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Every time a typical enterprise AI agent spins up to answer an internal question, it wakes up with severe amnesia. To make the AI useful, companies are forced into a costly, repetitive cycle: scraping thousands of documents, Slack threads, and CRM entries, and force-feeding them into the prompt window for context. It is a brute-force [] This story continues at The Next Web

Across Asia, issuers are bringing local currencies onchain, regulators are establishing digital asset frameworks, and financial institutions are exploring stablecoins for payments, treasury, and cross-border settlement. Issuance, however, is only the first layer of a functioning financial network. Moving local currencies between countries requires banking connectivity, institutional liquidity, foreign exchange execution, compliance, and settlement infrastructure. [] This story continues at The N

The car industry keeps calling this battery chemistry a decade away. Belkin has just put it in a $69.99 power bank. The company announced three product lines at IFA 2026 in Berlin on Thursday. They arrived as three separate releases, covering portable power, trackers and chargers, and audio. The headline part is the UltraCharge Pro [] This story continues at The Next Web

A Berlin company has won the worlds first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No radiologist looks at it. Vara, which trades as MX Healthcare GmbH, announced the certification on Wednesday in a statement issued through Business Wire. Chief executive Jonas Muff set out the reasoning in a longer post the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Texas spent a decade telling data centre developers they were welcome. Now its Republicans are competing over who can regulate them most aggressively, a shift that Reuters reports has put Big Tech on notice in the state that hosts more data centres than any other. The change is showing up on the ballot. Data centres [] This story continues at The Next Web

Snowflake beat expectations on revenue, on profit and on guidance, and its shares rose more than 20% after hours. One number in the release went the other way, and it is the one that looks furthest into the future. Remaining performance obligations, the contracted revenue Snowflake has booked but not yet recognised, came in at [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple is facing a 2bn claim in London over the privacy prompt that reshaped mobile advertising. The case, filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of UK app developers, argues that App Tracking Transparency polices everyone except Apple. The claim wasreported by Reuters, which values it at $2.7bn. Bringing it is Ann Pope, a [] This story continues at The Next Web

An aircraft with nobody on board flew itself out of a working Louisiana airport last week. It carried spare parts, medical supplies and cans of water. Its route took it over peoples houses. Elroy Air said on Wednesday it had completed the first uncrewed autonomous flights under a federal programme. That programme exists to fold [] This story continues at The Next Web

In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m award from the Armys Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fires. The company [] This story continues at The Next Web

London has its first robotaxi service, and there is a person sitting behind the wheel of every car. Uber and Wayve began carrying passengers on Thursday in a fleet of Ford Mustang Mach-Es, each one supervised by a licensed driver who can take over. Uber owns and operates the vehicles while Wayve, the British company [] This story continues at The Next Web

John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as Lake America to users in the United States. Mark Gurman reported the change for Bloomberg on Tuesday evening. [] This story continues at The Next Web

ByteDance has landed a $29.6bn loan, the second-largest in Asia this year and roughly three times what the TikTok owner borrowed offshore in 2024. Banks put in more than $30bn of orders for a facility that started life at $20bn. The terms werefirst reported by Bloomberg. Citigroup and JPMorgan are coordinating the deal, which runs [] This story continues at The Next Web

Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court software business sells to judiciaries. The records involved come from appellate courts in a dozen US jurisdictions and from Ontario, Canada. The company detected the activity in its cloud environment on 30 June, according toReuters, which is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Booz Allen put 18 of the worlds most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One of them finished the job. The consulting firm says the ranking it produced is the wrong thing to take away from it. The Cyber Weapon Index, published on Wednesday, scored nine American [] This story continues at The Next Web

New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for pupils from 2-K through eighth grade, removing student-facing AI software and companion chatbots for around 600,000 children. Norway banned generative AI in its primary schools in June, and the EU AI Act regulates AI used on pupils rather than AI used by them. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future challenge for education. It is already changing how people write, analyze, design, and build. Yet many schools still treat it mainly as a shortcut students might misuse. That response is understandable, but it leaves teachers unsupported and students preparing for a world that is disappearing. That gap is [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAIs fair use defence in the consolidated publisher copyright cases, arguing that licensing costs would threaten national security. EU law has no fair use doctrine, and the AI Act applies its copyright obligations to any provider placing a model on the Union market wherever training occurred. [] This story continues at The Next Web

NASA has told Axiom Space to develop a simpler Sortie Suit for the first lunar landings, cutting mass and complexity to support a 2028 target. The same acceleration cancelled the Lunar Gateway, and ESAs three guaranteed European astronaut flights were secured against Gateway hardware. NASA is simplifying the spacesuit for its first Moon landings. Axiom [] This story continues at The Next Web

Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pros ECG and atrial fibrillation detection is described as FDA cleared, and EU medical device rules require a separate conformity assessment that American clearance does not [] This story continues at The Next Web

Wonderful has closed a $550M Series C at a $5B valuation led by Insight Partners with Salesforce participating, eighteen months after being founded and six months after a $150M round at $2B. Its press release is datelined Amsterdam while Israeli technology press covers it as an Israeli company. Wonderful has raised $550M at a $5B [] This story continues at The Next Web

ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly vice president of enterprise sales at OpenAI, as its first chief revenue officer, as more than half its revenue shifts to enterprise customers. Its core product falls under the AI Acts synthetic content marking rules, which give systems already on the market until 2 December 2026 to comply. ElevenLabs [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment and candidate evaluation systems are high risk under Annex III of the EU AI Act, with obligations deferred to 2 December 2027, though the transparency duty and GDPR apply [] This story continues at The Next Web

AEREDIUM has launched AERSeal, a security product for smart contracts. It exists to stop a single compromised private key from handing an attacker control of a contract. Smart contracts often rely on one private key to authorise sensitive operations. Those include minting assets, upgrading the contract, or changing administrative settings. If someone steals that key, [] This story continues at The Next Web