OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated red-teamer: software that hunts for ways […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story. It trained its model by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from across the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company’s hardware lineup. Annual plans went up by five dollars. The increases apply only to new sign-ups, meaning existing subscribers will keep their current […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple built a trillion-dollar business on chips it designs itself. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported. In recent months it has talked to bankers about deals and approached chip startups to ask if they […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Boston Dynamics is testing Spot, its four-legged robot, as a delivery worker that rides along in trucks and hops out to carry packages to customers’ doorsteps. The company posted a video on Tuesday showing a human driver loading packages onto a conveyor belt mounted on Spot’s back, followed by the robot walking up to houses […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t want them yet.” That is Russ Tedrake, telling Bloomberg why his new […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise about $200m at a $2bn valuation, with Lightspeed in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange. The integration, first reported by the New York Times, shows real-time odds for 2026 FIFA World Cup matches with a “Source: Kalshi” label but no outbound links or Kalshi […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has released Inkling. It is open-weight, so any developer or company can download the model […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he received China’s Youth May Fourth Medal, the country’s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35, for developing a sodium metal battery that charges in roughly four minutes, retains 90% capacity […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. First stop is a Helsinki winter. Europe has another driverless car heading for its roads. Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicles on public roads, effective immediately. It is the second EU country to approve the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am. “We’ve gone into markets where health care is free, and hundreds of thousands of people line up in a queue” to pay for […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to meet. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk’s own back yard. Amazon said on Wednesday it will bring its Amazon Leo satellite […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995. “If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidia would not be here today.” That is Jensen Huang, chief executive of the world’s most valuable company, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Emergent’s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it. “Most businesses don’t need any software. They need a way to turn how they actually work into software.” That is how Mukund Jha […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Spotify launched a conversational AI feature that lets Premium users type or speak directly in the app to control what plays, learn about music, and explore their listening history. The beta is rolling out for users 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden on iOS and Android. Users can ask Spotify to “play […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fast-rising star. Chai Discovery has raised a $400m Series C that values the San Francisco startup at $3.8bn, the company said. That […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OnePlus, the Android brand that built a cult following with aggressively priced smartphones, will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week, Bloomberg reported. The shutdown is part of a broader restructuring at parent company Oppo. Realme, another Oppo mobile brand, will also exit the China market. While OnePlus […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service agent available to all 52 million residents. The programme, called “AI for Everyone,” would make South Korea the first G20 nation to offer AI to its entire population as a public service. Two or three […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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