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One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon

08-07-2026 18:23 via thenextweb.com

Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped repository can walk an agent past its own safety prompt. The payoff is a planted key that hands an attacker the developer’s machine. An ancient bug just tripped up the newest tools. Researchers […]
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X will DM users about Community Notes updates

09-07-2026 00:53 via socialmediatoday.com

Elon Musk announced the news in a recent post, but it appears to replicate an existing procedure on the platform.

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LinkedIn shares tips on effective posting

09-07-2026 00:52 via socialmediatoday.com

Frequency, length and consistency are key, and can help boost artificial intelligence pickup as well as overall engagement.

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NATO is building an AI ‘Kill Web’ to stop a Russian attack before it starts

09-07-2026 00:42 via thenextweb.com

NATO is building a vast AI network along its eastern flank, designed to spot an attack early and strike back fast. The plan is called the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, and internal documents name one adversary outright: Russia. German tabloid BILD obtained the papers and shared them through the Axel Springer network, Business Insider reported. […]
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‘We cannot choose to become idiots’: a Brown professor’s proof of mass AI cheating

09-07-2026 00:31 via thenextweb.com

An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his class cheated with AI, and he has the numbers to make the case. Roberto Serrano watched his take-home midterm average hit 96 out of 100. When he switched the final to an in-person test, the average fell to 48. He has taken the story public, […]
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NHTSA demands autonomous vehicle companies fix first responder interference by end of July

09-07-2026 00:16 via thenextweb.com

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a directive on Wednesday demanding autonomous vehicle developers present solutions to a “clear pattern” of driverless vehicles interfering with first responders and law enforcement. Administrator Jonathan Morrison said vehicles have driven into active emergency scenes, blocked ambulances and firefighters, and failed to recognise flashing lights, flares, smoke, fire, […]
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Meta addresses capture LED tampering on its AI glasses

09-07-2026 00:09 via socialmediatoday.com

The company said that its second generation devices will not be able to record if the indicator lights are disabled or otherwise tampered with.

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AI money watch: five funding rounds that matter today

08-07-2026 23:54 via thenextweb.com

A busy 24 hours for AI and deep-tech money, from a $300m quantum bet to Paris voice AI and Europe’s energy startups. Here are the rounds worth knowing. The cash keeps flowing into AI and deep tech. The past day alone brought a $300m quantum raise, a fresh billion-dollar AI-agent valuation, and European bets on […]
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Meta’s new AI option allows remixes of public IG posts

08-07-2026 23:44 via socialmediatoday.com

The company’s updated image generation model lets users tag profiles and import visuals into its artificial intelligence visual creation tools.

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Irish drone delivery startup Manna is building a 1,000-person US factory in Tulsa to take on Zipline and Wing

08-07-2026 23:34 via thenextweb.com

Manna Aero, the Ireland-based autonomous drone delivery startup, is setting up a US operations and manufacturing centre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will employ about 1,000 people over the next several years. Construction is underway, with manufacturing expected to begin in about a year. The expansion is fuelled by the $50 million in venture capital Manna […]
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Google’s SynthID watermark just debunked its first high-profile deepfake: a hoax image of Mitch McConnell

08-07-2026 23:05 via thenextweb.com

Google’s SynthID watermarking system scored its first high-profile real-world win this week after Snopes used it to debunk an AI-generated image of Senator Mitch McConnell that had gone viral on Reddit and X. The image, which appeared to show McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in extreme distress, was confirmed as AI-generated after […]
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Google adds AI-powered Video Remix option

08-07-2026 22:46 via socialmediatoday.com

The option, available in Google Photo, allows users to generate stylized, realistic elements using the company’s Gemini Omni artificial intelligence tool.

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HubSpot tried to feed its AI with customer data. The revolt took four days

08-07-2026 22:28 via thenextweb.com

HubSpot has scrapped a plan to use its customers’ data for a new AI feature, just four days after announcing it. The CRM firm changed its terms on 1 July to pool customer data, including contact and employer details, for a tool that finds sales leads, The Information reported. It opted users in by default. […]
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Squeezed on land, Samsung wants to put data centres out to sea

08-07-2026 22:16 via thenextweb.com

As data centres run into unhappy neighbours and water limits on land, Samsung wants to float them offshore. Samsung Heavy Industries plans to launch its first floating data centre by 2028, Seoul Economic Daily reported. It would be a purpose-built barge parked near the coast. The design is specific. Rather than convert an old ship, […]
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Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it

08-07-2026 22:07 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will ship a joint system to run AI models. The AI-cloud firm Parasail will be its first customer, with the system due […]
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A £35bn plan to fill the UK with 14 mini nuclear reactors

08-07-2026 22:01 via thenextweb.com

A Polish billionaire has laid out plans to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across Britain, at an estimated £35bn, TechRadar reported. Michał Sołowow’s firm, SGE, says it wants to install 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites. It is targeting first power in 2034. The numbers are large. Together the […]
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Venus Aerospace raises $91M to build its ‘detonation’ rocket engine

08-07-2026 21:50 via thenextweb.com

A Texas startup has raised $91m to build a rocket engine most of the industry once wrote off as too hard. Venus Aerospace announced a $91m Series B to develop its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, or RDRE. Mercury Fund led the round. The backers read like a defence roll-call. Lockheed Martin Ventures joined, alongside MESH, […]
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A tritium ‘nuclear battery’ just reached orbit for the first time

08-07-2026 21:29 via thenextweb.com

The nuclear age has quietly reached commercial spaceflight. City Labs, a Miami firm, has launched BOHR, which it calls the world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and the first nuclear CubeSat. The craft is about the size of a softball. It flew on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare on 7 July, alongside 80 other payloads, the […]
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Smart glasses are having a privacy reckoning, and Meta is caught in the middle

08-07-2026 21:05 via thenextweb.com

The smart-glasses backlash has reached the courtroom. From 20 July, New York will ban recording eyewear from every one of its 1,240 courts. It is the first US state to go that far. An internal memo from the New York State Unified Court System sets out the rule, first reported by Syracuse.com. The ban is […]
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Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic

08-07-2026 20:42 via thenextweb.com

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company’s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup Cursor. This is the joint model the two firms had raced to ship. Elon Musk aimed it squarely at coding and agentic work, not casual chat. “It is an Opus-class […]
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Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back

08-07-2026 20:30 via thenextweb.com

A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI’s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, have stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centres. The trigger was a contractor building Meta’s new AI […]
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This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks

08-07-2026 20:08 via thenextweb.com

Tech loves a perk, but few go this far. Rilla, an AI startup that makes coaching software for sales teams, spends about $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff can live near its New York office, Fortune reports. The trade-off is a 72-hour week. Employees who live within a 10-minute bike ride of the […]
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Fi’s new collar taps Starlink’s direct-to-cell to track dogs off the grid

08-07-2026 20:02 via thenextweb.com

Smart-collar maker Fi is putting Starlink in a dog collar. Its new Fi Ultra taps SpaceX’s direct-to-cell satellites. A bolting dog stays trackable even where phone towers cannot reach. The next device to run on satellites is not a phone. It is a dog collar. Fi, a smart-collar startup, is launching the Fi Ultra. It […]
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Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China’s, and it shows

08-07-2026 19:54 via thenextweb.com

Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he says, hands China a lead well beyond cheap labour. He made the comments in a conversation with the Hoover Institution, highlighted by Fortune. […]
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OpenAI’s new GPT-Live lets ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time

08-07-2026 19:33 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI wants you to talk to ChatGPT, not type at it. On 8 July it launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models. The company says they make talking to AI feel much closer to a real conversation. Two versions, GPT-Live-1 and a smaller GPT-Live-1 mini, reach ChatGPT users worldwide from today. The headline change […]
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ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs

08-07-2026 19:20 via thenextweb.com

The ALL-IN Podcast took its live show to the Louvre this week for the RAISE Summit. It put ElevenLabs co-founder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski in the hot seat. Host Jason Calacanis opened where it stings: revenue, competition, and whether a voice startup can outlast OpenAI and Anthropic. “It’s the best time to be building,” […]
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Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code

08-07-2026 19:08 via thenextweb.com

Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed “Teammate,” and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Its own engineers have used the tool since May. The company made its name with an AI search […]
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Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs

08-07-2026 18:52 via thenextweb.com

At RAISE Summit in Paris on Wednesday, “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban made the case for AI coding tools like Lovable and Replit, Business Insider reports. They can hold their own against the big AI labs, he argued. The reason: they now bundle services a raw language model does not. Cuban is a Lovable investor, […]
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France’s ZML wants to break Nvidia lock-in with free cross-chip AI software

08-07-2026 18:37 via thenextweb.com

A Paris startup wants to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, not with a new chip, but with software. ZML has released a free tool that runs open-source models fast across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Apple and Intel silicon alike. Nvidia still rules AI hardware, but its walls keep thinning. ZML, a Paris startup backed by AI […]
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Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree

08-07-2026 18:06 via thenextweb.com

Young workers and their bosses do not see the same person. Almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds, 45 per cent, believe they entered work with the skills to succeed. Just 6 per cent of UK managers agree, according to the Chartered Management Institute. The body polled more than 1,000 managers and 514 young people for […]
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