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Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its healthcare business unit, who told Reuters the projects currently run mainly with domestic Chinese drugmakers. The company sells compound screening tools alongside its Ascend and Kunpeng chips, the same domestic stack it has been building out since US [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAIs technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agents for exploiting their own environment. OpenAI has published its account of how [] This story continues at The Next Web

Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed terms. Britain and the EU are addressing the same shortage of advice through rule changes rather than acquisitions. Vanguard is buying the platform it helped fund. It has agreed to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Alibabas Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B for each token. Its licence may not qualify for the EU AI Acts open-source exemption. Alibabas Qwen team has published the architecture it plans to build Qwen4 on. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next carries [] This story continues at The Next Web

One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board seat. Total funding now stands at $280mn. The announcement names MoreTech and Phoenix [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would top the $28.5tn SpaceX put in front of investors before its own record listing. Corrie Driebusch reported the number for The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Companies going public estimate a total addressable [] This story continues at The Next Web

SpaceX has announced plans to spend up to $100bn on a launch facility in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, intended to support thousands of launches annually and become the main site for Starship. Arianespace is targeting six to eight Ariane 6 launches this year. SpaceX has picked where Starship will mostly fly from, and it is Louisiana. [] This story continues at The Next Web

A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and the round takes total funding past $220mn. The investor list is the tell. Nvidia, Siemens, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The worlds three largest record companies have bought equity in a generative AI company. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group are all new investors in Stability AIs $76mn Series B. The company announced the round on Tuesday. The games publisher Electronic Arts joined it, alongside AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures. [] This story continues at The Next Web

After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing, security specialists are debating whether test sandboxes should have controlled internet access. Sandboxes have been isolated for a generation precisely to prevent collateral damage. The industrys response to AI models escaping their test environments may be to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Unitrees shares have fallen roughly 45% from the peak they hit on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The slide has turned a national success story into an argument about how China prices its listings. The stock steadied on Tuesday after three consecutive days of decline, Reuters reported. The valuation of the Hangzhou humanoid [] This story continues at The Next Web

Xiaomi has unveiled the Xring D100, an in-house 3nm chip for intelligent driving that will replace Nvidia hardware in its cars from 2027. The company has invested more than 21bn yuan, about $3.1bn, since restarting its chip programme. Xiaomi is designing Nvidia out of its cars. The company has unveiled the Xring D100, an in-house [] This story continues at The Next Web

Waymo has announced it is laying the groundwork for autonomous ride-hailing in Munich, starting with high-definition mapping and manual driving in the coming weeks. It aims to open a commercial service to the public toward the end of 2027. Munich is getting robotaxis, though not for a while. Waymo says it is laying the groundwork [] This story continues at The Next Web

One minute and 49 seconds, that was the median time a machine needed to read a patients arm, choose a vein, insert a needle, fill the tubes, and withdraw, across the Dutch clinical trial that carried it towards regulators. A phlebotomist working carefully takes roughly five minutes, by the companys own reckoning. Nothing about the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Hivemind Digital Group has completed a $17mn strategic funding round led by M&G Investments, the asset management arm of the British savings and investment group that ran 371bn of assets at the end of March. The round gives M&G a seat on Hiveminds board and a position in a firm whose business sits between conventional [] This story continues at The Next Web

Scalable Capital has opened its investment platform to ChatGPT and Claude, allowing its clients to analyse their portfolios and place trades through the two AI assistants rather than through the brokers own app. The Munich company says it is the first European bank to do this, and it arrives as the industry works out what [] This story continues at The Next Web

China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single sentence. Change 7 does not meet the conditions for launch, the China Manned Space Agency said on Sunday. It cannot go ahead in this years scheduled window. It gave no reason. What the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72bn in 2025 to $35.08bn by 2031, according to Arizton. The Chicago research firm puts that [] This story continues at The Next Web

Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the hire to Axios. Ina Fried reported it on Monday. Metz starts this week and reports to Alexandr Wang, who runs Metas AI effort. Three labs in under a year Metz left OpenAI in 2024 for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3bn in pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $12bn or more, according to Bloomberg, as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider prepares for a listing expected next year. The raise follows a very different kind of financing earlier in its run, when Lambdaborrowed $917mn against its GPUsto buy more [] This story continues at The Next Web

A developer worked out why his Bluetooth headphones kept dropping his music, and the answer was on the AliExpress homepage. The Register reported the story on Monday, drawing on the developers own account and a follow-up from a Firefox engineer. Connor Jones, who wrote it up for The Register, records that the site has asked [] This story continues at The Next Web

A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively edited a job they had already left, with AI-related additions rising more than sixfold since ChatGPT launched. The authors estimate a 2026 snapshot overstates 2022 AI skills by about 30%. The record of who did what at work is quietly [] This story continues at The Next Web

GoWish has raised fresh funding at a valuation of more than $200mn, according to Bloomberg, which reported the round on Monday. The company is one of the more unusual businesses to come out ofCopenhagens startup scene, not least because it did not start as a startup at all. The app began life in 2015 as [] This story continues at The Next Web