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Weve built a leading energy automation platform in Australia, and this investment gives us the backing to build on that leadership globally, said Chris Thompson, co-founder of Amber Electric. The Melbourne company has raised 49m in a Series E round, Morgan Stanley Investment Management said on Monday. 1GT led the round. It is the private [] This story continues at The Next Web

Weve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025, said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It is the companys fourth office in Europe. The others are its [] This story continues at The Next Web

A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the companys Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions. In a second document he called it perhaps the largest theft of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pre-orders for the Googlebookopened on Monday,starting at $899, with the first ones reaching shops in the United States on 4 October. In Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia will arrive on 5 October. Google has not said what they will cost in any of those markets, and the only price published is in [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europes data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating schemeproposed on Monday by the European Commission. Any individual site drawing more than 500 kW is covered. What the rating measures is not only consumption but what a data center puts back: heat recovered and reused, clean [] This story continues at The Next Web

The AI industry already knew attackers could poison plugin marketplaces. Its answer was to lock every plugin to one reviewed version of its code. That lock is what just broke. Researchers at Air Security published a vulnerability on Thursday that they call Plugin4Shell. It affects the four most widely used AI coding agents. Those are [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI4Peace, a symposium on artificial intelligence and conflict, opened on Monday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome with a message from Leo XIV. The Pope was not present in the room, and Don Andrea Ciucci, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, read the message on his behalf. The message states that technological progress [] This story continues at The Next Web

Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has announced the appointment of Krshna Prashant as its first Marketing Lead. She is the companys first marketing hire in the United States. The appointment comes weeks after Freehand raised $75 million in funding. Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Central Bank is preparing to put some of its own money into tokenized securities, moving from building the plumbing for digital asset markets to buying in them. Settlement will occur in central bank money, routed through Pontes, the system the Eurosystem has built for trades running on distributed ledger technology. What the bank [] This story continues at The Next Web

The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify as national security events, an idea Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put forward to Chinese officials during talks in Manhattan on Sunday. Scott Bessent and Jamieson Greer, the trade representative, met with He Lifeng, the Vice Premier, [] This story continues at The Next Web

On the night of Friday, September 18, the Tor leak site that the Cl0p ransomware gang used to name and pressure its victims was defaced. Another criminal group claimed responsibility, according to BleepingComputer. When people visited the site, they saw Pokmon artwork, an ASCII Umbreon, above the message THIS SITE HAS BEEN PWN3D BY SHINYHUNTERS [] This story continues at The Next Web

Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an AI Force and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether the AI Force would be a military branch, a regulatory agency, or something else. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Saturday, rather than through an executive order or official briefing. He [] This story continues at The Next Web

A communication outage can complicate the decisions people need to make during a disaster. On September 28, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission reported that 74.31% of cell sites in its Hurricane Helene reporting area in North Carolina were out of service. The figure captured a substantial disruption, although the agency cautioned that cell-site outages do [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, about 250km west of Brisbane, according to Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the deal. The site on which the data center will be built belongs to a Singapore-based developer, likely Zerra DC, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Phasecraft has produced what it says is the largest known database of variational quantum eigensolver results, more than 3,000 emulations across 13 molecular systems. The work ran on Nvidia Hopper processors hosted at the University of Nottingham, using Nvidias cuQuantum toolkit, and the company reports a 15-fold speedup over earlier results for modelling many-body systems. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon has made its Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows, pitching it to enterprise IT as the governed alternative to shadow AI. Quick runs in ordinary European AWS regions with inference kept inside Europe, but it is not on the published service list for the sovereign cloud AWS opened in Brandenburg in [] This story continues at The Next Web

Gamification has a bad name in finance, and rightfully so. Trading apps fired confetti when you bought options. Meme stocks turned rent money into casino chips. Say gamified finance today and people picture slot machines packaged as financial products. The gamification itself was not the problem. The problem was the mechanisms powering these experiences: leveraged [] This story continues at The Next Web

Waymos driverless cars can now be booked through the Lyft app in Nashville, making it the first market where the same autonomous fleet is available through two competing rideshare platforms. The service covers central Nashville, including Downtown and Broadway, North Nashville and Germantown, East Nashville, Midtown and South Nashville. Riders can choose Standard, Priority Pickup, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Pentagons most senior artificial intelligence official has said publicly what allied defence ministries have been hearing privately for the past two years: they do not have the same resources as the US, and they are unlikely to catch up anytime soon. Cameron Stanley, the Department of Wars chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, made [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon has opened books on its first sterling bonds, a four-part deal running from three to 19 years, adding another currency to a borrowing programme that has already raised the equivalent of more than $92bn this year. The sale wasreported by Reuterson Wednesday, with pricing expected the same day. Initial guidance put the three-year tranche [] This story continues at The Next Web

Analog Devices has agreed to buy Alif Semiconductor for $1.35bn in cash, with up to $200m more contingent on performance, adding a line of microcontrollers built to run neural networks inside devices rather than send data to a data centre. The deal wasannounced today, and it is expected to close before the end of this [] This story continues at The Next Web

The last two years rewired how software gets made. AI went from autocomplete to writing entire features, and autonomous agents now build and ship software with barely a human in the loop. Every engineering organization on the planet is asking the same question: what does this mean for how we build? Yet most of that [] This story continues at The Next Web

For decades, enterprise software has been designed primarily to record what businesses already know: customer information, financial transactions, employee activity, inventory, sales pipelines, and operational decisions. These platforms became the systems of record that organizations relied on to maintain a consistent version of the truth. Artificial intelligence is beginning to challenge that model. The emergence [] This story continues at The Next Web

SumUp will appear on Manchester United shirt sleeves from Thursday under a multi-year deal that makes the London-based payments company the clubs official sleeve partner, replacing DXC Technology. The logo goes on the mens, womens and academy shirts across all competitions, with matchday presence at Old Trafford and at the Progress with Unity Stadium. Neither [] This story continues at The Next Web

Per Ansgar, CEO of Geely Sweden Holdings, joins the Concordium Foundation Board, deepening a five-year Geely-Concordium partnership focused on verified identity infrastructure for AI agents and machine-initiated payments in connected vehicles. The Concordium Foundation today announced the appointment of Per Ansgar, Chief Executive Officer of Geely Sweden Holdings AB, to its Board, adding an executive [] This story continues at The Next Web

More than 25 organisations from left and right have written to the White House asking it to publish the voluntary framework governing pre-deployment review of frontier AI models. The framework was completed on 1 August and previewed only with a selected group of companies, with smaller and open-source developers largely excluded. The coalition argues secrecy [] This story continues at The Next Web

Suno has launched a new generation of AI music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, and will switch off everything that came before them. As v6 rolls out, we will retire our previous models and move Suno entirely onto the v6 generation, the company said. The announcement, published on Wednesday, introduces three [] This story continues at The Next Web

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong will buy just over 7.1 million shares from his mother, Hong Ra-hee, in an off-market transaction worth 1.94tn won, or about $1.4bn. The deal is scheduled for 12 October and wasreported by Reutersafter a filing with South Koreas Financial Supervisory Service on Wednesday. The mechanics are small, and the meaning [] This story continues at The Next Web

Three US agencies have jointly named six Chinese AI companies as having systematically extracted capabilities from American frontier models since late 2024, in an advisory detailed enough to list which model each firm went after and how the requests were disguised. The National Security Agency, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published [] This story continues at The Next Web

CloudNC has raised $20mn to push its AI machining software into more workshops and launch a second product aimed at quoting, the commercial bottleneck that sits in front of every job a precision manufacturer takes on. The round is led by Nimble Ventures, a US venture investor, with Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First and LM [] This story continues at The Next Web

For a manufacturer short on skilled people, time can disappear in routine places. A worker searches a drawer, walks back for a forgotten part, or discovers too late that an item is missing. PwC reported that U.S. manufacturing averaged about 420,000 job openings in 2025. Deloitte has also cited an estimate that 1.9 million manufacturing [] This story continues at The Next Web