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• Psychologist explains what makes people psychopathic

  24-11-2019 10:00 via The Next Web
  
  Millions recently flocked to the cinema to watch Joker, the origin story of Batman’s notorious nemesis. Many have commented that the film is a portrait of a textbook psychopath. But perhaps the bigger question is how many among the audience have similar traits? Indeed, is it possible that you are a psychopath yourself? To answer this question, we need to examine the diagnostic criteria for psychopathy presented in the PCL-R, which was developed by Robert Hare in the 1970s. Thanks to Hare,
  
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• Gritt and MasTec bring bolt-on construction robots to solar sites

  10-11-2026 19:44 via The Next Web
  
  Infrastructure builder MasTec will deploy Gritt’s AI robotic attachments on its utility-scale solar projects across several US states, after testing them on live sites. It follows a similar deal with Burns & McDonnell in August. No financial terms were disclosed. MasTec, one of North America’s largest infrastructure builders, will use Gritt’s AI-powered robots on its […]
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• Graphon Labs raises $35m to give AI agents a memory that lasts

  10-11-2026 19:01 via The Next Web
  
  Graphon Labs, a San Francisco startup that builds memory for AI agents, has raised $35m. RRE Ventures led the Series A. HP, Energy Impact Partners, Hitachi Ventures and Gaia VC also invested, Graphon said on Tuesday. The round brings its total funding to $43.3m, less than six months after it left stealth with an $8.3m […]
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• Mosaic raises $47m to build surgical machines that navigate blood vessels

  10-11-2026 18:53 via The Next Web
  
  Mosaic Intelligence Labs, a San Francisco startup building AI-guided surgical instruments, has come out of stealth with $47m. It raised the money in two seed rounds led by 8VC and Fundomo, the one-year-old company told The Information. Lingotto Innovation and Obvious Ventures also invested, Mosaic said on Tuesday. The company is starting with endovascular procedures. […]
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• Ring’s flying security camera is finally coming, six years late, for $250

  10-11-2026 18:49 via The Next Web
  
  Amazon’s Ring will sell the $250 Ring Drone Cam, an indoor flying security camera, from late January, more than six years after first announcing it. It also launched the $1,000 Rover Cam, a rebranded Astro robot, shipping in mid-December. Amazon’s Ring will start selling its flying home security camera in late January, more than six […]
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• Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to take on hospital paperwork

  10-11-2026 18:46 via The Next Web
  
  Google Cloud has launched Gemini for healthcare, an AI agent that works across the record, billing and insurance systems hospitals and health insurers already use. It is available in preview in the US from Tuesday, Google Cloud said. Launch customers include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Hartford HealthCare, HCA Healthcare, Highmark Health, Northwell Health, […]
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• Anthropic adds Claude Sheets and a call assistant, taking on its backers

  10-11-2026 18:35 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic is adding Claude Sheets, a video call assistant and a data dashboard tool to Claude, many in beta for paid users, Bloomberg reported. The tools compete with backers Microsoft and Google. Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot can also put their apps inside Claude. Anthropic is adding a spreadsheet, a video call assistant and other office […]
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• Oura buys Counsel Health for $625m to put AI and doctors in its app

  10-11-2026 18:33 via The Next Web
  
  Oura is buying Counsel Health, an AI-native primary care company, for $625m in cash. The deal puts Counsel’s medical AI and its doctors inside the Oura app, Oura said on Tuesday. Ring wearers will go from a health insight to a chat with an AI, then to a physician. Oura expects to close the deal […]
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• Reddit Reviews uses AI to summarise what users say about 10,000 products

  10-11-2026 18:25 via The Next Web
  
  Reddit is turning what its users say about products into AI-made reviews. It says it will not take a cut when people buy through them. Reddit Reviews started testing on Tuesday and summarises talk about around 10,000 products, the company said in a blog post. “Reddit Reviews is an organic experience, and Reddit does not […]
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• Zacua Ventures closes $135M fund for construction and infrastructure tech

  10-11-2026 18:24 via The Next Web
  
  San Francisco-based Zacua Ventures has closed its second fund at $135m, more than doubling the $56m it raised for its first vehicle in 2024. Zacua invests in early-stage start-ups developing technology for what it calls the physical industries. While construction remains a core focus, the new fund will also target companies working in energy, mining, […]
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• Goldman, a lead bank on Anthropic’s IPO, sees $685B in revenue by 2030

  10-11-2026 18:18 via The Next Web
  
  Goldman Sachs analysts expect Anthropic’s revenue to reach about $685B by 2030, Bloomberg reported. Goldman is one of the banks leading Anthropic’s IPO, which began marketing on Tuesday at a value of up to $1.4T and is due to price on 18 November. Goldman Sachs analysts expect Anthropic’s revenue to reach about $685B by 2030, […]
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• Meta and IMAX sign deal to put an IMAX theatre in Meta’s VR Glasses

  10-11-2026 18:02 via The Next Web
  
  IMAX and Meta have signed an agreement to make Meta’s VR Glasses the first VR device with IMAX Enhanced certification. IMAX will also bring an updated app to the glasses when they launch in spring 2027, the companies said on Tuesday. The app will put viewers in a virtual theatre to watch IMAX Enhanced films […]
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• Blue J raises $176M to put AI agents to work for tax professionals

  10-11-2026 18:01 via The Next Web
  
  Toronto-based Blue J, which develops AI tools for tax research, has raised $176M in a Series E funding round led by JMI Equity, valuing the company at more than $700M, or over C$1bn. Existing investors Oak HC/FT and Sapphire Ventures also participated, alongside Intrepid Growth Partners. JMI principal Jack Duane will join Blue J’s board […]
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• Photoshop can now relight a photo, and Lightroom can open closed eyes

  10-11-2026 18:00 via The Next Web
  
  Adobe released new tools for Photoshop, Premiere and Lightroom on Tuesday at its MAX conference in Miami Beach. Most of them are available today, and a few are in beta. Adobe announced the features alongside its plan to let outside AI agents work inside its apps from early 2027. “With demand for content growing across […]
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• Stanford’s 100-year AI study says scaling is running out of road

  10-11-2026 17:56 via The Next Web
  
  Stanford’s One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) published its third report on Tuesday. AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI sets out 12 takeaways on five years of AI. The last one is a warning about the Stanford AI100 report itself. “This report will be out of date […]
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• Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon is now open to paying developers and Ultra users

  10-11-2026 17:56 via The Next Web
  
  Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available to paying developers and businesses and is rolling it out to AI Ultra subscribers, two weeks after a limited release to cyber defenders. It costs the same per token as Argon at launch but uses more tokens per task. Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon, its most powerful AI […]
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• Path Robotics raises $300m at a $2.45bn valuation for welding AI

  10-11-2026 17:49 via The Next Web
  
  Path Robotics, an Ohio startup that builds AI to let robots weld, has raised $300m in a Series E round at a $2.45bn valuation. Georgian, an AI-focused growth equity firm, led the round, the company said. The deal nearly quadruples Path’s valuation, Bloomberg reported. Existing investors Addition, Drive Capital, IronArc Ventures, Tiger Global and Yamaha […]
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• Mercor raises $750m at a $20bn valuation to train AI on every job

  10-11-2026 17:42 via The Next Web
  
  Mercor, the San Francisco startup that pays experts to train and test AI models, has raised $750m in a Series D round that values it at $20bn. The valuation is double the $10bn Mercor reached when it raised $350m in October 2025. Benchmark, Felicis, Fundomo, General Catalyst, Nvidia, Salesforce, Sapphire Ventures and Zoom joined the […]
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• Adobe will let outside AI agents edit Photoshop and Premiere files

  10-11-2026 17:30 via The Next Web
  
  Adobe will let the AI agents creative professionals already use work directly in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects. The agent will change native project files on the user’s own computer, and layers, vectors, bins and sequences will stay editable. Adobe announced the plan on Tuesday at its MAX conference in Miami Beach. It calls […]
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• Bay raises $50m to vet AI agent actions before they run

  10-11-2026 17:22 via The Next Web
  
  Bay, a Tel Aviv startup that vets AI agent actions before they run, came out of stealth on Tuesday with $50m. It is less than a year old. It says it already has dozens of enterprise customers, including Micron, Peloton, ClickUp and Wix. The total combines a $37m Series A led by Battery Ventures and […]
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• GTA VI pre-loads open as Take-Two says pre-orders beat its expectations

  10-11-2026 17:06 via The Next Web
  
  Grand Theft Auto VI is ready to download. Rockstar Games opened pre-loading on Tuesday for everyone who pre-ordered the game digitally. It launches in nine days, on 19 November, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The day before, its publisher Take-Two Interactive reported its quarterly results and said pre-orders keep climbing. It kept its […]
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• Rein Security is bringing visibility and control to every agentic action

  10-11-2026 16:51 via The Next Web
  
  Enterprises are beginning to build AI agents into the way they operate. Connected to databases, customer records, development environments and financial systems, these agents can execute workflows across business applications with limited human intervention. The ambition is to achieve productivity gains across entire processes. Agents carry work forward without requiring an employee to direct every […]
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• Adobe’s Acrobat is coming to Gmail and Google Drive in a wider Google deal

  10-11-2026 16:45 via The Next Web
  
  Adobe’s Acrobat is coming to Google Workspace. People will be able to open PDFs in it straight from Google Drive and Gmail. Acrobat will appear as a suggested app in both services, including through an “Edit with” option in file previews. Adobe and Google announced the expanded partnership on Tuesday at Adobe’s MAX conference in […]
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• Adobe’s Firefly agent now plans the work and picks the AI model for you

  10-11-2026 16:15 via The Next Web
  
  Adobe’s Creative Agent in Firefly can now show creators its plan before it starts. It can also pick the AI model for each job. Creators can edit and approve that plan, or let the agent run on its own. They can also choose the model themselves. Adobe announced the update on Tuesday at its MAX […]
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• Ancep raises $8.5M for AI agents that help brokers place smaller risks

  10-11-2026 16:11 via The Next Web
  
  London-based Ancep has raised $8.5M to build AI agents for commercial insurance brokers, targeting the smaller deals that brokers often turn away because they take too much time to handle relative to the commission they bring in. The funding round was led by Creandum, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Vicus Ventures. Angel investors include […]
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• Hedra launches Model Factory to build custom AI for robots and labs

  10-11-2026 15:30 via The Next Web
  
  Hedra, a San Francisco start-up best known for AI video, has launched a service that builds custom AI models for real-world uses. Called Hedra Model Factory, it is aimed at robotics, manufacturing, biology, and defence teams, the company said on Tuesday. The service covers the stages after a model’s first training. Hedra will rent out […]
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• Adobe puts its Coworker AI agent in GenStudio, free for existing customers

  10-11-2026 15:00 via The Next Web
  
  Adobe’s AI agent for marketing teams, CX Enterprise Coworker, is now live inside GenStudio. That is Adobe’s software for producing and delivering marketing content. Teams ask it for what they need in plain language. The agent then carries the work across Adobe’s apps and the outside tools a team already uses. Adobe announced the launch […]
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• Dresden AI chipmaker Sparxity closes Series A, taking funding to $90M

  10-11-2026 14:00 via The Next Web
  
  Sparxity, a Dresden company that builds computer chips and systems for AI, has closed its Series A funding round. The round brings the company’s total raised to $90M. Yet Sparxity did not say how much of that came from the Series A. ICM HPQC Fund, which invests in computing and quantum infrastructure, led the round. […]
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• AWS commits $100M in AI and cloud credits to expand health services

  10-11-2026 12:50 via The Next Web
  
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is putting $100M worth of AI and cloud technology into health projects for underserved communities around the world. The AWS Health Impact Initiative will run for five years. Rather than cash, organisations receive credits to use AWS’s AI tools, AI agents and cloud computing. Health charities, government bodies, researchers and companies can […]
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• Moonshot AI rented Nvidia’s top chips in China, Bloomberg reports

  10-11-2026 12:26 via The Next Web
  
  Chinese AI start-up Moonshot AI signed a deal in August to rent servers fitted with Nvidia’s most powerful AI chips. The US does not allow these chips to be sold to China without a licence. The deal was revealed in financing documents seen by Bloomberg. Moonshot, however, disputes that the documents are accurate, and the company […]
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