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Instagram’s head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm

10-09-2026 10:47 via thenextweb.com

Adam Mosseri has warned that users who switch off Instagram’s recommendation system end up with a worse experience, telling an Australian press briefing that engagement can fall by as much as 50% and that satisfaction scores fall off a cliff. Mosseri spoke on Thursday as Australia consults on legislation that would force platforms to prompt […]
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Salesforce closes Fin and eyes $2bn Listen Labs, Business Insider reports

10-09-2026 18:34 via thenextweb.com

Salesforce completed its acquisition of Fin on Thursday, bringing the customer service AI company formerly known as Intercom into its business. The same week, Business Insider’s Katie Roof and Ben Bergman reported that Salesforce has held talks to buy a second AI startup, Listen Labs, for around $2bn. Business Insider said the Listen Labs talks […]
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Clay raises $115m at a $7.1bn valuation, more than double its 2025 price

10-09-2026 18:23 via thenextweb.com

Clay has raised $115m in a Series D round that values the New York go-to-market software company at $7.1bn. Wellington Management led the round, the company said in its announcement on Wednesday. The New York Times broke the news, in a DealBook story by Michael J. de la Merced. The paper reported that Clay’s previous […]
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Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant

10-09-2026 18:22 via thenextweb.com

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden NFL and Pokemon Go under one roof. Brussels cleared the EA takeover on competition and foreign subsidy grounds six weeks ago, and combining two companies the same owner already controls may not require a European filing […]
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Anthropic skipped UK pre-release tests for Mythos 5.1, the FT reports

10-09-2026 18:07 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before release, the Financial Times reported. Reporters Lucy Fisher and Madhumita Murgia said it is the first time a major model has been kept from the UK institute before launch. TNW has not independently verified the report. The FT reported […]
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Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video

10-09-2026 18:06 via thenextweb.com

Skild AI says it has reached $100M in recurring revenue run-rate ten months after its first commercial deployment, with hundreds of robots running at more than 60 companies. Its S1 model learns tasks from a single video without prior training data, which is the behaviour Europe’s Machinery Regulation newly regulates from January 2027. Skild AI […]
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DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model

10-09-2026 17:48 via thenextweb.com

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding and agent tasks, at a lower price. The Hangzhou lab announced it in a thread on X and published the weights on Hugging Face under the MIT licence. That lets anyone download, modify and run […]
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More Americans are warming to EVs, a new study finds

10-09-2026 17:44 via thenextweb.com

The HERE-SBD EV Index finds positive American perceptions of charging infrastructure rose from 28% to 47% in a year, and 60% now expect it to keep improving, even as US battery-electric market share fell to 5.37%. HERE is headquartered in Amsterdam and was bought from Nokia by Audi, BMW and Daimler in 2015. More Americans […]
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Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355bn, weeks after Airtable

10-09-2026 17:23 via thenextweb.com

“It’s a privilege, and no small responsibility, to welcome a product that over 250,000 organizations have integrated into their workflows,” said Luca Ferrari, the chief executive and co-founder of Bending Spoons. His Milan-based group has agreed to buy Miro, the online whiteboard company, at an enterprise value of $1.355bn. Bending Spoons announced the all-cash deal […]
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Electric cars are 33% cheaper to run in Europe. Petrol fuel costs rose up to 36% in one shock

10-09-2026 17:21 via thenextweb.com

The ICCT finds battery-electric cars were 33% cheaper to run than petrol cars in the EU last year, or 28% on public charging alone, with combustion energy costs rising up to 36% after February’s oil shock while electricity held steady. Purchase-price parity has been reached in three segments, and the small and lower-medium ones are […]
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Zuckerberg tells Sources labs holding back AI models is ‘quite dangerous’

10-09-2026 17:08 via thenextweb.com

“I personally am much more worried about a small number of labs or people having control of something that is so capable.” That was Mark Zuckerberg, speaking to Alex Heath on the Sources podcast, published on Wednesday. Heath recorded the interview at Meta’s headquarters the previous Friday, days before Meta launched Muse, its personal AI […]
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Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware

10-09-2026 16:35 via thenextweb.com

Antioch, a New York startup that builds simulation software for robots, drones and other autonomous machines, has raised a $32m Series A. Greylock led the round. The money goes on the idea that physical AI teams should test their systems in the cloud before anything touches hardware. Antioch announced the round in a blog post […]
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OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit

10-09-2026 16:20 via thenextweb.com

Sébastien Bubeck is the OpenAI researcher at the centre of the Navier-Stokes credit dispute. He has now given his account of the private talks with the two mathematicians who say OpenAI mistreated them. He denies trying to strip one of them of credit for his own work. He also apologises for one remark. Bubeck set […]
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Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports

10-09-2026 15:48 via thenextweb.com

Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, is in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $60bn. That would put it $16bn above the valuation it reached just three months ago. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas of Bloomberg reported the talks on 8 September, citing people familiar with the efforts. […]
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UK will legislate to make Apple and Google block nude images for children

10-09-2026 15:37 via thenextweb.com

The UK government will legislate to force Apple and Google to block nude images on children’s phones and tablets. The law would stop children taking, sharing or viewing them. Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, told the House of Commons on 8 September that voluntary talks with the two companies had not gone far enough. In […]
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US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google

10-09-2026 15:19 via thenextweb.com

The US Department of Energy has lent NextEra Energy up to $1.9bn to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center. It is Iowa’s only nuclear power plant. Most of its power is already sold to Google, under a 25-year deal to supply the company’s cloud and AI infrastructure in the state. The department’s Office of Energy […]
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Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres

10-09-2026 15:02 via thenextweb.com

Celero Communications, a two-year-old chip startup, has raised $275m in a Series C round that values it at more than $3bn. It makes the processors that push data down fibre optic cables between AI chips, racks and whole data centres. Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth fund, co-led the round. Dina Bass […]
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UK space strategy puts £7.8bn behind defence, satellites and ESA to 2030

10-09-2026 14:39 via thenextweb.com

The UK government has published a new space strategy, backed by £7.8bn to 2030. It brings the government’s civil and military space spending under one plan. The government’s announcement on 8 September named national security and defence as its key pillars, alongside growth. The UK Space Strategy formally replaces the National Space Strategy of 2021. […]
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Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls

10-09-2026 14:19 via thenextweb.com

Researchers at Calif, a Palo Alto security company, say they used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls. It takes over an account while the phone is still ringing. It then uses that account to call the victim’s contacts and repeat the trick. Tencent, which owns WeChat, has confirmed the flaw and […]
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IBM and NASA release an open-source lunar foundation model

10-09-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com

IBM and NASA are releasing an AI model trained on decades of observations of the Moon, and making it available openly. The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model is arriving on Hugging Face alongside what its creators describe as the first unified, machine-learning-ready dataset of the Moon. The problem is not a lack of data; it is […]
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The data storage crisis has a biological fix. It starts by making less DNA, not more.

10-09-2026 13:18 via thenextweb.com

The math behind the data storage problem is brutal. The world creates more information every year than it can afford to keep. Most of it is cold. It is almost never read, yet it cannot be deleted, so it accumulates on tape and disk that degrade, draw power, and demand replacement every few years. The cost compounds. It […]
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Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain

10-09-2026 12:45 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia and Palantir have announced today a joint product for running AI over corporate supply chains without handing the underlying data to anyone else, and the first customer is Nvidia, which is using it on its own. It pairs Palantir’s Foundry, its Artificial Intelligence Platform and its Ontology with Nvidia’s open Nemotron models and cuOpt […]
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A Polish developer built an app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth

10-09-2026 12:34 via thenextweb.com

A 30-year-old Polish software developer has built an iPhone app that detects Meta smart glasses in the vicinity and estimates how far away they are by reading the Bluetooth signals the glasses broadcast. It has around 5,000 users a month after launch. Pawel Szydlowski bought several models of smart glasses and catalogued their Bluetooth fingerprints, […]
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A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident

10-09-2026 12:22 via thenextweb.com

Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies and its handling of rogue AI activity, Reuters reports. Josh Hawley, who leads a […]
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The Boring Company raises $3bn at a $23bn valuation, led by the UAE

10-09-2026 12:05 via thenextweb.com

Elon Musk’s tunnelling company has raised $3bn at a valuation of $23bn, led by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated investment entities, four times what it was worth in 2022, and a long way from the Washington to New York hyperloop announced in 2017. The money is earmarked for more than 150km of tunnel across the […]
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EU cybersecurity agency is now testing Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra, the Commission says

10-09-2026 11:46 via thenextweb.com

ENISA, the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, has been given access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and is now testing it alongside OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, a European Commission spokesperson said on Thursday. Reuters reported the confirmation, bringing an end to a process that has been unfolding since spring. Anthropic announced in April that Mythos could outperform humans […]
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Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.

10-09-2026 11:35 via thenextweb.com

Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, launched this summer, is one recent attempt to close that gap from inside the infrastructure enterprises already run. According […]
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Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet

10-09-2026 11:08 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the open internet, and disclosed that finding them required scanning roughly 481 million transcripts. The assessment was published on Wednesday, and three of the incidents were disclosed on 30 July. The fourth, involving an early Claude Opus 4.6 checkpoint […]
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Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself

10-09-2026 11:03 via thenextweb.com

Christy Chen, founder of Cit Labs, argues that AI chatbots fail at emotional support not because the technology is incapable but because the models were optimized for engagement, trained on text that performs support rather than delivers it, and lack physiological signal. Her startup combines EEG data with clinician-defined guardrails to build something purpose-built for […]
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Nvidia signs eight Australian data centre partners for up to 2GW of AI capacity by 2027

10-09-2026 10:37 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia has signed eight Australian data centre and cloud companies to build what it calls AI factory capacity, in an arrangement the chipmaker says could support up to two gigawatts of AI compute in Australia by 2027. The partners named in the announcement are Firmus, Sharon AI, IREN, Megaport, ResetData, CDC, NextDC and AirTrunk. IREN’s Bundey campus […]
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