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Mozilla has partnered with Mistral AI to bring the French companys models to Smart Window, the AI browsing assistant in beta in Firefox. The two companies announced the deal on Wednesday in ajoint post, alongside the features launch in France. Smart Window,introduced by Mozillain August, is a separate AI-assisted browsing mode. It summarises complex searches [] This story continues at The Next Web

We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer, OpenAI wrote on Wednesday. The line appears in a new OpenAI post. It sets out how the company will track, investigate and disclose model misalignment. OpenAI uses the [] This story continues at The Next Web

According to a report by Nikkei Asia on Thursday, Japan and the United States are negotiating to set up a semiconductor factory as part of their $550bn investment agreement. The project would be worth between 2trn and 3trn ($12.9bn and $19.3bn) and will be run by the US chipmaker GlobalFoundries, which makes logic chips. Nikkei [] This story continues at The Next Web

Security experts from the US and China have proposed a set of safeguards for military AI modelled on the rules that grew up around nuclear weapons, including a ban on letting AI decide whether to launch them, Reuters reported. The recommendations, published last week, come from the US-China AI and National Security Dialogue, a track [] This story continues at The Next Web

Developers can improve artificial intelligence systems in various ways. The most common practice is to retrain models on custom datasets to help them get better at performing specific tasks. But retraining and fine-tuning AI systems is notoriously expensive. That is why the AI startup Sentient Labs has been looking at ways to teach models to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Strasbourg The European Commission has proposed a draft of the EU KIDS Act to prevent children under 13 from using social media across the EU and to stop anyone under 15 from creating an account. The EU KIDS Act, adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday, also requires platforms to show that their services are safe [] This story continues at The Next Web

The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the countrys Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, said so on Tuesday at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Data centres have become critical infrastructure and a target, he told Salesforce chief [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the public is right to fear that a few AI companies could gain too much power. He spoke on Tuesday at Salesforces Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Salesforce has published the conversation, led by its chief executive Marc Benioff, on YouTube. Altman described a real fear that some AI [] This story continues at The Next Web

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has dismissed months of talk about a SaaSpocalypse. Weve been hearing all this kind of crazy nonsense about the SaaSpocalypse, especially over the last six months, he said on Tuesday, opening the Dreamforce 2026 keynote in San Francisco. Hasnt it been wild? he asked the audience. The SaaSpocalypse, he said, [] This story continues at The Next Web

We dont need any new laws. We dont need new regulations, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforces Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Earlier in the same keynote, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei made his case for the industry to slow down, which he set out in an [] This story continues at The Next Web

Revolut has received its licence to operate from Colombias financial regulator, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC). The company said the licence is the last regulatory step it needs before it launches in the country. Revolut announced the approval on 15 September. The licence allows it to operate as a regulated bank in Colombia. Around [] This story continues at The Next Web

There is a particular kind of question that families postpone for years. It is difficult not because the answer is secret, but because the question is too large: Tell me about your life. Faced with it, even a willing storyteller may retreat into generalities. A childhood becomes happy. A marriage was good. A migration, a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk again teased combining Tesla and SpaceX, telling the All-In Summit who could imagine what action one might take when theres so much close collaboration in so many areas. Any such deal would very likely cross the EU merger thresholds, which would stop it being implemented until the European Commission cleared it. Elon Musk [] This story continues at The Next Web

Donald Trump has called fears about AI a HOAX in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI down a negative force. Concerning AI, when, in [] This story continues at The Next Web

BMW will merge navigation and driver assistance into a single 3D view from October, on cars running its Operating System X, and says it will begin navigation-guided semi-automated urban driving in Germany in 2027. The UN regulation covering these systems only extends to system-initiated manoeuvres on urban roads from its 02 series, expected in force [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube have formed a new policy coalition to lobby Washington on behalf of streaming services, including on live sports. The Streaming Access and Choice Alliance (SACA) launched on 14 September, with the three companies as founding members. TechNet, a trade group that represents large technology companies, leads the coalition. Axios first reported [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europe must produce its own AI or risk being cut off from it, says Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. She warned that a trade partner could use Europes reliance on foreign AI as leverage in negotiations. She made the case in a speech in Vienna on 14 September. Its title was A [] This story continues at The Next Web

Lidl has put Einrides cab-less Level 4 electric truck into daily service between a logistics centre and a store in Germany, under a first-of-its-kind permit from the federal transport authority. The route appears to be less than a mile, and the permit is national, so it does not travel across European borders. Lidl has put [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI kill switches mandatory. Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and its head of policy. He told the BBC that outside parties should perhaps be able to check those switches too, in an interview published on 14 September. Economics editor Faisal Islam asked whether Anthropic could pull [] This story continues at The Next Web

Voicemod has launched Key Pocket, a MagSafe device that brings real-time voice changing and soundboards to phones, consoles and social apps without a PC, on sale in the United States with Europe to follow. Article 50 of the AI Act has required providers of systems generating synthetic audio to mark the output in a machine-readable [] This story continues at The Next Web

Temporal has raised $550m in a Series E round that values it at $12.55bn. That is more than double its valuation seven months ago. The company announced the round on 14 September. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round. Wellington Management, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Tiger Global were co-leads. T. Rowe Price and [] This story continues at The Next Web

The recording industrys global trade body has launched a new commitment asking music distributors to stop fraudulent tracks before they reach streaming services. IFPI announced the Streaming Integrity Initiative in London on 14 September. Twenty-seven companies and industry groups back it at launch. They include Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. [] This story continues at The Next Web

For years, some of cryptos most revealing onchain investigations have arrived after the damage was done. A token collapses, traders lose money. Analysts trace the wallets to uncover concentrated holdings, coordinated buyers or supply controlled by connected insiders. Bubblemaps is now trying to move that analysis earlier in the trading cycle. A redesigned token discovery [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has told shareholders it expects positive adjusted operating income for a second straight quarter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing several people with knowledge of the matter. CNBC reported the same on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The FT also reported that Anthropics gross margins are above 80%. That figure [] This story continues at The Next Web

More than 70 MPs and peers have asked Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back a ban on building artificial superintelligence in the UK. The Guardians Robert Booth first reported the letter on 11 September. The government has said it does not support the bill. The signatories include 15 former government ministers and Robin Butler, a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon Web Services has told customers it cannot restore access to its cloud facility in Bahrain or one of its three data hosting zones in the UAE, six months after drone strikes hit its sites in the Gulf. The explanation matters because it shows the limits of the resilience built into cloud infrastructure. The damage [] This story continues at The Next Web

A cross-party committee of MPs and peers wants a dedicated UK AI law and a single regulator with enforcement powers. On the same day, OpenAI said it would back binding UK rules for the few companies building the most powerful AI. That includes OpenAI itself. Tom Duff Gordon is OpenAIs head of policy for Europe, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The appeal of prop trading starts with a genuine problem around access to capital. 45% of people who dont invest said they simply did not have enough money to do so. Talented traders lack enough capital to turn skill into returns. Proprietary firms are an alternative. They give capable traders the opportunity to manage substantially [] This story continues at The Next Web

Choosing a crypto wallet used to come down to a few basic questions: Which networks does it support? Is it secure? And how easily can users send, receive and store assets? In 2026, the answer is becoming more complicated. Wallets are increasingly integrating swaps, perpetual futures, DeFi, yield products and cross-chain transactions directly into their [] This story continues at The Next Web

Kamala Harris posted a four-paragraph statement on X on Monday night setting out what she wants Washington to do about AI. She asked Congress to pass new laws and establish a new federal entity to provide oversight and independent testing for frontier models. She asked the president to pursue a treaty with countries including China [] This story continues at The Next Web

Three senators will put AI legislation in front of Congress this week, and none of them can say when it might be voted on. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, plans to introduce a measure on Wednesday requiring developers to build a shutdown mechanism into their systems. Bernie Sanders is hosting a briefing with AI [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reasons for leaving, writing on X: I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research. At Google, I witnessed AI development first hand. I too am extremely concerned by the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. I dont think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the president opened by noting that Huang can design the most complex computer chip in the world but cant figure out how to put [] This story continues at The Next Web

Grand View Research puts the enterprise agentic AI market at $24.5 billion by 2030. On the other hand, MarketsandMarkets estimates the AI agents market size at $52.62 billion over the same horizon. Both start from a mid-single-digit-billion base and both land on a compound growth rate near 46%. When two credible forecasters agree that closely [] This story continues at The Next Web

Grocery shopping has become a strange paradox of modern retail, where consumers can order dinner from their phones, receive groceries at their doors, and have previous baskets saved for instant repurchase. Yet the basic chore of deciding what to buy appears to remain stubbornly intact. The convenience revolution may have changed the logistics of grocery [] This story continues at The Next Web

Years before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal was already building mortgage software. Earlier in his career at Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. he developed ReverseSoft, a backend platform for reverse mortgage operations that, according to the company, was later adopted by lenders beyond Sun West. That work came after Agarwal had already spent time in several [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI is paying hundreds of contractors to read real ChatGPT conversations and rate the chatbots replies under the internal codename Project Lily, and did not answer when asked where it had told users. The Court of Justice held last September that a controllers duty to inform applies at collection and does not depend on whether [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has launched Claude for Financial Advisers, wiring the chatbot into portfolio and research tools from BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and iCapital, and says it will not give investment advice. Under MiFID II advice turns on a five-part test in which suitability can be implied rather than stated, and ESMA has told firms that using [] This story continues at The Next Web

xAI and X Corp asked a Texas judge to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple over the integration of ChatGPT into the iPhone, while keeping their monopolisation claims against OpenAI. The Digital Markets Act lists virtual assistants as a core platform service, no assistant has ever been designated, and the Commissions April review declined to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Volkswagens Mission Efficiency concept set three certified records, including a 0.158 drag coefficient and a 1,278 km run from Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charging stop. European rules count every battery car as zero at the tailpipe, and the proposed incentive for small electric cars excludes anything longer than 4.2 metres. Volkswagen says it has [] This story continues at The Next Web

Oracle began another fresh round of layoffs on Monday. Three affected employees and a copy of the notification email described the round to Business Insider, which reported that staff were told their role had been eliminated as part of a broader organizational change and that today is your last working day. Posts from people saying [] This story continues at The Next Web

Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours after Dario Amodei said Anthropic would let third-party evaluators inside. Alignment will not come from behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission will present the EU Kids Act on Thursday, its legislative response to more than a year of pressure from member states and parents over the impact of social media on children. Ursula von der Leyen and Henna Virkkunen, the EUs technology chief, will introduce the proposal in Brussels. The central idea is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Phasecraft has produced what it says is the largest known database of variational quantum eigensolver results, more than 3,000 emulations across 13 molecular systems. The work ran on Nvidia Hopper processors hosted at the University of Nottingham, using Nvidias cuQuantum toolkit, and the company reports a 15-fold speedup over earlier results for modelling many-body systems. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seconds of speech on screen as text. Lawyers in four US states now say the features may test state eavesdropping law. Those laws require [] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft has published a code of conduct for the models it builds itself, and the commitment at the centre of it is blunt. MAI models will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown. The document went up on Monday alongside a six-week public consultation. Three further behavioural commitments sit beside it. The models will not [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI has confirmed that its agents were involved in an incident at RubyGems in May. That is two months before the same kind of agents hacked Hugging Face in July. RubyGems is the package service for the Ruby programming language. The confirmation followed a report by three AI researchers, published on Friday. It sets out [] This story continues at The Next Web

Salesforce is taking the word Agentforce out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The reversal undoes a rebrand that is less than a year old. [] This story continues at The Next Web

BRKZ is a technology-enabled building materials procurement platform in Saudi Arabia. It has announced $31 million in new capital to fuel its next phase of growth. That includes advancing its AI-powered pricing and fulfillment engine. It also includes rolling out embedded financing solutions for its network of contractors and suppliers. The funding includes $13 million [] This story continues at The Next Web