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• How I Made a Generator for SVG Loaders With Sass and SMIL Options

  27-08-2021 22:59
  
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• AI loses out to human wealth managers when the money actually moves, HSBC finds

  24-06-2026 13:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Wealthy investors are using artificial intelligence to research and generate ideas, and then asking a human being whether to act on them. That is the headline finding of new HSBC research published on Wednesday, which surveyed nearly 10,000 affluent and high-net-worth individuals across 10 markets and concluded that, at the moment of decision, the adviser […]
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• Apple’s Eddy Cue says the company wants to make ‘better’ and ‘more’ entertainment

  24-06-2026 12:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  The services chief, named Cannes Lions’ Entertainment Person of the Year, set out the logic behind Apple TV: no licensed reruns, fewer titles, and a belief that the story is the only thing that matters. Eddy Cue would like you to know that Apple is not finished. Accepting the title of Entertainment Person of the […]
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• Swiss study finds fewer job ads for career starters as AI reshapes entry-level work

  24-06-2026 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  An analysis of 7.3 million job advertisements shows entry-level postings down sharply since the years before generative AI, with the steepest declines in roles the tools can most readily take on. The number of Swiss job advertisements aimed at career starters in 2025 was just under a third lower than the average for the period […]
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• ByteDance seeks a record $20bn offshore loan to fund its AI build-out

  24-06-2026 12:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  ByteDance is in preliminary talks with banks about an offshore loan of roughly $20bn, which would be the largest the TikTok owner has ever raised, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The company is said to be seeking a facility with a three-year tenor and an option to extend it to […]
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• GameStop’s Ryan Cohen gives up a pay package worth up to $35bn to chase eBay

  24-06-2026 12:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ryan Cohen has asked GameStop’s board to remove the performance-based stock award it proposed for him in January scrapping a package that analysts had valued at as much as $35bn if every milestone were hit. Cohen, who is both chairman and chief executive and draws no salary, said he wanted the company’s leadership focused on […]
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• Alibaba sues the Pentagon to get off its Chinese military companies list

  24-06-2026 11:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alibaba has taken the US Department of Defense to court over a label the company insists it does not deserve. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the federal court in San Jose, California, the Hangzhou group asked a judge to strike its name from the Pentagon’s list of “Chinese military companies” and declared the […]
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• Samsung plans a 90 trillion won buyback to fund a chip-worker bonus

  24-06-2026 11:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Samsung Electronics is preparing a share buyback worth about 90 trillion won, one of the largest repurchase programmes a South Korean company has attempted, the Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified industry sources. The figure works out to $58.61bn at the won’s current level, and the news sent Samsung shares up more than 6% […]
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• SoftBank’s Son says calling AI a bubble is ‘an insult’

  24-06-2026 10:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  At SoftBank Group’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, the founder and chief executive was asked, as he is asked at almost every public appearance now, whether the artificial intelligence boom that has driven his fortune to record highs is a bubble waiting to deflate. He treated the question itself as the problem. To […]
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• Anthropic’s Mythos found flaws in classified US systems during a government test

  24-06-2026 10:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  One of Anthropic’s AI models identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive, classified US government computer systems during a testing exercise, a US official has told the Associated Press. The model in question was Mythos, Anthropic’s most capable system, and it surfaced the flaws within hours. Crucially, finding a weakness within hours is not the same as […]
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• Legion LegalTech sues US over Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown

  24-06-2026 10:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Legion LegalTech says the export directive that shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide has done “immediate, irreparable, and existential” harm to its business. US legal-technology company has sued the federal government over the directive that, two weeks ago, forced Anthropic to switch off its two most capable AI models for everyone on Earth. […]
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• South Korea is in talks with Samsung and SK Hynix over a second chip cluster

  24-06-2026 10:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  A presidential adviser says AI demand could pull forward the next phase of fab construction by more than a decade, and that the country needs somewhere to put it. South Korea’s government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about the next phase of large-scale investment in chip manufacturing, a presidential adviser said […]
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• YouTube settles ahead of California’s second social-media addiction trial

  24-06-2026 09:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  A month before a Los Angeles jury was due to hear a Florida teenager’s case, Google quietly stepped out of it, leaving Meta, Snap and TikTok to argue the rest. Google’s YouTube has settled with a teenage plaintiff weeks before he was due to face the company in court, removing itself from the second bellwether […]
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• Agility Robotics is reportedly going public via a $2.5B SPAC deal

  24-06-2026 09:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Agility Robotics, the Oregon startup behind the bipedal Digit robot, is in talks to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company in a deal valuing it at about $2.5bn, according to Wall Street Journal.  The terms have not been confirmed, the SPAC partner has not been named, and the company has not […]
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• Blackstone plans $30B for Japan AI data centres, and is unbothered by bubble talk

  24-06-2026 09:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Blackstone plans to invest roughly $30 billion in artificial-intelligence data centres in Japan over the next three to five years, the firm’s president and chief operating officer, Jonathan Gray, told Nikkei in an interview published on Monday. The world’s largest alternative asset manager is in discussions to develop facilities with a combined capacity exceeding one gigawatt, […]
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• A US spectrum auction just raised $3.5B to pay for ripping out Huawei

  24-06-2026 09:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Federal Communications Commission has raised about $3.5 billion from an auction of mid-band wireless spectrum, with most of the proceeds earmarked to fund the removal of Chinese-made telecom equipment from US networks. The agency’s long-running “rip and replace” programme, which reimburses smaller carriers for swapping out gear from Huawei and ZTE, has spent years […]
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• Meta’s $399 Kylie Jenner glasses will talk back in her voice

  24-06-2026 09:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  The most expensive pair in Meta’s newly launched line of smart glasses is the one with a small gem on the lens and a celebrity attached. Meta revealed three frames built under its own name, and the priciest of them, a slim oval design called the Starfire, was made with Kylie Jenner. It costs $399, […]
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• The US is pressing Meta to let it review its AI, and Meta is the last holdout

  24-06-2026 09:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Trump administration has been pressing Meta to submit its most capable AI models for federal security review, leaving the company the only major US developer that has not agreed to do so, according to a New York Times report. The push, the paper says, has come through emails as Washington steps up oversight of frontier […]
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• ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, a 30-second native 4K AI video model that accepts 50 reference inputs

  23-06-2026 22:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 on Tuesday at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing, a video generation model that produces 30-second clips at native 4K resolution from a single prompt. The company skipped four intermediate versions entirely, jumping straight from its predecessor to signal what it described as a generational leap. An enterprise beta is […]
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• Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate that lives in your Slack channels

  23-06-2026 21:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic is launching Claude Tag in research preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives inside Slack and acts as a persistent AI teammate. The feature lets users tag @Claude to get insights in conversations and assign tasks. It is available to Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers starting today. Claude Tag is an evolution of Anthropic’s […]
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• A fake AI agent skill passed every security scanner and reportedly reached 26,000 agents

  23-06-2026 21:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Security firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and promoted it with an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design, collecting only […]
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• Meta’s new prediction market app Arena could bring betting to 3 billion users

  23-06-2026 20:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small team at Meta to build a smartphone app that would compete with prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The app, internally called Arena, would operate independently from Facebook and Instagram. Meta declined to comment. Arena would initially use a video-game-style points system […]
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• The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

  23-06-2026 20:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% smaller than it would have been had the country voted to remain. On Monday, […]
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• SpaceX draws $89 billion in demand for its debut bond sale, one of the largest US offerings this year

  23-06-2026 19:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX has drawn roughly $89 billion in investor demand for its debut US bond sale, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, setting the stage for one of the largest investment-grade offerings this year. The company is seeking to raise between $20 billion and $25 billion from a five-tranche deal expected to price on Tuesday. At the lower […]
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• Oracle cut 21,000 jobs this year and its SEC filing explicitly blames AI

  23-06-2026 19:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Oracle’s global workforce fell to 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, down from 162,000 a year earlier, a net reduction of roughly 21,000 people. The company’s annual regulatory filing stated plainly that “the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce.” It […]
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• Google is simultaneously the most dominant and most vulnerable it has ever been

  23-06-2026 19:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google’s financial performance has never been stronger. Alphabet posted $109.9 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, up 22 per cent year on year, the fastest growth rate in any quarter since 2022, with search advertising revenue climbing 19.1 per cent and queries hitting an all-time high. And yet the week before these numbers […]
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• Stark Defence raises €500M led by Sequoia and Founders Fund at a valuation above €3.5 billion

  23-06-2026 19:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Stark Defence, the Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, has raised €500 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The deal values the company at more than three and a half billion euros, roughly triple the €1 billion mark it crossed earlier this year. […]
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• Europe’s biggest tech CEOs have formed a standing lobby group with a direct line to von der Leyen

  23-06-2026 19:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Seven of Europe’s largest technology companies have created a permanent dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, pressing the bloc to deregulate faster and let European firms consolidate. The group, which calls itself the European Tech Creators, collectively generates €417 billion in annual revenue, represents nearly €1.1 trillion in market capitalisation, and employs close […]
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• South Korea’s chip worker bonuses are so large the central bank is treating them as an inflation risk

  23-06-2026 18:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  The semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea’s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country’s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy. The Bank of Korea warned this month that performance bonuses at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix could spread into broader wage increases and add upward […]
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• Honda signs multiyear solid-state battery deal with QuantumScape after scrapping its EV lineup

  23-06-2026 18:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Honda R&D, the independent research arm of Honda Motor Company, has signed a multiyear joint research agreement with California-based QuantumScape to develop and manufacture solid-state battery cells. The deal, announced on June 18, makes Honda the second major automaker to formally partner with QuantumScape after Volkswagen. The agreement follows Honda’s completion of an in-depth technology […]
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