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• Here’s why AI deserves the same rights as animals

  24-11-2019 18:00 via The Next Web
  
  Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence (AI), as are organizations such as the Allen Institute, and tech companies including Google and Facebook. A likely result is that we will soon have AI approximately as cognitively sophisticated as mice or dogs. Now is the time to start thinking about whether, and under what conditions, these AI might deserve the ethical protections we typically give to animals. Discussions of ‘AI rights’ or &lsquo
  
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• Aircall co-founder Olivier Pailhès returns as CEO to push AI voice agents

  29-10-2026 19:09 via The Next Web
  
  Olivier Pailhès, who co-founded Aircall in Paris in 2014, has returned as its chief executive. He replaces Scott Chancellor and takes over a business phone company that now sells AI voice agents. Aircall announced the change on Thursday in a press release. Pailhès was Aircall CEO from its founding until 2023 and has stayed on […]
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• Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open

  29-10-2026 18:54 via The Next Web
  
  Voice AI company Deepgram is buying Daily, the maker of Pipecat, an open-source framework for building voice agents. Pipecat will stay open source and free under its existing BSD V2 licence. The companies are also setting up an independent Pipecat Foundation. Deepgram announced the deal on Thursday in a blog post, on the day of […]
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• Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt AI with Amii

  29-10-2026 18:51 via The Next Web
  
  Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M. Total federal support is now C$5.6M, and the programme has helped 30 firms since 2024. Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will help 25 more small businesses in Canada’s Prairie provinces […]
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• Serval raises $150m at $3bn valuation to replace ServiceNow with AI agents

  29-10-2026 18:45 via The Next Web
  
  Serval has raised $150m in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the San Francisco company at $3bn. That is three times the $1bn valuation it reached in December, when it raised $75m. Serval announced the round on Thursday in a blog post and a press release. Co-founder and chief executive Jake Stauch spoke […]
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• Alphabet’s AI commitments pass $1tn, its quarterly filing shows

  29-10-2026 18:16 via The Next Web
  
  Alphabet’s quarterly filing, published on Thursday, puts its future payments for computing, energy and data centres at more than $1tn. These Alphabet commitments do not appear on its balance sheet, the filing says. Davey Alba reported the figures for Bloomberg. Chief financial officer Anat Ashkenazi had given the $1tn-plus total on Wednesday’s earnings call, Bloomberg […]
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• Alphabet shares fall 12% after Google says AI Mode searches earn less

  29-10-2026 18:11 via The Next Web
  
  By 9:35am in New York on Thursday, Alphabet had lost $511bn in market value, Julia Love and Davey Alba reported for Bloomberg. The shares were down more than 12%. It was the company’s biggest market value loss on record. A close more than 9.77% lower would be Alphabet’s worst reaction to results since its 2004 […]
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• Solink raises over $100M to turn security cameras into business data

  29-10-2026 18:07 via The Next Web
  
  Solink raised more than $100M led by Vertu Capital, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures joining. Its AI turns existing cameras in shops, restaurants and warehouses into data on theft, service and safety. It covers 35,000 locations in 65 countries. Solink, an Ottawa startup that turns shops’ security cameras into a source […]
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• The X ticker is free as Musk weighs a SpaceX-Tesla merger

  29-10-2026 17:49 via The Next Web
  
  No US stock trades under X since Nippon Steel bought US Steel last year. With SpaceX and Tesla exploring a merger, investors say Musk could claim the symbol, though he has not said so. Only five single-letter US tickers are free. The stock ticker X is free, and some investors think Elon Musk could claim […]
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• Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro keeps macOS familiar, Bloomberg finds

  29-10-2026 17:35 via The Next Web
  
  Bloomberg’s Chris Welch tried Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro and found Apple took a measured approach, adding touch without reshaping macOS. Gestures felt smooth, but the tiny window buttons are awkward to tap. The laptop ships on 6 November from $2,899. Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro does not turn the Mac into an iPad, according […]
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• ServiceNow shares fall a record 25% after its bookings outlook misses

  29-10-2026 17:34 via The Next Web
  
  ServiceNow shares fell as much as 25% to $112.37 after markets opened in New York on Thursday. It was the biggest intraday drop since the company went public in 2012, Brody Ford reported for Bloomberg. The stock was on course for its worst day on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data cited by MarketWatch. […]
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• Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including ICE and CBP agents

  29-10-2026 17:23 via The Next Web
  
  Records on more than 41,000 employees and contractors of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are now online. They include names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles and office locations. The staff work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other DHS agencies. WIRED, which was given a preview […]
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• Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon tops AI rankings, but only cyber defenders get it

  29-10-2026 17:05 via The Next Web
  
  Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon, its newest frontier AI model, to a small group of cyber defenders. It arrives two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon reached paying users. Koray Kavukcuoglu, senior vice president at Google DeepMind and Google’s chief AI architect, announced it in a Google blog post on Wednesday. Carbon ranks first on […]
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• Orange Cyberdefense joins Mistral design partner programme for Large 4

  29-10-2026 16:13 via The Next Web
  
  Orange Cyberdefense will use Mistral AI’s latest model to help test clients’ systems for weaknesses, investigate breaches and speed up responses to cyberattacks. The French security firm joined the design partner programme for Mistral Large 4 on Thursday, becoming the first European managed security services provider to take part. The Orange unit plans to introduce […]
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• Hud launches agentic rollouts to take AI-written code to production

  29-10-2026 15:00 via The Next Web
  
  AI made writing code fast. Coding agents now plan, write, and test changes and open pull requests in minutes. Shipping that code safely, however, has become the biggest bottleneck in engineering. That is because a change still has to be trusted enough to reach production. A change written in minutes can then wait for days […]
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• DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart in a deal worth about $17bn

  29-10-2026 14:38 via The Next Web
  
  DoorDash has agreed to buy grocery delivery rival Instacart in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the company at about $17bn. The acquisition would bring two of the biggest US delivery platforms under one roof, expanding DoorDash’s reach in grocery shopping. The companies announced the deal on Thursday. Instacart shareholders can choose $65 in cash per share, […]
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• Microsoft sells at least $25bn of bonds, its first US deal since 2017

  29-10-2026 14:17 via The Next Web
  
  Microsoft is looking to raise at least $25bn through a US bond sale, its first high-grade debt offering in the country since 2017, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal is divided into as many as 10 tranches, with repayment dates ranging from two to 40 years. Its final size will depend on […]
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• Mistral releases open weights for its 1 trillion-parameter Large 4 model

  29-10-2026 14:00 via The Next Web
  
  Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4, the 1 trillion-parameter model it previewed three weeks ago, and the version now on Hugging Face is noticeably sharper. The Paris-based company says three extra weeks of reinforcement learning, guided by customer feedback, have made ML4 the strongest open model for agentic coding and cyber defence. […]
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• Meta loses French appeal over orders to negotiate with news publishers

  29-10-2026 13:50 via The Next Web
  
  Paris appeals court has rejected Meta’s challenge to emergency orders that require it to resume talks with French news publishers over payment for their content, Reuters reported on Thursday. France’s competition authority, the Autorité de la concurrence, imposed the interim measures in July after talks between Meta and the publishers broke down. The Facebook and Instagram owner appealed in […]
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• VitVio brings its 3D operating room AI to a hospital in Mexico

  29-10-2026 13:16 via The Next Web
  
  London-based startup VitVio is bringing its AI system to every operating room at Hospital Español de Veracruz, a private hospital on Mexico’s Gulf coast. It is the company’s first deal in Latin America. The system, called Vetro, uses cameras and sensors to create a live 3D model of an operating room, showing the people, equipment, […]
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• Pluto Security details how a trust_remote_code download turns into malware

  29-10-2026 13:00 via The Next Web
  
  The trick at the center of this campaign is not an exploit. It is a feature. Pluto Security’s analysis of a cryptominer operation on the Hugging Face Hub shows that the attacker never needed to break anything. The model-loading library runs the Python that infects a machine exactly as designed. Three doors, one left open […]
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• Collective raises $100M to run the finances of one-person businesses

  29-10-2026 13:00 via The Next Web
  
  San Francisco startup Collective, which handles the finances of one-person businesses, has raised $100M. The money comes in two parts: a $40M Series B and $60M from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. General Catalyst, QED Investors and Gradient Ventures led the Series B, with Intuit Ventures, FT Partners and SemperVirens also investing. The Customer Value Fund […]
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• Tesla Robotaxi riders report detours after Houston service expands

  29-10-2026 12:44 via The Next Web
  
  Riders of Tesla’s Robotaxi service in Houston are reporting long detours and pickup points the app will not accept, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. The problems come days after Tesla greatly expanded the area the service covers. Tesla announced the larger service area on Monday with a post reading “Houston, we have liftoff.” The new zone, […]
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• Pentagon suspects hackers behind freezer failures at US base stores

  29-10-2026 12:01 via The Next Web
  
  The Pentagon is investigating whether hackers caused freezers to fail at shops on US military bases in August, after a similar attack hit hundreds of supermarkets in France this month. Four officials told Reuters on Thursday that investigators are treating the US incidents as a suspected cyberattack. One official said they had also spoken to […]
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• Pudu Robotics opens its European headquarters in Neuss, Germany

  29-10-2026 11:34 via The Next Web
  
  Chinese robot maker Pudu Robotics has opened its European headquarters in Neuss, near Düsseldorf, as it builds out its business across the region. The Shenzhen-based company announced plans for the German site in September, following a showcase of its robots at the IFA trade fair in Berlin. The headquarters is now fully operational, bringing together […]
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• Nasdaq futures fall as Alphabet slides and Microsoft rises on results

  29-10-2026 11:01 via The Next Web
  
  US tech stocks were set to open lower on Thursday after mixed results from Alphabet and Microsoft. Investors are weighing how much Big Tech spends on AI against how quickly that spending pays off. Nasdaq 100 futures were down 1.2% early on Thursday, Reuters reported. S&P 500 futures fell 0.4%, while Dow futures rose 0.35%, as […]
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• Hamburg’s MuRay raises €7.1M for muon imaging of rocket engines

  29-10-2026 10:42 via The Next Web
  
  Hamburg startup MuRay has raised €7.1M to look inside dense metal parts, such as 3D-printed rocket engines and gas turbines. It does this with muons, tiny particles that pass through materials that block X-rays. The total combines a €3.5M private round with €3.6M in public funding, including a grant from the EU’s Horizon Europe research […]
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• Lovable opens its first London office with 70 staff

  29-10-2026 10:33 via The Next Web
  
  Lovable has opened its first London office, giving the Swedish AI app builder a second home for its engineering, product and design teams. Around 70 people are already working there, and the company plans to increase that number to 100 by the end of the year. The company announced the opening on Thursday. Its London […]
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• Google Cloud revenue doubles to $30.7bn, beating forecasts

  29-10-2026 10:25 via The Next Web
  
  Google Cloud more than doubled its revenue in the third quarter, beating analysts’ forecasts, Alphabet said on Wednesday. Weaker growth in search advertising, however, meant the group as a whole fell short of expectations. Cloud revenue rose 103% from a year earlier to $30.7bn, according to Alphabet’s quarterly results. Analysts had expected $29.57bn, Reuters reported, citing LSEG […]
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• Atlassian people chief Avani Prabhakar calls AI mandates a ‘very bad start’

  29-10-2026 10:17 via The Next Web
  
  One AI “super user” in a team of five to seven people lifts the whole team’s AI adoption and usage by 56%, Atlassian’s Avani Prabhakar told TNW. Atlassian counts someone as a super user if they use AI’s most sophisticated features more than 40 times a week to change a workflow, she said. It tracks […]
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