Anthropic IPO launch shifts toward mid-October, sources say
The artificial intelligence company had been expected to make its IPO prospectus public as early as next week, two of the people said
Thousands of OpenAI AI agents took over German website, researchers say
The agents, AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step, left about 18,000 messages on DSEwiki, a German site for programmers
Thousands of OpenAI AI agents took over German website, researchers say
The agents, AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step, left about 18,000 messages on DSEwiki, a German site for programmers
Apple faces 2 billion lawsuit in UK over app privacy feature
The claim, filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal by law firm Hausfeld, centres on Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system
Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks
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 tells court Copilot rarely copies books while selling OpenAI
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
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 just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it
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
Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google
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 brings its Lyria 3.5 music model to every Gemini user
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 CEO says growth is starting to accelerate after a 70% stock surge
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
Britain built a legal route to driverless taxis in May. London
Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September, in whatWayve described in a statementas the UKs first autonomous ride-hailing service. Every car has a trained, TfL-licensed private hire driver on board. Olivia Solon rode one on a wet morning this week andsummarised the experience for Bloombergas autonomous rides with hands still [] This story continues at The Next Web
India moves beyond AI adoption to open-source contribution: Red Hat
Indian engineers are increasingly recognising that developing deep expertise requires going upstream and understanding technologies through engagement with the wider community
Executives at Abu Dhabis G42 have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies,Bloomberg reported on Friday, as the firm races to guarantee access to advanced chips beyond next year. Alex Dooler, Zainab Fattah and Dinesh Nair sourced the account to people familiar with the matter, who declined to be identified because [] This story continues at The Next Web
Emirates has wired a privacy screen into premium economy. The harder sell is the hub underneath it.
Emirates has launched a premium economy seat with a full-height privacy divider that raises and locks at the touch of a button, on newly delivered Airbus A350s. The airlinedescribed it in a statement on Thursdayas the worlds first electrically powered premium economy seat, and the divider as the first of its kind in the cabin [] This story continues at The Next Web
Volkswagen plans 50,000 more job cuts, taking the total to 100,000
Volkswagens supervisory board unanimously approved cutting a further 50,000 jobs, bringing planned reductions to 100,000, and left four German plants without secured production from 2031 to 2034. Half that board represents the workforce and Lower Saxony holds 20% of the voting rights under the 1960 Volkswagen Law. Volkswagen will cut another 50,000 jobs. Its supervisory [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple to Kick Off Ternus Era With Its Biggest-Ever Slate of New Products
Apple is about to start the biggest run of device releases in its history, delivering a wave of fresh form factors and whole new product areas in 2026, 2027 and beyond
Electric cars outsold every other powertrain in Britain last month
Battery-electric cars took a record 29.8% share of UK registrations in August, outselling every other powertrain, though year-to-date uptake of 25.6% remains below the 33% zero emission mandate. The Commission has proposed cutting the EUs 2035 target from 100% to 90%, permitting plug-in hybrids and range extenders. Electric cars were Britains best-selling powertrain last month. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Syrma SGS weighs semiconductor opportunity with caution
The long-term success of the companies will be dependent on what is the ability of the management to say no to a particular opportunity. Saying yes is very easy, says Managing Director Jasbir Singh Gujral
The nonprofit that investigated OpenAI
American philanthropy is about to absorb something in the region of $40bn a year in new annual spending from AI wealth, Coefficient Giving chief executive Alexander Bergertold Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smithin an interview published on Thursday. That is four or five Gates Foundations of yearly outlay, on his own comparison. The figure is conditional on [] This story continues at The Next Web
Ananth Tech supplies critical avionics, electronic systems for GSLV, EOS-05
The flight hardware packages support critical vehicle operations across the different stages of the launch vehicle
Indias card use to climb on convenience, inclusion, report says
Debit cards remain dominant, but consumers are increasingly favoring credit for benefits like rewards, discounts, and installment options, according to GlobalData report
Novo Nordisk Foundation to build $62M quantum chip plant in Copenhagen
Europe is getting a factory for quantum chips rather than another quantum computer. Quantum Foundry Copenhagen, owned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is building a 5,300-square-metre facility in the Danish capital that is due to open in 2027 and will offer wafer fabrication to quantum companies around the world. The investment is about $62M, according [] This story continues at The Next Web
DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre
DeepSeek is preparing a large order of Huawei AI chips for a new data centre, according to Bloomberg. Neither the size of the order nor the chip model has been disclosed, and DeepSeek has not confirmed the plan. The data centre has been reported since the summer. Bloomberg described a site of roughly one gigawatt [] This story continues at The Next Web
South Korea confirms chip investment talks with US as tariff threat grows
South Korea negotiated tariff protection for its chipmakers, and Washington is pressing for American factories anyway. Semiconductor investment is now part of the broader talks between the two governments, a presidential official in Seoul has confirmed. The confirmation wasreported byReuters, and it follows Washington signalling plans for targeted tariffs on semiconductor imports. Howard Lutnick has [] This story continues at The Next Web
iQOO 16 will be launched with the latest Samsung OLED display with the M16 luminescent material, along with the next-generation LEAD [Low Power, Eco-Friendly, Augmented Brightness, and Design Slim and Light] display technology, a tipster claims. The iQOO 16 will reportedly be the first Android handset to ship with Samsungs LEAD display technology, which is expected to be found also on the iPhone Ultra, Apples first book-style foldable smartphone. The Vivo sub-brand is also reportedly collaborating with Samsung for more display-related features coming with the flagship iQOO 16. However, neither of the tech firms has confirmed these details.
BASF sues Apple over Face ID patents in Texas federal court
The worlds largest chemical company is suing Apple over Face ID. BASF filed a patent infringement claim on Thursday, alleging that dozens of iPhone and iPad models use face authentication technology covered by patents it owns. The case was reported by Reuters and was filed in federal court in Texas, in the Western District that [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Astra, to roll out immediately
OpenAI has officially launched GPT-6 Astra, hailed as 'the world's most intelligent and aligned model,' designed to excel in computer browsing, software engineering, mathematics, and enterprise workflows, with immediate deployment for select organisations.
How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal's tunnel rescue efforts
The messaging group was set up by engineers before the wall of water, mud and rock crashed down the Trishuli valley in Nepal on August 26. It has since become a valuable tool alongside helicopters and heavy machinery in the race to find survivors.
U.S. auto safety regulator says evaluating Tesla's Cybercab rollout
The Cybercab is a two-seater autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, pedals or mirrors
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, Sam Altman calls it best AI model in the world
OpenAI launches GPT Astra Sam Altman calls it best AI model in the world
OpenAI begins rollout of new powerful AI model GPT-6 Astra
Astra can autonomously handle website creation, scientific analysis, game development, cybersecurity, coding, etc., says OpenAI
ChatGPT-6 Astra: OpenAI Begins Rolling Out 'Most Aligned Model' - Features, Pricing & More
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, a frontier AI model focused on reasoning, coding, computer use, science and cybersecurity, with strong benchmark results, advanced agentic capabilities and API pricing...
OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyberdefense effort amid AI safety scrutiny
New Astra model unveiled; initiative to start with US utilities, grids and local governments
OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra model with cyber guardrails
The new model will one day be seen as the early stages of artificial general intelligence, referring to software that outperforms humans at a wide range of tasks: OpenAI President
Adobe appoints Anil Chakravarthy as new CEO, Shantanu Narayen to become executive chair
The leadership change comes as Adobe seeks to defend its design software dominance amid growing competition and disruption from artificial intelligence
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is 'the most intelligent and aligned model in the world'
The new frontier model is particularly competent at agentic, computer-use tasks.
New Jersey just legalised cheap plug-in balcony solar panels
New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar up to 1,200W, barring local governments from requiring approvals and stopping landlords from blocking installation. Germany wrote the same right into its civil code in October 2024 and now has 1.31 million registered systems at 1.34GW. New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar. A new law bars municipalities [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived
OpenAIs president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the companys new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans. I do leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves if this qualifies for them, Brockman said. I think [] This story continues at The Next Web
Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology
Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe the binding constraint is grid capacity, with Denmark holding roughly 60GW [] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
Why video is the first frontier as AI learns to read the physical world
A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason to watch any of it. The footage only becomes useful when a package goes missing, an accident happens or somebody needs to work backwards from an [] This story continues at The Next Web
The 24-hour CRA deadline is changing software supply chain visibility
According to an analysis published by The Hacker News, manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the European Union will face a September 11 deadline under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) to notify regulators within 24 hours after learning that a vulnerability is being actively exploited, with a fuller report due within 72 hours. [] This story continues at The Next Web
The 10 best autonomous pentesting tools, ranked by proof of exploit (2026)
How the leading autonomous penetration testing platforms validate every exploit before it reaches your dashboard Security teams seldom lose because a scanner missed a bug. They lose because the dashboard fills with findings nobody has proven. Astra Security has provided a comprehensive State of Pentesting 2026 report which built on 6.8 million findings across 8,000-plus [] This story continues at The Next Web
Transparent silicon-photonics chips could bring advanced optical systems to curved displays
The field of silicon photonics, which uses light rather than electricity to transmit and process data on semiconductor chips, has enabled optical systems to evolve from bulky setups to compact, advanced systems. Typically, however, these silicon-photonics chips are rigid and opaque.
Top Rippling alternatives for mid-market companies
Rippling sells one bundle for HR, IT, and finance, and the pitch lands well until an HR team reads the invoice. The base platform carries a low sticker price, then payroll, benefits, device management, and app provisioning each arrive as separate modules with their own per-employee fees. For a people team that wants a strong [] This story continues at The Next Web
A Tesla-style screen can modernise an older Silverado. The hard part is making everything else work
Pickup trucks have a useful life that can span decades, but the digital interfaces of such trucks can hardly be as graceful. Infotainment systems specific to vehicles are becoming a software solution between outdated hardware and new demands. A pickup truck manufactured in 2007 and one manufactured in 2026 may have a similar badge, yet [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn and promises to leave it open
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI community stores and shares its models, while promising to leave the platform itself largely unchanged. The price values the ten-year-old company at roughly 86 times [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk
Avalon Technologies and Zollner Elektronik AG ink JV for a new EMS facility near Chennai
Under the terms of the JV, Zollner will initially hold 51%, with an option for Avalon to own the controlling stake three years after the commencement of production at the upcoming facility in TN
I&B Ministry notifies revised draft rules of unified regulatory framework
Through these draft Rules, the Ministry is proposing to bring satellite television channels, DTH, HITS, private FM radio, community radio and IPTV under a unified regulatory framework.
Reverse migration rethink: US-based Indian tech talent may be looking homeward
US-based Indian tech talent faces visa uncertainties, prompting many to reconsider returning to Indias growing job market.
Bluehill leads 10.2 cr seed round in semicon metrology startup Makr Microsystems
The Fund is looking beyond the most visible parts of the semiconductor value chain to back frontier technologies that can become critical infrastructure for the industry
ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude face major service disruptions globally
Thousands of users reported difficulties accessing leading AI services on Thursday, with outages affecting websites, applications and response generation.
Government likely to issue social media code of conduct for officers, employees
The proposed rules could apply to all government employees, irrespective of rank, with guidelines aimed at preventing undesirable posts across platforms
IT firms explore model routing to manage cost and complexity
Experts believes that the same frontier lab can have a suite of multiple models with different cost and capability implications
Every time a typical enterprise AI agent spins up to answer an internal question, it wakes up with severe amnesia. To make the AI useful, companies are forced into a costly, repetitive cycle: scraping thousands of documents, Slack threads, and CRM entries, and force-feeding them into the prompt window for context. It is a brute-force [] This story continues at The Next Web
From One Corridor to Many: Indonesia as the Blueprint for Asia
Across Asia, issuers are bringing local currencies onchain, regulators are establishing digital asset frameworks, and financial institutions are exploring stablecoins for payments, treasury, and cross-border settlement. Issuance, however, is only the first layer of a functioning financial network. Moving local currencies between countries requires banking connectivity, institutional liquidity, foreign exchange execution, compliance, and settlement infrastructure. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion in major AI bet
Hugging Face offers AI models, datasets, software libraries and cloud services used to build and deploy artificial intelligence applications
ZEISS opens its first Innovation Hub outside Germany at Chennais IIT Madras Research Park
The centre will focus on areas including advanced frugal engineering, harsh-environment optics, robotics and fluid dynamics, while undertaking interdisciplinary research with real-world industrial applications
Belkin brings semi-solid-state batteries to a $70 power bank
The car industry keeps calling this battery chemistry a decade away. Belkin has just put it in a $69.99 power bank. The company announced three product lines at IFA 2026 in Berlin on Thursday. They arrived as three separate releases, covering portable power, trackers and chargers, and audio. The headline part is the UltraCharge Pro [] This story continues at The Next Web
India has highest share of Frontier Professionals among 10 markets: Microsoft
Indian AI users are increasingly taking on work that was not possible a year ago, while retaining human judgment and oversight
A Berlin company has won the worlds first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No radiologist looks at it. Vara, which trades as MX Healthcare GmbH, announced the certification on Wednesday in a statement issued through Business Wire. Chief executive Jonas Muff set out the reasoning in a longer post the [] This story continues at The Next Web
Muslim man watches Hanuman Ansh barefoot in viral video, internet reacts
Muslim man watches Hanuman Ansh barefoot in viral video internet reacts
Lexlegis.ai appoints Chaturvedi as Senior Vice President
Chaturvedi joins from LexisNexis, where he was Director Sales from April 2018
Texas spent a decade telling data centre developers they were welcome. Now its Republicans are competing over who can regulate them most aggressively, a shift that Reuters reports has put Big Tech on notice in the state that hosts more data centres than any other. The change is showing up on the ballot. Data centres [] This story continues at The Next Web
Snowflake beat on almost everything. One number went the other way
Snowflake beat expectations on revenue, on profit and on guidance, and its shares rose more than 20% after hours. One number in the release went the other way, and it is the one that looks furthest into the future. Remaining performance obligations, the contracted revenue Snowflake has booked but not yet recognised, came in at [] This story continues at The Next Web
The FAA just let a pilotless cargo plane fly out of a working airport
An aircraft with nobody on board flew itself out of a working Louisiana airport last week. It carried spare parts, medical supplies and cans of water. Its route took it over peoples houses. Elroy Air said on Wednesday it had completed the first uncrewed autonomous flights under a federal programme. That programme exists to fold [] This story continues at The Next Web
The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it
In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m award from the Armys Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fires. The company [] This story continues at The Next Web
London has its first robotaxi service, and there is a person sitting behind the wheel of every car. Uber and Wayve began carrying passengers on Thursday in a fleet of Ford Mustang Mach-Es, each one supervised by a licensed driver who can take over. Uber owns and operates the vehicles while Wayve, the British company [] This story continues at The Next Web
Google announces Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber AI models
Google announced the launch of its new AI model, Gemini 3.8, with two variants
John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as Lake America to users in the United States. Mark Gurman reported the change for Bloomberg on Tuesday evening. [] This story continues at The Next Web
ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia
ByteDance has landed a $29.6bn loan, the second-largest in Asia this year and roughly three times what the TikTok owner borrowed offshore in 2024. Banks put in more than $30bn of orders for a facility that started life at $20bn. The terms werefirst reported by Bloomberg. Citigroup and JPMorgan are coordinating the deal, which runs [] This story continues at The Next Web
In an interview with to businessline, on the sidelines of Xperience, Nel He also gave details about strategy for multilingual mechanism to serve various regions of the company.
A breach at Thomson Reuters reached appellate courts in twelve US jurisdictions
Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court software business sells to judiciaries. The records involved come from appellate courts in a dozen US jurisdictions and from Ontario, Canada. The company detected the activity in its cloud environment on 30 June, according toReuters, which is [] This story continues at The Next Web
We will continue to invest, grow in India, says Genesys Chairman & CEO Tony Bates
Bates said India is a key market for Genesys, with its local R&D teams playing a growing role in developing products for customers worldwide.
GOAT Debate Settled: Lionel Messi Breaks Internet With Receipt-Style Instagram Post
Lionel Messi has added his own twist to the long-running debate over football's greatest player by sharing a receipt-style Instagram post highlighting his achievements with Argentina.
Anthropic back on 'right side' with Trump administration, U.S. Commerce secretary says
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said AI giant Anthropic is back on the right side with the Trump administration
Google escapes U.S. bid to break up its ad business
The case focused on Googles ad tech stack, the suite of tools that website publishers use to sell ads and advertisers use to buy them
Google escapes U.S. bid to break up its ad business
The case focused on Googles ad tech stack, the suite of tools that website publishers use to sell ads and advertisers use to buy them
OpenAI is building 'automated shutdown' capabilities for AI tools, letter to lawmakers says
The companys safety practices have come under scrutiny since OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI agents went rogue during a security test and hacked into AI company Hugging Face
Uber says laying off 'about 10%' of workforce worldwide
Uber has a total of roughly 34,000 employees with operations in more than 70 countries, according to a recent SEC filing
Trump supports OpenAI in copyright fight with New York Times
The Trump administration has contributed a 20-page brief in support of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces ban on AI use for students until high school
Only high school students, typically aged 14 and above, will be permitted to use artificial intelligence in limited pilot programmes
OpenAI faces new lawsuits over Tumbler Ridge mass shooting tragedy
Multiple new cases have been filed against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT played a role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. OpenAI faces new lawsuits over Tumbler Ridge mass shooting tragedy
New York bans AI in primary school, three months after Norway did
New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for pupils from 2-K through eighth grade, removing student-facing AI software and companion chatbots for around 600,000 children. Norway banned generative AI in its primary schools in June, and the EU AI Act regulates AI used on pupils rather than AI used by them. [] This story continues at The Next Web
