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• Babbel is the language learning gold standard. And right now, it’s 40% off

  15-11-2021 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  TLDR: Babbel Language Learning and its world-renowned language training system is now 40 percent off. If you’re looking to stay sharp or to help keep the mind of someone you know and love honed and focused, you might want to seriously consider plunging into some language learning. A new study found older adults who studied Spanish showed cognitive improvements even if they didn’t become fluent in the language. In fact, the results for those learners were the same as the results for
  
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• What OpenAI will show the White House this week

  26-07-2026 20:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to brief the Trump administration on the company’s most powerful AI model yet, pushing for speedy approval of a system that has already demonstrated it can solve problems humans could not and breach another company’s infrastructure without being told to, Axios reported on Saturday. The visit […]
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• Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac

  26-07-2026 19:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could break out of its local virtual machine sandbox and read files across the underlying Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials. The attack, dubbed SharedRoot, exploited a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability to gain root access inside the guest VM, then walked out through […]
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• Jeff Bezos says stress is a signal to work harder, not a reason to stop

  26-07-2026 18:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jeff Bezos, the founder of the company that just became the number one Fortune 500 business, says the cure for anxiety is not rest or meditation but action. Speaking at the Museum of Flight in Seattle in 2017, Bezos told an audience of students that stress is a signal from the body that something is […]
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• Apple targets WWDC 2027 for smart glasses but is still deciding on the camera question

  26-07-2026 16:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is currently aiming to unveil its first smart glasses at next June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, with a consumer release by the end of 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. But the company’s engineering and marketing teams are still wrestling with a question that will define the product: whether its glasses should include a camera […]
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• Most accelerators make atartups worse. What do the good ones do?

  26-07-2026 16:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every accelerator makes a version of the same offer: capital, mentorship, a network, three months of support, and materially better odds of survival. Evidence suggests that little of it actually works. In April, Youn Baek and Deepak Hegde of NYU Stern published a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research examining nearly 750,000 American startups […]
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• Why businesses are bracing for more economic volatility in 2026

  26-07-2026 15:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  The first half of 2026 has been marked by waves of economic uncertainty. From fuel prices to inflation to market dives, here’s why leaders should stay flexible as they prepare for the uncertain months ahead. Furthermore, it has been marked by significant economic volatility. Business leaders have had to navigate a uniquely unpredictable market defined […]
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• Roku raises streaming device prices by up to 60 percent as the memory shortage reaches the living room

  26-07-2026 14:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Roku has raised prices on its entire US streaming hardware lineup, with increases ranging from $10 to $50 per device, as the global memory shortage driven by AI data centre demand reaches a product category that had been one of the last bastions of affordable consumer technology. The Streaming Stick 4K saw the steepest jump, […]
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• Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to use less memory

  26-07-2026 14:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has confirmed that its upcoming Pixel 11 phones will cost more than their predecessors, becoming the latest major phone maker to pass on the cost of a global memory shortage that has sent RAM prices to levels the industry has never seen. In an interview with 9to5Google published on Thursday, Shakil Barkat, Google’s vice […]
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• AI chatbots are quietly becoming the uninvited third person in people’s relationships

  26-07-2026 11:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Pew Research Center survey published last month found that one in five Americans aged 18 to 29 have used AI chatbots for emotional support or advice, and a separate YouGov poll found that 13 percent of US adults have shared a secret or problem with a chatbot that they had not told any human. […]
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• DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral

  26-07-2026 11:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments made by founder Liang Wenfeng during private investor meetings were leaked and went viral on Chinese social media, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Liang verbally informed prospective backers to hold off on the round, which had been targeting a pre-money valuation of roughly 480 billion yuan, equivalent […]
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• EV owners are more satisfied with their cars than gas car drivers in nearly every category, JD Power finds

  26-07-2026 11:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Electric vehicle owners are happier with their cars than drivers of combustion vehicles in nearly every category measured, according to JD Power’s 2026 Automotive Performance, Execution, and Layout study released this week. The survey of 78,514 owners of 2026 model-year vehicles found that EVs outscored internal combustion engine cars by 109 points on a 1,000-point […]
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• Canon registered three new cameras. One may be a digital tribute to the legendary AE-1.

  25-07-2026 19:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Canon has registered three new cameras with wireless certification agencies, a step that typically signals imminent announcements. Rumours point to updates across Canon’s mid-range mirrorless lineup: the EOS R8 II, EOS R7 II, and EOS R10 II. All three are expected in the second half of 2026. The most interesting is the R8 II, which […]
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• People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea

  25-07-2026 17:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  A growing number of professionals have started using AI tools to record every conversation they have, and the people being recorded usually have no idea it is happening. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that apps like Granola, which transcribes meetings without deploying a visible bot or announcing its presence, have made ambient recording […]
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• New data shows EV batteries are lasting far longer than buyers think, yet US sales keep falling

  25-07-2026 17:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Modern electric vehicles retain an average of 97 percent of their original range after three years and 95 percent after five years, according to a new analysis by EV data company Recurrent. For a 2026 model with a rated range of 325 miles, that means roughly 309 miles would remain after half a decade of […]
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• Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group

  25-07-2026 14:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts, with US private equity firm Brookfield agreeing […]
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• China fines Trip.com $765 million for forcing hotels into exclusive deals and controlling their prices

  25-07-2026 13:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the country’s largest online travel platform abused its dominant market position. The State Administration for Market Regulation said Trip.com used its traffic allocation algorithms, platform rules and technology to restrict hotel operators from listing on competing services and to control the prices […]
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• Waymo to end Uber exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta, launching its own app in January 2028

  25-07-2026 13:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Waymo has notified Uber that it plans to launch its own app in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028, ending the exclusivity arrangement that has kept its robotaxis available only through Uber in both cities. An Uber spokesperson confirmed the notice to CNBC and Bloomberg on Friday, adding that the change would also free Uber […]
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• OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together

  25-07-2026 12:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open,” which prevented requests from reaching OpenAI’s servers. The company moved from investigating to monitoring within an hour, saying it had […]
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• Modi breaks Instagram’s Reel record with 300 million views as student protests sweep India

  25-07-2026 12:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept the country, with the first Reel drawing more than 300 million views in 24 hours and breaking the platform’s record for a single clip. The 75-year-old leader recorded the videos late Thursday and Friday, choosing the short-video format most popular […]
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• Samsung signs a $200 billion chip deal with Broadcom covering memory, foundry and advanced packaging through 2030

  25-07-2026 11:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Samsung Electronics and Broadcom have signed a memorandum of understanding worth more than $200 billion spanning memory chips, foundry manufacturing and advanced packaging for artificial intelligence semiconductors. The deal, announced on Friday at an AI summit in San Francisco, runs for five years through 2030 and covers some of the most critical layers of the […]
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• Remote worker with anxiety wins discrimination case after employer refused to let her turn off her camera

  24-07-2026 23:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  A UK employment tribunal has ruled that forcing a remote worker with anxiety, ADHD, and autism to turn on her camera during a video training session amounted to disability discrimination. Laura Tait, a home-based travel consultant at Holiday Extras, was awarded compensation after the Croydon tribunal found the company failed to make reasonable adjustments for […]
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• Two Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading after buying Rivian stock before the joint venture they helped build was announced

  24-07-2026 22:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Federal prosecutors on Friday arrested two Volkswagen engineers in San Jose, California, and charged them with insider trading for buying Rivian stock before VW’s multibillion-dollar joint venture with the electric vehicle maker was publicly announced. Michael Stamp and Marcus Plank, both based at VW’s US operations, each face one count of federal securities fraud carrying […]
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• Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped

  24-07-2026 22:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth Anthropic has shipped in under two months, following Fable 5 in early June, Sonnet 5 at the end of June, and now […]
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• Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver

  24-07-2026 22:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla now has nearly one and a half million active Full Self-Driving subscribers after adding 200,000 users in the second quarter, the largest single-quarter gain on record. CFO Vaibhav Taneja told analysts that 55 percent of North American deliveries in Q2 had FSD activated at the time of purchase, a quarter in which Tesla delivered […]
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• 10 Platforms for AI Visibility and Link Building in 2026

  24-07-2026 21:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Millions now choose products through ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews appear in nearly half of all search queries. According to Muck Rack, 84% of AI citations come from media outlets, the same outlets where SEO specialists have been placing links for years. That means media distribution remains one of the key levers […]
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• Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web

  24-07-2026 20:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bots now outnumber humans on the internet for the first time in the web’s history. Cloudflare, the security firm that sits in front of millions of websites, says automated traffic crossed the 50 percent threshold in June and now accounts for nearly 58 percent of all webpage requests. A separate report from cybersecurity firm HUMAN […]
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• Intel Q2 earnings double estimates as AI data centre revenue surges 59 percent

  24-07-2026 20:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Intel posted second-quarter 2026 revenue of more than $16 billion, a 25 percent jump from a year earlier and the company’s fastest growth since late 2011. Adjusted earnings per share came in at 42 cents, double the 21-cent consensus estimate on Wall Street. Shares initially climbed on the results but reversed course during extended trading, […]
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• SAP’s cloud is still booming, and that was enough to calm the AI-doom fears

  24-07-2026 19:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  SAP gave investors the number they wanted. Europe’s biggest software company said cloud revenue grew 22% to €6.28 billion in the second quarter, beating forecasts, SAP announced. Its cloud backlog, a measure of future sales, jumped 26%. The stock rose more than 6% in Frankfurt. That relief is the story. SAP’s shares are down about […]
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• Amazon just shut its AGI Lab, and quit a race it never led

  24-07-2026 19:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon is retreating from the race to build the smartest AI. This week it closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco team working on artificial general intelligence, The Information reported. The move was part of layoffs across Amazon’s AGI unit, Reuters first reported. The lab was barely 18 months old. Amazon set it up in […]
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