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• On-Scroll Text Repetition Animation

  15-04-2022 01:07
  
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• Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper way to run agents

  30-06-2026 20:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model yet. It runs close to the flagship Opus 4.8 on many tasks, but costs less than half as much. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Sonnet 5 is available today across every plan. The company built it to act, not just answer. It […]
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• Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn

  30-06-2026 20:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agreed to acquire all of Cognite in an all-cash deal worth $3.1bn. Cognite builds software that […]
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• Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab

  30-06-2026 20:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Science is now available in beta. The company calls it an […]
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• Enterprise AI’s Missing Foundation: Why Content Governance May Matter More Than the Next AI Breakthrough

  30-06-2026 19:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Rob Hanna observes that many enterprise AI initiatives may be losing momentum because organizations continue to treat language like structured data while overlooking the systems that make knowledge reliable. The co-founder and CEO of Precision Content, a technical communications consultancy, says, “Longstanding technical publications teams already possess many of the capabilities needed to establish a […]
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• AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

  30-06-2026 19:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 that it would pour $1bn into a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit. […]
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• Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal over the App Store contempt finding in Epic case

  30-06-2026 19:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Apple’s appeal of the contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games over App Store fees. The justices will review lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 order requiring it to let developers direct consumers to cheaper payment options outside the […]
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• Blue Origin still does not know why New Glenn exploded but plans to fly again this year

  30-06-2026 18:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Blue Origin still does not know why its New Glenn rocket exploded last month, CEO Dave Limp said in a blog post on Tuesday. Early analysis points to the aft section of the first stage, according to Limp, who said the company is pulling on “extensive data from multiple camera angles and sensors” to identify […]
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• Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots

  30-06-2026 18:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors’ chatbots, then logged the replies in spreadsheets. The effort was active as recently as April 21, 2026. The targets were OpenAI’s ChatGPT, […]
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• Chamath’s AI coding startup 8090 raises $135M, and he’s CEO

  30-06-2026 18:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Salesforce led the Series A, which 8090 announced this week. The pitch behind it is blunt. AI can already write code. The hard part is stopping enterprise software from falling apart as dozens of agents and engineers change it every week. TechCrunch first reported the round, and the company confirmed the details. The investor list […]
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• Tesla starts testing its production Cybercab without steering wheel or pedals in Austin

  30-06-2026 18:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla has begun testing a production version of its Cybercab on public roads in Austin, Texas, with no steering wheel and no pedals. The two-seat vehicle, which Tesla first revealed in October 2024, is being driven entirely by its autonomous software while a safety monitor rides in the right passenger seat. Tesla posted video of […]
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• AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day

  30-06-2026 18:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon built Prime Day to keep shoppers inside its own marketplace. This year, AI shopping sent its best customers in from outside: a chatbot made the recommendation. US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn across retail sites during the four-day Prime Day event, according to Adobe Analytics. The more interesting number is not the total. It […]
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• Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund

  30-06-2026 17:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI chip startup Etched has raised $800 million and revealed that its backers include trading firm Jane Street and VentureTech Alliance, a venture firm with a strategic partnership with TSMC. The company, which designs chips specifically for running AI models rather than training them, says it has signed one billion dollars in sales contracts and […]
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• X launches hosted MCP server so AI tools can plug into its API directly

  30-06-2026 17:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  X has launched a hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Grok Build connect directly to its API using a user’s own account permissions. The move eliminates the integration work developers previously had to do on their own, from building a custom MCP server to handling authentication. X joins […]
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• Rakuten satellite project to get up to $926m Japanese government grant

  30-06-2026 17:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Japan has decided it does not want to depend on Elon Musk to keep its phones connected from space. The government is set to provide up to ¥150 billion, roughly $926 million, in subsidies to a consortium led by Rakuten Group to build a homegrown low-Earth-orbit satellite communications network. A project Tokyo frames explicitly as […]
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• EU opens antitrust probe into Align over Invisalign and scanner tying

  30-06-2026 17:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission has decided to look closely at how you straighten teeth, or more precisely, at the machine a dentist uses to scan them. Brussels has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Align Technology, the American company behind Invisalign, over suspicions that it illegally ties its iTero intra-oral scanners to its clear aligners across […]
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• Irish court tells regulator to reconsider TikTok’s China data-transfer ban

  30-06-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  The High Court upheld TikTok’s GDPR liability and its €530m fine, but sent the order suspending transfers to China back to the regulator for review. TikTok lost the argument that mattered most and won itself some breathing room on the rest. Ireland’s High Court has upheld the Data Protection Commission’s findings that the company breached […]
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• Bank of England’s Breeden warns AI agents could trigger market meltdowns

  30-06-2026 16:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Deputy governor Sarah Breeden says autonomous trading agents could amplify volatility if they all react the same way at once, and may demand new rules. The nightmare a central banker describes is rarely a crash. It is a feedback loop. Speaking at the European Central Bank’s annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, the Bank of England’s […]
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• Jon and Mindy Gray bet $55M on AI to catch cancer before it starts

  30-06-2026 16:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  A new institute at Penn’s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease. The idea behind the gift is unusual enough to need its own word. Most cancer philanthropy funds treatment, the long campaign that begins once a tumour has announced itself. Jon […]
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• Marc Andreessen joins the Pentagon’s board, and the old line blurs

  30-06-2026 16:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Andreessen now advises the Pentagon’s leadership on the very decisions his firm has invested billions around. It is legal, and it raises a question the rules were built to answer. Pete Hegseth announced the membership of a freshly cleared-out Defense Policy Board, the advisory panel that counsels the Pentagon’s civilian leadership on force structure, modernisation, […]
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• India’s Equirus weighs a fundraising round of up to $60m

  30-06-2026 15:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Mumbai investment bank is considering raising fresh capital through new shares and stake sales, a bet on the strength of India’s public-listing pipeline. India’s capital markets have been busy enough lately to make the firms that arrange the deals worth investing in themselves. Equirus Capital, a Mumbai-based investment bank, is considering raising as much […]
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• SAP hands AI product oversight to its CEO and COO in a reshuffle

  30-06-2026 15:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe’s largest software company is redistributing product and engineering responsibilities in its second top-level reorganisation of the year, with AI at the centre. When a company reorganises its leadership once in a year, it is housekeeping. When it does so twice, with the same word at the centre of both, it is a strategy under […]
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• After Harvey, vertical AI’s next $10B winner might be in agriculture

  30-06-2026 15:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  In legal, Harvey crossed an $11 billion valuation and Legora is racing to claim the European market behind it. In healthcare, Abridge has built a multi-billion-dollar business turning clinical conversations into structured medical records. In customer service, Sierra is now valued at over $15 billion, making it one of the fastest companies in AI history […]
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• Visa says AI investment and digital commerce are carrying the global economy

  30-06-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The payments giant’s midyear outlook forecasts 2.4% global growth in 2026, crediting an investment boom and online price competition for absorbing the strain of higher energy costs. The company that sees a slice of nearly every card swipe on the planet has a view on where the economy is heading, and the view is cautiously […]
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• Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable

  30-06-2026 14:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  A guidance cut from Concentrix dragged the sector down and hardened a fear that automated agents are eroding the business of answering the phone. The fear that artificial intelligence would hollow out the call-centre business has been hanging over the sector for two years, more sentiment than spreadsheet. This week it acquired some numbers. A […]
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• China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips

  30-06-2026 14:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model, is the first of its size to be trained end-to-end on home-grown silicon, the company says, in a pointed answer to US export controls. The most striking claim about Meituan’s new artificial intelligence model is not how large it is, though it is large, but what it ran on. The Chinese […]
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• Panasonic to localise US data-centre battery production, CEO says

  30-06-2026 14:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Japanese group plans to mass-produce data-centre battery cells in Kansas by fiscal 2028, redirecting a large slice of its AI infrastructure investment toward storage. The companies that built batteries for electric cars are discovering a new and hungrier customer: the data centre. Panasonic plans to localise production of data-centre battery cells in the United […]
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• Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care

  30-06-2026 14:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta wants its own AI coding tools. To get there, it is telling its engineers to be careful with the rival tools they lean on today. Meta has placed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, The Information reported. The worry is inadvertent distillation. One […]
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• StanChart’s former AI chief joins Accenture as Southeast Asia head

  30-06-2026 13:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, will lead advanced AI for the region at a consultancy betting heavily on enterprise adoption. The corporate AI leadership market moves quickly enough that a year now counts as a tenure. David Hardoon, Standard Chartered’s former global head of AI enablement, has joined Accenture […]
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• Taiwan’s drone defence debate heats up as opposition pushes rival plan

  30-06-2026 13:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  The opposition KMT is proposing NT$240bn for unmanned systems just days after stalling the government’s plan, in a fight with real implications for the island’s defence. Few militaries have watched the war in Ukraine more closely than Taiwan’s, and the lesson it has drawn is that cheap, mass-produced drones can blunt a far larger force. […]
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