H-1B visa fee hike: Nasscom says Indian IT firms have cut reliance on visas
Indian technology firms have strengthened their US workforce and STEM initiatives as policymakers reassess the role of skilled foreign workers
H-1B visa fee explained: What the $103,265 fee proposal means for US employers and foreign workers
The proposed changes could have significant implications for companies facing worker shortages and professionals seeking temporary employment in the United States
Brazil has fined TikToks owner over the way it handled childrens data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok [] This story continues at The Next Web
Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth
Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit said on Tuesday. That range runs from minus 1% to [] This story continues at The Next Web
Erasable semiconductor is programmed with light
Researchers at Princeton Engineering have created a semiconductor with unique properties: It is just a few molecules thick and can repeatedly change its properties in response to light. This is a step toward building more energy-efficient sensors, optoelectronic devices and computing technologies.
Garmin's new Fenix 9 Pro smartwatch is twice as bright as the previous gen - here's how they compare
Garmin's new flagship Fenix 9 epitomizes the premium rugged smartwatch - but how much of an upgrade is it from the Fenix 8?
Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity
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 plans a $100B spaceport built for thousands of launches a year
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
Emerald AI raises $150mn at a $1.05bn valuation to flex data centre power
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
Stability AI raises $76mn from Universal, Warner, Sony Music and EA
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
AI firms debate connecting test sandboxes to the internet after breaches
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
Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn
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
WhatsApp says more than one billion people now use passkey
WhatsApp said two-step verification is also getting stronger
Shivaami launches Gemini Enterprise Experience Centre
Facility to offer immersive demos, workshops and industry solutions powered by Google Cloud
Apple unveils new Mac mini, Mac studio with major chip upgrades
In May, Apple eliminated the original $599 base configuration, effectively hiking the machines starting price to $799 before the latest increase.
ESDS flags local protest impact on data centre business during IPO announcement of 720 crore
Company raises issue size to 720 crore from 600 crore; plans more centres in industrial areas to address concerns
Xiaomi unveils custom 3nm chip for intelligent driving
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 is coming to Munich, with commercial service targeted for late 2027
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
A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026
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
AI-generated text found on over 1/3rd of new web pages
AI-written text could degrade future AI training data
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
Chip design start-up Aheesa Digital signs distribution partnership with Zigma Technologies
The agreement brings together Aheesas design capability with Zigmas to carry indigenous silicon to the market across India and beyond
It's been 35 years since Finnish graduate student Linus Torvalds drafted a brief note saying he was starting a hobby operating system. The world will never be the same.
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
UK digital infrastructure investment hit
Britains businesses put 11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree. Almost none of the difference is new money. The Office for National Statistics changed what counts on Monday. What the ONS actually [] This story continues at The Next Web
Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers
Liner, a South Korean AI search startup, has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding as it seeks to turn its consumer research platform used by millions into an enterprise AI business. LB Investment led the Series C round, joined by returning investors InterVest, Atinum Investment and CJ Investment. New funding participants included Korea Development [] This story continues at The Next Web
China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch
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
An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost
Australias Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much [] This story continues at The Next Web
Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs
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
Oura is seeking up to $3bn in an IPO that would value it above $16bn
Oura is targeting a September listing that would raise up to $3bn and value the smart ring maker at more than $16bn, according to Bloomberg, several months after the Finnish company filed confidentially for a US IPO. The mark would be a sharp step up from the $10.9bn valuation it carried last September, in a [] This story continues at The Next Web
Lambda is raising up to $3bn before an IPO, months after borrowing $917m for chips
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
AI boom propping up APAC growth but geopolitics, trade shocks headwinds: Moody's Analytics
Growth in the Asia-Pacific region is projected to slow to 4.2% in 2026 and 3% in 2027, down from 4.3% in 2025
Dear peasants: Sam Altman on how some of his rivals sell AI
Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong. The OpenAI chief executive said so to the podcaster David Senra, in an episode released on Sunday. He was answering a question about someone elses prediction. The claim he was pushing back on [] This story continues at The Next Web
US state launches probe into OpenAI after AI agent hacks Hugging Face
Last week, IPO-bound OpenAI said it would slow the pace of model development while overhauling its research and training systems
Alabama Launches Probe into OpenAI After Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI's models hacked technology company Hugging Face last month, raising concerns about how artificial intelligence firms control their powerful systems
Dr Dre says only people who struggle to create are scared of AI
Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview with the New York Times, published on Sunday. His longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine sat alongside him and went further. I think the only people that see it [] This story continues at The Next Web
Samsung, SK Hynix stand to benefit as as Nvidia AI server costs surge
Server manufacturers informed major data center clients like Microsoft, Google, and Oracle that Nvidia-based AI system prices would increase by over 15% for shipments beginning in early 2027
How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn
On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots. The team presented Copilot and had the teachers practise using it to write emails to parents and customise lesson plans. They screened an explainer video from [] This story continues at The Next Web
The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over
A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left. What the court decided Three judges of the US [] This story continues at The Next Web
Tiger Analytics appoints Prakash Arunachalam as Global Head of Operations
Arunachalam will be responsible for increased holistic operational efficiency, agility to enable sustained business growth, and strengthen profitabilityArunachalam will enhance operational efficiency, agility, and profitability for sustained business growth.
OpenAI, Anthropic Lean On TCS & Infosys As Go-To Partners For Enterprise Rollouts
UBS says both frontier AI labs count Infosys among their enterprise partners, with TCS also named by Anthropic, as clients struggle to move AI projects from pilot to production without systems integration support.
T-Hub, Army to back defence start-ups
Founders to work on real problem statements and military deployments
OpenAI Restores 5-Hour Codex, Work Limits For ChatGPT Plus Users
OpenAI is restoring the five-hour usage cap for ChatGPT Plus users on Codex and ChatGPT Work from August 25, citing computing demand and user experience, while Pro, Enterprise and Edu plans remain unaffected.
New Zealand moves to ban social media for under-16s
Platforms would also be required to assess the risks they pose as well as report on how those dangers are being reduced, with penalties slapped on companies that fail to comply
U.S. state probes OpenAI over rogue AI hack
The incident raised alarm about the dangers of AI systems acting autonomously and breaking guardrails set by human programmers to prevent safety violations
Apple gears up to launch its first new Mac Mini in two years
The new desktop will debut as soon as the coming days, potentially putting the unveiling ahead of a September event to introduce the next iPhones
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabamas Attorney General announced an investigation into the incident.
New low-resistance contacts pave way for improved gallium nitride semiconductor devices
Semiconductor devices such as LEDs and transistors generally consist of two halves: an n-type, which carries negative charge via electrons, and a p-type, which moves positive charge carriers called holes that are essentially electron voids. Both halves rely on contacts that allow electric current to flow in and out with minimal energy loss. These connections, known as ohmic contacts, have been an efficiency bottleneck in thin p-type GaN semiconductors for decades because of their high resistance.
Amazon raised its device prices by up to 60% overnight
Amazon raised the price of its own devices overnight on 21 August. The increases run to 60% on the cheapest product in the range, and they were not announced. Fortune reported the change across the hardware line. Pocket-lint had reported the Fire TV increases earlier the same day. Amazon confirmed the rises and blamed memory [] This story continues at The Next Web
Temu-Owner PDD beats profit estimates as revenue growth slows to 8%
PDD Holdings posted adjusted quarterly earnings of 19.33 yuan per share against estimates of 18.51, with revenue up 8% to 112.4bn yuan, or $16.6bn, missing forecasts. Shares rose about 3.5% premarket as European regulatory pressure on Temu continues to build. Temus owner made more money than analysts expected and sold less than they hoped. PDD [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month
Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data centres. It is the third company of that kind Nvidia has bought into in quick succession, according to The Information. Neither company disclosed terms. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday morning that Nvidia was expected to invest [] This story continues at The Next Web
Infineon acquires Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors
The acquisition is expected to strengthen Infineons position in power solutions for AI data centers
Pocket Aces achieves breakeven, strengthens Saregamas digital entertainment ecosystem
During the last fiscal, Pocket Aces, currently a subsidiary of the company, acquired 100 per cent of the equity share capital of Finnet
Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager over chips shipped to China
Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a senior Nvidia manager and eight others over an alleged scheme that shipped 74 servers containing B300 chips to China via Japan and Indonesia. They are seeking five years for forgery and breach of trust. The first known criminal case against an Nvidia employee over AI chip smuggling has reached indictment. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories, and 2022 now looks 30% more AI-skilled than it was
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
Apollo blames social engineering for a four-day breach in July
Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home addresses and Social Security numbers. The private equity firm set out the incident in a notification letter dated 21 August and posted on the California attorney generals website. The letter opens the account of what happened with a [] This story continues at The Next Web
Tata Consultancy Services is buying MHP, the management and IT consultancy Porsche has owned for years, for 320m, and signing a five-year engagement with the carmaker worth 1.25bn on top of it. The two halves are what make the deal worth reading, because Porsche is simultaneously disposing of an asset and committing to buy back [] This story continues at The Next Web
Twitch and Amazon face a class action over livestream AI training
A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazons generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-cv-08721. Its central documentary claim concerns a contract. Twitch announced an opt-out setting [] This story continues at The Next Web
Worldwide semicon revenue to reach $1.6 trillion in 2026: Gartner
The surge, driven by robust investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and a favourable memory pricing cycle, is set to reshape the semiconductor landscape.
A silicon carbide transistor that operates at 600
For more than two decades, silicon carbide (SiC) has been promoted as the key to developing extreme-environment electronics. Yet despite its promise, the field has remained stuck at the stage of basic research, failing to result in the development of practical devices. Now, a team of researchers at Kyoto University has set out to change that.
XPENG said on Monday that its robotics business has raised more than $900M in what the company described as its first funding round, a substantial sum for a unit that has yet to sell a single robot commercially. The timing is deliberate, since the Chinese carmaker has committed to putting its IRON humanoid into mass [] This story continues at The Next Web
GoWish, the Danish wishlist app, is valued at more than $200mn ater its last raising
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
Xiaomi develops its own AI mobile chip in challenge to Qualcomm, MediaTek
The Xring O3 system-on-a-chip advances Xiaomi's in-house semiconductor design efforts with more power-efficient image processing and better artificial intelligence capabilities
Xiaomi takes on Qualcomm with Xring O3, chip launching with Xiaomi 18 Fold in September
Xiaomi takes on Qualcomm with Xring O chip launching with Xiaomi Fold in September
Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC, which it says runs two artificial intelligence systems in parallel while drawing 37% less power than the generation before it. The Sonova-owned brand is pitching the release at the two problems that have defined the category for [] This story continues at The Next Web
Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn
Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn ina Hong Kong share placementwhose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, since the company has spent the past fortnight arguing to investors that its capital [] This story continues at The Next Web
UK fintech funding has fallen to its lowest level in at least a decade
Funding for UK fintech companies has dropped to its lowest level in at least ten years,according to Bloomberg, which reported the figures on Sunday. The decline lands on a sector that Britain has spent the better part of fifteen years describing as its clearest technology success story, and it fits a pattern visible across the [] This story continues at The Next Web
Xiaomi Launches New Version of its Xring Processor
TSMC will manufacture the new chip using its 3-nanometre production technology
SoftBank plans record $6.3bn retail bond sale in Japan
SoftBank plans a record 1 trillion yen retail bond sale, about $6.3bn, the largest by any issuer in Japan, to fund investment commitments to OpenAI. Analysts say banks were reluctant to take the risk, leaving the deal dependent on retail investors. SoftBank has found a lender of last resort for its AI bet, and it [] This story continues at The Next Web
Claude outage hits multiple models again
Anthropics Claude AI is showing signs of overload again. On Monday morning, users trying to work with Claude encountered failed requests and a 529 Overloaded error. The message says the problem is a temporary server-side issue, then sends users to Anthropics status page. A screenshot shared with TNW shows the error appearing in the Claude [] This story continues at The Next Web
India's semiconductor market seen reaching $155 billion by 2031: Report
The report said India's semiconductor opportunity is supported by a combination of domestic demand, a growing chip-design ecosystem, government support and the emergence of manufacturing and packaging capabilities
An AI job boom? Heres what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like
Data work is crucial for developing AI systems; Human data workers must categorise, label, test, and moderate large amounts of text, images, audio, and video to prepare data for AI training
Anthropic market debut could break SpaceX IPO record, says media
Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI models, expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's deal, according to Bloomberg
Nvidia discusses Perplexity investment at $30 billion-plus valuation
The funding round would increase Perplexity's valuation by more than 50% from its previous financing a year ago
NSDC, AWS launch cloud and AI skilling programme for 1.5 lakh learners
The programme will expand access to technology training beyond major cities, helping young Indians build skills for emerging digital careers.
Galbot Robots complete 100 consecutive rallies against a tennis champion
Galbot says its robot completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against former world number 15 Zheng Jie at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The rally count, the autonomy claim and the robots identity all rest on the companys own account. A robot spent Saturday rallying with a former Wimbledon semi-finalist. The [] This story continues at The Next Web
Employers are quietly rehiring the people AI replaced, and paying them less to come back
Forrester reports that 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI and expects half of AI-attributed layoffs to be quietly reversed, with jobs returning offshore or at significantly lower wages. In Europe, a revised directive will require consultation before such decisions, backed by financial penalties. The companies that cut jobs for AI are having [] This story continues at The Next Web
Agentic AI may make cyberattacks faster, more sophisticated: Securonix CEO
Organisations worry AI-powered agents acting on behalf of employees could magnify insider threats
15,000 professionals get BITS Pilani degrees
Graduating cohort includes 2,000 women professionals, 167 medical doctors
Austrian mountain town finds niche in AI boom
Nestled in the wooded hills of Austria
Alibaba seeks $10 billion from share sale for AI expansion
The online retail giant-turned-AI player is offering 710 million shares at HK$112.7 each, represents a discount of 3.6 per cent to the closing price of Alibabas American depositary receipts on Friday
Alibaba is raising $10.2bn and spending all of it on AI
Alibaba is placing HK$80bn, about $10.2bn, of new shares in Hong Kong and says all net proceeds will go to AI infrastructure and capabilities. It comes days after the company reported a 75% fall in quarterly net profit driven by that same spending. Alibaba is going to the market for money to spend on AI, [] This story continues at The Next Web
A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Ouras sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than measurement, and names Finnish parent Oura Health Oy as a defendant. Oura says it stands behind its science and accuracy claims. The number Oura puts on its own product pages is now the subject of a [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia customers notified about AI-related price hikes above 15%
The price hikes will go into effect on systems shipped early next year and will impact systems including those with the flagship Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips
A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on
An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window, and developers have been impressed. OpenRouters own listing says prompts and completions are retained by the unidentified provider. A model that nobody will take credit for is being tested across the industry. Ox Alpha appeared on [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year
Nvidias largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early next year, driven by memory costs. The company reports quarterly earnings next week. Nvidias biggest customers have been told what the memory shortage is going to cost them. Servers containing [] This story continues at The Next Web
China Proposes Initiatives to Strengthen Food Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region
Beijing, August 22: Food security is a fundamental issue linked to human existence and development, and it is a shared concern for all economies in the Asia-Pacific region. To enhance food security cooperation in the region, China has proposed three initiatives to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies. During a high-level government-business dialogue on food ... Read more China Proposes Initiatives to Strengthen Food Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region
Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls
An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023, with no statistically significant employment effect. The gap was 10.7% in the lowest-paid quartile and absent in the highest. The first measurable mark AI has left on the labour market is not unemployment. Apollos [] This story continues at The Next Web
'I can't stop': 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
A Coddy Developer Survey revealed that AI coding is leading to a new kind of burnout.
Betting brands are off Premier League shirts. Enterprise software moved in
Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of the 20 to find new partners at once. Fulhams went to ClickHouse, an American data infrastructure company valued at $15bn. The most valuable advertising space in world sport has changed hands, and some of it went [] This story continues at The Next Web
