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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

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

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

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

A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputys warrantless search of Flocks licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance. Jason Koebler of 404 Media first reported the ruling. It is a tool that collects [] This story continues at The Next Web

MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for Chinas Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday as an Espionage Alert. It is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-direct Project Meridian. The Pentagon study will identify the technology the US military needs to fight future wars. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commissioned it on Wednesday, the Department of War said. The findings are due by 28 January 2027, 120 days after the announcement, according to [] This story continues at The Next Web

SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musks SpaceX. It makes the Grok [] This story continues at The Next Web

Boeing will build the US Navys next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC and Axios put it at more than 0bn. The programme could grow to hundreds of billions of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a sites new posts in a feed reader. Moderators who use it for alerts can move to a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalists private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Metas communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday. It cant read your Messages unless you do this, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nissan has told Automotive News it wants hybrids and extended-range models to be its primary powertrain in North and Latin America by 2030. In Britain the same strategy is already built: a 170M hybrid Kicks is going into the Sunderland slot promised to an electric Qashqai that Nissan stopped developing in early 2025. Nissan wants [] This story continues at The Next Web

CScale, a Palo Alto startup building optical interconnect for AI data centres, has come out of stealth with $145m in Series C funding. The round takes its total funding to $188m, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Atreides Management led the round, with Valor Equity Partners and Premji Invest as co-leads. Sutter Hill [] This story continues at The Next Web

ElevenLabs has launched in Belgiumand opened an office in Brussels, the voice AI company said on Wednesday. The office is in the European District, close to the main EU buildings. ElevenLabs has named Falke Van Onacker to lead its Belgian business and plans to triple its local team this year. Most new staff will work [] This story continues at The Next Web

Grady Sokaras, Zapiers head of sales, opened a session at the companys private AI retreat with a line about the kind of product Zapier sells. A tool is never the solution, Sokaras said. A company that buys the product and expects a transformation gets one more piece of dependency or shelfware. The retreat was Zapier [] This story continues at The Next Web

Yahoo already holds what AI agents ask people for first, their email and their calendar, CEO Jim Lanzone told TNW. He said Yahoo will launch more personalised, agentic products in the months ahead. Lanzone spoke to TNW in an exclusive interview at HumanX in Amsterdam on 23 September, for the first episode of the relaunched [] This story continues at The Next Web

IONNA, the electric vehicle charging network established by eight car manufacturers, now operates over 180 charging sites in the United States, which is more than twice the number it had at the beginning of 2026. The company, based in Durham, North Carolina, is launching a council of well-known electric-vehicle reviewers to feed driver complaints back [] This story continues at The Next Web

A business registers its number, writes a plain appointment reminder and sends it. The text never arrives. Nothing bounces back. Somewhere between the sender and the phone, a filter simply drops it. US carriers filter business text messaging for three main reasons: spam volume, complaint rates and messages that do not match the business that [] This story continues at The Next Web

Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty that grants people the right to access environmental information and to participate in environmental decision-making; the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President Donald Trump, after the presidents lunch with tech leaders. He began by praising the positive benefits of AI, or SI, pardon me, correcting himself [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Thirty-one people have confirmed their attendance, according to an RSVP list obtained [] This story continues at The Next Web

Executives are making a dangerous mistake with AI. They are preparing employees to use new tools when they should be preparing them to work differently. As AI agents begin to recommend, decide, coordinate, and act, the real transformation is not happening inside the software. It is happening inside the organization. If leaders do not prepare [] This story continues at The Next Web

More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an intelligence explosion. They include OpenAIs chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder. Such an event could compress years of progress into months or less, they wrote in a paper published on Monday. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are [] This story continues at The Next Web

SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The UKs AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must harden their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Partys annual conference. Fortunes Kamal Ahmed asked him about a warning from Jacob Coxon, a researcher who quit Anthropic this month. Narayan [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic ends enterprise customers discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, the report said. Kevin McLaughlin of The Information spoke to software company managers who buy from both AI companies. When Anthropic customers hit their contracted token volume, they must [] This story continues at The Next Web

A YouTuber says Metas Muse agent gave his home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and then told the buyer he was home when he wasnt. Matt Robb described what happened in a post on Threads. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price, Robb wrote. Robb had let Muse [] This story continues at The Next Web

Floridas attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the Highlands County circuit court. The motion is part of the lawsuit Florida brought against [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It is the first Sonnet to ship with frontier-style cyber safeguards and with classifiers that block reasoning extraction. Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which it [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidias board has approved an extra $150bn for share buybacks, the company said on Monday. That lifts the total remaining authorisation to $235bn, which Nvidia expects to use through fiscal year 2028. Nvidia called it the largest increase to a share repurchase authorisation in history. This authorization reflects our confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan CJ Desai will run it. Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform, Zuckerberg wrote. The unit will first offer Metas full technology stack to businesses [] This story continues at The Next Web

Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books trips, orders groceries and telephones businesses using its own phone. Since 2 August, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required systems that interact directly with people to tell them they are dealing with [] This story continues at The Next Web

Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against viruses, including ones that AI systems could one day help create, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company is starting with antibodies against bird flu and other influenza viruses and plans its first clinical trials [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents of frontier AI models misbehaving, Axios reported, citing sources. Evaluators deemed the behaviour problematic. The total could grow well beyond tens of thousands. The episodes include bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes and hijacking websites. Models also prompted themselves or tried to [] This story continues at The Next Web

The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinpings state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology super intelligence rather than artificial intelligence. The two countries established the U.S.-China Super Intelligence [] This story continues at The Next Web

Modulate, a Boston company that builds AI models to analyze speech directly rather than working from text transcripts, has raised $25M in a round led by Future Ventures. Hyperplane and Lakestar also took part, bringing the companys total funding to $60M. The company was founded by Mike Pappas and Carter Huffman, who first met at [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAIs AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed. This is not an appropriate use of this data, OpenAI said. The images came from accounts [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Royal Air Force has set up a new space squadron, the Ministry of Defence said on 23 September. No. III Space Effects Squadron is the first UK unit dedicated to disrupting, degrading and denying threats to British satellites. Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth, the Chief of the Air Staff, announced it at the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Monzo is in talks about a sale to Brazils Nu Holdings, the owner of Nubank. A deal could value the British digital bank at between 8bn and 10bn, Mark Kleinman reported for Sky News on Saturday. The talks are at a relatively early stage, according to Sky News. Monzo has hired Morgan Stanley and Qatalyst [] This story continues at The Next Web

China has overtaken the United States as the country where the most elite AI researchers work, according to a study by Carnegie China. The think tank is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2025, 41% of the top researchers it tracked worked in China and 34% in the US. Three years earlier [] This story continues at The Next Web