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A Polish developer built an app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth

10-09-2026 12:34 via thenextweb.com

A 30-year-old Polish software developer has built an iPhone app that detects Meta smart glasses in the vicinity and estimates how far away they are by reading the Bluetooth signals the glasses broadcast. It has around 5,000 users a month after launch. Pawel Szydlowski bought several models of smart glasses and catalogued their Bluetooth fingerprints, […]
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Motive pulls its IPO filing after raising $1.3bn from General Catalyst

10-09-2026 21:15 via thenextweb.com

Motive has secured more than $1.3bn in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, the company announced on Thursday. Because of the financing, Motive has withdrawn its previously filed S-1 registration statement for an initial public offering. The San Francisco company describes itself as “the AI platform for physical operations”. Its software helps companies […]
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Spain gives WeRide and Uber its first permit for Level 4 self-driving cars

10-09-2026 20:58 via thenextweb.com

WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public roads, the three companies announced on Thursday. Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) issued it under its ES-AV framework for autonomous vehicles. Reuters also reported the permit. AVOMO is the autonomous vehicle division of the Moove Cars […]
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Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents

10-09-2026 20:16 via thenextweb.com

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters and CNBC also reported it. According to the announcement, the framework is meant to help card networks, digital wallets, […]
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Greece picks its first astronaut for a 2027 Vast mission to the ISS

10-09-2026 20:01 via thenextweb.com

Adrianos Golemis is set to become Greece’s first astronaut, subject to approval by the space station partners. The European Space Agency has signed an agreement on behalf of Greece with the US company Vast. Vast plans the mission to the International Space Station for 2027, the company announced on Wednesday. Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis […]
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BNP says AI borrowing will end the credit bull market, and it is lending to AI too

10-09-2026 19:58 via thenextweb.com

BNP Paribas expects the years-long rally in corporate bonds to break as hyperscalers flood the market, forecasting some $400B of their bond sales next year and a record $3.7T of net fixed income supply. The ECB reached a similar conclusion in August, finding US tech now accounts for close to a tenth of new euro […]
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Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving after less than a year

10-09-2026 19:42 via thenextweb.com

Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a symbol of the AI talent war. Reed Albergotti first reported the departure for Semafor on Wednesday, citing a person briefed on the matter. The Wall Street Journal followed on Thursday and reported […]
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Microsoft patches a record 974 flaws, and two are already under attack

10-09-2026 19:29 via thenextweb.com

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday fixes 974 security flaws across its products, according to the company’s release notes. Attackers were already exploiting two of them before the patches landed on Tuesday. Both zero-days let an attacker who already has a foothold on a Windows machine gain higher privileges. One sits in the Windows Update Stack (CVE-2026-81963), […]
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Euno raises $23m to give enterprise AI agents the context they lack

10-09-2026 19:11 via thenextweb.com

Euno has raised a $23m Series A led by N47. The startup builds what it calls a context platform for enterprise AI agents. Chief executive Sarah Levy first disclosed the round to Axios Pro, before the company published its announcement on Wednesday. Existing investor 10D also took part, alongside a group of founders from the […]
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Snap launches a planning tool for organising meet-ups with friends

10-09-2026 18:57 via thenextweb.com

Snap has launched Snapchat Plans, an invite-only tool for organising real-world gatherings of up to 200 people, built on the finding that a third of young American users already arrange meet-ups in chats. The European Commission has had formal proceedings open against Snapchat since March over its protection of minors, and none of the coverage […]
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ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform

10-09-2026 18:39 via thenextweb.com

Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement and will build a music creation platform on it that lets fans produce remixes, mashups, new interpretations and personalised vocal experiences using tracks from artists who choose to take part. It is ElevenLabs’ first deal with a major label, covers product development as well […]
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Top Pentagon official dismisses viral AI warning from an Anthropic researcher

10-09-2026 18:38 via thenextweb.com

The Pentagon’s chief technology officer publicly dismissed a former Anthropic researcher’s viral warning about AI risk and said the department has shifted about 90% of its classified AI workload away from the company, with the rest going by the end of September. The EU AI Act does not cover military or national security uses at […]
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Salesforce closes Fin and eyes $2bn Listen Labs, Business Insider reports

10-09-2026 18:34 via thenextweb.com

Salesforce completed its acquisition of Fin on Thursday, bringing the customer service AI company formerly known as Intercom into its business. The same week, Business Insider’s Katie Roof and Ben Bergman reported that Salesforce has held talks to buy a second AI startup, Listen Labs, for around $2bn. Business Insider said the Listen Labs talks […]
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Clay raises $115m at a $7.1bn valuation, more than double its 2025 price

10-09-2026 18:23 via thenextweb.com

Clay has raised $115m in a Series D round that values the New York go-to-market software company at $7.1bn. Wellington Management led the round, the company said in its announcement on Wednesday. The New York Times broke the news, in a DealBook story by Michael J. de la Merced. The paper reported that Clay’s previous […]
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Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant

10-09-2026 18:22 via thenextweb.com

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden NFL and Pokemon Go under one roof. Brussels cleared the EA takeover on competition and foreign subsidy grounds six weeks ago, and combining two companies the same owner already controls may not require a European filing […]
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Anthropic skipped UK pre-release tests for Mythos 5.1, the FT reports

10-09-2026 18:07 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before release, the Financial Times reported. Reporters Lucy Fisher and Madhumita Murgia said it is the first time a major model has been kept from the UK institute before launch. TNW has not independently verified the report. The FT reported […]
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Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video

10-09-2026 18:06 via thenextweb.com

Skild AI says it has reached $100M in recurring revenue run-rate ten months after its first commercial deployment, with hundreds of robots running at more than 60 companies. Its S1 model learns tasks from a single video without prior training data, which is the behaviour Europe’s Machinery Regulation newly regulates from January 2027. Skild AI […]
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DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model

10-09-2026 17:48 via thenextweb.com

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding and agent tasks, at a lower price. The Hangzhou lab announced it in a thread on X and published the weights on Hugging Face under the MIT licence. That lets anyone download, modify and run […]
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More Americans are warming to EVs, a new study finds

10-09-2026 17:44 via thenextweb.com

The HERE-SBD EV Index finds positive American perceptions of charging infrastructure rose from 28% to 47% in a year, and 60% now expect it to keep improving, even as US battery-electric market share fell to 5.37%. HERE is headquartered in Amsterdam and was bought from Nokia by Audi, BMW and Daimler in 2015. More Americans […]
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Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355bn, weeks after Airtable

10-09-2026 17:23 via thenextweb.com

“It’s a privilege, and no small responsibility, to welcome a product that over 250,000 organizations have integrated into their workflows,” said Luca Ferrari, the chief executive and co-founder of Bending Spoons. His Milan-based group has agreed to buy Miro, the online whiteboard company, at an enterprise value of $1.355bn. Bending Spoons announced the all-cash deal […]
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Electric cars are 33% cheaper to run in Europe. Petrol fuel costs rose up to 36% in one shock

10-09-2026 17:21 via thenextweb.com

The ICCT finds battery-electric cars were 33% cheaper to run than petrol cars in the EU last year, or 28% on public charging alone, with combustion energy costs rising up to 36% after February’s oil shock while electricity held steady. Purchase-price parity has been reached in three segments, and the small and lower-medium ones are […]
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Zuckerberg tells Sources labs holding back AI models is ‘quite dangerous’

10-09-2026 17:08 via thenextweb.com

“I personally am much more worried about a small number of labs or people having control of something that is so capable.” That was Mark Zuckerberg, speaking to Alex Heath on the Sources podcast, published on Wednesday. Heath recorded the interview at Meta’s headquarters the previous Friday, days before Meta launched Muse, its personal AI […]
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Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware

10-09-2026 16:35 via thenextweb.com

Antioch, a New York startup that builds simulation software for robots, drones and other autonomous machines, has raised a $32m Series A. Greylock led the round. The money goes on the idea that physical AI teams should test their systems in the cloud before anything touches hardware. Antioch announced the round in a blog post […]
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OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit

10-09-2026 16:20 via thenextweb.com

Sébastien Bubeck is the OpenAI researcher at the centre of the Navier-Stokes credit dispute. He has now given his account of the private talks with the two mathematicians who say OpenAI mistreated them. He denies trying to strip one of them of credit for his own work. He also apologises for one remark. Bubeck set […]
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Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports

10-09-2026 15:48 via thenextweb.com

Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, is in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $60bn. That would put it $16bn above the valuation it reached just three months ago. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas of Bloomberg reported the talks on 8 September, citing people familiar with the efforts. […]
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UK will legislate to make Apple and Google block nude images for children

10-09-2026 15:37 via thenextweb.com

The UK government will legislate to force Apple and Google to block nude images on children’s phones and tablets. The law would stop children taking, sharing or viewing them. Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, told the House of Commons on 8 September that voluntary talks with the two companies had not gone far enough. In […]
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US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google

10-09-2026 15:19 via thenextweb.com

The US Department of Energy has lent NextEra Energy up to $1.9bn to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center. It is Iowa’s only nuclear power plant. Most of its power is already sold to Google, under a 25-year deal to supply the company’s cloud and AI infrastructure in the state. The department’s Office of Energy […]
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Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres

10-09-2026 15:02 via thenextweb.com

Celero Communications, a two-year-old chip startup, has raised $275m in a Series C round that values it at more than $3bn. It makes the processors that push data down fibre optic cables between AI chips, racks and whole data centres. Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth fund, co-led the round. Dina Bass […]
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UK space strategy puts £7.8bn behind defence, satellites and ESA to 2030

10-09-2026 14:39 via thenextweb.com

The UK government has published a new space strategy, backed by £7.8bn to 2030. It brings the government’s civil and military space spending under one plan. The government’s announcement on 8 September named national security and defence as its key pillars, alongside growth. The UK Space Strategy formally replaces the National Space Strategy of 2021. […]
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Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls

10-09-2026 14:19 via thenextweb.com

Researchers at Calif, a Palo Alto security company, say they used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls. It takes over an account while the phone is still ringing. It then uses that account to call the victim’s contacts and repeat the trick. Tencent, which owns WeChat, has confirmed the flaw and […]
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