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• Translating User Research Into Design

  11-03-2022 19:44
  
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• Bose buys Skullcandy, the cheaper headphone brand already using its sound

  23-10-2026 16:33 via The Next Web
  
  Bose bought Skullcandy on Wednesday, the company said in a statement. The seller was a fund managed by Mill Road Capital Management, a private investment firm in Connecticut. Skullcandy joins McIntosh and Sonus faber in Bose’s group of audio brands. Skullcandy will sit inside Bose’s Premium Consumer Audio business. It keeps its base in Park […]
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• Unitree is building AI that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves

  23-10-2026 16:18 via The Next Web
  
  Unitree Robotics is building a system that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves, founder Wang Xingxing said on Thursday. He calls it Unitree Rehearsal. He named it the company’s most important project of the year, Minxiao Chang reported for the South China Morning Post. Wang spoke at a physical AI conference that Unitree hosted in […]
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• OpenClaw creator puts last month’s token bill at $10M, The Register reports

  23-10-2026 15:49 via The Next Web
  
  Peter Steinberger created the open-source AI agent OpenClaw and now works at OpenAI. He estimates he spent about $10M on AI tokens last month. He said so on stage at Cloudflare’s Connect conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Thomas Claburn reported for The Register. Tokens are the units AI companies use to charge for the […]
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• Recursive releases Flint, a laptop coding model largely built by its own AI

  23-10-2026 15:29 via The Next Web
  
  Recursive Superintelligence, the startup trying to build AI that improves itself, has released its first model. Flint is a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop. Recursive says its own automated research system helped build nearly every part of it. The company announced Flint on Wednesday and published the weights on Hugging […]
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• Cloudflare sees millions of attempts to exploit critical PHP flaws

  23-10-2026 15:28 via The Next Web
  
  Cloudflare has recorded millions of attempts to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities since details became public on Wednesday, according to CEO Matthew Prince. The flaws affect PHP, a programming language used to power much of the web. Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we […]
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• Anthropic and Hg reportedly plan AI consultancy for European firms

  23-10-2026 15:21 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic is planning to back a new European AI consultancy with Hg, the London-based private equity firm, the Financial Times reported. The independent company will place AI engineers and consultants inside businesses to help them build and deploy the technology. The report cites people familiar with the matter, and Anthropic and Hg declined to comment […]
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• OpenAI’s AI agents analyse a mouse brain gene atlas in 32 minutes

  23-10-2026 14:56 via The Next Web
  
  OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research have used close to 2,000 AI agents to analyse a large mouse brain dataset in 32 minutes. The team estimates that researchers working by hand would need months to a year for the same analysis, which OpenAI published on Wednesday. The agents ran on OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind, a model built for life […]
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• Eka Robotics raises $150M to teach robots to grip by feel

  23-10-2026 14:44 via The Next Web
  
  Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight, has raised a $150M Series A. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime led the round, Eka announced on its blog on Tuesday. The round values the company at $1.45B post-money, Tim Fernholz reported for TechCrunch. F-Prime is a venture […]
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• Intel CTO tells Dwarkesh Patel the world lacks tools to 10x chip output

  23-10-2026 14:08 via The Next Web
  
  Intel could not make 10 times more leading-edge wafers even if it wanted to, says its chief technology officer, Pushkar Ranade. The world lacks the chipmaking tools. Doubling output is about the limit, he told Dwarkesh Patel on the Dwarkesh Podcast. Patel filmed the episode during a two-day tour of Intel’s most advanced fab in […]
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• UK to set up AI unit to spot and fight wildfires faster

  23-10-2026 14:06 via The Next Web
  
  The UK government will set up a Wildfires AI Unit to help spot and fight fires faster, after the country’s hottest summer on record. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is setting out the plan at England’s first wildfire summit on Friday, The Guardian reported. The unit will sit inside the National Situation Centre, the government’s crisis […]
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• Formic raises $50M to bring general-purpose robots to US factories

  23-10-2026 13:56 via The Next Web
  
  Formic, a Chicago company that rents robots to American factories, has raised $50M. Today its robots are built for specific tasks. The money will help it move to general-purpose machines that can take on more kinds of factory work. Axios first reported the round on Thursday, after chief executive Saman Farid spoke to Natalie Breymeyer. […]
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• Rivian buys Third Dimension AI to turn real roads into 3D test worlds

  23-10-2026 13:46 via The Next Web
  
  Rivian has bought Third Dimension AI, a startup that turns real-world camera footage into 3D scenes. The carmaker will use them to train and test its driver assistance and self-driving software. Rivian announced the deal on Thursday and did not disclose the terms. Tolga Kart and Piotr Sokolski founded Third Dimension in 2024. It has […]
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• Madrid is getting its first quantum computer from Telefónica and IQM

  23-10-2026 13:26 via The Next Web
  
  Telefónica and IQM Quantum Computers will install an IQM Spark at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid before the end of 2026. It will be the first quantum computer in the Community of Madrid, the two companies said when they announced the deal on Friday. Universities, hospitals, research centres and startups in the region will get […]
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• DeepSeek reportedly raises $15bn from Tencent and CATL ahead of IPO

  23-10-2026 13:22 via The Next Web
  
  Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has raised about 100bn yuan ($15bn), one of the largest private funding rounds ever in China. Bloomberg reported the deal on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Battery maker CATL and Tencent, which owns WeChat, were among the biggest investors. TNW has not independently verified the report, and DeepSeek has […]
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• Maxinsights raises $30M to turn everyday chores into robot training data

  23-10-2026 13:12 via The Next Web
  
  Maxinsights pays people to wear cameras while they cook, clean and work. The Santa Clara startup has now raised $30M in seed funding to turn that footage into training data for robots. Peak XV led the round, the company announced on Thursday. Tola Capital, South Park Commons, INCE Capital and Alumni Ventures also took part. […]
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• Meta had to ask Stripe to raise limits as Muse shoppers poured in

  23-10-2026 12:47 via The Next Web
  
  Purchase volumes on Muse came in “above what any of us expected”, Mark Zuckerberg said. Meta had to ask Stripe to raise its credit limits. He spoke on Meta’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. More than 10 million people in the US and Canada have set up the AI agent since its 8 September launch. […]
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• US lawmakers press Zuckerberg over Meta’s role in Brazil’s runoff

  23-10-2026 12:30 via The Next Web
  
  Senator Bernie Sanders and 12 House Democrats have told Mark Zuckerberg it is “unacceptable” for a platform to favour one candidate. Their letter, sent on Thursday, asks Meta to explain its role in Brazil’s presidential race. The runoff is on Sunday. The vote pits President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. Lula’s […]
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• Zuckerberg planned to sell his home, so Meta built him a wealth tax deal

  23-10-2026 12:20 via The Next Web
  
  Meta says Mark Zuckerberg “would effectively be paying to serve” as its chief executive if California taxes its billionaires. So it is creating new shares he can sell to cover the bill. In return, he has promised to stay in the state, an SEC filing published on Wednesday shows. The deal followed months of talks […]
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• Microsoft nominates Stripe’s Collison to its board and trims Nadella’s pay

  23-10-2026 11:38 via The Next Web
  
  Microsoft has nominated Stripe co-founder and president John Collison to its board, the company disclosed on Wednesday in its annual proxy statement. The same filing asks shareholders to approve a $90.6m pay package for chief executive Satya Nadella, down about 6% from $96.4m a year earlier, The Information reported. Collison, 36, would take one of […]
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• OpenAI signs AI safety research deal with Poland’s NASK institute

  23-10-2026 11:24 via The Next Web
  
  OpenAI has partnered with Poland’s NASK National Research Institute to research AI safety and security, as concerns grow over AI agents behaving in ways their developers did not intend. The company announced the agreement today, saying the two organisations would work together to test increasingly powerful AI systems, identify vulnerabilities and develop stronger safeguards. The […]
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• Nvidia has put $170bn on the line for neoclouds, The Information reports

  23-10-2026 11:12 via The Next Web
  
  Jensen Huang told CNBC on Thursday that demand for neoclouds is “off the charts”, Business Insider reported. His company has put more than $170bn on the line for them and other large customers, according to an analysis of its filings by The Information. The publication also reported that Nvidia is in talks to back one […]
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• Apple’s iPhone Duo goes on sale with tight supply and mixed reviews

  23-10-2026 10:54 via The Next Web
  
  Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, went on sale on Friday, October 23, at a starting price of $1,999. Sydney was the first Apple Store to sell it, opening its doors at 08:00 local time (21:00 GMT on Thursday) to a queue of buyers. The launch will show whether Apple can grow a niche […]
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• Walmart will let AI agents shop for you, with their own spending limits

  23-10-2026 10:52 via The Next Web
  
  Walmart will let AI agents shop for customers on Walmart.com and at Sam’s Club, each with its own profile, spending limit and purchase history. The retailer announced Agent Profiles, a gateway built for agents and a set of terms they must follow on Wednesday. Chief executive John Furner presented the plans at the Masters of […]
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• LiteLLM says hackers poisoned it with GitHub tokens leaked via Claude Code

  23-10-2026 10:40 via The Next Web
  
  LiteLLM says hackers took the keys they needed from its own logs. They used them to publish a poisoned version of its software on Wednesday. The open-source AI gateway explained it in an incident report. Its chief executive, chief technology officer and director of security signed it. Its engineers found that Anthropic’s coding agent, Claude […]
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• Japan to set up AI hacker team as PHP flaws knock services offline

  23-10-2026 10:28 via The Next Web
  
  Japan plans to create a team of ethical hackers that will use AI to attack the country’s own systems and find vulnerabilities before criminals can exploit them. The announcement comes as banks, rail operators and government agencies take online services offline to patch two critical flaws in PHP, a programming language used across the web. […]
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• Meta fixes Muse links that let anyone find loan files and revenue data

  23-10-2026 10:26 via The Next Web
  
  Meta has switched Muse sharing back on. It paused the feature on Tuesday. That came after Ars Technica asked about research showing that anyone could find pages shared from its AI agent. David Singleton, who works on Muse at Meta, announced the fix on Thursday in a post on X. He said Meta disabled sharing […]
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• Microsoft AI tool beat generalist doctors at step-by-step diagnosis

  23-10-2026 09:53 via The Next Web
  
  Microsoft has developed an AI diagnostic tool that solved complex medical cases more than twice as accurately as generalist doctors in a study published in Science. Unlike many medical AI systems, it works through a case step by step, deciding which questions to ask and which tests to order before reaching a diagnosis. The tool, […]
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• Greece passes law banning social media for children under 15

  23-10-2026 09:12 via The Next Web
  
  Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from using social media, with the restrictions set to take effect on January 1, 2027. Parliament approved the bill late on October 22, following a debate that lasted more than 16 hours, state broadcaster ERT reported. The governing New Democracy party was the only party to […]
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• Rhode Island sues Meta, alleging it profits from scam ads

  23-10-2026 08:47 via The Next Web
  
  Rhode Island has sued Meta, alleging the company profited from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and helped to create some of them. Attorney General Peter Neronha filed the complaint in Providence County Superior Court on October 22. It says Meta broke the state’s consumer protection law while telling users it was keeping them safe. […]
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