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This week, Daniel L. Doctoroff announced that he’s stepping down from his role of CEO at Sidewalk Labs due to serious health conditions. Sidewalk has been limping along since the end of the Quayside project. Now, starting next year, Sidewalk products Pebble, Mesa, Delve, and Affordable Electrification will join Google, becoming core to Google’s urban sustainability product efforts. The founders started Sidewalk Labs with good intentions, but it exemplifies how manufactured smart cities fail. The sordid hi
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Lancium, a power infrastructure developer behind OpenAI and Oracle’s data center campus in Texas, is in talks with major tech companies to sell a minority stake, according to people familiar with the matter. Lancium’s portfolio of gigawatt-scale Texas campuses has drawn interest from several tech companies, including Nvidia, some of the people said. Anthropic spent some time with Lancium’s team, though its discussions were exploratory and it didn’t ultimately engage... Read more ›
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Google says the World Cup drove Search to its highest usage in history, with queries per second peaking right after Argentina's winning goal against Egypt. CNBC reports: The milestone comes as the company tries to prove its traditional search engine can keep its relevance in the age of AI, where chatbots have become more prevalent. Google still controls 90% of the search market, its stock price has more than doubled... Read more ›
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Researchers developed a new chip stacking method that could quadruple AI memory density, potentially solving one of the biggest hardware bottlenecks slowing AI down today. Read more ›
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In recent weeks, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared kinder words for Anthropic, not long after repeatedly disparaging the competitor. Read more ›
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Today on Uncanny Valley, we unpack the political debacle unfolding in Maine surrounding the campaign of Democratic candidate Graham Platner. Read more ›
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Sony has launched the IER-M500 professional in-ear monitors, featuring a new dynamic driver, high passive noise isolation, detachable cable, and stage-ready design for musicians and performers. Read more ›
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It’s Thursday, July 9, 2026, and today’s dealmaking paints a clear picture: venture capital is pouring into AI infrastructure and frontier technologies, while strategic sectors like clean energy, biotech and national security quietly attract large infusions. The biggest rounds are ... Read more ›
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According to a new report from Korea, Samsung is planning to enter a new market very soon. The company is said to be working on an AI accelerator chip for PCs. It's codenamed Gaia and it's using a 4nm process. It comes with an optimized NPU architecture to enable more efficient AI computing on PCs. Samsung has allegedly already supplied prototypes of this chip to some unnamed "major clients", and... Read more ›
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The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba will bar its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code inside workplace environments from July 10, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by Reuters. The stated reason […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Europe has a new defence-tech heavyweight. Quantum Systems, a German maker of autonomous drones, has raised $1.2bn and more than doubled its valuation to about $8bn. It is one of the largest rounds ever for a European defence startup. The Bavarian company announced the Series D on Thursday. Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent co-led it. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees on Thursday that the company’s AI agents have not progressed as quickly as he expected, four months after a restructuring that was supposed to speed things up. “The kind of trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Trump administration and Anthropic have not discussed the government taking an equity stake in the AI company, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The denial follows a Financial Times report earlier the same day that OpenAI had proposed handing Washington a 5% stake in itself, an arrangement said to potentially […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Scientists in Minnesota have built a cell from scratch. It can feed, grow, and divide, and it competes with its own offspring. Its makers do not claim it is alive. But the line between chemistry and biology just got a lot thinner. The team at the University of Minnesota calls its creation SpudCell, and says […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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QTS, the data centre operator owned by Blackstone, has terminated its Digital Gateway project in Prince William County, Virginia, and withdrawn the legal filings that were keeping it alive. The move, confirmed on Thursday, ends a fight that had already outlasted most of the other parties involved in it. The project was approved in December […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Stelios Kouloglou spent two years on the European Parliament committee set up to investigate governments spying on their own citizens with commercial hacking tools. According to a report published Friday by Citizen Lab, the University of Toronto research group, his own phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware while that inquiry was under way. Kouloglou, a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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HCLTech has signed a $1.14 billion contract with a major European company, the Indian IT services group said Thursday, in what is its largest single deal since a $2.1 billion agreement with Verizon in August 2023. The client is described only as a Fortune Global 50 firm, and neither side has named it publicly. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A government source says the IT ministry has sent notices to both apps, a day after ordering WhatsApp to pause its own usernames rollout. India’s technology ministry has sent notices to Telegram and Signal raising concerns over their usernames features, a government source told Reuters, extending a regulatory push that began with WhatsApp just a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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China’s securities regulator has approved Unitree Robotics’ registration to list on Shanghai’s STAR Market, clearing the last formal hurdle before the humanoid robot maker can price and sell shares. The approval, confirmed by Reuters on Thursday, values the planned offering at roughly $619 million, or about 4.2 billion yuan, a figure that lines up closely […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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