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Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899

21-09-2026 15:57 via thenextweb.com

Pre-orders for the Googlebook opened on Monday, starting at $899, with the first ones reaching shops in the United States on 4 October. In Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia will arrive on 5 October. Google has not said what they will cost in any of those markets, and the only price published is in […]
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SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips

28-09-2026 21:27 via thenextweb.com

SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, […]
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UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports

28-09-2026 21:17 via thenextweb.com

The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party’s annual conference. Fortune’s Kamal Ahmed asked him about a warning from Jacob Coxon, a researcher who quit Anthropic this month. Narayan […]
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Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports

28-09-2026 21:07 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic ends enterprise customers’ discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, the report said. Kevin McLaughlin of The Information spoke to software company managers who buy from both AI companies. When Anthropic customers hit their contracted token volume, they must […]
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A user says Meta’s Muse gave his address to a Marketplace buyer

28-09-2026 20:45 via thenextweb.com

A YouTuber says Meta’s Muse agent gave his home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and then told the buyer he was home when he wasn’t. Matt Robb described what happened in a post on Threads. “Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price,” Robb wrote. Robb had let Muse […]
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Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models

28-09-2026 20:36 via thenextweb.com

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the Highlands County circuit court. The motion is part of the lawsuit Florida brought against […]
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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models

28-09-2026 20:30 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It is the first Sonnet to ship with frontier-style cyber safeguards and with classifiers that block reasoning extraction. Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which it […]
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Nvidia adds a record $150bn to its share buyback

28-09-2026 20:23 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia’s board has approved an extra $150bn for share buybacks, the company said on Monday. That lifts the total remaining authorisation to $235bn, which Nvidia expects to use through fiscal year 2028. Nvidia called it the largest increase to a share repurchase authorisation in history. “This authorization reflects our confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead,” […]
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Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses

28-09-2026 20:09 via thenextweb.com

Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan “CJ” Desai will run it. “Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform,” Zuckerberg wrote. The unit will first offer Meta’s full technology stack to businesses […]
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Instinct raised $1B at $10B for an AI agent that rings restaurants on its own phone

28-09-2026 19:50 via thenextweb.com

Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books trips, orders groceries and telephones businesses using its own phone. Since 2 August, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required systems that interact directly with people to tell them they are dealing with […]
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Red Queen Bio is using AI to design antibodies for future viruses, WSJ says

28-09-2026 19:44 via thenextweb.com

Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against viruses, including ones that AI systems could one day help create, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company is starting with antibodies against bird flu and other influenza viruses and plans its first clinical trials […]
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Volkswagen’s Canadian battery plant slips to 2029, while its German one is already running

28-09-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com

Volkswagen’s battery subsidiary PowerCo has delayed its Ontario plant by two years to 2029, and the ID Buzz will skip another American model year. Its Salzgitter plant in Germany has been making cells since December and supplies a new assembly line at SEAT’s Martorell site in Spain. Volkswagen’s battery subsidiary PowerCo has delayed its Ontario […]
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Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI

28-09-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October. Anthropic has asked for another date because the invitation came late last week, a person familiar […]
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Nio sells a 30% stake in its battery swapping arm to Geely

28-09-2026 19:20 via thenextweb.com

Nio has agreed to sell a 30% stake in its battery swapping business, Nio Power, to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the company said on Monday. The two Chinese carmakers will also share technology and standards and build a joint service network. Geely Holding will pay with its whole battery swapping unit, Yiyi Power, plus 640 […]
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China extends AI travel curbs to executives’ families, Bloomberg reports

28-09-2026 19:00 via thenextweb.com

China now requires the families of some top AI and chip executives to get Beijing’s approval before travelling abroad, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The rule covers spouses and children, even for short trips. Government agencies have started telling affected people about the wider restrictions, Bloomberg reported. Those covered include prominent […]
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Z.ai and Concordia AI propose six stages for managing open-weight AI risk

28-09-2026 18:54 via thenextweb.com

Chinese AI company Z.ai and Beijing safety consultancy Concordia AI have published a framework for managing the risks of open-weight AI models. Anyone can download, modify and run the trained parameters of such models. The two released the report on Monday, Chong Ming Lee reported for the South China Morning Post. The report “provides the […]
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Chery built the first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, and measures its electric range on NEDC

28-09-2026 18:43 via thenextweb.com

Chery has built the world’s first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, the Stockman, developed for Australia rather than China, with a 2.5-litre turbo-diesel, a 34 kWh battery and a claimed 100 km of electric range on the NEDC cycle. Volvo invented the diesel plug-in hybrid and stopped building it in 2018, the year Europe retired that […]
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Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days

28-09-2026 18:42 via thenextweb.com

Attackers are exploiting two critical flaws in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Companies use the devices to give staff remote access to internal networks. Citrix confirmed the attacks in a security bulletin on Sunday and released fixes. Both flaws were exploited before a patch existed. “Exploits of CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 on unmitigated NetScaler deployments […]
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Microsoft’s Suleyman tells Bloomberg AI needs a ‘red line’ on control

28-09-2026 18:29 via thenextweb.com

Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman says the industry should reject any AI it cannot prove it controls. He made the case in an interview with Shirin Ghaffary for Bloomberg’s Q&AI newsletter. “Unless we can prove ahead of time that we can control it, then it’ll be a failure as a technology, and we should […]
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Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him

28-09-2026 18:21 via thenextweb.com

Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on leave. The board includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL, Sarah Perez reported for TechCrunch. Mullenweg confirmed the appointments to TechCrunch after publication. Mullenweg told staff about the […]
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Hyundai says solid-state cars are five years away, and still too expensive after that

28-09-2026 18:19 via thenextweb.com

Hyundai research chief Manfred Harrer says carmakers cannot give up on solid-state batteries and expects small-volume halo cars within five years, but does not believe the raw material cost problem can be solved in that time. LG Energy Solution puts solid-state in electric cars roughly a decade away, and France is already subsidising a solid-state […]
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Trump dined with Amodei after saying he is for ‘let’s go and let’s win’

28-09-2026 18:14 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday night, Semafor confirmed. It was the first one-on-one meeting between the two, which Axios first reported and TNW covered on Sunday. Hours before the dinner, Trump said he planned to raise Amodei’s call to slow AI development, Bloomberg […]
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HiringCafe lands $6.8M to fix the broken job hunt with AI talent agent

28-09-2026 18:00 via thenextweb.com

The modern job search has devolved into a notoriously soul-crushing endeavor. Candidates fire hundreds of resumes into the void. They navigate an endless stream of expired ‘ghost jobs’. And they compete against automated mass-application bots for a fraction of the actual open roles. It’s a frustrating, high-friction loop. Legacy job boards, built primarily around employer […]
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SpaceX’s Starship reaches orbit for the first time, then returns early

28-09-2026 17:58 via thenextweb.com

SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time on Monday, on its 14th test flight. The rocket lifted off from Starbase, Texas, at 7:48am local time and entered orbit about 25 minutes later. It then released 26 Starlink V3 satellites. The flight nearly stopped short. One of the six engines on the upper stage shut […]
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Walmart’s CEO rules out personalised pricing, including by its AI assistant

28-09-2026 17:15 via thenextweb.com

Walmart will not use a shopper’s income, shopping history or urgency to charge them more, chief executive John Furner said in a letter to customers posted on 25 September. The pledge also covers Sparky, the retailer’s AI shopping assistant. “I want to tell you where we stand: We price the product, not the person,” Furner […]
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OpenAI and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of AI incidents, Axios reports

28-09-2026 16:55 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents of frontier AI models misbehaving, Axios reported, citing sources. Evaluators deemed the behaviour problematic. The total could grow well beyond tens of thousands. The episodes include bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes and hijacking websites. Models also prompted themselves or tried to […]
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US and China agree a super intelligence dialogue and incident channel

28-09-2026 16:37 via thenextweb.com

The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinping’s state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence” rather than artificial intelligence. “The two countries established the U.S.-China Super Intelligence […]
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Modulate raises $25M to sell AI that listens to voice calls, not just transcripts

28-09-2026 16:30 via thenextweb.com

Modulate, a Boston company that builds AI models to analyze speech directly rather than working from text transcripts, has raised $25M in a round led by Future Ventures. Hyperplane and Lakestar also took part, bringing the company’s total funding to $60M. The company was founded by Mike Pappas and Carter Huffman, who first met at […]
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OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online

28-09-2026 16:18 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI’s AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed. “This is not an appropriate use of this data,” OpenAI said. The images came from accounts […]
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YouTube and Meta will now run ads for Gibney’s ‘Musk’ documentary

28-09-2026 15:55 via thenextweb.com

YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday. Both had refused the trailer ad. TikTok and X are still not running it. The outlet first reported the refusals on Friday. Bleecker Street, the film’s US distributor, opens it in cinemas on […]
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