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Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological

22-07-2026 16:47 via thenextweb.com

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and cognitive capability. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that technological progress must not create “new historical injustices.” He called for […]
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Monday.com is cutting 20 percent of its workforce as it pivots to an AI work platform

22-07-2026 20:22 via thenextweb.com

Monday.com is cutting roughly 20 percent of its global workforce, about 620 people, as the Israeli project management company restructures around what it calls its AI Work Platform. The company disclosed the plan in a Form 6-K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, citing the need to support a leaner operating […]
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Arrakis emerges from stealth with $38 million to bring AI to factories and supply chains

22-07-2026 19:26 via thenextweb.com

Arrakis, a London and Paris startup building what it calls an AI operating system for industrial companies, has emerged from stealth with $38 million in total funding and a thesis that the biggest returns from artificial intelligence will come from factories and supply chains, not office software. The company raised a $30 million Series A […]
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Europe’s EV market share tops 25 percent for the first time as June registrations surge nearly 40 percent

22-07-2026 19:00 via thenextweb.com

Battery-electric registrations across 17 European markets hit 275,060 in June 2026, a jump of nearly 40 percent compared to the same month last year, according to the E-Mobility Europe bulletin published by New AutoMotive. The figure pushed EVs past 25 percent of all new car sales in those markets for the first time. It also […]
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Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT

22-07-2026 19:00 via thenextweb.com

Cisco’s new Antares models are small enough to run on your own machines. And, it claims, they beat Google’s Gemini and rival GPT-class systems at finding bugs. It is releasing them open-weight, though it is vetting who gets access. The pitch from Cisco is a quiet rebuke to the frontier-model arms race. You do not […]
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Samsung unveils the Z Fold8 Ultra, a reimagined Z Fold8, and intelligent eyewear at Galaxy Unpacked in London

22-07-2026 18:31 via thenextweb.com

Samsung used its Galaxy Unpacked event in London on Tuesday to launch six products at once, its broadest hardware refresh in years. The lineup includes the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, the first time Samsung has brought its Ultra designation to a foldable, alongside a reimagined Z Fold8 with new display proportions, a slimmer Z Flip8, […]
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Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes

22-07-2026 18:30 via thenextweb.com

Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools where they cluster. More than half of US residents, 53%, oppose building an AI data centre in their […]
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The ex-Meta VP behind a notorious spy tool just raised $180M for AI security

22-07-2026 18:05 via thenextweb.com

The founder now asking enterprises to trust AI with their laptops once built one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious surveillance tools. Roi Tiger co-created Onavo, the app Meta turned into a scheme to spy on its rivals. His new company, Glow, wants to do something close to the opposite. Glow has emerged from stealth with […]
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AppLovin Backs Velocity As The AI Industry Looks Beyond Subscriptions For Growth

22-07-2026 18:03 via thenextweb.com

The artificial intelligence industry has no shortage of users. The harder problem is turning that usage into a sustainable business. As generative AI applications spread across consumer and enterprise markets, developers are confronting an unusual combination of opportunities and pressures. AI can make software faster to build and easier to distribute, but the costs of […]
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9 best requirements management tools for medical device development (2026)

22-07-2026 17:52 via thenextweb.com

Search for requirements management tools for medical device development and you’ll find plenty of content arguing that the established platforms are too heavy for modern teams. Much of it comes from vendors with a stake in that conclusion. In a regulated industry, the question that matters is which tool produces a record you can defend […]
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NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world

22-07-2026 17:50 via thenextweb.com

NEURA Robotics is opening ‘gyms’ where robots train under real-world conditions, starting with two German universities. Its bet is that the thing holding humanoids back is not intelligence, but a shortage of real experience. The German robotics firm NEURA has a theory about why robots still fumble in the real world. The problem is not […]
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Revolut hits $115 billion valuation as it becomes the first global fintech with an Australian banking licence

22-07-2026 17:41 via thenextweb.com

Revolut confirmed on Tuesday that a secondary share sale has valued the digital bank at $115 billion, a 53 percent jump from the $75 billion it reached in November 2025. The sale priced shares at $2,017 each, according to Bloomberg. The valuation makes Revolut the most valuable private fintech company in the world by a […]
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OpenAI adds two banking CEOs to its board as an IPO looms

22-07-2026 17:30 via thenextweb.com

The ChatGPT maker has put two banking chiefs on both its nonprofit and for-profit boards: Nubank’s David Vélez and BNY’s Robin Vince. It is the kind of Wall Street ballast a company assembles when it is getting ready to face public investors. OpenAI is not a public company yet. Its latest board picks suggest it […]
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AI firms are buying up old books because they are the last slop-free data left

22-07-2026 17:16 via thenextweb.com

The pitch from data broker ISBNdb is blunt: the world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. The catch is that getting at it means slicing the spine off millions of books, then never admitting which lab paid for the job. AI has a pollution problem of its own making. So much of […]
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Substack adds AI detection to fight ‘Claudefishing’

22-07-2026 17:01 via thenextweb.com

Substack has a name for the moment you realise a post you admired for its human voice actually came from a bot: Claudefishing. Now it is handing readers a button to catch it, powered by the AI detector Pangram. The newsletter platform has launched an AI-detection feature. In a pointed post titled “Against Claudefishing,” chief […]
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To prove the anti-AI Pope’s words were human, his camp used AI

22-07-2026 16:47 via thenextweb.com

To defend an anti-AI Pope from claims a machine helped write his words, his camp reached for an unlikely tool: AI. An Australian firm has certified Pope Leo XIV’s writings as human-made, using a suite of the very detectors the technology has spawned. Pope Leo XIV has made AI one of his defining themes. His […]
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Jack Dorsey’s Block takes on Slack with Buzz, a workspace for humans and AI agents

22-07-2026 16:20 via thenextweb.com

Jack Dorsey’s Block wants to take on Slack. The twist is that the workforce it is building for is half machine. Its new app, Buzz, is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels, and every agent carries its own portable identity. Block, the Dorsey-led fintech behind Square and Cash App, […]
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Every frontier AI model the UK tested for cheating cheated

22-07-2026 16:11 via thenextweb.com

The UK’s AI safety watchdog put five frontier models through a set of security tests to see whether they would cut corners. Every one of them cheated. Worse, when asked about it afterwards, most would not admit they had done anything wrong. The finding comes from the AI Security Institute (AISI), a research body inside […]
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Meta’s AI is deleting accounts, and the only way to appeal is more AI

22-07-2026 15:52 via thenextweb.com

Camille Hanson woke one night in March to a notification: Meta had flagged her Facebook and Instagram accounts for deletion. She and her husband ran an English-teaching business there with nearly a million followers. Meta said she had breached its rules on fraud and deception, the New York Times reported. She appealed. A week later […]
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OpenAI and Anthropic now out-lobby Nvidia in Washington

22-07-2026 15:28 via thenextweb.com

The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The individual numbers are the striking part. Anthropic spent $1.97 million, up 26% in […]
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Oracle says one AI data centre could cost it a $7bn power guarantee

22-07-2026 15:16 via thenextweb.com

Oracle is building a huge AI data centre in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with Vantage and OpenAI. The nearly one-gigawatt Lighthouse Campus is a roughly $15 billion project. To get the electricity to run it, though, Oracle first has to satisfy the local regulator, and that is proving expensive. In a sworn affidavit, Oracle says the […]
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Marco Rubio tells US diplomats to play down fears of a tech ‘kill switch’

22-07-2026 15:07 via thenextweb.com

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told American diplomats to push back against a phrase that has spread through allied capitals since the summer: the tech “kill switch.” In a cable dated July 16 and reviewed by Reuters, Rubio instructed envoys to counter the idea that Washington can remotely disable American technology abroad, a […]
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A 25-year-old just raised $180M to build a US bank from scratch

22-07-2026 14:53 via thenextweb.com

Augustus has raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation. Tiger Global led the round, the company announced on Tuesday. Hummingbird, QED, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Circle and Deel joined in. The startup has now raised $210 million in total. A bank, built from scratch Augustus wants to be what it calls the […]
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Hackers stole Estée Lauder staff’s bank and health data. The company took nearly a year to say so.

22-07-2026 14:26 via thenextweb.com

The cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying staff of a data breach after hackers slipped into the Oracle software it uses to run human resources. BleepingComputer first reported the disclosure. Nearly a year in the dark The timeline is the uncomfortable part. According to the company’s notification letter, an intruder reached its Oracle E-Business Suite […]
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This AI-piloted fighter jet takes off with no runway. It just cleared a key test.

22-07-2026 14:12 via thenextweb.com

A fighter jet that needs no runway is a step closer to flight. Shield AI and GE Aerospace say they have completed engine light-off testing for the X-BAT. It is an AI-piloted strike aircraft, built to take off and land vertically. The two firms announced the milestone this week. The nozzle that does the trick […]
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Everyone is cramming AI into phones. Light’s new flip phone strips it all out.

22-07-2026 13:59 via thenextweb.com

The flip phone is back, and this one has a cause. Light, the Brooklyn maker of deliberately boring phones, has unveiled the Light Flip, its first clamshell and its fourth device in a decade. It costs $299 and lands with a pointed message: as Apple and Google push AI deeper into everything, Light is building […]
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Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there

22-07-2026 13:49 via thenextweb.com

China’s Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy. The lab should close a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days, Bloomberg reported. It then plans to open another almost immediately, targeting a valuation of as much as $50 billion. Two rounds, one summer The […]
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US computer-science enrolment just fell for the first time in 20 years

22-07-2026 13:31 via thenextweb.com

Computer science was the safe bet. For twenty years, enrolment in the US only went up. In the 2025-26 academic year, it went down. The reversal The finding comes from Jacob Light, an economist at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Business Insider reported his research. His dataset is vast: more than 50 million course sections since 1996, […]
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Halliday made 2025’s worst smart glasses. Its camera-free comeback is aimed at your meetings.

22-07-2026 13:17 via thenextweb.com

It is rare that a crowdfunded hardware startup gets a second shot at a first impression. Halliday is taking it. The company unveiled the G2 on Tuesday, priced from $499, shipping in September. A brutal first act The original glasses were panned. Engadget scored them 54 out of 100, one of the lowest marks in […]
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Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards.

22-07-2026 13:07 via thenextweb.com

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on television with a warning for China. On the same day, the chief executive of the company that powers the entire AI boom went the other way. The threat Bessent said the US will scrutinise Chinese open-source models for stolen intellectual property, as Bloomberg first reported. It could […]
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