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Samsung’s new tablets arrive more expensive, and its tracker lasts longer

30-09-2026 19:41 via thenextweb.com

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S12+ and S12 Ultra reach Europe on 7 October at 1,299 and 1,539 euros, roughly 180 euros above the model the first replaces, against a 100 dollar rise in America. The entry-level 11-inch tablet was not updated, which is what the memory shortage has been doing to cheap devices all year, while […]
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Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and JERA, FT reports

01-10-2026 21:45 via thenextweb.com

Japan’s biggest power generator is teaming up with Dell to build AI data centres across the country. The push could cost as much as $140bn, the Financial Times reported. JERA, Dell and UK developer RHAELM signed a non-binding agreement on Thursday, JERA said. Private equity firm Apollo will help fund the work as RHAELM’s financing partner. The first […]
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OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports

01-10-2026 21:34 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI has parted ways with three employees who it says mishandled sensitive company information. The Wall Street Journal first reported the exits on Thursday. Two of the three were safety researchers, and one was a research programme manager, Rachel Metz reported for Bloomberg. They allegedly gave company details to an outside group that tests AI models, a person […]
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CFPB can’t say if data on abandoned office kit is safe, watchdog finds

01-10-2026 21:25 via thenextweb.com

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot confirm that IT equipment it left in four closed offices is secure, a watchdog has found. J.J. McCorvey reported the audit for Bloomberg. The bureau ended the leases on its New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta offices in early 2025. It left technology behind, and still cannot confirm […]
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GM’s Q3 sales drop 5.5% as its electric models collapse and Toyota closes to within 136,000

01-10-2026 21:13 via thenextweb.com

GM’s third-quarter sales fell 5.5% and its electric models collapsed, with the Equinox EV down 92.4% to 1,905 cars after America ended its $7,500 purchase credit. Europe kept its mandates, where electric cars took 29% of new registrations in August and drivers pay about twice the American petrol price. GM sold 5.5% fewer vehicles last […]
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Factory and Cognition bosses clash over adviser’s exit, Bloomberg reports

01-10-2026 20:18 via thenextweb.com

The heads of two AI coding startups are fighting in public over an adviser who switched sides, as Carmen Arroyo reported for Bloomberg. Factory chief executive Matan Grinberg said on X on Wednesday that he was cutting ties with Chris Degnan, an adviser of about a year. Degnan was later named chief revenue officer at […]
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Samsung lifts prices across most of the Galaxy S26 range by $100

01-10-2026 20:17 via thenextweb.com

Samsung has added $100 to the Galaxy S26, S26+ and Ultra and $200 to the 1TB Ultra, seven months after the phones went on sale, blaming the memory shortage. The same shortage made Samsung’s semiconductor division 94% of company profit in the first quarter while its mobile division’s operating profit fell about 38%. Samsung has […]
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Grindr to buy HIV prevention telehealth firm Freddie for $250mn

01-10-2026 20:11 via thenextweb.com

Grindr has agreed to buy PurposeMed, the company behind HIV prevention service Freddie, for $250mn in cash and stock, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Grindr will pay $190mn in cash and $60mn in shares. Up to $70mn more in cash depends on Freddie hitting targets in 2027. The deal is expected to close by […]
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Coliving startup PadSplit expands to San Francisco, New York and Chicago

01-10-2026 19:55 via thenextweb.com

PadSplit rents out single rooms in shared homes. It is now moving into the San Francisco Bay Area, the New York metro area and Chicago, the company said in a press release on Thursday. The Atlanta-based startup lets homeowners split houses into furnished private bedrooms with shared kitchens and living rooms. Residents pay weekly, with utilities and […]
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TSMC eyes a multibillion-dollar Texas campus for more AI chips

01-10-2026 19:38 via thenextweb.com

TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Congress extending a 35% manufacturing tax credit. Its only European plant, the Dresden joint venture, totals above EUR 10B and will run 28nm to 12nm nodes rather than anything used for AI. TSMC is eyeing a Texas campus […]
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An AI startup is driving 3,400 miles to film how Americans live with AI

01-10-2026 19:30 via thenextweb.com

The founder of a US AI software company is taking a camera crew on a road trip to ask ordinary Americans how AI is changing their lives. The documentary, called America vs. AI, will cover about 3,400 miles and more than 20 cities this month, AskBobAI said in a press release. TNW has not independently verified […]
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Walmart shelf labels will light up to guide shoppers, CNBC reports

01-10-2026 19:12 via thenextweb.com

Walmart is turning its digital shelf labels into a way to find things. Shoppers can now make the label under a product flash from the Walmart app, as Laya Neelakandan reported for CNBC. The feature, called Shop to Light, is moving from a pilot to a wide rollout. Customers have already used it to flash […]
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LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft

01-10-2026 18:55 via thenextweb.com

Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn before taking over Microsoft’s Office group, will leave the company at the end of 2026, as Jordan Novet reported for CNBC. Chief executive Satya Nadella announced the exit in a memo to staff on Thursday, according to CNBC. “Ryan leaves the organization in a strong position,” Nadella wrote In his […]
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Ford’s CEO says it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers

01-10-2026 18:53 via thenextweb.com

Ford chief executive Jim Farley said it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers and that the United States should take its time deciding. Ford’s own answer in Europe is a Valencia joint venture in which Geely holds 34% and will build two of the four electric models from 2028. Ford’s chief […]
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FedEx is buying 2,000 electric trucks for $300M, and investing in the company building them

01-10-2026 18:09 via thenextweb.com

FedEx has ordered 2,000 electric delivery trucks worth $300M from Harbinger, a Californian startup it also backed with a Series C investment last year. Europe’s equivalents, Volta Trucks and Tevva, both went under, and a European logistics depot needs ten to twenty times its current power capacity to run an electric fleet. FedEx has ordered […]
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Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic

01-10-2026 18:06 via thenextweb.com

President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the White House on 28 September. TIME has published the full transcript, along with a […]
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ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news

01-10-2026 17:57 via thenextweb.com

Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in submissions to Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Josh Butler reported the submissions for the Guardian […]
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Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports

01-10-2026 17:42 via thenextweb.com

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropic’s IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of tensor processing units (TPUs), the AI chips Google designs with Broadcom. Echo Wang, […]
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Kanu AI raises $11.7m to turn how staff work into software they own

01-10-2026 17:12 via thenextweb.com

Kanu AI has come out of stealth with $11.7m in funding. The Seattle startup builds software that runs inside a customer’s own cloud. Accel, BMW i Ventures and a16z speedrun joined a round led by Trilogy Equity Partners, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. “Companies have spent decades buying software built around someone […]
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Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails

01-10-2026 17:06 via thenextweb.com

Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It builds infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend software running through failures. Singular led the round, with Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Its total funding is now $27m. […]
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Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process

01-10-2026 16:55 via thenextweb.com

Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures also took part, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The round comes a year after its previous one […]
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‘When everyone’s responsible, no one is’: the AI champion problem

01-10-2026 16:50 via thenextweb.com

Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champion’s time. A month later, the manager had taken it back. There […]
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Instagram’s Edits app gets an AI assistant that reads your Reels data

01-10-2026 16:43 via thenextweb.com

Instagram is putting a chatbot inside Edits, its video editing app for creators. The tool reads a creator’s Instagram data and suggests what to make next. It is rolling out to all Edits users in the US, Brett Westervelt, who leads the app, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. “One thing we heard consistently: […]
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Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times

01-10-2026 16:34 via thenextweb.com

Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsoft’s gaming chief published on Wednesday. “Xbox is not for sale,” Sharma said. “We will do whatever it takes to set the company up for success, and we will […]
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Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still work in the lab

01-10-2026 16:25 via thenextweb.com

Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides a signature in the amino acid sequence or predicted 3D structure of a protein. The lab announced it on Wednesday in a blog post and a paper in Nature. Google DeepMind says a test can find the signature […]
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MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies

01-10-2026 16:12 via thenextweb.com

MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday as an Espionage Alert. It is […]
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Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m

01-10-2026 15:51 via thenextweb.com

GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that invests in AI and robotics, […]
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OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic

01-10-2026 15:40 via thenextweb.com

In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlantic on Tuesday. Dario Amodei opposed it. It was one of several disputes that led […]
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McDonald’s uses AI to set an optimal price at each store, Reuters reports

01-10-2026 15:25 via thenextweb.com

McDonald’s is using an AI pricing engine to recommend what each of its nearly 14,000 restaurants should charge for every menu item, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The engine covers the US and some markets abroad. One factor the engine weighs is an estimate of how much each store’s customers are willing to pay. Waylon Cunningham […]
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Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks

01-10-2026 14:58 via thenextweb.com

AI could set off shocks in financial markets, and the UK has to be ready for them, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC on Thursday. He said the Bank is watching the money flowing into AI “very carefully”. Mitchell Labiak and Faisal Islam of the BBC asked him whether an AI bubble […]
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