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• Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China

  10-10-2026 10:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘Willy’ 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 ‘fixer’. A $2.5bn […]
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• Kyndryl will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s live IT operations

  14-10-2026 19:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will apply Kyndryl’s agentic AI framework to Toyota Finance’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’s IT operations. No contract value, timeline or measured result […]
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• EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025

  14-10-2026 18:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  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% […]
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• A London startup is putting AI cameras into Polish operating theatres

  14-10-2026 17:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  VitVio is deploying its Vetro camera and sensor platform at University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk, the first Polish hospital to take it. The AI Act category that covers systems monitoring workers’ performance was delayed to December 2027. A London startup is putting cameras into the operating theatres of a Polish public teaching hospital. It logs […]
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• Humanly acquires CareerArc, adding recruitment marketing to its AI hiring tools

  14-10-2026 17:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’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 […]
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• America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time

  14-10-2026 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• OpenAI’s CFO says firms using Chinese AI models are risking security

  14-10-2026 16:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’s models breached in July, used a Chinese open model to investigate it. OpenAI’s finance chief says businesses using cheap Chinese models are taking a cybersecurity risk. Her […]
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• Huskeys Launches Profiling to Advance Proactive Network Edge Security

  14-10-2026 15:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• AI trading agents face a reliability bar human apps never did

  14-10-2026 15:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  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, […]
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• Revolut launches its mobile plan in Germany for €14.99 a month

  14-10-2026 15:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 €14.99 a month and includes 120GB of data at full speed, then unlimited data at a slower 2 Mbit/s, plus unlimited calls […]
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• European Commission plans to use AI to respond faster to cyberattacks

  14-10-2026 15:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  According to a document obtained by Politico, the European Commission’s IT department wants to use AI to fight back against the most dangerous cyberattacks. DG DIGIT, the Commission’s IT department, wrote the paper, though it is undated, and it explains how the EU’s executive branch should get ready to defend against AI-driven threats. According to […]
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• Estonian energy storage firm Skeleton becomes unicorn with Siemens deal

  14-10-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  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, […]
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• INmune Bio and Quantum Computing partner to apply quantum optimization and AI to advance Alzheimer’s drug research and explore new applications for XPro

  14-10-2026 14:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Boca Raton, Florida, October 14th, 2026, Financewire Collaboration combines INmune Bio’s clinical research with QCi’s Dirac-3S quantum optimization machine to identify potential new treatment indications and biomarkers for XPro. Initial engagement marks QCi’s first commercial customer in pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets, expanding the application of quantum computing to drug development. INmune Bio Inc. (Nasdaq: INMB) […]
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• Uvi raises $7.5M to give AI agents the company context they lack

  14-10-2026 14:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Forgepoint raises $9.8M to help manufacturers quote faster

  14-10-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Evos raises $9M to bring autonomous operators to industrial businesses

  14-10-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’s most experienced people and […]
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• Scimplify raises $25M to speed up critical materials production with AI

  14-10-2026 13:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Apple, OpenAI head to court over AI trade secrets, with the case on the line

  14-10-2026 13:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  A federal judge in San Jose hears two opposed motions on the same day, Apple’s request to stop OpenAI using anything taken from it and OpenAI’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 […]
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• US and European regulators question banks about AI agents and cyber risks

  14-10-2026 13:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Ofcom says it still has concerns over how X removes illegal hate content

  14-10-2026 13:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’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 […]
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• US charges 14 over North Korean IT worker scheme at more than 70 companies

  14-10-2026 13:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Microsoft Azure executive asked teams to find 20% cost cuts, report says

  14-10-2026 12:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. “Azure leadership has not directed teams to develop cost-cutting plans,” a Microsoft spokesperson told The […]
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• Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the government

  14-10-2026 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Bumble agrees to be bought by Ithaca Holdings for about $1.3bn

  14-10-2026 12:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 on Tuesday. Ithaca will pay $6.05 per Bumble Class A share, about 138% more than the stock’s closing price on October 9, before reporting on Monday that the two sides were in advanced […]
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• Anthropic’s international chief says open models carry more risk by definition

  14-10-2026 12:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic’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’s top sales executive outside the US says […]
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• Home consoles face extinction as cloud and AI boom, BI research says

  14-10-2026 11:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Google DeepMind opens its science AI models to 200 European researchers

  14-10-2026 11:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Up to 200 European researchers will get direct access to Google’s most advanced science AI models, plus $3 million in computing credits, 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, […]
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• Nvidia commits $250M of compute to UK AI safety research

  14-10-2026 10:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rehear its Pentagon case

  14-10-2026 10:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon’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 […]
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• ASML says it cannot meet chip tool demand in 2027 or 2028

  14-10-2026 09:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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