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• Germany syphons €20B from climate pot to fund chip fabs

  26-07-2023 12:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Germany’s finance ministry is investing €20bn from its climate fund to bolster local production of semiconductors — critical components in everything from smartphones to fridges. The money will be doled out to a handful of chipmakers by 2027, Bloomberg reports.   The lion’s share of the subsidies will go to Intel’s planned megafab in Magdeburg, which will build advanced Angstrom-era chips. After months of protracted negotiations, the American chip giant ma
  
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• Google’s map of every possible DNA typo could speed up rare disease research

  08-09-2026 19:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte of precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, free for academic use. Its headline validations came from UK Biobank whole genomes at Exeter and from the Broad Institute, and commercial access is heading to Google Cloud. DeepMind has published AlphaGenome Atlas, a […]
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• Irish regulator probes X over age checks, with 10% of turnover at stake

  08-09-2026 18:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into whether X’s age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July and was allowed to appeal it in January, so it is being […]
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• Solid-state batteries just went into mass production. The line makes 6,000 packs a year

  08-09-2026 18:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  ProLogium says it has begun mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan at 381 Wh/kg, verified by TUV Rheinland and tested against a Chinese all-solid-state standard. Its subsidised Dunkirk gigafactory broke ground in February and its published staging starts at 0.8 GWh in 2028, in a Europe that has already lost Northvolt. ProLogium says it has begun […]
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• The Exploration Company raises $450m to build a rocket engine

  08-09-2026 18:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Exploration Company has raised $450m. Most of it goes into something the company is not yet famous for. Not Nyx, the reusable capsule that has drawn the contracts and the SpaceX comparisons. An engine. Kate Duffy reported the round for Bloomberg. Founder and chief executive Hélène Huby told her why the balance falls that […]
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• Plug-in hybrids emit six times their official rating, and carmakers want the fix cancelled

  08-09-2026 17:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Plug-in hybrids registered in the EU in 2024 emitted an average 145 grams of CO2 per kilometre against an official rating of 24 grams, according to Transport and Environment’s reading of onboard monitor data from 220,000 cars. Carmakers want the 2027 correction to that calculation cancelled, weeks before the Council debates the file. Plug-in hybrids […]
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• China put a 99.2% duty on a chemical chip fabs need

  08-09-2026 17:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  China has imposed a cash deposit of up to 99.2% on imports of a Japanese chemical that chip fabs use to build the films inside logic and memory chips. The rate is close to prohibitive. It took effect on Tuesday. China’s Ministry of Commerce published the preliminary determination on 7 September as Announcement No. 37 […]
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• Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices

  08-09-2026 17:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  The chief executive of a consultancy with 799,000 staff has described what her clients are telling her about AI, and it is not a sales pitch. “We promised AI can do that,” Julie Sweet told the Wall Street Journal. “And they’re like, we get it, except it’s not happening, help us make it happen.” Sweet […]
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• OpenAI just anchored an Australian company’s Malaysian data centres

  08-09-2026 16:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it. Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus […]
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• China’s answer to ASML runs on Zeiss lenses, Financial Times reports

  08-09-2026 16:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  China’s effort to build its own chipmaking machines finally has a coordinator. It is Huawei. And the flagship machine it is coordinating still runs on German lenses. Eleanor Olcott and Zijing Wu reported the arrangement for the Financial Times, citing multiple people familiar with the matter. TNW has not independently verified it. Huawei is investing […]
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• The US asked Britain to drop its plan to promote trusted news

  08-09-2026 16:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation on the government’s media Green Paper, which opened on 23 June. That […]
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• China has 70% of a material AI needs, IQE’s CEO warns, Bloomberg reports

  08-09-2026 15:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Welsh chipmaker has just posted a 40% jump in revenue. Its shares are up 849% this year. And its chief executive has told an interviewer that the industry has a supply problem it cannot fully solve. Sofia Gerace reported the interview for Bloomberg. Jutta Meier runs IQE, based in Cardiff. She said access to […]
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• Lightsage raises $4M to build the growth stack for software’s newest customer

  08-09-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  A San Francisco startup has raised $4M to help software get chosen by AI agents. Lightsage calls the category Agent-Led Growth, the company said. Nexus Venture Partners led the round. Angel backers include former Salesforce chief technology officer Steven Tamm, Postman chief executive Abhinav Asthana, Apollo chief executive Matt Curl and DocuSign president Robert Chatwani. […]
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• Byrrgis enters multi-chain trading with live token scoring and universal gas

  08-09-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  A new player in on-chain trading is bringing token discovery, real-time scoring and cross-chain execution into one terminal. Byrrgis has opened its beta to its full community, giving users access to a non-custodial trading platform spanning Solana, Ethereum and BNB Chain. The platform combines a live Scout Score with tools for finding coins early, buying […]
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• Palantir gets £21m from Britain’s grid operator, no competition

  08-09-2026 14:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’s publicly owned energy system operator has handed Palantir a £21.2m contract with no competition. The justification it filed is a plain description of why leaving will be difficult. Lindsay Clark reported the award for The Register on Tuesday. The underlying transparency notice sits on Find a Tender. It went up on 26 August. The […]
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• Google made search worse in Europe, and said so out loud

  08-09-2026 14:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google changed how search works in Europe on Tuesday. Then it told everyone the new version is worse. Foo Yun Chee reported the rollout for Reuters, which had the story first. The company is complying with an order from the European Commission, and it is doing so while describing the result as the biggest quality […]
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• Memory prices are slowing because buyers ran out of money

  08-09-2026 13:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Memory prices are finally slowing down, and the reason is not that supply improved. It is that buyers ran out of money. TrendForce expects conventional DRAM contract prices to rise 13% to 18% quarter on quarter in Q3. Dan Robinson reported the forecast for The Register. He paired it with separate European shipment numbers that […]
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• King Charles to host Huang and Hassabis at private AI summit

  08-09-2026 13:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  King Charles is convening about 30 senior figures from the AI industry at a Scottish country house this month. He does not intend to tell them what he thinks. Joseph Bambridge reported the plans for Politico. Two people familiar with them spoke on condition of anonymity, because nobody has announced the event. One of them […]
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• 100 DeepMind agents were told not to cheat. 14% did anyway

  08-09-2026 13:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google DeepMind put 100 AI agents in a room and asked them to prove hard mathematics. One found a way to cheat. Twenty-seven minutes later the entire problem set was gone. The paper, published on arXiv last week by six DeepMind researchers, is a case study rather than a benchmark. Nobody set out to test […]
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• Satellogic hires the former head of US spy-satellite intelligence as president

  08-09-2026 12:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Satellogic has appointed Frank D. “Trey” Whitworth as president, giving the day-to-day running of a commercial Earth-imaging company to the man who directed America’s spy-satellite intelligence agency until 10 months ago. The appointment was announced today by the company. Whitworth, a retired US Navy vice admiral, directed the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from June 2022 to […]
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• Altman sells startup optimism days after warning of ‘sobering’ AI

  08-09-2026 12:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sam Altman gave Axios two interviews four days apart. In the first he said the next generation of AI models would be “sobering for everybody”. In the second he said this is the best time in the world to start a company. Both were with the same reporter, Mike Allen. Both happened around the G20 […]
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• Macron asks Brussels for an under-15s social media ban after France’s own was struck down

  08-09-2026 12:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron has asked the European Commission to ban children under 15 from social media across the bloc, three weeks after France’s highest constitutional authority struck down his government’s attempt to do the same thing nationally. The request came in a letter to Commission president Ursula von der Leyen dated 29 August, reported by Reuters on Tuesday. […]
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• Lenovo opens a phone line to Eva Longoria for entrepreneurs

  08-09-2026 12:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lenovo has given entrepreneurs a phone number to ring, and Eva Longoria is on the other end of it. The service is called Call Eva. It opened on Tuesday and works roughly the way a radio phone-in does. You call, you leave a voice note with a business question, and you wait. Lenovo says it […]
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• EU trade chief will ask CEOs how much decoupling from China they can afford

  08-09-2026 12:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission has a plan to loosen China’s grip on the supply chains that feed European industry, and before it proposes the plan formally, it wants to find out how much of it companies are prepared to pay for. Trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is expected to put that question to European chief executives on […]
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• TSMC backs ASML’s plan for bigger masks so its newest machines can print AI’s biggest chips

  08-09-2026 12:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  ASML’s most advanced lithography machines cannot print the largest chips the AI industry currently builds. The company now has a plan to change that, and it has brought TSMC in on it. The initiative was reported by Reuters on Tuesday and confirmed the same day in a joint announcement from the two companies. ASML wants to move […]
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• Stoke Space raises $1bn for a rocket that has never flown

  08-09-2026 12:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Stoke Space has raised a billion dollars for a rocket that has never flown. The Washington company says the Series E takes its total funding to $2.3bn. It has not yet reached orbit once. Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round, according to Stoke’s announcement. General Innovation, Glade Brook Capital, US Innovation Technology, Washington […]
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• Slovenia becomes the sixth EU country to clear Tesla’s FSD, a month before the bloc votes

  08-09-2026 11:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Slovenia has approved Tesla’s FSD Supervised, becoming the sixth European Union member state to let the driver-assistance system onto its roads. The timing is the point: an EU-wide vote that could open all 27 markets at once is expected in under a month. The approval was reported by Reuters on Tuesday. Tesla announced it in a post […]
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• Huawei faces a US racketeering trial in New York this week

  08-09-2026 11:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Huawei goes on trial in New York this week, seven years after the United States charged it. Jury selection begins on Tuesday. The company is accused of racketeering, stealing trade secrets, wire fraud and bank fraud, and it denies all of it. Larry Neumeister reported the trial date for the Associated Press. Every charge is […]
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• South Korea’s AI boom could need 20 new nuclear reactors’ worth of power

  08-09-2026 11:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  South Korea expects artificial intelligence, and the chip fabs feeding it, to add between 25 and 30 gigawatts to national electricity demand, which by the country’s own reactor standards is roughly 20 nuclear plants. The government now has to decide whether to build them. The figure comes from Kim Sung-hwan, minister of climate, energy and […]
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• Health minister says mistrust of Palantir is pushing NHS patients to opt out of data sharing

  08-09-2026 10:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UK minister responsible for health innovation has told MPs that public mistrust of Palantir is making patients less willing to hand their medical records to the NHS, and that the number of people formally opting out of data sharing has risen by roughly 60,000 over four months. The admission sits in a letter from […]
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