Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Variety and Deadline reported on Thursday. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield as Altman, had tested well with early audiences and was being shown to other studios the same day Amazon confirmed it would not release it. The decision […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
A US federal court has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement in an antitrust class action alleging that Sony monopolised the market for digital PlayStation games by eliminating competition from third-party retailers. The settlement, approved on 8 April, covers approximately 4.4 million PlayStation owners in the United States, according to court filings. The case, Caccuri […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children starting from the new school year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on Friday. The ban applies to students in first through seventh grade, covering ages six to 13, according to Reuters. Støre said at a press conference that […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
The number of fusion startups that have raised more than $100 million has reached 17, according to a TechCrunch tally published Thursday, with total private investment in the sector now exceeding $13 billion. Two of the most recent rounds, Helion Energy’s $465 million raise and Focused Energy’s $240 million Series A, both closed in June […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite. Aether AI, based in San Diego, has raised a $20mn seed round to chase a different idea entirely. Its founder thinks the next leap will not come from scale. It will come from teaching machines […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light instead. HyperLight, a startup spun out of Harvard, has […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at VivaTech on Friday. The goal […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest way to attack them. 1,000 poisoned packages The first is a group […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
The UK’s top data and AI regulator has resigned. It is the first time it has ever happened. John Edwards stepped down as information commissioner on Friday, with immediate effect. His exit followed a months-long workplace investigation. He said his position had become “untenable”. What he admitted Edwards was careful in his statement, posted on […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact. According to a report by Futurism, Google’s AI Overviews repeatedly present entries from the “SCP Foundation” as real. The SCP Foundation is a vast collaborative fan-fiction project. Its “anomalies” are […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
OpenAI is hiring for its stock-market debut on two very different fronts. One is the research lab. The other is Washington. This week, the company said Dean Ball will join on 6 July to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. Ball is not a researcher. He is a policy operator, and until recently he […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
A new book paints an unflattering picture of how Silicon Valley’s most powerful men handled Donald Trump’s return to power. According to its authors, they grovelled. And Trump, they write, mocked them for it behind their backs. The book is “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump”, by the New York Times reporters […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
A Miami startup says it has cracked a maths problem that has made AI models slow and power-hungry for almost a decade. The claim was bold enough to draw comparisons with Theranos. Now, though, the company has independent test results that back much of it up. The startup is called Subquadratic. It came out of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
At its annual shareholder meeting on Friday, Reliance unveiled two things at once: paperwork for what could be India’s biggest-ever stock-market listing, and a plan to put a Starlink rival into orbit. Jio Platforms, the digital and telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, filed draft papers for an initial public offering widely expected to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial guarantees and what the industry calls “circular financing”, the very tactics that helped make demand for Nvidia’s chips unstoppable, to win data-centre customers for its own silicon. The clearest […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
Immigrant founders have long played a significant role in U.S. technology, but access to early-stage capital often still depends on local networks, customer introductions and proximity to established investors. That gap has created room for a small number of venture firms focused on immigrant, diaspora and cross-border founders, a category that has grown in recent years. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
The US has accused the one company on Earth that makes the machines behind cutting-edge chips of letting one slip into China. It has not shown its proof, and the company says it never happened. In a series of recent meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ASML’s senior leaders that Washington believes one of its […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
Bernie Sanders has turned a talking point into a bill, and it goes further than anything Silicon Valley or the White House has put on the table. On Thursday, the Vermont senator introduced legislation that would hit the largest AI companies with a one-time 50 per cent tax on their stock, paid in shares rather […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
For a year, AI’s hunger for memory chips was a price story: your next laptop or phone would cost more. This week it became a product story. Nothing has scrapped its planned CMF Phone 3 Pro, with a co-founder saying the company could not build a budget phone that felt like “a genuine step forward” […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
The backlash against AI data centres used to be a local zoning story. This week, it became a fight inside Amazon. Three Amazon engineers, Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani and Liesl Wigand, say the company placed them under investigation after they testified to Seattle’s city council in favour of regulating data centres. They have filed a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
0
Most popular sources
ArcticStartup
|
0% |
Tech.eu
|
0% |
UK Tech News
|
0% |
ReadWrite
|
0% |
Ubergizmo
|
0% |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
24.07.2026 02:54
Last update: 02:45 EDT.
News rating updated: 09:41.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.