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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

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

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

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

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

Republican senator Bernie Moreno has accused Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei of taking an alarmist approach to AI. He did so in a letter sent on Monday, ahead of Anthropics expected stock market listing. Axios first reported the letter. I do not understand how you can ask them to invest their hard-earned savings in Anthropics [] This story continues at The Next Web

A Fort Worth suburb has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to release records on how its police use Flock number plate cameras, a figure reached by estimating 14 years of labour at $15 an hour. Under the EUs law enforcement directive the same information has to be logged as a matter of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UKs Online Safety Act, Reuters reported on Monday. The challenge is one of the first brought under the 2023 law. In February, Ofcom sent the companies information notices, according to Paul Sandles report for Reuters. The notices asked for detailed [] This story continues at The Next Web

TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app. The two features let users buy directly from brands without leaving TikTok, the company said in an announcement at Advertising Week New York on Monday. Buy Direct is an in-app checkout. Users can buy from a brand straight from the For You [] This story continues at The Next Web

Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%, with 16 models under EUR 25,000 due on sale by the end of the year. Transport and Environment says the version of the 2035 target proposed by Parliaments rapporteur would cut sales of those cheap models by nearly [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance chief for global entertainment, advertising and corporate development. He replaces Julia Brau Donnelly, who announced her departure in August, and he inherits a business whose European revenue grew 27% in the first quarter against 13% [] This story continues at The Next Web

Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy, with no price disclosed. The market exists because of the EU AI Act, whose enforcement powers arrived on 2 August and whose frontier model [] This story continues at The Next Web

Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Metas Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also paused sales, Business Insider reported. This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding [] This story continues at The Next Web

PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereign AI company while completing a merger with Germanys Aleph Alpha in which Cohere shareholders take roughly 90%, as Europe drafts rules defining the highest tier of [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI is testing a visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT, placed by guardrails that assess whether a conversation is emotionally vulnerable or sensitive before an ad appears. Ads already run in 31 European countries, and ChatGPTs designation as a very large online search engine means it must publish a public ad repository by [] This story continues at The Next Web

Huawei and Qualcomm have agreed to a multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G, AI, computing and networking, and announced the agreement today. This agreement not only demonstrates the value of Huaweis innovations, but also recognizes Qualcomms foundational contributions to modern communication technologies, said Alan Fan, Huaweis Chief Intellectual Property Officer. Under the deal, each company [] This story continues at The Next Web

Norways government plans to ban the use of AI glasses in selected public places for a limited time and announced the plan today, saying that people could be filmed or recorded without their knowledge. The ban could cover places where the public often gathers, such as parks, beaches, museums, shopping centres and public events. Moreover, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, a US maker of industrial design and engineering software, for about $22.6bn (20.1bn) in cash. The French group announced the dealon Monday morning. The announcement came a day after theFinancial Timesfirst reported that the two companies were close to an agreement, at a price of about $20bn. Under [] This story continues at The Next Web

Building a company like this requires relentlessness, belief and dedication. Every start-up will have low points, but weve always as founders had this die hard conviction that we could build a better and new way to do legal research, said Casper Laursen, CEO and co-founder of Pandektes. The law is spread across millions of documents [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk said Teslas robotaxis are still working on spotting animals that blend into the road at night, describing the problem as grey kittens on grey tarmac, as Austins hours moved to 11pm from 10pm. The EUs Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles votes on bloc-wide approval of the same camera-only sensor suite on 6 October. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Chinas industry ministry and six other agencies set 2030 as the date for the first large-scale use of all-solid-state batteries, though CATLs chairman rates the technology four out of nine and calls million-vehicle use before 2030 very unlikely. ProLogiums Dunkirk plant, the largest new European cell project since Northvolt went bankrupt, is staged at 0.8 [] This story continues at The Next Web

Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took the opposite route in May, when the EU ratified the Council of Europe treaty whose title uses [] 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

The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the launch in Washington to set up the site. The General Services [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazons delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures almost constantly on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property. Customers will have no way to opt out, see the images or ask for them to [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low volume. It spiked on 24 and 25 July, with 16,000 [] 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

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