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LinkedIn shares guidance on effective event marketing

03-08-2026 23:21 via socialmediatoday.com

Head of Ads Jae Oh said that brands with a wider outreach strategy and follow-up plans are more likely to see extended engagement and reach.

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XPENG’s robotics arm has raised more than $900M ahead of its humanoid production run

24-08-2026 12:45 via thenextweb.com

XPENG said on Monday that its robotics business has raised more than $900M in what the company described as its first funding round, a substantial sum for a unit that has yet to sell a single robot commercially. The timing is deliberate, since the Chinese carmaker has committed to putting its IRON humanoid into mass […]
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GoWish, the Danish wishlist app, is valued at more than $200mn ater its last raising

24-08-2026 12:30 via thenextweb.com

GoWish has raised fresh funding at a valuation of more than $200mn, according to Bloomberg, which reported the round on Monday. The company is one of the more unusual businesses to come out of Copenhagen’s startup scene, not least because it did not start as a startup at all. The app began life in 2015 as […]
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Phonak’s new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on a chip built to sip power

24-08-2026 11:17 via thenextweb.com

Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC, which it says runs two artificial intelligence systems in parallel while drawing 37% less power than the generation before it. The Sonova-owned brand is pitching the release at the two problems that have defined the category for […]
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Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn

24-08-2026 11:09 via thenextweb.com

Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in a Hong Kong share placement whose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, since the company has spent the past fortnight arguing to investors that its capital […]
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UK fintech funding has fallen to its lowest level in at least a decade

24-08-2026 10:39 via thenextweb.com

Funding for UK fintech companies has dropped to its lowest level in at least ten years, according to Bloomberg, which reported the figures on Sunday. The decline lands on a sector that Britain has spent the better part of fifteen years describing as its clearest technology success story, and it fits a pattern visible across the […]
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Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation, nearly triple its last one

24-08-2026 10:27 via thenextweb.com

Hugging Face has retained bankers to test the market for a sale at a valuation of $13bn or higher, according to Business Insider, which reported that talks are early and that no bidder has been identified. It is a striking development for a company that has spent the past decade positioning itself as the neutral ground […]
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Nvidia is in talks to back Perplexity at more than $30bn

24-08-2026 10:17 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia has been discussing an investment in Perplexity that would value the AI search company at more than $30bn, according to The Information, which reported that the two sides also considered a technology licensing arrangement alongside the equity cheque. The talks are the latest turn in a relationship that already runs deeper than the usual […]
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New Zealand joins the global push to keep under-16s off social media

24-08-2026 09:51 via thenextweb.com

New Zealand will introduce a bill requiring platforms to verify users are over 16, though two of three coalition partners oppose it and no vote will happen before November’s election. France’s under-15 ban takes effect on 1 September with its age verification mandate stripped out. New Zealand will introduce a bill on Monday requiring social […]
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SoftBank plans record $6.3bn retail bond sale in Japan

24-08-2026 09:24 via thenextweb.com

SoftBank plans a record 1 trillion yen retail bond sale, about $6.3bn, the largest by any issuer in Japan, to fund investment commitments to OpenAI. Analysts say banks were reluctant to take the risk, leaving the deal dependent on retail investors. SoftBank has found a lender of last resort for its AI bet, and it […]
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Claude outage hits multiple models again

24-08-2026 09:23 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic’s Claude AI is showing signs of overload again. On Monday morning, users trying to work with Claude encountered failed requests and a “529 Overloaded” error. The message says the problem is a temporary server-side issue, then sends users to Anthropic’s status page. A screenshot shared with TNW shows the error appearing in the Claude […]
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Meta glasses face more challenges

24-08-2026 01:26 via socialmediatoday.com

Sales are strong but customer misuse has prompted bans, restrictions and a new market of apps that will alert people when camera-equipped devices are nearby.

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Instagram stresses the importance of captions

23-08-2026 23:59 via socialmediatoday.com

The platform offered guidance on what makes text compelling and said creators should aim to tell a story or offer useful information.

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Will Meta be found guilty of driving social media addiction?

23-08-2026 23:50 via socialmediatoday.com

A high-profile case in the U.S. got underway last week and the company may be on the hook for as much as $1 trillion in damages, but questions linger.

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X launches MCP server

23-08-2026 23:44 via socialmediatoday.com

The system allows advertisers to connect their campaigns to the artificial intelligence tool of their choice and use it to guide their promotions.

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YouTube expands Channels experiment

23-08-2026 23:40 via socialmediatoday.com

The platform is opening up its television-style streaming feature to a new group of musicians, podcasters and media creators but the test pool is still limited.

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Galbot Robots Complete 100 Consecutive Rallies Against a Tennis Champion

23-08-2026 22:08 via thenextweb.com

Galbot says its robot completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against former world number 15 Zheng Jie at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The rally count, the autonomy claim and the robot’s identity all rest on the company’s own account. A robot spent Saturday rallying with a former Wimbledon semi-finalist. The […]
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Employers are quietly rehiring the people AI replaced, and paying them less to come back

23-08-2026 21:43 via thenextweb.com

Forrester reports that 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI and expects half of AI-attributed layoffs to be quietly reversed, with jobs returning offshore or at significantly lower wages. In Europe, a revised directive will require consultation before such decisions, backed by financial penalties. The companies that cut jobs for AI are having […]
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A humanoid robot just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record, and roboticists are unimpressed for good reason

23-08-2026 14:16 via thenextweb.com

A robot built by Beijing’s X-Humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second record. Roboticists point out that speed on a known course is far easier for a machine than folding laundry. A machine has run the 100 metres faster than any person ever has. A […]
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ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press

23-08-2026 13:51 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI has added a shortcut that surfaces your four most recent photos when you long press the plus button in ChatGPT on iPhone. It lands while Apple’s own camera and visual assistant features stay unavailable on iPhone in the EU. OpenAI has taken two taps out of the most common thing people do with ChatGPT […]
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Harvey’s first in-house model for legal work is here

23-08-2026 11:25 via thenextweb.com

Harvey has launched Tenet, its first proprietary model for legal work, post-trained on Kimi K3, the open-weight model from Chinese startup Moonshot. The company is backed by OpenAI, whose models Tenet is designed to displace inside Harvey’s own product. Harvey has stopped renting the thing its business depends on. The legal software company has launched […]
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Alibaba is raising $10.2bn and spending all of it on AI

23-08-2026 10:59 via thenextweb.com

Alibaba is placing HK$80bn, about $10.2bn, of new shares in Hong Kong and says all net proceeds will go to AI infrastructure and capabilities. It comes days after the company reported a 75% fall in quarterly net profit driven by that same spending. Alibaba is going to the market for money to spend on AI, […]
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A lawsuit says Oura’s sleep stages are AI guesses with a coin flip’s odds

23-08-2026 10:40 via thenextweb.com

A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Oura’s sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than measurement, and names Finnish parent Oura Health Oy as a defendant. Oura says it stands behind its science and accuracy claims. The number Oura puts on its own product pages is now the subject of a […]
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A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on

22-08-2026 23:51 via thenextweb.com

An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window, and developers have been impressed. OpenRouter’s own listing says prompts and completions are retained by the unidentified provider. A model that nobody will take credit for is being tested across the industry. Ox Alpha appeared on […]
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Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year

22-08-2026 23:25 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia’s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early next year, driven by memory costs. The company reports quarterly earnings next week. Nvidia’s biggest customers have been told what the memory shortage is going to cost them. Servers containing […]
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Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls

22-08-2026 18:53 via thenextweb.com

An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023, with no statistically significant employment effect. The gap was 10.7% in the lowest-paid quartile and absent in the highest. The first measurable mark AI has left on the labour market is not unemployment. Apollo’s […]
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China’s AI and chip firms are handing out shares to keep their engineers

22-08-2026 18:40 via thenextweb.com

Chinese chip companies are running unusually broad equity schemes to keep engineers, with Cambricon covering 85.3% of its workforce and AMEC more than 97%. Europe’s semiconductor sector has a talent gap estimated at 65,000 workers. Chinese chip companies are giving away equity at a scale that looks less like a bonus scheme and more like […]
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The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away

22-08-2026 18:26 via thenextweb.com

LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europe’s first solid-state gigafactory broke ground in France in February. The company that has just opened America’s newest battery plant does not think solid-state cells are […]
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Betting brands are off Premier League shirts. Enterprise software moved in

22-08-2026 17:59 via thenextweb.com

Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of the 20 to find new partners at once. Fulham’s went to ClickHouse, an American data infrastructure company valued at $15bn. The most valuable advertising space in world sport has changed hands, and some of it went […]
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This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month

22-08-2026 13:57 via thenextweb.com

Outer Biosciences has come out of stealth after four years, keeping surgically discarded human skin alive for up to a month and feeding the results into an AI model that predicts useful compounds. It has raised about $23mn and employs 19 people. A company in Massachusetts has spent four years keeping human skin alive outside […]
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