I used OpenFactory to build my own Linux distro overnight - this AI tool is going to be big
Need a custom Linux distribution, but don't have time to learn how to build one? OpenFactory can help you.
Over 68,000 students trained in semiconductor chip design under C2S programme
254 chip designs taped out; initiative aims to create 85,000 industry-ready professionals
Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run
The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead buyer. UBS is advising. Lightspeed did not reply to Bloombergs messages and Coller declined to [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI startup Discovered Materials bags $9 million to speed up chip material discovery
The startup has also released hundreds of materials identified using AI and launched Material Discovery Bench, a benchmark designed to test AI agents on real-world semiconductor material problems
Meta removed 756,000 Australian accounts. Its real ask is that Apple does the checking
Representatives of Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap give evidence to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Friday, Reuters reported. Regulators and government officials appear too. Meta went first, and it went alone. On Wednesday it published its enforcement figures on its own newsroom, covering 1 December 2025 to 30 June 2026. No other platform has released [] This story continues at The Next Web
Campus placements rebound in 2026 as IT firms step up fresher hiring
Better visibility among major service firms alongside increasing demand from start-ups and core sectors is contributing to a rebound in fresher hiring this year, say experts
Joshua Kushners Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven overwhelmingly by early bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. The letter, reported by Bloomberg, reads as a victory lap and a quiet [] This story continues at The Next Web
Pony.ai and Uber to put more than 2,000 Chinese robotaxis on European streets
Pony.ai and Uber have expanded their partnership to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, a deal that hands one of Chinas autonomous-driving champions a route onto the continents streets through an American app and a scattering of local fleet owners. The arrangement is divided as Pony.ai supplies the Level 4 self-driving technology and [] This story continues at The Next Web
DeepSeek launches V4 Pro at prices up to 14 times higher than V4 Flash
DeepSeeks V4-Pro-0813 is priced at $1.32 per million input tokens and $3.96 per million output tokens, according to independent benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis
Z.ai to Rival Anthropic, OpenAI in Coding With New AI Model
The next iteration from the Beijing-based company, GLM-5.3, will bring improved coding capabilities that will help it close the gap on AI leaderboard toppers like Anthropics Fable 5
OpenAI is losing senior leaders one after another: Whats really going on?
OpenAI is having a wave of high-profile executives walking out the door lately, and people are starting to wonder whats really going on inside the company. The latest to leave is Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dressershe just announced she's stepping down in the coming weeks. Her exit follows quickly behind Brad Lightcap, another senior leader, who announced his departure just days earlier.
Goldman Sachs is courting investors on Nvidia
Goldman Sachs has secured the role every Wall Street firm wanted, and it is now working the phones. The bank is in talks with investors about Nvidias $500bn AI-compute financing deal, having landed a prized mandate that effectively casts it as the lead, and for now near-sole, lender behind one of the largest infrastructure-funding efforts [] This story continues at The Next Web
India less exposed to AI job risks than others, Goldman says
Construction and retail trade account for about 40% of Indias workforce, and its not really getting impacted by AI currently, Goldman Sachs economist says
Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn
Silver Lake is in talks to take Workday, the cloud-based HR and finance software company, private in a deal that would value it at roughly $43bn, according to a Reuters report. If it comes off, it would rank among the largest software buyouts ever struck, and a rare vote of confidence in a corner of [] This story continues at The Next Web
This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early
Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: this is prescreening in trials, not a proven diagnostic. A dogs nose has long outclassed most laboratory kit, and a two-year-old Bengaluru startup called Dognosis is [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI revenue nearly doubles to $40 billion
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Codex, has seen its annualized revenue run rate exceed $40 billion. The figure is nearly double what it was at the end of 2025.
Meta pushes back against state attorney generals over social media addiction lawsuit as trials begin
The lawsuit alleges that Meta harnessed powerful technologies to entice and ensnare young users through features such as push notifications and infinite scrolling
Investors sue Selena Gomez, claiming her wellness startup
Selena Gomez, one of the most-followed people on the planet, is being sued by investors who say her mental-health startup Wondermind was a hollow promise dressed up as a movement. The complaint, filed against the singer and her mother and co-founder Mandy Teefey, alleges securities fraud and breach of contract. All of the claims are, [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI sees 2nd major executive departure in a week
OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer, Denise Dresser, has announced her resignation after a brief stint with the company. The move comes as part of a wave of high-profile departures from the ChatGPT-maker.
Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness
Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded harness built to do something the industry has been curiously reluctant to promise: spend fewer tokens. The model is a post-training variation on Z.ais open-source GLM-5.2, and it is available to Writers clients from today. The pitch arrives at [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba's support, sources say
Apple Intelligence, the companys suite of AI tools, is expected to launch in China in the coming months after an update to its iOS operating system, the people said
Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibabas support
Apple Intelligence, the companys suite of AI tools, is expected to launch in China in the coming months after an update to its iOS operating system, the people said.
OpenAI releases Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, makes the AI 14 times faster
OpenAI releases Ultrafast mode for GPT Sol makes the AI times faster
OpenAI sees another exit as revenue chief Denise Dresser leaves after just 8 months
OpenAI sees another exit as revenue chief Denise Dresser leaves after just months
Wipro onboarding delay: NITES seeks Labour Ministry intervention for 200+ candidates
The development raises concerns over recruitment practices as selected candidates seek clarity on their offers, joining timelines and employment prospects
OpenAI revenue doubles to over $40 billion as IPO plans gather pace
The surge highlights intensifying demand for generative AI services as companies expand their use of coding tools, agents and enterprise applications
Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation
Databricks has closed a $5bn round at a $190bn valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate past $7bn and growth above 80% year on year. That is a 42% valuation increase in six months, and it comes after chief executive Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a bad year to go public. Databricks has closed $5bn at [] This story continues at The Next Web
IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push
IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether todays safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
OpenAI hires Dali Rajic as CRO, second revenue chief in less than a year
The AI startup has hired Dali Rajic, president and chief operating officer of Alphabet Inc.-owned cybersecurity firm Wiz, as its new revenue chief.
GM and LG restart Ohio battery production after seven idle months
Ultium Cells, the GM and LG Energy Solution joint venture, restarts EV battery cell production in Warren, Ohio next week after a seven-month shutdown, with about 1,400 workers. US EV sales rose 14.2% in the second quarter but remain 20.5% below a year earlier. The battery plant that GM and LG idled in January is [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI accidentally makes attack bots
Multiple bots exploited a vulnerability in OpenAIs security system to gain internet access. Tags: attack , bot , OpenAI
Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were opt-in, nobody would opt in. Twitch has added a setting that stops Amazon training [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI is not just replacing its revenue chief, it is rebuilding the sales operation
OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving after eight months, replaced by Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief operating officer of Wiz. The company has also hired recruiters to rebuild its go-to-market team, two days after longtime executive Brad Lightcap said he was leaving. OpenAIs chief revenue officer is leaving after eight months in [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues
Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson.
Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, and its all-electric propulsion produced more than one megawatt. The airframe explains the record. The X1 has a wingspan of about 32 metres, runs 23 metres [] This story continues at The Next Web
Aurionpro bags data centre order worth nearly 100 crore from global hyperscaler in Navi Mumbai
The win adds to Aurionpros growing order book in the data centre segment, where it positions itself as a full-stack solutions provider
Omdia says phone prices will stay high after the shortage ends
Start with the number, because it is the kind that settles an argument. In the first quarter of 2026, panel makers shipped 298 million displays into the refurbished phone market. They shipped 289 million to the companies that make new phones. The refurbished figure was up 20% year on year, according to Omdia. The two [] This story continues at The Next Web
NITES flags prolonged onboarding delay for 200-plus Wipro Elite hires
NITES said the candidates had repeatedly approached Wipros HR teams and other channels but had not received a substantive response
Explosion at Europe's largest port kills one, injures six as investigators probe cause
Cloudflare and Trail of Bits now audit who Signal says you are talking to
Here is the problem, and it is easier to state than most people expect. End-to-end encryption scrambles a message so only the recipient can read it. That works perfectly, provided you were handed the recipients real key. The app fetches that key from a server. If the server hands you a different key, the encryption [] This story continues at The Next Web
Volkswagen can build a $17,175 car. Just not in Europe
Start with the Volkswagen, because it is the one that should give Europe pause. SAIC Volkswagen, the joint venture with Chinas state-owned SAIC Motor, opened preorders for the ID. Era 5S saloon this week. The introductory price is 115,900 yuan, which Digital Trends converts to about $17,175. The car goes on sale in China on [] This story continues at The Next Web
An AI-written article needs no label. Your proofread email gets one
Start with what the mark actually is, because it is not a stamp on the page. When a model writes, it picks each word from a set of reasonable options. A watermark quietly splits those options into two groups using a secret key, then nudges the model towards one group. One word proves nothing. Across [] This story continues at The Next Web
SK Hynix is spending $720bn as its shares fall by half
High-bandwidth memory is the part of an AI system that nobody photographs. It sits next to the processor and feeds it data, and if it is too slow the expensive chip waits. It is made by stacking ordinary DRAM, the same memory that goes into laptops and phones. That is why an AI buildout drains [] This story continues at The Next Web
DeepSeek Releases Official V4 Pro Model as it Steps Up Expansion
DeepSeek said the V4-Pro-0813 greatly enhances agent capabilities and is available through the API, APP and Web channels
Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for
Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and IT services companies outright, puts its own engineers inside them, and rebuilds how the work gets done. It now [] This story continues at The Next Web
CodeRabbit raised $143m to read the code AI wrote
Code review is the step where somebody reads a change before it ships. A developer proposes an edit, opens what the trade calls a pull request, and a colleague checks it for bugs and security holes. It is slow and unglamorous work. Until recently it was also manageable, because roughly one human wrote each change [] This story continues at The Next Web
A Continent Running Dry: Europe's Drought Seen From Space
A Continent Running Dry Europes Drought Seen From Space
TCS will partner with VodafoneThrees enterprise arm for digital adoption
The partnership builds on VodafoneThrees 11 billion investment to create the UKs best network for business
Accel raised $3.5bn. Europe now gets the same fund as the US
Accel is a venture capital firm. It gives money to startups early, usually before anyone else has, and takes a stake in return. It has done this since 1983, and it wrote the first institutional cheque into Atlassian, CrowdStrike, Flipkart and Slack. On Tuesday it said it had raised $3.5bn for four new funds, Bloomberg [] This story continues at The Next Web
T-Hub picks 14 start-ups for Blueprint cohort
12-month cohort to help startups scale
Taiwan briefly slows its mobile internet to text-only speed as part of defense drill
For 30 minutes, the internet in parts of Taiwan crawled. The slowdown Thursday for people in the capital, Taipei, and six other cities and localities was part of the last phase of the island
When do the major European leagues start and what are the big stories?
BBC Sport looks at the big stories in Europe heading into the 2026-27 season.
Cloudangles opens Global Engineering Centre
The GEC will support a broad range of capabilities spanning digital and technology, application development and engineering, data and analytics, AI and automation.
Doughy Eastern European Man Tired Of Everyone Assuming He
MCCOOK, ILComplaining that he couldnt even walk down the street without being mistaken for a world-class basketball player, doughy Eastern European immigrant Vukain Petrovi told reporters Thursday that he was tired of everyone assuming he was an NBA superstar.Just because Im a 6-foot-10, soft-bodied Balkan man with a last name ending in -i, everyone automatically [] The post Doughy Eastern European Man Tired Of Everyone Assuming Hes NBA Superstar appeared first on The Onion .
Nebius revenue grew 454%. Most of the cash came from customers paying in advance
Nebius rents out computing power. It buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centres, and charges companies to train and run AI models on them. The trade calls this a neocloud. It is based in Amsterdam, listed on Nasdaq, and was spun out of the Russian internet company Yandex in 2024. On Wednesday it reported [] This story continues at The Next Web
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.
DoGo Power Wins EUPD Research's 2026 Top Innovation Award in Europe
DoGo Power Wins EUPD Research's 2026 Top Innovation Award in Europe
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
Can you name every team Rangers have played in Europe since 2000?
Not even the biggest Rangers fan is getting 100%. The post Can you name every team Rangers have played in Europe since 2000? appeared first on Planet Football .
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
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
India's GCC sector faces up to 19.3% value risk from skill gaps by 2030: PwC India-FICCI study
The report, based on a survey of 200 senior GCC executives, found that skill shortages are limiting annual value creation by up to 10%
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
JioStar brings Star brand back to UK and European Audiences
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: JioStar brings Star brand back to UK and European Audiences JioStar brings Star Plus, Star Gold and Star Bharat back to UK and European audiences as the channels move away from the Utsav brand. The post JioStar brings Star brand back to UK and European Audiences appeared first on DESIblitz .
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.
Lenovo India Q1 revenue grows 18% on strong AI demand
Lenovo India reported 18% year-on-year revenue growth in the June quarter, while the global group posted record quarterly revenue of $26.9 billion.
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 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
Google Pixel 11 lineup launched with prices starting at $899
The Pixel 11 series brings upgraded cameras, brighter displays and enhanced Gemini AI, while Google also expands its foldable smartphone lineup
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
