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Reddit now lets users reply to any post with video comments

11-06-2026 21:37 via thenextweb.com

Reddit has launched video comments for all users. The feature lets any Redditor upload or record a short-form video reply directly in the comments of any post. It rolls out across all public, safe-for-work communities starting Thursday. A video icon now appears alongside the existing image and GIF options in the comment box. Users can […]
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ShinyHunters breached 100+ companies through an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day

11-06-2026 23:10 via thenextweb.com

Oracle warned customers on Thursday of a critical vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software that hackers have already exploited to breach more than 100 organisations. The flaw, CVE-2026-35273, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and can be exploited over the internet without any authentication. Oracle has not released a patch. The advisory came a day after […]
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AI needs judgment, not a job description: Michael Ronis on the future of recruitment

11-06-2026 22:40 via thenextweb.com

Artificial intelligence has been one of the most influential forces shaping recruitment in a global talent war. The volume of data companies can now access, the speed at which candidate pools can be filtered, and the complexity of searches that can be executed in minutes; these are all genuine advances. Yet amid the enthusiasm surrounding automation, Michael […]
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Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users

11-06-2026 22:15 via thenextweb.com

Bluesky launched group chats on Thursday and outlined a broader pivot toward community features, a strategic shift for a social network that has so far focused on open public posting. Group chats support up to 50 people in the current release. The company says it may increase that limit later. The feature arrives in version […]
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How companies train millions of workers when their products never stop shipping

11-06-2026 22:14 via thenextweb.com

The data on workforce development tells a contradictory story. 85% of companies plan to prioritize upskilling their workforce through 2030. At the same time, 63% of employers still identify skills gaps as the single biggest barrier to business transformation. The explanation for this is that the model most organizations use to develop their people was built for a slower world, and it […]
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Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.

11-06-2026 21:55 via thenextweb.com

Google DeepMind built an AI that can predict football plays before they happen. TacticAI uses geometric deep learning to model player movement, forecast dynamics up to eight seconds into the future, and recommend tactical adjustments, all from broadcast-style visual data. Brazilian club Palmeiras is the first to use it for live open-play analysis. The system […]
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BlackRock ordered $5 billion in SpaceX shares as IPO demand hit $250 billion, nearly 4x oversubscribed

11-06-2026 21:12 via thenextweb.com

BlackRock submitted an order to buy at least $5 billion in SpaceX shares ahead of Friday’s debut, the Wall Street Journal reported. That single order is nearly as large as the entire $5.5 billion Cerebras IPO, the biggest of 2026 so far. SpaceX has told banks it will not budge from its $135 per share […]
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Meta adds an AI assistant and desktop version to its CapCut rival Edits

11-06-2026 20:46 via thenextweb.com

Meta is adding an AI assistant and a desktop version to Edits, its video-editing app built to compete with ByteDance’s CapCut. The company previewed the features at an invite-only creator event in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The AI assistant is currently in testing with event attendees. The desktop version is “coming soon.” The AI assistant […]
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Barcelona’s THEKER raises €73M to deploy AI-native factory robots that learn on the job

11-06-2026 20:15 via thenextweb.com

THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya, and Bright Pixel Capital. It marks Samsung’s first-ever investment in a Spanish […]
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Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

11-06-2026 20:01 via thenextweb.com

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, alongside Bezos himself. Total funding now exceeds $18 billion. The company is building what Bezos calls an “artificial general […]
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Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf

11-06-2026 19:43 via thenextweb.com

Coinbase has launched an AI agent that can execute crypto trades and pay for premium research data on behalf of users. The agent integrates with a user’s main Coinbase account or can operate in a separate sandbox. It trades spot crypto and derivatives markets, with support for equities and prediction markets planned next. Users can […]
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Waymo launches a $29.99/month subscription for its most frequent robotaxi riders

11-06-2026 19:18 via thenextweb.com

Waymo is launching a $29.99 per month subscription tier called Waymo Premier, targeting its most frequent riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. The plan is invite-only to start. Subscribers get prioritised matching, up to five free cancellations per month, and earn 10% back in loyalty credits, called Waymo Cash, on every trip. “You […]
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Why the next AI safety problem is the conversation between models

11-06-2026 18:52 via thenextweb.com

In May 2025, AI researchers at Palisade Research ran a controlled experiment in which several advanced AI models, including OpenAI’s o3, were placed inside command-line sandboxes. The test was designed to measure controllability. Most models complied: Claude, Gemini, and Grok models allowed shutdown in all 100 test runs, reporting green across the board. However, three […]
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Your robot can’t be smart, fast, and free. Evolution solved that already.

11-06-2026 18:12 via thenextweb.com

Here is a constraint that almost no one building physical AI says out loud, even though every one of them is quietly fighting it. A robot’s intelligence wants three things at once. It wants to be smart, meaning it can reason at the level of a frontier model about an unfamiliar scene. It wants to […]
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Coram raises $35M to turn security cameras into autonomous AI investigators

11-06-2026 15:03 via thenextweb.com

Coram AI has raised $35m to turn the security cameras already bolted to walls into something closer to an autonomous detective. The Series B is co-led by the new investor Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with UP Partners, 8VC and Mosaic Ventures joining. It takes the San Francisco company’s total funding to $66m. Coram’s pitch […]
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Canada wants to ban under-16s from social media, and rein in AI chatbots too

11-06-2026 14:52 via thenextweb.com

Canada has introduced a bill that would bar under-16s from social media and, in a twist that sets it apart from other countries, regulate AI chatbots in the same sweep. The Digital Safety Act, tabled on Wednesday, is the latest move in a global wave of governments cracking down on platforms over harm to children. […]
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Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US

11-06-2026 14:44 via thenextweb.com

An Irish company that uses AI to stop crashes before drivers see them coming has raised up to €49m to expand in North America and Europe. CameraMatics, founded in Dublin in 2016, makes a video-telematics platform for commercial fleets. Its cameras and software watch the road and the cab at the same time. The system […]
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AI bubble fears are spreading, even as SpaceX readies the biggest IPO ever

11-06-2026 14:32 via thenextweb.com

On the day SpaceX prices the largest stock-market debut in history, the market underneath it has a case of nerves. The cause is not rockets. It is AI. Several warning lights are flashing at once. Together they amount to the first serious test of a trade that has carried global markets for two years. The […]
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Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf

11-06-2026 14:15 via thenextweb.com

One of Europe’s oldest deep-tech specialists is opening a London office, and pitching it as a fresh expansion into new territory. Companies House tells a slightly different story. Vsquared Ventures, founded in Munich and known for raising one of Europe’s largest early-stage deep-tech funds, quietly incorporated its UK entity back in October 2024, some 18 […]
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US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process

11-06-2026 14:04 via thenextweb.com

US AI giants are planting flags in London at a pace the city has never seen, and in doing so they are turning the British capital into the clearest rival to San Francisco, while making life harder for the homegrown startups they are landing next to. In the past few months Anthropic has taken office […]
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What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it

11-06-2026 13:41 via thenextweb.com

The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going public may have little to do with rockets, or with Musk. It is what […]
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Deezer’s new free tool scans your Spotify and Apple Music playlists for AI slop

11-06-2026 13:19 via thenextweb.com

Deezer has built a free tool that will tell you how much of your music was made by a machine, even if you stream it somewhere else. The French service has opened its AI-music detector to the public, letting anyone scan their playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, and around 20 other platforms for AI-generated tracks. […]
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Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data

11-06-2026 13:06 via thenextweb.com

Most enterprise AI projects do not fail because the model is bad. They fail because the data feeding it is a mess: broken pipelines, mismatched systems, and context locked in one engineer’s head. Upriver, an Israeli startup, has raised $14M to automate the cleanup, betting that this dull but critical layer is where the AI […]
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Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them

11-06-2026 12:52 via thenextweb.com

The AI boom has a problem no amount of capital can solve on its own: there are not enough electricians, welders, and pipefitters to build it. Google’s answer is to pay to train them. Its philanthropic arm, Google.org, said it is committing $50M to prepare more than 300,000 skilled-trade workers across over 20 US states, […]
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The US-Philippines AI hub now has a price tag, $10bn, and a 99-year lease on the table

11-06-2026 12:26 via thenextweb.com

The US-backed plan to build an AI and supply-chain hub in the Philippines now has a number attached: about $10bn in initial investment, with more to follow, according to the official leading the Philippine side. It also has a striking term on the table, a lease to the United States of up to 99 years. […]
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Mercedes-Benz turns to defence, partnering with startup Tytan to build anti-drone vehicles

11-06-2026 12:12 via thenextweb.com

Mercedes-Benz is leaning deeper into defence. The carmaker has signed a memorandum of understanding with TYTAN Technologies, a Munich counter-drone startup, to develop vehicle-based systems that detect and shoot down hostile drones, built on its G-Class SUV and Sprinter van. Mercedes calls the defence sector “a strategic growth field”. The deal, signed at the ILA […]
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ShopAgentic raises €1.9M to build commerce infrastructure for AI shopping agents

11-06-2026 12:05 via thenextweb.com

A German startup wants to rebuild online commerce for shoppers who are not human. ShopAgentic has raised a €1.9mn pre-seed to do it. May Ventures and Greenfield Capital co-led the oversubscribed round. What ShopAgentic is building ShopAgentic calls itself a “native agentic commerce system”. It runs a squad of specialised AI agents, each owning one […]
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Mississippi residents file a 10,000-strong class action against Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over data-centre noise

11-06-2026 11:53 via thenextweb.com

The backlash against AI data centres has reached a new stage: a class-action lawsuit. Residents of Mississippi have sued Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX, claiming a gas-fired power plant that feeds nearby data centres blasts “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that has eroded their health and home values. The case, made public in federal court in […]
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OpenAI plugs Visa into ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and pay at any Visa merchant

11-06-2026 11:36 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI is wiring a payment network into ChatGPT. Under an expanded partnership announced at the Visa Payments Forum on Wednesday, AI agents inside OpenAI’s products will be able to shop and pay on a user’s behalf at, in principle, any of the more than 175 million merchant locations that accept Visa, once the user grants […]
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South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over massive data breach

11-06-2026 11:33 via thenextweb.com

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped e-commerce giant Coupang with a record-breaking 624.7 billion won ($409 million) fine, the largest data breach penalty in the country’s history. The ruling, handed down today by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), dwarfs the previous record of 134.8 billion won imposed on telecoms firm SK Telecom last year. The […]
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