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China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind

17-07-2026 14:09 via thenextweb.com

Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the […]
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From Bitcoin trading to financial super apps: what nine years of Binance reveal about crypto exchange evolution

17-07-2026 13:48 via thenextweb.com

Nine years later, Binance serves more than 316 million users across trading, payments, savings, tokenized securities, and traditional asset access. Its evolution from a spot cryptocurrency exchange into an integrated financial platform closely mirrors the broader maturation of the centralized exchange industry itself. A recent CoinDesk Research case study traces that transformation through five distinct phases, illustrating how […]
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a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents

17-07-2026 13:43 via thenextweb.com

AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, which values Runta at more than $100 million, The Information reported. ‘Parenting’ AI […]
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Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud

17-07-2026 13:28 via thenextweb.com

Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move covers the applications Airbus needs to keep running as a “minimum viable company.” That is about 900 apps, starting with 70 now […]
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An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech

17-07-2026 13:11 via thenextweb.com

Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board, an independent body funded by Meta to review its […]
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An FCC plan could end the anonymous burner phone in the US

17-07-2026 13:00 via thenextweb.com

The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie every American’s identity to a number. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon be impossible in the US. A Federal Communications Commission proposal would force providers to […]
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AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now

17-07-2026 12:46 via thenextweb.com

The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI models, Axios reported. Their diagnoses […]
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Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI

17-07-2026 12:39 via thenextweb.com

Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, TechCrunch reported. They will reach […]
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Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs

17-07-2026 12:32 via thenextweb.com

Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 4,500 staff to […]
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DeepMind’s Hassabis says a STEM degree makes you 10x better with AI

17-07-2026 12:18 via thenextweb.com

AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video published on Wednesday. Knowing the fundamentals of software gives you an edge with AI, he told the audience, Business […]
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Meet the philosopher inside Google DeepMind

17-07-2026 12:14 via thenextweb.com

What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? That question sits at the heart of a Guardian long-read on Iason Gabriel, who has worked inside Google DeepMind since 2017. For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel was the only philosopher at a frontier AI lab. His job was to anticipate the […]
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Google DeepMind launched an AI biosecurity programme to fight biological threats

17-07-2026 11:56 via thenextweb.com

Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post. The aim is twofold. DeepMind wants to stop people misusing its models, and to help governments, scientists and biosecurity groups use AI […]
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Mick Jagger says AI is fine for musicians, as long as it does not sound like him

17-07-2026 11:55 via thenextweb.com

Mick Jagger has given a qualified blessing to musicians who reach for artificial intelligence, on the strict condition that whatever comes out is genuinely their own. “If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead,” he told Billboard in a cover story published this week. “But it has to be original.” The line arrives quickly, though, […]
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French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away

17-07-2026 11:50 via thenextweb.com

A French startup has raised $30 million to tackle one of fashion’s hardest waste problems. Syntetica recycles nylon, and it can process two grades at once that the industry has long struggled to pull apart, its founder told TechCrunch. The Ecotechnologies 2 fund, managed by France’s public bank Bpifrance, led the round, worth €26.1 million. […]
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Coca-Cola halted fairlife’s US production after a ransomware attack

17-07-2026 11:17 via thenextweb.com

Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. A ransomware attack has stopped production at one of Coca-Cola’s biggest dairy brands. The company said fairlife found unauthorised access to part of its systems, including production systems, in a statement. Coca-Cola disclosed the breach to […]
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Mamdani wants NYC landlords to label the AI in their apartment photos

17-07-2026 10:39 via thenextweb.com

The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his administration published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda drawn from the testimony of more […]
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SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded

17-07-2026 10:33 via thenextweb.com

Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has sold before and that lands squarely behind its swelling bet on OpenAI. The plan […]
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Mitsubishi Electric weighs power-chip merger with Rohm and Toshiba

17-07-2026 10:29 via thenextweb.com

Japan’s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition. Mitsubishi Electric is exploring a combination of its power-semiconductor operations with those of Rohm and Toshiba, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The talks are part of a wider scramble to […]
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Google’s record EU fine won’t just punish Google. It will quietly shrink what European taxpayers owe Brussels.

17-07-2026 10:24 via thenextweb.com

Google has finally paid its record EU antitrust fine, and the money is about to do something unexpected. The €4.6bn will flow into the EU’s central budget and reduce what member states owe Brussels, Politico reports. The mechanism is dry, but the effect is real. EU fines are not earmarked for anything, so they simply lower […]
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Databricks hits $188bn valuation in Coatue-led round, landing above its own $175bn talks

17-07-2026 10:24 via thenextweb.com

$188bn is a large number for a company that keeps insisting it is in no rush to go public. That is the valuation Databricks has reached in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, a figure first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The mark sits well above the up-to-$175bn the firm was reportedly in […]
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Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI

17-07-2026 10:19 via thenextweb.com

Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology. The line, aimed at the developing world and, by implication, at Washington, set the tone for a speech […]
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PayPal board rebuffs $53bn Stripe and Advent bid as too low, sources say

17-07-2026 10:15 via thenextweb.com

PayPal’s board reckons that a $53bn (£39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer short, the latest twist in a fast-moving round of payments consolidation. People familiar with the talks told Reuters the directors view the offer as inadequate and have yet to respond formally. The approach values PayPal at […]
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A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn

17-07-2026 10:10 via thenextweb.com

The most precise figure yet attached to DeepSeek’s worth did not come from the lab, its bankers or its founder. It surfaced in a stock-exchange filing by Anhui Korrun, a Chinese luggage maker, which discloses a stake small enough to imply the Hangzhou AI startup is valued at around $52bn. The arithmetic is narrow but […]
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Network School founder says Malaysia immigration probe risks its tech ambitions

17-07-2026 10:05 via thenextweb.com

Balaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the “network state,” his theory that an internet country of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week a real one reminded him who still holds the passports. The former Coinbase chief technology officer and Andreessen Horowitz partner said on 15 […]
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Netflix beats on Q2 earnings but a soft Q3 forecast sends the stock down 9%

17-07-2026 09:59 via thenextweb.com

Netflix cleared the quarter and stumbled on the outlook. The company posted second-quarter revenue of $12.56bn on Thursday, up 13% on the year, alongside earnings of $0.80 a share, a cent ahead of the $0.79 analysts had pencilled in. Then it guided the next three months lower, and the stock did the rest. Third-quarter revenue is forecast […]
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Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, the world’s largest open AI model

17-07-2026 09:51 via thenextweb.com

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter system it bills as the world’s largest open-weight AI model. The claim, made on 16 July, plants the firm squarely alongside the American frontier labs it has spent two years chasing. The model arrives weeks after Moonshot was reported to be seeking a $30bn valuation, and […]
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China just put its first commercial brain implant into a patient. It’s smaller than Neuralink’s, on purpose.

17-07-2026 09:49 via thenextweb.com

China has performed the world’s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired hand movement, the South China Morning Post reports. The patient had lost hand function after a spinal cord injury in a car accident a decade ago. The procedure […]
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A Chinese AI startup is about to hit $1bn in sales while giving its best models away for free

17-07-2026 09:43 via thenextweb.com

One of China’s leading AI startups is closing in on a milestone the rest of the industry keeps missing. Z.ai, the company behind the GLM models, is set to become the first independent Chinese AI firm with $1bn in annual sales, Bloomberg reports. The claim is a projection, not a booked result. But the trajectory behind […]
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KAIST and Stanford unveil clothing that climbs onto its wearer

17-07-2026 09:38 via thenextweb.com

Getting dressed is the sort of task nobody thinks about until they can no longer manage it. For millions of older and disabled people, pulling on a sleeve is a daily negotiation with buttons, shoulders, and gravity, and it usually needs a second pair of hands. A research team from South Korea and the United […]
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Eoptolink files for Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn

17-07-2026 09:21 via thenextweb.com

Eoptolink Technology, a Chinese maker of the optical parts that shuttle data between AI chips, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise as much as $5bn, according to Bloomberg. The paperwork arrives roughly three months after the company picked banks for a deal then pegged at about $3bn, a target that has swelled alongside the market’s […]
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AI was supposed to kill the travel agent. Instead it just minted a billion-dollar one.

17-07-2026 09:05 via thenextweb.com

Fora, a platform that lets ordinary people become travel agents and gives travellers a way to find them, has raised a $60m Series D at a $1bn valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures. It has 15,000+ advisors (97% new to the profession) who have booked over $3bn in travel, an accelerating curve. Fora is […]
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X adds Grok-powered insights to Ads Manager

17-07-2026 00:50 via socialmediatoday.com

The move represents the platform’s latest artificial intelligence integration advance, and could eventually lead to full advertising automation.

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YouTube refreshes Studio and updates video guidance

17-07-2026 00:47 via socialmediatoday.com

The company is providing more insights via a rebranded analytics portal and also offered clarifications on the removal of unsatisfying or off-putting material.

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X updates its engagement bait detection

17-07-2026 00:43 via socialmediatoday.com

The platform is using Grok’s artificial intelligence system to remove accounts that solicit engagement from its creator revenue share program.

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