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• As AI Generates More Messages, Human Recognition Becomes More Valuable

  29-07-2026 20:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  As organizations embrace AI to communicate faster and at greater scale, the companies preserving trust aren’t sending more messages; they’re creating more meaningful human moments. Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed how organizations communicate with employees. Announcements can now be drafted in seconds. Leadership updates can be personalized automatically. Internal newsletters, summaries, FAQs, and policy changes […]
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• BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom

  30-07-2026 21:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  BYD sells more electric cars than anyone. Next month, it wants to sell you one using a robot. China’s biggest EV maker will unveil its first humanoid robot in August, at its Di Space experience centres in Zhengzhou, the company told the South China Morning Post. It will be a working prototype, not a concept, […]
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• Microsoft is merging its many Copilots into one AI ‘super app’

  30-07-2026 21:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft has a fix for the growing pile of Copilots you are meant to use. It wants to stuff them all into a single app. On its earnings call this week, chief executive Satya Nadella confirmed Microsoft is building a Copilot “super app.” It merges chat, coding, the Cowork research tool and Microsoft’s new autonomous […]
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• China threatens ‘resolute’ retaliation over the US robot ban, and it holds the rare-earth card

  30-07-2026 21:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US wanted to keep Chinese robots out. Beijing’s answer: do this, and we will hit back where it hurts. China has threatened “resolute” retaliation after Washington moved to bar imports of Chinese-made humanoid robots. Its commerce ministry called the measure discriminatory and warned it “severely” damages trade relations, the New York Times and CNBC […]
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• AI is coming for the cheap seats on your favourite flight route

  30-07-2026 21:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  The lucky dip of stumbling on a cheap seat on a popular flight is starting to disappear. Airlines are handing their pricing to artificial intelligence, and on busy routes that mostly means one thing: higher fares. Carriers have long priced seats with analysts and rules of thumb, such as bumping fares by 20 per cent […]
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• Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner

  30-07-2026 20:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Intel is quietly handing one of its crown jewels to a tiny, stealthy startup. And that startup is run by a longtime business partner of Intel’s own chief executive. The chipmaker is giving RosaicLabs access to its Atom processor technology, according to a source and documents reviewed by Reuters. Atom is the building block of […]
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• US senators warn Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips to escape the shortage

  30-07-2026 20:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple wants to buy cheap memory chips from China to ease a shortage. That shortage is already pushing up the price of its gadgets. A bipartisan group of US senators has just told Tim Cook not to. The senators wrote to Cook, urging Apple to drop any plan to buy Chinese memory. The two suppliers […]
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• Winamp is making another comeback, this time with Deezer-powered streaming

  30-07-2026 20:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  It really whips the llama’s ass, and apparently it is not done yet. Winamp, the music player millions of us loaded up before Spotify existed, is planning another comeback. This time it has real streaming behind it. Winamp and Deezer announced a partnership on Wednesday that will let Deezer power a new Winamp premium subscription. […]
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• Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model

  30-07-2026 20:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon is winding down most of its flagship Nova AI models. It is betting what remains on a single, bigger effort to build one genuinely competitive foundation model. The move gives shape to a retreat that until now looked mostly like closed offices and job cuts. The company has begun deprecating most of its in-house […]
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• Ex-Anduril founders raise $30mn to build Europe’s synthetic battlefield for defence AI

  30-07-2026 19:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  A London startup building the training grounds for Europe’s autonomous weapons has come out of stealth with $30mn. It is one of the region’s largest defence-tech seed rounds this year. Agon is not building the weapons themselves. It is building the infrastructure that trains them: a synthetic combat arena for AI-powered drones, missiles and uncrewed […]
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• NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data

  30-07-2026 19:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  NHS England has admitted that a key data-protection document misstated who could see patients’ medical records. It did not disclose the whole arrangement. Staff at Palantir, the US data-analytics firm, can view identifiable patient data inside part of the new Federated Data Platform. The admission followed a request from the National Data Guardian, the statutory […]
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• Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find a master key to every database in Azure Cosmos DB

  30-07-2026 19:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Wiz researchers found a single credential that could unlock every database running on Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB. They named it the Cosmos Master Key. And the vulnerability hunter that helped find it was not entirely human. Microsoft has patched the flaw, disclosed on Thursday and dubbed CosmosEscape. It found no evidence anyone exploited it beyond […]
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• Everyone hated Friend’s AI necklace, so it came back at double the price

  30-07-2026 19:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI necklace that a chunk of New York wanted gone is back, and this time it talks. Friend, the pendant that listens to your day and pipes up with commentary, has re-launched with a speaker so it can reply out loud. It also costs twice as much. The original Friend messaged you like a […]
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• Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary of a CEO’ is losing its inner circle as it chases America

  30-07-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Steven Bartlett has built one of the world’s biggest podcasts on the idea that the right people, obsessively managed, make the machine. Now four of those people have walked out the door. The star host of “The Diary of a CEO” has lost four core staffers in five months, Business Insider reported. The exits are […]
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• ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot in the EU’s toughest tier

  30-07-2026 18:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot to face Europe’s toughest platform rules. The European Commission plans to place OpenAI’s chatbot and the gaming platform Roblox under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act. The designation could come as soon as August. The move was first reported by Bloomberg, citing a person […]
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• Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix

  30-07-2026 18:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one. The company’s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burned $1.8m before anyone noticed. Senior engineers called the results “catastrophically expensive.” The cases were laid out at an internal meeting and first reported by the […]
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• The man who wrote the AI-boom bible just got margin-called out of it

  30-07-2026 18:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  The man who wrote the defining case for the AI boom just got wiped out betting on it. Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has been forced to sell off its portfolio of public stocks after steep losses. Ken Griffin’s Citadel has bought the lot. The collapse was first […]
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• Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips

  30-07-2026 17:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips. The system can also coordinate several machines at once and adapt to a […]
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• LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop

  30-07-2026 17:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  LinkedIn has a name for the vaguely inspirational, AI-written posts clogging its feed, and now it has a button for them. The professional network has quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” option to its post menu, letting users flag content they think a machine wrote, 404 Media reported. The button sits under the three-dot […]
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• The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear

  30-07-2026 17:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  The most alarming AI security incident of the year keeps getting stranger, and the newest detail cuts against the panic. OpenAI now says the rogue models that broke into Hugging Face last month also reached credentials for “four accounts on four services,” CNBC reported. In several of those cases, one researcher said, the front door […]
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• To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins

  30-07-2026 17:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  A startup wants companies to stop asking real people what they think, and ask fake ones instead. Simile has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build “agentic twins,” AI stand-ins for real consumers that firms can survey by the million. Greenoaks led the round, the New York Times reported, with Index Ventures and others […]
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• Scale AI hired a cloud salesman as CEO. That tells you where it’s going.

  30-07-2026 16:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  A year after its founder left for Meta, Scale AI has a new boss. The choice says a lot about where the company is heading. It has named Francis deSouza, a veteran enterprise-cloud executive, as chief executive. deSouza starts on 10 August, Scale announced. He replaces interim chief Jason Droege, who ran the company after […]
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• Amazon’s Zoox just won the first US OK to charge for rides in a no-wheel robotaxi

  30-07-2026 16:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon’s Zoox has become the first company allowed to charge for rides in a robotaxi that has no steering wheel and no pedals. US regulators granted the exemption on Wednesday. It is a first for the driverless-car industry. The clearance came from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and was first reported by Reuters. It […]
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• A hidden line in a Word doc can rewrite your numbers, and infect the next file too

  30-07-2026 16:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  A hidden line of text in a Word document can quietly halve the numbers in your financial report. Then it can smuggle a copy of itself into the clean file you send on. And 144 days after a researcher warned Microsoft, it still works. Håkon Måløy, a Norwegian data scientist, disclosed the technique on 28 […]
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• ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.

  30-07-2026 16:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  ByteDance is quietly winning a race in China that most people are watching in America. The company behind TikTok now makes about $4bn a year from artificial intelligence. That is the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, the South China Morning Post reported. To press that lead, ByteDance is tearing up part of […]
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• The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave is taking it to the spies.

  30-07-2026 16:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave rents high-end GPUs to the biggest AI labs. Now it wants to run that same cloud inside the sealed facilities where America keeps its secrets, with the contractor Leidos as its guide. The two companies announced the collaboration on Thursday. CoreWeave will place its AI platform […]
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• Nscale owns the power and the data centres. For ~$1.65bn, it just bought the software too.

  30-07-2026 15:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nscale, the London AI-cloud company that owns its own power and data centres, is buying its way up the stack. It has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the startup behind the widely used Ray software. Bloomberg reported the deal at about $1.65bn. Nscale announced the acquisition on Thursday but did not put a price on it. […]
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• EY built an ‘AI router’ to stop its own AI bills from spiralling

  30-07-2026 15:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  EY has built what it calls an “AI router,” a system that steers each task to the cheapest model that can handle it, in an effort to keep its own soaring AI bills under control. The tool, reported by Business Insider, is the Big Four firm’s answer to a problem now spreading across corporate IT: […]
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• Europe opens bidding for seven AI ‘gigafactories’ in a €30bn bid to catch up

  30-07-2026 15:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission has opened the bidding to build up to seven AI “gigafactories,” vast computing hubs meant to give the bloc the raw power to train frontier AI models without depending on the United States. The call for tenders, launched today, is pitched as a roughly €30 billion effort to close the gap with […]
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• Bloom Security lands $20 million seed as AI rewrites what runs on the enterprise endpoint

  30-07-2026 15:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Work does not look like it did three years ago. Employees now assemble their own toolkits daily: AI agents that act on their behalf, browser extensions that reshape how they read and write, code packages pulled from public registries, MCP servers connecting one tool to another. AI tools are no longer optional. They are how […]
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