ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai this week, calling it the world’s first agentic AI smartphone. The device, built under ZTE’s Nubia brand, runs ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent and can be activated by voice or a dedicated button. It comes in four colours and was prototyped in December at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta has hired Assaf Keren as its next chief information security officer, filling a vacancy created when Guy Rosen announced his departure in June after 13 years at the company. Keren joins this week from software platform Qualtrics, where he spent two years as chief security officer, and previously held the same title at PayPal. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Monday.com is cutting roughly 20 percent of its global workforce, about 620 people, as the Israeli project management company restructures around what it calls its AI Work Platform. The company disclosed the plan in a Form 6-K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, citing the need to support a leaner operating […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Arrakis, a London and Paris startup building what it calls an AI operating system for industrial companies, has emerged from stealth with $38 million in total funding and a thesis that the biggest returns from artificial intelligence will come from factories and supply chains, not office software. The company raised a $30 million Series A […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Battery-electric registrations across 17 European markets hit 275,060 in June 2026, a jump of nearly 40 percent compared to the same month last year, according to the E-Mobility Europe bulletin published by New AutoMotive. The figure pushed EVs past 25 percent of all new car sales in those markets for the first time. It also […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Cisco’s new Antares models are small enough to run on your own machines. And, it claims, they beat Google’s Gemini and rival GPT-class systems at finding bugs. It is releasing them open-weight, though it is vetting who gets access. The pitch from Cisco is a quiet rebuke to the frontier-model arms race. You do not […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Samsung used its Galaxy Unpacked event in London on Tuesday to launch six products at once, its broadest hardware refresh in years. The lineup includes the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, the first time Samsung has brought its Ultra designation to a foldable, alongside a reimagined Z Fold8 with new display proportions, a slimmer Z Flip8, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools where they cluster. More than half of US residents, 53%, oppose building an AI data centre in their […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The founder now asking enterprises to trust AI with their laptops once built one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious surveillance tools. Roi Tiger co-created Onavo, the app Meta turned into a scheme to spy on its rivals. His new company, Glow, wants to do something close to the opposite. Glow has emerged from stealth with […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The artificial intelligence industry has no shortage of users. The harder problem is turning that usage into a sustainable business. As generative AI applications spread across consumer and enterprise markets, developers are confronting an unusual combination of opportunities and pressures. AI can make software faster to build and easier to distribute, but the costs of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Search for requirements management tools for medical device development and you’ll find plenty of content arguing that the established platforms are too heavy for modern teams. Much of it comes from vendors with a stake in that conclusion. In a regulated industry, the question that matters is which tool produces a record you can defend […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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NEURA Robotics is opening ‘gyms’ where robots train under real-world conditions, starting with two German universities. Its bet is that the thing holding humanoids back is not intelligence, but a shortage of real experience. The German robotics firm NEURA has a theory about why robots still fumble in the real world. The problem is not […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Revolut confirmed on Tuesday that a secondary share sale has valued the digital bank at $115 billion, a 53 percent jump from the $75 billion it reached in November 2025. The sale priced shares at $2,017 each, according to Bloomberg. The valuation makes Revolut the most valuable private fintech company in the world by a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Jack Dorsey’s Block wants to take on Slack. The twist is that the workforce it is building for is half machine. Its new app, Buzz, is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels, and every agent carries its own portable identity. Block, the Dorsey-led fintech behind Square and Cash App, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The UK’s AI safety watchdog put five frontier models through a set of security tests to see whether they would cut corners. Every one of them cheated. Worse, when asked about it afterwards, most would not admit they had done anything wrong. The finding comes from the AI Security Institute (AISI), a research body inside […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Camille Hanson woke one night in March to a notification: Meta had flagged her Facebook and Instagram accounts for deletion. She and her husband ran an English-teaching business there with nearly a million followers. Meta said she had breached its rules on fraud and deception, the New York Times reported. She appealed. A week later […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The individual numbers are the striking part. Anthropic spent $1.97 million, up 26% in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Oracle is building a huge AI data centre in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with Vantage and OpenAI. The nearly one-gigawatt Lighthouse Campus is a roughly $15 billion project. To get the electricity to run it, though, Oracle first has to satisfy the local regulator, and that is proving expensive. In a sworn affidavit, Oracle says the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told American diplomats to push back against a phrase that has spread through allied capitals since the summer: the tech “kill switch.” In a cable dated July 16 and reviewed by Reuters, Rubio instructed envoys to counter the idea that Washington can remotely disable American technology abroad, a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Augustus has raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation. Tiger Global led the round, the company announced on Tuesday. Hummingbird, QED, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Circle and Deel joined in. The startup has now raised $210 million in total. A bank, built from scratch Augustus wants to be what it calls the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying staff of a data breach after hackers slipped into the Oracle software it uses to run human resources. BleepingComputer first reported the disclosure. Nearly a year in the dark The timeline is the uncomfortable part. According to the company’s notification letter, an intruder reached its Oracle E-Business Suite […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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