For years, one question in Microsoft’s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a “good deal at Microsoft,” defined as “a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft and what I get in return.” When the scores dropped low enough, the company responded with significant […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion. Alphabet’s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equity offering of any kind, in any industry, ever. The company had initially planned to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap. Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else’s account. The bot complied without verifying the requester’s identity, and the attacker then reset the password and locked out the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The npm package looked legitimate. It had an active GitHub repository, steady development history, and roughly 29,000 weekly downloads. For developers using OpenAI Codex, it offered exactly what it advertised: a remote web UI for the AI coding tool. But for the past month, every invocation of codexui-android has also been silently reading the contents of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its People and Places division, the unit responsible for human resources, recruitment, workplace facilities, and culture. The cuts, many targeting senior roles, represent less than […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In 2023, Meta fought an eight-month antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission for the right to acquire Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. The deal was reportedly worth around $400 million. Mark Zuckerberg even testified in court to get it done. Less than three years later, Meta is handing it back. The company announced […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Every developer who has ever pressed the period key on a GitHub repository, launching the convenient browser-based VS Code editor known as GitHub.dev, has unknowingly accepted a bargain. In exchange for a lightweight coding environment, GitHub silently passes an OAuth token to the session, one that grants read and write access to every repository the user […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also working on the deal, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The Claude developer is weighing going public as soon as October after filing confidentially for a listing on Monday. More banks could be added to the lineup, and details of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The European Commission has called on households across the bloc to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours, citing the rapid growth of AI data centres, accelerating electrification, and rising overall digital infrastructure demand as factors straining European power grids. The Commission simultaneously published a Data Centre Energy Efficiency Package on 3 June that introduces a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure for security teams, because AI-enabled applications can introduce unfamiliar attack surfaces, unpredictable behavior, and new ways for attackers to manipulate inputs, access data, or chain weaknesses across […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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GitLab is cutting about 14% of its full-time workforce, roughly 350 people, and pulling out of 22 countries, based on their report for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2027, in which it grew revenue 23% and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The restructuring, the company said, is meant “to realign its operating structure to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Department of Government Efficiency is gone, quietly wound down after a year that produced more controversy than confirmed savings. Two of its former staffers have decided the idea was sound and the venue was wrong. On Tuesday they unveiled Special, a firm that intends to buy companies outright and cut their costs by running artificial […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The London and Budapest startup runs its modernisation AI entirely on-premise, aimed at the banks and insurers whose core systems still run on COBOL and Oracle Forms. The most important software in a bank is often the software nobody fully understands any more. It runs the core processes, it has run them for decades, and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A UK parliamentary committee has called Palantir’s role in the public sector an “unacceptable point of weakness” and urged the government to break its NHS contract with the American company. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee singled out Palantir as the technology provider it found most concerning, arguing that the UK was at risk of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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One billion is the number apps spend years chasing and most never reach. ChatGPT got there faster than anything before it. OpenAI’s app crossed 1 billion global monthly active users in May, roughly three years after launch, according to estimates from Sensor Tower, making it the quickest app in history to the milestone. The pace […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. The order, titled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” was signed privately without the usual livestream or public ceremony, a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for significant government purchases of technology solutions, warning that the country’s dependency on foreign digital infrastructure has reached a scale that demands a policy response. Speaking at the European Financial Congress in Sopot on Tuesday, Tusk said Poland will also publish […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In early-stage companies, time often becomes the most constrained resource. Founders and engineering teams must move quickly to build products, reach customers, and refine their offerings. Yet a significant portion of that time can be spent on infrastructure tasks that sit behind the scenes. According to a report, application development accounted for just 16% of developers’ […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The European Union’s plan to build five massive AI data centres, each with one gigawatt of capacity and approximately 100,000 advanced chips, is stumbling before it starts. The bidding process, originally scheduled for May, has been pushed to July. A lack of funding clarity means only two of the five planned centres can receive money […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline for achieving a scalable quantum computer from 2033 to 2029, halving the original target. The company credits […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Perplexity AI has developed a platform that dynamically splits AI workloads between personal computers and cloud servers, deciding in real time which tasks can run locally on a PC’s processor and which need the power of data centre hardware. CEO Aravind Srinivas announced the system at Computex in Taipei on Tuesday, describing it as an “air-traffic […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a new chip-to-cloud platform designed from the ground up for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional applications. The platform includes a lightweight operating system built on AOSP, enterprise-grade security and management through Intune and Entra ID, and what Microsoft calls “just-in-time UI,” the ability for agent […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Dashlane disclosed on Sunday that an external attacker launched a brute-force attack against its two-factor authentication system, successfully bypassing 2FA protections on fewer than 20 personal plan user accounts and downloading copies of their encrypted password vaults. The attack, which began on 31 May, triggered automatic account lockouts across a wider set of targeted users as […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI announced a major expansion of Codex on Tuesday, transforming its AI coding agent into a broader enterprise work platform with three new capabilities: Sites, a feature that lets users create and share hosted interactive web applications; Annotations, an in-place editing tool; and six role-specific plugins that aggregate 62 popular business applications including Snowflake, Figma, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Focused Energy, a Germany-based fusion startup, has raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round to develop a commercial reactor based on the same approach that produced the world’s first controlled fusion reaction with net energy gain. The round, led by German utility RWE, brings the company’s total private capital to $300 million. Focused Energy […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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701x, a Fargo-based agricultural technology company, has closed an oversubscribed Series B round exceeding $10 million, funded entirely by local investors from North Dakota and Minnesota and rancher-customers across the United States. No venture capital firm or institutional investor participated. The company has also hit its first profitable month and is preparing to launch in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Blue Origin has disclosed that last week’s New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral spared the launch pad’s fuel tanks and several other critical components, offering the company a faster path back to flight than the initial images of the blast suggested. CEO Dave Limp said the methane, hydrogen, and oxygen tanks “look to be […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A majority of Palo Alto Networks shareholders have voted against the cybersecurity company’s executive compensation packages seven times since 2015, a record that makes it the most rejected pay programme in the S&P 500 and the third-most in the Russell 3000. The most recent vote came in December, when less than half of shareholders supported a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront the threats that artificial intelligence poses to their discipline. The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, released on Monday and endorsed by the International Mathematical Union, is the most […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Impulse Space, the orbital transfer vehicle startup founded by Tom Mueller, has raised $500 million in a Series D round that values the company at $4.26 billion. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures and Banner VC, with participation from existing investors including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Linse Capital. The company has now raised […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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