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ASML shares fell 6.5% after a report that China has started mass-producing DUV lithography tools

27-07-2026 17:29 via thenextweb.com

ASML shares fell as much as 6.5% in Amsterdam on Monday after The Information reported that a Shanghai-based company has begun mass-producing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography tools. The machines are the type that ASML has been restricted from selling to China under Dutch and US export controls. If the report is accurate, it represents exactly […]
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Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still work in the lab

01-10-2026 16:25 via thenextweb.com

Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides a signature in the amino acid sequence or predicted 3D structure of a protein. The lab announced it on Wednesday in a blog post and a paper in Nature. Google DeepMind says a test can find the signature […]
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MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies

01-10-2026 16:12 via thenextweb.com

MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday as an Espionage Alert. It is […]
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Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m

01-10-2026 15:51 via thenextweb.com

GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that invests in AI and robotics, […]
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OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic

01-10-2026 15:40 via thenextweb.com

In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlantic on Tuesday. Dario Amodei opposed it. It was one of several disputes that led […]
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McDonald’s uses AI to set an optimal price at each store, Reuters reports

01-10-2026 15:25 via thenextweb.com

McDonald’s is using an AI pricing engine to recommend what each of its nearly 14,000 restaurants should charge for every menu item, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The engine covers the US and some markets abroad. One factor the engine weighs is an estimate of how much each store’s customers are willing to pay. Waylon Cunningham […]
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Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks

01-10-2026 14:58 via thenextweb.com

AI could set off shocks in financial markets, and the UK has to be ready for them, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC on Thursday. He said the Bank is watching the money flowing into AI “very carefully”. Mitchell Labiak and Faisal Islam of the BBC asked him whether an AI bubble […]
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OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC

01-10-2026 14:47 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a super PAC that backs pro-AI candidates for Congress. Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac reported the move for The New York Times on Wednesday. Leading the Future had said the couple would give $50m in […]
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Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports

01-10-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com

A final investment decision on Project Kilby, a huge gas-powered data centre in West Texas, could slip from the end of this year to 2027 because of state politics. Tim McDonnell reported the news for Semafor on Thursday. The project, near Pecos in the Permian Basin, will use about 2.67GW of on-site gas turbines to power […]
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Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports

01-10-2026 14:40 via thenextweb.com

Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips it buys. The credit cut almost $4bn off its tax bill last year. Kashmir Hill, Jesse Drucker, Eli Tan and Mike […]
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DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA

01-10-2026 14:32 via thenextweb.com

DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang, a programming language DeepSeek offers as a simpler alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on Wednesday in a post on its WeChat account. The release includes compute and communication libraries for […]
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AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority

01-10-2026 14:27 via thenextweb.com

Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI progresses from generating text in isolated environments toward initiating transactions, influencing decisions, and contributing to production code, the consequences of an error may extend across interconnected systems. Splunk’s 2026 research, released by Cisco in partnership with Oxford Economics, estimates that unplanned […]
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Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits

01-10-2026 14:19 via thenextweb.com

GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published the findings in a research post. Zhipu […]
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Use.ai puts 10+ AI models in one app and reaches 1 million monthly users

01-10-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com

Every new AI model creates another reason to switch. For users who have already built up months or years of conversations, preferences, files and personal context inside one platform, moving to a better model can also mean starting again. Use.ai was built around the idea that people should be able to switch between the intelligence […]
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Maximor rebrands as Hyphenate after 86x revenue growth

01-10-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com

Maximor, the autonomous finance company, has rebranded as Hyphenate. The new name reflects the company’s expansion across the office of the CFO and follows 86x revenue growth over the past 12 months. Finance software spent the last decade breaking the office of the CFO into point solutions. There was one for close, another for billing, […]
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Trump tells Axios that Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar

01-10-2026 13:40 via thenextweb.com

President Donald Trump has said that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar, Axios reported on Tuesday. Trump has said he wants to name a czar within three or four days. Maria Curi of Axios asked Trump who he wanted for the role. He said he had someone in mind. […]
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OpenAI seeks $30bn at a $1.4tn valuation as revenue nears $70bn

01-10-2026 13:23 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI is in early talks to raise at least $30bn at a valuation of around $1.4tn, before the new money. Bloomberg and The Information reported the talks on Tuesday. The round would give the ChatGPT maker fresh capital after it pushed back its stock market listing. Rebecca Torrence, Edward Ludlow and Shirin Ghaffary reported for […]
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US lawmaker asks five AI firms how they guard model weights from China

01-10-2026 13:21 via thenextweb.com

US Congressman Ro Khanna has asked five leading American AI companies to share what they know about attempts by China or other hostile actors to steal their model weights. The letters went to the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX, Reuters reported. Model weights are the numbers learned during training that make […]
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Zuckerberg drafted Trump’s AI accord, but Microsoft and Amazon didn’t sign

01-10-2026 13:08 via thenextweb.com

Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunch where the CEOs agreed it. Ashley Gold first reported the story for […]
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Monk hosts Net 30, an applied AI summit on the future of finance

01-10-2026 12:21 via thenextweb.com

On October 21, 150 CFOs, operators, founders and researchers will gather at The Times Center in New York. They will discuss how AI is reshaping cash, capital and the finance function. In a Gartner survey of 183 CFOs, 84% of finance organizations had deployed AI or planned to. Yet only 7% reported a high impact. […]
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Suspected Chinese hackers posed as US AI insiders, Proofpoint says

01-10-2026 12:20 via thenextweb.com

A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday. Proofpoint has identified the group as TA419 and has said that […]
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PLD Space and CNES to study a second launch pad in French Guiana

01-10-2026 11:59 via thenextweb.com

Today, the company announced that PLD Space had entered into an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, and that both parties were considering building a second launch pad for PLD’s rockets at the spaceport in French Guiana. They will examine whether the new pad can be accommodated at the ELM-Diamant site of the Guiana […]
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Osavul raises €8.5M Series A to expand hybrid threat intelligence

01-10-2026 10:59 via thenextweb.com

Osavul, an AI startup that spots state-backed attacks before they happen, has raised €8.5M in a Series A round. 33N Ventures, a European cybersecurity fund, led the round, and it brings the total Osavul has raised to about €12m. Balnord, G+D Ventures and earlier backer 42CAP also put in money. Osavul now runs from London […]
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Pentagon creates Autonomous Warfare Command to scale drones and AI

01-10-2026 10:35 via thenextweb.com

The US military is establishing a new command to develop and field drones, robots, and other autonomous systems across all its branches. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom, on Wednesday. Hegseth made the announcement in his annual State of the Force speech to junior officers and enlisted personnel at Marine […]
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MuleSoft founder’s DIG Ventures closes $120M fund for AI infrastructure

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

DIG Ventures, the London-based firm led by MuleSoft founder Ross Mason, has closed its third fund at $120M. Fund III will back around 30 European pre-seed and seed-stage startups that build software infrastructure for AI. Its institutional backers include Horsley Bridge, Sofina, Granite and an unnamed US university endowment. The founders of Slack, Datadog, Nord […]
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AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive

01-10-2026 09:57 via thenextweb.com

On 28 May and again on 9 June, AI agents carried out several simple hacking attempts against a search tool operated by Library and Archives Canada. Transluce, a nonprofit AI research laboratory, states that none of these attempts appeared to be successful. They set out the findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The lab […]
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Reddit ends support for RSS feeds

01-10-2026 00:17 via socialmediatoday.com

The platform also announced an end to free API access as it tries to protect its data from artificial intelligence scrapers.

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Instagram adds option to boost livestreams

01-10-2026 00:05 via socialmediatoday.com

The app already allows promotional boosts of posts, Stories and Reels, and now creators can use an in-app feature to increase engagement of their live videos.

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WhatsApp adds new parental controls

30-09-2026 23:56 via socialmediatoday.com

The messaging app has implemented tools that will help monitor what groups teens connect with and how certain in-app features are used.

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TikTok hosts launch of David Geffen Galleries

30-09-2026 23:39 via socialmediatoday.com

The app expanded its Museums Alive series by partnering with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to showcase the museum’s Egyptian collection.

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