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Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of users to treat AI systems as trusted companions. The comments came in a Bloomberg interview published this week in which Whittaker laid out her case that […]
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Xbox has lost a legal battle in Brazil after a gamer "sued their asses and won" for suspending their account, along with all of their digital games, after it was hacked. Read more Read more ›
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech platforms time to destroy documents that could be used as evidence against them. The conservative Liberal Party and the minor Greens party referred the legislation to an eight-week Senate […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Starling Bank is cutting around 130 jobs, roughly 3% of its 4,000-strong workforce, as the London-based neobank restructures its banking and technology operations. Staff were told this week that the changes were intended to simplify how the company operates, reduce duplication, and accelerate product delivery. The cuts come as Starling pushes AI deeper into its […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Hong Kong has become the main artery for high-tech goods flowing in and out of China, and its chip trade has hit record levels. The city accounted for more than half of China’s $239bn in semiconductor imports in the first five months of 2026, according to a Bloomberg review of official data. That share stood at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s chip assembly and testing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The facility will initially turn out 200 million chips a year, according to ANI, with plans to scale to 500 million. The plant is an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, or OSAT, facility. That covers the packaging […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind. The group behind the deal calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E. The update is expected to reach 200,000 patients over the next year before […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity responsible for finding and removing child sexual abuse material online. The IWF identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Arthur Mensch, cofounder and chief executive of French AI lab Mistral, has urged enterprise leaders to abandon closed AI models. In a LinkedIn post, he argued that closed providers are now forcing data retention and gaining “immense leverage” over their customers’ businesses. As companies connect models to their internal context, Mensch wrote, providers see it, learn […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain their momentum this quarter. June revenue alone reached NT$1.33tn (roughly $45bn), up 21.6% year on year. The company added […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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South Korea will seek to create a “future response fund” financed by the tax windfall from its semiconductor boom, Yonhap reported. The proceeds would flow into AI, advanced manufacturing, and other long-term growth engines. Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said the fund would turn the extra tax revenue into investment resources for future generations. The government […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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