A growing number of young adults are using AI chatbots to script not just their texts but their in-person conversations, the Wall Street Journal reported. Niharika Abbaraju, a 20-year-old cancer researcher, uses ChatGPT at work for research, but off the clock it becomes her conversation coach, drafting dating app lines, party icebreakers, and real-time responses […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop using it. The OpenAI CEO said on the “Relentless” podcast that he forced himself to learn the app while OpenAI was building Sora, its AI-generated video social network. “I made myself get addicted to TikTok, because I wanted to just learn,” he said. He started with […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over whether businesses can legally resell surplus on-premise software licences. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled in 2025 that resale and subdivision of Microsoft licences did not infringe copyright. Microsoft appealed and lost again on July 7. An […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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ASML shares fell as much as 6.5% in Amsterdam on Monday after The Information reported that a Shanghai-based company has begun mass-producing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography tools. The machines are the type that ASML has been restricted from selling to China under Dutch and US export controls. If the report is accurate, it represents exactly […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of a long-term partnership. Neither side disclosed the figure. What the money buys […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Enigma, a robotics research lab less than a year old, is emerging from stealth with a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners. The startup is not building a foundation model to make robots more capable. It is studying how humans actually want to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” on Friday. Over the weekend OpenAI, Google and SpaceX added their names, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Dopl Technologies raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by SpringTide Ventures to advance a telerobotic ultrasound platform toward FDA clearance. The system, called Traverse, lets sonographers remotely operate a robotic arm via haptic controllers and cameras to perform diagnostic ultrasound exams on patients at distant sites. The platform is hardware-agnostic, integrating off-the-shelf robots and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A telecom RF engineer turned SAP consultant, he automates the accounting logic that decides when companies can book revenue, the compliance layer most migration teams leave until an audit forces it. In 18 months, the software many of the world’s largest companies rely on to run their finance and operations stops receiving security updates and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Porsche will cut another 5,000 jobs by 2035 under a second restructuring package agreed between management and labour representatives. The cuts come on top of 3,900 job reductions and an additional 500 announced by CEO Michael Leiters earlier this year, bringing total planned layoffs close to 9,400. The Volkswagen subsidiary described the reductions as “socially […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to brief the Trump administration on the company’s most powerful AI model yet, pushing for speedy approval of a system that has already demonstrated it can solve problems humans could not and breach another company’s infrastructure without being told to, Axios reported on Saturday. The visit […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could break out of its local virtual machine sandbox and read files across the underlying Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials. The attack, dubbed SharedRoot, exploited a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability to gain root access inside the guest VM, then walked out through […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Jeff Bezos, the founder of the company that just became the number one Fortune 500 business, says the cure for anxiety is not rest or meditation but action. Speaking at the Museum of Flight in Seattle in 2017, Bezos told an audience of students that stress is a signal from the body that something is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple is currently aiming to unveil its first smart glasses at next June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, with a consumer release by the end of 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. But the company’s engineering and marketing teams are still wrestling with a question that will define the product: whether its glasses should include a camera […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Every accelerator makes a version of the same offer: capital, mentorship, a network, three months of support, and materially better odds of survival. Evidence suggests that little of it actually works. In April, Youn Baek and Deepak Hegde of NYU Stern published a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research examining nearly 750,000 American startups […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The first half of 2026 has been marked by waves of economic uncertainty. From fuel prices to inflation to market dives, here’s why leaders should stay flexible as they prepare for the uncertain months ahead. Furthermore, it has been marked by significant economic volatility. Business leaders have had to navigate a uniquely unpredictable market defined […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Roku has raised prices on its entire US streaming hardware lineup, with increases ranging from $10 to $50 per device, as the global memory shortage driven by AI data centre demand reaches a product category that had been one of the last bastions of affordable consumer technology. The Streaming Stick 4K saw the steepest jump, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Google has confirmed that its upcoming Pixel 11 phones will cost more than their predecessors, becoming the latest major phone maker to pass on the cost of a global memory shortage that has sent RAM prices to levels the industry has never seen. In an interview with 9to5Google published on Thursday, Shakil Barkat, Google’s vice […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A Pew Research Center survey published last month found that one in five Americans aged 18 to 29 have used AI chatbots for emotional support or advice, and a separate YouGov poll found that 13 percent of US adults have shared a secret or problem with a chatbot that they had not told any human. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments made by founder Liang Wenfeng during private investor meetings were leaked and went viral on Chinese social media, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Liang verbally informed prospective backers to hold off on the round, which had been targeting a pre-money valuation of roughly 480 billion yuan, equivalent […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Electric vehicle owners are happier with their cars than drivers of combustion vehicles in nearly every category measured, according to JD Power’s 2026 Automotive Performance, Execution, and Layout study released this week. The survey of 78,514 owners of 2026 model-year vehicles found that EVs outscored internal combustion engine cars by 109 points on a 1,000-point […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Canon has registered three new cameras with wireless certification agencies, a step that typically signals imminent announcements. Rumours point to updates across Canon’s mid-range mirrorless lineup: the EOS R8 II, EOS R7 II, and EOS R10 II. All three are expected in the second half of 2026. The most interesting is the R8 II, which […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A growing number of professionals have started using AI tools to record every conversation they have, and the people being recorded usually have no idea it is happening. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that apps like Granola, which transcribes meetings without deploying a visible bot or announcing its presence, have made ambient recording […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Modern electric vehicles retain an average of 97 percent of their original range after three years and 95 percent after five years, according to a new analysis by EV data company Recurrent. For a 2026 model with a rated range of 325 miles, that means roughly 309 miles would remain after half a decade of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts, with US private equity firm Brookfield agreeing […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the country’s largest online travel platform abused its dominant market position. The State Administration for Market Regulation said Trip.com used its traffic allocation algorithms, platform rules and technology to restrict hotel operators from listing on competing services and to control the prices […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Waymo has notified Uber that it plans to launch its own app in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028, ending the exclusivity arrangement that has kept its robotaxis available only through Uber in both cities. An Uber spokesperson confirmed the notice to CNBC and Bloomberg on Friday, adding that the change would also free Uber […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open,” which prevented requests from reaching OpenAI’s servers. The company moved from investigating to monitoring within an hour, saying it had […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept the country, with the first Reel drawing more than 300 million views in 24 hours and breaking the platform’s record for a single clip. The 75-year-old leader recorded the videos late Thursday and Friday, choosing the short-video format most popular […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Samsung Electronics and Broadcom have signed a memorandum of understanding worth more than $200 billion spanning memory chips, foundry manufacturing and advanced packaging for artificial intelligence semiconductors. The deal, announced on Friday at an AI summit in San Francisco, runs for five years through 2030 and covers some of the most critical layers of the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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