Elon Musk said Teslas robotaxis are still working on spotting animals that blend into the road at night, describing the problem as grey kittens on grey tarmac, as Austins hours moved to 11pm from 10pm. The EUs Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles votes on bloc-wide approval of the same camera-only sensor suite on 6 October. [] This story continues at The Next Web
China wants solid-state batteries in use by 2030, and CATL rates them four out of nine
Chinas industry ministry and six other agencies set 2030 as the date for the first large-scale use of all-solid-state batteries, though CATLs chairman rates the technology four out of nine and calls million-vehicle use before 2030 very unlikely. ProLogiums Dunkirk plant, the largest new European cell project since Northvolt went bankrupt, is staged at 0.8 [] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force
Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took the opposite route in May, when the EU ratified the Council of Europe treaty whose title uses [] This story continues at The Next Web
Kozhikode set to emerge as Keralams next major IT destination
Keralam Chief Minister V D Satheesan lays foundation stone for 600-crore HiLITE Cyber Tower at Cyberpark, Kozhikode
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son flags need for AI safety amid rapid growth
An exponential surge in AI capabilities makes it imperative for countries to build trust so that they can harness the technology together, Son said
IT Q2 preview: Muted growth, steady margins likely; deal conversion, AI deflation under lens
The Q2 earnings season begins with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on October 8.
QNu Labs takes quantum security beyond fibre with 5.56-km free-space link
Unlike QKD systems that operate over optical fibre, the demonstration transmitted quantum keys through free space between two locations
Keralam renames IT dept to reflect state's next-Gen tech ambitions
The decision reflects the significant expansion of the department's mandate beyond conventional information technology and electronics
Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russias answer to Starlink, the Financial Timesreported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New York. Ukrainian news agencyUNNcited those details from the FT report. A network for the front line The [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI may cost us our ability to listen, oral historian warns in the Guardian
Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks the bigger loss may be our ability to listen. She made the case in an opinion column forThe Guardian. Listening to different views and entering into different worlds is integral to our humanity, she [] This story continues at The Next Web
US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China
US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Departmentsaid on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Reuters also reported the case, in a story carried byThe [] This story continues at The Next Web
RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack
The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, Indias central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, asBloombergreported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday. It may begin with a geopolitical event, or cyber [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI safety staffer quits, says AI labs should run like nuclear plants
A member of OpenAIs safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AIs risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAIs safety team,Bloombergreported. He wrote that the ChatGPT maker has thrived by trial and error. That approach no [] This story continues at The Next Web
Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview withAxiospublished on Saturday. This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, thats not leadership, Bessent said, asBloombergreported. In September, Anthropics Dario Amodei, OpenAIs Sam Altman and xAIs Elon Musk [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI Safety Employee Quits, Calls For Nuclear-Level Safeguards
A number of employees across the top AI companies in recent weeks have warned about the potential catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence. Some have gone so far as to say there's a chance the technology could one day wipe out the human race.
Anthropic warns government attitudes may hurt customer ties, IPO prospectus shows
The company added that selling to government agencies carries additional risks, including changes in the governments view of Anthropic or its technology
OpenAI says three staffers fired for mishandling 'sensitive' info
The firings come amid a tense debate about AI safety and whether the technology presents an existential risk to humanity
Nvidia hits its first record since May, within $300B of $6T
Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, on a rally driven by AI agent demand and a record $150B buyback increase. ASML, Europes most valuable listed company, needs the same $300B to reach its first trillion. Nvidia hit a record [] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantum sensing could become the next foundation of navigation
GPS has become so embedded in modern life that its infrastructure is almost invisible. A driver opens a map, an aircraft follows its navigation system, or an autonomous machine calculates its position, and the underlying infrastructure disappears from view. Nir Sharon, Chief Quantum Technology Scientist at Quantum X Labs and an associate professor of applied [] This story continues at The Next Web
Robot software startup FieldAI is set to raise $700M at a $10B valuation
FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europes biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its valuation. FieldAI is [] This story continues at The Next Web
Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists
Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks since 2 August, but artistic and satirical work gets the lightest disclosure obligations of all. [] This story continues at The Next Web
From captives to hybrids: GCCs enter a new phase of growth in the AI era
Industry experts say the shift could sharpen Indias strategic edge but also requires leadership with experience across multiple technology cycles to sustain value beyond headcount growth.
Centre fortifies Indias AI mission with Sovereign Compute Pool amid rising GPU costs
The official said that the government is also preparing further bids for additional computing capacity, as it seeks to build a government-controlled pool of AI compute alongside capacity sourced from private providers
Nearly all tested cat foods contained traces of heavy metals and other contaminants, study finds
Lead was detected in 99 per cent of the 100 cat foods tested. Cadmium was found in 96 per cent and arsenic in 94 per cent of samples. Researchers stressed that detecting a contaminant does not establish that a particular food will harm a cat. Nearly all of the cat foods tested in a new investigation contained detectable traces of heavy metals or other contaminants, including lead, arsenic, cadmium, pesticides and plastic chemicals. The analysis, by US nonprofit Clean Label Project, reported by CNN, tested 100 top-selling cat foods from 62 brands for more than 122 contaminants. According to the investigation, lead was detected in 99 per cent of samples, cadmium in 96 per cent and arsenic in 94 per cent. The findings covered wet, dry and air- or freeze-dried foods, as well as products marketed as natural or premium. But the results need some context. The investigation measured the presence of contaminants; it did not establish that the levels detected would cause illness in cats. Clean Label Project itself says its testing does not determine whether a specific product will cause harm to an animal. The organisation says its category studies use products bought at retail rather than samples supplied by manufacturers, with testing carried out by Ellipse Analytics, an ISO 17025-accredited laboratory. Heavy metals found across different types of food Molly Hamilton, executive director of Clean Label Project and an author of the report, said cats could be particularly relevant to concerns about repeated exposure because many eat the same food every day. Most cats eat the same foods nearly every day, with little variation, Hamilton said. The contaminants are an ongoing exposure that may accumulate in cats bodies, she added, noting that chronic kidney disease is one of the common causes of death in older cats and that the kidneys play an important role in filtering heavy metals. The investigation found differences according to the type of food and protein used. Dry cat food contained roughly three times as much lead as wet or air-dried products, according to the analysis. Fish and seafood-based foods were more strongly associated with mercury and cadmium than products using other proteins. Mercury levels were about 18 times higher and cadmium levels about 2.5 times higher in fish- or seafood-based foods than in foods using other proteins. Wet seafood products had the highest mercury levels, with the analysis finding nearly 28 times as much mercury as in wet foods made with other meats, particularly poultry. That does not mean all fish-based cat food was high in mercury, Hamilton stressed. As the main protein, chicken was better when it came to mercury and cadmium, but we saw higher rates of lead and herbicides in chicken, she said. Its a whack-a-mole situation which contaminant do you want to whack? Clean Label Project said about 85 per cent of poultry-based foods met its own purity standard, compared with 25.7 per cent of fish and seafood products. Heavy metals occur naturally in soil, water and air, although industrial, agricultural and mining activity can increase contamination. They can consequently enter food through ingredients and environmental exposure. The presence of a detectable amount, however, does not by itself establish a health risk. The Pet Food Institute, which represents US pet food manufacturers, made that point in response to Clean Label Project's earlier dog-food investigation. It said modern laboratory methods can identify trace amounts of naturally occurring substances at levels that may be far below those associated with harm. Glyphosate and plastic chemicals add to concerns The investigation also looked beyond heavy metals. Glyphosate, a widely used agricultural herbicide, was detected in 37 per cent of the products tested, according to Clean Label Project. The organisation said foods containing more plant ingredients among the first 10 listed ingredients tended to have higher detected levels. Hamilton said cat foods with two plant ingredients among their first 10 ingredients had roughly 40 per cent more glyphosate than comparable foods with one, while products with five plant ingredients had nearly four times as much. The health debate around glyphosate remains contested. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classified it as probably carcinogenic to humans in 2015, while the US Environmental Protection Agency has reached a different assessment. The investigation also detected di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, or DEHP, a plasticiser used in PVC and some food-contact applications, in about half of the products tested. Ryan Babadi, science director at Toxic Free Future, a nonprofit consumer product safety organisation, called the finding concerning and suggested that contamination could occur during food processing through contact with PVC tubing or other equipment. It was detected in about half of the products tested, with the highest levels in canned and pouch products, Babadi said. It is encouraging to see those harmful bisphenols, including BPA, were found less frequently, suggesting pet food can be produced and packaged without these endocrine-disrupting chemicals, he added. The Pet Food Institute said manufacturers use food-safety and quality-assurance systems that include ingredient specifications, supplier verification, testing, traceability and preventive controls. Cat owners should feel confident that the food they feed their pets is safe and produced according to rigorous regulatory and quality standards, said Elise Fennig, president and chief executive of the Pet Food Institute, as per the report. The organisation has also argued that contaminant studies need to provide sufficient scientific and regulatory context, including information on sampling, analytical methods and established safety thresholds. There are also limitations to the new investigation itself. Each product was tested from a single batch, meaning the results cannot show how contamination might vary between different batches of the same food. The research also compares contamination across categories rather than establishing a safe or unsafe level for an individual cat. Hamilton acknowledged that distinction. Every product in this study was purchased at retail, and no brand had any role in selecting products, conducting testing or analyzing the results. No brand saw the results before publication, she reportedly said. The organisation's own consumer guidance also notes that laboratory results need to be interpreted in the context of detection limits, testing methods and serving sizes. For cat owners , that means the study does not provide a simple list of foods that are safe or unsafe. Instead, it raises questions about how frequently pet-food manufacturers test for contaminants and how much information consumers receive about those tests. Hamilton said owners concerned about a particular product should ask the manufacturer whether it carries out contaminant testing and how often. The best way to know whats in your cats food is to contact the manufacturer and determine if they test the food and how frequently they test, she said, as per reports. The findings therefore offer a reason for greater scrutiny of pet-food testing and supply chains, but they are not evidence that nearly all commercial cat food is dangerous. For now, the clearest finding is narrower: contaminants that are not normally highlighted on the front of the packet were detectable in a large proportion of the products tested, and the investigation has renewed questions about how those levels should be measured, regulated and communicated to pet owners.
The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive thanks to AI
Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99.
Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business
Anthropic has warned that the US governments view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firms IPO prospectus, which Reuters reportedon Friday after seeing the document. The prospectus has not been made public, and TNW has not seen [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia Hits First Record Since May As Value Nears $6 Trillion
Shares of the world's most valuable public company gained 2.9% on Friday, extending a nearly 25% rally from a late July low when fears surrounding the outlook for artificial intelligence pressured the stock.
NVIDIA's smuggling problem is getting worse
US officials have reportedly highlighted gaps in NVIDIA's due diligence over smuggling.
Tesla sustains its EV sales momentum despite US troubles
The company delivered more than 486,000 EVs in the third quarter, down from last year's record but moving in a positive direction.
Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports
Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-East Asia. The deal, signed this year, is worth about $7bn, and Tencent [] This story continues at The Next Web
Tesla rolls out an emergency drive-away feature after Supercharger shooting
Tesla's new feature will let you drive away with the Supercharger still connected in case of emergencies.
Amazon Plans to Spin Off $8 Billion Worth of Nvidia Chips
Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google. Amazon is looking to spin off around $8 billion in advanced Nvidia chips to external investors. Thats []
Amazon plant Ausgliederung von Nvidia-Chips im Wert von 8 Mrd. Dollar
Trending Topics auf Google als bevorzugte Nachrichtenquelle festlegen. Amazon strebt die Ausgliederung von rund 8 Milliarden Dollar an fortschrittlichen Nvidia-Chips an externe Investoren an. Das berichtet []
No one could terrify like Cronos, the black metal innovator who reignited rock
Shriram Properties turns to robots as labour shortage bites
The company has a pipeline of 41 projects with an aggregate development potential of around 34 million sq ft (msf), including 16 msf of ongoing projects
Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests
Googles Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAIs GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropics Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index, with 58. The score is 23 points above Gemini [] This story continues at The Next Web
Zoho launches business version of messaging app Arattai
Zoho has also launched the Arattai Business Platform to integrate business software and automation systems with Arattai
The AI industrys new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how theyre going to operationalize it, said Chris Lehane, OpenAIs chief global affairs officer. TNW is [] This story continues at The Next Web
Chatbots to always-on AI: Why OpenAI, Meta, Google want persistent agents
OpenAI, Meta and Google are moving AI beyond task-specific agents towards persistent systems that can handle multiple jobs, retain context, access apps and continue working in the background
On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening andthe system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a third from solar. Nothing broke. Yet much of the discussion around artificial intelligence and electricity suggests a looming shortage.American data centersusedabout 176 terawatt-hours [] This story continues at The Next Web
Discord opens its ad business to smaller brands, Ars Technica reports
Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, itsaidon Tuesday. Select advertisers can use it now. Full self-serve access is due in early 2027. Until [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta Launches Forum: New App Turns Facebook Groups Into A Reddit-Like Platform
Meta is testing Forum, a standalone app for Facebook Groups featuring AI-powered Ask, topic-based discovery and community tools. The experimental platform aims to make group discussions, recommendations and useful information easier to find.
Caverion Finland has agreed to design and build a substation for Nebiuss new data centre in Mntsl, southern Finland, in a deal valued at about 15 million. The company announced the contract on Friday and expects to finish the work by autumn 2027. The substation will link the data centre to the high-voltage grid and [] This story continues at The Next Web
The difference between a liar and a bullshitter
Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you dont expect to see in an academic journal, On Bullshit. It stayed largely inside academic circles for the better part of twenty years. Then in 2005 Princeton University Press decided to reprint it as a tiny hardcover, 67 [] This story continues at The Next Web
New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40 billion in penalties for Cambridge Analytica scandal
New Mexico's attorney argued that the penalties Meta has to pay need to be significant enough to make an impact on the company.
Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract for an AI product. They use it heavily, which is what every vendor wants. Every one of those uses costs the vendor money: tokens, compute, third-party model calls. The invoice goes out at the agreed price. The [] This story continues at The Next Web
TCS buys Best Buys India GCCs to transform into AI Capability Centres
TCS will merge Best Buy India employees into its global organisation
ShepHertz unveils three AI models; eyes enterprise market
The company launched Tatva for on-device commands at Drone Expo 2026, while Sanjaya for fleet and telemetry intelligence, and Drashta for machine vision, as part of its AgentAnywhere sovereign AI platform
TCIL pays govt 43.86 crore dividend for FY26
TCIL CMD Syed Tausif Abbas presented the dividend cheque to Union Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, with telecom secretary Amit Agrawal present
Youth audiences are crucial for entering homes; their openness to new stories is highly significant
Meta appeals ruling that it can
Meta Platforms, parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has appealed a Lagos High Court judgment that ordered it to stop unlawfully processing the personal data []
Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropics IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of tensor processing units (TPUs), the AI chips Google designs with Broadcom. Echo Wang, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Accentures managed services momentum offers positive signals for Indian IT
Accenture reported revenues of $18.7 billion for the quarter, marking a 6% increase in U.S. dollars and 7% in local currency
Kanu AI raises $11.7m to turn how staff work into software they own
Kanu AI has come out of stealth with $11.7m in funding. The Seattle startup builds software that runs inside a customers own cloud. Accel, BMW i Ventures and a16z speedrun joined a round led by Trilogy Equity Partners, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Companies have spent decades buying software built around someone [] This story continues at The Next Web
NVIDIA DLSS 5 Can Now Run On Unsupported GPUs Via Custom Mod
Independent software engineer and developer Andrew Sampson has released a custom implementation of DLSS 5 Neural Rendering and Frame Generation within the Borderless Gaming utility, enabling advanced artificial intelligence visual reconstruction and upscaling on graphics processing units lacking official NVIDIA support. The community-driven software integration effectively expands modern machine learning graphics enhancements across diverse PC hardware categories bypassed by standard proprietary platform hardware restrictions. Operating directly through a specialized compositor-level BGFX frame capture framework, the utility functions seamlessly without invoking official proprietary NVIDIA software libraries, tampering with local game installation directories, or manually swapping internal dynamic link library (DLL) runtime dependencies. By capturing and intercepting graphical frames directly at the desktop compositor layer , the utility ensures broad operational compatibility across multiple game engines without modifying protected core system installation files. To achieve functional performance across uncertified PC hardware, Sampson quantized the underlying machine learning model and systematically eliminated architectural bottlenecks across the neural network pipeline . These aggressive software optimizations allow the neural rendering framework to execute reliably on a significantly wider array of consumer graphics cards. For instance, unsupported legacy GPUs such as the GeForce RTX 3090 can execute the rendering pipeline, sustaining around 30 frames per second depending on individual video game complexity and target display resolutions. The integrated Frame Generation capability relies on an independently trained machine learning model conditioned on tens of thousands of hours of continuous interactive gameplay footage . This broad training dataset eliminates the requirement for per-title developer patches, community driver hooks, or customized profile configurations. Additionally, the system does not run automatically out of the box, ensuring that dormant shader assets consume zero background computing resources when inactive. Distribution occurs via an open-source post-processing shader hosted on GitHub . Users incorporate the technology by entering the direct repository URL into the Borderless Gaming management interface. Once properly initialized, the software provides extensive user-facing controls to fine-tune detailed image characteristics. Players can adjust key rendering parameters, including effect intensity , structural detail , ambient lighting , artistic style , and internal processing resolution, to balance visual fidelity against operational rendering latency. NVIDIA DLSS 5 Can Now Run On Unsupported GPUs Via Custom Mod , original content from Ubergizmo . Read our Copyrights and terms of use .
Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process
Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures also took part, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The round comes a year after its previous one [] This story continues at The Next Web
When everyones responsible, no one is: the AI champion problem
Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champions time. A month later, the manager had taken it back. There [] This story continues at The Next Web
Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times
Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsofts gaming chief published on Wednesday. Xbox is not for sale, Sharma said. We will do whatever it takes to set the company up for success, and we will [] This story continues at The Next Web
MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China
MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for Chinas Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday as an Espionage Alert. It is [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m
GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that invests in AI and robotics, [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI pact: India needs its own AI safety framework, experts say
Experts feel that India should not simply replicate a framework developed for a different AI ecosystem
Redington to distribute OPSWATs cybersecurity solutions across GCC, Africa markets
The partnership will combine OPSWATs cybersecurity portfolio with Redingtons sales, technical, warehousing, logistics and financing capabilities across regulated sectors
Google DeepMind watermarks AI proteins as Demis Hassabis warns of biosecurity risks
Google DeepMind has unveiled a groundbreaking technique named SynthID Bio to watermark proteins created by AI. This innovative approach seeks to bolster biosecurity as synthetic biology harnesses the power of artificial intelligence. By embedding an invisible digital tag into biological sequences, functionality remains intact. This tool is poised to help researchers fend off potential biosecurity threats from AI-generated sequences, enhancing safety in the swiftly advancing realm of synthetic biology.
GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. Anthropics Frontier Red Team published the findings in a research post. Zhipu [] This story continues at The Next Web
Use.ai puts 10+ AI models in one app and reaches 1 million monthly users
Every new AI model creates another reason to switch. For users who have already built up months or years of conversations, preferences, files and personal context inside one platform, moving to a better model can also mean starting again. Use.ai was built around the idea that people should be able to switch between the intelligence [] This story continues at The Next Web
Maximor rebrands as Hyphenate after 86x revenue growth
Maximor, the autonomous finance company, has rebranded as Hyphenate. The new name reflects the companys expansion across the office of the CFO and follows 86x revenue growth over the past 12 months. Finance software spent the last decade breaking the office of the CFO into point solutions. There was one for close, another for billing, [] This story continues at The Next Web
A Rajkot vegetable vendor has been arrested after police allegedly found counterfeit Rs 100 and Rs 500 notes along with equipment used to produce them at his home. Investigators said Kishan Solanki learned the process after seeing an Instagram reel and later communicating with a trainer on Telegram. Police allege he circulated around 40 fake Rs 100 notes through small purchases.
Trump tells Axios that Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar
President Donald Trump has said that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar, Axios reported on Tuesday. Trump has said he wants to name a czar within three or four days. Maria Curi of Axios asked Trump who he wanted for the role. He said he had someone in mind. [] This story continues at The Next Web
SpintronicsAI, CSIR-CEERI sign MoU to advance indigenous GaN semiconductor technology
The partnership will explore technology, infrastructure and fabrication requirements while transferring advanced GaN know-how from research into manufacturing
Reliance Jio strengthen telecom leadership in Keralam
Jio also registered growth in its overall subscriber base (CMS) in Keralam, increasing from 112.47 lakh subscribers in July to 112.88 lakh in August
US lawmaker asks five AI firms how they guard model weights from China
US Congressman Ro Khanna has asked five leading American AI companies to share what they know about attempts by China or other hostile actors to steal their model weights. The letters went to the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX, Reuters reported. Model weights are the numbers learned during training that make [] This story continues at The Next Web
Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunch where the CEOs agreed it. Ashley Gold first reported the story for [] This story continues at The Next Web
Monk hosts Net 30, an applied AI summit on the future of finance
On October 21, 150 CFOs, operators, founders and researchers will gather at The Times Center in New York. They will discuss how AI is reshaping cash, capital and the finance function. In a Gartner survey of 183 CFOs, 84% of finance organizations had deployed AI or planned to. Yet only 7% reported a high impact. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Suspected Chinese hackers posed as US AI insiders, Proofpoint says
A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday. Proofpoint has identified the group as TA419 and has said that [] This story continues at The Next Web
PLD Space and CNES to study a second launch pad in French Guiana
Today, the company announced that PLD Space had entered into an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, and that both parties were considering building a second launch pad for PLDs rockets at the spaceport in French Guiana. They will examine whether the new pad can be accommodated at the ELM-Diamant site of the Guiana [] This story continues at The Next Web
Walmart Global Tech ties up with IIM Kozhikode to launch incubation programme
Deep Leap will engage with 1,500 startups from across the country from which 50 startups will be selected for a 12-month incubation and acceleration cohort
WhatsApp rolls out parental controls for teens
WhatsApp confirmed that even with the parental controls in place, teens chats would stay private and protected by end-to-end encryption
Anthropic's IPO pitch embraces AI's promise and peril
Nearly a third of the IPO prospectus covers risk factors, more than twice the space given to describing what Anthropic actually does
Trump formally replaces Artificial Intelligence with Super Intelligence in an executive order
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that the change was appropriate when taking into consideration the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of AI technologies
Google launches new AI model to anchor Gemini 4 after months of delays
The new model Argon is comparable to OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Opus on coding and cyber benchmarks, the company said
AI agents tried to hack Canadian government website, research firm says
AI agents
Musk, Luckey and Gingrich get 120 days to map America
Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-direct Project Meridian. The Pentagon study will identify the technology the US military needs to fight future wars. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commissioned it on Wednesday, the Department of War said. The findings are due by 28 January 2027, 120 days after the announcement, according to [] This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports
SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musks SpaceX. It makes the Grok [] This story continues at The Next Web
Boeing beats Northrop to build the US Navy
Boeing will build the US Navys next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC and Axios put it at more than 0bn. The programme could grow to hundreds of billions of [] This story continues at The Next Web
Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a sites new posts in a feed reader. Moderators who use it for alerts can move to a [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist
Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalists private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Metas communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday. It cant read your Messages unless you do this, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nissan wants hybrids to lead by 2030. In Britain a hybrid took an electric car
Nissan has told Automotive News it wants hybrids and extended-range models to be its primary powertrain in North and Latin America by 2030. In Britain the same strategy is already built: a 170M hybrid Kicks is going into the Sunderland slot promised to an electric Qashqai that Nissan stopped developing in early 2025. Nissan wants [] This story continues at The Next Web
America.gov, the US government
The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the launch in Washington to set up the site. The General Services [] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazons delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures almost constantly on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property. Customers will have no way to opt out, see the images or ask for them to [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI says Moonshot-linked users tried to extract its AI reasoning
OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low volume. It spiked on 24 and 25 July, with 16,000 [] This story continues at The Next Web
