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• Apple’s WWDC 2026 App Store changes let independent developers bundle subscriptions together

  08-06-2026 21:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to the App Store at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing cross-developer subscription bundles, group purchasing, enterprise volume licensing, and an AI-powered discovery system that recommends apps based on a user’s installed software. The updates represent the most significant structural changes to how developers sell and market apps since […]
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• Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list

  08-06-2026 21:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Pentagon has added Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and robotics company Unitree to a list of entities it says support the Chinese military, the Department of Defense announced on Monday. The updated 1260H list now names 188 companies that the Pentagon identifies as operating in the United States and contributing to China’s military-civil fusion strategy. The […]
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• For the second time, Apple Intelligence is delayed in Europe, and this time there is no timeline

  08-06-2026 21:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple announced on Monday that Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant it unveiled hours earlier at WWDC 2026, will not be available on iPhone or iPad in the European Union when iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 ship later this year. The company said EU regulators rejected every proposal Apple put forward over several months to bring […]
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• Sam Bankman-Fried has formally asked Trump for a pardon. Trump has said he has “no intention” of granting one.

  08-06-2026 21:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sam Bankman-Fried has formally submitted a request for a presidential pardon to Donald Trump, according to records on the US Department of Justice Office of the Pardon Attorney website. The filing, listed as a “pardon after completion of sentence,” was submitted in 2026 and is pending. Bankman-Fried, 34, is serving a 25-year sentence at the Federal Correctional […]
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• Nashville Zoo says a proposed AI data centre could stop its endangered leopards from breeding

  08-06-2026 21:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Nashville Zoo has launched a campaign to block a 69,000-square-foot AI data centre proposed by Georgia-based DC BLOX on a site roughly 50 yards from the zoo’s animal enclosures. A petition against the project has drawn nearly 300,000 signatures in less than a week. Nashville’s Metro Council is now considering a data centre moratorium, […]
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• A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax

  08-06-2026 20:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Massachusetts ruled on Monday that the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump imposed on H-1B visa applications is an unlawful tax and must be vacated. The ruling found that the proclamation violated both the federal Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, because Congress had not delegated the power to […]
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• China just approved the world’s first commercial brain implant. The race with Neuralink is no longer theoretical.

  08-06-2026 20:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Controlling a machine with your mind used to be science fiction. Now it is a regulated medical product, at least in China. Earlier this year, China’s National Medical Products Administration approved NEO, a coin-sized brain-computer interface developed by Shanghai-based NeuraMatrix and Tsinghua University researchers, for commercial use in patients with spinal cord injuries. It is the […]
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• Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a standalone app, and a three-tier privacy stack

  08-06-2026 20:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple used its annual developer conference on Monday to unveil Siri AI, the most significant overhaul of its voice assistant in 15 years, rebuilt from the ground up on a custom Google Gemini model. The WWDC 2026 keynote at Apple Park also marked Tim Cook’s final appearance as CEO before he hands the role to […]
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• FCC gives Amazon Leo more time on satellite deployment but strips its spectrum priority

  08-06-2026 20:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Federal Communications Commission has freed Amazon from a requirement to deploy the first 1,616 satellites in its Amazon Leo broadband constellation by 30 July, issuing a conditional waiver instead of the two-year extension Amazon requested in January. The compromise keeps the final deadline intact: all 3,232 planned Gen 1 satellites must still be in […]
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• AI will make content infinite. Human taste will decide what matters.

  08-06-2026 20:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence is accelerating content creation at a pace few people could have imagined even a few years ago, yet the brands that earn lasting relevance in the years ahead will not be distinguished by how much content they produce. They will be distinguished by the quality of human judgment behind it. As AI expands […]
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• A Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited a Check Point VPN zero-day for a month before a patch existed

  08-06-2026 20:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Check Point has disclosed and patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access products that a Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited for roughly a month before a fix was available. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 with a CVSS score of 9.3, allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass password authentication entirely and […]
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• Rethinking growth systems: Rush Digital Marketing’s approach to ownership and autonomy

  08-06-2026 19:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Rush Digital Marketing observes a recurring tension among coaches, consultants, and agencies navigating growth: the choice often leans toward either building systems independently through time-intensive programs or engaging ongoing service providers that manage execution externally. Each path presents its own set of considerations, and within this dynamic, the firm introduces Nexus Install as a structured model […]
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• SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO is well oversubscribed as order books close ahead of Wednesday pricing

  08-06-2026 19:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX’s initial public offering is well oversubscribed, according to Bloomberg, with order books set to close on Monday ahead of a pricing expected on Wednesday and first trading on Nasdaq on Thursday. The $75 billion raise at $135 a share would be the largest IPO in history, eclipsing Saudi Aramco’s $29.4 billion listing in 2019. […]
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• Amazon raises C$14 billion in the largest Canadian dollar bond sale on record to fund AI infrastructure

  08-06-2026 19:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon is raising C$14 billion, approximately $10 billion, from investment-grade bonds denominated in Canadian dollars, according to Bloomberg. The deal is the largest corporate bond offering ever in the currency, surpassing the C$8.5 billion Alphabet raised in Canadian dollars just one month ago. The offering consists of five tranches of senior unsecured notes with maturities […]
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• Why REAL Finance sees infrastructure as the next phase of tokenized finance

  08-06-2026 19:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tokenization has largely moved beyond the question of whether real-world assets can be brought on-chain. For many institutions, the focus is now shifting to what happens next: how those assets are held, managed, serviced, transferred, and integrated into existing financial frameworks. The latest step in REAL Finance’s approach to that challenge is its newly announced partnership […]
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• Chip stocks bounced 10% on Monday. The smart money is buying insurance against the next drop.

  08-06-2026 19:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Micron surged 10% on Monday after losing 13% on Friday. Marvell jumped 9% on news of its addition to the S&P 500. The semiconductor sector bounced back from its worst single-day rout since 2020, when the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell roughly 10.3% and erased over $1.3 trillion in market value. But one corner of the […]
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• Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug

  08-06-2026 19:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 on Friday, directing the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of advanced AI while protecting frontier models from theft by foreign adversaries. The directive replaces the Biden administration’s NSM-25, which had governed AI in national security since 2024, and adds a provision that no commercial […]
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• The growing divide between surface-level AI adoption and meaningful impact across safety-critical industries

  08-06-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from experimentation to mainstream business adoption. Around 78% of organizations reported using AI in 2025, reflecting how quickly the technology has become embedded across business operations. Yet, only 25% of organizations said most of their AI initiatives achieved their expected return on investment, highlighting a growing gap between adoption and measurable impact. Against that […]
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• The UK just signed an AI deal with ElevenLabs to make government services accessible in any language and any voice

  08-06-2026 18:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UK government and ElevenLabs have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore how voice AI can improve public services, deepen safety research, and build AI talent in the UK. The MoU, signed by AI Minister Kanishka Narayan and ElevenLabs CEO Mateusz Staniszewski, was published on Sunday by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. ElevenLabs, which […]
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• 7 best HRIS for growing companies: 2026 overview

  08-06-2026 17:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most HRIS platforms sell you a vision of growth. Then they become the ceiling. The system that handled onboarding for your first 50 hires starts breaking at 200. Reports that worked fine for one office can’t accommodate three countries. The performance review module you never used at 30 employees now sits there, mocking you, because […]
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• Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round

  08-06-2026 17:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  America’s hospitals are spending around $97bn a year renting staff they cannot train fast enough. Stepful thinks AI can fix the supply side, and investors have just handed it $55mn to try. The New York startup has raised a Series C led by healthcare-and-fintech investor Oak HC/FT, with new backers Foresite Capital, Hearst Ventures, and […]
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• The UK just collected billions in AI pledges on day one of London Tech Week

  08-06-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  London Tech Week opened the way these events increasingly do: with a leaderboard of investment pledges. By the end of the first morning, the UK had collected several billion pounds in AI commitments, most of it aimed at the unglamorous machinery of compute. Prime Minister Keir Starmer kicked off the keynotes with a new national […]
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• Meta is dragging NSO back to court, saying the spyware firm never stopped targeting WhatsApp

  08-06-2026 16:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta thought it had stopped NSO Group. It says the spyware firm did not get the message. The company is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO, the Israeli maker of the Pegasus hacking tool, accusing it of violating a permanent injunction that barred it from ever targeting WhatsApp or its users. Meta says […]
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• Wizz Air becomes Europe’s first budget airline to put Starlink on its planes

  08-06-2026 16:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cheap flights and fast Wi-Fi have rarely gone together, and Europe’s budget airlines have had a good excuse: the maths has not added up. Wizz Air is betting that is about to change. The Hungarian ultra-low-cost carrier said on Monday it will offer Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet, across its fleet from 2027, becoming the […]
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• A former NASA chief is taking Quantum Space public at $1.2bn to build spacecraft for the next space race

  08-06-2026 16:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  The last time Jim Bridenstine shaped America’s space ambitions, he ran NASA. Now he is betting he can build the hardware for the next phase of the space race, and he wants public investors to fund it. Quantum Space, the Maryland startup Bridenstine now leads, is going public through a merger with a blank-cheque company, […]
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• Google orders chips from Intel and Nvidia is testing its tech, as TSMC’s grip on AI starts to strain

  08-06-2026 15:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  For years, the AI boom has run through a handful of factory floors in Taiwan. That dependence is starting to look risky enough that even Nvidia and Google are shopping for a backup, and the unlikely name on the list is Intel. Google has placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than three million […]
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• Amazon’s billion-dollar Corning deal shows fibre is the new bottleneck in the AI build-out

  08-06-2026 15:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI boom runs on chips and electricity. It also runs on glass. Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fibre to wire up its rapidly expanding US data centres, the two companies said on Monday. The multi-year agreement will create about 1,000 jobs at Corning’s North Carolina factories, though neither side disclosed […]
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• Britain’s Cosine rallies BT, HSBC, and BAE to build a “sovereign” AI model and cut its reliance on US tech

  08-06-2026 14:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’s banks, telecoms, and weapons-makers have a new shared anxiety: that the AI they increasingly run on is built, owned, and controlled in the United States. A startup barely three years old is betting they will pay to fix it. Cosine, a UK frontier-AI lab, has assembled a coalition of blue-chip British institutions to co-design […]
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• The US wants NATO allies to spend their new defence budgets ripping out Huawei

  08-06-2026 14:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members should use defence-related funding, the spending that counts towards the alliance’s targets, to rip out Huawei […]
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• Bending Spoons, the Milan firm behind Evernote and Vimeo, files for a US IPO

  08-06-2026 14:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bending Spoons does not build many apps. It buys them, fixes the finances, and runs them. Now it wants Wall Street to buy a piece of the machine. The Milan-based group behind Evernote, WeTransfer, and Vimeo has filed for a US initial public offering, submitting a Form F-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission. It […]
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