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• Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’

  22-09-2026 21:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 ‘super intelligence’, because ‘artificial’ made the technology sound fake. The rebrand grabbed the headlines, but the policy sat in the sentences around […]
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• Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab

  22-09-2026 20:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’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 […]
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• OpenAI will let outside groups test its models during training

  22-09-2026 20:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• A phone maker now has the world’s top open-weight AI model

  22-09-2026 20:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports

  22-09-2026 20:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’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 […]
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• Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum

  22-09-2026 20:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO

  22-09-2026 19:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history

  22-09-2026 19:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhipu, put the coding tool’s source code on GitHub the same day. It says it has removed […]
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• Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI

  22-09-2026 18:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’s Jonas […]
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• China’s biggest memory maker says it has caught up with Samsung and Micron

  22-09-2026 18:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’s largest maker of DRAM had just announced that […]
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• Parloa says it is partnering with Zalando on AI customer conversations

  22-09-2026 18:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Parloa co-founder and chief executive Malte Kosub said Zalando will use the Berlin company’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 […]
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• The fastest-adopted model on Vercel this year cannot write a word

  22-09-2026 17:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Mercedes-Benz is putting a British AI driver into its production cars

  22-09-2026 17:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’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 […]
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• TikTok’s US joint venture joins Lantern child safety programme and pledges $2M to NCMEC

  22-09-2026 17:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  TikTok’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, […]
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• Adobe Premiere’s free mobile video editor arrives on Android

  22-09-2026 16:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Adobe Premiere’s mobile video editing app is now available on Android, a year after its iPhone launch. The app is free to download 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’s desktop editor, aimed at creators making short […]
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• Palo Alto Networks launches always-on AI security testing built on Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6-Cyber

  22-09-2026 16:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Palo Alto Networks is launching a subscription service that puts Anthropic and OpenAI models to work hunting for weaknesses in customers’ systems around the clock. Its threat research and consulting arm, Unit 42, announced the service today, called Continuous Frontier AI Defense. The service is built on models whose access is tightly controlled: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos […]
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• The Biological Computing Co. partners with AWS to sell its neuron-derived AI video model

  22-09-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%

  22-09-2026 14:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI

  22-09-2026 14:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday, alongside OpenAI’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 […]
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• DoorDash agrees to pay $131.5M to settle New York City probe into delivery worker pay

  22-09-2026 14:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  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’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) ends a dispute that began early in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration. “Simply put, we screwed up,” DoorDash said in a post […]
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• Andy Burnham wants the UK to use its G20 presidency to broker a global AI agreement

  22-09-2026 13:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 “uniquely positioned to play a leadership role on AI,” he said, pointing to […]
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• Anthropic and OpenAI ask Australia to ease its ban on AI training with local content

  22-09-2026 13:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australian lawmakers to reconsider rules that stop them from training AI models on the country’s creative work, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the companies’ 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 […]
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• DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports

  22-09-2026 13:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• FintechOS raises $28M in equity and debt after turning profitable

  22-09-2026 12:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Spott raises $21M Series A led by Balderton for its AI platform for recruitment agencies

  22-09-2026 11:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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• Biolevate raises €30M Series A and opens Boston office for its life sciences AI

  22-09-2026 11:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Paris-based company Biolevate, which develops AI automation for use in regulated life sciences, has raised €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 Hénin, a French entrepreneur. […]
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• Morphotonics raises more than €40M to scale waveguide manufacturing for AI glasses

  22-09-2026 10:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Morphotonics, a Brainport-based manufacturer of large-area nanoimprint lithography equipment, has raised over €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 […]
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• Jet2 signs multi-year deal with Adobe to personalise holidays with agentic AI

  22-09-2026 10:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jet2, the UK’s largest tour operator and, by its own count, its third-largest airline, has signed a 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 […]
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• Finnish AI cloud company Verda raises $189M and it is now the latest unicorn in Europe

  22-09-2026 10:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 […]
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