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X re-builds its third-party usage showcase

12-10-2026 00:19 via socialmediatoday.com

The platform’s relaunched exhibit website lists official partners, agentic use cases and more in an effort to inspire developers to integrate X data into their apps.

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RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises

16-10-2026 20:17 via thenextweb.com

RapidCanvas, which pairs an AI agent platform with its own engineers to build business apps for companies, raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with Hitachi Ventures joining. It will hire in the US, Brazil, and India. Total funding now stands at $52.5M. Austin-based RapidCanvas has raised $29M in Series […]
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Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology

16-10-2026 19:56 via thenextweb.com

“Our company has more layers, more handoffs and more overhead than we need, so we are addressing this issue.” Kroger chief executive Greg Foran wrote this in a memo to staff on Monday, 12 October. The US supermarket chain will cut about 3,000 corporate roles over the next three years. It is leaning on technology […]
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China’s CXMT swings to a nearly $20B profit as memory prices soar

16-10-2026 19:56 via thenextweb.com

Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT expects a net profit of 131B to 132.5B yuan ($19.6B to $19.8B) for January to September, compared with a 5.3B yuan loss a year earlier. Revenue jumped to 265B to 270B yuan as AI demand caused memory shortages. Its chairman also proposed a share buyback of up to 2B yuan. Chinese […]
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Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag

16-10-2026 19:15 via thenextweb.com

“Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?” Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register first reported the exchange. The rule in question is the […]
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MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

16-10-2026 19:02 via thenextweb.com

“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s London headquarters. In the same speech, he announced a new […]
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Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour

16-10-2026 18:33 via thenextweb.com

“Our message to all SI companies is clear: delayed notification, inadequate corrective action, and a failure to take responsibility will not be tolerated,” the task force’s leaders said. Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael lead Donald Trump’s Super Intelligence Force. They sent that warning to AI companies this week. On Thursday, the […]
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MapQuest now shows Flock and other surveillance cameras on its map

16-10-2026 18:15 via thenextweb.com

MapQuest has added a surveillance layer to its app that shows known outdoor cameras and licence plate readers, including those made by Flock Safety. Users can switch it on in Map Options, next to the traffic and incidents layers. The update follows a surge in MapQuest downloads in September. MapQuest has added a layer to […]
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Ramp passes $2bn in revenue as its Europe chief confirms the $60bn round

16-10-2026 18:10 via thenextweb.com

“Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation,” Eric Oancea, who leads Ramp in Europe, wrote on LinkedIn. His post confirms the round that Bloomberg reported on 10 October. Ramp’s co-founders, Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, marked the new valuation with a blog post on 15 October, titled “Ramp at $60B: The End of the […]
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Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports

16-10-2026 18:02 via thenextweb.com

“Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per person for Claude use, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on 15 October. Some […]
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Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’

16-10-2026 17:50 via thenextweb.com

“Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.” Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in Preview for Windows, macOS and, for the […]
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Geoffrey Hinton tells the Guardian humans are creating ‘alien beings’

16-10-2026 17:35 via thenextweb.com

“Now we’re creating alien beings … And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.” Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called a “godfather” of AI, said this to the Guardian. The interview ran on 13 October. Leyland Cecco interviewed him in Toronto. Hinton also answered Nvidia chief Jensen […]
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Schwab and JPMorgan are blocking AI agents from moving customer money

16-10-2026 16:56 via thenextweb.com

Charles Schwab is blocking unauthorised AI agents, including Meta’s Muse, that try to move client money, CEO Rick Wurster told Bloomberg Television. Schwab will instead let outside AI tools view balances through controlled MCP servers, and wants clients to use its own assistant, Charley. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon took a similar line this week. Charles Schwab […]
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Google adds Gemini-powered scam checks to Messages and Android calls

16-10-2026 16:31 via thenextweb.com

Google announced new Android scam defences on 14 October, led by an opt-in Enhanced protection mode in Google Messages that uses Gemini models in the cloud. Android will also end fake bank calls, hide login fields in Chrome during screen sharing, and block apps from silently forwarding calls. Google is adding new AI tools to […]
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Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028

16-10-2026 16:18 via thenextweb.com

“Some of the companies at the forefront of AI are telling Qualcomm, ‘By 2028, I need to make sure that I have the ability to run at least a hundred billion parameter model into a phone.’” Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said this on Sources, Alex Heath’s podcast. Heath recorded the interview at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon […]
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Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase mistakes and leaked cards

16-10-2026 16:06 via thenextweb.com

“To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it.” Elon Musk posted that advice on X on Saturday. On Thursday he added a promise for when Grok […]
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Apple’s iPhone Duo sells out in minutes, with deliveries pushed to 2027

16-10-2026 15:51 via thenextweb.com

Delivery estimates for Apple’s first foldable, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, moved to January minutes after preorders opened on 16 October, across every colour and storage option. Store pickup stock for launch day also ran out. The phone goes on sale on 23 October. Shipping estimates for Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, slipped into […]
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Research firm calls Anthropic the ‘most ridiculous IPO of 2026’, says it may be worth $144bn

16-10-2026 15:47 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic’s planned stock market debut is “an unprecedented test of investor gullibility,” independent research firm New Constructs said in a report titled “Anthropic Is The Most Ridiculous IPO of 2026.” The firm puts the AI company’s equity at as little as $144bn. That is 93% below the $2tn valuation Anthropic is reportedly targeting. The report […]
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Poland tells tech platforms to curb violent content after school attacks

16-10-2026 15:23 via thenextweb.com

Poland summoned Google, Meta, TikTok, Discord, and Telegram on Friday and told them to do more to stop violent content from spreading after knife attacks at schools, Reuters reported. Elon Musk’s X was also invited but did not attend. The attacks took place over four days last week in Ostrołęka, near Wyszków, and in Warsaw. […]
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CERN and Mistral plan an AI foundation model for particle physics

16-10-2026 15:22 via thenextweb.com

CERN and French AI company Mistral signed a statement of intent on 15 October to build a “Large Physics Model“, which CERN calls the first foundation model for collider physics. It will be trained on simulated Large Hadron Collider data to help reconstruct and identify particles. No budget or timeline was disclosed. CERN and Mistral […]
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China proposes export controls on its advanced AI models and chip designs

16-10-2026 15:08 via thenextweb.com

China’s commerce and science ministries proposed adding 23 AI technologies, including large models, agents, chip designs, and computing clusters, to the country’s export control list. Open-source tech is exempt and overseas users can still access models through apps. A temporary export registration rule took effect on 16 October. China plans to limit exports of 23 […]
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Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are built to run AI agents locally

16-10-2026 15:04 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops, which launched on Friday, are built to run AI agents on the laptop itself. Users can install agents such as GitHub Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw and Perplexity from the first start-up, without a command line, Nvidia said. Each laptop runs on a single superchip that pairs a Blackwell RTX graphics chip with […]
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Germany to announce AI partnership with Nvidia next week, sources say

16-10-2026 15:02 via thenextweb.com

Germany plans to announce an agreement with Nvidia next week to help its industry make more use of AI, Handelsblatt reported. The sources said the deal will be a big boost for AI in industry, and that other partners besides Nvidia will join. The German government has not commented publicly, and we have not independently […]
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Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will build their next driving systems on Nvidia

16-10-2026 14:55 via thenextweb.com

Mercedes-Benz will develop its next generation of driver assistance and automated driving systems with Nvidia, the two companies said on Friday. The announcement came a day after Volvo Cars expanded its own Nvidia partnership for automated driving. Both carmakers will build on the same Nvidia self-driving stack. It combines the Hyperion computer and sensor architecture, […]
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith says green card curbs could cripple US tech

16-10-2026 14:38 via thenextweb.com

The White House crackdown on green cards for skilled foreign workers could “cripple” US tech for more than a generation, Microsoft president Brad Smith told Politico. His comments came a week after the US suspended Microsoft and seven other companies from PERM, the Labor Department programme employers use to sponsor foreign staff for permanent residency. Adobe, Cognizant, […]
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Waymo plans robotaxi service in Toronto by 2028, its first in Canada

16-10-2026 14:18 via thenextweb.com

Waymo is bringing its driverless taxi service to Toronto, its first city in Canada, and hopes to carry its first riders there in 2028. The Alphabet-owned company announced the move today. Its cars will appear on Toronto’s streets in the coming days, but people will drive them at first. Waymo will first map the city’s […]
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UK watchdog says AWS and Microsoft must do more to ease cloud switching

16-10-2026 14:04 via thenextweb.com

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have made it easier to switch cloud providers but still have more to do, the UK competition watchdog said on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also proposed bringing Microsoft under its toughest digital rules. The update is the CMA’s first progress check since March, when it accepted voluntary commitments from […]
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Top BreatheHR alternatives for growing UK businesses

16-10-2026 13:50 via thenextweb.com

Breathe did its job. For a UK team of fifteen or twenty people stepping off spreadsheets, it’s a tidy, affordable way to track holidays, keep records in order and stay compliant without a heavyweight system. The trouble arrives later. Somewhere between your fortieth and your hundredth hire, you notice you’re running payroll in one product, […]
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CoreWeave shares and bonds head for steep weekly losses over AI debt

16-10-2026 13:34 via thenextweb.com

CoreWeave’s shares and bonds are on track for steep weekly losses, as investors worry about how much the AI cloud provider has borrowed, Reuters reported on Friday. By Thursday’s close, the stock was down more than 15% for the week, its biggest weekly fall in about two months. It was also on course to lose a […]
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HiBob vs BambooHR

16-10-2026 12:17 via thenextweb.com

I’ve run both of these platforms for real teams, and the HiBob vs BambooHR decision is one I’ve made from the inside. I set BambooHR up for a lean US company that wanted its records and time off in one tidy system within a month, and it did that job well. Years later I led […]
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