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Gap Inc. opens creator program to employees

27-07-2026 18:03 via socialmediatoday.com

Corporate, distribution and store staff can now apply to be influencers for the retailer’s brand portfolio, almost a year after the program’s launch.

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The handoff tax: What it costs when your rep is alone on the call

28-07-2026 21:51 via thenextweb.com

The most expensive moment in a B2B sales cycle does not look like one. An account executive is thirty minutes into a live call. Discovery is finished, the buyer is engaged, and the conversation has moved past polite curiosity into the part where deals get decided. Then comes the question that matters: how the integration […]
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How artificial intelligence is used to streamline corporate travel logistics

28-07-2026 21:37 via thenextweb.com

The evolution of enterprise software has solved countless operational bottlenecks over the past decade. Supply chains are mapped in real time, and global payrolls execute automatically across dozens of tax jurisdictions with total precision. Yet somehow, arranging a simple business trip still frequently requires employees to wrestle with archaic interfaces and manual approval workflows. Asking highly paid […]
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Europe gets its AI enforcement powers on Sunday. The unit wielding them has 36 people.

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

The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the world’s most advanced AI labs handle systemic risk, as the AI Act reaches its second anniversary. The EU’s AI Office will be able to demand documentation, conduct evaluations, and request access to frontier models, with fines of up to 3% of global […]
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Claude found mathematical flaws in two cryptographic algorithms that years of expert review missed

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

Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms. The first substantially weakens HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature scheme under review by NIST, by cutting its effective key strength in half. The second improves the best-known attack on seven-round AES, the most widely used symmetric cipher, by 200-800x. […]
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Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended

28-07-2026 20:51 via thenextweb.com

Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and children’s phone numbers. The chats were not hacked or leaked in any technical sense. Users had shared them through a Claude feature built for that. Search engines then indexed […]
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Starbucks’ AI tool didn’t die in a pilot. It died in 11,300 stores.

28-07-2026 20:35 via thenextweb.com

Starbucks told NomadGo on 3 April that it was scrapping the AI inventory tool the Redmond startup had built for it. Within days the 30-person company cut a large part of its workforce, according to GeekWire. The cuts included the technical team that ran the Starbucks account. Starbucks did not tell its own baristas for […]
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AI is finding twice as many software flaws. Almost none get exploited.

28-07-2026 20:09 via thenextweb.com

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last year’s rate. Almost none of them are being exploited. The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software flaws between January and 27 July, already approaching the whole of 2025, which was itself a record. On that trajectory the year ends at roughly double the 2025 total, Bloomberg […]
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The AI wrote every security control. It skipped the question underneath

28-07-2026 19:35 via thenextweb.com

A penetration test at a financial services firm managing billions of dollars in client assets has found a critical flaw in AI-generated code. The interesting part is what the code got right. Sygnia, the incident response firm, assessed a customer onboarding application built substantially with Claude. It handled government-issued identification, identity verification data, payment details […]
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Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.

28-07-2026 19:24 via thenextweb.com

ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The Dublin company is a contract research organisation, which means pharmaceutical firms pay it to run their trials. It employed roughly 40,200 people across 99 locations and 55 countries at the end of June. Neither company disclosed financial […]
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The Italian state just backed €500m for the company that owns AOL

28-07-2026 19:14 via thenextweb.com

Bending Spoons has agreed a €500m loan facility guaranteed by the Italian state. The guarantee comes from SACE, Italy’s export credit agency, which is wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. HSBC Continental Europe, Intesa Sanpaolo and BPER Banca arranged the facility, which matures in March 2031. The Milan company will use the […]
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Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest

28-07-2026 19:06 via thenextweb.com

Epitel has raised $26m in a Series B round to expand a wireless EEG system that patients wear at home. Catalyst Health Ventures and Genoa Ventures co-led the round. The Salt Lake City company says it will spend the money on sales, marketing and distribution rather than research. The gap it is aiming at One […]
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Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week. Neither will let you pay there

28-07-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com

Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week, a day apart and at opposite ends of the market. Radisson Hotel Group launched an app on Tuesday, built with Accenture, covering more than 1,000 hotels in over 100 countries. G6 Hospitality launched a plugin for Motel 6 on Monday, covering nearly 1,500 economy locations across the […]
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A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%

28-07-2026 18:44 via thenextweb.com

Wall Street has spent three years paying for the companies that build AI. It is starting to pay for the companies that use it. The rotation has a number behind it. Morgan Stanley ran a systematic analysis of earnings call transcripts. It found that 25% of S&P 500 members cited measurable benefits from AI adoption […]
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Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.

28-07-2026 18:32 via thenextweb.com

Cover Genius has acquired Friendsurance, the Berlin company that invented peer-to-peer insurance. The deal took effect immediately, and neither side disclosed a price. Friendsurance built its name on a simple idea. Small groups of policyholders pool together, and everyone who stays claim-free collects cash back at the end of the year. Its own German language […]
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Coforge says AI is expanding its margins. Its rivals call it ‘AI deflation’

28-07-2026 18:21 via thenextweb.com

Coforge reported first quarter revenue of $592.2m on Monday. That is a rise of 33% in dollar terms over the year, and 21.1% on the previous quarter. In rupees the annual increase reads 49%. Profit after tax reached $55.6m. Those numbers land in an industry bracing to shrink. HCL Technologies has warned of “AI deflation”. […]
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Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue

28-07-2026 17:49 via thenextweb.com

Amkor Technology reported record second quarter results on Monday. Revenue reached $1.9bn, up 26% on a year earlier, and net income more than tripled. Operating income roughly doubled to $200m. Earnings came in at $0.70 a diluted share, against $0.22. EBITDA reached $400m. The numbers matter less than what the company plans to do next. […]
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X Money can cut off your account over what you post

28-07-2026 17:37 via thenextweb.com

X Money went live on Monday. Buried in its support pages is a rule that no ordinary bank applies to a current account. “If your X account is suspended for violating Child Safety or Violent and Hateful Entities policies, you will lose Money access,” the company FAQ states. Any remaining balance “will be mailed to […]
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A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking

28-07-2026 17:16 via thenextweb.com

A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone calls. It works out who is speaking, whether or not the speaker wants that. LEO Technologies, based in Austin, announced Verus Voice AI on Monday. The product uses voice biometrics to catch prisoners who call on someone else’s […]
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Apple’s new smart home hardware has been finished for months. Siri was the hold-up.

28-07-2026 17:11 via thenextweb.com

Apple is preparing a push into the smart home with a new Apple TV 4K, an updated HomePod mini, and a hub device built around its rebuilt Siri, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Tuesday. The hardware for the first two has reportedly been finished for months and is already being tested by Apple employees on […]
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Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

28-07-2026 16:32 via thenextweb.com

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday, when two jurisdictions declined to back them. Federal, state and territory energy ministers met virtually to discuss the plan, and Queensland and the Northern Territory opposed most of the measures, […]
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Nvidia announced $750bn of AI deals. Its own credit market flinched.

28-07-2026 16:03 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia is working on a fresh round of AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, Bloomberg reported, accelerating a pattern of investment that critics say inflates demand and valuations across the sector. The response from the debt market was unusually direct. Nvidia’s five-year credit default swap spread surged to a record 82 basis […]
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UK MP asks High Court to force xAI to stop Grok making sexualised images of her

28-07-2026 16:02 via thenextweb.com

Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, has asked the High Court in London to force Elon Musk’s xAI to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualised images of her, sharpening a claim that her lawyers say could help settle how far an AI company answers for what its tools produce. Asato is seeking a […]
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Ofcom has never blocked an Openreach offer before. It just moved to block this one.

28-07-2026 15:51 via thenextweb.com

Ofcom proposed on Tuesday to block a discounted wholesale offer from Openreach, the first time the regulator has ever moved to stop a commercial deal from BT’s network arm. The offer would have given internet providers up to £9.50 off per customer per month, for as long as 30 months, when they connected more new […]
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An AI correction is now a top global credit risk, Fitch says

28-07-2026 15:48 via thenextweb.com

Fitch Ratings has gathered a number of the market’s quieter anxieties into a single sentence, warning that a possible AI market correction is now emerging as one of the biggest credit risks facing the global economy. The judgement comes in the agency’s third-quarter Global Risk Outlook, published this week, and it lands at a moment […]
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Core Scientific pivots to AMD with 2.5GW AI data-centre pact months after CoreWeave deal collapsed

28-07-2026 15:36 via thenextweb.com

Nine months after its own shareholders torpedoed a roughly $9bn takeover by CoreWeave, Core Scientific has found a far larger partner in the chipmaker trying to loosen Nvidia’s grip on artificial intelligence. On Tuesday the former bitcoin miner said it had signed a data-centre agreement with AMD that could eventually reach 2.5 gigawatts of capacity across the American […]
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Meta and BlackRock form a $14bn venture to build an El Paso AI data centre

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

Meta has folded its half-built El Paso data centre into a joint venture with BlackRock, formalising a structure that keeps most of a $14bn project off its own books. Under the agreement, funds managed by BlackRock will own 80% of the Texas campus and Meta the remaining 20%, though Meta stays on as the site’s […]
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Mate Security Crosses $50M in Funding as AI Security Operations Startup Heads to Black Hat USA

28-07-2026 15:10 via thenextweb.com

Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity at a pace that many security operations centers were never designed to handle. While organizations are embracing AI to improve efficiency, attackers are also using the technology to increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks. The result is growing pressure on enterprises to rethink the foundations of security operations […]
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Dwelly raises $170M to turn UK lettings agencies into software

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

The London startup is buying independent lettings firms and folding them onto an AI platform, with EQT Growth leading the equity and Trinity Capital supplying the debt. The UK lettings business still runs on phone calls, paperwork, and the slow choreography of getting a boiler fixed, and Dwelly is betting that most of it can […]
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Most enterprise AI spend still hasn’t left the lab

28-07-2026 14:43 via thenextweb.com

New research puts a hard number on something a lot of IT leaders already suspected. Most AI pilots never make it into production, and the spend behind them isn’t disappearing, it’s just sitting in limbo. Jon Bitz, chief relationship officer and co-founder at KloudStax, says that limbo isn’t the failure it looks like from the outside. The […]
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