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• SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips

  28-09-2026 21:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, […]
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• After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI

  29-09-2026 22:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. “There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have […]
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• GM will spend $1B making the first manganese-rich cells in mass production

  29-09-2026 20:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’s carmakers are spending comparable sums on lithium iron phosphate, the chemistry GM’s battery chief says may never earn its way into its cars. General Motors and LG Energy Solution will spend […]
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• Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern

  29-09-2026 20:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. “A few weeks ago we reached that goal. We now […]
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• Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch

  29-09-2026 20:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud

  29-09-2026 20:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’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 […]
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• OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay

  29-09-2026 19:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices

  29-09-2026 19:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’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 […]
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• OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers

  29-09-2026 19:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their own cloud computers and work on a user’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 […]
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• Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch

  29-09-2026 19:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports

  29-09-2026 19:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple’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’s 15 years in the job. Apple declined to comment. Ternus wants Apple to rely less on its fixed spring and autumn […]
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• AI agents are joining your workforce. Your workforce isn’t ready

  29-09-2026 19:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• PwC survey of 49,000 workers finds most are falling behind on AI skills

  29-09-2026 18:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Volkswagen’s affordable EV plans have a new Chinese partner

  29-09-2026 18:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Volkswagen has agreed three joint ventures with China’s Gotion to build lithium iron phosphate battery capacity, selling 49% of PowerCo’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 […]
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• NASA pays Boeing $359m to get Starliner flying, eyes crew return by 2028

  29-09-2026 18:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. “I […]
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• Nvidia talks to insurers about loans backed by its AI chips, FT reports

  29-09-2026 18:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for its data centres, Bain says

  29-09-2026 18:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI industry will need about $6tn in annual revenue by 2031 to pay for the data centres being built today. Bain & 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. “The debate today is fixated on employee productivity. […]
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• BYD says it will have a solid-state car next year, the earliest date anyone has given

  29-09-2026 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Bill Gates tells Ezra Klein AI crossed bio and cyber thresholds this year

  29-09-2026 18:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. “We crossed the cyber threshold and we crossed the bio threshold […]
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• Claude is down as Anthropic investigates errors across its services

  29-09-2026 16:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Claude is down: Anthropic investigates outage affecting Claude.ai, Code and API

  29-09-2026 16:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  According to the company’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, […]
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• Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang

  29-09-2026 16:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI safety warnings are not “fake news”, 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 “panic mode”, and that he sleeps at night. “I do […]
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• Google will end ChromeOS updates in mid-2034 as Googlebook OS arrives

  29-09-2026 16:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’s new Googlebook laptops, which is built on Android’s tech stack. “ChromeOS devices will continue to receive regular updates and security […]
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• Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet

  29-09-2026 15:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. “Manus 2.0 is not a […]
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• Copilot users’ photos reach human reviewers uncensored, 404 Media reports

  29-09-2026 15:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’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. “Faces are always uncensored, and many of the […]
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• Moca Chain goes live as AI agents need a way to prove who they are

  29-09-2026 15:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They’re shopping, booking trips, signing up for services, and increasingly acting on their users’ behalf. However, when an agent shows up at a website or app, how does the business know who it’s working for, and what it’s actually allowed to do? Moca Network, the digital identity […]
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• Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary

  29-09-2026 15:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be “voluntary”, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel’s “Squawk Box” hours before a meeting with AI leaders and President Donald Trump in Washington. “I hope it’s voluntary. We’ll find out what comes out of the meeting today. I think […]
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• Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports

  29-09-2026 15:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. “There’s actually a civilizational […]
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• Caterers see a $3.2bn market in feeding AI data centre workers

  29-09-2026 15:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety

  29-09-2026 14:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  The New York City Council has subpoenaed Elon Musk’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 […]
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