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• Amazon warns its engineers against tokenmaxxing in new AI guidelines

  28-10-2026 13:18 via The Next Web
  
  Amazon says token usage, AI tool adoption and counts of code changes are “deeply flawed” ways to measure its engineers’ work with AI. The company published the warning on Tuesday in a memo against tokenmaxxing. It came with an updated role guideline for its software development engineers. Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer for […]
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• SK Hynix profit jumps 632% as it says memory shortage will last to 2030

  28-10-2026 19:19 via The Next Web
  
  SK Hynix reported record third-quarter results on Wednesday, 28 October. Operating profit rose 632% from a year earlier to 83.3 trillion won (about $62bn). Revenue rose 328% to 104.6 trillion won, it said in its earnings release. It is the first time the South Korean memory maker’s quarterly sales have passed 100 trillion won. Its […]
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• Anthropic manager drops coding interviews because Claude is better at them

  28-10-2026 19:08 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg has dropped the coding interview from his team’s hiring. He explained the change in a blog post on Tuesday, 27 October, titled “Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers”. Rieseberg has led engineering for Claude.ai, Claude Code Desktop and Anthropic’s Cowork tool, according to his bio. He previously worked at […]
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• Anthropic gives US governments 40% off Claude in new GSA deal

  28-10-2026 19:08 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic will give US government buyers a 40% discount on Claude under an expanded deal with the General Services Administration (GSA). The company announced it in a blog post on Tuesday, 27 October. For the first time, the discount also covers state, local, tribal and territorial governments. It applies to Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government […]
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• Apple launches its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, from $2,899

  28-10-2026 18:49 via The Next Web
  
  Apple unveiled a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, an OLED display and a Dynamic Island, after two decades of rejecting touch Macs. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899 and weighs 3 pounds; the 16-inch starts at $3,399. It arrives on 6 November. Apple has unveiled a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, ending two […]
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• Europe should make AI prove its value before giving it priority on the grid

  28-10-2026 18:41 via The Next Web
  
  Governments, households and businesses have a stake in how electricity networks accommodate the next wave of industrial growth. When someone proposes a major data centre development, the question extends beyond whether it can secure a connection to the grid. It also includes the additional cost of accommodating the connection. And it includes the need for […]
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• Nvidia releases an open speech model that transcribes 40 languages

  28-10-2026 18:30 via The Next Web
  
  Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model that transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 and labels up to eight speakers in recordings of up to an hour. It came with Granary v2, a free dataset of 463,062 hours of speech in 48 languages. Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight AI model that […]
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• Critical UEFI firmware flaw leaks early, leaving servers waiting for a fix

  28-10-2026 18:28 via The Next Web
  
  A critical flaw in the firmware that starts most servers can let an attacker run code before the operating system loads. It sits in EDK II, the open-source code most firmware makers use to build UEFI firmware. TianoCore, which runs EDK II, rated the bug 9.5 out of 10 in an advisory published on 22 […]
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• Plato raises $16M to build fake offices where AI agents learn real jobs

  28-10-2026 18:12 via The Next Web
  
  Plato raised a $16M Series A led by Nava Ventures, with Gradient Ventures and Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman joining. It pays professionals to recreate their jobs as simulations where AI labs train and test agents. Total funding is $19M. Plato, a San Francisco startup that builds pretend workplaces where AI agents can practise real […]
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• RapidCanvas buys Entytle to sell AI agents to industrial manufacturers

  28-10-2026 17:57 via The Next Web
  
  Austin-based RapidCanvas has bought Entytle, whose AI helps industrial equipment makers such as Baker Hughes and Veolia find parts and service sales across machines already in use. Terms were not disclosed. The deal follows RapidCanvas’s $29M Series B this month. RapidCanvas, an Austin firm that builds and runs AI tools for businesses, has bought Entytle, […]
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• Physical Intelligence in talks at a $20bn valuation, Bloomberg reports

  28-10-2026 17:52 via The Next Web
  
  Robotics AI startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise money at a valuation of about $20bn. It builds AI software that lets robots handle real-world tasks. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the talks for Bloomberg on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The round would raise at least $1bn and nearly double […]
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• Samsung’s first clip-on earbuds, the $229 Galaxy Buds On, reach the US

  28-10-2026 17:41 via The Next Web
  
  Samsung is bringing its first cuff-style earbuds, the $229 Galaxy Buds On, to the US on 6 November. They clip around the earlobe and leave the ear canal open. They last 9.5 hours, the longest of any Galaxy Buds, and work with Google’s Gemini. Samsung has launched its first clip-on earbuds, the $229 Galaxy Buds […]
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• Waymo for Business now sends robotaxi receipts straight to Ramp

  28-10-2026 17:33 via The Next Web
  
  Waymo’s business riders no longer have to file their robotaxi receipts by hand. Waymo for Business now works with Ramp, the corporate card and expense software company, Waymo said in a blog post on Wednesday, 28 October. When an employee takes a Waymo ride, the receipt goes to Ramp automatically and is matched with the […]
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• Oracle will sell Google’s TPUs in its cloud and put ChatGPT in its apps

  28-10-2026 17:21 via The Next Web
  
  Oracle will rent out Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) in its cloud from 2027. That makes it the first hyperscale cloud outside Google to offer the chips. It is also putting OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex inside its business software. Oracle announced both deals on Tuesday, 27 October, at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas. New […]
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• Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 builds AI worlds that talk and change on command

  28-10-2026 16:58 via The Next Web
  
  Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a world model that builds photorealistic worlds in real time. They come with sound, and with characters that speak. It opened to trusted testers as a research preview on 27 October, the lab said in a blog post. Users steer a simulation with text prompts as it runs, changing […]
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• Revolut sign-in hit by problems, eight days after its last outage

  28-10-2026 16:34 via The Next Web
  
  Revolut customers are reporting that they cannot log in to their personal accounts. The problems come eight days after an earlier outage left users unable to use the app or their cards. The bank’s status page listed sign-in as “partially unavailable” from 16:22 CET (15:22 UK time) on 28 October. Every other service on the […]
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• Revolut fixes sign-in problem, eight days after its last outage

  28-10-2026 16:34 via The Next Web
  
  Update, 28 October Revolut says it has fixed the sign-in problem. We have added its statement to this story, and its status page now shows all systems as operational. Revolut says it has fixed a technical problem that stopped some customers from logging in to its app on Wednesday, 28 October. The problems came eight […]
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• Machenta raises $40M to teach robots a task from a single demonstration

  28-10-2026 16:26 via The Next Web
  
  Machenta, a London robotics startup spun out of Imperial College London, has raised a $40M seed round. It is building an AI model that teaches robots a new task from a single demonstration. Creandum and Union Square Ventures co-led the round, Imperial said on 27 October. The university calls it the largest seed round ever […]
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• Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its founder voting group

  28-10-2026 16:16 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann, who co-leads its Labs team, out of the founder group that will control the company after it lists. A footnote on page 248 of the S-1 prospectus, filed on 26 October, says Mann is “often referred to as a co-founder”. He is not a member of the Founder LLC, […]
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• Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and critics pan it

  28-10-2026 15:55 via The Next Web
  
  Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey has arrived as a seven-minute first episode, not the full-length film he promised. Grok Imagine, the video tool behind it, posted the episode on X on 23 October. Wonder Studios, a London-based startup, made it with the US director Dev Walker. Watch Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok […]
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• Satya Nadella says he was wrong to think AI alignment would come with scale

  28-10-2026 15:38 via The Next Web
  
  Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella no longer believes AI alignment will come just from making models more capable. He said so on a new episode of the 20VC podcast. Host Harry Stebbings had asked what he had changed his mind about in the past year. “I used to always think that alignment will just fall […]
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• CISA confirms attackers are exploiting both PHP2Shell flaws

  28-10-2026 15:23 via The Next Web
  
  The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has put both PHP2Shell flaws in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. It made the change on Monday, according to its alert. Federal civilian agencies have until Thursday, 29 October, to fix CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Last week, CISA warned about the flaws but said it had not seen […]
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• Netherlands to cut 25,000 government jobs as it turns to AI

  28-10-2026 15:14 via The Next Web
  
  The Dutch government plans to cut an estimated 25,000 full-time jobs in central government, it said in a statement on Monday. The cuts are spread over several years. They should save €900m in 2027, rising to €3.5bn a year from 2035. The cuts do not cover all Dutch government jobs. Police and defence are among […]
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• Hackers hired a man to walk into a US law firm, CrowdStrike says

  28-10-2026 14:11 via The Next Web
  
  CrowdStrike calls CHATTY SPIDER the dominant threat to US law firms. The cybercrime group grew its activity 129% in the first eight months of 2026, compared with all of 2024. Law firms made up nearly 90% of its victims, according to CrowdStrike’s new report on the legal sector, published on Wednesday. The report covers September […]
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• Circuit Mind raises $25m to design circuit boards with AI

  28-10-2026 13:51 via The Next Web
  
  Norwest has led an $18.5 million Series A in Circuit Mind, a London startup that designs circuit boards with AI. The company also disclosed an earlier seed round led by Third Prime. Together, the two rounds bring in $25 million, Circuit Mind said on Wednesday. Existing investors Third Prime, Differential and Blackhorn joined the Series […]
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• Amazon puts a camera in its Echo Studio so Alexa can see

  28-10-2026 13:33 via The Next Web
  
  Amazon has put a camera in its Echo Studio speaker so that Alexa can see what is in front of it. The Echo Studio with Home Camera is one of five new Alexa devices the company unveiled on Wednesday, alongside a new Echo Dot, an Echo Time alarm clock, an Alexa Photo Frame and the […]
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• Dayforce puts its HR and payroll data inside Anthropic’s Claude

  28-10-2026 13:02 via The Next Web
  
  Dayforce is bringing its HR, payroll and scheduling data into Anthropic’s Claude. A new Dayforce connector lets customers ask questions about their workforce in plain language inside Claude and take supported actions, the HR software company said on Tuesday. Those actions include approving requests, filling open shifts, submitting time off and engaging candidates. The connector […]
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• Upwind’s $400M Series C backs a runtime-first security strategy as revenue quadruples

  28-10-2026 13:00 via The Next Web
  
  The moment a cloud workload changes, the security picture around it can change too. A new application release, an altered configuration or an interaction between services may affect whether an exposure can be exploited. For security teams relying on periodic assessments, keeping pace with those changes can be difficult. Upwind Security has built its cloud […]
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• Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT advice to cut daughter’s seizure drug

  28-10-2026 12:46 via The Next Web
  
  The parents of a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached their daughter to stop taking her epilepsy medication before she died in February. The New York Times reported the case. Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu filed the wrongful death lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on 27 October, naming OpenAI and its […]
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• Anthropic buys a one-person biotech and starts its own drug programmes

  28-10-2026 12:43 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic has acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person company developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. The company announced the deal in a blog post on Tuesday. Mithril’s founder, Cody Tranbarger, has joined Anthropic. It did not disclose the terms, The Information reported. Anthropic said it has also begun drug discovery efforts of its […]
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