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Upwind links compromise of multiple AsyncAPI npm packages to coordinated attack on software release process

14-07-2026 19:22 via thenextweb.com

Developers often assume that packages published through official channels have passed through a secure release process. That assumption is fundamental to modern software development, where open source components are routinely integrated into applications through automated dependency management. A new investigation suggests that confidence can be challenged when attackers gain access to the systems responsible for publishing software. […]
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Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland

15-07-2026 20:30 via thenextweb.com

Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. First stop is a Helsinki winter. Europe has another driverless car heading for its roads. Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicles on public roads, effective immediately. It is the second EU country to approve the […]
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Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York

15-07-2026 20:05 via thenextweb.com

Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am. “We’ve gone into markets where health care is free, and hundreds of thousands of people line up in a queue” to pay for […]
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Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland

15-07-2026 19:44 via thenextweb.com

Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to meet. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk’s own back yard. Amazon said on Wednesday it will bring its Amazon Leo satellite […]
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Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995

15-07-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995. “If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidia would not be here today.” That is Jensen Huang, chief executive of the world’s most valuable company, […]
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Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn

15-07-2026 19:13 via thenextweb.com

Emergent’s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it. “Most businesses don’t need any software. They need a way to turn how they actually work into software.” That is how Mukund Jha […]
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Spotify launches a conversational AI that lets you shape what plays by talking to the app

15-07-2026 18:52 via thenextweb.com

Spotify launched a conversational AI feature that lets Premium users type or speak directly in the app to control what plays, learn about music, and explore their listening history. The beta is rolling out for users 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden on iOS and Android. Users can ask Spotify to “play […]
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Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment

15-07-2026 18:01 via thenextweb.com

Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fast-rising star. Chai Discovery has raised a $400m Series C that values the San Francisco startup at $3.8bn, the company said. That […]
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OnePlus exits the US and Europe. The memory crisis and Apple’s lawsuit made staying untenable.

15-07-2026 17:56 via thenextweb.com

OnePlus, the Android brand that built a cult following with aggressively priced smartphones, will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week, Bloomberg reported. The shutdown is part of a broader restructuring at parent company Oppo. Realme, another Oppo mobile brand, will also exit the China market. While OnePlus […]
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The UK just proposed a midnight social media curfew for teens that they can bypass in seconds

15-07-2026 17:34

The UK government has proposed a midnight curfew that would lock 16 and 17-year-olds out of apps like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, but the restriction can be switched off with just a few taps.

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South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so

15-07-2026 17:08 via thenextweb.com

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service agent available to all 52 million residents. The programme, called “AI for Everyone,” would make South Korea the first G20 nation to offer AI to its entire population as a public service. Two or three […]
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CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn

15-07-2026 16:48 via thenextweb.com

China’s biggest memory chipmaker is about to test the public markets. ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 8.66 yuan ($1.28) a share, the South China Morning Post reported. The sale will raise about 57.9 billion yuan, or $8.5bn. That would make it the largest listing by a Chinese semiconductor […]
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Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month

15-07-2026 16:30 via thenextweb.com

Reflection AI has locked in more computing power. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. The agreement runs through 2029. It gives Reflection access to Nvidia’s newest GB300 chips. Nebius confirmed the deal. Its shares have more than doubled this year […]
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DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise

15-07-2026 16:11 via thenextweb.com

DeepSeek is getting ready to go public. The Chinese AI lab has started laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. It could file as soon as this year, with a debut targeted for 2027. First, though, it wants to raise more in private. The Hangzhou lab closed its first-ever outside round […]
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ASML plans to build EUV machines 30% faster as AI demand outstrips its production capacity

15-07-2026 16:01 via thenextweb.com

ASML is working to cut the time it takes to build and test its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines by roughly a third, CFO Roger Dassen told reporters on Wednesday. The cycle time, the period between starting production in ASML’s clean rooms and shipping, was about 22 weeks a few quarters ago. “We’re now looking at […]
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Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone

15-07-2026 15:35 via thenextweb.com

Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that shrinks large AI models to run directly on a phone. The company’s on-device AI pitch could help Apple keep more of Siri’s work off the cloud. PrismML chief executive Babak Hassibi told CNBC that Apple and other companies were evaluating its technology. He called the […]
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UK proposes a midnight social media curfew for older teens

15-07-2026 15:23 via thenextweb.com

The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off. The government set out the measures on Wednesday, as CNBC first reported. It said the plan aims to protect older […]
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Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site

15-07-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com

Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, money it will spend putting more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first time, in the United States. Plural and Hummingbird, both backers of the company’s $25m round in early 2024, took part again. The Amsterdam company says the […]
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Alibaba stock jumps 4% after Qwen is approved to run Apple Intelligence in China

15-07-2026 14:39 via thenextweb.com

Alibaba confirmed on Wednesday that its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for users in China. “Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences,” an Alibaba spokesperson told CNBC. China’s Cyberspace Administration included Apple AI services on a list of approved providers alongside products from Huawei […]
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Velocity raises $38M to move business money with stablecoins

15-07-2026 14:38 via thenextweb.com

London fintech Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A to help businesses move money with stablecoins. The Velocity Series A, led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, brings the two-year-old company’s total funding to nearly $50 million. Velocity builds treasury and settlement infrastructure for companies that want to use stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens now spreading across […]
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Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training

15-07-2026 14:23 via thenextweb.com

A group of major book publishers and the author Scott Turow have sued Google, claiming it used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission. The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history.” The plaintiffs filed the complaint on 10 July in the […]
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Australia sets up a national Office of AI

15-07-2026 14:09 via thenextweb.com

Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His government billed it as a major speech on AI. It covered copyright, data-centre rules, and […]
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Zipline is launching healthcare drone delivery with Cleveland Clinic. It hired Tesla and Waymo veterans to scale.

15-07-2026 14:07 via thenextweb.com

Zipline said the number of businesses offering delivery through its app grew 13 times during the first half of 2026. The autonomous drone delivery company has now completed more than 2.5 million commercial deliveries, including one million in the last year alone, and says it operates more flights per day than major US airlines. Roughly […]
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India pledges $20 billion to boost chips and smartphones as Modi pushes for an Indian mobile brand

15-07-2026 13:16 via thenextweb.com

India pledged 1.9 trillion rupees ($19.7 billion) in combined incentives for domestic chip and smartphone production on Wednesday. The cabinet approved 1.28 trillion rupees ($13.3 billion) for semiconductors, covering chip design, machine fabrication, research and development, and talent creation, and a separate 625 billion rupees ($6.5 billion) for mobile phone manufacturing. “The Prime Minister has […]
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Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI

15-07-2026 12:59 via thenextweb.com

While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. In the UAE capital, a single app already renews your ID, books your doctor, and pays your parking fine, sometimes before you ask. Most governments are still drafting their first AI strategy. Abu Dhabi is running on one. […]
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Lucid shares plunged 40% on a bankruptcy rumour from an EV blog. The denial came hours later.

15-07-2026 12:47 via thenextweb.com

Lucid Motors stock fell more than 40% at one point on Tuesday and was halted for volatility multiple times after an EV-focused publication reported the company was considering going private or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The stock recovered some losses and closed down 16% at $4.62 a share. The report said Lucid asked […]
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Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.

15-07-2026 12:23 via thenextweb.com

The notice read like housekeeping. Take screenshots while you still can, ByteDance told Doubao users, or export the text. On 15 July the custom agents they had built stopped working, and what is left is a read-only archive with a closing date attached: 15 October, after which the company says the data will be handled […]
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Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment

15-07-2026 12:12 via thenextweb.com

A look at Anthropic safety hiring shows exactly what it fears: analysts brought in to stop its models teaching anyone how to build nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Most job ads sell a mission. Anthropic’s read like a threat assessment. The company has posted a run of openings for enforcement analysts whose job is to […]
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Australia tells AI data centres to put back more power than they take out

15-07-2026 12:03 via thenextweb.com

Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out. Neither of those things is law yet. The prime minister used a speech at […]
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The White House’s Gold Eagle wants to patch cyber flaws at machine speed

15-07-2026 11:56 via thenextweb.com

The White House wants frontier AI on cyber defence, and it wants it fast. Gold Eagle, a new AI-backed clearinghouse, will pool software vulnerability findings from government and industry. It ranks the worst, then coordinates fixes across US critical infrastructure. The pitch for AI-written malware is that it moves at machine speed. Washington has now […]
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