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• Postquant Labs launches a virtual machine for different quantum computers

  20-10-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Quantum computers don’t all work the same way, and that creates a problem for developers. Code written for one machine may need to be rewritten before it can run on another. Postquant Labs wants to change that. The US startup has launched the Quip Virtual Machine (QVM), a software layer that lets developers write code […]
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• Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst for enterprise growth

  20-10-2026 19:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Otter.ai has raised $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. The AI meeting notetaker announced the deal on Tuesday. It will use the money for enterprise growth, its go-to-market strategy, international expansion and product development. Otter says more than 40 million people now use its product. That includes teams at over […]
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• Waymo plans to grow its robotaxi fleet fivefold to 20,000 by 2027

  20-10-2026 19:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Waymo plans to grow its fleet from about 4,000 robotaxis today to 8,000 by the end of 2026 and 20,000 by the end of 2027, Semafor reported. The push follows a $5B loan this month. Much of the new fleet will be Ojai vans built on Chinese Zeekr cars. Waymo also announced plans for Madrid. […]
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• Homebase’s new AI assistant fills shifts for small business owners

  20-10-2026 18:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Homebase, which makes scheduling and payroll software for hourly teams, has launched Homebase Assistant. The AI tool finds and contacts staff to cover missed shifts, builds schedules, screens job candidates and flags timecard errors before payroll. It is available to a limited number of businesses, and pricing has not been disclosed. Homebase, which makes scheduling […]
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• Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web

  20-10-2026 18:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Blackwall has built something rare: a security company that grows with the internet itself,” said Warda Shaheen, a general partner at AVP. “It is already the layer in front of millions of websites, and as more of the web’s traffic comes from agents, the company in that position becomes indispensable.” AVP has led a $100 […]
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• Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do

  20-10-2026 18:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  New York startup Asymptote Labs has raised a $5.5M seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that records what AI agents do, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions. The money will go on engineering, hiring and sales. Asymptote Labs, a New York startup […]
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• Spotify pulls 50M AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations

  20-10-2026 18:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Spotify says it has taken more than 50 million AI-generated “slop” and spam tracks out of its recommendations this year, on top of 75 million spam tracks it has deleted. It found these were the tracks listeners skipped or rejected most. Spotify did not say how many of the 50 million were made with AI. […]
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• Inception says its Mercury 3 model beats GPT-6 Luna and runs far faster

  20-10-2026 17:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Inception, the Redwood City AI lab, released Mercury 3 on Monday. It is the newest version of what the company calls a diffusion LLM, a design that differs from the systems behind most chatbots. Most language models are autoregressive. They write one token at a time, each one chosen after the last. A diffusion model […]
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• Amazon will hire 300,000 for the holidays as other retailers hold back

  20-10-2026 17:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 US workers for the holiday season, up 20% from last year, with seasonal staff paid an average of $20 an hour. It is adding health cover for seasonal workers who stay into January. Overall US seasonal retail hiring is forecast to fall again. Amazon plans to hire more […]
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• MIT’s AI agent society result holds up on consumer hardware

  20-10-2026 17:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  In August, researchers at MIT dropped a society of AI agents into a shared world with no instructions. They showed it could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same number of agents working alone. The study ran on a hosted frontier model. A research team working with Apex Fusion has now reproduced the […]
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• OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports

  20-10-2026 17:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of last year the company openly called for such limits. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists with direct knowledge of its position now say it has gone quiet. TNW has not independently verified the report. The shift […]
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• Terra Security’s AI Native Cybersecurity podcast opens with Amazon’s CISO

  20-10-2026 16:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  A cyberattack that once might have taken weeks or months to unfold can now go from initial access to a complete system takeover in minutes. That was the lesson CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon, shared with Shahar Peled. Peled is CEO and co-founder of Terra Security, and they spoke during the opening episode of AI […]
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• Anthropic to rewrite part of its leaked AI bill after safety backlash

  20-10-2026 16:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has told US lawmakers it will rewrite part of its own draft AI safety bill. The leaked text drew days of criticism from the AI safety community. The confidential draft was published by Politico on Friday. Anthropic has been circulating it on Capitol Hill. Critics say the bill is weaker than the main AI […]
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• DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models

  20-10-2026 16:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports only DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. 🚀 Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source! Powering […]
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• US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents

  20-10-2026 15:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Army Cyber Command has picked one company’s bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme for AI agents that hunt down targets in computer networks. The command’s technology centre and the Cyber Fusion Innovation Center (CFIC) made the choice on 8 October, according to CFIC’s website. A statement of work and contract will follow, it says. CFIC does […]
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• ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports

  20-10-2026 15:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined sticker price is over $35bn. Reuters reported the orders on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. TNW has not independently verified the report. Nvidia has told customers and partners it cannot guarantee it will […]
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• Salesforce agrees $5.7bn deal for customer messaging firm Braze

  20-10-2026 15:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Salesforce has agreed to buy Braze, a New York company that helps brands send personalised messages to their customers, for about $5.66bn including debt. The two companies announced the deal on Tuesday, adding to a run of Salesforce acquisitions this year. Braze shareholders will receive $47.50 in cash per share. That is about 58% above Braze’s last closing price […]
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• Jooba emerges with $4M to build AI-native recruiting firm

  20-10-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The startup combines human recruiters with custom AI sourcing agents, betting that fast-growing companies want help hiring without another tool to manage. For a startup trying to grow quickly, recruiting can become a job of its own. Founders need to define roles, find candidates, write outreach and keep a pipeline moving, often while managing the […]
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• Apple to buy up to $100M of US titanium for the iPhone Duo

  20-10-2026 14:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple will buy up to $100M of titanium from Perryman, a family-owned producer in Pennsylvania, over the next three years, the company announced. The metal will be used in several Apple products, including the casing of the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone. The deal is part of Apple’s push to source more parts in the […]
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• Vectorial raises $3M to help companies launch successful products

  20-10-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI is making building and launching products exponentially faster, but current user research is still painfully slow, expensive and biased. Even with AI-moderated interviews, getting user feedback from 50-100 participants still takes days. That is slow when you’re iterating on your product’s development and launch in hours. So companies skip user research at many important […]
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• Qualcomm reportedly plans global job cuts after annual staff reviews

  20-10-2026 13:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Qualcomm plans to cut jobs around the world after its yearly staff reviews, with affected employees due to be told from November. Chief executive Cristiano Amon set out the plan to staff on Monday, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. The memo calls the move a “performance-focused reduction” but gives no number of jobs. Reuters […]
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• Microsoft adds EU access oversight and offline AI to its sovereign cloud

  20-10-2026 13:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft is adding new controls to its sovereign cloud for governments and regulated companies, the CEO Satya Nadella announced today. The changes give customers more say over who can reach their systems, and let them run more AI tools on their own hardware. Today in Paris, we announced new capabilities across Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, expanding […]
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• AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials

  20-10-2026 12:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  AstraZeneca and Oracle will use AI and real patient health data to find people for drug trials faster, the two firms announced. The deal adds to a long list of AI health tie-ups between drugmakers and tech companies. The pair signed a non-binding term sheet, so the terms are not yet final, and neither firm said or […]
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• Google Cloud outage hits London region as Revolut also goes down

  20-10-2026 12:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dozens of Google Cloud services failed in the company’s London data centre region on Tuesday morning, and hit firms that run their systems there. The same morning, customers of fintech Revolut could not use its app or pay by card. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Revolut’s outage was related to the Google Cloud […]
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• Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027

  20-10-2026 12:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The company announced the investment today at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin. The two-day event, hosted by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, aims to attract investment to the country. […]
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• Nscale and Anthropic reportedly in talks over second $45bn deal

  20-10-2026 11:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nscale is negotiating to sell Anthropic about $45bn more in AI computing capacity, two months after the two companies agreed to a deal of the same size. Bloomberg reported the talks, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could be signed within days, although the terms may still change. Both companies declined to comment […]
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• Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople

  20-10-2026 11:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Daytona runs sandboxes for AI agents, co-founder and chief executive Ivan Burazin told TNW. Its users include Meta, Cohere and Handshake, and the company has about 30 employees. Burazin, a Croatian citizen, started Daytona with two co-founders, one of whom he has worked with for almost 20 years. Before Daytona, he co-founded Codeanywhere, a cloud […]
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• OpenAI reportedly races to close $30bn round before Anthropic’s IPO

  20-10-2026 11:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI is trying to speed up a funding round of about $30bn to secure investor commitments before Anthropic lists its shares in mid-November. The round could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $ 1.4 trillion. Reuters reported the plan on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI and SoftBank declined to comment […]
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• Revolut outage leaves customers unable to use app or cards

  20-10-2026 10:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Revolut customers across Europe were unable to open the fintech’s app or pay with their cards on Tuesday morning, after a service disruption hit several of its features. Outage tracker Downdetector logged more than 1,500 reports at that point, and users in the UK, France, Romania and Spain said they could not move money, while […]
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• Micron workers in Taiwan to strike as bonus talks with chipmaker fail

  20-10-2026 10:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Micron workers in Taoyuan, Taiwan, are set to go on strike on Thursday, 22 October, after months of failed negotiations over how the US chipmaker shares its profits with employees. The union announced the planned walkout on Monday, Reuters reported. It has not said how long the strike will last, but promised to provide more […]
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