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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

Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with a Spanish solar producer that [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has warned that the US governments view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firms IPO prospectus, which Reuters reportedon Friday after seeing the document. The prospectus has not been made public, and TNW has not seen [] This story continues at The Next Web

Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net income reached $37.7bn, up from $3.2bn a year earlier. Gross margin hit 86.8%, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Googles Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAIs GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropics Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index, with 58. The score is 23 points above Gemini [] This story continues at The Next Web

The AI industrys new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how theyre going to operationalize it, said Chris Lehane, OpenAIs chief global affairs officer. TNW is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programme, called Built Together, in a post on Friday, along with new commitments on power, water and transparency. The money will go to three areas: education [] This story continues at The Next Web

On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening andthe system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a third from solar. Nothing broke. Yet much of the discussion around artificial intelligence and electricity suggests a looming shortage.American data centersusedabout 176 terawatt-hours [] This story continues at The Next Web

Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, itsaidon Tuesday. Select advertisers can use it now. Full self-serve access is due in early 2027. Until [] This story continues at The Next Web

Caverion Finland has agreed to design and build a substation for Nebiuss new data centre in Mntsl, southern Finland, in a deal valued at about 15 million. The company announced the contract on Friday and expects to finish the work by autumn 2027. The substation will link the data centre to the high-voltage grid and [] This story continues at The Next Web

Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you dont expect to see in an academic journal, On Bullshit. It stayed largely inside academic circles for the better part of twenty years. Then in 2005 Princeton University Press decided to reprint it as a tiny hardcover, 67 [] This story continues at The Next Web

Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract for an AI product. They use it heavily, which is what every vendor wants. Every one of those uses costs the vendor money: tokens, compute, third-party model calls. The invoice goes out at the agreed price. The [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bull, the French state-owned supercomputer maker, has doubled production at its factory in Angers, western France, after an 80 million rebuild. The plant now assembles 12 racks a month, up from six, executives toldReuters, which first reported the expansion on Thursday. Output could rise to 24 racks next year if demand continues to grow. Bull [] This story continues at The Next Web

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropics IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of tensor processing units (TPUs), the AI chips Google designs with Broadcom. Echo Wang, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Kanu AI has come out of stealth with $11.7m in funding. The Seattle startup builds software that runs inside a customers own cloud. Accel, BMW i Ventures and a16z speedrun joined a round led by Trilogy Equity Partners, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Companies have spent decades buying software built around someone [] This story continues at The Next Web

Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures also took part, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The round comes a year after its previous one [] This story continues at The Next Web

Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champions time. A month later, the manager had taken it back. There [] This story continues at The Next Web

GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. Anthropics Frontier Red Team published the findings in a research post. Zhipu [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every new AI model creates another reason to switch. For users who have already built up months or years of conversations, preferences, files and personal context inside one platform, moving to a better model can also mean starting again. Use.ai was built around the idea that people should be able to switch between the intelligence [] This story continues at The Next Web

Maximor, the autonomous finance company, has rebranded as Hyphenate. The new name reflects the companys expansion across the office of the CFO and follows 86x revenue growth over the past 12 months. Finance software spent the last decade breaking the office of the CFO into point solutions. There was one for close, another for billing, [] This story continues at The Next Web

President Donald Trump has said that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar, Axios reported on Tuesday. Trump has said he wants to name a czar within three or four days. Maria Curi of Axios asked Trump who he wanted for the role. He said he had someone in mind. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunch where the CEOs agreed it. Ashley Gold first reported the story for [] This story continues at The Next Web

A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday. Proofpoint has identified the group as TA419 and has said that [] This story continues at The Next Web

Today, the company announced that PLD Space had entered into an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, and that both parties were considering building a second launch pad for PLDs rockets at the spaceport in French Guiana. They will examine whether the new pad can be accommodated at the ELM-Diamant site of the Guiana [] 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

President Donald Trump has now renamed a gulf, a lake, and a technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order telling every federal agency to stop saying artificial intelligence and to call it super intelligence, or SI, instead. Also, on his Truth Social account, he posted 2 pages from the document, subtitled Inaugurating The Era [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. A few weeks ago we reached that goal. We now [] This story continues at The Next Web

US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance, arguing that it would help Beijing catch up with American companies. He spoke on Tuesday in Washington shortly before hosting AI executives for lunch at the White House. He told the audience that AI had come up only [] This story continues at The Next Web

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with a second safety test result from OpenAI and a customer quote from Salesforce. OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work. It costs a fifth of Astras standard input and [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI has called off the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed to meet its own safety and alignment standards in testing. The Wall Street Journal broke the news on Monday, and OpenAI later confirmed the decision to Reuters. The model was meant to follow GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI released on 3 September, [] This story continues at The Next Web

President Donald Trump plans to host Anthropic boss Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening. Maria Curi and Marc Caputo broke the news forAxios, citing people familiar with the matter. It would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two, according to Axios. TNW has not independently confirmed the dinner. TNW [] This story continues at The Next Web

Chinas government has signalled it may let firms such as Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidias new RTX Pro 5500 chip. The Information reported the news on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Chinas tech ministry recently asked some firms how many of the chips they plan to buy, and what for, according to [] This story continues at The Next Web

US President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet tech chief executives to discuss artificial intelligence on Tuesday, 29 September, Axios reportedthe plans on Thursday, citing a source familiar with them. A source also confirmed the date toReuters, whileABC News said multiple people familiar with the arrangements had described the meeting to it. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamais cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant for 7.7 million shares on an as-converted basis, [] This story continues at The Next Web

ChatGPT sent 95.1% of the traffic that AI chatbots referred to websites in August, its highest share this year, according to new data from BrightEdge. The search marketing company said referral traffic from ChatGPT grew 101% between January and August. Gemini came second in August with 2.4%, BrightEdge said. Perplexity had 1.1% and Claude 0.8%. [] This story continues at The Next Web

The reigning European Rally Champion drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, a Guinness World Record, at 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. The cars official WLTP range is 777 kilometres, and the drive took more than 45 hours, which puts the average speed under 30 kilometres an hour. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Some 51% of US consumers used at least one AI tool to help them shop in the past month, according to new figures from NIQ. It is the first time the share has passed 50% in the market research firms Agentic Commerce Tracker. Use has grown steadily over the past two quarters, NIQ said. It [] This story continues at The Next Web

Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomms Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcomms Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Wednesday. A day later, it released a tool that speeds up its vision model on devices. Liquid AI, spun [] This story continues at The Next Web

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 September, and no financial details were disclosed. The combined company will make Madrid its global centre for sustainability, data and AI work. It has more than [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta will sell VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams for $1,299.99 from spring 2027. It is also turning its AI glasses into over-the-counter hearing aids. Mark Zuckerberg announced both at Meta Connect on Wednesday. He also showed audio-only Ray-Ban glasses, a range growing to more than 100 styles, and Muse Charm, a keychain device [] This story continues at The Next Web

Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier and Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor said on Wednesday that per-seat pricing for software is on its way out. They spoke at HumanX in Amsterdam. In separate sessions, both said customers should pay for AI agents only when the agents get a job done. Unequivocally: seats are dead, Eggemeier said. Both sell [] This story continues at The Next Web

Yahoo will keep its AI answer engine Scout full of links back to publishers, CEO Jim Lanzone said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. The large language models effectively photocopied the entire internet to build their answers, without linking [] This story continues at The Next Web

Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do, said Myle Ott, ML infrastructure lead at Thinking Machines Lab. Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab announced on [] This story continues at The Next Web

We are currently facing the very specific challenge of advising OpenAI on how to coordinate the release of a large number of significant results in mathematics that they report have been produced by their internal model, the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence wrote in its launch statement. OpenAI announced the group on Monday. [] This story continues at The Next Web

We pride ourselves on the fact that because weve created a home for creators, it has created all these other amazing opportunities for them, YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan told The Wall Street Journal, asked about the platforms rivalry with Netflix. YouTube used its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday to announce a set of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now. We want to put more capable tools in their hands to help them find and fix vulnerabilities and protect the critical networks people depend on, said Sasha Baker, head of national security policy at OpenAI. OpenAI will give the Government of Ukraine [] This story continues at The Next Web

A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, spend from one or a few of our top customers would adversely affect our business, Nscale wrote in the prospectus for its New York listing. The prospectus, filed with the US [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Netherlands national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofibers data center complex on the Zernike Campus in Groningen. The installation is scheduled for 2027, and the system is expected to be fully operational [] This story continues at The Next Web

We built Muse from scratch, but it is definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw. Nat Friedman posted that on X on Monday evening. The head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs was answering a fortnight of speculation about Metas new personal agent, and why it felt so familiar to anyone who had used [] This story continues at The Next Web

From the day I started Heidi, the ambition was always bigger than writing doctors notes. Dr Thomas Kelly said that on Tuesday, as the company he cofounded announced US$340m of new funding. The money arrives in two parts. In its announcement, Heidi said Blackbird led a US$100m Series C that values the Melbourne company at [] This story continues at The Next Web