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• Bespoke Labs raises $40M to build the training grounds for reliable AI agents

  07-07-2026 15:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI agents can write code and answer questions, but they still fall apart on long, messy jobs. A Mountain View startup just raised $40M to build the training grounds that fix that. Bespoke Labs, which builds the environments that train and test AI agents, has raised $40 million, the company announced. The total spans a […]
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• AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories

  07-07-2026 15:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  For years, electricity costs at the Belden Brick Company in Sugarcreek, Ohio, barely moved. Last year they jumped by 90%, driven largely by the data centres multiplying across the region to feed the AI boom. The 141-year-old manufacturer, whose bricks feature in landmarks including the Alamo and the University of Notre Dame, traced most of […]
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• DeepSeek is reportedly designing its own AI chip to sidestep US curbs

  07-07-2026 15:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepSeek is designing its own artificial-intelligence chip, according to a Reuters report published on Monday that cited people familiar with the matter. The move, if it holds up, would push China’s most closely watched AI lab from writing software that runs on other companies’ silicon to specifying the silicon itself. The Hangzhou startup has spent the […]
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• AI won’t restore an era of rapid growth, says Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides

  07-07-2026 15:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nobel Prize-winning economist has poured cold water on the idea that artificial intelligence will haul Western economies back into an era of rapid productivity growth, warning that the fast-growth years may already be gone for good. Christopher Pissarides, who shared the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics and teaches at the London School of Economics, […]
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• The Supreme Court lets Texas turn Apple and Google into the internet’s age gate

  07-07-2026 15:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Texas can now make Apple and Google check how old you are before you download an app. The Supreme Court just let the rule stand. The US Supreme Court has refused to block a Texas law aimed at app stores, the Associated Press reports. The rule forces Apple and Google to verify users’ ages and […]
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• BAE-backed Expeditions raises €197M fund for European defence startups

  07-07-2026 14:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Expeditions, the Warsaw-based venture firm backed by BAE Systems and the NATO Innovation Fund, has closed a €197m ($225m) fund to back the next wave of European defence startups. The raise caps a boom that has seen defence prime BAE commit €50M to outside VCs and venture capital pour into the continent’s defence tech at record speed. The […]
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• Google defends a ‘crisis actor’ video at Australia’s antisemitism inquiry

  07-07-2026 14:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Google executive told an Australian inquiry that a video smearing a shooting survivor as a “crisis actor” meets YouTube’s standards. So it stays online. Google has defended keeping up a conspiracy video about a mass shooting in Sydney, the Associated Press reports. The clip falsely paints a wounded survivor of the antisemitic massacre as […]
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• Automotive requirements management in 2026: 7 solutions compared

  07-07-2026 14:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  60-second summary Jama Connect – Best for supplier-OEM requirements exchange and live traceability across the automotive supply chain Visure – Best for mid-size suppliers needing compliance templates on a tighter budget Codebeamer – Best for software-centric ALM with ASPICE compliance templates Polarion – Best for teams embedded in the Siemens PLM ecosystem IBM DOORS – Best […]
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• Somalia backs India’s objection to WhatsApp’s username switch

  07-07-2026 14:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Somalia has thrown its weight behind India’s objection to WhatsApp’s plan to let people connect through usernames rather than phone numbers, widening a dispute that now spans two continents. The backing, makes Somalia the second national government in a week to formally query Meta over the usernames feature it began rolling out at the end of […]
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• Ex-Tesla Optimus scientist launches UMA to build Europe’s humanoid robot

  07-07-2026 14:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  A former Tesla scientist who helped build the intelligence behind Elon Musk’s Optimus robot wants to do it all again from Paris, only this time for Europe. Rémi Cadene, chief executive and co-founder of the startup UMA, has unveiled plans for a lightweight, AI-powered humanoid called Northstar, Bloomberg first reported. he machine is being designed […]
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• South Korea’s ‘fake news’ law is live, and it can cost you five times the damage

  07-07-2026 14:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Post something a South Korean court later rules false, and it could cost you five times the damage. The country’s new “fake news” law is now in force, and journalists are alarmed. South Korea has begun enforcing a tough law against false information online, the Associated Press reports. Courts can now award punitive damages of […]
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• Karina Portugal: learning to ask the right question

  07-07-2026 13:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ten years ago, Karina Portugal was at advertising festivals like Cannes Lions, discussing campaigns and branding. Today, she sits across the table from some of the largest banks in Brazil, Europe, and the United States to discuss a much harder problem to sell: how do you know whether you can trust who, or what, is […]
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• The best AI requirements management software: 8 tools leading the shift in 2026

  07-07-2026 13:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI requirements management software is changing how engineering teams write, review, and validate requirements. For decades, this work meant drafting specifications by hand, checking them for quality manually, and verifying test coverage the same way. Every part of the process depended on human effort alone, and that approach no longer scales. New capabilities are shifting […]
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• Luffy AI raises £8.1M to put self-tuning AI inside the world’s electric motors

  07-07-2026 13:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Luffy AI, an Abingdon startup building what it calls neuroplastic AI for the real-time control of physical machines, has raised £8.1m in a Series A round, the company said on Tuesday. The round was led by BGF, which bills itself as the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, and the money is […]
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• Meta says four states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial

  07-07-2026 12:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta has told a federal court that four US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, a figure the company put on the record in a filing on Monday. The sum, first reported by Reuters, sits uncomfortably close to Meta’s own market capitalisation of about […]
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• Syntiant files for a US IPO, betting public markets want edge AI too

  07-07-2026 12:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Syntiant, the chipmaker whose low-power processors run artificial intelligence directly on devices rather than in the cloud, has filed for a US initial public offering. The Irvine, California, company submitted its Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission on 6 July, and plans to list Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker SYTN. […]
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• WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair, but keeps his board seat

  07-07-2026 12:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Richard White, the billionaire co-founder of WiseTech Global, has stepped down as executive chair of the Australian logistics-software company, effective immediately, capping a fortnight of intensifying scrutiny. He is not, however, leaving the building. White will stay on the ASX-listed group’s board as an executive director and keep his role as chief innovation officer, WiseTech said in a statement to the […]
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• Nscale closes a $900m revolving credit facility to fund its data-centre build-out

  07-07-2026 12:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nscale has closed a $900m revolving credit facility, a standing pool of borrowing it will draw on to speed up its data-centre build-out across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, the company said on Tuesday. The London firm, which raised $2bn in a Series C at a $14.6bn valuation in March, is now stacking debt almost as […]
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• Synopsys pulls back from chip fab software to chase AI design margins

  07-07-2026 12:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Synopsys, the US chip design software giant, is preparing to walk away from the manufacturing control software that helps run the world’s semiconductor fabs, and to redirect the engineers behind it towards the far more lucrative business of AI chip design. The plan, reported by Reuters and attributed to six people briefed on the matter, is a pointed […]
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• Google and RWE back Proxima Fusion in record €411mn round

  07-07-2026 12:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Munich-based Proxima Fusion has raised €411mn ($468mn), the largest private fusion round Europe has ever seen and a rare vote of confidence in a technology that has yet to produce a watt of commercial power. The deal values the stellarator company at €2.4bn and brings in Google and German utility RWE as strategic backers. XTX Ventures and […]
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• US cyber agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos to audit government code, sources say

  07-07-2026 11:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  A federal defender is reportedly pointing a private, offensive-grade AI model at the government’s own software, though almost nothing about the work is on the record. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to hunt for bugs in government software, according to three people familiar with the matter who […]
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• Samsung’s Q2 profit jumps 19-fold to 89 trillion won on AI memory demand

  07-07-2026 11:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Samsung Electronics guided to second-quarter operating profit of about 89.4 trillion won ($58.4bn) on Tuesday, roughly 19 times what it made in the same period a year earlier and, by most counts, the largest quarterly operating profit any technology company has ever reported. It is Samsung’s third consecutive record quarter, and it came in ahead of the roughly 84 […]
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• Australia’s under-16 social media ban stumbles at the first age check, testers find

  07-07-2026 11:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The world’s first national ban on social media for under-16s is faltering at the very first gate, according to the testers who helped Australia’s government design its age-check regime. In a follow-up study first reported by Reuters, the team opened 50 accounts across nine of the 10 platforms covered by the law, declaring the account […]
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• Gyre Energy raises $1.3m to make the world’s cold stores work less when power costs most

  07-07-2026 10:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Across a scorching European summer, the least glamorous machines in the economy have been quietly straining. In cold stores and distribution depots, compressors run harder as the mercury climbs, pulling more power at exactly the hours power is dearest. It is a problem most operators have simply lived with. Gyre Energy, an Oxford-founded energy tech […]
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• TechEx Europe 2026: eight events, 8,000 tech leaders, one enterprise agenda

  07-07-2026 09:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most large organisations now have the AI budgets approved and the transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what actually reaches production. That gap between strategy and delivery is the organising idea behind TechEx Europe 2026, which runs on 19 and 20 October at the RAI Amsterdam and gathers senior enterprise technology leaders from […]
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• TechnologyWire launches PR distribution platform engineered to secure brand visibility in AI search

  07-07-2026 09:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  MediaFuse.org, a newswire network dominant across finance, cybersecurity, blockchain, and gaming, today announced a major disruption to tech PR with the launch of TechnologyWire. TechnologyWire marks the latest expansion for MediaFuse, which scaled the targeted newswire model successfully across several verticals. After capturing a significant footprint in the blockchain and financial sectors through platforms like Chainwire […]
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• Judge upholds the verdict that Musk defrauded Twitter investors

  06-07-2026 22:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  A federal judge has refused to overturn a jury’s finding that Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors during his $44bn takeover of the platform in 2022. US District Judge Charles Breyer denied Musk’s motion to set aside the verdict in most respects on Monday. A San Francisco jury ruled in March that two of Musk’s May 2022 tweets about the […]
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• Utah let an AI renew prescriptions without a doctor, and its medical board wants it stopped

  06-07-2026 21:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Utah has quietly become the first US state to let an AI chatbot renew prescriptions without a doctor, according to the Associated Press. The programme, run by a company called Doctronic, launched in January and has set off a fierce medical debate. Residents can skip the doctor’s office and refill prescriptions online through the chatbot. It […]
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• An AI agent just ran a full ransomware attack with no human at the keyboard

  06-07-2026 20:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent, first reported by Business Insider. A large language model planned, executed, and adapted the entire operation, which Sysdig has named JadePuffer. The agent chained together every stage of the attack, from reconnaissance and credential theft to lateral […]
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• Tencent moves to sell up to $1.6B of its Kuaishou stake

  06-07-2026 20:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tencent is seeking up to $1.6bn by selling down its stake in short-video platform Kuaishou, Bloomberg reports. A term sheet seen by Reuters puts the block trade at up to $1.55bn. The deal covers about 273 million shares, a 7.5% stake, offered at HK$43.15 to HK$44.53 each. That represents a discount of 3.2% to 6.2% to Monday’s […]
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