Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets. The coupe-SUV is built around the company’s proprietary Turing AI chips, with every trim shipping at least one and the top Ultra variant carrying three for a combined 2,250 trillion operations per second. It is the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values the San Mateo startup at $17.5bn, it said. Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV led the round. Nvidia, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Sable has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build an AI system called Aidan that runs live product demonstrations, answers customer questions in real time, and switches between languages mid-conversation. The company, which is less than a year old, calls Aidan an AI employee designed to replace not just chat support but […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That takes its total funding to $55m. Sequoia, Felicis, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple is preparing the biggest overhaul of its iPad mini in half a decade, with plans to release a version featuring an OLED display by October, according to people familiar with the matter. The current model has kept the same design since 2021, receiving only a faster chip two years ago. Bloomberg reported the updated […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft is the biggest seller of cybersecurity software on the planet. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams. It has already cost several hundred jobs, The Information reported. The driver is fear, and money. Companies are […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A VPN hides a user’s real […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed round, it said. Its aim is an “identity operating […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies. That company is Ode with Anthropic, and it launched under its full name this week, the partners said. Anthropic, Blackstone, and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that. Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol that lets the internet’s independent systems talk to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain. His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is simple. It wants a brain test to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Washington wants it to counter Chinese hacking. Before the US shares more of its secrets with Japan, it wants Japan to lock them down. Oracle is now the front-runner to build the vault. Larry Ellison’s company has pulled ahead […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network, the gear that links phones to the wider network. An AI-RAN runs […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Android has always let people install apps from outside Google’s store. Next week it goes much further. Google will start carrying rival app stores from inside Google Play itself. Google told a California court it is ready to begin on Wednesday 22 July, The Verge reported. The move came after Google and Epic Games jointly […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in a case that turns on a deceptively small question: whether a platform that shares advertising revenue with a creator is still merely hosting what that creator uploads. The dispute began on 19 July 2022, when AGCOM, Italy’s communications authority, fined Google Ireland €750,000 and ordered it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nvidia and a Japanese industrial consortium are building what Nvidia calls the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, and the specification is unusually concrete for an announcement of this kind. The AI factory will run 13,750 Nvidia Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs across 140 megawatts of data centre capacity, built on the Nvidia […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Bercan Kilic got his dream job in 2023, designing aerodynamics for Red Bull Racing while it was winning everything. He found the engineering magnificent and the point of it thin. His Munich startup, microagi, has now raised $55m, which it says is the largest seed round a German company has secured. Hummingbird led, with Northzone, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Kathy Hochul signed the executive order on Tuesday. Donald Trump was demanding she undo it by Wednesday. The order pauses construction of new data centres drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first US state to pull the brake on the buildings powering the AI boom. State officials are to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft executives spent an internal meeting on Tuesday teaching the sales force how to run down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which would be unremarkable except that two of those companies supply the models inside Microsoft’s own products. The session was billed as a strategy kickoff for the fiscal year that began this month, and it leaned […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A single refinery can carry thousands of sensors measuring temperature, pressure, velocity, and viscosity. According to Applied Computing, operators make decisions using less than 8% of what those sensors tell them. The London startup has raised a $20m Series A to close that gap, led by engineering giant KBR with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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