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• Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, but 40% think AI will make society worse and two-thirds don’t trust the government to regulate it

  17-06-2026 19:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Half of American adults now use AI chatbots, but a plurality believe the technology will ultimately damage society, and overwhelming majorities have lost confidence that either the government or the companies building it will manage it responsibly. A new Pew Research Center report released Wednesday, based on a survey of 5,119 US adults conducted in […]
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• A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

  17-06-2026 19:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  More than one million people in the Netherlands now rely exclusively on social media for news, according to the 2026 Digital News Report published on Tuesday. They use no news websites, no television, no radio, and only 12% say they trust what they encounter on those platforms. The group represents 7% of Dutch adults, up from 2% […]
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• Arcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to do

  17-06-2026 18:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  The problem with letting an AI agent loose inside a company is not that it might forget who it is. It is that it has no reason to hold back. A human employee is restrained by the fear of being fired. An agent, as one investor in Arcade.dev put it, “will exhaustively exploit every permission […]
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• The bottleneck in geothermal moved from the drill to the turbine. This SpaceX alum raised $22M to fix it

  17-06-2026 18:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  The race to power artificial intelligence has a problem that solar panels and wind turbines cannot fix on their own: the electricity has to be there at 3am, in still air, under cloud. Critical Energy, a Los Angeles startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer, has raised $22mn to chase that always-on demand with geothermal, […]
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• Why CMOs need a new operating system for accountability

  17-06-2026 18:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Marketing leaders have never had access to more data, yet proving the business impact of advertising has become increasingly difficult. As budgets face greater scrutiny and finance teams demand clearer evidence of return on investment, many chief marketing officers are discovering that traditional performance metrics no longer satisfy the questions being asked in the boardroom. Tal […]
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• China’s new five-year plan makes tracking AI’s hit to jobs a national priority

  17-06-2026 17:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admission that winning it could cost a lot of people their jobs. The State Council, effectively China’s cabinet, has issued its blueprint for employment policy from 2026 to 2030. Buried in a […]
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• Henrique Schmaiske and the human work behind Meteor 3.0

  17-06-2026 17:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meteor.js is one of those open-source projects developers have lived with for years. It has over 44,800 GitHub stars, more than 500,000 active installations worldwide, and still sits inside products across many countries. Behind its largest release in over ten years, Meteor 3.0, is Henrique Schmaiske, CTO of Meteor Software, who started the work in April 2022 […]
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• Poland bought a stake in ElevenLabs to grow its next AI champion

  17-06-2026 17:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Poland produced one of the world’s most valuable AI companies almost by accident. Now it is spending public money to make sure the next one stays closer to home. Vinci, the venture arm of Poland’s state development bank BGK, has taken an $11mn stake in ElevenLabs, the AI-voice firm valued at $11bn. The same day, […]
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• a16z is betting $38M that you want an AI ‘teammate’, not another agent

  17-06-2026 16:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  The word “agent” is everywhere in enterprise software right now, which is exactly why Convey does not want to use it. The startup has raised a $38mn Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures and Pear VC joining. Its pitch is a deliberate rebrand: not AI agents that complete tasks, but AI “teammates” […]
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• SAP just funded a startup built to help its own customers escape SAP

  17-06-2026 16:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  There is an unglamorous deadline bearing down on corporate IT, and it has just produced one of London’s more interesting AI raises. Conduct, a 35-person startup founded by three former Palantir engineers, has raised a $60mn Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ, with SAP itself investing. The round takes its total funding to […]
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• Google’s first speaker in six years is really a $10-a-month Gemini subscription

  17-06-2026 16:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has finally made a new smart speaker, its first in roughly six years. The more interesting thing it has made is a reason to pay it every month. The Google Home Speaker costs $99.99, opens for preorder today and ships on June 25. It is the first audio device built around Gemini for Home, […]
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• The US is paying an AI startup $500M to break China’s grip on chip materials

  17-06-2026 16:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US government has just become a shareholder in an AI startup, in exchange for a bet that artificial intelligence can break China’s hold on the materials inside every chip factory. The Department of Commerce has awarded SandboxAQ $500mn under the CHIPS Act to develop new chemicals and metals for domestic semiconductor manufacturing, Reuters reported. […]
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• Estonia wants to give every AI agent its own ID number

  17-06-2026 16:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  When an AI agent does something on your behalf today, it usually has to become you. It logs in as you, with your access to everything. Estonia wants to end that. The country plans to issue personal identification numbers to AI assistants, the first nation to do so, prime minister Kristen Michal said. The idea […]
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• Grok helped strike 2,000 targets at Iran. Now its pollution is ‘national security’.

  17-06-2026 15:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Pentagon says Grok helped strike 2,000 targets in 96 hours, and that the polluting power plant behind it is a matter of paramount national security. The two claims belong in the same sentence, and that is the problem. The admission did not come in a press release or a Pentagon briefing, it came in […]
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• Neuralink finally has a real rival: Paradromics just put a brain chip in its first patient

  17-06-2026 15:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Neuralink has dominated the brain-chip story for two years. It now has a serious challenger with a patient of its own. Paradromics, an Austin neurotech firm, has implanted its Connexus brain-computer interface in the first participant of its FDA-approved clinical study, the company said. The patient, a Michigan woman who has lost the ability to […]
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• A startup that builds offensive cyber weapons just became a $1bn unicorn

  17-06-2026 15:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most cybersecurity startups sell shields. Twenty sells the sword, and investors just valued that at $1bn. The company, which describes itself as America’s first venture-backed cyber warfare firm, has raised a $100mn Series B led by Accel, Axios reported. The round, with Point72 Ventures, Caffeinated Capital and Friends & Family Capital also taking part, brings […]
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• Jeff Bezos is backing a two-year-old Cambridge AI lab at a $2.6bn valuation

  17-06-2026 15:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jeff Bezos appears to have settled on his AI thesis, and it is not chatbots. It is the physical world. CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, is in talks to raise about $400mn at a $2.6bn valuation, the Financial Times reports. The round is led by Bezos Expeditions, the […]
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• Odyssey took Nvidia’s money. Now it’s raised $310M betting on Amazon and AMD

  17-06-2026 15:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Odyssey, an AI lab building real-time ‘world models’, has raised $310mn at a $1.45bn valuation. The more telling number is whose names are on the round. The Series B was led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google’s GV, EQT and the CIA-linked fund In-Q-Tel taking part. As part of the deal, AWS becomes […]
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• The tokenmaxxing era is over. Now companies are ‘tokenminimizing’

  17-06-2026 14:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  A year ago, the smart move inside a big company was to use as much AI as humanly possible. Some firms even ranked employees on leaderboards by how many tokens they burned, a status game that earned its own name: tokenmaxxing. That era is ending. The same companies are now capping AI use, and the […]
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• Microsoft might put China’s DeepSeek inside Copilot to tame its AI bills

  17-06-2026 14:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft is considering putting a Chinese AI model inside its enterprise Copilot, and the reason is money. The company told Axios it is exploring a self-hosted, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4, or another open-source model, as a cheaper option to power Copilot Cowork, the agentic assistant in its Microsoft 365 suite. It expects to offer […]
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• Amazon could face billions in fines as the FTC eyes its ad business

  17-06-2026 14:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon’s advertising business has become its quiet money machine. It may also be its next big regulatory headache. The US Federal Trade Commission has drafted a potential complaint accusing Amazon of misleading advertisers, a case that could lead to billions of dollars in civil penalties, Bloomberg reported on 16 June, citing people familiar with the […]
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• Helion just got the world’s first licences to run a fusion power plant

  17-06-2026 14:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Helion has become the first company in the world licensed to operate a fusion power plant. On 16 June, the Washington-based firm said it had received two licences from the state’s Department of Health, clearing a regulatory bar no fusion company has reached before. It is a real milestone. It is also a regulatory one, […]
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• Uber’s robotaxi service is heading to Houston to take another swing at Waymo

  17-06-2026 13:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Uber is taking its robotaxi service to Houston. The company said on 17 June that it will launch a premium driverless service in the city by mid-2027, the second US market for its partnership with EV maker Lucid and self-driving startup Nuro. It is also the clearest sign yet of how Uber intends to fight […]
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• Mistral spent two years warning the US could switch off its rivals. A fat-cat meme just made the point for it.

  17-06-2026 13:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Wednesday, Arthur Mensch took his seat at a G7 working lunch in Evian alongside Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei. Days earlier, the US government had ordered Amodei’s company to cut foreign nationals off from its most capable models, and Anthropic had pulled them worldwide. For the one European founder at the table, […]
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• Microsoft’s talks to lease Oracle cloud capacity have collapsed, report says

  17-06-2026 12:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  A reported deal worth more than $3bn fell apart over a US-government security framework Oracle was unwilling to add, according to Business Insider. Oracle calls the account inaccurate. The story of the AI build-out is usually one of companies signing for more capacity than anyone thought possible. This is the rarer version: a deal that […]
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• The FCC reopens the door to Chinese toy drones, but only the tiniest ones

  17-06-2026 12:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  The exemption is narrower than the announcement makes it sound. On Tuesday the US Federal Communications Commission said it would again allow new models of Chinese toy drones to be imported, six months after it barred new foreign-made drones outright. The relief is real, but it has been defined so tightly that the word ‘toy’ […]
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• Interpol reports a sharp rise in cybercrime and scams across Asia

  17-06-2026 12:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  The figure that reframes the problem is a share, not a sum. In more than half the countries Interpol surveyed for its latest Asia and South Pacific cyber-threat assessment, cybercrime now accounts for around 30% of all crime recorded nationally. That is the line that turns scams and phishing from a category of nuisance into […]
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• US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100-plus Chinese firms

  17-06-2026 11:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  The decision had, in effect, already been made. According to people familiar with the matter, reports Reuters, a US interagency committee approved adding the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, the memory-chip maker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged as national-security risks to the Commerce Department’s Entity List last year. What has not happened, and […]
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• G7 leaders weigh a ‘trusted partners’ route to America’s top AI models

  17-06-2026 11:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  The conversation happened where these conversations usually happen, on the sidelines of a dinner. At the opening of the G7 summit in the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains on Monday, representatives of several member countries raised with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick the idea of a ‘trusted partners’ scheme that would let allied nations, or […]
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