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• EV charging security is a shit show

  23-08-2021 16:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  The growth of electric vehicles on the road means we need more EV charging stations. But research this month has raised a big old red flag regarding the security of electric vehicle charging. Researchers from Pen Test Partners explored six home electric vehicle charging brands and public EV charging networks and found significant problems.  They found vulnerabilities in Project EV, Wallbox, EVBox, EO Charging’s EO Hub and EO mini pro 2, and Hypervolt, as well as the public charging n
  
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• An OpenAI engineer is charged over a listening device in the boardroom

  13-10-2026 23:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found behind a television in an executive conference room, and is charged with endeavouring to intercept oral communications. OpenAI says no model weights, source code or customer data were taken. An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found at the company’s San […]
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• Beyond AI: what Europe’s flagship customer contact event revealed

  13-10-2026 23:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amsterdam, early October. Customer Contact Week Europe 2026 brought together around 700 attendees and 50 exhibitors over three days to talk about the future of customer contact. As the industry’s flagship event in Europe, it carried a certain energy that is hard to replicate, the kind that comes from having the right people in the […]
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• Marina Segal wants your cloud to say no

  13-10-2026 22:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cloud security spent a decade learning to see everything. Half of what it found is still open. Tamnoon’s CEO says the next decade belongs to machines that know when not to act, and as of today she is publishing what hers refused. Marina Segal helped build the machines that see everything. She was at Dome9 […]
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• Zuckerberg admits Meta spent $200B on AI without knowing it would work

  13-10-2026 22:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mark Zuckerberg says Meta committed as much as $200B to AI infrastructure before anyone could tell him it would work, with his chief AI officer saying it was not clear at all. Meta’s free cash flow fell 91% in the second quarter. Mark Zuckerberg says Meta committed to spending as much as $200B on AI […]
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• Google says Gemini 4 Argon is a ‘powerhouse’ AI model, and anyone can pay for it

  13-10-2026 20:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has released Gemini 4 Argon globally to paying users, in the Gemini app, in Search and through the API. The $2 and $10 per million token prices are a launch discount against standard rates of $4 and $20. Google has released Gemini 4 Argon to anyone willing to pay for it. The model is […]
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• Europe trails the US on AI because of how firms work, Sifted report says

  13-10-2026 20:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe is falling behind the US on AI use at work, and the main reason is not technology, according to a new report.The report from Sifted, sponsored by London Business School, says Europe has an organisational gap rather than a tech gap. Firms struggle with skills, management, trust and the cost of fitting AI into how […]
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• Google will let anyone publish an app to the Play Store, for free

  13-10-2026 19:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish privately listed Android apps built in its AI Studio, with no paid developer account. Apple spent this year tightening its own store against the same kind of software. Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish an Android app to the […]
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• Volkswagen’s US EV sales collapse 90% in a quarter

  13-10-2026 19:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States in the third quarter, a 90% fall, after ending ID.4 production and halting imports of its electric minivan. In Europe battery electric cars took 29% of new registrations in August. Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States between July and September. That is 90% […]
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• Jio Platforms attracts more than $20B in bids ahead of record India IPO

  13-10-2026 19:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jio Platforms has drawn more than $20B in bids for what would be India’s largest listing, with Fidelity, Allianz and Capital Group indicating interest. The company is now seeking about $108B, against the $170B bankers discussed last November. Jio Platforms has drawn more than $20B in bids for what would be India’s largest listing. The […]
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• Apple launches $299 HomeView hub alongside new smart home range

  13-10-2026 18:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around Siri AI, with shipping from 13 November in eight markets. The European Union is not one of them, because Siri AI is still blocked on iOS there. Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around the new Siri, with pre-orders open and shipping […]
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• Nvidia plans $2B in European AI deals in the next week

  13-10-2026 18:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2B of European investments within a week, on top of $8B over the past year, and named four French startups in Paris. Nvidia committed more than $40B to AI equity in the first four months of this year alone. Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2B of European investments […]
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• Data centre firms say the AI bottleneck is now power and labour

  13-10-2026 18:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Executives from NTT Data, Brookfield and Infosys say electricity and skilled labour, not chips, now limit how fast AI data centres get built. In Europe the binding constraint is worse, with grid connections in congested markets running to ten years. The thing slowing the AI buildout is no longer the chips. Executives running some of […]
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• Microsoft is on track for its first record close in a year

  13-10-2026 18:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft is on pace for its first record close since October 2025, having gained more than 50% from a June low and added roughly $1.5T in market value. The AI-disruption panic that caused the fall also hit SAP, which has not recovered. Microsoft is on track for its first record close in almost a year, […]
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• Pluto Security emerges from stealth with $42M in funding

  13-10-2026 18:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The next phase of enterprise software adoption is giving employees capabilities that once required dedicated engineering teams. AI tools can now help workers build applications, automate processes, and create agents. But each new capability introduces questions about data access, dependencies, and control. For cybersecurity investors, this shift presents an opportunity to back companies building security […]
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• KuCoin Nigeria gains conditional approval from Nigeria’s SEC

  13-10-2026 17:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  KuCoin Nigeria Limited has received conditional Approval-in-Principle (AIP) from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria (SEC Nigeria), for admission into its Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP). It advances the exchange’s efforts to establish a regulated presence in one of Africa’s most active digital asset markets. According to Chainalysis’ 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index, Nigeria ranks […]
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• AI in HR and decision fatigue: why automation only helps when it decides

  13-10-2026 16:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every day, a manager approves a time-off request, signs off on an expense report, resolves a scheduling conflict and weighs in on a performance review. None of it feels monumental. Together, it adds up to something behavioral researchers call “decision fatigue.” That is the measurable decline in judgment that follows a long run of choices. […]
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• NYT, AFP and Economist join SPUR coalition on AI use of news

  13-10-2026 15:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  The New York Times, Agence France-Presse, and The Economist have joined a coalition that wants AI companies to stop using news without permission, the group said on Monday. The coalition, known as SPUR Standards for Publisher Usage Rights, has now reached over 80 members across more than 20 countries. It was founded in February by […]
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• Goldman Sachs, Citadel and Google Alumni are building a blockchain exchange for real-world asset trading

  13-10-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepSigma has launched a paper-trading demo covering 77 traditional financial markets, using patented blockchain technology to bring crypto-style perpetual futures to stocks, commodities and other real-world assets. A team with backgrounds at Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Google and Uber is developing a decentralized exchange designed to bring one of crypto’s most popular trading models into traditional financial […]
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• Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI

  13-10-2026 14:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI models, with no operational impact, Palantir’s chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “It’s already been replaced,” Sankar said. The Pentagon stopped using Anthropic’s products after a dispute over its safeguards for military AI. It labelled the company a supply chain risk. […]
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• Clueso raises $10M for AI agents that make corporate video

  13-10-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Clueso has raised a $10M Series A led by Dharana Capital for AI agents that script, record and maintain corporate video, bringing total funding to $12M. The market it is entering is led by London’s Synthesia, which was valued at $4B in January after a $200M round. Clueso has raised a $10M Series A for […]
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• Batam residents protest as data centres grow and their taps run dry

  13-10-2026 13:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Hundreds of people in Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore, have protested outside a data centre park. They say their homes have had no running water for months while the facilities have kept their servers cool, the BBC reported. The protest took place on October 5 at the gate of Nongsa Digital Park, according to […]
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• Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likens many AI investors to casino gamblers

  13-10-2026 13:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan compared many AI investors to gamblers who have little idea what they are betting on. He spoke on Monday at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, Bloomberg reported. “A lot of investors have no clue what they are investing in,” Tan said. They “set very extreme expectations only […]
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• IMF warns $1.4tn in circular AI deals could deepen a market correction

  13-10-2026 13:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  A correction in AI-related stocks and debt could set off market turmoil, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. It named the AI risk as one of three that could sharply tighten financial conditions. The other two are a sharp rise in government bond yields and cyber threats. The warning came in the IMF’s Global […]
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• Milk is more regulated than AI, Microsoft’s Brad Smith tells the BBC

  13-10-2026 13:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has called for global safety rules for AI. They include a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaks into their systems. He set out his case on the BBC’s Big Boss Interview podcast with Will Bain, released on 11 October. Smith told the BBC: “Right now, your […]
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• Aramco Digital teams up with OrbitronAI to build AI for heavy industry

  13-10-2026 13:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Aramco Digital, the tech arm of Saudi oil giant Aramco, has teamed up with start-up OrbitronAI to build and sell AI tools for heavy industry, the two firms said. The tools are aimed at oil and gas, power, mining, transport, and factory firms. They are meant to help them find money lost to slow decisions, scattered data, […]
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• Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7bn, WSJ reports

  13-10-2026 13:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kate Clark and Lauren Thomas reported the talks, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could come soon if the talks do not fall apart and no […]
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• AI labs sought control over what outside evaluators publish, Reuters says

  13-10-2026 13:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for a big say over what outside reviewers of their AI models can make public, Reuters reported today, citing two people who know about the talks. Both companies worry that the findings could expose trade secrets. Both labs had recently promised outside reviewers a free hand. Last month, Anthropic boss Dario […]
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• ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other AI platform, Semrush finds

  13-10-2026 12:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other major AI platform, in both the UK and the US, Semrush said on Tuesday. From January to July, news took a bigger share of ChatGPT’s cited sources every month. Gemini, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews all trailed it. The pull is stronger in the UK. […]
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• Alibaba starts selling its Qwen N1 AI glasses in China from $450

  13-10-2026 12:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alibaba has started selling its new Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses in China, at prices from 2,999 yuan ($450) before discounts, Bloomberg reported from a launch event in Hangzhou on Tuesday. Several Chinese outlets put the starting price slightly lower, at 2,899 yuan. With state subsidies and launch offers, buyers can pay as little as 2,218 […]
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