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• Your brain shrinks as you age — and now scientists can prove it

  08-04-2022 19:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Scientists have long understood that the human brain changes in size as we age, but until now there’s never been a method by which we can chart its growth. An international team of researchers led by Cambridge University’s Richard Bethlehem recently published the world’s first growth chart for brains. Up front: How are you supposed to tell if your brain is growing properly? It’s an important question. And we’ve had no answer until now. Most people don’t spend
  
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• AI’s hacking skills are outgrowing the tests built to measure them

  08-07-2026 16:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  The tools built to measure how dangerous AI can be have stopped working. Frontier models outpace the benchmarks meant to gauge their hacking skills, Axios reports. That leaves regulators and security teams half-blind to what these systems can really do. The timing bites. US federal agencies have until 1 August to stand up a classified […]
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• OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business

  08-07-2026 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI wants the work that once belonged to consultants. Its deployment arm has agreed to buy Northslope, an applied-AI firm, the company told Axios in an exclusive on Wednesday. It did not disclose terms, and the deal still needs regulatory clearance. The purchase marks its second in two months. The OpenAI Deployment Company launched in […]
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• RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

  08-07-2026 15:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Midway through a RAISE Summit fireside chat on open-source AI, the Master Stage lost […]
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• Iluvatar CoreX seeks to raise $850m as China’s AI-chip rally lifts its shares

  08-07-2026 15:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  A year ago, Iluvatar CoreX was a Shanghai chipmaker that sold mostly to the Chinese state. This week it is trying to raise about $850m from investors who cannot seem to get enough of it, according to Bloomberg, riding a share price that has more than tripled since January. The rally is really the whole […]
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• Apple puts a $30bn US-manufacturing flag on its Broadcom chip deal

  08-07-2026 15:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is spending big to make chips at home. It has committed to a multi-year Broadcom deal worth more than $30 billion, Apple announced on Wednesday. That makes it Apple’s largest US manufacturing pledge to date. The scale is the story. The deal should yield more than 15 billion US-made chips and support hundreds of […]
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• China and the US are now warning against each other’s AI

  08-07-2026 15:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US-China AI split hardened this week. Beijing branded Anthropic’s Claude Code a security back-door, just as US lawmakers moved against American firms that lean on cheap Chinese models. China has told companies to drop Anthropic’s Claude Code. Its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said its cybersecurity platform found the coding tool carries a […]
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• Entire launches a distributed Git network built for AI coding agents

  08-07-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Entire, the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke, has launched a preview of a distributed Git network built for the age of AI coding agents. The pitch is to spread code hosting across regions rather than lean on a single central provider. The reasoning is a familiar strain in the agent […]
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• After 25 years of self-funding, Bezos opens Blue Origin at a $130bn valuation

  08-07-2026 14:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jeff Bezos is opening Blue Origin to outside money at last, in a round that values the rocket firm at $130 billion, CNBC reports. It follows Elon Musk’s record SpaceX IPO and pits the two space fortunes against each other again. Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time. Jeff Bezos’s rocket company […]
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• France orders Meta back to talks with news publishers over content payments

  08-07-2026 14:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta has been told to go back and talk to France’s newspapers about money. On Wednesday, the country’s competition regulator ordered the company to reopen negotiations with news publishers over payment for their content, after an earlier round of talks fell apart. The order comes with a stopwatch attached. The Autorité de la concurrence gave […]
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• Apple starts testing China’s state-backed memory chips, and Washington is watching

  08-07-2026 14:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has begun testing memory chips from China’s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier Washington has flagged as a security risk. Apple has turned to Chinese memory chips for its own devices. It has begun testing DRAM from state-backed ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the […]
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• Allianz to cut up to 1,800 jobs as AI takes over call-centre work

  08-07-2026 14:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  The job that AI seems keenest to take is the one on the other end of the phone. Allianz, the German insurance giant, is preparing to cut as many as 1,800 roles in its travel arm as automated systems take over work that used to need a person, according to Reuters. The figures are oddly […]
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• Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help

  08-07-2026 14:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. Its new AI lab, run by a former Google DeepMind researcher, is betting on mastery before generality. A Polish robotics company has quietly done the […]
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• Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA

  08-07-2026 14:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple’s challenge to being labelled a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act, the designation that ties the […]
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• Russia tries to jam Starlink to counter Ukraine’s long-range drones

  08-07-2026 14:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  The war in Ukraine has become, among other things, a fight over signals. Russian forces are now trying to jam Elon Musk’s Starlink network to blunt the cheap long-range drones that have reshaped the conflict, according to Ukrainian drone commanders and pilots who spoke to Reuters. The tool they describe has a name. Ukrainian crews […]
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• ‘GitLost’: researchers tricked GitHub’s AI agent into leaking private repos

  08-07-2026 14:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Researchers tricked GitHub’s AI coding agent into leaking private repositories with nothing but a politely worded issue. The flaw, named GitLost, has no code fix, and GitHub has yet to even document it. GitHub’s new AI agent can be talked into handing over your private code. Security firm Noma Labs found a way to make […]
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• MiniMax is building China’s biggest AI model yet, and plans to open-source it

  08-07-2026 13:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  MiniMax plans its biggest model yet, a 2.7-trillion-parameter system it intends to open-source, The Information reports. It would be the largest Chinese model on the market, and another squeeze on US labs’ margins. China’s open-model push has a new heavyweight on the way. MiniMax plans a large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, The Information […]
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• SpaceXAI and Cursor could ship their first joint AI model as soon as today

  08-07-2026 13:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceXAI and Cursor could ship their first jointly built AI model as soon as Wednesday, according to The Information. An internal memo pits it against Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5. Elon Musk’s freshly renamed AI company is about to test itself against the frontier. SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed […]
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• “It can literally kill your company”: n8n’s case for model-agnostic AI

  08-07-2026 13:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Asked where his company sits in the AI stack, Jan Oberhauser reached for a car. The models, the n8n founder told a fireside audience at the Raise Summit in Paris this week, are the engine. Everything else, the vehicle, the streets, the rules that let the engine actually take you somewhere, is the part he is […]
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• Londoners fight a Brick Lane datacentre, and it is not even for AI

  08-07-2026 13:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Residents in east London are fighting a datacentre planned for Brick Lane, saying the site should hold homes, not servers. The twist: it would serve high-frequency trading, not AI. Britain’s datacentre backlash has reached the heart of east London. Residents around Brick Lane oppose a plan for the old Truman Brewery site. It would put […]
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• SambaNova raises fresh funding at an $11bn valuation as the Nvidia-alternative trade heats up

  08-07-2026 12:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  SambaNova has raised fresh funding at an $11bn valuation, according to Bloomberg, capping a run in which the AI chip startup has roughly quintupled its worth in a matter of months. The figure is up from the roughly $10bn valuation reported when the round was first taking shape in late June. The speed of the […]
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• UK tech secretary backs driverless cars as Burnham’s team gets cold feet

  08-07-2026 12:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’s tech secretary backs driverless cars and British AI startups. The likely next prime minister’s team has doubts, and her own job is on the line. Liz Kendall wants Britain to back its own AI companies before someone else does. In a Sifted podcast, Kendall, the UK’s science and technology secretary, made a pointed case […]
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• Amazon’s secret ‘Moonraker’ project pushes Alexa into the AI-agent race

  08-07-2026 12:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon has an agentic upgrade for Alexa in the works, codenamed Moonraker. Internal documents show it is also one of the priciest bets in the Alexa+ overhaul. Amazon wants Alexa to act, not just answer. The company has a previously unreported project, codenamed Moonraker, that would let Alexa handle complex, multistep tasks, Business Insider reports, […]
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• UiPath’s Dines: not hiring juniors is a mistake

  08-07-2026 12:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis from Daniel Dines, chief executive of UiPath. He spoke at the RAISE CxO […]
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• Fleek raises $25m to build the AI infrastructure behind global secondhand fashion

  08-07-2026 11:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fleek, a London startup building the software plumbing behind the global secondhand clothing trade, has raised $25m in Series B funding to scale the AI it uses to sort, grade and price used garments. The round takes the company’s total funding to $45m. It was led by Burda Principal Investments, an early backer of Vinted and a […]
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• Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise $300M at a $13.2bn valuation

  08-07-2026 11:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lovable, the Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300m at a $13.2bn post-money valuation, Sifted reports, citing two people familiar with the deal. The figure would roughly double the $6.6bn valuation it commanded at its $330m Series B in December. The round is still under discussion rather than done, so the numbers could shift, and […]
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• A Telstra outage stopped Australian trains and froze taxi payments

  08-07-2026 11:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  For a few hours on Wednesday morning, chunks of Australia’s daily infrastructure simply stopped answering. A nationwide outage at Telstra, the country’s largest carrier, cut phone service for thousands of customers, froze tap-to-pay terminals and brought regional trains to a halt. The disruption began at about 4.30am and spread through systems that most people never […]
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• ResMed sells its MatrixCare software business to Frazier for $490m

  08-07-2026 10:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  ResMed has agreed to sell MatrixCare, its home-health and senior-care software business, to the private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners for $490m in cash. The deal lets the medical-device maker part with a unit it had owned for years to focus on the machines that remain its core. MatrixCare is a decent-sized business in its […]
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• OpenAI wins US clearance for a broad GPT-5.6 rollout after weeks of government testing

  08-07-2026 10:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has been cleared to release its most advanced model widely, after the US government signed off on a broader rollout of GPT-5.6 that had been held back for weeks under Washington’s new oversight regime for frontier AI. Until now the model had been available only through a restricted preview to about 20 partners whose names were […]
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• Perplexity signs up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU as the chipmaker pushes past AI accelerators

  08-07-2026 10:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Perplexity has become one of the first big AI names to say it will build on Nvidia’s new Vera CPU, the general-purpose chip Nvidia is betting can carry it beyond the accelerators that made it the world’s most valuable company. The AI search firm said it plans to run its agent workloads on Vera, joining […]
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