YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not - social media news

YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not

18-08-2026 15:48 via thenextweb.com

From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing. No minimum watch time, across long-form, Shorts and live, everywhere. The YouTube view count will go up. Nobody will watch more. Nobody will earn more. What the rule was, and nobody could tell you Until now a YouTube view count on long-form […]
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The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away

22-08-2026 18:26 via thenextweb.com

LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europe’s first solid-state gigafactory broke ground in France in February. The company that has just opened America’s newest battery plant does not think solid-state cells are […]
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Betting brands are off Premier League shirts. Enterprise software moved in

22-08-2026 17:59 via thenextweb.com

Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of the 20 to find new partners at once. Fulham’s went to ClickHouse, an American data infrastructure company valued at $15bn. The most valuable advertising space in world sport has changed hands, and some of it went […]
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This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month

22-08-2026 13:57 via thenextweb.com

Outer Biosciences has come out of stealth after four years, keeping surgically discarded human skin alive for up to a month and feeding the results into an AI model that predicts useful compounds. It has raised about $23mn and employs 19 people. A company in Massachusetts has spent four years keeping human skin alive outside […]
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AI data centres are taking the capacitors carmakers need

22-08-2026 13:34 via thenextweb.com

Chinese carmakers say printed circuit boards and multilayer ceramic capacitors are 20% to 30% short globally, with prices more than tripling over the past year because of AI data centre demand. Automotive memory prices rose about 180% in three months. The AI boom has reached the cheapest components in a car. Chinese carmakers report a […]
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Letara raises ¥2.6bn (roughly $16mn) for hybrid rocket engines the law does not call explosive

22-08-2026 12:45 via thenextweb.com

Letara, a Hokkaido University spinout, has raised about ¥2.6bn, roughly $16mn, for hybrid rocket engines that use plastic as fuel and are not legally classified as explosives. Germany’s HyImpulse raised €45mn for the same approach last October. A Japanese startup has raised about $16mn to build rocket engines that burn plastic. Letara, a spinout from […]
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Letara raises ¥2.6bn for hybrid rocket engines the law does not call explosive

22-08-2026 12:45 via thenextweb.com

Letara, a Hokkaido University spinout, has raised about ¥2.6bn, roughly $16mn, for hybrid rocket engines that use plastic as fuel and are not legally classified as explosives. Germany’s HyImpulse raised €45mn for the same approach last October. A Japanese startup has raised about $16mn to build rocket engines that burn plastic. Letara, a spinout from […]
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Researchers found 768 leaked AWS keys that still work, and the containment policy leaves plenty possible

22-08-2026 12:35 via thenextweb.com

Truffle Security found 768 leaked AWS keys granting full control of corporate accounts, including 526 root keys, with 88% of tested credentials still active. AWS applies a quarantine policy to keys it detects as leaked, which still permits a long list of damaging actions. Researchers have found 768 leaked Amazon Web Services keys that still […]
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TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023

22-08-2026 12:20 via thenextweb.com

TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to pay $400mn to settle a US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of under-13s use the platform and collected their data without parental consent. Ireland’s regulator fined the company €345mn over children’s accounts in 2023. TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400mn to end the US government’s children’s privacy […]
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Anthropic could raise $100bn, ten times Europe’s largest listing in decades

22-08-2026 12:10 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic could raise around $100bn in a listing as early as October, exceeding SpaceX’s record, with backers modelling a valuation of at least $2tn. The Financial Times reports that senior executives have not set a valuation target even privately. Anthropic’s listing now has a figure attached to it. Reports put the raise at around $100bn, […]
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A 60-year-old geothermal company just became an AI infrastructure play

22-08-2026 11:52 via thenextweb.com

Ormat, a geothermal company founded six decades ago, has signed a power purchase agreement with Google for up to 150MW in Nevada and is running enhanced geothermal pilots with Sage Geosystems and SLB. Europe has the same demand problem and is meeting it with restraint rather than contracts. A company that has been drilling for […]
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4 super smart shifts proving privacy is software’s new killer feature

21-08-2026 22:42 via thenextweb.com

For the longest time, the tech industry’s unofficial motto was “if the product is free, you are the product.” Most of us just accepted it. But after a decade of data scandals, tracking revelations, and privacy blunders, that logic is starting to feel dated. We’ve hit a tipping point. A quiet but powerful shift is […]
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Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself

21-08-2026 22:00 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to the model. It is also committing $35mn in credits to open-source security work. Anthropic is widening access to its most capable cybersecurity model, without letting […]
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Apple cuts more than 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro

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

Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headset’s gaming unit. The company says it is realigning teams and will create new roles. Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs across the teams that build Siri and the Vision […]
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Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai

21-08-2026 20:51 via thenextweb.com

Aptera has partnered with Shanghai’s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its latest filing reports $10.1mn in cash and substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern. Aptera has finally found someone to build its solar car. The […]
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Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads

21-08-2026 20:29 via thenextweb.com

Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the […]
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Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day

21-08-2026 19:52 via thenextweb.com

Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in Brazil since July. It is now available to everyone in the US. Pocket lets people type a prompt and get back a small interactive thing, which Meta calls a gizmo. […]
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China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim

21-08-2026 19:50 via thenextweb.com

China’s market regulator has ordered a recall of more than 4 million vehicles, including nearly 2.98 million Teslas, because interior emergency door releases blend into the surrounding trim. The remedies are warning labels and software updates, ahead of a 2027 standard banning concealed handles. China has recalled more than four million cars because a lever […]
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Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months

21-08-2026 19:35 via thenextweb.com

Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement gives no price. It is the second consultancy Ode has absorbed in four months. The company Anthropic built […]
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Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores

21-08-2026 19:25 via thenextweb.com

They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell something online. In their case, hand sanitizer. It worked well enough to become […]
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Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

21-08-2026 19:18 via thenextweb.com

Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. That makes Meta one of Microsoft’s largest AI customers. Both companies declined […]
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Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks

21-08-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com

Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nobody has said whether that is a coincidence. Bob Nelsen led the […]
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World ID and peaqOS bring privacy-preserving human verification to robots and machines

21-08-2026 18:40 via thenextweb.com

It lets autonomous machines confirm they are interacting with real people without learning their identities August 21, 2026: Robots and autonomous machines running peaqOS can now verify whether they are interacting with a real human through World ID, following a new integration available through robotic.sh. The integration brings proof of human directly into peaqOS, allowing […]
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Walmart is accepting tap to pay after eleven years of refusing

21-08-2026 18:36 via thenextweb.com

Walmart is adding tap to pay at its checkouts from Monday, ending more than a decade of refusing the technology. The retailer will not say so in those terms. Its announcement does not use the word Apple once. The rollout starts at selected Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations on 24 August, the company said. […]
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Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

21-08-2026 18:22 via thenextweb.com

Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning the Discover feed, and topic controls for audio news briefings. Mrinalini […]
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Apple paid 40% of its global tax bill to one country

21-08-2026 18:13 via thenextweb.com

Apple paid Ireland $17.1bn in tax last financial year. That is around 40% of everything it paid in corporate income tax anywhere in the world. The figure comes from a company filing that breaks Apple’s tax down country by country, Reuters reported from Dublin. Apple paid $43.2bn in income taxes worldwide in the year to […]
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AI doesn’t need to replace humans to weaken human capability

21-08-2026 18:05 via thenextweb.com

Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the fastest ways to remove friction from knowledge work. A 2025 field experiment termed Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI involving 6,000 workers found that access to generative AI reduced time spent on email, with some users spending 25% less time on it each week. Another research study titled […]
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Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory

21-08-2026 17:55 via thenextweb.com

Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made With AI Labels, Billboard reported after obtaining the message. Any track a content provider tags as “materially generated using AI” will carry a visible […]
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Uber is fined 825 million euros over automated driver suspensions

21-08-2026 17:35 via thenextweb.com

The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under the General Data Protection Regulation. Reuters reported the decision after reviewing a document dated 17 August. The regulator, known as […]
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Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book

21-08-2026 17:26 via thenextweb.com

Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. Starcloud was founded in 2024, and its March round valued […]
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