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• Geely Sweden Holdings CEO Per Ansgar joins Concordium Foundation board

  09-09-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Per Ansgar, CEO of Geely Sweden Holdings, joins the Concordium Foundation Board, deepening a five-year Geely-Concordium partnership focused on verified identity infrastructure for AI agents and machine-initiated payments in connected vehicles. The Concordium Foundation today announced the appointment of Per Ansgar, Chief Executive Officer of Geely Sweden Holdings AB, to its Board, adding an executive […]
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• Google and NASA JPL release an AI model that maps methane plumes worldwide

  09-09-2026 21:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europe’s Methane Regulation ordered a satellite monitoring tool and a super-emitter alert system, but it covers only […]
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• Google adds three features to its AI plans, and keeps a fourth for Americans

  09-09-2026 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google’s autumn roundup of its AI subscriptions leads on Gemini Spark handling web errands through Chrome for US subscribers, alongside voice tools, an image editor and a spreadsheet app builder that do reach Europe. Spark itself is unavailable across the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK, and Google has given no reason. Google has […]
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• Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.

  09-09-2026 20:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in another, which are not equivalent claims. Roughly half the total is MGX, the state-backed […]
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• Boston Dynamics spinoff looks to build robots for entertainment

  09-09-2026 20:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europe’s Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January 2027, and the French company that created this category was sold to a Shenzhen buyer last year. Dynamic Creatures, […]
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• Instacart says AI-built carts beat its $115 average basket. Shipt shipped the same feature and called it relief from mental load.

  09-09-2026 20:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Shipt and Instacart both launched AI assistants that build a grocery cart from a prompt or a photo on 9 September. Instacart said orders placed through its assistant contain more items than a typical order and exceed its $115 average basket, while Shipt’s announcement gives no equivalent figure and frames the product as relief from […]
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• Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,999

  09-09-2026 20:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has made a foldable iPhone. It is called the iPhone Duo, it opens to 7.6 inches, and it starts at $1,999. The price is the news. Analysts expected $2,500. Samsung, which has had this category almost to itself for seven years, sells its Z Fold8 Ultra at $2,099. Apple arrived last and priced below […]
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• Apple’s new watches listen, summarise and chime while they do it

  09-09-2026 20:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple’s new watches can replay the last 15 seconds of a conversation you just had. Press the Digital Crown twice and the words appear as text on your wrist. The feature is called Live Rewind. It arrives with the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watch Ultra 4. It will not work in the […]
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• China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

  09-09-2026 20:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacturers for clear indicators when a camera or microphone is recording. Those rules regulate an act […]
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• Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro has variable aperture, and no Siri AI in Europe

  09-09-2026 19:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The headline feature is a camera that can change its aperture, which no iPhone has done before. Two of the phone’s flagship features will not work in Europe at launch. Apple announced both models on Wednesday. Pre-orders open on Saturday 12 September and […]
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• How I learned to stop worrying and love the gamification of finance

  09-09-2026 19:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Gamification has a bad name in finance, and rightfully so. Trading apps fired confetti when you bought options. Meme stocks turned rent money into casino chips. Say “gamified finance” today and people picture slot machines packaged as financial products. The gamification itself was not the problem. The problem was the mechanisms powering these experiences: leveraged […]
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• The average American PC now costs more than $1,000

  09-09-2026 19:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The average PC sold in the United States now costs more than $1,000. That has never happened before. Average sell-in prices crossed the line in the second quarter, up 12.0% year on year, according to Omdia. US shipments grew 1.0% in the quarter to 18.8 million units, after falling 7.0% in the first. Omdia expects […]
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• LG denies the standby recording. It confirms the network scanning, and says every smart TV does it.

  09-09-2026 19:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Gamers Nexus investigation says LG smart TVs scan local networks, record standby audio and use content recognition across inputs, feeding data to LG Ad Solutions. LG says the claims are not true, while confirming that its televisions scan local networks and calling that standard across the industry. Content recognition is near-universal among smart TV […]
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• Silver Lake is merging Cegid and Silae into a €10bn French software group

  09-09-2026 19:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Silver Lake is merging two companies it already owns. Cegid and Silae are both French. Both are majority-owned by the American private equity firm. On Wednesday they announced their intention to merge. The deal is expected to value the combined group at more than €10bn in enterprise value. Silver Lake will remain the majority shareholder. […]
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• Racing the clock: How Ashok Kumar turned milliseconds into millions in global ecommerce

  09-09-2026 19:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ashok Kumar, Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech, has built his career around making large-scale ecommerce systems faster, more reliable, and more economical. His work spans web performance, marketplace fulfillment, cloud cost optimization, and a patented distributed-cloud performance control system. Every online shopper is running an invisible stopwatch, whether they realize it or not. […]
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• Tesla is building Superchargers only its robotaxis can use, five years after opening them

  09-09-2026 19:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla is building Supercharger stations dedicated to its robotaxi fleet, which currently uses public sites where operators plug the cars in by hand. Europe was where Tesla first opened the network to other brands, and its charging rules count only publicly accessible capacity. Tesla is building Supercharger stations dedicated to its robotaxi fleet, InsideEVs reported. […]
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• Covenant leaves stealth with Anthem and factories in three countries

  09-09-2026 18:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  A defence company nobody had heard of on Tuesday opened a 105,000 square foot missile factory in Texas on Wednesday. Covenant came out of stealth this morning. It announced Anthem, a long-range weapon system it says is designed for production in the thousands, along with more than $250m raised across three rounds and roughly $150m […]
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• Toyota recalls 10,000 C-HR EVs that may lose power, and none of them can update themselves

  09-09-2026 18:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Toyota is recalling about 10,000 2026 C-HR electric crossovers in North America because a control unit can overcharge the traction battery under regenerative braking and shut the drive system down while driving. The fix is a software update the car cannot receive wirelessly, which European rules would document but not prevent. Toyota is recalling about […]
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• A $1bn Spanish data centre deal, with no customer and no address

  09-09-2026 18:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  HSCALE has signed a contract worth more than $1bn with an American cloud provider it will not name, for a Spanish data centre campus it will not locate. The company announced the deal this week. It describes the customer only as “a significant global cloud provider” and the site only as “a strategic metropolitan area […]
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• LG’s experimental LMR cells held 92.2% of their energy after 883 cycles

  09-09-2026 18:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  LG Energy Solution and Seoul National University report experimental lithium manganese-rich cells retaining 92.2% of their energy after 883 cycles, achieved by changing charge and discharge voltages rather than materials. The chemistry replaces nickel and cobalt with manganese, a strategic raw material China refines almost all of and Europe barely produces. LG Energy Solution and […]
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• White House warns Australia over social media algorithm rules carrying A$109M fines

  09-09-2026 18:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  The White House has warned Australia over draft laws that would force social media platforms to offer users a feed not built by an algorithm, placing the bill in the same category as digital services taxes and describing penalties on American technology companies as a form of extortion. The Trump administration intends to raise the […]
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• Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary premieres in Venice with an AI-simulated interview

  09-09-2026 18:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday. As its subject declined to sit for an interview, the film built one. In a fine irony, a CGI avatar of Musk, driven by AI voice syncing, delivers statements he made in real interviews elsewhere. A man who has spent a […]
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• Amkor is taking its Arizona chip packaging campus to $12bn

  09-09-2026 17:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amkor is roughly tripling the size of the chip packaging campus it is building in Arizona. The company announced phase 2 on Tuesday. It adds 60,000 square metres of cleanroom to the 33,000 already planned, taking the site to about 93,000 square metres, and lifts the total planned investment to approximately $12bn. Construction starts in […]
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• Chime is paying $590m for its own sponsor bank

  09-09-2026 17:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Chime is buying the bank that has held its customers’ money for seven years. The company announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Stride Bank of Enid, Oklahoma, for $590m in cash. Stride will become Chime Bank and operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. Closing should follow in the first half of 2027. […]
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• Kawasaki signed an AI chip deal with a startup the Pentagon backs

  09-09-2026 17:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed an agreement to put a startup’s AI chips into Japanese aerial defence platforms. The chip company is the interesting part. EdgeCortix, a fabless semiconductor firm based in Kanagawa, announced the deal last week, a teaming agreement running from 2026 to 2028. Hideaki Nishimoto, who runs Kawasaki’s defence and aerospace division, […]
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• EU proposes a single procurement rulebook with a European preference for public buyers

  09-09-2026 17:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission has proposed replacing the EU’s public procurement directives with a single regulation that would apply directly across the bloc. The proposal would introduce a European preference framework for public contracts and create the basis for a digital marketplace connecting tender systems across all 27 member states. The proposal was adopted in Brussels […]
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• Waymo robotaxis go live on the Lyft app in Nashville

  09-09-2026 16:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Waymo’s driverless cars can now be booked through the Lyft app in Nashville, making it the first market where the same autonomous fleet is available through two competing rideshare platforms. The service covers central Nashville, including Downtown and Broadway, North Nashville and Germantown, East Nashville, Midtown and South Nashville. Riders can choose Standard, Priority Pickup, […]
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• Pentagon AI chief says US allies lack the resources to keep pace

  09-09-2026 16:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Pentagon’s most senior artificial intelligence official has said publicly what allied defence ministries have been hearing privately for the past two years: they do not have the same resources as the US, and they are unlikely to catch up anytime soon. Cameron Stanley, the Department of War’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, made […]
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• Amazon sells its first sterling bonds, taking 2026 borrowing past $92bn

  09-09-2026 15:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon has opened books on its first sterling bonds, a four-part deal running from three to 19 years, adding another currency to a borrowing programme that has already raised the equivalent of more than $92bn this year. The sale was reported by Reuters on Wednesday, with pricing expected the same day. Initial guidance put the three-year tranche […]
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• Analog Devices will pay $1.35bn for edge AI chipmaker Alif Semiconductor

  09-09-2026 15:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Analog Devices has agreed to buy Alif Semiconductor for $1.35bn in cash, with up to $200m more contingent on performance, adding a line of microcontrollers built to run neural networks inside devices rather than send data to a data centre. The deal was announced today, and it is expected to close before the end of this […]
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