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• Inside IBM’s hidden ‘Court 19’, where Wimbledon becomes a test lab for AI

  09-07-2026 14:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  A serve flashes on the Wimbledon scoreboard before the ball stops bouncing. That number comes from a partnership older than most players on court. IBM has been Wimbledon’s technology partner for 36 years, since it planted serve-speed radar behind the baselines in 1991. This year the two extended their deal to 2030, Fortune reported. The […]
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• Securing Shadow IT in the corporate environment

  09-07-2026 17:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every organization has two technology environments. The one that IT built, documented, and maintains visibility over, and the one that employees assembled around it to get their work done faster. The second environment is shadow IT, and in most enterprises, it is larger, more varied, and more deeply embedded in daily operations than security teams […]
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• This EU-first robocar tests at 120 km/h, and uses no AI to drive

  09-07-2026 17:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limburg. Level 4 means the car handles everything, with no […]
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• The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in

  09-07-2026 17:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It is the largest right-to-repair win in the US so far. The fight was […]
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• Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model

  09-07-2026 17:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an AI stack at all. They are chasing an outcome. Take a […]
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• Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers

  09-07-2026 17:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator and others joined. The round takes the company’s total funding to $88M, three years after it launched, and Ollama set out the plan in a blog post on Thursday. Founder and chief executive Jeff Morgan gave the details to TechCrunch, […]
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• Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation

  09-07-2026 17:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursday. The figure is striking for a firm that bootstrapped its way to the top. Oxylabs says […]
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• France plans to triple penalties for AI-driven election disinformation

  09-07-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced a bill to sharply increase penalties for spreading false content during elections. He set out the plan in the Senate on 8 July, according to Public Sénat, in response to a question about AI in the coming presidential campaign. Lecornu argued that current penalties are “not sufficiently deterrent”. He […]
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• Every new EU car now needs a camera that watches the driver

  09-07-2026 16:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  A new wave of mandatory safety technology took effect for cars and vans across the EU on 7 July. Every newly manufactured passenger car and van must now carry advanced driver aids, the European Commission has confirmed. The headline additions are an advanced emergency brake that detects pedestrians and cyclists, and a driver distraction warning system. […]
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• Jack Dorsey’s Block settles Cash App fraud claims with 46 states for $45m

  09-07-2026 16:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Block, the payments company chaired by Jack Dorsey, has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims from 46 US states that it mishandled fraud on Cash App, its money-transfer and digital-banking app. The settlement is the latest sign that state regulators are moving into ground the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has vacated under the Trump […]
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• Suspected Chinese spies are raiding university mailboxes via a Roundcube flaw

  09-07-2026 15:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  A suspected Chinese espionage group has been breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. It has stolen credentials from staff in physics, engineering, and national security research. Security firm Proofpoint disclosed the campaign this week, tracking the crew as UNK_MassTraction and dating it to at least May. The Register reported further […]
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• Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow

  09-07-2026 15:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. They call it a workflow-level jailbreak, and The Register reported the finding. The gap between the two settings is stark. In direct chat, the […]
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• Meta patches the mod that turned its Ray-Ban glasses into secret spy cams

  09-07-2026 15:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta is updating its smart glasses to shut off the camera if the recording light has been physically tampered with or destroyed. The change, announced in a 7 July blog post, closes a loophole that let modders turn the glasses into covert recorders. A white LED lights up whenever the glasses capture photos or video, signalling […]
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• Britain’s public sector runs on US cloud, and that is now a billion-pound risk

  09-07-2026 15:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on hyperscale cloud, with the dependency running into billions of pounds a year. Some 95% of central and local public-sector bodies spent on hyperscale […]
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• Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg’s terminal

  09-07-2026 15:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Databento has raised $97M in Series B funding to build what it calls the market data platform for modern finance. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with DRW, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital joining. The company announced the raise on Thursday. Demand ran well past the target. The round was oversubscribed, drawing more […]
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• Microsoft’s Brad Smith: the US is regulating AI with rules nobody can read

  09-07-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft president Brad Smith says the US is now regulating AI without a clear set of rules. The uncertainty, he warns, is a problem for the whole industry. He made the case to Fortune on the sidelines of the AI for Good Global Summit. “What we really have right now is regulation without transparent or […]
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• Lyzr used its own AI agent to help raise a $100mn round

  09-07-2026 14:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  A startup that builds artificial-intelligence agents for large companies has turned that software on itself, using one of its own agents to help run a $100 million fundraise. Lyzr, an enterprise AI agents firm backed by Accenture, says the agent handled much of the investor legwork for a Series B round that would value the company […]
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• Meta to put its own AI chip into production in September, aiming to double computing capacity

  09-07-2026 14:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta plans to put its own artificial intelligence chip into production in September and is aiming to roughly double the computing capacity across its data centres, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The chip belongs to Meta’s in-house silicon line, the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, which the company […]
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• SK Hynix’s Nasdaq listing draws more than seven times the shares on offer

  09-07-2026 14:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  SK Hynix’s American listing has been more than seven times oversubscribed, according to people familiar with the deal, a sign of heavy demand for one of the largest share sales Wall Street has fielded from a foreign company. The South Korean memory-chip maker was due to price its offering of American depositary receipts on Thursday, […]
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• US power firms scramble for transformers and turbines as data centres strain supply

  09-07-2026 14:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  US power companies are locked in a scramble for the heavy electrical gear that keeps the lights on, as a wave of artificial-intelligence data centres pushes demand for transformers, turbines and switchgear well beyond what factories can supply. Lead times once measured in months now run into years, and developers are fighting over the same […]
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• India scraps import duties on electronics and battery inputs to boost local manufacturing

  09-07-2026 13:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  India has removed import duties on a swathe of machinery and components used to make electronics, from lithium-ion battery cells to certain smartphone parts, in the latest push to lower costs for hardware built on its soil. The measure lands as the country presses to court iPhone and Samsung makers and pull more of the global electronics […]
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• France’s antitrust probe into Nvidia is nearing its end, regulator says

  09-07-2026 13:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence hardware. The company has long been tipped to face antitrust charges in France, and any decision could […]
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• Rubrik pledges more than $500m for the UK and makes London its European base

  09-07-2026 13:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Rubrik, the US data-security company, said it will invest more than $500m in Britain over the next five years and make London its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The commitment, announced on Wednesday and worth about £375m, lands as governments across the region press companies to keep sensitive information closer to home, […]
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• Quant fund Qube is hiring human stock pickers to sit beside its algorithms

  09-07-2026 13:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick stocks. The move, reported by Business Insider, places the fund alongside a small group of systematic managers that have begun to blend algorithms with […]
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• Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot

  09-07-2026 12:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Taiwan’s top central banker has urged investors to steer clear of heavy borrowing to chase the island’s surging stock market, a rally powered by global demand for the AI hardware that Taiwanese firms supply. Yang Chin-long, governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), delivered the caution on Thursday while reporting to […]
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• Apple supplier Luxshare slides in its record Hong Kong debut

  09-07-2026 12:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Luxshare Precision Industry began trading in Hong Kong on Thursday with a stumble, its shares sliding on a debut that had been trailed as the city’s biggest listing of 2026. The stock fell as much as 9.6% below its offer price before clawing back part of the loss, an underwhelming opening for one of the […]
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• Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns

  09-07-2026 12:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe’s drive for sovereign AI has rarely looked more urgent, yet the infrastructure meant to carry it may not be ready. As Washington tightens access to its most capable models and Brussels leans harder into the case for European AI sovereignty, a new survey from Onnec warns that the continent’s ambitions could be strangled by the plain […]
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• Revolut hires ex-Chase UK boss Kuba Fast to lead its European bank

  09-07-2026 11:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Revolut has appointed Kuba Fast, the former chief executive of Chase UK, to run Revolut Bank UAB, the Lithuania-based entity that holds the fintech’s European banking licence. The move hands one of the industry’s most closely watched digital lenders a senior operator taken directly from JPMorgan Chase, as it presses on with a banking build-out […]
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• Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, survey finds

  09-07-2026 11:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence has moved out of the office and the university lecture hall and into the primary school classroom, and a fresh survey suggests plenty of parents are uneasy about it. Half of those polled said they were worried their child “relies on AI too much,” according to Deloitte’s annual back-to-school study. The figure comes […]
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• Meta CTO says employee-tracking data landed ‘where it wasn’t supposed to go’

  09-07-2026 11:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta’s chief technology officer has given the fullest account yet of the mishap that forced the company to halt its most contentious AI project, the keystroke-logging scheme it calls the Model Capability Initiative. Andrew Bosworth said a researcher had moved sensitive employee data somewhere it was never meant to sit, though he insisted there was […]
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