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• 15th century UX & the Korean alphabet

  24-03-2022 18:53
  
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• Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.

  27-07-2026 19:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop using it. The OpenAI CEO said on the “Relentless” podcast that he forced himself to learn the app while OpenAI was building Sora, its AI-generated video social network. “I made myself get addicted to TikTok, because I wanted to just learn,” he said. He started with […]
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• Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case

  27-07-2026 18:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over whether businesses can legally resell surplus on-premise software licences. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled in 2025 that resale and subdivision of Microsoft licences did not infringe copyright. Microsoft appealed and lost again on July 7. An […]
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• ASML shares fell 6.5% after a report that China has started mass-producing DUV lithography tools

  27-07-2026 17:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  ASML shares fell as much as 6.5% in Amsterdam on Monday after The Information reported that a Shanghai-based company has begun mass-producing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography tools. The machines are the type that ASML has been restricted from selling to China under Dutch and US export controls. If the report is accurate, it represents exactly […]
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• Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing

  27-07-2026 17:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of a long-term partnership. Neither side disclosed the figure. What the money buys […]
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• Enigma raised $70M to let anyone online control its robots and figure out how humans actually want to talk to machines

  27-07-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Enigma, a robotics research lab less than a year old, is emerging from stealth with a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners. The startup is not building a foundation model to make robots more capable. It is studying how humans actually want to […]
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• Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

  27-07-2026 16:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” on Friday. Over the weekend OpenAI, Google and SpaceX added their names, […]
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• Dopl Technologies raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasound to rural hospitals

  27-07-2026 16:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dopl Technologies raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by SpringTide Ventures to advance a telerobotic ultrasound platform toward FDA clearance. The system, called Traverse, lets sonographers remotely operate a robotic arm via haptic controllers and cameras to perform diagnostic ultrasound exams on patients at distant sites. The platform is hardware-agnostic, integrating off-the-shelf robots and […]
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• As SAP’s 2027 support cutoff nears, Pranay Raj Kanakala shows what compliance-ready SAP migration actually looks like

  27-07-2026 16:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  A telecom RF engineer turned SAP consultant, he automates the accounting logic that decides when companies can book revenue, the compliance layer most migration teams leave until an audit forces it. In 18 months, the software many of the world’s largest companies rely on to run their finance and operations stops receiving security updates and […]
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• Porsche is cutting another 5,000 jobs. Total layoffs now approach 9,400.

  27-07-2026 16:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Porsche will cut another 5,000 jobs by 2035 under a second restructuring package agreed between management and labour representatives. The cuts come on top of 3,900 job reductions and an additional 500 announced by CEO Michael Leiters earlier this year, bringing total planned layoffs close to 9,400. The Volkswagen subsidiary described the reductions as “socially […]
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• Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it

  27-07-2026 16:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Neither demand is a lawsuit. Both are unusual. What he is asking for […]
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• No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.

  27-07-2026 15:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cisco researchers bypassed safety guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini within five conversational turns, eliciting information about biological weapons by gradually steering conversations around the models’ restrictions, the Wall Street Journal reported. Amy Chang, Cisco’s head of AI threat and security research, said no model can be completely protected from a sufficiently persistent user. The […]
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• This $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom

  27-07-2026 15:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most of the money pouring into small nuclear reactors is chasing AI data centres. This round is chasing a date. Antares has raised $470mn, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with Point72 Ventures, Shine Capital and Industrious Ventures joining. The split is $370mn of equity and $100mn of debt, Bloomberg reported. The company was founded […]
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• OpenAI is adding 250 jobs in Dublin as Ireland loses tech roles to AI elsewhere

  27-07-2026 15:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI is expanding its European headquarters in Dublin with 250 new jobs and an 88,000-square-foot lease at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse in the city’s Docklands. The company currently employs around 100 people in Ireland and established its European presence there in 2023. The new roles span engineering, sales, user operations, HR, finance, privacy, and legal. […]
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• A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.

  27-07-2026 15:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat those models as assets rather than hazards. Its founding anecdote is the reason it exists. […]
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• Discord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers

  27-07-2026 14:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord and Meta misuse “section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a shield against accountability”. That single sentence explains the whole filing. A California woman, suing as Jane Doe, filed in San Francisco Superior […]
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• A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years

  27-07-2026 14:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  A development bank has just minted a unicorn, and it took two years. Ominimo, a Budapest-based motor insurance startup founded by Serbian and Hungarian entrepreneurs, has closed a Series B led by the venture arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The round is €20.1mn, or about $22.5mn, at a €1.4bn valuation, EU-Startups […]
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• Waymo keeps parking in tow-away zones in Austin. It has been fined 64 times.

  27-07-2026 14:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Waymo’s robotaxis have accumulated 83 parking citations and $9,325 in fines in Austin since the fleet arrived in 2024, according to city records obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The company has paid most of them. The more revealing number is 64: the count of violations involving tow-away zones, far more than any other category. […]
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• CXMT’s founder is giving 40% of his new fortune to his workers

  27-07-2026 14:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Zhu Yiming got about $10bn richer on Monday. He has promised to give roughly $5.6bn of it away, and not to charity. The chairman of CXMT saw his fortune climb nearly 300% to $13.9bn when the memory chipmaker closed its Shanghai debut up 466%, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. About 40% of that is […]
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• Volkswagen wants tariff protection after Chinese brands grab 28% of Europe’s PHEV market

  27-07-2026 13:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is demanding the European Union impose higher tariffs on Chinese plug-in hybrids after the Tiguan PHEV dropped from Europe’s best-selling plug-in hybrid to fourth place in a single year. The BYD Seal U now leads the segment, followed by the BYD Atto 2 and the Jaecoo 7. All three are Chinese. […]
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• Nuclear Turbines raises £15M for compact reactors it says could undercut fossil fuels

  27-07-2026 13:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nuclear power usually arrives with a very large price tag and a very long wait. Nuclear Turbines, a Manchester startup spun out of BAE Systems, has raised £15M to argue that it need not be either, at a moment when nuclear power startups across Europe are pulling in record amounts of private capital. The foundational round was […]
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• Starship came home in one piece, and SpaceX finally got to look at an undamaged heatshield

  27-07-2026 13:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  The headline number from Starship’s 13th flight is not 20 satellites. It is one word in SpaceX’s own flight report: intact. Starship lifted off from Starbase in Texas at 5:51pm on Friday, after delays and engine replacements pushed the attempt back. It was the second flight of the V3 vehicles. It was also the first […]
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• Google has promised to pay $44bn of rent on buildings it will never own

  27-07-2026 13:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Start with the number, because the number moved fast. Google has agreed to cover as much as $44bn of lease payments on data centres owned by other people, should the tenant default. It disclosed the figure last week. At the end of September the same commitment stood at $6.5bn, The Information reported. That is close […]
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• Insight Partners And Glilot Capital Co-Lead $20M Investment In Way Security To Reinvent IAM Operations

  27-07-2026 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Identity and access management has become a foundational component of enterprise cybersecurity, but the systems organizations buy to manage identity often create a second problem: making those systems work across the full complexity of the enterprise. Way Security, founded by former security leaders Yossi Barishev and Yonatan Rosenberg, is targeting that challenge with an AI-powered […]
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• Nadella won’t call it a bubble. He’ll only say how it ends badly.

  27-07-2026 12:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fareed Zakaria opened with the question everyone is circling. Are we in an AI bubble, and has it begun to deflate? OpenAI has promised to spend hundreds of billions while making a fraction of that, he noted. The maths does not add up. Nadella did not push back. He reframed the question as a test […]
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• Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line

  27-07-2026 12:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sam Altman has a preferred way of framing the contest over artificial intelligence, and it is a stark one. Either the United States and its allies build the technology and spread its benefits, the OpenAI chief has argued, or authoritarian governments use it to cement and expand their own power. That binary, set out most […]
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• A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.

  27-07-2026 12:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropic’s Fable. The same volume from DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AI’s GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Moonshot’s Kimi K3, pricey by Chinese standards, charges $15. Corporate America has noticed. Companies spent a year competing to burn tokens. Now they shop […]
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• CXMT soared 466% on day one to become China’s most valuable onshore company

  27-07-2026 11:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  China has a new most valuable listed company, and it makes the chips inside your phone. CXMT, formerly ChangXin Memory Technologies, closed its Shanghai debut up 466% on Monday, the South China Morning Post reported. That values the Hefei firm at 3.28 trillion yuan, or about $485bn. The numbers are hard to overstate. CXMT priced […]
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• AI-generated ‘doctors’ peddling fake cures on TikTok are a ‘huge danger’, experts warn

  27-07-2026 11:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  The advice arrives in the confident cadence of a physician. Microwaving food in plastic gives you cancer, a spoonful of Coca-Cola mixed with onion will ease your pain, and a supplement called “Hyalethinap Plus Pro Max” will fix your hair, nails, and joints in one go. The doctor delivering it does not exist. A study […]
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• Shein reveals slowing profits and a quarterly loss ahead of Hong Kong IPO

  27-07-2026 11:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Shein has finally shown investors the numbers. In a draft prospectus filed on July 26, the fast-fashion retailer disclosed annual revenue of $41.8 billion for 2025, up roughly 8% on the year before, alongside a net profit that fell 38.7% to $2.064 billion. Growth, of a sort, bought at a visibly thinner margin. The document, cleared by […]
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