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Netflix is preparing to cut about 5% of its workforce, with an announcement possible as early as next week, Puckreported on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. Netflix had about 16,000 full-time employees at the end of last year, so a cut of that size would affect roughly 800 people. The report comes three [] This story continues at The Next Web

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm announced it on Monday, according to its press release. Deisseroth works at Stanford University and [] This story continues at The Next Web

A member of OpenAIs safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AIs risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAIs safety team,Bloombergreported. He wrote that the ChatGPT maker has thrived by trial and error. That approach no [] 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

Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-East Asia. The deal, signed this year, is worth about $7bn, and Tencent [] 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

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

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

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

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

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