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• Best HR software with predictive turnover analytics for 2026

  12-08-2026 12:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  The resignation landed on a Tuesday, and the manager never saw it coming. A senior engineer with three years at the company had earned strong reviews and showed no obvious signs of frustration. Then came the resignation. A competing offer had already been signed. Looking back, the warning signs were easy to spot. Survey scores […]
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• The next great game may not come from a million-dollar studio

  12-08-2026 23:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  The economics of making a blockbuster game are starting to look as demanding as the games themselves. Development cycles stretch across years, budgets climb into extraordinary territory, and a single failed release can erase enormous amounts of investment. The industry’s latest workforce data makes the pressure difficult to ignore. 28% of respondents to the 2026 […]
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• Google’s new Tensor G6 brings performance, efficiency, and post-quantum security to the Pixel 11 series

  12-08-2026 22:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  All four Pixel 11 models run Google’s Tensor G6 alongside a new Titan M3 security coprocessor that adopts NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards, a first for a Google phone. The chip claims 25% faster browsing and 20% better power efficiency, with a TPU carrying 50% more compute. Every Pixel 11 ships with Google’s new Tensor G6, […]
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• YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool

  12-08-2026 21:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Interior design creator Cliff Tan has apologised to his 2.4 million YouTube subscribers for a paid advertisement for Dreamina, ByteDance’s AI creative tool. It is the second creator apology in a week, after Hank Green walked back his use of ChatGPT for research. An interior design creator with 2.4 million YouTube subscribers has apologised for […]
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• Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone

  12-08-2026 21:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Code in the latest Uber iOS app refers to adding a tween aged 10 to 12 to an Uber Family profile, with a trusted adult contact and the option to require a grown-up at pickup. Uber says it is not a live product and that its only teen offering remains 13 to 17. Uber is […]
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• rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership

  12-08-2026 18:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboarding platform hosting providers use to set up WordPress sites. The plugin currently has just over 3,000 active installations, and arrives as AI Overviews cut click-through rates on top-ranking pages by 58%. A German marketing software company has bought […]
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• Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models

  12-08-2026 17:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has launched the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold with Gemini Intelligence acting across apps rather than sitting in a chatbot. It arrives weeks before Apple ships a Siri rebuilt on Google’s own models, and devices chief Rick Osterloh confirmed the memory shortage will push Pixel prices up. Google […]
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• Beyond algorithms: Booker Loud on building social platforms people trust

  12-08-2026 17:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Trust in social media is slowly eroding, even as global engagement continues to rise. Platforms have become deeply embedded in everyday life, yet the quality of interaction they facilitate is under increasing scrutiny. For Booker Loud, founder and CEO of Pin-Social, this contradiction reflects a fundamental design challenge that has shaped the industry for more […]
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• Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts

  12-08-2026 17:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest growing product ever” and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. His post has been seen more than 1.5 million times. Google published the engagement […]
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• Why small moments of recognition are becoming critical to workplace culture

  12-08-2026 17:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, with disengagement costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion annually. Research also shows that engagement is closely tied to how employees experience their workplace relationships. Gallup’s workplace research found that highly engaged teams achieve […]
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• Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s

  12-08-2026 17:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and attention layers, with a one million token context window. The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The licence is the part that matters. […]
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• Jaguar gives the first look inside its all-electric Type 01

  12-08-2026 16:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jaguar has published the first interior images of the Type 01, the electric grand tourer that will end a two-year gap in which it stopped selling new cars in the UK. The car is revealed in New York on October 6, after a delay from late 2025 and an expected price of around £100,000. Jaguar […]
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• Megadeals took 87.5% of US venture dollars, and the rest of the market is priced by vintage

  12-08-2026 16:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  PitchBook published its Q2 US VC Valuations report on 10 August. Megadeals took 87.5% of the dollars deployed in the first half of 2026. PitchBook defines those as rounds of $100m or more. AI is the primary driver of that concentration, though the figure describes deal size rather than sector. The AI premium is real […]
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• Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine

  12-08-2026 16:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Zoom has patched three memory corruption flaws in its annotation feature that allowed any meeting participant to run code on another attendee’s device with no interaction. The fixes shipped in June and July 2026, roughly two months before the research was made public. Zoom has patched three flaws in the annotation tools used during screen […]
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• Tencent’s AI compute bill outgrew its cash flow, and the fallback plan is becoming a landlord

  12-08-2026 16:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tencent reported second-quarter revenue of 204.8bn yuan ($30.4bn) on Wednesday, up 11% and ahead of forecasts. Net profit came in at 56bn yuan against the 61.8bn analysts expected, CNBC reports. Capital expenditure rose 176% on the year to 52.8bn yuan, about $7.8bn. Free cash flow swung to an outflow of 13.8bn yuan. Those four numbers […]
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• Meta faces 29 states in the biggest youth social media trial yet, with $1.4 trillion at stake

  12-08-2026 15:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  The long legal reckoning over social media and childhood is about to have its biggest day in court. Meta goes on trial this week against a coalition of 29 US states that accuse it of deliberately engineering Facebook and Instagram to addict children, in what amounts to the most consequential test yet of a sprawling […]
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• ChatGPT and Gemini disagree on the best software in a third of categories, and the review sites have been skipped

  12-08-2026 15:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  GetIntel published its AI Software Index on Wednesday. The study asked roughly 80 buyer-phrased questions in each of 126 software categories, covering 1,825 brands. The questions went to the live ChatGPT and Gemini consumer apps rather than the developer APIs. That produced 9,978 usable answers, all collected on 6 August. The headline result is a […]
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• Electric cars just hit a record share of China’s market. Their sales still fell

  12-08-2026 15:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  New energy vehicles took a record 65.1% of Chinese passenger car sales in July, but NEV volumes fell about 2% year on year, a seventh straight monthly decline, while the total market dropped 18%. Geely’s Xingyuan was the bestseller and BYD’s best performer managed only fifth over six months. Electric and hybrid cars took 65.1% […]
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• Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them

  12-08-2026 15:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watching them work. Avinash Misra, the co-founder and chief executive, reached […]
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• Upwork cuts full-year forecast as AI pressures its marketplace

  12-08-2026 14:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Upwork shares fell sharply after the freelance marketplace cut its full-year guidance, overshadowing a second-quarter earnings beat and reviving concerns that AI is eroding the work it brokers. The stock dropped as much as 21% in after-hours trading on Monday and closed on Tuesday down about 15% at $8.39. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $191.7m, down […]
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• Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff

  12-08-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands to X on Tuesday. Elon Musk used it to make two claims, and they only make sense together. The first is a number. AI revenue will pass everything else the company sells by next month. The second is a method. SpaceX will train Grok on its own information, including the […]
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• South Korea targets a 2030 Moon landing in a seven-part technology plan

  12-08-2026 14:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  South Korea has set out seven strategic technology programmes it intends to pursue after artificial intelligence, including an uncrewed Moon landing by 2030, President Lee Jae-myung announced on Wednesday at a meeting of scientists, executives and investors at the presidential office. The programmes, branded the “Seven Major SEED”, cover small modular reactors, nuclear fusion, next-generation renewable […]
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• Tesla recalls 20,349 cars after NHTSA rejects its headlight defence

  12-08-2026 14:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla is recalling 20,349 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles whose low beams exceed the federal photometric limit, after NHTSA rejected its argument that the defect was inconsequential. Tesla says a remedy is still under development, and owners are due to be notified by September 15. Tesla is recalling 20,349 cars because their headlights are […]
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• Uber Freight investigates cyber incident after hackers claim million-file leak

  12-08-2026 14:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Uber Freight is investigating a data-security incident involving unauthorised access to part of its systems, the company said on Tuesday, five days after a hacking group claimed to have posted around a million of its files online. In a statement attributed to spokesperson Sam Hallock, the company said there had been “no impact to Uber […]
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• China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work

  12-08-2026 13:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The unwinding has a cost, and customers are paying part of […]
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• The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor

  12-08-2026 13:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  The researcher who led Alibaba’s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba. The lab is based in Shanghai and works on what Lin calls next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds. Gaorong Ventures and HSG, the firm formerly […]
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• Foxconn now makes more money from AI servers than from everything else combined

  12-08-2026 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Foxconn crossed a line this quarter that it will not cross back. Its cloud and networking division, the one that builds AI servers, made up 51% of revenue in the three months to June. That is the first time the segment has passed half. Smart consumer electronics, the division that contains the iPhone, came to […]
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• ‘It’s still day zero’: Lovable is worth $13.3bn, and the EU just became a shareholder

  12-08-2026 12:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lovable is worth $13.3bn and its revenue is tripling. The interesting name on the cheque is the European Union. Lovable has raised $400m at a $13.3bn valuation. The Stockholm company lets people build software by describing it in ordinary language, and it is now one of Europe’s most valuable startups. Eight months ago it raised […]
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• TripleDart tops $7 million ARR with AI-led growth, reports 50 per cent EBIT margin

  12-08-2026 12:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bengaluru, India TripleDart, a bootstrapped B2B growth company, today announced it has crossed $7 million in annual recurring revenue while operating at a 50% EBIT margin. The company says software, not additional headcount or capital, drove the jump. The milestone lands in the middle of a heated debate. Venture investors have poured more than $300 […]
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• Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre

  12-08-2026 12:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service. No financial terms were disclosed, no launch customer was named, and no firm date was given […]
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