Meta is updating its smart glasses to shut off the camera if the recording light has been physically tampered with or destroyed. The change, announced in a 7 July blog post, closes a loophole that let modders turn the glasses into covert recorders. A white LED lights up whenever the glasses capture photos or video, signalling […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on hyperscale cloud, with the dependency running into billions of pounds a year. Some 95% of central and local public-sector bodies spent on hyperscale […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Databento has raised $97M in Series B funding to build what it calls the market data platform for modern finance. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with DRW, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital joining. The company announced the raise on Thursday. Demand ran well past the target. The round was oversubscribed, drawing more […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A serve flashes on the Wimbledon scoreboard before the ball stops bouncing. That number comes from a partnership older than most players on court. IBM has been Wimbledon’s technology partner for 36 years, since it planted serve-speed radar behind the baselines in 1991. This year the two extended their deal to 2030, Fortune reported. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft president Brad Smith says the US is now regulating AI without a clear set of rules. The uncertainty, he warns, is a problem for the whole industry. He made the case to Fortune on the sidelines of the AI for Good Global Summit. “What we really have right now is regulation without transparent or […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A startup that builds artificial-intelligence agents for large companies has turned that software on itself, using one of its own agents to help run a $100 million fundraise. Lyzr, an enterprise AI agents firm backed by Accenture, says the agent handled much of the investor legwork for a Series B round that would value the company […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta plans to put its own artificial intelligence chip into production in September and is aiming to roughly double the computing capacity across its data centres, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The chip belongs to Meta’s in-house silicon line, the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, which the company […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SK Hynix’s American listing has been more than seven times oversubscribed, according to people familiar with the deal, a sign of heavy demand for one of the largest share sales Wall Street has fielded from a foreign company. The South Korean memory-chip maker was due to price its offering of American depositary receipts on Thursday, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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US power companies are locked in a scramble for the heavy electrical gear that keeps the lights on, as a wave of artificial-intelligence data centres pushes demand for transformers, turbines and switchgear well beyond what factories can supply. Lead times once measured in months now run into years, and developers are fighting over the same […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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India has removed import duties on a swathe of machinery and components used to make electronics, from lithium-ion battery cells to certain smartphone parts, in the latest push to lower costs for hardware built on its soil. The measure lands as the country presses to court iPhone and Samsung makers and pull more of the global electronics […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence hardware. The company has long been tipped to face antitrust charges in France, and any decision could […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Rubrik, the US data-security company, said it will invest more than $500m in Britain over the next five years and make London its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The commitment, announced on Wednesday and worth about £375m, lands as governments across the region press companies to keep sensitive information closer to home, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick stocks. The move, reported by Business Insider, places the fund alongside a small group of systematic managers that have begun to blend algorithms with […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Taiwan’s top central banker has urged investors to steer clear of heavy borrowing to chase the island’s surging stock market, a rally powered by global demand for the AI hardware that Taiwanese firms supply. Yang Chin-long, governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), delivered the caution on Thursday while reporting to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Luxshare Precision Industry began trading in Hong Kong on Thursday with a stumble, its shares sliding on a debut that had been trailed as the city’s biggest listing of 2026. The stock fell as much as 9.6% below its offer price before clawing back part of the loss, an underwhelming opening for one of the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Europe’s drive for sovereign AI has rarely looked more urgent, yet the infrastructure meant to carry it may not be ready. As Washington tightens access to its most capable models and Brussels leans harder into the case for European AI sovereignty, a new survey from Onnec warns that the continent’s ambitions could be strangled by the plain […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Revolut has appointed Kuba Fast, the former chief executive of Chase UK, to run Revolut Bank UAB, the Lithuania-based entity that holds the fintech’s European banking licence. The move hands one of the industry’s most closely watched digital lenders a senior operator taken directly from JPMorgan Chase, as it presses on with a banking build-out […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence has moved out of the office and the university lecture hall and into the primary school classroom, and a fresh survey suggests plenty of parents are uneasy about it. Half of those polled said they were worried their child “relies on AI too much,” according to Deloitte’s annual back-to-school study. The figure comes […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta’s chief technology officer has given the fullest account yet of the mishap that forced the company to halt its most contentious AI project, the keystroke-logging scheme it calls the Model Capability Initiative. Andrew Bosworth said a researcher had moved sensitive employee data somewhere it was never meant to sit, though he insisted there was […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nvidia’s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it. Jensen Huang said this week that his engineers have grown to prefer building AI agents over writing Python, a change he casts as a promotion rather than a threat. “These agentic systems are […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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