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Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex

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

“We decline plaintiffs’ invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims,” Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous programmers who publish open-source code had sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex. They argued the tools reproduce their […]
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Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars

18-09-2026 20:40 via thenextweb.com

Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest in a run of partnerships its chief executive says are necessary because no single company can bring all-solid-state batteries to market. ProLogium, which is building Europe’s solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial […]
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Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings

18-09-2026 19:47 via thenextweb.com

“The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense,” the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now sued the AI music company a second time. They filed the complaint in the District of Massachusetts on Friday, as case 1:26-cv-14275. It asserts 60,202 sound recordings. The first case, filed in June 2024, […]
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Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO

18-09-2026 19:45 via thenextweb.com

Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 over unauthorised use of its characters, and the company barred under-18s from open-ended chat two months later. Disney has named Karandeep […]
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Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage

18-09-2026 18:43 via thenextweb.com

A communication outage can complicate the decisions people need to make during a disaster. On September 28, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission reported that 74.31% of cell sites in its Hurricane Helene reporting area in North Carolina were out of service. The figure captured a substantial disruption, although the agency cautioned that cell-site outages do […]
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Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California

18-09-2026 18:11 via thenextweb.com

Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California’s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required developers to be able to promptly enact a full shutdown, in September 2024. Gavin Newsom signed […]
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Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech

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

“We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera and Jagiroad,” said Randhir Thakur, chief executive of Tata Electronics. The Dutch chipmaker and the Indian manufacturer announced a partnership on Thursday covering chip production and packaging in India. They issued the joint statement from Nijmegen and New […]
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Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs

18-09-2026 17:54 via thenextweb.com

Porsche and the Aachen recycler cylib have produced pilot battery cells in which 100% of the cathode active material, the lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese, came from Porsche’s own end-of-life packs. The EU Batteries Regulation will require only 6% recycled lithium and 6% recycled nickel in a new battery from August 2031. Porsche and the […]
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Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos

18-09-2026 17:32 via thenextweb.com

“In reality, we are currently planning a dual listing, on the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq,” Nik Storonsky told Les Echos. The Revolut founder was in Paris on Monday. Gabriel Nédélec and Ingrid Feuerstein interviewed him for the French paper, which published on Thursday. It is the first time he has pointed to a […]
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Third tanker in a month hit by a suspected cyber incident, this time carrying US gas to Europe

18-09-2026 16:53 via thenextweb.com

An LNG tanker carrying American liquefied natural gas to Italy stopped short of its destination this month, after its crew found they could no longer reach some of the ship’s internal control systems. The crew reported it as a suspected cyberattack, but what it actually was has not been established. The Vivit Africa LNG was […]
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Tom Watson joins Palantir as its £330M NHS contract heads for a break clause

18-09-2026 16:09 via thenextweb.com

Lord Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Labor’s former deputy leader, has joined Palantir as a senior vice president, an appointment he announced on X. He called it: “Palantir is the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence: helping Britain and its allies defend themselves, helping police protect our citizens, […]
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All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day

18-09-2026 15:54 via thenextweb.com

The shop workers in Italy waited until their busiest day of the year to stop working. On Friday, the day the iPhone 18 Pro was launched worldwide, all 17 Apple stores in Italy went on strike. “For Apple as a company, image is very important,” Nicholas Pezze, a Filcams CGIL representative, told Reuters. “As unions, we […]
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Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

18-09-2026 15:28 via thenextweb.com

“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop “this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.” His company has just raised $600m at a $2.7bn valuation. Vitruvian Partners […]
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Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports

18-09-2026 15:15 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than simulate them. The company confirms it exists, yet it will not say what it is for, beyond ruling out the obvious answer, which is drug discovery. The news was reported by Reuters today, […]
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Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035

18-09-2026 14:53 via thenextweb.com

“Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds,” David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huawei’s latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2026 opened, and they explain most of what it launched there. The first is Intelligent World 2035, subtitled Turning Vision into Action. The second is the Global […]
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OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots

18-09-2026 14:49 via thenextweb.com

The highest-paying robotics job at OpenAI right now pays up to $500,000 and does not involve working directly with robots. This role is for a machine learning engineer, with a listed salary range of $380,000 to $500,000 plus equity, and the main responsibility is building the pipeline that supports training runs. OpenAI’s careers page lists […]
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Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear

18-09-2026 14:47 via thenextweb.com

“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week. Huawei’s rotating chairman was talking about American AI labs. His argument is that Chinese developers have not yet hit the safety […]
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Oracle got AI working on itself only this year

18-09-2026 14:35 via thenextweb.com

Over the past two years, Oracle has invested tens of billions of dollars to build the infrastructure that powers other companies’ AI. But it wasn’t until April that its own employees received a broadly useful AI tool. Co-CEO Clay Magouyrk admitted, “I don’t think we figured out how to make AI really that useful for […]
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‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI

18-09-2026 14:02 via thenextweb.com

Geoffrey Hinton gave the United States Senate a deadline on Wednesday, and it was shorter than the legislative calendar. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he said, about how long Congress has to put guardrails around artificial intelligence. He was speaking at a closed, hour-long briefing at the Capitol convened by […]
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Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it

18-09-2026 13:58 via thenextweb.com

“Electricity is essential for computing,” said Zhou Jianjun, who runs global marketing, sales and services at Huawei Digital Power. “Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, and load fluctuations of a large AIDC campus can all impact grid operations.” He was unveiling Huawei’s grid-interactive AI data centre solution in Shenzhen. Days later the same […]
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OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off

18-09-2026 13:52 via thenextweb.com

“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first vice president of worldwide sales. He arrives from SpaceX, which OpenAI cut off from its own models three weeks ago. OpenAI announced the […]
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Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine

18-09-2026 13:40 via thenextweb.com

AI “may well be the final technological revolution in human history,” Huawei rotating chairman David Wang told Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai. His opening keynote ran under the title Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation. Huawei then spent three days setting out the machines it wants to run that revolution on. Most […]
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Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports

18-09-2026 13:14 via thenextweb.com

Xi Jinping is scheduled to be in Washington on September 24 for a state visit, and some of China’s largest manufacturers may accompany him, Reuters reported. The information on which ones is still unknown, and the trip itself has not been officially confirmed. According to Reuters, citing three individuals familiar with the situation, the seven […]
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Google Home opens up to Claude, OpenClaw and any other MCP agent

18-09-2026 13:11 via thenextweb.com

“Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf,” Google warns in its developer documentation. “Depending on your agent, connecting it to Home MCP can result in unexpected or even undesired behaviour.” That warning sits inside the setup guide for Google Home MCP. Google opened it to […]
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SoftBank expands $6.05bn credit facility to $6.5bn with 20-plus banks

18-09-2026 12:08 via thenextweb.com

SoftBank Group has added $450m to an existing credit line, lifting the facility to $6.5bn, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Set against what the company is spending on OpenAI, the sum is a rounding error. Set against the week SoftBank has just had, it is more like a seatbelt. The previous facility, worth $6.05bn, […]
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Apple Pay is heading to India next month with Axis Bank first, Reuters reports

18-09-2026 11:11 via thenextweb.com

Apple Pay is expected to launch in India next month, beginning with credit cards issued by Axis Bank, three people familiar with the plans told Reuters. Apple declined to comment. So, in effect, did everybody else. The service will widen to other lenders through separate bank-by-bank agreements, the pattern Apple has followed in other markets, […]
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OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index

18-09-2026 10:53 via thenextweb.com

“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more than access to information.” He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, on the day OpenAI started building its own legal research index. OpenAI introduced Astra for Law […]
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Waymo will launch robotaxis in Singapore in 2028, its first Southeast Asia market

18-09-2026 10:41 via thenextweb.com

Waymo plans to launch its first commercial robotaxi service in Southeast Asia in 2028, starting in Singapore. The vehicles will arrive well before then, and there will be a year of preparation and testing. According to the company, the rollout will happen in three stages. First, all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will arrive in Singapore in […]
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Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production

18-09-2026 10:30 via thenextweb.com

“Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers,” said Zubin Koticha, chief executive of Raindrop. “When an agent fails, it does the wrong thing convincingly at scale until someone happens to notice.” Raindrop has raised a Series A led by CRV. That takes total […]
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Beacon buys Haize Labs to stop its AI agents going wrong

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

“The Fortune 500 will have no shortage of AI,” said Leonard Tang, co-founder and chief executive of Haize Labs. “The harder problem is making AI useful for the businesses that power the rest of the economy, where most humans work and receive value.” Tang said that in a statement confirming that Beacon Software has bought […]
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