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• How to understand ebike and escooter battery specs

  08-03-2022 08:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you’re shopping for your first ebike or electric scooter, you might be a bit confused by the numbers you see on the spec sheet. What exactly is a watt-hour(Wh), and how is it different from an amp-hour(Ah)? Does voltage matter? How big of a battery do I really need? With the help of some basic physics and arithmetic, we’re here to help you make sense of these numbers. Which spec tells me the battery capacity? When you look up an electric bike or scooter, chances are you’ll
  
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• Apple overhauls EU App Store fees to settle its DMA dispute

  18-08-2026 19:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle a long dispute with the European Commission. The company announced the changes on Tuesday, after what it called close collaboration with the Commission. Developers can sign the new terms today, and they take effect on 1 October. The headline change is the end of the […]
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• Reddit AI videos turn old text threads into narrated clips

  18-08-2026 18:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday on the web. The iOS and Android apps followed on Tuesday. It covers select English-language posts in a sample of communities. A toggle appears above an eligible post. “Read” shows […]
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• AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws

  18-08-2026 18:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on interviews with eight current and former officials who work or have worked with the […]
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• Apple leaked a video of its camera-equipped AirPods in macOS Tahoe

  18-08-2026 17:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple appears to have leaked its own camera-equipped AirPods. A demo video sat inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and MacRumors found it there on Monday. Juli Clover reported that the earbuds look nearly ready to launch. The clip runs 13 seconds. A man holds up a book so the camera in the AirPods […]
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• Google plans to end Pixel production in China by 2027

  18-08-2026 17:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel production out of China from 2027, according to Nikkei Asia. That covers phones, smartwatches and wireless earbuds. Lauly Li reported the plan on 18 August, citing the ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing. Nikkei named Vietnam and India as the destinations. The date has moved. […]
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• OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens and will auto-enrol under-18s

  18-08-2026 16:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically. Anyone who says they are 13 to 17 gets it by default. So does anyone the company’s age-prediction system estimates is under 18. The global rollout began on 18 August, and Engadget reported that […]
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• Alina Kukarina on why AI transformation begins before choosing the technology

  18-08-2026 16:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI investment has expanded rapidly, with organizations introducing copilots, agents, and generative AI across functions. Yet the business transformation many leaders anticipated can remain difficult to identify. A 2026 analysis found that nearly 40% of companies tracking AI cost savings achieved less than 10%, while 90% planned to increase their budgets. Additionally, 38% of finance leaders and 39% of CEOs considered it […]
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• YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not

  18-08-2026 15:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing. No minimum watch time, across long-form, Shorts and live, everywhere. The YouTube view count will go up. Nobody will watch more. Nobody will earn more. What the rule was, and nobody could tell you Until now a YouTube view count on long-form […]
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• Browsing tools and Ad blockers: A guide to cleaner web experiences

  18-08-2026 15:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Web pages have become increasingly busy. Alongside the content people actually want to read, many sites now include display advertising, video promotions, pop-ups, cookie banners, sponsored elements, and social widgets. Ad blockers offer a way to reduce some of that clutter directly within a browser. However, they are not all designed in the same way. Some […]
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• The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs

  18-08-2026 15:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firsthand while building and running a voice agent for enterprise use. When you factor in speech recognition, text-to-speech, model usage, telephony, and infrastructure, a […]
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• Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew

  18-08-2026 14:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstructed it for the Wall Street Journal, and the sequence is stranger than the number. The phone call that gave it away David Mann runs […]
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• An AirTag in a rare book led to an Amazon book scanning warehouse in Las Vegas

  18-08-2026 14:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  A bookseller hid an AirTag inside a rare book and let it go with a bulk order. The tracker travelled across the United States and stopped at a warehouse in Las Vegas owned by Amazon. Emanuel Maiberg reported the result for 404 Media on Monday. Booksellers have spent a year suspecting that AI companies were […]
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• Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

  18-08-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distributed filesystem that lets people and AI agents work across petabytes of live data while using, the company claims, zero local disk […]
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• Anthropic’s revenue run rate tops $65bn, a source says, but a run rate is not revenue

  18-08-2026 13:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has told investors that its annualised revenue run rate topped $65bn by the end of July, according to a person familiar with the company’s finances who was cited by Reuters. The distinction matters as a run rate takes revenue from a recent, short window, often a single month, and multiplies it out to a […]
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• How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?

  18-08-2026 12:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry’s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline announced, are set to produce as much carbon dioxide as 24 million cars. The figure is arresting. It is also a […]
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• CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack

  18-08-2026 12:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  America’s cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the world’s AI training and inference, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, confirming that the flaw is being used in real-world attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency made the move on 17 August, giving federal […]
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• An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children

  18-08-2026 12:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Awarning that AI “slop” is fuelling cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children has ricocheted across the internet this week, carried by headlines that present the harm as settled fact. The document underneath is more modest, and far more uncertain, than the coverage implies. The source is a report published by the Global Network on […]
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• Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors

  18-08-2026 11:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial. While much of the market remains focused on OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and the latest model releases, a quieter transformation is taking place in the investor base funding the next generation of […]
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• Revolut’s Nik Storonsky closes a $500m fund for his algorithm-run venture firm QuantumLight

  18-08-2026 10:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nik Storonsky, the man behind Revolut, has closed a $500m second fund for QuantumLight, the algorithmic venture-capital firm he co-founded to let software, rather than partners, decide where the money goes. The fund is double the size of QuantumLight’s $250m debut vehicle from last year, a swift escalation for an outfit still trying to prove […]
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• Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift

  18-08-2026 10:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla is preparing to put its Cybercab, the purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information. There is, as ever with a Tesla launch date, a catch attached to the milestone: the first people to ride in it will […]
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• Smack Technologies raises $61m as the Pentagon’s hurry becomes a battlefield-AI business model

  18-08-2026 10:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  A defence software start-up that most of Silicon Valley had never heard of a year ago is suddenly flush with cash, and the reason says a great deal about where the Pentagon is steering the technology industry. Smack Technologies, an Austin-based firm building artificial-intelligence tools for the battlefield, said on Monday that it had raised […]
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• Medly AI raises $8m to put an AI tutor in front of every UK exam student

  18-08-2026 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sometimes the most genuine projects emerge from gaps we identify in our own lives or in the society around us. And maybe this should be our focus as a society: to use all the technology at our disposal to solve problems that were almost impossible to address before. Medly AI, a London exam-prep platform built […]
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• The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention

  18-08-2026 03:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals of that general type are regulated. The exchange took six days. What was asked, and what came back Latham & Watkins […]
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• Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data

  18-08-2026 02:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday. Every account of the deal rests on one word. The data is deidentified, so nobody need worry. The Spirit Airlines data sale agreement, filed with the bankruptcy court on […]
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• Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished

  18-08-2026 02:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own company’s launch with a line that then travelled further than the product. Cursor […]
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• GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw

  18-08-2026 02:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. It is just not the story that travelled. […]
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• Greg Brockman says OpenAI underestimated its own models’ cyber skills

  18-08-2026 01:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual. “I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in a way that it doesn’t otherwise,” the company’s president told Squawk Box. […]
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• Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US

  18-08-2026 01:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey will argue it. They allege that Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to […]
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• Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished

  18-08-2026 00:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Wispr has raised $280mn at a $2bn valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round, having led the last one too. Total funding now stands at $361mn. The company makes Wispr Flow, a dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in whatever application your cursor happens to be in. Reuters reports the previous round valued it […]
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