Meta considers entering prediction markets - social media news

Meta considers entering prediction markets

24-06-2026 01:07 via socialmediatoday.com

The company is reportedly developing a new app similar to Polymarket and Kalshi, according to The New York Times.

Read more
Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

03-07-2026 21:25 via thenextweb.com

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating conflict between the two companies over allegations that Alibaba stole Anthropic’s AI capabilities through industrial-scale distillation. “As Claude Code was […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun

03-07-2026 21:12 via thenextweb.com

The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had surged more than 80% in the first half, sank 6.3% on Wednesday and 5.4% on Thursday, a two-session decline of roughly 12%. While chip stocks […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
The man who built Pegasus now sells governments the antidote, and Latin America is buying

03-07-2026 21:04 via thenextweb.com

Dream, the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup that tripled its valuation to $3 billion this year, is expanding into Latin America. The company is targeting governments aligned with Washington in a region where cyber attacks are reportedly growing 25% annually and national defences rank among the weakest in the world. The expansion is notable for what […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Advertisement
Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep

03-07-2026 20:29 via thenextweb.com

Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but performing well on high-stakes exams like the SAT and ACT. On the face of […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
The Chevy Silverado EV is one of the best electric trucks ever built, so why is nobody buying it

03-07-2026 19:15 via thenextweb.com

General Motors sold roughly 14,000 Chevrolet Silverado EVs in the United States and Canada last year, according to GM Authority sales data. The petrol-powered Silverado moves more than ten times that volume in a single quarter. That gap, between what reviewers call one of the best electric trucks on the market and what buyers are […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
North Korea-linked npm packages impersonate Rollup polyfill tools to steal developer secrets

03-07-2026 18:55 via thenextweb.com

Security researchers at JFrog have identified a set of malicious npm packages linked to North Korean threat actors that impersonate legitimate Rollup polyfill tooling to steal developer credentials and enable remote access to compromised machines. The packages, named “rollup-packages-polyfill-core” and “rollup-runtime-polyfill-core,” mimic the legitimate “rollup-plugin-polyfill-node” project down to its description, repository metadata, and package structure.

Read more
Tesla launches the six-seat Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US at 61,990 dollars

03-07-2026 18:43 via thenextweb.com

Tesla has launched the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the United States and Puerto Rico, a stretched, six-seat version of the world’s best-selling electric vehicle that adds a third row and marks the company’s most significant Model Y expansion since its redesign earlier this year. The Launch Series starts at 61,990 dollars and includes 12 […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Advertisement
The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market

03-07-2026 17:28 via thenextweb.com

The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration: leave the market alone, or the squeeze gets worse. The warning came in a letter from SEMI, a semiconductor industry group, to senior US officials. Any attempt to fix the shortage by steering prices […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing

03-07-2026 17:21 via thenextweb.com

The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European rules. They could limit what children play, and cost the sector billions in lost sales. A cluster of European regulations is taking aim at how games are sold to minors. Loot boxes are the main target. The shift could crimp sales worldwide, Bloomberg reported. Regulators […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Investors sue Oracle, say it hid how shaky the OpenAI deal was

03-07-2026 16:47 via thenextweb.com

The strain inside the AI boom’s biggest infrastructure bet has reached a courtroom. Oracle’s own investors are suing, saying the company hid how shaky its $300bn deal with OpenAI really was. A Michigan public pension fund, the City of Sterling Heights Police & Fire Retirement System, filed the class action on Wednesday in a Tennessee […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers

03-07-2026 16:26 via thenextweb.com

The robot butler has been five years away for about twenty years. Weave Robotics thinks the trick is to aim lower. Its new home robot, Isaac 1, does not walk, has no fingers, and mostly just wants to do your laundry. It also costs a fraction of its humanoid rivals. The Y Combinator-backed startup unveiled […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
SAP freezes hiring and travel to shovel cash into AI

03-07-2026 16:14 via thenextweb.com

Europe’s biggest software company is tightening its belt to chase artificial intelligence. SAP is freezing most hiring and pausing non-essential travel, all to free up cash for its AI push. The plan landed in an internal email to staff on Wednesday evening. Bloomberg saw the memo, and SAP confirmed the move to The Register. Going […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
The other Dyson empire, measured in acres

03-07-2026 15:22 via thenextweb.com

Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, carrying their rows of fruit through the light like carriages at […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets

03-07-2026 15:12 via thenextweb.com

The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock delivered the warning to reporters after the company posted its annual results, as Reuters […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart

03-07-2026 14:47 via thenextweb.com

For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude. Court documents released this week suggest it was about something bigger: who decides how the US military uses frontier AI. The emails came out on Tuesday, in one of the lawsuits Anthropic has filed against the Department of […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Zoom buys Common Room to push past the video call into AI sales

03-07-2026 14:31 via thenextweb.com

Zoom made its name on the video call. Now it wants to own everything that happens before the call too. The company is buying Common Room, a Seattle startup whose AI reads the buying signals of potential customers, pushing Zoom deeper into enterprise sales software. Zoom announced the acquisition on Thursday. It did not disclose […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank eyes an $8bn valuation as deposits quadruple

03-07-2026 14:22 via thenextweb.com

A bank that barely existed a year ago is now chasing a valuation most European lenders can only dream of. Erebor was founded by Anduril’s Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel. It is in talks to raise at a valuation of at least $8bn, and its deposits have almost quadrupled in three months. That […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange

03-07-2026 13:55 via thenextweb.com

Europe just put its first quantum computing company on a major American stock exchange. And it did so without leaving home. IQM, a Finnish maker of quantum machines, started trading on Nasdaq this week. The debut was equal parts landmark and reality check. IQM began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on 2 July […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Spain’s LALIGA piracy blocks knocked out 500,000+ innocent websites

03-07-2026 13:40 via thenextweb.com

For much of this year, Spanish internet users have lost access to huge parts of the web on match days. Not pirate streams, but human rights groups, climate charities and business tools. A new report puts hard numbers on the damage, and they are staggering. The culprit is Spain’s football league, LALIGA, and its court-backed […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans

03-07-2026 13:29 via thenextweb.com

Argentina’s government wants to let a company trade with no person in charge of it, and it has sent Congress a bill to make that legal. The proposal creates a new category called the non-human corporation, an entity run by AI agents or robots that can sign contracts and hold assets on its own, with […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet

03-07-2026 13:14 via thenextweb.com

The world’s biggest seller of website addresses says a court order in India could make the internet less safe. GoDaddy is fighting new rules meant to stop fake sites impersonating famous brands. It warns the cure could expose millions of legitimate site owners, and not only in India. The order came from the Delhi High […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Amazon says it finally has enough satellites to switch on its Starlink rival

03-07-2026 13:02 via thenextweb.com

Amazon has finally reached the starting line in the satellite-internet race. It says it now has enough spacecraft in orbit to switch on its Leo broadband network later this year. The target is clear: Elon Musk’s Starlink. An overnight launch on 2 July tipped the balance. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carried 29 […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Spotify pushes back on Kalshi and Polymarket after a song’s chart run looked rigged

03-07-2026 12:57 via thenextweb.com

Spotify has removed roughly 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after the track’s sudden rise to the top of its US daily chart lined up suspiciously well with a bet on the prediction market Kalshi. The company has also asked Kalshi and Polymarket to remove its logo from their sites and make clear that neither platform […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Researchers say an AI agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the keyboard

03-07-2026 12:50 via thenextweb.com

Ransomware has always needed a skilled human somewhere in the loop. Security firm Sysdig says that just changed. It has documented what it calls the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent, with no human at the keyboard. The researchers named the attacker JADEPUFFER, and say a large language model […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
ElevenLabs in talks for tender offer at $22bn valuation, doubling February mark

03-07-2026 12:49 via thenextweb.com

The voice AI startup is reportedly weighing a staff share sale that would value it at nearly double its February funding round, according to people familiar with the discussions. ElevenLabs is in early talks with investors about an employee tender offer that would value the voice AI startup at roughly $22 billion, according to Bloomberg, which […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation

03-07-2026 12:31 via thenextweb.com

Crusoe is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion in a new funding round that could triple its valuation to roughly $30 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which cited people familiar with the matter. Crusoe did not respond to a request for comment, and no terms, structure or lead investors have been disclosed publicly. […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine

03-07-2026 12:19 via thenextweb.com

Anduril has become the poster child for a faster, software-speed kind of defence contractor. Last Friday, one of its rocket motors blew up on a test stand in Mississippi. The blast is a small setback that carries an outsized message about how hard building missiles really is. A solid rocket motor exploded during a test […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Dutch military backs Intelic’s drone software with tens of millions of euros

03-07-2026 12:06 via thenextweb.com

The three-year deal aims to let drones from different manufacturers operate under one command system, a lesson the Netherlands says it has drawn from Ukraine. The Netherlands’ Ministry of Defence is putting tens of millions of euros into Intelic, a Dutch startup whose software lets drones from competing manufacturers operate under a single command system. […]
This story continues at The Next Web

Read more
Most Americans want kids off social media before 16, new survey shows

03-07-2026 12:04 via digitaltrends.com

A new Pew Research Center survey has found that 56 percent of Americans support banning social media for anyone under 16, with support crossing party lines and age groups.

Read more

03 Jul 2026

02 Jul 2026 01 Jul 2026 30 Jun 2026 29 Jun 2026 28 Jun 2026