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• Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen

  23-07-2026 16:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an overhaul of its entire Mac line, and the most striking new model is a MacBook you can prod with a finger. The refresh spans this autumn and next year, and covers roughly 11 machines, […]
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• Ford is switching from Google to Apple Maps for its next-generation EVs

  23-07-2026 22:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ford will use Apple Maps as the built-in navigation system for its next generation of electric vehicles, replacing the Google-based software it has run since 2023. The integration uses Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK and will launch with Ford’s $30,000 midsize electric pickup in 2027, according to a joint announcement from both companies on […]
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• Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled

  23-07-2026 22:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk told investors on Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call that Optimus will be “the hardest product to scale manufacturing that we’ve ever made at Tesla,” warning that the humanoid robot has no existing supply chain and that every component is new. He said he wanted to “calibrate people correctly” on expectations, acknowledging that the initial […]
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• AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia

  23-07-2026 21:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference. The announcements included the MI455X AI accelerator, the Helios server rack that packs 72 of those chips into a single system, and the Venice […]
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• Four former DOGE staffers raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation for an AI military cyber startup

  23-07-2026 19:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital led the round and both took board seats. The company plans to secure US government contracts for AI-driven offensive and defensive cyber operations against adversaries including […]
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• Jeff Bezos has been approached to buy a stake in Liverpool FC. Amazon already holds the Premier League TV rights.

  23-07-2026 19:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jeff Bezos has been approached to join a consortium seeking to buy a 30% stake in Liverpool Football Club from Fenway Sports Group, Sky Sports reported. The group is led by Amit Bhatia, the outgoing co-owner of Queens Park Rangers and son-in-law of steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal. The provisional offer is £1.35 billion ($1.8 billion), […]
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• Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in

  23-07-2026 19:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Travis Kalanick is back, and Uber is helping to fund him. The founder Uber forced out in 2017 has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial-AI and robotics company he has built in near-total stealth for years. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Its co-founder Ben Horowitz is joining the board. And among the investors sits […]
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• AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude

  23-07-2026 19:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude. Deployment of the first gigawatt begins in the first half of 2027. Anthropic is already using […]
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• Reddit may cut Google off from its content, and it isn’t the only one

  23-07-2026 19:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  For twenty years, the deal between Google and the web was simple. Publishers let Google crawl their pages. Google sent readers back in return. That bargain is breaking. Reddit is the latest, and loudest, sign. Its shares fell about 9% on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company has discussed cutting off […]
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• Xbox is testing ad-supported game streaming. Amazon is folding Luna into Prime Video. Both admit cloud gaming has not worked yet.

  23-07-2026 18:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft and Amazon announced new cloud gaming strategies on the same day, each acknowledging in different ways that the category has not reached the audience they expected. Xbox will test ad-supported game streaming, letting users in its Insider Programme stream games they already own for free with a one-hour session limit and advertising. Amazon is […]
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• Nvidia rival Etched doubles its value to $10.3B in seven months

  23-07-2026 18:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Etched has a simple pitch. Nvidia builds chips that do everything. Etched builds chips that do one thing, inference, and claims to do it far better. On Thursday the bet got a lot more money behind it. The startup raised $300 million in a Series C round that values it at $10.3 billion. Sequoia led […]
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• Drone makers race to build navigation that survives warzone jamming

  23-07-2026 18:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  GPS spoofing and jamming have become standard countermeasures on the battlefield in Ukraine, separating drones from their operators and rendering some guided munitions useless. US-made Excalibur artillery shells fell out of favour after initial successes because their GPS guidance was jammable. Even fibre-optic control wires have been countered by entangling lines strung across fields. The […]
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• Apple’s privacy policy reveals an AI shopping assistant is coming to the Apple Store app

  23-07-2026 18:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is preparing to add an AI-powered shopping assistant to the Apple Store app, according to a privacy policy update spotted by MacRumors. The updated document describes a “Virtual Shopping Assistant” that collects account information, device identifiers, carrier information, chat data, and optionally location data to personalise responses. The feature is not live yet. Apple […]
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• Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it

  23-07-2026 18:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSERA, and its idea is borrowed from large language […]
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• Alphabet locked in $811 billion of future spending on AI infrastructure. The number jumped $500 billion in one quarter.

  23-07-2026 17:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alphabet had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier. The figure, disclosed separately from capital expenditure in a quarterly filing, represents purchases Google has already committed to under supply agreements and open purchase orders. Roughly $200.7 billion of the total is […]
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• OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s ‘dangerous’ medical advice in first case of its kind

  23-07-2026 17:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Scott Winters says he trusted ChatGPT with his health, and it nearly cost him his life. The 55-year-old Florida pastor is suing OpenAI in San Francisco. He alleges the chatbot gave him dangerously wrong medical advice and talked him out of seeking care. Weeks later, a pulmonary embolism brought him, in his words, “to the […]
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• Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

  23-07-2026 17:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a simulated body, millions of times over. The company has […]
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• Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.

  23-07-2026 17:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in additional private support from alumni and donors including leaders in the Bay Area […]
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• Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators

  23-07-2026 17:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axios’s Amy Harder toured a test server hall run by Digital Realty in Ashburn, Virginia, the heart […]
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• Google’s Gemini delay exposes a deeper problem: employee morale

  23-07-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google is losing a race it once led, and the problem may be its own people. Six current and former DeepMind employees told Axios that low morale is slowing the lab’s model releases, Axios reported. The immediate symptom is Gemini 3.5 Pro. Google’s most powerful model is months behind, according to Bloomberg. Google did ship […]
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• Mark Zuckerberg launches an AI-optimism campaign, and a jab at the doomers

  23-07-2026 16:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Meta’s chief executive posted a sunny vision of the AI future, and wrapped it in a marketing campaign. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said Meta “has always believed in giving people the power to share, connect, and […]
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• Nvidia donated a GB300 supercomputer to the Navy, to teach officers AI’s limits

  23-07-2026 16:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Nvidia chip at the centre of America’s export fight with China has a new home: a classroom in Monterey. The Naval Postgraduate School has stood up a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer, the first in the US military, Nextgov reported. The machine runs on Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra generation, the same line the US forbids selling […]
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• Ford and Geely will build EVs together at Ford’s plant in Spain. Ford owns 66%, Geely 34%.

  23-07-2026 16:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ford and Geely announced a manufacturing joint venture on Thursday that will produce electric vehicles at Ford’s plant in Valencia, Spain. Ford will own 66% of the venture, Geely 34%. Pending regulatory approvals, operations begin in the first half of 2027, with the first new vehicles rolling off the line in 2028. The plant will […]
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• Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it

  23-07-2026 16:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout-outs. Scarce ones do. Micron recently gave Tesla a “significant allocation” of memory on “reasonable terms,” Musk said, according […]
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• Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers

  23-07-2026 16:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he is right, or just talking his book. In a wide-ranging […]
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• OpenAI plans a $30bn Georgia data centre, and a charm offensive to match

  23-07-2026 16:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Building a data centre used to be a quiet affair. Not any more. OpenAI’s plan for a giant new site in Georgia arrives with a charm offensive attached, because the industry has learned that the hard part is no longer the concrete. It is the neighbours. The company will spend tens of billions of dollars […]
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• A retina chip that restores sight is going on sale in Europe

  23-07-2026 15:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Geographic atrophy is the worst form of age-related macular degeneration. For most people who have it, the centre of the world slowly greys out. Faces blur. Words vanish. There is no cure, only treatments that slow the loss. Now a small chip is giving some of that sight back. Science Corp, based in Alameda, California, […]
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• China’s Psibot hits a $1.48bn valuation betting on ‘world models’

  23-07-2026 15:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Viktor Wang has a favourite piece of history. In 2019, OpenAI’s GPT-2 showed that a machine trained on nothing but internet text could write like a person. It was crude, but it was a hinge. Wang thinks robots are about to have the same moment. He is raising money to be there when they do. […]
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• AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand

  23-07-2026 15:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Thailand does not usually feature in the story of the AI boom. This year it does. Foreign firms applied to invest 1.37tn baht, about $40.6bn, in the first six months of 2026, the country’s Board of Investment said on Thursday. That is up 80% on a year earlier. One sector explains most of it. Digital […]
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• Tesla sold 25% more cars and made 57% less operating profit. The AI spending is the reason.

  23-07-2026 15:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, its highest-ever quarterly total, and generated record revenue of $28.24 billion, up 26% year-on-year. Operating income fell 57% to $398 million. Adjusted earnings of 33 cents per share missed the 51-cent consensus by a wide margin. Shares fell roughly 4% after hours. The gap between the top […]
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