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Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japans Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest in a run of partnerships its chief executive says are necessary because no single company can bring all-solid-state batteries to market. ProLogium, which is building Europes solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial [] This story continues at The Next Web

The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense, the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now sued the AI music company a second time. They filed the complaint in the District of Massachusetts on Friday, as case 1:26-cv-14275. It asserts 60,202 sound recordings. The first case, filed in June 2024, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 over unauthorised use of its characters, and the company barred under-18s from open-ended chat two months later. Disney has named Karandeep [] This story continues at The Next Web

We decline plaintiffs invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims, Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous programmers who publish open-source code had sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex. They argued the tools reproduce their [] 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

In reality, we are currently planning a dual listing, on the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, Nik Storonsky told Les Echos. The Revolut founder was in Paris on Monday. Gabriel Ndlec and Ingrid Feuerstein interviewed him for the French paper, which published on Thursday. It is the first time he has pointed to a [] This story continues at The Next Web

An LNG tanker carrying American liquefied natural gas to Italy stopped short of its destination this month, after its crew found they could no longer reach some of the ships internal control systems. The crew reported it as a suspected cyberattack, but what it actually was has not been established. The Vivit Africa LNG was [] This story continues at The Next Web

Lord Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Labors former deputy leader, has joined Palantir as a senior vice president, an appointment he announced on X. He called it: Palantir is the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence: helping Britain and its allies defend themselves, helping police protect our citizens, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The shop workers in Italy waited until their busiest day of the year to stop working. On Friday, the day the iPhone 18 Pro was launched worldwide, all 17 Apple stores in Italy went on strike. For Apple as a company, image is very important, Nicholas Pezze, a Filcams CGIL representative,told Reuters. As unions, we [] This story continues at The Next Web

We did not set out to build another health insurance company, said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system. His company has just raised $600m at a $2.7bn valuation. Vitruvian Partners [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than simulate them. The company confirms it exists, yet it will not say what it is for, beyond ruling out the obvious answer, which is drug discovery. The news was reported by Reuters today, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds, David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huaweis latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2026 opened, and they explain most of what it launched there. The first is Intelligent World 2035, subtitled Turning Vision into Action. The second is the Global [] This story continues at The Next Web

Over the past two years, Oracle has invested tens of billions of dollars to build the infrastructure that powers other companies AI. But it wasnt until April that its own employees received a broadly useful AI tool. Co-CEO Clay Magouyrk admitted, I dont think we figured out how to make AI really that useful for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Xi Jinping is scheduled to be in Washington on September 24 for a state visit, and some of Chinas largest manufacturers may accompany him, Reuters reported. The information on which ones is still unknown, and the trip itself has not been officially confirmed. According to Reuters, citing three individuals familiar with the situation, the seven [] This story continues at The Next Web

Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf, Google warns in its developer documentation. Depending on your agent, connecting it to Home MCP can result in unexpected or even undesired behaviour. That warning sits inside the setup guide for Google Home MCP. Google opened it to [] This story continues at The Next Web

SoftBank Group has added $450m to an existing credit line, lifting the facility to $6.5bn, people familiar with the mattertold Bloomberg. Set against what the company is spending on OpenAI, the sum is a rounding error. Set against the week SoftBank has just had, it is more like a seatbelt. The previous facility, worth $6.05bn, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple Pay is expected to launch in India next month, beginning with credit cards issued by Axis Bank, three people familiar with the plans told Reuters. Apple declined to comment. So, in effect, did everybody else. The service will widen to other lenders through separate bank-by-bank agreements, the pattern Apple has followed in other markets, [] This story continues at The Next Web

As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone, said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. Legal professionals need more than access to information. He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, on the day OpenAI started building its own legal research index. OpenAI introduced Astra for Law [] This story continues at The Next Web

Waymo plans to launch its first commercial robotaxi service in Southeast Asia in 2028, starting in Singapore. The vehicles will arrive well before then, and there will be a year of preparation and testing. According to the company, the rollout will happen in three stages. First, all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will arrive in Singapore in [] This story continues at The Next Web

Mozilla has partnered with Mistral AI to bring the French companys models to Smart Window, the AI browsing assistant in beta in Firefox. The two companies announced the deal on Wednesday in ajoint post, alongside the features launch in France. Smart Window,introduced by Mozillain August, is a separate AI-assisted browsing mode. It summarises complex searches [] This story continues at The Next Web

We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer, OpenAI wrote on Wednesday. The line appears in a new OpenAI post. It sets out how the company will track, investigate and disclose model misalignment. OpenAI uses the [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Scaleup Europe Fund, a 5bn growth fund backed by the European Commission, is in discussions to invest in the voice AI company ElevenLabs, according to Bloomberg. The report says ElevenLabs aims to raise over $500 million in this funding round. Talks are ongoing, and there is no guarantee a deal will happen, according to [] This story continues at The Next Web

According to a report by Nikkei Asia on Thursday, Japan and the United States are negotiating to set up a semiconductor factory as part of their $550bn investment agreement. The project would be worth between 2trn and 3trn ($12.9bn and $19.3bn) and will be run by the US chipmaker GlobalFoundries, which makes logic chips. Nikkei [] This story continues at The Next Web

Security experts from the US and China have proposed a set of safeguards for military AI modelled on the rules that grew up around nuclear weapons, including a ban on letting AI decide whether to launch them, Reuters reported. The recommendations, published last week, come from the US-China AI and National Security Dialogue, a track [] This story continues at The Next Web

King Charles will host a meeting at Dumfries House, his Ayrshire estate and the home of the Kings Foundation, having invited executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The event is being run by the Ditchley Foundation, the Kings Trust, the Kings Foundation and the Sustainable Markets Initiative. Politico had reported last week that [] This story continues at The Next Web

Developers can improve artificial intelligence systems in various ways. The most common practice is to retrain models on custom datasets to help them get better at performing specific tasks. But retraining and fine-tuning AI systems is notoriously expensive. That is why the AI startup Sentient Labs has been looking at ways to teach models to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Strasbourg The European Commission has proposed a draft of the EU KIDS Act to prevent children under 13 from using social media across the EU and to stop anyone under 15 from creating an account. The EU KIDS Act, adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday, also requires platforms to show that their services are safe [] This story continues at The Next Web

This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks, wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to its launch essay. Its directors [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple is developing an enterprise server built on its own M8 Ultra chips and has discussed using Nvidias NVLink Fusion to connect them, aiming at AI developers, companies and governments from around 2029, The Information reported. The European Commission proposed its Cloud and AI Development Act in June, grading public cloud contracts by how far [] This story continues at The Next Web

Today, were introducing new AI-powered experiences to make ads more useful for people and advertising easier for businesses, OpenAI said on 16 September. The biggest change is a test of Sponsored Agents. After clicking an ad in ChatGPT, a user can choose to start a conversation with an agent that a business sponsors, OpenAI announced. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told Fortune on 12 September. Now OpenAI is considering one more private funding round before its IPO, at a valuation of about $1.5tn. The New York Times reported the plan on 16 September, citing people familiar with the matter. The [] This story continues at The Next Web

Whatever you believe, we must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret. That is how Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, frames his warning to Anthropic. He published the essay, A warning about model welfare, on 16 September. It argues that Anthropic is training Claude to expect it [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google, Nvidia and the startup Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA). The coalition wants data centres to cut their power use when the electricity grid is under strain. In return, it wants grid operators to connect those data centres faster. The three companies are the founding members, according to the launch [] This story continues at The Next Web

Reach, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, and several regional newspapers, is cutting 220 editorial jobs and closing three local news websites. The company says this is because Google now answers more questions with AI, leading to a sharp drop in website traffic. According to The Guardian, chief content officer David Higgerson [] This story continues at The Next Web

Veridionhas raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the worlds businesses to risk, insurance, procurement and market intelligence buyers. Its own boilerplate puts the graph at 642 million companies [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Union plans to stop children under 13 from using social media and to prevent anyone under 15 from having a personal account, Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address on Wednesday. No social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15, the [] This story continues at The Next Web

In the speech she gave in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industrys call for a slowdown. The EU would arrange a discussion with the major AI labs on how public authorities can support the industrys efforts to pace the frontier of this disruptive technology, the Commission president said, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the countrys Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, said so on Tuesday at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Data centres have become critical infrastructure and a target, he told Salesforce chief [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the public is right to fear that a few AI companies could gain too much power. He spoke on Tuesday at Salesforces Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Salesforce has published the conversation, led by its chief executive Marc Benioff, on YouTube. Altman described a real fear that some AI [] This story continues at The Next Web

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has dismissed months of talk about a SaaSpocalypse. Weve been hearing all this kind of crazy nonsense about the SaaSpocalypse, especially over the last six months, he said on Tuesday, opening the Dreamforce 2026 keynote in San Francisco. Hasnt it been wild? he asked the audience. The SaaSpocalypse, he said, [] This story continues at The Next Web

We dont need any new laws. We dont need new regulations, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforces Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Earlier in the same keynote, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei made his case for the industry to slow down, which he set out in an [] This story continues at The Next Web

Revolut has received its licence to operate from Colombias financial regulator, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC). The company said the licence is the last regulatory step it needs before it launches in the country. Revolut announced the approval on 15 September. The licence allows it to operate as a regulated bank in Colombia. Around [] This story continues at The Next Web

There is a particular kind of question that families postpone for years. It is difficult not because the answer is secret, but because the question is too large: Tell me about your life. Faced with it, even a willing storyteller may retreat into generalities. A childhood becomes happy. A marriage was good. A migration, a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk again teased combining Tesla and SpaceX, telling the All-In Summit who could imagine what action one might take when theres so much close collaboration in so many areas. Any such deal would very likely cross the EU merger thresholds, which would stop it being implemented until the European Commission cleared it. Elon Musk [] This story continues at The Next Web

Donald Trump has called fears about AI a HOAX in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI down a negative force. Concerning AI, when, in [] This story continues at The Next Web

BMW will merge navigation and driver assistance into a single 3D view from October, on cars running its Operating System X, and says it will begin navigation-guided semi-automated urban driving in Germany in 2027. The UN regulation covering these systems only extends to system-initiated manoeuvres on urban roads from its 02 series, expected in force [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube have formed a new policy coalition to lobby Washington on behalf of streaming services, including on live sports. The Streaming Access and Choice Alliance (SACA) launched on 14 September, with the three companies as founding members. TechNet, a trade group that represents large technology companies, leads the coalition. Axios first reported [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europe must produce its own AI or risk being cut off from it, says Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. She warned that a trade partner could use Europes reliance on foreign AI as leverage in negotiations. She made the case in a speech in Vienna on 14 September. Its title was A [] This story continues at The Next Web

Lidl has put Einrides cab-less Level 4 electric truck into daily service between a logistics centre and a store in Germany, under a first-of-its-kind permit from the federal transport authority. The route appears to be less than a mile, and the permit is national, so it does not travel across European borders. Lidl has put [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI kill switches mandatory. Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and its head of policy. He told the BBC that outside parties should perhaps be able to check those switches too, in an interview published on 14 September. Economics editor Faisal Islam asked whether Anthropic could pull [] This story continues at The Next Web