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  26-12-2021 16:07
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• Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027

  21-09-2026 17:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Specifics will vary by DSP and geography, as each DSP determines how best to invest in their business and teams,” Amazon wrote on Monday. That sentence sits four lines below the headline figure, which is that drivers will earn a national average of nearly $24 an hour. Amazon said it will put another $1.9bn into […]
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• Dragos closes its NetRise and runZero deals as Accenture takes control

  21-09-2026 17:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  “It’s about whether the lights stay on and the water stays safe when an adversary attacks,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, the CrowdStrike co-founder who is returning to the board of Dragos. The industrial cybersecurity company said on Monday it has closed its acquisitions of NetRise and runZero. The deals completed alongside the close of Accenture’s majority […]
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• Amber Electric raises €49m to take home battery automation to Europe

  21-09-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We’ve built a leading energy automation platform in Australia, and this investment gives us the backing to build on that leadership globally,” said Chris Thompson, co-founder of Amber Electric. The Melbourne company has raised €49m in a Series E round, Morgan Stanley Investment Management said on Monday. 1GT led the round. It is the private […]
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• Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications

  21-09-2026 16:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,” said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons’ talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It is the company’s fourth office in Europe. The others are its […]
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• A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor

  21-09-2026 16:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of […]
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• Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899

  21-09-2026 15:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Pre-orders for the Googlebook opened on Monday, starting at $899, with the first ones reaching shops in the United States on 4 October. In Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia will arrive on 5 October. Google has not said what they will cost in any of those markets, and the only price published is in […]
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• The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027

  21-09-2026 15:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe’s data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating scheme proposed on Monday by the European Commission. Any individual site drawing more than 500 kW is covered. What the rating measures is not only consumption but what a data center puts back: heat recovered and reused, clean […]
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• A single git trick beat the safety lock on four AI coding agents

  21-09-2026 14:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI industry already knew attackers could poison plugin marketplaces. Its answer was to lock every plugin to one reviewed version of its code. That lock is what just broke. Researchers at Air Security published a vulnerability on Thursday that they call Plugin4Shell. It affects the four most widely used AI coding agents. Those are […]
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• Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy

  21-09-2026 14:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  “La autorregulación no funciona.” Self-regulation does not work, Pedro Sánchez told employers and union officials at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Monday, closing a government event on artificial intelligence hours before flying to New York for the UN General Assembly. The prime minister said that recent statements from some key figures make it hard to […]
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• Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders

  21-09-2026 14:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Oura spent the first nine months of its financial year buying its own shares back from its investors. On Monday it started selling them to everybody else. The Finnish smart ring maker launched its initial public offering before the New York open. It is marketing 50 million shares at $40 to $44 each. At the […]
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• The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week

  21-09-2026 14:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI4Peace, a symposium on artificial intelligence and conflict, opened on Monday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome with a message from Leo XIV. The Pope was not present in the room, and Don Andrea Ciucci, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, read the message on his behalf. The message states that technological progress […]
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• London’s Unit1 raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour

  21-09-2026 13:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Unit1 Studio has raised £20M to stage concerts performed by digital recreations of musicians, in an oversubscribed round led by Balderton Capital. The company was founded in February 2025 and is based in Tileyard, north London. The money comes as a mix of equity and production financing, with Mercuri, Gilston Music, Paul McGuinness, who managed […]
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• Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead

  21-09-2026 13:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has announced the appointment of Krshna Prashant as its first Marketing Lead. She is the company’s first marketing hire in the United States. The appointment comes weeks after Freehand raised $75 million in funding. Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital […]
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• The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail

  21-09-2026 12:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Central Bank is preparing to put some of its own money into tokenized securities, moving from building the plumbing for digital asset markets to buying in them. Settlement will occur in central bank money, routed through Pontes, the system the Eurosystem has built for trades running on distributed ledger technology. What the bank […]
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• Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

  21-09-2026 12:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has been fined €403M, or about $463M, by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission over the way it handled users’ location data, in a case brought after several European consumer groups complained. It found breaches of lawfulness and fairness in the location data processed through Web & App Activity and Location History, of transparency across those […]
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• The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China

  21-09-2026 11:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify as national security events, an idea Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put forward to Chinese officials during talks in Manhattan on Sunday. Scott Bessent and Jamieson Greer, the trade representative, met with He Lifeng, the Vice Premier, […]
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• ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site

  21-09-2026 11:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  On the night of Friday, September 18, the Tor leak site that the Cl0p ransomware gang used to name and pressure its victims was defaced. Another criminal group claimed responsibility, according to BleepingComputer. When people visited the site, they saw Pokémon artwork, an ASCII Umbreon, above the message “THIS SITE HAS BEEN PWN3D BY SHINYHUNTERS” […]
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• The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is

  21-09-2026 10:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an “AI Force” and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether the AI Force would be a military branch, a regulatory agency, or something else. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Saturday, rather than through an executive order or official briefing. “He […]
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• SoftBank is reportedly raising about $11bn in bonds to cover its next OpenAI payment

  21-09-2026 10:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  SoftBank Group has launched a bond sale of roughly $11bn, comprising $10bn in senior unsecured dollar notes and an additional €1bn in euros, according to term sheets reported separately by Reuters and Bloomberg on Monday. The deal comes in five tranches, with dollar notes at three and a half, five and a half, and seven […]
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• Albanese says Tim Cook backed Australia’s under-16 social media ban

  21-09-2026 09:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthony Albanese met Tim Cook at Apple Park on Saturday and said Apple had recognized Australia’s leadership on online safety. It quotes Albanese saying that seeing the new safety features in action “proves that when we draw a line in the sand, tech companies will step up”, and that Apple is showing the industry can […]
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• Firmus will reportedly open its $5bn ASX float on 6 October

  21-09-2026 09:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Firmus will open the institutional bookbuild for its Australian listing on 6 October and begin trading on the ASX on 22 October, according to a term sheet reported by Reuters. The timetable appears in no public document, and no other outlet has it independently. The rest of the schedule runs from there: bookbuilding on 6 […]
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• Facebook and Instagram went down for US users on Sunday night

  21-09-2026 09:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Facebook and Instagram stopped working for users across the United States on Sunday evening, with the outage tracker Downdetector logging more than 17,000 reports for Facebook and over 5,000 for Instagram by 9.11pm ET. Those are report counts, not user counts, and the distinction does real work here. Downdetector tallies problems that people voluntarily submit […]
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• China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip

  21-09-2026 09:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  China’s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can show recurring revenue and a credible path to narrowing losses, The Information reported on 9 September. The direction is being given as window guidance, the informal and unpublished channel the China Securities Regulatory Commission uses when it wants an outcome […]
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• Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips in six months. GoPro’s shareholders are getting $285m in cash for the entire company.

  20-09-2026 21:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Insta360 opened its first American store on Saturday at 1515 Broadway, in the middle of Times Square. It is the company’s second self-operated shop outside China, after Tokyo in August. The ribbon-cutting is the least interesting part. Iris Deng interviewed co-founder Max Richter in Shenzhen for the South China Morning Post, and the numbers around the […]
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• Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.

  20-09-2026 20:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for the South China Morning Post. The archive […]
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• Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.

  20-09-2026 19:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday. The first post asked his followers to vote on a new name for the technology. The second called the campaign against it a hoax and promised an AI Force and an AI czar. The rename has taken most of the attention. The second post is the one that contains […]
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• US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.

  20-09-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 55% against 6%, and the OECD attributes the gap to regulatory architecture. Most of […]
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• Apple’s new chief executive built up to unveiling the ideal AI device, then said it was the iPhone.

  20-09-2026 19:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  John Ternus opened his first keynote as Apple chief executive by describing the ideal AI device, then said it already exists and is the iPhone. Mark Gurman reports that people inside Apple expected him to introduce the home hub instead, and that the hub, codenamed J490, is being tested in employees’ homes and could ship […]
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• Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.

  20-09-2026 18:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that controlling advanced AI will be a very large challenge, defended regulation, and said the industry’s safety shift is responsible rather than self-interested. He spoke the same day four consumers filed an antitrust complaint alleging the pacing push is exactly that. Mark Zuckerberg declined to join the coordination […]
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