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ASML’s $400M chipmaking machine just shipped its first laptop processors

15-07-2026 10:32 via thenextweb.com

High NA EUV was supposed to debut on Intel’s 14A node towards the end of the decade. It has turned up early, on Panther Lake, patterning layers that are also qualified to run on the old tools. A machine that costs about $400mn is now printing a handful of the layers inside a laptop processor. […]
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Roblox launches Build, a mobile tab that turns text prompts into playable games

16-07-2026 23:27 via thenextweb.com

Roblox announced Build on Wednesday, a new creation tab inside the Roblox mobile app that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a basic playable game without touching Roblox Studio or writing a line of code. A creator can describe something like a cozy forest adventure game with environmental obstacles, and Build will generate a […]
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1Password lets Claude log you into websites without ever seeing your passwords

16-07-2026 23:00 via thenextweb.com

1Password has launched a browser integration that lets Anthropic’s Claude use stored credentials to complete tasks on the web without the passwords ever reaching the AI model, according to a blog post published on Thursday. The company calls it a zero-exposure architecture: when Claude needs to sign in, 1Password shows the user which credential is […]
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Volkswagen enters the robotaxi race with a shared shuttle service in Hamburg

16-07-2026 22:33 via thenextweb.com

Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time a major European automaker has launched an autonomous passenger service on its home continent. Up to five vehicles are operating at initial launch, with the fleet expected to expand to 10, and […]
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The driver who crashed a Tesla into a Texas home at 70 mph had pressed the accelerator to 100 percent, NTSB finds

16-07-2026 22:18 via thenextweb.com

The driver of a Tesla that crashed into a Texas home and killed a 76-year-old woman had manually overrode Full Self-Driving by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released on Wednesday. The 2025 Model 3 was travelling at more than 70 mph on a […]
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Oracle is one notch above junk after S&P downgrade as AI data-centre spending burns through cash

16-07-2026 21:59 via thenextweb.com

S&P downgraded Oracle to BBB- on July 9, placing the company one notch above junk status, as a $250 billion data-centre expansion plan burns through cash faster than revenue can replace it. Oracle is now the second-largest non-financial debt issuer in the Bloomberg US Corporate Bond Index after Amazon, with $117 billion outstanding. Shares fell […]
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Google’s next Gemini Pro is months behind schedule as coding capabilities fall short of internal goals

16-07-2026 21:43 via thenextweb.com

Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing 10 current and former employees. The company was widely expected to release the upgrade at its May developer conference but has been […]
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GameStop’s Ryan Cohen calls physical game sales ‘totally irrelevant’ and pivots every question back to eBay

16-07-2026 21:23 via thenextweb.com

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed the decline of physical video game sales as “totally, totally irrelevant” to the company’s business in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday. Cohen was responding to Sony’s announcement earlier this month that it will end physical disc production for new PlayStation games in 2028. “It doesn’t matter at all,” […]
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Visa launched a stablecoin platform that sent Circle shares tumbling six percent

16-07-2026 20:59 via thenextweb.com

Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform on Thursday, a new infrastructure product that lets banks and payment processors issue, manage, and settle stablecoin transactions through Visa’s network. The platform launches with native support for Open USD, the stablecoin backed by a consortium of more than 140 firms including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and BlackRock. Jack Forestell, […]
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The EU is forcing Google to open Android to rival AI and share its search data

16-07-2026 20:16 via thenextweb.com

Google will have to let rival AI assistants run on Android the way its own Gemini does. It must also hand some of its search data to competitors. The European Commission set out both requirements on Thursday. The two decisions fall under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Commission said. The law forces “gatekeeper” […]
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AI and a brain implant restored a paralysed man’s movement and touch

16-07-2026 19:55 via thenextweb.com

Researchers have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to a man paralysed from the chest down. The results, published in Nature Medicine, suggest the technology partly rewired his nervous system. The system, called a “double neural bypass,” comes from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, the team […]
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Verizon cuts 3,000 retail jobs as AI replaces customer service and stores move to franchises

16-07-2026 19:50 via thenextweb.com

Verizon is cutting about 3,000 employees from its corporate-owned retail stores and transferring 274 locations to independent operators, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The changes take effect on August 16 and will leave the largest US mobile carrier with 1,000 company-owned stores alongside roughly 5,000 independent franchises. A company spokesperson said many of the workers at […]
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29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization

16-07-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com

Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement on 16 July to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), Reuters reported. China says the intergovernmental body aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in AI. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, signed on behalf of Beijing. UN Secretary-General António Guterres attended the ceremony. The founding members include Russia, […]
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Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and expands code execution to Pro users

16-07-2026 19:06 via thenextweb.com

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding one of its most popular AI products into the Gemini brand while keeping it as a standalone tool. The company said on Thursday that the rebrand reflects how deeply the research assistant has been woven into the broader Google ecosystem, including the Gemini app and Google Search. […]
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SWISSto12 raised $70M, and it is that rare thing: a profitable space startup

16-07-2026 18:48 via thenextweb.com

Most space-hardware startups raise money because they are burning it. SWISSto12 raised $70m while turning a profit, an unusual thing in the satellite business. The Swiss company closed the €61m round days after ESA member states put $84.8m into its HummingSat programme, it said. That is more than $150m of fresh capital in a month. […]
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Xpeng’s L03 is the first Chinese EV to put proprietary AI driving chips in a mass-market car

16-07-2026 18:40 via thenextweb.com

Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets. The coupe-SUV is built around the company’s proprietary Turing AI chips, with every trim shipping at least one and the top Ultra variant carrying three for a combined 2,250 trillion operations per second. It is the […]
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Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it

16-07-2026 18:30 via thenextweb.com

The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values the San Mateo startup at $17.5bn, it said. Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV led the round. Nvidia, […]
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Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia to build an AI that runs product demos instead of humans

16-07-2026 18:25 via thenextweb.com

Sable has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build an AI system called Aidan that runs live product demonstrations, answers customer questions in real time, and switches between languages mid-conversation. The company, which is less than a year old, calls Aidan an AI employee designed to replace not just chat support but […]
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Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals

16-07-2026 18:13 via thenextweb.com

The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That takes its total funding to $55m. Sequoia, Felicis, […]
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Apple is preparing an OLED iPad mini for October as its tablet lineup expands

16-07-2026 17:57 via thenextweb.com

Apple is preparing the biggest overhaul of its iPad mini in half a decade, with plans to release a version featuring an OLED display by October, according to people familiar with the matter. The current model has kept the same design since 2021, receiving only a faster chip two years ago. Bloomberg reported the updated […]
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Microsoft is rebuilding its security business around AI, and cutting hundreds

16-07-2026 17:36 via thenextweb.com

Microsoft is the biggest seller of cybersecurity software on the planet. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams. It has already cost several hundred jobs, The Information reported. The driver is fear, and money. Companies are […]
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The UK won’t restrict VPNs after all, and its own research is why

16-07-2026 16:56 via thenextweb.com

The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A VPN hides a user’s real […]
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Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system

16-07-2026 16:33 via thenextweb.com

Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed round, it said. Its aim is an “identity operating […]
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Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next fortune in AI is implementation, not models

16-07-2026 16:23 via thenextweb.com

The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies. That company is Ode with Anthropic, and it launched under its full name this week, the partners said. Anthropic, Blackstone, and […]
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A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity

16-07-2026 16:16 via thenextweb.com

Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that. Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol that lets the internet’s independent systems talk to […]
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You can now generate songs in your iMessage chats

16-07-2026 15:50 via digitaltrends.com

Suno’s latest iOS update lets users generate 30-second songs from typed prompts, voice recordings, and messages inside iMessage.

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A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test

16-07-2026 15:26 via thenextweb.com

One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain. His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is simple. It wants a brain test to […]
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Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs

16-07-2026 15:11 via thenextweb.com

Microsoft has never shipped a bigger security update. Its July Patch Tuesday fixed a record haul of flaws, and the company says AI is why the count keeps climbing. The scale is hard to ignore. By Microsoft’s own count, the update patched 622 vulnerabilities. That more than tripled June’s tally, which had set a record […]
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Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud

16-07-2026 14:58 via thenextweb.com

Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Washington wants it to counter Chinese hacking. Before the US shares more of its secrets with Japan, it wants Japan to lock them down. Oracle is now the front-runner to build the vault. Larry Ellison’s company has pulled ahead […]
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Nokia and Nvidia built the first commercial AI-RAN, aiming to double network capacity

16-07-2026 14:49 via thenextweb.com

The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network, the gear that links phones to the wider network. An AI-RAN runs […]
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