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Berlin refused to pay. Now it runs four task forces

06-09-2026 15:19 via thenextweb.com

Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint departmental unit, a crisis management team and an external legal adviser. That is what refusing a ransom looks like once the deadline passes. The State of Berlin set out that machinery itself, in a […]
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OpenAI has filed an EU incident report on the hijacked German wiki, the Commission says

07-09-2026 13:48 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took over and used as a messaging channel between themselves. Thomas Regnier, a Commission spokesperson, confirmed the filing, Reuters reported, and set out what Brussels expects of such documents. “Incident reports are not just a tick-box; you […]
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UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI, warning of existential risk

07-09-2026 13:32 via thenextweb.com

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. He also called on the countries that host AI development and sit in its supply chains to agree on international red lines on what the technology should never be permitted […]
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Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports

07-09-2026 13:09 via thenextweb.com

A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia and the surrounding provinces, Reuters reported, with initial agreements targeted by the end of this year […]
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How property management education may evolve or the next generation of leaders

07-09-2026 13:05 via thenextweb.com

A discussion about future training can start with the skills employers expect to value. The World Economic Forum reported in 2025 that surveyed employers expected 39% of workers’ core skills to change by 2030. Its findings placed analytical thinking first among current core skills and also identified technological literacy, empathy, active listening, and lifelong learning […]
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Italian hosting collective Autistici/Inventati is shutting down after a US terrorist designation

07-09-2026 12:40 via thenextweb.com

Autistici/Inventati, an Italian nonprofit that has hosted email, websites, mailing lists, and blogs for activists since 2001, is closing down. The collective said it will discontinue all services and help users retrieve their data, eleven days after the United States listed it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation was announced by the State […]
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Cathay Pacific and Google partner on AI contrail avoidance for ultra-long-haul flights

07-09-2026 12:11 via thenextweb.com

Cathay Pacific has flown more than 80 contrail-avoidance routes in a trial with Google that began in late 2025, adjusting cruise altitude to steer clear of the thin bands of humid air where aircraft exhaust freezes into clouds that trap heat. Google puts the result at roughly a 40% reduction in the warming impact of the contrails […]
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No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet.

07-09-2026 12:06 via thenextweb.com

Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose. No automated monitoring caught it. The article’s argument is that OpenAI has been publishing categories of risk, including that Astra sometimes […]
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Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch

07-09-2026 11:20 via thenextweb.com

Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in which the company says it passed $2M in annual recurring revenue. Wave Ventures also took part, and Magnus […]
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Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams

07-09-2026 11:11 via thenextweb.com

Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and more mature deployment systems have shortened the distance between an idea and a working product. But faster delivery also raises the stakes. When architecture, testing, and maintainability are treated as afterthoughts, short-term gains can create long-term problems. That challenge […]
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Taiwan pledges $20bn more in US chip investment while courting the EU, Reuters reports

07-09-2026 11:06 via thenextweb.com

Taiwan spent this week’s SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once to Brussels: that its chips arrive with democratic governance attached. The commercial half of that argument came with a number, and economy minister Kung Ming-hsin supplied it, announcing a further $20bn of planned Taiwanese investment […]
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Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round

07-09-2026 10:52 via thenextweb.com

Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapore’s state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust. It is the largest single round any Indian space technology company […]
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Huawei launches Mate XT 2 tri-fold two days before Apple’s foldable iPhone

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

Huawei has launched a new tri-folding phone two days before Apple is expected to show its first foldable iPhone. The Mate XT 2 was unveiled on Monday and goes on sale in China on 10 September. Apple’s event falls on 9 September, so both Huawei and Xiaomi will have shown their foldables before Apple shows […]
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Build the pipeline your investors want to see

07-09-2026 09:23 via thenextweb.com

Ask a seed investor what they want to see before the next round and the answer is rarely a bigger number. It is a pipeline they can read. Where deals come from, how fast they move, why they stall, and what the founder does about it. Most seed-stage B2B startups cannot show that yet, and […]
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EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups

07-09-2026 08:45 via thenextweb.com

The EU’s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget. “The act is not about budget,” said Thomas Skordas, deputy director-general of the European Commission’s DG CNECT, at a European Parliament event last week, on 3rd of September. “What the act will provide is the stimulus to make sure that we move in […]
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Claret Capital closes €575M Fund IV for European growth debt

07-09-2026 08:18 via thenextweb.com

Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European growth debt fund at €575M, well past the €500M it set out to raise. The London firm announced the final close today, splitting the total into €440m of Fund IV commitments and €135m of affiliated discretionary mandates. The money lends rather than buys, as growth debt gives […]
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OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed

07-09-2026 00:14 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put in themselves. The other says nobody should be going this fast. Both are on the company’s own site, dated 6 September, three days after it shipped GPT-6 Astra. The chief scientist wants a […]
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An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word ‘funding’ in spam

06-09-2026 23:54 via thenextweb.com

For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is told. Microsoft has now found somebody using the same characters for something far less clever. They were splitting up the word […]
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Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections

06-09-2026 23:42 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic’s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported on Friday that the company expects to start marketing its offering in mid-October at the earliest. The listing would then complete shortly before the US midterms in November. Echo Wang had the story from people […]
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Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo

06-09-2026 22:48 via thenextweb.com

On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trademark. Chief Judge Colm Connolly ruled on […]
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Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports

06-09-2026 22:20 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers. The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publishers have filed competing claims over the same titles. The […]
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Nscale is selling Figure $3.5bn of compute and buying a stake in it

06-09-2026 21:55 via thenextweb.com

Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power. It has also bought a stake in Figure, which is the part worth looking at. The London company announced the partnership on 3 September in a statement also carried on PR Newswire. The deal covers up to 100,000 Nvidia GPUs running the Vera […]
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Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips

06-09-2026 21:43 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the company’s own quarterly filing. CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier the figure stood at about $7bn. Two years earlier, […]
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Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports

06-09-2026 21:15 via thenextweb.com

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was the wrong one. The Information broke the story on 3 September. Its current version puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn, on a pre-money valuation of at least $40bn. Accel, an investor since the seed round, […]
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Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer

06-09-2026 18:52 via thenextweb.com

Ultrahuman announced a $70m funding round at IFA in Berlin last week, with Qualcomm’s venture arm among the backers. The Indian company makes smart rings. What it wants to build next is a ring that stops being a tracker. TechCrunch’s Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an interview with founder and chief executive Mohit […]
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The AI cybersecurity war has a new front line star, and a seven-figure price

06-09-2026 18:49 via thenextweb.com

AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure pay packages and a recruiting market one search firm compares to nothing since cloud. Europe reached the same place by statute, with NIS2 putting the duty on the management body and allowing regulators to bar a chief executive […]
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Oura’s $924m loss is the price of buying back its own shares

06-09-2026 18:29 via thenextweb.com

Oura filed to go public on Nasdaq on 3 September, and the coverage split within hours. Reuters reported that the smart ring maker had recently turned profitable. The Wall Street Journal told its readers the same. Bloomberg’s Subrat Patnaik led on a loss of $924.3m. Business Insider’s Kelsey Vlamis carried both figures without reconciling them. […]
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Space and Time: where AI agents meet verifiable onchain data

06-09-2026 18:07 via thenextweb.com

Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsoft’s M12 venture arm, backing that helped put the project on the map early. Since then, the company has launched its purpose-built SXT Chain and expanded its Proof of SQL technology across DeFi, institutional finance and AI. In this interview, co-founder and CTO […]
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The US paid for a peace deal in Nvidia chips

06-09-2026 17:34 via thenextweb.com

When Armenia opened the biggest AI factory in its region last month, we filed it under compute diplomacy. The Wall Street Journal now reports what the compute actually bought. Robbie Whelan reported on Friday that US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia’s AI chips to help secure a peace deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan […]
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Thailand halted more data centres than it has running

06-09-2026 17:23 via thenextweb.com

Thailand has stopped construction on 49 data centres, which is more than it currently has running. Anuchit Nguyen reported the suspension for Bloomberg on Friday, after the first meeting of a new supervision commission chaired by finance minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas. The country has 35 data centres in operation and 117 more waiting on investment approval. […]
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