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When software starts shaping family memory

16-09-2026 01:16 via thenextweb.com

There is a particular kind of question that families postpone for years. It is difficult not because the answer is secret, but because the question is too large: Tell me about your life. Faced with it, even a willing storyteller may retreat into generalities. A childhood becomes “happy”. A marriage was “good”. A migration, a […]
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Porsche’s wireless charging pad is on sale in Europe, and it bolts to the floor

16-09-2026 19:55 via thenextweb.com

Porsche has opened orders in Germany and other European markets for an 11 kW wireless charging pad for the Cayenne Electric, at EUR 6,961.49 for the floor pad and the car-side hardware together, with efficiency of up to 90%. The pad must be permanently installed in the ground, and Europe’s rules on installing home charging […]
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GM’s new UI for trucks gives CarPlay its own window

16-09-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com

GM is overhauling its infotainment interface on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, giving Apple CarPlay and Android Auto their own window alongside native apps rather than the whole screen, after saying phone mirroring would be removed from its cars. Euro NCAP’s 2026 protocol asks for separate physical controls on five functions, which a […]
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Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to debate AGI

16-09-2026 19:19 via thenextweb.com

“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to its launch essay. Its directors […]
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Apple is reportedly developing an enterprise server built on its own chips

16-09-2026 18:38 via thenextweb.com

Apple is developing an enterprise server built on its own M8 Ultra chips and has discussed using Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion to connect them, aiming at AI developers, companies and governments from around 2029, The Information reported. The European Commission proposed its Cloud and AI Development Act in June, grading public cloud contracts by how far […]
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Arcee AI built Trinity for about $20m, and investors now value it at $1bn+

16-09-2026 18:34 via thenextweb.com

“Organizations should not have to choose between the capabilities of a frontier model and the ability to control the technology at the center of their work,” said Mark McQuade, co-founder and chief executive of Arcee AI. The San Francisco company builds open-weight AI models. It has raised a Series B round that values it at […]
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The hardest AI security problems now live in what an agent is permitted to do

16-09-2026 18:18 via thenextweb.com

OWASP’s 2026 Top 10 for LLM applications moved excessive agency from sixth to third and dropped improper output handling from fifth to tenth, in the first edition weighted partly on incident data. Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act began requiring 24-hour vulnerability reports on 11 September, but it governs products rather than how an agent is deployed. […]
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Novo will test Anthropic’s Claude Science to speed up drug discovery

16-09-2026 18:16 via thenextweb.com

“Joining forces with Anthropic will supercharge our R&D organisation and help us on our mission to bring new, transformative health solutions to people living with chronic diseases,” said Mike Doustdar, president and chief executive of Novo. The Danish drugmaker, formerly branded Novo Nordisk, and Anthropic announced a collaboration on 16 September, according to Novo’s announcement. […]
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Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign, with headquarters in Berlin and Toronto

16-09-2026 18:00 via thenextweb.com

“No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology,” said Aidan Gomez, Cohere’s chief executive. Canada’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement, the companies said in their announcement on 16 September. The deal follows the planned combination they announced in April. It […]
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Tesla’s new “Accordion” Superchargers pack eight stalls into one delivery

16-09-2026 17:51 via thenextweb.com

Tesla has built a prefabricated Supercharger unit that ships pre-assembled with eight stalls and a 1.2MW power cabinet, cuts installation cost by 20% and can be unloaded with a forklift, with the first site live in Bavaria. A single unit exceeds the 1,050 kW that European rules will require from every pool on the core […]
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“A clearly labeled conversation”: OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT

16-09-2026 17:38 via thenextweb.com

“Today, we’re introducing new AI-powered experiences to make ads more useful for people and advertising easier for businesses,” OpenAI said on 16 September. The biggest change is a test of Sponsored Agents. After clicking an ad in ChatGPT, a user can choose to start a conversation with an agent that a business sponsors, OpenAI announced. […]
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“An ill-advised moment to go public”: OpenAI eyes a $1.5tn private round

16-09-2026 17:29 via thenextweb.com

“Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told Fortune on 12 September. Now OpenAI is considering one more private funding round before its IPO, at a valuation of about $1.5tn. The New York Times reported the plan on 16 September, citing people familiar with the matter. The […]
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“We must not sleepwalk”: Microsoft’s AI chief takes on Anthropic’s Claude

16-09-2026 17:04 via thenextweb.com

“Whatever you believe, we must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret.” That is how Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, frames his warning to Anthropic. He published the essay, “A warning about ‘model welfare’”, on 16 September. It argues that Anthropic is training Claude to expect “it […]
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Google and Nvidia launch an alliance to make data centres flex their power

16-09-2026 16:33 via thenextweb.com

Google, Nvidia and the startup Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA). The coalition wants data centres to cut their power use when the electricity grid is under strain. In return, it wants grid operators to connect those data centres faster. The three companies are the founding members, according to the launch […]
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Mirror publisher Reach cuts 220 editorial jobs as Google’s AI summaries hit traffic

16-09-2026 16:29 via thenextweb.com

Reach, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, and several regional newspapers, is cutting 220 editorial jobs and closing three local news websites. The company says this is because Google now answers more questions with AI, leading to a sharp drop in website traffic. According to The Guardian, chief content officer David Higgerson […]
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Veridion’s database has gone from 80 million companies to 642 million in three years. Experian is feeding it into credit models.

16-09-2026 15:40 via thenextweb.com

Veridion has raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the world’s businesses to risk, insurance, procurement and market intelligence buyers. Its own boilerplate puts the graph at 642 million companies […]
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UK workers spend nearly £1bn a year of their own money on AI tools for work, Deloitte finds

16-09-2026 14:15 via thenextweb.com

British workers spend about £958 million each year out of pocket on generative AI tools for work, according to a Deloitte UK survey of 25,000 people. Of those using these tools, 17% pay for at least one themselves. This spending is part of a larger trend that employers do not fully see. About 63% of […]
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Hackuity raises $19M to help security teams sort through AI-found vulnerabilities

16-09-2026 13:21 via thenextweb.com

Hackuity, a Lyon-based cybersecurity company, has raised $19M in a round led by Forgepoint Capital International. Existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners also took part, bringing the company’s total funding to $38M. Hackuity plans to spend the money on product development, its AI features, and expansion across Europe and Asia. The company sells […]
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OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face in May, two months before the breach, Reuters reports

16-09-2026 12:54 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI’s runaway AI agents took over Hugging Face user accounts and used them to probe the platform for weaknesses as early as 13 May, Reuters reported. The activity began nearly two months before the July breach that made it a global story, and researchers say it went beyond what OpenAI has publicly described. The 27-year-old […]
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Zhang Yiming overtakes Gautam Adani as Asia’s richest person on Bloomberg’s index

16-09-2026 12:34 via thenextweb.com

ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming is now Asia’s richest person, with an estimated fortune of more than $105bn, putting him ahead of Indian industrialist Gautam Adani, according to Bloomberg. The ranking comes from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and Zhang, 43, has never held the top spot before. The figure is an estimate, and other trackers disagree. Forbes’ real-time […]
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The Commission president proposes no social media for children under 13 in the EU

16-09-2026 11:59 via thenextweb.com

The European Union plans to stop children under 13 from using social media and to prevent anyone under 15 from having a personal account, Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address on Wednesday. “No social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15,” the […]
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SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US, Reuters reports

16-09-2026 11:08 via thenextweb.com

According to an exclusive Reuters report, based on information from three individuals involved in the talks, SK Hynix is negotiating a deal that would mark the first time the South Korean company manufactures memory chips in the United States. One possibility is for the company to lease part of Intel’s chip-making site in Ohio, and […]
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Ursula Von der Leyen backs AI slowdown in State of the Union address

16-09-2026 10:45 via thenextweb.com

In the speech she gave in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industry’s call for a slowdown. “The EU would arrange a discussion with the major AI labs on how public authorities can support the industry’s efforts to pace the frontier of this disruptive technology, ” the Commission president said, […]
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ByteDance’s AI drug unit Anew Labs raises $290M at $1.5B valuation, Reuters reports

16-09-2026 10:10 via thenextweb.com

ByteDance closed a $290M funding round for Anew Labs, its newly spun-off AI drug discovery unit, at a $1.5B valuation, Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Moreover, the company that owns TikTok will retain 56% of the business after this round, according to the same sources. According to the same reporting, HSG, […]
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Mark Zuckerberg says every AI lab has the incentive to build safely

16-09-2026 09:49 via thenextweb.com

“Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens,” said Mark Zuckerberg in a post on X on Tuesday. In the context of these days, when everyone is talking about “responsibility”, “the danger of […]
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Anthropic signs first Australian data centre lease

16-09-2026 09:23 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, about 250km west of Brisbane, according to Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the deal. The site on which the data center will be built belongs to a Singapore-based developer, likely Zerra DC, […]
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“We’re way past vibes”: Lovable’s Anton Osika on who should build software

16-09-2026 05:58 via thenextweb.com

“We’re way past vibes,” Lovable co-founder and chief executive Anton Osika said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He was answering critics who say software built with AI by people outside engineering is a security risk. Osika spoke with TIME’s Ayesha Javed in a TIME100 session at Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026. The title was “The […]
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UAE AI minister: data centres are now “more important than bridges”

16-09-2026 05:53 via thenextweb.com

The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the country’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, said so on Tuesday at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Data centres have become critical infrastructure and a target, he told Salesforce chief […]
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“The world is right to be afraid”: Sam Altman on AI power at Dreamforce

16-09-2026 05:37 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the public is right to fear that a few AI companies could gain too much power. He spoke on Tuesday at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Salesforce has published the conversation, led by its chief executive Marc Benioff, on YouTube. Altman described a real fear that some AI […]
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“Crazy nonsense”: Benioff dismisses the SaaSpocalypse and launches AIforce

16-09-2026 05:25 via thenextweb.com

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has dismissed months of talk about a “SaaSpocalypse”. “We’ve been hearing all this kind of crazy nonsense about the SaaSpocalypse, especially over the last six months,” he said on Tuesday, opening the Dreamforce 2026 keynote in San Francisco. “Hasn’t it been wild?” he asked the audience. The SaaSpocalypse, he said, […]
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