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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On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners completed their purchase of all the equity in Aligned Data Centers. The deal […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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London-based robotics startup Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation, pushing Humanoid’s own valuation above $1 billion. Bosch, Schaeffler, Aglaé Ventures, the investment arm of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, and Taiwan’s Fubon Financial also participated. The round brings […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The two companies announced a strategic collaboration to build the Fortinet Security Processor 6, the custom silicon inside its FortiGate firewalls. Intel will handle the chip design, advanced packaging, and manufacturing. The first name on the list That last part matters more than the chip itself. Intel told Tom’s Hardware it will build the SP6 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eightfold in four years. It is more than the $1.35 trillion the five […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Eight NATO allies have launched an initiative to connect their military satellites into a single networked mega-constellation, marking the Alliance’s most ambitious move yet to treat space as shared operational infrastructure rather than a collection of national assets. The programme, called HALO (Hybrid Alliance Layered Operations in Space), was announced at the NATO Summit Defence […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Google’s answer to a summer of being outrun is not a bigger model. It is cheaper ones. On Tuesday the company launched three new Gemini models, all at its fast, low-cost “Flash” tier, a day before Alphabet reports earnings. The message is efficiency over raw power. The catch is what is still missing. Cheap, fast, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Volkswagen has put its name on an e-bike built around the kind of safety technology you would normally find in a car. The Volkswagen eBike, manufactured by n+ under licence, features a rear-mounted camera that streams a live feed to a handlebar display, radar-activated blind-spot alerts, a smart helmet with crash detection, and HUD glasses […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The other two major labels made peace with Udio months ago. Sony did the opposite. On Monday it filed a fresh lawsuit in New York, Billboard reported, covering 30,117 recordings and leaving Udio facing a far bigger bill. Turning peace into a weapon The heart of the case is fair use, the defence Udio leans […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including OpenAI, CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Meta, and Dell. OpenAI plans to adopt Vera Rubin at scale during the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The tools are Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. Over several months, Pillar Security found ways for each agent to cross its security boundary while staying, technically, inside the box. The escape that isn’t one The trick is neat. These sandboxes trust the agent inside the project folder and protect the host outside. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple is preparing to launch Apple Upgrade, a device leasing program backed by Klarna that will mark one of the biggest changes to how the company sells hardware, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The service is planned to go live on July 28 and will support most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models, according to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Android users have long got the rougher version of X. After nearly a year of work, the company has stopped patching the old app and rebuilt it from scratch. The new version ships as a normal update through the Play Store, X said, so there is no separate app to install. It promises faster loading, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Security operations environments are constantly evolving. New cloud services, data sources, automations, and detections are introduced on a regular basis, while upstream systems can change without warning. Although these updates are intended to improve security, they can also create unintended consequences by disrupting detection pipelines and leaving organizations with visibility gaps. Fig believes the problem is less about creating […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Samsung has picked London for its summer showcase, and it wants you expecting something folded differently. Beyond the date and a teaser, though, the company has confirmed very little. Galaxy Unpacked runs on Tuesday, 22 July, at 2pm BST, streamed on Samsung’s site and YouTube, CNET notes. The official tagline reads “a new shape unfolds.” […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A group of US lawmakers has urged President Donald Trump to open a formal trade investigation into the European Union’s two flagship technology laws, arguing that enforcement has fallen unfairly on American companies and warrants retaliation under US trade powers. The push, set out in a letter reported on Tuesday, points to a possible Section […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Aircraft startup Electra plans to invest around $850 million to build a factory in Ohio, giving the maker of hybrid-electric ultra-short takeoff and landing aircraft its first dedicated production base. It would place Electra in the same state as electric air taxi rival Joby, which is already building a scaled plant in Dayton. Ohio has courted […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI says the agentic side of ChatGPT has passed 10 million weekly users, a mark it reached less than two weeks after the debut of ChatGPT Work, its attempt to turn the chatbot into a tool that finishes a job rather than just describes one. The figure, first reported by Bloomberg, spans the two products OpenAI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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When founders talk about growth, the conversation usually centers on product development, hiring, revenue, customer acquisition, or fundraising. Those factors matter. They are the engines that move a company forward. Yet after years of working with high-growth businesses, I have become convinced that many companies hit invisible ceilings for a different reason. They are operating […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading hardware-security conference. As The Register reported, it imagines a paying […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Garmin has finally joined the screenless wearable race with the CIRQA Smart Band, a $199.99 fabric-strap tracker that drops the display and, more pointedly, the recurring fee its rivals depend on. The band is the company’s clearest challenge yet to Whoop, the recovery-focused strap that has spent years defining this corner of the market. Where […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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