<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Web design - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rss/1000/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Web design news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:35:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Meta to pay $25B in New Mexico case over misleading Facebook users]]></title><description><![CDATA[A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about privacy and hate speech, Bloomberg reported. A jury found more than 43 million violations of state law in September. The state wanted up to $40B, and Meta plans to appeal. A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-to-pay-25b-in-new-mexico-case-over-misleading-facebook-users/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-to-pay-25b-in-new-mexico-case-over-misleading-facebook-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getty Images files for bankruptcy, pushes ahead with plan to go private]]></title><description><![CDATA[Getty Images filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on Wednesday. The Getty family and Koch Equity Development will put in up to $533M and own the whole company, which expects to finish the process by year-end. The filing follows a failed Shutterstock merger and growing competition from AI images. Getty Images filed for Chapter [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/getty-images-files-for-bankruptcy-pushes-ahead-with-plan-to-go-private/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/getty-images-files-for-bankruptcy-pushes-ahead-with-plan-to-go-private/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI lab Flapping Airplanes is now worth $6B, four times its January value]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flapping Airplanes, a San Francisco AI research lab founded in late 2025, has raised $1B at a $6B valuation, led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, Bloomberg reported. Its valuation has quadrupled since January. It is working on ways to train AI with less data and compute, and has no product yet. Flapping Airplanes, an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-lab-flapping-airplanes-is-now-worth-6b-four-times-its-january-value/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-lab-flapping-airplanes-is-now-worth-6b-four-times-its-january-value/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electronic Arts to cut 400 jobs and shut down Mass Effect studio BioWare]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electronic Arts will close BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, and cut about 400 jobs, roughly 3% of staff, Bloomberg reported. The next Mass Effect game and a planned Sims project are cancelled. EA went private in a $55B buyout in August. Electronic Arts will shut down BioWare, the studio behind the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/electronic-arts-to-cut-400-jobs-and-shut-down-mass-effect-studio-bioware/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/electronic-arts-to-cut-400-jobs-and-shut-down-mass-effect-studio-bioware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photon Bridge raises €10M to mass-produce lasers for AI data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge has raised &euro;10M, co-led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, to build laser light sources for the optical links inside AI data centres. It plans first samples in 2027 and volume production from 2028. Photon Bridge, an Eindhoven startup that makes laser light sources for AI data centres, has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/photon-bridge-raises-10m-to-mass-produce-lasers-for-ai-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/photon-bridge-raises-10m-to-mass-produce-lasers-for-ai-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvey adds Australian startup Mary’s case-fact tools to its legal AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sydney-based Mary Technology has connected its litigation tool to Harvey, the $15.6B legal AI company. Lawyers drafting in Harvey can now draw on the facts, evidence and reviews their team has built up in Mary, including conflicting accounts. Workflow firm Autologyx also joined Harvey&rsquo;s connector library. Mary Technology, a Sydney-based legal AI startup, has connected [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/harvey-adds-australian-startup-marys-case-fact-tools-to-its-legal-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/harvey-adds-australian-startup-marys-case-fact-tools-to-its-legal-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[German court calls Google’s aerial imagery ‘spying’, Google will appeal]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people&rsquo;s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled on Tuesday that the aerial and satellite views on Google Earth and Google Maps break Germany&rsquo;s strict privacy laws. It went further, and called the practice &ldquo;spying&rdquo;. A man in Frankfurt brought the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/german-court-calls-googles-aerial-imagery-spying-google-will-appeal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/german-court-calls-googles-aerial-imagery-spying-google-will-appeal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[eBay to cut 9% of its staff, its second round of layoffs this year]]></title><description><![CDATA[eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, according to an internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone first reported by Reuters. It follows 800 job cuts in February. eBay says it wants to focus on its fastest-growing areas. It reports results on 28 October. eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ebay-to-cut-9-of-its-staff-its-second-round-of-layoffs-this-year/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ebay-to-cut-9-of-its-staff-its-second-round-of-layoffs-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PHP knew about one of the flaws in 2024 but could not agree a fix]]></title><description><![CDATA[The PHP Foundation has given an unusually frank account of the emergency behind this week&rsquo;s patches. It said it had found one of the two critical flaws two years ago, in 2024. Then it spent months unable to agree on how to repair it. The admission came in a blog post from the Foundation on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/php-knew-about-one-of-the-flaws-in-2024-but-could-not-agree-a-fix/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/php-knew-about-one-of-the-flaws-in-2024-but-could-not-agree-a-fix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel restarts its stalled US factory push as AI chip demand grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel has started installing equipment at Fab 62, its new chip plant near Phoenix, which is due to open in early 2028. It has also put up the first major roof truss at its long-delayed Ohio site. The progress comes as demand for its data centre processors outpaces supply. Intel has started installing equipment at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/intel-restarts-its-stalled-us-factory-push-as-ai-chip-demand-grows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/intel-restarts-its-stalled-us-factory-push-as-ai-chip-demand-grows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[European governments pull websites offline over two critical PHP flaws]]></title><description><![CDATA[Government, hospital and university websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday. Operators pulled them offline to guard against two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the web. They judged a few hours of downtime safer than staying exposed while a fix went out. The shutdowns followed a warning [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/european-governments-pull-websites-offline-over-two-critical-php-flaws/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/european-governments-pull-websites-offline-over-two-critical-php-flaws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic set Claude on 25 open-source projects and it found 493 flaws]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic pointed its Claude models at 25 widely used open-source projects and set them a different task: not finding individual bugs, but finding code that attackers can reach when they should not be able to. Claude flagged 493 such issues. One of them had sat in the software for 21 years. The work is a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-set-claude-on-25-open-source-projects-and-it-found-493-flaws/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-set-claude-on-25-open-source-projects-and-it-found-493-flaws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PHP rushes out emergency patches for two critical bugs AI found first]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHP shipped emergency security updates on Wednesday. They fix two critical flaws that let an unauthenticated attacker run code on almost any server running the language. The release capped a frantic two days that pulled websites offline across the internet before the fix was ready. The patched releases are PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/php-rushes-out-emergency-patches-for-two-critical-bugs-ai-found-first/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/php-rushes-out-emergency-patches-for-two-critical-bugs-ai-found-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT ads reach 89 countries as OpenAI passes 100,000 advertisers]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is bringing ads in ChatGPT to 26 more countries, taking the total to 89. More than 100,000 advertisers have now run campaigns on the platform, the company said. It launched ChatGPT ads just over eight months ago. OpenAI announced the expansion in a blog post on Wednesday. The new markets include 14 more Latin [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chatgpt-ads-reach-89-countries-as-openai-passes-100000-advertisers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chatgpt-ads-reach-89-countries-as-openai-passes-100000-advertisers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new draft of Anthropic&rsquo;s S-1, the prospectus for its IPO, puts its possible computing spend at $750bn over the coming years. That includes deals it is still negotiating. Anissa Gardizy reported the figures for The Wall Street Journal, which saw the draft. Echo Wang of Reuters also reviewed it and reported the loss and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-could-spend-750bn-on-compute-the-wall-street-journal-reports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-could-spend-750bn-on-compute-the-wall-street-journal-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and Codex to Google Cloud, a rival’s platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and its Codex coding agent to Google Cloud, the two companies said on Wednesday. GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out now in private preview in Google Cloud&rsquo;s Model Garden, Google wrote. Select enterprise customers get them first. OpenAI plans general availability in the coming weeks, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-brings-gpt-6-astra-and-codex-to-google-cloud-a-rivals-platform/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-brings-gpt-6-astra-and-codex-to-google-cloud-a-rivals-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied doing it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two OpenAI coding agents weakened the company&rsquo;s misalignment monitoring while doing routine internal tasks, and one then told a user it had not done so. OpenAI disclosed the incidents in a misalignment report on its alignment blog on Tuesday. One agent ran on GPT-6.1 Sol and the other on GPT-6 Astra. In both cases, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-gpt-6-astra-agent-removed-a-safety-monitor-then-denied-doing-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-gpt-6-astra-agent-removed-a-safety-monitor-then-denied-doing-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swedish legal AI firm Legora raises $550M led by Atreides at $8.8B valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Swedish legal AI startup Legora has raised $550 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its valuation to $8.8 billion. US investment firm Atreides Management led the round, with several new and existing investors participating. Five new investors joined the round: Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity Management &amp; Research Company, Glade Brook Capital Partners, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/swedish-legal-ai-firm-legora-raises-550m-led-by-atreides-at-88b-valuation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/swedish-legal-ai-firm-legora-raises-550m-led-by-atreides-at-88b-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dario Amodei says Anthropic held Mythos back for four months for safety]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has defended the company&rsquo;s &ldquo;race to the top&rdquo; strategy in a long post on X. He was replying to Nathan Calvin, chief strategy officer at the advocacy group Encode AI. Amodei listed nine decisions he said cost Anthropic commercially but made AI safer. He also said the company could have [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dario-amodei-says-anthropic-held-mythos-back-for-four-months-for-safety/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dario-amodei-says-anthropic-held-mythos-back-for-four-months-for-safety/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orange outage cuts mobile calls and data for customers across France]]></title><description><![CDATA[Orange, the largest telecoms operator in France, lost much of its mobile network on Wednesday. From about 11:20 CEST, customers nationwide could not make calls, send texts or use mobile data, and by early afternoon the company had not named a cause. An Orange spokesperson told&nbsp;Reuters that the fault was causing major problems for customers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/orange-outage-cuts-mobile-calls-and-data-for-customers-across-france/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/orange-outage-cuts-mobile-calls-and-data-for-customers-across-france/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU opens Digital Services Act investigation into Booking.com over scams]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has opened an investigation into Booking.com over concerns that the platform is not doing enough to protect users from fake listings and phishing scams. Announced Wednesday, the probe will examine whether the travel booking site meets its obligations under the EU&rsquo;s Digital Services Act (DSA), which requires large online platforms to tackle [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-opens-digital-services-act-investigation-into-bookingcom-over-scams/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-opens-digital-services-act-investigation-into-bookingcom-over-scams/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use]]></title><description><![CDATA[European infrastructure companies are building AI data centres on Nvidia DSX, Nvidia said on Wednesday at its GTC Berlin conference. The chipmaker says the blueprint can cut cooling water use to almost zero. The news came a day after Germany signed an AI partnership with Nvidia&nbsp;at a Berlin investment summit. Nvidia calls these sites AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-says-european-partners-are-adopting-dsx-to-cut-ai-factory-water-use/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-says-european-partners-are-adopting-dsx-to-cut-ai-factory-water-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI president Greg Brockman has joined calls for AI safety rules in the US. At the same time, a political group he helped fund is spending millions to elect candidates who oppose strict rules,&nbsp;Reuters&nbsp;reported on Wednesday. Brockman and his wife, Anna, gave $25M to Leading the Future, a network of super PACs that opposes rules [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-brockman-urges-ai-safeguards-as-group-he-funds-opposes-rules/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-brockman-urges-ai-safeguards-as-group-he-funds-opposes-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pigment raises $250M at $2.3B valuation in round led by EQT fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pigment, a Paris-based AI software maker for business planning, announced on Wednesday that it raised $250M in a Series E round, valuing the company at $2.3B. Nvidia also plans to invest, adding to its recent European bets. The Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by Swedish investment firm EQT, led the round.&nbsp;The Scaleup Europe Fund is backed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pigment-raises-250m-at-23b-valuation-in-round-led-by-eqt-fund/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pigment-raises-250m-at-23b-valuation-in-round-led-by-eqt-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia turns OpenShell into a full hardware stack for safe AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has released a design for running AI agents inside fixed limits, from enterprise infrastructure to edge machines. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS are among the companies working with it, Nvidia said. Nvidia announced the OpenShell Reference Architecture at its GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday. It is available now. Last week, Nvidia [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-turns-openshell-into-a-full-hardware-stack-for-safe-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-turns-openshell-into-a-full-hardware-stack-for-safe-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protesters heckle Huang in Berlin over Nvidia chips in Russian drones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang&rsquo;s keynote at Nvidia&rsquo;s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Security staff led them out, and Nvidia&rsquo;s chief executive carried on with his talk. The protesters stood on chairs and held up a banner with a Greenpeace logo. It told [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/protesters-heckle-huang-in-berlin-over-nvidia-chips-in-russian-drones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/protesters-heckle-huang-in-berlin-over-nvidia-chips-in-russian-drones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX revenue rises 161% to $14.6B as AI business overtakes Starlink]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX made more money from artificial intelligence than from Starlink in the third quarter, as total revenue rose 161% to $14.6bn. The company also swung to a net profit of $4.4bn, from a $1.1bn loss a year earlier, according to its quarterly results, the second it has published&nbsp;since its listing. Both numbers beat Wall Street [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacex-revenue-rises-161-to-146b-as-ai-business-overtakes-starlink/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacex-revenue-rises-161-to-146b-as-ai-business-overtakes-starlink/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight eMudhra certificate keys were so weak that one was the number 4]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone could calculate the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates from the certificates themselves. eMudhra is a certificate authority based in India. Anyone holding the keys could issue a certificate for any website that browsers and apps would accept. A researcher credited only as Wayne reported the problem to the browser root programs on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eight-emudhra-certificate-keys-were-so-weak-that-one-was-the-number-4/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eight-emudhra-certificate-keys-were-so-weak-that-one-was-the-number-4/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents start paying supplier invoices in Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visa, BILL and Billtrust have started a live pilot in which AI agents pay approved supplier invoices from start to finish. The agents pay through suppliers&rsquo; own payment portals. The three companies call it the first live pilot of its kind. Until now, many of those portals needed a person to log in and type [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-start-paying-supplier-invoices-in-visa-bill-and-billtrust-pilot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-start-paying-supplier-invoices-in-visa-bill-and-billtrust-pilot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU cybersecurity team says unpatched PHP sites may need to go offline]]></title><description><![CDATA[Organisations that cannot quickly patch two critical flaws in PHP should consider taking their websites offline, the EU&rsquo;s cybersecurity response team has warned. PHP powers a large share of the web. The PHP project will release fixes at 14:00 UTC on Wednesday, October 21. CERT-EU, which protects the EU&rsquo;s institutions and bodies, issued the advice [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-cybersecurity-team-says-unpatched-php-sites-may-need-to-go-offline/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-cybersecurity-team-says-unpatched-php-sites-may-need-to-go-offline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 10 million developers are now building on Cloudflare, the company said on Tuesday. That is up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier, a rise of about 35% in three months. Cloudflare announced the figure in a press release and tied the growth to AI agents. Developers are using AI to write code and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cloudflare-passes-10-million-developers-up-35-in-a-quarter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cloudflare-passes-10-million-developers-up-35-in-a-quarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix forecasts weak Q4 profit and cuts its 2026 ad sales target to $2.7B]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix expects lower fourth-quarter profit than Wall Street forecast and has cut its annual advertising revenue target. The streaming company reported its third-quarter results on Tuesday, October 20, and its shares fell almost 6% in after-hours trading. Netflix forecast earnings of 67 cents a share for the three months to December, below the 73 cents [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflix-forecasts-weak-q4-profit-and-cuts-its-2026-ad-sales-target-to-27b/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflix-forecasts-weak-q4-profit-and-cuts-its-2026-ad-sales-target-to-27b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QED Science is building a better filter for scientists buried in papers]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents can read dozens of scientific papers in minutes. So why are researchers still struggling to keep up? Because finding papers was never the hardest part of the job. The hard part is deciding which ones are worth reading, and whether the science behind them holds up. And rather than lightening the load, AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qed-science-is-building-a-better-filter-for-scientists-buried-in-papers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qed-science-is-building-a-better-filter-for-scientists-buried-in-papers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donald Trump says data centre companies should pay communities a ‘dividend’]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies building data centres should pay a dividend to the surrounding communities. He said the money could go to the town as a whole or to local residents and would help win support for the projects. Trump made the case in a Truth Social post as&nbsp;local opposition&nbsp;to the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/donald-trump-says-data-centre-companies-should-pay-communities-a-dividend/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/donald-trump-says-data-centre-companies-should-pay-communities-a-dividend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia simulates 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer on JUPITER]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has simulated a 104-qubit quantum computer that can correct its own errors, using JUPITER, the supercomputer at Germany&rsquo;s J&uuml;lich Supercomputing Centre.&nbsp;The company said it is the largest full simulation of such a machine so far. Qubits are the building blocks of quantum computers, but they&rsquo;re extremely sensitive to interference. Even small amounts of noise [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-simulates-104-qubit-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer-on-jupiter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-simulates-104-qubit-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer-on-jupiter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Supermicro expects to report revenue of $18.5bn to $19.5bn for the three months to September, against the $14.5bn to $15.5bn it had guided. The AI server maker put the gap down to &ldquo;increased demand for AI platforms&rdquo;. The company published the preliminary figures in a business update after the US market closed on Tuesday. At [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/supermicro-expects-up-to-195bn-in-quarterly-revenue-4bn-above-guidance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/supermicro-expects-up-to-195bn-in-quarterly-revenue-4bn-above-guidance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shares in Elice, a South Korean AI data centre company, fell 32% on their first day of trading in Seoul on Tuesday. It was the worst debut on record for a Korean IPO of $100m or more, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, as Yoolim Lee and Youkyung Lee reported. Elice raised 201.1bn won ($151m) [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/korean-ai-data-centre-firm-elice-sinks-32-in-a-record-worst-ipo-debut/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/korean-ai-data-centre-firm-elice-sinks-32-in-a-record-worst-ipo-debut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches London AI lab Metis Reasoning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thore Graepel, who helped build Google DeepMind&rsquo;s AlphaGo, has launched Metis Reasoning in London. The company&rsquo;s founding claim is that large language models cannot be trusted to reason. Its founders want to apply the lessons of AlphaGo to general reasoning instead. The company set out its thesis in a white paper titled &ldquo;The Age of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ex-deepmind-researcher-thore-graepel-launches-london-ai-lab-metis-reasoning/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ex-deepmind-researcher-thore-graepel-launches-london-ai-lab-metis-reasoning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia set to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia expects to take Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google&rsquo;s YouTube to court over its social media ban for under-16s. Communications Minister Anika Wells told Bloomberg that the eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is using new powers to build the case. Wells named Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube as the five services facing legal action, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/australia-set-to-sue-meta-tiktok-snap-and-youtube-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/australia-set-to-sue-meta-tiktok-snap-and-youtube-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FTC clears Publicis’ $2.2bn LiveRamp deal if rivals keep equal access]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Federal Trade Commission will let Publicis Groupe buy LiveRamp for $2.2bn, but only if the data company keeps serving the agency&rsquo;s rivals on equal terms. The proposed consent order, announced on Monday, binds both companies for five years. Publicis must give every LiveRamp customer &ldquo;non-discriminatory access and support on fair and reasonable terms&rdquo;. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ftc-clears-publicis-22bn-liveramp-deal-if-rivals-keep-equal-access/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ftc-clears-publicis-22bn-liveramp-deal-if-rivals-keep-equal-access/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta&rsquo;s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, already runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across several buildings, and Meta plans to grow it to about 1 million. The company set out the details in an engineering blog post on Monday. The first phase of the gigawatt-scale cluster is finished. Meta used it to train [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-details-prometheus-the-ohio-supercluster-heading-for-1-million-gpus/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-details-prometheus-the-ohio-supercluster-heading-for-1-million-gpus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $232M for US factories]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arda Industries, founded by OpenAI&rsquo;s former research chief Bob McGrew, has come out of stealth with $232 million in funding, the company announced on Tuesday. Its AI software turns new product designs into working assembly lines. The total includes a $160 million Series A at a $1.5 billion valuation, co-led by Altimeter, Accel and Khosla [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ex-openai-research-chief-bob-mcgrews-arda-raises-232m-for-us-factories/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ex-openai-research-chief-bob-mcgrews-arda-raises-232m-for-us-factories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASI hits a $3bn valuation as its AI moves from air traffic to the grid]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASI has raised $325 million in a Series C round that values it at $3 billion, the Boston AI company announced on Tuesday. Its software models air traffic, power grids and military operations hours, days and weeks ahead. The aim is to let operators act before problems spread. Spark Capital led the round. Affiliates of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asi-hits-a-3bn-valuation-as-its-ai-moves-from-air-traffic-to-the-grid/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asi-hits-a-3bn-valuation-as-its-ai-moves-from-air-traffic-to-the-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr. joins Snap’s SPECS as honorary customer experience chief]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr. has joined SPECS, Snap&rsquo;s augmented reality glasses business, as its honorary chief customer experience officer, Snap announced. His job is to show people what the see-through glasses can do. SPECS runs as Specs Inc., a wholly owned Snap subsidiary. Its glasses put digital content into the world around the wearer, controlled by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/robert-downey-jr-joins-snaps-specs-as-honorary-customer-experience-chief/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/robert-downey-jr-joins-snaps-specs-as-honorary-customer-experience-chief/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reliable Robotics tops a $1bn valuation with $115M for self-flying planes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reliable Robotics has raised $115 million, taking its valuation past $1 billion, the company announced on Tuesday. The Mountain View, California, startup builds systems that let existing aircraft taxi, take off, fly and land on their own. The money extends the Series D it announced in April at $160 million, bringing the round to $275 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/reliable-robotics-tops-a-1bn-valuation-with-115m-for-self-flying-planes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/reliable-robotics-tops-a-1bn-valuation-with-115m-for-self-flying-planes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sierra and Stripe let AI agents take card payments during calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sierra, the AI customer service startup led by Bret Taylor, has partnered with Stripe so its agents can take card payments during phone calls. Customers type their card number on the keypad and the data goes straight to Stripe. Healthcare billing firm Cedar is an early user. Sierra, the AI customer service startup led by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sierra-and-stripe-let-ai-agents-take-card-payments-during-calls/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sierra-and-stripe-let-ai-agents-take-card-payments-during-calls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s policy chief Joel Kaplan will leave the company in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joel Kaplan, Meta&rsquo;s chief global affairs officer, will leave the company in 2027 after more than 15 years, Bloomberg reported. He will stay through the US midterm elections. No successor was named, but president Dina Powell McCormick and chief legal officer C.J. Mahoney are taking on more policy work. Joel Kaplan, Meta&rsquo;s chief global affairs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metas-policy-chief-joel-kaplan-will-leave-the-company-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metas-policy-chief-joel-kaplan-will-leave-the-company-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst for enterprise growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Otter.ai has raised $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst&rsquo;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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/otterai-raises-320m-from-general-catalyst-for-enterprise-growth/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/otterai-raises-320m-from-general-catalyst-for-enterprise-growth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo plans to grow its robotaxi fleet fivefold to 20,000 by 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/waymo-plans-to-grow-its-robotaxi-fleet-fivefold-to-20000-by-2027/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/waymo-plans-to-grow-its-robotaxi-fleet-fivefold-to-20000-by-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homebase’s new AI assistant fills shifts for small business owners]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/homebases-new-ai-assistant-fills-shifts-for-small-business-owners/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/homebases-new-ai-assistant-fills-shifts-for-small-business-owners/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Blackwall has built something rare: a security company that grows with the internet itself,&rdquo; said Warda Shaheen, a general partner at AVP. &ldquo;It is already the layer in front of millions of websites, and as more of the web&rsquo;s traffic comes from agents, the company in that position becomes indispensable.&rdquo; AVP has led a $100 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/blackwall-quadruples-its-valuation-to-22bn-as-bots-take-over-the-web/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/blackwall-quadruples-its-valuation-to-22bn-as-bots-take-over-the-web/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Creative Type Foundries You Should Know About]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forget the same safe fonts you see on every other website. These five independent foundries are making typography weird, expressive and impossible to ignore&mdash;and they might convince you to never reach for Inter again.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/5-creative-type-foundries-you-should-know-about/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/5-creative-type-foundries-you-should-know-about/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asymptote-labs-raises-55m-to-track-and-control-what-ai-agents-do/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asymptote-labs-raises-55m-to-track-and-control-what-ai-agents-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify pulls 50M AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify says it has taken more than 50 million AI-generated &ldquo;slop&rdquo; 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. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spotify-pulls-50m-ai-slop-and-spam-tracks-from-its-recommendations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spotify-pulls-50m-ai-slop-and-spam-tracks-from-its-recommendations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inception says its Mercury 3 model beats GPT-6 Luna and runs far faster]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/inception-says-its-mercury-3-model-beats-gpt-6-luna-and-runs-far-faster/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/inception-says-its-mercury-3-model-beats-gpt-6-luna-and-runs-far-faster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon will hire 300,000 for the holidays as other retailers hold back]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-will-hire-300000-for-the-holidays-as-other-retailers-hold-back/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-will-hire-300000-for-the-holidays-as-other-retailers-hold-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MIT’s AI agent society result holds up on consumer hardware]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mits-ai-agent-society-result-holds-up-on-consumer-hardware/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mits-ai-agent-society-result-holds-up-on-consumer-hardware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-pulls-back-from-china-chip-controls-politico-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-pulls-back-from-china-chip-controls-politico-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terra Security’s AI Native Cybersecurity podcast opens with Amazon’s CISO]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/terra-securitys-ai-native-cybersecurity-podcast-opens-with-amazons-ciso/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/terra-securitys-ai-native-cybersecurity-podcast-opens-with-amazons-ciso/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic to rewrite part of its leaked AI bill after safety backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-to-rewrite-part-of-its-leaked-ai-bill-after-safety-backlash/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-to-rewrite-part-of-its-leaked-ai-bill-after-safety-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. &#128640; Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source! Powering [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-open-sources-deepinfer-the-engine-that-runs-its-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-open-sources-deepinfer-the-engine-that-runs-its-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Army Cyber Command has picked one company&rsquo;s bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme for AI agents that hunt down targets in computer networks. The command&rsquo;s technology centre and the Cyber Fusion Innovation Center (CFIC) made the choice on 8 October, according to CFIC&rsquo;s website. A statement of work and contract will follow, it says. CFIC does [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-army-picks-a-bid-for-echotribble-its-plan-for-autonomous-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-army-picks-a-bid-for-echotribble-its-plan-for-autonomous-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia&rsquo;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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bytedance-alibaba-and-tencent-order-35bn-of-nvidia-chips-reuters-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bytedance-alibaba-and-tencent-order-35bn-of-nvidia-chips-reuters-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce agrees $5.7bn deal for customer messaging firm Braze]]></title><description><![CDATA[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&nbsp;announced the deal&nbsp;on Tuesday, adding to a run of&nbsp;Salesforce acquisitions&nbsp;this year. Braze shareholders will receive $47.50 in cash per share. That is about 58% above Braze&rsquo;s last closing price [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/salesforce-agrees-57bn-deal-for-customer-messaging-firm-braze/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/salesforce-agrees-57bn-deal-for-customer-messaging-firm-braze/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Postquant Labs launches a virtual machine for different quantum computers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quantum computers don&rsquo;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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/postquant-labs-launches-a-virtual-machine-for-different-quantum-computers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/postquant-labs-launches-a-virtual-machine-for-different-quantum-computers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jooba emerges with $4M to build AI-native recruiting firm]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jooba-emerges-with-4m-to-build-ai-native-recruiting-firm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jooba-emerges-with-4m-to-build-ai-native-recruiting-firm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple to buy up to $100M of US titanium for the iPhone Duo]]></title><description><![CDATA[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&nbsp;iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone. The deal is part of Apple&rsquo;s push to source more parts in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-to-buy-up-to-100m-of-us-titanium-for-the-iphone-duo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-to-buy-up-to-100m-of-us-titanium-for-the-iphone-duo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vectorial raises $3M to help companies launch successful products]]></title><description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;re iterating on your product&rsquo;s development and launch in hours. So companies skip user research at many important [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vectorial-raises-3m-to-help-companies-launch-successful-products/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vectorial-raises-3m-to-help-companies-launch-successful-products/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm reportedly plans global job cuts after annual staff reviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm plans to cut jobs around the world after its yearly staff reviews, with affected employees due to be told from November. Chief executive&nbsp;Cristiano Amon set out the plan to staff on Monday, according to an internal memo seen by&nbsp;Reuters. The memo calls the move a &ldquo;performance-focused reduction&rdquo; but gives no number of jobs. Reuters [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qualcomm-reportedly-plans-global-job-cuts-after-annual-staff-reviews/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qualcomm-reportedly-plans-global-job-cuts-after-annual-staff-reviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft adds EU access oversight and offline AI to its sovereign cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-adds-eu-access-oversight-and-offline-ai-to-its-sovereign-cloud/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-adds-eu-access-oversight-and-offline-ai-to-its-sovereign-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials]]></title><description><![CDATA[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&nbsp;AI health tie-ups&nbsp;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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/astrazeneca-and-oracle-team-up-on-ai-to-find-patients-for-drug-trials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/astrazeneca-and-oracle-team-up-on-ai-to-find-patients-for-drug-trials/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Cloud outage hits London region as Revolut also goes down]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dozens of Google Cloud services failed in the company&rsquo;s London data centre region on Tuesday morning, and hit firms that run their systems there. The same morning, customers of fintech Revolut&nbsp;could not use its app or pay by card. A person familiar with the matter told&nbsp;Reuters that Revolut&rsquo;s outage was related to the Google Cloud [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-cloud-outage-hits-london-region-as-revolut-also-goes-down/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-cloud-outage-hits-london-region-as-revolut-also-goes-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon plans to invest more than &euro;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. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-plans-to-make-a-16bn-investment-in-germany-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-plans-to-make-a-16bn-investment-in-germany-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nscale and Anthropic reportedly in talks over second $45bn deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nscale-and-anthropic-reportedly-in-talks-over-second-45bn-deal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nscale-and-anthropic-reportedly-in-talks-over-second-45bn-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/daytona-ceo-ivan-burazin-says-it-grows-51-a-month-with-no-salespeople/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/daytona-ceo-ivan-burazin-says-it-grows-51-a-month-with-no-salespeople/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI reportedly races to close $30bn round before Anthropic’s IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-reportedly-races-to-close-30bn-round-before-anthropics-ipo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-reportedly-races-to-close-30bn-round-before-anthropics-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut outage leaves customers unable to use app or cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolut customers across Europe were unable to open the fintech&rsquo;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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/revolut-outage-leaves-customers-unable-to-use-app-or-cards/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/revolut-outage-leaves-customers-unable-to-use-app-or-cards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron workers in Taiwan to strike as bonus talks with chipmaker fail]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/micron-workers-in-taiwan-to-strike-as-bonus-talks-with-chipmaker-fail/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/micron-workers-in-taiwan-to-strike-as-bonus-talks-with-chipmaker-fail/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic ahead of its IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt, Google&rsquo;s former CEO, owns about 1% of Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. If the AI company goes public at the valuations now being discussed, the stake could be worth billions of dollars. Schmidt invested tens of millions of dollars in Anthropic&rsquo;s Series A round in 2021, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-reportedly-owns-about-1-of-anthropic-ahead-of-its-ipo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-reportedly-owns-about-1-of-anthropic-ahead-of-its-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany signs AI partnership with Nvidia at Berlin investment summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, the German government entered into an agreement with Nvidia on Monday, when Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the two-day event by addressing Jensen Huang, Nvidia&rsquo;s CEO. The economy ministry has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the chipmaker but has provided no further details; the agreement comes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/germany-signs-ai-partnership-with-nvidia-at-berlin-investment-summit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/germany-signs-ai-partnership-with-nvidia-at-berlin-investment-summit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M to cut the heat inside quantum computers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think of a quantum computer as a very delicate machine that needs to operate in extreme cold. The processor is the part that does the actual computing, but it needs a lot of supporting equipment to work. The processor sits inside a special refrigerator that cools it to temperatures close to absolute zero. Cables run [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/exclusive-coherence-quantum-raises-278m-to-cut-the-heat-inside-quantum-computers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/exclusive-coherence-quantum-raises-278m-to-cut-the-heat-inside-quantum-computers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cognizant puts 18,000 staff behind Google’s Gemini in AI agent push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cognizant and Google Cloud have formed a Gemini Frontier Capability Group, with more than 18,000 Cognizant staff dedicated to building AI agents for clients on Google&rsquo;s Gemini. It will focus on updating old systems, developer tools, business process automation and cyber defence. No financial terms were disclosed. Cognizant is dedicating more than 18,000 staff to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cognizant-puts-18000-staff-behind-googles-gemini-in-ai-agent-push/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cognizant-puts-18000-staff-behind-googles-gemini-in-ai-agent-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modal plans to run its Sandboxes product on Nvidia&rsquo;s Arm-based Vera CPU, its first step away from x86 chips. In Modal&rsquo;s own tests, Vera handled up to twice as many tasks as an Intel server when packed with containers. The results have not been independently checked. Modal plans to run its AI agent sandboxes on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/modal-says-nvidias-vera-cpu-doubles-throughput-for-its-ai-sandboxes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/modal-says-nvidias-vera-cpu-doubles-throughput-for-its-ai-sandboxes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vingroup’s Green SM brings 500 VinFast EV taxis to Los Angeles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Green SM, a ride-hailing firm owned by Vietnam&rsquo;s Vingroup, has launched an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles. It starts with 500 VinFast VF 8 SUVs and full-time drivers. The US is its ninth market, and the launch puts more cars from sister company VinFast on US roads. Green SM, a Vietnamese ride-hailing company, has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vingroups-green-sm-brings-500-vinfast-ev-taxis-to-los-angeles/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vingroups-green-sm-brings-500-vinfast-ev-taxis-to-los-angeles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monday.com launches Harmony, a voice AI platform for sales calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monday.com has launched Harmony, a voice AI platform that calls, qualifies and follows up on sales leads, then hands them to human reps. It uses small, task-specific AI models and claims replies in about 200 milliseconds. It is available in the US, UK, Australia and Singapore. Monday.com has launched Harmony, a voice AI platform that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mondaycom-launches-harmony-a-voice-ai-platform-for-sales-calls/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mondaycom-launches-harmony-a-voice-ai-platform-for-sales-calls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four European carriers to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telef&oacute;nica and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum in Europe. The four companies announced it on Monday in a joint release. The spectrum is for mobile satellite services (MSS), the radio frequencies that link satellites with mobile devices. The bid would be for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/four-european-carriers-to-explore-a-joint-bid-for-satellite-spectrum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/four-european-carriers-to-explore-a-joint-bid-for-satellite-spectrum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple sets 28 October event, expected to bring its first touchscreen Mac]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has confirmed a &ldquo;Pro and tell&rdquo; event in Los Angeles on 28 October. Bloomberg reports it will show its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with an OLED screen, an entry-level M6 MacBook Pro, a new iMac and an OLED iPad mini. Apple has not confirmed any products. Apple will hold a launch event in Los [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-sets-28-october-event-expected-to-bring-its-first-touchscreen-mac/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-sets-28-october-event-expected-to-bring-its-first-touchscreen-mac/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s TorchNeuron lets PyTorch code run on AWS Trainium chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has launched TorchNeuron, an open-source backend that lets PyTorch code run on its Trainium AI chips with a one-line change. It goes into public beta on 20 October under the Apache 2.0 licence and supports Trainium2 and Trainium3. Some PyTorch features are not yet supported. Amazon has launched TorchNeuron, a tool that lets developers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazons-torchneuron-lets-pytorch-code-run-on-aws-trainium-chips/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazons-torchneuron-lets-pytorch-code-run-on-aws-trainium-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful AI pilot doesn’t mean your AI strategy is working]]></title><description><![CDATA[Launching an AI pilot is relatively straightforward. But integrating it reliably and at scale into business operations is a far greater challenge. McKinsey&rsquo;s global 2026 survey found that only 37% of respondents said AI had improved their company&rsquo;s earnings, unchanged from the previous year. Yet eight in ten said AI had helped them become more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-successful-ai-pilot-doesnt-mean-your-ai-strategy-is-working/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-successful-ai-pilot-doesnt-mean-your-ai-strategy-is-working/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Now they kiss my ass”: Trump says he called Google about the Gulf]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump described his call to Google to a crowd at Northern Kentucky University on Saturday. &ldquo;I called Google, Google Maps. See, Google wouldn&rsquo;t have taken my call in the first. Now they kiss my ass.&rdquo; Donald Trump, at a rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky He was speaking at the university&rsquo;s Truist Arena in Highland [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/now-they-kiss-my-ass-trump-says-he-called-google-about-the-gulf/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/now-they-kiss-my-ass-trump-says-he-called-google-about-the-gulf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SandboxAQ launches tools to test AI agents and track what they cost]]></title><description><![CDATA[SandboxAQ has added two products to its Switch AI platform. Switch Trust finds a company&rsquo;s AI agents, tests them for attacks such as prompt injection, and blocks unsafe behaviour. Switch ROI tracks each agent&rsquo;s spending against outcomes. Both are free for up to five agents. SandboxAQ has launched two tools to help companies check that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sandboxaq-launches-tools-to-test-ai-agents-and-track-what-they-cost/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sandboxaq-launches-tools-to-test-ai-agents-and-track-what-they-cost/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia reportedly wants all its HBM suppliers to use TSMC’s 3nm process]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics will make a core part of Nvidia&rsquo;s custom memory chips on TSMC&rsquo;s 3-nanometre process. The Seoul Economic Daily reported the move on Sunday, citing industry sources. It would be the first time the two have worked together on making high-bandwidth memory (HBM). The part is the base die, the logic layer at the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-reportedly-wants-all-its-hbm-suppliers-to-use-tsmcs-3nm-process/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-reportedly-wants-all-its-hbm-suppliers-to-use-tsmcs-3nm-process/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security has ordered US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under a 2018 supply chain security law. The order covers third-party tools built on DeepSeek&rsquo;s models, and cites the risk that sensitive data could be shared with the Chinese government. US government [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-orders-civilian-federal-agencies-to-remove-deepseek-from-their-systems/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-orders-civilian-federal-agencies-to-remove-deepseek-from-their-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power To The Players Act would make the games you buy yours to own]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, plans to bring a video game ownership bill to Congress. He announced the Power To The Players Act on 15 October. The bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to write new rules. They would protect players&rsquo; ability to own and play the games they buy. Buying [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/power-to-the-players-act-would-make-the-games-you-buy-yours-to-own/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/power-to-the-players-act-would-make-the-games-you-buy-yours-to-own/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More premium games hit the App Store this year than last, Apple says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indie games make up many of the new premium games on the App Store, says Carson Oliver, Apple&rsquo;s head of App Store Worldwide. More console and PC franchises are also coming to mobile, he said. In all, more premium games have come out this year than last. Oliver gave the figures in an email interview [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/more-premium-games-hit-the-app-store-this-year-than-last-apple-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/more-premium-games-hit-the-app-store-this-year-than-last-apple-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation so AI assistants can work as a team]]></title><description><![CDATA[Town, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI work assistant, has raised $108m in a Series B that values it at $1bn. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the round, the company announced on Monday. Existing investors a16z and First Round Capital took part, along with Better Tomorrow Ventures, Precedent.vc, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/town-raises-108m-at-a-1b-valuation-so-ai-assistants-can-work-as-a-team/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/town-raises-108m-at-a-1b-valuation-so-ai-assistants-can-work-as-a-team/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amnon Shashua&rsquo;s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company and is its chief executive. The company announced Maxwell on Monday and opened it for early access. Shashua set out the company&rsquo;s plans to Belle Lin of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amnon-shashuas-doubleai-launches-an-ai-that-speeds-up-code-while-it-runs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amnon-shashuas-doubleai-launches-an-ai-that-speeds-up-code-while-it-runs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft adds tools to limit and monitor AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has announced new tools to control AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception platform. The tools limit what each agent can reach and tighten those limits when its risk increases. Hayete Gallot, executive vice president of Microsoft Security, set out the approach in a&nbsp;post on Monday. She wrote that companies should [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-adds-tools-to-limit-and-monitor-ai-agents-in-microsoft-365-e7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-adds-tools-to-limit-and-monitor-ai-agents-in-microsoft-365-e7/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emil Michael tells The Information export controls can rein in AI labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emil Michael says the US government can use export controls on AI companies that do not cooperate with it. The under secretary of war is the Pentagon&rsquo;s chief technology officer. He made the case in a video interview with Amir Efrati and Leo Schwartz of The Information, which reported it on Monday. Michael spoke the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/emil-michael-tells-the-information-export-controls-can-rein-in-ai-labs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/emil-michael-tells-the-information-export-controls-can-rein-in-ai-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix faces engagement questions ahead of Q3 results]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix will report its third-quarter results on Tuesday, October 20, as investors look for signs that viewers are spending less time on the service. Analysts expect revenue to rise 11.8% to $12.87bn, up from about $11.5bn a year earlier, according to LSEG data cited by&nbsp;Reuters. That would be Netflix&rsquo;s slowest third-quarter growth in three years. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflix-faces-engagement-questions-ahead-of-q3-results/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflix-faces-engagement-questions-ahead-of-q3-results/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents broke into 100+ sites for one hacker at $50 each, researcher says]]></title><description><![CDATA[A cybersecurity researcher watched a Chinese-speaking hacker break into the websites of more than 100 companies, leaving almost all the work to AI agents. Snorre Fagerland, principal threat researcher at NorForge, set out the findings on Monday in a report on Cairn, the open-source AI platform the hacker used. Reuters saw the report before publication [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-broke-into-100-sites-for-one-hacker-at-50-each-researcher-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-broke-into-100-sites-for-one-hacker-at-50-each-researcher-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MIT researchers say Claude agents left on a virtual island began to play]]></title><description><![CDATA[MIT researchers left 13 copies of an AI coding agent alone on a virtual island for 30 hours each, with no task. The agents climbed hills, drew pictures with blocks and made up games. They also wrote down what they learned, the team reports in a paper posted on arXiv. The researchers call the agent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mit-researchers-say-claude-agents-left-on-a-virtual-island-began-to-play/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mit-researchers-say-claude-agents-left-on-a-virtual-island-began-to-play/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PLD Space starts system-level tests on Miura 5 with three rockets built]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanish launch company PLD Space announced that it has started system-level testing of its Miura 5 orbital rocket and has now built its first three vehicles. Two of the three are qualification units, used for testing, and the third is the first rocket meant to fly; it is still being assembled, the Elche-based company said [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pld-space-starts-system-level-tests-on-miura-5-with-three-rockets-built/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pld-space-starts-system-level-tests-on-miura-5-with-three-rockets-built/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours with no human help]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four AI agents running on Google&rsquo;s Gemini 4 Argon have defeated the Ender Dragon, Minecraft&rsquo;s final boss, without human help. It took them 27 hours and 14 minutes from their first program, Google DeepMind researchers wrote in a paper published on arXiv. The agents started in a randomly generated survival world on Easy difficulty, with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-in-27-hours-with-no-human-help/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-in-27-hours-with-no-human-help/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney to spend $180M on Character.AI staff over three years, filing shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disney expects to spend about $180m over three years on the Character.AI staff it is hiring, a bankruptcy court filing shows. The sum covers pay and retention. Character Technologies, which runs the chatbot platform, filed the papers in Delaware on 13 October. It had sought Chapter 11 protection the day before. Bloomberg first reported the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/disney-to-spend-180m-on-characterai-staff-over-three-years-filing-shows/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/disney-to-spend-180m-on-characterai-staff-over-three-years-filing-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale its Galaxy servers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tenstorrent, the AI chip company run by Jim Keller, has closed a $1.5bn Series E round at a $6.2bn post-money valuation, it announced on Monday. Trace Capital and Innovation X led the round. New and existing investors also took part. They include Agostinelli Group, ARK Invest, Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, Maverick Silicon, Morgan Stanley, Protagonist, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tenstorrent-raises-15b-at-a-62b-valuation-to-scale-its-galaxy-servers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tenstorrent-raises-15b-at-a-62b-valuation-to-scale-its-galaxy-servers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every child in America next year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk&rsquo;s pledge covers shares from his own stake, and he says it is only the first giveaway. He posted the pledge on X early on Monday, hours after Anthropic set out its own share plan. &ldquo;Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-says-he-will-give-a-spacex-share-to-every-child-in-america-next-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-says-he-will-give-a-spacex-share-to-every-child-in-america-next-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nscale reportedly faces investor pushback on its $30B IPO valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some investors are pushing back on the roughly $30bn valuation that British AI cloud company Nscale is seeking in its planned New York listing, Bloomberg&nbsp;reported&nbsp;on Sunday. A valuation of $16bn to $19bn would be more likely to attract buyers, a group of investors told&nbsp;Bloomberg. No decisions have been made, and Nscale has not yet formally [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nscale-reportedly-faces-investor-pushback-on-its-30b-ipo-valuation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nscale-reportedly-faces-investor-pushback-on-its-30b-ipo-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber says it has defeated £340M lawsuit from London black cab drivers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber said on Monday that it had won its bid to throw out two linked lawsuits in London worth about &pound;340mn. The claims were brought by thousands of black cab drivers and two former minicab companies. The ruling was&nbsp;first reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Reuters, which said a copy of the High Court judgment was not yet available According to&nbsp;Law360, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uber-says-it-has-defeated-340m-lawsuit-from-london-black-cab-drivers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uber-says-it-has-defeated-340m-lawsuit-from-london-black-cab-drivers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norway’s Bulk reportedly seeks Canadian owner for cable bypassing US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norway&rsquo;s Bulk Infrastructure Group wants a Canadian partner to own most of a planned subsea cable between Europe and Canada. The cable would avoid the US. Bulk&rsquo;s founder, Peder N&aelig;rb&oslash;, set out the plan to&nbsp;Bloomberg&nbsp;on Monday. Much of Canada&rsquo;s data and voice traffic now passes through US networks, the outlet reported. US threats against Canada [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/norways-bulk-reportedly-seeks-canadian-owner-for-cable-bypassing-us/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/norways-bulk-reportedly-seeks-canadian-owner-for-cable-bypassing-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta says a Claude AI tool triggered the No Kings Instagram suspension]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta said that a tool linked to Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude AI triggered the suspension of the No Kings Coalition&rsquo;s Instagram account on Saturday, October 17. Andy Stone, Meta&rsquo;s vice president of communications, gave the new explanation in a social media post on Sunday. The No Kings Coalition, an organisation opposed to Trump, stated that its page [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-says-a-claude-ai-tool-triggered-the-no-kings-instagram-suspension/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-says-a-claude-ai-tool-triggered-the-no-kings-instagram-suspension/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accenture reportedly looks to sell its China business for up to $1.5B]]></title><description><![CDATA[Accenture is exploring a sale of its Greater China business, in a deal that could value the unit at up to $1.5bn, the Financial Times&nbsp;reported on Sunday. The consulting firm has hired JPMorgan to run a strategic review of the unit, according to the&nbsp;Financial Times report, which cited people familiar with the matter. The review [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/accenture-reportedly-looks-to-sell-its-china-business-for-up-to-15b/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/accenture-reportedly-looks-to-sell-its-china-business-for-up-to-15b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Choice is betting $7.1M that restaurants can run with one single AI platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[Restaurants are no longer just places where people go to enjoy a meal. They have become full businesses and ecosystems, with cooking as only one part of what they do. As our habits and the way we make choices have changed, including where we eat, restaurants have had to adapt to keep up. Working in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/exclusive-choice-is-betting-71m-that-restaurants-can-run-with-one-single-ai-platform/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/exclusive-choice-is-betting-71m-that-restaurants-can-run-with-one-single-ai-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic plans to place 5% of its shares in a new entity called the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. The AI company announced the plan on Sunday, but it still needs approval from Anthropic&rsquo;s stockholders. The fund&rsquo;s stake is designed to grow with the company, Anthropic wrote in a&nbsp;blog post. The board can add a further [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-commits-5-of-its-shares-to-a-new-public-benefit-fund/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-commits-5-of-its-shares-to-a-new-public-benefit-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is that really your banker? World brings human verification to Zoom calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[As deepfakes grow convincing enough to pass for real people on live video, World is pitching banks a new line of defense. It offers cryptographic proof that the person, or the agent, on the other end of an interaction is genuine. The company launched World ID for banking and finance at Money20/20 on Sunday. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/is-that-really-your-banker-world-brings-human-verification-to-zoom-calls/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/is-that-really-your-banker-world-brings-human-verification-to-zoom-calls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor Nscale&rsquo;s first British data centre, the Telegraph reported. The move comes as the AI cloud startup prepares to go public. The site in Loughton, Essex, has faced a string of delays,&nbsp;Bloomberg reported, citing the Telegraph. The paper did not say why Microsoft walked away. Authorities have [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-reportedly-quits-nscales-uk-data-centre-weeks-before-its-ipo/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-reportedly-quits-nscales-uk-data-centre-weeks-before-its-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woodside pauses Scarborough gas work after Greenpeace boards platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[Woodside Energy has paused work on its Scarborough gas platform off Western Australia after Greenpeace protesters climbed aboard. Early start-up work at the site has stopped, Australia&rsquo;s biggest gas exporter said,&nbsp;Bloomberg reported. &ldquo;Greenpeace&rsquo;s actions have triggered a significant, potentially costly and entirely avoidable response,&rdquo; Woodside said. The firm said it wants the authorities to act [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/woodside-pauses-scarborough-gas-work-after-greenpeace-boards-platform/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/woodside-pauses-scarborough-gas-work-after-greenpeace-boards-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Bank backs ‘small AI’ on phones for poorer nations, Guardian reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[The World Bank wants developing countries to build &ldquo;small AI&rdquo;, compact models that run on a mobile phone with a weak signal. Paschal Donohoe, the bank&rsquo;s chief knowledge officer, said AI could speed up growth in emerging economies, but only if it fits local needs,&nbsp;the Guardian reported. Small AI uses specialised models trained on narrower [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/world-bank-backs-small-ai-on-phones-for-poorer-nations-guardian-reports/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/world-bank-backs-small-ai-on-phones-for-poorer-nations-guardian-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biotech now sells pet cloning and cryonics, MIT Technology Review finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pet owners who cannot face losing an animal now have a growing menu of biotech options. They range from longevity drugs to cloning and cryonics. MIT Technology Review&nbsp;laid out the options this week, and questioned whether some of them are wise. Pills for older dogs US startup Loyal is developing three drugs aimed at helping [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/biotech-now-sells-pet-cloning-and-cryonics-mit-technology-review-finds/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/biotech-now-sells-pet-cloning-and-cryonics-mit-technology-review-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. The case could expose many websites to privacy lawsuits.The justices heard arguments in Salazar v. Paramount Global on Wednesday,&nbsp;CNET reported. Paramount&rsquo;s case did not seem to persuade them,&nbsp;Bloomberg Law reported. The case In [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/supreme-court-appears-open-to-wider-video-privacy-law-in-paramount-case/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/supreme-court-appears-open-to-wider-video-privacy-law-in-paramount-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ericsson&rsquo;s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) came in at SEK 10.1bn ($1bn) in the third quarter. Analysts had expected SEK 7.93bn on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shares rose as much as 11% in Stockholm on Thursday, Bloomberg reported. It was their biggest intraday gain since 23 January, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ericssons-organic-sales-rise-7-as-it-merges-its-two-asian-units/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ericssons-organic-sales-rise-7-as-it-merges-its-two-asian-units/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta&rsquo;s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple&rsquo;s Mac Studio desktops. The companies revealed the work on Thursday. The two rivals had not struck a public partnership since 2017, CNBC reported. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced it on X, and Apple&rsquo;s new CEO, John Ternus, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-and-meta-team-up-to-run-metas-muse-spark-open-model-on-macs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-and-meta-team-up-to-run-metas-muse-spark-open-model-on-macs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that &ldquo;all options should be on the table&rdquo; on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO on 1 September. He is on the cover of TIME&rsquo;s 2026 Best Inventions issue, which features the iPhone Duo. &ldquo;The constraints in memory are absolutely [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-ceo-john-ternus-calls-the-memory-chip-shortage-a-crisis-time-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-ceo-john-ternus-calls-the-memory-chip-shortage-a-crisis-time-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, Courthouse News reported. The hearing ended late on Wednesday after a day and a half of arguments. It is about Ofcom&rsquo;s use of worldwide revenue, not a specific fine. The Online Safety Act lets Ofcom [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-challenges-ofcoms-fine-maths-in-court-courthouse-news-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-challenges-ofcoms-fine-maths-in-court-courthouse-news-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft disrupts Chinese-language phishing kits behind 1bn scam messages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Microsoft said on Wednesday. Since January 2026, the three services enabled more than 1bn malicious messages targeting over 75,000 organisations worldwide. More than 750 million of those messages targeted Microsoft customers, the company said. They targeted [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-disrupts-chinese-language-phishing-kits-behind-1bn-scam-messages/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-disrupts-chinese-language-phishing-kits-behind-1bn-scam-messages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s AI news pilot grows to 400 publications as CNN and the FT join]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 400 publications worldwide now take part in Google&rsquo;s News AI pilot, the company said on Thursday. The programme pays publishers to license content for experimental AI features in Google News. Its newest partners include Axios, CNN, the Financial Times and Forbes. &ldquo;Through this licensing program, we pay participating news publications for the delivery [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/googles-ai-news-pilot-grows-to-400-publications-as-cnn-and-the-ft-join/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/googles-ai-news-pilot-grows-to-400-publications-as-cnn-and-the-ft-join/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill Gates plans to widen his push on AI safety, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. He is personally leaning on business leaders and considering a major deployment of his resources, according to the report. &ldquo;I can reach CEOs on this better than you can.&rdquo; Bill Gates, to one person he consulted on AI safety, according [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bill-gates-leans-on-ceos-as-he-plans-a-bigger-ai-safety-push-axios-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bill-gates-leans-on-ceos-as-he-plans-a-bigger-ai-safety-push-axios-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sergey Brin says Gemini now helps build the next Gemini]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is &ldquo;starting to get onto that RSI treadmill&rdquo;, cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon, Business Insider reported. Google shared the video on Wednesday. Brin pointed to the Flash models Google released before Gemini 4 as evidence. &ldquo;And now our researchers and the model work hand in hand to make [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sergey-brin-says-gemini-now-helps-build-the-next-gemini/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sergey-brin-says-gemini-now-helps-build-the-next-gemini/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive Global. It was made for the Think Health conference in Bentonville, Arkansas, on Friday. &ldquo;I think that&rsquo;s a terrible use of AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/daniela-amodei-warns-against-ai-girlfriends-business-insider-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/daniela-amodei-warns-against-ai-girlfriends-business-insider-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough. The company changed the terms late on Friday after complaints from business customers and the media,&nbsp;Gizmodo reported. The revised&nbsp;terms preview&nbsp;no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-drops-train-from-its-website-crawling-terms-after-backlash/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-drops-train-from-its-website-crawling-terms-after-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, in an interview with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos. Flock would &ldquo;fire&rdquo; a customer that knowingly broke the law, he said, TechCrunch reported. &ldquo;Most of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/flocks-ceo-says-it-has-never-dropped-a-police-customer-over-abuse/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/flocks-ceo-says-it-has-never-dropped-a-police-customer-over-abuse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come from Anthropic&rsquo;s&nbsp;new robotics study, which&nbsp;Business Insider&nbsp;picked up this week. It extends the company&rsquo;s earlier research on how AI chatbots affect jobs. Different jobs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/robots-and-ai-could-reach-80-of-work-but-rarely-cheaply-anthropic-says/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/robots-and-ai-could-reach-80-of-work-but-rarely-cheaply-anthropic-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk tells Isaacson only AI and robots can fix US debt, Axios reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk says his time running DOGE showed the US government cannot fix its deficit from the inside. Only AI and robots can, he told biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk made the comments on Isaacson&rsquo;s new podcast, The Builders,&nbsp;Axios reported&nbsp;in an exclusive on Friday. The show premieres on Tuesday. &ldquo;The only way we&rsquo;re going to solve [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-tells-isaacson-only-ai-and-robots-can-fix-us-debt-axios-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-tells-isaacson-only-ai-and-robots-can-fix-us-debt-axios-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit but turns cautious on 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose 51% to NT$1.49tn, or 41.2% to $46.72bn in US dollar terms, according to TSMC&rsquo;s results. Its operating margin was 58.7%. High-performance computing made up 68% of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tsmc-posts-a-sixth-straight-record-profit-but-turns-cautious-on-2027/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tsmc-posts-a-sixth-straight-record-profit-but-turns-cautious-on-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the subpoenas to CBS News and declined to comment further. OpenAI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ftc-subpoenas-openai-and-anthropic-over-ai-safety-incidents/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ftc-subpoenas-openai-and-anthropic-over-ai-safety-incidents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix names ex-Disney TV boss Peter Rice content chief as Bajaria leaves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix has named Peter Rice, the former chairman of Walt Disney Television, as its chief content officer. The company announced the move on Thursday. Rice will run its global content organisation, from scripted and unscripted series to film and live events. Bela Bajaria, who has held the role since January 2023, is leaving after nearly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflix-names-ex-disney-tv-boss-peter-rice-content-chief-as-bajaria-leaves/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflix-names-ex-disney-tv-boss-peter-rice-content-chief-as-bajaria-leaves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU cloud sovereignty law could cost Europe €115bn, US tech lobby study says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The EU&rsquo;s proposed cloud sovereignty law, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), could cost Europe &euro;115bn over ten years. That is the central estimate in a study by the Brussels think tank ECIPE. CCIA Europe, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, paid for it. Matthias Bauer, the author, calls the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-cloud-sovereignty-law-could-cost-europe-115bn-us-tech-lobby-study-says/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-cloud-sovereignty-law-could-cost-europe-115bn-us-tech-lobby-study-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s 110 staff in London received an average of about &pound;2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures come from the accounts of OpenAI UK Ltd, as Robert Booth reported for The Guardian. The staff shared &pound;87m in salaries and &pound;168m in shares, the Guardian said. TNW has not independently verified the figures. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-london-staff-averaged-23m-each-in-2025-guardian-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-london-staff-averaged-23m-each-in-2025-guardian-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway puts another $330m into Bending Spoons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway is buying 10 million new Bending Spoons shares at $33 each. The Milan-based company announced the deal on 14 October. The $330m private placement adds to the $600m Berkshire invested at Bending Spoons&rsquo; Nasdaq listing in July. The two investments give Berkshire a 4% stake, Bending Spoons said. Its businesses include AOL, Vimeo, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/berkshire-hathaway-puts-another-330m-into-bending-spoons/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/berkshire-hathaway-puts-another-330m-into-bending-spoons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anduril opens a $1.3bn employee tender at a $90bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anduril is letting current and former employees sell shares in a tender offer that values the defence tech company at about $90bn. The shares are priced at $94.80 each, and the offer is capped at about $1.3bn, according to Bloomberg&rsquo;s sources. Rebecca Torrence, Edward Ludlow, Natasha Mascarenhas and Katrina Manson first reported the tender for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anduril-opens-a-13bn-employee-tender-at-a-90bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anduril-opens-a-13bn-employee-tender-at-a-90bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about its safety. Reuters, which first reported the suits, called them the most significant coordinated state action yet against an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eight-us-states-sue-openai-alleging-chatgpt-harms-children/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eight-us-states-sue-openai-alleging-chatgpt-harms-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine’s drones still lose Starshield above 161 km/h, Zelenskyy says]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We lose Starlink and lose the interceptor,&rdquo; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on 17 October, Bloomberg reported. Zelenskyy said speed limits on Starshield, SpaceX&rsquo;s military satellite network, remained in place across Ukraine. Ukraine&rsquo;s interceptor drones lose the link above 161 km/h (100 mph), he said in audio messages on WhatsApp. The Russian jet-powered drones [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ukraines-drones-still-lose-starshield-above-161-kmh-zelenskyy-says/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ukraines-drones-still-lose-starshield-above-161-kmh-zelenskyy-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury finds Arm breached its Qualcomm licence, then awards Qualcomm $2]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The jury&rsquo;s verdict confirms that Arm operated in good faith under its technology license agreement and its award of only two dollars confirms the merit of Arm&rsquo;s arguments in the case,&rdquo; Arm said in a statement. A federal jury in Delaware found on 13 October that Arm breached its licensing agreement with Qualcomm. It also [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jury-finds-arm-breached-its-qualcomm-licence-then-awards-qualcomm-2/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jury-finds-arm-breached-its-qualcomm-licence-then-awards-qualcomm-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan puts up to $21bn into two GlobalFoundries chip fabs in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Right now, the whole industry is in short supply,&rdquo; GlobalFoundries CEO Tim Breen told Bloomberg. Japan will put up to $21bn into two new chip factories at GlobalFoundries&rsquo; site in Malta, New York, the company announced on 14 October. GlobalFoundries (GF) will run both plants as technology provider and operator. The money comes from Japan&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/japan-puts-up-to-21bn-into-two-globalfoundries-chip-fabs-in-new-york/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/japan-puts-up-to-21bn-into-two-globalfoundries-chip-fabs-in-new-york/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Pre-LLMs a Chrome full chain would take a team of four around 6-9 months to be produced, our first submission took 2 months. The awarded one? six days,&rdquo; XBOW researcher Brendan Dolan-Gavitt wrote in a technical write-up. Security company XBOW has won $250,000 from Google&rsquo;s Chrome bug bounty programme, XBOW said on 13 October. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xbow-used-gpt-56-sol-to-build-a-250000-chrome-exploit-in-six-days/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xbow-used-gpt-56-sol-to-build-a-250000-chrome-exploit-in-six-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,&rdquo; EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a speech in Dublin on 14 October. The AI Office has sent such requests to OpenAI and Anthropic, Euronews reports. The Commission [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-investigates-openai-and-anthropic-over-agent-hacks-euronews-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-investigates-openai-and-anthropic-over-agent-hacks-euronews-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;All of them want to be the full-stack. They can&rsquo;t all be,&rdquo; Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by the end of 2030, Gartner said on 14 October. That would happen if AI providers keep spending at their current pace. Companies must write down impaired [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gartner-warns-35tn-of-ai-infrastructure-spending-is-at-write-down-risk/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gartner-warns-35tn-of-ai-infrastructure-spending-is-at-write-down-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,&rdquo; OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies launched a joint project to fix open-source software. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a firm that finds and fixes security flaws in open-source software. Valida Pau and Amir Efrati reported the talks [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-in-early-talks-to-buy-trail-of-bits-the-information-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-in-early-talks-to-buy-trail-of-bits-the-information-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,&rdquo; Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates came out on 13 October, Krebs reported on Krebs on Security. They beat September&rsquo;s record [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-fixes-a-record-1400-flaws-and-one-is-already-under-attack/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-fixes-a-record-1400-flaws-and-one-is-already-under-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta&rsquo;s internal systems were not breached,&rdquo; a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta&rsquo;s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people. Most of them are Meta employees in the US, and Meta is now notifying them. Eduard Kovacs reported [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-says-hackers-stole-code-and-data-on-1500-people-securityweek-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-says-hackers-stole-code-and-data-on-1500-people-securityweek-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why carriers block legitimate business texts and what works instead]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a legitimate business text fails to arrive, the sender usually blames the carrier. The carrier usually has a reason. In practice, carrier filtering responds to recognizable risks: high spam volume, rising complaint rates, and messages that do not match the brand or campaign described during registration. That scrutiny increased across several categories of US [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/why-carriers-block-legitimate-business-texts-and-what-works-instead/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/why-carriers-block-legitimate-business-texts-and-what-works-instead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises]]></title><description><![CDATA[RapidCanvas, which pairs an AI agent platform with its own engineers to build business apps for companies, raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA &amp; India, with Hitachi Ventures joining. It will hire in the US, Brazil, and India. Total funding now stands at $52.5M. Austin-based RapidCanvas has raised $29M in Series [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rapidcanvas-raises-29m-to-build-and-run-ai-apps-for-enterprises/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rapidcanvas-raises-29m-to-build-and-run-ai-apps-for-enterprises/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Our company has more layers, more handoffs and more overhead than we need, so we are addressing this issue.&rdquo; Kroger chief executive Greg Foran wrote this in a memo to staff on Monday, 12 October. The US supermarket chain will cut about 3,000 corporate roles over the next three years. It is leaning on technology [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/kroger-will-cut-37-of-its-corporate-workforce-as-it-leans-on-technology/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/kroger-will-cut-37-of-its-corporate-workforce-as-it-leans-on-technology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s CXMT swings to a nearly $20B profit as memory prices soar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT expects a net profit of 131B to 132.5B yuan ($19.6B to $19.8B) for January to September, compared with a 5.3B yuan loss a year earlier. Revenue jumped to 265B to 270B yuan as AI demand caused memory shortages. Its chairman also proposed a share buyback of up to 2B yuan. Chinese [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chinas-cxmt-swings-to-a-nearly-20b-profit-as-memory-prices-soar/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chinas-cxmt-swings-to-a-nearly-20b-profit-as-memory-prices-soar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?&rdquo; Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register first reported the exchange. The rule in question is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/torvalds-calls-ai-disclosure-rules-utterly-stupid-as-linux-drops-its-tag/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/torvalds-calls-ai-disclosure-rules-utterly-stupid-as-linux-drops-its-tag/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.&rdquo; Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5&rsquo;s London headquarters. In the same speech, he announced a new [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mi5-opens-an-ai-threat-centre-as-openai-tells-mps-more-incidents-may-come/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mi5-opens-an-ai-threat-centre-as-openai-tells-mps-more-incidents-may-come/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Our message to all SI companies is clear: delayed notification, inadequate corrective action, and a failure to take responsibility will not be tolerated,&rdquo; the task force&rsquo;s leaders said. Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael lead Donald Trump&rsquo;s Super Intelligence Force. They sent that warning to AI companies this week. On Thursday, the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trumps-ai-task-force-starts-work-and-tells-labs-to-report-rogue-behaviour/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trumps-ai-task-force-starts-work-and-tells-labs-to-report-rogue-behaviour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MapQuest now shows Flock and other surveillance cameras on its map]]></title><description><![CDATA[MapQuest has added a surveillance layer to its app that shows known outdoor cameras and licence plate readers, including those made by Flock Safety. Users can switch it on in Map Options, next to the traffic and incidents layers. The update follows a surge in MapQuest downloads in September. MapQuest has added a layer to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mapquest-now-shows-flock-and-other-surveillance-cameras-on-its-map/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mapquest-now-shows-flock-and-other-surveillance-cameras-on-its-map/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ramp passes $2bn in revenue as its Europe chief confirms the $60bn round]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation,&rdquo; Eric Oancea, who leads Ramp in Europe, wrote on LinkedIn. His post confirms the round that Bloomberg reported on 10 October. Ramp&rsquo;s co-founders, Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, marked the new valuation with a blog post on 15 October, titled &ldquo;Ramp at $60B: The End of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ramp-passes-2bn-in-revenue-as-its-europe-chief-confirms-the-60bn-round/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ramp-passes-2bn-in-revenue-as-its-europe-chief-confirms-the-60bn-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.&rdquo; Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic&rsquo;s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per person for Claude use, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on 15 October. Some [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/accenture-caps-staff-claude-spending-at-29-a-month-404-media-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/accenture-caps-staff-claude-spending-at-29-a-month-404-media-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.&rdquo; Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in Preview for Windows, macOS and, for the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/epic-says-it-vibe-coded-its-new-launcher-because-programming-is-hard/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/epic-says-it-vibe-coded-its-new-launcher-because-programming-is-hard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Hinton tells the Guardian humans are creating ‘alien beings’]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Now we&rsquo;re creating alien beings &hellip; And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.&rdquo; Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called a &ldquo;godfather&rdquo; of AI, said this to the Guardian. The interview ran on 13 October. Leyland Cecco interviewed him in Toronto. Hinton also answered Nvidia chief Jensen [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/geoffrey-hinton-tells-the-guardian-humans-are-creating-alien-beings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/geoffrey-hinton-tells-the-guardian-humans-are-creating-alien-beings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schwab and JPMorgan are blocking AI agents from moving customer money]]></title><description><![CDATA[Charles Schwab is blocking unauthorised AI agents, including Meta&rsquo;s Muse, that try to move client money, CEO Rick Wurster told Bloomberg Television. Schwab will instead let outside AI tools view balances through controlled MCP servers, and wants clients to use its own assistant, Charley. JPMorgan&rsquo;s Jamie Dimon took a similar line this week. Charles Schwab [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/schwab-and-jpmorgan-are-blocking-ai-agents-from-moving-customer-money/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/schwab-and-jpmorgan-are-blocking-ai-agents-from-moving-customer-money/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google adds Gemini-powered scam checks to Messages and Android calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google announced new Android scam defences on 14 October, led by an opt-in Enhanced protection mode in Google Messages that uses Gemini models in the cloud. Android will also end fake bank calls, hide login fields in Chrome during screen sharing, and block apps from silently forwarding calls. Google is adding new AI tools to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-adds-gemini-powered-scam-checks-to-messages-and-android-calls/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-adds-gemini-powered-scam-checks-to-messages-and-android-calls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Some of the companies at the forefront of AI are telling Qualcomm, &lsquo;By 2028, I need to make sure that I have the ability to run at least a hundred billion parameter model into a phone.&rsquo;&rdquo; Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said this on Sources, Alex Heath&rsquo;s podcast. Heath recorded the interview at Qualcomm&rsquo;s Snapdragon [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qualcomms-ceo-says-ai-companies-want-phones-running-100-billion-parameter-models-by-2028/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qualcomms-ceo-says-ai-companies-want-phones-running-100-billion-parameter-models-by-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase mistakes and leaked cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it.&rdquo; Elon Musk posted that advice on X on Saturday. On Thursday he added a promise for when Grok [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-says-spacex-will-cover-grok-bot-purchase-mistakes-and-leaked-cards/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-says-spacex-will-cover-grok-bot-purchase-mistakes-and-leaked-cards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s iPhone Duo sells out in minutes, with deliveries pushed to 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Delivery estimates for Apple&rsquo;s first foldable, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, moved to January minutes after preorders opened on 16 October, across every colour and storage option. Store pickup stock for launch day also ran out. The phone goes on sale on 23 October. Shipping estimates for Apple&rsquo;s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, slipped into [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apples-iphone-duo-sells-out-in-minutes-with-deliveries-pushed-to-2027/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apples-iphone-duo-sells-out-in-minutes-with-deliveries-pushed-to-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research firm calls Anthropic the ‘most ridiculous IPO of 2026’, says it may be worth $144bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic&rsquo;s planned stock market debut is &ldquo;an unprecedented test of investor gullibility,&rdquo; independent research firm New Constructs said in a report titled &ldquo;Anthropic Is The Most Ridiculous IPO of 2026.&rdquo; The firm puts the AI company&rsquo;s equity at as little as $144bn. That is 93% below the $2tn valuation Anthropic is reportedly targeting. The report [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/research-firm-calls-anthropic-the-most-ridiculous-ipo-of-2026-says-it-may-be-worth-144bn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/research-firm-calls-anthropic-the-most-ridiculous-ipo-of-2026-says-it-may-be-worth-144bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poland tells tech platforms to curb violent content after school attacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poland summoned Google, Meta, TikTok, Discord, and Telegram on Friday and told them to do more to stop violent content from spreading after knife attacks at schools, Reuters reported. Elon Musk&rsquo;s X was also invited but did not attend. The attacks took place over four days last week in Ostro&#322;&#281;ka, near Wyszk&oacute;w, and in Warsaw. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/poland-tells-tech-platforms-to-curb-violent-content-after-school-attacks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/poland-tells-tech-platforms-to-curb-violent-content-after-school-attacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CERN and Mistral plan an AI foundation model for particle physics]]></title><description><![CDATA[CERN and French AI company Mistral signed a statement of intent on 15 October to build a &ldquo;Large Physics Model&ldquo;, which CERN calls the first foundation model for collider physics. It will be trained on simulated Large Hadron Collider data to help reconstruct and identify particles. No budget or timeline was disclosed. CERN and Mistral [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cern-and-mistral-plan-an-ai-foundation-model-for-particle-physics/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cern-and-mistral-plan-an-ai-foundation-model-for-particle-physics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China proposes export controls on its advanced AI models and chip designs]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s commerce and science ministries proposed adding 23 AI technologies, including large models, agents, chip designs, and computing clusters, to the country&rsquo;s export control list. Open-source tech is exempt and overseas users can still access models through apps. A temporary export registration rule took effect on 16 October. China plans to limit exports of 23 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-proposes-export-controls-on-its-advanced-ai-models-and-chip-designs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-proposes-export-controls-on-its-advanced-ai-models-and-chip-designs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are built to run AI agents locally]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia&rsquo;s RTX Spark laptops, which launched on Friday, are built to run AI agents on the laptop itself. Users can install agents such as GitHub Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw and Perplexity from the first start-up, without a command line, Nvidia said. Each laptop runs on a single superchip that pairs a Blackwell RTX graphics chip with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-rtx-spark-laptops-are-built-to-run-ai-agents-locally/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-rtx-spark-laptops-are-built-to-run-ai-agents-locally/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany to announce AI partnership with Nvidia next week, sources say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany plans to announce an agreement with Nvidia next week to help its industry make more use of AI, Handelsblatt reported. The sources said the deal will be a big boost for AI in industry, and that other partners besides Nvidia will join. The German government has not commented publicly, and we have not independently [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/germany-to-announce-ai-partnership-with-nvidia-next-week-sources-say/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/germany-to-announce-ai-partnership-with-nvidia-next-week-sources-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will build their next driving systems on Nvidia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz will develop its next generation of driver assistance and automated driving systems with Nvidia, the two companies said on Friday. The announcement came a day after Volvo Cars expanded its own Nvidia partnership for automated driving. Both carmakers will build on the same Nvidia self-driving stack. It combines the Hyperion computer and sensor architecture, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mercedes-benz-and-volvo-will-build-their-next-driving-systems-on-nvidia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mercedes-benz-and-volvo-will-build-their-next-driving-systems-on-nvidia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft’s Brad Smith says green card curbs could cripple US tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House crackdown on green cards for skilled foreign workers could &ldquo;cripple&rdquo; US tech for more than a generation, Microsoft president Brad Smith told Politico. His comments came a week after the US&nbsp;suspended Microsoft&nbsp;and seven other companies from PERM, the Labor Department programme employers use to sponsor foreign staff for permanent residency. Adobe, Cognizant, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsofts-brad-smith-says-green-card-curbs-could-cripple-us-tech/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsofts-brad-smith-says-green-card-curbs-could-cripple-us-tech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo plans robotaxi service in Toronto by 2028, its first in Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo is bringing its driverless taxi service to Toronto, its first city in Canada, and hopes to carry its first riders there in 2028. The Alphabet-owned company announced the move today. Its cars will appear on Toronto&rsquo;s streets in the coming days, but people will drive them at first. Waymo will first map the city&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/waymo-plans-robotaxi-service-in-toronto-by-2028-its-first-in-canada/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/waymo-plans-robotaxi-service-in-toronto-by-2028-its-first-in-canada/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK watchdog says AWS and Microsoft must do more to ease cloud switching]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have made it easier to switch cloud providers but still have more to do, the UK competition watchdog said on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also proposed bringing Microsoft under its toughest digital rules. The update is the CMA&rsquo;s first progress check since March, when it accepted&nbsp;voluntary commitments&nbsp;from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-watchdog-says-aws-and-microsoft-must-do-more-to-ease-cloud-switching/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-watchdog-says-aws-and-microsoft-must-do-more-to-ease-cloud-switching/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top BreatheHR alternatives for growing UK businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Breathe did its job. For a UK team of fifteen or twenty people stepping off spreadsheets, it&rsquo;s a tidy, affordable way to track holidays, keep records in order and stay compliant without a heavyweight system. The trouble arrives later. Somewhere between your fortieth and your hundredth hire, you notice you&rsquo;re running payroll in one product, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/top-breathehr-alternatives-for-growing-uk-businesses/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/top-breathehr-alternatives-for-growing-uk-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CoreWeave shares and bonds head for steep weekly losses over AI debt]]></title><description><![CDATA[CoreWeave&rsquo;s shares and bonds are on track for steep weekly losses, as investors worry about how much the AI cloud provider has borrowed, Reuters reported&nbsp;on Friday. By Thursday&rsquo;s close, the stock was down more than 15% for the week, its biggest weekly fall in about two months. It was also on course to lose a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coreweave-shares-and-bonds-head-for-steep-weekly-losses-over-ai-debt/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coreweave-shares-and-bonds-head-for-steep-weekly-losses-over-ai-debt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HiBob vs BambooHR]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve run both of these platforms for real teams, and the HiBob vs BambooHR decision is one I&rsquo;ve made from the inside. I set BambooHR up for a lean US company that wanted its records and time off in one tidy system within a month, and it did that job well. Years later I led [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hibob-vs-bamboohr/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hibob-vs-bamboohr/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli ad firm used online ads to spread Candiru spyware, report finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simply seeing an online ad was enough to infect devices at Al Jazeera with spyware, according to a Citizen Lab report&nbsp;published on Thursday. The University of Toronto researchers say it is the first public technical proof of so-called zero-click spyware arriving through ads, in which victims did not have to tap or click anything. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/israeli-ad-firm-used-online-ads-to-spread-candiru-spyware-report-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/israeli-ad-firm-used-online-ads-to-spread-candiru-spyware-report-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India says AI agents under testing broke into firms’ live systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents being tested by AI firms broke into the live systems of several Indian companies and read private records, India&rsquo;s cyber agency says. CERT-In disclosed the incidents in a&nbsp;critical advisory issued late on Thursday. The agency did not name the AI firms or the companies hit. The AI firms found the cases in their [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/india-says-ai-agents-under-testing-broke-into-firms-live-systems/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/india-says-ai-agents-under-testing-broke-into-firms-live-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faraday Future unveils a $2,490 humanoid robot for developers and schools]]></title><description><![CDATA[Faraday Future and FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem launched two humanoid robots on 15 October: the $2,490 FF Nova for developers and schools, and the $299 FF Nova Mini for children. Nova&rsquo;s first 100 units are invitation-only. The launch follows FFR&rsquo;s agreement to buy FF&rsquo;s robotics business in a $200M all-stock deal. Faraday Future and its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/faraday-future-unveils-a-2490-humanoid-robot-for-developers-and-schools/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/faraday-future-unveils-a-2490-humanoid-robot-for-developers-and-schools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rakuten raises record ¥400B from bond sale driven by retail investors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rakuten priced &yen;400B ($2.5B) of yen bonds on Friday, its largest yen bond sale, with &yen;360B going to retail investors. The 5.5-year debt carries a 4.37% coupon. Japanese companies have sold about &yen;3.2T of retail bonds this year, already above 2025&rsquo;s record. Rakuten Group has priced &yen;400B (about $2.5B) of yen bonds, its largest yen [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rakuten-raises-record-400b-from-bond-sale-driven-by-retail-investors/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rakuten-raises-record-400b-from-bond-sale-driven-by-retail-investors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stockholm startup Matters raises $5m pre-seed to build an AI-native bank]]></title><description><![CDATA[Matters, a Stockholm startup building an AI-powered consumer bank, has raised $5m in pre-seed funding as it comes out of stealth. Swedish angel investor Jakob Johansson led the round. Per &Ouml;sterstr&ouml;m founded the company in April. He founded Sambla, a Nordic consumer loan broker, in 2014 and sold it to Nordic Capital&nbsp;in 2021. Matters plans [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/stockholm-startup-matters-raises-5m-pre-seed-to-build-an-ai-native-bank/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/stockholm-startup-matters-raises-5m-pre-seed-to-build-an-ai-native-bank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would your AI agent rather guess than look?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Try asking an AI assistant what a mid-range hotel in Lisbon costs for next weekend. You&rsquo;ll get a number, usually stated with complete confidence. And if you then ask where it came from, the explanation gets vague fast. Sometimes the agent really did check a booking site a few seconds earlier. And sometimes it checked [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/why-would-your-ai-agent-rather-guess-than-look/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/why-would-your-ai-agent-rather-guess-than-look/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla unveils thruster-equipped Roadster, with production set for 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla revealed its second-generation Roadster on 15 October at a SpaceX site in McGregor, Texas. The car uses cold-gas thrusters built with SpaceX to jump, flip, and land. Reservations cost $50,000 or $250,000 depending on the version, and Musk says production starts in 2028. Tesla unveiled its second-generation Roadster on Thursday at a SpaceX test [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tesla-unveils-thruster-equipped-roadster-with-production-set-for-2028/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tesla-unveils-thruster-equipped-roadster-with-production-set-for-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia and Apple each gave $25M to Trump’s ballroom, Washington Post says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Both Nvidia and Apple have each contributed $25 million to the new White House ballroom being set up by President Donald Trump, the largest amount any donor has given. The numbers are from a donor list obtained confidentially by The Washington Post, which published the list on Thursday. It is an internal spreadsheet used for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-and-apple-each-gave-25m-to-trumps-ballroom-washington-post-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-and-apple-each-gave-25m-to-trumps-ballroom-washington-post-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anchor launches Action Index, cutting computer-use agent token costs by 100X]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York, United States / New York, October 15th, 2026, TechnologyWire Anchor, the browser infrastructure company for AI agents, today launched Action Index, a shared memory of web workflows that agents have already completed successfully. Instead of reasoning through every click from scratch, agents on Anchor replay a proven path as deterministic code, and the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anchor-launches-action-index-cutting-computer-use-agent-token-costs-by-100x/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anchor-launches-action-index-cutting-computer-use-agent-token-costs-by-100x/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic makes Code Review generally available, with $50,000 in credits attached]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has moved Code Review, its automated pull-request reviewer for Claude Code, out of research preview for Team and Enterprise customers, with up to $50,000 in free credits for eligible enterprises. Organisations running GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, the configuration European firms adopt to keep code in the EU, are excluded from the offer. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-makes-code-review-generally-available-with-50000-in-credits-attached/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-makes-code-review-generally-available-with-50000-in-credits-attached/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta opens a weaker AI model while keeping the frontier closed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has published the weights for Muse Spark Open, a coding and agent model it says is less advanced than the Muse Wonder frontier model it launched on Monday. Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said Meta will generally not open-source its most powerful models, which is the split the EU AI Act&rsquo;s open-source exemption is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-opens-a-weaker-ai-model-while-keeping-the-frontier-closed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-opens-a-weaker-ai-model-while-keeping-the-frontier-closed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony revives the Walkman with a $5,899 gold-plated flagship]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sony has revived the Walkman with three digital music players priced from $1,899 to $5,899, the flagship built around a gold-plated oxygen-free copper chassis. No European price or release date has been given, and the EU&rsquo;s rule on user-replaceable batteries applies from 18 February 2027. Sony has brought back the Walkman with a flagship costing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sony-revives-the-walkman-with-a-5899-gold-plated-flagship/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sony-revives-the-walkman-with-a-5899-gold-plated-flagship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s Huang says CoreWeave needs no backstop, as its credit swaps hit a record]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in Stockholm that CoreWeave&rsquo;s cost of capital is decreasing and that Nvidia does not need to backstop the company. On the same day CoreWeave&rsquo;s five-year credit default swaps hit a record 1,194.5 basis points, pricing a more than 60% chance of default within five years. Jensen Huang said in Stockholm on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-huang-says-coreweave-needs-no-backstop-as-its-credit-swaps-hit-a-record/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-huang-says-coreweave-needs-no-backstop-as-its-credit-swaps-hit-a-record/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CarbonAI raises $12M to automate commercial real estate underwriting with AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[CarbonAI has raised $12M led by Cowboy Ventures for AI agents that handle underwriting, due diligence and post-close monitoring on commercial real estate loans. The EU AI Act treats consumer credit decisions as high-risk but not corporate lending, a line that blurs when a sponsor gives a personal guarantee. CarbonAI has raised $12M for AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/carbonai-raises-12m-to-automate-commercial-real-estate-underwriting-with-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/carbonai-raises-12m-to-automate-commercial-real-estate-underwriting-with-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She Taught the Macintosh to Smile]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Macintosh didn&rsquo;t always smile. Susan Kare gave it one &mdash; and with a handful of black pixels, helped transform the computer from an intimidating machine into something that felt human. More than 40 years later, we&rsquo;re still speaking the visual language she helped create.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/she-taught-the-macintosh-to-smile/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/she-taught-the-macintosh-to-smile/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google launches Universal Cart in the US, with checkout built into Search and the Gemini app]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google launched Universal Cart in the US on Wednesday, a cart that sits inside Search and the Gemini app, holds products from multiple retailers and takes the payment through Google Pay. Its own roadmap names Canada, Australia and the UK for expansion, and never mentions the EU. Google has put a shopping cart inside Search [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-universal-cart-in-the-us-with-checkout-built-into-search-and-the-gemini-app/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-universal-cart-in-the-us-with-checkout-built-into-search-and-the-gemini-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft says Windows 11 is now up to 20% more responsive and better on 8GB of RAM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft says months of work have made Windows 11 up to 20% more responsive and that better memory management makes a meaningful difference on PCs with 8GB of RAM. The only published hands-on test found gains on 16GB and larger machines, and none at all on an 8GB PC. Microsoft says Windows 11 is now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-says-windows-11-is-now-up-to-20-more-responsive-and-better-on-8gb-of-ram/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-says-windows-11-is-now-up-to-20-more-responsive-and-better-on-8gb-of-ram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX’s $8B spectrum deal exposes the risk in telecom shares]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX agreed to pay about $8B for nationwide low-band US spectrum, and shares in AT&amp;T, Verizon and T-Mobile fell on the news. Europe&rsquo;s equivalent band comes up for selection in May 2027, with Brussels proposing that two-thirds of it be reserved for European firms and sovereign use. SpaceX has agreed to pay about $8B for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacexs-8b-spectrum-deal-exposes-the-risk-in-telecom-shares/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacexs-8b-spectrum-deal-exposes-the-risk-in-telecom-shares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon relaunches Bee with two recording devices and a $12 monthly plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has launched the $74.99 Bee Frontier wristband and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse phone attachment, and put the companion software behind an $11.99 monthly subscription. Neither device is on sale in Europe, where recording another person&rsquo;s private speech is a criminal offence in Germany. Amazon has launched two devices that record and summarise your day, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-relaunches-bee-with-two-recording-devices-and-a-12-monthly-plan/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-relaunches-bee-with-two-recording-devices-and-a-12-monthly-plan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[XDC Network integrates Concordium identity verification for AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[The integration allows AI agents on XDC AI to verify the individuals or businesses behind them, addressing questions of accountability as autonomous agents gain financial capabilities. XDC Network has selected Concordium as the exclusive identity verification provider for XDC AI, its agent payments marketplace, introducing a system that allows AI agents to prove they are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xdc-network-integrates-concordium-identity-verification-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xdc-network-integrates-concordium-identity-verification-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wanna pay for coffee using your BTC? Here is how]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin was built to be spent, not just held. More cafes now accept it, and you can pay for your morning latte in seconds. Here are five ways to do it. 1. GoBTC Pay GoBTC Pay, built by Bitcoin miner GoMining, lets you pay in Bitcoin on Bitcoin&rsquo;s base layer, with GoMining&rsquo;s mining infrastructure confirming [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/wanna-pay-for-coffee-using-your-btc-here-is-how/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/wanna-pay-for-coffee-using-your-btc-here-is-how/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Glean has no plans to raise more money and no concrete plans to go public, founder and chief executive Arvind Jain told TNW. The enterprise AI company could list if it wanted to, he said, and it is getting its internal processes ready. But the AI industry moves too fast for that kind of stability [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSMC is open to working on Musk’s Terafab but says it must run the fab]]></title><description><![CDATA[TSMC is willing to work with Elon Musk&rsquo;s Terafab chip project, but any fab involved would have to be run by TSMC, chairman and chief executive C.C. Wei said on the company&rsquo;s third-quarter earnings call&nbsp;on Thursday. He added that the two sides have not yet reached an agreement. Bloomberg reported&nbsp;the remarks shortly after the call. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tsmc-is-open-to-working-on-musks-terafab-but-says-it-must-run-the-fab/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tsmc-is-open-to-working-on-musks-terafab-but-says-it-must-run-the-fab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank of America CEO says 1,000 contractors are fixing AI-exposed flaws]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bank of America brought in about 1,000 outside contractors in the second quarter to repair software weaknesses exposed by AI models, chief executive Brian Moynihan said on 14 October. One of those models, he said, was Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos. Moynihan disclosed the figure in an&nbsp;interview with CNBC&nbsp;after the bank reported third-quarter results, and discussed it again [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bank-of-america-ceo-says-1000-contractors-are-fixing-ai-exposed-flaws/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bank-of-america-ceo-says-1000-contractors-are-fixing-ai-exposed-flaws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue reached $16.8bn, FT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[On October 14, Anthropic told potential investors that its third-quarter 2026 revenue reached $16.8 billion. The company also reported an adjusted profit for that period. Moreover, the company shared these figures at an investor event held at its San Francisco headquarters, just weeks before its planned stock market debut. The&nbsp;Financial Times first reported the numbers, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-tells-investors-q3-revenue-reached-168bn-ft-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-tells-investors-q3-revenue-reached-168bn-ft-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to pull data from Amap, Alibaba&rsquo;s map service, between 28 September and 8 October. That is the main finding of a full report published on 14 October by independent researchers who track AI agent activity online. The group first shared preliminary [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/researchers-trace-ai-agents-that-probed-alibabas-amap-to-tencent/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/researchers-trace-ai-agents-that-probed-alibabas-amap-to-tencent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arkansas sues OpenAI, alleging it misled users about ChatGPT safety]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has sued OpenAI, saying the company told users ChatGPT was safe while it knew of serious risks. The 73-page complaint&nbsp;was filed on Wednesday in a Faulkner County court and names eight OpenAI firms. The state says ChatGPT has encouraged suicide and self-harm, fed delusions, given bad medical advice and helped [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/arkansas-sues-openai-alleging-it-misled-users-about-chatgpt-safety/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/arkansas-sues-openai-alleging-it-misled-users-about-chatgpt-safety/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU says it is in talks with Google over changes after €890M DMA fine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission is in talks with Google about the steps the company may take following the EU&rsquo;s &euro;890M (about $1bn) fine in July. The Commission confirmed the talks on Wednesday to Reuters. The fines were issued under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU law that sets rules for the largest online platforms. In [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-says-it-is-in-talks-with-google-over-changes-after-890m-dma-fine/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-says-it-is-in-talks-with-google-over-changes-after-890m-dma-fine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norrsken and Nvidia to open Stockholm AI Lab for founders in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norrsken Foundation and Nvidia will open a hub for AI startups in central Stockholm in 2027. The Stockholm AI Lab will host a select group of European founders who use AI to address problems in climate, health, food and society, and it will also be home to Nvidia&rsquo;s Stockholm office. The lab will sit in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/norrsken-and-nvidia-to-open-stockholm-ai-lab-for-founders-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/norrsken-and-nvidia-to-open-stockholm-ai-lab-for-founders-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says ex-employee took device files before returning to Apple]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI says a former employee who went back to Apple sent more than 100 secret files about an unreleased OpenAI product to personal accounts, according to a court filing made on Wednesday in San Jose, California, According to the filing, the unnamed employee joined OpenAI from Apple and stayed for six months. Some of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-says-ex-employee-took-device-files-before-returning-to-apple/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-says-ex-employee-took-device-files-before-returning-to-apple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has put its compute and infrastructure businesses under Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk&rsquo;s xAI until July 2025. Sachin Katti, who had been overseeing infrastructure and led the $30B Georgia build, leaves the role within weeks and stays on as an adviser. OpenAI has put compute and infrastructure under one executive. Uday [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-hands-its-data-centre-and-compute-operation-to-a-former-xai-executive/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-hands-its-data-centre-and-compute-operation-to-a-former-xai-executive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s first AI features reach China in December, after a two-year wait]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after the US, excluding the rebuilt Siri AI. Siri AI is also still missing in the EU, with no indication of when approval might come. Apple will ship Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December, two years after America [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apples-first-ai-features-reach-china-in-december-after-a-two-year-wait/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apples-first-ai-features-reach-china-in-december-after-a-two-year-wait/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charged OpenAI engineer had a one-way ticket out of the US, a filing shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recording device, had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia booked for three days after his arrest, according to a court filing. He has entered no reported plea and is presumed innocent. The OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recording device had a one-way ticket out of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-charged-openai-engineer-had-a-one-way-ticket-out-of-the-us-a-filing-shows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-charged-openai-engineer-had-a-one-way-ticket-out-of-the-us-a-filing-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is not warranted. His prescription is to accelerate containment and monitoring technology, which Nvidia is building a team to sell. Nvidia&rsquo;s chief executive says he would stop supplying a customer building [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-jensen-huang-says-he-would-cut-off-customers-who-build-unsafe-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-jensen-huang-says-he-would-cut-off-customers-who-build-unsafe-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modal raises $750M at $15.75bn valuation as run rate tops $1bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modal, a cloud company that runs AI models and code for developers, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Series D round at a $15.75 billion valuation. Accel led the round, and Kleiner Perkins joined. All of Modal&rsquo;s existing investors also took part, including Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Redpoint, Lux Capital, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/modal-raises-750m-at-1575bn-valuation-as-run-rate-tops-1bn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/modal-raises-750m-at-1575bn-valuation-as-run-rate-tops-1bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salience Labs raises $125M for optical AI switches, then expands in California]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salience Labs has raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and the British Business Bank taking part. The Oxfordshire company will use it to scale manufacturing and open a second West Coast office. An Oxfordshire photonics company has raised $125M to build optical switches for AI data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/salience-labs-raises-125m-for-optical-ai-switches-then-expands-in-california/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/salience-labs-raises-125m-for-optical-ai-switches-then-expands-in-california/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyndryl will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s live IT operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will apply Kyndryl&rsquo;s agentic AI framework to Toyota Finance&rsquo;s IT change management, infrastructure design and impact analysis, in its production environment. No contract value, timeline or measured result has been disclosed. Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance&rsquo;s IT operations. No contract value, timeline or measured result [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/kyndryl-will-run-ai-agents-inside-toyota-finances-live-it-operations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/kyndryl-will-run-ai-agents-inside-toyota-finances-live-it-operations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[US EV sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter to almost 263,000, their highest in a year, against more than 437,000 in the same quarter of 2025. Europe registered 277,006 electric cars in July alone. American electric car sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter, their best in a year. They were still about 40% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ev-sales-rebound-to-their-highest-level-in-a-year-and-stay-40-below-2025/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ev-sales-rebound-to-their-highest-level-in-a-year-and-stay-40-below-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A London startup is putting AI cameras into Polish operating theatres]]></title><description><![CDATA[VitVio is deploying its Vetro camera and sensor platform at University Clinical Centre in Gda&#324;sk, the first Polish hospital to take it. The AI Act category that covers systems monitoring workers&rsquo; performance was delayed to December 2027. A London startup is putting cameras into the operating theatres of a Polish public teaching hospital. It logs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-london-startup-is-putting-ai-cameras-into-polish-operating-theatres/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-london-startup-is-putting-ai-cameras-into-polish-operating-theatres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanly acquires CareerArc, adding recruitment marketing to its AI hiring tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[Humanly has acquired recruitment marketing company CareerArc, its fifth acquisition since 2025, with no price disclosed. The AI hiring tools it is consolidating fall into the EU AI Act&rsquo;s high-risk employment category, whose duties were delayed to December 2027. Humanly has bought CareerArc, its fifth acquisition in two years. No price was disclosed, and the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/humanly-acquires-careerarc-adding-recruitment-marketing-to-its-ai-hiring-tools/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/humanly-acquires-careerarc-adding-recruitment-marketing-to-its-ai-hiring-tools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time, adding 4,106 in the third quarter, a 12% drop on a year earlier. The EU counted 212,439 public DC points in April and added nearly 18,000 of them in four months. America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time, after adding [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/america-has-passed-80000-public-fast-charging-ports-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/america-has-passed-80000-public-fast-charging-ports-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s CFO says firms using Chinese AI models are risking security]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar told the International AI Summit in Dublin that businesses using low-cost Chinese models are taking a cybersecurity risk. Hugging Face, which OpenAI&rsquo;s models breached in July, used a Chinese open model to investigate it. OpenAI&rsquo;s finance chief says businesses using cheap Chinese models are taking a cybersecurity risk. Her [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-cfo-says-firms-using-chinese-ai-models-are-risking-security/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-cfo-says-firms-using-chinese-ai-models-are-risking-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huskeys Launches Profiling to Advance Proactive Network Edge Security]]></title><description><![CDATA[For security teams, detecting a threat is only part of the challenge. They must also determine which application is at risk, how the activity relates to legitimate business operations, and what action will reduce exposure without interrupting users. Huskeys is introducing Profiling to address those questions, giving organizations a dynamic, business-aware view of their web [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/huskeys-launches-profiling-to-advance-proactive-network-edge-security/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/huskeys-launches-profiling-to-advance-proactive-network-edge-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI trading agents face a reliability bar human apps never did]]></title><description><![CDATA[Picture two AI trading agents running the same model and the same strategy. A signal arrives during a fast market, both send an order, and one platform answers in milliseconds while the other times out. Same intelligence, different result. The difference sat in the plumbing. As agents take on more of the work of trading, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-trading-agents-face-a-reliability-bar-human-apps-never-did/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-trading-agents-face-a-reliability-bar-human-apps-never-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut launches its mobile plan in Germany for €14.99 a month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolut has launched its own mobile phone plan in Germany, the company announced today. The fintech, which recently won a French banking licence, is pushing further beyond its banking app. Revolut Mobile costs &euro;14.99 a month and includes 120GB of data at full speed, then unlimited data at a slower 2 Mbit/s, plus unlimited calls [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/revolut-launches-its-mobile-plan-in-germany-for-1499-a-month/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/revolut-launches-its-mobile-plan-in-germany-for-1499-a-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[European Commission plans to use AI to respond faster to cyberattacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to a document obtained by Politico, the European Commission&rsquo;s IT department wants to use AI to fight back against the most dangerous cyberattacks. DG DIGIT, the Commission&rsquo;s IT department, wrote the paper, though it is undated, and it explains how the EU&rsquo;s executive branch should get ready to defend against AI-driven threats. According to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/european-commission-plans-to-use-ai-to-respond-faster-to-cyberattacks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/european-commission-plans-to-use-ai-to-respond-faster-to-cyberattacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estonian energy storage firm Skeleton becomes unicorn with Siemens deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siemens has bought into Skeleton Technologies, an Estonian maker of energy storage systems. With this, the deal values Skeleton at more than $1 billion, its CEO Taavi Madiberk told Bloomberg. The deal closed this month and was worth more than $100 million, the company said, but it did not give the exact figure. In return, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/estonian-energy-storage-firm-skeleton-becomes-unicorn-with-siemens-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/estonian-energy-storage-firm-skeleton-becomes-unicorn-with-siemens-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INmune Bio and Quantum Computing partner to apply quantum optimization and AI to advance Alzheimer’s drug research and explore new applications for XPro]]></title><description><![CDATA[Boca Raton, Florida, October 14th, 2026, Financewire Collaboration combines INmune Bio&rsquo;s clinical research with QCi&rsquo;s Dirac-3S quantum optimization machine to identify potential new treatment indications and biomarkers for XPro. Initial engagement marks QCi&rsquo;s first commercial customer in pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets, expanding the application of quantum computing to drug development. INmune Bio Inc. (Nasdaq: INMB) [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/inmune-bio-and-quantum-computing-partner-to-apply-quantum-optimization-and-ai-to-advance-alzheimers-drug-research-and-explore-new-applications-for-xpro/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/inmune-bio-and-quantum-computing-partner-to-apply-quantum-optimization-and-ai-to-advance-alzheimers-drug-research-and-explore-new-applications-for-xpro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uvi raises $7.5M to give AI agents the company context they lack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uvi, a startup that feeds company knowledge to AI agents, has emerged from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding. CT Innovations and Cardumen led the funding round, with Mana VC, 91 Ventures, and Gaingles VC also participating. Uvi plans to use the funds to build a US team, increase sales, and continue developing its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uvi-raises-75m-to-give-ai-agents-the-company-context-they-lack/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uvi-raises-75m-to-give-ai-agents-the-company-context-they-lack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgepoint raises $9.8M to help manufacturers quote faster]]></title><description><![CDATA[American manufacturers can often make a part faster than they can get a quote back to the customer asking for it. That mismatch is the result of decades of automation reaching the shop floor, but rarely the office around it. Forgepoint is tackling that with Frank, an AI Inside Sales Rep built for manufacturing. Frank [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/forgepoint-raises-98m-to-help-manufacturers-quote-faster/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/forgepoint-raises-98m-to-help-manufacturers-quote-faster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evos raises $9M to bring autonomous operators to industrial businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Evolutionary Operating System, Inc. (Evos), the company building autonomous operators for the physical economy, came out of stealth, announcing $9M in pre-seed funding. Uncork Capital and Field Ventures co-led the round. Crosslink Capital, Utopia Capital Management, Sandwith Ventures, and angel investors also participated. Evos operators learn a job from a company&rsquo;s most experienced people and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/evos-raises-9m-to-bring-autonomous-operators-to-industrial-businesses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/evos-raises-9m-to-bring-autonomous-operators-to-industrial-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scimplify raises $25M to speed up critical materials production with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures to supply specialty chemicals and critical materials outside China, with German customer Henkel joining as an investor. The new production network is going to the US and Japan, not Europe. Scimplify has raised $25M to supply specialty chemicals and critical materials from outside China. German [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/scimplify-raises-25m-to-speed-up-critical-materials-production-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/scimplify-raises-25m-to-speed-up-critical-materials-production-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple, OpenAI head to court over AI trade secrets, with the case on the line]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge in San Jose hears two opposed motions on the same day, Apple&rsquo;s request to stop OpenAI using anything taken from it and OpenAI&rsquo;s request to throw the case out. Apple won part of its expedited discovery on Tuesday, and was refused part of it. Apple and OpenAI are in court in San [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-openai-head-to-court-over-ai-trade-secrets-with-the-case-on-the-line/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-openai-head-to-court-over-ai-trade-secrets-with-the-case-on-the-line/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US and European regulators question banks about AI agents and cyber risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Banking regulators in the US and Europe are stepping up efforts to contain the risks AI poses to banks, Reuters reported, citing six people familiar with the matter. Some fear that cyberattacks or rogue AI agents could shake the financial system. In the US, the Federal Reserve and two other bank regulators are questioning banks [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-and-european-regulators-question-banks-about-ai-agents-and-cyber-risks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-and-european-regulators-question-banks-about-ai-agents-and-cyber-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofcom says it still has concerns over how X removes illegal hate content]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s online safety regulator, Ofcom, says it still has concerns about how well X removes illegal hate and terror content. This comes even though X is now reviewing these reports more quickly. In May, X promised to review posts reported through its UK illegal content tool within 24 hours on average. The company also said [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ofcom-says-it-still-has-concerns-over-how-x-removes-illegal-hate-content/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ofcom-says-it-still-has-concerns-over-how-x-removes-illegal-hate-content/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US charges 14 over North Korean IT worker scheme at more than 70 companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Justice Department has charged 14 people over a North Korean job scam, announced on Tuesday. North Korean IT workers used stolen names to get remote jobs at more than 70 US firms. The workers earned about $3 million, which went to North Korean groups under US sanctions, prosecutors believe. The firm works in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-charges-14-over-north-korean-it-worker-scheme-at-more-than-70-companies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-charges-14-over-north-korean-it-worker-scheme-at-more-than-70-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Azure executive asked teams to find 20% cost cuts, report says]]></title><description><![CDATA[A senior Microsoft cloud boss has asked team leaders to find ways to cut costs by at least 20%, The Information reported, citing people who know about the plans. We have not independently verified the report, and Microsoft disputes it. &ldquo;Azure leadership has not directed teams to develop cost-cutting plans,&rdquo; a Microsoft spokesperson told The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-azure-executive-asked-teams-to-find-20-cost-cuts-report-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-azure-executive-asked-teams-to-find-20-cost-cuts-report-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the government]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the government. Neither comes with a figure or a headcount. The memorandum covers AI safety, security and model evaluation, research on adoption, and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors, the company said. Co-founder Ben Mann [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-opens-a-singapore-office-and-signs-an-ai-safety-mou-with-the-government/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-opens-a-singapore-office-and-signs-an-ai-safety-mou-with-the-government/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bumble agrees to be bought by Ithaca Holdings for about $1.3bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bumble has agreed to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings in an all-cash deal valuing the dating app at about $1.3 billion, the companies said&nbsp;on Tuesday. Ithaca will pay $6.05 per Bumble Class A share, about 138% more than the stock&rsquo;s closing price on October 9, before reporting on Monday that the two sides were in&nbsp;advanced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bumble-agrees-to-be-bought-by-ithaca-holdings-for-about-13bn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bumble-agrees-to-be-bought-by-ithaca-holdings-for-about-13bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s international chief says open models carry more risk by definition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic&rsquo;s head of international told Bloomberg TV in Dublin that open alternatives to its models carry more risk by definition. That is a broader claim than the one Dario Amodei set out in July, when he wrote that open-weight models without dangerous capabilities are a public good. Anthropic&rsquo;s top sales executive outside the US says [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropics-international-chief-says-open-models-carry-more-risk-by-definition/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropics-international-chief-says-open-models-carry-more-risk-by-definition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home consoles face extinction as cloud and AI boom, BI research says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts that streamed games will become a $38B market by 2035 and that the dedicated console will stop being a mass-market product. The case depends on surplus GPU capacity pushing compute prices down late this decade, which has not happened yet. Streamed games will be a $38B market by 2035, and the console [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/home-consoles-face-extinction-as-cloud-and-ai-boom-bi-research-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/home-consoles-face-extinction-as-cloud-and-ai-boom-bi-research-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind opens its science AI models to 200 European researchers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Up to 200 European researchers will get direct access to Google&rsquo;s most advanced science AI models, plus $3 million in computing credits,&nbsp;Google said today. The offer comes from its AI lab, Google DeepMind, and its cloud arm, Google Cloud. The models include AlphaFold 3, which predicts the structure of proteins and other molecules, and WeatherNext, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-deepmind-opens-its-science-ai-models-to-200-european-researchers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-deepmind-opens-its-science-ai-models-to-200-european-researchers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia commits $250M of compute to UK AI safety research]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have still to be agreed. Nvidia has committed $250M to British AI safety research over the next five years. The commitment is compute access, not cash, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-commits-250m-of-compute-to-uk-ai-safety-research/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-commits-250m-of-compute-to-uk-ai-safety-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rehear its Pentagon case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon&rsquo;s designation of it as a supply-chain risk. It argues the designation was retaliation for its speech about AI safety. Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to rehear its challenge to a Pentagon designation [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-asks-the-full-appeals-court-to-rehear-its-pentagon-case/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-asks-the-full-appeals-court-to-rehear-its-pentagon-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASML says it cannot meet chip tool demand in 2027 or 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASML says its supply plans mean it cannot fully meet demand in 2027 or 2028, and some customers want to place orders for 2029 and 2030. It raised the low end of its 2026 sales guidance and its shares rose 2.8%. ASML says it will not be able to meet demand for its machines in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asml-says-it-cannot-meet-chip-tool-demand-in-2027-or-2028/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asml-says-it-cannot-meet-chip-tool-demand-in-2027-or-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cachet raises new funding to insure Europe’s gig and mobility platforms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tallinn startup&nbsp;Cachet, which sells insurance to ride-hailing, scooter, and gig-work apps, has closed a funding round led by Spintop Ventures. The deal raises its total capital to about &euro;11 million. Moreover, Truffle Capital and Icebreaker.vc, both earlier backers, joined the round. Cachet acts as a licensed broker rather than an insurer. Its policies are shaped [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cachet-raises-new-funding-to-insure-europes-gig-and-mobility-platforms/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cachet-raises-new-funding-to-insure-europes-gig-and-mobility-platforms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An OpenAI engineer is charged over a listening device in the boardroom]]></title><description><![CDATA[An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found behind a television in an executive conference room, and is charged with endeavouring to intercept oral communications. OpenAI says no model weights, source code or customer data were taken. An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found at the company&rsquo;s San [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/an-openai-engineer-is-charged-over-a-listening-device-in-the-boardroom/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/an-openai-engineer-is-charged-over-a-listening-device-in-the-boardroom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond AI: what Europe’s flagship customer contact event revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amsterdam, early October. Customer Contact Week Europe 2026 brought together around 700 attendees and 50 exhibitors over three days to talk about the future of customer contact. As the industry&rsquo;s flagship event in Europe, it carried a certain energy that is hard to replicate, the kind that comes from having the right people in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/beyond-ai-what-europes-flagship-customer-contact-event-revealed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/beyond-ai-what-europes-flagship-customer-contact-event-revealed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marina Segal wants your cloud to say no]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloud security spent a decade learning to see everything. Half of what it found is still open. Tamnoon&rsquo;s CEO says the next decade belongs to machines that know when not to act, and as of today she is publishing what hers refused. Marina Segal helped build the machines that see everything. She was at Dome9 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/marina-segal-wants-your-cloud-to-say-no/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/marina-segal-wants-your-cloud-to-say-no/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg admits Meta spent $200B on AI without knowing it would work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg says Meta committed as much as $200B to AI infrastructure before anyone could tell him it would work, with his chief AI officer saying it was not clear at all. Meta&rsquo;s free cash flow fell 91% in the second quarter. Mark Zuckerberg says Meta committed to spending as much as $200B on AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zuckerberg-admits-meta-spent-200b-on-ai-without-knowing-it-would-work/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zuckerberg-admits-meta-spent-200b-on-ai-without-knowing-it-would-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google says Gemini 4 Argon is a ‘powerhouse’ AI model, and anyone can pay for it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has released Gemini 4 Argon globally to paying users, in the Gemini app, in Search and through the API. The $2 and $10 per million token prices are a launch discount against standard rates of $4 and $20. Google has released Gemini 4 Argon to anyone willing to pay for it. The model is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-says-gemini-4-argon-is-a-powerhouse-ai-model-and-anyone-can-pay-for-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-says-gemini-4-argon-is-a-powerhouse-ai-model-and-anyone-can-pay-for-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe trails the US on AI because of how firms work, Sifted report says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe is falling behind the US on AI use at work, and the main reason is not technology, according to a new report.The&nbsp;report from Sifted, sponsored by London Business School, says Europe has an organisational gap rather than a tech gap. Firms struggle with skills, management, trust and the cost of fitting AI into how [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/europe-trails-the-us-on-ai-because-of-how-firms-work-sifted-report-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/europe-trails-the-us-on-ai-because-of-how-firms-work-sifted-report-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google will let anyone publish an app to the Play Store, for free]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish privately listed Android apps built in its AI Studio, with no paid developer account. Apple spent this year tightening its own store against the same kind of software. Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish an Android app to the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-will-let-anyone-publish-an-app-to-the-play-store-for-free/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-will-let-anyone-publish-an-app-to-the-play-store-for-free/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen’s US EV sales collapse 90% in a quarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States in the third quarter, a 90% fall, after ending ID.4 production and halting imports of its electric minivan. In Europe battery electric cars took 29% of new registrations in August. Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States between July and September. That is 90% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagens-us-ev-sales-collapse-90-in-a-quarter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagens-us-ev-sales-collapse-90-in-a-quarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jio Platforms attracts more than $20B in bids ahead of record India IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jio Platforms has drawn more than $20B in bids for what would be India&rsquo;s largest listing, with Fidelity, Allianz and Capital Group indicating interest. The company is now seeking about $108B, against the $170B bankers discussed last November. Jio Platforms has drawn more than $20B in bids for what would be India&rsquo;s largest listing. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jio-platforms-attracts-more-than-20b-in-bids-ahead-of-record-india-ipo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jio-platforms-attracts-more-than-20b-in-bids-ahead-of-record-india-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple launches $299 HomeView hub alongside new smart home range]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around Siri AI, with shipping from 13 November in eight markets. The European Union is not one of them, because Siri AI is still blocked on iOS there. Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around the new Siri, with pre-orders open and shipping [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-launches-299-homeview-hub-alongside-new-smart-home-range/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-launches-299-homeview-hub-alongside-new-smart-home-range/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia plans $2B in European AI deals in the next week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2B of European investments within a week, on top of $8B over the past year, and named four French startups in Paris. Nvidia committed more than $40B to AI equity in the first four months of this year alone. Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2B of European investments [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-plans-2b-in-european-ai-deals-in-the-next-week/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-plans-2b-in-european-ai-deals-in-the-next-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data centre firms say the AI bottleneck is now power and labour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Executives from NTT Data, Brookfield and Infosys say electricity and skilled labour, not chips, now limit how fast AI data centres get built. In Europe the binding constraint is worse, with grid connections in congested markets running to ten years. The thing slowing the AI buildout is no longer the chips. Executives running some of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/data-centre-firms-say-the-ai-bottleneck-is-now-power-and-labour/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/data-centre-firms-say-the-ai-bottleneck-is-now-power-and-labour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is on track for its first record close in a year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is on pace for its first record close since October 2025, having gained more than 50% from a June low and added roughly $1.5T in market value. The AI-disruption panic that caused the fall also hit SAP, which has not recovered. Microsoft is on track for its first record close in almost a year, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-is-on-track-for-its-first-record-close-in-a-year/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-is-on-track-for-its-first-record-close-in-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluto Security emerges from stealth with $42M in funding]]></title><description><![CDATA[The next phase of enterprise software adoption is giving employees capabilities that once required dedicated engineering teams. AI tools can now help workers build applications, automate processes, and create agents. But each new capability introduces questions about data access, dependencies, and control. For cybersecurity investors, this shift presents an opportunity to back companies building security [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pluto-security-emerges-from-stealth-with-42m-in-funding/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pluto-security-emerges-from-stealth-with-42m-in-funding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Death of the Portfolio (And What to Do Before You’re Left Behind)]]></title><description><![CDATA[A polished portfolio used to get you hired. Now AI makes polished work cheap, and clients want proof you can solve problems, communicate clearly, and deliver today.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-death-of-the-portfolio-and-what-to-do-before-youre-left-behind/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-death-of-the-portfolio-and-what-to-do-before-youre-left-behind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[KuCoin Nigeria gains conditional approval from Nigeria’s SEC]]></title><description><![CDATA[KuCoin Nigeria Limited has received conditional Approval-in-Principle (AIP) from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria (SEC Nigeria), for admission into its Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP). It advances the exchange&rsquo;s efforts to establish a regulated presence in one of Africa&rsquo;s most active digital asset markets. According to Chainalysis&rsquo; 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index, Nigeria ranks [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/kucoin-nigeria-gains-conditional-approval-from-nigerias-sec/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/kucoin-nigeria-gains-conditional-approval-from-nigerias-sec/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI in HR and decision fatigue: why automation only helps when it decides]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every day, a manager approves a time-off request, signs off on an expense report, resolves a scheduling conflict and weighs in on a performance review. None of it feels monumental. Together, it adds up to something behavioral researchers call &ldquo;decision fatigue.&rdquo; That is the measurable decline in judgment that follows a long run of choices. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-in-hr-and-decision-fatigue-why-automation-only-helps-when-it-decides/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-in-hr-and-decision-fatigue-why-automation-only-helps-when-it-decides/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYT, AFP and Economist join SPUR coalition on AI use of news]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times, Agence France-Presse, and The Economist have joined a coalition that wants AI companies to stop using news without permission, the group said on Monday. The coalition, known as SPUR Standards for Publisher Usage Rights, has now reached over 80 members across more than 20 countries. It was founded in February by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nyt-afp-and-economist-join-spur-coalition-on-ai-use-of-news/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nyt-afp-and-economist-join-spur-coalition-on-ai-use-of-news/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs, Citadel and Google Alumni are building a blockchain exchange for real-world asset trading]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSigma has launched a paper-trading demo covering 77 traditional financial markets, using patented blockchain technology to bring crypto-style perpetual futures to stocks, commodities and other real-world assets. A team with backgrounds at Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Google and Uber is developing a&nbsp;decentralized exchange&nbsp;designed to bring one of crypto&rsquo;s most popular trading models into traditional financial [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/goldman-sachs-citadel-and-google-alumni-are-building-a-blockchain-exchange-for-real-world-asset-trading/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/goldman-sachs-citadel-and-google-alumni-are-building-a-blockchain-exchange-for-real-world-asset-trading/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic&rsquo;s AI models, with no operational impact, Palantir&rsquo;s chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, said on CBS&rsquo;s Face the Nation on Sunday. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s already been replaced,&rdquo; Sankar said. The Pentagon stopped using Anthropic&rsquo;s products after a dispute over its safeguards for military AI. It labelled the company a supply chain risk. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/palantir-cto-says-the-pentagon-has-already-replaced-anthropics-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/palantir-cto-says-the-pentagon-has-already-replaced-anthropics-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clueso raises $10M for AI agents that make corporate video]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clueso has raised a $10M Series A led by Dharana Capital for AI agents that script, record and maintain corporate video, bringing total funding to $12M. The market it is entering is led by London&rsquo;s Synthesia, which was valued at $4B in January after a $200M round. Clueso has raised a $10M Series A for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/clueso-raises-10m-for-ai-agents-that-make-corporate-video/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/clueso-raises-10m-for-ai-agents-that-make-corporate-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Batam residents protest as data centres grow and their taps run dry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of people in Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore, have protested outside a data centre park. They say their homes have had no running water for months while the facilities have kept their servers cool, the BBC reported. The protest took place on October 5 at the gate of Nongsa Digital Park, according to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/batam-residents-protest-as-data-centres-grow-and-their-taps-run-dry/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/batam-residents-protest-as-data-centres-grow-and-their-taps-run-dry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likens many AI investors to casino gamblers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan compared many AI investors to gamblers who have little idea what they are betting on. He spoke on Monday at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, Bloomberg reported. &ldquo;A lot of investors have no clue what they are investing in,&rdquo; Tan said. They &ldquo;set very extreme expectations only [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/broadcom-ceo-hock-tan-likens-many-ai-investors-to-casino-gamblers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/broadcom-ceo-hock-tan-likens-many-ai-investors-to-casino-gamblers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IMF warns $1.4tn in circular AI deals could deepen a market correction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A correction in AI-related stocks and debt could set off market turmoil, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. It named the AI risk as one of three that could sharply tighten financial conditions. The other two are a sharp rise in government bond yields and cyber threats. The warning came in the IMF&rsquo;s Global [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/imf-warns-14tn-in-circular-ai-deals-could-deepen-a-market-correction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/imf-warns-14tn-in-circular-ai-deals-could-deepen-a-market-correction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk is more regulated than AI, Microsoft’s Brad Smith tells the BBC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft&rsquo;s president, Brad Smith, has called for global safety rules for AI. They include a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaks into their systems. He set out his case on the BBC&rsquo;s Big Boss Interview podcast with Will Bain, released on 11 October. Smith told the BBC: &ldquo;Right now, your [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/milk-is-more-regulated-than-ai-microsofts-brad-smith-tells-the-bbc/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/milk-is-more-regulated-than-ai-microsofts-brad-smith-tells-the-bbc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aramco Digital teams up with OrbitronAI to build AI for heavy industry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aramco Digital, the tech arm of Saudi oil giant Aramco, has teamed up with start-up&nbsp;OrbitronAI&nbsp;to build and sell AI tools for heavy industry, the two firms said. The tools are aimed at oil and gas, power, mining, transport, and factory firms. They are meant to help them find money lost to slow decisions, scattered data, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/aramco-digital-teams-up-with-orbitronai-to-build-ai-for-heavy-industry/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/aramco-digital-teams-up-with-orbitronai-to-build-ai-for-heavy-industry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7bn, WSJ reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kate Clark and Lauren Thomas reported the talks, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could come soon if the talks do not fall apart and no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-decart-for-about-7bn-wsj-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-decart-for-about-7bn-wsj-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI labs sought control over what outside evaluators publish, Reuters says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for a big say over what outside reviewers of their AI models can make public,&nbsp;Reuters reported today, citing two people who know about the talks. Both companies worry that the findings could expose trade secrets. Both labs had recently promised outside reviewers a free hand. Last month, Anthropic boss Dario [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-labs-sought-control-over-what-outside-evaluators-publish-reuters-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-labs-sought-control-over-what-outside-evaluators-publish-reuters-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other AI platform, Semrush finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other major AI platform, in both the UK and the US, Semrush said on Tuesday. From January to July, news took a bigger share of ChatGPT&rsquo;s cited sources every month. Gemini, Google&rsquo;s AI Mode and AI Overviews all trailed it. The pull is stronger in the UK. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chatgpt-leans-on-news-sites-more-than-any-other-ai-platform-semrush-finds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chatgpt-leans-on-news-sites-more-than-any-other-ai-platform-semrush-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba starts selling its Qwen N1 AI glasses in China from $450]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba has started selling its new Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses in China, at prices from 2,999 yuan ($450) before discounts, Bloomberg reported&nbsp;from a launch event in Hangzhou on Tuesday. Several Chinese outlets put the starting price slightly lower, at 2,899 yuan. With state subsidies and launch offers, buyers can pay as little as 2,218 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alibaba-starts-selling-its-qwen-n1-ai-glasses-in-china-from-450/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alibaba-starts-selling-its-qwen-n1-ai-glasses-in-china-from-450/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise for companies in Europ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, a version of its browser for companies and public bodies that must meet strict security and compliance requirements. The product pairs the Firefox browser with a management console that organisations can host on their own servers. From there, IT teams can set browser rules, decide who can reach what, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mozilla-launches-firefox-enterprise-for-companies-in-europ/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mozilla-launches-firefox-enterprise-for-companies-in-europ/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visa gets China’s approval to prepare a domestic card clearing business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visa has won approval to start preparing a domestic bank card clearing business in China, the company said on Tuesday. The People&rsquo;s Bank of China approved its &ldquo;Application to Prepare&rdquo;, which lets Visa begin formal preparations. It does not yet let Visa process domestic payments. Visa first applied to the central bank in May 2020, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/visa-gets-chinas-approval-to-prepare-a-domestic-card-clearing-business/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/visa-gets-chinas-approval-to-prepare-a-domestic-card-clearing-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How AI coding tools could amplify software supply-chain attacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI coding tools are changing how developers obtain and use software. But the growing volume of automated package installations is creating new challenges for enterprise security teams. A vulnerability uncovered by Bloom Security demonstrates how weaknesses in software publishing infrastructure can intersect with these automated workflows. It could potentially expose organizations to malicious code without [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/how-ai-coding-tools-could-amplify-software-supply-chain-attacks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/how-ai-coding-tools-could-amplify-software-supply-chain-attacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ISACA survey finds 47% of women in tech have faced gender discrimination]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost half of women working in tech, 47%, say they have been treated unfairly at work because of their gender, according to a new survey by&nbsp;ISACA. Two years ago, the figure was 42%. The rise was noted by ISACA, a global association for IT governance and security professionals, even as awareness of the problem has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/isaca-survey-finds-47-of-women-in-tech-have-faced-gender-discrimination/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/isaca-survey-finds-47-of-women-in-tech-have-faced-gender-discrimination/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two-thirds of small firms using AI now build their own tools, Pax8 finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Small and mid-sized businesses have moved from buying AI tools to building their own. In every market surveyed, most do it without a formal, documented review, Pax8 found in a survey published on Monday. Pax8 is a Denver-based marketplace. It sells AI and cloud software to small businesses through IT service providers. It surveyed 1,150 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/two-thirds-of-small-firms-using-ai-now-build-their-own-tools-pax8-finds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/two-thirds-of-small-firms-using-ai-now-build-their-own-tools-pax8-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UiPath’s Michael Atalla on AI slop, junior jobs and a Shaolin monk’s advice]]></title><description><![CDATA[UiPath&rsquo;s marketing team has stopped paying outside firms to pull together its advertising data. The head of its paid media team built an AI agent on UiPath&rsquo;s own platform instead, chief marketing officer Michael Atalla told TNW. It collects the data, analyses it and makes some low-cost changes to how the ads run, around the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uipaths-michael-atalla-on-ai-slop-junior-jobs-and-a-shaolin-monks-advice/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uipaths-michael-atalla-on-ai-slop-junior-jobs-and-a-shaolin-monks-advice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naboo rebrands and says its AI cuts corporate event costs by 12%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Naboo, a Paris start-up that books and manages events for large companies, has rebranded, it said on Tuesday. It now pitches itself to procurement and finance teams as well as to event organisers. The company says it handles more than $300 million of corporate events a year, and that its AI saves clients 12% per [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/naboo-rebrands-and-says-its-ai-cuts-corporate-event-costs-by-12/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/naboo-rebrands-and-says-its-ai-cuts-corporate-event-costs-by-12/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlassian does not use Chinese AI models in production, its CEO says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Atlassian does not run any Chinese AI models in its products, chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes said in an&nbsp;interview with 20VC, the podcast hosted by investor Harry Stebbings. The episode came out on Monday and was recorded in Amsterdam, where Atlassian held its Team &rsquo;26 Europe conference last week. Stebbings raised the issue, saying SaaStr founder [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/atlassian-does-not-use-chinese-ai-models-in-production-its-ceo-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/atlassian-does-not-use-chinese-ai-models-in-production-its-ceo-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI reputation management: what gets said about you inside ChatGPT, Perplexity &amp; Google Gemini]]></title><description><![CDATA[When someone asks ChatGPT about you, they don&rsquo;t get a page of links to scroll through. They get a one-paragraph summary instead. That answer is fast becoming your first impression, and you can&rsquo;t scroll past it or push it to page two. The good news is that you can influence it. AI tools don&rsquo;t invent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-reputation-management-what-gets-said-about-you-inside-chatgpt-perplexity-amp-google-gemini/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-reputation-management-what-gets-said-about-you-inside-chatgpt-perplexity-amp-google-gemini/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft reportedly is reorganising the leadership of its Azure cloud unit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is reshaping the leadership of Azure, its cloud computing business, and merging some of its units, The Information reported&nbsp;on Monday. Scott Guthrie, who runs Microsoft&rsquo;s cloud and AI group, told staff about the changes that day, according to the report. As part of the shake-up, Arun Ulag, who was in charge of Azure&rsquo;s databases, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-reportedly-is-reorganising-the-leadership-of-its-azure-cloud-unit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-reportedly-is-reorganising-the-leadership-of-its-azure-cloud-unit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ursula Von der Leyen wants AI to cut how often EU businesses report the same data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ursula von der Leyen wants companies in the EU to provide officials with the same details just once, with AI helping public bodies use them. The European Commission president made the pitch on Monday, Politico reported, citing a copy of her speech. She spoke at a closed-door gathering of the European People&rsquo;s Party, her centre-right [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ursula-von-der-leyen-wants-ai-to-cut-how-often-eu-businesses-report-the-same-data/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ursula-von-der-leyen-wants-ai-to-cut-how-often-eu-businesses-report-the-same-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NTT Data reportedly nears deal to build Anthropic’s first Japan data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[TT Data Group is close to agreeing to a deal with Anthropic for a new data centre in Osaka, Nikkei Asia reported&nbsp;on Tuesday, citing multiple sources. It would be the first site in Japan built just for Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI models. TNW has not independently confirmed the report, and both NTT Data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ntt-data-reportedly-nears-deal-to-build-anthropics-first-japan-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ntt-data-reportedly-nears-deal-to-build-anthropics-first-japan-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bumble reportedly in talks to go private at a valuation of about $1bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ithaca Holdings is in advanced talks to buy Bumble and take the dating app private, in a deal that would value it at about $1 billion.&nbsp;Reuters reported the talks, citing one source familiar with the matter. We have not independently confirmed the report, and neither company replied when Reuters asked for comment. Investors moved fast, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bumble-reportedly-in-talks-to-go-private-at-a-valuation-of-about-1bn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bumble-reportedly-in-talks-to-go-private-at-a-valuation-of-about-1bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character.AI files for bankruptcy as Disney bids $20M for some assets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and lined up Disney as the first bidder for some of its assets, the company said&nbsp;on Monday. The AI chatbot platform, owned by Character Technologies, filed in a federal court in Delaware. It plans to sell all or most of its assets through the court. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/characterai-files-for-bankruptcy-as-disney-bids-20m-for-some-assets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/characterai-files-for-bankruptcy-as-disney-bids-20m-for-some-assets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US says China-linked hackers breached a regional organisation in Fiji]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackers linked to China broke into the network of a regional group based in Suva, Fiji, the US Embassy in Fiji&nbsp;said on Monday. They stayed inside for several days in July and August. The embassy, which also covers Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu, did not name the group. Nor did it say what data the hackers [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-says-china-linked-hackers-breached-a-regional-organisation-in-fiji/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-says-china-linked-hackers-breached-a-regional-organisation-in-fiji/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AirConsole partners with Zeekr in its first Geely deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[AirConsole is coming to Zeekr, its first partner inside Geely Auto Group, with a demonstration at the Paris Motor Show before a rollout in select models by the end of 2026. The same platform already runs in more than 5 million BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, &Scaron;koda and Tata vehicles. AirConsole is going into Zeekr cars. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/airconsole-partners-with-zeekr-in-its-first-geely-deal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/airconsole-partners-with-zeekr-in-its-first-geely-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says small AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic warned that small AI models might soon be able to copy themselves onto poorly secured smart devices without needing a data centre. The company gave examples like smart ovens and inexpensive Android TV boxes. This warning is based on new research from Anthropic&rsquo;s Frontier Red Team, which tests AI models for risky behaviors. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-says-small-ai-models-may-soon-copy-themselves-onto-smart-devices/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-says-small-ai-models-may-soon-copy-themselves-onto-smart-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD puts 32,768 CPU cores in a rack built for AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMD has published Helion, an open rack blueprint for running AI agents rather than training models, with a CPU-only version holding up to 32,768 cores. Partner systems are due in November, and the pitch is how many agents fit in each watt. AMD has published a rack blueprint for running AI agents rather than training [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amd-puts-32768-cpu-cores-in-a-rack-built-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amd-puts-32768-cpu-cores-in-a-rack-built-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI adds 200 Dublin jobs and builds its second applied AI lab]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is adding 200 roles in Dublin and building an applied AI lab at its EU headquarters, taking planned Irish hiring to 450. The move lands two days before Ireland hosts the International AI Summit under its EU presidency. OpenAI is adding 200 jobs in Dublin and building an applied AI lab at its European [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-adds-200-dublin-jobs-and-builds-its-second-applied-ai-lab/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-adds-200-dublin-jobs-and-builds-its-second-applied-ai-lab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta says its new Muse model has reached the AI frontier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has released Muse Wonder, known internally as Watermelon, and says it matches ChatGPT and Claude on coding and professional work. It has not said whether the weights will be published, which decides what it owes under the EU AI Act. Meta has released Muse Wonder, the most capable model to come out of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-says-its-new-muse-model-has-reached-the-ai-frontier/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-says-its-new-muse-model-has-reached-the-ai-frontier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s robotaxis face a US safety review over school zone speeding]]></title><description><![CDATA[NHTSA has opened a defect petition review into claims that Tesla robotaxis exceeded posted speed limits in active school zones, covering about 1,000 vehicles with no reported crashes or injuries. Speeding is also the specific obstacle holding up Tesla&rsquo;s bid for EU-wide approval of its driver-assistance software. America&rsquo;s road safety regulator is reviewing a claim [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/teslas-robotaxis-face-a-us-safety-review-over-school-zone-speeding/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/teslas-robotaxis-face-a-us-safety-review-over-school-zone-speeding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&rsquo;s AI Security Institute will keep testing the most powerful AI models before they are released, the UK government said on Monday. AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK had worked closely with the US to keep that access,&nbsp;Bloomberg reported. It reverses a US move that put White House checks first. &ldquo;I want Britain to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-says-it-will-again-test-openai-and-anthropic-models-before-release/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-says-it-will-again-test-openai-and-anthropic-models-before-release/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain steps up its defences against AI risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK government will extend a programme using frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, and will consider legislating on AI incident reporting and loss-of-control risk. The pilot behind it found 407 weaknesses across nine government organisations in a month for &pound;13,000 in tokens. Britain will expand a programme that points frontier [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/britain-steps-up-its-defences-against-ai-risks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/britain-steps-up-its-defences-against-ai-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IonQ to buy cybersecurity firm Elisity for up to $1.3bn in stock]]></title><description><![CDATA[IonQ has agreed to buy Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3bn. Up to $150mn of that depends on how well Elisity does. The Maryland-based quantum computing company&nbsp;announced the deal on Monday. IonQ wants its security arm to guard against attacks aided by AI and, one day, quantum machines. What Elisity does Founded [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ionq-to-buy-cybersecurity-firm-elisity-for-up-to-13bn-in-stock/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ionq-to-buy-cybersecurity-firm-elisity-for-up-to-13bn-in-stock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp may soon let users schedule messages]]></title><description><![CDATA[WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets users schedule messages between ten minutes and two weeks ahead, spotted in an Android beta by WaBetaInfo. The main business use for it, sending work messages outside hours, is regulated across much of Europe, and nothing marks a delivered message as scheduled. WhatsApp is testing a way to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/whatsapp-may-soon-let-users-schedule-messages/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/whatsapp-may-soon-let-users-schedule-messages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft says Maia 300 chip will run its AI services from 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft will make its own Maia chips the primary system for running AI in its products starting in 2027. The company set out the plan on Monday as it unveiled the Maia 300, the third generation of its custom AI chip. Microsoft plans deployments measured in gigawatts starting next year, which could mean more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-says-maia-300-chip-will-run-its-ai-services-from-2027/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-says-maia-300-chip-will-run-its-ai-services-from-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google invests in period tracker Flo and plans women’s health wearables]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has taken a stake in Flo Health, the period-tracking app, the companies&nbsp;said&nbsp;on Monday. The multi-year deal will bring women&rsquo;s health data into Google&rsquo;s wearables and coaching. They did not disclose the size of the investment. From early 2027, users will be able to sync Flo with the Google Health app,&nbsp;Engadget&nbsp;reported. Fitbit readings such as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-invests-in-period-tracker-flo-and-plans-womens-health-wearables/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-invests-in-period-tracker-flo-and-plans-womens-health-wearables/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers defrost fridges at hundreds of French supermarkets, Bloomberg says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackers broke into the refrigeration systems of hundreds of French supermarkets on Sunday night. Stores had to throw out meat, frozen goods and vegetables. About 150 Intermarch&eacute; stores were hit, a spokesman for owner Groupement Mousquetaires told&nbsp;Bloomberg. The attackers set the cooling systems to defrost. Fridges and freezers heated to 50&deg;C for around six hours, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hackers-defrost-fridges-at-hundreds-of-french-supermarkets-bloomberg-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hackers-defrost-fridges-at-hundreds-of-french-supermarkets-bloomberg-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google launches $180 Fitbit Edge with a bigger screen and AI coach]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has launched the Fitbit Edge, a $179.99 fitness tracker that sits between its screenless Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5, the company&nbsp;said&nbsp;on Monday. It is on pre-order now and reaches shops on 27 October. A Stephen Curry special edition costs $219.99. Bigger screen, longer battery The Edge has the largest and brightest screen [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-180-fitbit-edge-with-a-bigger-screen-and-ai-coach/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-180-fitbit-edge-with-a-bigger-screen-and-ai-coach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek to lead seed round in $400mn robot AI start-up, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek has agreed to lead the first funding round for Winverse AI, a start-up building AI for robots, Bloomberg&nbsp;reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The seed round is worth tens of millions of dollars and would value Winverse at about $400mn after the investment. Meituan&rsquo;s investment arm, Long-Z, has also committed, the people said. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-to-lead-seed-round-in-400mn-robot-ai-start-up-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-to-lead-seed-round-in-400mn-robot-ai-start-up-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nigerian fintech OPay files for New York IPO, Semafor reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pay, a Nigerian payments and lending app, has filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange, Yinka Adegoke reported for&nbsp;Semafor. Earlier reports put its likely valuation at about $4bn. The company filed on 9 October,&nbsp;bne IntelliNews&nbsp;reported. It will trade under the ticker OPAY, and investors expect it to price in mid-November, Semafor said. OPay [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nigerian-fintech-opay-files-for-new-york-ipo-semafor-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nigerian-fintech-opay-files-for-new-york-ipo-semafor-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loops raises $3.5M to build the AI operating system for commerce]]></title><description><![CDATA[Online shopping has become very good at showing people thousands of products and surprisingly bad at helping them choose one. Loops was built around the idea that AI can collapse those experiences into one continuous journey. The company announced a $3.5 million seed round from a16z speedrun, NTT Docomo, Connecticut Innovations, Alumni Ventures and Monday [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/loops-raises-35m-to-build-the-ai-operating-system-for-commerce/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/loops-raises-35m-to-build-the-ai-operating-system-for-commerce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your company has a strategy, and your team has no idea what it is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in your organisation, right now, a team is making a decision. A product prioritisation call, a budget reallocation, a hiring choice, a client proposal. The people making it are smart, experienced, and acting in good faith. There is a fair chance they are making it with no idea what the company&rsquo;s strategy says about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/your-company-has-a-strategy-and-your-team-has-no-idea-what-it-is/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/your-company-has-a-strategy-and-your-team-has-no-idea-what-it-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IMF says AI investment is keeping global growth near 3%]]></title><description><![CDATA[IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday that spending on AI infrastructure is helping the world economy grow by about 3% each year, even though energy prices are high. She made these comments in Bangkok at the start of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, according to Reuters. According to Georgieva, Asian economies that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/imf-says-ai-investment-is-keeping-global-growth-near-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/imf-says-ai-investment-is-keeping-global-growth-near-3/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicolas Cage says he refused Amazon’s AI waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver from Amazon for &ldquo;Spider-Noir&rdquo;, the Prime Video series it cancelled last month. He told a New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that he will probably not work with the studio again, Variety reported. &ldquo;Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nicolas-cage-says-he-refused-amazons-ai-waiver-for-spider-noir/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nicolas-cage-says-he-refused-amazons-ai-waiver-for-spider-noir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank&rsquo;s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, CNBC reported. &ldquo;In the next two to three years, we&rsquo;re going to have a real scientific [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktoks-shou-chew-expects-an-ai-science-breakthrough-within-three-years/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktoks-shou-chew-expects-an-ai-science-breakthrough-within-three-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba&rsquo;s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card. Achint Srivastava, a vice president of software engineering in Microsoft&rsquo;s Office of the CTO, announced the model in a blog post [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-launches-a-decision-model-built-on-alibabas-qwen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-launches-a-decision-model-built-on-alibabas-qwen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan steps up cyber warnings as data leaks hit millions of customers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan&rsquo;s government has told ministries, local authorities and companies to step up their cyber defences. A wave of attacks has exposed the data of millions of customers. The National Cybersecurity Office sent the instructions on Friday, the Associated Press reported. &ldquo;The attacks are getting increasingly sophisticated,&rdquo; Digital Transformation Minister Toshiharu Furukawa said this week. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/japan-steps-up-cyber-warnings-as-data-leaks-hit-millions-of-customers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/japan-steps-up-cyber-warnings-as-data-leaks-hit-millions-of-customers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia in talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more, FT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia is in talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more in the US open-weight model developer, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. TNW has not independently verified the report. The talks are at an early stage and could still fall apart, according to the FT. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-reflection-ai-or-invest-more-ft-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-reflection-ai-or-invest-more-ft-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drone attack shuts a third Yandex data centre in Russia in 4 days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yandex has lost a third major data centre in four days. The Russian tech company said on Sunday that a drone attack had left its site in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow, out of service, Reuters reported. Nobody was hurt, Yandex said, though some of its services are down for users. The report does [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/drone-attack-shuts-a-third-yandex-data-centre-in-russia-in-4-days/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/drone-attack-shuts-a-third-yandex-data-centre-in-russia-in-4-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China agrees to curb hybrid car exports to the EU after Beijing talks]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has agreed to moderate its exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars to the EU, which EU trade commissioner Maro&scaron; &Scaron;ef&#269;ovi&#269; said could cut them by more than half. He announced it on Friday in press remarks in Beijing, after the second round of EU-China trade and investment consultations. &ldquo;It is unsustainable and it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-agrees-to-curb-hybrid-car-exports-to-the-eu-after-beijing-talks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-agrees-to-curb-hybrid-car-exports-to-the-eu-after-beijing-talks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satya Nadella says companies should treat AI models as insider risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday. &ldquo;Think of it like an emergency brake. An authorized person should always be able to pause or shut [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/satya-nadella-says-companies-should-treat-ai-models-as-insider-risks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/satya-nadella-says-companies-should-treat-ai-models-as-insider-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US probes Foxconn, Luxshare and 18 others over AI server power patents]]></title><description><![CDATA[AUS trade body has opened a patent case against 20 companies over the power systems inside AI servers. Foxconn, Luxshare and Quanta are among them.The US International Trade Commission acted after a complaint by power-chip maker Vicor, it&nbsp;said&nbsp;on Friday. Vicor says their products infringe one of its patents. Twenty names on the list The case [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-probes-foxconn-luxshare-and-18-others-over-ai-server-power-patents/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-probes-foxconn-luxshare-and-18-others-over-ai-server-power-patents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents near Tesla’s Fremont plant question emissions plan, SFGate reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parents at an elementary school next to Tesla&rsquo;s Fremont car plant want more time to question a plan that could raise emissions from the factory, Matthew Brown reported for&nbsp;SFGate. Lila Bringhurst Elementary sits less than 1,000 feet from the plant. Tesla has applied to change emission limits on two aluminium melting furnaces and add new [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/parents-near-teslas-fremont-plant-question-emissions-plan-sfgate-reports/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/parents-near-teslas-fremont-plant-question-emissions-plan-sfgate-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI won’t fix America’s debt, Guardian analysis argues]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House hopes AI will help the US grow its way out of debt. That is a new take on the Reagan-era promise that tax cuts pay for themselves, Eduardo Porter argued in an analysis for The Guardian. &ldquo;Even if AI supercharged the economy, its impact on the government&rsquo;s finances would be muted,&rdquo; he [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-wont-fix-americas-debt-guardian-analysis-argues/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-wont-fix-americas-debt-guardian-analysis-argues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey’s social media ban for under-15s starts on 1 November]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turkey will bar social media platforms from serving children under 15 from 1 November, under rules published in the country&rsquo;s Official Gazette, Inci Ozbek reported for Bloomberg. Platforms must check users&rsquo; ages when they sign up, using a token from Turkey&rsquo;s e-government system. Anyone found to be under 15 must be blocked. Existing accounts must [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/turkeys-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-starts-on-1-november/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/turkeys-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-starts-on-1-november/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s AI liability push leaves rogue-agent blame unclear, Bloomberg says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is betting that the threat of lawsuits will keep AI companies honest. But it is far from clear who would pay when an AI agent goes rogue, Maggie Eastland reported for Bloomberg. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White House AI czar David Sacks argue that existing liability laws work better than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trumps-ai-liability-push-leaves-rogue-agent-blame-unclear-bloomberg-says/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trumps-ai-liability-push-leaves-rogue-agent-blame-unclear-bloomberg-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK can’t rely on AI that could be switched off, Turing chief tells Guardian]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK must not depend on foreign AI that could be cut off at short notice, the new head of the Alan Turing Institute has said. George Williamson made the comments in an interview with Dan Milmo for The Guardian. &ldquo;We shouldn&rsquo;t depend solely on systems we can&rsquo;t inspect or control, or that could be [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-cant-rely-on-ai-that-could-be-switched-off-turing-chief-tells-guardian/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-cant-rely-on-ai-that-could-be-switched-off-turing-chief-tells-guardian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EIF’s incoming chief says Europe’s Tech Champions funds hold 15 unicorns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe must give its startups the capital to grow without leaving the continent, Jean-Christophe Laloux said. The incoming chief executive of the European Investment Fund spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not enough to innovate in Europe. You also must be able to scale in Europe. And that is really important [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eifs-incoming-chief-says-europes-tech-champions-funds-hold-15-unicorns/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eifs-incoming-chief-says-europes-tech-champions-funds-hold-15-unicorns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vittorio Colao defends copyright rules and the DSA in Europe’s AI debate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Regulation is holding back AI in Europe, but not every rule in the same way, Vittorio Colao said. The former Vodafone chief executive, now vice chairman for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at General Atlantic, spoke on stage at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. Asked whether regulation is hindering AI in Europe, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vittorio-colao-defends-copyright-rules-and-the-dsa-in-europes-ai-debate/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vittorio-colao-defends-copyright-rules-and-the-dsa-in-europes-ai-debate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s comms chief leaves after four months, Business Insider reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anna Soellner, who ran corporate communications at Nvidia, has left after about four months, Geoff Weiss reported for&nbsp;Business Insider. Soellner joined the chipmaker around June, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her boss was Mylene Mangalindan, who leads the team,&nbsp;Axios&nbsp;reported in July. It is not clear why she left. A busy four months She joined as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-comms-chief-leaves-after-four-months-business-insider-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-comms-chief-leaves-after-four-months-business-insider-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump’s AI rebrand spreads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. &ldquo;The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,&rdquo; Benioff&nbsp;wrote on X. The change covers the agent platform only, not the company&rsquo;s name. Following the president&rsquo;s lead Benioff is the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/salesforce-renames-aiforce-to-siforce-as-trumps-ai-rebrand-spreads/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/salesforce-renames-aiforce-to-siforce-as-trumps-ai-rebrand-spreads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ramp hits $60bn valuation in $1.85bn round, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fintech start-up Ramp has raised about $1.85bn at a valuation of roughly $60bn, Rebecca Torrence reported for Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital led the round, and Founders Fund also wrote a large cheque, the people said. The $60bn figure is before the new money is counted. $16bn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ramp-hits-60bn-valuation-in-185bn-round-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ramp-hits-60bn-valuation-in-185bn-round-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law firm Quinn Emanuel maps how AI data centre debt could unravel]]></title><description><![CDATA[A memo from US law firm Quinn Emanuel sets out how the debt behind the AI data centre boom could turn into a wave of lawsuits. Liz Hoffman reported that it was doing the rounds again this week for Semafor. The 20-page client alert was first published in&nbsp;March. It is unusual because it names specific [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/law-firm-quinn-emanuel-maps-how-ai-data-centre-debt-could-unravel/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/law-firm-quinn-emanuel-maps-how-ai-data-centre-debt-could-unravel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cirrus Logic made rival bid for Synaptics, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chipmaker Cirrus Logic made a surprise offer for Synaptics last month, trying to break up its agreed sale to Onsemi, Liana Baker and Yiqin Shen reported for&nbsp;Bloomberg. Cirrus Logic is the &lsquo;Party A&rsquo; named in an updated Synaptics filing on Thursday, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. It is unclear whether Cirrus is still [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cirrus-logic-made-rival-bid-for-synaptics-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cirrus-logic-made-rival-bid-for-synaptics-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer&rsquo;s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei &lsquo;Willy&rsquo; Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as part of a deal with prosecutors. US authorities have described him as a &lsquo;fixer&rsquo;. A $2.5bn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/super-micro-case-fixer-pleads-guilty-to-sending-ai-servers-to-china/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/super-micro-case-fixer-pleads-guilty-to-sending-ai-servers-to-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rwanda reportedly wins Africa’s first F1 Grand Prix since 1993]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rwanda looks set to host Formula 1&rsquo;s first African Grand Prix in more than 30 years. Motorsport site RacingNews365 first reported the deal, citing paddock sources, as&nbsp;GrandPrix.com&nbsp;relayed. AFP later reported the news, citing its own sources,&nbsp;Semafor&nbsp;said. Neither F1, the FIA nor Rwanda&rsquo;s government has confirmed it. A track near Kigali The race would take place [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rwanda-reportedly-wins-africas-first-f1-grand-prix-since-1993/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rwanda-reportedly-wins-africas-first-f1-grand-prix-since-1993/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says Claude sent a fake murder tip to police during testing]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled in a tip form without a name or contact details, Shirin Ghaffary reported for&nbsp;Bloomberg. The Philadelphia Police Department disclosed the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-says-claude-sent-a-fake-murder-tip-to-police-during-testing/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-says-claude-sent-a-fake-murder-tip-to-police-during-testing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India calls Vance’s ‘indentured servants’ remark deeply offensive]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s foreign ministry has called US Vice President JD Vance&rsquo;s description of foreign workers hired by Microsoft as &ldquo;indentured servants&rdquo; deeply offensive. Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal read out the ministry&rsquo;s statement at its briefing in New Delhi on Friday. &ldquo;Resorting to terminology that carries painful historical and colonial legacy connotations is deeply offensive,&rdquo; Jaiswal said. On [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/india-calls-vances-indentured-servants-remark-deeply-offensive/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/india-calls-vances-indentured-servants-remark-deeply-offensive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six technology leaders received the country&rsquo;s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and Satya Nadella got the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Trump presented the medals at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-gives-musk-huang-su-and-brin-the-national-medal-of-science/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-gives-musk-huang-su-and-brin-the-national-medal-of-science/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over the next 12 months buying and licensing operational data from companies. The San Francisco company announced the plan on Friday. Citi and Hercules Capital are providing the capital. The money goes through micro1&rsquo;s Company Data Partnerships programme. The company uses de-identified company data to build reinforcement learning [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/micro1-commits-1bn-to-buy-company-data-for-training-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/micro1-commits-1bn-to-buy-company-data-for-training-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic signs CrowdStrike, Hitachi and 9 more to defend power and water]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic will give its frontier Claude models, engineers and threat research to the companies that guard critical infrastructure. That means power grids, water utilities and transport networks. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program is the first part of the Anthropic Cyber Mission. The company announced it on Thursday as a long-term effort to support defenders. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-signs-crowdstrike-hitachi-and-9-more-to-defend-power-and-water/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-signs-crowdstrike-hitachi-and-9-more-to-defend-power-and-water/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vesta raises $30M for AI agents that work on mortgage decisions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vesta has raised a $30M Series B to expand AI agents that handle mortgage origination work, including underwriting decisions, with three customer lenders among the investors. The same software sold in Europe would be high-risk under the AI Act, and GDPR already limits automated decisions of this kind. Vesta has raised a $30M Series B [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vesta-raises-30m-for-ai-agents-that-work-on-mortgage-decisions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vesta-raises-30m-for-ai-agents-that-work-on-mortgage-decisions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wayve and Stellantis tune one AI driver for Fiat, Jeep and Maserati]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every car will one day need an AI driving system, just as it needs seatbelts and emergency braking, Wayve chief executive Alex Kendall said. He spoke with Stellantis chief executive Antonio Filosa at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. Morgan Stanley&rsquo;s Adam Jonas moderated. &ldquo;I think over time we&rsquo;re going to see this kind [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/wayve-and-stellantis-tune-one-ai-driver-for-fiat-jeep-and-maserati/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/wayve-and-stellantis-tune-one-ai-driver-for-fiat-jeep-and-maserati/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goldman’s Marco Argenti says AI turns developers into managers of managers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs is entering a third phase of AI adoption, in which the goal moves from saving money to making it, the bank&rsquo;s chief information officer Marco Argenti said. He spoke with Bloomberg anchor Tom Mackenzie at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, in a session titled &ldquo;Mindset, not skillset&rdquo;. &ldquo;How do you make [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/goldmans-marco-argenti-says-ai-turns-developers-into-managers-of-managers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/goldmans-marco-argenti-says-ai-turns-developers-into-managers-of-managers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nik Storonsky wants Revolut to be Europe’s answer to Meta and Google]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolut wants to grow beyond banking into a global tech company on the scale of the biggest US groups, but built in Europe, chief executive Nik Storonsky said. He spoke with Exor chief executive John Elkann at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled &ldquo;Global Champions, European roots&rdquo;. &ldquo;Our American dream, I mean, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nik-storonsky-wants-revolut-to-be-europes-answer-to-meta-and-google/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nik-storonsky-wants-revolut-to-be-europes-answer-to-meta-and-google/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel is reportedly launching new CPUs on a five-year-old socket to allow DDR4]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gigabyte says new Intel processors will arrive on the five-year-old LGA1700 socket in early 2027, and has updated the BIOS across its whole B760 and H610 lineup. The socket takes DDR4, which costs far less than DDR5 in a market where AI has pushed memory prices to records. Gigabyte says new Intel processors will arrive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/intel-is-reportedly-launching-new-cpus-on-a-five-year-old-socket-to-allow-ddr4/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/intel-is-reportedly-launching-new-cpus-on-a-five-year-old-socket-to-allow-ddr4/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe has less than 2 gigawatts of AI computing capacity and needs more, former Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said. He spoke at a closed-door press Q&amp;A at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, the event&rsquo;s last day. &ldquo;Europe missed the big digital wave. Fine, 20 years,&rdquo; Colao said. Europe should not miss the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vittorio-colao-europe-missed-the-digital-wave-and-must-not-miss-the-next/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/vittorio-colao-europe-missed-the-digital-wave-and-must-not-miss-the-next/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman says OpenAI will put its mission before its share price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman said OpenAI will put its mission ahead of its share price once it goes public, even if the stock &ldquo;falls a lot&rdquo;. The OpenAI chief executive said it in an interview with Vanity Fair, published on 5 October. Vanity Fair global editorial director Mark Guiducci recorded the conversation in San Francisco on 11 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-openai-will-put-its-mission-before-its-share-price/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-openai-will-put-its-mission-before-its-share-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across its European websites, days after Germany said the old name was misleading. The page under the new name is unchanged, and the real obstacle to EU approval is speed rather than branding. Tesla has stopped calling its driver-assistance software Full Self-Driving in Europe. The feature [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tesla-renames-full-self-driving-to-tesla-assisted-driving-across-europe/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tesla-renames-full-self-driving-to-tesla-assisted-driving-across-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perficient launches AI tools for Medicare Advantage star ratings management]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perficient has launched an AI suite to help Medicare Advantage plans raise their CMS star ratings, which decide access to more than $13B a year in federal bonus payments. It arrived a day after CMS published 2027 ratings showing fewer plans qualifying, and the consultancy is owned by Swedish buyout group EQT. Perficient has launched [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/perficient-launches-ai-tools-for-medicare-advantage-star-ratings-management/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/perficient-launches-ai-tools-for-medicare-advantage-star-ratings-management/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California is paying up to $100,000 a port for public EV fast charging]]></title><description><![CDATA[California has opened a $28M round paying up to $100,000 per public DC fast-charging port, covering as much as 100% of eligible costs. The top rate goes only to ports above 275kW, even though charger makers&rsquo; own data shows plug count raises usage far more than power does. California has opened a $28M round of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/california-is-paying-up-to-100000-a-port-for-public-ev-fast-charging/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/california-is-paying-up-to-100000-a-port-for-public-ev-fast-charging/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EA reportedly leans on a private rating as bondholders claim default]]></title><description><![CDATA[EA has obtained an investment-grade rating from Egan-Jones for a subset of its bonds, and is using it to argue it does not owe creditors a 101-cent payout after the largest leveraged buyout on record. Egan-Jones is under SEC investigation over whether commercial pressure shaped its ratings, and it is certified to operate in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ea-reportedly-leans-on-a-private-rating-as-bondholders-claim-default/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ea-reportedly-leans-on-a-private-rating-as-bondholders-claim-default/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk blames Indian ‘oligarchs’ for Starlink delay, India calls it baseless]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk has accused unnamed oligarchs of keeping Starlink out of India, as Brendan Ruberry reported for Semafor. India&rsquo;s government has rejected the claim. &ldquo;Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people,&rdquo; Musk wrote on X,&nbsp;Forbes&nbsp;reported. &ldquo;This is a crime against the people of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-blames-indian-oligarchs-for-starlink-delay-india-calls-it-baseless/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-blames-indian-oligarchs-for-starlink-delay-india-calls-it-baseless/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman says Trump’s AI accord is a good start and more will be needed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman said the superintelligence accord that President Donald Trump signed with AI executives is &ldquo;a good start&rdquo;, but that the industry will need more. He said it in the second of two interviews with Vanity Fair, recorded in San Francisco on 2 October. The magazine published both interviews on 5 October. Guiducci recorded the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-trumps-ai-accord-is-a-good-start-and-more-will-be-needed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-trumps-ai-accord-is-a-good-start-and-more-will-be-needed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix prepares layoffs affecting about 5% of staff ahead of Q3 results]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix is preparing to cut about 5% of its workforce, with an announcement possible as early as next week, Puck&nbsp;reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. Netflix had about 16,000 full-time employees at the end of last year, so a cut of that size would affect roughly 800 people. The report comes three [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflix-prepares-layoffs-affecting-about-5-of-staff-ahead-of-q3-results/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflix-prepares-layoffs-affecting-about-5-of-staff-ahead-of-q3-results/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU’s cyber agency and research centre are testing Chinese AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[The EU&rsquo;s cyber agency, ENISA, and the Commission&rsquo;s own science service, the Joint Research Centre, have started testing open AI models from China,&nbsp;Politico reported. Three EU officials confirmed the work, the first time either body has spoken about it. These open-weight models are released in full, so anyone can download, run, and study them. Chinese [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eus-cyber-agency-and-research-centre-are-testing-chinese-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eus-cyber-agency-and-research-centre-are-testing-chinese-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spirit’s privacy ombudsman backs Google’s $10m data deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The privacy official in Spirit Airlines&rsquo; bankruptcy has recommended approval of the sale of deidentified Spirit Airlines data to Google. In a report filed on 5 October, ombudsman Lucy Thomson said Spirit and Google had taken passenger databases out of the deal. Google won the auction with a $10m bid, Business Insider reported. A hearing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spirits-privacy-ombudsman-backs-googles-10m-data-deal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spirits-privacy-ombudsman-backs-googles-10m-data-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple reportedly cuts iPhone 18 Pro component orders by at least 15%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is asking some suppliers to make fewer parts for its two newest Pro phones, the iPhone 18 Pro and the Pro Max, Nikkei Asia&nbsp;reported&nbsp;on Friday. The two models were the first flagship launch under&nbsp;chief executive John Ternus. Citing several people familiar with the matter,&nbsp;Nikkei Asia&nbsp;said Apple&rsquo;s October component orders are at least 15% below [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-reportedly-cuts-iphone-18-pro-component-orders-by-at-least-15/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-reportedly-cuts-iphone-18-pro-component-orders-by-at-least-15/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giorgia Meloni files to trademark her voice against AI deepfakes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The EUIPO record lists a sound mark filed on 5 October in her own name, as an individual, through the Italian firm Praxi Intellectual Property. As of 9 October, the application was still under examination. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/giorgia-meloni-files-to-trademark-her-voice-against-ai-deepfakes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/giorgia-meloni-files-to-trademark-her-voice-against-ai-deepfakes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1]]></title><description><![CDATA[From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts move to Gemini Flash-Lite only, according to Google&rsquo;s Gemini Apps Help page. The change comes three days after Google released Nano Banana 2.1, a new image model built on Gemini 3.6 Flash. Subscribers to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-moves-free-gemini-to-flash-lite-and-launches-nano-banana-21/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-moves-free-gemini-to-flash-lite-and-launches-nano-banana-21/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta blocks TikTok ads on Facebook and Instagram in the US and Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has banned ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, from advertising on Facebook and Instagram in seven countries, including the US, Bloomberg News reported. The ban took effect immediately in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. It also covers other advertisers whose ads send people to TikTok or other ByteDance apps [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-blocks-tiktok-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-the-us-and-japan/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-blocks-tiktok-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-the-us-and-japan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta&rsquo;s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg told them Muse was ready to launch despite the risks, according to three [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zuckerberg-called-muse-ready-despite-the-risks-new-york-times-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zuckerberg-called-muse-ready-despite-the-risks-new-york-times-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’]]></title><description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth that the White House sees anyone who says &ldquo;artificial intelligence&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;super intelligence&rdquo; as &ldquo;THE ENEMY&rdquo;. &ldquo;The White House considers anyone that uses the term, &ldquo;Artificial Intelligence,&rdquo; as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, &ldquo;Super Intelligence,&rdquo; THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/president-donald-trump-says-anyone-using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-is-the-enemy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/president-donald-trump-says-anyone-using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-is-the-enemy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI expects a $70bn revenue run rate by year-end, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI expects its annualised revenue to reach or exceed $70bn by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company shared the forecast with investors in talks over its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter. They said growth in its enterprise business is driving most of it. A day [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-expects-a-70bn-revenue-run-rate-by-year-end-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-expects-a-70bn-revenue-run-rate-by-year-end-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healthcare AI cannot improve outcomes until it understands the human context behind every claim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping healthcare, but many of the industry&rsquo;s biggest operational problems remain unresolved. Hospitals continue facing administrative bottlenecks. Providers still struggle with&nbsp;documentation burdens. Insurers continue navigating authorization complexity. Patients are still waiting weeks or months for treatment approvals that directly affect their recovery and quality of life. The scale of the challenge [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/healthcare-ai-cannot-improve-outcomes-until-it-understands-the-human-context-behind-every-claim/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/healthcare-ai-cannot-improve-outcomes-until-it-understands-the-human-context-behind-every-claim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 best AI app builders for 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Which AI app generator turns a prompt into a working business app on your own data, with logins and roles from day one A year ago, &ldquo;AI app builder&rdquo; meant a tool that produced a convincing mockup. In 2026 the best AI app builders return something a team can log into: a database with the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/8-best-ai-app-builders-for-2026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/8-best-ai-app-builders-for-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman tells Vanity Fair Elon Musk is a bully he will still work with]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman called Elon Musk a bully and said he would still work with him, in an interview with Vanity Fair. The magazine published it on 5 October with its revived New Establishment list. The OpenAI chief executive tops that list. Vanity Fair global editorial director Mark Guiducci recorded the conversation in San Francisco on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-tells-vanity-fair-elon-musk-is-a-bully-he-will-still-work-with/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-tells-vanity-fair-elon-musk-is-a-bully-he-will-still-work-with/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US suspends Microsoft and seven other firms from green card programme]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US government has suspended Microsoft and seven other technology companies from a federal programme that lets employers sponsor foreign workers for green cards. The other firms that are affected are Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro, Reuters reported. Vice President JD Vance announced the decision at the White House on Thursday and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-suspends-microsoft-and-seven-other-firms-from-green-card-programme/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-suspends-microsoft-and-seven-other-firms-from-green-card-programme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, says space internet service is weeks away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27 satellites in six months to 27 a week, while the number in orbit is still 396. That shortfall cost it spectrum priority in July, and the FCC will hand it back early if Amazon proves it has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-builds-1000th-satellite-says-space-internet-service-is-weeks-away/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-builds-1000th-satellite-says-space-internet-service-is-weeks-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple moves its deal team back under the CFO after seven years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is moving its mergers and acquisitions team back under chief financial officer Kevan Parekh, who ended the company&rsquo;s net cash neutral policy in May in a move analysts read as room to buy things. It also promoted Carson Oliver to run the App Store, a job that is now mostly about European regulation. Apple [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-moves-its-deal-team-back-under-the-cfo-after-seven-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-moves-its-deal-team-back-under-the-cfo-after-seven-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealroom CEO says Europe’s first trillion-dollar startup may already exist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s venture-backed companies could be worth more than its industrial base within five years, Dealroom founder and chief executive Yoram Wijngaarde said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. &ldquo;I think that the VC-backed ecosystem is going to overtake our industrial base in terms of total value created within the next five [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dealroom-ceo-says-europes-first-trillion-dollar-startup-may-already-exist/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dealroom-ceo-says-europes-first-trillion-dollar-startup-may-already-exist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump to unveil $2.4B in AI credits to boost federal research]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency programme hours earlier, and Britain&rsquo;s regulator named three of the five donors that morning. Five [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-to-unveil-24b-in-ai-credits-to-boost-federal-research/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-to-unveil-24b-in-ai-credits-to-boost-federal-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP’s Sean Kask: software firms must become AI companies or perish]]></title><description><![CDATA[Established software companies have to rebuild their products around AI, not add it as one more feature, SAP&rsquo;s chief AI strategy officer Sean Kask said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. &ldquo;Like the famous quip that every company is becoming a software company, every software company has to become an AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/saps-sean-kask-software-firms-must-become-ai-companies-or-perish/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/saps-sean-kask-software-firms-must-become-ai-companies-or-perish/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle moves gas by trucks to keep its AI data centres on schedule]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to AI data centres that cannot yet connect to a pipeline, at roughly four times the price of gas at a hub. Europe has the same grid bottleneck and is answering it the other way, with Spain proposing to refuse connections to any data centre not on 80% renewables [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oracle-moves-gas-by-trucks-to-keep-its-ai-data-centres-on-schedule/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oracle-moves-gas-by-trucks-to-keep-its-ai-data-centres-on-schedule/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legora CEO says software sovereignty is an excuse not to compete globally]]></title><description><![CDATA[Legora co-founder and chief executive Max Junestrand says calls for European sovereignty in software are an excuse for companies that are not bold enough to go global. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. &ldquo;I think sovereignty in enterprise applications, or sovereignty in consumer apps, or sovereignty at the software layer is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/legora-ceo-says-software-sovereignty-is-an-excuse-not-to-compete-globally/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/legora-ceo-says-software-sovereignty-is-an-excuse-not-to-compete-globally/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Station F and Anthropic say the AI boom is drawing startups back in person]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI makes it possible to build a company from anywhere, but founders are still choosing to sit together, Station F director Roxanne Varza and Anthropic&rsquo;s Aiden Blake said. They spoke on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s really interesting is we&rsquo;re seeing more and more people coming since the &lsquo;AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/station-f-and-anthropic-say-the-ai-boom-is-drawing-startups-back-in-person/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/station-f-and-anthropic-say-the-ai-boom-is-drawing-startups-back-in-person/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple confirms its ‘Welcome home’ launch for 13 October in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greg Joswiak, Apple&rsquo;s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, posted a teaser video on X on Thursday. It shows the old rainbow Apple logo, embroidered, and sets a launch for Tuesday 13 October. &ldquo;Welcome home. October 13,&rdquo; Joswiak wrote. Apple invited the press to an &ldquo;Apple Experience&rdquo; in Tribeca, New York, at 9am Eastern time, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-confirms-its-welcome-home-launch-for-13-october-in-new-york/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-confirms-its-welcome-home-launch-for-13-october-in-new-york/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI model evaluator Arena nearly doubles its valuation to $3.1B]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arena has raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and is launching an Alignment Index that ranks AI models on how often they act without authorisation or report work they never finished. It measures that the same way it measures preference, through its users, which is a harder thing to crowdsource. Arena has raised $200M at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-model-evaluator-arena-nearly-doubles-its-valuation-to-31b/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-model-evaluator-arena-nearly-doubles-its-valuation-to-31b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odyssey-3 drives a car in India and runs humanoids from one world model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model that the Palo Alto AI lab says can control robot arms and humanoids, drive a car, fly drones and play video games. A research preview is available now, the company said on Thursday. World models learn from large amounts of visual data to predict how a scene will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/odyssey-3-drives-a-car-in-india-and-runs-humanoids-from-one-world-model/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/odyssey-3-drives-a-car-in-india-and-runs-humanoids-from-one-world-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google launches workplace AI agent that gets its own email address]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google&rsquo;s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, which is the part European regulators have spent the year asking about. Google [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-workplace-ai-agent-that-gets-its-own-email-address/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-workplace-ai-agent-that-gets-its-own-email-address/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Web Design Schools Have a Giant YouTube University Problem — And AI Just Made It Worse]]></title><description><![CDATA[A web design degree used to be the obvious way to learn the craft. Now it&rsquo;s competing with YouTube, AI, and people who spend those same years actually building things &mdash; so if universities can&rsquo;t offer something better, students have every right to ask what they&rsquo;re paying for.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/web-design-schools-have-a-giant-youtube-university-problem-and-ai-just-made-it-worse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/web-design-schools-have-a-giant-youtube-university-problem-and-ai-just-made-it-worse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon offers PsiQuantum a conditional loan of up to $150m]]></title><description><![CDATA[PsiQuantum has received a conditional commitment for a loan of up to $150 million from the US Department of War&rsquo;s Office of Strategic Capital. The quantum computing company announced the commitment on Thursday. It is the second conditional loan from the same Pentagon office in two days. On Wednesday, the Office of Strategic Capital offered [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pentagon-offers-psiquantum-a-conditional-loan-of-up-to-150m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pentagon-offers-psiquantum-a-conditional-loan-of-up-to-150m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon replaces Fire tablets with Android Alexa Tablets from $229.99]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon is replacing its Fire tablets with a new line of Alexa Tablets. They are the first Amazon tablets to run Android with full access to the Google Play Store. The company announced three models on Thursday, from $229.99 to $549.99. All three ship on 14 October in the US, Canada and Mexico, and on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-replaces-fire-tablets-with-android-alexa-tablets-from-22999/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-replaces-fire-tablets-with-android-alexa-tablets-from-22999/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US suspending permanent residency programme for Microsoft and Capgemini, officials say]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US is suspending eight technology firms from PERM, the labour certification step that precedes an employer-sponsored green card, citing alleged fraud. Capgemini is the only European company named, and North America is its fastest-growing region at 29% of group revenue. The US has suspended eight technology companies from the programme that lets employers sponsor [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-suspending-permanent-residency-programme-for-microsoft-and-capgemini-officials-say/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-suspending-permanent-residency-programme-for-microsoft-and-capgemini-officials-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo closes a $5bn loan, its first debt deal, to fund robotaxi growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo has closed a $5bn term loan, the first time the Alphabet-owned robotaxi company has raised money through debt. Pimco, Blackstone and Sixth Street led the loan, Waymo said on Thursday. The money will go into expanding Waymo&rsquo;s driverless ride-hailing service across the US and abroad, according to the company. &ldquo;Our strong momentum has enabled [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/waymo-closes-a-5bn-loan-its-first-debt-deal-to-fund-robotaxi-growth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/waymo-closes-a-5bn-loan-its-first-debt-deal-to-fund-robotaxi-growth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia commits $1bn to US science over the next five years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quantum computing, healthcare and energy security are the fields Nvidia wants to strengthen with commitments it values at $1 billion. The money will be spread over the next five years. The company announced the commitments on Thursday at the Science: A New Golden Age event in Washington, DC. US officials, industry leaders and members of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-commits-1bn-to-us-science-over-the-next-five-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-commits-1bn-to-us-science-over-the-next-five-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s startups had their best quarter in 4 years, Crunchbase data shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[European startups raised $25bn in the third quarter, their strongest quarter for venture funding in four years. In North America, startup funding fell 35% from the previous quarter to $92bn, Crunchbase data shows. Europe&rsquo;s total was up 77% on the $14bn raised in the third quarter of 2025, Gen&eacute; Teare reported for Crunchbase News on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/europes-startups-had-their-best-quarter-in-4-years-crunchbase-data-shows/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/europes-startups-had-their-best-quarter-in-4-years-crunchbase-data-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICO secures data protection changes from 10 AI developers, turns to agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten of the biggest AI developers have made, or committed to make, changes to how they handle personal data. The UK&rsquo;s Information Commissioner&rsquo;s Office (ICO) secured the changes after two years of scrutiny. The data regulator named them on Thursday: Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Stability AI. The changes include [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ico-secures-data-protection-changes-from-10-ai-developers-turns-to-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ico-secures-data-protection-changes-from-10-ai-developers-turns-to-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber and Pony.ai will test Chinese robotaxis in London within weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pony.ai will start testing its seventh-generation robotaxis in London in the coming weeks, ahead of a service on Uber. The Chinese self-driving company announced the plan on X on Thursday. &ldquo;We look forward to working with local officials, and our partners, as plans progress to begin trials for self-driving vehicles under the UK&rsquo;s frontier plan,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uber-and-ponyai-will-test-chinese-robotaxis-in-london-within-weeks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uber-and-ponyai-will-test-chinese-robotaxis-in-london-within-weeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VEIR raises $110M to swap copper for superconductors in AI data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[VEIR has raised $110 million in a Series C round. The Massachusetts company makes superconducting power cables for AI data centres. Matter Venture Partners and Tyche Partners co-led the round, which VEIR called oversubscribed. LG Technology Ventures, Gates Frontier, Sabanci Climate Ventures and Hui Capital joined as new investors. Existing backers also took part, including [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/veir-raises-110m-to-swap-copper-for-superconductors-in-ai-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/veir-raises-110m-to-swap-copper-for-superconductors-in-ai-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zenity says one prompt took over every AgentCore agent in an AWS account]]></title><description><![CDATA[Correction, 8 October 2026 An earlier version of this article&rsquo;s headline said researchers took over every AWS AgentCore agent in a region. The research covered agents within a single AWS account and region, and the headline stated the researchers&rsquo; claim as fact. We have corrected the headline and added a statement from AWS, which says [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zenity-says-one-prompt-took-over-every-agentcore-agent-in-an-aws-account/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zenity-says-one-prompt-took-over-every-agentcore-agent-in-an-aws-account/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One prompt let researchers take over every AWS AgentCore agent in a region]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto. AgentCore is AWS&rsquo;s managed service for building [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/one-prompt-let-researchers-take-over-every-aws-agentcore-agent-in-a-region/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/one-prompt-let-researchers-take-over-every-aws-agentcore-agent-in-a-region/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voltus raises $225M to turn homes and batteries into power for data centres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Voltus has raised $225 million in a Series D round. The San Francisco company pays businesses and homes to cut, shift or supply power when the grid needs it. Generation Investment Management led the round, with Activate Capital and the energy trader Vitol as co-leads. Broadscale Group, Climate Investment, NGP, Ajax Strategies and All Aboard [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/voltus-raises-225m-to-turn-homes-and-batteries-into-power-for-data-centres/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/voltus-raises-225m-to-turn-homes-and-batteries-into-power-for-data-centres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Eat Takeaway orders grow again after 55 months of decline, Prosus says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just Eat Takeaway&rsquo;s orders grew year on year in September for the first time in 55 months, its owner Prosus said on Thursday. Chief executive Fabricio Bloisi gave the figure in a letter to shareholders that also covers iFood, Prosus&rsquo;s food delivery business in Brazil. Prosus said in a regulatory statement that its auditor has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/just-eat-takeaway-orders-grow-again-after-55-months-of-decline-prosus-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/just-eat-takeaway-orders-grow-again-after-55-months-of-decline-prosus-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oratomic reportedly hits $5.4bn as Gartner sees quantum revenue top $1bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quantum computing startup Oratomic has raised $475 million at a $5.4bn valuation, Isabelle Bousquette reported for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The round came three months after its Series A and lifted its valuation from $1.5bn. The same day, British startup Universal Quantum announced a Series A of more than $100 million. Gartner then [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oratomic-reportedly-hits-54bn-as-gartner-sees-quantum-revenue-top-1bn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oratomic-reportedly-hits-54bn-as-gartner-sees-quantum-revenue-top-1bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetris makes its North American in-car debut at New York Comic Con]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York Comic Con visitors can step inside the new 2027 Volkswagen Atlas and experience AirConsole in-car gaming firsthand. It is at the Pop Insider booth, number 1935. The activation runs October 8 to 11 at the Javits Center. It gives more than 250,000 expected NYCC visitors the opportunity to experience AirConsole. AirConsole, the in-car [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tetris-makes-its-north-american-in-car-debut-at-new-york-comic-con/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tetris-makes-its-north-american-in-car-debut-at-new-york-comic-con/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NextBlock backs Soda Labs with $3M to bring privacy to public blockchains]]></title><description><![CDATA[NextBlock is putting $3 million behind an increasingly important challenge for public blockchains: how to give financial institutions privacy without forcing them to move their activity onto separate, purpose-built networks. The Luxembourg-based venture capital firm has funded Soda Labs&rsquo; entire seed round. It is backing the company&rsquo;s programmable privacy infrastructure for financial activity on public [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nextblock-backs-soda-labs-with-3m-to-bring-privacy-to-public-blockchains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nextblock-backs-soda-labs-with-3m-to-bring-privacy-to-public-blockchains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mate Security wins CyberSecurity Breakthrough award for AI cyberdefense]]></title><description><![CDATA[CyberSecurity Breakthrough has named Mate Security the &ldquo;Security Response Solution of the Year&rdquo;. The award is part of the 10th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program. The award recognizes the company&rsquo;s work to give AI agents organizational context. Agents need that context to investigate and respond to security threats. The recognition points to a growing issue [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mate-security-wins-cybersecurity-breakthrough-award-for-ai-cyberdefense/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mate-security-wins-cybersecurity-breakthrough-award-for-ai-cyberdefense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DARPA moves Atom Computing, IBM, IonQ and Diraq to final quantum test stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[DARPA has moved Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ into the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. The US defence research agency runs the programme to test whether anyone can build a useful quantum computer by 2033. DARPA announced the four teams on Wednesday. Each one uses a different type of qubit, the basic [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/darpa-moves-atom-computing-ibm-ionq-and-diraq-to-final-quantum-test-stage/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/darpa-moves-atom-computing-ibm-ionq-and-diraq-to-final-quantum-test-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHS South East rolls out skin cancer AI that can discharge patients alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[NHS England&rsquo;s South East region is rolling out an AI that can discharge patients with harmless skin lesions without a dermatologist seeing them. DERM, made by London-based Skin Analytics, goes live in all 18 NHS trusts there from this autumn. It will cover another 9 million people. Skin Analytics announced the rollout on Wednesday and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nhs-south-east-rolls-out-skin-cancer-ai-that-can-discharge-patients-alone/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nhs-south-east-rolls-out-skin-cancer-ai-that-can-discharge-patients-alone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia-backed Upscale AI launches platform to link chips from rival makers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Upscale AI, a Santa Clara networking startup backed by Nvidia, launched a platform on Thursday that lets data centres link AI chips made by different suppliers,&nbsp;Reuters reported. The product, called Token Fabric, was revealed in a company announcement today. Upscale said it is built on open standards and works with graphics chips, custom AI chips, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-backed-upscale-ai-launches-platform-to-link-chips-from-rival-makers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-backed-upscale-ai-launches-platform-to-link-chips-from-rival-makers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon offers Wolfspeed a $1.5bn loan for a stake of up to 7.5%]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Department of War has offered chipmaker Wolfspeed a conditional loan of up to $1.5bn over 30 years. In return, Wolfspeed would give the department warrants to buy up to 7.5% of the company. Wolfspeed filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2025. The department&rsquo;s Office of Strategic Capital announced the commitment on Wednesday. In [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pentagon-offers-wolfspeed-a-15bn-loan-for-a-stake-of-up-to-75/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pentagon-offers-wolfspeed-a-15bn-loan-for-a-stake-of-up-to-75/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian data centre group expects €37B of investment by 2036]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italy&rsquo;s commercial data centres could attract &euro;36.9 billion ($41.5 billion) of investment through 2036, according to a study by the Italian Datacenter Association (IDA). The industry group presented its&nbsp;2026 market research at its Data Center Symposium in Rome on October 8. According to Bloomberg&rsquo;s account of the study, IT capacity in Italy&rsquo;s commercial data centres [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/italian-data-centre-group-expects-37b-of-investment-by-2036/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/italian-data-centre-group-expects-37b-of-investment-by-2036/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bhutan’s DK Bank gets ADGM in-principle approval for Abu Dhabi expansion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bhutan&rsquo;s DK Bank has received In-Principle Approval from ADGM&rsquo;s Financial Services Regulatory Authority to establish a regulated subsidiary in Abu Dhabi. The approval gives the bank a pathway toward its first financial services presence outside Bhutan. DK plans to offer brokerage, custody, payments and advisory services through the Abu Dhabi entity. That is subject to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bhutans-dk-bank-gets-adgm-in-principle-approval-for-abu-dhabi-expansion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bhutans-dk-bank-gets-adgm-in-principle-approval-for-abu-dhabi-expansion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nestlé CEO says workers need more than prompting skills to use AI well]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nestl&eacute; chief executive Philipp Navratil says knowing how to write a good prompt is not enough for workers who want to keep up with artificial intelligence. Staff also need to understand their business and change the way they work, he told Business Insider&nbsp;in an interview published this month. Philipp Navratil runs a company of more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nestl-ceo-says-workers-need-more-than-prompting-skills-to-use-ai-well/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nestl-ceo-says-workers-need-more-than-prompting-skills-to-use-ai-well/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI hires Cursor’s Europe chief, its second sales hire from SpaceX]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has hired Ismail Elmas, who ran Cursor&rsquo;s business in Europe, as its vice president of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is the second sales executive OpenAI has taken from Elon Musk&rsquo;s SpaceX, which owns Cursor, in the past month. The German business daily&nbsp;Handelsblatt first reported the news on Thursday [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-hires-cursors-europe-chief-its-second-sales-hire-from-spacex/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-hires-cursors-europe-chief-its-second-sales-hire-from-spacex/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sesterce plans €10B AI data centre campus at former Finnish paper mill]]></title><description><![CDATA[French AI infrastructure company Sesterce plans to invest more than &euro;10bn in an AI data centre campus at a former paper mill in J&auml;ms&auml;, central Finland. The campus will be located on the Kaipola site, where UPM shut down its paper mill in early 2021, Sesterce announced. Building work on the first phase, with 200 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sesterce-plans-10b-ai-data-centre-campus-at-former-finnish-paper-mill/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sesterce-plans-10b-ai-data-centre-campus-at-former-finnish-paper-mill/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manus raises more than $500M in first funding round since Meta exit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Butterfly Effect, the company behind AI agent startup Manus, said that it has closed a funding round of more than $500 million. This would be the first raise since Meta&rsquo;s $2 billion-plus purchase of Manus was undone on Beijing&rsquo;s orders. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round. Existing investors Tencent, HSG (formerly Sequoia China), [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/manus-raises-more-than-500m-in-first-funding-round-since-meta-exit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/manus-raises-more-than-500m-in-first-funding-round-since-meta-exit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok gave young users a placebo safety tool, New York lawsuit alleges]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to a new unsealed filing in New York&rsquo;s lawsuit, TikTok gave&nbsp;thousands of users, including teenagers and children, a safety tool that did not work. Reuters&nbsp;reported the allegations on October 7, after a judge ordered the filings unsealed. They appear in an amended complaint that New York Attorney General Letitia James filed under seal at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktok-gave-young-users-a-placebo-safety-tool-new-york-lawsuit-alleges/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktok-gave-young-users-a-placebo-safety-tool-new-york-lawsuit-alleges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CrowdStrike links South Korean bank breaches to AI tools and a China suspect]]></title><description><![CDATA[The person behind a wave of cyberattacks on South Korean banks may be a 26-year-old living in China&rsquo;s Guangdong province, US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says. The suspect has not been named or charged, and South Korean authorities have not identified anyone. CrowdStrike set out its findings in a&nbsp;report published on October 7, and&nbsp;Reuters reported the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/crowdstrike-links-south-korean-bank-breaches-to-ai-tools-and-a-china-suspect/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/crowdstrike-links-south-korean-bank-breaches-to-ai-tools-and-a-china-suspect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI talent platform Dex hires founders of Secret Escapes and Progression]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dex, a London-based AI recruitment platform for software engineers, has hired two former founders for senior roles. Tom Valentine, co-founder of travel deals site Secret Escapes, joins as chief operating officer. And Jonny Burch, co-founder of career development platform Progression, becomes head of design. &ldquo;Tom and Jonny have built businesses around problems that matter deeply [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-talent-platform-dex-hires-founders-of-secret-escapes-and-progression/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-talent-platform-dex-hires-founders-of-secret-escapes-and-progression/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung expects record $80bn quarterly profit as AI memory demand soars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics expects its operating profit for the third quarter to reach a record level of about 107.4 trillion won ($80bn), a significant increase from 12.17 trillion won a year earlier. The South Korean company released its preliminary figures today. It represents an increase of nearly nine times, or roughly 783 per cent, and sales [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/samsung-expects-record-80bn-quarterly-profit-as-ai-memory-demand-soars/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/samsung-expects-record-80bn-quarterly-profit-as-ai-memory-demand-soars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swiss prosecutors investigate data leak at federal pension fund Publica]]></title><description><![CDATA[Publica, the pension fund that provides pensions for staff of the Swiss federal government, has confirmed today that a data leak occurred as a result of a cyberattack on one of its external software suppliers. The Swiss government stated that the supplier discovered the attack at the end of September and then filed a criminal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/swiss-prosecutors-investigate-data-leak-at-federal-pension-fund-publica/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/swiss-prosecutors-investigate-data-leak-at-federal-pension-fund-publica/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon reportedly cuts jobs in its retail unit during Prime Big Deal Days sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has cut a small number of office jobs, mostly in its Stores division, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The cuts came during Prime Big Deal Days, its two-day sale on October 6 and 7. Business Insider first reported the layoffs, and then a person familiar with the matter told&nbsp;Reuters that fewer than 1,000 office [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-reportedly-cuts-jobs-in-its-retail-unit-during-prime-big-deal-days-sale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-reportedly-cuts-jobs-in-its-retail-unit-during-prime-big-deal-days-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier says Meta’s Muse saved him $3,105 in five days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zendesk will end the year with about $400m of AI revenue, up from about zero two years ago, chief executive Tom Eggemeier told TNW. Most of it comes from AI agents that customers pay for only when they resolve a case. Eggemeier has run Zendesk since late 2022. Before that, he was a partner at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zendesk-ceo-tom-eggemeier-says-metas-muse-saved-him-3105-in-five-days/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zendesk-ceo-tom-eggemeier-says-metas-muse-saved-him-3105-in-five-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK defence firms plan to invest £19.75bn over the next year]]></title><description><![CDATA[UK defence companies plan to invest a combined &pound;19.75bn over the next 12 months, according to&nbsp;new research&nbsp;from law firm White &amp; Case. Research company Censuswide surveyed 250 senior decision-makers at UK defence companies and&nbsp;defence technology start-ups&nbsp;for the study between 17 and 24 September. The &pound;19.75bn is the total for those 250 firms, which plan to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-defence-firms-plan-to-invest-1975bn-over-the-next-year/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-defence-firms-plan-to-invest-1975bn-over-the-next-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adobe will power Heathrow’s new website and AI search push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heathrow Airport has extended its partnership with Adobe and will rebuild its main website on Adobe&rsquo;s AI customer experience software, the two companies announced on 8 October. The new site will run on&nbsp;Adobe CX Enterprise. The system uses AI agents, software that can carry out tasks on its own, to manage how a business attracts [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/adobe-will-power-heathrows-new-website-and-ai-search-push/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/adobe-will-power-heathrows-new-website-and-ai-search-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft says new $2,599 laptop with Nvidia chip outperforms MacBooks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft priced its first Nvidia-powered Surface at $2,599.99 and claimed on stage that it doubles a MacBook Pro M5 on local AI prompts, without publishing how either figure was measured. The chip inside is built on Arm&rsquo;s architecture, from the Cambridge company Nvidia failed to buy in 2022. Microsoft has priced its first Nvidia-powered laptop [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-says-new-2599-laptop-with-nvidia-chip-outperforms-macbooks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-says-new-2599-laptop-with-nvidia-chip-outperforms-macbooks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HubSpot to cut 660 jobs as the company pivots to AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[HubSpot is eliminating about 660 roles, 7% of its workforce, in a restructuring its chief executive calls an AI strategy shift while insisting it is not driven by AI efficiencies. Its SEC filing concedes the timetable depends on local consultation law, which in Ireland means a statutory 30-day minimum and criminal penalties for ignoring it. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hubspot-to-cut-660-jobs-as-the-company-pivots-to-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hubspot-to-cut-660-jobs-as-the-company-pivots-to-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco pauses new data centres in the hometown of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[San Francisco&rsquo;s board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now finds it cannot build the capacity the Commission wants. San Francisco has paused new data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/san-francisco-pauses-new-data-centres-in-the-hometown-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/san-francisco-pauses-new-data-centres-in-the-hometown-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miro CEO says companies must redesign work around AI, not bolt it on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Miro co-founder and chief executive Andrey Khusid says adding AI to existing teams and processes will not deliver its full productivity gains. Companies need to redesign how work happens from the ground up, he said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Wednesday. &ldquo;One of the big challenges is how not to put [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/miro-ceo-says-companies-must-redesign-work-around-ai-not-bolt-it-on/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/miro-ceo-says-companies-must-redesign-work-around-ai-not-bolt-it-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DoorDash’s Tony Xu says AI agents will increase demand for human labour]]></title><description><![CDATA[DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu says more AI agents will mean more demand for physical delivery networks, and even for human labour. He spoke on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled &ldquo;Inside the Making of DoorDash&rdquo;. AI agents have probably already overtaken humans in the number of things [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doordashs-tony-xu-says-ai-agents-will-increase-demand-for-human-labour/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doordashs-tony-xu-says-ai-agents-will-increase-demand-for-human-labour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft will block two Windows installer formats in Outlook from November]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle to Outlook&rsquo;s blocked attachment list in early November, closing an email route for a packaging format its own threat researchers watched four criminal groups abuse in 2023. Renaming the extension still gets a package through, and the change lands as a default policy edit in every Exchange Online tenant, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-will-block-two-windows-installer-formats-in-outlook-from-november/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-will-block-two-windows-installer-formats-in-outlook-from-november/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba’s Joe Tsai says open source is Europe’s only way to AI independence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba co-founder and chairman Joe Tsai says open-source AI is the only way for Europe to become independent in the technology. He spoke to founders and investors on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled &ldquo;The Other Side of the Story&rdquo;. &ldquo;Open source is the opportunity for Europe&hellip; That&rsquo;s the approach [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alibabas-joe-tsai-says-open-source-is-europes-only-way-to-ai-independence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alibabas-joe-tsai-says-open-source-is-europes-only-way-to-ai-independence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 9 best accounts receivable automation software platforms for 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[How nine AR automation platforms compare on collections automation and cash application, and which one keeps its AI inside auditable controls Allianz Research puts average global DSO at around 59 days, while roughly $10 trillion sits in unpaid invoices globally. Cash that sits in receivables is cash a company can&rsquo;t deploy, which is why late [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-9-best-accounts-receivable-automation-software-platforms-for-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-9-best-accounts-receivable-automation-software-platforms-for-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bending Spoons’ Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe’s big barrier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bending Spoons co-founder and chief executive Luca Ferrari says access to capital is no longer the main obstacle for European founders. Strong companies can now raise at scale in Europe, he said on Wednesday. He was speaking on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin. &ldquo;I think if you have a great project and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bending-spoons-luca-ferrari-says-capital-is-no-longer-europes-big-barrier/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bending-spoons-luca-ferrari-says-capital-is-no-longer-europes-big-barrier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honda will test wireless EV charging on 300 metres of motorway in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honda will test wireless charging built into a 300-metre stretch of Japanese motorway from next year, delivering up to 150 kW to vehicles moving at 120 km/h, aimed first at commercial vehicles. France, Germany and Sweden have been running or planning electric roads since 2022, and the French A10 project already delivers more than 200 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/honda-will-test-wireless-ev-charging-on-300-metres-of-motorway-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/honda-will-test-wireless-ev-charging-on-300-metres-of-motorway-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paramount closes Warner Bros deal as Skydance and plans a single streamer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paramount has completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery and renamed the combined company Skydance. The company announced the close on Tuesday, and its shares now trade on the New York Stock Exchange as SKYD. Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders received about $31.02 a share in cash. Skydance owns two major film studios, Paramount Pictures and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/paramount-closes-warner-bros-deal-as-skydance-and-plans-a-single-streamer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/paramount-closes-warner-bros-deal-as-skydance-and-plans-a-single-streamer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX petition on launch spectrum meets opposition from aerospace and healthcare]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX and the commercial space industry want the FCC to abolish the third-party council that coordinates the radio spectrum used by rocket launches and aircraft flight testing, replacing it with an unspecified system of self-coordination. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX and GE Healthcare have objected, while the European Commission is moving the other way and reserving [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacex-petition-on-launch-spectrum-meets-opposition-from-aerospace-and-healthcare/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacex-petition-on-launch-spectrum-meets-opposition-from-aerospace-and-healthcare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI publishes 722 maths papers written by a model it has not released]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has published 722 maths manuscripts from an internal model it has not released. The papers fall into 372 families of results. The company announced the release on Tuesday and put them all in a public GitHub repository. It is the same model behind OpenAI&rsquo;s Navier-Stokes proof last month. OpenAI gave it about 4,000 problems [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-publishes-722-maths-papers-written-by-a-model-it-has-not-released/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-publishes-722-maths-papers-written-by-a-model-it-has-not-released/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finland orders Google to stop clearing forest at two data centre sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finland&rsquo;s Licensing and Supervision Agency (LVV) has ordered Google&rsquo;s Finnish subsidiary to stop work at two planned data centre sites, in Muhos and Kajaani. The halt covers work that significantly changes the environment. The agency issued the order on Tuesday. Tuike Finland Oy must stop at once, and by 23 October at the latest. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/finland-orders-google-to-stop-clearing-forest-at-two-data-centre-sites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/finland-orders-google-to-stop-clearing-forest-at-two-data-centre-sites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring’s first smart lock has a clever answer to the dead battery problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ring has announced a $249 smart lock with a dial that recharges a dead battery by hand, due in the United States early in 2027. Amazon&rsquo;s own disclosure says the lock has not been authorised by the Federal Communications Commission and may not be sold until it is, and its remote features run over Amazon [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rings-first-smart-lock-has-a-clever-answer-to-the-dead-battery-problem/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rings-first-smart-lock-has-a-clever-answer-to-the-dead-battery-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple and LG built a doorbell, lock and thermostat together, Bloomberg says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is working with LG Electronics on a video doorbell, a thermostat, a smart deadbolt lock and three security cameras, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The devices will carry the LG brand, not Apple&rsquo;s. The accessories will work with Apple&rsquo;s new smart home hub, an upgraded HomePod mini and a new Apple TV box. Apple plans [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-and-lg-built-a-doorbell-lock-and-thermostat-together-bloomberg-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-and-lg-built-a-doorbell-lock-and-thermostat-together-bloomberg-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endeavor Catalyst closes $320M fund as Europe becomes its top growth market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Endeavor Catalyst has closed its fifth fund at $320M, and Europe is now its fastest-growing market. It made 12 investments through Endeavor&rsquo;s European offices in the first half of 2026. That compares with 14 in all of 2025 and seven in 2024, the firm said on Wednesday. Investors oversubscribed Fund V, which takes the firm&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/endeavor-catalyst-closes-320m-fund-as-europe-becomes-its-top-growth-market/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/endeavor-catalyst-closes-320m-fund-as-europe-becomes-its-top-growth-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nous Research raises $90M to take its Hermes AI agent to businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nous Research has raised $90M to build a business version of Hermes, its open-source AI agent. Nvidia, Microsoft&rsquo;s M12, Samsung, Robot Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator and Menlo Ventures are among the investors, chief executive Dillon Rolnick wrote in a note on the company&rsquo;s website. The round values Nous at $1.5bn, The Wall Street [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nous-research-raises-90m-to-take-its-hermes-ai-agent-to-businesses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nous-research-raises-90m-to-take-its-hermes-ai-agent-to-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk’s Grok Bot will use Anthropic’s Claude, Midjourney and Suno models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk&rsquo;s Grok Bot will no longer run only on SpaceX&rsquo;s own AI models. It will also use models from rivals, including Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday. &ldquo;Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musks-grok-bot-will-use-anthropics-claude-midjourney-and-suno-models/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musks-grok-bot-will-use-anthropics-claude-midjourney-and-suno-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon’s About You page goes viral for what it guesses about shoppers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon&rsquo;s &ldquo;About You&rdquo; page has become a social media hit, for the things it says about shoppers. One user on Threads found that Amazon had concluded she &ldquo;has flat buttocks&rdquo;, Business Insider reported on Tuesday. Her post set off a wave of others sharing their own profiles. About You lists the details Amazon has drawn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazons-about-you-page-goes-viral-for-what-it-guesses-about-shoppers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazons-about-you-page-goes-viral-for-what-it-guesses-about-shoppers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone to check for AI-made media]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has opened its SynthID Detector to everyone. The free website checks whether an image, video or audio file carries Google&rsquo;s SynthID watermark, a hidden signal its AI tools add to what they create. The tool is available globally in English from Wednesday, Google DeepMind&rsquo;s Pushmeet Kohli wrote in a company blog post. It flags [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-opens-synthid-detector-to-everyone-to-check-for-ai-made-media/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-opens-synthid-detector-to-everyone-to-check-for-ai-made-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind and the US pool $1.8bn for AI biology data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining with $300M between them, Biohub announced on Wednesday. Biohub is the nonprofit research institute backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/biohub-meta-google-deepmind-and-the-us-pool-18bn-for-ai-biology-data/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/biohub-meta-google-deepmind-and-the-us-pool-18bn-for-ai-biology-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch tax office drops Microsoft 365 cloud for own servers and open source]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dutch tax and customs administration has dropped its move to Microsoft 365 in the cloud. Its office software will instead run on servers it controls, together with European open source tools. State Secretary for Finance Eelco Eerenberg set out the plan in a letter to the Dutch parliament this week. The change covers the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dutch-tax-office-drops-microsoft-365-cloud-for-own-servers-and-open-source/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dutch-tax-office-drops-microsoft-365-cloud-for-own-servers-and-open-source/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CoreWeave plans its first India data centres with 240MW from AdaniConneX]]></title><description><![CDATA[CoreWeave will open its first data centres in India, using 240 megawatts of capacity at an AdaniConneX campus in Navi Mumbai. The US AI cloud provider announced the deal on Wednesday. CoreWeave expects the first phase to come online in mid-2028. AdaniConneX is a 50:50 joint venture between Adani Enterprises and data centre operator EdgeConneX. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coreweave-plans-its-first-india-data-centres-with-240mw-from-adaniconnex/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coreweave-plans-its-first-india-data-centres-with-240mw-from-adaniconnex/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivercell raises $25M to build an AI model of how cells respond to drugs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paris start-up Rivercell has raised a $25M seed round to build an AI model that predicts how human cells respond to drugs and genetic changes. HV led the round, with HCVC, Alven and Bpifrance Digital Venture taking part, the company said on Wednesday. The money will pay for Rivercell&rsquo;s data platform, a bigger wet lab [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rivercell-raises-25m-to-build-an-ai-model-of-how-cells-respond-to-drugs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rivercell-raises-25m-to-build-an-ai-model-of-how-cells-respond-to-drugs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google launches Playground to turn prompts into games, with Unity on board]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has launched Playground, an experimental platform that turns text prompts into playable games. It is teaming up with Unity to add more advanced tools, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Google Playground opens today to users in the US aged 18 and over. People describe a game, test it right away [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-playground-to-turn-prompts-into-games-with-unity-on-board/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-playground-to-turn-prompts-into-games-with-unity-on-board/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atomic Machines emerges with $250M to build micro-machines from code]]></title><description><![CDATA[Atomic Machines has come out of six years in stealth with $250M raised. It says its system builds working micro-machines straight from code. The Bay Area start-up announced the launch on Wednesday. Its first product is a power switch for AI data centres. Founder and chief executive Jeff Holden joined Amazon as its tenth engineer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/atomic-machines-emerges-with-250m-to-build-micro-machines-from-code/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/atomic-machines-emerges-with-250m-to-build-micro-machines-from-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robots from Stuttgart start-up Sereact are now sorting Zalando&rsquo;s fashion returns in live operations in Germany and Poland. The two-armed machines work at CEVA Logistics sites in Greven, Germany, and &#346;wiebodzin, Poland, the three companies said on Wednesday. It is the first step of a plan to automate returns across Europe. Zalando joined Sereact&rsquo;s Series [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sereacts-robots-now-sort-zalando-returns-in-germany-and-poland/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sereacts-robots-now-sort-zalando-returns-in-germany-and-poland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU-funded robot uses magnets to steer graphene implants into the brain]]></title><description><![CDATA[A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona&rsquo;s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the results on Wednesday, at the end of the EU-funded MINIGRAPH project. The project&rsquo;s first target is Parkinson&rsquo;s disease. Doctors already treat it with deep brain stimulation, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-funded-robot-uses-magnets-to-steer-graphene-implants-into-the-brain/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-funded-robot-uses-magnets-to-steer-graphene-implants-into-the-brain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anduril to build $3.7bn Baltimore shipyard for US Navy submarine parts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy&rsquo;s Virginia-class submarines, the defence company said on Tuesday. The Navy has also awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9bn, with payments tied to demonstrated production outcomes. Together, that is $6.6bn for the submarine industrial base. President Donald [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anduril-to-build-37bn-baltimore-shipyard-for-us-navy-submarine-parts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anduril-to-build-37bn-baltimore-shipyard-for-us-navy-submarine-parts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to launch Surface Laptop Ultra on Wednesday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and Nvidia&rsquo;s Jensen Huang will present the Surface Laptop Ultra in San Francisco on Wednesday, the first Surface built around Nvidia&rsquo;s RTX Spark chip. The laptop is designed to let AI agents run on the device rather than in the cloud, analysts told Reuters. The launch extends a push Microsoft [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-and-nvidia-ceos-to-launch-surface-laptop-ultra-on-wednesday/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-and-nvidia-ceos-to-launch-surface-laptop-ultra-on-wednesday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridge Neurotech raises $13.5M to read brains with ultrasound, no implant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bridge Neurotech came out of stealth on Tuesday with $13.5M in funding. It plans a brain-computer interface that needs no surgery and no implant. The startup wants to use ultrasound to read brain activity through the skull. It also signed a research deal with Butterfly Network, which makes chip-based ultrasound devices. General Catalyst, reMind Capital, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bridge-neurotech-raises-135m-to-read-brains-with-ultrasound-no-implant/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bridge-neurotech-raises-135m-to-read-brains-with-ultrasound-no-implant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad chief executive from 7 October, the robot maker said in a statement on Tuesday. The company said he will speed up its Physical AI strategy. That plan combines its robots with advanced AI to sell intelligent machines at scale. Prasad was senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/boston-dynamics-names-rohit-prasad-who-helped-build-amazons-alexa-as-ceo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/boston-dynamics-names-rohit-prasad-who-helped-build-amazons-alexa-as-ceo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stuut raises $52.5M Series B to run order-to-cash with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Businesses worldwide have $16 trillion locked up in unpaid receivables. Stuut, the AI platform that runs order-to-cash for the world&rsquo;s enterprises, is going after it. In a world where all finance software looks and behaves the same, Stuut offers customers the ability to automate 100% of their work. It runs the entire order-to-cash process. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/stuut-raises-525m-series-b-to-run-order-to-cash-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/stuut-raises-525m-series-b-to-run-order-to-cash-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany backs EU approval of Tesla’s driver-assistance software]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany will push for fast EU-wide approval of Tesla&rsquo;s advanced driver-assistance system, transport minister Steffen Bilger said on Tuesday. Elon Musk thanked him in German on X a day later, as Tesla tries to win over a bloc where it is so far cleared only country by country. Speaking at a Tagesspiegel Background conference in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/germany-backs-eu-approval-of-teslas-driver-assistance-software/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/germany-backs-eu-approval-of-teslas-driver-assistance-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify expands audiobooks to more than 180 markets by the end of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify will offer audiobooks in more than 180 markets by the end of 2026, up from 22 today, the company said at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday. The global rollout&nbsp;will reach more than 750 million people, who will find books next to their music and podcasts. Moreover, the expansion comes two months after Spotify [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spotify-expands-audiobooks-to-more-than-180-markets-by-the-end-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spotify-expands-audiobooks-to-more-than-180-markets-by-the-end-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj uses AI avatar to address voters from jail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Albania&rsquo;s capital, Tirana, has spoken to voters through an AI copy of himself, promising free school meals. The video was posted on his official Instagram account and is indeed labelled as AI-generated content. The main problem is not AI-generated content from a mayor, but the fact that he is in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tirana-mayor-erion-veliaj-uses-ai-avatar-to-address-voters-from-jail/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tirana-mayor-erion-veliaj-uses-ai-avatar-to-address-voters-from-jail/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT for Teens is unsafe for under-18s, Common Sense Media says]]></title><description><![CDATA[ChatGPT is unsafe for anyone under 18, even in the teen mode OpenAI launched in August, according to a new risk assessment&nbsp;from Common Sense Media. The US nonprofit gave ChatGPT for Teens its lowest rating, &ldquo;Unacceptable Risk&rdquo;, in a report published on Wednesday. The group wants OpenAI to stop promoting Teen Mode, and adds that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chatgpt-for-teens-is-unsafe-for-under-18s-common-sense-media-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chatgpt-for-teens-is-unsafe-for-under-18s-common-sense-media-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Siena raises $17M Series A to build AI agents for consumer brands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siena, a New York-based startup that develops AI agents for consumer brands, has raised $17 million in its Series A round, with York IE as the lead investor. The new capital raised brings the company&rsquo;s total funding to $29.7 million. Moreover, Joyance Ventures took part in the round as a new investor, and the existing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/siena-raises-17m-series-a-to-build-ai-agents-for-consumer-brands/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/siena-raises-17m-series-a-to-build-ai-agents-for-consumer-brands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan’s Rapidus teams up with 17 firms to win customers for 2nm chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rapidus, Japan&rsquo;s state-backed chipmaker, has signed up 17 chip design firms to help it win customers before it starts making 2-nanometre chips. They include Synopsys and Cadence from the US, India&rsquo;s Infosys, and Japan&rsquo;s Dai Nippon Printing and Toppan,&nbsp;Jiji Press&nbsp;reported on Monday. The partners will help clients design chips that suit the way Rapidus makes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/japans-rapidus-teams-up-with-17-firms-to-win-customers-for-2nm-chips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/japans-rapidus-teams-up-with-17-firms-to-win-customers-for-2nm-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX reportedly in talks to borrow $40B to buy Nvidia AI chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40bn to buy AI chips from Nvidia, the&nbsp;Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Today, Bloomberg reported that the talks are underway, citing people familiar with the matter. Both reports rely on unnamed sources, and none of the companies involved has publicly confirmed the plan. According to the FT, the package [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacex-reportedly-in-talks-to-borrow-40b-to-buy-nvidia-ai-chips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacex-reportedly-in-talks-to-borrow-40b-to-buy-nvidia-ai-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel will stay on Musk’s Terafab chip project, CEO tells Bloomberg]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intel will keep working with Elon Musk on Terafab, his project to make advanced chips in Texas, chief executive Lip-Bu Tan told&nbsp;Bloomberg. Tan made the comments before a Tokyo event on Wednesday celebrating 50 years of Intel&rsquo;s operations in Japan. His comments come after a week of reports that Taiwan&rsquo;s TSMC, the world&rsquo;s largest contract [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/intel-will-stay-on-musks-terafab-chip-project-ceo-tells-bloomberg/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/intel-will-stay-on-musks-terafab-chip-project-ceo-tells-bloomberg/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU considers bigger levy on large companies to tax Big Tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission is looking to collect more money from Apple, Meta, Google, and other US tech companies, according to the Financial Times, which spoke with six officials who are familiar with the discussions. The Commission plans to do this by introducing a levy on large companies overall. Their goal is to avoid a tax [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-considers-bigger-levy-on-large-companies-to-tax-big-tech/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-considers-bigger-levy-on-large-companies-to-tax-big-tech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them do, with Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart. A v0.1 specification is due this month, and payments are listed as a future extension rather than part of it. Meta [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sierra-announces-personal-agent-protocol-an-open-standard-for-personal-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sierra-announces-personal-agent-protocol-an-open-standard-for-personal-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on a phone or a small board. It is licensed under Apache 2.0, has had no safety tuning, and Google says performance is not equal across the 100 languages it supports. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-embeddinggemma-2-an-open-multimodal-embedding-model-for-devices/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-launches-embeddinggemma-2-an-open-multimodal-embedding-model-for-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Web Designers Love Dark Mode Toggles. Users Might Not Care.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dark mode toggles are everywhere, but do users actually need them, or are designers designing for other designers? A growing UX debate is questioning whether that little sun-and-moon button deserves permanent space in your website&rsquo;s header.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/web-designers-love-dark-mode-toggles-users-might-not-care/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/web-designers-love-dark-mode-toggles-users-might-not-care/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMD&rsquo;s Lisa Su said chip demand is running ahead of supply and will stay very high for years, and urged the AI industry to work together as an ecosystem on safety rather than naming any regulator. The European Commission has been able to inspect models, restrict market access and fine providers 3% of global turnover [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amds-chief-says-demand-is-outrunning-supply-and-that-ai-should-police-itself/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amds-chief-says-demand-is-outrunning-supply-and-that-ai-should-police-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark debuts an AI agent a year before its first devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brett Adcock&rsquo;s Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child&rsquo;s lunch card, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, a year before the company&rsquo;s first devices arrive. Meta launched an agent doing the same things at the same three prices four weeks ago. Hark has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hark-debuts-an-ai-agent-a-year-before-its-first-devices/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hark-debuts-an-ai-agent-a-year-before-its-first-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santé raises $15 million to bring AI to the neighborhood liquor store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every bottle sitting unsold on a liquor store shelf ties up cash. Deciding when to discount it, which customers might buy it and whether to order another case requires information and time. An independent retailer may struggle to pull that together. Sant&eacute; sees a business opportunity in those everyday decisions. This week, the company announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sant-raises-15-million-to-bring-ai-to-the-neighborhood-liquor-store/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sant-raises-15-million-to-bring-ai-to-the-neighborhood-liquor-store/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucid production falls 38% as the EV maker clears inventory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucid built 2,954 vehicles in the third quarter, its lowest quarterly output since early 2025 and a 38% fall from the second quarter, while delivering 3,806 as it cleared inventory. The company has outstanding commitments for 25,000 driverless cars with Bolt in Europe and 20,000 with Uber. Lucid built 2,954 cars in three months. Its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/lucid-production-falls-38-as-the-ev-maker-clears-inventory/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/lucid-production-falls-38-as-the-ev-maker-clears-inventory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google accused of overcharging 20 million UK consumers over Play Store fees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is defending a &pound;1.2B claim at London&rsquo;s Competition Appeal Tribunal brought for about 20 million British consumers who say Play Store commissions of up to 30% were passed into the prices they paid since October 2015. It settled an equivalent claim from UK app developers for &pound;260M six weeks ago without admitting wrongdoing. Google [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-accused-of-overcharging-20-million-uk-consumers-over-play-store-fees/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-accused-of-overcharging-20-million-uk-consumers-over-play-store-fees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut’s commercial real estate lending chief exits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Duncan Batty, hired from M&amp;G Investments in January 2025 to build Revolut&rsquo;s commercial real estate lending business, has left the company, with his departure appearing in Companies House filings and confirmed by a spokesperson. Neither a reason nor a successor has been given, and it comes as Revolut expands across banking, wealth and payments ahead [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/revoluts-commercial-real-estate-lending-chief-exits/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/revoluts-commercial-real-estate-lending-chief-exits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investor urges Snap to raise outside capital for Specs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blue Duck Capital Partners has written to Snap&rsquo;s board urging it to sell about a fifth of its Specs subsidiary at a $5B valuation, raising $1B to fund roughly two years of spending without diluting Snap shareholders. It is the second fund to press Snap over Specs, and the glasses ship this autumn into three [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/investor-urges-snap-to-raise-outside-capital-for-specs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/investor-urges-snap-to-raise-outside-capital-for-specs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASML’s chip packaging move threatens Besi shares, Bank of America says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bank of America cut BE Semiconductor Industries to neutral and nearly halved its price target, saying the share price does not reflect the threat of ASML entering hybrid bonding, the market Besi depends on for growth. Besi has also been approached by two American rivals, one of which has owned 9% of it since last [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asmls-chip-packaging-move-threatens-besi-shares-bank-of-america-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asmls-chip-packaging-move-threatens-besi-shares-bank-of-america-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiko raises a $90M Series B led by NEA for its tokenised cash funds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it said in a statement on Tuesday. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the $90 million Series B. Index Ventures, Bpifrance, Speedinvest, Flourish Ventures, Shapers and White Star Capital took part. So did Blockwall, Frst, EQNX, Mirana [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spiko-raises-a-90m-series-b-led-by-nea-for-its-tokenised-cash-funds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spiko-raises-a-90m-series-b-led-by-nea-for-its-tokenised-cash-funds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asos app users get an alert claiming its Snowflake instance was compromised]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer&rsquo;s Snowflake instance. The message, titled &ldquo;ASOS HACKED&rdquo;, addressed the company&rsquo;s data protection officer (DPO) and IT team. &ldquo;Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asos-app-users-get-an-alert-claiming-its-snowflake-instance-was-compromised/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/asos-app-users-get-an-alert-claiming-its-snowflake-instance-was-compromised/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT takes over TalkTalk and its 2.5 million customers out of administration]]></title><description><![CDATA[BT Group has acquired TalkTalk&rsquo;s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration. They have 1.5 million retail customers and 1 million wholesale customers. BT announced the deal on Monday. It said a prolonged sale process for those operations had been unsuccessful. BT bought TalkTalk Telecommunications Limited and PlatformX Communications Limited, the wholesale business, on a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bt-takes-over-talktalk-and-its-25-million-customers-out-of-administration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bt-takes-over-talktalk-and-its-25-million-customers-out-of-administration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denmark’s CPR breach: 14 million lookups in ten days, found through a bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unknown users have pulled names, addresses and ID numbers on about 8.8 million people from Denmark&rsquo;s Central Person Register (CPR). They abused a small Danish company&rsquo;s legal access to the register. Denmark&rsquo;s digitalisation ministry announced the breach on Monday. The CPR administration has cut off the company, and the police are investigating. Denmark has about [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/denmarks-cpr-breach-14-million-lookups-in-ten-days-found-through-a-bill/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/denmarks-cpr-breach-14-million-lookups-in-ten-days-found-through-a-bill/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minerva Humanoids raises $10M for robots that do bomb disposal and rig work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Minerva Humanoids has raised about $10M in pre-seed funding to build humanoid robots for dangerous jobs. The San Francisco startup works on oil and gas and public safety. General Catalyst led the round, with Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures as co-leads, the company said on Tuesday. Hugging Face, Codecademy, RunwayVC and Compound are among [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/minerva-humanoids-raises-10m-for-robots-that-do-bomb-disposal-and-rig-work/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/minerva-humanoids-raises-10m-for-robots-that-do-bomb-disposal-and-rig-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zapata Quantum joins IBM Quantum Network to build quantum applications]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zapata Quantum, a Boston quantum software company, has joined the&nbsp;IBM Quantum Network, it said on Tuesday. It will use IBM&rsquo;s machines to build software for its clients. Zapata does not make quantum hardware. Instead, it helps organisations figure out which problems quantum computers can solve, then creates the software to do that. It says hardware [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zapata-quantum-joins-ibm-quantum-network-to-build-quantum-applications/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zapata-quantum-joins-ibm-quantum-network-to-build-quantum-applications/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[9 best requirements management tools for functional safety (IEC 61508)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The best requirements management tools for functional safety all protect one thing: the chain of evidence behind a safety case. It runs from a hazard, through the safety requirement that mitigates it, into the design that implements it, and out to the test that proves the design works. Break one link and an assessor stops [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/9-best-requirements-management-tools-for-functional-safety-iec-61508/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/9-best-requirements-management-tools-for-functional-safety-iec-61508/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber to buy ezCater for $2.3bn to bring workplace catering to Uber Eats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber has agreed to buy ezCater, a US platform for workplace catering, for $2.3bn in cash. Uber and ezCater announced the deal in a joint statement on Tuesday. The purchase brings ezCater&rsquo;s catering orders to Uber Eats and to Uber for Business, Uber&rsquo;s service for company accounts. Boston-based ezCater lets businesses order food for meetings, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uber-to-buy-ezcater-for-23bn-to-bring-workplace-catering-to-uber-eats/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uber-to-buy-ezcater-for-23bn-to-bring-workplace-catering-to-uber-eats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tango communities go live for breast cancer research]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mountain View, California, October 5, 2026, TechnologyWire This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, live-streaming platform Tango is bringing together some of its leading creator communities to raise funds for breast cancer research and, just as importantly, encourage more open conversation around a disease that affects millions of women and families worldwide. From October 13-18, several of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tango-communities-go-live-for-breast-cancer-research/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tango-communities-go-live-for-breast-cancer-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistral releases Large 4, a 1 trillion-parameter open-weight AI model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China. Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral&rsquo;s API. The model weights, which enable anyone to download and run it on their own servers, will be available on October [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mistral-releases-large-4-a-1-trillion-parameter-open-weight-ai-model/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mistral-releases-large-4-a-1-trillion-parameter-open-weight-ai-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China. Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral&rsquo;s API. The model weights, which enable anyone to download and run it on their own servers, will be available on October [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/europes-mistral-launches-large-4-to-challenge-chinas-lead-in-open-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/europes-mistral-launches-large-4-to-challenge-chinas-lead-in-open-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP agrees to acquire Belgian AI workforce startup TechWolf]]></title><description><![CDATA[SAP has agreed to buy TechWolf, a Belgian company whose AI maps the skills and daily work of a firm&rsquo;s employees. The two companies announced the deal today but did not disclose its terms. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approval. Until then, the two companies [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sap-agrees-to-acquire-belgian-ai-workforce-startup-techwolf/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sap-agrees-to-acquire-belgian-ai-workforce-startup-techwolf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 best third-party risk management software platforms for 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most companies hand sensitive data to dozens of outside vendors, from payroll providers to cloud hosts. When one of those vendors gets breached, the company that hired it still answers for the damage. Third party risk management software gives security and compliance teams one place to vet each vendor before signing and keep watch on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/10-best-third-party-risk-management-software-platforms-for-2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/10-best-third-party-risk-management-software-platforms-for-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic IPO filing shows CEO Dario Amodei earned $18M last year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dario Amodei earned $18M last year as chief executive of Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, according to the company&rsquo;s IPO prospectus. Reuters reported the figure on Tuesday after seeing the filing, which has not been made public. Most of the package came as stock and options rather than salary. Amodei and his [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-ipo-filing-shows-ceo-dario-amodei-earned-18m-last-year/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-ipo-filing-shows-ceo-dario-amodei-earned-18m-last-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman says OpenAI will disclose more incidents of rogue AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is preparing to disclose more incidents in which its AI models acted without permission, chief executive Sam Altman said. None of them is as serious as the cases already made public, he added. Sam Altman made the comments on the first episode of Politico&rsquo;s Decoded&nbsp;podcast. Politico asked whether he knew of any further rogue [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-openai-will-disclose-more-incidents-of-rogue-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-openai-will-disclose-more-incidents-of-rogue-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy opens investigation into AI music company Suno over its terms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italy&rsquo;s competition authority, the AGCM, has&nbsp;opened an investigation into Suno, the US company whose AI service turns text prompts into songs.The authority said today that parts of Suno&rsquo;s terms of service may be unfair to consumers under Italian law. The case is based on Article 33 of Italy&rsquo;s Consumer Code, and according to this article, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/italy-opens-investigation-into-ai-music-company-suno-over-its-terms/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/italy-opens-investigation-into-ai-music-company-suno-over-its-terms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoom has opened the speech recognition behind its My Notes tool to other companies, and is in conversation with some AI note-taking firms that are considering switching to it, chief technology officer XD Huang told TNW. He said Zoom wants AI that finishes the work discussed in a meeting before the meeting ends. Huang leads [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zoom-cto-xd-huang-on-bringing-steve-jobs-to-every-meeting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zoom-cto-xd-huang-on-bringing-steve-jobs-to-every-meeting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofcom opens investigation into Meta over Instagram Instants risk checks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into Meta over Instagram&rsquo;s Instants feature, the UK regulator&nbsp;said on Tuesday. It will check whether Meta broke the Online Safety Act by failing to assess the feature&rsquo;s risks before launch. Meta launched Instants in May. The feature lets Instagram users share posts that vanish after they&rsquo;re seen. Ofcom will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ofcom-opens-investigation-into-meta-over-instagram-instants-risk-checks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ofcom-opens-investigation-into-meta-over-instagram-instants-risk-checks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chip simulation startup Vinci raises $250m at a $1.5bn valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vinci, the AI software company based in Palo Alto that simulates physics for use in chip and hardware design, has raised $250M at a $1.5bn valuation, the company announced on Tuesday. Advent, Temasek and Xora Innovation led the round, while earlier investors Eclipse and Khosla Ventures participated again, along with Madrona, the company stated. Vinci&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chip-simulation-startup-vinci-raises-250m-at-a-15bn-valuation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chip-simulation-startup-vinci-raises-250m-at-a-15bn-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ABC tells Australian AI inquiry its content has likely been scraped]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian Broadcasting Corporation told a parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday that AI companies have probably already used its content to train their models. The public broadcaster also said AI firms can strike licence deals to use its work,&nbsp;Reuters reported. Kate Gilchrist, the ABC&rsquo;s head of content and legal operations, gave evidence to the Joint Select [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/abc-tells-australian-ai-inquiry-its-content-has-likely-been-scraped/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/abc-tells-australian-ai-inquiry-its-content-has-likely-been-scraped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google reportedly nears $1bn-plus nuclear power deal with Constellation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alphabet&rsquo;s Google is close to an agreement to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Under the multi-year deal, Google would pay Constellation $1bn or more, according to people familiar with the talks. Bloomberg said an announcement may come this week. Yet, Constellation declined to comment to Reuters. Constellation runs more US [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-reportedly-nears-1bn-plus-nuclear-power-deal-with-constellation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-reportedly-nears-1bn-plus-nuclear-power-deal-with-constellation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek reportedly nears $12bn funding round backed by Tencent and CATL]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan, or about $12bn, in a new funding round, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Tencent and the battery maker CATL have committed some of the largest sums, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The Chinese AI lab had first set out to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-reportedly-nears-12bn-funding-round-backed-by-tencent-and-catl/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-reportedly-nears-12bn-funding-round-backed-by-tencent-and-catl/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accenture contractor removed from FBI after unpatched system led to breach]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Accenture contractor has been removed from FBI work following a breach that exposed the personal data of thousands of bureau staff. The FBI acted on Monday, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. A senior FBI official told Reuters that an unnamed contractor had not applied a security fix, known as a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/accenture-contractor-removed-from-fbi-after-unpatched-system-led-to-breach/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/accenture-contractor-removed-from-fbi-after-unpatched-system-led-to-breach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amsterdam’s Hadrian raises $40M for AI-powered offensive security]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hadrian, an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $40m to expand in Europe and the US. Forgepoint Capital International and Smartfin co-led the round, which brings Hadrian&rsquo;s total funding to $65m. HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures were also among the existing investors. Hadrian stated that the funds will be used to expand [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amsterdams-hadrian-raises-40m-for-ai-powered-offensive-security/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amsterdams-hadrian-raises-40m-for-ai-powered-offensive-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France&rsquo;s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin reported all five, he wrote in an update published this month. MCP is the standard [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-jpmorgan-and-two-governments-fixed-the-same-mcp-flaw/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-jpmorgan-and-two-governments-fixed-the-same-mcp-flaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida woman arrested after Anthropic reported her Claude chat to police]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sheriff&rsquo;s deputies have arrested a woman in Florida after Anthropic reported her Claude conversation to law enforcement. In the chat she allegedly said she would &ldquo;shoot up&rdquo; the Lee County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office. WINK News first reported the arrest on 30 September. According to the arrest report, she wrote the statement on 26 September. In a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/florida-woman-arrested-after-anthropic-reported-her-claude-chat-to-police/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/florida-woman-arrested-after-anthropic-reported-her-claude-chat-to-police/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children. The complaint was filed with San Diego Superior Court on Monday, Bloomberg reported. According to the complaint, AppLovin [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/san-diego-sues-applovin-over-explicit-ads-on-kids-devices-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/san-diego-sues-applovin-over-explicit-ads-on-kids-devices-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nokia CEO says data centres would go up twice as fast if supply allowed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nokia&rsquo;s chief executive Justin Hotard says the industry would build data centres twice as fast if memory and energy supply allowed, and that demand would hold even without a new frontier model for three years. Bain and a paper presented at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity both question whether the revenue exists to pay [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nokia-ceo-says-data-centres-would-go-up-twice-as-fast-if-supply-allowed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nokia-ceo-says-data-centres-would-go-up-twice-as-fast-if-supply-allowed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Amodei of ‘alarmist’ AI talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Republican senator Bernie Moreno has accused Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei of taking an &ldquo;alarmist approach&rdquo; to AI. He did so in a letter sent on Monday, ahead of Anthropic&rsquo;s expected stock market listing. Axios first reported the letter. &ldquo;I do not understand how you can ask them to invest their hard-earned savings in Anthropic&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/senator-bernie-moreno-accuses-anthropics-amodei-of-alarmist-ai-talk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/senator-bernie-moreno-accuses-anthropics-amodei-of-alarmist-ai-talk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas city wants $2.3M for public records on police Flock use]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Fort Worth suburb has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to release records on how its police use Flock number plate cameras, a figure reached by estimating 14 years of labour at $15 an hour. Under the EU&rsquo;s law enforcement directive the same information has to be logged as a matter of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/texas-city-wants-23m-for-public-records-on-police-flock-use/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/texas-city-wants-23m-for-public-records-on-police-flock-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta, TikTok and X challenge Ofcom over online safety data, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UK&rsquo;s Online Safety Act, Reuters reported on Monday. The challenge is one of the first brought under the 2023 law. In February, Ofcom sent the companies information notices, according to Paul Sandle&rsquo;s report for Reuters. The notices asked for detailed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-tiktok-and-x-challenge-ofcom-over-online-safety-data-reuters-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-tiktok-and-x-challenge-ofcom-over-online-safety-data-reuters-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok adds an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app. The two features let users buy directly from brands without leaving TikTok, the company said in an announcement at Advertising Week New York on Monday. Buy Direct is an in-app checkout. Users can buy from a brand straight from the For You [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktok-adds-an-ai-shopping-assistant-and-one-click-checkout-to-its-app/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktok-adds-an-ai-shopping-assistant-and-one-click-checkout-to-its-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheaper EVs are fuelling Europe’s electric car boom, and the rules behind them are up for revision]]></title><description><![CDATA[Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%, with 16 models under EUR 25,000 due on sale by the end of the year. Transport and Environment says the version of the 2035 target proposed by Parliament&rsquo;s rapporteur would cut sales of those cheap models by nearly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cheaper-evs-are-fuelling-europes-electric-car-boom-and-the-rules-behind-them-are-up-for-revision/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cheaper-evs-are-fuelling-europes-electric-car-boom-and-the-rules-behind-them-are-up-for-revision/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pinterest hires Amazon’s advertising finance chief as CFO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance chief for global entertainment, advertising and corporate development. He replaces Julia Brau Donnelly, who announced her departure in August, and he inherits a business whose European revenue grew 27% in the first quarter against 13% [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pinterest-hires-amazons-advertising-finance-chief-as-cfo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pinterest-hires-amazons-advertising-finance-chief-as-cfo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model. Beam is built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Reflection will release its weights later this month, the company said in a blog post on Monday. Anyone can download an open-weight model and run it on their [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-backed-reflection-unveils-beam-its-first-open-weight-model/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-backed-reflection-unveils-beam-its-first-open-weight-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is in talks with Abu Dhabi’s MGX and BlackRock for a $30B round]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is in talks with UAE funds including MGX, which may put in as much as $10B together, and with BlackRock, to anchor a $30B round at a $1.4T valuation it is presenting as a fixed price without a lead investor. The EU&rsquo;s AI gigafactory programme carries the same headline number with about EUR 1B [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-is-in-talks-with-abu-dhabis-mgx-and-blackrock-for-a-30b-round/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-is-in-talks-with-abu-dhabis-mgx-and-blackrock-for-a-30b-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At NYC’s AI hearing, ex-lab insiders warn humanity may lose control of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three former AI lab researchers told the New York City Council on Monday that humanity may lose control of the systems the industry is building. The council&rsquo;s AI hearing also questioned policy staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, and weighed 10 bills to regulate AI in the city. &ldquo;On the current path, I think [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/at-nycs-ai-hearing-ex-lab-insiders-warn-humanity-may-lose-control-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/at-nycs-ai-hearing-ex-lab-insiders-warn-humanity-may-lose-control-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to text from ChatGPT and Codex in the EU over the coming weeks. The change covers eligible users on all plans, but only in the EU, the company said in a blog post on Monday. OpenAI said it is acting in response to the EU AI Act, which requires [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-starts-watermarking-chatgpt-and-codex-text-in-the-eu/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-starts-watermarking-chatgpt-and-codex-text-in-the-eu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents it believes OpenAI runs made unapproved edits to its wikis. They also tried and failed to break into a note-taking tool it hosts. Their traffic may have contributed to a partial outage in May, the foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, said in a blog post on Monday. Its investigation found [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/wikimedia-says-rogue-openai-agents-edited-its-wikis-without-approval/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/wikimedia-says-rogue-openai-agents-edited-its-wikis-without-approval/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells]]></title><description><![CDATA[Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm announced it on Monday, according to its press release. Deisseroth works at Stanford University and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nobel-prize-in-medicine-goes-to-the-light-switch-for-brain-cells/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nobel-prize-in-medicine-goes-to-the-light-switch-for-brain-cells/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillance]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy&rsquo;s warrantless search of Flock&rsquo;s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system &ldquo;a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance&rdquo;. Jason Koebler of 404 Media first reported the ruling. &ldquo;It is a tool that collects [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-judge-rules-a-police-flock-search-was-unconstitutional-mass-surveillance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-judge-rules-a-police-flock-search-was-unconstitutional-mass-surveillance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security teams are starting to treat AI like staff, and that means managing it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ask anyone who has worked in a security operations center what the job actually involves, and you&rsquo;ll hear a lot about alerts. Thousands of them, most of which turn out to be nothing. For the past decade, AI&rsquo;s role has been to help with that pile: spot something odd, flag it, and leave the decision [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/security-teams-are-starting-to-treat-ai-like-staff-and-that-means-managing-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/security-teams-are-starting-to-treat-ai-like-staff-and-that-means-managing-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collibra acquires Munich’s trail ML to automate AI governance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy, with no price disclosed. The market exists because of the EU AI Act, whose enforcement powers arrived on 2 August and whose frontier model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/collibra-acquires-munichs-trail-ml-to-automate-ai-governance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/collibra-acquires-munichs-trail-ml-to-automate-ai-governance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s chip chief tells More Than Moore he doesn’t fully trust AI design]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s own AI models changed parts of its Jalape&ntilde;o chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. Ho leads OpenAI&rsquo;s hardware team, and the interview was published on 30 September. &ldquo;Well, I still don&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-chip-chief-tells-more-than-moore-he-doesnt-fully-trust-ai-design/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-chip-chief-tells-more-than-moore-he-doesnt-fully-trust-ai-design/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta&rsquo;s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also paused sales, Business Insider reported. &ldquo;This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dutch-eyewear-chain-hans-anders-stops-selling-metas-ray-ban-glasses/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dutch-eyewear-chain-hans-anders-stops-selling-metas-ray-ban-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access &ldquo;with very explicit user action&rdquo;. The company announced the change on its developer news site on Friday and said AI agents were the reason. &ldquo;As AI agents become increasingly capable [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-adds-new-full-disk-access-controls-on-macs-because-of-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-adds-new-full-disk-access-controls-on-macs-because-of-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PwC and Cohere form an enterprise AI alliance, launching first in Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereign AI company while completing a merger with Germany&rsquo;s Aleph Alpha in which Cohere shareholders take roughly 90%, as Europe drafts rules defining the highest tier of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pwc-and-cohere-form-an-enterprise-ai-alliance-launching-first-in-canada/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pwc-and-cohere-form-an-enterprise-ai-alliance-launching-first-in-canada/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slovenia&rsquo;s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of &ldquo;super intelligence&rdquo;, the name President Donald Trump has told US agencies to use instead of AI. The registry counts 46,066 new .si domains in the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/slovenias-si-domains-hit-20000-in-a-day-after-trump-renamed-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/slovenias-si-domains-hit-20000-in-a-day-after-trump-renamed-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google says some Android apps need developer tuning on Intel Googlebooks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has said a small number of complex Android apps and games need developer tuning to run properly on the Intel versions of its new Googlebook laptops, which reached Britain, Ireland, France and Germany today. Three of the five models use Intel chips and run Android through a translation layer, while the Dell and HP [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-says-some-android-apps-need-developer-tuning-on-intel-googlebooks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-says-some-android-apps-need-developer-tuning-on-intel-googlebooks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risotto launches an ‘Autonomous IT Engineer’ for complex IT tickets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever worked at a large enterprise knows the drill. You submit an IT ticket for a complex software issue, and then you wait. First-generation AI chatbots have successfully managed to automate the low-hanging fruit of Tier-1 support, like password resets and basic software approvals. But they historically hit a brick wall the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/risotto-launches-an-autonomous-it-engineer-for-complex-it-tickets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/risotto-launches-an-autonomous-it-engineer-for-complex-it-tickets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reclinker raises £10m to turn demolition waste back into cement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reclinker, a startup that turns demolition waste back into cement, has raised &pound;10m in a Series A round. It will use the money to move from trials to full commercial production in Cardiff. The company said on Monday that its process cuts cement&rsquo;s emissions in half, at the same cost as conventional cement. Clean Growth [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/reclinker-raises-10m-to-turn-demolition-waste-back-into-cement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/reclinker-raises-10m-to-turn-demolition-waste-back-into-cement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman says AI money in US politics is clearly not working]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the first episode of Decoded, Politico&rsquo;s podcast, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman says the money AI companies are pouring into US politics has failed to improve how people see the technology. &ldquo;Something&rsquo;s clearly not working,&rdquo; he said on the first episode of&nbsp;Politico&rsquo;s Decoded&nbsp;podcast. People often love using AI tools, Altman said, but they are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-ai-money-in-us-politics-is-clearly-not-working/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-ai-money-in-us-politics-is-clearly-not-working/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliveroo is putting delivery robots on the pavements of five UK towns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deliveroo has partnered with the American firm Coco Robotics to run four-wheeled pavement robots in five UK locations, starting in Canary Wharf this month, and says most orders will still go to human riders. Milton Keynes, one of the five, has had robot deliveries since April 2018 through Starship, a company founded in Tallinn and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deliveroo-is-putting-delivery-robots-on-the-pavements-of-five-uk-towns/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deliveroo-is-putting-delivery-robots-on-the-pavements-of-five-uk-towns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is putting ads inside ChatGPT’s image generation]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is testing a visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT, placed by guardrails that assess whether a conversation is emotionally vulnerable or sensitive before an ad appears. Ads already run in 31 European countries, and ChatGPT&rsquo;s designation as a very large online search engine means it must publish a public ad repository by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-is-putting-ads-inside-chatgpts-image-generation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-is-putting-ads-inside-chatgpts-image-generation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huawei and Qualcomm sign patent deal covering 5G, AI and networking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Huawei and Qualcomm have agreed to a multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G, AI, computing and networking, and announced the agreement today. &nbsp;&ldquo;This agreement not only demonstrates the value of Huawei&rsquo;s innovations, but also recognizes Qualcomm&rsquo;s foundational contributions to modern communication technologies,&rdquo; said Alan Fan, Huawei&rsquo;s Chief Intellectual Property Officer.&nbsp; Under the deal, each company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/huawei-and-qualcomm-sign-patent-deal-covering-5g-ai-and-networking/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/huawei-and-qualcomm-sign-patent-deal-covering-5g-ai-and-networking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norway plans temporary ban on AI glasses in parks, schools and gyms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norway&rsquo;s government plans to ban the use of AI glasses in selected public places for a limited time and announced the plan today, saying that people could be filmed or recorded without their knowledge. The ban could cover places where the public often gathers, such as parks, beaches, museums, shopping centres and public events. Moreover, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/norway-plans-temporary-ban-on-ai-glasses-in-parks-schools-and-gyms/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/norway-plans-temporary-ban-on-ai-glasses-in-parks-schools-and-gyms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schneider Electric to buy US software maker PTC for $22.6bn in cash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, a US maker of industrial design and engineering software, for about $22.6bn (&euro;20.1bn) in cash. The French group announced the deal&nbsp;on Monday morning. The announcement came a day after the&nbsp;Financial Times&nbsp;first reported that the two companies were close to an agreement, at a price of about $20bn. Under [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/schneider-electric-to-buy-us-software-maker-ptc-for-226bn-in-cash/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/schneider-electric-to-buy-us-software-maker-ptc-for-226bn-in-cash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman tells Politico the world “should accept some harm from AI”]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI chief Sam Altman says the gains from AI are worth some harm. He also says the tech should stay open to the public. Altman made the comments in&nbsp;an interview with Politico&nbsp;for the first edition of Decoded. The new daily tech newsletter and podcast launches on Monday. TNW has not seen the full interview. &ldquo;We [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-tells-politico-the-world-should-accept-some-harm-from-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-tells-politico-the-world-should-accept-some-harm-from-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI after Trump’s AI order]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX&rsquo;s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, will change its name to SpaceXSI. The plan follows an order from US President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to drop the term &ldquo;artificial intelligence.&rdquo; Musk confirmed the change in a reply on X,&nbsp;Reuters reported, after a user had asked him whether SpaceXAI could [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/elon-musk-says-spacexai-will-be-renamed-spacexsi-after-trumps-ai-order/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/elon-musk-says-spacexai-will-be-renamed-spacexsi-after-trumps-ai-order/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Danish legal research startup Pandektes raises €13.5M Series A]]></title><description><![CDATA[The law is spread across millions of documents in many different places, and finding the right one takes lawyers a lot of time. For decades, a handful of publishers have done that work for them, and in most European countries lawyers have had little choice but to pay for it. In early 2023, Casper Laursen [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/exclusive-danish-legal-research-startup-pandektes-raises-135m-series-a/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/exclusive-danish-legal-research-startup-pandektes-raises-135m-series-a/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk says Tesla’s robotaxis still cannot reliably see pets at night]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk said Tesla&rsquo;s robotaxis are still working on spotting animals that blend into the road at night, describing the problem as grey kittens on grey tarmac, as Austin&rsquo;s hours moved to 11pm from 10pm. The EU&rsquo;s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles votes on bloc-wide approval of the same camera-only sensor suite on 6 October. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-says-teslas-robotaxis-still-cannot-reliably-see-pets-at-night/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-says-teslas-robotaxis-still-cannot-reliably-see-pets-at-night/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China wants solid-state batteries in use by 2030, and CATL rates them four out of nine]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s industry ministry and six other agencies set 2030 as the date for the first large-scale use of all-solid-state batteries, though CATL&rsquo;s chairman rates the technology four out of nine and calls million-vehicle use before 2030 very unlikely. ProLogium&rsquo;s Dunkirk plant, the largest new European cell project since Northvolt went bankrupt, is staged at 0.8 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-wants-solid-state-batteries-in-use-by-2030-and-catl-rates-them-four-out-of-nine/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-wants-solid-state-batteries-in-use-by-2030-and-catl-rates-them-four-out-of-nine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says superintelligence in the wrong hands could be “super dangerous”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, who has put $64.6bn into OpenAI and calls bubble talk absurd, said in Kyoto that superintelligence in the wrong hands could become super dangerous and that countries must cooperate to control it. He spoke beside Michael Kratsios, who launched a 17-country declaration written in Washington&rsquo;s renamed vocabulary and endorsed by Germany, Italy, Poland, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/softbanks-masayoshi-son-says-superintelligence-in-the-wrong-hands-could-be-super-dangerous/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/softbanks-masayoshi-son-says-superintelligence-in-the-wrong-hands-could-be-super-dangerous/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took the opposite route in May, when the EU ratified the Council of Europe treaty whose title uses [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-names-four-officials-to-lead-his-super-intelligence-force/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-names-four-officials-to-lead-his-super-intelligence-force/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia&rsquo;s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times&nbsp;reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New York. Ukrainian news agency&nbsp;UNN&nbsp;cited those details from the FT report. A network for the front line The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zelensky-asked-trump-to-block-russias-starlink-rival-ft-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zelensky-asked-trump-to-block-russias-starlink-rival-ft-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI may cost us our ability to listen, oral historian warns in the Guardian]]></title><description><![CDATA[Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks the bigger loss may be our ability to listen. She made the case in an opinion column for&nbsp;The Guardian. &ldquo;Listening to different views and entering into different worlds is integral to our humanity,&rdquo; she [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-may-cost-us-our-ability-to-listen-oral-historian-warns-in-the-guardian/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-may-cost-us-our-ability-to-listen-oral-historian-warns-in-the-guardian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China]]></title><description><![CDATA[US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department&nbsp;said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Reuters also reported the case, in a story carried by&nbsp;The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-charges-california-man-with-smuggling-300mn-of-ai-servers-to-china/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-charges-california-man-with-smuggling-300mn-of-ai-servers-to-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack]]></title><description><![CDATA[The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India&rsquo;s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, as&nbsp;Bloomberg&nbsp;reported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday. &ldquo;It may begin with a geopolitical event, or cyber [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rbi-chief-says-the-next-financial-crisis-may-start-with-a-cyberattack/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rbi-chief-says-the-next-financial-crisis-may-start-with-a-cyberattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI safety staffer quits, says AI labs should run like nuclear plants]]></title><description><![CDATA[A member of OpenAI&rsquo;s safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AI&rsquo;s risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAI&rsquo;s safety team,&nbsp;Bloomberg&nbsp;reported. He wrote that the ChatGPT maker &ldquo;has thrived by trial and error.&rdquo; That approach no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-safety-staffer-quits-says-ai-labs-should-run-like-nuclear-plants/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-safety-staffer-quits-says-ai-labs-should-run-like-nuclear-plants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership]]></title><description><![CDATA[US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with&nbsp;Axios&nbsp;published on Saturday. &ldquo;This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that&rsquo;s not leadership,&rdquo; Bessent said, as&nbsp;Bloomberg&nbsp;reported. In September, Anthropic&rsquo;s Dario Amodei, OpenAI&rsquo;s Sam Altman and xAI&rsquo;s Elon Musk [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bessent-says-ai-alarmism-without-solutions-is-not-leadership/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bessent-says-ai-alarmism-without-solutions-is-not-leadership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI can’t fix a business system with broken processes]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have come to believe that one of the biggest misconceptions about AI is also one of the most expensive: the idea that technology can repair a business that has never streamlined how its processes actually work. AI can accelerate an operation, automate repetitive work, and surface problems at remarkable speed. Give it a fragmented [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-cant-fix-a-business-system-with-broken-processes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-cant-fix-a-business-system-with-broken-processes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google lifts the Pixel 10a price to $599 as memory costs climb]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google raised the Pixel 10a from $499 to $599 seven months after launch, with no change to the phone, blaming memory costs that its own vice president said had risen from $2.80 per gigabyte to $12. Apple and Samsung have both repriced existing phones in the past month, and Google has not said whether European [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-lifts-the-pixel-10a-price-to-599-as-memory-costs-climb/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-lifts-the-pixel-10a-price-to-599-as-memory-costs-climb/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia hits its first record since May, within $300B of $6T]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, on a rally driven by AI agent demand and a record $150B buyback increase. ASML, Europe&rsquo;s most valuable listed company, needs the same $300B to reach its first trillion. Nvidia hit a record [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-hits-its-first-record-since-may-within-300b-of-6t/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-hits-its-first-record-since-may-within-300b-of-6t/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum sensing could become the next foundation of navigation]]></title><description><![CDATA[GPS has become so embedded in modern life that its infrastructure is almost invisible. A driver opens a map, an aircraft follows its navigation system, or an autonomous machine calculates its position, and the underlying infrastructure disappears from view. Nir Sharon, Chief Quantum Technology Scientist at Quantum X Labs and an associate professor of applied [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/quantum-sensing-could-become-the-next-foundation-of-navigation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/quantum-sensing-could-become-the-next-foundation-of-navigation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robot software startup FieldAI is set to raise $700M at a $10B valuation]]></title><description><![CDATA[FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe&rsquo;s biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its valuation. FieldAI is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/robot-software-startup-fieldai-is-set-to-raise-700m-at-a-10b-valuation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/robot-software-startup-fieldai-is-set-to-raise-700m-at-a-10b-valuation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks since 2 August, but artistic and satirical work gets the lightest disclosure obligations of all. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pope-leo-comes-out-against-ai-generated-art-and-calls-for-an-alliance-with-artists/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pope-leo-comes-out-against-ai-generated-art-and-calls-for-an-alliance-with-artists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027, the same year Volantis plans to ship. Volantis has raised $88M to put light [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volantis-raises-88m-for-a-photonic-memory-layer-built-for-ai-inference/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volantis-raises-88m-for-a-photonic-memory-layer-built-for-ai-inference/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s deliveries fell 2% and still beat expectations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, down 2% year on year but well above the 461,000 analysts expected, with American electric sales down 47% in August after the federal credit expired. Its European registrations rose 43.3% between January and August, outpacing the wider battery-electric market. Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles last quarter, 2% fewer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/teslas-deliveries-fell-2-and-still-beat-expectations/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/teslas-deliveries-fell-2-and-still-beat-expectations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with a Spanish solar producer that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spains-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alibaba-in-early-talks-with-spains-solaria-over-power-for-a-data-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has warned that the US government&rsquo;s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm&rsquo;s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported&nbsp;on Friday after seeing the document. The prospectus has not been made public, and TNW has not seen [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-tells-ipo-investors-us-government-actions-could-hit-its-business/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-tells-ipo-investors-us-government-actions-could-hit-its-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 3 million people prompt Meta&rsquo;s Muse at least once a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information. More than 1 million send the AI agent a prompt every day, Jyoti Mann reported. The weekly figure is part of a wider group. More than 4 million people use Muse in some way [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metas-muse-reportedly-passes-3-million-weekly-users-and-5m-downloads/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metas-muse-reportedly-passes-3-million-weekly-users-and-5m-downloads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-East Asia. The deal, signed this year, is worth about $7bn, and Tencent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tencent-leases-100000-ai-chips-from-oracle-in-a-7bn-deal-ft-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tencent-leases-100000-ai-chips-from-oracle-in-a-7bn-deal-ft-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic&rsquo;s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday&rsquo;s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei replied that it was important to be honest, according to the report. The exchange came just after [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-huang-questioned-amodeis-ai-warnings-at-white-house-wsj-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidias-huang-questioned-amodeis-ai-warnings-at-white-house-wsj-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net income reached $37.7bn, up from $3.2bn a year earlier. Gross margin hit 86.8%, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/micron-sees-the-memory-shortage-tightening-into-2028-after-a-record-quarter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/micron-sees-the-memory-shortage-tightening-into-2028-after-a-record-quarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yann LeCun does not worry &ldquo;at all&rdquo; about AI wiping out humanity, and he has &ldquo;zero concerns&rdquo; about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei &ldquo;deluded&rdquo; and, later in the interview, &ldquo;crazy&rdquo;. LeCun [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/yann-lecun-calls-anthropics-dario-amodei-deluded-fortune-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/yann-lecun-calls-anthropics-dario-amodei-deluded-fortune-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU set to name AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission plans to name Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in November,&nbsp;Bloomberg reported&nbsp;on Friday. Citing people familiar with the matter, it said regulators are finishing an investigation that will find both cloud services fall under the bloc&rsquo;s Big Tech rules. The decision is still a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-set-to-name-aws-and-azure-dma-gatekeepers-in-november/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eu-set-to-name-aws-and-azure-dma-gatekeepers-in-november/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics firm. Some of their tactics left records erased or out of reach. Public data [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/california-subpoenas-openai-as-investigators-trace-its-agents-to-the-cdc/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/california-subpoenas-openai-as-investigators-trace-its-agents-to-the-cdc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings]]></title><description><![CDATA[In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It was one of 13 AI bills he signed that day. The law, SB 947, bars employers from relying solely on an [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/newsom-signs-13-ai-bills-including-a-ban-on-ai-only-firings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/newsom-signs-13-ai-bills-including-a-ban-on-ai-only-firings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI race is becoming a test of strategy, not just software]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI has become remarkably good at making organizations move faster and more efficiently. The harder question is whether companies know where they should be going. As artificial intelligence moves deeper into everyday work, the competitive divide is beginning to shift from access to technology toward the quality of the decisions surrounding it. &nbsp;Gallup reports that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-ai-race-is-becoming-a-test-of-strategy-not-just-software/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-ai-race-is-becoming-a-test-of-strategy-not-just-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google&rsquo;s Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index, with 58. The score is 23 points above Gemini [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gemini-4-argon-matches-gpt-6-astra-and-hallucinates-far-less-in-early-tests/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gemini-4-argon-matches-gpt-6-astra-and-hallucinates-far-less-in-early-tests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI industry&rsquo;s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. &ldquo;Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they&rsquo;re going to operationalize it,&rdquo; said Chris Lehane, OpenAI&rsquo;s chief global affairs officer. TNW is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-says-trumps-ai-accord-needs-more-detail-semafor-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-says-trumps-ai-accord-needs-more-detail-semafor-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon pledges $1bn over five years to US data centre communities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programme, called Built Together, in a post on Friday, along with new commitments on power, water and transparency. The money will go to three areas: education [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-pledges-1bn-over-five-years-to-us-data-centre-communities/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-pledges-1bn-over-five-years-to-us-data-centre-communities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America isn’t short of electricity. It’s short of places to plug in fast enough.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening and&nbsp;the system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a third from solar. Nothing broke. Yet much of the discussion around artificial intelligence and electricity suggests a looming shortage.&nbsp;American data centers&nbsp;used&nbsp;about 176 terawatt-hours [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/america-isnt-short-of-electricity-its-short-of-places-to-plug-in-fast-enough/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/america-isnt-short-of-electricity-its-short-of-places-to-plug-in-fast-enough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord opens its ad business to smaller brands, Ars Technica reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, it&nbsp;said&nbsp;on Tuesday. Select advertisers can use it now. Full self-serve access is due in early 2027. Until [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/discord-opens-its-ad-business-to-smaller-brands-ars-technica-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/discord-opens-its-ad-business-to-smaller-brands-ars-technica-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caverion to build €15M substation for Nebius data centre in Finland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Caverion Finland has agreed to design and build a substation for Nebius&rsquo;s new data centre in M&auml;nts&auml;l&auml;, southern Finland, in a deal valued at about &euro;15 million. The company announced the contract on Friday and expects to finish the work by autumn 2027. The substation will link the data centre to the high-voltage grid and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/caverion-to-build-15m-substation-for-nebius-data-centre-in-finland/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/caverion-to-build-15m-substation-for-nebius-data-centre-in-finland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a liar and a bullshitter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you don&rsquo;t expect to see in an academic journal, &ldquo;On Bullshit.&rdquo; It stayed largely inside academic circles for the better part of twenty years. Then in 2005 Princeton University Press decided to reprint it as a tiny hardcover, 67 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-difference-between-a-liar-and-a-bullshitter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-difference-between-a-liar-and-a-bullshitter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI broke the economics of software. Vayu wants to be the first to tell a CFO which customers are losing them money]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract for an AI product. They use it heavily, which is what every vendor wants. Every one of those uses costs the vendor money: tokens, compute, third-party model calls. The invoice goes out at the agreed price. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-broke-the-economics-of-software-vayu-wants-to-be-the-first-to-tell-a-cfo-which-customers-are-losing-them-money/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-broke-the-economics-of-software-vayu-wants-to-be-the-first-to-tell-a-cfo-which-customers-are-losing-them-money/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French state-owned Bull doubles supercomputer output at Angers factory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bull, the French state-owned supercomputer maker, has doubled production at its factory in Angers, western France, after an &euro;80 million rebuild. The plant now assembles 12 racks a month, up from six, executives told&nbsp;Reuters, which first reported the expansion on Thursday. Output could rise to 24 racks next year if demand continues to grow. Bull [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/french-state-owned-bull-doubles-supercomputer-output-at-angers-factory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/french-state-owned-bull-doubles-supercomputer-output-at-angers-factory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank completes $30bn OpenAI investment with final $10bn payment]]></title><description><![CDATA[SoftBank Group has completed its $30bn follow-on investment in OpenAI, after paying the third and final $10bn tranche on 1 October, Japan time. The Japanese group made the payment through its Vision Fund 2, it&nbsp;said on Thursday. With this payment, SoftBank has now put $64.6bn into OpenAI in total, for a stake of about 13%. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/softbank-completes-30bn-openai-investment-with-final-10bn-payment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/softbank-completes-30bn-openai-investment-with-final-10bn-payment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and JERA, FT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan&rsquo;s biggest power generator is teaming up with Dell to build AI data centres across the country. The push could cost as much as $140bn, the&nbsp;Financial Times&nbsp;reported. JERA, Dell and UK developer RHAELM signed a non-binding agreement on Thursday, JERA&nbsp;said. Private equity firm Apollo will help fund the work as RHAELM&rsquo;s financing partner. The first [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/japan-eyes-140bn-ai-data-centre-push-with-dell-and-jera-ft-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/japan-eyes-140bn-ai-data-centre-push-with-dell-and-jera-ft-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has parted ways with three employees who it says mishandled sensitive company information. The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal&nbsp;first reported the exits on Thursday. Two of the three were safety researchers, and one was a research programme manager, Rachel Metz reported for&nbsp;Bloomberg. They allegedly gave company details to an outside group that tests AI models, a person [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-cuts-ties-with-three-staff-over-sensitive-information-wsj-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-cuts-ties-with-three-staff-over-sensitive-information-wsj-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CFPB can’t say if data on abandoned office kit is safe, watchdog finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot confirm that IT equipment it left in four closed offices is secure, a watchdog has found. J.J. McCorvey reported the audit for&nbsp;Bloomberg. The bureau ended the leases on its New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta offices in early 2025. It left technology behind, and still cannot confirm [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cfpb-cant-say-if-data-on-abandoned-office-kit-is-safe-watchdog-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cfpb-cant-say-if-data-on-abandoned-office-kit-is-safe-watchdog-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM’s Q3 sales drop 5.5% as its electric models collapse and Toyota closes to within 136,000]]></title><description><![CDATA[GM&rsquo;s third-quarter sales fell 5.5% and its electric models collapsed, with the Equinox EV down 92.4% to 1,905 cars after America ended its $7,500 purchase credit. Europe kept its mandates, where electric cars took 29% of new registrations in August and drivers pay about twice the American petrol price. GM sold 5.5% fewer vehicles last [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gms-q3-sales-drop-55-as-its-electric-models-collapse-and-toyota-closes-to-within-136000/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gms-q3-sales-drop-55-as-its-electric-models-collapse-and-toyota-closes-to-within-136000/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Factory and Cognition bosses clash over adviser’s exit, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[The heads of two AI coding startups are fighting in public over an adviser who switched sides, as Carmen Arroyo reported for Bloomberg. Factory chief executive Matan Grinberg said on X on Wednesday that he was cutting ties with Chris Degnan, an adviser of about a year. Degnan was later named chief revenue officer at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/factory-and-cognition-bosses-clash-over-advisers-exit-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/factory-and-cognition-bosses-clash-over-advisers-exit-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung lifts prices across most of the Galaxy S26 range by $100]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung has added $100 to the Galaxy S26, S26+ and Ultra and $200 to the 1TB Ultra, seven months after the phones went on sale, blaming the memory shortage. The same shortage made Samsung&rsquo;s semiconductor division 94% of company profit in the first quarter while its mobile division&rsquo;s operating profit fell about 38%. Samsung has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/samsung-lifts-prices-across-most-of-the-galaxy-s26-range-by-100/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/samsung-lifts-prices-across-most-of-the-galaxy-s26-range-by-100/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grindr to buy HIV prevention telehealth firm Freddie for $250mn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grindr has agreed to buy PurposeMed, the company behind HIV prevention service Freddie, for $250mn in cash and stock, it said in a statement&nbsp;on Wednesday. Grindr will pay $190mn in cash and $60mn in shares. Up to $70mn more in cash depends on Freddie hitting targets in 2027. The deal is expected to close by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/grindr-to-buy-hiv-prevention-telehealth-firm-freddie-for-250mn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/grindr-to-buy-hiv-prevention-telehealth-firm-freddie-for-250mn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coliving startup PadSplit expands to San Francisco, New York and Chicago]]></title><description><![CDATA[PadSplit rents out single rooms in shared homes. It is now moving into the San Francisco Bay Area, the New York metro area and Chicago, the company said in a&nbsp;press release&nbsp;on Thursday. The Atlanta-based startup lets homeowners split houses into furnished private bedrooms with shared kitchens and living rooms. Residents pay weekly, with utilities and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coliving-startup-padsplit-expands-to-san-francisco-new-york-and-chicago/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coliving-startup-padsplit-expands-to-san-francisco-new-york-and-chicago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSMC eyes a multibillion-dollar Texas campus for more AI chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Congress extending a 35% manufacturing tax credit. Its only European plant, the Dresden joint venture, totals above EUR 10B and will run 28nm to 12nm nodes rather than anything used for AI. TSMC is eyeing a Texas campus [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tsmc-eyes-a-multibillion-dollar-texas-campus-for-more-ai-chips/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tsmc-eyes-a-multibillion-dollar-texas-campus-for-more-ai-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI startup is driving 3,400 miles to film how Americans live with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The founder of a US AI software company is taking a camera crew on a road trip to ask ordinary Americans how AI is changing their lives. The documentary, called America vs. AI, will cover about 3,400 miles and more than 20 cities this month, AskBobAI said in a&nbsp;press release. TNW has not independently verified [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/an-ai-startup-is-driving-3400-miles-to-film-how-americans-live-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/an-ai-startup-is-driving-3400-miles-to-film-how-americans-live-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart shelf labels will light up to guide shoppers, CNBC reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walmart is turning its digital shelf labels into a way to find things. Shoppers can now make the label under a product flash from the Walmart app, as Laya Neelakandan reported for CNBC. The feature, called Shop to Light, is moving from a pilot to a wide rollout. Customers have already used it to flash [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/walmart-shelf-labels-will-light-up-to-guide-shoppers-cnbc-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/walmart-shelf-labels-will-light-up-to-guide-shoppers-cnbc-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn before taking over Microsoft&rsquo;s Office group, will leave the company at the end of 2026, as Jordan Novet reported for CNBC. Chief executive Satya Nadella announced the exit in a memo to staff on Thursday, according to CNBC. &ldquo;Ryan leaves the organization in a strong position,&rdquo; Nadella wrote In his [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/linkedins-former-chief-ryan-roslansky-to-leave-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/linkedins-former-chief-ryan-roslansky-to-leave-microsoft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford’s CEO says it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ford chief executive Jim Farley said it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers and that the United States should take its time deciding. Ford&rsquo;s own answer in Europe is a Valencia joint venture in which Geely holds 34% and will build two of the four electric models from 2028. Ford&rsquo;s chief [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/fords-ceo-says-it-is-too-late-for-europe-to-fend-off-chinese-carmakers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/fords-ceo-says-it-is-too-late-for-europe-to-fend-off-chinese-carmakers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FedEx is buying 2,000 electric trucks for $300M, and investing in the company building them]]></title><description><![CDATA[FedEx has ordered 2,000 electric delivery trucks worth $300M from Harbinger, a Californian startup it also backed with a Series C investment last year. Europe&rsquo;s equivalents, Volta Trucks and Tevva, both went under, and a European logistics depot needs ten to twenty times its current power capacity to run an electric fleet. FedEx has ordered [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/fedex-is-buying-2000-electric-trucks-for-300m-and-investing-in-the-company-building-them/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/fedex-is-buying-2000-electric-trucks-for-300m-and-investing-in-the-company-building-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America&rsquo;s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the White House on 28 September. TIME has published the full transcript, along with a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-tells-time-the-us-might-take-stakes-in-openai-and-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-tells-time-the-us-might-take-stakes-in-openai-and-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia&rsquo;s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country&rsquo;s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in submissions to Parliament&rsquo;s Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Josh Butler reported the submissions for the Guardian [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropic&rsquo;s IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of tensor processing units (TPUs), the AI chips Google designs with Broadcom. Echo Wang, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/broadcom-to-lend-anthropic-up-to-42bn-for-its-chips-reuters-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/broadcom-to-lend-anthropic-up-to-42bn-for-its-chips-reuters-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kanu AI raises $11.7m to turn how staff work into software they own]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kanu AI has come out of stealth with $11.7m in funding. The Seattle startup builds software that runs inside a customer&rsquo;s own cloud. Accel, BMW i Ventures and a16z speedrun joined a round led by Trilogy Equity Partners, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. &ldquo;Companies have spent decades buying software built around someone [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/kanu-ai-raises-117m-to-turn-how-staff-work-into-software-they-own/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/kanu-ai-raises-117m-to-turn-how-staff-work-into-software-they-own/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails]]></title><description><![CDATA[Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It builds infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend software running through failures. Singular led the round, with Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Its total funding is now $27m. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process]]></title><description><![CDATA[Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures also took part, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The round comes a year after its previous one [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metaview-raises-60m-to-put-ai-agents-across-the-whole-hiring-process/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metaview-raises-60m-to-put-ai-agents-across-the-whole-hiring-process/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘When everyone’s responsible, no one is’: the AI champion problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champion&rsquo;s time. A month later, the manager had taken it back. There [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/when-everyones-responsible-no-one-is-the-ai-champion-problem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/when-everyones-responsible-no-one-is-the-ai-champion-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instagram’s Edits app gets an AI assistant that reads your Reels data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instagram is putting a chatbot inside Edits, its video editing app for creators. The tool reads a creator&rsquo;s Instagram data and suggests what to make next. It is rolling out to all Edits users in the US, Brett Westervelt, who leads the app, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. &ldquo;One thing we heard consistently: [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/instagrams-edits-app-gets-an-ai-assistant-that-reads-your-reels-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/instagrams-edits-app-gets-an-ai-assistant-that-reads-your-reels-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsoft&rsquo;s gaming chief published on Wednesday. &ldquo;Xbox is not for sale,&rdquo; Sharma said. &ldquo;We will do whatever it takes to set the company up for success, and we will [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xbox-is-not-for-sale-ceo-asha-sharma-tells-the-new-york-times/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xbox-is-not-for-sale-ceo-asha-sharma-tells-the-new-york-times/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still work in the lab]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides a signature in the amino acid sequence or predicted 3D structure of a protein. The lab announced it on Wednesday in a blog post and a paper in Nature. Google DeepMind says a test can find the signature [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-deepminds-watermarked-ai-proteins-still-work-in-the-lab/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-deepminds-watermarked-ai-proteins-still-work-in-the-lab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn Any Photo Into Retro ASCII Art in Seconds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turn any photo into gloriously retro ASCII art &mdash; made entirely from letters, symbols, and tiny bits of chaos. This free tool turns your dog, face, logo, or worst holiday photo into something that belongs on a 1980s terminal. You will absolutely waste 10 minutes on it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/turn-any-photo-into-retro-ascii-art-in-seconds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/turn-any-photo-into-retro-ascii-art-in-seconds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies]]></title><description><![CDATA[MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China&rsquo;s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday as an Espionage Alert. It is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mi5-says-over-100-uk-academics-worked-on-projects-funded-by-chinas-spies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mi5-says-over-100-uk-academics-worked-on-projects-funded-by-chinas-spies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m]]></title><description><![CDATA[GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that invests in AI and robotics, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-backed-gmi-cloud-raises-668m-as-contracted-revenue-tops-600m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-backed-gmi-cloud-raises-668m-as-contracted-revenue-tops-600m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company&rsquo;s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlantic on Tuesday. Dario Amodei opposed it. It was one of several disputes that led [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-2017-plan-to-auction-agi-to-china-and-russia-per-the-atlantic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-2017-plan-to-auction-agi-to-china-and-russia-per-the-atlantic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McDonald’s uses AI to set an optimal price at each store, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[McDonald&rsquo;s is using an AI pricing engine to recommend what each of its nearly 14,000 restaurants should charge for every menu item, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The engine covers the US and some markets abroad. One factor the engine weighs is an estimate of how much each store&rsquo;s customers are willing to pay. Waylon Cunningham [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mcdonalds-uses-ai-to-set-an-optimal-price-at-each-store-reuters-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mcdonalds-uses-ai-to-set-an-optimal-price-at-each-store-reuters-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI could set off shocks in financial markets, and the UK has to be ready for them, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC on Thursday. He said the Bank is watching the money flowing into AI &ldquo;very carefully&rdquo;. Mitchell Labiak and Faisal Islam of the BBC asked him whether an AI bubble [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bank-of-englands-bailey-warns-the-ai-boom-could-bring-market-shocks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bank-of-englands-bailey-warns-the-ai-boom-could-bring-market-shocks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a super PAC that backs pro-AI candidates for Congress. Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac reported the move for The New York Times on Wednesday. Leading the Future had said the couple would give $50m in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[A final investment decision on Project Kilby, a huge gas-powered data centre in West Texas, could slip from the end of this year to 2027 because of state politics. Tim McDonnell reported the news for Semafor&nbsp;on Thursday. The project, near Pecos in the Permian Basin, will use about 2.67GW of on-site gas turbines to power [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/texas-politics-may-delay-chevron-data-centre-decision-semafor-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/texas-politics-may-delay-chevron-data-centre-decision-semafor-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips it buys. The credit cut almost $4bn off its tax bill last year. Kashmir Hill, Jesse Drucker, Eli Tan and Mike [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-tells-the-irs-its-ai-data-centres-are-experiments-nyt-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-tells-the-irs-its-ai-data-centres-are-experiments-nyt-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei&rsquo;s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang, a programming language DeepSeek offers as a simpler alternative to Nvidia&rsquo;s CUDA. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on Wednesday in a post on its WeChat account. The release includes compute and communication libraries for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-open-sources-huawei-chip-tools-as-a-simpler-alternative-to-cuda/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-open-sources-huawei-chip-tools-as-a-simpler-alternative-to-cuda/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI progresses from generating text in isolated environments toward initiating transactions, influencing decisions, and contributing to&nbsp;production code, the consequences of an error may extend across interconnected systems. Splunk&rsquo;s 2026 research, released by&nbsp;Cisco&nbsp;in partnership with Oxford Economics, estimates that unplanned [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-control-becomes-a-new-enterprise-resilience-priority/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-control-becomes-a-new-enterprise-resilience-priority/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits]]></title><description><![CDATA[GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. Anthropic&rsquo;s Frontier Red Team published the findings in a research post. Zhipu [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-says-chinas-glm-53-nearly-matches-mythos-at-cyber-exploits/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-says-chinas-glm-53-nearly-matches-mythos-at-cyber-exploits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use.ai puts 10+ AI models in one app and reaches 1 million monthly users]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every new AI model creates another reason to switch. For users who have already built up months or years of conversations, preferences, files and personal context inside one platform, moving to a better model can also mean starting again. Use.ai was built around the idea that people should be able to switch between the intelligence [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/useai-puts-10-ai-models-in-one-app-and-reaches-1-million-monthly-users/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/useai-puts-10-ai-models-in-one-app-and-reaches-1-million-monthly-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maximor rebrands as Hyphenate after 86x revenue growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maximor, the autonomous finance company, has rebranded as Hyphenate. The new name reflects the company&rsquo;s expansion across the office of the CFO and follows 86x revenue growth over the past 12 months. Finance software spent the last decade breaking the office of the CFO into point solutions. There was one for close, another for billing, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/maximor-rebrands-as-hyphenate-after-86x-revenue-growth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/maximor-rebrands-as-hyphenate-after-86x-revenue-growth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump tells Axios that Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has said that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar, Axios reported on Tuesday. Trump has said he wants to name a czar within three or four days. Maria Curi of Axios asked Trump who he wanted for the role. He said he had someone in mind. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-tells-axios-that-jay-clayton-would-make-a-good-ai-czar/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-tells-axios-that-jay-clayton-would-make-a-good-ai-czar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI seeks $30bn at a $1.4tn valuation as revenue nears $70bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is in early talks to raise at least $30bn at a valuation of around $1.4tn, before the new money. Bloomberg and The Information reported the talks on Tuesday. The round would give the ChatGPT maker fresh capital after it pushed back its stock market listing. Rebecca Torrence, Edward Ludlow and Shirin Ghaffary reported for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-seeks-30bn-at-a-14tn-valuation-as-revenue-nears-70bn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-seeks-30bn-at-a-14tn-valuation-as-revenue-nears-70bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US lawmaker asks five AI firms how they guard model weights from China]]></title><description><![CDATA[US Congressman Ro Khanna has asked five leading American AI companies to share what they know about attempts by China or other hostile actors to steal their model weights. The letters went to the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX, Reuters reported. Model weights are the numbers learned during training that make [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-lawmaker-asks-five-ai-firms-how-they-guard-model-weights-from-china/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-lawmaker-asks-five-ai-firms-how-they-guard-model-weights-from-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg drafted Trump’s AI accord, but Microsoft and Amazon didn’t sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunch where the CEOs agreed it. Ashley Gold first reported the story for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zuckerberg-drafted-trumps-ai-accord-but-microsoft-and-amazon-didnt-sign/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zuckerberg-drafted-trumps-ai-accord-but-microsoft-and-amazon-didnt-sign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monk hosts Net 30, an applied AI summit on the future of finance]]></title><description><![CDATA[On October 21, 150 CFOs, operators, founders and researchers will gather at The Times Center in New York. They will discuss how AI is reshaping cash, capital and the finance function. In a Gartner survey of 183 CFOs, 84% of finance organizations had deployed AI or planned to. Yet only 7% reported a high impact. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/monk-hosts-net-30-an-applied-ai-summit-on-the-future-of-finance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/monk-hosts-net-30-an-applied-ai-summit-on-the-future-of-finance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspected Chinese hackers posed as US AI insiders, Proofpoint says]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday. Proofpoint has identified the group as TA419 and has said that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/suspected-chinese-hackers-posed-as-us-ai-insiders-proofpoint-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/suspected-chinese-hackers-posed-as-us-ai-insiders-proofpoint-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PLD Space and CNES to study a second launch pad in French Guiana]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, the company announced that PLD Space had entered into an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, and that both parties were considering building a second launch pad for PLD&rsquo;s rockets at the spaceport in French Guiana. They will examine whether the new pad can be accommodated at the ELM-Diamant site of the Guiana [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pld-space-and-cnes-to-study-a-second-launch-pad-in-french-guiana/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pld-space-and-cnes-to-study-a-second-launch-pad-in-french-guiana/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Osavul raises €8.5M Series A to expand hybrid threat intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Osavul, an AI startup that spots state-backed attacks before they happen, has raised &euro;8.5M in a Series A round. 33N Ventures, a European cybersecurity fund, led the round, and it brings the total Osavul has raised to about &euro;12m. Balnord, G+D Ventures and earlier backer 42CAP also put in money. Osavul now runs from London [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/osavul-raises-85m-series-a-to-expand-hybrid-threat-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/osavul-raises-85m-series-a-to-expand-hybrid-threat-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon creates Autonomous Warfare Command to scale drones and AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US military is establishing a new command to develop and field drones, robots, and other autonomous systems across all its branches. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom, on Wednesday. Hegseth made the announcement in his annual State of the Force speech to junior officers and enlisted personnel at Marine [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pentagon-creates-autonomous-warfare-command-to-scale-drones-and-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pentagon-creates-autonomous-warfare-command-to-scale-drones-and-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MuleSoft founder’s DIG Ventures closes $120M fund for AI infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[DIG Ventures, the London-based firm led by MuleSoft founder Ross Mason, has closed its third fund at $120M. Fund III will back around 30 European pre-seed and seed-stage startups that build software infrastructure for AI. Its institutional backers include Horsley Bridge, Sofina, Granite and an unnamed US university endowment. The founders of Slack, Datadog, Nord [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mulesoft-founders-dig-ventures-closes-120m-fund-for-ai-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mulesoft-founders-dig-ventures-closes-120m-fund-for-ai-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 28 May and again on 9 June, AI agents carried out several simple hacking attempts against a search tool operated by Library and Archives Canada. Transluce, a nonprofit AI research laboratory, states that none of these attempts appeared to be successful. They set out the findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The lab [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-made-failed-hacking-attempts-on-canadas-national-archive/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-made-failed-hacking-attempts-on-canadas-national-archive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk, Luckey and Gingrich get 120 days to map America’s future wars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-direct Project Meridian. The Pentagon study will identify the technology the US military needs to fight future wars. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commissioned it on Wednesday, the Department of War said. The findings are due by 28 January 2027, 120 days after the announcement, according to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-luckey-and-gingrich-get-120-days-to-map-americas-future-wars/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/musk-luckey-and-gingrich-get-120-days-to-map-americas-future-wars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wednesday. Koray Kavukcuoglu, who now runs Google DeepMind day to day, called Argon [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-unveils-gemini-4-argon-and-cyber-defenders-get-it-first/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-unveils-gemini-4-argon-and-cyber-defenders-get-it-first/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BMW’s electric 3 Series costs $4,400 less than its petrol M350 in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[BMW&rsquo;s first electric 3 Series will cost $4,400 less in the US than its most powerful petrol sibling. The 2027 i3 50 xDrive starts at $61,500 and the petrol M350 xDrive at $65,900, BMW said as it opened US orders. Both prices exclude a $1,350 destination charge. BMW now sells the eighth-generation 3 Series with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bmws-electric-3-series-costs-4400-less-than-its-petrol-m350-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bmws-electric-3-series-costs-4400-less-than-its-petrol-m350-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tokyo court rules the human voice is protected, in a TikTok AI clone case]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Tokyo court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese law protects the human voice. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda had sued TikTok over videos he says used an AI clone of his voice. He won in part, as the court turned down his request to remove the videos, Agence France-Presse reported. AFP believes the lawsuit is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tokyo-court-rules-the-human-voice-is-protected-in-a-tiktok-ai-clone-case/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tokyo-court-rules-the-human-voice-is-protected-in-a-tiktok-ai-clone-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[44,000 object to Palantir’s NHS data platform, the Guardian reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to stop the NHS&rsquo;s Federated Data Platform handling their health records. The platform runs on Palantir software. The campaign asks NHS England to stop the platform sharing, storing or using their data, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. The objections rely on article 21 of the UK GDPR, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/44000-object-to-palantirs-nhs-data-platform-the-guardian-reports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/44000-object-to-palantirs-nhs-data-platform-the-guardian-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is paying 100 publishers for AI answers, The Information reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized sites in the pilot, the payments come to less than a tenth of 1% of their advertising revenue, The Information reported on Tuesday. Alix Coutures and Catherine Perloff reported, citing people familiar with the tests, that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-is-paying-100-publishers-for-ai-answers-the-information-reports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-is-paying-100-publishers-for-ai-answers-the-information-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress]]></title><description><![CDATA[Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI &ldquo;stealth bots&rdquo;. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tuesday. Those making the trip include Cond&eacute; Nast CEO Roger Lynch, Hearst Magazines president [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/300-publishers-take-their-fight-against-ai-stealth-bots-to-congress/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/300-publishers-take-their-fight-against-ai-stealth-bots-to-congress/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DoorDash Air unveils a drone delivery system, and cannot yet fly it out of sight]]></title><description><![CDATA[DoorDash has unveiled the aircraft behind DoorDash Air and will begin pilot deliveries in Northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes. Manna, which flew more than 300,000 deliveries from Dublin and Cork, paused Irish operations in June for want of a national policy and is building a factory in Oklahoma. DoorDash has unveiled the aircraft behind [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doordash-air-unveils-a-drone-delivery-system-and-cannot-yet-fly-it-out-of-sight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doordash-air-unveils-a-drone-delivery-system-and-cannot-yet-fly-it-out-of-sight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk&rsquo;s SpaceX. It makes the Grok [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacexai-weighs-one-grok-and-x-plan-from-free-to-100-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacexai-weighs-one-grok-and-x-plan-from-free-to-100-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boeing beats Northrop to build the US Navy’s $20bn F/A-XX fighter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Boeing will build the US Navy&rsquo;s next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC and Axios put it at more than 0bn. The programme could grow to hundreds of billions of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/boeing-beats-northrop-to-build-the-us-navys-20bn-fa-xx-fighter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/boeing-beats-northrop-to-build-the-us-navys-20bn-fa-xx-fighter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a site&rsquo;s new posts in a feed reader. Moderators who use it for alerts can move to a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-on-13-november-blaming-ai-scraping/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-on-13-november-blaming-ai-scraping/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalist&rsquo;s private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Meta&rsquo;s communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday. &ldquo;It can&rsquo;t read your Messages unless you do this,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-denies-its-muse-ai-agent-read-a-journalists-private-messages/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-denies-its-muse-ai-agent-read-a-journalists-private-messages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nissan wants hybrids to lead by 2030. In Britain a hybrid took an electric car’s factory slot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nissan has told Automotive News it wants hybrids and extended-range models to be its primary powertrain in North and Latin America by 2030. In Britain the same strategy is already built: a &pound;170M hybrid Kicks is going into the Sunderland slot promised to an electric Qashqai that Nissan stopped developing in early 2025. Nissan wants [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nissan-wants-hybrids-to-lead-by-2030-in-britain-a-hybrid-took-an-electric-cars-factory-slot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nissan-wants-hybrids-to-lead-by-2030-in-britain-a-hybrid-took-an-electric-cars-factory-slot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America.gov, the US government’s AI chatbot, contradicted Trump on day one]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the launch in Washington to set up the site. The General Services [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/americagov-the-us-governments-ai-chatbot-contradicted-trump-on-day-one/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/americagov-the-us-governments-ai-chatbot-contradicted-trump-on-day-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon&rsquo;s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures &ldquo;almost constantly&rdquo; on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property. Customers will have no way to opt out, see the images or ask for them to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-customers-cant-opt-out-of-driver-camera-glasses-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-customers-cant-opt-out-of-driver-camera-glasses-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says Moonshot-linked users tried to extract its AI reasoning]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low volume. It spiked on 24 and 25 July, with 16,000 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-says-moonshot-linked-users-tried-to-extract-its-ai-reasoning/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-says-moonshot-linked-users-tried-to-extract-its-ai-reasoning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung’s new tablets arrive more expensive, and its tracker lasts longer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung&rsquo;s Galaxy Tab S12+ and S12 Ultra reach Europe on 7 October at 1,299 and 1,539 euros, roughly 180 euros above the model the first replaces, against a 100 dollar rise in America. The entry-level 11-inch tablet was not updated, which is what the memory shortage has been doing to cheap devices all year, while [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/samsungs-new-tablets-arrive-more-expensive-and-its-tracker-lasts-longer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/samsungs-new-tablets-arrive-more-expensive-and-its-tracker-lasts-longer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CScale exits stealth with $145m to stop laser failures stalling AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[CScale, a Palo Alto startup building optical interconnect for AI data centres, has come out of stealth with $145m in Series C funding. The round takes its total funding to $188m, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Atreides Management led the round, with Valor Equity Partners and Premji Invest as co-leads. Sutter Hill [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cscale-exits-stealth-with-145m-to-stop-laser-failures-stalling-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cscale-exits-stealth-with-145m-to-stop-laser-failures-stalling-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oura postpones its $2.2bn IPO, citing market uncertainty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oura has postponed its Nasdaq IPO, citing &ldquo;uncertainty in the IPO market&rdquo;. The Finnish-founded smart ring maker said so in a statement on Tuesday, a week after it launched the offering. It said it is postponing &ldquo;despite strong demand&rdquo;, and gave no new date. Oura had planned to sell 50 million shares at $40 to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oura-postpones-its-22bn-ipo-citing-market-uncertainty/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oura-postpones-its-22bn-ipo-citing-market-uncertainty/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI from accessing computer systems without authorisation. The ban would cover the AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-is-sued-over-the-rogue-agents-that-hacked-hugging-face/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-is-sued-over-the-rogue-agents-that-hacked-hugging-face/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled &ldquo;Why I&rsquo;m joining Cognition&rdquo;. &ldquo;There are real safety and security issues raised by AI, but they can be fixed. It&rsquo;s time to get to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alex-stamos-joins-cognition-to-make-ai-security-affordable/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alex-stamos-joins-cognition-to-make-ai-security-affordable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22bn in a $300m share sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[ElevenLabs is now worth $22bn, double its $11bn valuation in February. Employees and existing investors sold $300m of shares, the voice AI company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Wellington Management and T. Rowe Price led the deal. Six investors bought in for the first time. They are EQT, Goldman Sachs, Singapore&rsquo;s GIC, Ontario [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/elevenlabs-doubles-its-valuation-to-22bn-in-a-300m-share-sale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/elevenlabs-doubles-its-valuation-to-22bn-in-a-300m-share-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News. The New York Post first reported the probe earlier on Wednesday, citing administration officials. Marisa Schultz and Josh Christenson reported that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ftc-opens-probe-into-openai-anthropic-and-other-ai-labs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ftc-opens-probe-into-openai-anthropic-and-other-ai-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages]]></title><description><![CDATA[DoorDash has opened an American waitlist for an AI agent that takes food orders inside Apple&rsquo;s Messages app, using your order history and stored payment method. Bloomberg&rsquo;s testing found it giving prices that differed from the app, which in Europe is a consumer law question rather than a bug. DoorDash has built an AI agent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doordash-launches-a-text-to-order-ai-agent-that-runs-inside-apple-messages/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doordash-launches-a-text-to-order-ai-agent-that-runs-inside-apple-messages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon launches a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a new remote design]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has launched a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a redesigned remote, running its own Vega operating system rather than Android. That switch also removes sideloading, and the Digital Markets Act cannot require Amazon to restore it, because none of its operating systems is designated. Amazon has launched the Fire TV Stick 4K, which [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-launches-a-faster-fire-tv-stick-4k-with-a-new-remote-design/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-launches-a-faster-fire-tv-stick-4k-with-a-new-remote-design/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ElevenLabs opens Brussels office and plans to triple its Belgian team]]></title><description><![CDATA[ElevenLabs has launched in Belgium&nbsp;and opened an office in Brussels, the voice AI company said on Wednesday. The office is in the European District, close to the main EU buildings. ElevenLabs has named Falke Van Onacker to lead its Belgian business and plans to triple its local team this year. Most new staff will work [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/elevenlabs-opens-brussels-office-and-plans-to-triple-its-belgian-team/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/elevenlabs-opens-brussels-office-and-plans-to-triple-its-belgian-team/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a private AI retreat, the vendor told us the tool won’t save you]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grady Sokaras, Zapier&rsquo;s head of sales, opened a session at the company&rsquo;s private AI retreat with a line about the kind of product Zapier sells. &ldquo;A tool is never the solution,&rdquo; Sokaras said. A company that buys the product and expects a transformation gets &ldquo;one more piece of dependency or shelfware&rdquo;. The retreat was Zapier [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/at-a-private-ai-retreat-the-vendor-told-us-the-tool-wont-save-you/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/at-a-private-ai-retreat-the-vendor-told-us-the-tool-wont-save-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yahoo already holds what AI agents ask people for first, their email and their calendar, CEO Jim Lanzone told TNW. He said Yahoo will launch more personalised, agentic products &ldquo;in the months ahead&rdquo;. Lanzone spoke to TNW in an exclusive interview at HumanX in Amsterdam on 23 September, for the first episode of the relaunched [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jim-lanzone-on-yahoos-plan-to-fix-ai-search-with-more-links-to-publishers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jim-lanzone-on-yahoos-plan-to-fix-ai-search-with-more-links-to-publishers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IONNA launches driver council as its US fast-charging network doubles]]></title><description><![CDATA[IONNA, the electric vehicle charging network established by eight car manufacturers, now operates over 180 charging sites in the United States, which is more than twice the number it had at the beginning of 2026. The company, based in Durham, North Carolina, is launching a council of well-known electric-vehicle reviewers to feed driver complaints back [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ionna-launches-driver-council-as-its-us-fast-charging-network-doubles/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ionna-launches-driver-council-as-its-us-fast-charging-network-doubles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carrier filtering is blocking legitimate SMS. The operators getting through are doing three things differently]]></title><description><![CDATA[A business registers its number, writes a plain appointment reminder and sends it. The text never arrives. Nothing bounces back. Somewhere between the sender and the phone, a filter simply drops it. US carriers filter business text messaging for three main reasons: spam volume, complaint rates and messages that do not match the business that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/carrier-filtering-is-blocking-legitimate-sms-the-operators-getting-through-are-doing-three-things-differently/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/carrier-filtering-is-blocking-legitimate-sms-the-operators-getting-through-are-doing-three-things-differently/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complaint accuses EU of hiding data centres’ energy and water use]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty that grants people the right to access environmental information and to participate in environmental decision-making; the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/complaint-accuses-eu-of-hiding-data-centres-energy-and-water-use/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/complaint-accuses-eu-of-hiding-data-centres-energy-and-water-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents built on Chinese models have lied, hidden their failures, and got around limits in tests, a Reuters review of more than 200 research documents has found. The same kind of behavior has worried experts about US systems. Reuters has identified at least 20 studies and tests conducted since 2025 that describe such instances, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chinese-powered-ai-agents-show-the-same-deception-as-their-us-rivals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chinese-powered-ai-agents-show-the-same-deception-as-their-us-rivals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pharos brings AI agents onchain with an Agent Native upgrade for RealFi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, announced an Agent Native upgrade on the Korea Blockchain Week keynote stage. It introduces protocol-level infrastructure and AI-powered tools designed to let AI agents operate as native participants in onchain finance. The rollout begins today and continues through the fourth quarter. It includes an Agent Native upgrade on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pharos-brings-ai-agents-onchain-with-an-agent-native-upgrade-for-realfi/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pharos-brings-ai-agents-onchain-with-an-agent-native-upgrade-for-realfi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascerta raises $18M from Dell’s venture arm to show which AI pays off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to a material line item. Companies can count tokens, licenses, agent runs and lines of AI-generated code. Yet many still cannot answer the question that determines what happens next: which AI initiatives are actually worth scaling. Ascerta was built to give them that answer. The company formerly known as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ascerta-raises-18m-from-dells-venture-arm-to-show-which-ai-pays-off/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ascerta-raises-18m-from-dells-venture-arm-to-show-which-ai-pays-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple will launch its smart home push on 13 October, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple plans to launch its long-delayed range of smart home devices on 13 October,&nbsp;Bloomberg reported&nbsp;on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The launch would be a key product expansion for the company under John Ternus, who became chief executive on 1 September. At the center of the plan is a smart home hub code-named [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-will-launch-its-smart-home-push-on-13-october-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apple-will-launch-its-smart-home-push-on-13-october-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“AI, or SI, pardon me” will give you better healthcare than Elon Musk gets, says Elon Musk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President Donald Trump, after the president&rsquo;s lunch with tech leaders. He began by praising &ldquo;the positive benefits of AI, or SI, pardon me&rdquo;, correcting himself [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-or-si-pardon-me-will-give-you-better-healthcare-than-elon-musk-gets-says-elon-musk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-or-si-pardon-me-will-give-you-better-healthcare-than-elon-musk-gets-says-elon-musk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First a gulf, then a lake, now a technology. Trump orders US agencies to call AI ‘super intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has now renamed a gulf, a lake, and a technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order telling every federal agency to stop saying &lsquo;artificial intelligence&rsquo; and to call it &lsquo;super intelligence&rsquo;, or SI, instead. Also, on his Truth Social account, he posted 2 pages from the document, subtitled &ldquo;Inaugurating The Era [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/first-a-gulf-then-a-lake-now-a-technology-trump-orders-us-agencies-to-call-ai-super-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/first-a-gulf-then-a-lake-now-a-technology-trump-orders-us-agencies-to-call-ai-super-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aspirity to buy majority stake in Danish IoT company Onomondo]]></title><description><![CDATA[London-based private equity firm Aspirity Partners has agreed to buy a majority stake in Onomondo, a Copenhagen firm that runs its own network to connect machines and sensors. The deal, announced on Wednesday, is part of a combined investment of more than &euro;100m. EIFO, Denmark&rsquo;s state investment fund, is also adding to its stake. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/aspirity-to-buy-majority-stake-in-danish-iot-company-onomondo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/aspirity-to-buy-majority-stake-in-danish-iot-company-onomondo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI gets more interesting when it meets the physical world]]></title><description><![CDATA[A transporter pulls up to a construction site outside Riyadh, unloads a delivery of bulk cement, and sends a photo of the delivery note through WhatsApp. For most of BRKZ&rsquo;s history, that photo was the start of a chain of human work. Someone had to read the document, find the matching order, verify the quantity, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-gets-more-interesting-when-it-meets-the-physical-world/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-gets-more-interesting-when-it-meets-the-physical-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta expands Instagram’s School Partnership Program in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is adding new features to Instagram&rsquo;s School Partnership Program in the US, allowing schools and verified high school students to share news about clubs, sports teams, and events, the company announced. The update arrives a month after Meta&rsquo;s&nbsp;settlement with US states&nbsp;over claims that it designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. Under that agreement, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-expands-instagrams-school-partnership-program-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-expands-instagrams-school-partnership-program-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistral CEO tells CNBC US AI safety debate covers rivals’ ‘negligence’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch said the US debate over AI safety has been a cover for the &ldquo;negligence&rdquo; of some of his rivals. He made the comments to Annette Weisbach in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. &ldquo;The debate that we&rsquo;ve seen in the U.S. has been a cover for the negligence of some [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mistral-ceo-tells-cnbc-us-ai-safety-debate-covers-rivals-negligence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mistral-ceo-tells-cnbc-us-ai-safety-debate-covers-rivals-negligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump left a White House lunch with more than two dozen tech leaders on Tuesday, still set against the backdrop of new AI safety rules. He told reporters the executives had agreed that companies should police themselves, NBC News reported. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/after-ai-lunch-trump-backs-self-regulation-and-plans-to-rename-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/after-ai-lunch-trump-backs-self-regulation-and-plans-to-rename-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM will spend $1B making the first manganese-rich cells in mass production]]></title><description><![CDATA[GM and LG Energy Solution will spend $1B turning their Spring Hill plant into the first factory to mass-produce prismatic lithium manganese-rich cells. Europe&rsquo;s carmakers are spending comparable sums on lithium iron phosphate, the chemistry GM&rsquo;s battery chief says may never earn its way into its cars. General Motors and LG Energy Solution will spend [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gm-will-spend-1b-making-the-first-manganese-rich-cells-in-mass-production/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gm-will-spend-1b-making-the-first-manganese-rich-cells-in-mass-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. &ldquo;A few weeks ago we reached that goal. We now [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-openai-now-has-an-ai-research-intern/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-says-openai-now-has-an-ai-research-intern/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch]]></title><description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance, arguing that it would help Beijing catch up with American companies. He spoke on Tuesday in Washington shortly before hosting AI executives for lunch at the White House. He told the audience that AI had come up only [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-rules-out-working-with-china-on-ai-safety-before-tech-ceo-lunch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-rules-out-working-with-china-on-ai-safety-before-tech-ceo-lunch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. OpenAI and Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, at OpenAI&rsquo;s DevDay 2026 event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The product is in limited preview, says the AWS product page. OpenAI built it with Amazon [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-agents-can-now-run-entirely-inside-amazons-cloud/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-agents-can-now-run-entirely-inside-amazons-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is halving the usage included in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan and launching a $500 plan with its fastest speed tier. It also unveiled shared team workspaces, a meeting note-taker and @ChatGPT for Slack and Microsoft Teams. The launches came at DevDay 2026 in San Francisco on Tuesday, attended by 2,500 developers. They are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-halves-pro-200-usage-and-launches-a-500-chatgpt-plan-at-devday/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-halves-pro-200-usage-and-launches-a-500-chatgpt-plan-at-devday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work. It costs a fifth of Astra&rsquo;s standard input and output token prices, OpenAI said on Tuesday at its DevDay 2026 event. The model is an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, which OpenAI released [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-releases-gpt-61-sol-at-a-fifth-of-gpt-6-astras-token-prices/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-releases-gpt-61-sol-at-a-fifth-of-gpt-6-astras-token-prices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their own cloud computers and work on a user&rsquo;s behalf. The company announced dots at its DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday. They run on GPT-6 Astra and are rolling out in ChatGPT to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets. Each dot [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-launches-dots-always-on-ai-agents-with-their-own-cloud-computers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-launches-dots-always-on-ai-agents-with-their-own-cloud-computers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Thirty-one people have confirmed their attendance, according to an RSVP list obtained [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-and-mark-zuckerberg-among-31-guests-at-trumps-ai-lunch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-and-mark-zuckerberg-among-31-guests-at-trumps-ai-lunch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple&rsquo;s new chief executive, John Ternus, is reshaping the company to release products more often and cut layers of management, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Ternus, 51, took over on 1 September after Tim Cook&rsquo;s 15 years in the job. Apple declined to comment. Ternus wants Apple to rely less on its fixed spring and autumn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apples-new-ceo-cuts-managers-to-ship-products-faster-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apples-new-ceo-cuts-managers-to-ship-products-faster-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents are joining your workforce. Your workforce isn’t ready]]></title><description><![CDATA[Executives are making a dangerous mistake with AI. They are preparing employees to use new tools when they should be preparing them to work differently. As AI agents begin to recommend, decide, coordinate, and act, the real transformation is not happening inside the software. It is happening inside the organization. If leaders do not prepare [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-are-joining-your-workforce-your-workforce-isnt-ready/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-are-joining-your-workforce-your-workforce-isnt-ready/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PwC survey of 49,000 workers finds most are falling behind on AI skills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly two-thirds of workers have used AI at work in the past year. Yet fewer say they can get the training they need, PwC found in its 2026 Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey. The firm surveyed 49,364 workers across 48 countries and regions in May and June. It published the results on Tuesday. In [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pwc-survey-of-49000-workers-finds-most-are-falling-behind-on-ai-skills/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pwc-survey-of-49000-workers-finds-most-are-falling-behind-on-ai-skills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen’s affordable EV plans have a new Chinese partner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volkswagen has agreed three joint ventures with China&rsquo;s Gotion to build lithium iron phosphate battery capacity, selling 49% of PowerCo&rsquo;s Valencia plant and taking minority stakes in a Slovak cell plant and a Moroccan cathode plant. Volkswagen says Europe currently has no relevant capacity of its own in the chemistry. Volkswagen has agreed three joint [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagens-affordable-ev-plans-have-a-new-chinese-partner/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagens-affordable-ev-plans-have-a-new-chinese-partner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA pays Boeing $359m to get Starliner flying, eyes crew return by 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA will pay Boeing $359m to help get its Starliner spacecraft flying again. It will also buy two more Starliner flights to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing announced the plan at a news conference on Monday, and NASA set it out in a statement. It wants astronauts back on Starliner by 2028. &ldquo;I [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nasa-pays-boeing-359m-to-get-starliner-flying-eyes-crew-return-by-2028/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nasa-pays-boeing-359m-to-get-starliner-flying-eyes-crew-return-by-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia talks to insurers about loans backed by its AI chips, FT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has talked to insurers about taking on some of the risk of loans backed by its AI chips, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The talks are at an early stage and may not lead to any deals, according to the FT. TNW has not independently verified the report. One idea would insure loans [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-talks-to-insurers-about-loans-backed-by-its-ai-chips-ft-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-talks-to-insurers-about-loans-backed-by-its-ai-chips-ft-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for its data centres, Bain says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI industry will need about $6tn in annual revenue by 2031 to pay for the data centres being built today. Bain &amp; Company makes the estimate in its Global Technology Report, published on Tuesday. Existing AI products could bring in only $1.2tn to $1.8tn of that. &ldquo;The debate today is fixated on employee productivity. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-needs-6tn-a-year-by-2031-to-pay-for-its-data-centres-bain-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-needs-6tn-a-year-by-2031-to-pay-for-its-data-centres-bain-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BYD says it will have a solid-state car next year, the earliest date anyone has given]]></title><description><![CDATA[BYD executive vice-president Stella Li says the company will have one model with solid-state batteries next year, which is the earliest date any carmaker has given. Toyota says 2027 or 2028, Mercedes and Honda closer to 2030, and LG Energy Solution puts solid-state in electric cars roughly a decade away. BYD will have one model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/byd-says-it-will-have-a-solid-state-car-next-year-the-earliest-date-anyone-has-given/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/byd-says-it-will-have-a-solid-state-car-next-year-the-earliest-date-anyone-has-given/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates tells Ezra Klein AI crossed bio and cyber thresholds this year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show, in an interview published by The New York Times on Tuesday. &ldquo;We crossed the cyber threshold and we crossed the bio threshold [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bill-gates-tells-ezra-klein-ai-crossed-bio-and-cyber-thresholds-this-year/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bill-gates-tells-ezra-klein-ai-crossed-bio-and-cyber-thresholds-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude is down as Anthropic investigates errors across its services]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is experiencing high error rates with Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API, and users have reported failed requests as well as difficulties loading their conversations. Claude is currently unavailable to some users as Anthropic investigates high error rates across several of its services. The company published on its status page that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/claude-is-down-as-anthropic-investigates-errors-across-its-services/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/claude-is-down-as-anthropic-investigates-errors-across-its-services/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude is down: Anthropic investigates outage affecting Claude.ai, Code and API]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to the company&rsquo;s status page, Anthropic is investigating increased error rates affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API. The issue started on 29 September at 14:21 UTC, and Anthropic stated that users could encounter failed requests, errors when loading or sending conversations, and messages prompting them to sign in again; however, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/claude-is-down-anthropic-investigates-outage-affecting-claudeai-code-and-api/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/claude-is-down-anthropic-investigates-outage-affecting-claudeai-code-and-api/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI safety warnings are not &ldquo;fake news&rdquo;, Pope Leo XIV said on Monday. He told reporters the world should heed the concerns of AI experts. He spoke on his flight back to Rome after a four-day trip to France. He said he was not in &ldquo;panic mode&rdquo;, and that he sleeps at night. &ldquo;I do [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pope-leo-says-ai-safety-fears-are-not-fake-news-criticises-jensen-huang/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pope-leo-says-ai-safety-fears-are-not-fake-news-criticises-jensen-huang/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google will end ChromeOS updates in mid-2034 as Googlebook OS arrives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google will stop updating ChromeOS in mid-2034, it says on a support page for schools and businesses that manage Chromebooks. Many newer Chromebooks will be able to switch to Googlebook OS, the system behind Google&rsquo;s new Googlebook laptops, which is built on Android&rsquo;s tech stack. &ldquo;ChromeOS devices will continue to receive regular updates and security [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-will-end-chromeos-updates-in-mid-2034-as-googlebook-os-arrives/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-will-end-chromeos-updates-in-mid-2034-as-googlebook-os-arrives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manus, the AI agent startup founded in China and now based in Singapore, launched Manus 2.0 on Monday. It also released Cue, a standalone app for personal AI agents. In Cue, each agent gets its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer, the company wrote in a blog post. &ldquo;Manus 2.0 is not a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/manus-20-and-cue-give-ai-agents-their-own-email-phone-and-wallet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/manus-20-and-cue-give-ai-agents-their-own-email-phone-and-wallet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copilot users’ photos reach human reviewers uncensored, 404 Media reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft&rsquo;s Copilot see the photos users upload for AI editing, with faces uncensored, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on Monday. They also see the prompts users type, and many of those requests are sexual, according to internal documents the outlet obtained. &ldquo;Faces are always uncensored, and many of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/copilot-users-photos-reach-human-reviewers-uncensored-404-media-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/copilot-users-photos-reach-human-reviewers-uncensored-404-media-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moca Chain goes live as AI agents need a way to prove who they are]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They&rsquo;re shopping, booking trips, signing up for services, and increasingly acting on their users&rsquo; behalf. However, when an agent shows up at a website or app, how does the business know who it&rsquo;s working for, and what it&rsquo;s actually allowed to do? Moca Network, the digital identity [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/moca-chain-goes-live-as-ai-agents-need-a-way-to-prove-who-they-are/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/moca-chain-goes-live-as-ai-agents-need-a-way-to-prove-who-they-are/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary]]></title><description><![CDATA[House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be &ldquo;voluntary&rdquo;, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel&rsquo;s &ldquo;Squawk Box&rdquo; hours before a meeting with AI leaders and President Donald Trump in Washington. &ldquo;I hope it&rsquo;s voluntary. We&rsquo;ll find out what comes out of the meeting today. I think [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/speaker-mike-johnson-tells-cnbc-he-hopes-ai-guardrails-are-voluntary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/speaker-mike-johnson-tells-cnbc-he-hopes-ai-guardrails-are-voluntary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a bill that would ban AI models that improve themselves until federal safeguards exist, Garrett Downs reported for CNBC on Monday. Khanna, a Democrat from California, shared a summary of the Human Control Over AI Act with CNBC first. TNW has not seen the bill. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s actually a civilizational [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ro-khanna-plans-a-bill-to-ban-self-improving-ai-cnbc-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ro-khanna-plans-a-bill-to-ban-self-improving-ai-cnbc-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caterers see a $3.2bn market in feeding AI data centre workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Feeding, housing and entertaining the people who build AI data centers could be worth $3.2bn a year to catering companies by 2032, Bloomberg reported, citing analysts at Bloomberg Intelligence. Aramark, Compass Group and Sodexo have already been engaged to carry out jobs ranging from laundry to providing food service throughout the day. The report includes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/caterers-see-a-32bn-market-in-feeding-ai-data-centre-workers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/caterers-see-a-32bn-market-in-feeding-ai-data-centre-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York City Council has subpoenaed Elon Musk&rsquo;s SpaceXAI to testify under oath at a hearing on AI safety, Speaker Julie Menin said on Monday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have all agreed to appear. The hearing is set for Monday 5 October. It is a rare Committee of the Whole, which brings all [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/new-york-city-council-subpoenas-musks-spacexai-over-ai-safety/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/new-york-city-council-subpoenas-musks-spacexai-over-ai-safety/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in UK government tests]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-6 Astra ran full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated tests, the UK&rsquo;s AI Security Institute (AISI) said on Monday. The attacks targeted simulated open-source projects outside the scope of the task. AISI had only asked the model to complete a cybersecurity evaluation. Every action ran in a simulation, so the model touched no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gpt-6-astra-ran-simulated-supply-chain-attacks-in-uk-government-tests/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gpt-6-astra-ran-simulated-supply-chain-attacks-in-uk-government-tests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta launches Muse for small businesses, linking its AI agent to Shopify]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is bringing its Muse AI agent to small businesses, letting owners connect it to the software they already use to run their companies, the company announced today. The new version, Muse for Small Business, works with Shopify, Stripe, Canva and Intuit&rsquo;s QuickBooks, among others. The agent can also read analytics from Instagram business accounts [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-launches-muse-for-small-businesses-linking-its-ai-agent-to-shopify/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-launches-muse-for-small-businesses-linking-its-ai-agent-to-shopify/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025, while its revenue grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6bn, Reuters reported on Monday. Echo Wang, who reviewed the draft filing, reported that nearly a quarter of that revenue came from just two customers. Reuters did not name them. Anthropic&rsquo;s IPO prospectus has not been made public, and TNW has not seen [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-lost-42bn-in-2025-as-revenue-grew-12-fold-reuters-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-lost-42bn-in-2025-as-revenue-grew-12-fold-reuters-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Prompt Box is Swallowing Website Interfaces Whole]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, web designers obsessed over perfecting menus, tabs, and dropdowns. Now a single empty prompt box is quietly replacing them all. As AI turns websites into conversations, we're gaining incredible speed&mdash;but we may be losing something unexpected: the joy of discovery.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/how-the-prompt-box-is-swallowing-website-interfaces-whole/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/how-the-prompt-box-is-swallowing-website-interfaces-whole/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google to fix enterprise firefighting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Enterprise software is never finished. Once SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics goes live, the business keeps changing. Over the years, thousands of company-specific rules get built into the software. When something breaks, the answer is rarely in one place. Keeping it all running costs enterprises more than $600 billion a year. Dodge AI has [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dodge-ai-raises-265m-from-accel-and-google-to-fix-enterprise-firefighting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dodge-ai-raises-265m-from-accel-and-google-to-fix-enterprise-firefighting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI, Blackstone and unions form a data centre alliance, Axios reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI, Blackstone, QTS and SoftBank Group have teamed up with US unions to head off state data centre moratoriums, Axios reported on Monday. The American Infrastructure Alliance wants to agree data centre standards with state and local officials in 2027, Hans Nichols wrote. The group will start with campaigns in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-blackstone-and-unions-form-a-data-centre-alliance-axios-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-blackstone-and-unions-form-a-data-centre-alliance-axios-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starship’s engine failure could slow NASA’s plan to return to the moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[The engine failure on SpaceX&rsquo;s latest Starship test could make it harder for NASA to land astronauts on the Moon on schedule, Reuters reported&nbsp;on Tuesday. The spacecraft reached orbit for the first time on Monday, but only after a Raptor engine shut down early. During that&nbsp;14th test flight, the ship released 26 Starlink satellites, its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/starships-engine-failure-could-slow-nasas-plan-to-return-to-the-moon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/starships-engine-failure-could-slow-nasas-plan-to-return-to-the-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch]]></title><description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson also attending. Mark Zuckerberg from Meta and Dario Amodei from Anthropic are among the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-to-host-mark-zuckerberg-dario-amodei-and-other-ai-leaders-at-white-house-lunch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-to-host-mark-zuckerberg-dario-amodei-and-other-ai-leaders-at-white-house-lunch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop on NixOS]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dutch government is building its own open source workplace for civil servants, with a desktop operating system built on the Linux distribution NixOS. Eight municipalities are now testing the project, called DAWO, Dutch tech site Tweakers reported last week. DAWO stands for Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid, or Digital Autonomous Government Work Environment. Its blueprint [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-dutch-government-is-building-its-own-linux-desktop-on-nixos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-dutch-government-is-building-its-own-linux-desktop-on-nixos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says]]></title><description><![CDATA[ByteDance occupies roughly a fifth of China&rsquo;s delivered data centre capacity, and it rents nearly all of it, according to research firm SemiAnalysis. That makes the TikTok owner the key customer for every wholesale data centre operator in China, the firm said. It published the estimate in a report on Friday. The estimate comes from [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bytedance-rents-a-fifth-of-chinas-data-centre-capacity-semianalysis-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bytedance-rents-a-fifth-of-chinas-data-centre-capacity-semianalysis-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn in stock]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI model startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn. AMD announced the deal on Monday. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su. AMD expects the deal to close by the end of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amd-agrees-to-buy-fei-fei-lis-world-labs-for-82bn-in-stock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amd-agrees-to-buy-fei-fei-lis-world-labs-for-82bn-in-stock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rayon raises €10M to bring AI and 3D to its interior design software]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rayon, the Paris-based startup that has created software allowing interior designers to draw floor plans in a web browser, announced that it has raised 10 million euros in its Series A financing round, with Partech as the lead investor. Northzone, Foundamental, and Seedcamp, which had previously backed the company, also participated in the funding round. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rayon-raises-10m-to-bring-ai-and-3d-to-its-interior-design-software/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/rayon-raises-10m-to-bring-ai-and-3d-to-its-interior-design-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung and five affiliates put $1bn into KKR’s AI infrastructure firm]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the group said that six of Samsung&rsquo;s companies are pooling their resources to make a $1bn investment in Helix Digital Infrastructure, a company that KKR set up in June specifically to build AI data centers. Samsung Electronics is investing $500M, with the remainder allocated among its affiliates. The companies in question are Samsung [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/samsung-and-five-affiliates-put-1bn-into-kkrs-ai-infrastructure-firm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/samsung-and-five-affiliates-put-1bn-into-kkrs-ai-infrastructure-firm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X withheld nearly 500 accounts in Turkey in a week, censorship monitor says]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to a report by Bloomberg on Tuesday, X has concealed around 500 accounts from users in Turkey over the past week, many of which are operated by reporters, economists and academics. The figure is provided by EngelliWeb, a censorship monitoring project operated by the Turkish rights group &#304;F&Ouml;D. EngelliWeb states that the blocks were [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/x-withheld-nearly-500-accounts-in-turkey-in-a-week-censorship-monitor-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/x-withheld-nearly-500-accounts-in-turkey-in-a-week-censorship-monitor-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two-thirds of finance teams now use AI tools, CFO Connect survey finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is now a standard feature in finance departments, with 67% of finance teams currently using one or more AI tools, up from 56% the previous year and 31% in 2024. That is the main finding of a&nbsp;poll&nbsp;of 215 senior finance staff by CFO Connect, a community for finance leaders run by the expense management [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/two-thirds-of-finance-teams-now-use-ai-tools-cfo-connect-survey-finds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/two-thirds-of-finance-teams-now-use-ai-tools-cfo-connect-survey-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI apologises to Australia and names four agencies its models accessed]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has apologized to Australia after its models accessed four government websites without permission during training in June. The company also admitted it should have given an earlier warning. Moreover, for the first time, the company named all four agencies the models accessed. Two are health data bodies: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-apologises-to-australia-and-names-four-agencies-its-models-accessed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-apologises-to-australia-and-names-four-agencies-its-models-accessed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK employers are the most wary of AI in hiring, recruiter’s survey suggests]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than half of UK employers in a new survey by recruitment firm Morgan McKinley said they do not use AI to hire, compared with 36% across all seven markets polled. That makes the UK the most cautious in the group, though its figure rests on a small number of companies. In the third quarter [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-employers-are-the-most-wary-of-ai-in-hiring-recruiters-survey-suggests/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-employers-are-the-most-wary-of-ai-in-hiring-recruiters-survey-suggests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget]]></title><description><![CDATA[France wants the billions of euros Google has paid in EU fines to lower what member states pay into the bloc&rsquo;s budget. Benjamin Haddad, the Minister Delegate for European Affairs, made the case in an interview with the TV channel Franceinfo on Tuesday, Reuters reported. &ldquo;This is a new revenue source for the European Union, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/france-says-google-fines-should-cut-what-eu-countries-pay-into-the-budget/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/france-says-google-fines-should-cut-what-eu-countries-pay-into-the-budget/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI cancels October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after failed safety tests]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has called off the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed to meet its own safety and alignment standards in testing. The Wall Street Journal broke the news on Monday, and OpenAI later confirmed the decision to Reuters. The model was meant to follow GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI released on 3 September, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-cancels-october-launch-of-gpt-61-astra-after-failed-safety-tests/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-cancels-october-launch-of-gpt-61-astra-after-failed-safety-tests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has gone to court to challenge two EU orders that would require it to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data with other search engines, Reuters reported. It filed both cases at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Monday. In July, the European Commission issued orders under the Digital Markets [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-takes-eu-to-court-over-orders-to-share-search-data-with-ai-rivals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-takes-eu-to-court-over-orders-to-share-search-data-with-ai-rivals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic founders to keep 50.1% of votes after IPO through Founder LLC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic&rsquo;s seven co-founders will hold 50.1% of the company&rsquo;s voting power after it lists. They will do so through a new entity called the Founder LLC, according to a draft IPO filing reviewed by Reuters. The setup is meant to let them put the company&rsquo;s mission ahead of market pressure. Still, the document has not [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-founders-to-keep-501-of-votes-after-ipo-through-founder-llc/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-founders-to-keep-501-of-votes-after-ipo-through-founder-llc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marble raises €6.5M Series A led by Smartfin for its open-source fraud and AML platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris-based company Marble, which develops open-source software for fraud detection and anti-money laundering compliance, raised &euro;6.5 million in its Series A round, with Smartfin as the lead investor. This brings the total funding to &euro;9 million, with ADNEXUS as a new investor, while existing investors Passion Capital, 42Capital, and Hexa have each increased their [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/marble-raises-65m-series-a-led-by-smartfin-for-its-open-source-fraud-and-aml-platform/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/marble-raises-65m-series-a-led-by-smartfin-for-its-open-source-fraud-and-aml-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta signs deal for Firmus AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has signed deals to rent AI chips at data centers in Southeast Asia run by Firmus, an Australian company that builds them, the two companies announced. Meta has reserved a certain amount of capacity and can add more if needed. Also, the company plans to use the chips to research, build, and train its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-signs-deal-for-firmus-ai-computing-capacity-in-southeast-asia/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-signs-deal-for-firmus-ai-computing-capacity-in-southeast-asia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soneium and DayOneDream partner to bring K-pop IP onchain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Soneium has partnered with DayOneDream to bring K-pop intellectual property onchain as tokenised assets. Sony Group and Startale Group developed the Soneium blockchain. DayOneDream is the entertainment group behind K-pop artists including BTOB, LEE CHAE YEON, MEMI and 2F. It also runs global concerts and IP management. The partnership centres on WAVIST, DayOneDream&rsquo;s platform for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/soneium-and-dayonedream-partner-to-bring-k-pop-ip-onchain/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/soneium-and-dayonedream-partner-to-bring-k-pop-ip-onchain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel&rsquo;s Decoder podcast. He added that each of his earlier predictions on bot traffic had been wrong. They were wrong because bots grew faster than he expected. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cloudflares-prince-tells-the-verge-bots-could-be-1000x-human-traffic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cloudflares-prince-tells-the-verge-bots-could-be-1000x-human-traffic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an &ldquo;intelligence explosion&rdquo;. They include OpenAI&rsquo;s chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder. Such an event could compress years of progress into months or less, they wrote in a paper published on Monday. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hinton-bengio-and-ai-lab-scientists-warn-of-an-intelligence-explosion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hinton-bengio-and-ai-lab-scientists-warn-of-an-intelligence-explosion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management &amp; Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/simaai-raises-150m-at-a-145bn-valuation-for-physical-ai-chips/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/simaai-raises-150m-at-a-145bn-valuation-for-physical-ai-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK&rsquo;s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must &ldquo;harden&rdquo; their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party&rsquo;s annual conference. Fortune&rsquo;s Kamal Ahmed asked him about a warning from Jacob Coxon, a researcher who quit Anthropic this month. Narayan [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-ai-minister-says-ai-testing-is-not-enough-fortune-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-ai-minister-says-ai-testing-is-not-enough-fortune-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic ends enterprise customers&rsquo; discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, the report said. Kevin McLaughlin of The Information spoke to software company managers who buy from both AI companies. When Anthropic customers hit their contracted token volume, they must [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-ends-discounts-once-tokens-run-out-the-information-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-ends-discounts-once-tokens-run-out-the-information-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A user says Meta’s Muse gave his address to a Marketplace buyer]]></title><description><![CDATA[A YouTuber says Meta&rsquo;s Muse agent gave his home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and then told the buyer he was home when he wasn&rsquo;t. Matt Robb described what happened in a post on Threads. &ldquo;Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price,&rdquo; Robb wrote. Robb had let Muse [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-user-says-metas-muse-gave-his-address-to-a-marketplace-buyer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-user-says-metas-muse-gave-his-address-to-a-marketplace-buyer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Florida&rsquo;s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the Highlands County circuit court. The motion is part of the lawsuit Florida brought against [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/florida-asks-a-court-to-stop-openai-building-new-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/florida-asks-a-court-to-stop-openai-building-new-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It is the first Sonnet to ship with frontier-style cyber safeguards and with classifiers that block reasoning extraction. Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-releases-claude-sonnet-55-with-the-cyber-limits-it-reserved-for-its-best-models/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-releases-claude-sonnet-55-with-the-cyber-limits-it-reserved-for-its-best-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia adds a record $150bn to its share buyback]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia&rsquo;s board has approved an extra $150bn for share buybacks, the company said on Monday. That lifts the total remaining authorisation to $235bn, which Nvidia expects to use through fiscal year 2028. Nvidia called it the largest increase to a share repurchase authorisation in history. &ldquo;This authorization reflects our confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-adds-a-record-150bn-to-its-share-buyback/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-adds-a-record-150bn-to-its-share-buyback/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan &ldquo;CJ&rdquo; Desai will run it. &ldquo;Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform,&rdquo; Zuckerberg wrote. The unit will first offer Meta&rsquo;s full technology stack to businesses [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-hires-mongodb-ceo-cj-desai-to-sell-its-ai-to-businesses/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-hires-mongodb-ceo-cj-desai-to-sell-its-ai-to-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct raised $1B at $10B for an AI agent that rings restaurants on its own phone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books trips, orders groceries and telephones businesses using its own phone. Since 2 August, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required systems that interact directly with people to tell them they are dealing with [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/instinct-raised-1b-at-10b-for-an-ai-agent-that-rings-restaurants-on-its-own-phone/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/instinct-raised-1b-at-10b-for-an-ai-agent-that-rings-restaurants-on-its-own-phone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red Queen Bio is using AI to design antibodies for future viruses, WSJ says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against viruses, including ones that AI systems could one day help create, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company is starting with antibodies against bird flu and other influenza viruses and plans its first clinical trials [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/red-queen-bio-is-using-ai-to-design-antibodies-for-future-viruses-wsj-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/red-queen-bio-is-using-ai-to-design-antibodies-for-future-viruses-wsj-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen’s Canadian battery plant slips to 2029, while its German one is already running]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volkswagen&rsquo;s battery subsidiary PowerCo has delayed its Ontario plant by two years to 2029, and the ID Buzz will skip another American model year. Its Salzgitter plant in Germany has been making cells since December and supplies a new assembly line at SEAT&rsquo;s Martorell site in Spain. Volkswagen&rsquo;s battery subsidiary PowerCo has delayed its Ontario [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagens-canadian-battery-plant-slips-to-2029-while-its-german-one-is-already-running/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagens-canadian-battery-plant-slips-to-2029-while-its-german-one-is-already-running/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October. Anthropic has asked for another date because the invitation came late last week, a person familiar [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australias-senate-inquiry-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australias-senate-inquiry-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nio sells a 30% stake in its battery swapping arm to Geely]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nio has agreed to sell a 30% stake in its battery swapping business, Nio Power, to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the company said on Monday. The two Chinese carmakers will also share technology and standards and build a joint service network. Geely Holding will pay with its whole battery swapping unit, Yiyi Power, plus 640 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nio-sells-a-30-stake-in-its-battery-swapping-arm-to-geely/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nio-sells-a-30-stake-in-its-battery-swapping-arm-to-geely/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China extends AI travel curbs to executives’ families, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[China now requires the families of some top AI and chip executives to get Beijing&rsquo;s approval before travelling abroad, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The rule covers spouses and children, even for short trips. Government agencies have started telling affected people about the wider restrictions, Bloomberg reported. Those covered include prominent [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-extends-ai-travel-curbs-to-executives-families-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-extends-ai-travel-curbs-to-executives-families-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Z.ai and Concordia AI propose six stages for managing open-weight AI risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese AI company Z.ai and Beijing safety consultancy Concordia AI have published a framework for managing the risks of open-weight AI models. Anyone can download, modify and run the trained parameters of such models. The two released the report on Monday, Chong Ming Lee reported for the South China Morning Post. The report &ldquo;provides the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zai-and-concordia-ai-propose-six-stages-for-managing-open-weight-ai-risk/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zai-and-concordia-ai-propose-six-stages-for-managing-open-weight-ai-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chery built the first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, and measures its electric range on NEDC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chery has built the world&rsquo;s first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, the Stockman, developed for Australia rather than China, with a 2.5-litre turbo-diesel, a 34 kWh battery and a claimed 100 km of electric range on the NEDC cycle. Volvo invented the diesel plug-in hybrid and stopped building it in 2018, the year Europe retired that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chery-built-the-first-diesel-plug-in-hybrid-pickup-and-measures-its-electric-range-on-nedc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chery-built-the-first-diesel-plug-in-hybrid-pickup-and-measures-its-electric-range-on-nedc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attackers are exploiting two critical flaws in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Companies use the devices to give staff remote access to internal networks. Citrix confirmed the attacks in a security bulletin on Sunday and released fixes. Both flaws were exploited before a patch existed. &ldquo;Exploits of CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 on unmitigated NetScaler deployments [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hackers-are-exploiting-two-critical-citrix-netscaler-zero-days/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hackers-are-exploiting-two-critical-citrix-netscaler-zero-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft’s Suleyman tells Bloomberg AI needs a ‘red line’ on control]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman says the industry should reject any AI it cannot prove it controls. He made the case in an interview with Shirin Ghaffary for Bloomberg&rsquo;s Q&amp;AI newsletter. &ldquo;Unless we can prove ahead of time that we can control it, then it&rsquo;ll be a failure as a technology, and we should [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsofts-suleyman-tells-bloomberg-ai-needs-a-red-line-on-control/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsofts-suleyman-tells-bloomberg-ai-needs-a-red-line-on-control/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him]]></title><description><![CDATA[Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on leave. The board includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL, Sarah Perez reported for TechCrunch. Mullenweg confirmed the appointments to TechCrunch after publication. Mullenweg told staff about the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/automattics-mullenweg-names-a-new-board-after-the-failed-bid-to-oust-him/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/automattics-mullenweg-names-a-new-board-after-the-failed-bid-to-oust-him/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyundai says solid-state cars are five years away, and still too expensive after that]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyundai research chief Manfred Harrer says carmakers cannot give up on solid-state batteries and expects small-volume halo cars within five years, but does not believe the raw material cost problem can be solved in that time. LG Energy Solution puts solid-state in electric cars roughly a decade away, and France is already subsidising a solid-state [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hyundai-says-solid-state-cars-are-five-years-away-and-still-too-expensive-after-that/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hyundai-says-solid-state-cars-are-five-years-away-and-still-too-expensive-after-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump dined with Amodei after saying he is for ‘let’s go and let’s win’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday night, Semafor confirmed. It was the first one-on-one meeting between the two, which Axios first reported and TNW covered on Sunday. Hours before the dinner, Trump said he planned to raise Amodei&rsquo;s call to slow AI development, Bloomberg [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-dined-with-amodei-after-saying-he-is-for-lets-go-and-lets-win/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-dined-with-amodei-after-saying-he-is-for-lets-go-and-lets-win/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HiringCafe lands $6.8M to fix the broken job hunt with AI talent agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[The modern job search has devolved into a notoriously soul-crushing endeavor. Candidates fire hundreds of resumes into the void. They navigate an endless stream of expired &lsquo;ghost jobs&rsquo;. And they compete against automated mass-application bots for a fraction of the actual open roles. It&rsquo;s a frustrating, high-friction loop. Legacy job boards, built primarily around employer [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hiringcafe-lands-68m-to-fix-the-broken-job-hunt-with-ai-talent-agent/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hiringcafe-lands-68m-to-fix-the-broken-job-hunt-with-ai-talent-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX’s Starship reaches orbit for the first time, then returns early]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX&rsquo;s Starship reached orbit for the first time on Monday, on its 14th test flight. The rocket lifted off from Starbase, Texas, at 7:48am local time and entered orbit about 25 minutes later. It then released 26 Starlink V3 satellites. The flight nearly stopped short. One of the six engines on the upper stage shut [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacexs-starship-reaches-orbit-for-the-first-time-then-returns-early/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spacexs-starship-reaches-orbit-for-the-first-time-then-returns-early/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart’s CEO rules out personalised pricing, including by its AI assistant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walmart will not use a shopper&rsquo;s income, shopping history or urgency to charge them more, chief executive John Furner said in a letter to customers posted on 25 September. The pledge also covers Sparky, the retailer&rsquo;s AI shopping assistant. &ldquo;I want to tell you where we stand: We price the product, not the person,&rdquo; Furner [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/walmarts-ceo-rules-out-personalised-pricing-including-by-its-ai-assistant/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/walmarts-ceo-rules-out-personalised-pricing-including-by-its-ai-assistant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of AI incidents, Axios reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents of frontier AI models misbehaving, Axios reported, citing sources. Evaluators deemed the behaviour problematic. The total could grow well beyond tens of thousands. The episodes include bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes and hijacking websites. Models also prompted themselves or tried to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-and-anthropic-probe-tens-of-thousands-of-ai-incidents-axios-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-and-anthropic-probe-tens-of-thousands-of-ai-incidents-axios-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional Web Development is Dead…(and Honestly? Good Riddance.)]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI isn't killing web development&mdash;it&rsquo;s killing the boring parts. The real winners won't be the people who can memorize another framework. They'll be the builders who can spot opportunities, solve business problems, and launch products that once required entire teams. The age of the one-person software company has arrived.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/traditional-web-development-is-deadand-honestly-good-riddance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/traditional-web-development-is-deadand-honestly-good-riddance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US and China agree a super intelligence dialogue and incident channel]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinping&rsquo;s state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology &ldquo;super intelligence&rdquo; rather than artificial intelligence. &ldquo;The two countries established the U.S.-China Super Intelligence [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-and-china-agree-a-super-intelligence-dialogue-and-incident-channel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-and-china-agree-a-super-intelligence-dialogue-and-incident-channel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modulate raises $25M to sell AI that listens to voice calls, not just transcripts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modulate, a Boston company that builds AI models to analyze speech directly rather than working from text transcripts, has raised $25M in a round led by Future Ventures. Hyperplane and Lakestar also took part, bringing the company&rsquo;s total funding to $60M. The company was founded by Mike Pappas and Carter Huffman, who first met at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/modulate-raises-25m-to-sell-ai-that-listens-to-voice-calls-not-just-transcripts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/modulate-raises-25m-to-sell-ai-that-listens-to-voice-calls-not-just-transcripts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed. &ldquo;This is not an appropriate use of this data,&rdquo; OpenAI said. The images came from accounts [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-says-its-rogue-agents-posted-53-chatgpt-users-images-online/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-says-its-rogue-agents-posted-53-chatgpt-users-images-online/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube and Meta will now run ads for Gibney’s ‘Musk’ documentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibney&rsquo;s documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday. Both had refused the trailer ad. TikTok and X are still not running it. The outlet first reported the refusals on Friday. Bleecker Street, the film&rsquo;s US distributor, opens it in cinemas on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/youtube-and-meta-will-now-run-ads-for-gibneys-musk-documentary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/youtube-and-meta-will-now-run-ads-for-gibneys-musk-documentary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The RAF launches a new space squadron to defend UK satellites]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Royal Air Force has set up a new space squadron, the Ministry of Defence said on 23 September. No. III Space Effects Squadron is the first UK unit dedicated to disrupting, degrading and denying threats to British satellites. Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth, the Chief of the Air Staff, announced it at the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-raf-launches-a-new-space-squadron-to-defend-uk-satellites/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-raf-launches-a-new-space-squadron-to-defend-uk-satellites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nubank’s owner is in talks to buy Monzo at up to £10bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monzo is in talks about a sale to Brazil&rsquo;s Nu Holdings, the owner of Nubank. A deal could value the British digital bank at between &pound;8bn and &pound;10bn, Mark Kleinman reported for Sky News on Saturday. The talks are at a relatively early stage, according to Sky News. Monzo has hired Morgan Stanley and Qatalyst [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nubanks-owner-is-in-talks-to-buy-monzo-at-up-to-10bn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nubanks-owner-is-in-talks-to-buy-monzo-at-up-to-10bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raspberry Pi’s revenue jumps 90% as its memory stockpile pays off]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raspberry Pi nearly doubled its revenue in the first half of 2026, helped by memory chips it stockpiled before prices soared. Revenue rose 90% to $256.9 million in the six months to 30 June, the company said in its interim results on Thursday. A year earlier it was $135.5 million. Pre-tax profit rose 216% to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/raspberry-pis-revenue-jumps-90-as-its-memory-stockpile-pays-off/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/raspberry-pis-revenue-jumps-90-as-its-memory-stockpile-pays-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More elite AI researchers now work in China than in the US, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has overtaken the United States as the country where the most elite AI researchers work, according to a study by Carnegie China. The think tank is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2025, 41% of the top researchers it tracked worked in China and 34% in the US. Three years earlier [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/more-elite-ai-researchers-now-work-in-china-than-in-the-us-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/more-elite-ai-researchers-now-work-in-china-than-in-the-us-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s Optimus production hits snags with hands, The Information reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla has increased Optimus production about tenfold in recent months. It is still struggling to build the humanoid robots reliably at scale. Qianer Liu and Grace Kay reported for The Information on Friday, citing people familiar with the project, that the hands, factory equipment and suppliers are holding it back. Tesla made several hundred robots [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/teslas-optimus-production-hits-snags-with-hands-the-information-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/teslas-optimus-production-hits-snags-with-hands-the-information-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s Goncourt prize drops a novel over claims AI wrote it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Acad&eacute;mie Goncourt has dropped Th&eacute;lyson Or&eacute;lien&rsquo;s novel C&rsquo;&eacute;tait &ccedil;a ou mourir from the first selection for France&rsquo;s top literary prize. In a statement on Friday, the academy cited plagiarism by the author and analyses showing that AI had most likely written most of the book. Or&eacute;lien denies using AI, Philip Oltermann reported for the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/frances-goncourt-prize-drops-a-novel-over-claims-ai-wrote-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/frances-goncourt-prize-drops-a-novel-over-claims-ai-wrote-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury finds Meta misled New Mexico users over Cambridge Analytica]]></title><description><![CDATA[A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Facebook deceived users about how it protected their data, including in its response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Jurors found more than 43 million violations of the state&rsquo;s consumer protection law, Mikella Schuettler reported for the Associated Press. The count is based on the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jury-finds-meta-misled-new-mexico-users-over-cambridge-analytica/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jury-finds-meta-misled-new-mexico-users-over-cambridge-analytica/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autoheal raises $7.9M to build a self-improving software factory]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is helping engineering teams ship more code, faster than ever. But that acceleration comes with a growing operational burden. More production incidents to respond to, more security vulnerabilities to remediate, and spiraling token costs to contain. Autoheal is built for these challenges. It is already battle tested at industry leaders such as Nomura Bank [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/autoheal-raises-79m-to-build-a-self-improving-software-factory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/autoheal-raises-79m-to-build-a-self-improving-software-factory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix’s Wonka show uses an AI Gene Wilder voice, and viewers object]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix&rsquo;s new reality competition, Wonka&rsquo;s The Golden Ticket, uses an AI recreation of Gene Wilder&rsquo;s voice, and viewers have pushed back. The voice narrates the show and explains the rules to contestants. Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, died in 2016. The show premiered on 23 September. The AI voice was made [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflixs-wonka-show-uses-an-ai-gene-wilder-voice-and-viewers-object/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netflixs-wonka-show-uses-an-ai-gene-wilder-voice-and-viewers-object/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers exploited a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the patch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attackers began exploiting a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the fix. The bug, CVE-2026-87902, can let an attacker with no login run code on a website&rsquo;s server. It only works under certain conditions. WordPress fixed the flaw in version 7.1.2 on 22 September. It also patched every older branch back to 4.7. Its security [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hackers-exploited-a-critical-wordpress-flaw-within-hours-of-the-patch/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hackers-exploited-a-critical-wordpress-flaw-within-hours-of-the-patch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google wants to release Gemini 4 &ldquo;much earlier&rdquo; than the end of the year, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, who runs Google DeepMind. The model is now in post-training, the stage where engineers refine its behaviour and test its safety. Google is also trying it out inside its Antigravity coding tool. Kavukcuoglu spoke on stage at The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-wants-gemini-4-out-much-earlier-than-the-end-of-the-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-wants-gemini-4-out-much-earlier-than-the-end-of-the-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia launches agent safety platform backed by over 100 companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday, Nvidia introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform. This includes open software and a hardware reference design to help keep AI agents within the boundaries set by their operators. Over 100 organizations are already using this technology, including Anthropic, Microsoft, SAP, Scale AI, and JPMorgan Chase. This launch comes after several incidents where AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-launches-agent-safety-platform-backed-by-over-100-companies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-launches-agent-safety-platform-backed-by-over-100-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents stole 600,000 credit cards for about $25 a target, Gambit says]]></title><description><![CDATA[An attacker used three open-source AI agent frameworks to break into at least 27 companies and steal more than 600,000 credit card records, security company Gambit says. The victims include a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline, a large private US industrial supplies distributor and a US online fashion retailer. Eyal Sela, Gambit&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-stole-600000-credit-cards-for-about-25-a-target-gambit-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-agents-stole-600000-credit-cards-for-about-25-a-target-gambit-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan AI safety body, The Information reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to set up their own AI safety standards body, without government oversight, The Information reported on Thursday. The three companies hope to launch it by the end of the year or early in 2027. They tentatively plan to call it the Standards Authority for Frontier AI, according to people familiar [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-openai-and-anthropic-plan-ai-safety-body-the-information-reports/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-openai-and-anthropic-plan-ai-safety-body-the-information-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TakeMe2Space to launch AI computing satellite on SpaceX rocket on 1 October]]></title><description><![CDATA[TakeMe2Space, a space startup from India, will send its MOI-1A satellite to orbit on 1 October on a SpaceX rideshare flight, Transporter-18. The Hyderabad company calls it India&rsquo;s first orbital computing satellite, since it can analyse data in space and send back results rather than raw files, Reuters reported&nbsp;on Monday. The satellite weighs less than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/takeme2space-to-launch-ai-computing-satellite-on-spacex-rocket-on-1-october/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/takeme2space-to-launch-ai-computing-satellite-on-spacex-rocket-on-1-october/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns with 3,000 attendees and 600 investors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Istanbul Ignited by Slush&rsquo;D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul on 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The organisers expect more than 3,000 attendees, 1,400 startups and 600 investors, up from about 1,700 attendees last year. The first edition ran at the same venue in 2025 under the name Istanbul Slush&rsquo;D. It reached [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/istanbul-ignited-by-slushd-returns-with-3000-attendees-and-600-investors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/istanbul-ignited-by-slushd-returns-with-3000-attendees-and-600-investors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns in October with 600 investor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Istanbul Ignited by Slush&rsquo;D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul from 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The organizers expect more than 3,000 attendees, 1,400 startups and 600 investors, up from about 1,700 attendees last year. The inaugural edition took place in the same location in 2025 under the name Istanbul Slush&rsquo;D and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/istanbul-ignited-by-slushd-returns-in-october-with-600-investor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/istanbul-ignited-by-slushd-returns-in-october-with-600-investor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents that a researcher linked to OpenAI scanned a United Nations data website more than 16,500 times between 13 April and 19 June. They used proxies and an encoding trick to get round limits on its API, Rowan Howard-Jones wrote in a blog post on 26 September. Howard-Jones calls the OpenAI link highly likely, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-agents-scanned-a-un-statistics-site-16500-times-researcher-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-agents-scanned-a-un-statistics-site-16500-times-researcher-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US jury orders Apple to pay Taction $5.7bn over iPhone haptics patents]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Apple to pay more than $5.7bn to Taction Technology, a small haptics company, for infringing two of its patents. The verdict came on Friday, 25 September, and is the largest patent award in US history, according to Law360, which first reported it. The case centres on Apple&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-jury-orders-apple-to-pay-taction-57bn-over-iphone-haptics-patents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-jury-orders-apple-to-pay-taction-57bn-over-iphone-haptics-patents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned Australia not to try the same thing. They spoke to Dan Milmo for the Guardian. Australia&rsquo;s government is weighing an opt-out model, under which AI firms could train on creators&rsquo; work unless they object. The plan came [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-campaigners-who-beat-ai-copyright-plan-warn-australia/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-campaigners-who-beat-ai-copyright-plan-warn-australia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump to host Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at White House dinner, Axios reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump plans to host Anthropic boss Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening. Maria Curi and Marc Caputo broke the news for&nbsp;Axios, citing people familiar with the matter. It would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two, according to Axios. TNW has not independently confirmed the dinner. TNW [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-to-host-anthropics-dario-amodei-at-white-house-dinner-axios-reports/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-to-host-anthropics-dario-amodei-at-white-house-dinner-axios-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s government has signalled it may let firms such as Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia&rsquo;s new RTX Pro 5500 chip. The Information reported the news on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the matter. China&rsquo;s tech ministry recently asked some firms how many of the chips they plan to buy, and what for, according to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-reportedly-may-let-alibaba-and-bytedance-buy-new-nvidia-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From AI endpoints to IAM: 5 cybersecurity CEOs we’ve been watching this summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity&nbsp;has had no shortage of new companies and ideas this summer. Behind some of the most interesting developments are founders who have spent years working on the problems they are now trying to solve. Their companies span different parts of the security stack, but they share a focus on adapting cybersecurity to an environment being [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/from-ai-endpoints-to-iam-5-cybersecurity-ceos-weve-been-watching-this-summer/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/from-ai-endpoints-to-iam-5-cybersecurity-ceos-weve-been-watching-this-summer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GlobalFoundries reportedly sees strong demand for Chinese optical modules]]></title><description><![CDATA[US chipmaker GlobalFoundries says demand for Chinese optical modules is strong as more data centres are built, one of its top bosses told the South China Morning Post. Ann Cao reported the interview from Shanghai on Sunday. Optical modules turn data into light so it can move quickly between servers in data centres. Chinese firms [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/globalfoundries-reportedly-sees-strong-demand-for-chinese-optical-modules/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/globalfoundries-reportedly-sees-strong-demand-for-chinese-optical-modules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord rolls out global age checks that sort most users automatically]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discord has started a global rollout of age checks that place users into age groups, with extra safety settings for teenagers. The rollout began on 22 September and will take several days, the company said in a blog post&nbsp;by chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy. TNW is owned by Tekpon. Discord is listed on Tekpon&rsquo;s marketplace. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/discord-rolls-out-global-age-checks-that-sort-most-users-automatically/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/discord-rolls-out-global-age-checks-that-sort-most-users-automatically/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable problem with measuring B2B marketing by leads]]></title><description><![CDATA[B2B companies today can track almost every movement a prospect makes, yet the numbers that appear most prominently on dashboards can still have little connection to the number executives and stakeholders ultimately care about: revenue.&nbsp;87% of B2B marketers&nbsp;found it increasingly difficult to measure the long-term impact of campaigns, while nearly half were required to justify [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-inevitable-problem-with-measuring-b2b-marketing-by-leads/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-inevitable-problem-with-measuring-b2b-marketing-by-leads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU’s AI envoy tells commissioners to focus on using AI, Politico reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[The EU&rsquo;s special envoy for industrial AI has told the EU&rsquo;s top officials to focus on using AI to lift Europe&rsquo;s slow productivity. Racing to build the best models matters less, he told them. Zoya Sheftalovich reported the story for Politico. Jim Hagemann Snabe gave the message to the 27 commissioners at a private seminar [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eus-ai-envoy-tells-commissioners-to-focus-on-using-ai-politico-reports/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/eus-ai-envoy-tells-commissioners-to-focus-on-using-ai-politico-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The documents were reported by Sandra Laville for the Guardian. Campaigners got the papers through freedom of information requests. They show the developer, Xlinks, had been in private talks with Torridge district council since [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/council-backed-devon-ai-datacentre-before-it-went-public-guardian-reports/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/council-backed-devon-ai-datacentre-before-it-went-public-guardian-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify]]></title><description><![CDATA[The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic have been asked to face an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres. The move follows cases in which OpenAI agents got into Australian and US government websites, Luca Ittimani reported for the Guardian&nbsp;on Saturday. The Greens run the inquiry, and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young chairs it. Its next hearing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/australian-inquiry-asks-altman-and-amodei-to-testify/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/australian-inquiry-asks-altman-and-amodei-to-testify/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s India AI hub cleared for 2.51GW, not 1GW, the Guardian reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google&rsquo;s $15bn AI datacentre project in Andhra Pradesh has state environmental clearance for 2.51GW of capacity, more than double the 1GW announced, according to clearance papers seen by&nbsp;the Guardian. Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan reported the story from Tarluvada, one of the villages where the project is being built. The Guardian said 2.51GW is roughly [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/googles-india-ai-hub-cleared-for-251gw-not-1gw-the-guardian-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/googles-india-ai-hub-cleared-for-251gw-not-1gw-the-guardian-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why markdown is becoming the default language between search data and AI models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across the infrastructure layer that powers&nbsp;AI applications, Markdown has been emerging as a new standard. More providers are turning to it as the default output for anything a model needs to read, and moving beyond JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the go-to, one-size-fits-all format. This real, ongoing shift reflects how large language models are trained, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/why-markdown-is-becoming-the-default-language-between-search-data-and-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/why-markdown-is-becoming-the-default-language-between-search-data-and-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oxford let OpenAI train AI models on Bodleian texts, the Guardian reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oxford has let OpenAI use old texts from its Bodleian Library to train its AI models, according to internal papers seen by the Guardian. Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo broke the story on Saturday. The papers say texts that OpenAI scanned at the library went into the firm&rsquo;s training data. Oxford made its&nbsp;deal with OpenAI&nbsp;public [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oxford-let-openai-train-ai-models-on-bodleian-texts-the-guardian-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oxford-let-openai-train-ai-models-on-bodleian-texts-the-guardian-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deel loses bid to bar key witness in Rippling spy case, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[US federal judge on Friday rejected Deel&rsquo;s bid to block testimony from a key witness in Rippling&rsquo;s corporate espionage lawsuit, as Peter Blumberg reported for&nbsp;Bloomberg.Judge Charles Breyer also refused to revisit his February ruling, which let Rippling&rsquo;s racketeering and trade secret claims go ahead. In addition, he sent Deel&rsquo;s most serious counterclaims against Rippling to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deel-loses-bid-to-bar-key-witness-in-rippling-spy-case-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deel-loses-bid-to-bar-key-witness-in-rippling-spy-case-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From tunnel to connectivity layer: What GnuVPN says about where VPNs are heading]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, consumer VPNs were easy to explain: choose a server, create an&nbsp;encrypted tunnel, and route your traffic through it. The product category was built around a fairly simple idea, and the buying criteria followed the same logic, speed, server count, and price. That description is becoming less complete. The way people connect to the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/from-tunnel-to-connectivity-layer-what-gnuvpn-says-about-where-vpns-are-heading/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/from-tunnel-to-connectivity-layer-what-gnuvpn-says-about-where-vpns-are-heading/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok to pay Alabama at least $100m to settle teen safety lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100m to settle the state&rsquo;s lawsuit over the app&rsquo;s effect on children, Attorney General Steve Marshall&rsquo;s office said on Friday. The case had been due to go to trial on Monday. The first payment is due within 45 days, according to the&nbsp;attorney general&rsquo;s announcement. Alabama could receive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktok-to-pay-alabama-at-least-100m-to-settle-teen-safety-lawsuit/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktok-to-pay-alabama-at-least-100m-to-settle-teen-safety-lawsuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox. Its monitoring had flagged the problem within minutes. The company disclosed the 20 September incident in an&nbsp;incident report&nbsp;on Friday. The report lands as lawmakers push to make AI kill switches mandatory. However, experts [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-took-25-hours-to-stop-an-ai-agent-that-escaped-its-sandbox/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-took-25-hours-to-stop-an-ai-agent-that-escaped-its-sandbox/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McDonald’s tests Archy, an AI drive-thru voice for English and Spanish]]></title><description><![CDATA[McDonald&rsquo;s is testing an AI voice assistant called Archy that takes drive-thru orders in English and Spanish. The company presented it at its investor day at its Chicago headquarters on 23 September. Archy has been more than 90% accurate in early tests, McDonald&rsquo;s said, according to&nbsp;Restaurant Dive. The company has not said how many restaurants [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mcdonalds-tests-archy-an-ai-drive-thru-voice-for-english-and-spanish/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mcdonalds-tests-archy-an-ai-drive-thru-voice-for-english-and-spanish/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood studios want film graduates who already use AI, Semafor reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood studios are turning to film schools for graduates who already know how to use AI video tools, rather than training their own staff, Semafor&nbsp;reported on Thursday. &ldquo;How do we find people who already know how to use this?&rdquo; studios are now asking, Runway chief executive Crist&oacute;bal Valenzuela told Semafor. Runway, which makes AI tools [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hollywood-studios-want-film-graduates-who-already-use-ai-semafor-reports/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hollywood-studios-want-film-graduates-who-already-use-ai-semafor-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xi ends Washington visit with trade truce extended to January]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade truce but produced no major new agreements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two countries had agreed to extend their trade truce to 10 January,&nbsp;NBC News&nbsp;reported. Artificial intelligence was also on the agenda. Before the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xi-ends-washington-visit-with-trade-truce-extended-to-january/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xi-ends-washington-visit-with-trade-truce-extended-to-january/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s Semi finally enters production, nine years after it was shown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla has begun volume production of the Semi at Gigafactory Nevada with first deliveries this week, nine years after showing the truck, and rates it at 500 miles of range and 1.2 megawatts of charging. It has already installed more than 100 megawatt-capable stalls at 21 European sites, although the truck is not due in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/teslas-semi-finally-enters-production-nine-years-after-it-was-shown/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/teslas-semi-finally-enters-production-nine-years-after-it-was-shown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infrastructure complexity is reshaping how smaller technology firms operate]]></title><description><![CDATA[As organizations become increasingly dependent on interconnected digital systems, the boundaries between communications, computing infrastructure, virtualization, software development, and artificial intelligence are becoming less distinct. For smaller technology firms, that environment can create an unusual challenge: customers may need expertise across several technical layers at once, while the systems themselves continue to become more specialized. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Nex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/infrastructure-complexity-is-reshaping-how-smaller-technology-firms-operate/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/infrastructure-complexity-is-reshaping-how-smaller-technology-firms-operate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Website Found More Than 5 Million Forgotten iPhone Videos… and It’s Weirdly Emotional]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before TikTok turned every moment into content, people uploaded shaky, pointless little iPhone videos to YouTube and forgot about them. This strange website found five million of them&mdash;dogs, holidays, car rides, bad concerts&mdash;and lets you fall into a random stranger&rsquo;s 2010 afternoon.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/this-website-found-more-than-5-million-forgotten-iphone-videos-and-its-weirdly-emotional/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/this-website-found-more-than-5-million-forgotten-iphone-videos-and-its-weirdly-emotional/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths and says self-regulation is not enough]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that self-regulation is not enough because safeguards and monitoring have to be a required thing. The European Union has required them since August 2025, and since 2 August this year the Commission has been able to fine a model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bill-gates-warns-ai-could-cause-a-billion-deaths-and-says-self-regulation-is-not-enough/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bill-gates-warns-ai-could-cause-a-billion-deaths-and-says-self-regulation-is-not-enough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Thiel says the pope’s AI encyclical was ‘working for’ China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Thiel has called Pope Leo XIV a &ldquo;useful idiot&rdquo; for the Chinese Communist Party over the pope&rsquo;s call to regulate AI. The PayPal and Palantir co-founder spoke to Axel Springer chief executive Mathias D&ouml;pfner on the MD Meets podcast, released on Thursday. The interview came before Thiel received the Axel Springer Award in Berlin [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/peter-thiel-says-the-popes-ai-encyclical-was-working-for-china/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/peter-thiel-says-the-popes-ai-encyclical-was-working-for-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon seeks $30.3m for an AI lie detector that reads the body from afar]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pentagon wants $30.3m over five years to build an AI lie detector that reads the body without touching it. The programme, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, appears in the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency&rsquo;s 2027 budget request. Inside Defense first reported the plan. MIT Technology Review&rsquo;s Amit Katwala asked experts whether it could work. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pentagon-seeks-303m-for-an-ai-lie-detector-that-reads-the-body-from-afar/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pentagon-seeks-303m-for-an-ai-lie-detector-that-reads-the-body-from-afar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nscale closed a $3.36B pre-IPO round led by Third Point, with $1B from Nvidia still to come]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nscale has closed a $3.36B pre-IPO convertible note round led by Third Point, with Nvidia, Apollo, Citadel and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council among the investors, three weeks after it was reported to be seeking up to $3.5B. The London company filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange last week under the ticker [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nscale-closed-a-336b-pre-ipo-round-led-by-third-point-with-1b-from-nvidia-still-to-come/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nscale-closed-a-336b-pre-ipo-round-led-by-third-point-with-1b-from-nvidia-still-to-come/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply chain risk label on Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[A US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon&rsquo;s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk. The label bars the military and its contractors from using Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude models. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the DC Circuit court of appeals denied Anthropic&rsquo;s petitions to overturn the designation. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas wrote the opinion, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-appeals-court-upholds-pentagons-supply-chain-risk-label-on-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-appeals-court-upholds-pentagons-supply-chain-risk-label-on-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, exactly level with petrol. Hybrids remain the largest single category on 36.6%, and the spread between Norway at 98% and Croatia at 4% is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/europe-keeps-buying-more-electric-cars-which-now-take-29-of-new-registrations/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/europe-keeps-buying-more-electric-cars-which-now-take-29-of-new-registrations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The Information reported on Thursday. Chief executive Dario Amodei and his six co-founders would hold a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-seeks-501-voting-control-for-founders-the-information-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-seeks-501-voting-control-for-founders-the-information-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Ziad Asghar, who runs Qualcomm&rsquo;s XR, wearables and personal AI business, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qualcomm-launches-ai-earbud-chip-glasses-platforms-and-a-health-alliance/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qualcomm-launches-ai-earbud-chip-glasses-platforms-and-a-health-alliance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualcomm splits its flagship phone chip in two with the 8 Elite Gen 6]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm has split its flagship phone chip in two. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Tuesday, it launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, both built on a 2nm process. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes the chips, CNBC&rsquo;s Kif Leswing reported. Gizmodo&rsquo;s Kyle Barr ran benchmarks [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qualcomm-splits-its-flagship-phone-chip-in-two-with-the-8-elite-gen-6/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/qualcomm-splits-its-flagship-phone-chip-in-two-with-the-8-elite-gen-6/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week to pitch its chips as the hardware for AI agents. In three days, it launched two flagship phone chips and a chip for AI earbuds and glasses. It also brought Linux to its X2 laptop processors. Chief executive Cristiano Amon opened the summit on Tuesday, CNBC&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/snapdragon-summit-qualcomms-5ghz-phone-chips-ai-earbuds-and-linux-pcs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/snapdragon-summit-qualcomms-5ghz-phone-chips-ai-earbuds-and-linux-pcs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leo at UNESCO: machines get called ‘intelligent’ while people get discarded]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV arrived at UNESCO&rsquo;s Paris headquarters on Friday with a question he said no culture can take for granted, not even in the 21st century: what does it mean to be human? The address was the centrepiece of a day&nbsp;UNESCO had dedicated&nbsp;to artificial intelligence, information integrity, education, and artistic creation. A few hours [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pope-leo-at-unesco-machines-get-called-intelligent-while-people-get-discarded/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/pope-leo-at-unesco-machines-get-called-intelligent-while-people-get-discarded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canva Just Turned Affinity Into Adobe’s Biggest Free Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canva just made a much more serious play for professional designers: Affinity now brings design, photo editing, and layout into one free app, while Canva connects it to motion, AI, and team-friendly publishing tools.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/canva-just-turned-affinity-into-adobes-biggest-free-problem/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/canva-just-turned-affinity-into-adobes-biggest-free-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palo Alto’s Nikesh Arora tells CNBC that slowing AI down is ‘unrealistic’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says it is &ldquo;unrealistic&rdquo; to slow down AI development, because &ldquo;not everybody is going to pace themselves&rdquo;. He made the comments on CNBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Tech Download&rdquo; podcast, recorded on Tuesday, CNBC&rsquo;s Arjun Kharpal reported. Arora also told CNBC it was &ldquo;highly unlikely&rdquo; that AI has a 10% chance [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/palo-altos-nikesh-arora-tells-cnbc-that-slowing-ai-down-is-unrealistic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/palo-altos-nikesh-arora-tells-cnbc-that-slowing-ai-down-is-unrealistic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitget suspects North Korean hackers in $351.6m theft from its hot wallets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crypto exchange Bitget says hackers took about $351.6m from its hot and warm wallets on Thursday. It suspects North Korea. The company said on X that its systems spotted unauthorised transfers at 18:31 UTC. It has suspended withdrawals. Chief executive Gracy Chen later spoke in a livestream on X. Investigators had traced IP addresses to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bitget-suspects-north-korean-hackers-in-3516m-theft-from-its-hot-wallets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bitget-suspects-north-korean-hackers-in-3516m-theft-from-its-hot-wallets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has launched a new version of its Copilot app that puts AI chat, coding and long-running agents in one place for work. Jared Spataro, its chief marketing officer for AI at Work, announced it in a blog post on Friday. Chief executive Satya Nadella first promised a Copilot super app at the Build conference [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsofts-new-copilot-app-adds-coding-and-an-always-on-autopilot-agent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsofts-new-copilot-app-adds-coding-and-an-always-on-autopilot-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK&rsquo;s AI Security Institute until the US government has tested them. Politico&rsquo;s Sophia Cai and Joseph Bambridge reported the request on Thursday. A British official confirmed Politico&rsquo;s report to Bloomberg on Friday. According to Politico, the request came [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/white-house-asks-openai-and-anthropic-to-hold-ai-models-from-uk-testers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/white-house-asks-openai-and-anthropic-to-hold-ai-models-from-uk-testers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Harry warns AI companion chatbots want children’s attachment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prince Harry has warned that AI companion chatbots are repeating social media&rsquo;s harm to children, with technology that is &ldquo;more persuasive, more intimate, and more powerful&rdquo;. He spoke on Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Two years ago, he used the same stage to launch the Parents Network. The Duke of Sussex [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/prince-harry-warns-ai-companion-chatbots-want-childrens-attachment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/prince-harry-warns-ai-companion-chatbots-want-childrens-attachment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanders bill would ban superintelligence and create a Department of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar have introduced a bill to permanently ban artificial superintelligence in the US. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would also pause work on the most advanced AI. And it would create a Department of Artificial Intelligence. The two lawmakers introduced the bill on Wednesday. They gave it first to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sanders-bill-would-ban-superintelligence-and-create-a-department-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sanders-bill-would-ban-superintelligence-and-create-a-department-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xi tells Trump the US and China can jointly prevent AI misuse and abuse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the US and China can continue their dialogue on artificial intelligence. The two sides can also jointly prevent its misuse and abuse, according to China&rsquo;s foreign ministry readout of the talks. &ldquo;Both China and the United States have strong AI capabilities. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xi-tells-trump-the-us-and-china-can-jointly-prevent-ai-misuse-and-abuse/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/xi-tells-trump-the-us-and-china-can-jointly-prevent-ai-misuse-and-abuse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese cities offer subsidies and cheap computing to lure AI film studios]]></title><description><![CDATA[Local governments across China are competing to attract AI filmmakers with subsidised rent, living allowances and cheap computing power,&nbsp;Reuters reported&nbsp;on Friday. Zhu Zhili set up an AI film studio in Shenzhen two years ago. He told the agency that officials from big cities and small towns now call him every day, asking him to move [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chinese-cities-offer-subsidies-and-cheap-computing-to-lure-ai-film-studios/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chinese-cities-offer-subsidies-and-cheap-computing-to-lure-ai-film-studios/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will reportedly meet tech CEOs on AI on 29 September]]></title><description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet tech chief executives to discuss artificial intelligence on Tuesday, 29 September, Axios reported&nbsp;the plans on Thursday, citing a source familiar with them. A source also confirmed the date to&nbsp;Reuters, while&nbsp;ABC News said multiple people familiar with the arrangements had described the meeting to it. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-and-house-speaker-mike-johnson-will-reportedly-meet-tech-ceos-on-ai-on-29-september/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-and-house-speaker-mike-johnson-will-reportedly-meet-tech-ceos-on-ai-on-29-september/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank invests $225M in ASI and forms autonomous construction venture]]></title><description><![CDATA[SoftBank Group has invested $225 million into Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a Utah company that makes work vehicles drive themselves.The two have also set up a joint venture to build self-driving machines for big road, rail and airport jobs. SoftBank is funding the joint venture to cover several kinds of building work, mainly civil construction [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/softbank-invests-225m-in-asi-and-forms-autonomous-construction-venture/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/softbank-invests-225m-in-asi-and-forms-autonomous-construction-venture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is preparing to preview GPT-6 Cyber, a model built for cybersecurity work, in the coming weeks,&nbsp;Fortune reported&nbsp;on Thursday, citing multiple people familiar with the plans. Alongside the model, OpenAI plans to launch a new product that helps customers deploy it more securely and automatically, according to Fortune. The product has no name yet, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-is-reportedly-preparing-to-preview-a-gpt-6-cyber-security-model/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-is-reportedly-preparing-to-preview-a-gpt-6-cyber-security-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US asks EU court to let it back Musk’s challenge to €120M X fine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US government has asked the EU&rsquo;s General Court to let it join Elon Musk and X in their challenge to the &euro;120 million fine Brussels imposed on the platform. The Justice Department announced the filing on Thursday. The application covers two cases before the court in Luxembourg. One of the cases was brought by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-asks-eu-court-to-let-it-back-musks-challenge-to-120m-x-fine/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-asks-eu-court-to-let-it-back-musks-challenge-to-120m-x-fine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamai&rsquo;s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant for 7.7 million shares on an as-converted basis, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-signs-116bn-akamai-cloud-deal-and-gets-warrant-for-5-of-akamai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-signs-116bn-akamai-cloud-deal-and-gets-warrant-for-5-of-akamai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still broken]]></title><description><![CDATA[Would you trust an AI agent to run your Amazon store? That future may be near. But true AI transformation requires moving beyond &ldquo;gap-filling&rdquo; AI tools. It requires building an infrastructure layer that lets AI agents create and manage their own workflows. We asked 7 e-commerce industry veterans what&rsquo;s still broken and what needs to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-ai-commerce-era-7-e-commerce-leaders-on-whats-still-broken/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-ai-commerce-era-7-e-commerce-leaders-on-whats-still-broken/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris Poll ran the survey online for Dataiku from 9 to 29 July. It covered [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/81-of-cios-lack-full-oversight-of-ai-agents-built-outside-it-dataiku-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/81-of-cios-lack-full-oversight-of-ai-agents-built-outside-it-dataiku-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next thing your endpoint manager manages is an AI agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gartner forecasts that task-specific AI agents will be integrated into 40% of enterprise applications by the end of the year. That&rsquo;s up from less than 5%. The systems meant to catalog what runs on a managed device haven&rsquo;t kept pace. 46% of organizations automate endpoint inventorying and monitoring today, per Automox&rsquo;s survey of IT professionals. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-next-thing-your-endpoint-manager-manages-is-an-ai-agent/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-next-thing-your-endpoint-manager-manages-is-an-ai-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen is selling more EVs than petrol cars in Germany, and building them in Spain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volkswagen is now taking more orders for electric cars than for petrol and diesel in Germany, its home market and the largest in Europe, and has cancelled planned extra shifts at Wolfsburg while adding them at Emden and Zwickau. The four budget models driving the shift have taken about 100,000 orders between them and are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagen-is-selling-more-evs-than-petrol-cars-in-germany-and-building-them-in-spain/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagen-is-selling-more-evs-than-petrol-cars-in-germany-and-building-them-in-spain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AmericanFortress paper shows how ZKPs can prove crypto wallet ownership]]></title><description><![CDATA[The team at privacy infrastructure developer AmericanFortress have authored a new paper. It proposes a novel means of proving the origin of crypto wallets. Vincenzo Botta, Michal Pospieszalski, Emanuele Ragnoli and Justus Ranvier of AmericanFortress authored &ldquo;Provenance Proofs: Linkable, Post-Quantum ZK Derivation Relations for Blockchain DeFi, Wallet and Identity Systems&rdquo;. In it, the researchers propose [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/americanfortress-paper-shows-how-zkps-can-prove-crypto-wallet-ownership/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/americanfortress-paper-shows-how-zkps-can-prove-crypto-wallet-ownership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT now sends 95.1% of AI referral traffic to websites, BrightEdge says]]></title><description><![CDATA[ChatGPT sent 95.1% of the traffic that AI chatbots referred to websites in August, its highest share this year, according to new data from BrightEdge. The search marketing company said referral traffic from ChatGPT grew 101% between January and August. Gemini came second in August with 2.4%, BrightEdge said. Perplexity had 1.1% and Claude 0.8%. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chatgpt-now-sends-951-of-ai-referral-traffic-to-websites-brightedge-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chatgpt-now-sends-951-of-ai-referral-traffic-to-websites-brightedge-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audi beat the EV range record by 133km, and beat its own WLTP figure by 72%]]></title><description><![CDATA[The reigning European Rally Champion drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, a Guinness World Record, at 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. The car&rsquo;s official WLTP range is 777 kilometres, and the drive took more than 45 hours, which puts the average speed under 30 kilometres an hour. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/audi-beat-the-ev-range-record-by-133km-and-beat-its-own-wltp-figure-by-72/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/audi-beat-the-ev-range-record-by-133km-and-beat-its-own-wltp-figure-by-72/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precision Neuroscience raises $250m at a $1bn valuation, NYT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Precision Neuroscience has raised $250m in a Series D round for its brain-computer interface, the New York company announced on Thursday. Bill Ackman&rsquo;s Pershing Square, the Ackman Oxman Institute and an unnamed life sciences fund led the round. The round values Precision at just over $1bn, The New York Times reported. Pershing Square and the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/precision-neuroscience-raises-250m-at-a-1bn-valuation-nyt-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/precision-neuroscience-raises-250m-at-a-1bn-valuation-nyt-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI shopping passes 50% of US consumers for the first time, NIQ says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some 51% of US consumers used at least one AI tool to help them shop in the past month, according to new figures from NIQ. It is the first time the share has passed 50% in the market research firm&rsquo;s Agentic Commerce Tracker. Use has grown steadily over the past two quarters, NIQ said. It [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-shopping-passes-50-of-us-consumers-for-the-first-time-niq-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-shopping-passes-50-of-us-consumers-for-the-first-time-niq-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomm&rsquo;s Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcomm&rsquo;s Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Wednesday. A day later, it released a tool that speeds up its vision model on devices. Liquid AI, spun [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/liquid-ai-puts-a-personal-context-layer-for-ai-agents-on-snapdragon-chips/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/liquid-ai-puts-a-personal-context-layer-for-ai-agents-on-snapdragon-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Island, the Dallas company behind the Enterprise Browser, has raised $400m in a Series F round. The deal values it at $6.4bn, Island announced on Thursday. Evolution Equity Partners led the round. In March 2025, Island raised $250m in a Series E led by Coatue, at a $4.8bn valuation. The company now pitches itself as [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/island-raises-400m-at-a-64bn-valuation-to-govern-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/island-raises-400m-at-a-64bn-valuation-to-govern-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proxy adviser Glass Lewis merges with Clarity AI to expand in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 September, and no financial details were disclosed. The combined company will make Madrid its global centre for sustainability, data and AI work. It has more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/proxy-adviser-glass-lewis-merges-with-clarity-ai-to-expand-in-europe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/proxy-adviser-glass-lewis-merges-with-clarity-ai-to-expand-in-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thursday. The number of robots at work in factories rose 9% to a record 5 million, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-installs-59-of-new-factory-robots-as-eu-installations-fall-11/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-installs-59-of-new-factory-robots-as-eu-installations-fall-11/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM is giving away free home chargers, and paying drivers to charge off-peak]]></title><description><![CDATA[General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric will give new EV buyers a home charger worth up to $1,999 and $15 a month if they let the utility decide when the car charges. In Germany that arrangement has been mandatory for new wallboxes since January 2024, and in Britain smart functionality has been a legal [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gm-is-giving-away-free-home-chargers-and-paying-drivers-to-charge-off-peak/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/gm-is-giving-away-free-home-chargers-and-paying-drivers-to-charge-off-peak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bentley’s first electric car arrives, and its next one is not due until after 2030]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bentley revealed the Torcal, its first electric car, at a London debut where its chief executive said no further electric model is planned before 2030 at the earliest and that the era of the decade-long roadmap is over at Crewe. The company&rsquo;s all-electric target has moved from 2030 to 2035, and the new production line [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bentleys-first-electric-car-arrives-and-its-next-one-is-not-due-until-after-2030/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bentleys-first-electric-car-arrives-and-its-next-one-is-not-due-until-after-2030/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom is replacing the automated phone menus on its customer service lines with AI agents, chief AI officer Kartik Sheth said. The share of customer interactions that never reach a human grows by one or two percentage points every month, he said. Sheth spoke on Thursday at HumanX in Amsterdam with Business Insider senior [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deutsche-telekom-is-replacing-phone-menus-with-ai-agents-its-ai-chief-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deutsche-telekom-is-replacing-phone-menus-with-ai-agents-its-ai-chief-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody Wants Your Damn App]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone&mdash;so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, load, done.Maybe it&rsquo;s time we stopped trying to ruin it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nobody-wants-your-damn-app/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nobody-wants-your-damn-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nick Clegg calls the EU AI Act a ‘dog’s dinner’ built before ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI labs cannot keep regulating themselves, Nick Clegg said. A growing backlash against AI shows up in cancelled data center projects, he said. The idea that labs can voluntarily do their own thing is &ldquo;not going to work,&rdquo; he said. Clegg is Meta&rsquo;s former president of global affairs and now a general partner at Hiro [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nick-clegg-calls-the-eu-ai-act-a-dogs-dinner-built-before-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nick-clegg-calls-the-eu-ai-act-a-dogs-dinner-built-before-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Booking.com says it built AI tools it wishes it had bought off the shelf]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;AI isn&rsquo;t going to take your job. Somebody who embraces it and learns faster than you might. AI is not going to take away your customers. A company that uses it more smartly than you do might,&rdquo; Booking.com chief business officer James Waters said. Booking.com built AI orchestrations and other tools it now wishes it [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bookingcom-says-it-built-ai-tools-it-wishes-it-had-bought-off-the-shelf/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bookingcom-says-it-built-ai-tools-it-wishes-it-had-bought-off-the-shelf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google will launch its first AI chips into orbit next week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google will send its own AI chips into orbit for the first time next week, in the first flight test of Project Suncatcher. A prototype satellite carrying its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) will fly on SpaceX&rsquo;s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. Google built the satellite with Planet, the Earth-imaging company. The mission will measure how the chips [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-will-launch-its-first-ai-chips-into-orbit-next-week/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-will-launch-its-first-ai-chips-into-orbit-next-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS says almost 90% of Amazon’s early AI agent prototypes never shipped]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost 90% of the AI agent prototypes Amazon teams built two years ago never reached production, AWS vice president of agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian said. Amazon was then starting to invest heavily in agents. Sivasubramanian spoke on Wednesday at HumanX in Amsterdam. Citing analysts, he said 17% of organizations have successfully deployed AI agents and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/aws-says-almost-90-of-amazons-early-ai-agent-prototypes-never-shipped/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/aws-says-almost-90-of-amazons-early-ai-agent-prototypes-never-shipped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle cites force majeure over New Mexico data centre, Bloomberg reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle has sent a force majeure notice over Project Jupiter, a huge AI data centre being built in New Mexico, Bloomberg reported&nbsp;on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The notice went to the project&rsquo;s developer, a unit of investment firm Blue Owl Capital. Companies usually cite force majeure to escape contract duties when events [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oracle-cites-force-majeure-over-new-mexico-data-centre-bloomberg-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/oracle-cites-force-majeure-over-new-mexico-data-centre-bloomberg-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Supply chains are at risk”: O-ID raises $1.2m for modular humanoid robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;When enough factory roles go unfilled at once, entire supply chains are at risk. O-ID&rsquo;s robots are built to work alongside the people still on the floor, closing those gaps before they become a crisis for a single factory and for the industries Japan depends on,&rdquo; said Stian Jakobsen, co-founder and CEO of O-ID. Tokyo-based [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/supply-chains-are-at-risk-o-id-raises-12m-for-modular-humanoid-robots/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/supply-chains-are-at-risk-o-id-raises-12m-for-modular-humanoid-robots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovable says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use it and revenue hit $600m]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of the Fortune 500 are using Lovable, co-founder Fabian Hedin said, often because staff found the tool on their own. Those companies then come to Lovable with thousands of apps and ask what to do, he said. Hedin, Lovable&rsquo;s chief technology officer, spoke to Forbes senior editor Iain Martin on Wednesday at HumanX in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/lovable-says-two-thirds-of-the-fortune-500-use-it-and-revenue-hit-600m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/lovable-says-two-thirds-of-the-fortune-500-use-it-and-revenue-hit-600m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DriveWealth breach exposes data of Revolut customers who traded US stocks]]></title><description><![CDATA[A breach at DriveWealth, the US broker behind Revolut&rsquo;s US stock trading, exposed the personal data of some Revolut customers. DriveWealth and Revolut emailed affected customers on Thursday. DriveWealth said an unauthorised party got into its network on 4 and 5 September. The access was the result of a social engineering campaign run by unknown [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/drivewealth-breach-exposes-data-of-revolut-customers-who-traded-us-stocks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/drivewealth-breach-exposes-data-of-revolut-customers-who-traded-us-stocks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nick Clegg dismisses fears that AI could wipe out humanity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nick Clegg has dismissed fears that artificial intelligence could one day turn on humanity and wipe it out, calling that view hand-wavy. The former UK deputy prime minister, who later ran global affairs at Meta, spoke on BBC Radio 4&rsquo;s Today programme on Thursday, as the Guardian reported. Rather than worry about a godlike machine, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nick-clegg-dismisses-fears-that-ai-could-wipe-out-humanity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nick-clegg-dismisses-fears-that-ai-could-wipe-out-humanity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starlink ground station near Warsaw hit by fire, Poland suspects sabotage]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fire broke out late on Wednesday at a Starlink ground station south of Warsaw that helps carry internet traffic to Ukraine. Poland&rsquo;s digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, said on Thursday that it looked like sabotage. Speaking to public broadcaster TVP Info, Gawkowski said the blaze appeared designed to knock the station offline and cut [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/starlink-ground-station-near-warsaw-hit-by-fire-poland-suspects-sabotage/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/starlink-ground-station-near-warsaw-hit-by-fire-poland-suspects-sabotage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon to invest $3bn in Indian quick commerce by 2030, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon will spend $3bn to grow its quick-commerce business in India by 2030,&nbsp;Reuters&nbsp;reported on Thursday, citing two people who know the plans directly. Quick commerce is the term for app orders that reach shoppers within minutes. Amazon declined to comment on the figures. It did say, however, that its quick-commerce arm had passed $1bn in&nbsp;annualised [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-to-invest-3bn-in-indian-quick-commerce-by-2030-reuters-reports/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-to-invest-3bn-in-indian-quick-commerce-by-2030-reuters-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek’s annualised revenue run rate reaches $1bn, report says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is now bringing in revenue at an annualised rate of $1bn, The Information reports, more than double the under $500M it was running at a few months ago. The report cites two people with direct knowledge of the matter, and DeepSeek has not commented. It puts the jump down to a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseeks-annualised-revenue-run-rate-reaches-1bn-report-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseeks-annualised-revenue-run-rate-reaches-1bn-report-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI agent broke into Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, PM says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian government website, which contains information on Medicare, the country&rsquo;s public health scheme, was broken into by an AI agent operated by OpenAI, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, said on Wednesday. Albanese gave a statement at a press conference in New York, where he is participating in the UN General Assembly. On 18 June, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-agent-broke-into-australias-medicare-statistics-portal-pm-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-agent-broke-into-australias-medicare-statistics-portal-pm-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta unveils $1,299 VR glasses and turns its AI glasses into hearing aids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta will sell VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams for $1,299.99 from spring 2027. It is also turning its AI glasses into over-the-counter hearing aids. Mark Zuckerberg announced both at Meta Connect on Wednesday. He also showed new Ray-Ban glasses and a keychain device for Muse, Meta&rsquo;s personal AI agent. He framed the whole [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-unveils-1299-vr-glasses-and-turns-its-ai-glasses-into-hearing-aids/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-unveils-1299-vr-glasses-and-turns-its-ai-glasses-into-hearing-aids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind’s Ayoub says companies can fence AI in, like banks did]]></title><description><![CDATA[Companies cannot fully govern AI systems, but they can build a fixed fence around them, Google DeepMind&rsquo;s Kareem Ayoub said. He pointed to banks in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They put trading algorithms inside fixed rules they could check. Ayoub, DeepMind&rsquo;s vice president of AI technical strategy, spoke to Bloomberg&rsquo;s Tom Mackenzie on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-deepminds-ayoub-says-companies-can-fence-ai-in-like-banks-did/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/google-deepminds-ayoub-says-companies-can-fence-ai-in-like-banks-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s Colin Jarvis says enterprise AI is stuck on deployment, not models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most companies that struggle with enterprise AI are not waiting for better models, OpenAI&rsquo;s head of forward deployed engineering said on Wednesday. In about 80% of cases, Colin Jarvis said, the problem is deployment. Companies do not yet know how to roll AI out, govern it or prove they can trust it. Glasgow-based Jarvis leads [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-colin-jarvis-says-enterprise-ai-is-stuck-on-deployment-not-models/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openais-colin-jarvis-says-enterprise-ai-is-stuck-on-deployment-not-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zendesk and Sierra say AI agents should be paid per result, not per seat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier and Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor said on Wednesday that per-seat pricing for software is on its way out. They spoke at HumanX in Amsterdam. In separate sessions, both said customers should pay for AI agents only when the agents get a job done. &ldquo;Unequivocally: seats are dead,&rdquo; Eggemeier said. Both sell [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zendesk-and-sierra-say-ai-agents-should-be-paid-per-result-not-per-seat/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zendesk-and-sierra-say-ai-agents-should-be-paid-per-result-not-per-seat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US rejects global AI governance at UN Security Council]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States is rejecting any global governance of advanced AI, telling the UN Security Council in New York today that each country should regulate the technology itself. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, delivers the US statement after the meeting&rsquo;s&nbsp;four briefers&nbsp;from science and industry. &ldquo;The frontier of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-rejects-global-ai-governance-at-un-security-council/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-rejects-global-ai-governance-at-un-security-council/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yahoo will keep its AI answer engine Scout full of links back to publishers, CEO Jim Lanzone said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. &ldquo;The large language models effectively photocopied the entire internet to build their answers, without linking [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/yahoo-ceo-says-micropayments-will-never-be-enough-for-publishers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/yahoo-ceo-says-micropayments-will-never-be-enough-for-publishers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cl&eacute;ment Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July. Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven distribution. Delangue is the last of four briefers at the meeting in New [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/clment-delangue-tells-un-security-council-open-source-ai-helps-defenders/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/clment-delangue-tells-un-security-council-open-source-ai-helps-defenders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to take them a while. Maybe they don&rsquo;t know that yet,&rdquo; Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership with Mercedes-Benz. He said self-driving cars, not robots, will be the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/wayves-ai-will-reach-mercedes-cars-within-two-years-kendall-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/wayves-ai-will-reach-mercedes-cars-within-two-years-kendall-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make biological weapons. Speaking to the Council via video link today, the Anthropic chief executive calls AI the most important global security issue. Amodei is the third briefer at the meeting in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dario-amodei-asks-un-security-council-to-back-a-ban-on-ai-bioweapons/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dario-amodei-asks-un-security-council-to-back-a-ban-on-ai-bioweapons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yoshua Bengio is calling on the UN Security Council to license frontier AI in areas like medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy. Speaking in New York today, he says the companies building the most powerful systems have no convincing answer to the risks they pose. Bengio, who co-chairs the UN&rsquo;s&nbsp;scientific panel on AI, is opening a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/yoshua-bengio-urges-un-security-council-to-license-frontier-ai-like-nuclear-power/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/yoshua-bengio-urges-un-security-council-to-license-frontier-ai-like-nuclear-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York today, the OpenAI chief executive says no level of catastrophic risk from AI is acceptable. Altman is the second briefer at the meeting, which France convened. According to the Security Council Report, it is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic says Claude has found a previously undescribed enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. Next to the enzyme&rsquo;s gene sits a long run of repeating DNA that resembles a CRISPR array. The company does not yet know what the system does. Anthropic announced the result on Wednesday in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-says-claude-found-a-new-enzyme-system-with-crispr-like-repeats/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-says-claude-found-a-new-enzyme-system-with-crispr-like-repeats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UN Security Council is meeting in New York today to discuss the risk of humans losing control of advanced AI. Yoshua Bengio begins by telling ambassadors that AI agents built by leading companies have, in recent months, acted in ways that violate their instructions. Bengio, co-chair of the UN&rsquo;s&nbsp;scientific panel on AI, is briefing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/un-security-council-hears-ai-lab-chiefs-on-loss-of-control-risk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/un-security-council-hears-ai-lab-chiefs-on-loss-of-control-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live: UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UN Security Council is meeting in New York today to discuss the risk of humans losing control of advanced AI. Yoshua Bengio begins by telling ambassadors that AI agents built by leading companies have, in recent months, acted in ways that violate their instructions. Bengio, co-chair of the UN&rsquo;s&nbsp;scientific panel on AI, is briefing [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/live-un-security-council-hears-ai-lab-chiefs-on-loss-of-control-risk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/live-un-security-council-hears-ai-lab-chiefs-on-loss-of-control-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White House. In a court document filed on Tuesday evening, the government&rsquo;s lawyers justified President Donald Trump&rsquo;s decision to ban the three organizations. They stated that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doj-defends-trumps-white-house-ban-on-cnn-politico-and-ms-now/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doj-defends-trumps-white-house-ban-on-cnn-politico-and-ms-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,&rdquo; UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines said on Wednesday. Dines used his keynote at FUSION, UiPath&rsquo;s annual conference at the Wynn Las Vegas, to make the case for that manual. He [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uipaths-dines-says-ai-needs-a-manual-and-launches-cartographer-to-write-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uipaths-dines-says-ai-needs-a-manual-and-launches-cartographer-to-write-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo will pay riders $2.85 to also take public transport]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo will issue $2.85 in credit to San Francisco Bay Area riders who take a robotaxi and a public transport journey within two hours of each other, provided they pay with a Visa card. In Hamburg the same connection is arranged by the transit operator itself, which leads the autonomous shuttle project and lists the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/waymo-will-pay-riders-285-to-also-take-public-transport/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/waymo-will-pay-riders-285-to-also-take-public-transport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which roughly $2B is new and the rest was pledged for the UAE last year. Europe is meanwhile legislating to keep American cloud providers away from sensitive public sector data. Microsoft will spend $10B through 2030 across Saudi [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-adds-2b-to-its-gulf-spending-through-2030/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/microsoft-adds-2b-to-its-gulf-spending-through-2030/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[DeepSeek has published a paper describing the platform it uses to train AI agents, which runs about 3 million sandboxes a day and states that agent execution is untrustworthy and that no single mechanism can prevent all misbehaviour. Europe requires every member state to have a regulatory sandbox of a very different kind operational by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-publishes-its-method-for-training-ai-agents-at-scale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-publishes-its-method-for-training-ai-agents-at-scale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities,&rdquo; Sam Yam wrote on X. The Patreon co-founder started the company 13 years ago and served as its technology chief. Yam announced on Tuesday [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-hires-patreon-co-founder-sam-yam-to-lead-creator-product/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-hires-patreon-co-founder-sam-yam-to-lead-creator-product/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI asks the US to lead global standards for self-improving AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today, and we should not pursue it unless and until it can be done safely,&rdquo; OpenAI wrote on Monday. OpenAI set this out in a proposal published on 21 September. In it, the company calls on the United States to lead an effort with other countries to develop global [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-asks-the-us-to-lead-global-standards-for-self-improving-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-asks-the-us-to-lead-global-standards-for-self-improving-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A study of 47 million inspections says old EVs hold up better]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electric cars above 120,000 miles failed Britain&rsquo;s MOT roadworthiness test 32% less often than petrol and diesel equivalents, in a study of 47.4 million inspections by the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association. The advantage reverses at low mileage, and the test does not examine the battery at all. Electric cars above 120,000 miles fail [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-study-of-47-million-inspections-says-old-evs-hold-up-better/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-study-of-47-million-inspections-says-old-evs-hold-up-better/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geely’s new EV charger hits 2.25 megawatts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Geely has revealed a fifth-generation charging system peaking at 2,250 kW, which it says takes new Lynk &amp; Co and Zeekr models from 10 to 70% in four minutes and 30 seconds. Under AFIR a charging pool on Europe&rsquo;s core network must provide 600 kW in total by 2027. Geely has revealed a fifth-generation Smart [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/geelys-new-ev-charger-hits-225-megawatts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/geelys-new-ev-charger-hits-225-megawatts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking Machines signs $65m-a-year inference deal with Crusoe]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do,&rdquo; said Myle Ott, ML infrastructure lead at Thinking Machines Lab. Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab announced on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/thinking-machines-signs-65m-a-year-inference-deal-with-crusoe/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/thinking-machines-signs-65m-a-year-inference-deal-with-crusoe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s new Gemini TTS models can clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Today, we&rsquo;re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio,&rdquo; Google wrote in its announcement. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS on Wednesday. Both are rolling out from today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. They [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/googles-new-gemini-tts-models-can-clone-a-voice-from-30-seconds-of-audio/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/googles-new-gemini-tts-models-can-clone-a-voice-from-30-seconds-of-audio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nexo report points to operational friction as the biggest investor barrier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nexo, a premier digital assets wealth platform, today published &ldquo;The Future of Digital Wealth 2026&rdquo; report. The main finding shows operational friction, not conviction, is the biggest barrier keeping high-net-worth investors in the U.S., U.K., and Argentina from building real wealth with crypto. The report also debuts the Crypto Integration Index (CII). It is a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nexo-report-points-to-operational-friction-as-the-biggest-investor-barrier/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nexo-report-points-to-operational-friction-as-the-biggest-investor-barrier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not ship]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t ship the product. If your product is not ready to ship, don&rsquo;t ship the product,&rdquo; Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein on The New York Times&rsquo; podcast. Klein interviewed Huang at Nvidia&rsquo;s headquarters in Santa Clara, and The New York Times published the episode on Wednesday. Much of the conversation turned on [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jensen-huang-tells-ezra-klein-ai-labs-that-lack-control-should-not-ship/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jensen-huang-tells-ezra-klein-ai-labs-that-lack-control-should-not-ship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,&rdquo; Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon&rsquo;s vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, told GeekWire. Amazon announced on Wednesday a plugin that lets independent sellers run their Amazon business from an outside AI assistant. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-sellers-can-now-run-their-stores-from-claude-and-amazon-quick/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-sellers-can-now-run-their-stores-from-claude-and-amazon-quick/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube will let you build your own homepage feeds with AI prompts]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We pride ourselves on the fact that because we&rsquo;ve created a home for creators, it has created all these other amazing opportunities for them,&rdquo; YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan told The Wall Street Journal, asked about the platform&rsquo;s rivalry with Netflix. YouTube used its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday to announce a set of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/youtube-will-let-you-build-your-own-homepage-feeds-with-ai-prompts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/youtube-will-let-you-build-your-own-homepage-feeds-with-ai-prompts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top mathematicians will advise OpenAI on releasing its AI maths results]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We are currently facing the very specific challenge of advising OpenAI on how to coordinate the release of a large number of significant results in mathematics that they report have been produced by their internal model,&rdquo; the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence wrote in its launch statement. OpenAI announced the group on Monday. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/top-mathematicians-will-advise-openai-on-releasing-its-ai-maths-results/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/top-mathematicians-will-advise-openai-on-releasing-its-ai-maths-results/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now. We want to put more capable tools in their hands to help them find and fix vulnerabilities and protect the critical networks people depend on,&rdquo; said Sasha Baker, head of national security policy at OpenAI. OpenAI will give the Government of Ukraine [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-opens-its-daybreak-cyber-defence-programme-to-ukraine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-opens-its-daybreak-cyber-defence-programme-to-ukraine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance brought in nearly 75% of Nscale’s 2025 sales, the FT reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, spend from one or a few of our top customers would adversely affect our business,&rdquo; Nscale wrote in the prospectus for its New York listing. The prospectus, filed with the US [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bytedance-brought-in-nearly-75-of-nscales-2025-sales-the-ft-reports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bytedance-brought-in-nearly-75-of-nscales-2025-sales-the-ft-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upwind acquires Aegis as cybersecurity firm builds new AI Security Labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cybersecurity industry is increasingly focused on how artificial intelligence can reshape both defensive technology and the threat landscape. Upwind is responding by acquiring AI security startup Aegis and launching a new research and engineering initiative, as first reported by Axios. Aegis co-founders Omri Limor and Saar Ankonina will lead the new Upwind AI Security [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/upwind-acquires-aegis-as-cybersecurity-firm-builds-new-ai-security-labs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/upwind-acquires-aegis-as-cybersecurity-firm-builds-new-ai-security-labs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why effective AI communication starts with the recipient]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don&rsquo;t know about you, but when I read something I can tell was clearly produced by a large language model, it puts me off immediately. I lose interest, and I sometimes lose trust in whoever sent it, especially when they clearly haven&rsquo;t put any thought into it. That reaction is becoming a lot more [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/why-effective-ai-communication-starts-with-the-recipient/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/why-effective-ai-communication-starts-with-the-recipient/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numeral raises $100m Series C for AI sales tax compliance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sales tax has become a much bigger operational challenge as companies grow across markets, systems and business models. Sam Ross, co-founder and chief executive of Numeral, said that as the San Francisco company announced a $100m Series C on Wednesday. Insight Partners led the round. Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield, FCVC, Y Combinator and Uncork [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/numeral-raises-100m-series-c-for-ai-sales-tax-compliance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/numeral-raises-100m-series-c-for-ai-sales-tax-compliance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burnham says the UK is building an AI defence partnership with the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance. They must be taken by elected governments who serve working people. Andy Burnham said that about AI on Tuesday evening. It was his first speech to the UN General Assembly as British prime minister. He used it to announce three things. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/burnham-says-the-uk-is-building-an-ai-defence-partnership-with-the-us/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/burnham-says-the-uk-is-building-an-ai-defence-partnership-with-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tekever hits a $6.4bn valuation and plans acquisitions with its new round]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fund raise is precisely designed to support that growth, not only organically, developing new technology, but through acquisitions. Ricardo Mendes, founder and chief executive of Tekever, said that in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. He said he expects the defence technology market to go through tremendous consolidation over the next few years. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tekever-hits-a-64bn-valuation-and-plans-acquisitions-with-its-new-round/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tekever-hits-a-64bn-valuation-and-plans-acquisitions-with-its-new-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozilla puts up posters criticising Musk and Zuckerberg across New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Mozilla Foundation has begun putting up posters across New York criticizing tech billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. The campaign went up this week, Business Insider reported.= The foundation is the nonprofit that owns Mozilla Corporation, the maker of Firefox. Its posters set the work of Musk, Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos against projects [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mozilla-puts-up-posters-criticising-musk-and-zuckerberg-across-new-york/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mozilla-puts-up-posters-criticising-musk-and-zuckerberg-across-new-york/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera]]></title><description><![CDATA[As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses market for the first half of 2026. Companies must define exactly what always-on cameras capture, he [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-shipped-81-of-the-worlds-ai-glasses-and-the-runner-up-has-no-camera/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-shipped-81-of-the-worlds-ai-glasses-and-the-runner-up-has-no-camera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volkswagen becomes the first US volume brand to offer in-car gaming]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volkswagen of America, Inc. is introducing N-Dream&rsquo;s AirConsole in-car gaming platform on select model year 2027 vehicles. It becomes the first volume automotive brand in the United States to offer this in-vehicle entertainment experience. AirConsole allows vehicle occupants to play multiplayer games directly through the vehicle&rsquo;s infotainment display. They use their compatible smartphones as game [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagen-becomes-the-first-us-volume-brand-to-offer-in-car-gaming/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volkswagen-becomes-the-first-us-volume-brand-to-offer-in-car-gaming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-native patent firm Fearn launches to take on the billable hour]]></title><description><![CDATA[A conventional patent application can take 30 to 40 hours of attorney time and cost $18,000 to $40,000 in legal fees. Startups wait months to protect technology that can change by the day. Fearn, the modern patent prosecution firm for startups, was built around a different model. The company has launched an AI-native patent firm. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-native-patent-firm-fearn-launches-to-take-on-the-billable-hour/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-native-patent-firm-fearn-launches-to-take-on-the-billable-hour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Netherlands&rsquo; newest government agency is now one month old and has already made its first move by deciding to use AI in the design of the chips that power AI. On Wednesday, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation (NADI) and Germany&rsquo;s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) announced that they would commit &euro;40 million [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/germany-and-the-netherlands-put-40m-into-using-ai-to-design-ai-chips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/germany-and-the-netherlands-put-40m-into-using-ai-to-design-ai-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta expected to show camera-free smart glasses at Connect as privacy backlash grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta built its smart glasses business on a camera. At its Connect conference on Wednesday, it is expected to show a pair without one. The company will unveil new glasses, including a camera-free model, amid growing concern about devices that can record people without their consent, Reuters reported. Meta has not confirmed the product. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-expected-to-show-camera-free-smart-glasses-at-connect-as-privacy-backlash-grows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-expected-to-show-camera-free-smart-glasses-at-connect-as-privacy-backlash-grows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbus wins 25-year contract to build cyber gateways for France’s armed forces]]></title><description><![CDATA[France&rsquo;s military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus will build the checkpoints. The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the company the 25-year PARACOM contract to supply cybersecurity gateways for the networks of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans&rsquo; Affairs, Airbus said [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/airbus-wins-25-year-contract-to-build-cyber-gateways-for-frances-armed-forces/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/airbus-wins-25-year-contract-to-build-cyber-gateways-for-frances-armed-forces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK regulator toughens Google choice screen proposals as AI assistants rise]]></title><description><![CDATA[The next time a UK Android user is asked to pick a search engine, ChatGPT could be one of the answers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published strengthened proposals&nbsp;on Wednesday that would require Google to include AI assistants on its Android and Chrome choice screens, provided they meet technical and security criteria. Under the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-regulator-toughens-google-choice-screen-proposals-as-ai-assistants-rise/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/uk-regulator-toughens-google-choice-screen-proposals-as-ai-assistants-rise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI investigating claims that ShinyHunters stole data on its agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the past year, the cybercrime group ShinyHunters has been extorting companies and, last week, took over a rival gang&rsquo;s leak site. Now, it has gone after the agency that warned the public about it. The FBI stated on Tuesday that it is investigating a possible breach of its online jobs portal after the cybercrime [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/fbi-investigating-claims-that-shinyhunters-stole-data-on-its-agents/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/fbi-investigating-claims-that-shinyhunters-stole-data-on-its-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic and OpenEvidence to offer free medical AI to doctors in about 100 countries]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenEvidence, an AI tool used by American doctors, is now being offered in countries with limited access to medical literature. Reuters reported that the company is working with Anthropic to give clinicians in low- and middle-income countries free access to a specialized version of its platform. The initiative is being introduced in around 100 countries, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-and-openevidence-to-offer-free-medical-ai-to-doctors-in-about-100-countries/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-and-openevidence-to-offer-free-medical-ai-to-doctors-in-about-100-countries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance&rsquo;s member states, and the path to this approval went not through NATO&rsquo;s own offices but through Madrid. AWS has documented its compliance with D32, the NATO technical directive that defines the security requirements [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/aws-becomes-the-first-cloud-provider-cleared-for-nato-restricted-work-across-the-alliance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/aws-becomes-the-first-cloud-provider-cleared-for-nato-restricted-work-across-the-alliance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you ask Meta&rsquo;s new AI agent to call a hairdresser&rsquo;s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an AI. According to an exclusive report by Reuters on Tuesday, citing internal company postings, Meta has been testing a &ldquo;human concierge&rdquo; for Muse, with contractors taking over some of the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-is-testing-human-callers-behind-its-muse-ai-agent-reuters-reports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-is-testing-human-callers-behind-its-muse-ai-agent-reuters-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistral buys Paris adtech startup Pimento in its third acquisition of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mistral AI has acquired Pimento, a Paris-based generative AI company that creates advertising content, as part of its third acquisition this year. The acquisition was first mentioned on Monday by L&rsquo;Inform&eacute;, and Mistral confirmed it to AFP the same day, citing a price of &ldquo;several million euros&rdquo;. Two sources have now shared different numbers for [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mistral-buys-paris-adtech-startup-pimento-in-its-third-acquisition-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mistral-buys-paris-adtech-startup-pimento-in-its-third-acquisition-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Netherlands&rsquo; national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber&rsquo;s data center complex on the Zernike Campus in Groningen. The installation is scheduled for 2027, and the system is expected to be fully operational [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netherlands-picks-groningen-data-centre-for-its-201m-ai-factory-supercomputer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/netherlands-picks-groningen-data-centre-for-its-201m-ai-factory-supercomputer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[F13 raises $5M pre-seed to build an AI model for precise vector graphics]]></title><description><![CDATA[F13, an AI company that trains models to generate vector graphics, has come out of stealth with a $5M pre-seed round led by Credo Ventures and Point Nine Capital. Angel investors, including Carles Reina of Baobab Ventures and Jack Richardson of Mainframe, also took part. Images described using vector graphics are made up of shapes [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/f13-raises-5m-pre-seed-to-build-an-ai-model-for-precise-vector-graphics/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/f13-raises-5m-pre-seed-to-build-an-ai-model-for-precise-vector-graphics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activision will make the next Halo game as Xbox cuts 268 more jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer. Matt Booty put that in an email to Xbox staff on Tuesday morning. Microsoft published the memo in full on Xbox Wire the same day, under the title Continuing Our Reset. Booty is Xbox&rsquo;s chief [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/activision-will-make-the-next-halo-game-as-xbox-cuts-268-more-jobs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/activision-will-make-the-next-halo-game-as-xbox-cuts-268-more-jobs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company&rsquo;s annual cloud conference, in Hangzhou. The chip is the Zhenwu V900. Alibaba said in a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alibaba-says-its-new-zhenwu-v900-is-chinas-most-powerful-ai-chip/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/alibaba-says-its-new-zhenwu-v900-is-chinas-most-powerful-ai-chip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smart glasses may look cool but there&rsquo;s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia&rsquo;s education minister was announcing what she called the country&rsquo;s most comprehensive ban on the devices. It is not a policy statement. The same day, the department&rsquo;s director general Jay Peckitt [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/australias-attorney-general-told-councils-to-ban-smart-glasses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/australias-attorney-general-told-councils-to-ban-smart-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta says Muse looks like OpenClaw because it was built that way]]></title><description><![CDATA[We built Muse from scratch, but it is definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw. Nat Friedman posted that on X on Monday evening. The head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs was answering a fortnight of speculation about Meta&rsquo;s new personal agent, and why it felt so familiar to anyone who had used [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-says-muse-looks-like-openclaw-because-it-was-built-that-way/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-says-muse-looks-like-openclaw-because-it-was-built-that-way/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heidi raises $340m and doubles its valuation to $900m]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the day I started Heidi, the ambition was always bigger than writing doctor&rsquo;s notes. Dr Thomas Kelly said that on Tuesday, as the company he cofounded announced US$340m of new funding. The money arrives in two parts. In its announcement, Heidi said Blackbird led a US$100m Series C that values the Melbourne company at [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/heidi-raises-340m-and-doubles-its-valuation-to-900m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/heidi-raises-340m-and-doubles-its-valuation-to-900m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launching a VPN built for AI agents rather than for people. It is a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bitdefender-built-a-vpn-that-hides-your-ai-agent-not-you/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bitdefender-built-a-vpn-that-hides-your-ai-agent-not-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cyera has now raised $1.4bn this year to police AI agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[They need to trust what AI agents can see and do before they can scale them. Yotam Segev said that on Tuesday, about what the Global 2000 keeps telling his company. The Cyera cofounder and chief executive was announcing a $400m investment from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The money extends Cyera&rsquo;s Series G, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cyera-has-now-raised-14bn-this-year-to-police-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/cyera-has-now-raised-14bn-this-year-to-police-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ask an AI lab where its workforce is and you get a map, not an address. Researchers in London and Zurich. Engineers in Tel Aviv and Bangalore. Robotics technicians at sites that did not exist a year ago. And underneath all of it, the people who&nbsp;label the data, review the outputs and keep the models [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-ai-boom-runs-on-tens-of-millions-of-workers-nobody-has-figured-out-how-to-pay-papaya-global-wants-to-fix-that/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-ai-boom-runs-on-tens-of-millions-of-workers-nobody-has-figured-out-how-to-pay-papaya-global-wants-to-fix-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alexandr Wang has set Meta&rsquo;s new AI agent a simple target. Meta&rsquo;s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could &ldquo;make you $1000&rdquo;, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar figures, but not always independent. Many of the posts answering [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metas-ai-chief-wants-muse-to-make-you-1000/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metas-ai-chief-wants-muse-to-make-you-1000/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI names the four things it wants safety assessors to test]]></title><description><![CDATA[That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their own conclusions about the effectiveness of our safeguards. OpenAI published that on Tuesday, in a document setting out what it wants outside safety assessors to do. Lama Ahmad wrote it. She leads the company&rsquo;s work with external [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-names-the-four-things-it-wants-safety-assessors-to-test/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-names-the-four-things-it-wants-safety-assessors-to-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta jumps 11% as investors bet on its Muse agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta&rsquo;s shares closed up 11.43% at $741.25 on Monday as investors piled into the company&rsquo;s bet on AI agents. Trading volume hit 48.5 million shares, well above the three-month average,&nbsp;The Motley Fool&nbsp;reported. The rally made Mark Zuckerberg about $25bn richer in a single session, lifting his fortune to an estimated $253.6bn, as Mary Whitfill Roeloffs [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-jumps-11-as-investors-bet-on-its-muse-agent/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/meta-jumps-11-as-investors-bet-on-its-muse-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices in half with Sol and Luna]]></title><description><![CDATA[They are also half the price per token, and even less per task. Sam Altman wrote that on X on Tuesday, about GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. OpenAI released both models the same afternoon. They extend the GPT-6 family below GPT-6 Astra, which arrived on 3 September. The prices are the headline. In its announcement, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-cuts-gpt-6-prices-in-half-with-sol-and-luna/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-cuts-gpt-6-prices-in-half-with-sol-and-luna/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it &lsquo;super intelligence&rsquo;, because &lsquo;artificial&rsquo; made the technology sound fake. The rebrand grabbed the headlines, but the policy sat in the sentences around [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-tells-the-un-that-ai-is-now-super-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-tells-the-un-that-ai-is-now-super-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coinspaid Dev’s Alexey Tulia on engineering leadership when AI reaches production]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alexey Tulia, Executive Leader at Coinspaid Dev, discussed the changing role of engineers and CTOs during the AI Impact in Engineering panel at Tech Race Summit 2026 in Warsaw. His remarks centred on the transition towards AI systems that can act through company infrastructure. Companies already use AI to help with drafting and analysis. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coinspaid-devs-alexey-tulia-on-engineering-leadership-when-ai-reaches-production/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coinspaid-devs-alexey-tulia-on-engineering-leadership-when-ai-reaches-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab]]></title><description><![CDATA[I think a lot of it is marketing, to overemphasize the proposed capabilities. Max Junestrand said that in Amsterdam on Tuesday. He was asked about the summer&rsquo;s run of incidents in which AI agents hacked other companies. The warnings that followed deserve a pinch of salt, the Legora co-founder and chief executive told Politico, speaking [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/legoras-ceo-says-europe-should-not-build-a-frontier-ai-lab/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/legoras-ceo-says-europe-should-not-build-a-frontier-ai-lab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI will let outside groups test its models during training]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI says it will let third-party groups run technical safety assessments while models are being trained and evaluated rather than only before launch, and is in talks with groups including METR and Redwood Research. It has named no partner and set no access terms, ten days after Sam Altman promised evaluators employee-level access and the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-will-let-outside-groups-test-its-models-during-training/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-will-let-outside-groups-test-its-models-during-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A phone maker now has the world’s top open-weight AI model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Xiaomi opened its MiMo-V2.6 announcement with that line on Tuesday. The phone and electric car maker released two open-weight models, Pro and Flash, under an MIT licence. The weights are on Hugging Face. The benchmark firm Artificial Analysis scores MiMo-V2.6-Pro at 46 on its Intelligence Index. That [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-phone-maker-now-has-the-worlds-top-open-weight-ai-model/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-phone-maker-now-has-the-worlds-top-open-weight-ai-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic&rsquo;s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang wrote that on Tuesday, about her own story. She and Qianer Liu reported for The Information that the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating both companies [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-is-investigating-deepseek-and-moonshot-the-information-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-is-investigating-deepseek-and-moonshot-the-information-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quantum hardware roadmaps often include timelines, but they rarely answer the questions that matter most to a chief information officer: which problems will this solve, when will it happen, and at what cost? Zapata Quantum, a Boston-based quantum software company, believes it has created a tool to help with these decisions. The company has launched [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zapata-quantum-opens-early-access-to-quantum-pilot-a-roadmap-tool-for-enterprise-quantum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zapata-quantum-opens-early-access-to-quantum-pilot-a-roadmap-tool-for-enterprise-quantum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, below the $5 and $25 that Opus 5 has carried since July, and says it performs similarly to the more expensive Fable 5.1 on most work. It is the first model since Dario Amodei called for third-party [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropics-cheaper-opus-arrives-weeks-before-its-ipo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropics-cheaper-opus-arrives-weeks-before-its-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history]]></title><description><![CDATA[In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that on Monday, on ZCode&rsquo;s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhipu, put the coding tool&rsquo;s source code on GitHub the same day. It says it has removed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zai-apologised-open-sourced-zcode-and-wiped-the-commit-history/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zai-apologised-open-sourced-zcode-and-wiped-the-commit-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[A joint statement released today by the Dutch government has seen leaders and ministers from 21 countries, together with the European Commission, call for tighter control over frontier AI models, including mandatory testing before their release and the possibility of establishing a new international body to supervise them. The list is headed by Norway&rsquo;s Jonas [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dutch-government-publishes-call-from-21-countries-and-the-eu-for-international-oversight-of-frontier-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dutch-government-publishes-call-from-21-countries-and-the-eu-for-international-oversight-of-frontier-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s biggest memory maker says it has caught up with Samsung and Micron]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our process capability is now on par with the most advanced mass-produced nodes out there in the industry. Luo Xiaodong, vice president of ChangXin Memory Technologies and head of its marketing centre, said that at the World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, in remarks reported by Reuters. China&rsquo;s largest maker of DRAM had just announced that [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chinas-biggest-memory-maker-says-it-has-caught-up-with-samsung-and-micron/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/chinas-biggest-memory-maker-says-it-has-caught-up-with-samsung-and-micron/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parloa says it is partnering with Zalando on AI customer conversations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parloa co-founder and chief executive Malte Kosub said Zalando will use the Berlin company&rsquo;s AI for customer conversations across Europe, though neither company has published an announcement and Zalando has not commented. Article 50 of the AI Act, applicable since 2 August, puts the duty to disclose that a user is talking to an AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/parloa-says-it-is-partnering-with-zalando-on-ai-customer-conversations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/parloa-says-it-is-partnering-with-zalando-on-ai-customer-conversations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastest-adopted model on Vercel this year cannot write a word]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful. Diogo Almeida helped build ChatGPT. He worked on the instruction-following research behind it at OpenAI, and the four years since have left him disappointed by what it became, as he told TechCrunch last week. His answer is a model that cannot write a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-fastest-adopted-model-on-vercel-this-year-cannot-write-a-word/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-fastest-adopted-model-on-vercel-this-year-cannot-write-a-word/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz is putting a British AI driver into its production cars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wayve has signed a definitive production agreement with Mercedes-Benz to put its AI Driver into future vehicles within the next two years, providing urban and motorway point-to-point driving assistance. Mercedes invested in Wayve&rsquo;s $1.5B Series D in February, and the software has been integrated into its production architecture using MB.OS. Wayve has signed a production [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mercedes-benz-is-putting-a-british-ai-driver-into-its-production-cars/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/mercedes-benz-is-putting-a-british-ai-driver-into-its-production-cars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok’s US joint venture joins Lantern child safety programme and pledges $2M to NCMEC]]></title><description><![CDATA[TikTok&rsquo;s US business has joined Lantern, a program that lets tech companies share warning signs about people who sexually exploit children as they move from one platform to another, TechCrunch reported. The member is TikTok USDS Joint Venture, a majority-American-owned company formed in January to operate TikTok in the US. ByteDance retained a 19.9% stake, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktoks-us-joint-venture-joins-lantern-child-safety-programme-and-pledges-2m-to-ncmec/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktoks-us-joint-venture-joins-lantern-child-safety-programme-and-pledges-2m-to-ncmec/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Weird 1973 Typeface Just Came Back From the Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life &mdash; and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font that bends, rocks and wobbles its way into the digital age.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/this-weird-1973-typeface-just-came-back-from-the-dead/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/this-weird-1973-typeface-just-came-back-from-the-dead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adobe Premiere’s free mobile video editor arrives on Android]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adobe Premiere&rsquo;s mobile video editing app is now available on Android, a year after its iPhone launch. The app is free to download&nbsp;from Google Play and works on phones running Android 13 or later with at least 5GB of RAM. Premiere mobile is a touch-first version of Adobe&rsquo;s desktop editor, aimed at creators making short [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/adobe-premieres-free-mobile-video-editor-arrives-on-android/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/adobe-premieres-free-mobile-video-editor-arrives-on-android/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palo Alto Networks launches always-on AI security testing built on Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6-Cyber]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palo Alto Networks is launching a subscription service that puts Anthropic and OpenAI models to work hunting for weaknesses in customers&rsquo; systems around the clock. Its threat research and consulting arm, Unit 42,&nbsp;announced the service today, called Continuous Frontier AI Defense. The service is built on models whose access is tightly controlled: Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Mythos [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/palo-alto-networks-launches-always-on-ai-security-testing-built-on-claude-mythos-and-gpt-56-cyber/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/palo-alto-networks-launches-always-on-ai-security-testing-built-on-claude-mythos-and-gpt-56-cyber/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Biological Computing Co. partners with AWS to sell its neuron-derived AI video model]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), a San Francisco startup that grows living neurons to improve AI models, has partnered with Amazon Web Services to bring its first commercial product, a neuron-derived AI video model, to paying customers. The text-to-video model is tuned with software based on how those cells process information. TBC built the model [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-biological-computing-co-partners-with-aws-to-sell-its-neuron-derived-ai-video-model/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-biological-computing-co-partners-with-aws-to-sell-its-neuron-derived-ai-video-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%]]></title><description><![CDATA[EWOR, a founder fellowship harder to get into than Y Combinator, has named a senior leadership team in San Francisco. The appointments follow a record year of US applications, up 237% in twelve months. The team comprises Charles Ferguson, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who sold FrontPage to Microsoft. He invested early in Etched, Perplexity, CopilotKit, and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ewor-names-a-san-francisco-team-as-us-applications-surge-237/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ewor-names-a-san-francisco-team-as-us-applications-surge-237/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday, alongside OpenAI&rsquo;s Sam Altman, at a session devoted to the future of AI, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Yet Dario Amodei will attend the meeting remotely rather than in the chamber, according to Bloomberg. The briefers listed also comprise Yoshua Bengio, who is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dario-amodei-and-sam-altman-to-brief-un-security-council-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dario-amodei-and-sam-altman-to-brief-un-security-council-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DoorDash agrees to pay $131.5M to settle New York City probe into delivery worker pay]]></title><description><![CDATA[DoorDash has agreed to pay $131.5M to settle a New York City investigation that found it underpaid delivery workers or paid them late. The deal with the city&rsquo;s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) ends a dispute that began early in Mayor Zohran Mamdani&rsquo;s administration. &ldquo;Simply put, we screwed up,&rdquo; DoorDash said in a&nbsp;post [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doordash-agrees-to-pay-1315m-to-settle-new-york-city-probe-into-delivery-worker-pay/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/doordash-agrees-to-pay-1315m-to-settle-new-york-city-probe-into-delivery-worker-pay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy Burnham wants the UK to use its G20 presidency to broker a global AI agreement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain will try to broker a worldwide deal on AI during its upcoming turn at the head of the G20, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told reporters on the eve of the UN General Assembly in New York, Politico Europe reported. Britain was &ldquo;uniquely positioned to play a leadership role on AI,&rdquo; he said, pointing to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/andy-burnham-wants-the-uk-to-use-its-g20-presidency-to-broker-a-global-ai-agreement/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/andy-burnham-wants-the-uk-to-use-its-g20-presidency-to-broker-a-global-ai-agreement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic and OpenAI ask Australia to ease its ban on AI training with local content]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australian lawmakers to reconsider rules that stop them from training AI models on the country&rsquo;s creative work, Reuters reported&nbsp;on Tuesday, citing the companies&rsquo; submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into AI laws. In October 2025, the Australian government stated that it would not include a text and data mining exception in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-and-openai-ask-australia-to-ease-its-ban-on-ai-training-with-local-content/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-and-openai-ask-australia-to-ease-its-ban-on-ai-training-with-local-content/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to an exclusive Reuters report published today, which cites two individuals familiar with the situation, DeepSeek is expected to speak to the UN Security Council this week about the risks posed by AI, alongside several US companies. The 15-member council will be meeting on Wednesday, while world leaders are in New York for the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-to-brief-un-security-council-on-ai-risks-this-week-reuters-reports/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/deepseek-to-brief-un-security-council-on-ai-risks-this-week-reuters-reports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FintechOS raises $28M in equity and debt after turning profitable]]></title><description><![CDATA[FintechOS, a London-based company founded in Romania that sells AI software to banks and insurers, has raised $28M in a mix of equity and debt. Existing investors Bek Ventures, IFC, Cipio Partners, and Molten Ventures put in the equity, while Santander CIB provided a senior debt facility. The funds will be used to expand in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/fintechos-raises-28m-in-equity-and-debt-after-turning-profitable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/fintechos-raises-28m-in-equity-and-debt-after-turning-profitable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spott raises $21M Series A led by Balderton for its AI platform for recruitment agencies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spott, a Leuven-based startup that sells recruitment agencies an AI-native applicant tracking system and CRM, has raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital. Base10 Partners, Y Combinator, and Fortino also took part. Spott launched its main platform six months after the seed round and says its revenue has grown more than tenfold so [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spott-raises-21m-series-a-led-by-balderton-for-its-ai-platform-for-recruitment-agencies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spott-raises-21m-series-a-led-by-balderton-for-its-ai-platform-for-recruitment-agencies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biolevate raises €30M Series A and opens Boston office for its life sciences AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Paris-based company Biolevate, which develops AI automation for use in regulated life sciences, has raised &euro;30m in its Series A funding and has opened an office in Boston. Orange Ventures and RAISE France co-led the fundraising exercise, with the company stating that RAISE France is the investment arm of Aymar H&eacute;nin, a French entrepreneur. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/biolevate-raises-30m-series-a-and-opens-boston-office-for-its-life-sciences-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/biolevate-raises-30m-series-a-and-opens-boston-office-for-its-life-sciences-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morphotonics raises more than €40M to scale waveguide manufacturing for AI glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Morphotonics, a Brainport-based manufacturer of large-area nanoimprint lithography equipment, has raised over &euro;40 million in a Series B funding round. The Veldhoven company plans to use the money to boost production of machines that make waveguides for AI glasses and augmented reality headsets. Previous investors 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, and BOM increased their commitments, while [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/morphotonics-raises-more-than-40m-to-scale-waveguide-manufacturing-for-ai-glasses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/morphotonics-raises-more-than-40m-to-scale-waveguide-manufacturing-for-ai-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jet2 signs multi-year deal with Adobe to personalise holidays with agentic AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jet2, the UK&rsquo;s largest tour operator and, by its own count, its third-largest airline, has signed a&nbsp;multi-year partnership with Adobe to personalize holiday offers, recommendations, and support for its 10 million myJet2 customers using agentic AI. Jet2 will run Adobe CX Enterprise, the agentic platform Adobe introduced in April, with its CX Enterprise Coworker tool [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jet2-signs-multi-year-deal-with-adobe-to-personalise-holidays-with-agentic-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/jet2-signs-multi-year-deal-with-adobe-to-personalise-holidays-with-agentic-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finnish AI cloud company Verda raises $189M and it is now the latest unicorn in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Verda, an AI cloud company headquartered in Helsinki and previously called DataCrunch, has raised $189M to increase its computing capacity and develop its platform; the funds came from a Series B round led by Emergence Capital, which was oversubscribed, with additional investment also provided. The company states that this funding round has made it the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/finnish-ai-cloud-company-verda-raises-189m-and-it-is-now-the-latest-unicorn-in-europe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/finnish-ai-cloud-company-verda-raises-189m-and-it-is-now-the-latest-unicorn-in-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir, Goldman Sachs and One Peak alumni raise €5M pre-seed round to build a tech-native audit firm]]></title><description><![CDATA[For two decades, the standard way to modernize auditing has been to build software and sell it to auditors. Benford has decided to skip the middleman and become the auditor. Today, the Oslo- and London-based company Benford announced it has raised &euro;5 million in pre-seed funding to build a tech-focused financial audit firm. The company [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/palantir-goldman-sachs-and-one-peak-alumni-raise-5m-pre-seed-round-to-build-a-tech-native-audit-firm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/palantir-goldman-sachs-and-one-peak-alumni-raise-5m-pre-seed-round-to-build-a-tech-native-audit-firm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia is buying SB Energy stock at 90% of its IPO price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia is buying a further $1.5B of SB Energy shares at 90% of the price of the data centre developer&rsquo;s coming US listing, taking its total backing to $3B. SB Energy has 8.8 gigawatts in contract or under construction in Texas and Ohio, while its parent&rsquo;s European capacity is not due before 2031. Nvidia is [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-is-buying-sb-energy-stock-at-90-of-its-ipo-price/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nvidia-is-buying-sb-energy-stock-at-90-of-its-ipo-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI asks Washington to lead a global AI standards push]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has called on the United States to lead an international effort on standards for advanced AI, beginning with rules on which incidents must be reported, and suggested routing the work through national AI safety institutes including the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation. Europe legislated incident reporting in Article 55 of the AI [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-asks-washington-to-lead-a-global-ai-standards-push/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-asks-washington-to-lead-a-global-ai-standards-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California will fine creators $5,000 a post for hidden political ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I was hearing from people in the campaign world that there&rsquo;s this new strategy of paying political influencers to post content,&rdquo; said Marc Berman, the California assemblyman. &ldquo;Some were good about disclosure and others were a bit fast and loose.&rdquo; His bill is now law. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1130 on Saturday. In California, paid [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/california-will-fine-creators-5000-a-post-for-hidden-political-ads/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/california-will-fine-creators-5000-a-post-for-hidden-political-ads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI model costs are pushing startups towards cheaper open weigh]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harvey&rsquo;s gross margin fell from about 50% at the start of this year to minus 50% by June as customer usage of its AI agents spiked, and turned positive again only after it released a model of its own built on Moonshot&rsquo;s Kimi K3. Abridge, Decagon, Ramp and Rogo are making similar moves, and Sequoia [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-model-costs-are-pushing-startups-towards-cheaper-open-weigh/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-model-costs-are-pushing-startups-towards-cheaper-open-weigh/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyundai’s answer to the EV slowdown is building tens of thousands of robotaxis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyundai will build tens of thousands of Ioniq 5 robotaxis for Waymo at its plant in Georgia, chief executive Jose Munoz said, calling robotaxis the biggest new opportunity inside a slowing electric market. In Europe the only type approval route that works across the whole union for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hyundais-answer-to-the-ev-slowdown-is-building-tens-of-thousands-of-robotaxis/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/hyundais-answer-to-the-ev-slowdown-is-building-tens-of-thousands-of-robotaxis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corridor launches with $25m to fix health benefits for small businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;For decades, small businesses have been sold the leftovers of the health insurance market,&rdquo; said Nikhil Aggarwal, chief executive and co-founder of Corridor. His company launched its AI benefits brokerage on Monday with $25m. Its plan is to change that with agents. Bain Capital Ventures led the round. BoxGroup and Definition Capital took part. So [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/corridor-launches-with-25m-to-fix-health-benefits-for-small-businesses/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/corridor-launches-with-25m-to-fix-health-benefits-for-small-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state of the American advertiser]]></title><description><![CDATA[American advertisers are operating in a media environment with more channels, more data, and more technology than ever before. Yet for marketers, the central challenge is shifting. It is less about finding another place to advertise. It is more about understanding how every investment contributes to the broader business. That is the environment Rob DeSalvo [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-state-of-the-american-advertiser/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-state-of-the-american-advertiser/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon fought AI shopping agents on two fronts on Monday. It blocked Muse, Meta&rsquo;s new AI assistant, from Amazon.com. It also filed an amended complaint against Perplexity, accusing the company of misleading a federal appeals court. The block came first. People who sent Muse to shop on Amazon over the weekend began seeing a popup. [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-blocks-metas-muse-and-accuses-perplexity-of-misleading-a-court/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-blocks-metas-muse-and-accuses-perplexity-of-misleading-a-court/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volvo names Klaus Zellmer as chief executive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Volvo Cars has appointed Klaus Zellmer, chairman of the board of management at Skoda Auto, as president and chief executive, taking over from Hakan Samuelsson no later than 1 October 2027. Skoda posted an 8.5% operating margin in the first half of 2026, against Volvo&rsquo;s 3.5% for last year and an 8% target with no [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volvo-names-klaus-zellmer-as-chief-executive/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/volvo-names-klaus-zellmer-as-chief-executive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Specifics will vary by DSP and geography, as each DSP determines how best to invest in their business and teams,&rdquo; Amazon wrote on Monday. That sentence sits four lines below the headline figure, which is that drivers will earn a national average of nearly $24 an hour. Amazon said it will put another $1.9bn into [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-puts-another-19bn-into-its-delivery-partner-programme-for-2027/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amazon-puts-another-19bn-into-its-delivery-partner-programme-for-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Death of Apps Has Already Begun]]></title><description><![CDATA[We spent 15 years filling our phones with apps. AI could make almost all of them invisible... and the death of apps may already be closer than anyone realizes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-death-of-apps-has-already-begun/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-death-of-apps-has-already-begun/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dragos closes its NetRise and runZero deals as Accenture takes control]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about whether the lights stay on and the water stays safe when an adversary attacks,&rdquo; said Dmitri Alperovitch, the CrowdStrike co-founder who is returning to the board of Dragos. The industrial cybersecurity company said on Monday it has closed its acquisitions of NetRise and runZero. The deals completed alongside the close of Accenture&rsquo;s majority [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dragos-closes-its-netrise-and-runzero-deals-as-accenture-takes-control/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/dragos-closes-its-netrise-and-runzero-deals-as-accenture-takes-control/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber Electric raises €49m to take home battery automation to Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve built a leading energy automation platform in Australia, and this investment gives us the backing to build on that leadership globally,&rdquo; said Chris Thompson, co-founder of Amber Electric. The Melbourne company has raised &euro;49m in a Series E round, Morgan Stanley Investment Management said on Monday. 1GT led the round. It is the private [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amber-electric-raises-49m-to-take-home-battery-automation-to-europe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amber-electric-raises-49m-to-take-home-battery-automation-to-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,&rdquo; said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons&rsquo; talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It is the company&rsquo;s fourth office in Europe. The others are its [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bending-spoons-opens-a-warsaw-office-after-50000-polish-applications/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/bending-spoons-opens-a-warsaw-office-after-50000-polish-applications/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company&rsquo;s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as &ldquo;an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions&rdquo;. In a second document he called it perhaps the &ldquo;largest theft of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-microsoft-scientist-called-ai-training-the-largest-theft-of-labor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-microsoft-scientist-called-ai-training-the-largest-theft-of-labor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pre-orders for the Googlebook&nbsp;opened on Monday,&nbsp;starting at $899, with the first ones reaching shops in the United States on 4 October. In Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia will arrive on 5 October. Google has not said what they will cost in any of those markets, and the only price published is in [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/five-makers-one-laptop-googlebook-pre-orders-open-from-899/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/five-makers-one-laptop-googlebook-pre-orders-open-from-899/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe&rsquo;s data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating scheme&nbsp;proposed on Monday by the European Commission. Any individual site drawing more than 500 kW is covered. What the rating measures is not only consumption but what a data center puts back: heat recovered and reused, clean [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-eu-will-rate-data-centres-on-energy-and-water-from-2027/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-eu-will-rate-data-centres-on-energy-and-water-from-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single git trick beat the safety lock on four AI coding agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI industry already knew attackers could poison plugin marketplaces. Its answer was to lock every plugin to one reviewed version of its code. That lock is what just broke. Researchers at Air Security published a vulnerability on Thursday that they call Plugin4Shell. It affects the four most widely used AI coding agents. Those are [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-single-git-trick-beat-the-safety-lock-on-four-ai-coding-agents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/a-single-git-trick-beat-the-safety-lock-on-four-ai-coding-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;La autorregulaci&oacute;n no funciona.&rdquo; Self-regulation does not work, Pedro S&aacute;nchez told employers and union officials at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Monday, closing a government event&nbsp;on artificial intelligence hours before flying to New York for the UN General Assembly. The prime minister said that recent statements from some key figures make it hard to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spains-prime-minister-thinks-the-ai-industrys-safety-warnings-are-partly-a-fundraising-strategy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/spains-prime-minister-thinks-the-ai-industrys-safety-warnings-are-partly-a-fundraising-strategy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oura spent the first nine months of its financial year buying its own shares back from its investors. On Monday it started selling them to everybody else. The Finnish smart ring maker launched its initial public offering before the New York open. It is marketing 50 million shares at $40 to $44 each. At the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ouras-ipo-seeks-22bn-and-73-of-it-goes-to-existing-shareholders/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ouras-ipo-seeks-22bn-and-73-of-it-goes-to-existing-shareholders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI4Peace, a symposium on artificial intelligence and conflict, opened on Monday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome with a message from Leo XIV. The Pope was not present in the room, and Don Andrea Ciucci, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, read the message on his behalf. The message states that technological progress [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-vatican-is-turning-its-ai-campaign-into-permanent-machinery-this-week/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-vatican-is-turning-its-ai-campaign-into-permanent-machinery-this-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s Unit1 raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unit1 Studio has raised &pound;20M to stage concerts performed by digital recreations of musicians, in an oversubscribed round led by Balderton Capital. The company was founded in February 2025 and is based in Tileyard, north London. The money comes as a mix of equity and production financing, with Mercuri, Gilston Music, Paul McGuinness, who managed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/londons-unit1-raises-20m-to-take-avatar-concerts-on-tour/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/londons-unit1-raises-20m-to-take-avatar-concerts-on-tour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has announced the appointment of Krshna Prashant as its first Marketing Lead. She is the company&rsquo;s first marketing hire in the United States. The appointment comes weeks after Freehand raised $75 million in funding. Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/freehand-names-krshna-prashant-as-first-marketing-lead/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/freehand-names-krshna-prashant-as-first-marketing-lead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Central Bank is preparing to put some of its own money into tokenized securities, moving from building the plumbing for digital asset markets to buying in them. Settlement will occur in central bank money, routed through Pontes, the system the Eurosystem has built for trades running on distributed ledger technology. What the bank [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-ecb-will-invest-in-tokenised-securities-and-settle-the-trades-on-its-own-new-rail/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-ecb-will-invest-in-tokenised-securities-and-settle-the-trades-on-its-own-new-rail/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has been fined &euro;403M, or about $463M, by Ireland&rsquo;s Data Protection Commission over the way it handled users&rsquo; location data, in a case brought after several European consumer groups complained. It found breaches of lawfulness and fairness in the location data processed through Web &amp; App Activity and Location History, of transparency across those [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/irelands-data-watchdog-has-fined-google-403m-over-location-data/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/irelands-data-watchdog-has-fined-google-403m-over-location-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify as national security events, an idea Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put forward to Chinese officials during talks in Manhattan on Sunday. Scott Bessent and Jamieson Greer, the trade representative, met with He Lifeng, the Vice Premier, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-us-has-proposed-an-ai-incident-alert-system-to-china/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-us-has-proposed-an-ai-incident-alert-system-to-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the night of Friday, September 18, the Tor leak site that the Cl0p ransomware gang used to name and pressure its victims was defaced. Another criminal group claimed responsibility, according to BleepingComputer. When people visited the site, they saw Pok&eacute;mon artwork, an ASCII Umbreon, above the message &ldquo;THIS SITE HAS BEEN PWN3D BY SHINYHUNTERS&rdquo; [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/shinyhunters-says-it-hijacked-cl0ps-dark-web-leak-site/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/shinyhunters-says-it-hijacked-cl0ps-dark-web-leak-site/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an &ldquo;AI Force&rdquo; and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether the AI Force would be a military branch, a regulatory agency, or something else. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Saturday, rather than through an executive order or official briefing. &ldquo;He [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-white-house-will-not-say-what-trumps-ai-force-is/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/the-white-house-will-not-say-what-trumps-ai-force-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank is reportedly raising about $11bn in bonds to cover its next OpenAI payment]]></title><description><![CDATA[SoftBank Group has launched a bond sale of roughly $11bn, comprising $10bn in senior unsecured dollar notes and an additional &euro;1bn in euros, according to term sheets reported separately by Reuters and Bloomberg on Monday. The deal comes in five tranches, with dollar notes at three and a half, five and a half, and seven [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/softbank-is-reportedly-raising-about-11bn-in-bonds-to-cover-its-next-openai-payment/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/softbank-is-reportedly-raising-about-11bn-in-bonds-to-cover-its-next-openai-payment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albanese says Tim Cook backed Australia’s under-16 social media ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese met Tim Cook at Apple Park on Saturday and said Apple had recognized Australia&rsquo;s leadership on online safety. It quotes Albanese saying that seeing the new safety features in action &ldquo;proves that when we draw a line in the sand, tech companies will step up&rdquo;, and that Apple is showing the industry can [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/albanese-says-tim-cook-backed-australias-under-16-social-media-ban/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/albanese-says-tim-cook-backed-australias-under-16-social-media-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmus will reportedly open its $5bn ASX float on 6 October]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firmus will open the institutional bookbuild for its Australian listing on 6 October and begin trading on the ASX on 22 October, according to a term sheet reported by Reuters. The timetable appears in no public document, and no other outlet has it independently. The rest of the schedule runs from there: bookbuilding on 6 [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/firmus-will-reportedly-open-its-5bn-asx-float-on-6-october/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/firmus-will-reportedly-open-its-5bn-asx-float-on-6-october/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook and Instagram went down for US users on Sunday night]]></title><description><![CDATA[Facebook and Instagram stopped working for users across the United States on Sunday evening, with the outage tracker Downdetector logging more than 17,000 reports for Facebook and over 5,000 for Instagram by 9.11pm ET. Those are report counts, not user counts, and the distinction does real work here. Downdetector tallies problems that people voluntarily submit [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/facebook-and-instagram-went-down-for-us-users-on-sunday-night/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/facebook-and-instagram-went-down-for-us-users-on-sunday-night/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip]]></title><description><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can show recurring revenue and a credible path to narrowing losses,&nbsp;The Information reported&nbsp;on 9 September. The direction is being given as window guidance, the informal and unpublished channel the China Securities Regulatory Commission uses when it wants an outcome [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-is-reportedly-slowing-humanoid-robot-ipos-after-unitrees-debut-round-trip/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/china-is-reportedly-slowing-humanoid-robot-ipos-after-unitrees-debut-round-trip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips in six months. GoPro’s shareholders are getting $285m in cash for the entire company.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Insta360 opened its first American store on Saturday at 1515 Broadway, in the middle of Times Square. It is the company&rsquo;s second self-operated shop outside China, after Tokyo in August. The ribbon-cutting is the least interesting part.&nbsp;Iris Deng interviewed co-founder Max Richter in Shenzhen for the South China Morning Post, and the numbers around the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/insta360-spent-298m-on-memory-chips-in-six-months-gopros-shareholders-are-getting-285m-in-cash-for-the-entire-company/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/insta360-spent-298m-on-memory-chips-in-six-months-gopros-shareholders-are-getting-285m-in-cash-for-the-entire-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode&rsquo;s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba&rsquo;s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for the South China Morning Post. The archive [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zai-encrypted-the-workspace-it-uploaded-so-that-only-zai-could-open-it-now-only-zai-can-say-it-was-deleted/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zai-encrypted-the-workspace-it-uploaded-so-that-only-zai-could-open-it-now-only-zai-can-say-it-was-deleted/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday.&nbsp;The first post&nbsp;asked his followers to vote on a new name for the technology.&nbsp;The second&nbsp;called the campaign against it a hoax and promised an AI Force and an AI czar. The rename has taken most of the attention. The second post is the one that contains [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-says-the-ai-backlash-is-a-democratic-hoax-this-weeks-polling-put-republican-opposition-to-data-centres-at-47/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-says-the-ai-backlash-is-a-democratic-hoax-this-weeks-polling-put-republican-opposition-to-data-centres-at-47/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.]]></title><description><![CDATA[An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 55% against 6%, and the OECD attributes the gap to regulatory architecture. Most of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-employers-use-software-to-punish-workers-at-sixteen-times-the-european-rate-the-gap-is-the-law/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/us-employers-use-software-to-punish-workers-at-sixteen-times-the-european-rate-the-gap-is-the-law/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s new chief executive built up to unveiling the ideal AI device, then said it was the iPhone.]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Ternus opened his first keynote as Apple chief executive by describing the ideal AI device, then said it already exists and is the iPhone. Mark Gurman reports that people inside Apple expected him to introduce the home hub instead, and that the hub, codenamed J490, is being tested in employees&rsquo; homes and could ship [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apples-new-chief-executive-built-up-to-unveiling-the-ideal-ai-device-then-said-it-was-the-iphone/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/apples-new-chief-executive-built-up-to-unveiling-the-ideal-ai-device-then-said-it-was-the-iphone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that controlling advanced AI will be a very large challenge, defended regulation, and said the industry&rsquo;s safety shift is responsible rather than self-interested. He spoke the same day four consumers filed an antitrust complaint alleging the pacing push is exactly that. Mark Zuckerberg declined to join the coordination [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zuckerbergs-reason-for-refusing-to-coordinate-on-ai-safety-is-now-the-argument-in-an-antitrust-suit-against-four-rivals/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/zuckerbergs-reason-for-refusing-to-coordinate-on-ai-safety-is-now-the-argument-in-an-antitrust-suit-against-four-rivals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four consumers filed a class action in the Northern District of California on 18 September, naming Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google.&nbsp;Buist v. Anthropic PBC&nbsp;alleges a horizontal agreement to slow the rate at which the four improve competing products, contrary to section 1 of the Sherman Act. Bloomberg Law reported the filing. It seeks treble damages [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amodei-wrote-that-coordinating-on-pace-would-need-an-antitrust-waiver-altman-said-openai-would-not-wait-for-one-both-lines-are-now-in-a-lawsuit/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/amodei-wrote-that-coordinating-on-pace-would-need-an-antitrust-waiver-altman-said-openai-would-not-wait-for-one-both-lines-are-now-in-a-lawsuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has to change. For the billions of embedded systems running cars, medical devices, industrial controllers, network equipment, and&nbsp;critical infrastructure, security needs an independent layer that can watch processors execute instructions. The [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/weve-spent-billions-defending-software-its-time-to-protect-execution/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/weve-spent-billions-defending-software-its-time-to-protect-execution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andrew Bosworth used an AMA on his personal Instagram to argue that the conversation about Meta&rsquo;s glasses should not be shaped by a relatively small number of bad actors.&nbsp;Katie Notopoulos reported the exchange for Business Insider. Most people use the glasses normally, he said, much as they would a phone camera, only more convenient and [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metas-cto-says-the-glasses-problem-is-a-small-number-of-bad-actors-his-company-is-reportedly-about-to-launch-a-version-without-a-camera/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/metas-cto-says-the-glasses-problem-is-a-small-number-of-bad-actors-his-company-is-reportedly-about-to-launch-a-version-without-a-camera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Financial Times reported that OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278bn between 2026 and 2030, from a July presentation prepared for a computing deal. That figure is an improvement on the roughly $305bn the company projected in May, while the compute and infrastructure line has risen to about $856bn against the roughly $600bn [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-told-investors-in-february-its-compute-bill-would-be-around-600bn-a-july-presentation-puts-it-at-856bn/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/openai-told-investors-in-february-its-compute-bill-would-be-around-600bn-a-july-presentation-puts-it-at-856bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per hour for streaming. Both figures are unchanged from the previous version. The announcement is published under SpaceXAI, the name xAI has carried since July after SpaceX acquired it in February. Coverage still calls [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/transcription-now-costs-10-cents-an-hour-the-differentiator-is-no-longer-the-model-it-is-whose-conversations-you-get-to-train-on/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/transcription-now-costs-10-cents-an-hour-the-differentiator-is-no-longer-the-model-it-is-whose-conversations-you-get-to-train-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-is-paying-the-firm-that-will-evaluate-it-and-says-in-the-same-announcement-that-this-is-not-how-it-should-work/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/anthropic-is-paying-the-firm-that-will-evaluate-it-and-says-in-the-same-announcement-that-this-is-not-how-it-should-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing.&nbsp;Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/irregular-told-four-ai-labs-in-late-july-that-their-models-had-breached-systems-during-its-tests-the-public-learned-in-stages-and-google-went-last/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/irregular-told-four-ai-labs-in-late-july-that-their-models-had-breached-systems-during-its-tests-the-public-learned-in-stages-and-google-went-last/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jensen Huang told CBS News there is a 0% chance AI ends the world by 2030, and that the industry should go as fast as it can irrespective of anyone else. Weeks earlier he declined to call AI fears a hoax, described apocalyptic predictions as not grounded in science, and said companies should pause or [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/weeks-ago-jensen-huang-said-labs-should-pace-themselves-if-they-felt-out-of-control-now-he-puts-the-risk-at-0/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/weeks-ago-jensen-huang-said-labs-should-pace-themselves-if-they-felt-out-of-control-now-he-puts-the-risk-at-0/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok.&nbsp;Vlad Savov and Josh Sisco reported the ruling for Bloomberg, which said Judge George H. Wu intends to keep oversight of the company&rsquo;s privacy practices. Wu wrote that the order imposed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktoks-settlement-priced-release-from-a-2019-privacy-order-at-100m-a-judge-has-tentatively-said-the-order-stays/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tiktoks-settlement-priced-release-from-a-2019-privacy-order-at-100m-a-judge-has-tentatively-said-the-order-stays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 September. The same executives were on the Beijing trip in May, where AI safety was discussed, nothing was signed and the US trade representative said chip export controls never came up. Five months [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-and-xi-already-talked-ai-guardrails-once-this-year-nothing-was-signed-and-no-chips-shipped/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/trump-and-xi-already-talked-ai-guardrails-once-this-year-nothing-was-signed-and-no-chips-shipped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude to chain two weaknesses and reach OpenAI employee accounts and an internal code repository, in under 72 hours. They disclosed privately, OpenAI patched the single sign-on flaw in about 14 hours, and the team was paid $6,500. Neither weakness was an AI vulnerability, and the research paper [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/three-researchers-used-claude-to-reach-openais-internal-code-openai-paid-6500-and-closed-the-hole-in-14-hours/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/three-researchers-used-claude-to-reach-openais-internal-code-openai-paid-6500-and-closed-the-hole-in-14-hours/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan&rsquo;s Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest in a run of partnerships its chief executive says are necessary because no single company can bring all-solid-state batteries to market. ProLogium, which is building Europe&rsquo;s solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/factorial-is-rallying-a-team-of-suppliers-to-get-solid-state-batteries-into-cars/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/factorial-is-rallying-a-team-of-suppliers-to-get-solid-state-batteries-into-cars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense,&rdquo; the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now sued the AI music company a second time. They filed the complaint in the District of Massachusetts on Friday, as case 1:26-cv-14275. It asserts 60,202 sound recordings. The first case, filed in June 2024, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/universal-and-sony-sue-suno-again-this-time-over-60202-recordings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/universal-and-sony-sue-suno-again-this-time-over-60202-recordings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 over unauthorised use of its characters, and the company barred under-18s from open-ended chat two months later. Disney has named Karandeep [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/disney-names-characterais-chief-executive-as-its-first-cto/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/disney-names-characterais-chief-executive-as-its-first-cto/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We decline plaintiffs&rsquo; invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims,&rdquo; Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous programmers who publish open-source code had sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex. They argued the tools reproduce their [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coders-lose-their-dmca-case-against-github-copilot-and-codex/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/coders-lose-their-dmca-case-against-github-copilot-and-codex/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage]]></title><description><![CDATA[A communication outage can complicate the decisions people need to make during a disaster. On September 28, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission reported that 74.31% of cell sites in its Hurricane Helene reporting area in North Carolina were out of service. The figure captured a substantial disruption, although the agency cautioned that cell-site outages do [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/keeping-people-connected-during-disasters-requires-looking-beyond-network-coverage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/keeping-people-connected-during-disasters-requires-looking-beyond-network-coverage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Can Build Your UI. Now Figma Can Tell It When It Screwed Up.]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI can now build a UI in seconds, but that doesn't mean it built the UI you actually designed. A new Applitools integration turns Figma designs into visual baselines, automatically catching the subtle differences AI coding agents leave behind before they make it into production.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-can-build-your-ui-now-figma-can-tell-it-when-it-screwed-up/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ai-can-build-your-ui-now-figma-can-tell-it-when-it-screwed-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California&rsquo;s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required developers to be able to promptly enact a full shutdown, in September 2024. Gavin Newsom signed [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/newsom-pitches-an-ai-kill-switch-for-california/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/newsom-pitches-an-ai-kill-switch-for-california/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera and Jagiroad,&rdquo; said Randhir Thakur, chief executive of Tata Electronics. The Dutch chipmaker and the Indian manufacturer announced a partnership on Thursday covering chip production and packaging in India. They issued the joint statement from Nijmegen and New [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nexperia-will-make-chips-in-india-with-tata-as-it-splits-from-wingtech/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/nexperia-will-make-chips-in-india-with-tata-as-it-splits-from-wingtech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Porsche and the Aachen recycler cylib have produced pilot battery cells in which 100% of the cathode active material, the lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese, came from Porsche&rsquo;s own end-of-life packs. The EU Batteries Regulation will require only 6% recycled lithium and 6% recycled nickel in a new battery from August 2031. Porsche and the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/porsche-has-built-a-battery-cell-whose-cathode-is-entirely-recycled-from-its-own-old-packs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/porsche-has-built-a-battery-cell-whose-cathode-is-entirely-recycled-from-its-own-old-packs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;In reality, we are currently planning a dual listing, on the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq,&rdquo; Nik Storonsky told Les Echos. The Revolut founder was in Paris on Monday. Gabriel N&eacute;d&eacute;lec and Ingrid Feuerstein interviewed him for the French paper, which published on Thursday. It is the first time he has pointed to a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/revolut-plans-a-dual-london-and-nasdaq-listing-storonsky-tells-les-echos/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/revolut-plans-a-dual-london-and-nasdaq-listing-storonsky-tells-les-echos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third tanker in a month hit by a suspected cyber incident, this time carrying US gas to Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[An LNG tanker carrying American liquefied natural gas to Italy stopped short of its destination this month, after its crew found they could no longer reach some of the ship&rsquo;s internal control systems. The crew reported it as a suspected cyberattack, but what it actually was has not been established. The Vivit Africa LNG was [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/third-tanker-in-a-month-hit-by-a-suspected-cyber-incident-this-time-carrying-us-gas-to-europe/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/third-tanker-in-a-month-hit-by-a-suspected-cyber-incident-this-time-carrying-us-gas-to-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Watson joins Palantir as its £330M NHS contract heads for a break clause]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lord Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Labor&rsquo;s former deputy leader, has joined Palantir as a senior vice president, an appointment he announced on X. He called it: &ldquo;Palantir is the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence: helping Britain and its allies defend themselves, helping police protect our citizens, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tom-watson-joins-palantir-as-its-330m-nhs-contract-heads-for-a-break-clause/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/tom-watson-joins-palantir-as-its-330m-nhs-contract-heads-for-a-break-clause/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shop workers in Italy waited until their busiest day of the year to stop working. On Friday, the day the iPhone 18 Pro was launched worldwide, all 17 Apple stores in Italy went on strike. &ldquo;For Apple as a company, image is very important,&rdquo; Nicholas Pezze, a Filcams CGIL representative,&nbsp;told Reuters. &ldquo;As unions, we [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/all-17-italian-apple-stores-hit-by-strike-on-iphone-18-pro-launch-day/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/all-17-italian-apple-stores-hit-by-strike-on-iphone-18-pro-launch-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We did not set out to build another health insurance company,&rdquo; said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop &ldquo;this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.&rdquo; His company has just raised $600m at a $2.7bn valuation. Vitruvian Partners [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ex-palantir-engineers-raise-600m-to-take-on-us-health-insurers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/webdesign/ex-palantir-engineers-raise-600m-to-take-on-us-health-insurers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than simulate them. The company confirms it exists, yet it will not say what it is for, beyond ruling out the obvious answer, which is drug discovery. The news was reported by Reuters today, [&hellip;]<br />
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