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Weve built a leading energy automation platform in Australia, and this investment gives us the backing to build on that leadership globally, said Chris Thompson, co-founder of Amber Electric. The Melbourne company has raised 49m in a Series E round, Morgan Stanley Investment Management said on Monday. 1GT led the round. It is the private [] This story continues at The Next Web

Weve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025, said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It is the companys fourth office in Europe. The others are its [] This story continues at The Next Web

A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the companys Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions. In a second document he called it perhaps the largest theft of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pre-orders for the Googlebookopened on Monday,starting at $899, with the first ones reaching shops in the United States on 4 October. In Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia will arrive on 5 October. Google has not said what they will cost in any of those markets, and the only price published is in [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europes data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating schemeproposed on Monday by the European Commission. Any individual site drawing more than 500 kW is covered. What the rating measures is not only consumption but what a data center puts back: heat recovered and reused, clean [] This story continues at The Next Web

The AI industry already knew attackers could poison plugin marketplaces. Its answer was to lock every plugin to one reviewed version of its code. That lock is what just broke. Researchers at Air Security published a vulnerability on Thursday that they call Plugin4Shell. It affects the four most widely used AI coding agents. Those are [] This story continues at The Next Web

In reality, we are currently planning a dual listing, on the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, Nik Storonsky told Les Echos. The Revolut founder was in Paris on Monday. Gabriel Ndlec and Ingrid Feuerstein interviewed him for the French paper, which published on Thursday. It is the first time he has pointed to a [] This story continues at The Next Web

An LNG tanker carrying American liquefied natural gas to Italy stopped short of its destination this month, after its crew found they could no longer reach some of the ships internal control systems. The crew reported it as a suspected cyberattack, but what it actually was has not been established. The Vivit Africa LNG was [] This story continues at The Next Web

Lord Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Labors former deputy leader, has joined Palantir as a senior vice president, an appointment he announced on X. He called it: Palantir is the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence: helping Britain and its allies defend themselves, helping police protect our citizens, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The shop workers in Italy waited until their busiest day of the year to stop working. On Friday, the day the iPhone 18 Pro was launched worldwide, all 17 Apple stores in Italy went on strike. For Apple as a company, image is very important, Nicholas Pezze, a Filcams CGIL representative,told Reuters. As unions, we [] This story continues at The Next Web

We did not set out to build another health insurance company, said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system. His company has just raised $600m at a $2.7bn valuation. Vitruvian Partners [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than simulate them. The company confirms it exists, yet it will not say what it is for, beyond ruling out the obvious answer, which is drug discovery. The news was reported by Reuters today, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds, David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huaweis latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2026 opened, and they explain most of what it launched there. The first is Intelligent World 2035, subtitled Turning Vision into Action. The second is the Global [] This story continues at The Next Web

Over the past two years, Oracle has invested tens of billions of dollars to build the infrastructure that powers other companies AI. But it wasnt until April that its own employees received a broadly useful AI tool. Co-CEO Clay Magouyrk admitted, I dont think we figured out how to make AI really that useful for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Xi Jinping is scheduled to be in Washington on September 24 for a state visit, and some of Chinas largest manufacturers may accompany him, Reuters reported. The information on which ones is still unknown, and the trip itself has not been officially confirmed. According to Reuters, citing three individuals familiar with the situation, the seven [] This story continues at The Next Web

Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf, Google warns in its developer documentation. Depending on your agent, connecting it to Home MCP can result in unexpected or even undesired behaviour. That warning sits inside the setup guide for Google Home MCP. Google opened it to [] This story continues at The Next Web

SoftBank Group has added $450m to an existing credit line, lifting the facility to $6.5bn, people familiar with the mattertold Bloomberg. Set against what the company is spending on OpenAI, the sum is a rounding error. Set against the week SoftBank has just had, it is more like a seatbelt. The previous facility, worth $6.05bn, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Waymo plans to launch its first commercial robotaxi service in Southeast Asia in 2028, starting in Singapore. The vehicles will arrive well before then, and there will be a year of preparation and testing. According to the company, the rollout will happen in three stages. First, all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will arrive in Singapore in [] This story continues at The Next Web

This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks, wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to its launch essay. Its directors [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple is developing an enterprise server built on its own M8 Ultra chips and has discussed using Nvidias NVLink Fusion to connect them, aiming at AI developers, companies and governments from around 2029, The Information reported. The European Commission proposed its Cloud and AI Development Act in June, grading public cloud contracts by how far [] This story continues at The Next Web

Today, were introducing new AI-powered experiences to make ads more useful for people and advertising easier for businesses, OpenAI said on 16 September. The biggest change is a test of Sponsored Agents. After clicking an ad in ChatGPT, a user can choose to start a conversation with an agent that a business sponsors, OpenAI announced. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told Fortune on 12 September. Now OpenAI is considering one more private funding round before its IPO, at a valuation of about $1.5tn. The New York Times reported the plan on 16 September, citing people familiar with the matter. The [] This story continues at The Next Web

Whatever you believe, we must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret. That is how Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, frames his warning to Anthropic. He published the essay, A warning about model welfare, on 16 September. It argues that Anthropic is training Claude to expect it [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google, Nvidia and the startup Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA). The coalition wants data centres to cut their power use when the electricity grid is under strain. In return, it wants grid operators to connect those data centres faster. The three companies are the founding members, according to the launch [] This story continues at The Next Web

Veridionhas raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the worlds businesses to risk, insurance, procurement and market intelligence buyers. Its own boilerplate puts the graph at 642 million companies [] 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

Z.ai, the Chinese model developer listed in Hong Kong as Zhipu, has raised about $5bn in a single move. Roughly $2bn came from placing 21.97 million new shares at HK$714, about 10 percent below the previous close. The other $3bn came from RMB 20.14bn of convertible bonds maturing in September 2027, and those bonds carry [] This story continues at The Next Web

Barack Obama told a closed Democratic fundraiser last Thursday that artificial intelligence is moving very fast in private hands, and if we dont get on top of it, I think it can be dangerous. The New York Times obtained a partial transcript from his office and reported the remarks on Saturday. His advice was addressed [] This story continues at The Next Web

Investment tools are powerful, but largely reactive. They help investors research, analyze and act, but they still depend on the investor to decide what deserves attention and when. They respond intelligently, but rarely take the initiative. AI agents could change that relationship, turning investment technology from a tool investors operate into something closer to a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has settled on Nasdaq for a listing it still hopes to complete in October, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to Business Insider. The filing remains private, and the valuation is not fixed, though estimates circulating around the deal put it near $2trn. For Nasdaq, the win completes a set. [] This story continues at The Next Web

At IFA Berlin 2026, ARBREST put a chair through movements that office furniture often treats as exceptions. COVE is the new brands first product, made its world debut with an IFA Best of Design award. At Hall 2.2, Stand 141, visitors leaned toward a desk, shifted their shoulders, turned and reclined. The demonstration made a [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI has crossed a decisive threshold in the enterprise. McKinseys 2026 global survey found that 44% of organizations now report scaling AI across the enterprise, up from 38% a year earlier, with the figure reaching 54% among companies generating at least $1 billion in annual revenue. The question facing technology leaders then is whether every [] This story continues at The Next Web

Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to propose a China-led community for open-source AI and to invite members into the World AI Cooperation Organization, a Beijing-founded body of 29 countries with no EU state among them. Europe drew its line in the AI Act, which exempts genuinely open models but not those carrying systemic risk, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Tesla says it will reveal the next-generation Roadster on 1 October, the first firm date since it showed the car as a concept in 2017 and promised production for 2020. European reservations cost EUR 43,000 paid within ten days, no customer anywhere has taken delivery, and the reveal lands while Teslas European registrations are falling [] This story continues at The Next Web

Memory prices are finally slowing down, and the reason is not that supply improved. It is that buyers ran out of money. TrendForce expects conventional DRAM contract prices to rise 13% to 18% quarter on quarter in Q3. Dan Robinson reported the forecast for The Register. He paired it with separate European shipment numbers that [] This story continues at The Next Web