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• Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

  05-08-2026 15:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and […]
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• Electric cars just hit a record share of China’s market. Their sales still fell

  12-08-2026 15:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  New energy vehicles took a record 65.1% of Chinese passenger car sales in July, but NEV volumes fell about 2% year on year, a seventh straight monthly decline, while the total market dropped 18%. Geely’s Xingyuan was the bestseller and BYD’s best performer managed only fifth over six months. Electric and hybrid cars took 65.1% […]
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• Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them

  12-08-2026 15:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watching them work. Avinash Misra, the co-founder and chief executive, reached […]
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• Upwork cuts full-year forecast as AI pressures its marketplace

  12-08-2026 14:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Upwork shares fell sharply after the freelance marketplace cut its full-year guidance, overshadowing a second-quarter earnings beat and reviving concerns that AI is eroding the work it brokers. The stock dropped as much as 21% in after-hours trading on Monday and closed on Tuesday down about 15% at $8.39. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $191.7m, down […]
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• Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff

  12-08-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands to X on Tuesday. Elon Musk used it to make two claims, and they only make sense together. The first is a number. AI revenue will pass everything else the company sells by next month. The second is a method. SpaceX will train Grok on its own information, including the […]
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• South Korea targets a 2030 Moon landing in a seven-part technology plan

  12-08-2026 14:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  South Korea has set out seven strategic technology programmes it intends to pursue after artificial intelligence, including an uncrewed Moon landing by 2030, President Lee Jae-myung announced on Wednesday at a meeting of scientists, executives and investors at the presidential office. The programmes, branded the “Seven Major SEED”, cover small modular reactors, nuclear fusion, next-generation renewable […]
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• Tesla recalls 20,349 cars after NHTSA rejects its headlight defence

  12-08-2026 14:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla is recalling 20,349 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles whose low beams exceed the federal photometric limit, after NHTSA rejected its argument that the defect was inconsequential. Tesla says a remedy is still under development, and owners are due to be notified by September 15. Tesla is recalling 20,349 cars because their headlights are […]
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• Uber Freight investigates cyber incident after hackers claim million-file leak

  12-08-2026 14:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Uber Freight is investigating a data-security incident involving unauthorised access to part of its systems, the company said on Tuesday, five days after a hacking group claimed to have posted around a million of its files online. In a statement attributed to spokesperson Sam Hallock, the company said there had been “no impact to Uber […]
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• China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work

  12-08-2026 13:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The unwinding has a cost, and customers are paying part of […]
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• The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor

  12-08-2026 13:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  The researcher who led Alibaba’s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba. The lab is based in Shanghai and works on what Lin calls next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds. Gaorong Ventures and HSG, the firm formerly […]
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• Foxconn now makes more money from AI servers than from everything else combined

  12-08-2026 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Foxconn crossed a line this quarter that it will not cross back. Its cloud and networking division, the one that builds AI servers, made up 51% of revenue in the three months to June. That is the first time the segment has passed half. Smart consumer electronics, the division that contains the iPhone, came to […]
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• ‘It’s still day zero’: Lovable is worth $13.3bn, and the EU just became a shareholder

  12-08-2026 12:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lovable is worth $13.3bn and its revenue is tripling. The interesting name on the cheque is the European Union. Lovable has raised $400m at a $13.3bn valuation. The Stockholm company lets people build software by describing it in ordinary language, and it is now one of Europe’s most valuable startups. Eight months ago it raised […]
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• Best HR software with predictive turnover analytics for 2026

  12-08-2026 12:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  The resignation landed on a Tuesday, and the manager never saw it coming. A senior engineer with three years at the company had earned strong reviews and showed no obvious signs of frustration. Then came the resignation. A competing offer had already been signed. Looking back, the warning signs were easy to spot. Survey scores […]
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• TripleDart tops $7 million ARR with AI-led growth, reports 50 per cent EBIT margin

  12-08-2026 12:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bengaluru, India TripleDart, a bootstrapped B2B growth company, today announced it has crossed $7 million in annual recurring revenue while operating at a 50% EBIT margin. The company says software, not additional headcount or capital, drove the jump. The milestone lands in the middle of a heated debate. Venture investors have poured more than $300 […]
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• Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre

  12-08-2026 12:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service. No financial terms were disclosed, no launch customer was named, and no firm date was given […]
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• Ryanair signs a five-year AI deal with Google Cloud, and a second cloud to fall back on

  12-08-2026 11:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ryanair has signed a five-year data and AI partnership with Google Cloud, rolling out Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 employees and making Gemini Enterprise, Google’s agentic AI platform, the centrepiece of how Europe’s largest carrier intends to run itself. The airline has tied the deal explicitly to its growth target of 300 […]
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• Joby is buying a stealth-technology firm for $500m, and rebuilding its defence arm around it

  12-08-2026 11:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Joby Aviation has agreed to buy Resonant Sciences, a Dayton, Ohio radar and low-observability specialist, for about $500m, in the largest acquisition the electric air taxi company has made and the clearest signal yet of where it expects its near-term revenue to come from. The structure is $450m in cash and roughly $50m in Joby […]
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• Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years to start something new

  12-08-2026 11:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Brad Lightcap, who spent eight years at OpenAI and four of them as chief operating officer, said on Tuesday that he is leaving to start something new. He did not say what it is. “It is bittersweet to share that I’ll be moving on from OpenAI to start something new,” Lightcap wrote in a post […]
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• Spotify will badge AI artist profiles, and keep them out of your recommendations

  12-08-2026 10:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Spotify will begin attaching an “AI Persona” badge to artist profiles whose public identity is generated rather than human, the company announced. Profiles carrying the badge will be excluded by default from editorial and algorithmic recommendations, which is the part of the policy that actually bites. There are two versions of the label. Artists can apply […]
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• Nvidia calms its own credit market after Jensen Huang clarifies the $500bn financing plan

  12-08-2026 10:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  The chipmaker’s credit-default swaps had spiked to a record on fears of circular financing. They eased once Jensen Huang recast the plan as other people’s money, with Nvidia’s own exposure capped. After weeks in which the cost of insuring its debt climbed to a record on worries about so-called circular financing, that cost eased once […]
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• French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers

  12-08-2026 10:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  French media have asked the country’s competition authority to rein in Google’s use of artificial intelligence, filing a complaint that seeks to put a price on the AI-generated summaries quietly siphoning readers away from the outlets that produced the underlying journalism. The grievance, lodged by a trade association representing publishers, lands as the fight over […]
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• Anthropic starts marking all of Claude’s output worldwide as EU transparency rules take effect

  12-08-2026 09:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has begun attaching machine-readable marks to the text and images that its Claude models generate, and will apply them to users worldwide rather than only in Europe, after signing a European Union code of practice tied to new transparency rules that took effect on 2 August 2026. The company confirmed in a support document that it […]
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• Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud

  11-08-2026 23:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Impersonation scams grew more than 1,400% year over year in 2025, according to Chainalysis, with the average payment into those clusters rising more than 600%. Across all scam categories the average crypto payment climbed from $782 to $2,764. An attack class does not scale like that because more people are running it. It scales because […]
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• SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work

  11-08-2026 22:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist. SpaceXAI has released Grok Bot, software that hands work to groups of […]
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• Sonos Plans September Launch Event and Deeper Push Into Home AI

  11-08-2026 20:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already knows a home. An FCC filing names the first product of that push, the Ace Ultra headphones, expected at a September launch event. Sonos is betting that the value of AI in the home sits in […]
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• Apple Executive Who Launched Apple Pay Is Retiring After 25 Years

  11-08-2026 20:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jennifer Bailey, head of Apple Pay and Wallet since the service launched in 2014, is retiring in October after more than 25 years at Apple. Her exit is one of several senior departures ahead of Tim Cook handing the chief executive job to John Ternus on September 1. Jennifer Bailey, who has run Apple Pay […]
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• Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending

  11-08-2026 19:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Target has named Lowe’s executive Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, starting August 24. IBM research puts the share of organisations with a chief AI officer at 76% this year, up from 26% in 2025. Target has appointed its first chief AI officer. Chandhu Nair joins from Lowe’s on August 24 as senior […]
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• IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers

  11-08-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money in artificial intelligence is no longer only in building […]
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• Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days

  11-08-2026 18:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of California’s new first-time buyer rebate in five days. The MyFirstEV scheme opened this month, and Tesla started […]
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• Meta and TikTok agree to fact-check border content after Ceuta tragedy

  11-08-2026 18:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta and TikTok have agreed to fact-check content about Spain’s border crossings, a voluntary commitment brokered by Brussels after a catastrophe that showed how quickly a viral video can turn into a matter of life and death. The accord follows the events of 30 July, when more than 70,000 migrants surged towards Ceuta, the Spanish […]
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