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• A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside

  20-07-2026 17:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu, has started partially operating the site, Bloomberg reported, citing a person […]
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• This startup raised $15M to break Nvidia’s tightest grip on AI, its software

  21-07-2026 15:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The pitch is bold for a seed round. Infinity says it can strip away the one advantage that has kept Nvidia untouchable. It has just raised money to try. The company closed a $15 million seed round at a $100 million valuation on Monday, it announced. Backers include Touring Capital, Principal VC, executives at major […]
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• Adobe’s Project Indigo can now critique your photos, and quietly rebuild them

  21-07-2026 15:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Adobe made its name here on restraint. Project Indigo, the experimental iPhone camera app it launched a year ago, sold photographers a natural, SLR-like look. It skipped the heavy processing that most phone cameras bake in by default. The latest update points the other way. Version 1.1 adds a set of generative AI tools that […]
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• An AI just broke an 87-year-old maths problem, in a tweet sent during the World Cup final

  21-07-2026 15:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Sunday evening, as Spain and Argentina played out the World Cup final, the mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a short message on X. The Jacobian conjecture, he wrote, is false. He thanked a friend for asking about it, and another friend, “fable,” for working during the match. That second friend was Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest […]
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• Cascade raises $3.5M to spot construction projects before the bid exists

  21-07-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Somewhere in the past few months, a bond was filed, a plot of land changed hands, and the winner of a nine-figure construction project was quietly settled. No request for proposals had gone out. Most of the firms that might have chased the work did not yet know it existed. That gap, between when a […]
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• Water UK says AI data centre plans ignore where the water comes from

  21-07-2026 14:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain wants to triple its data centre capacity by 2030. The trade body for the country’s water companies has told ministers there is not enough water to run them. Water UK, which represents England’s water suppliers, told MPs this week that the government’s growth agenda barely accounts for what those machines will drink. Data centres […]
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• deltaVision raises €10.2M to build the plumbing for in-orbit refuelling

  21-07-2026 13:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Munich-based space startup deltaVision has raised €10.2 million in its first outside funding round, money earmarked for scaling production of the valves, pumps and pressure regulators that shuttle propellant around spacecraft. The company also wants to help build one of the industry’s more speculative markets, in-orbit refuelling, in which satellites are topped up with fuel […]
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• Tesla’s cash burn will test investor faith in its AI bets

  21-07-2026 13:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla reports its second-quarter results on Wednesday, and the question hanging over the call is less whether it can still sell cars than how long it can keep spending faster than it earns. The company has just posted its best delivery quarter on record, yet Wall Street expects it to burn through roughly $3.25bn in free cash flow, a […]
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• Kanishka Narayan becomes the UK’s first cabinet-level AI minister

  21-07-2026 13:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Kanishka Narayan has become the first UK minister for artificial intelligence to sit at the cabinet table, a promotion that arrives as new prime minister Andy Burnham reshapes Whitehall around the technology. Narayan, the MP for the Vale of Glamorgan and until this week a junior minister for AI and online safety, said Burnham had […]
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• Brazil’s Pix becomes a trade flashpoint with the US, and the world is watching

  21-07-2026 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Brazil’s instant-payment system Pix has moved from a domestic success story to the centre of a trade fight with the United States, and governments elsewhere are watching how it ends. The dispute hardened in June, when the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) determined that Brazil’s practices around digital trade and electronic payments were “unreasonable” and […]
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• US and China reportedly plan a fresh round of AI talks in September

  21-07-2026 12:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States and China are reportedly preparing to hold a fresh round of talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to people familiar with the planning, in what would be the clearest sign yet that the two governments want to keep a fragile line of communication on the technology open. The reported meeting would […]
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• The US is clearing the runway for air taxis and supersonic jets

  21-07-2026 12:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States is moving to push two long-stalled aviation frontiers into commercial service at once, using federal rulemaking and White House pressure to speed electric air taxis and civil supersonic flight towards market. The effort ties together the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Transportation, and a set of executive orders signed in June 2025, and […]
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• Netflix wants ‘AI fluency’ from everyone, but craft is still scarce

  21-07-2026 12:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  When Elizabeth Stone talks about the future of work at Netflix, she keeps circling back to a phrase that is easy to say and hard to pin down. Speaking on Lenny’s Podcast in mid-July, the streamer’s chief product and technology officer described “AI fluency” as an aspiration for every employee, a skill she wants spread across […]
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• Ant International raises $1.2bn to fund its payments push beyond China

  21-07-2026 11:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into markets beyond its home turf. The company confirmed the raise, describing it as capital to speed up international growth and deepen its work in merchant payments, account management, and financial services […]
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• A rare bird appeared in Brazil. AI had put it there.

  21-07-2026 11:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Brazil. It would have been a notable first. It was not real. The bird in the original photo was an […]
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• Samsung creates a CEO-led robotics division to chase humanoid robots

  21-07-2026 11:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Samsung Electronics has pulled its scattered robotics work into a single business division that reports straight to the chief executive, a structural move meant to turn hardware ambition into a genuine growth engine. The new unit, called RX, or Robotics eXperience, sits directly under co-chief executive Roh Tae-moon and signals how seriously the company is […]
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• South Korea bets $540bn on a southwest chip hub the grid cannot yet feed

  21-07-2026 11:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  South Korea wants to build its next great chip cluster far from Seoul, in the country’s rural southwest, and it wants to do so at a pace with little precedent. The plan collides with a harder limit than any zoning map, because the region does not yet have the electricity or the water to run […]
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• France moves a step closer to banning under-15s from social media

  21-07-2026 11:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  A cross-party committee in France’s Parliament approved a compromise bill on Monday that would bar children under 15 from social media, pushing one of Europe’s most far-reaching online-safety measures towards a final vote before lawmakers break for summer. The text now returns to both chambers this week, echoing Australia’s under-16 ban and a broader European drift towards keeping […]
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• Samsung launches its first US credit card with Barclays, its deepest move into finance yet

  21-07-2026 10:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Galaxy Card pays 5% back on Samsung purchases and lives entirely inside Samsung Wallet, as the company signals plans that run beyond a single co-branded card. Samsung has launched its first credit card in the United States, the Samsung Galaxy Card, a co-branded product issued by Barclays and running on Visa’s network. This is […]
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• China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports

  21-07-2026 10:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  China is considering tightening export controls on its home-grown artificial intelligence models and the chips that run them, according to the Financial Times, in a move that would push Beijing’s technology defences well beyond the raw materials and equipment it already guards. The newspaper, citing two people involved in the discussions, said regulators led by the […]
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• Head of America’s AI safety agency resigns after three months

  21-07-2026 10:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices frontier models. The director of the United States’ main AI oversight body has resigned after roughly three months in the job, leaving the agency without permanent leadership at a delicate […]
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• Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight

  21-07-2026 09:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta went on trial in Nashville on Monday over Tennessee’s allegation that it engineered Instagram to keep teenagers compulsively scrolling, one of the first state cases to put the question of addictive design before a jury. Jury selection began on 20 July in a proceeding expected to run about seven weeks, part of a wider wave […]
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• IQE bets on AI data-centre demand to drive 20% sales growth in 2026

  21-07-2026 09:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  IQE, the Cardiff-based maker of compound semiconductor wafers, expects revenue to grow by more than 20% in 2026, betting that surging AI data-centre demand for its light-carrying materials will pull it clear of a bruising year. The upgrade landed on 21 July alongside full-year results that showed just how far the company has to climb. Revenue for […]
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• Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history

  21-07-2026 09:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on both sides describe as the largest copyright recovery in United States history. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval on 20 July, months after she […]
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• Tesla beat Q2 delivery estimates and the stock fell. Wednesday’s earnings face the same problem.

  20-07-2026 23:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates with a 25% year-on-year increase. The stock dropped. That reaction tells you everything about where expectations sit ahead of Wednesday’s earnings report. A beat is now the baseline. If exceeding delivery targets does not trigger a rally, meeting or slightly beating bottom-line earnings […]
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• A Korean AI model scores every possible driving path for safety before the car moves. CVPR called it a highlight.

  20-07-2026 22:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most self-driving AI models study how humans drive and try to copy them. They work well in normal conditions but struggle to explain why they chose one path over another, which becomes a problem when a split-second decision goes wrong. A team at Seoul National University led by professor Jun Won Choi has built a […]
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• Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.

  20-07-2026 22:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, the former Google China chief told Bloomberg at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The company is unwinding its offshore holding structure, the same prerequisite that Moonshot dismantled in May to clear its own path to a Hong […]
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• Neo exits stealth with $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a control layer for agentic AI software

  20-07-2026 21:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating. The company, founded by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks executives, is building what it calls a real-time control layer for agentic software in the enterprise. The problem […]
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• Anduril and Archer unveiled an autonomous attack rotorcraft built on air taxi technology. First flight is planned for 2027.

  20-07-2026 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anduril and Archer Aviation unveiled Thunder at the Farnborough International Airshow on Sunday, a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft built on a jointly developed dual-use platform. The aircraft is designed to multiply the combat power of crewed attack and assault helicopters by operating alongside them without a pilot. It uses a series hybrid-electric powertrain and […]
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• Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close

  20-07-2026 20:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order on the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger on Monday, pausing the deal for 14 days. The order came after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California’s Rob Bonta sued to block the acquisition last week, arguing it would violate the Clayton […]
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