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• MIT researchers use AI to predict the next big things in tech

  04-08-2021 16:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  MIT researchers have used AI to predict which technologies are rapidly improving — and which ones are overhyped. In a new study, the team quantitatively assessed the future potential of 97% of the US patent system. The fastest-improving domains were predominantly software-related. They then converted their findings into an online system in which users can enter keywords to find improvement forecasts for specific technologies. Their research could give entrepreneurs, researchers,
  
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• Anduril and Archer unveiled an autonomous attack rotorcraft built on air taxi technology. First flight is planned for 2027.

  20-07-2026 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anduril and Archer Aviation unveiled Thunder at the Farnborough International Airshow on Sunday, a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft built on a jointly developed dual-use platform. The aircraft is designed to multiply the combat power of crewed attack and assault helicopters by operating alongside them without a pilot. It uses a series hybrid-electric powertrain and […]
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• Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close

  20-07-2026 20:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order on the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger on Monday, pausing the deal for 14 days. The order came after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California’s Rob Bonta sued to block the acquisition last week, arguing it would violate the Clayton […]
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• A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside

  20-07-2026 17:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu, has started partially operating the site, Bloomberg reported, citing a person […]
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• AMD’s Helios puts 72 GPUs and 31 terabytes of HBM4 in one rack. It is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s NVL72.

  20-07-2026 17:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  AMD’s Helios is a single rack containing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31 terabytes of HBM4 memory, and 2.9 exaflops of FP4 inference compute. It is AMD’s first rack-scale AI system and its direct answer to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72. The system uses 18 compute trays, each holding four MI455X accelerators on the new CDNA 5 […]
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• Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds

  20-07-2026 16:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  When Google’s AI answers a question, it is increasingly not reading a website. It is reading a Facebook post. New data suggests social platforms have become a core source for Google’s AI answers. Often the user never visits the platform at all. The findings come from BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO firm. Its tool tracks roughly […]
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• Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon

  20-07-2026 16:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called “Frozen v2,” was reported by The Information and picked up by Reuters and Bloomberg Law. Alphabet […]
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• OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.

  20-07-2026 16:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Starting next month, OneDrive and SharePoint will block screen captures when enterprise users open certain sensitivity-labelled PDFs in Microsoft Edge. The restriction applies to documents carrying a Purview Information Protection label without the Copy (EXTRACT) permission. When those conditions are met, screenshot blocking activates by default. Personal OneDrive accounts and unlabelled files are not affected. […]
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• Netflix used AI in 300 shows. Its biggest director calls AI a Trojan horse.

  20-07-2026 16:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  The fight over AI in Hollywood used to be about the future. This month it turned into a fight about the present. Within days, a studio, a director and a union each drew a line. The lines do not agree. Taken together, they show an industry that has already let the technology in. Now it […]
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• Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days. The flaw is the same one.

  20-07-2026 16:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  We spent two years asking whether AI would lie to us. The more useful question this summer is what happens once we hand it the keys. Give a model your Gmail, your calendar, a memory and the power to act, and its mistakes stop being embarrassing. They start being exploitable. Over roughly ten days in […]
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• EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel.

  20-07-2026 15:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Electric cars outsold every other fuel type in Germany for the first time in June. The country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority recorded 84,057 new EV registrations, a 78.2% year-on-year increase, putting battery-electric vehicles at 28.4% market share. Traditional hybrids came second with 83,315 registrations (28.1%), followed by petrol at 60,796 (20.5%), diesel at 33,862 (11.4%), […]
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• AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.

  20-07-2026 15:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Singles are feeding their dating app conversations into ChatGPT and Claude, asking the models to write replies, analyse what went wrong, and generate opening lines. The practice, called “chatfishing,” has produced a 5,000% spike in Google searches and a growing trail of Reddit posts and TikTok confessionals. Twenty-six per cent of US adults, and 49% […]
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• A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’

  20-07-2026 15:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  A farmer in rural India photographs a dying plant and wants to look it up. She does not speak English, and today’s AI barely speaks hers. A nonprofit called Current AI thinks that is a problem worth fixing. Its goal is grand: a “public option” for AI, open and free to anyone, much like the […]
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• YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is broken on Android and iOS. Google says it is investigating.

  20-07-2026 14:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is failing on both Android and iOS for a growing number of users. When the app is exited, the audio continues playing in the background but the floating video overlay does not appear. Google acknowledged the bug in a YouTube Help forum post, saying “our teams are actively investigating the issue.” Most […]
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• The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT

  20-07-2026 14:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. So the institution is building a sanctioned platform to bring that habit under control. The internal tool, called EPGenAI Hub, will give MEPs and staff access to models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic […]
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• The ‘synthetic insider’: how AI deepfakes turned the fake employee into a corporate threat

  20-07-2026 14:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  The most dangerous person in your company might not work there at all. AI deepfakes are getting cheaper and better. Hackers now use them to pose as trusted staff, a threat the industry calls the “synthetic insider.” The tactic sits at the sharp end of an old problem. Insider threats run from a worker emailing […]
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• The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba.

  20-07-2026 14:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  One of the quiet winners of the AI boom is about to test the public markets. Zhongji Innolight, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has started gauging demand for a Hong Kong listing worth as much as $8bn. The Shenzhen-listed company won approval for the deal on Friday, Bloomberg reported. It began meeting analysts […]
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• Decart’s Lucy 2.5 unlocks new live video effects, but physical AI is the real winner

  20-07-2026 13:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence startup Decart continues to stretch the boundaries of what’s possible with the release of its latest live video model, Lucy 2.5, introducing real-time streaming visual effects capabilities for the first time. The startup claims that Lucy 2.5 is unique in its ability to generate AI VFX continuously, on the fly, and embed them […]
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• A British AI lab signed up Nvidia, Meta and Samsung to invent materials that don’t exist yet

  20-07-2026 13:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  A two-year-old British AI lab wants to build the search engine for materials that do not exist yet. On Monday it gathered an unusual crowd to help. Cambridge-based CuspAI launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of more than 45 companies and research labs, Reuters reported. The founding partners include Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai Motor […]
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• Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.

  20-07-2026 13:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is […]
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• China’s car market is heading for its worst year since 2021. Sales fell 20% in the first half.

  20-07-2026 13:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  China’s passenger car sales fell 20.2% in the first half of 2026 to 8.7 million units, and the China Passenger Car Association has lowered its full-year forecast to a 14% decline, projecting 20.4 million deliveries, down from a record 23.7 million in 2025. Citic CLSA’s Xiao Feng expects a 20% full-year drop. “This is going […]
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• The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet

  20-07-2026 12:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products off its site. The penalty, announced on Monday, is the biggest yet under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). That law forces very large platforms […]
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• Kenya investigates hack of Ruto’s official website after bitcoin ransom demand

  20-07-2026 12:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Kenyan authorities are investigating a cyberattack that defaced President William Ruto’s official website over the weekend, replacing the homepage with a ransom message and a cryptocurrency wallet address. The government pulled president.go.ke offline on Saturday and has since said it found no evidence that sensitive data was taken. The intruders demanded five bitcoins, worth roughly […]
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• Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups

  20-07-2026 12:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Moonshot AI has a problem most startups would envy. Its new Kimi K3 model proved so popular that it ran out of computing power to serve everyone. So the Chinese lab has hit pause on new sign-ups. Over the past 48 hours, demand “pushed close to the limits of our current capacity,” the company said […]
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• Prysmian signs €5.5bn fibre deal with Molex to wire AI data centres

  20-07-2026 12:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, Molex is putting €550m on the table upfront, a rare piece of cash certainty in a market where most commitments arrive […]
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• An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.

  20-07-2026 12:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted the intrusion and picked it apart. The company disclosed the incident in a statement on 16 July. It called the attack different from […]
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• Trump Media reportedly pitched traders a $100,000 feed of the president’s posts

  20-07-2026 12:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Trump Media & Technology Group has reportedly been asking financial-trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest possible feed of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, according to the Financial Times, a price tag that turns the president’s typing into a subscription product. The pitch, described to the paper by people familiar with the discussions, offers […]
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• Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces

  20-07-2026 11:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Samsung Display has begun shipping tandem OLED panels for laptops that reach 1,600 nits peak brightness, more than 40% above the 1,100-nit ceiling of conventional single-layer OLED. The panels meet VESA’s new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification, announced this month, which requires 1,400 nits at 10% on-pixel ratio while maintaining black levels of 0.0005 nits […]
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• SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown

  20-07-2026 11:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chica in Texas, and said it needed more time to finish work […]
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• Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom

  20-07-2026 11:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of the high-precision actuators that let machines move, in a wager that the least visible hardware in a robot is where the next returns will sit. The firm did not disclose the size of the investment or the stake it is taking, saying only that the […]
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