75% of developers I surveyed prefer Claude Code - here's why they choose it over Codex
Three out of four of the 138 developers I surveyed use Claude Code. Here's what they say matters in daily AI coding workflows.
Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice that circulated a decade ago. Publish more often, get quoted somewhere respectable, trust the algorithm; the genre rarely rewards close reading. INPUT Global, a communications agency [] This story continues at The Next Web
Legora is reportedly chasing a $10bn valuation, barely a season after its last raise
Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europes fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it lands, the deal would roughly double the figure investors put on the business only months ago, a pace that says as much about the frenzy around [] This story continues at The Next Web
Revolut is building its own airport lounges, starting in Copenhagen in 2027
Revolut, the fintech that built a fortune on the promise that you would never again need to set foot in a bank, is about to start putting up buildings. The company said today that it will open its own premium airport lounges across Europe, with the first due to debut in 2027 at Copenhagen Airport, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle plans fresh August layoffs as its AI spending spree bites
Oracle is planning another round of job cuts this month, according to Business Insider, with some teams reportedly facing double-digit-percentage reductions. Managers have been told to identify the employees affected, and the goal is to trim payroll before 1 September, the start of the companys fiscal second quarter. Oracle declined to comment. It is the [] This story continues at The Next Web
A billion-dollar game deleted a character in 8 days. Then it had the worst month of its life
In June, Love and Deepspace took about $38m across the App Store and Google Play. In July it took just over $10m, mobilegamer.biz reported this week, citing Sensor Tower. The game slid to 16th in the monthly gacha rankings, having never before dropped out of the top five. Put that against its own history and [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta says it has taken down 756,000 Australian teen accounts as ban enforcement looms
Australian government figures and multiple independent studies have shown more than eight in 10 under-16s were still on social media in the bans first three months
L&T secures AI data centre order worth up to 15,000 crore
The centre, hosted at the firms Vyoma.AI unit in Chennai, will have a capacity of 10,000 NVIDIA B300 chips.
Donald Trump is sued for putting a $100,000 paywall on his Truth Social posts
The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have sued President Donald Trump over a Trump Media service that sells paid early access to his Truth Social posts, arguing that a sitting president should not be allowed to put a price on his own official words. The service, called Truth API, gives paying subscribers [] This story continues at The Next Web
Taiwan says AI agents helped hack its government in four days
Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The islands Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National Institute of Cyber Security, disclosed that government agencies were targeted in July, with alerts going out from around 20 July. What makes the [] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to buy Decart for $6bn, its biggest deal yet
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart, an Israeli AI startup, for roughly $6bn, according to reports attributed to Reuters. If it happens, it would be the largest deal in Anthropics history. The talks are not final, both companies declined to comment, and the whole thing could still fall apart. What makes the story [] This story continues at The Next Web
President Donald Trump signs memo letting US agencies hack transnational crime groups abroad
President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising US federal law enforcement to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organisations operating abroad. Washington, in short, is giving itself formal permission to hack the hackers, and it is roughly as consequential as that sounds. The memorandum takes aim at foreign criminal groups [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta says it has removed 756,000 Australian teen accounts, but most under-16s are still online
Meta has deactivated 756,000 Australian accounts it believes belonged to under-16s, a figure it disclosed as the countrys world-first social media ban moves from threat to enforcement. The company says 462,000 of those accounts were on Instagram and 294,000 on Facebook, all removed between December 2025 and June 2026. It is a big, headline-friendly number, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Supreme Court asks Centre to consider framing guidelines on AI ethics
The court disposed of a PIL seeking binding rules on AI ethics, algorithmic impact assessments, bias audits and transparency in high-risk government AI systems.
Black Box secures 1,240-crore data centre order from US hyperscaler
Black Box will provide digital infrastructure services at a key US location over three years, with further expansion expected
Black Box Q1 results: Net profit climbs 18% to 56 crore
Black Boxs revenue from operations jumps 83% to 8,986 crore during Q1 FY27
Meta AI glasses hit with criminal complaint from German advocacy group
Theres no place to escape from smart glasses. You have to expect at any moment to be filmed and then exposed on the internet, said HateAid managing director Josephine Ballon
Why Meta is paying for controversial content and what it means for the posts you see
Facebooks creator economy has raised fresh questions about whether engagement-driven payments can create incentives for provocative or harmful material
Meta says its shut down 7,50,000 under-16 accounts in Australia
The figure includes more than 5,00,000 accounts Meta removed before the law came into effect in December. That includes 462,000 Instagram accounts and 294,000 Facebook accounts.
Meta meets its own 'tobacco' moment as jury selection kicks off trial
Meta founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg is among the star witnesses expected to testify
Q1 Results Today, 13th August 2026 Live Updates: Follow Q1FY27 live updates from businessline
Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone
Code in the latest Uber iOS app refers to adding a tween aged 10 to 12 to an Uber Family profile, with a trusted adult contact and the option to require a grown-up at pickup. Uber says it is not a live product and that its only teen offering remains 13 to 17. Uber is [] This story continues at The Next Web
New model bridges ferroelectric physics and circuit modeling
A new physics-based analytical model can accurately predict ferroelectric behavior under real-world, complex voltages, according to a study led by University of Michigan Engineering. The model bridges the longstanding gap between fundamental switching physics and practical device engineering.
Bharti Airtel discontinues four monthly plans from 300 to 650, entry-level packs remain intact
The telecom operator cancelled its data 299, 579, 619 and 649 on Wednesday
Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts
Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it our fastest growing product ever and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. His post has been seen more than 1.5 million times. Google published the engagement [] This story continues at The Next Web
Why small moments of recognition are becoming critical to workplace culture
Gallups State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, with disengagement costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion annually. Research also shows that engagement is closely tied to how employees experience their workplace relationships. Gallups workplace research found that highly engaged teams achieve [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and attention layers, with a one million token context window. The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The licence is the part that matters. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Jaguar gives the first look inside its all-electric Type 01
Jaguar has published the first interior images of the Type 01, the electric grand tourer that will end a two-year gap in which it stopped selling new cars in the UK. The car is revealed in New York on October 6, after a delay from late 2025 and an expected price of around 100,000. Jaguar [] This story continues at The Next Web
Megadeals took 87.5% of US venture dollars, and the rest of the market is priced by vintage
PitchBook published its Q2 US VC Valuations report on 10 August. Megadeals took 87.5% of the dollars deployed in the first half of 2026. PitchBook defines those as rounds of $100m or more. AI is the primary driver of that concentration, though the figure describes deal size rather than sector. The AI premium is real [] This story continues at The Next Web
Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine
Zoom has patched three memory corruption flaws in its annotation feature that allowed any meeting participant to run code on another attendees device with no interaction. The fixes shipped in June and July 2026, roughly two months before the research was made public. Zoom has patched three flaws in the annotation tools used during screen [] This story continues at The Next Web
GetIntel published its AI Software Index on Wednesday. The study asked roughly 80 buyer-phrased questions in each of 126 software categories, covering 1,825 brands. The questions went to the live ChatGPT and Gemini consumer apps rather than the developer APIs. That produced 9,978 usable answers, all collected on 6 August. The headline result is a [] This story continues at The Next Web
An energy storage device designed to be recycled
Smartwatches, phones and even some drones rely on lightweight, rechargeable energy storage systems. Once those devices wear out, many end up as electronic waste. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have developed a compact supercapacitor that can be quickly disassembled into reusable components. They used the devices to power a glider
Electric cars just hit a record share of China
New energy vehicles took a record 65.1% of Chinese passenger car sales in July, but NEV volumes fell about 2% year on year, a seventh straight monthly decline, while the total market dropped 18%. Geelys Xingyuan was the bestseller and BYDs best performer managed only fifth over six months. Electric and hybrid cars took 65.1% [] This story continues at The Next Web
Indian semicon startups raised $206 million since 2022 as investors back mature bets: Report
The number of funding rounds fell from 16 in 2024 to 7 in H1 2026, even as capital deployed rose sharply
GCCs outpace Indian IT services firms in hiring Forward Deployed Engineers
FDE job postings increased bynearly 700800 per cent between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026
Is Aptoide safe? I tried Android's first alternative app store on Google Play - and it's a mess
Aptoide Games just landed in the Play Store - no sideloading required. I tested it, and caution is advised.
Foxconn now makes more money from AI servers than from everything else combined
Foxconn crossed a line this quarter that it will not cross back. Its cloud and networking division, the one that builds AI servers, made up 51% of revenue in the three months to June. That is the first time the segment has passed half. Smart consumer electronics, the division that contains the iPhone, came to [] This story continues at The Next Web
Its still day zero: Lovable is worth $13.3bn, and the EU just became a shareholder
Lovable is worth $13.3bn and its revenue is tripling. The interesting name on the cheque is the European Union. Lovable has raised $400m at a $13.3bn valuation. The Stockholm company lets people build software by describing it in ordinary language, and it is now one of Europes most valuable startups. Eight months ago it raised [] This story continues at The Next Web
TripleDart tops $7 million ARR with AI-led growth, reports 50 per cent EBIT margin
Bengaluru, India TripleDart, a bootstrapped B2B growth company, today announced it has crossed $7 million in annual recurring revenue while operating at a 50% EBIT margin. The company says software, not additional headcount or capital, drove the jump. The milestone lands in the middle of a heated debate. Venture investors have poured more than $300 [] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre
Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service. No financial terms were disclosed, no launch customer was named, and no firm date was given [] This story continues at The Next Web
Ryanair signs a five-year AI deal with Google Cloud, and a second cloud to fall back on
Ryanair has signed a five-year data and AI partnership with Google Cloud, rolling out Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 employees and making Gemini Enterprise, Googles agentic AI platform, the centrepiece of how Europes largest carrier intends to run itself. The airline has tied the deal explicitly to its growth target of 300 [] This story continues at The Next Web
IIT Madras, CAMS expand partnership for Fintech innovation
The CAMS IIT Madras FinTech Innovation Lab will focus on emerging areas such as AI in financial services, digital payments, blockchain and tokenisation, cybersecurity, regulatory technology, WealthTech and InsurTech
Joby is buying a stealth-technology firm for $500m, and rebuilding its defence arm around it
Joby Aviation has agreed to buy Resonant Sciences, a Dayton, Ohio radar and low-observability specialist, for about $500m, in the largest acquisition the electric air taxi company has made and the clearest signal yet of where it expects its near-term revenue to come from. The structure is $450m in cash and roughly $50m in Joby [] This story continues at The Next Web
Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years to start something new
Brad Lightcap, who spent eight years at OpenAI and four of them as chief operating officer, said on Tuesday that he is leaving to start something new. He did not say what it is. It is bittersweet to share that Ill be moving on from OpenAI to start something new, Lightcap wrote in a post [] This story continues at The Next Web
Spotify will badge AI artist profiles, and keep them out of your recommendations
Spotify will begin attaching anAI Persona badge to artist profiles whose public identity is generated rather than human, the company announced. Profiles carrying the badge will be excluded by default from editorial and algorithmic recommendations, which is the part of the policy that actually bites. There are two versions of the label. Artists can apply [] This story continues at The Next Web
French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers
French media have asked the countrys competition authority to rein in Googles use of artificial intelligence, filing a complaint that seeks to put a price on the AI-generated summaries quietly siphoning readers away from the outlets that produced the underlying journalism. The grievance, lodged by a trade association representing publishers, lands as the fight over [] This story continues at The Next Web
Spotify to slap 'AI Persona' badges on AI-generated artist profiles
Spotify will also review profiles whose public identity appears to represent photorealistic AI-generated imagery
Bumble eases women-first messaging rule as dating apps seek engagement boost
The move comes as dating-app companies grapple with user fatigue toward traditional swipe-based platforms and slowing growth
Senior OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap to leave for new venture
In response to Lightcaps post, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he was excited to work together on whats next.
Q1 Results Today, 12th August 2026 Live Updates: Follow Q1FY27 live updates from businessline
Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud
Impersonation scams grew more than 1,400% year over year in 2025, according to Chainalysis, with the average payment into those clusters rising more than 600%. Across all scam categories the average crypto payment climbed from $782 to $2,764. An attack class does not scale like that because more people are running it. It scales because [] This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work
SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist. SpaceXAI has released Grok Bot, software that hands work to groups of [] This story continues at The Next Web
Sonos Plans September Launch Event and Deeper Push Into Home AI
Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already knows a home. An FCC filing names the first product of that push, the Ace Ultra headphones, expected at a September launch event. Sonos is betting that the value of AI in the home sits in [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple Executive Who Launched Apple Pay Is Retiring After 25 Years
Jennifer Bailey, head of Apple Pay and Wallet since the service launched in 2014, is retiring in October after more than 25 years at Apple. Her exit is one of several senior departures ahead of Tim Cook handing the chief executive job to John Ternus on September 1. Jennifer Bailey, who has run Apple Pay [] This story continues at The Next Web
IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers
A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money in artificial intelligence is no longer only in building [] This story continues at The Next Web
Tesla emptied its share of California
Tesla exhausted its share of Californias MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of Californias new first-time buyer rebate in five days. The MyFirstEV scheme opened this month, and Tesla started [] This story continues at The Next Web
There are increasing calls for tighter legislation and restrictions on social media use, particularly for children and young people. Evidence shows potential harms coexist on social media platforms alongside opportunities for crisis support and connection.
Vi optimistic of closing funding discussions with PSU banks: CEO Abhijit Kishore
The company is said to be mainly in talks with the State Bank of India, while also exploring other funding routes
Agentic AI emerges as mid to high level priority for Indian banks
Senior executives highlight its potential to transform decision-making, security and innovation across the sector
River AI raised $1.1bn to let companies train and keep their own models
River AI has raised $1.1bn, roughly four months after the company was incorporated. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and further money from Y Combinator and Temasek. The Palo Alto company was founded by Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI. The pitch is that companies [] This story continues at The Next Web
China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in
As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on Chinas coast this week, the countrys bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring resources into models that promise to see [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta smart glasses banned from courts across England and Wales
His Majestys Courts & Tribunals Service has banned Meta smart glasses from court buildings across England and Wales, a move that pulls one of Silicon Valleys buzziest gadgets into a very old argument about who gets to record what. HMCTS, which runs the criminal, civil and family courts, will now confiscate the glasses on entry [] This story continues at The Next Web
Equitybee has launched Equitybee Benchmark, a free tool that lets US startup employees compare equity grants across roles, seniority levels, departments, and company stages. The company argues that while salary benchmarking has been everywhere for years, equity data has stayed locked inside HR teams and employers. You would never accept a salary without comparing it [] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump Media posts a $238m quarterly loss as its bitcoin bet sours
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the companys slow drift from social network to crypto holding vehicle into something close to a headline. Most of [] This story continues at The Next Web
Coforge launches new PE business unit
New unit to help PE firms drive operational transformation and AI-led value creation across portfolios
AI push: TCS, Google Cloud launch Gemini Experience center in Mexico
Located in TCS' Mexico City office, the new facility will enable organisations in the region with advanced AI capabilities
HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML
HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and the deal says as much about where the industry now thinks the value in enterprise AI is settling as it does about any single company. The investment was made through [] This story continues at The Next Web
Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit
Amkor Technology, one of the worlds largest outsourced chip assembly and testing firms, is weighing a sale of a stake in its China operations, a deal that could value the unit at between $1bn and $1.5bn, according to Bloomberg. The Arizona-based company, which has been pouringrecord sums into advanced packaging, has engaged an adviser to [] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms
Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Claude maker a large slab of capacity at a Texas campus that Riot Platforms is [] This story continues at The Next Web
House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents
US House Democrats have decided that AI agents breaking loose from their test environments is a matter for Congress, and on Monday they put that view in writing. Two letters went out, one to OpenAI and one to Anthropic, each demanding an account of how the companies own systems slipped their leashes during security testing, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC
Intel has announced a $15bn common-stock offering, a sale that could swell to as much as $20bn if underwriters take up their overallotment options. It is a bold move for a company that, not long ago, looked like a cautionary tale, and it shows just how far the chipmakers fortunes have turned in the space [] This story continues at The Next Web
Six finance giants back Nvidia
Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls compute financing platforms, structures designed to mobilise over $500bn of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Iran and Germany Discuss Hormuz Strait Crisis, Blame US for Tensions
New Delhi, August 11: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and German Foreign Minister Johan Wadephul held a phone conversation regarding regional conditions and the security of the Hormuz Strait. During their discussion, both ministers emphasized that Iran holds the military actions of the US and Israel responsible for the rising tensions and stressed the importance ... Read more Iran and Germany Discuss Hormuz Strait Crisis, Blame US for Tensions
Vienna startup most of the tech world has not heard of just posted numbers that would turn heads anywhere. fonio.ai, a European platform for AI-powered customer calls, says it has surpassed $10m in annual recurring revenue in under twelve months. Since February, when the company switched from a prepaid model to subscriptions, it says it [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia taps Wall Street for $500 billion funding commitment
US investment giants including Apollo Global Management Inc., Blackstone Inc., BlackRock Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management are coming together to create pools of capital at attractive rates for Nvidia customers
Anthropics Claude to mark all AI content, including text
The changes are being rolled out as Anthropic signed the EU AI Acts Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
How AI is transforming frontend engineering for modern web applications
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a core part of software development, but its biggest impact may not be replacing developers, it may be redefining what developers spend their time doing. For frontend engineers, AI is shifting the focus from repetitive coding to designing smarter, more resilient digital experiences. Traditionally, frontend development involved building user interfaces, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Wipros Nifty exit reflects waning clout of IT giants
BSE will replace Wipro in the gauge from Sept 30 as part of a semi-annual review. The switch comes as concerns over artificial intelligence and slowing global technology spending weigh on biggest software services firms.
TCS flags alleged exposure of some employee data, says customer data not impacted
TCS said it has had safeguards in place for over two years against the manner in which this attack was carried out. Its own operational systems have not been impacted, the IT firm said
Chinese military researchers tap U.S. AI models to train defence systems
As Chinese AI models close the gap with their U.S. counterparts, military researchers are also examining distillation as a potential security risk
Q1 Results Today, 11th August 2026 Live Updates: Follow Q1FY27 live updates from businessline
Meta releases new open weight model, pushes global AI vision amid race with rivals
In a long essay published Monday about the future of artificial intelligence, Zuckerberg called for the U.S. to compete against China
China Still Germanys Top Trade Partner But German Exports Plunge
China remains Germanys biggest trading partner, but the trade relationship is becoming increasingly uneven. German exports to China fell more than 12% in the first half of 2026, while Chinese exports to Germany rose 9%. Meanwhile, German exports to other EU countries jumped 7.5% raising fresh questions about the future of Germanys industrial powerhouse.#Germany #China #Trade #GermanEconomy #Europe #ChinaGermany #Economy
Valve is warning Steam Machine buyers that scammers have their address
Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNETs Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday. CEVA told Valve about the breach on 7 August, and Valve spent the following days working [] This story continues at The Next Web
Graphene-powered soft lens could pave the way for smarter glasses, cameras and medical devices
The ability to change focus instantly is something most people take for granted. Every day, our eyes effortlessly switch between reading a book, recognizing a face across the room or watching a bird fly overhead. Replicating that remarkable technological flexibility, however, has proved far more difficult.
This pocket-sized gadget helped cut down our editor's screen time - and it's on sale
Brick can curb your screen time, and it's on sale for a limited time.
Why recovery readiness has become the new standard for cyber resilience
As outages become more expensive and frequent, recovery readiness is emerging as the true measure of resilience.
Apple has run out of iPhone shapes, and Jefferies just cut it to sell
Jefferies cut Apple from hold to underperform on Monday. That is the banks equivalent of a sell rating. It also cut its price target from $285.56 to $263.66. Fortunes Sebastian Herrera reported the call. The banks supply-chain checks produced three reasons. Apple has cancelled a rumoured all-glass iPhone, memory prices are surging, and there is [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout. Its shares fell on the news
A group of financial firms is working with Nvidia on a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure. The group covers Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRocks Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The Financial Times reported the talks first. Bloomberg confirmed them with people familiar with the matter. A deal could land [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI paused a model over cyber risk on Friday. On Monday it shipped one trained to refuse less.
OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber on Monday. It is a model built on GPT-5.6 Sol and trained for zero-day discovery and exploit-chain development, and the company says it was also trained to refuse fewer higher-risk dual-use cyber requests. Access runs only through Daybreak, the vetted cybersecurity programme OpenAI is now expanding. Axios Sam Sabin reported it first. [] This story continues at The Next Web
