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• Hackers steal $480,000 worth of NULS cryptocurrency from its dev team

  23-12-2019 15:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Hackers ransacked accounts belonging to the development team of an obscure blockchain earlier today, stealing $480,000 worth of an obscure token known as NULS. The NULS team confirmed the attack in a tweet posted this morning. In total, two million NULS ($480,000) were taken. Of that stash, the team reported that more than half a million tokens have been liquidated via cryptocurrency exchanges. That amount equates to roughly $131,600. The team plans to “hard fork” the bloc
  
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• Britain’s Cosine rallies BT, HSBC, and BAE to build a “sovereign” AI model and cut its reliance on US tech

  08-06-2026 14:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’s banks, telecoms, and weapons-makers have a new shared anxiety: that the AI they increasingly run on is built, owned, and controlled in the United States. A startup barely three years old is betting they will pay to fix it. Cosine, a UK frontier-AI lab, has assembled a coalition of blue-chip British institutions to co-design […]
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• The US wants NATO allies to spend their new defence budgets ripping out Huawei

  08-06-2026 14:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members should use defence-related funding, the spending that counts towards the alliance’s targets, to rip out Huawei […]
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• Bending Spoons, the Milan firm behind Evernote and Vimeo, files for a US IPO

  08-06-2026 14:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bending Spoons does not build many apps. It buys them, fixes the finances, and runs them. Now it wants Wall Street to buy a piece of the machine. The Milan-based group behind Evernote, WeTransfer, and Vimeo has filed for a US initial public offering, submitting a Form F-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission. It […]
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• AI is choosing which online stores you see, and it’s ignoring most of them

  08-06-2026 13:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Shoppers are starting to ask AI assistants what to buy, not just how to spell a word or what to cook for dinner. A new study suggests that when they do, most online stores are nowhere in the answer. The research, from AI commerce company Recomaze, ran six purchase-intent queries against each of 9,720 ecommerce […]
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• Uber opens a London waitlist for Wayve robotaxis as the UK’s driverless race kicks off

  08-06-2026 13:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  London’s robotaxi era is starting with a sign-up form. Uber has opened a waitlist for Londoners who want to ride in a self-driving car, the clearest sign yet that driverless taxis are about to reach the capital’s streets. The rides will be powered by Wayve, the London-based self-driving startup, under a partnership in which Uber […]
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• A UK startup says it can cut data centre network power by 81% by replacing every electrical switch with light

  08-06-2026 13:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  For decades, the networks inside data centres have run on electrical switches. They are power-hungry, generate enormous heat, and are increasingly the bottleneck that limits how fast AI systems can process and exchange data. Oriole Networks, a UK startup, says it has a fix: replace every electrical switch in the core network with nanosecond-scale optical […]
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• Nvidia and Hyundai go deeper on robotics, with Boston Dynamics’ Atlas at the centre

  08-06-2026 13:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  The lobby of Hyundai’s Seoul headquarters now waters its own plants. On Monday it was also handling security and deliveries, a row of robots laid on for one important visitor: Jensen Huang. Nvidia’s chief executive was in the South Korean capital to deepen the chipmaker’s alliance with Hyundai Motor Group, and the pitch on display […]
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• Berlin’s GALVANY raises €10M to fix Germany’s broken heat-pump market, and it’s already profitable

  08-06-2026 12:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Germany has no shortage of heat pumps on paper. What it lacks is a way to get them sold, installed, subsidised, and paid off without the whole thing falling apart somewhere in the middle. GALVANY, a Berlin startup that runs the entire heat-pump journey from sale to installation to ongoing energy management, has raised €10mn […]
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• Ghent’s Companion.energy raises €7.8M to automate enterprise energy in real time

  08-06-2026 12:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  The seed round, led by Realyze Ventures and Pi Labs, will fund expansion into Germany and Spain as volatile power markets push large industrial firms past their spreadsheets. Electricity used to move with the seasons. Now it moves by the minute, and the spreadsheets that large industrial firms still rely on to manage it cannot […]
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• PhysicsX hits $2.4bn valuation as Temasek leads $300m round for the AI startup that cuts simulation times from days to seconds

  08-06-2026 11:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  London-based PhysicsX has raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, more than doubling its valuation to $2.4 billion, less than a year after its Series B priced the company at just under $1 billion. The round was oversubscribed. Alongside Temasek, which first invested in PhysicsX during its […]
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• The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here

  08-06-2026 11:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment has arrived. He was talking about social media. But the legal machinery he described is […]
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• A UK startup just raised $18.5 million to fly satellites where nobody else can

  08-06-2026 11:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Between commercial aircraft at 10km and conventional satellites at 500km lies a band of near-Earth space that has never been used commercially. Very low Earth orbit, or VLEO, sits at 200 to 300km, an altitude historically reserved for spy satellites and the International Space Station. Reading-based NewOrbit announced on Monday an oversubscribed $18.5 million Series A to […]
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• JPMorgan poaches Nomura’s international AI strategy chief as Dimon doubles down on AI hiring

  08-06-2026 10:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  JPMorgan Chase is hiring Nomura Holdings’ international head of artificial intelligence strategy, according to Bloomberg, as the largest US bank by assets accelerates its recruitment of AI specialists. Singapore-based Tahir Zafar, who joined Nomura in late 2023 and was promoted to his current role in March 2025, is expected to start around July after completing […]
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• The AI models finding 10,000 vulnerabilities are the same ones China is trying to copy. That is the problem.

  08-06-2026 10:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  In May, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed the first known case of an AI system discovering and weaponising a zero-day exploit that was then deployed in the wild. A criminal actor used a frontier model to find a two-factor authentication bypass, build a working exploit, and use it before any defender knew the vulnerability existed. That […]
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• Moonshot AI wants a $30bn valuation six months after being worth $4bn. That tells you everything about China’s AI funding race.

  08-06-2026 10:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is seeking as much as $2 billion in a new funding round that would value the company at $30 billion, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. If the round closes at that target, it would mark a seven-fold increase in capitalisation since December, when the startup was valued at just […]
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• South Korea’s AI chip boom is so strong it’s crushing the bond market

  08-06-2026 10:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI boom that has made Samsung and SK Hynix trillion-dollar companies and sent the Kospi up roughly 80% is doing something unusual to South Korea’s bond market: destroying it. Korean government bonds have lost 7.5% in 2026 in local-currency terms, the worst performance among 44 sovereign markets tracked by Bloomberg. The benchmark three-year yield has climbed […]
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• Mexico unveils the Olinia Uno, an $8,600 government-backed electric vehicle designed for city streets

  08-06-2026 10:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mexico’s government-backed electric vehicle project Olinia has unveiled its first prototype, a six-seat passenger vehicle called the Olinia Uno, at a ceremony where President Claudia Sheinbaum drove the car onto a stage inside a Mexican Air Force hangar north of Mexico City. The vehicle is priced at 150,000 pesos, roughly $8,600, and is designed for […]
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• Nvidia locks in SK Hynix for the AI memory race as the chip industry’s “toughest bottleneck” gets its own multi-year deal

  08-06-2026 09:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia and SK Hynix have signed a multi-year agreement covering both the design and manufacture of next-generation memory chips for AI. The deal, announced on Sunday during Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s tour of South Korea, gives SK Hynix a formal co-development role in the high-bandwidth memory that will power Nvidia’s most advanced accelerators, starting with the Vera […]
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• Spotify is licensing live concert video and reserving tickets for superfans

  08-06-2026 09:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing the rights to stream live video from music festivals, according to Bloomberg, as the Swedish streaming company pushes to become a broader hub for the live music economy. The company has already started adding footage from live events, including a Dua Lipa show in Mexico City. The live […]
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• China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces

  07-06-2026 15:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  China wants its electric vehicles to go on a diet. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kg in 2024, roughly a third more than in 2012, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday. Many popular SUVs and MPVs now approach or exceed 2 metres in width, squeezing into parking spaces designed a decade […]
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• UK plans to buy AI chips from British firms to stop them leaving for the US

  07-06-2026 14:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UK government will offer to buy AI chips directly from British technology companies in a bid to keep them in the country. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall will outline plans for “strategic purchases” of semiconductor equipment from UK-based firms at London Tech Week this week, the Telegraph reported. The initiative includes access to taxpayer-backed funding […]
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• Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab

  07-06-2026 13:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  A San Francisco Airbnb host is suing The Bot Company, the $2 billion robotics startup founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, for allegedly using his home as a secret robot testing lab. Sean Donovan claims workers booked his Portola neighbourhood property under false pretences in April, posing as remote workers from Thailand. He is seeking […]
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• Trump signs memo putting ‘most advanced AI’ into military hands and banning vendors from pulling the plug

  07-06-2026 12:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  President Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum on Friday ordering the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of cutting-edge AI. The directive, NSPM-11, establishes a framework for “rapid onboarding of the most advanced AI models from multiple vendors.” It also bars any company from disabling, degrading, or modifying an AI system […]
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• OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT to block data theft from prompt injection attacks

  07-06-2026 11:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has begun rolling out Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT, a new security setting designed to block attackers from stealing data through prompt injection attacks. The feature disables live web browsing, agent mode, deep research, image retrieval, Canvas networking, and file downloads. It is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT […]
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• Robot dogs, hunter drones, and AI cameras: the tech securing the 2026 World Cup

  07-06-2026 10:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  The 2026 World Cup kicks off next week across 16 cities in the US, Mexico, and Canada. It is the largest in history: 48 teams, 104 matches, 39 days. It is also the most technologically surveilled sporting event ever staged, with robot dogs, net-shooting hunter drones, and thousands of AI-powered cameras deployed across venues and […]
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• Trump’s top AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is stepping down from the White House

  07-06-2026 10:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sriram Krishnan, the White House’s senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence, is stepping down. The former Andreessen Horowitz partner was tapped by President Donald Trump to help shape the administration’s AI strategy during his second term. He will leave at the end of June, according to the Washington Post. Krishnan played a central role in […]
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• Audi’s 1,001 PS Nuvolari is its fastest car ever, and it’s not electric

  06-06-2026 22:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Audi has revealed the Nuvolari, the fastest and most powerful production vehicle in its history. The hybrid supercar produces 1,001 PS (736 kW) from a 4.0-litre V8 biturbo paired with three axial flux electric motors. Only 499 will be built, starting at €600,000. The V8 alone delivers 800 PS and revs to 10,000 rpm, territory […]
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• Chinese EVs are circling the US market. Detroit’s best option may be to partner with them.

  06-06-2026 16:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Chinese electric vehicles face 125% cumulative tariffs, a proposed Senate ban, and fierce opposition from lawmakers and the US auto industry. But there is a growing possibility that Chinese EVs will be sold in the US within the next few years. The routes in are multiplying: through Canada, Mexico, and partnerships with the very automakers […]
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• Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be rationed because of energy limits

  06-06-2026 15:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned on Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because the power supply cannot keep up with its capabilities. He said companies and governments face “very big social choices” as energy constraints force trade-offs between sectors. The question is not whether AI can do more, but whether […]
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