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• Project Arrow gets $5M of gov funding for zero-emission vehicles

  12-08-2021 13:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Today, the Canadian government announced a $5 million investment in the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) to support Project Arrow, the automotive industry’s first Canadian-made, zero-emission concept vehicle. Project Arrow is the collective effort of industry partners and University students working together to design, engineer, and build a connected and autonomous zero-emissions vehicle concept car.  A digital twin is an immersive and active virtual
  
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• Google will now tell you which ads were made with AI, if the advertiser admits it

  09-07-2026 21:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google is rolling out a feature that flags when an advertisement was made using AI. The label will indicate if an ad was created or edited with generative tools, TechCrunch reports. The disclosure appears in the “My Ad Center” panel, reachable via the three-dot menu or info icon on ads. It covers ads across Google Search, […]
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• Bezos opens Blue Origin to outside investors for the first time in 26 years

  09-07-2026 21:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jeff Bezos is letting outside investors into Blue Origin for the first time since he founded it in 2000. The rocket company is seeking about $10bn in fresh capital at a $130bn pre-money valuation, according to CNBC. For 26 years, Bezos bankrolled the company himself, selling billions in Amazon stock rather than sharing ownership. That solo-funding […]
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• News outlets ask a judge to sanction OpenAI in their landmark copyright fight

  09-07-2026 21:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  A group of news publishers has asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI. The New York Times, the Daily News, and others allege the ChatGPT maker is concealing evidence central to their copyright case, the Associated Press reports. A filing on Thursday in Manhattan federal court claims OpenAI “chose obstruction” over handing over datasets […]
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• New Jersey could ban Tesla’s Robotaxi with one line about sensors

  09-07-2026 21:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  For more than a decade, the biggest fight in self-driving cars has played out in boardrooms and engineering labs. New Jersey now wants to settle it in law. A bill moving through the state legislature would force any company running fully driverless cars in New Jersey to fit them with a camera system plus two […]
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• Musk says he always wanted SpaceX staff to get rich, and thousands just did

  09-07-2026 21:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk says SpaceX’s blockbuster listing has probably made thousands of his employees millionaires. Asked on The Sean Hannity Show about a former welder whose stock topped $1m, he said the story was far from unique. “It’s not just one welder, it’s several thousand people who were working on the production line,” Musk said, adding […]
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• AI’s land rush is reaching Native American reservations

  09-07-2026 20:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  The scramble to build AI data centres is pushing developers toward Native American land. Indigenous-led group Honor the Earth says it is tracking more than 100 proposed projects on or near tribal and rural territory. The appeal for developers is practical. Large land-based tribes often have space, water rights, and power access, and reservations can offer tax […]
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• Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute

  09-07-2026 20:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta had been said to be weighing a venture, dubbed Meta Compute, to rent out its spare AI […]
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• AI companies are spending hundreds of millions on the midterms, and they want one thing

  09-07-2026 20:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI companies and their backers are pouring vast sums into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs. The spending runs into the hundreds of millions across the sector, CNBC reports, and their central demand is remarkably consistent. They want a single national framework for AI, not a patchwork of state laws. The industry argues that 50 […]
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• Palo Alto’s CEO says AI prices must fall 90% before the tech really takes off

  09-07-2026 20:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says the cost of running AI needs to plunge before businesses can deploy it at scale. He told CNBC on Thursday that token prices may need to fall by as much as 90%, according to CNBC. Arora was reacting to OpenAI’s claim that its new GPT-5.6 model is 54% […]
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• EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March

  09-07-2026 20:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Parliament has voted to advance a bill letting tech companies legally scan for child sexual abuse material. On Thursday in Strasbourg, lawmakers sent the proposal to EU member states for approval, Politico reports. The twist is that Parliament rejected this same bill in March. It was revived after a push by the centre-right European […]
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• Anthropic puts the man who steered the Fed through 2008 on its AI oversight trust

  09-07-2026 20:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust. The AI company announced the move on Thursday, adding a central-bank-grade name to the body meant to keep it honest. Bernanke led the Fed from 2006 to 2014, steering it through the 2008 financial crisis. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in […]
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• AI now wants half of America’s tech office space, and it’s all landing on a few streets

  09-07-2026 20:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI boom is easy to measure in dollars raised and models shipped. It is harder to see where it physically lands. A new report from the real-estate platform VTS offers one answer, and it is striking. AI companies now account for nearly half of all the office space that America’s tech firms are chasing. […]
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• AI just shrank the PC market and is killing the cheap phone. Your gadgets are next

  09-07-2026 19:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  For the first time in two years, the world bought fewer PCs. Global shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations fell 3.6% in the second quarter of 2026, to 65.7 million units, according to the analyst firm Omdia. The cause is not weak demand. It is the price of memory, and the reason it is soaring […]
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• OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 to everyone after the US government signed off

  09-07-2026 19:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 publicly available after receiving approval from the Trump administration. The release ends weeks in which the model was restricted to a small group of government-vetted partners, CNBC reports. The model family comes in three tiers. Sol is the flagship, Terra a lower-cost enterprise option, and Luna the fastest and cheapest. OpenAI says […]
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• Half of Gen Z feel guilty using AI at work. Employers now rank it above a degree

  09-07-2026 19:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Half of young workers feel guilty when they use AI to do their jobs. Yet the same skills are fast becoming something their employers demand. That is the bind facing Gen Z at work, according to a new global survey from the employment platform Employment Hero. The company calls it “the AI paradox.” In the […]
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• A single Messi moment pushed Google Search to its busiest second ever

  09-07-2026 19:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google Search recorded its highest usage ever this week, driven by a World Cup goal. The company says the most queries per second in Search’s near-28-year history landed right after Argentina’s winning goal, a spokesperson told CNBC. The spike followed Argentina’s comeback victory over Egypt in the knockout rounds on Tuesday, with Lionel Messi at the […]
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• Alipay’s owner just open-sourced an entire robot brain in a single week

  09-07-2026 19:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  The company behind China’s Alipay just gave away an AI that builds a playable video game world and keeps it running for a full hour. Robbyant, the robotics arm of fintech giant Ant Group, open-sourced its LingBot-World 2.0 world model this week. It generates an interactive 3D world in real time, at 720p and 60 […]
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• How organizations view AI-native transformation through better workflows, decisions, and organizational intelligence

  09-07-2026 19:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Organizations seem eager to bring AI into the workplace. Many begin the journey by focusing on the tool or the model. VarOps, a systems-level AI advisory specializing in capability building in organizations, believes that’s the wrong place to start. According to VarOps, businesses should start by examining how work actually moves through the organisation, as this […]
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• A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that

  09-07-2026 19:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Yann LeCun is not a natural contrarian, but he is playing one right now. The man often called a godfather of AI built the convolutional neural network in the late 1980s. That design still powers phone cameras, medical scans, and driver-assistance systems. He then spent 12 years as Meta’s chief AI scientist. In November, he […]
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• Robots swept RoboCup 2026, and they’re coming for the human World Cup by 2050

  09-07-2026 18:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  While the world watched the World Cup, robots played their own version in Incheon. RoboCup 2026 ran from 30 June to 6 July in Songdo, drawing teams from dozens of countries. When the whistle blew, one name was behind every winner. Teams using robots from Beijing’s Booster Robotics swept all three humanoid football divisions. The […]
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• AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs

  09-07-2026 18:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing Intel on CPUs and Nvidia on GPUs. Its market […]
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• A Waymo called the cops on two teens drinking and shooting toy guns

  09-07-2026 18:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Two 15-year-olds in San Mateo learned this week that a driverless taxi can still tell on you. The pair were drinking alcohol and shooting Orbeez, soft water-filled pellets, out of a moving Waymo on Monday afternoon. The car’s remote monitors spotted it, called 911, and pulled the vehicle over to wait for police, the Associated […]
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• A startup just 3D-printed kidney and liver tissue in space, a first

  09-07-2026 17:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Auxilium Biotechnologies has bioprinted kidney and liver tissue aboard the International Space Station. It says that is the first time anyone has made either in space. The samples flew home last month on a SpaceX cargo capsule, and the company announced the results on Thursday. It was not a one-off. In the same mission, Auxilium’s […]
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• Securing Shadow IT in the corporate environment

  09-07-2026 17:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every organization has two technology environments. The one that IT built, documented, and maintains visibility over, and the one that employees assembled around it to get their work done faster. The second environment is shadow IT, and in most enterprises, it is larger, more varied, and more deeply embedded in daily operations than security teams […]
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• This EU-first robocar tests at 120 km/h, and uses no AI to drive

  09-07-2026 17:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limburg. Level 4 means the car handles everything, with no […]
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• The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in

  09-07-2026 17:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It is the largest right-to-repair win in the US so far. The fight was […]
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• Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model

  09-07-2026 17:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an AI stack at all. They are chasing an outcome. Take a […]
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• Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers

  09-07-2026 17:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator and others joined. The round takes the company’s total funding to $88M, three years after it launched, and Ollama set out the plan in a blog post on Thursday. Founder and chief executive Jeff Morgan gave the details to TechCrunch, […]
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• Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation

  09-07-2026 17:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursday. The figure is striking for a firm that bootstrapped its way to the top. Oxylabs says […]
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