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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mazon was sued on Monday over the facial-recognition feature it recently added to its Ring doorbells, in a complaint that turns on a familiar asymmetry: the person who buys the camera consents to it, and the person walking past the camera does not. Charles Sigwalt, a Virginia resident, filed the proposed class action in federal […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A military research institute demonstrated three versions of a four-legged robot, one of them armed, for possible duty on remote outposts the coast guard struggles to staff. Taiwan’s main weapons-development institute put three robot dogs through their paces on Monday, presenting them as a possible answer to a hard problem: how to keep watch over […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Trump administration is locked in an internal battle over artificial intelligence regulation that has paralysed federal AI policy at the moment it matters most. Three factions are fighting for control: the Commerce Department, which has been quietly building civilian testing partnerships with AI companies; national security officials who want intelligence agencies to evaluate frontier […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta is taking its “13+” content settings for Teen Accounts global. The company said today that the setting, which it likens to a movie rating, will now apply by default to teenagers across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger worldwide, extending a system it first introduced last October in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. According to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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