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• BYD says it will have a solid-state car next year, the earliest date anyone has given

  29-09-2026 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  BYD executive vice-president Stella Li says the company will have one model with solid-state batteries next year, which is the earliest date any carmaker has given. Toyota says 2027 or 2028, Mercedes and Honda closer to 2030, and LG Energy Solution puts solid-state in electric cars roughly a decade away. BYD will have one model […]
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• FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs

  30-09-2026 18:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News. The New York Post first reported the probe earlier on Wednesday, citing administration officials. Marisa Schultz and Josh Christenson reported that […]
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• DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages

  30-09-2026 18:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  DoorDash has opened an American waitlist for an AI agent that takes food orders inside Apple’s Messages app, using your order history and stored payment method. Bloomberg’s testing found it giving prices that differed from the app, which in Europe is a consumer law question rather than a bug. DoorDash has built an AI agent […]
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• Amazon launches a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a new remote design

  30-09-2026 18:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon has launched a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a redesigned remote, running its own Vega operating system rather than Android. That switch also removes sideloading, and the Digital Markets Act cannot require Amazon to restore it, because none of its operating systems is designated. Amazon has launched the Fire TV Stick 4K, which […]
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• ElevenLabs opens Brussels office and plans to triple its Belgian team

  30-09-2026 16:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  ElevenLabs has launched in Belgium and opened an office in Brussels, the voice AI company said on Wednesday. The office is in the European District, close to the main EU buildings. ElevenLabs has named Falke Van Onacker to lead its Belgian business and plans to triple its local team this year. Most new staff will work […]
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• At a private AI retreat, the vendor told us the tool won’t save you

  30-09-2026 16:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Grady Sokaras, Zapier’s head of sales, opened a session at the company’s private AI retreat with a line about the kind of product Zapier sells. “A tool is never the solution,” Sokaras said. A company that buys the product and expects a transformation gets “one more piece of dependency or shelfware”. The retreat was Zapier […]
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• Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers

  30-09-2026 15:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Yahoo already holds what AI agents ask people for first, their email and their calendar, CEO Jim Lanzone told TNW. He said Yahoo will launch more personalised, agentic products “in the months ahead”. Lanzone spoke to TNW in an exclusive interview at HumanX in Amsterdam on 23 September, for the first episode of the relaunched […]
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• IONNA launches driver council as its US fast-charging network doubles

  30-09-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  IONNA, the electric vehicle charging network established by eight car manufacturers, now operates over 180 charging sites in the United States, which is more than twice the number it had at the beginning of 2026. The company, based in Durham, North Carolina, is launching a council of well-known electric-vehicle reviewers to feed driver complaints back […]
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• Carrier filtering is blocking legitimate SMS. The operators getting through are doing three things differently

  30-09-2026 14:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  A business registers its number, writes a plain appointment reminder and sends it. The text never arrives. Nothing bounces back. Somewhere between the sender and the phone, a filter simply drops it. US carriers filter business text messaging for three main reasons: spam volume, complaint rates and messages that do not match the business that […]
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• Complaint accuses EU of hiding data centres’ energy and water use

  30-09-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty that grants people the right to access environmental information and to participate in environmental decision-making; the […]
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• Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals

  30-09-2026 14:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI agents built on Chinese models have lied, hidden their failures, and got around limits in tests, a Reuters review of more than 200 research documents has found. The same kind of behavior has worried experts about US systems. Reuters has identified at least 20 studies and tests conducted since 2025 that describe such instances, […]
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• Pharos brings AI agents onchain with an Agent Native upgrade for RealFi

  30-09-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, announced an Agent Native upgrade on the Korea Blockchain Week keynote stage. It introduces protocol-level infrastructure and AI-powered tools designed to let AI agents operate as native participants in onchain finance. The rollout begins today and continues through the fourth quarter. It includes an Agent Native upgrade on […]
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• Ascerta raises $18M from Dell’s venture arm to show which AI pays off

  30-09-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to a material line item. Companies can count tokens, licenses, agent runs and lines of AI-generated code. Yet many still cannot answer the question that determines what happens next: which AI initiatives are actually worth scaling. Ascerta was built to give them that answer. The company formerly known as […]
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• Apple will launch its smart home push on 13 October, Bloomberg reports

  30-09-2026 13:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple plans to launch its long-delayed range of smart home devices on 13 October, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The launch would be a key product expansion for the company under John Ternus, who became chief executive on 1 September. At the center of the plan is a smart home hub code-named […]
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• “AI, or SI, pardon me” will give you better healthcare than Elon Musk gets, says Elon Musk

  30-09-2026 13:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President Donald Trump, after the president’s lunch with tech leaders. He began by praising “the positive benefits of AI, or SI, pardon me”, correcting himself […]
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• First a gulf, then a lake, now a technology. Trump orders US agencies to call AI ‘super intelligence

  30-09-2026 11:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  President Donald Trump has now renamed a gulf, a lake, and a technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order telling every federal agency to stop saying ‘artificial intelligence’ and to call it ‘super intelligence’, or SI, instead. Also, on his Truth Social account, he posted 2 pages from the document, subtitled “Inaugurating The Era […]
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• Aspirity to buy majority stake in Danish IoT company Onomondo

  30-09-2026 10:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  London-based private equity firm Aspirity Partners has agreed to buy a majority stake in Onomondo, a Copenhagen firm that runs its own network to connect machines and sensors. The deal, announced on Wednesday, is part of a combined investment of more than €100m. EIFO, Denmark’s state investment fund, is also adding to its stake. It […]
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• AI gets more interesting when it meets the physical world

  30-09-2026 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  A transporter pulls up to a construction site outside Riyadh, unloads a delivery of bulk cement, and sends a photo of the delivery note through WhatsApp. For most of BRKZ’s history, that photo was the start of a chain of human work. Someone had to read the document, find the matching order, verify the quantity, […]
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• Meta expands Instagram’s School Partnership Program in the US

  30-09-2026 09:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta is adding new features to Instagram’s School Partnership Program in the US, allowing schools and verified high school students to share news about clubs, sports teams, and events, the company announced. The update arrives a month after Meta’s settlement with US states over claims that it designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. Under that agreement, […]
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• Mistral CEO tells CNBC US AI safety debate covers rivals’ ‘negligence’

  30-09-2026 08:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch said the US debate over AI safety has been a cover for the “negligence” of some of his rivals. He made the comments to Annette Weisbach in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. “The debate that we’ve seen in the U.S. has been a cover for the negligence of some […]
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• After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI

  29-09-2026 22:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  President Donald Trump left a White House lunch with more than two dozen tech leaders on Tuesday, still set against the backdrop of new AI safety rules. He told reporters the executives had agreed that companies should police themselves, NBC News reported. “There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have […]
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• GM will spend $1B making the first manganese-rich cells in mass production

  29-09-2026 20:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  GM and LG Energy Solution will spend $1B turning their Spring Hill plant into the first factory to mass-produce prismatic lithium manganese-rich cells. Europe’s carmakers are spending comparable sums on lithium iron phosphate, the chemistry GM’s battery chief says may never earn its way into its cars. General Motors and LG Energy Solution will spend […]
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• Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern

  29-09-2026 20:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. “A few weeks ago we reached that goal. We now […]
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• Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch

  29-09-2026 20:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance, arguing that it would help Beijing catch up with American companies. He spoke on Tuesday in Washington shortly before hosting AI executives for lunch at the White House. He told the audience that AI had come up only […]
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• OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud

  29-09-2026 20:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. OpenAI and Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The product is in limited preview, says the AWS product page. OpenAI built it with Amazon […]
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• OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay

  29-09-2026 19:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI is halving the usage included in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan and launching a $500 plan with its fastest speed tier. It also unveiled shared team workspaces, a meeting note-taker and @ChatGPT for Slack and Microsoft Teams. The launches came at DevDay 2026 in San Francisco on Tuesday, attended by 2,500 developers. They are […]
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• OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices

  29-09-2026 19:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work. It costs a fifth of Astra’s standard input and output token prices, OpenAI said on Tuesday at its DevDay 2026 event. The model is an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, which OpenAI released […]
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• OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers

  29-09-2026 19:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their own cloud computers and work on a user’s behalf. The company announced dots at its DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday. They run on GPT-6 Astra and are rolling out in ChatGPT to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets. Each dot […]
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• Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch

  29-09-2026 19:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Thirty-one people have confirmed their attendance, according to an RSVP list obtained […]
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• Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports

  29-09-2026 19:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple’s new chief executive, John Ternus, is reshaping the company to release products more often and cut layers of management, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Ternus, 51, took over on 1 September after Tim Cook’s 15 years in the job. Apple declined to comment. Ternus wants Apple to rely less on its fixed spring and autumn […]
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