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Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce, Benioffwrote on X. The change covers the agent platform only, not the companys name. Following the presidents lead Benioff is the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fintech start-up Ramp has raised about $1.85bn at a valuation of roughly $60bn, Rebecca Torrence reported for Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital led the round, and Founders Fund also wrote a large cheque, the people said. The $60bn figure is before the new money is counted. $16bn [] This story continues at The Next Web

A memo from US law firm Quinn Emanuel sets out how the debt behind the AI data centre boom could turn into a wave of lawsuits. Liz Hoffman reported that it was doing the rounds again this week for Semafor. The 20-page client alert was first published inMarch. It is unusual because it names specific [] This story continues at The Next Web

Chipmaker Cirrus Logic made a surprise offer for Synaptics last month, trying to break up its agreed sale to Onsemi, Liana Baker and Yiqin Shen reported forBloomberg. Cirrus Logic is the Party A named in an updated Synaptics filing on Thursday, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. It is unclear whether Cirrus is still [] This story continues at The Next Web

A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computers co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei Willy Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as part of a deal with prosecutors. US authorities have described him as a fixer. A $2.5bn [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sam Altman said the superintelligence accord that President Donald Trump signed with AI executives is a good start, but that the industry will need more. He said it in the second of two interviews with Vanity Fair, recorded in San Francisco on 2 October. The magazine published both interviews on 5 October. Guiducci recorded the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Netflix is preparing to cut about 5% of its workforce, with an announcement possible as early as next week, Puckreported on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. Netflix had about 16,000 full-time employees at the end of last year, so a cut of that size would affect roughly 800 people. The report comes three [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple is asking some suppliers to make fewer parts for its two newest Pro phones, the iPhone 18 Pro and the Pro Max, Nikkei Asiareportedon Friday. The two models were the first flagship launch underchief executive John Ternus. Citing several people familiar with the matter,Nikkei Asiasaid Apples October component orders are at least 15% below [] This story continues at The Next Web

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The EUIPO record lists a sound mark filed on 5 October in her own name, as an individual, through the Italian firm Praxi Intellectual Property. As of 9 October, the application was still under examination. The [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI expects its annualised revenue to reach or exceed $70bn by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company shared the forecast with investors in talks over its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter. They said growth in its enterprise business is driving most of it. A day [] This story continues at The Next Web

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping healthcare, but many of the industrys biggest operational problems remain unresolved. Hospitals continue facing administrative bottlenecks. Providers still struggle withdocumentation burdens. Insurers continue navigating authorization complexity. Patients are still waiting weeks or months for treatment approvals that directly affect their recovery and quality of life. The scale of the challenge [] This story continues at The Next Web

Which AI app generator turns a prompt into a working business app on your own data, with logins and roles from day one A year ago, AI app builder meant a tool that produced a convincing mockup. In 2026 the best AI app builders return something a team can log into: a database with the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sam Altman called Elon Musk a bully and said he would still work with him, in an interview with Vanity Fair. The magazine published it on 5 October with its revived New Establishment list. The OpenAI chief executive tops that list. Vanity Fair global editorial director Mark Guiducci recorded the conversation in San Francisco on [] This story continues at The Next Web

The US government has suspended Microsoft and seven other technology companies from a federal programme that lets employers sponsor foreign workers for green cards. The other firms that are affected are Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro, Reuters reported. Vice President JD Vance announced the decision at the White House on Thursday and [] 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

Heathrow Airport has extended its partnership with Adobe and will rebuild its main website on Adobes AI customer experience software, the two companies announced on 8 October. The new site will run onAdobe CX Enterprise. The system uses AI agents, software that can carry out tasks on its own, to manage how a business attracts [] This story continues at The Next Web

HubSpot is eliminating about 660 roles, 7% of its workforce, in a restructuring its chief executive calls an AI strategy shift while insisting it is not driven by AI efficiencies. Its SEC filing concedes the timetable depends on local consultation law, which in Ireland means a statutory 30-day minimum and criminal penalties for ignoring it. [] This story continues at The Next Web

San Franciscos board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now finds it cannot build the capacity the Commission wants. San Francisco has paused new data [] This story continues at The Next Web

Miro co-founder and chief executive Andrey Khusid says adding AI to existing teams and processes will not deliver its full productivity gains. Companies need to redesign how work happens from the ground up, he said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Wednesday. One of the big challenges is how not to put [] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle to Outlooks blocked attachment list in early November, closing an email route for a packaging format its own threat researchers watched four criminal groups abuse in 2023. Renaming the extension still gets a package through, and the change lands as a default policy edit in every Exchange Online tenant, [] This story continues at The Next Web

How nine AR automation platforms compare on collections automation and cash application, and which one keeps its AI inside auditable controls Allianz Research puts average global DSO at around 59 days, while roughly $10 trillion sits in unpaid invoices globally. Cash that sits in receivables is cash a company cant deploy, which is why late [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bending Spoons co-founder and chief executive Luca Ferrari says access to capital is no longer the main obstacle for European founders. Strong companies can now raise at scale in Europe, he said on Wednesday. He was speaking on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin. I think if you have a great project and [] This story continues at The Next Web

Businesses worldwide have $16 trillion locked up in unpaid receivables. Stuut, the AI platform that runs order-to-cash for the worlds enterprises, is going after it. In a world where all finance software looks and behaves the same, Stuut offers customers the ability to automate 100% of their work. It runs the entire order-to-cash process. It [] This story continues at The Next Web

Germany will push for fast EU-wide approval of Teslas advanced driver-assistance system, transport minister Steffen Bilger said on Tuesday. Elon Musk thanked him in German on X a day later, as Tesla tries to win over a bloc where it is so far cleared only country by country. Speaking at a Tagesspiegel Background conference in [] This story continues at The Next Web

Spotify will offer audiobooks in more than 180 markets by the end of 2026, up from 22 today, the company said at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday. The global rolloutwill reach more than 750 million people, who will find books next to their music and podcasts. Moreover, the expansion comes two months after Spotify [] This story continues at The Next Web

Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Albanias capital, Tirana, has spoken to voters through an AI copy of himself, promising free school meals. The video was posted on his official Instagram account and is indeed labelled as AI-generated content. The main problem is not AI-generated content from a mayor, but the fact that he is in [] This story continues at The Next Web

ChatGPT is unsafe for anyone under 18, even in the teen mode OpenAI launched in August, according to a new risk assessmentfrom Common Sense Media. The US nonprofit gave ChatGPT for Teens its lowest rating, Unacceptable Risk, in a report published on Wednesday. The group wants OpenAI to stop promoting Teen Mode, and adds that [] This story continues at The Next Web

Siena, a New York-based startup that develops AI agents for consumer brands, has raised $17 million in its Series A round, with York IE as the lead investor. The new capital raised brings the companys total funding to $29.7 million. Moreover, Joyance Ventures took part in the round as a new investor, and the existing [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission is looking to collect more money from Apple, Meta, Google, and other US tech companies, according to the Financial Times, which spoke with six officials who are familiar with the discussions. The Commission plans to do this by introducing a levy on large companies overall. Their goal is to avoid a tax [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them do, with Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart. A v0.1 specification is due this month, and payments are listed as a future extension rather than part of it. Meta [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on a phone or a small board. It is licensed under Apache 2.0, has had no safety tuning, and Google says performance is not equal across the 100 languages it supports. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Brett Adcocks Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a childs lunch card, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, a year before the companys first devices arrive. Meta launched an agent doing the same things at the same three prices four weeks ago. Hark has [] This story continues at The Next Web

Lucid built 2,954 vehicles in the third quarter, its lowest quarterly output since early 2025 and a 38% fall from the second quarter, while delivering 3,806 as it cleared inventory. The company has outstanding commitments for 25,000 driverless cars with Bolt in Europe and 20,000 with Uber. Lucid built 2,954 cars in three months. Its [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google is defending a 1.2B claim at Londons Competition Appeal Tribunal brought for about 20 million British consumers who say Play Store commissions of up to 30% were passed into the prices they paid since October 2015. It settled an equivalent claim from UK app developers for 260M six weeks ago without admitting wrongdoing. Google [] This story continues at The Next Web

Zapata Quantum, a Boston quantum software company, has joined theIBM Quantum Network, it said on Tuesday. It will use IBMs machines to build software for its clients. Zapata does not make quantum hardware. Instead, it helps organisations figure out which problems quantum computers can solve, then creates the software to do that. It says hardware [] This story continues at The Next Web

The best requirements management tools for functional safety all protect one thing: the chain of evidence behind a safety case. It runs from a hazard, through the safety requirement that mitigates it, into the design that implements it, and out to the test that proves the design works. Break one link and an assessor stops [] This story continues at The Next Web

Uber has agreed to buy ezCater, a US platform for workplace catering, for $2.3bn in cash. Uber and ezCater announced the deal in a joint statement on Tuesday. The purchase brings ezCaters catering orders to Uber Eats and to Uber for Business, Ubers service for company accounts. Boston-based ezCater lets businesses order food for meetings, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Mountain View, California, October 5, 2026, TechnologyWire This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, live-streaming platform Tango is bringing together some of its leading creator communities to raise funds for breast cancer research and, just as importantly, encourage more open conversation around a disease that affects millions of women and families worldwide. From October 13-18, several of [] This story continues at The Next Web

SAP has agreed to buy TechWolf, a Belgian company whose AI maps the skills and daily work of a firms employees. The two companies announced the deal today but did not disclose its terms. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approval. Until then, the two companies [] 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