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American buyers are leaving electric cars for hybrids and petrol after the $7,500 federal credit ended, with 42.6% of second-quarter EV trade-ins going to a combustion car. Hybrids are already the biggest-selling powertrain in the EU at 37.3%, and the Commission has proposed keeping them legal after 2035. Americans who bought an electric car are [] This story continues at The Next Web

The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 September. Nikkei Asia reported that on Sunday, citing people familiar [] This story continues at The Next Web

For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to be. The change covers anyone applying [] This story continues at The Next Web

France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German government notes seen by Politico Europe show Berlin is wary of Arcadia, the French-built Palantir rival. The worry is that adopting it would trade reliance on an American company for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight. Finding them is only the beginning. For most of the past decade, the list of software a company ran was, at least in theory, one that somebody in IT could find. Today, however, AI is making that increasingly difficult. A [] This story continues at The Next Web

ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the work and a launch possible as soon as next month,Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. One of those people cautioned that the timing is not settled and the plans [] This story continues at The Next Web

A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia and the surrounding provinces, Reuters reported, with initial agreements targeted by the end of this year [] This story continues at The Next Web

A discussion about future training can start with the skills employers expect to value. The World Economic Forum reported in 2025 that surveyed employers expected 39% of workers core skills to change by 2030. Its findings placed analytical thinking first among current core skills and also identified technological literacy, empathy, active listening, and lifelong learning [] This story continues at The Next Web

Autistici/Inventati, an Italian nonprofit that has hosted email, websites, mailing lists, and blogs for activists since 2001, is closing down. The collective said it will discontinue all services and help users retrieve their data, eleven days after the United States listed it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation was announced by the State [] This story continues at The Next Web

Cathay Pacific has flown more than 80 contrail-avoidance routes in a trial with Google that began in late 2025, adjusting cruise altitude to steer clear of the thin bands of humid air where aircraft exhaust freezes into clouds that trap heat. Google puts the result atroughly a 40% reductionin the warming impact of the contrails [] This story continues at The Next Web

Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose. No automated monitoring caught it. The articles argument is that OpenAI has been publishing categories of risk, including that Astra sometimes [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in which the company says it passed $2M in annual recurring revenue. Wave Ventures also took part, and Magnus [] This story continues at The Next Web

Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and more mature deployment systems have shortened the distance between an idea and a working product. But faster delivery also raises the stakes. When architecture, testing, and maintainability are treated as afterthoughts, short-term gains can create long-term problems. That challenge [] This story continues at The Next Web

Taiwan spent this weeks SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once to Brussels: that its chips arrive with democratic governance attached. The commercial half of that argument came with a number, and economy minister Kung Ming-hsin supplied it, announcing a further $20bn of planned Taiwanese investment [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapores state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust. It is the largest single round any Indian space technology company [] This story continues at The Next Web

Huawei has launched a new tri-folding phone two days before Apple is expected to show its first foldable iPhone. The Mate XT 2 was unveiled on Monday and goes on sale in China on 10 September. Apples event falls on 9 September, so both Huawei and Xiaomi will have shown their foldables before Apple shows [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ask a seed investor what they want to see before the next round and the answer is rarely a bigger number. It is a pipeline they can read. Where deals come from, how fast they move, why they stall, and what the founder does about it. Most seed-stage B2B startups cannot show that yet, and [] This story continues at The Next Web

The EUs forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget. The act is not about budget, said Thomas Skordas, deputy director-general of the European Commissions DG CNECT, at a European Parliament event last week, on 3rd of September. What the act will provide is the stimulus to make sure that we move in [] This story continues at The Next Web

Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European growth debt fund at 575M, well past the 500M it set out to raise. The London firm announced the final close today, splitting the total into 440m of Fund IV commitments and 135m of affiliated discretionary mandates. The money lends rather than buys, as growth debt gives [] This story continues at The Next Web

For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is told. Microsoft has now found somebody using the same characters for something far less clever. They were splitting up the word [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropics stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported on Friday that the company expects to start marketing its offering in mid-October at the earliest. The listing would then complete shortly before the US midterms in November. Echo Wang had the story from people [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the companys own quarterly filing. CNBCs Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier the figure stood at about $7bn. Two years earlier, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Mira Muratis Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was the wrong one. The Information broke the story on 3 September. Its current version puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn, on a pre-money valuation of at least $40bn. Accel, an investor since the seed round, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company wants its smart ring to stop being a tracker and start running software. TechCrunchs Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an interview with founder and chief executive Mohit Kumar. It is $65m [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure pay packages and a recruiting market one search firm compares to nothing since cloud. Europe reached the same place by statute, with NIS2 putting the duty on the management body and allowing regulators to bar a chief executive [] This story continues at The Next Web

Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsofts M12 venture arm, backing that helped put the project on the map early. Since then, the company has launched its purpose-built SXT Chain and expanded its Proof of SQL technology across DeFi, institutional finance and AI. In this interview, co-founder and CTO [] This story continues at The Next Web

When Armenia opened the biggest AI factory in its region last month, we filed it under compute diplomacy. The Wall Street Journal now reports what the compute actually bought. Robbie Whelan reported on Friday that US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidias AI chips to help secure a peace deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan [] This story continues at The Next Web

Thailand has stopped construction on 49 data centres, which is more than it currently has running. Anuchit Nguyen reported the suspension for Bloomberg on Friday, after the first meeting of a new supervision commission chaired by finance minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas. The country has 35 data centres in operation and 117 more waiting on investment approval. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Henna Virkkunen told Axios at the G20 innovation ministerial that the US and the EU keep arriving at similar AI protections, Europe by regulating in advance and America through courts and state law. She made the argument at the summit where Washington launched the Carolina Principles urging governments not to create new AI rules or [] This story continues at The Next Web

In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released ChatGPT the same year. Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur set out what happened next, reporting from Nairobi for the New York Times with Edwin Okoth. At its peak early this decade, researchers estimated at least 40,000 people [] This story continues at The Next Web

A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermats Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of Claude agents wrote 13 million lines of Lean code and proved 30,300 intermediate theorems. They used 29,500 [] This story continues at The Next Web

Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint departmental unit, a crisis management team and an external legal adviser. That is what refusing a ransom looks like once the deadline passes. The State of Berlin set out that machinery itself, in a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Googles self-driving secrets cost Uber a fortune, and it helped end Travis Kalanicks time as chief executive. The company is Atoms, Kalanicks new venture. Rafe Rosner-Uddin reported the arrangement for the Financial Times on Sunday. He cited people familiar with [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to console buyers, saying customers paid advertised prices and got working consoles. European buyers absorbed the same increases but there is no European tariff refund, because there was no European tariff. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are [] This story continues at The Next Web

Isar Aerospaces Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday night, the first commercial European company to do so and on only its second flight. It lands four days before Macrons Paris space summit, which SpaceX and Blue Origin withdrew from last week. Isar Aerospaces Spectrum rocket reached orbit [] This story continues at The Next Web

Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit card rewards, monthly plans and a basis for business lending. Research across 25 European languages finds tokeniser fertility ranges from 1.23 tokens per word in English to about 3.1 in Greek and Maltese. Banks, telecom carriers and a district government [] This story continues at The Next Web

SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macrons Paris space summit after White House pressure, though several are expected back in the city days later for World Space Business Week. Organisers describe the event as behind schedule and unclear in purpose, while Washington lobbies against the EU Space Act. Four American space [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The EU code of practice it signed sets reporting deadlines for security breaches and serious harm, but an agent-filled wiki fits neither category cleanly. OpenAI has confirmed its role in the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Californias legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 2028. The METR investigation into OpenAIs Hugging Face incident consumed about $400,000 in API credits provided free by OpenAI, using a model from the same family that took part in the attack. Californias [] This story continues at The Next Web

Japans trade minister said discussions on AI and semiconductors will carry very significant weight in the third tranche of its $550B US investment pact, after two rounds went to energy and minerals. The EUs own framework contains no comparable vehicle, and commits the bloc to buying at least $40B of US AI chips. Japans trade [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities on 3 September including CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion bug in V8 already being exploited, the sixth such flaw this year. Eight days later the Cyber Resilience Act starts requiring manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours of becoming aware. Google patched 12 vulnerabilities in Chrome on 3 September, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft moved for summary judgment in the New York AI copyright litigation on 4 September, arguing Copilot reproduced book passages 24 times in 8.2 million conversations. Two days earlier it began selling GPT-6 Astra through Foundry, a model OpenAI rates Critical for cybersecurity, and European law measures neither the output rate nor the sales pitch. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Tesla shares fell around 6% after a Cybercab update that landed badly and after NHTSA opened an investigation into how the company certified a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Amazons Zoox petitioned for an exemption and was approved in July; Tesla self-certified and did not petition. The complication is that NHTSA is [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the tool that retrieve rather than converse. The articles argument is that the alternative label, Very Large Online Platform, carried safe harbour, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and an MPA-style voluntary ratings scheme, so the debate is over how much self-regulation rather [] This story continues at The Next Web

Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen moving to executive chair. Chakravarthy came up through Digital Experience and worldwide field operations, arrived from enterprise data company Informatica, and championed the Workfront and Semrush acquisitions. The argument here is that the board has picked a leader from the side [] This story continues at The Next Web

Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving the European Commission the only regulator still arguing that a breakup is the fix. A year after its 2.95bn fine, the Commission is still assessing a compliance plan Google filed in November 2025, and the complainants who brought the case [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images with SynthID watermarking. A Munich court ruled against Suno on 31 July over memorised works and infringing outputs, asserting jurisdiction over training done outside the EU. Google has put its Lyria 3.5 music model [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon in Seattle on 31 August, alleging it inflated auction prices for Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display, and generated more than $20bn in additional advertising costs since 2019.As CNBC reported, regulators say 1.2 million advertisers were affected, including more than 500,000 small and medium businesses. [] This story continues at The Next Web

ChargePoint shares rose more than 70% after second-quarter revenue of $116.1M beat the $105.2M expected and losses came in far below forecast. Its Level 3 rollout targets Europe, where AFIR mandates a 150kW charging point every 60km on the trans-European core network. ChargePoints shares rose more than 70% on Thursday. Chief executive Rick Wilmer called [] This story continues at The Next Web