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• Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen

  21-07-2026 21:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with eight billion active parameters per token, is compact enough to run on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system, and […]
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• OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

  21-07-2026 22:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The company called the incident “unprecedented” and said it was sharing preliminary findings to help defenders […]
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• Intel confirms more layoffs in its data center unit as stock rallies on turnaround momentum

  21-07-2026 22:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Intel confirmed on Tuesday that it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in its data center group, the division responsible for Xeon server processors and AI-related hardware, as part of a broader restructuring under CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Shares rose as much as 8 percent in early trading, extending a rally that has seen the […]
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• Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster

  21-07-2026 21:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obvious Ventures, with Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments also participating, following an earlier pre-seed […]
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• Sila raises $300M to fast-track gigascale anode production and shore up US battery supply chains

  21-07-2026 20:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sila, the battery materials company formerly known as Sila Nanotechnologies, has raised $300 million in a private equity round led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures to expand its silicon anode manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington. 8VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, and T Rowe Price also participated, alongside existing investors including In-Q-Tel, […]
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• GM beats Q2 earnings and announces gas-powered Cadillacs as nearly $11 billion EV retreat nears completion

  21-07-2026 19:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  General Motors beat Wall Street’s second-quarter estimates by 37 cents a share on Tuesday, raised its full-year earnings guidance for the second time this year, and used the same earnings call to announce that Cadillac will launch new gas-powered versions of the CT5 sedan, XT5 crossover, and discontinued XT6 three-row SUV starting next spring. Revenue […]
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• The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger

  21-07-2026 19:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners completed their purchase of all the equity in Aligned Data Centers. The deal […]
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• London robotics startup Humanoid raises $152M Series A, with Bosch set to manufacture its wheeled robots at scale

  21-07-2026 19:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  London-based robotics startup Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation, pushing Humanoid’s own valuation above $1 billion. Bosch, Schaeffler, Aglaé Ventures, the investment arm of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, and Taiwan’s Fubon Financial also participated. The round brings […]
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• Intel Foundry lands its first named outside customer: Fortinet

  21-07-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  The two companies announced a strategic collaboration to build the Fortinet Security Processor 6, the custom silicon inside its FortiGate firewalls. Intel will handle the chip design, advanced packaging, and manufacturing. The first name on the list That last part matters more than the chip itself. Intel told Tom’s Hardware it will build the SP6 […]
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• Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

  21-07-2026 18:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eightfold in four years. It is more than the $1.35 trillion the five […]
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• Eight NATO allies launch HALO, a plan to link military satellites into one networked mega-constellation

  21-07-2026 18:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Eight NATO allies have launched an initiative to connect their military satellites into a single networked mega-constellation, marking the Alliance’s most ambitious move yet to treat space as shared operational infrastructure rather than a collection of national assets. The programme, called HALO (Hybrid Alliance Layered Operations in Space), was announced at the NATO Summit Defence […]
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• Google shipped three cheap Gemini models and a Mythos rival, but not the one that matters

  21-07-2026 18:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google’s answer to a summer of being outrun is not a bigger model. It is cheaper ones. On Tuesday the company launched three new Gemini models, all at its fast, low-cost “Flash” tier, a day before Alphabet reports earnings. The message is efficiency over raw power. The catch is what is still missing. Cheap, fast, […]
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• Volkswagen’s new e-bike has a rearview camera, radar, and fighter-pilot smart glasses

  21-07-2026 18:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Volkswagen has put its name on an e-bike built around the kind of safety technology you would normally find in a car. The Volkswagen eBike, manufactured by n+ under licence, features a rear-mounted camera that streams a live feed to a handlebar display, radar-activated blind-spot alerts, a smart helmet with crash detection, and HUD glasses […]
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• Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon

  21-07-2026 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  The other two major labels made peace with Udio months ago. Sony did the opposite. On Monday it filed a fresh lawsuit in New York, Billboard reported, covering 30,117 recordings and leaving Udio facing a far bigger bill. Turning peace into a weapon The heart of the case is fair use, the defence Udio leans […]
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• Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3

  21-07-2026 18:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including OpenAI, CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Meta, and Dell. OpenAI plans to adopt Vera Rubin at scale during the […]
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• Researchers escaped four top AI coding agents’ sandboxes without ever breaking them

  21-07-2026 17:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  The tools are Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. Over several months, Pillar Security found ways for each agent to cross its security boundary while staying, technically, inside the box. The escape that isn’t one The trick is neat. These sandboxes trust the agent inside the project folder and protect the host outside. […]
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• Apple is launching a Klarna-backed device leasing program called Apple Upgrade on July 28

  21-07-2026 17:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is preparing to launch Apple Upgrade, a device leasing program backed by Klarna that will mark one of the biggest changes to how the company sells hardware, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The service is planned to go live on July 28 and will support most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models, according to […]
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• X rebuilt its neglected Android app from scratch, and the bug reports are already rolling in

  21-07-2026 17:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Android users have long got the rougher version of X. After nearly a year of work, the company has stopped patching the old app and rebuilt it from scratch. The new version ships as a normal update through the Play Store, X said, so there is no separate app to install. It promises faster loading, […]
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• Samsung Unpacked is tomorrow: a wider Z Fold 8, a second foldable, and maybe AI glasses

  21-07-2026 17:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Samsung has picked London for its summer showcase, and it wants you expecting something folded differently. Beyond the date and a teaser, though, the company has confirmed very little. Galaxy Unpacked runs on Tuesday, 22 July, at 2pm BST, streamed on Samsung’s site and YouTube, CNET notes. The official tagline reads “a new shape unfolds.” […]
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• US lawmakers press Trump to open trade probe into EU tech rules

  21-07-2026 17:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  A group of US lawmakers has urged President Donald Trump to open a formal trade investigation into the European Union’s two flagship technology laws, arguing that enforcement has fallen unfairly on American companies and warrants retaliation under US trade powers. The push, set out in a letter reported on Tuesday, points to a possible Section […]
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• Electra plans an $850M Ohio factory for its ultra-short hybrid plane

  21-07-2026 17:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Aircraft startup Electra plans to invest around $850 million to build a factory in Ohio, giving the maker of hybrid-electric ultra-short takeoff and landing aircraft its first dedicated production base. It would place Electra in the same state as electric air taxi rival Joby, which is already building a scaled plant in Dayton. Ohio has courted […]
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• OpenAI’s agents hit 10 million users as ChatGPT Work push accelerates

  21-07-2026 16:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI says the agentic side of ChatGPT has passed 10 million weekly users, a mark it reached less than two weeks after the debut of ChatGPT Work, its attempt to turn the chatbot into a tool that finishes a job rather than just describes one. The figure, first reported by Bloomberg, spans the two products OpenAI […]
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• The hidden advantage of looking like a billion-dollar brand before you are one

  21-07-2026 16:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  When founders talk about growth, the conversation usually centers on product development, hiring, revenue, customer acquisition, or fundraising. Those factors matter. They are the engines that move a company forward. Yet after years of working with high-growth businesses, I have become convinced that many companies hit invisible ceilings for a different reason. They are operating […]
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• A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say

  21-07-2026 16:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading hardware-security conference. As The Register reported, it imagines a paying […]
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• Garmin launches the CIRQA, a screen-free Whoop rival that skips the membership fee

  21-07-2026 16:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Garmin has finally joined the screenless wearable race with the CIRQA Smart Band, a $199.99 fabric-strap tracker that drops the display and, more pointedly, the recurring fee its rivals depend on. The band is the company’s clearest challenge yet to Whoop, the recovery-focused strap that has spent years defining this corner of the market. Where […]
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• Natural raised $30M to build a Stripe for AI agents, before Stripe gets there

  21-07-2026 16:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  The next big customer for a payments company may not be a person at all. It may be an AI agent, and a startup called Natural has raised $30 million to serve it. The Series A was led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures, and closed when Natural was just 193 days old. It takes […]
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• Google’s newest data pipeline runs beneath the Atlantic to Portugal

  21-07-2026 16:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has connected Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable running beneath the Atlantic between Portugal and the United States, tightening its grip on the physical layer that carries its cloud and AI services. The system links Sines, on Portugal’s southwest coast, with Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and adds Google to the small club of hyperscalers […]
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• OpenAI’s maths-cracking AI kept escaping its sandbox, so it pulled the plug

  21-07-2026 16:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, […]
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• Microsoft to fund Mistral’s European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal

  21-07-2026 16:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft has agreed to bankroll a large slice of Mistral AI’s European build-out, extending a partnership that already binds the Paris lab to the American giant’s cloud. The two companies announced the expanded agreement on Tuesday, describing it as a multibillion-dollar commitment to compute infrastructure across the continent. What is clearer is the shape of […]
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• Fig Expands Platform Across the Full SecOps Engineering Lifecycle, Making Resilience the Default

  21-07-2026 16:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Security operations environments are constantly evolving. New cloud services, data sources, automations, and detections are introduced on a regular basis, while upstream systems can change without warning. Although these updates are intended to improve security, they can also create unintended consequences by disrupting detection pipelines and leaving organizations with visibility gaps. Fig believes the problem […]
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