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A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxons resignation from Anthropic. In a post on X, he said AI firms were racing straight [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has published its most detailed account of Claude misuse, laying out how people tried to use its models for harm. The company said it detected and shut down these operations. They ran across cyberattacks, state surveillance, influence campaigns, conventional weapons work and biological research. It set out the cases in a threat intelligence report [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI inference company Baseten has acquired Blaxel, a startup that builds secure execution environments, or sandboxes, for AI agents. Baseten co-founder and chief technology officer Amir Haghighat told Axios Pro about the deal, which the outlet reported first on Thursday. Baseten later announced the acquisition. Axios describes Blaxel as a San Francisco startup. The announcement [] This story continues at The Next Web

TAR has raised a $120m Series A led by Spark Capital at a $1bn post-money valuation. The Austin company builds off-grid power systems for AI data centres. The company announced the round on Thursday. Prior investors Buckley Ventures and Align Fund also took part, Bloomberg reported. Spark Capital is an investor in Anthropic, Bloomberg noted. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Motive has secured more than $1.3bn in growth financing from General Catalysts Customer Value Fund, the company announced on Thursday. Because of the financing, Motive has withdrawn its previously filed S-1 registration statement for an initial public offering. The San Francisco company describes itself as the AI platform for physical operations. Its software helps companies [] This story continues at The Next Web

WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spains first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public roads, the three companies announced on Thursday. Spains Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) issued it under its ES-AV framework for autonomous vehicles. Reuters also reported the permit. AVOMO is the autonomous vehicle division of the Moove Cars [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters and CNBC also reported it. According to the announcement, the framework is meant to help card networks, digital wallets, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Adrianos Golemis is set to become Greeces first astronaut, subject to approval by the space station partners. The European Space Agency has signed an agreement on behalf of Greece with the US company Vast. Vast plans the mission to the International Space Station for 2027, the company announced on Wednesday. Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis [] This story continues at The Next Web

BNP Paribas expects the years-long rally in corporate bonds to break as hyperscalers flood the market, forecasting some $400B of their bond sales next year and a record $3.7T of net fixed income supply. The ECB reached a similar conclusion in August, finding US tech now accounts for close to a tenth of new euro [] This story continues at The Next Web

Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a symbol of the AI talent war. Reed Albergotti first reported the departure for Semafor on Wednesday, citing a person briefed on the matter. The Wall Street Journal followed on Thursday and reported [] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsofts September Patch Tuesday fixes 974 security flaws across its products, according to the companys release notes. Attackers were already exploiting two of them before the patches landed on Tuesday. Both zero-days let an attacker who already has a foothold on a Windows machine gain higher privileges. One sits in the Windows Update Stack (CVE-2026-81963), [] This story continues at The Next Web

Euno has raised a $23m Series A led by N47. The startup builds what it calls a context platform for enterprise AI agents. Chief executive Sarah Levy first disclosed the round to Axios Pro, before the company published its announcement on Wednesday. Existing investor 10D also took part, alongside a group of founders from the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Celero Communications, a two-year-old chip startup, has raised $275m in a Series C round that values it at more than $3bn. It makes the processors that push data down fibre optic cables between AI chips, racks and whole data centres. Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and CapitalG, Alphabets growth fund, co-led the round. Dina Bass [] This story continues at The Next Web

The UK government has published a new space strategy, backed by 7.8bn to 2030. It brings the governments civil and military space spending under one plan. The governments announcement on 8 September named national security and defence as its key pillars, alongside growth. The UK Space Strategy formally replaces the National Space Strategy of 2021. [] This story continues at The Next Web

The math behind thedata storageproblem is brutal. The world creates more information every year than it can afford to keep. Most of it is cold. It is almost never read, yet it cannot be deleted, so it accumulates on tape and disk that degrade,draw power, and demand replacement every few years. The cost compounds. It [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia and Palantir have announced today a joint product for running AI over corporate supply chains without handing the underlying data to anyone else, and the first customer is Nvidia, which is using it on its own. It pairs Palantirs Foundry, its Artificial Intelligence Platform and its Ontology with Nvidias open Nemotron models and cuOpt [] This story continues at The Next Web

A 30-year-old Polish software developer has built an iPhone app that detects Meta smart glasses in the vicinity and estimates how far away they are by reading the Bluetooth signals the glasses broadcast. It has around 5,000 users a month after launch. Pawel Szydlowski bought several models of smart glasses and catalogued their Bluetooth fingerprints, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAIs models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies and its handling of rogue AI activity, Reuters reports. Josh Hawley, who leads a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musks tunnelling company has raised $3bn at a valuation of $23bn, led by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated investment entities, four times what it was worth in 2022, and a long way from the Washington to New Yorkhyperloop announced in 2017. The money is earmarked for more than 150km of tunnel across the [] This story continues at The Next Web

ENISA, the European Unions cybersecurity agency, has been given access to Anthropics Mythos 5 and is now testing it alongside OpenAIs GPT-6 Astra, a European Commission spokesperson said on Thursday. Reuters reported the confirmation, bringing an end to a process that has been unfolding since spring. Anthropic announced in April that Mythos could outperform humans [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Points AI Network Firewall, launched this summer, is one recent attempt to close that gap from inside the infrastructure enterprises already run. According [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the open internet, and disclosed that finding them required scanning roughly 481 million transcripts. Theassessment was published on Wednesday, and three of the incidents were disclosed on 30 July. The fourth, involving an early Claude Opus 4.6 checkpoint [] This story continues at The Next Web

Christy Chen, founder of Cit Labs, argues that AI chatbots fail at emotional support not because the technology is incapable but because the models were optimized for engagement, trained on text that performs support rather than delivers it, and lack physiological signal. Her startup combines EEG data with clinician-defined guardrails to build something purpose-built for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europes Methane Regulation ordered a satellite monitoring tool and a super-emitter alert system, but it covers only [] This story continues at The Next Web

Googles autumn roundup of its AI subscriptions leads on Gemini Spark handling web errands through Chrome for US subscribers, alongside voice tools, an image editor and a spreadsheet app builder that do reach Europe. Spark itself is unavailable across the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK, and Google has given no reason. Google has [] This story continues at The Next Web

Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in another, which are not equivalent claims. Roughly half the total is MGX, the state-backed [] This story continues at The Next Web

Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europes Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January 2027, and the French company that created this category was sold to a Shenzhen buyer last year. Dynamic Creatures, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Shipt and Instacart both launched AI assistants that build a grocery cart from a prompt or a photo on 9 September. Instacart said orders placed through its assistant contain more items than a typical order and exceed its $115 average basket, while Shipts announcement gives no equivalent figure and frames the product as relief from [] This story continues at The Next Web

Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. Chinas smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacturers for clear indicators when a camera or microphone is recording. Those rules regulate an act [] This story continues at The Next Web

Gamification has a bad name in finance, and rightfully so. Trading apps fired confetti when you bought options. Meme stocks turned rent money into casino chips. Say gamified finance today and people picture slot machines packaged as financial products. The gamification itself was not the problem. The problem was the mechanisms powering these experiences: leveraged [] This story continues at The Next Web

Waymos driverless cars can now be booked through the Lyft app in Nashville, making it the first market where the same autonomous fleet is available through two competing rideshare platforms. The service covers central Nashville, including Downtown and Broadway, North Nashville and Germantown, East Nashville, Midtown and South Nashville. Riders can choose Standard, Priority Pickup, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Pentagons most senior artificial intelligence official has said publicly what allied defence ministries have been hearing privately for the past two years: they do not have the same resources as the US, and they are unlikely to catch up anytime soon. Cameron Stanley, the Department of Wars chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, made [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon has opened books on its first sterling bonds, a four-part deal running from three to 19 years, adding another currency to a borrowing programme that has already raised the equivalent of more than $92bn this year. The sale wasreported by Reuterson Wednesday, with pricing expected the same day. Initial guidance put the three-year tranche [] This story continues at The Next Web

Analog Devices has agreed to buy Alif Semiconductor for $1.35bn in cash, with up to $200m more contingent on performance, adding a line of microcontrollers built to run neural networks inside devices rather than send data to a data centre. The deal wasannounced today, and it is expected to close before the end of this [] This story continues at The Next Web

The last two years rewired how software gets made. AI went from autocomplete to writing entire features, and autonomous agents now build and ship software with barely a human in the loop. Every engineering organization on the planet is asking the same question: what does this mean for how we build? Yet most of that [] This story continues at The Next Web

For decades, enterprise software has been designed primarily to record what businesses already know: customer information, financial transactions, employee activity, inventory, sales pipelines, and operational decisions. These platforms became the systems of record that organizations relied on to maintain a consistent version of the truth. Artificial intelligence is beginning to challenge that model. The emergence [] This story continues at The Next Web

SumUp will appear on Manchester United shirt sleeves from Thursday under a multi-year deal that makes the London-based payments company the clubs official sleeve partner, replacing DXC Technology. The logo goes on the mens, womens and academy shirts across all competitions, with matchday presence at Old Trafford and at the Progress with Unity Stadium. Neither [] This story continues at The Next Web

Per Ansgar, CEO of Geely Sweden Holdings, joins the Concordium Foundation Board, deepening a five-year Geely-Concordium partnership focused on verified identity infrastructure for AI agents and machine-initiated payments in connected vehicles. The Concordium Foundation today announced the appointment of Per Ansgar, Chief Executive Officer of Geely Sweden Holdings AB, to its Board, adding an executive [] This story continues at The Next Web

More than 25 organisations from left and right have written to the White House asking it to publish the voluntary framework governing pre-deployment review of frontier AI models. The framework was completed on 1 August and previewed only with a selected group of companies, with smaller and open-source developers largely excluded. The coalition argues secrecy [] This story continues at The Next Web

Suno has launched a new generation of AI music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, and will switch off everything that came before them. As v6 rolls out, we will retire our previous models and move Suno entirely onto the v6 generation, the company said. The announcement, published on Wednesday, introduces three [] This story continues at The Next Web

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong will buy just over 7.1 million shares from his mother, Hong Ra-hee, in an off-market transaction worth 1.94tn won, or about $1.4bn. The deal is scheduled for 12 October and wasreported by Reutersafter a filing with South Koreas Financial Supervisory Service on Wednesday. The mechanics are small, and the meaning [] This story continues at The Next Web

Three US agencies have jointly named six Chinese AI companies as having systematically extracted capabilities from American frontier models since late 2024, in an advisory detailed enough to list which model each firm went after and how the requests were disguised. The National Security Agency, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published [] This story continues at The Next Web

CloudNC has raised $20mn to push its AI machining software into more workshops and launch a second product aimed at quoting, the commercial bottleneck that sits in front of every job a precision manufacturer takes on. The round is led by Nimble Ventures, a US venture investor, with Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First and LM [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features rather than model research, including the ability to share the prompt alongside [] This story continues at The Next Web

Growth hacking was supposed to be dead. The term had a good run. Sean Ellis coined it in 2010, and for a decade it described the scrappy, slightly unholy tricks that built the consumer internet: Airbnb piggybacking on Craigslist, Dropbox handing out free storage for referrals, Hotmail signing every outgoing email with an ad for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures, a London seed and Series A firm that now describes AI in Europe as its sole focus, as an advisory partner. His stated contribution is US connectivity from Silicon Valley, meaning talent, company connections and capital. Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures as an advisory [] This story continues at The Next Web

Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares worth about $4B, vesting against commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases, alongside a multi-generation custom silicon deal for AWS. Qualcomm is also one of three chipmakers that signed memoranda to supply the EUs AI gigafactories, a programme with roughly EUR 1B actually [] This story continues at The Next Web

Summary Context management for AI-assisted coding has matured into a rich ecosystem: convention files, repository maps, memory banks, and full-blown memory frameworks all compete to keep a coding agent grounded in your codebase. But step outside the terminal and ask an assistant about your health or your finances, and the tooling nearly vanishes. Your personal [] This story continues at The Next Web

Irelands media regulator has opened an investigation into whether Xs age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July and was allowed to appeal it in January, so it is being [] This story continues at The Next Web

An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it. Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus [] This story continues at The Next Web