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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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• Sweden’s Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude on work computers

  26-10-2026 16:09 via The Next Web
  
  Sweden’s Government Offices, which runs the work of the prime minister and the ministries, has blocked staff from using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude on their work computers. The block took effect today. Ekot, the news service of public broadcaster Sveriges Radio, first reported the plan on 23 October. Staff will no longer be able to […]
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• Nevis raises $70M to expand its AI platform for wealth advisers

  26-10-2026 15:56 via The Next Web
  
  New York-based Nevis, which builds AI software for wealth management firms, has raised $70M in a Series B round led by EQT Ventures. The company announced the funding on Monday. Two new backers joined: Charles Schwab, one of the largest US brokers, and QuantumLight, the venture fund set up by Revolut founder Nik Storonsky. Existing investors […]
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• EU accepts Temu’s plan to curb illegal products after €200M fine

  26-10-2026 15:42 via The Next Web
  
  The European Commission has accepted Temu’s plan to improve its compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), five months after fining the online marketplace €200 million over its failure to properly assess the risk of illegal products on its platform. The Commission announced the decision today, as Temu’s plan sets out five areas of work, including […]
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• Anthropic files for Nasdaq IPO as half-year revenue hits $16.3bn

  26-10-2026 15:38 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic made its prospectus public on Monday. It filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company plans to list its Class A shares under the ticker ANT. The filing leaves the price range and the number of shares blank. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley lead a group […]
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• OpenAI’s discounts win Anthropic customers, The Information reports

  26-10-2026 15:17 via The Next Web
  
  Replit moved most of its AI spending from Anthropic to OpenAI in recent months after OpenAI offered a discount of more than 30%, The Information reported on Saturday. The contract is worth over $100M a year, a person familiar with the deal told The Information, in a story by Laura Bratton and Stephanie Palazzolo. Replit […]
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• Apollo’s Slok says US companies now treat AI spending as a cost, not growth

  26-10-2026 15:05 via The Next Web
  
  Artificial intelligence has delivered “zero financial payoff” to corporate America outside the tech sector. That is the finding of Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, in a note on Saturday. Slok compared the Magnificent Seven, the biggest US tech companies, with the other 493 companies in the S&P 500. Revenue per worker and […]
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• Amazon pledges 30,000 entry-level UK jobs to young people by 2030

  26-10-2026 14:23 via The Next Web
  
  Amazon has pledged 30,000 entry-level jobs in the UK by 2030 for young people from the areas with the fewest opportunities. The roles start at £15.10 an hour, more than £31,000 a year pro rata, and need no CV or work experience, Amazon said in its announcement. The Amazon Youth Promise, announced on 20 October, […]
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• American Express cuts 5% of staff and won’t let AI agents ‘run rogue’

  26-10-2026 14:01 via The Next Web
  
  American Express is cutting about 5% of its global workforce and taking a $336M restructuring charge. Chief executive Stephen Squeri told analysts about the cuts on Friday, CNBC’s Hugh Son reported. The company had almost 77,000 employees at the end of 2025, according to CNBC. Chief financial officer Christophe Le Caillec told CNBC the restructuring […]
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• Verizon raises 2026 forecast and signs $2bn AI deal with AWS

  26-10-2026 13:51 via The Next Web
  
  Verizon raised its forecasts for 2026 on Monday after a strong quarter for new phone customers. It also announced a deal worth more than $2bn with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support AI workloads. Under the AWS agreement, Verizon will provide high-capacity network connections and help add computing power spread across many sites. The deal is […]
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• Goldman Sachs puts $500M into small-business AI with four AI labs

  26-10-2026 13:46 via The Next Web
  
  Goldman Sachs is putting $500M into the next phase of its 10,000 Small Businesses programme, including a new AI institute built with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI. At the launch, its chief executive said there is very little that needs the frontier models those partners build. David Solomon spoke at the bank’s New York headquarters […]
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• Sam Altman says AI means we can no longer just patch all the bugs

  26-10-2026 13:17 via The Next Web
  
  Sam Altman says patching software flaws one by one will no longer keep up with AI-driven attacks. The OpenAI chief executive spoke to students at Stanford Graduate School of Business last week. Defenders will need a new kind of shield, he said, built with the same AI. “I no longer think we’re going to be […]
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• Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers

  26-10-2026 13:00 via The Next Web
  
  San Francisco startup Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. It tests hardware engineering candidates with simulations of real tasks, aiming to save senior engineers’ interview time. Half its clients are in aerospace and defence. Colare, a San Francisco startup that tests job seekers on real […]
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• Mistral’s Mensch warns Europe of ‘leftovers’ if it quits frontier AI

  26-10-2026 12:48 via The Next Web
  
  Mistral’s chief executive, Arthur Mensch, has warned that Europe will get “leftovers” if it stops building frontier AI models. Apps built on American or Chinese models would also give Europe a “big trade balance problem”, he said on 20 October. Mensch spoke on the European Technology Network talk show, Pieter Haeck reported for Politico. He […]
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• Meta launches $35bn share sale to fund its AI spending

  26-10-2026 12:43 via The Next Web
  
  Meta launched two share offerings worth about $35bn on Monday, as it looks for new ways to pay for its growing spending on AI. The larger offering is $22.5bn of Class A common stock sold through forward sale agreements. Under these deals, Meta delivers the shares and receives the money later, by 19 November 2027 at the […]
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• EU lawmakers split over bringing back AI liability rules

  26-10-2026 12:42 via The Next Web
  
  The centrist parties behind Ursula von der Leyen split in the European Parliament on Thursday. The question was whether AI companies should answer for harm their models cause. Socialist and Green MEPs called for a new AI liability act. The centre-right said Europe needs less regulation, not more. The plenary debate centred on a global […]
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• PHP warns of a third PHP2Shell flaw but won’t rush out a fix

  26-10-2026 12:25 via The Next Web
  
  PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix. In a short advisory on 23 October, PHP said the new bug, CVE-2026-115560, needs an unusual mix of […]
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• Spain’s opposition posts AI deepfakes of Sánchez’s wife before election

  26-10-2026 12:05 via The Next Web
  
  Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing. The conservative People’s party (PP) shared it on 21 October, five weeks before the 29 November general election. By Friday the video had nearly 2 […]
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• Swedish startup Strawberry launches AI browser for non-technical teams

  26-10-2026 11:36 via The Next Web
  
  Most AI assistants live in a chat window. Stockholm-based Strawberry wants them to work where people already do their jobs: inside the browser, with access to the tabs, tools, and accounts they use every day. The startup released version 1.0 of its AI browser today, taking it out of beta and pitching it at workers […]
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• Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT’s safety for children

  26-10-2026 11:33 via The Next Web
  
  Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page petition in Collin County District Court on 23 October. Cameron Thompson reported the filing for Courthouse […]
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• Elon Musk says SpaceX has raised $40bn in debt to buy AI chips

  26-10-2026 11:12 via The Next Web
  
  SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing to buy graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips used to run AI systems, Elon Musk said in a post on X on Sunday. Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have […]
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• Instacart is exploring a sale, and Uber has already walked away

  26-10-2026 11:03 via The Next Web
  
  Instacart is exploring a sale and has held at least preliminary talks with DoorDash and Uber. Valida Pau, Jessica E. Lessin and Cory Weinberg reported this for The Information on 23 October, citing people familiar with the matter. The grocery delivery company is working with an investment bank to weigh its options, the outlet said. […]
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• Google’s privacy policy now lets Gmail and Photos content shape your ads

  26-10-2026 10:52 via The Next Web
  
  Google has changed its privacy policy so that Gmail, Drive and Google Photos content can shape your ads. That applies if you connect those apps to Google services that show ads. The new version of the Google privacy policy took effect on 16 October. Shimul Sood first reported the change for Android Authority on 23 […]
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• SpaceX seeks 80,000 US cell sites for a mobile network, Bloomberg reports

  26-10-2026 10:39 via The Next Web
  
  SpaceX wants access to at least 80,000 US cell sites for its planned mobile network. Kelcee Griffis reported this for Bloomberg on 22 October. The company is in talks with at least one big tower owner, Crown Castle, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter. The deals would put SpaceX on a path to […]
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• Tata Communications to spend $450M on AI fibre network across India

  26-10-2026 10:26 via The Next Web
  
  Tata Communications plans to spend close to $450M on about 10,000km of new long-distance fibre across India. The network will connect the country’s AI data-centre hubs, Reuters reported on Monday. The Mumbai-based company, which sells data connections and cybersecurity services to businesses, set out the plan in a stock exchange filing. Indian financial sites that reported the […]
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• Google cleared 250,000 trees for a Finnish data centre, Guardian reports

  26-10-2026 10:26 via The Next Web
  
  Google cleared an estimated 250,000 trees at its planned data centre site in Muhos, northern Finland, before finishing the required environmental assessment. Miranda Bryant reported this for the Guardian from the site. The clearing covers 330 hectares, about 400 metres from the Oulujoki river. Google removed the topsoil too. Mari Annala is an ecologist with […]
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• Nous raises $17M to expand its household AI agent beyond the UK

  26-10-2026 10:11 via The Next Web
  
  London-based Nous has raised $17m to take its household AI agent outside the UK and add new features. Heartcore Capital and existing seed backer Mosaic Ventures provided the money. Chalfen Ventures, Joyance Partners and Bain Future Back Ventures joined too. Angel investors in the round include Monzo and GoCardless co-founder Tom Blomfield, Founders Factory’s Brent Hoberman and […]
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• Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer

  26-10-2026 09:56 via The Next Web
  
  Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking a GitHub project run by real people even after it was told its targets were real. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic said so on Friday. Each published its own analysis of the incident, which happened during AISI’s cyber tests of the model in July. In the worst […]
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• Amazon settles with ex-AWS managers in kickback lawsuit, GeekWire reports

  25-10-2026 15:38 via The Next Web
  
  Amazon has settled its lawsuit against two former Amazon Web Services real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on data centre deals, GeekWire reported. Amazon told the court on 20 October, less than two weeks before trial. The two men, Carl Nelson and Casey Kirschner, admitted breaking Amazon’s code of conduct in a joint statement, […]
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• Western Australia seeks refund from Deloitte over flawed AI-aided report

  25-10-2026 15:24 via The Next Web
  
  Western Australia’s government is seeking a fast refund from Deloitte over a flawed report on merging three of the state’s universities. The report contained AI-generated references to sources that do not exist, as well as wrong cost totals. A government spokesperson told Guardian Australia that the state was very disappointed and had written to Deloitte to speed […]
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