<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[social media news - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest social media news news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:45:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups]]></title><description><![CDATA[The EU&rsquo;s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget.&nbsp; &ldquo;The act is not about budget,&rdquo; said Thomas Skordas, deputy director-general of the European Commission&rsquo;s DG CNECT, at a European Parliament event last week, on 3rd of September. &ldquo;What the act will provide is the stimulus to make sure that we move in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/eu-official-calls-for-consolidation-among-europes-quantum-startups/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/eu-official-calls-for-consolidation-among-europes-quantum-startups/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claret Capital closes €575M Fund IV for European growth debt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European growth debt fund at &euro;575M, well past the &euro;500M it set out to raise. The London firm announced the final close today, splitting the total into &euro;440m of Fund IV commitments and &euro;135m of affiliated discretionary mandates. The money lends rather than buys, as growth debt gives [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/claret-capital-closes-575m-fund-iv-for-european-growth-debt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/claret-capital-closes-575m-fund-iv-for-european-growth-debt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put in themselves. The other says nobody should be going this fast. Both are on the company&rsquo;s own site, dated 6 September, three days after it shipped GPT-6 Astra. The chief scientist wants a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/openais-chief-scientist-says-no-lab-should-keep-scaling-at-maximum-speed/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/openais-chief-scientist-says-no-lab-should-keep-scaling-at-maximum-speed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word ‘funding’ in spam]]></title><description><![CDATA[For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is told. Microsoft has now found somebody using the same characters for something far less clever. They were splitting up the word [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/an-ai-hacking-trick-is-now-being-used-to-split-the-word-funding-in-spam/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/an-ai-hacking-trick-is-now-being-used-to-split-the-word-funding-in-spam/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic&rsquo;s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported on Friday that the company expects to start marketing its offering in mid-October at the earliest. The listing would then complete shortly before the US midterms in November. Echo Wang had the story from people [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/anthropic-will-reportedly-list-days-before-the-us-midterm-elections/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/anthropic-will-reportedly-list-days-before-the-us-midterm-elections/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would &ldquo;bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.&rdquo; The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trademark. Chief Judge Colm Connolly ruled on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/musks-blow-torch-post-is-why-x-just-lost-the-twitter-bird-logo/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/musks-blow-torch-post-is-why-x-just-lost-the-twitter-bird-logo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers. The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publishers have filed competing claims over the same titles. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/authors-say-publishers-want-a-cut-of-anthropics-payout-the-nyt-reports/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/authors-say-publishers-want-a-cut-of-anthropics-payout-the-nyt-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nscale is selling Figure $3.5bn of compute and buying a stake in it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power. It has also bought a stake in Figure, which is the part worth looking at. The London company announced the partnership on 3 September in a statement also carried on PR Newswire. The deal covers up to 100,000 Nvidia GPUs running the Vera [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/nscale-is-selling-figure-35bn-of-compute-and-buying-a-stake-in-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/nscale-is-selling-figure-35bn-of-compute-and-buying-a-stake-in-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the company&rsquo;s own quarterly filing. CNBC&rsquo;s Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier the figure stood at about $7bn. Two years earlier, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/nvidia-now-holds-99bn-in-shares-of-the-companies-that-buy-its-chips/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/nvidia-now-holds-99bn-in-shares-of-the-companies-that-buy-its-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mira Murati&rsquo;s Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was the wrong one. The Information broke the story on 3 September. Its current version puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn, on a pre-money valuation of at least $40bn. Accel, an investor since the seed round, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/thinking-machines-is-in-talks-to-raise-6bn-the-information-reports/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/thinking-machines-is-in-talks-to-raise-6bn-the-information-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ultrahuman announced a $70m funding round at IFA in Berlin last week, with Qualcomm&rsquo;s venture arm among the backers. The Indian company makes smart rings. What it wants to build next is a ring that stops being a tracker. TechCrunch&rsquo;s Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an interview with founder and chief executive Mohit [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/ultrahuman-raised-70m-to-turn-its-ring-into-a-computer/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/ultrahuman-raised-70m-to-turn-its-ring-into-a-computer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI cybersecurity war has a new front line star, and a seven-figure price]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure pay packages and a recruiting market one search firm compares to nothing since cloud. Europe reached the same place by statute, with NIS2 putting the duty on the management body and allowing regulators to bar a chief executive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/the-ai-cybersecurity-war-has-a-new-front-line-star-and-a-seven-figure-price/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/the-ai-cybersecurity-war-has-a-new-front-line-star-and-a-seven-figure-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oura’s $924m loss is the price of buying back its own shares]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oura filed to go public on Nasdaq on 3 September, and the coverage split within hours. Reuters reported that the smart ring maker had recently turned profitable. The Wall Street Journal told its readers the same. Bloomberg&rsquo;s Subrat Patnaik led on a loss of $924.3m. Business Insider&rsquo;s Kelsey Vlamis carried both figures without reconciling them. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/ouras-924m-loss-is-the-price-of-buying-back-its-own-shares/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/ouras-924m-loss-is-the-price-of-buying-back-its-own-shares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space and Time: where AI agents meet verifiable onchain data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsoft&rsquo;s M12 venture arm, backing that helped put the project on the map early. Since then, the company has launched its purpose-built SXT Chain and expanded its Proof of SQL technology across DeFi, institutional finance and AI. In this interview, co-founder and CTO [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/space-and-time-where-ai-agents-meet-verifiable-onchain-data/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/space-and-time-where-ai-agents-meet-verifiable-onchain-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US paid for a peace deal in Nvidia chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Armenia opened the biggest AI factory in its region last month, we filed it under compute diplomacy. The Wall Street Journal now reports what the compute actually bought. Robbie Whelan reported on Friday that US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia&rsquo;s AI chips to help secure a peace deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/the-us-paid-for-a-peace-deal-in-nvidia-chips/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/the-us-paid-for-a-peace-deal-in-nvidia-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thailand halted more data centres than it has running]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thailand has stopped construction on 49 data centres, which is more than it currently has running. Anuchit Nguyen reported the suspension for Bloomberg on Friday, after the first meeting of a new supervision commission chaired by finance minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas. The country has 35 data centres in operation and 117 more waiting on investment approval. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/thailand-halted-more-data-centres-than-it-has-running/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/thailand-halted-more-data-centres-than-it-has-running/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU tech chief says AI guardrails are coming to the US anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henna Virkkunen told Axios at the G20 innovation ministerial that the US and the EU keep arriving at similar AI protections, Europe by regulating in advance and America through courts and state law. She made the argument at the summit where Washington launched the Carolina Principles urging governments not to create new AI rules or [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/eu-tech-chief-says-ai-guardrails-are-coming-to-the-us-anyway/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/eu-tech-chief-says-ai-guardrails-are-coming-to-the-us-anyway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nigeria’s regulator asks Uber about the services it did not deliver before leaving]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nigeria&rsquo;s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is investigating Uber&rsquo;s abrupt exit, particularly unfulfilled services to customers, after the company shut down without warning as part of a global review that cut 3,300 jobs. The main beneficiary is Estonia&rsquo;s Bolt, and EU platform rules would have required 30 days&rsquo; notice to drivers. Nigeria&rsquo;s competition and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/nigerias-regulator-asks-uber-about-the-services-it-did-not-deliver-before-leaving/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/nigerias-regulator-asks-uber-about-the-services-it-did-not-deliver-before-leaving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released ChatGPT the same year. Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur set out what happened next, reporting from Nairobi for the New York Times with Edwin Okoth. At its peak early this decade, researchers estimated at least 40,000 people [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/kenya-bet-its-graduates-on-gig-work-in-2022-chatgpt-launched-that-year/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/kenya-bet-its-graduates-on-gig-work-in-2022-chatgpt-launched-that-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat&rsquo;s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of Claude agents wrote 13 million lines of Lean code and proved 30,300 intermediate theorems. They used 29,500 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/the-man-paid-to-prove-fermat-by-hand-says-claude-did-it-in-11-days/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/social-media-news/the-man-paid-to-prove-fermat-by-hand-says-claude-did-it-in-11-days/</guid></item></channel></rss>