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Insta360opened its first American store on Saturday at 1515 Broadway, in the middle of Times Square. It is the companys second self-operated shop outside China, after Tokyo in August. The ribbon-cutting is the least interesting part.Iris Deng interviewed co-founder Max Richter in Shenzhen for the South China Morning Post, and the numbers around the opening [] This story continues at The Next Web

President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday.The first postasked his followers to vote on a new name for the technology.The secondcalled the campaign against it a hoax and promised an AI Force and an AI czar. The rename has taken most of the attention. The second post is the one that contains [] This story continues at The Next Web

An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 55% against 6%, and the OECD attributes the gap to regulatory architecture. Most of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Four consumers filed a class action in the Northern District of California on 18 September, naming Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google.Buist v. Anthropic PBCalleges a horizontal agreement to slow the rate at which the four improve competing products, contrary to section 1 of the Sherman Act. Bloomberg Law reported the filing. It seeks treble damages [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens, said Mark Zuckerberg in a post on X on Tuesday. In the context of these days, when everyone is talking about responsibility, the danger of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, about 250km west of Brisbane, according to Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the deal. The site on which the data center will be built belongs to a Singapore-based developer, likely Zerra DC, [] 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

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

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

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

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

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

A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok broke state law by telling parents its app was safe for their children while knowing that it was not. District Judge Cory Liu found that the company had intentionally misled the public about its safety standards, and he decided it on summary judgment, meaning he did not [] This story continues at The Next Web

JoyIn, a Chinese robotics startup, has accused OpenAI of copying its ideas and its website. Its chief executive, Guo Renjie, set out the claims in an open letter in Chinese on the companys WeChat account, dated 10 September. On the same day, JoyIn announced Aether, a model for controlling humanoid robots. People often say major [] This story continues at The Next Web

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jensen Huang said it in four words. AGI has arrived, the Nvidia chief executive wrote on X late on Sunday, congratulating OpenAI on GPT-6 Astra. By Monday morning the post had passed 10 million views. The rest of the post is the part worth reading. Huang wrote that OpenAI trained Astra on more than 100,000 [] This story continues at The Next Web

Cognizant announced on Monday that it will hire 1,500 American college graduates this year and build a new job family for the AI era. The companys own research says AI could take on $4.5tn worth of work Americans currently get paid to do. Both numbers come from the same firm, on the same day. Reading [] This story continues at The Next Web

The number that matters in Mondays Jaguar Land Rover announcement is not 4,000. It is 300,000. That is the annual sales volume at which the company now intends to break even. Its brands have historically sold well over 400,000 vehicles a year. Just Auto made that comparison in its report on the statement. JLR is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Linus Torvalds spent Sunday afternoon doing what he does most Sundays. The result was a Linux 7.3-rc2 that came in far heavier than the calendar says it should. He could not find a single cause for it. So he offered the one everybody reaches for. It might be just random, he wrote in his rc2 [] This story continues at The Next Web