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An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found behind a television in an executive conference room, and is charged with endeavouring to intercept oral communications. OpenAI says no model weights, source code or customer data were taken. An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found at the companys San [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amsterdam, early October. Customer Contact Week Europe 2026 brought together around 700 attendees and 50 exhibitors over three days to talk about the future of customer contact. As the industrys flagship event in Europe, it carried a certain energy that is hard to replicate, the kind that comes from having the right people in the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europe is falling behind the US on AI use at work, and the main reason is not technology, according to a new report.Thereport from Sifted, sponsored by London Business School, says Europe has an organisational gap rather than a tech gap. Firms struggle with skills, management, trust and the cost of fitting AI into how [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish privately listed Android apps built in its AI Studio, with no paid developer account. Apple spent this year tightening its own store against the same kind of software. Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish an Android app to the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, Frances interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin reported all five, he wrote in an update published this month. MCP is the standard [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sheriffs deputies have arrested a woman in Florida after Anthropic reported her Claude conversation to law enforcement. In the chat she allegedly said she would shoot up the Lee County Sheriffs Office. WINK News first reported the arrest on 30 September. According to the arrest report, she wrote the statement on 26 September. In a [] This story continues at The Next Web

San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children. The complaint was filed with San Diego Superior Court on Monday, Bloomberg reported. According to the complaint, AppLovin [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nokias chief executive Justin Hotard says the industry would build data centres twice as fast if memory and energy supply allowed, and that demand would hold even without a new frontier model for three years. Bain and a paper presented at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity both question whether the revenue exists to pay [] This story continues at The Next Web

Republican senator Bernie Moreno has accused Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei of taking an alarmist approach to AI. He did so in a letter sent on Monday, ahead of Anthropics expected stock market listing. Axios first reported the letter. I do not understand how you can ask them to invest their hard-earned savings in Anthropics [] This story continues at The Next Web

A Fort Worth suburb has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to release records on how its police use Flock number plate cameras, a figure reached by estimating 14 years of labour at $15 an hour. Under the EUs law enforcement directive the same information has to be logged as a matter of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UKs Online Safety Act, Reuters reported on Monday. The challenge is one of the first brought under the 2023 law. In February, Ofcom sent the companies information notices, according to Paul Sandles report for Reuters. The notices asked for detailed [] This story continues at The Next Web

TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app. The two features let users buy directly from brands without leaving TikTok, the company said in an announcement at Advertising Week New York on Monday. Buy Direct is an in-app checkout. Users can buy from a brand straight from the For You [] This story continues at The Next Web

Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%, with 16 models under EUR 25,000 due on sale by the end of the year. Transport and Environment says the version of the 2035 target proposed by Parliaments rapporteur would cut sales of those cheap models by nearly [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance chief for global entertainment, advertising and corporate development. He replaces Julia Brau Donnelly, who announced her departure in August, and he inherits a business whose European revenue grew 27% in the first quarter against 13% [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ask anyone who has worked in a security operations center what the job actually involves, and youll hear a lot about alerts. Thousands of them, most of which turn out to be nothing. For the past decade, AIs role has been to help with that pile: spot something odd, flag it, and leave the decision [] This story continues at The Next Web

Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy, with no price disclosed. The market exists because of the EU AI Act, whose enforcement powers arrived on 2 August and whose frontier model [] This story continues at The Next Web

Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Metas Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also paused sales, Business Insider reported. This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding [] This story continues at The Next Web

PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereign AI company while completing a merger with Germanys Aleph Alpha in which Cohere shareholders take roughly 90%, as Europe drafts rules defining the highest tier of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google has said a small number of complex Android apps and games need developer tuning to run properly on the Intel versions of its new Googlebook laptops, which reached Britain, Ireland, France and Germany today. Three of the five models use Intel chips and run Android through a translation layer, while the Dell and HP [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI is testing a visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT, placed by guardrails that assess whether a conversation is emotionally vulnerable or sensitive before an ad appears. Ads already run in 31 European countries, and ChatGPTs designation as a very large online search engine means it must publish a public ad repository by [] This story continues at The Next Web

SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musks SpaceX. It makes the Grok [] This story continues at The Next Web