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Microsoft will make its own Maia chips the primary system for running AI in its products starting in 2027. The company set out the plan on Monday as it unveiled the Maia 300, the third generation of its custom AI chip. Microsoft plans deployments measured in gigawatts starting next year, which could mean more than [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google has taken a stake in Flo Health, the period-tracking app, the companiessaidon Monday. The multi-year deal will bring womens health data into Googles wearables and coaching. They did not disclose the size of the investment. From early 2027, users will be able to sync Flo with the Google Health app,Engadgetreported. Fitbit readings such as [] This story continues at The Next Web

Hackers broke into the refrigeration systems of hundreds of French supermarkets on Sunday night. Stores had to throw out meat, frozen goods and vegetables. About 150 Intermarch stores were hit, a spokesman for owner Groupement Mousquetaires toldBloomberg. The attackers set the cooling systems to defrost. Fridges and freezers heated to 50C for around six hours, [] This story continues at The Next Web

DeepSeek has agreed to lead the first funding round for Winverse AI, a start-up building AI for robots, Bloombergreported, citing people familiar with the matter. The seed round is worth tens of millions of dollars and would value Winverse at about $400mn after the investment. Meituans investment arm, Long-Z, has also committed, the people said. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pay, a Nigerian payments and lending app, has filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange, Yinka Adegoke reported forSemafor. Earlier reports put its likely valuation at about $4bn. The company filed on 9 October,bne IntelliNewsreported. It will trade under the ticker OPAY, and investors expect it to price in mid-November, Semafor said. OPay [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27 satellites in six months to 27 a week, while the number in orbit is still 396. That shortfall cost it spectrum priority in July, and the FCC will hand it back early if Amazon proves it has [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple is moving its mergers and acquisitions team back under chief financial officer Kevan Parekh, who ended the companys net cash neutral policy in May in a move analysts read as room to buy things. It also promoted Carson Oliver to run the App Store, a job that is now mostly about European regulation. Apple [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europes venture-backed companies could be worth more than its industrial base within five years, Dealroom founder and chief executive Yoram Wijngaarde said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. I think that the VC-backed ecosystem is going to overtake our industrial base in terms of total value created within the next five [] This story continues at The Next Web

Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency programme hours earlier, and Britains regulator named three of the five donors that morning. Five [] This story continues at The Next Web

Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to AI data centres that cannot yet connect to a pipeline, at roughly four times the price of gas at a hub. Europe has the same grid bottleneck and is answering it the other way, with Spain proposing to refuse connections to any data centre not on 80% renewables [] This story continues at The Next Web

Legora co-founder and chief executive Max Junestrand says calls for European sovereignty in software are an excuse for companies that are not bold enough to go global. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. I think sovereignty in enterprise applications, or sovereignty in consumer apps, or sovereignty at the software layer is [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI makes it possible to build a company from anywhere, but founders are still choosing to sit together, Station F director Roxanne Varza and Anthropics Aiden Blake said. They spoke on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. Whats really interesting is were seeing more and more people coming since the AI [] This story continues at The Next Web

Greg Joswiak, Apples senior vice president of worldwide marketing, posted a teaser video on X on Thursday. It shows the old rainbow Apple logo, embroidered, and sets a launch for Tuesday 13 October. Welcome home. October 13, Joswiak wrote. Apple invited the press to an Apple Experience in Tribeca, New York, at 9am Eastern time, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Building a company like this requires relentlessness, belief and dedication. Every start-up will have low points, but weve always as founders had this die hard conviction that we could build a better and new way to do legal research, said Casper Laursen, CEO and co-founder of Pandektes. The law is spread across millions of documents [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk said Teslas robotaxis are still working on spotting animals that blend into the road at night, describing the problem as grey kittens on grey tarmac, as Austins hours moved to 11pm from 10pm. The EUs Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles votes on bloc-wide approval of the same camera-only sensor suite on 6 October. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Chinas industry ministry and six other agencies set 2030 as the date for the first large-scale use of all-solid-state batteries, though CATLs chairman rates the technology four out of nine and calls million-vehicle use before 2030 very unlikely. ProLogiums Dunkirk plant, the largest new European cell project since Northvolt went bankrupt, is staged at 0.8 [] This story continues at The Next Web

Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took the opposite route in May, when the EU ratified the Council of Europe treaty whose title uses [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russias answer to Starlink, the Financial Timesreported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New York. Ukrainian news agencyUNNcited those details from the FT report. A network for the front line The [] This story continues at The Next Web

Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks the bigger loss may be our ability to listen. She made the case in an opinion column forThe Guardian. Listening to different views and entering into different worlds is integral to our humanity, she [] This story continues at The Next Web

US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Departmentsaid on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Reuters also reported the case, in a story carried byThe [] This story continues at The Next Web

The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, Indias central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, asBloombergreported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday. It may begin with a geopolitical event, or cyber [] This story continues at The Next Web

A member of OpenAIs safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AIs risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAIs safety team,Bloombergreported. He wrote that the ChatGPT maker has thrived by trial and error. That approach no [] This story continues at The Next Web

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview withAxiospublished on Saturday. This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, thats not leadership, Bessent said, asBloombergreported. In September, Anthropics Dario Amodei, OpenAIs Sam Altman and xAIs Elon Musk [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, on a rally driven by AI agent demand and a record $150B buyback increase. ASML, Europes most valuable listed company, needs the same $300B to reach its first trillion. Nvidia hit a record [] This story continues at The Next Web

GPS has become so embedded in modern life that its infrastructure is almost invisible. A driver opens a map, an aircraft follows its navigation system, or an autonomous machine calculates its position, and the underlying infrastructure disappears from view. Nir Sharon, Chief Quantum Technology Scientist at Quantum X Labs and an associate professor of applied [] This story continues at The Next Web

FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europes biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its valuation. FieldAI is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks since 2 August, but artistic and satirical work gets the lightest disclosure obligations of all. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with a Spanish solar producer that [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has warned that the US governments view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firms IPO prospectus, which Reuters reportedon Friday after seeing the document. The prospectus has not been made public, and TNW has not seen [] This story continues at The Next Web

Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-East Asia. The deal, signed this year, is worth about $7bn, and Tencent [] This story continues at The Next Web

Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net income reached $37.7bn, up from $3.2bn a year earlier. Gross margin hit 86.8%, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Googles Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAIs GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropics Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index, with 58. The score is 23 points above Gemini [] This story continues at The Next Web

The AI industrys new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how theyre going to operationalize it, said Chris Lehane, OpenAIs chief global affairs officer. TNW is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programme, called Built Together, in a post on Friday, along with new commitments on power, water and transparency. The money will go to three areas: education [] This story continues at The Next Web

On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening andthe system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a third from solar. Nothing broke. Yet much of the discussion around artificial intelligence and electricity suggests a looming shortage.American data centersusedabout 176 terawatt-hours [] This story continues at The Next Web

Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, itsaidon Tuesday. Select advertisers can use it now. Full self-serve access is due in early 2027. Until [] This story continues at The Next Web

Caverion Finland has agreed to design and build a substation for Nebiuss new data centre in Mntsl, southern Finland, in a deal valued at about 15 million. The company announced the contract on Friday and expects to finish the work by autumn 2027. The substation will link the data centre to the high-voltage grid and [] This story continues at The Next Web

Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you dont expect to see in an academic journal, On Bullshit. It stayed largely inside academic circles for the better part of twenty years. Then in 2005 Princeton University Press decided to reprint it as a tiny hardcover, 67 [] This story continues at The Next Web

Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract for an AI product. They use it heavily, which is what every vendor wants. Every one of those uses costs the vendor money: tokens, compute, third-party model calls. The invoice goes out at the agreed price. The [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bull, the French state-owned supercomputer maker, has doubled production at its factory in Angers, western France, after an 80 million rebuild. The plant now assembles 12 racks a month, up from six, executives toldReuters, which first reported the expansion on Thursday. Output could rise to 24 racks next year if demand continues to grow. Bull [] This story continues at The Next Web

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropics IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of tensor processing units (TPUs), the AI chips Google designs with Broadcom. Echo Wang, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Kanu AI has come out of stealth with $11.7m in funding. The Seattle startup builds software that runs inside a customers own cloud. Accel, BMW i Ventures and a16z speedrun joined a round led by Trilogy Equity Partners, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Companies have spent decades buying software built around someone [] This story continues at The Next Web

Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It builds infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend software running through failures. Singular led the round, with Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Its total funding is now $27m. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures also took part, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The round comes a year after its previous one [] This story continues at The Next Web

Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champions time. A month later, the manager had taken it back. There [] This story continues at The Next Web

Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsofts gaming chief published on Wednesday. Xbox is not for sale, Sharma said. We will do whatever it takes to set the company up for success, and we will [] This story continues at The Next Web

MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for Chinas Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday as an Espionage Alert. It is [] This story continues at The Next Web

GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that invests in AI and robotics, [] This story continues at The Next Web

GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. Anthropics Frontier Red Team published the findings in a research post. Zhipu [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every new AI model creates another reason to switch. For users who have already built up months or years of conversations, preferences, files and personal context inside one platform, moving to a better model can also mean starting again. Use.ai was built around the idea that people should be able to switch between the intelligence [] This story continues at The Next Web