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ServiceNow shares fall a record 25% after its bookings outlook misses

29-10-2026 17:34 via The Next Web

ServiceNow shares fell as much as 25% to $112.37 after markets opened in New York on Thursday. It was the biggest intraday drop since the company went public in 2012, Brody Ford reported for Bloomberg. The stock was on course for its worst day on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data cited by MarketWatch. […]
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Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including ICE and CBP agents

29-10-2026 17:23 via The Next Web

Records on more than 41,000 employees and contractors of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are now online. They include names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles and office locations. The staff work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other DHS agencies. WIRED, which was given a preview […]
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Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon tops AI rankings, but only cyber defenders get it

29-10-2026 17:05 via The Next Web

Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon, its newest frontier AI model, to a small group of cyber defenders. It arrives two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon reached paying users. Koray Kavukcuoglu, senior vice president at Google DeepMind and Google’s chief AI architect, announced it in a Google blog post on Wednesday. Carbon ranks first on […]
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Orange Cyberdefense joins Mistral design partner programme for Large 4

29-10-2026 16:13 via The Next Web

Orange Cyberdefense will use Mistral AI’s latest model to help test clients’ systems for weaknesses, investigate breaches and speed up responses to cyberattacks. The French security firm joined the design partner programme for Mistral Large 4 on Thursday, becoming the first European managed security services provider to take part. The Orange unit plans to introduce […]
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Hud launches agentic rollouts to take AI-written code to production

29-10-2026 15:00 via The Next Web

AI made writing code fast. Coding agents now plan, write, and test changes and open pull requests in minutes. Shipping that code safely, however, has become the biggest bottleneck in engineering. That is because a change still has to be trusted enough to reach production. A change written in minutes can then wait for days […]
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DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart in a deal worth about $17bn

29-10-2026 14:38 via The Next Web

DoorDash has agreed to buy grocery delivery rival Instacart in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the company at about $17bn. The acquisition would bring two of the biggest US delivery platforms under one roof, expanding DoorDash’s reach in grocery shopping. The companies announced the deal on Thursday. Instacart shareholders can choose $65 in cash per share, […]
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Microsoft sells at least $25bn of bonds, its first US deal since 2017

29-10-2026 14:17 via The Next Web

Microsoft is looking to raise at least $25bn through a US bond sale, its first high-grade debt offering in the country since 2017, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal is divided into as many as 10 tranches, with repayment dates ranging from two to 40 years. Its final size will depend on […]
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Mistral releases open weights for its 1 trillion-parameter Large 4 model

29-10-2026 14:00 via The Next Web

Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4, the 1 trillion-parameter model it previewed three weeks ago, and the version now on Hugging Face is noticeably sharper. The Paris-based company says three extra weeks of reinforcement learning, guided by customer feedback, have made ML4 the strongest open model for agentic coding and cyber defence. […]
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Meta loses French appeal over orders to negotiate with news publishers

29-10-2026 13:50 via The Next Web

Paris appeals court has rejected Meta’s challenge to emergency orders that require it to resume talks with French news publishers over payment for their content, Reuters reported on Thursday. France’s competition authority, the Autorité de la concurrence, imposed the interim measures in July after talks between Meta and the publishers broke down. The Facebook and Instagram owner appealed in […]
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VitVio brings its 3D operating room AI to a hospital in Mexico

29-10-2026 13:16 via The Next Web

London-based startup VitVio is bringing its AI system to every operating room at Hospital Español de Veracruz, a private hospital on Mexico’s Gulf coast. It is the company’s first deal in Latin America. The system, called Vetro, uses cameras and sensors to create a live 3D model of an operating room, showing the people, equipment, […]
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Pluto Security details how a trust_remote_code download turns into malware

29-10-2026 13:00 via The Next Web

The trick at the center of this campaign is not an exploit. It is a feature. Pluto Security’s analysis of a cryptominer operation on the Hugging Face Hub shows that the attacker never needed to break anything. The model-loading library runs the Python that infects a machine exactly as designed. Three doors, one left open […]
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Collective raises $100M to run the finances of one-person businesses

29-10-2026 13:00 via The Next Web

San Francisco startup Collective, which handles the finances of one-person businesses, has raised $100M. The money comes in two parts: a $40M Series B and $60M from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. General Catalyst, QED Investors and Gradient Ventures led the Series B, with Intuit Ventures, FT Partners and SemperVirens also investing. The Customer Value Fund […]
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Tesla Robotaxi riders report detours after Houston service expands

29-10-2026 12:44 via The Next Web

Riders of Tesla’s Robotaxi service in Houston are reporting long detours and pickup points the app will not accept, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. The problems come days after Tesla greatly expanded the area the service covers. Tesla announced the larger service area on Monday with a post reading “Houston, we have liftoff.” The new zone, […]
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Pentagon suspects hackers behind freezer failures at US base stores

29-10-2026 12:01 via The Next Web

The Pentagon is investigating whether hackers caused freezers to fail at shops on US military bases in August, after a similar attack hit hundreds of supermarkets in France this month. Four officials told Reuters on Thursday that investigators are treating the US incidents as a suspected cyberattack. One official said they had also spoken to […]
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Pudu Robotics opens its European headquarters in Neuss, Germany

29-10-2026 11:34 via The Next Web

Chinese robot maker Pudu Robotics has opened its European headquarters in Neuss, near Düsseldorf, as it builds out its business across the region. The Shenzhen-based company announced plans for the German site in September, following a showcase of its robots at the IFA trade fair in Berlin. The headquarters is now fully operational, bringing together […]
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Nasdaq futures fall as Alphabet slides and Microsoft rises on results

29-10-2026 11:01 via The Next Web

US tech stocks were set to open lower on Thursday after mixed results from Alphabet and Microsoft. Investors are weighing how much Big Tech spends on AI against how quickly that spending pays off. Nasdaq 100 futures were down 1.2% early on Thursday, Reuters reported. S&P 500 futures fell 0.4%, while Dow futures rose 0.35%, as […]
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Hamburg’s MuRay raises €7.1M for muon imaging of rocket engines

29-10-2026 10:42 via The Next Web

Hamburg startup MuRay has raised €7.1M to look inside dense metal parts, such as 3D-printed rocket engines and gas turbines. It does this with muons, tiny particles that pass through materials that block X-rays. The total combines a €3.5M private round with €3.6M in public funding, including a grant from the EU’s Horizon Europe research […]
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Lovable opens its first London office with 70 staff

29-10-2026 10:33 via The Next Web

Lovable has opened its first London office, giving the Swedish AI app builder a second home for its engineering, product and design teams. Around 70 people are already working there, and the company plans to increase that number to 100 by the end of the year. The company announced the opening on Thursday. Its London […]
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Google Cloud revenue doubles to $30.7bn, beating forecasts

29-10-2026 10:25 via The Next Web

Google Cloud more than doubled its revenue in the third quarter, beating analysts’ forecasts, Alphabet said on Wednesday. Weaker growth in search advertising, however, meant the group as a whole fell short of expectations. Cloud revenue rose 103% from a year earlier to $30.7bn, according to Alphabet’s quarterly results. Analysts had expected $29.57bn, Reuters reported, citing LSEG […]
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Atlassian people chief Avani Prabhakar calls AI mandates a ‘very bad start’

29-10-2026 10:17 via The Next Web

One AI “super user” in a team of five to seven people lifts the whole team’s AI adoption and usage by 56%, Atlassian’s Avani Prabhakar told TNW. Atlassian counts someone as a super user if they use AI’s most sophisticated features more than 40 times a week to change a workflow, she said. It tracks […]
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Samsung posts record $80bn quarterly profit on AI memory demand

29-10-2026 10:09 via The Next Web

Samsung Electronics made a record operating profit of 107.4 trillion won (about $80bn) in the third quarter, the company said on Thursday. Demand for the memory chips used in AI data centres kept rising. The figure confirms the preliminary results Samsung published earlier this month, when it said profit was about nine times higher than a year […]
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DeepSeek and Moonshot trained new models on GPT-6 Astra, report says

29-10-2026 09:56 via The Next Web

Chinese AI companies DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to train their latest models, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The models in question are Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro, released last week, and an updated version of DeepSeek’s V4.1-Flash, which launched on 17 October. […]
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Amazon cuts up to 250 jobs in its devices unit, Reuters reports

29-10-2026 09:44 via The Next Web

Amazon has cut up to 250 jobs in its devices and services unit, Reuters reported. The unit makes Kindle e-readers, Echo speakers and other hardware that runs Amazon’s Alexa assistant. The cuts mainly affected software developers, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Staff were told by text message and email early on Wednesday […]
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Fujifilm to raise data tape production fivefold as AI drives storage demand

29-10-2026 09:35 via The Next Web

AI data centres are creating a growing need for storage, and Fujifilm is betting that one of the oldest technologies in the business still has a place in the future. The Japanese company will invest ¥10 billion (€56 million) to increase its magnetic tape production capacity fivefold. The investment will go into Fujifilm’s factory in […]
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Anthropic tells Governor Gavin Newsom courts should be able to block risky AI models

29-10-2026 09:19 via The Next Web

Anthropic has told California Governor Gavin Newsom that the state should be able to ask a court to block AI models that pose a serious risk. The AI company made the case in a letter first reported by Politico. The letter, dated 15 October, responds to an executive order Governor Gavin Newsom signed in September. The […]
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Ravical raises $17M to bring shared AI to accounting firms

29-10-2026 08:00 via The Next Web

Belgian startup Ravical, which builds AI software for accounting and tax firms, has raised $17M in a seed round led by MMC Ventures. Existing backers Lakestar and Pitchdrive also invested, along with new investor Shapers. More than 100 accounting firms in Europe now use the platform, the company said. Ravical plans to use the new money […]
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Meta says its expanded processing capacity is driving ad results

28-10-2026 23:44 via Social Media Today - Latest News

The company offered new insights into how its artificial intelligence enhancements are powering clicks and conversions.

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Reddit introduces For You feed

28-10-2026 23:42 via Social Media Today - Latest News

The platform’s algorithm-defined feed is designed to improve in-app discovery with tailored recommendations and updates.

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Meta’s Muse AI agents are now available to users in Singapore

28-10-2026 23:39 via Social Media Today - Latest News

The expansion marks the next step in Meta's plan to get billions of people using its AI agents.

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TikTok adds in-app restaurant guide

28-10-2026 21:54 via Social Media Today - Latest News

The local dining list, called Must Eat, is designed to showcase community-sourced spots in the U.S.

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Meta launches two new AI apps, including one aimed at kids

28-10-2026 21:41 via Social Media Today - Latest News

Waddle World is designed to offer children a “Tamagotchi-style pet raising” experience, while Style Sketch creates outfits from uploaded images of users’ clothes.

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Anthropic may offer up to 20% of its IPO to retail, Bloomberg says

28-10-2026 21:25 via The Next Web

Anthropic is weighing setting aside 15% to 20% of the shares in its IPO for retail investors, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Wednesday, 28 October. JPMorgan will lead the US retail offering, they said. TNW has not independently verified the report. The S-1 prospectus only says the banks may set aside shares […]
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Meta shareholders sue Zuckerberg to block his non-voting share plan

28-10-2026 21:12 via The Next Web

Meta shareholders have sued Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of Meta’s board to stop a plan for a new class of non-voting shares. They filed the class action in the Delaware Court of Chancery on Tuesday, 27 October. Ryan Knappenberger reported it for Courthouse News. The plaintiffs are two Steamfitters Local 449 funds and two […]
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China’s CXMT will make AI memory despite yields as low as 20%, Reuters says

28-10-2026 21:04 via The Next Web

China’s biggest memory chipmaker, CXMT, plans to start making HBM3E, an advanced memory used in AI chips, even though only 20% to 30% of the chips it makes are usable. Two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, which reported the details on Wednesday, 28 October. TNW has not independently verified the report. CXMT has […]
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DOJ looks into Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal, Reuters reports

28-10-2026 20:52 via The Next Web

The US Justice Department is asking how Nvidia’s $12.9B purchase of Hugging Face would affect competition in AI, including whether it would hand Nvidia a key distribution point for models. The questions run alongside a years-long probe into Nvidia’s conduct. The US Justice Department is asking how Nvidia’s $12.9B purchase of Hugging Face would affect […]
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Discord messages from big public servers will show up in Google search

28-10-2026 20:51 via The Next Web

Messages posted in Discord’s largest public communities will start appearing in Google and other search engines from mid-December. Discord announced the change in a blog post on Tuesday, 27 October. It covers more than 63,000 Discoverable Servers. It is on by default for adults in most countries, though not in Europe. Discoverable Servers are the […]
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Amazon Leo wins FCC approval to buy iPhone satellite partner Globalstar

28-10-2026 20:43 via The Next Web

The US Federal Communications Commission has approved Amazon Leo’s $11.5bn purchase of Globalstar. Globalstar runs the satellite service behind Apple’s iPhone emergency features. On Tuesday, 27 October, the FCC’s Space Bureau cleared the transfer of about 25 megahertz of Globalstar’s mobile-satellite spectrum. The regulator announced it in a press release. That approval ends the FCC’s […]
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Palantir’s defence chief says the AI race raises the risk to Taiwan

28-10-2026 20:35 via The Next Web

Palantir defence chief Mike Gallagher said the AI race makes it more tempting for Xi Jinping to seize Taiwan, home to TSMC, before China falls behind for good. He warned that Beijing could then hold the world economy hostage. US intelligence said in March that an invasion would carry a high risk of failure. Mike […]
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Australia moves to ban AI chatbots from ‘emotional intimacy’ with children

28-10-2026 20:33 via The Next Web

Australia’s digital duty of care bill would bar AI chatbots from building “emotional intimacy” with children. The bill passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, 28 October, as Josh Butler reported for The Guardian. It now goes to the Senate. The chatbot rule came in through amendments from independent MP Kate Chaney, which the government […]
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AMD to invest $1bn in Meta as its Helios racks start running there

28-10-2026 20:19 via The Next Web

AMD will invest $1bn in Meta’s equity offering, the chipmaker said on Tuesday, 27 October. It made the pledge in a release on its partnership with Meta. AMD also said its first Helios rack systems are now running at Meta. The money comes on top of Nvidia’s pledge to invest $3bn in Meta. That brings […]
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Oracle shares jump as it targets $30B in free cash flow by 2029

28-10-2026 20:16 via The Next Web

Oracle said free cash flow will reach $30B in the year to May 2029, when analysts expected it to stay negative. It capped new fundraising at $20B through May 2030 and kept its $225B revenue target. Shares rose as much as 14%. Oracle shares jumped as much as 14% on Wednesday after the company said […]
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Munich’s biggest taxi firm plans up to 500 Tensor robotaxis in Germany

28-10-2026 20:06 via The Next Web

Munich’s largest taxi operator plans to run up to 500 self-driving cars from US company Tensor in German cities. Tensor and Münchner Taxi Zentrum (MTZ) have signed a letter of intent. They said so in a press release on Tuesday, 27 October. They announced it at the Madrid Autonomous Mobility Summit. The fleet depends on […]
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X lets users share credit on reposted images

28-10-2026 19:59 via Social Media Today - Latest News

The app’s Original Content Rewards Program now ensures that more users benefit from engagement on linked graphics.

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GitHub launches Copilot Fusion as agents start 40% of pull requests

28-10-2026 19:50 via The Next Web

GitHub launched Copilot Fusion at GitHub Universe, its developer conference, on Wednesday. The system decides which AI model, or mix of models, should handle each step of a coding task. It weighs what the task needs across reasoning, code generation, debugging and tool use. Jay Parikh, executive vice president of CoreAI at Microsoft, described it […]
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SK Hynix profit jumps 632% as it says memory shortage will last to 2030

28-10-2026 19:19 via The Next Web

SK Hynix reported record third-quarter results on Wednesday, 28 October. Operating profit rose 632% from a year earlier to 83.3 trillion won (about $62bn). Revenue rose 328% to 104.6 trillion won, it said in its earnings release. It is the first time the South Korean memory maker’s quarterly sales have passed 100 trillion won. Its […]
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Anthropic manager drops coding interviews because Claude is better at them

28-10-2026 19:08 via The Next Web

Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg has dropped the coding interview from his team’s hiring. He explained the change in a blog post on Tuesday, 27 October, titled “Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers”. Rieseberg has led engineering for Claude.ai, Claude Code Desktop and Anthropic’s Cowork tool, according to his bio. He previously worked at […]
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Anthropic gives US governments 40% off Claude in new GSA deal

28-10-2026 19:08 via The Next Web

Anthropic will give US government buyers a 40% discount on Claude under an expanded deal with the General Services Administration (GSA). The company announced it in a blog post on Tuesday, 27 October. For the first time, the discount also covers state, local, tribal and territorial governments. It applies to Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government […]
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Apple launches its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, from $2,899

28-10-2026 18:49 via The Next Web

Apple unveiled a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, an OLED display and a Dynamic Island, after two decades of rejecting touch Macs. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899 and weighs 3 pounds; the 16-inch starts at $3,399. It arrives on 6 November. Apple has unveiled a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, ending two […]
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Europe should make AI prove its value before giving it priority on the grid

28-10-2026 18:41 via The Next Web

Governments, households and businesses have a stake in how electricity networks accommodate the next wave of industrial growth. When someone proposes a major data centre development, the question extends beyond whether it can secure a connection to the grid. It also includes the additional cost of accommodating the connection. And it includes the need for […]
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Nvidia releases an open speech model that transcribes 40 languages

28-10-2026 18:30 via The Next Web

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model that transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 and labels up to eight speakers in recordings of up to an hour. It came with Granary v2, a free dataset of 463,062 hours of speech in 48 languages. Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight AI model that […]
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