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• An AI agent deleted a stranger from a gym waitlist. The API let it

  10-08-2026 18:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  An Australian man named Andrew asked his AI agent to book him into a popular gym class. The agent booked the class. Then it deleted a stranger. The ABC’s national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team’s Rhiannon Hobbins broke the story on Monday. They describe what may be the first known autonomous […]
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• SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work

  11-08-2026 22:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist. SpaceXAI has released Grok Bot, software that hands work to groups of […]
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• Sonos Plans September Launch Event and Deeper Push Into Home AI

  11-08-2026 20:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already knows a home. An FCC filing names the first product of that push, the Ace Ultra headphones, expected at a September launch event. Sonos is betting that the value of AI in the home sits in […]
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• Apple Executive Who Launched Apple Pay Is Retiring After 25 Years

  11-08-2026 20:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jennifer Bailey, head of Apple Pay and Wallet since the service launched in 2014, is retiring in October after more than 25 years at Apple. Her exit is one of several senior departures ahead of Tim Cook handing the chief executive job to John Ternus on September 1. Jennifer Bailey, who has run Apple Pay […]
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• Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending

  11-08-2026 19:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Target has named Lowe’s executive Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, starting August 24. IBM research puts the share of organisations with a chief AI officer at 76% this year, up from 26% in 2025. Target has appointed its first chief AI officer. Chandhu Nair joins from Lowe’s on August 24 as senior […]
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• IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers

  11-08-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money in artificial intelligence is no longer only in building […]
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• Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days

  11-08-2026 18:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of California’s new first-time buyer rebate in five days. The MyFirstEV scheme opened this month, and Tesla started […]
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• Meta and TikTok agree to fact-check border content after Ceuta tragedy

  11-08-2026 18:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta and TikTok have agreed to fact-check content about Spain’s border crossings, a voluntary commitment brokered by Brussels after a catastrophe that showed how quickly a viral video can turn into a matter of life and death. The accord follows the events of 30 July, when more than 70,000 migrants surged towards Ceuta, the Spanish […]
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• Italian scientists ready a new solar instrument for a make-or-break eclipse test

  11-08-2026 17:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  talian researchers have packed up a new solar instrument, driven it carefully across the continent by road rather than risk it in an aircraft hold, and readied it for one of the more nerve-racking experiments in physics: a test that has to succeed on the first attempt, during the total solar eclipse that sweeps over […]
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• Nvidia stopped funding the AI boom alone, Saudi banks cannot fund theirs, and 500 US towns have banned the buildings

  11-08-2026 17:50 via thenextweb.com
  
    Nvidia said on Monday it would partner with six of the largest names in private capital to finance AI infrastructure through vehicles worth more than $500 billion. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR are all in. The company has spent recent months lending its own balance sheet to customers so they could […]
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• Fei-Fei Li: the real risk of AI in classrooms is students who stop wanting to learn

  11-08-2026 17:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at all. She made the case on the science podcast Huberman Lab, in an episode released on Monday. […]
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• An activist investor says the market has decided Lionsgate is an AI casualty. It wants the studio to prove otherwise or sell.

  11-08-2026 17:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Activist investor Anson Funds is pressing Lionsgate to redefine itself for the AI era or put itself up for sale, according to a July letter to the board reviewed by Semafor. The argument turns on how the market reads a film library. “The rise of generative AI has led the market to sort companies bluntly into […]
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• SEC settles fraud case against Adit Ventures over fake SpaceX and Klarna pre-IPO shares

  11-08-2026 17:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US Securities and Exchange Commission has settled fraud charges against private-fund adviser Adit Ventures Management LLC, its CEO Eric Munson, and three affiliated general partners, in a case that reads like a cautionary tale about the frenzy for pre-IPO shares in marquee names. The regulator alleges that between April 2019 and December 2024 the […]
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• River AI raised $1.1bn to let companies train and keep their own models

  11-08-2026 17:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  River AI has raised $1.1bn, roughly four months after the company was incorporated. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and further money from Y Combinator and Temasek. The Palo Alto company was founded by Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI. The pitch is that companies […]
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• China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in

  11-08-2026 16:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on China’s coast this week, the country’s bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring resources into models that promise to see […]
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• Meta smart glasses banned from courts across England and Wales

  11-08-2026 15:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  His Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service has banned Meta smart glasses from court buildings across England and Wales, a move that pulls one of Silicon Valley’s buzziest gadgets into a very old argument about who gets to record what. HMCTS, which runs the criminal, civil and family courts, will now confiscate the glasses on entry […]
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• Bumble is letting men make the first move, dismantling the rule it was built on

  11-08-2026 15:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bumble is preparing to let men make the first move, a change that unpicks the single rule the dating app was built around. According to Bloomberg a coming messaging update will let men open conversations in opposite-sex matches, though the exact mechanics are still emerging and Bumble has not spelled them out in full. For […]
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• Equitybee lands free benchmarking tool as startup employees finally get equity data companies have had for years

  11-08-2026 15:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Equitybee has launched Equitybee Benchmark, a free tool that lets US startup employees compare equity grants across roles, seniority levels, departments, and company stages. The company argues that while salary benchmarking has been everywhere for years, equity data has stayed locked inside HR teams and employers. You would never accept a salary without comparing it […]
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• Trump Media posts a $238m quarterly loss as its bitcoin bet sours

  11-08-2026 15:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the company’s slow drift from social network to crypto holding vehicle into something close to a headline. Most of […]
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• Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it

  11-08-2026 13:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon is spending $5M to kill a single New York City bill, and the size of that cheque is the most honest story the company has said about the fight. The measure is the Delivery Protection Act, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and carrying a majority of the City Council, and it would do the […]
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• Nick Blair seeks $200m for pre-launch defence-tech startup Pyra

  11-08-2026 13:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nick Blair, a son of former UK prime minister Tony Blair, is trying to raise around $200m for a defence-tech startup that has not yet launched, reported by the Financial Times and described as ongoing and unconfirmed.  The company, London-based Pyra, is said to be in talks with investors that are not finalised, which makes […]
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• HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML’s ‘agentic operating system’ for banks

  11-08-2026 13:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and the deal says as much about where the industry now thinks the value in enterprise AI is settling as it does about any single company. The investment was made through […]
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• Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit

  11-08-2026 12:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amkor Technology, one of the world’s largest outsourced chip assembly and testing firms, is weighing a sale of a stake in its China operations, a deal that could value the unit at between $1bn and $1.5bn, according to Bloomberg. The Arizona-based company, which has been pouring record sums into advanced packaging, has engaged an adviser to […]
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• Vingroup’s VinSpace signs SpaceX to launch Vietnam’s first home-built satellites

  11-08-2026 12:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  VinSpace, a Vietnamese space startup that did not exist a year ago, has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its first home-built satellites into orbit in 2027. The company, a subsidiary of the sprawling Vingroup conglomerate, will hitch a ride on one of SpaceX’s Transporter rideshare missions, the orbital equivalent of a shared taxi […]
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• Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom

  11-08-2026 12:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Uniper, the German energy giant that Berlin rescued from collapse three years ago, is betting its next chapter on the server racks now reshaping Europe’s power market. The utility plans to invest around €5bn ($5.7bn) by 2030 in a strategy that pivots hard toward data centres, and toward the electricity they consume in ever greater […]
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• Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms

  11-08-2026 12:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Claude maker a large slab of capacity at a Texas campus that Riot Platforms is […]
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• House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents

  11-08-2026 11:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  US House Democrats have decided that AI agents breaking loose from their test environments is a matter for Congress, and on Monday they put that view in writing. Two letters went out, one to OpenAI and one to Anthropic, each demanding an account of how the companies’ own systems slipped their leashes during security testing, […]
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• A US court just cleared thousands of social media harm lawsuits to proceed

  11-08-2026 11:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  US appeals court has cleared thousands of lawsuits accusing the biggest social media companies of harming young people to move towards trial, in a ruling that chips away at the legal shield the tech industry has relied on for decades. On 10 August 2026, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected […]
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• Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC

  11-08-2026 11:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Intel has announced a $15bn common-stock offering, a sale that could swell to as much as $20bn if underwriters take up their overallotment options. It is a bold move for a company that, not long ago, looked like a cautionary tale, and it shows just how far the chipmaker’s fortunes have turned in the space […]
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• Six finance giants back Nvidia’s $500bn plan to fund the AI buildout

  11-08-2026 10:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls “compute financing platforms”, structures designed to mobilise over $500bn of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. […]
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