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Will Jones @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 09:21 EDT

The browser you already use every day is learning how to help you get things done. On a typical evening, you might have twenty tabs open comparing two mattresses, a half-written message to your landlord, and a recipe you keep scrolling back to. Sound familiar? You’re not alone, and you’re not disorganized. Traditional browsers were never […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Darius Popa @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 08:09 EDT

Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 07:48 EDT

Nine years later, Binance serves more than 316 million users across trading, payments, savings, tokenized securities, and traditional asset access. Its evolution from a spot cryptocurrency exchange into an integrated financial platform closely mirrors the broader maturation of the centralized exchange industry itself. A recent CoinDesk Research case study traces that transformation through five distinct phases, illustrating how […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 07:43 EDT

AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, which values Runta at more than $100 million, The Information reported. ‘Parenting’ AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 07:28 EDT

Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move covers the applications Airbus needs to keep running as a “minimum viable company.” That is about 900 apps, starting with 70 now […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 07:11 EDT

Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board, an independent body funded by Meta to review its […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 07:00 EDT

The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie every American’s identity to a number. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon be impossible in the US. A Federal Communications Commission proposal would force providers to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 06:46 EDT

The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI models, Axios reported. Their diagnoses […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 06:39 EDT

Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, TechCrunch reported. They will reach […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 06:32 EDT

Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 4,500 staff to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 06:18 EDT

AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video published on Wednesday. Knowing the fundamentals of software gives you an edge with AI, he told the audience, Business […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 06:14 EDT

What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? That question sits at the heart of a Guardian long-read on Iason Gabriel, who has worked inside Google DeepMind since 2017. For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel was the only philosopher at a frontier AI lab. His job was to anticipate the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 05:56 EDT

Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post. The aim is twofold. DeepMind wants to stop people misusing its models, and to help governments, scientists and biosecurity groups use AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 05:55 EDT

Mick Jagger has given a qualified blessing to musicians who reach for artificial intelligence, on the strict condition that whatever comes out is genuinely their own. “If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead,” he told Billboard in a cover story published this week. “But it has to be original.” The line arrives quickly, though, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 05:50 EDT

A French startup has raised $30 million to tackle one of fashion’s hardest waste problems. Syntetica recycles nylon, and it can process two grades at once that the industry has long struggled to pull apart, its founder told TechCrunch. The Ecotechnologies 2 fund, managed by France’s public bank Bpifrance, led the round, worth €26.1 million. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 05:17 EDT

Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. A ransomware attack has stopped production at one of Coca-Cola’s biggest dairy brands. The company said fairlife found unauthorised access to part of its systems, including production systems, in a statement. Coca-Cola disclosed the breach to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 04:39 EDT

The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his administration published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda drawn from the testimony of more […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 04:33 EDT

Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has sold before and that lands squarely behind its swelling bet on OpenAI. The plan […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Darius Popa @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 04:29 EDT

Japan’s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition. Mitsubishi Electric is exploring a combination of its power-semiconductor operations with those of Rohm and Toshiba, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The talks are part of a wider scramble to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 07/17/2026 04:24 EDT

Google has finally paid its record EU antitrust fine, and the money is about to do something unexpected. The €4.6bn will flow into the EU’s central budget and reduce what member states owe Brussels, Politico reports. The mechanism is dry, but the effect is real. EU fines are not earmarked for anything, so they simply lower […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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