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LinkedIn playbook offers tips on effective ad campaigns

17-08-2026 01:03 via socialmediatoday.com

The platform’s four-step guide outlines best practices for audience targeting, formatting and measurement.

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China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time

19-08-2026 18:00 via thenextweb.com

The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a handful of private companies to land an orbital-class booster. Reuters reported that the feat places LandSpace alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin, and narrows China’s gap with the US in reusable rockets. The booster came back […]
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Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

19-08-2026 17:44 via thenextweb.com

Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in two parts. Nebius is selling $2.75 billion of notes that mature in 2030, […]
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Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February

19-08-2026 17:33 via thenextweb.com

Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise around $500 million, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The round would value the software startup at $12 billion or more before the new money, the news agency said. It cited people familiar with the talks. The round has not closed, and the amount and terms could change, according to […]
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The $2.1 Billion “worst idea ever”: How Gamma built a profitable empire with 50 people

19-08-2026 17:14 via thenextweb.com

Grant Lee still remembers the investor’s verdict. “Yeah, so the investor said it was the worst idea he had ever heard”. The call came in 2020, when Grant Lee and co-founders Jon Noronha and James Fox started Gamma in San Francisco. Six years later, that “worst idea” is a $2.1 billion company, a profitable AI-powered […]
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Anthropic says Claude designed working protein binders, and beat human experts on some

19-08-2026 17:02 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It published the two experiments on Tuesday. The company reported the results itself. It framed them as early evidence that Claude can speed up parts of drug development. Anthropic shared the work on its research blog. The headline numbers […]
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Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger

19-08-2026 16:48 via thenextweb.com

Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillet’s third raise in 14 months. The backers are a roll-call of AI investors. […]
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Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns a piece of the buyer

19-08-2026 16:39 via thenextweb.com

Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them. The Swedish electric-trucking firm said on Tuesday it will deploy the 500 electric big rigs for Amazon and other customers. It called the order the largest Tesla Semi deployment in the world to date. Einride announced […]
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Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI

19-08-2026 16:36 via thenextweb.com

Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it began asking in 2021, with 73% expecting fewer jobs. A European Commission survey found displacement fears highest among younger, lower-income and less-educated workers. Americans under 30 have changed their minds about AI. For the […]
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Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter

19-08-2026 16:26 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI grew more slowly than Anthropic last quarter, and for the first time its rival’s sales came in higher. OpenAI told investors its revenue rose 18 percent from the first quarter to the second, to $6.7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported. Its losses deepened over the same stretch. Berber Jin and Corrie Driebusch wrote that […]
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India’s Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to challenge voice AI leaders

19-08-2026 16:21 via thenextweb.com

Bangalore-based Murf AI is releasing its Falcon 2 voice model on 20 August at $0.01 per generated minute, a fifth of what ElevenLabs charges. The company says it scores above some OpenAI models on the independent Artificial Analysis leaderboard. A Bangalore company is selling synthetic speech at a fifth of what Europe’s biggest voice AI […]
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63% of Europe’s new data centre capacity is now going somewhere other than the big five

19-08-2026 16:10 via thenextweb.com

Europe’s data centre capacity will reach 13 gigawatts by the end of 2026, a fifth more than last year, and most of the new supply is no longer landing where the industry has always built. Of the roughly 700 megawatts added in the second quarter, only 37% went to the five established markets of Frankfurt, […]
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Amazon’s drone fleet is expanding sixfold in America and capped at 100 deliveries a day in England

19-08-2026 15:48 via thenextweb.com

Amazon says it will offer drone delivery in nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, six times its current footprint. Its only British site, in Darlington, is under an AAIB accident investigation with its CAA permission expiring on 31 December. Amazon says it will be delivering by drone in nearly 500 […]
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Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it

19-08-2026 15:47 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic’s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have started building tools to strip those labels off, according to Business Insider. Thibault Spirlet and Agnes Applegate reported that one remover has gone viral on GitHub. Interest in the tools is climbing. The watermark is the trigger. Anthropic began marking Claude’s output […]
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Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup

19-08-2026 15:25 via thenextweb.com

Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the end of a keynote in San Francisco. The reveal was brief. Thrun mentioned […]
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Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO

19-08-2026 15:08 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up the structure ahead of an initial public offering that could rank among the largest ever, Cory Weinberg and Valida Pau reported. Bloomberg matched the report. The plan would hand chief […]
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ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wasted a quarter of the energy

19-08-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com

Germany’s ADAC measured charging losses on five EVs and found that a household socket wastes between 12.7% and 24.2% of the electricity drawn. An 11 kW wallbox cut every car’s losses to between 5.1% and 7%. Some of the electricity you buy to charge an electric car never reaches the battery. Germany’s ADAC measured how […]
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California’s new tyre standard is stricter than Europe’s, which has had one since 2012

19-08-2026 14:59 via thenextweb.com

California’s Energy Commission has unanimously approved the first US efficiency standard for replacement tyres, capping rolling resistance from 2029 and tightening it in 2033. Europe has enforced a looser ceiling since 2012 and labelled tyres for efficiency since the same year. California has decided how wasteful a tyre is allowed to be. Its Energy Commission […]
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TikTok is building a way to send money inside DMs

19-08-2026 14:48 via thenextweb.com

TikTok is working on a way for users to send each other money inside direct messages, according to Bloomberg. The feature would run on TikTok Pay, the app’s existing payment system, Bloomberg reported. Natalie Lung and Alexandra Levine wrote that references to it sit in code hidden in the current version of TikTok’s US iPhone […]
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Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed

19-08-2026 14:31 via thenextweb.com

A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and software for data centres and for what the industry calls physical […]
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Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one

19-08-2026 14:17 via thenextweb.com

Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the company’s fastest-growing models to date. The model is open […]
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Audi’s China-only EVs are coming to Europe, and they cost less than local models

19-08-2026 14:10 via thenextweb.com

A German company is importing Audi’s China-only E5 Sportback and E7X, models Audi never intended to sell in Europe, and registering them for road use. Even after shipping and homologation they undercut Audi’s European-built equivalents by thousands of euros. Audi built two electric cars it never wanted Europeans to buy. They are now being registered […]
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Xiaomi’s profit drops again as the memory crunch squeezes its phones

19-08-2026 14:05 via thenextweb.com

Xiaomi’s profit fell again in the second quarter. A global memory shortage kept pushing up the cost of its phones. The Chinese company posted its third straight quarterly profit decline, Bloomberg reported. Adjusted net income dropped about 43 percent to 6.22bn yuan ($922mn). The reported figure was less severe. Net profit fell 20.5 percent, The […]
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Prevalent AI raises $22m to fix the data problem behind failing AI projects

19-08-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com

Prevalent AI, a London company that folds hundreds of scattered enterprise data sources into a single queryable graph, has raised $22m from Integrity Growth Partners. It is the first primary capital the business has taken in nine years of trading, which in the current market counts as an eccentricity. The company was founded in 2017 by […]
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‘The young ones are the best ones’: the Meta documents now in front of an Oakland judge

19-08-2026 13:58 via thenextweb.com

A 2016 internal email stating that Instagram’s overall company goal was “teen time spent” is now an exhibit in an Oakland courtroom. It is one of several internal documents the states put before a federal judge this week, in the first case to reach trial out of a litigation covering 3,000 claims. The trial opened […]
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Alphabet raises A$5.5bn in Australia, more than doubling a record Apple set in 2015

19-08-2026 12:38 via thenextweb.com

Alphabet priced its first Australian dollar bond on Wednesday at A$5.5bn, about US$3.9bn, roughly 10% more than the market had pencilled in when the deal was trailed at the start of the week. It is the largest corporate bond sale ever done in the Australian market. The company hired banks on Monday for a four-tranche transaction sized at […]
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A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’

19-08-2026 12:13 via thenextweb.com

Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast, published on Tuesday and hosted by Sonya Huang and Pat Grady. The […]
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China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose

19-08-2026 10:54 via thenextweb.com

China’s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to the South China Morning Post. It is growing at precisely the moment Washington is drafting a letter telling 35 countries they cannot belong to both camps. WAICO was signed into existence […]
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SK Hynix will buy back $28.6bn of its own shares, the biggest repurchase in Korean corporate history

19-08-2026 10:20 via thenextweb.com

SK Hynix will buy back 40 trillion won of its own stock, about $28.6bn at prevailing exchange rates, in what Korean media are calling the largest repurchase ever announced by a listed company in the country. The board approved the programme on Wednesday and every share bought will be cancelled outright rather than held in treasury. The […]
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Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new

19-08-2026 10:09 via thenextweb.com

Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitched as an inference machine for frontier models, and Cerebras says it runs them up to 30 times faster than GPU-based systems. The launch […]
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