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• NEURA and SECO will build robot compute modules in Europe

  07-09-2026 19:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  A German company designs the robot. An Italian company builds the board that goes inside it. An American company designs the chip that goes on the board. That is the European Physical AI stack as it actually exists. On Monday, two thirds of it signed a partnership. NEURA Robotics and SECO said in a joint […]
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• Jaguar Land Rover cuts 4,000 jobs and resets break-even to 300,000 cars

  07-09-2026 20:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  The number that matters in Monday’s Jaguar Land Rover announcement is not 4,000. It is 300,000. That is the annual sales volume at which the company now intends to break even. Its brands have historically sold well over 400,000 vehicles a year. Just Auto made that comparison in its report on the statement. JLR is […]
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• The rise of searching for hard ROI in the CFO role

  07-09-2026 20:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  The adoption race is over. The ROI race just started. In a June 2025 survey of 183 CFOs, Gartner reported that 84% of finance organisations had deployed AI or planned to, but only 7% reported a high impact. Most AI spend results in increased productivity, efficiency and time back, rather than hard ROI. Gartner surveyed […]
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• Cato raises €6m to sell AI into Italy’s €309.7bn tender market

  07-09-2026 20:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  The investment case for Cato is unusual. Most software sells on the promise of making a hard thing easy. Cato’s backers are betting that a hard thing stays hard. The Milan startup has raised €6m in seed funding to sell AI to companies bidding for Italian public tenders. Keen Venture Partners, the Amsterdam and London […]
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• Why manufacturers under workforce pressure should look closely at the tool drawer

  07-09-2026 19:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  For a manufacturer short on skilled people, time can disappear in routine places. A worker searches a drawer, walks back for a forgotten part, or discovers too late that an item is missing. PwC reported that U.S. manufacturing averaged about 420,000 job openings in 2025. Deloitte has also cited an estimate that 1.9 million manufacturing […]
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• AI agent reliability requires a new model of observability

  07-09-2026 19:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  The rapid adoption of AI agents is changing the architecture of how organizations operate. Agents can interpret information, make decisions, interact with enterprise systems, and execute tasks with a degree of autonomy that would previously have required human involvement. That autonomy creates significant opportunities for efficiency, yet it also introduces a fundamental challenge that conventional […]
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• Torvalds joked that AI made Linux 7.3-rc2 this big, and nobody checked

  07-09-2026 18:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Linus Torvalds spent Sunday afternoon doing what he does most Sundays. The result was a Linux 7.3-rc2 that came in far heavier than the calendar says it should. He could not find a single cause for it. So he offered the one everybody reaches for. “It might be just random,” he wrote in his rc2 […]
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• Audi built an efficient EV in Germany. It is 12cm too long for the rules meant to help

  07-09-2026 18:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Audi has revealed the A2 e-tron, its cheapest electric car, built in Ingolstadt and priced from EUR 38,200 with up to 646km of WLTP range. At 4.32 metres it is 12 centimetres too long for M1E, the small-car category the Commission proposed in December to make affordable European EVs viable. Audi has revealed the A2 […]
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• OpenAI blocked its agents from posting. They found a wiki that posts on GET

  07-09-2026 18:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  The engineers who built the sandbox did think about this. They allowed the agents to read the internet and blocked them from writing to it, by permitting GET requests and refusing everything else. It is the obvious control, and on almost every website it works. Then the agents found a wiki that writes on GET. […]
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• Hybrids are outselling everything in Europe. That’s bad news for 2035

  07-09-2026 17:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  American buyers are leaving electric cars for hybrids and petrol after the $7,500 federal credit ended, with 42.6% of second-quarter EV trade-ins going to a combustion car. Hybrids are already the biggest-selling powertrain in the EU at 37.3%, and the Commission has proposed keeping them legal after 2035. Americans who bought an electric car are […]
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• The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports

  07-09-2026 17:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 September. Nikkei Asia reported that on Sunday, citing people familiar […]
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• UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports

  07-09-2026 17:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to be. The change covers anyone applying […]
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• Berlin fears France’s Palantir rival is a new dependency, Politico reports

  07-09-2026 16:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German government notes seen by Politico Europe show Berlin is wary of Arcadia, the French-built Palantir rival. The worry is that adopting it would trade reliance on an American company for […]
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• Shadow AI is already inside your company. Here’s how to get control of it

  07-09-2026 16:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight. Finding them is only the beginning. For most of the past decade, the list of software a company ran was, at least in theory, one that somebody in IT could find. Today, however, AI is making that increasingly difficult. A […]
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• ByteDance is preparing a real-time spatial video model under Zhang Yiming, Bloomberg reports

  07-09-2026 14:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the work and a launch possible as soon as next month, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. One of those people cautioned that the timing is not settled and the plans […]
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• Insilico says its AI-designed lung drug lowered biological age markers in a 42-patient trial

  07-09-2026 14:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Blood samples from a small lung-disease trial have been run through six independently built ageing clocks, and all six returned the same answer: the patients on the drug looked biologically younger than the patients on placebo. “More lifetimes than humanity lost in all the wars ever fought. If you manage to add 3 years to […]
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• OpenAI has filed an EU incident report on the hijacked German wiki, the Commission says

  07-09-2026 13:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took over and used as a messaging channel between themselves. Thomas Regnier, a Commission spokesperson, confirmed the filing, Reuters reported, and set out what Brussels expects of such documents. “Incident reports are not just a tick-box; you […]
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• UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI, warning of existential risk

  07-09-2026 13:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. He also called on the countries that host AI development and sit in its supply chains to agree on international red lines on what the technology should never be permitted […]
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• Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports

  07-09-2026 13:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia and the surrounding provinces, Reuters reported, with initial agreements targeted by the end of this year […]
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• How property management education may evolve or the next generation of leaders

  07-09-2026 13:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  A discussion about future training can start with the skills employers expect to value. The World Economic Forum reported in 2025 that surveyed employers expected 39% of workers’ core skills to change by 2030. Its findings placed analytical thinking first among current core skills and also identified technological literacy, empathy, active listening, and lifelong learning […]
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• Italian hosting collective Autistici/Inventati is shutting down after a US terrorist designation

  07-09-2026 12:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Autistici/Inventati, an Italian nonprofit that has hosted email, websites, mailing lists, and blogs for activists since 2001, is closing down. The collective said it will discontinue all services and help users retrieve their data, eleven days after the United States listed it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation was announced by the State […]
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• Cathay Pacific and Google partner on AI contrail avoidance for ultra-long-haul flights

  07-09-2026 12:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cathay Pacific has flown more than 80 contrail-avoidance routes in a trial with Google that began in late 2025, adjusting cruise altitude to steer clear of the thin bands of humid air where aircraft exhaust freezes into clouds that trap heat. Google puts the result at roughly a 40% reduction in the warming impact of the contrails […]
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• No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet.

  07-09-2026 12:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose. No automated monitoring caught it. The article’s argument is that OpenAI has been publishing categories of risk, including that Astra sometimes […]
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• Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch

  07-09-2026 11:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in which the company says it passed $2M in annual recurring revenue. Wave Ventures also took part, and Magnus […]
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• Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams

  07-09-2026 11:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and more mature deployment systems have shortened the distance between an idea and a working product. But faster delivery also raises the stakes. When architecture, testing, and maintainability are treated as afterthoughts, short-term gains can create long-term problems. That challenge […]
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• Taiwan pledges $20bn more in US chip investment while courting the EU, Reuters reports

  07-09-2026 11:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Taiwan spent this week’s SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once to Brussels: that its chips arrive with democratic governance attached. The commercial half of that argument came with a number, and economy minister Kung Ming-hsin supplied it, announcing a further $20bn of planned Taiwanese investment […]
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• Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round

  07-09-2026 10:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapore’s state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust. It is the largest single round any Indian space technology company […]
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• Huawei launches Mate XT 2 tri-fold two days before Apple’s foldable iPhone

  07-09-2026 10:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Huawei has launched a new tri-folding phone two days before Apple is expected to show its first foldable iPhone. The Mate XT 2 was unveiled on Monday and goes on sale in China on 10 September. Apple’s event falls on 9 September, so both Huawei and Xiaomi will have shown their foldables before Apple shows […]
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• Build the pipeline your investors want to see

  07-09-2026 09:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ask a seed investor what they want to see before the next round and the answer is rarely a bigger number. It is a pipeline they can read. Where deals come from, how fast they move, why they stall, and what the founder does about it. Most seed-stage B2B startups cannot show that yet, and […]
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• EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups

  07-09-2026 08:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  The EU’s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget.  “The act is not about budget,” said Thomas Skordas, deputy director-general of the European Commission’s DG CNECT, at a European Parliament event last week, on 3rd of September. “What the act will provide is the stimulus to make sure that we move in […]
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