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• Have aliens visited Earth? US Congress doesn’t rule it out

  24-05-2022 13:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs). The last investigation of this kind happened more than 50 years ago, as part of a US Air Force investigation called Project Blue Book, which examined reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (note the change in name). The current hearings are the result of a stipulation attached to a 2020 COVID-19 relief bill, which required US Intelligence
  
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• ChatGPT becomes the first AI chatbot designated under the DSA

  31-08-2026 13:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Monday’s designation brings the chatbot under the Digital Services Act as a Very Large Online Search Engine, alongside Reddit and Roblox, which have been designated as Very Large Online Platforms. ChatGPT is the first AI chatbot to be designated under the regime. The Commission announced […]
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• Honda and Nissan will share the software in their cars from 2029

  31-08-2026 12:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Eighteen months after their merger fell apart over who would control whom, Honda and Nissan have agreed to share the software inside their cars. The two signed a joint development agreement on Monday covering electronic control units, an in-vehicle operating system, middleware and vehicle control software, with the first cars arriving from fiscal 2029. The agreement is […]
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• Singapore is putting S$220M into fintech as private funding hits a decade low

  31-08-2026 11:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Singapore has committed S$220M, about $173M, to its fintech sector over the next three years. It made the announcement three days after KPMG reported that private investment in Singaporean fintech had fallen to its weakest first half in roughly a decade. The timing is not a coincidence, and nobody is pretending otherwise. Gan Kim Yong, […]
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• Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an early-stage company

  31-08-2026 11:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Pinterest’s chief financial officer is leaving for a private, early-stage company, and investors reacted quickly. Julia Donnelly will step down on October 30, Reuters reported, with the company’s shares falling as much as 3.8% in after-hours trading on Friday. Donnelly joined Pinterest in 2023 from Wayfair, where she was global head of finance, and has […]
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• Europe has ordered a €388M AI supercomputer from its own state-owned champion

  31-08-2026 11:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five months ago. The order is the sixth AI Factory procurement contract signed by […]
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• OpenAI has started letting some customers pay only when the AI works

  31-08-2026 10:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has begun letting some of its largest customers pay only when its AI actually completes the job. Kevin McLaughlin and Amir Efrati reported the change to The Information, giving the example of a customer support interaction handled end-to-end. The arrangement is limited to select major accounts rather than offered generally, and OpenAI has not announced […]
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• AI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong in NHS records

  31-08-2026 10:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read “null demyelination”, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That case appears in a warning from Healthwatch England, the statutory patient watchdog, reported by the Guardian today. […]
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• Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models

  31-08-2026 10:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The New York Times reported, citing two people who declined to be […]
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• The Justice Department rewrote its own hacking announcement two days later

  31-08-2026 10:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other federal bodies. The revised version says those organisations were targets, and that only some were actually compromised, as Reuters reported. The original text went out on […]
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• SB Energy gave OpenAI $5.5bn in warrants to sign a 20-year lease

  31-08-2026 10:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  SB Energy has handed OpenAI warrants now worth about $5.5bn, and it did so to keep OpenAI as a tenant. The Wall Street Journal reported the arrangement on Monday. The direction matters and is easy to get backwards. SB Energy, the SoftBank-owned power and data centre developer, is the issuer, and OpenAI is the recipient, […]
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• AI-driven cyber attacks are now the top risk to the financial system, the FSB says

  31-08-2026 10:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  The chair of the Financial Stability Board has told G20 finance ministers that what artificial intelligence does to cyber risk is now the most immediate threat to the global financial system. Andrew Bailey set out the assessment in a letter ahead of this week’s meetings, Reuters reported on Monday. His argument is more about economics, as AI […]
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• MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets

  30-08-2026 23:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate curriculum and has driven measurable shifts in campus culture in under three years. In the EU, systems that monitor students during tests are high-risk under the AI Act and emotion recognition in education has been prohibited since […]
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• Google Maps relabels Lake Ontario as Lake America for US users

  30-08-2026 16:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google Maps now labels Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an update to the US Geographic Names Information System, while Canadian users see the old name and everyone else sees both. Google Maps has been a designated very large online platform in the EU since April 2023, with duties […]
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• UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators

  30-08-2026 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts requiring permission. The EU’s Gigabit Infrastructure Act has since November given authorities four months to decide a permit, after which it is deemed […]
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• How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it

  30-08-2026 12:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot tax in February 2017, the same month the European Parliament adopted robotics rules […]
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• Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data

  30-08-2026 11:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics allegedly taken from pirate archives, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per composition. A Munich court ruled in November 2025 that memorising lyrics inside a model is reproduction and that the text and data mining […]
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• Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?

  29-08-2026 20:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more than 3 million open-source LLMs, for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, […]
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• Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion

  29-08-2026 20:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more than 3 million open-source LLMs, for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, […]
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• Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list

  29-08-2026 17:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese military company, a designation that blocks defence contracts without restricting commercial sales. The company is the world’s fourth-largest DRAM maker and passed Tencent this month to become China’s most valuable listed company. CXMT has sued […]
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• BYD doubled its 1,500kW charging network in five months and wants to double it again by December

  29-08-2026 17:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station on 28 August, doubling the network in under five months, with each connector rated at up to 1,500kW. European rules require a charging pool on the core road network to deliver 400kW in total this year, rising to 600kW by 2027. BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station […]
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• OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition

  29-08-2026 12:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in Cursor on every plan. OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor. The […]
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• A rethink for China’s carmakers as regulators tell them to fix quality, not add features

  29-08-2026 11:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Four Chinese ministries have begun a yearlong vehicle quality campaign that bars carmakers from changing technical parameters through over-the-air updates after test samples are sealed, with penalties including suspension from the product catalogue. A separate mandatory standard requires physical controls for 19 functions from July 2027. Four Chinese ministries have launched a yearlong inspection campaign […]
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• This graphite-free battery could break China’s grip on the EV supply chain

  29-08-2026 11:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Pure Lithium says a laboratory cell with no graphite anode completed 9,315 charge and discharge cycles with almost no capacity loss, a result no third party has validated. The EU wants to process 40% of its own strategic raw materials by 2030 and cap any single country at 65%, while China processes more than 90% […]
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• The data center boom will fail its promise if safety and workforce development continue to lag behind

  29-08-2026 00:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  The data center boom will be judged not only by how much infrastructure we build, but by whether the people building it return home safely. Major opportunities bring a rush for capital, market share, and industry leadership. Schedules tighten, hiring accelerates, and safety can be treated as an obstacle. From what I have seen in […]
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• Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agents are authorized to act

  28-08-2026 23:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  A 2026 IBM study points to questions about AI readiness, visibility, and control. The survey of 2,000 C-level technology executives found 11% felt fully prepared for the AI-agent deployment expected over the following year. Two-thirds of CIOs and CTOs said they were accountable for AI systems they did not fully control, while 70% said teams […]
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• Tim Draper, the SpaceX and Tesla investor, is selling his $7.9M private island in Tanzania

  28-08-2026 23:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tim Draper is selling his island in Lake Tanganyika for $7.9M or best offer, announcing it himself on X and inviting offers directly by email. The ECB reported this month that EU venture capital funds hold around 150B euros against roughly 930B euros in the United States. Tim Draper is selling his island in Lake […]
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• I’m 19, and I’ve watched more than 200 brands quietly give up on influencers

  28-08-2026 22:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  I’m 19, and I’ve had an odd seat for the last couple of years of the creator economy. My company runs a marketplace that connects consumer brands with creators, and it’s grown to more than 200 brands. From that seat, I keep watching the same thing happen: companies walk in expecting to pay for reach, […]
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• Lucid recalls 27,185 Air sedans over a software fuse that did not cut the power

  28-08-2026 20:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lucid is recalling 27,185 Air sedans because the software eFuse protecting their exterior lighting circuits can allow overheating, with owners told to park away from structures until the car is updated. The filing records three fires and four smoke incidents, the first in a Lucid-owned car in June 2023. Lucid is recalling 27,185 Air sedans […]
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• Lambda inks $1B private debt for Nvidia chip deal

  28-08-2026 19:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lambda has raised about $1B of private short-dated debt arranged by JPMorgan to buy Nvidia GPUs that Microsoft will lease, according to Bloomberg. The same structure funds Nebius, which borrowed $775M against its own chips and holds a five-year Microsoft contract worth $19.4B. Lambda has raised about $1B of private debt to buy Nvidia chips […]
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