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• Big Tech buybacks fall 83% as AI spending eats the cash, Reuters reports

  31-10-2026 23:21 via The Next Web
  
  Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle handed 9.3% of the cash their businesses made back to shareholders. That covers the first nine months of 2026. That is the smallest share in at least 15 years, down from 27.4% a year earlier. The figures come from a Reuters analysis of LSEG data and company reports by […]
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• Nvidia and Dyania bring AI chart review onto hospital servers

  13-11-2026 21:56 via The Next Web
  
  Dyania Health’s Synapsis AI reviewed the records of more than 7,800 Cleveland Clinic heart-valve patients, running on the hospital’s own Nvidia servers. The data was used to build a model predicting when replacement valves fail. Doctors still make every decision. An AI system has read up to 16 years of records for more than 7,800 […]
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• Anthropic says its AI safety scores depend heavily on how they’re measured

  13-11-2026 20:01 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic has published advice on building AI safety tests. It shows Claude Fable 5.1 behaved appropriately in only 60% of self-harm test conversations via its API, against 94% in the Claude app after a fix, and warns that many headline safety scores hide wide uncertainty. Anthropic has published advice on how to build reliable AI […]
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• Sierra releases Poppy 1.0 as Shopify and Meta’s Muse sign on

  13-11-2026 19:37 via The Next Web
  
  Sierra has released version 1.0 of Personal Agent Protocol, or Poppy, a standard for how personal AI agents deal with companies. Shopify has turned it on for every store, Meta’s Muse agent now looks for it on every site, and more than 100 companies have signed up. Sierra has released version 1.0 of Personal Agent […]
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• Alexander Rinke says Europe needs AI champions to share in the next wave of AI value

  13-11-2026 19:27 via The Next Web
  
  Thirty years ago, Europe’s GDP was roughly on par with the US, Alexander Rinke told TNW. Today it is dramatically less. The Celonis co-founder and co-CEO does not want AI to make that gap wider. Rinke spoke to Cristian Dina for the TNW Podcast at HumanX in Amsterdam on 23 September. Earlier that day he […]
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• Cornelis launches CN6000 800G networking to rival Nvidia InfiniBand

  13-11-2026 19:12 via The Next Web
  
  Cornelis, which Intel spun out in 2020, has launched CN6000, a family of 800G network cards and switches for AI and supercomputers. It claims lower latency than Nvidia’s InfiniBand, based on its own tests. Partner systems arrive in early 2027. Cornelis, a networking company spun out of Intel, has launched CN6000, a family of 800G […]
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• Google’s Gemini can now read your Google Wallet to help you budget

  13-11-2026 18:47 via The Next Web
  
  Google is rolling out a Google Wallet connection to all Gemini app users in the US. Gemini can analyse spending, find subscriptions and suggest budgets, with read-only access. Google says it may train AI on summaries of that data if users keep activity on. Google is letting every Gemini app user in the US connect […]
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• GridAI to buy Wyoming gas firm Pronghorn to power AI data centres

  13-11-2026 18:32 via The Next Web
  
  GridAI Technologies has agreed to buy Wyoming natural gas producer Pronghorn Resources in an all-stock deal. It plans to build gas-fired power plants for AI data centres, aiming for 300 MW in 2027, but has no named customers yet. GridAI Technologies has agreed to buy Pronghorn Resources, a natural gas producer in Wyoming, to power […]
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• Disney is now embracing the AI it once fought, from cartoons to finance

  13-11-2026 17:37 via The Next Web
  
  Disney will bring Ozzy Fox, a kids’ series animated with AI tools, to Disney+ in December, Bloomberg reported. Under CEO Josh D’Amaro, it is also using AI in finance, streaming suggestions and its parks, while still guarding its characters. Disney, which once sued AI companies over its characters, is now putting the technology to work […]
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• Bessent says anyone at Nvidia should be held accountable for chip leakage

  13-11-2026 17:35 via The Next Web
  
  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Nvidia scandal should be about AI chips reaching China, not Jensen Huang’s private life. On Friday he asked whether Nvidia checked its customers. Anyone at the company should be held accountable, he said. Bessent was speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”. CNBC asked whether Nvidia’s top processors had reached China […]
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• Bessent blames Lutnick’s Commerce for not blacklisting Megaspeed

  13-11-2026 17:35 via The Next Web
  
  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has blamed Howard Lutnick’s Commerce Department for leaving Megaspeed off the US trade blacklist. Other departments wanted the Singapore-based company listed for months, he said on Friday. Megaspeed is at the centre of the scandal that ended Jensen Huang’s run as Nvidia’s chief executive. Bessent told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Treasury, […]
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• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Wallet lets its AI agents shop without seeing your card

  13-11-2026 16:45 via The Next Web
  
  OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Wallet, which lets its dots AI agents buy things for users without seeing their card details. The company built it with American Express, Mastercard and Visa, it said in its announcement on Friday. Wallet starts in the US, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers aged 18 and over with eligible US-issued cards. OpenAI […]
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• Nscale’s debt hits $5.5bn as it leans harder on Nvidia ahead of its IPO

  13-11-2026 16:21 via The Next Web
  
  Nscale has told US regulators it will need more money to keep growing. The British AI cloud company made the warning in an amended IPO prospectus, filed on Thursday ahead of its planned stock market listing. Its total debt stood at $5.5bn on 30 September, according to preliminary figures in the filing. That is up […]
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• Cerebras raises its 2026 forecast and signs Microsoft as a cloud customer

  13-11-2026 15:59 via The Next Web
  
  Cerebras shares rose about 17% in after-hours trading on Thursday. The AI chipmaker posted third-quarter results that beat analysts’ estimates, lifted its outlook for the year and added a new cloud customer. The company now expects core revenue of $940m to $960m this year, Reuters reported. In August it had forecast $880m to $890m. Core […]
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• Singapore barred Alice Huang after she gave police inaccurate information

  13-11-2026 14:58 via The Next Web
  
  Singapore barred Alice Huang from re-entering the country after she gave police inaccurate information about her role at Megaspeed. The Ministry of Home Affairs disclosed the ban on Thursday. Singapore also said it had asked US authorities for information for more than a year and received only limited assistance. Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive, […]
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• Ireland fines Tinder’s owner €11M over its ‘Download My Data’ tool

  13-11-2026 14:41 via The Next Web
  
  Ireland’s privacy watchdog has fined Match Group €11mn after finding that Tinder’s “Download My Data” tool failed to give users a full copy of the personal data the company holds on them, Politico reports. In a decision announced on Friday, the Data Protection Commission said the tool omitted certain categories of information entirely and reduced […]
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• Nvidia will keep investigating Jensen Huang, The Information reports

  13-11-2026 14:25 via The Next Web
  
  Nvidia plans to keep investigating whether Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort, Jessica E. Lessin reported for The Information, citing a person familiar with the situation. Huang resigned as chief executive on Thursday. Nvidia is expected to issue a statement saying it is not dropping the inquiry, The Information said. At […]
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• Malaysia investigates AI chips linked to the firm in Nvidia’s spy scandal

  13-11-2026 11:16 via The Next Web
  
  Malaysia is investigating whether AI chips imported by Speedmatrix, the local unit of Singapore-based cloud firm Megaspeed, were re-exported, the country’s trade ministry said on Friday, Reuters reports. The same scandal that cost Jensen Huang the Nvidia CEO job has reached customs enforcement in Southeast Asia. The probe follows a US senator’s allegation that Megaspeed […]
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• Samsung reportedly in talks to buy data centre cooling firm Modine

  13-11-2026 09:18 via The Next Web
  
  Samsung Electronics is in talks to acquire Modine Manufacturing, the Wisconsin maker of cooling systems for data centres, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. A transaction could come together within weeks, per Bloomberg’s sources, though no final decision has been made; the talks could still collapse, and another suitor could yet […]
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• Donald Trump’s AI task force takes on the hacks that AI agents carry out themselves

  13-11-2026 09:03 via The Next Web
  
  Members of Donald Trump’s AI task force met on Thursday to discuss how to get critical US sectors to report AI-powered cyberattacks, a Trump administration spokesperson told Reuters. The task force, a group of advisers expected to shape the administration’s approach to AI, is responding to a problem that stopped being hypothetical this year: AI […]
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• Microsoft’s Outlook and Teams outage passes 12 hours with no fix in sight

  13-11-2026 08:50 via The Next Web
  
  A global Microsoft outage has left millions of people without Outlook email, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services for more than 12 hours, disrupting banks, governments, courts, and airlines across several continents. The trouble began on Thursday in the Americas and went global within the hour: outage reports “reached 74 countries and territories in about […]
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• Microsoft’s Outlook and Teams outage passes 12 hours, disrupting AI services and businesses worldwide

  13-11-2026 08:50 via The Next Web
  
  A global Microsoft outage has disrupted Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other Microsoft 365 services for more than 12 hours, affecting businesses, government agencies, financial institutions and airlines across several continents. The disruption has also spread to third-party AI services, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude reporting problems with their Microsoft 365 connectors. The trouble began […]
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• EU leaders meet in Dublin for the bloc’s first AI summit

  13-11-2026 08:41 via The Next Web
  
  European Union leaders gather in Dublin on Friday for their first-ever summit devoted to artificial intelligence, debating how the bloc can catch up with the United States and China. The summit caps a week of marathon diplomacy in Ireland. On Thursday, Dublin’s Convention Centre hosted about 50 leaders from across the continent for the ninth […]
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• Google’s Gemini 4 Hydrogen brings a fast, cheaper model to everyone

  12-11-2026 21:19 via The Next Web
  
  Google has launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast, lower-cost model for coding and AI agents. It is available to everyone in the Gemini app and Search, and to developers at $1.50 per million input tokens. Google says it nearly matches its flagship Argon. Google has launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a faster and cheaper model built […]
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• AMD plans to invest in PsiQuantum as they team up on quantum computers

  12-11-2026 20:45 via The Next Web
  
  AMD plans to invest in PsiQuantum, as the two expand their partnership on quantum computing. The companies announced the deal on 12 November. Neither said how much AMD will invest. PsiQuantum already uses AMD’s Versal FPGAs to develop its fault-tolerant quantum computer. These are chips that engineers can reprogram after manufacture. The new deal adds […]
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• Nebius shares fall 16% as data centre delays cut its 2026 outlook

  12-11-2026 20:34 via The Next Web
  
  Nebius shares fell 16% on Thursday after the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company cut its outlook for this year. It also raised its spending plans, CNBC’s Jordan Novet reported. The fall came despite third-quarter revenue that rose 571% from a year earlier, to $980.8m. Analysts surveyed by LSEG had expected $907.5m, according to CNBC. Nebius posted […]
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• HubSpot brings back co-founder Brian Halligan as CEO to ‘refound’ it

  12-11-2026 20:25 via The Next Web
  
  HubSpot co-founder Brian Halligan is back as chief executive, five years after he stepped down. He replaces Yamini Rangan, who also leaves the board, with immediate effect from 12 November, the company announced. HubSpot calls it a “refounding” of the company. Halligan told Bloomberg’s Brody Ford that he plans to overhaul HubSpot’s product, culture and […]
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• Anthropic lets companies run Claude’s agent service on their own servers

  12-11-2026 20:06 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic now lets companies run Claude Managed Agents in their own cloud or data centre. Agent histories and credentials stay on their systems, but each model call still goes to an outside provider such as Anthropic or AWS. Anthropic now lets companies run its Claude Managed Agents service on their own servers, Help Net Security […]
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• J.Crew launches an AI stylist built on Anthropic’s Claude

  12-11-2026 19:37 via The Next Web
  
  J.Crew has launched Style Advisor, an AI stylist on its US website built with Anthropic’s Claude. Shoppers describe an occasion and get complete outfits from looks J.Crew’s stylists put together. Personal recommendations based on past purchases will come later. J.Crew has launched Style Advisor, an AI stylist on its website built with Anthropic’s Claude, Anthropic […]
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• Apple is closing its Support Community forum after 28 years

  12-11-2026 19:30 via The Next Web
  
  Apple has stopped taking new posts on the Apple Support Community and will close the forum on 20 November. The site has been read-only since 10 November, according to a notice on its homepage. “You can continue to find trusted guidance and support on the official Apple Support site,” the notice says. 9to5Mac’s Marcus Mendes […]
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