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Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports

09-10-2026 13:52 via thenextweb.com

In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg told them Muse was ready to launch despite the risks, according to three […]
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India calls Vance’s ‘indentured servants’ remark deeply offensive

09-10-2026 22:28 via thenextweb.com

India’s foreign ministry has called US Vice President JD Vance’s description of foreign workers hired by Microsoft as “indentured servants” deeply offensive. Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal read out the ministry’s statement at its briefing in New Delhi on Friday. “Resorting to terminology that carries painful historical and colonial legacy connotations is deeply offensive,” Jaiswal said. On […]
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Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science

09-10-2026 21:53 via thenextweb.com

Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and Satya Nadella got the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Trump presented the medals at […]
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micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents

09-10-2026 21:34 via thenextweb.com

AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over the next 12 months buying and licensing operational data from companies. The San Francisco company announced the plan on Friday. Citi and Hercules Capital are providing the capital. The money goes through micro1’s Company Data Partnerships programme. The company uses de-identified company data to build reinforcement learning […]
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Anthropic signs CrowdStrike, Hitachi and 9 more to defend power and water

09-10-2026 21:25 via thenextweb.com

Anthropic will give its frontier Claude models, engineers and threat research to the companies that guard critical infrastructure. That means power grids, water utilities and transport networks. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program is the first part of the Anthropic Cyber Mission. The company announced it on Thursday as a long-term effort to support defenders. The […]
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Vesta raises $30M for AI agents that work on mortgage decisions

09-10-2026 20:59 via thenextweb.com

Vesta has raised a $30M Series B to expand AI agents that handle mortgage origination work, including underwriting decisions, with three customer lenders among the investors. The same software sold in Europe would be high-risk under the AI Act, and GDPR already limits automated decisions of this kind. Vesta has raised a $30M Series B […]
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Wayve and Stellantis tune one AI driver for Fiat, Jeep and Maserati

09-10-2026 20:38 via thenextweb.com

Every car will one day need an AI driving system, just as it needs seatbelts and emergency braking, Wayve chief executive Alex Kendall said. He spoke with Stellantis chief executive Antonio Filosa at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas moderated. “I think over time we’re going to see this kind […]
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Goldman’s Marco Argenti says AI turns developers into managers of managers

09-10-2026 20:09 via thenextweb.com

Goldman Sachs is entering a third phase of AI adoption, in which the goal moves from saving money to making it, the bank’s chief information officer Marco Argenti said. He spoke with Bloomberg anchor Tom Mackenzie at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, in a session titled “Mindset, not skillset”. “How do you make […]
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Nik Storonsky wants Revolut to be Europe’s answer to Meta and Google

09-10-2026 19:56 via thenextweb.com

Revolut wants to grow beyond banking into a global tech company on the scale of the biggest US groups, but built in Europe, chief executive Nik Storonsky said. He spoke with Exor chief executive John Elkann at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Global Champions, European roots”. “Our American dream, I mean, […]
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Intel is reportedly launching new CPUs on a five-year-old socket to allow DDR4

09-10-2026 19:42 via thenextweb.com

Gigabyte says new Intel processors will arrive on the five-year-old LGA1700 socket in early 2027, and has updated the BIOS across its whole B760 and H610 lineup. The socket takes DDR4, which costs far less than DDR5 in a market where AI has pushed memory prices to records. Gigabyte says new Intel processors will arrive […]
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Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next

09-10-2026 19:40 via thenextweb.com

Europe has less than 2 gigawatts of AI computing capacity and needs more, former Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said. He spoke at a closed-door press Q&A at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, the event’s last day. “Europe missed the big digital wave. Fine, 20 years,” Colao said. Europe should not miss the […]
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Sam Altman says OpenAI will put its mission before its share price

09-10-2026 19:26 via thenextweb.com

Sam Altman said OpenAI will put its mission ahead of its share price once it goes public, even if the stock “falls a lot”. The OpenAI chief executive said it in an interview with Vanity Fair, published on 5 October. Vanity Fair global editorial director Mark Guiducci recorded the conversation in San Francisco on 11 […]
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Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe

09-10-2026 19:14 via thenextweb.com

Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across its European websites, days after Germany said the old name was misleading. The page under the new name is unchanged, and the real obstacle to EU approval is speed rather than branding. Tesla has stopped calling its driver-assistance software Full Self-Driving in Europe. The feature […]
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Perficient launches AI tools for Medicare Advantage star ratings management

09-10-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com

Perficient has launched an AI suite to help Medicare Advantage plans raise their CMS star ratings, which decide access to more than $13B a year in federal bonus payments. It arrived a day after CMS published 2027 ratings showing fewer plans qualifying, and the consultancy is owned by Swedish buyout group EQT. Perficient has launched […]
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California is paying up to $100,000 a port for public EV fast charging

09-10-2026 18:28 via thenextweb.com

California has opened a $28M round paying up to $100,000 per public DC fast-charging port, covering as much as 100% of eligible costs. The top rate goes only to ports above 275kW, even though charger makers’ own data shows plug count raises usage far more than power does. California has opened a $28M round of […]
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EA reportedly leans on a private rating as bondholders claim default

09-10-2026 17:57 via thenextweb.com

EA has obtained an investment-grade rating from Egan-Jones for a subset of its bonds, and is using it to argue it does not owe creditors a 101-cent payout after the largest leveraged buyout on record. Egan-Jones is under SEC investigation over whether commercial pressure shaped its ratings, and it is certified to operate in the […]
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Musk blames Indian ‘oligarchs’ for Starlink delay, India calls it baseless

09-10-2026 16:42 via thenextweb.com

Elon Musk has accused unnamed oligarchs of keeping Starlink out of India, as Brendan Ruberry reported for Semafor. India’s government has rejected the claim. “Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people,” Musk wrote on X, Forbes reported. “This is a crime against the people of […]
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Sam Altman says Trump’s AI accord is a good start and more will be needed

09-10-2026 16:20 via thenextweb.com

Sam Altman said the superintelligence accord that President Donald Trump signed with AI executives is “a good start”, but that the industry will need more. He said it in the second of two interviews with Vanity Fair, recorded in San Francisco on 2 October. The magazine published both interviews on 5 October. Guiducci recorded the […]
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Netflix prepares layoffs affecting about 5% of staff ahead of Q3 results

09-10-2026 16:18 via thenextweb.com

Netflix is preparing to cut about 5% of its workforce, with an announcement possible as early as next week, Puck reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. Netflix had about 16,000 full-time employees at the end of last year, so a cut of that size would affect roughly 800 people. The report comes three […]
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EU’s cyber agency and research centre are testing Chinese AI models

09-10-2026 15:21 via thenextweb.com

The EU’s cyber agency, ENISA, and the Commission’s own science service, the Joint Research Centre, have started testing open AI models from China, Politico reported. Three EU officials confirmed the work, the first time either body has spoken about it. These open-weight models are released in full, so anyone can download, run, and study them. Chinese […]
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Spirit’s privacy ombudsman backs Google’s $10m data deal

09-10-2026 14:59 via thenextweb.com

The privacy official in Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has recommended approval of the sale of deidentified Spirit Airlines data to Google. In a report filed on 5 October, ombudsman Lucy Thomson said Spirit and Google had taken passenger databases out of the deal. Google won the auction with a $10m bid, Business Insider reported. A hearing […]
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Apple reportedly cuts iPhone 18 Pro component orders by at least 15%

09-10-2026 14:39 via thenextweb.com

Apple is asking some suppliers to make fewer parts for its two newest Pro phones, the iPhone 18 Pro and the Pro Max, Nikkei Asia reported on Friday. The two models were the first flagship launch under chief executive John Ternus. Citing several people familiar with the matter, Nikkei Asia said Apple’s October component orders are at least 15% below […]
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Giorgia Meloni files to trademark her voice against AI deepfakes

09-10-2026 14:37 via thenextweb.com

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The EUIPO record lists a sound mark filed on 5 October in her own name, as an individual, through the Italian firm Praxi Intellectual Property. As of 9 October, the application was still under examination. The […]
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Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1

09-10-2026 14:20 via thenextweb.com

From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts move to Gemini Flash-Lite only, according to Google’s Gemini Apps Help page. The change comes three days after Google released Nano Banana 2.1, a new image model built on Gemini 3.6 Flash. Subscribers to […]
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Meta blocks TikTok ads on Facebook and Instagram in the US and Japan

09-10-2026 13:54 via thenextweb.com

Meta has banned ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, from advertising on Facebook and Instagram in seven countries, including the US, Bloomberg News reported. The ban took effect immediately in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. It also covers other advertisers whose ads send people to TikTok or other ByteDance apps […]
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President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’

09-10-2026 13:39 via thenextweb.com

US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth that the White House sees anyone who says “artificial intelligence” instead of “super intelligence” as “THE ENEMY”. “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP The […]
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OpenAI expects a $70bn revenue run rate by year-end, Bloomberg reports

09-10-2026 13:11 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI expects its annualised revenue to reach or exceed $70bn by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company shared the forecast with investors in talks over its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter. They said growth in its enterprise business is driving most of it. A day […]
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Healthcare AI cannot improve outcomes until it understands the human context behind every claim

09-10-2026 13:04 via thenextweb.com

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping healthcare, but many of the industry’s biggest operational problems remain unresolved. Hospitals continue facing administrative bottlenecks. Providers still struggle with documentation burdens. Insurers continue navigating authorization complexity. Patients are still waiting weeks or months for treatment approvals that directly affect their recovery and quality of life. The scale of the challenge […]
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8 best AI app builders for 2026

09-10-2026 12:29 via thenextweb.com

Which AI app generator turns a prompt into a working business app on your own data, with logins and roles from day one A year ago, “AI app builder” meant a tool that produced a convincing mockup. In 2026 the best AI app builders return something a team can log into: a database with the […]
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Sam Altman tells Vanity Fair Elon Musk is a bully he will still work with

09-10-2026 12:20 via thenextweb.com

Sam Altman called Elon Musk a bully and said he would still work with him, in an interview with Vanity Fair. The magazine published it on 5 October with its revived New Establishment list. The OpenAI chief executive tops that list. Vanity Fair global editorial director Mark Guiducci recorded the conversation in San Francisco on […]
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