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For the longest time, the tech industrys unofficial motto was if the product is free, you are the product. Most of us just accepted it. But after a decade of data scandals, tracking revelations, and privacy blunders, that logic is starting to feel dated. Weve hit a tipping point. A quiet but powerful shift is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to the model. It is also committing $35mn in credits to open-source security work. Anthropic is widening access to its most capable cybersecurity model, without letting [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headsets gaming unit. The company says it is realigning teams and will create new roles. Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs across the teams that build Siri and the Vision [] This story continues at The Next Web

Aptera has partnered with Shanghais Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its latest filing reports $10.1mn in cash and substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern. Aptera has finally found someone to build its solar car. The [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in Brazil since July. It is now available to everyone in the US. Pocket lets people type a prompt and get back a small interactive thing, which Meta calls a gizmo. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Chinas market regulator has ordered a recall of more than 4 million vehicles, including nearly 2.98 million Teslas, because interior emergency door releases blend into the surrounding trim. The remedies are warning labels and software updates, ahead of a 2027 standard banning concealed handles. China has recalled more than four million cars because a lever [] This story continues at The Next Web

They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell something online. In their case, hand sanitizer. It worked well enough to become [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsofts cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. That makes Meta one of Microsofts largest AI customers. Both companies declined [] This story continues at The Next Web

Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nobody has said whether that is a coincidence. Bob Nelsen led the [] This story continues at The Next Web