelligence competing for the contract. The project follows the LaGuardia crash that exposed controller overwork and aging systems, and sits [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantir-thales-and-a-startup-are-competing-to-build-the-faas-predictive-air-traffic-ai/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/palantir-thales-and-a-startup-are-competing-to-build-the-faas-predictive-air-traffic-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursor is raising $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation as AI coding tools become the fastest-growing software category]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: AI coding startup Cursor (Anysphere) is in talks to raise at least $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and Nvidia, nearly doubling its November 2025 valuation of $29.3 billion. The company has grown from zero to $2 billion ARR in three years &ndash; the fastest B2B [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cursor-is-raising-2-billion-at-a-50-billion-valuation-as-ai-coding-tools-become-the-fastest-growing-software-category/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cursor-is-raising-2-billion-at-a-50-billion-valuation-as-ai-coding-tools-become-the-fastest-growing-software-category/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three more senior executives leave OpenAI as the company kills its side quests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Three senior OpenAI executives, former CPO Kevin Weil, Sora head Bill Peebles, and enterprise CTO Srinivas Narayanan &ndash; departed on the same day as the company shuts down &ldquo;side quests&rdquo; including Sora (discontinuing 26 April) and dismantles OpenAI for Science. The exits continue a two-year pattern that has seen only 2 of 11 co-founders [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/three-more-senior-executives-leave-openai-as-the-company-kills-its-side-quests/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/three-more-senior-executives-leave-openai-as-the-company-kills-its-side-quests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christian Weedbrook, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies, became a billionaire this week without NVIDIA investing a single dollar in his company. His 46.4 million multiple-voting shares were worth approximately $1.5 billion as of midday Friday, after Xanadu&rsquo;s stock surged nearly fivefold in six trading sessions. The catalyst was not anything Xanadu [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-didnt-invest-in-xanadu-but-it-made-its-ceo-a-billionaire-anyway/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nvidia-didnt-invest-in-xanadu-but-it-made-its-ceo-a-billionaire-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser. The meeting follows Anthropic&rsquo;s blacklisting by the Pentagon after Amodei refused to remove safety [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-amodei-heads-to-the-white-house-as-washington-fights-over-mythos-access/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-amodei-heads-to-the-white-house-as-washington-fights-over-mythos-access/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman&rsquo;s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World&rsquo;s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a &ldquo;Verified Human&rdquo; badge. The feature responds to deepfake fraud that cost businesses over $200 million in Q1 2025 alone, including [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoom-partners-with-sam-altmans-world-to-verify-that-meeting-participants-are-actually-human/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/zoom-partners-with-sam-altmans-world-to-verify-that-meeting-participants-are-actually-human/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with nine retail partners including Target, Best Buy, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-launches-5-doorstep-return-pickups-for-uber-eats-purchases-across-5000-us-cities/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-launches-5-doorstep-return-pickups-for-uber-eats-purchases-across-5000-us-cities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct response to the MacBook Neo. The new chips, announced on 16 April, target the same budget laptop segment that Apple redefined last month with its $599 machine, and they arrive with a familiar pitch: more choice, more AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intels-new-wildcat-lake-chips-take-aim-at-the-macbook-neo-with-ai-as-the-differentiator/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intels-new-wildcat-lake-chips-take-aim-at-the-macbook-neo-with-ai-as-the-differentiator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volvo’s parent Geely is selling a $15,000 electric SUV with massaging seats and 600 km of range]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Geely, which owns Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, and Zeekr, has launched the EX5, a battery-electric SUV starting at 109,800 yuan (~$15,300) with massaging seats, a 1,000-watt sound system, and up to 610 km of range. Already sold in 35 countries and the most exported BEV A-class crossover in China, it undercuts the cheapest European [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volvos-parent-geely-is-selling-a-15000-electric-suv-with-massaging-seats-and-600-km-of-range/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volvos-parent-geely-is-selling-a-15000-electric-suv-with-massaging-seats-and-600-km-of-range/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canva becomes the design layer inside Claude with new Anthropic partnership]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Canva and Anthropic have launched Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that uses Canva&rsquo;s Design Engine to generate fully editable, on-brand visuals from text descriptions. The announcement coincides with Canva AI 2.0, which the company calls its biggest product launch ever, introducing conversational design, agentic orchestration, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canva-becomes-the-design-layer-inside-claude-with-new-anthropic-partnership/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canva-becomes-the-design-layer-inside-claude-with-new-anthropic-partnership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million and is pivoting to AI cloud computing]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Allbirds is rebranding as NewBird AI and pivoting from sustainable footwear to GPU-as-a-service cloud computing after selling its shoe business to American Exchange Group for $39 million. The company secured $50 million in convertible financing, saw its stock surge 600% before falling back by a third, and plans to lease GPUs to AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/allbirds-sold-its-shoe-business-for-39-million-and-is-pivoting-to-ai-cloud-computing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/allbirds-sold-its-shoe-business-for-39-million-and-is-pivoting-to-ai-cloud-computing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your #smarthome has never been COOLer ❄️ #switchbot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your #smarthome has never been COOLer ❄️ #switchbot]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-smarthome-has-never-been-cooler-switchbot/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-smarthome-has-never-been-cooler-switchbot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Friday, April 17, 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Friday, April 17, 2026)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-friday-april-17-2026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-friday-april-17-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dropbox brings its files, Dash search, and Reclaim calendar into ChatGPT with three new apps]]></title><description><![CDATA[The storage company is launching a Dropbox file app, a Dropbox Dash enterprise search app, and a Reclaim AI calendar app inside ChatGPT, letting users access, save, and act on their work without leaving the AI interface. The move is the latest sign that ChatGPT is positioning itself as a productivity operating system, not just [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dropbox-brings-its-files-dash-search-and-reclaim-calendar-into-chatgpt-with-three-new-apps/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/dropbox-brings-its-files-dash-search-and-reclaim-calendar-into-chatgpt-with-three-new-apps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ONWARD Medical raises €40.6M to advance its spinal cord stimulation implant]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Eindhoven neurotechnology company is using the proceeds to fund its Empower BP pivotal trial, which tests whether its implantable ARC-IM&reg; system can treat blood pressure instability after spinal cord injury, while expanding commercial rollout of its already-cleared ARC-EX&reg; external therapy system. Cash runway now extends to Q1 2028. ONWARD Medical has raised &euro;40.6 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/onward-medical-raises-406m-to-advance-its-spinal-cord-stimulation-implant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/onward-medical-raises-406m-to-advance-its-spinal-cord-stimulation-implant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU awards its €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four European providers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Post Telecom (with CleverCloud and OVHcloud), StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus (with S3NS, a Thales &ndash; Google Cloud joint venture, plus Clarence and Mistral) have won the European Commission&rsquo;s six-year sovereign cloud framework contract. The Proximus consortium&rsquo;s inclusion signals that non-European technology can qualify as &lsquo;sovereign&rsquo; under the Commission&rsquo;s framework if operated within a sufficiently strict [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-awards-its-180-million-sovereign-cloud-contract-to-four-european-providers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-awards-its-180-million-sovereign-cloud-contract-to-four-european-providers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepL launches real-time voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cologne-based translation company best known for its text tools has unveiled a full voice product suite covering meetings, conversations, group settings, and an API for enterprise integration. A live demo in Seoul showed one-to-two sentence delays, and DeepL&rsquo;s CPO acknowledged word order differences between languages remain a fundamental challenge. DeepL, the Cologne-based language AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepl-launches-real-time-voice-to-voice-translation-in-40-languages/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/deepl-launches-real-time-voice-to-voice-translation-in-40-languages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[AlixLabs, the Lund-based semiconductor process startup developing Atomic Pitch Splitting (APS&trade;), has completed its &euro;15M Series A with a strategic top-up from Finnish investor Stephen Industries. The company is targeting beta testing with chipmakers in 2026 and manufacturing deployment by 2027. AlixLabs, a deep-tech semiconductor startup based in Lund, Sweden, has closed its &euro;15 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alixlabs-closes-15m-series-a-to-commercialise-the-atomic-etching-technology/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alixlabs-closes-15m-series-a-to-commercialise-the-atomic-etching-technology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ericsson narrowly misses Q1 profit forecasts as North America unwind]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Swedish telecoms equipment maker narrowly missed profit forecasts, with adjusted EBITA falling 20% year-on-year to SEK 5.6 billion. North America, which drove a 20%+ surge in Q1 2025, declined sharply as prior-year pull-forward investment unwinds. CEO Ekholm blames rising semiconductor input costs, partly driven by AI demand. Ericsson reported a sharp fall in profitability [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ericsson-narrowly-misses-q1-profit-forecasts-as-north-america-unwind/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ericsson-narrowly-misses-q1-profit-forecasts-as-north-america-unwind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a specialised AI model for drug discovery and life sciences research]]></title><description><![CDATA[Named after the crystallographer who helped reveal the structure of DNA, GPT-Rosalind is OpenAI&rsquo;s first domain-specific model series, fine-tuned for biochemistry, genomics, and protein engineering. Access is restricted to a trusted-access programme for vetted enterprise customers including Amgen, Moderna, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. OpenAI has launched GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built specifically for life [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-gpt-rosalind-a-specialised-ai-model-for-drug-discovery-and-life-sciences-research/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-launches-gpt-rosalind-a-specialised-ai-model-for-drug-discovery-and-life-sciences-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stockholm’s BioLamina secures €20M EIB loan to scale the protein matrices that make cell therapies possible]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Investment Bank is lending &euro;20 million to BioLamina, the Swedish biotech that supplies the laminin-based cell culture matrices used by stem cell therapy developers worldwide. The funding will support expanded production of laminin technologies and animal-free drug safety testing methods. BioLamina, the Stockholm-based biotechnology company that produces the protein scaffolding used to grow [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stockholms-biolamina-secures-20m-eib-loan-to-scale-the-protein-matrices-that-make-cell-therapies-possible/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stockholms-biolamina-secures-20m-eib-loan-to-scale-the-protein-matrices-that-make-cell-therapies-possible/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GIC-backed battery maker Envision AESC is considering a $2 billion Hong Kong IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Japan-headquartered EV battery manufacturer, controlled by China&rsquo;s Envision Group and backed by Singapore&rsquo;s sovereign wealth fund GIC, is mulling an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise up to $2 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The move marks a significant change from earlier plans to list in the US. Envision AESC, the electric vehicle [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gic-backed-battery-maker-envision-aesc-is-considering-a-2-billion-hong-kong-ipo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gic-backed-battery-maker-envision-aesc-is-considering-a-2-billion-hong-kong-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequoia raises $7 billion for its biggest-ever late-stage fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Silicon Valley institution has closed roughly $7 billion for its expansion strategy fund, nearly doubling its comparable 2022 vehicle. Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, who took over as co-stewards in November 2025, are making the raise their opening statement on the AI era. Sequoia Capital has raised approximately $7 billion for a new fund, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-raises-7-billion-for-its-biggest-ever-late-stage-fund/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sequoia-raises-7-billion-for-its-biggest-ever-late-stage-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski built a global tech career and is now shaping AI strategy for enterprises]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski&rsquo;s career spans multiple continents and leadership roles, yet her current focus reflects a consistent theme: understanding how technology translates into business outcomes. As founder and CEO of EverCognitive, she brings that perspective into an AI landscape where many organizations are still defining their AI transformation and how to apply it in practical [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-elizabeta-gjorgievska-joshevski-built-a-global-tech-career-and-is-now-shaping-ai-strategy-for-enterprises/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/how-elizabeta-gjorgievska-joshevski-built-a-global-tech-career-and-is-now-shaping-ai-strategy-for-enterprises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roblox gives its AI assistant the ability to plan, build, and test games on its own]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Roblox is upgrading its built-in AI assistant with agentic capabilities including a planning mode that analyses game code before proposing action plans, procedural 3D model generation, mesh generation, and self-correcting loops that test and refine outputs. The update also adds MCP client integration with third-party tools like Claude and Cursor, with a roadmap [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/roblox-gives-its-ai-assistant-the-ability-to-plan-build-and-test-games-on-its-own/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/roblox-gives-its-ai-assistant-the-ability-to-plan-build-and-test-games-on-its-own/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trusti envisions the return of human-centered recommendations in a digitally expansive marketplace]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a need arises, many people instinctively turn to someone they know. A quick message to a friend or a brief conversation often brings clarity, shaped by shared experiences and personal understanding. According to Stanley Fulton, founder of Trusti, this pattern has long guided everyday decisions, offering a sense of familiarity that extends beyond simple [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trusti-envisions-the-return-of-human-centered-recommendations-in-a-digitally-expansive-marketplace/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trusti-envisions-the-return-of-human-centered-recommendations-in-a-digitally-expansive-marketplace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung turns its smart home into a remote care system for ageing families]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Samsung has updated SmartThings with family care features that use connected appliances and wearables to monitor elderly relatives remotely, including fall detection via robot vacuum camera, cognitive decline screening through behavioural pattern analysis, environmental safety alerts, and activity tracking. The update also adds Galaxy AI-powered routine creation, millimetre-wave ambient sensing with local processing, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-turns-its-smart-home-into-a-remote-care-system-for-ageing-families/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/samsung-turns-its-smart-home-into-a-remote-care-system-for-ageing-families/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solidroad raises $25 million to replace manual customer support QA with AI that reviews every conversation]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Solidroad, a Dublin and San Francisco startup founded by Intercom alumni, has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Hedosophia to automate customer support quality assurance using AI. The platform reviews 100% of customer interactions versus the industry standard of 1-3%, and counts Ryanair, Crypto.com, and Oura among its customers. Solidroad, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/solidroad-raises-25-million-to-replace-manual-customer-support-qa-with-ai-that-reviews-every-conversation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/solidroad-raises-25-million-to-replace-manual-customer-support-qa-with-ai-that-reviews-every-conversation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s China chief calls Shanghai factory a ‘golden key’ to mass-producing humanoid robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Tesla&rsquo;s China president Wang Hao has described the Shanghai Gigafactory as a &ldquo;golden key&rdquo; to mass-producing Optimus humanoid robots, the first time a Tesla executive has publicly linked the factory to robotics manufacturing. The plant delivered 851,000 EVs in 2025, and Tesla has deployed over 1,000 Gen 3 Optimus units across its own [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-china-chief-calls-shanghai-factory-a-golden-key-to-mass-producing-humanoid-robots/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/teslas-china-chief-calls-shanghai-factory-a-golden-key-to-mass-producing-humanoid-robots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google gives Gemini image generation that knows your life]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Google has added Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini&rsquo;s Personal Intelligence feature, letting the AI create images informed by a user&rsquo;s Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Drive, and other Google app data. The feature rolls out to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in the US first, with Europe excluded from the initial global launch. Nano [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-gives-gemini-image-generation-that-knows-your-life/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-gives-gemini-image-generation-that-knows-your-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4&rsquo;s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and a 14% improvement in multi-step agentic reasoning with a third of the tool errors. Priced at $5/$25 per million tokens, it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-47-with-benchmark-leading-coding-and-agentic-performance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-47-with-benchmark-leading-coding-and-agentic-performance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slash, the vertical banking platform built by two college dropouts, has raised a $100M Series C backed by Khosla Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company&rsquo;s valuation has nearly quadrupled since its May 2025 Series B, the latest leg of a comeback story that began when its core market evaporated overnight. Slash, the San Francisco-based vertical [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-fintech-that-pivoted-because-of-kanye-west-just-hit-a-14b-valuation-with-100m-from-khosla-and-ribbit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-fintech-that-pivoted-because-of-kanye-west-just-hit-a-14b-valuation-with-100m-from-khosla-and-ribbit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pixels FINALLY get this missing feature! #pixel #smartphone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pixels FINALLY get this missing feature! #pixel #smartphone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixels-finally-get-this-missing-feature-pixel-smartphone/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/pixels-finally-get-this-missing-feature-pixel-smartphone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorola Signature Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motorola Signature Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-signature-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/motorola-signature-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Thursday, April 16, 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Thursday, April 16, 2026)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-thursday-april-16-2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-thursday-april-16-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vivo X300 Ultra Unboxing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vivo X300 Ultra Unboxing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vivo-x300-ultra-unboxing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/vivo-x300-ultra-unboxing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M]]></title><description><![CDATA[STC-15 is the world&rsquo;s first RNA-modifying enzyme inhibitor to reach human trials. Phase 1 showed durable tumour regression across multiple sarcoma subtypes. The $56M Series C is backed entirely by existing investors including Pfizer Ventures and M Ventures. STORM Therapeutics, a Cambridge-based clinical-stage biotech targeting RNA modifications to treat cancer, has raised $56 million in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cambridge-biotech-storm-therapeutics-raises-56m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cambridge-biotech-storm-therapeutics-raises-56m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spektr raises $20M to replace the compliance analyst’s copy-paste workflow with AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Copenhagen fintech has built a platform of specialised AI agents that handle KYC and KYB work, document reviews, ownership mapping, risk rationale, in minutes rather than hours. NEA led the Series A; Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech participated. Spektr, a Copenhagen-based startup building AI infrastructure for financial compliance, has raised $20 million in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spektr-raises-20m-to-replace-the-compliance-analysts-copy-paste-workflow-with-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spektr-raises-20m-to-replace-the-compliance-analysts-copy-paste-workflow-with-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU has told Google what it must do to share search data with rivals]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission today sent Google its preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, proposing six specific measures governing how Google must share search ranking, query, click, and view data with competing search engines. AI chatbots with search functionalities are explicitly included as potential data beneficiaries. A public consultation opens tomorrow. The European Commission has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-has-told-google-what-it-must-do-to-share-search-data-with-rivals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-has-told-google-what-it-must-do-to-share-search-data-with-rivals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon launches AI Bio platform to accelerate early-stage drug discovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services (AWS)&nbsp; announced this Tuesday the launch of its AI bio tool, Amazon Bio Discovery, to accelerate the early-stage process of drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. The application aims to help scientists design and test novel drugs in a fast and secure way. Amazon Bio Discovery enables scientists to run complex computational [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-launches-ai-bio-platform-to-accelerate-early-stage-drug-discovery/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-launches-ai-bio-platform-to-accelerate-early-stage-drug-discovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Make opens a mentorship office at STATION F]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Celonis-owned visual automation platform, which already has more than 200 STATION F startups on its programme, is putting a permanent on-campus presence in Paris as it targets France as a strategic growth market. One-on-onementorship, workshops, and hackathon participation are all part of the offer. Make, the visual automation and AI agents platform owned by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/exclusive-make-opens-a-mentorship-office-at-station-f/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/exclusive-make-opens-a-mentorship-office-at-station-f/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK banks get their Mythos briefing within days]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bank of England&rsquo;s Cross Market Operational Resilience Group will convene within days to brief major UK banks, insurers, and exchanges about Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Mythos Preview. This unreleased AI model regulators say can autonomously identify and exploit vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. The US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Bank [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-banks-get-their-mythos-briefing-within-days/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-banks-get-their-mythos-briefing-within-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple secretly threatened to pull Grok from the App Store over deepfake nudes]]></title><description><![CDATA[A letter Apple sent to US senators, obtained by NBC News, reveals that Apple rejected an initial Grok update and warned the app could be removed unless xAI made further changes. Only a second submission passed. Apple privately threatened to remove Grok, xAI&rsquo;s AI chatbot, from the App Store in January after Elon Musk&rsquo;s company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-secretly-threatened-to-pull-grok-from-the-app-store-over-deepfake-nudes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-secretly-threatened-to-pull-grok-from-the-app-store-over-deepfake-nudes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk is asking chip suppliers to move at ‘light speed’ for his Terafab AI chip plant]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to Bloomberg, teams from SpaceX and Tesla have approached Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, Lam Research, and Samsung for price quotes and delivery times on chipmaking equipment.&nbsp; Teams working for Elon Musk have reached out to major chip industry suppliers including Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Lam Research, as well as chip manufacturing partner Samsung [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-is-asking-chip-suppliers-to-move-at-light-speed-for-his-terafab-ai-chip-plant/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/musk-is-asking-chip-suppliers-to-move-at-light-speed-for-his-terafab-ai-chip-plant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cadence and Nvidia are bridging the simulation gap that’s slowing down robotics]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two companies announced an expanded partnership at a Cadence conference in Santa Clara on Wednesday. The goal: make robot training data more accurate so physical AI systems reach real-world deployment faster. Cadence Design Systems and Nvidia have announced an expanded partnership aimed at closing one of robotics&rsquo; most persistent problems: the gap between how [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cadence-and-nvidia-are-bridging-the-simulation-gap-thats-slowing-down-robotics/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/cadence-and-nvidia-are-bridging-the-simulation-gap-thats-slowing-down-robotics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum computing pioneer Chad Rigetti is back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sygaldry Technologies has raised $105M in a Series A led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, following a $34M seed from Initialized Capital. Its quantum-classical hybrid servers target the $5.2T in AI infrastructure investment projected through 2030. Sygaldry Technologies, an Ann Arbor-based startup building quantum-accelerated AI servers, has raised $139 million across a $34 million seed round [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantum-computing-pioneer-chad-rigetti-is-back/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/quantum-computing-pioneer-chad-rigetti-is-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-energy files for an IPO that could raise up to $814M]]></title><description><![CDATA[X-energy is targeting a share price of $16&ndash;$19, which at the high end values the IPO at around $814M. Amazon led a $500M round and has committed to buying up to 5GW of nuclear power from the company by 2039. &nbsp;X-energy, an Amazon-backed nuclear reactor startup, has begun its investor roadshow and filed IPO documents [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-backed-nuclear-startup-x-energy-files-for-an-ipo-that-could-raise-up-to-814m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-backed-nuclear-startup-x-energy-files-for-an-ipo-that-could-raise-up-to-814m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Italian deeptech making graphene-based optical chips gets €211M]]></title><description><![CDATA[CamGraPhIC, a subsidiary of Milan-based 2D Photonics, has received European Commission approval for &euro;211M in Italian state funding to industrialise its graphene photonic interconnect technology and build a pilot manufacturing line near Milan. CamGraPhIC, the graphene photonics subsidiary of 2D Photonics, has received European Commission approval for &euro;211 million in Italian state aid funding under [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-italian-deeptech-making-graphene-based-optical-chips-gets-211m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-italian-deeptech-making-graphene-based-optical-chips-gets-211m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accel raises $5 billion for AI as venture capital bets reach infrastructure scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Accel has raised $5 billion in new capital, comprising a $4 billion Leaders Fund V and a $650 million sidecar, targeting 20-25 late-stage AI investments at an average cheque size of $200 million. The raise follows standout returns from its Anthropic stake (invested at $183B, now valued near $800B) and Cursor (backed at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/accel-raises-5-billion-for-ai-as-venture-capital-bets-reach-infrastructure-scale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/accel-raises-5-billion-for-ai-as-venture-capital-bets-reach-infrastructure-scale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic attracts $800 billion valuation offers as revenue hits $30 billion annualised run rate]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Anthropic has received investor offers valuing the company at approximately $800 billion, more than doubling its $380 billion valuation from a $30 billion funding round closed just two months ago. The surge follows an unprecedented revenue trajectory that has taken Anthropic from $1 billion in annualised revenue at the end of 2024 to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-attracts-800-billion-valuation-offers-as-revenue-hits-30-billion-annualised-run-rate/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-attracts-800-billion-valuation-offers-as-revenue-hits-30-billion-annualised-run-rate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Athena Technology Solutions, a Fremont-based MES integrator with roughly 120 employees, has launched FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates reporting, support tickets, system modelling, and code generation for semiconductor and electronics factories. Built in partnership with Bangalore-based LLM at Scale.AI, it layers LLM capabilities on top of the Siemens Opcenter [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/athena-launches-faborchestrator-an-agentic-ai-platform-for-manufacturing-execution-systems/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/athena-launches-faborchestrator-an-agentic-ai-platform-for-manufacturing-execution-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane Street commits $6 billion to CoreWeave and takes a $1 billion equity stake]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Jane Street has signed a $6 billion AI cloud agreement with CoreWeave and taken a $1 billion equity stake at $109 per share, making the quantitative trading firm one of CoreWeave&rsquo;s five largest shareholders. The deal provides Jane Street with access to NVIDIA&rsquo;s next-generation Vera Rubin compute and adds to CoreWeave&rsquo;s growing contract [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jane-street-commits-6-billion-to-coreweave-and-takes-a-1-billion-equity-stake/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/jane-street-commits-6-billion-to-coreweave-and-takes-a-1-billion-equity-stake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Accenture Ventures has invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform provides a unified AI intelligence layer across 40+ robots from different manufacturers including FANUC, Flexiv, and Ghost Robotics. The deal extends Accenture&rsquo;s physical AI strategy alongside its NVIDIA-powered Physical AI Orchestrator and prior investments in Sanctuary AI and Schaeffler humanoid robotics partnerships. Accenture [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/accenture-bets-on-general-robotics-to-unify-factory-ai-across-robot-brands/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/accenture-bets-on-general-robotics-to-unify-factory-ai-across-robot-brands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astroport and Vermeer want to bring heavy construction equipment to the Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astroport Space Technologies and Vermeer Corporation have announced a collaboration to adapt industrial surface mining equipment for autonomous lunar construction, a partnership that both companies frame as delivering the heavy machinery, or &ldquo;Lunar Iron,&rdquo; needed to build a permanent human presence on the Moon. The announcement, made at the 20th International Conference on Engineering, Science, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/astroport-and-vermeer-want-to-bring-heavy-construction-equipment-to-the-moon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/astroport-and-vermeer-want-to-bring-heavy-construction-equipment-to-the-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI opens its cybersecurity model to thousands of defenders in race with Anthropic’s Mythos]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.4-Cyber, a model fine-tuned for defensive cybersecurity with lowered refusal boundaries and binary reverse engineering capabilities, and scaling its Trusted Access for Cyber programme to thousands of verified defenders. The move comes a week after Anthropic restricted its more powerful Mythos model to just 11 organisations, setting up a philosophical [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-opens-its-cybersecurity-model-to-thousands-of-defenders-in-race-with-anthropics-mythos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-opens-its-cybersecurity-model-to-thousands-of-defenders-in-race-with-anthropics-mythos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Spotify has launched physical book sales in the US and UK through a partnership with Bookshop.org, letting users buy print copies via affiliate links on audiobook pages within the app. The feature sits alongside Page Match, which now works in 30+ languages and lets readers scan a book page to sync with the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-is-selling-physical-books-now-and-it-makes-more-sense-than-you-think/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/spotify-is-selling-physical-books-now-and-it-makes-more-sense-than-you-think/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:Security researcher Aonan Guan hijacked AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft via prompt injection attacks on their GitHub Actions integrations, stealing API keys and tokens in each case. All three companies paid bug bounties quietly, $100 from Anthropic, $500 from GitHub, an undisclosed amount from Google, but none published public advisories or assigned [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-google-and-microsoft-paid-ai-agent-bug-bounties-then-kept-quiet-about-the-flaws/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-google-and-microsoft-paid-ai-agent-bug-bounties-then-kept-quiet-about-the-flaws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google classifies back button hijacking as spam, enforcement starts June 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Google is classifying &ldquo;back button hijacking&rdquo; as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, with penalties ranging from manual spam actions to algorithmic ranking demotions. Site owners are liable even when the offending code comes from third-party [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-classifies-back-button-hijacking-as-spam-enforcement-starts-june-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-classifies-back-button-hijacking-as-spam-enforcement-starts-june-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snap cuts 1,000 jobs as Spiegel bets AI can do the work of a bigger workforce]]></title><description><![CDATA[Snap is cutting roughly 1,000 jobs, or 16% of its full-time workforce, as CEO Evan Spiegel cites AI-driven efficiency gains and pursues more than $500 million in annualised cost savings. The layoffs follow a public campaign by activist investor Irenic Capital Management, which had explicitly recommended eliminating about 1,000 roles. SNAP shares jumped roughly 8% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snap-cuts-1000-jobs-as-spiegel-bets-ai-can-do-the-work-of-a-bigger-workforce/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/snap-cuts-1000-jobs-as-spiegel-bets-ai-can-do-the-work-of-a-bigger-workforce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant’s AI chats with Claude are not privileged]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a February ruling described as the first of its kind in the US, Judge Jed Rakoff found that Bradley Heppner&rsquo;s conversations with Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude about his legal exposure stripped away both attorney-client privilege and work-product protection, because an AI is not a lawyer and public AI platforms have no confidentiality obligation. More than a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-judge-ruled-that-a-fraud-defendants-ai-chats-with-claude-are-not-privileged/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-us-judge-ruled-that-a-fraud-defendants-ai-chats-with-claude-are-not-privileged/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HBO Max comes to India through exclusive JioHotstar deal at 50 cents a month]]></title><description><![CDATA[HBO Max has launched in India through an exclusive partnership with JioHotstar, the streaming platform born from Reliance Industries&rsquo; $8.5 billion merger with Walt Disney&rsquo;s Indian operations. The deal brings a dedicated HBO Max-branded hub to JioHotstar&rsquo;s 100 million-plus paid subscribers, available as an add-on starting at &#8377;49 per month, &nbsp;roughly 50 US cents, making [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hbo-max-comes-to-india-through-exclusive-jiohotstar-deal-at-50-cents-a-month/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hbo-max-comes-to-india-through-exclusive-jiohotstar-deal-at-50-cents-a-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Axie Infinity co-founder who survived a $620M North Korean hack is now building AI drone detection for Europe’s defence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stendr, a Norwegian counter-drone startup led by Aleksander Leonard Larsen, who co-founded blockchain gaming unicorn Sky Mavis, has raised a $5.4M oversubscribed pre-seed from RainFall, ACME, SkyFall, and a consortium of European defence and tech investors. Stendr, a Norwegian defence technology startup developing AI-driven systems to detect and track drones, has raised $5.4 million in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-axie-infinity-co-founder-who-survived-a-620m-north-korean-hack-is-now-building-ai-drone-detection-for-europes-defence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-axie-infinity-co-founder-who-survived-a-620m-north-korean-hack-is-now-building-ai-drone-detection-for-europes-defence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adobe launched the Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, and Frame.io using natural language. Previously codenamed Project Moonlight, it enters public beta in coming weeks, integrates with third-party models including Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude, and maintains context across sessions. Adobe also announced Firefly Image Model 5, Custom Models, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobes-new-firefly-ai-assistant-turns-creative-cloud-into-a-single-conversational-interface/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/adobes-new-firefly-ai-assistant-turns-creative-cloud-into-a-single-conversational-interface/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted backdoors in all of them]]></title><description><![CDATA[An attacker bought 30+ WordPress plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve cloaked SEO spam exclusively to Googlebot. WordPress.org closed 31 plugins on 7 April 2026. The same week, Smart Slider 3 Pro (800,000+ installations) was separately [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-backdoors-in-all-of-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-backdoors-in-all-of-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU says its age verification app is ready]]></title><description><![CDATA[Announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and digital chief Virkkunen, the open-source app uses zero-knowledge proof technology to let users confirm their age without exposing personal data to platforms. It enters a pilot phase with member states. No EU-wide binding minimum age exists yet. The European Commission has declared its age verification app [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-says-its-age-verification-app-is-ready/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-says-its-age-verification-app-is-ready/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RIP Samsung Messages 🥲 #samsunggalaxy]]></title><description><![CDATA[RIP Samsung Messages 🥲 #samsunggalaxy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rip-samsung-messages-samsunggalaxy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rip-samsung-messages-samsunggalaxy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SaaStock is dead: founder kills Europe’s biggest SaaS conference and launches Shift AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[SaaStock founder Alexander Theuma is retiring Europe&rsquo;s biggest B2B SaaS conference after a decade and replacing it with Shift AI. The Austin event on 15-16 April is the last SaaStock; the first Shift Europe runs in Barcelona on 13-14 October 2026. Theuma cited $2 trillion in SaaS market cap erased in Q1 2026 and the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/saastock-is-dead-founder-kills-europes-biggest-saas-conference-and-launches-shift-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/saastock-is-dead-founder-kills-europes-biggest-saas-conference-and-launches-shift-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US utilities plan to spend $1.4 trillion by 2030 to power the AI boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[A report analysing capital spending plans from 51 investor-owned utilities finds the $1.4 trillion figure is double what was invested in the prior decade. More than 30 utilities cited data centres as a top growth driver. Average residential electricity prices are already projected to rise 5.1% this year. US investor-owned utility companies are planning to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-utilities-plan-to-spend-14-trillion-by-2030-to-power-the-ai-boom/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/us-utilities-plan-to-spend-14-trillion-by-2030-to-power-the-ai-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in Wayve, completing the silicon side of its autonomous driving stack]]></title><description><![CDATA[The extension to Wayve&rsquo;s $1.2B Series D gives the London startup coverage across virtually every compute architecture in automotive use today, from chips already in millions of vehicles to the platforms powering the next generation. Robotaxi pilots with Uber are planned for London and Tokyo. Wayve, the London-based autonomous driving software company, has raised a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amd-arm-and-qualcomm-invest-60m-in-wayve-completing-the-silicon-side-of-its-autonomous-driving-stack/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amd-arm-and-qualcomm-invest-60m-in-wayve-completing-the-silicon-side-of-its-autonomous-driving-stack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auctor emerges from stealth with $20M led by Sequoia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Half of enterprise software projects miss their deadlines. One in six exceeds budgets by more than 200%. The New York startup says the problem is not the software itself but the fragmented, knowledge-scattered process of implementing it, and it has Sequoia, Microsoft, HubSpot, and Workday convinced it can fix that. Auctor, a New York-based startup [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/auctor-emerges-from-stealth-with-20m-led-by-sequoia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/auctor-emerges-from-stealth-with-20m-led-by-sequoia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Wednesday, April 15, 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Wednesday, April 15, 2026)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-wednesday-april-15-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-wednesday-april-15-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AliveCor brings its pocket-sized 12-lead ECG to Europe after detecting more than 4,000 heart attacks in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kardia 12L, which uses five electrodes and a single cable to replace bulky 10-lead ECG carts, has received CE Mark. It launches first in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, with its AI system detecting 35 cardiac conditions including acute myocardial infarction. AliveCor, the US medtech company specialising in AI-powered cardiac diagnostics, has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alivecor-brings-its-pocket-sized-12-lead-ecg-to-europe-after-detecting-more-than-4000-heart-attacks-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alivecor-brings-its-pocket-sized-12-lead-ecg-to-europe-after-detecting-more-than-4000-heart-attacks-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriodor raises €15M led by Crédit Mutuel Impact to scale its insect-repelling fragrances]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Rennes-based INRAE spin-off uses blends of volatile organic compounds to repel or attract pest insects without harming pollinators, soil, or human health. Its first product, for sugar beet aphids, received French regulatory authorisation in March 2026 and is distributed by Syngenta. Agriodor, a French deeptech startup specialising in olfactory biocontrol, has raised &euro;15 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/agriodor-raises-15m-led-by-crdit-mutuel-impact-to-scale-its-insect-repelling-fragrances/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/agriodor-raises-15m-led-by-crdit-mutuel-impact-to-scale-its-insect-repelling-fragrances/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta and Broadcom extend their AI chip deal to 2029]]></title><description><![CDATA[The expanded partnership covers several generations of Meta&rsquo;s custom MTIA processors, starts with over a gigawatt of computing capacity, and is described as the &lsquo;first phase of a sustained, multi-gigawatt rollout.&rsquo; The new chips will be the first custom AI silicon to use a 2-nanometer process. Meta has expanded its partnership with chip designer Broadcom [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-and-broadcom-extend-their-ai-chip-deal-to-2029/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-and-broadcom-extend-their-ai-chip-deal-to-2029/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jane Street and Situational Awareness are in discussions to co-lead the round, Bloomberg reports. The Oxford-founded neocloud, which relocated from the UK to the US after landing a $50 billion data centre partnership with Anthropic, has grown its revenue from $1.8M in 2022 to $66.2M in 2024. FluidStack, the AI data centre startup that builds [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fluidstack-is-in-talks-to-raise-1b-at-an-18b-valuation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/fluidstack-is-in-talks-to-raise-1b-at-an-18b-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon: a cautionary tale for democratic AI governance]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the afternoon of 27 February 2026, Pete Hegseth picked up his phone and posted to X. The US Secretary of Defense had just designated Anthropic, a San Francisco AI company, a &ldquo;supply chain risk to national security.&rdquo; The label, under 10 USC 3252, had previously been applied to Huawei and ZTE, Chinese firms accused [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-openai-and-the-pentagon-a-cautionary-tale-for-democratic-ai-governance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-openai-and-the-pentagon-a-cautionary-tale-for-democratic-ai-governance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science Corp is preparing to place its first brain sensor in a human, betting biology will beat electrodes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Science Corporation, the BCI company founded by ex-Neuralink president Max Hodak, is preparing to place a pea-sized, 520-electrode sensor on a human brain&rsquo;s surface during already-scheduled surgery. Yale neurosurgery chair Murat G&uuml;nel will lead the programme; trials could begin in 2027. The company also has PRIMA, a retinal implant that restored vision in 38 patients [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/science-corp-is-preparing-to-place-its-first-brain-sensor-in-a-human-betting-biology-will-beat-electrodes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/science-corp-is-preparing-to-place-its-first-brain-sensor-in-a-human-betting-biology-will-beat-electrodes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube will now pause livestream ads when chat engagement peaks]]></title><description><![CDATA[YouTube will now automatically hold back advertisements during livestreams when its systems detect that chat engagement has peaked, a change that prioritises collective viewer experience over ad impressions in real time. The platform announced the feature on Monday alongside a suite of updates to its live-streaming tools, including personal ad-free windows for viewers who purchase [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-will-now-pause-livestream-ads-when-chat-engagement-peaks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtube-will-now-pause-livestream-ads-when-chat-engagement-peaks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AppDirect buys PartnerStack to complete its ‘everything store’ for B2B software distribution]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: AppDirect has acquired Toronto-based PartnerStack, the partner relationship management platform with 138,000+ B2B partners and ~50% market share in the PRM category. Terms were not disclosed. The deal is AppDirect&rsquo;s sixth acquisition in 12 months, following Tackle.io (cloud go-to-market, $20B+ in hyperscaler transactions), vCom Solutions ($100M+, network/mobility), and DNE Resources (energy). AppDirect has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/appdirect-buys-partnerstack-to-complete-its-everything-store-for-b2b-software-distribution/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/appdirect-buys-partnerstack-to-complete-its-everything-store-for-b2b-software-distribution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hexagon pays $1.45 billion for Baker Hughes’ inspection tech unit in biggest European industrial deal of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hexagon AB, the Swedish industrial technology group ($29B market cap, &euro;5.4B revenue), is acquiring Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45 billion in cash. Waygate is the world&rsquo;s leading non-destructive testing (NDT) company, with ~$630M in revenue, ~1,500 employees across 25 locations, and technology spanning CT scanning, radiography, ultrasonics, and remote visual inspection for aerospace, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hexagon-pays-145-billion-for-baker-hughes-inspection-tech-unit-in-biggest-european-industrial-deal-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hexagon-pays-145-billion-for-baker-hughes-inspection-tech-unit-in-biggest-european-industrial-deal-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Tuesday, April 14, 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Tuesday, April 14, 2026)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-tuesday-april-14-2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-tuesday-april-14-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synera raises $40M to bring agentic AI into engineering workflows at NASA, BMW, Airbus, and Hyundai]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bremen startup&rsquo;s platform deploys teams of AI agents that autonomously execute engineering tasks across more than 75 existing tools, without replacing any of them. Revaia led the Series B; Capgemini joined through its ISAI Cap Venture vehicle. All Series A investors returned. Synera, the Bremen-based agentic AI platform for industrial engineering, has raised $40 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/synera-raises-40m-to-bring-agentic-ai-into-engineering-workflows-at-nasa-bmw-airbus-and-hyundai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/synera-raises-40m-to-bring-agentic-ai-into-engineering-workflows-at-nasa-bmw-airbus-and-hyundai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy S26 Ultra vs Pixel 10 Pro XL: It's a slaughter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy S26 Ultra vs Pixel 10 Pro XL: It's a slaughter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-ultra-vs-pixel-10-pro-xl-its-a-slaughter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s26-ultra-vs-pixel-10-pro-xl-its-a-slaughter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon agrees to acquire Globalstar in an $11.6B deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon and Apple have also signed a separate agreement for Amazon Leo to continue powering satellite features on iPhone and Apple Watch. The deal gives Amazon the spectrum, infrastructure, and operational expertise to launch direct-to-device satellite services from 2028, and compresses years of development into a single transaction. Amazon has agreed to acquire Globalstar in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-agrees-to-acquire-globalstar-in-an-116b-deal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-agrees-to-acquire-globalstar-in-an-116b-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hexagon acquires Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waygate generates approximately $630 million in annual revenue with around 1,500 employees across 25 locations. The deal gives Hexagon&rsquo;s Manufacturing Intelligence division computed tomography, radiography, and remote visual inspection technology with 130+ years of combined heritage. Hexagon, the Stockholm-headquartered measurement and sensor technology group, has agreed to acquire Waygate Technologies from energy technology company Baker [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hexagon-acquires-waygate-technologies-from-baker-hughes-for-145-billion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hexagon-acquires-waygate-technologies-from-baker-hughes-for-145-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helical closes $10M seed to turn bio foundation models into systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Luxembourg-founded startup is already in production with multiple top-20 global pharma companies, including a public collaboration with Pfizer. Its $10M seed round is led by redalpine, with the CEOs of Cohere and HuggingFace among the angel investors. Helical, a London-based pharma AI startup founded by three Luxembourgish childhood friends, has raised $10 million in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/helical-closes-10m-seed-to-turn-bio-foundation-models-into-systems/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/helical-closes-10m-seed-to-turn-bio-foundation-models-into-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe has spent a decade watching American and Chinese companies capture every major technology wave, cloud, mobile, social, AI. Quantum computing may be the exception. A cluster of French startups, backed by &euro;500 million in government funding and underpinned by some of the world&rsquo;s strongest physics research, is positioning France as a serious contender in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-bets-500-million-that-quantum-computing-is-the-tech-race-europe-can-finally-win/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-bets-500-million-that-quantum-computing-is-the-tech-race-europe-can-finally-win/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stanford’s annual AI report finds a widening gap between AI insiders and everyone else]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 2026 AI Index from Stanford&rsquo;s Institute for Human-Centered AI documents a deepening disconnect between expert optimism and public anxiety. Gen Z anger about AI is rising fast. Employment in AI-exposed fields among younger workers is already declining. And the US has the lowest trust in its government to regulate AI of any country surveyed. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stanfords-annual-ai-report-finds-a-widening-gap-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/stanfords-annual-ai-report-finds-a-widening-gap-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of work includes better water: why offices are rethinking hydration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dehydration is unfortunately a pretty common issue for people of all ages. Some studies suggest that as many as 75% of Americans could be chronically dehydrated at any given moment. It&rsquo;s easy to fall short of your body&rsquo;s daily water intake needs if you&rsquo;re busy, stressed or preoccupied with other things.&nbsp; &nbsp;Dehydration may be a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-future-of-work-includes-better-water-why-offices-are-rethinking-hydration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-future-of-work-includes-better-water-why-offices-are-rethinking-hydration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wallenberg family rescues Europe’s flagship green steel project with a €1.4 billion financing round]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stegra, &nbsp;formerly H2 Green Steel, &nbsp;has agreed in principle on new financing led by a Wallenberg Investments consortium including Temasek and IMAS. Construction at its Boden plant had slowed during months of fundraising. The Wallenbergs will become the company&rsquo;s largest shareholder. Stegra, the Swedish green steel company formerly known as H2 Green Steel, has agreed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-wallenberg-family-rescues-europes-flagship-green-steel-project-with-a-14-billion-financing-round/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-wallenberg-family-rescues-europes-flagship-green-steel-project-with-a-14-billion-financing-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is under scrutiny from its own investors as the company pivots to enterprise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some backers say OpenAI has revised its product roadmap twice in six months and risks losing focus ahead of an IPO expected as early as Q4 2026. OpenAI&rsquo;s new CRO has accused Anthropic of overstating its $30B run rate by $8B through gross accounting on cloud partner revenue. Both companies say they follow standard accounting [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-852-billion-valuation-is-under-scrutiny-from-its-own-investors-as-the-company-pivots-to-enterprise/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-852-billion-valuation-is-under-scrutiny-from-its-own-investors-as-the-company-pivots-to-enterprise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI acquires Hiro, an AI personal finance startup]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hiro is shutting down on 20 April and deleting all user data by 13 May. Founder Ethan Bloch previously sold Digit to Oportun for more than $200M. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. OpenAI, the San Francisco AI lab behind ChatGPT, has acquired Hiro Finance, an AI-powered personal finance planning startup, with founder Ethan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-acquires-hiro-an-ai-personal-finance-startup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-acquires-hiro-an-ai-personal-finance-startup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber and Nuro begin employee testing of a Lucid Gravity robotaxi in San Francisco]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Lucid Gravity SUV runs Nuro&rsquo;s autonomous driving system, powered by Nvidia Drive AGX Thor. A human safety operator sits behind the wheel. Uber has committed to buying at least 20,000 of these vehicles over the next six years. Uber and Nuro have begun employee test rides of a premium robotaxi service in San Francisco, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-and-nuro-begin-employee-testing-of-a-lucid-gravity-robotaxi-in-san-francisco/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-and-nuro-begin-employee-testing-of-a-lucid-gravity-robotaxi-in-san-francisco/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelluu raises €15M to build a persistent aerial intelligence layer for Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Finnish deep tech company, which operates the world&rsquo;s largest autonomous airship fleet, has closed a Series A led by the NATO Innovation Fund, the Fund&rsquo;s first investment in a Finnish company. Its airships can cover 30,000 square kilometres from a single base and have been tested in live NATO exercises. Kelluu, a Finnish deep [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kelluu-raises-15m-to-build-a-persistent-aerial-intelligence-layer-for-europe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kelluu-raises-15m-to-build-a-persistent-aerial-intelligence-layer-for-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so employees can ‘talk to the boss’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The photorealistic digital character is trained on Zuckerberg&rsquo;s mannerisms, tone, and his own thinking on company strategy. He is personally involved in testing it. The effort, described by four people familiar with the matter, is separate from a &lsquo;CEO agent&rsquo; that handles tasks for Zuckerberg directly. Meta is building a photorealistic, AI-powered version of Mark [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-building-an-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-so-employees-can-talk-to-the-boss/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-is-building-an-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-so-employees-can-talk-to-the-boss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic – and is now telling banks to use its AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are urging Wall Street&rsquo;s biggest banks to test Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, even as the Pentagon fights Anthropic in court after branding it a supply chain risk for refusing to remove safety guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. JPMorgan Chase, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-trump-administration-blacklisted-anthropic-and-is-now-telling-banks-to-use-its-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-trump-administration-blacklisted-anthropic-and-is-now-telling-banks-to-use-its-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roblox splits its user base into three age-gated tiers as lawsuits mount over child safety]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short: Roblox is introducing three mandatory age-gated account tiers -Kids (5-8), Select (9-15), and standard (16+) &ndash; starting mid-May, segregating content and chat access by age group. The move follows lawsuits from eight US state attorneys general over child safety failures and builds on the facial age verification system mandated in January. Developers must [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/roblox-splits-its-user-base-into-three-age-gated-tiers-as-lawsuits-mount-over-child-safety/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/roblox-splits-its-user-base-into-three-age-gated-tiers-as-lawsuits-mount-over-child-safety/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mobile-first approach to Window film installation: understanding the purpose behind the Scorpion Scan platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[For many small businesses, operational efficiency often determines whether growth is sustainable. Entrepreneurs frequently navigate limited staffing, tight budgets, and constant time constraints while still delivering consistent service to customers. In industries built around skilled labor and installation work, these pressures can shape how businesses structure their daily operations. Data highlights the broader context surrounding [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-mobile-first-approach-to-window-film-installation-understanding-the-purpose-behind-the-scorpion-scan-platform/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-mobile-first-approach-to-window-film-installation-understanding-the-purpose-behind-the-scorpion-scan-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two arrested after gunfire near Sam Altman’s home, days after Molotov attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two people were arrested after shots were fired near Sam Altman&rsquo;s San Francisco home on Sunday, two days after a separate suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at the property and threatened to burn down OpenAI&rsquo;s headquarters. The attacks coincided with a critical New Yorker profile of the OpenAI CEO, who responded with a blog post [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-arrested-after-gunfire-near-sam-altmans-home-days-after-molotov-attack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/two-arrested-after-gunfire-near-sam-altmans-home-days-after-molotov-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Enterprise Picks for the Best HR Management Software in 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[As an HR expert whose time in the industry stretches back before all-in-one software solutions were even a thing, I have spent more time than I care to admit testing HR platforms. But, this is important work (or at least I tell myself that it is), because at some point, every growing company hits the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/top-10-enterprise-picks-for-the-best-hr-management-software-in-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/top-10-enterprise-picks-for-the-best-hr-management-software-in-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grand jury is trying to force Reddit to unmask a user who criticised ICE]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the evening of 7 January 2026, ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman, in Minneapolis. Within days, Ross was named publicly: The Intercept identified him and published biographical details, and other news organisations followed. Across Reddit, users discussed the shooting, the officer, and the agency. One of them is now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-grand-jury-is-trying-to-force-reddit-to-unmask-a-user-who-criticised-ice/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-grand-jury-is-trying-to-force-reddit-to-unmask-a-user-who-criticised-ice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple testing four frame designs for AI smart glasses ahead of 2027 launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Apple is testing at least four frame styles for its upcoming AI-powered smart glasses, according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman published 12 April 2026. The designs include a large rectangular style similar to Wayfarer frames, a slimmer rectangular style comparable to those worn by CEO Tim Cook, a larger oval or circular [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-testing-four-frame-designs-for-ai-smart-glasses-ahead-of-2027-launch/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/apple-testing-four-frame-designs-for-ai-smart-glasses-ahead-of-2027-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ElevenLabs VP warns sales candidates: 20x quota, long hours, or get out]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Carles Reina, ElevenLabs&rsquo; head of go-to-market and one of the company&rsquo;s earliest employees, has issued a candid warning to candidates considering sales roles at the $11 billion voice AI company: expect long hours, constant travel, and an annual quota worth 20 times your base salary, with termination as the direct consequence of missing it. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elevenlabs-vp-warns-sales-candidates-20x-quota-long-hours-or-get-out/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/elevenlabs-vp-warns-sales-candidates-20x-quota-long-hours-or-get-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nesto raises €11m from Expedition to scale AI workforce management for restaurant groups]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Nesto Software GmbH, a Karlsruhe-based workforce management platform for restaurant groups, has raised &euro;11 million in growth equity from Expedition Growth Capital, a London and Boston-based fund that targets bootstrapped European software businesses with more than &euro;5 million in annual recurring revenue. The company, founded by engineers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, manages [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nesto-raises-11m-from-expedition-to-scale-ai-workforce-management-for-restaurant-groups/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/nesto-raises-11m-from-expedition-to-scale-ai-workforce-management-for-restaurant-groups/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basic-Fit hit by hack affecting members across multiple countries, including 200,000 in the Netherlands]]></title><description><![CDATA[The breach exposed names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and bank account details. No passwords or identity documents were accessed. The Dutch Data Protection Authority has been notified. Basic-Fit operates over 1,300 clubs across seven European countries. Basic-Fit, Europe&rsquo;s largest budget fitness chain by club count, has disclosed a data breach affecting [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/basic-fit-hit-by-hack-affecting-members-across-multiple-countries-including-200000-in-the-netherlands/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/basic-fit-hit-by-hack-affecting-members-across-multiple-countries-including-200000-in-the-netherlands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round raises $6M to automate the finance workflows that still require a human to press a button]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London fintech, used by Cleo and PostHog, has closed a seed round led by Alstin Capital, with Backed VC and Love Ventures participating. The co-founder of Indeed also joined as an angel. Passion Capital, an early backer of Monzo, Tide, and GoCardless, doubled its investment. Round, a London fintech that automates treasury management, payments, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/round-raises-6m-to-automate-the-finance-workflows-that-still-require-a-human-to-press-a-button/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/round-raises-6m-to-automate-the-finance-workflows-that-still-require-a-human-to-press-a-button/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe is dismantling its own rulebook to compete with America]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published its Digital Omnibus package, a legislative proposal to amend the AI Act, the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, the Data Act, and several cybersecurity frameworks in a single stroke. The word &ldquo;simplification&rdquo; appeared 23 times in the accompanying press release. Six days earlier, a coalition of 127 civil [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-is-dismantling-its-own-rulebook-to-compete-with-america/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europe-is-dismantling-its-own-rulebook-to-compete-with-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK impact VC Eka Ventures closes second fund at $107M]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Eka Ventures held the final close of its first fund at &pound;68 million in 2021, the London-based firm staked a claim that few UK VCs were willing to make at the time: that impact investing and venture-scale returns were not a trade-off but a thesis. Five years later, it is doubling down. Eka has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-impact-vc-eka-ventures-closes-second-fund-at-107m/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-impact-vc-eka-ventures-closes-second-fund-at-107m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mac mini and Mac Studio go out of stock – is it the RAM crisis or an M5 refresh?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Several high-RAM Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations disappeared from Apple&rsquo;s online store in the US on 11 April 2026, listed as &ldquo;currently unavailable&rdquo; with no delivery estimate and no option to order. The affected models are Mac mini configurations with 32GB or 64GB of RAM and Mac Studio configurations with 128GB or 256GB [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mac-mini-and-mac-studio-go-out-of-stock-is-it-the-ram-crisis-or-an-m5-refresh/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/mac-mini-and-mac-studio-go-out-of-stock-is-it-the-ram-crisis-or-an-m5-refresh/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan targets Claude Max with five times the Codex access]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;OpenAI launched a new $100 per month Pro plan for ChatGPT on 9 April 2026, inserting a new tier between the existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro plan and directly targeting Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Max, which is also priced at $100 per month. The new plan offers five times more Codex usage than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-100-chatgpt-pro-plan-targets-claude-max-with-five-times-the-codex-access/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openais-new-100-chatgpt-pro-plan-targets-claude-max-with-five-times-the-codex-access/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Netherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla&rsquo;s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under UN Regulation 171, the EU standard governing driver control assistance systems. The approval follows 18 months of testing, 1.6 million kilometres of European road data, and more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-netherlands-becomes-the-first-european-country-to-approve-teslas-fsd-supervised/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-netherlands-becomes-the-first-european-country-to-approve-teslas-fsd-supervised/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed first among the tool&rsquo;s example applications. The add-in, available to Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers, completes Anthropic&rsquo;s integration across the full Microsoft Office suite and arrives [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-brings-claude-into-microsoft-word-and-legal-contract-review-leads-its-use-cases/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-brings-claude-into-microsoft-word-and-legal-contract-review-leads-its-use-cases/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why data quality matters when working with data at scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Data quality has always been an afterthought. Teams spend months instrumenting a feature, building pipelines, and standing up dashboards, and only when a stakeholder flags a suspicious number does anyone ask whether the underlying data is actually correct. By that point, the cost of fixing it has multiplied several times over. This is not a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-data-quality-matters-when-working-with-data-at-scale/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/why-data-quality-matters-when-working-with-data-at-scale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on the Beach, a curated event for SaaS founders, will return to Barcelona between May 20 and 21&nbsp;for its second edition, positioning itself as an alternative to the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/saas-on-the-beach-returns-to-barcelona-with-a-founder-only-format/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/saas-on-the-beach-returns-to-barcelona-with-a-founder-only-format/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK startup Altilium bags £18.5m to build Britain’s first commercial EV battery refinery]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured &pound;18.5 million in grant funding from the government&rsquo;s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country&rsquo;s first commercial refinery for recovering critical minerals from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Located in Plymouth, Devon, the facility will process 24,000 EV batteries a year using Altilium&rsquo;s proprietary EcoCathode&trade; process, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-startup-altilium-bags-185m-to-build-britains-first-commercial-ev-battery-refinery/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uk-startup-altilium-bags-185m-to-build-britains-first-commercial-ev-battery-refinery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estonia is the rare EU country opposing bans on children’s social media use]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Estonia and Belgium are the only two EU member states to have declined the Jutland Declaration, an October 2025 pan-European commitment to restrict children&rsquo;s access to social media. Estonia&rsquo;s ministers argue that age-based bans are unenforceable, that children will find ways around them, and that the correct approach is to enforce the GDPR against [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/estonia-is-the-rare-eu-country-opposing-bans-on-childrens-social-media-use/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/estonia-is-the-rare-eu-country-opposing-bans-on-childrens-social-media-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it&rsquo;s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year&rsquo;s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets users orchestrate swarms of AI coding agents simultaneously, assembling software at speeds [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-making-us-faster-more-productive-and-worse-at-thinking/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-making-us-faster-more-productive-and-worse-at-thinking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late 2025, a team of researchers working on Huntington&rsquo;s disease used generative AI to computationally design 15 million potential compounds for a type of molecule called [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-can-screen-15-million-molecules-in-a-day-it-still-cant-cure-alzheimers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-can-screen-15-million-molecules-in-a-day-it-still-cant-cure-alzheimers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;France&rsquo;s Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced on 8 April 2026 that it is migrating its own workstations from Windows to Linux and has ordered every government ministry to formalise a plan to eliminate extra-European digital dependencies by autumn 2026. The directive covers operating systems, collaborative tools, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence platforms. It follows [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-orders-all-government-ministries-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-in-digital-sovereignty-push/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/france-orders-all-government-ministries-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-in-digital-sovereignty-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police arrest 20-year-old after Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;A 20-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Friday, 10 April 2026, after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, then travelling across the city to OpenAI&rsquo;s offices on Third Street and threatening to burn the building down. No one was injured. The suspect&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/police-arrest-20-year-old-after-molotov-cocktail-thrown-at-sam-altmans-san-francisco-home/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/police-arrest-20-year-old-after-molotov-cocktail-thrown-at-sam-altmans-san-francisco-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Meow Technologies has launched what it describes as the world&rsquo;s first agentic banking platform, enabling AI agents to open business bank accounts, issue cards, send payments, and manage day-to-day account activity on behalf of users, with no human required to initiate any action. The platform supports Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, and other leading AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meow-technologies-launches-the-first-agentic-banking-platform-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meow-technologies-launches-the-first-agentic-banking-platform-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Amazon&rsquo;s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ&rsquo;s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched &ldquo;Protect Playtime,&rdquo; a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amazon with Amazon Nova Reel-generated videos of individual shelter animals to drive adoptions. The tool processes natural language queries to match prospective adopters with compatible shelter pets, and a pilot [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-ai-tool-matches-shelter-dogs-and-cats-with-adopters-in-the-protect-playtime-campaign/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-ai-tool-matches-shelter-dogs-and-cats-with-adopters-in-the-protect-playtime-campaign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives one day after CoreWeave announced a $21 billion expansion of its Meta partnership, and adds Anthropic to a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coreweave-signs-multi-year-anthropic-deal-as-nine-of-ten-top-ai-model-providers-join-its-platform/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/coreweave-signs-multi-year-anthropic-deal-as-nine-of-ten-top-ai-model-providers-join-its-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;SiFive, the RISC-V chip IP firm founded by the Berkeley engineers who created the open-source instruction set architecture, raised $400 million in an oversubscribed Series G on April 9, 2026, at a valuation of $3.65 billion. The round was led by Atreides Management and backed by Nvidia, Apollo Global Management, D1 Capital Partners, Point72 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sifive-raises-400m-series-g-at-365bn-valuation-in-final-round-before-ipo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/sifive-raises-400m-series-g-at-365bn-valuation-in-final-round-before-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Amazon&rsquo;s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November 2025, entered enterprise beta on April 8, 2026, with commercial availability targeted for mid-2026 per Andy Jassy&rsquo;s annual shareholder letter. The service offers three terminal tiers delivering up to 1 Gbps for enterprise users, with Verizon, AT&amp;T, Vodafone, JetBlue, and NASA [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-leo-targets-mid-2026-commercial-launch-as-enterprise-beta-goes-live/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazon-leo-targets-mid-2026-commercial-launch-as-enterprise-beta-goes-live/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a year after its web launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Google has brought end-to-end encryption in Gmail to Android and iOS, closing the mobile gap that remained after the feature launched on the web in April 2025. Enterprise users on Google Workspace Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls add-on can now compose and read encrypted messages directly in the Gmail app, with no extra [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gmails-end-to-end-encryption-comes-to-mobile-a-year-after-its-web-launch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/gmails-end-to-end-encryption-comes-to-mobile-a-year-after-its-web-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Best SOC 2 Compliance Software for 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;ve just closed a massive deal with a dream enterprise client. Then, the email lands: &ldquo;Please send over your SOC 2 Type II report.&rdquo; Panic sets in. You don&rsquo;t have one. You have a folder of screenshots, a few outdated policy documents, and a CTO who is already overworked. SOC 2 compliance software exists to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/10-best-soc-2-compliance-software-for-2026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/10-best-soc-2-compliance-software-for-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is exploring building its own AI chips as Claude revenues surge past $30 billion run rate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The plans are early-stage and Anthropic may still decide to only buy chips rather than design them. The exploration comes days after the company signed a long-term deal with Google and Broadcom for 3.5 gigawatts of TPU compute starting in 2027. A company spokesperson declined to comment. Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-exploring-building-its-own-ai-chips-as-claude-revenues-surge-past-30-billion-run-rate/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-is-exploring-building-its-own-ai-chips-as-claude-revenues-surge-past-30-billion-run-rate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut launches its new AI assistant AIR to UK customers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolut, the British virtual bank platform, has just launched its new AI financial assistant named AIR (AI by Revolut) to its more than 13 million customers in the UK.&nbsp; The new AI assistant allows customers to manage their finances through in-app chat, their spending insights, investment tracking, subscription monitoring, and card management. It also provides [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-launches-its-new-ai-assistant-air-to-uk-customers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/revolut-launches-its-new-ai-assistant-air-to-uk-customers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight, the Portuguese dating app,is raising a €3M seed round]]></title><description><![CDATA[The app goes live each night between 8 and 9pm, connecting verified users through 30-second video intros and instant live calls. It is currently available in Portugal and the UK. CEO Afonso Sim&atilde;o previously founded Miofar, a fitness brand he grew to over $1.2M in revenue. Eight, a Portuguese video-first dating app, is raising a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eight-the-portuguese-dating-appis-raising-a-3m-seed-round/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eight-the-portuguese-dating-appis-raising-a-3m-seed-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maeconomy raises €1.5M to give building materials a digital identity]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dutch startup is tackling one of construction&rsquo;s most stubborn problems: the fact that most building materials lack traceability, making them impossible to reuse when a structure is demolished or renovated. Maeconomy, a Dutch startup, has raised &euro;1.5 million to build a platform that turns building materials into auditable, monetisable circular assets. The Netherlands has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/maeconomy-raises-15m-to-give-building-materials-a-digital-identity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/maeconomy-raises-15m-to-give-building-materials-a-digital-identity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serve First secures €5.7M to scale its AI-driven customer experience platform beyond the UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Milton Keynes startup, which tripled annual recurring revenue in the 12 months to July 2025, is using the new round to hire a Chief Revenue Officer and continue product development. Serve First, a British AI-driven customer experience platform, has raised &euro;5.7 million (&pound;5 million) in new funding, according to EU Startups. The round will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/serve-first-secures-57m-to-scale-its-ai-driven-customer-experience-platform-beyond-the-uk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/serve-first-secures-57m-to-scale-its-ai-driven-customer-experience-platform-beyond-the-uk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Matei Zaharia, the Berkeley computer science professor and Databricks co-founder who created Apache Spark, has won the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his foundational contributions to distributed data systems and AI infrastructure. The $250,000 prize, funded by an Infosys endowment, is one of computer science&rsquo;s most prestigious mid-career honours. Zaharia is donating the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/databricks-co-founder-matei-zaharia-wins-acm-prize-and-declares-agi-is-already-here/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/databricks-co-founder-matei-zaharia-wins-acm-prize-and-declares-agi-is-already-here/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies&rsquo; infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The new contract will deliver early deployments of Nvidia&rsquo;s Vera Rubin platform across multiple sites, and is designed specifically for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-commits-another-21-billion-to-coreweave-bringing-total-ai-cloud-spend-to-35-billion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-commits-another-21-billion-to-coreweave-bringing-total-ai-cloud-spend-to-35-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI pauses Stargate UK as energy costs and copyright rules block the path]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre project, citing the high cost of industrial electricity in Britain and an unfavourable regulatory environment around AI copyright. The project, announced in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale, had planned to deploy 8,000 GPUs at sites in north-east England, scalable to 31,000 over time. OpenAI says [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-pauses-stargate-uk-as-energy-costs-and-copyright-rules-block-the-path/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/openai-pauses-stargate-uk-as-energy-costs-and-copyright-rules-block-the-path/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Cloud deepens AI infrastructure partnership with Intel across Xeon and custom chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Google Cloud and Intel have announced a deepened multi-year AI infrastructure partnership covering both CPU deployment and custom chip co-development. Google Cloud will continue adopting Intel&rsquo;s Xeon 6 processors across its global infrastructure for C4 and N4 instances, while the two companies are expanding their joint development of custom Infrastructure Processing Units designed to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-cloud-deepens-ai-infrastructure-partnership-with-intel-across-xeon-and-custom-chips/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-cloud-deepens-ai-infrastructure-partnership-with-intel-across-xeon-and-custom-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s chip business could be worth $50 billion, Jassy says, and he hints it may sell them externally]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Andy Jassy&rsquo;s annual letter to shareholders, published on 9 April 2026, reveals that Amazon&rsquo;s custom chip business, covering Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro, generates more than $20 billion in annualised revenue growing at triple-digit rates year-on-year. If sold on the open market like Nvidia, Jassy says, the business would be worth roughly $50 billion a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-chip-business-could-be-worth-50-billion-jassy-says-and-he-hints-it-may-sell-them-externally/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/amazons-chip-business-could-be-worth-50-billion-jassy-says-and-he-hints-it-may-sell-them-externally/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle appoints Hilary Maxson as CFO to manage its $50 billion AI data centre push]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Oracle has appointed Hilary Maxson, former executive vice president and group chief financial officer at Schneider Electric, as its new chief financial officer, effective 6 April 2026. Maxson reports to chief executive Clay Magouyrk and takes on the role at a moment when Oracle is committing $50 billion in capital expenditure for its current [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-appoints-hilary-maxson-as-cfo-to-manage-its-50-billion-ai-data-centre-push/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/oracle-appoints-hilary-maxson-as-cfo-to-manage-its-50-billion-ai-data-centre-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rethinking Hospitality Operations Through AI Integration While Preserving the Human Experience at Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hospitality has long been defined by human interaction, but the systems that support those interactions have undergone continuous change. Arran Campolucci-Bordi, owner of Casa Italia, established 50 years ago in Liverpool, UK, frames this evolution through lived experience, tracing a path from handwritten reservation books to digital booking systems and now toward AI-driven operations. In [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rethinking-hospitality-operations-through-ai-integration-while-preserving-the-human-experience-at-scale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rethinking-hospitality-operations-through-ai-integration-while-preserving-the-human-experience-at-scale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[European Coinspaid partners with The Residency to empower early-stage startups with blockchain payment infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coinspaid, Europe&rsquo;s one of the largest blockchain payment infrastructure, has announced a strategic partnership with The Residency, a global community for early-stage founders and innovators. The collaboration will provide Residency startups with exclusive access to Coinspaid&rsquo;s industry-leading stablecoin infrastructure solutions on preferential terms. The Residency has become known for cultivating ambitious founders in an environment [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/european-coinspaid-partners-with-the-residency-to-empower-early-stage-startups-with-blockchain-payment-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/european-coinspaid-partners-with-the-residency-to-empower-early-stage-startups-with-blockchain-payment-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marceu Martins on designing ⁠‌99.9% ‍uptime ‍​systems where ​1% ‌failure ​‌‍isn’t ⁠an ​option]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mar&zwj;c&zwj;eu &zwj;Martins &zwj;&#8288;&zwnj;&#8288;has &zwj;sp&zwj;ent &zwj;&#8288;25 &#8203;years working in &zwj;par&zwj;ts &#8288;of technology &zwnj;&#8288;&#8203;where &zwj;failure &zwj;&#8203;is &#8203;not &zwj;abstract. In &#8203;the &#8203;systems &zwnj;&#8288;he designs, a &#8288;1% &zwj;error &zwj;is &zwnj;not &zwj;a &zwnj;minor &#8288;&zwj;defect &#8203;&zwj;or &#8203;an &#8288;acceptable edge &#8203;&zwj;case. It &zwnj;represents &zwj;&zwnj;&#8288;systemic &#8203;&#8288;exposure]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marceu-martins-on-designing-999-uptime-systems-where-1-failure-isnt-an-option/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/marceu-martins-on-designing-999-uptime-systems-where-1-failure-isnt-an-option/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demis Hassabis says Google DeepMind had to return to its startup roots after the Brain merger]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Demis Hassabis, speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings in early April 2026, described how Google DeepMind has accelerated its pace over the past two to three years by merging Google Brain&rsquo;s compute resources with DeepMind&rsquo;s research culture and returning to what he called a &ldquo;startup or entrepreneurial&rdquo; way of working. He also [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/demis-hassabis-says-google-deepmind-had-to-return-to-its-startup-roots-after-the-brain-merger/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/demis-hassabis-says-google-deepmind-had-to-return-to-its-startup-roots-after-the-brain-merger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as chief technology officer in May 2025, left the company last month and has taken a role as member of technical staff at Anthropic, where he will focus on reinforcement learning engineering. The move strips away a C-suite title in exchange for technical proximity to the frontier, and lands [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/workdays-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/workdays-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Thursday, April 9, 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daily News Recap (Thursday, April 9, 2026)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-thursday-april-9-2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/daily-news-recap-thursday-april-9-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kia cuts EV target, confirms electric pickup, and plans to put Atlas robots in its Georgia factories]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;On the day that 25% US tariffs on South Korean imports took effect, Kia held its 2026 CEO Investor Day in Seoul and presented a plan built for a changed world: a quietly reduced EV sales target for 2030, a major expansion of its hybrid range, the first confirmation of a North American electric [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kia-cuts-ev-target-confirms-electric-pickup-and-plans-to-put-atlas-robots-in-its-georgia-factories/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/kia-cuts-ev-target-confirms-electric-pickup-and-plans-to-put-atlas-robots-in-its-georgia-factories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Three YouTube content creators, specifically the company behind H3H3 Productions, a solo golf presenter, and a golf channel, have filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Seattle alleging that Amazon bypassed YouTube&rsquo;s technical protections using virtual machines and rotating IP addresses to scrape their videos without consent, feeding the footage into training datasets for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtubers-sue-amazon-for-allegedly-scraping-their-videos-to-train-nova-reel/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/youtubers-sue-amazon-for-allegedly-scraping-their-videos-to-train-nova-reel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BILL lets enterprise suppliers collect from any SMB, even ones not on its platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;BILL has expanded its Supplier Payments Plus product to let large enterprise suppliers accept card and ACH payments from any SMB customer, including those with no BILL account, converting paper checks into digital transactions automatically and depositing card payments directly into supplier accounts. The company says the changes can shorten collection times by up [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-lets-enterprise-suppliers-collect-from-any-smb-even-ones-not-on-its-platform/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/bill-lets-enterprise-suppliers-collect-from-any-smb-even-ones-not-on-its-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a twin deal aimed at turning a design tool into an end-to-end work platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[Both companies were built by brothers Chris and Mike Sharkey, who previously co-founded Australian holiday rental site Stayz. Financial terms were not disclosed. Canva will preview what it calls the biggest transformation in its history at Canva Create on 16 April. Canva has acquired two companies simultaneously: Simtheory, an agentic AI collaboration platform, and Ortto, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canva-acquires-simtheory-and-ortto-in-a-twin-deal-aimed-at-turning-a-design-tool-into-an-end-to-end-work-platform/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/canva-acquires-simtheory-and-ortto-in-a-twin-deal-aimed-at-turning-a-design-tool-into-an-end-to-end-work-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Volkswagen&rsquo;s autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have begun on-road testing in Los Angeles with roughly 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles, the opening phase of a deployment that is scheduled to offer commercial rides with human safety operators by the end of 2026, and fully driverless service in 2027. Los Angeles is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagens-moia-and-uber-begin-testing-self-driving-id-buzz-minibuses-in-los-angeles/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/volkswagens-moia-and-uber-begin-testing-self-driving-id-buzz-minibuses-in-los-angeles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s Muse Spark is here – and it’s closed source]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Meta has released Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit it assembled under Alexandr Wang after spending $14.3 billion to acquire a stake in Scale AI. Rebuilt from scratch over nine months, the model is natively multimodal, introduces a &ldquo;Contemplating&rdquo; reasoning mode that runs sub-agents in parallel, and is now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-muse-spark-is-here-and-its-closed-source/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/metas-muse-spark-is-here-and-its-closed-source/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Galaxy phones are getting AirDrop! 📩 #samsunggalaxy]]></title><description><![CDATA[More Galaxy phones are getting AirDrop! 📩 #samsunggalaxy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/more-galaxy-phones-are-getting-airdrop-samsunggalaxy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/more-galaxy-phones-are-getting-airdrop-samsunggalaxy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Atlassian is rolling out Remix, a visual AI tool in open beta that transforms Confluence pages into charts, infographics, and scorecards without requiring users to open another application, alongside three partner agents built on the Model Context Protocol that will carry Confluence content directly into Lovable, Replit, and Gamma from April 13. The announcement [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/atlassian-brings-ai-visual-tools-and-partner-agents-to-confluence-1-month-after-cutting-1600-jobs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/atlassian-brings-ai-visual-tools-and-partner-agents-to-confluence-1-month-after-cutting-1600-jobs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb]]></title><description><![CDATA[Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian hypercar maker Rimac, launched commercial robotaxi rides in Zagreb on 8 April alongside Pony.ai and Uber. The vehicles operate with safety operators onboard for now. Waymo is targeting London for Q4 2026. Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian electric hypercar maker Rimac Group, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-first-commercial-robotaxi-service-is-live-in-zagreb/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/europes-first-commercial-robotaxi-service-is-live-in-zagreb/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. Access to Claude Mythos Preview will instead be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-most-capable-ai-escaped-its-sandbox-and-emailed-a-researcher-so-the-company-wont-release-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropics-most-capable-ai-escaped-its-sandbox-and-emailed-a-researcher-so-the-company-wont-release-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Intel has signed on as the primary foundry partner for Elon Musk&rsquo;s Terafab, a $25 billion joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI targeting a terawatt of AI compute per year, handing the struggling chip giant the marquee customer it has been searching for since pivoting to a foundry-first strategy. On 7 April 2026, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-joins-musks-terafab-as-foundry-partner-in-25b-chip-megaproject/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/intel-joins-musks-terafab-as-foundry-partner-in-25b-chip-megaproject/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your team’s whiteboard just got its own AI agents, and they already know the context]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a particular kind of frustration that comes from feeding an AI tool the same context your team spent three days assembling on a whiteboard. You copy the sticky notes into a prompt, paste the diagram description, try to explain the relationships between ideas that were obvious when they were spatially arranged on a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-teams-whiteboard-just-got-its-own-ai-agents-and-they-already-know-the-context/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/your-teams-whiteboard-just-got-its-own-ai-agents-and-they-already-know-the-context/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easy-to-Use Employee Time Tracking Software: Buddy Punch | SourceForge Podcast, episode #108]]></title><description><![CDATA[Easy-to-Use Employee Time Tracking Software: Buddy Punch | SourceForge Podcast, episode #108]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/easy-to-use-employee-time-tracking-software-buddy-punch-sourceforge-podcast-episode-108/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/easy-to-use-employee-time-tracking-software-buddy-punch-sourceforge-podcast-episode-108/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new #insta360 Snap makes your rear camera a selfie camera!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new #insta360 Snap makes your rear camera a selfie camera!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-new-insta360-snap-makes-your-rear-camera-a-selfie-camera/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-new-insta360-snap-makes-your-rear-camera-a-selfie-camera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally! A selfie screen for ANY Android phone! 🤳 #insta360]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finally! A selfie screen for ANY Android phone! 🤳 #insta360]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/finally-a-selfie-screen-for-any-android-phone-insta360/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/finally-a-selfie-screen-for-any-android-phone-insta360/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new facility in Lahti is part of TikTok&rsquo;s &euro;12 billion Project Clover data sovereignty push for European users. Finland&rsquo;s defence ministry approved the first data centre investment in 2024 without informing elected politicians. A former minister publicly called for the project to be reconsidered. TikTok is investing &euro;1 billion ($1.16 billion) to build a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-is-spending-1b-on-a-second-finnish-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tiktok-is-spending-1b-on-a-second-finnish-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow]]></title><description><![CDATA[PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban in a TikTok video on Wednesday. It takes effect on 1 January 2027. Enforcement will rely on a state-mandated app on every device. Around 80% of Greeks support the measure, according to a February poll. Greece has announced it will ban children under 15 from accessing social media platforms, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/greece-will-ban-under-15s-from-social-media-from-2027-and-wants-the-eu-to-follow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/greece-will-ban-under-15s-from-social-media-from-2027-and-wants-the-eu-to-follow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing the platform&rsquo;s security checks, the latest in a series of privacy and security failures to emerge from the company over the past four years. Meta&rsquo;s internal security systems are designed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/former-meta-engineer-probed-over-30000-private-facebook-photos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/former-meta-engineer-probed-over-30000-private-facebook-photos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trent AI raises $13M to build multi-agent security for a world where AI systems are running themselves]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London startup emerged from stealth on 7 April with a layered agentic security solution and a seed round backed by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Its co-founders include a Cambridge professor who was previously Amazon&rsquo;s director of machine learning. Trent AI, a London-based agentic security company, has raised $13 million in a seed round [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trent-ai-raises-13m-to-build-multi-agent-security-for-a-world-where-ai-systems-are-running-themselves/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trent-ai-raises-13m-to-build-multi-agent-security-for-a-world-where-ai-systems-are-running-themselves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber joins Amazon’s Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Uber has expanded its AWS contract to run real-time ride-matching infrastructure on Amazon&rsquo;s Graviton4 processor and is piloting AI model training on Trainium3, joining Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple on a customer list that is becoming the clearest evidence yet that Amazon&rsquo;s custom silicon strategy is working. Uber&rsquo;s infrastructure runs on milliseconds. Every time a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-joins-amazons-trainium-roster-with-aws-expansion-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-joins-amazons-trainium-roster-with-aws-expansion-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eclipse raises $1.3B across two funds to back the next era of physical industries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fund VI ($720M) targets early-stage companies in robotics, manufacturing, and energy. Early Growth Fund III ($591M) supports companies scaling toward Series A. Total AUM is now approximately $10 billion. Eclipse, the Palo Alto-based venture firm that backs companies rebuilding physical industries, has closed $1.3 billion across two funds simultaneously. Eclipse Fund VI has raised $720 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eclipse-raises-13b-across-two-funds-to-back-the-next-era-of-physical-industries/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eclipse-raises-13b-across-two-funds-to-back-the-next-era-of-physical-industries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narwhal Labs raises €22.9M and launches DeepBlue OS, an autonomous AI communication platform for regulated industries]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bristol-based company, parent of Narwhal AI, is building an operating system for autonomous customer conversations across voice, SMS, email, and WhatsApp. CEO Luke Sartain has previously led the Narwhal Media Group. Narwhal Labs, a Bristol-based AI infrastructure company, has raised &euro;22.9 million and simultaneously launched DeepBlue OS, its autonomous communications platform. The company operates [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/narwhal-labs-raises-229m-and-launches-deepblue-os-an-autonomous-ai-communication-platform-for-regulated-industries/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/narwhal-labs-raises-229m-and-launches-deepblue-os-an-autonomous-ai-communication-platform-for-regulated-industries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AirHub raises €4.4M from Keen Venture Partners to scale drone operations software]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dutch company, founded in 2016, has grown from a &euro;1M seed in 2024 to a &euro;4.4M follow-on as government and security operators accelerate drone fleet deployments across Europe and the Middle East. AirHub, a Dutch drone operations software company, has raised &euro;4.4M in a new round led by Keen Venture Partners.&nbsp;The company&rsquo;s software is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airhub-raises-44m-from-keen-venture-partners-to-scale-drone-operations-software/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/airhub-raises-44m-from-keen-venture-partners-to-scale-drone-operations-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utah let AI prescribe medicine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The case for AI prescription renewals is real. So is the case against trusting a state sandbox to catch the risks. In January, a security research firm called Mindgard sat down with a chatbot. The chatbot had been built by Doctronic, a health technology startup that had just become the first company in American history [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/utah-let-ai-prescribe-medicine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/utah-let-ai-prescribe-medicine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;The Trump administration&rsquo;s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency&rsquo;s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic escalation that would reduce the country&rsquo;s primary civilian cybersecurity agency to a $2 billion operation after a year already defined by DOGE-driven layoffs and mass departures. The United States&rsquo; central [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trumps-fy27-budget-would-cut-700m-from-cisa-and-kill-election-security/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/trumps-fy27-budget-would-cut-700m-from-cisa-and-kill-election-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a six-month campaign to weave AI into every layer of Maps. Sharing a photo on Google Maps has always required a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-maps-uses-gemini-to-write-captions-for-your-photos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/google-maps-uses-gemini-to-write-captions-for-your-photos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland&rsquo;s first R2v3-certified ITAD provider, completing a $70 million, nine-month acquisition spree that now spans the U.S., Netherlands, and Ireland, positioning the company to handle the growing wave of hardware disposal from Dublin&rsquo;s hyperscale data centre cluster. When the servers that power Europe&rsquo;s cloud infrastructure reach the end of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paladin-acquires-ict-in-60m-push-to-dominate-european-itad/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/paladin-acquires-ict-in-60m-push-to-dominate-european-itad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short:&nbsp;Joby Aviation and Air Space Intelligence have announced a partnership to integrate AI-driven airspace management into U.S. electric air taxi operations, using ASI&rsquo;s Flyways AI platform to model high-density eVTOL traffic before commercial flights begin later this year. The electric air taxi race has long centred on the aircraft itself: wing count, battery range, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/joby-and-air-space-intelligence-team-up-to-manage-us-electric-air-taxi-skies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/joby-and-air-space-intelligence-team-up-to-manage-us-electric-air-taxi-skies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medialister opens editorial media marketplace to AI Agents with MCP server]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, buying editorial coverage looked less like modern marketing and more like digging through email archives. A brand would hire an agency. The agency built a media list. Then came dozens, sometimes hundreds, &nbsp;of outreach emails to publishers. Threads multiplied. Negotiations dragged on. And only if everything aligned would a sponsored article or press [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/medialister-opens-editorial-media-marketplace-to-ai-agents-with-mcp-server/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/medialister-opens-editorial-media-marketplace-to-ai-agents-with-mcp-server/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy S27 Pro rumors: What we can expect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galaxy S27 Pro rumors: What we can expect]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s27-pro-rumors-what-we-can-expect/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/galaxy-s27-pro-rumors-what-we-can-expect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Berkeley biotech is backing a Nature-published approach that recreates the embryonic environment where blood stem cells first form, rather than reprogramming aged cells chemically or genetically. Its lead programme targets bone marrow transplant in blood cancers and has received FDA Orphan Drug Designation. HexemBio has publicly launched with a $10.4 million seed round led [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hexembio-raises-104m-for-a-stem-cell-rejuvenation-therapy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hexembio-raises-104m-for-a-stem-cell-rejuvenation-therapy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hermeus raises $350M at a $1B valuation to build autonomous hypersonic fighters]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica says the only way to build hypersonic aircraft at this pace is to accept that hardware will fail,&nbsp;and plan for it. Hermeus, a Los Angeles-based defence aviation startup developing autonomous [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hermeus-raises-350m-at-a-1b-valuation-to-build-autonomous-hypersonic-fighters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hermeus-raises-350m-at-a-1b-valuation-to-build-autonomous-hypersonic-fighters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natter raises $23M to replace enterprise surveys with AI-moderated video conversations]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London-based startup, founded by former BBC and Uber executives, runs AI-orchestrated video conversations that can gather structured insight from thousands of employees simultaneously. A seven-minute conversation produces more than 1,000 words of data versus ten from a typical survey answer. Natter, a London-based enterprise insights startup, has raised a $23 million Series A led [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/natter-raises-23m-to-replace-enterprise-surveys-with-ai-moderated-video-conversations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/natter-raises-23m-to-replace-enterprise-surveys-with-ai-moderated-video-conversations/</guid></item></channel></rss>