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The AI maths breakthroughs everyone quotes are counterexamples, not proofs

17-08-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com

A counterexample and a proof are not the same kind of achievement. A proof shows that something is always true. A counterexample shows that something claimed to be always true is not, by producing one object where it fails. Both settle a question. They ask different things of whoever finds them. One demands an argument […]
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The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention

18-08-2026 03:25 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals of that general type are regulated. The exchange took six days. What was asked, and what came back Latham & Watkins […]
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Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data

18-08-2026 02:58 via thenextweb.com

Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday. Every account of the deal rests on one word. The data is deidentified, so nobody need worry. The Spirit Airlines data sale agreement, filed with the bankruptcy court on […]
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Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished

18-08-2026 02:34 via thenextweb.com

Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own company’s launch with a line that then travelled further than the product. Cursor […]
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GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw

18-08-2026 02:07 via thenextweb.com

A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. It is just not the story that travelled. […]
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Greg Brockman says OpenAI underestimated its own models’ cyber skills

18-08-2026 01:35 via thenextweb.com

Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual. “I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in a way that it doesn’t otherwise,” the company’s president told Squawk Box. […]
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Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US

18-08-2026 01:21 via thenextweb.com

Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey will argue it. They allege that Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to […]
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Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished

18-08-2026 00:58 via thenextweb.com

Wispr has raised $280mn at a $2bn valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round, having led the last one too. Total funding now stands at $361mn. The company makes Wispr Flow, a dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in whatever application your cursor happens to be in. Reuters reports the previous round valued it […]
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Meta’s true AI costs exceed previous accounts

18-08-2026 00:54 via socialmediatoday.com

A report from the Wall Street Journal found that the company’s future obligations could amount to nearly $700 billion in unreported expenditures.

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X Chat updates composer

18-08-2026 00:50 via socialmediatoday.com

Features include a simplified interface, new voice message gestures and improvements to message drafts.

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X algorithm insights highlight key posting strategies

18-08-2026 00:47 via socialmediatoday.com

A report from Business Insider outlined what the app’s recent source disclosures mean and how to work within the system.

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An AI agent built a working exploit for this macOS flaw in four hours

18-08-2026 00:41 via thenextweb.com

A security company built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS. It took four hours. The firm, Calif, used an AI agent. It now withholds technical details of one of those bugs, CVE-2026-65400, until most Macs carry the patch. The reason is the speed. Producing the exploit was too easy. Attackers are using […]
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The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over competing board seats

18-08-2026 00:12 via thenextweb.com

The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Those sources put the investigation at nearly a year old. Monday’s story is the first […]
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Aachen’s amber raised €7mn to sell AI sovereignty to the Mittelstand

17-08-2026 23:49 via thenextweb.com

Aachen-based amber has closed a €7mn Series A. Ventech co-led it with NRW.Venture, the venture arm of NRW.BANK. NRW.BANK is the development bank owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. By the standards of this year’s AI rounds, €7mn is small. The argument behind it is not. amber connects and structures a company’s internal […]
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Higgsfield raised $400mn at $5.4bn, four times its January valuation

17-08-2026 23:37 via thenextweb.com

Higgsfield has raised $400mn at a $5.4bn valuation. DST Global led the round. Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, and Liberty Global Tech Ventures all took part, alongside Tribe Capital, Smash Capital, Fifth Wall, Valor Capital, Mirae Asset Capital, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures. The company was valued at $1.3bn in January. That is roughly four times higher […]
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OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks

17-08-2026 23:22 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject. There are separate […]
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YouTube is changing how it counts views

17-08-2026 23:14 via socialmediatoday.com

The platform said that all formats will soon align with Shorts methodology and measure views the moment a video starts playing.

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Terra Industries closes a $52mn seed and opens its first office outside Africa

17-08-2026 23:00 via thenextweb.com

Terra Industries has added $18mn to close a $52mn seed round and will open its first office outside Africa in London, while keeping manufacturing in Ghana and Nigeria. The Nigerian company was founded in 2024 and says it is on track for more than $100mn in contract bookings this year. Terra Industries has added $18mn […]
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France’s tax agency lost data on 678,000 people to a stolen login

17-08-2026 23:00 via thenextweb.com

The French tax agency says an attacker took data belonging to 678,000 individuals and businesses. The intrusions happened in June and July. The agency did not establish that anything had left its systems until the attacker said so in August. The Direction générale des Finances publiques set out what the attacker reached in a statement […]
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EY will keep interns on for a year before offering them a job

17-08-2026 22:30 via thenextweb.com

EY is launching a paid Career Residency that keeps assurance interns employed part-time for 8 to 12 months after their eight-week internship, working remotely on EY projects during their final year of college. Those who complete it and receive an offer join as analysts rather than staff. EY has decided that eight weeks is no […]
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OpenAI is funding 13 Axios local newsletters in a three-year deal

17-08-2026 22:29 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI is paying the startup costs of 13 new Axios Local newsletters, covering both staff and technology. Axios employees also get free credits for OpenAI’s enterprise tools. In return, Axios lets OpenAI train its models on its free published coverage. The term is three years. Issie Lapowsky set the arrangement out for the Columbia Journalism […]
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Tesla Quietly Enables Power Export On Its Best-Selling EV

17-08-2026 22:00 via thenextweb.com

Tesla has quietly enabled vehicle-to-load on the Model Y Premium in the US and Puerto Rico through an $80 adapter offering two 120-volt outlets and up to 2.4kW. The feature is still unavailable on Model Ys sold in Europe and Canada, and on every Model 3. Tesla has started letting Model Y Premium owners take […]
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TikTok owner ByteDance signs Motion Picture Association deal

17-08-2026 21:54 via socialmediatoday.com

The agreement protects the film and television industry against intellectual property infringement stemming from artificial intelligence-generated content.

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The first Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn, 36 times its estimate

17-08-2026 21:30 via thenextweb.com

The first production Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction, setting records for the most expensive new car, electric car and charity car sold at public auction. Ferrari keeps none of the money and the car is not due for delivery until early 2027. The first production Ferrari Luce has sold for […]
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California’s first self-driving trucks are on the road, and the rules behind them are in court

17-08-2026 21:00 via thenextweb.com

California has issued its first permits to test autonomous trucks on public roads, to Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, with Kodiak already running vehicles around Mountain View. Teamsters California filed suit on 5 August asking a court to repeal the rules that made the permits possible. Self-driving trucks are testing on California public roads for […]
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Synchrony wants your Amazon and Walmart store cards inside ChatGPT

17-08-2026 18:54 via thenextweb.com

Synchrony Financial, which issues store credit cards for Amazon, Walmart and Lowe’s, is working with OpenAI so shoppers can buy inside ChatGPT using those cards. Its chief strategy officer says general-purpose cards will take six to twelve months and store-specific cards longer. Synchrony Financial wants its cards inside ChatGPT. The issuer behind store cards for […]
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ByteDance signs a copyright pact with Hollywood’s MPA to rein in its Seedance AI video tool

17-08-2026 18:53 via thenextweb.com

The TikTok owner has agreed a pact with the Motion Picture Association, the trade body for the major US studios, to tighten copyright protections on its AI image and video generators, ending, at least officially, a standoff that began when the studios accused the company of building a machine for wholesale infringement. The agreement covers […]
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Jeff Gundlach says making AI chips an asset class looks like a market top

17-08-2026 18:46 via thenextweb.com

Jeff Gundlach has criticised Nvidia’s plan with six asset managers to mobilise more than $500bn for AI infrastructure, asking why assets of unknown life are collateral for long-term debt. Mark Cuban compared chips as an asset class to crypto. Jeff Gundlach thinks Wall Street has told on itself. “Assets of unknown life as collateral for […]
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Groq closes $350M Series A at $3.5bn evaluation and Nvidia joins the round

17-08-2026 18:33 via thenextweb.com

Groq, the AI-inference chip company that spent the better part of a decade pitching itself as the scrappy alternative to Nvidia, has raised fresh money at a valuation that quietly concedes how much has changed. The company announced on Monday that they took in $350m at a $3.5bn valuation, roughly half the $6.9bn it commanded […]
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Deutsche Telekom buys Macquarie’s Polish fibre and TV assets in a €1bn bet on convergence

17-08-2026 18:06 via thenextweb.com

Deutsche Telekom has agreed to buy two of Poland’s best-known fibre businesses, Fiberhost and INEA, from the Australian investment group Macquarie, in a deal worth roughly €1bn and aimed squarely at the country’s scramble to bundle mobile, broadband, and television into a single monthly bill. The German operator confirmed on Monday that its local arm, […]
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