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Empirical Security raised $25M to predict which flaws hackers will actually exploit

21-07-2026 16:01 via thenextweb.com

Most security teams face the same problem. There are far more flaws than anyone can fix, and no clear way to know which ones matter. Empirical Security wants to predict the answer. The Chicago startup’s Series A was led by Brightmind Partners, chief executive Ed Bellis told Axios, which first reported the round. It takes […]
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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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Databricks’ cofounder just raised $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute

22-07-2026 12:53 via thenextweb.com

The company came out of stealth on Tuesday. The founders built it at UC Berkeley, in the same lab that produced Spark, Databricks, and Anyscale. The team includes Zongheng Yang and Databricks co-founders Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker. The star-studded cheque Lux Capital led the $20 million seed, Fortune first reported. Coatue, Amplify, Foundation, Race, […]
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Over half the music uploaded to Deezer is now AI, and most of it is fraud

22-07-2026 12:37 via thenextweb.com

The tide has crossed the halfway mark. Deezer said this week that AI songs made up more than 50% of its June uploads. It is a first for the French streamer. From a trickle to a flood The climb has been steep. Deezer started counting in January 2025, when AI made up roughly 10% of […]
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BlackRock is raising $12bn to build Meta a data centre it will own, lend to, and rent out

22-07-2026 12:23 via thenextweb.com

On Monday, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley began pitching investors on a bond sale of at least $12 billion, as The Wall Street Journal reported. The money will build a Meta data centre in El Paso, Texas. The structure is the story. Who owns what BlackRock and its infrastructure and private-credit arms own 80% of the […]
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Google and Ford are funding a push into the trades, the jobs their AI can’t do

22-07-2026 12:17 via thenextweb.com

The four companies announced the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades on Tuesday. The pitch is a labour shortage. The subtext is harder to miss. The number behind it Employers cannot find enough electricians, technicians, and builders. The alliance puts the gap at 2.1 million unfilled skilled-trade jobs by 2030, across manufacturing, infrastructure, and energy. It […]
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A gas-rich outback station could host a $28bn off-grid AI data centre

22-07-2026 11:27 via thenextweb.com

On a cattle station deep in the Northern Territory outback, roughly 683km south of Darwin, a Singapore-headquartered developer wants to build one of the largest data centres in the southern hemisphere. The plan leans on a resource the region has in abundance and the electricity grid does not reach out to supply: gas. Energy North […]
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UK businesses have tripled their AI adoption. Most are still barely scratching the surface.

22-07-2026 11:18 via thenextweb.com

Three years ago, roughly one in eight UK businesses with ten or more employees reported using artificial intelligence; today, the Office for National Statistics puts that figure at around one in three, a near-tripling that reflects how quickly AI has moved from specialist tool to mainstream workplace technology. The numbers tell a compelling story of expansion. […]
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Instagram is finally giving your old posts a soundtrack do-over

22-07-2026 11:17 via digitaltrends.com

Instagram’s new Replace Audio feature allows users to swap music on existing feed posts and carousels while preserving their engagement

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Samsung reportedly in talks to back Mistral at €20bn valuation

22-07-2026 11:14 via thenextweb.com

Samsung is reportedly weighing a bet on Europe’s best-funded AI startup. The South Korean conglomerate is in talks to invest in Mistral as part of a fundraising round that could value the Paris company at roughly €20bn, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The size of Samsung’s cheque is where […]
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Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan

22-07-2026 11:00 via thenextweb.com

Hironobu Tamba spent years inside SoftBank building large language models, the kind of software that answers questions and drafts emails. He has now walked away from that work to bet on machines that move. Tamba is president and chief executive of Noetra, a Tokyo company that began full-scale research in July on a home-grown foundation […]
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Origin Energy investigates potential breach of customer data

22-07-2026 10:53 via thenextweb.com

Australia’s largest energy retailer has told the ASX that some customer information may have been accessed without authorisation, though it says card and bank details appear untouched. Origin Energy, Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailer, told the Australian Securities Exchange on 22 July that it is investigating potential unauthorised access to some of its customers’ data. The […]
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Bloomsbury among publishers in line for payout from Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement

22-07-2026 10:41 via thenextweb.com

Bloomsbury, the London publisher best known for the Harry Potter series, has confirmed it will collect a share of Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement with authors, the largest copyright payout in US history. The company told the stock market this week that 14,087 of its titles sit on the list of works covered by the deal, which a […]
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Nvidia supplier Wistron opens $700m Texas factory to build Grace Blackwell superchips

22-07-2026 10:31 via thenextweb.com

Wistron, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that builds server hardware for Nvidia, has opened its first factory on American soil, a $700 million plant in Fort Worth, Texas, that is already assembling Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchips. The site held its grand opening on 21 July, and Nvidia says it is the first place the GB300 […]
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University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network patents

22-07-2026 10:25 via thenextweb.com

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the artificial intelligence company of building its models on patented neural network methods it never licensed. The complaint, unsealed on Tuesday, is thought to be the first patent infringement case brought against Anthropic, and […]
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Big Tech’s AI spending is catching up with its cash flow

22-07-2026 10:15 via thenextweb.com

The four largest US technology companies are on course to spend close to $700bn on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, and the cost is starting to show up in the one figure that is hard to dress up: free cash flow. An analysis by Reuters, found that combined capital spending across the major cloud operators […]
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TikTok’s US security chief to face the House China committee on September 15

22-07-2026 10:02 via thenextweb.com

Will Farrell, the chief security officer for TikTok’s US operation, will appear before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on September 15 to answer questions about Beijing’s influence over the app, Reuters reported. He will be the first executive from the business recently sold to a group of US investors to testify since that ownership […]
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