Hybrids are outselling everything in Europe. That
American buyers are leaving electric cars for hybrids and petrol after the $7,500 federal credit ended, with 42.6% of second-quarter EV trade-ins going to a combustion car. Hybrids are already the biggest-selling powertrain in the EU at 37.3%, and the Commission has proposed keeping them legal after 2035. Americans who bought an electric car are [] This story continues at The Next Web
The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports
The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 September. Nikkei Asia reported that on Sunday, citing people familiar [] This story continues at The Next Web
UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports
For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to be. The change covers anyone applying [] This story continues at The Next Web
France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German government notes seen by Politico Europe show Berlin is wary of Arcadia, the French-built Palantir rival. The worry is that adopting it would trade reliance on an American company for [] This story continues at The Next Web
Shadow AI is already inside your company. Here
Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight. Finding them is only the beginning. For most of the past decade, the list of software a company ran was, at least in theory, one that somebody in IT could find. Today, however, AI is making that increasingly difficult. A [] This story continues at The Next Web
Tech Mahindra Partners with PeaceHealth to Build an AI-Driven Healthcare Ecosystem in US
Tech Mahindras US-based healthcare subsidiary, The HCI Group, will modernise and manage key IT operations of PeaceHealth
ByteDance is preparing a real-time spatial video model under Zhang Yiming, Bloomberg reports
ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the work and a launch possible as soon as next month,Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. One of those people cautioned that the timing is not settled and the plans [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI may accelerate anti-competitive practices in digital markets: CCI chief
She said businesses across sectors were rapidly adopting AI tools and applications, bringing benefits in areas such as education, healthcare, logistics and supply chain management
Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports
A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia and the surrounding provinces, Reuters reported, with initial agreements targeted by the end of this year [] This story continues at The Next Web
How property management education may evolve or the next generation of leaders
A discussion about future training can start with the skills employers expect to value. The World Economic Forum reported in 2025 that surveyed employers expected 39% of workers core skills to change by 2030. Its findings placed analytical thinking first among current core skills and also identified technological literacy, empathy, active listening, and lifelong learning [] This story continues at The Next Web
Italian hosting collective Autistici/Inventati is shutting down after a US terrorist designation
Autistici/Inventati, an Italian nonprofit that has hosted email, websites, mailing lists, and blogs for activists since 2001, is closing down. The collective said it will discontinue all services and help users retrieve their data, eleven days after the United States listed it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation was announced by the State [] This story continues at The Next Web
Digital advertising set to reach 80% of global ad revenue by 2029
Changing consumer behaviour and advertiser preferences are accelerating the shift online, with measurable outcomes making digital formats increasingly important for businesses.
Cathay Pacific and Google partner on AI contrail avoidance for ultra-long-haul flights
Cathay Pacific has flown more than 80 contrail-avoidance routes in a trial with Google that began in late 2025, adjusting cruise altitude to steer clear of the thin bands of humid air where aircraft exhaust freezes into clouds that trap heat. Google puts the result atroughly a 40% reductionin the warming impact of the contrails [] This story continues at The Next Web
Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose. No automated monitoring caught it. The articles argument is that OpenAI has been publishing categories of risk, including that Astra sometimes [] This story continues at The Next Web
TCS launches 4,500-square-ft AI-native creative engineering studio in London
The new hub will serve as an extension of TCS Interactive, the companys digital design, marketing and experience-led transformation arm
Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch
Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in which the company says it passed $2M in annual recurring revenue. Wave Ventures also took part, and Magnus [] This story continues at The Next Web
Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams
Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and more mature deployment systems have shortened the distance between an idea and a working product. But faster delivery also raises the stakes. When architecture, testing, and maintainability are treated as afterthoughts, short-term gains can create long-term problems. That challenge [] This story continues at The Next Web
Taiwan pledges $20bn more in US chip investment while courting the EU, Reuters reports
Taiwan spent this weeks SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once to Brussels: that its chips arrive with democratic governance attached. The commercial half of that argument came with a number, and economy minister Kung Ming-hsin supplied it, announcing a further $20bn of planned Taiwanese investment [] This story continues at The Next Web
Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India
Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapores state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust. It is the largest single round any Indian space technology company [] This story continues at The Next Web
Australians could opt out of social media algorithms under new law
Australians could be given the option of opting out of powerful social media algorithms under new legislation cracking down on Big Tech, a minister said Monday.
WikiConference India 2026 concludes in Kochi
Nearly 100 participants from India and 25 participants from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan attended the conference with scholarships
Huawei launches new foldable smartphone as competition with Xiaomi, Apple heats up
The new Mate XT2 folds out twice to open into a tablet-sized screen and features Huawei's new Kirin 9050 Pro chip
Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European growth debt fund at 575M, well past the 500M it set out to raise. The London firm announced the final close today, splitting the total into 440m of Fund IV commitments and 135m of affiliated discretionary mandates. The money lends rather than buys, as growth debt gives [] This story continues at The Next Web
Titan Intech secures GeM OEM status for five display product categories
The recognition is expected to strengthen the companys credentials with government departments, PSUs, defence, education institutions and other institutional buyers
Gujarat uses AI-based grain analyser to grade paddy at MSP procurement centres
The pilot, implemented during the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2025-26, analysed 6,191 paddy samples; a total of 341 samples were rejected
OpenAI acknowledges 'wiki incident' and need for more transparency around unintended AI behaviour
The statement follows a Reuters report that a swarm of OpenAI agents had hijacked a communally edited German site earlier this year and used it as a springboard
An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word
For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is told. Microsoft has now found somebody using the same characters for something far less clever. They were splitting up the word [] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections
Anthropics stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported on Friday that the company expects to start marketing its offering in mid-October at the earliest. The listing would then complete shortly before the US midterms in November. Echo Wang had the story from people [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips
Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the companys own quarterly filing. CNBCs Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier the figure stood at about $7bn. Two years earlier, [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI says it reached its goal of creating an automated research intern
The company hopes to have an even better automated AI researcher by March 2028.
Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports
Mira Muratis Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was the wrong one. The Information broke the story on 3 September. Its current version puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn, on a pre-money valuation of at least $40bn. Accel, an investor since the seed round, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer
Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company wants its smart ring to stop being a tracker and start running software. TechCrunchs Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an interview with founder and chief executive Mohit Kumar. It is $65m [] This story continues at The Next Web
The AI cybersecurity war has a new front line star, and a seven-figure price
AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure pay packages and a recruiting market one search firm compares to nothing since cloud. Europe reached the same place by statute, with NIS2 putting the duty on the management body and allowing regulators to bar a chief executive [] This story continues at The Next Web
Space and Time: where AI agents meet verifiable onchain data
Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsofts M12 venture arm, backing that helped put the project on the map early. Since then, the company has launched its purpose-built SXT Chain and expanded its Proof of SQL technology across DeFi, institutional finance and AI. In this interview, co-founder and CTO [] This story continues at The Next Web
The US paid for a peace deal in Nvidia chips
When Armenia opened the biggest AI factory in its region last month, we filed it under compute diplomacy. The Wall Street Journal now reports what the compute actually bought. Robbie Whelan reported on Friday that US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidias AI chips to help secure a peace deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nigeria secure U19 Women's World Cup place after thrilling Africa Qualifier final
Nigeria secured their place at next years U19 Womens T20 World Cup after edging Zimbabwe by four runs in the final of the Africa Qualifier in Dar es Salaam. They remained unbeaten throughout the competition...
Thailand halted more data centres than it has running
Thailand has stopped construction on 49 data centres, which is more than it currently has running. Anuchit Nguyen reported the suspension for Bloomberg on Friday, after the first meeting of a new supervision commission chaired by finance minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas. The country has 35 data centres in operation and 117 more waiting on investment approval. [] This story continues at The Next Web
US war veteran's home threatened by Elon Musk's AI data centre in Tennessee
Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year
In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released ChatGPT the same year. Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur set out what happened next, reporting from Nairobi for the New York Times with Edwin Okoth. At its peak early this decade, researchers estimated at least 40,000 people [] This story continues at The Next Web
The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days
A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermats Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of Claude agents wrote 13 million lines of Lean code and proved 30,300 intermediate theorems. They used 29,500 [] This story continues at The Next Web
Berlin refused to pay. Now it runs four task forces
Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint departmental unit, a crisis management team and an external legal adviser. That is what refusing a ransom looks like once the deadline passes. The State of Berlin set out that machinery itself, in a [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nigeria Edge Zimbabwe To Qualify For ICC U19 Womens T20 World Cup 2027
ICC U19 Women: Nigeria held their nerve in a tense final against Zimbabwe to register a four-run victory and secure qualification for the ICC U19 Womens T20 World Cup 2027. The victory in the Africa Qualifier Division 1 final also capped an unbeaten campaign for Nigeria, who secured Africas sole qualification spot for next years tournament. They will join South Africa as the continents representatives at the ICC U19 Womens T20 World Cup, which will be hosted by Bangladesh and Nepal. Batting first, Nigeria managed 98 before their bowlers produced a disciplined performance to restrict Zimbabwe to 94, with just one ball remaining in the innings. Captain Christabel Chukwuonye led from the front with a valuable 21, while Beauty Oguai contributed 19 and Jessica Bieni scored 15 as Nigeria posted a competitive total on a challenging surface. Zimbabwes Christine Mutasa claimed two wickets, while Tadiwanashe Garutsa took one. In the chase, Zimbabwe remained in contention throughout, with Salem Museka top-scoring with 27. Bethel Zinyama added 21, while Nicolette Nyika made 18, but Nigerias bowlers kept applying pressure at crucial stages. Usen Peace was the standout performer with the ball for Nigeria, taking three wickets. Jennifer Godwin and Annointed Akhigbe chipped in with two wickets each to help their side defend the modest total. An emotional Chukwuonye credited her teammates and coaching staff for holding their composure under pressure. I actually cried when the game was over because I couldnt really express what I was feeling. The next phase is just the beginning, and we know it will be tougher. My team has really been the best, she said. They listened to the coaches, stayed united and, even with the pressure in the last over, were able to hold their nerves. I wouldnt be here holding this trophy without the support of the coaching crew and my players. I am very grateful to all of them, she added. Uganda finished third in the competition after defeating Rwanda by seven wickets. Chasing 74, Uganda reached the target in 16.1 overs after losing three wickets. They listened to the coaches, stayed united and, even with the pressure in the last over, were able to hold their nerves. I wouldnt be here holding this trophy without the support of the coaching crew and my players. I am very grateful to all of them, she added. Also Read: Special Cricket Stories Namibia finished seventh after defeating Malawi by nine wickets. Malawi were dismissed for 38 in 12.2 overs, with Namibia completing the chase in just 5.1 overs. Article Source: IANS
Uber put $100m into the company that hired Anthony Levandowski
Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Googles self-driving secrets cost Uber a fortune, and it helped end Travis Kalanicks time as chief executive. The company is Atoms, Kalanicks new venture. Rafe Rosner-Uddin reported the arrangement for the Financial Times on Sunday. He cited people familiar with [] This story continues at The Next Web
British-Nigerian Influencer Dies After Penis Enlargement Procedure In Thailand: What Happened?
Cosmetic surgery aimed at making the penis look bigger has led to a tragedy following the death of British-Nigerian socialite and businessman Igho Tiny Ubiribo who passed away after getting his penis filled with a substance in Thailand. Ubiribo,
OpenAI Astra arrives, so do a few big AI headaches for humanity
OpenAI Astra arrives so do a few big AI headaches for humanity
Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to console buyers, saying customers paid advertised prices and got working consoles. European buyers absorbed the same increases but there is no European tariff refund, because there was no European tariff. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI acknowledges 'wiki incident'; plans framework to report unintended AI behaviour
Recently a research found that a group of rogue OpenAI agents took control of a German website this spring and turned it into a message board for other AI agents
Cybersecurity skills gap widens as cyberattacks surge: Kerala DGP
The summit was supported by the Data Security Council of India, TiE Kerala and the Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Meta restores posts removed from Keralam CMO's FB page after intervention
The office has sought a formal explanation under the IT Act, clarity on whether the posts were removed through automated or manual action, and safeguards to protect official government communication handles
Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral
Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit card rewards, monthly plans and a basis for business lending. Research across 25 European languages finds tokeniser fertility ranges from 1.23 tokens per word in English to about 3.1 in Greek and Maltese. Banks, telecom carriers and a district government [] This story continues at The Next Web
Four American firms skipped Macron
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macrons Paris space summit after White House pressure, though several are expected back in the city days later for World Space Business Week. Organisers describe the event as behind schedule and unclear in purpose, while Washington lobbies against the EU Space Act. Four American space [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks
OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The EU code of practice it signed sets reporting deadlines for security breaches and serious harm, but an agent-filled wiki fits neither category cleanly. OpenAI has confirmed its role in the [] This story continues at The Next Web
California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens
Californias legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 2028. The METR investigation into OpenAIs Hugging Face incident consumed about $400,000 in API credits provided free by OpenAI, using a model from the same family that took part in the attack. Californias [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI safety researchers say OpenAIs Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAIs chief scientist has warned against a race into unmonitorability. He co-authored a 2025 position paper asking developers to evaluate and report exactly this, which the EUs code of practice turns into a filing to the AI Office. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Happiest Minds-ITC Infotech merger: Why it is not yet the happiest time to buy the stock
IT SERVICES Happiest Minds merger with ITC Infotech improves scale, but valuation and transition risks warrant patience
TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad
Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus of up to one gigawatt in Hyderabad, using green energy and water-neutral design principles. EU rules require any data centre above 500kW to report total and drinking water consumption to a European database [] This story continues at The Next Web
More plugs beat more power, a Finnish charger maker says
A white paper from the Finnish charger maker Kempower argues that adding connectors raises site utilisation far more than adding power, with eight-plug sites reaching almost 10% against 2% for two-plug sites. Every AFIR target is expressed in kilowatts or kilometres rather than in numbers of connectors. A Finnish charger maker has published a white [] This story continues at The Next Web
IIT-Madras Bodhan AI launches four Indian language models
Positioned as Digital Public Goods, the models are released with open-weights
Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and says the lawsuit made him sad
Sam Altman said he was very sad about Apples trade-secrets lawsuit and that his first reaction was that the allegations sounded egregious, while OpenAI has moved to have the case dismissed. California voids non-compete agreements, so an employer losing engineers has to litigate afterwards rather than restrain them in advance. Sam Altman called himself a [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI boom lifts Foxconn August sales to $29.14 billion
According to the report, the August sales were the second-highest monthly sales in Hon Hai's history, trailing only the NT$946.51 billion ($29.85 billion) recorded in July
TCS HyperVault to set up 70,000-crore AI data centre campus in Hyderabad
The campus will be designed for frontier AI companies and hyperscalers, facilitating high-density GPU deployments for AI training and advanced computing
AI sovereignty crucial for cybersecurity, says Gaganyaan astronaut
Gaganyaan astronaut and IAF pilot Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair on Saturday said AI sovereignty is crucial for ensuring national cybersecurity, as the growing use of artificial intelligence is making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between real and fake content. Speaking at the Kerala Cyber Suraksha Summit 2026, organised by Kerala Startup Mission and F9 Infotech, Nair said cybersecurity would have limited value unless the country developed ownership and control over AI technologies. It is very important that we have AI sovereignty, and any amount of cybersecurity will be of no avail unless we own AI, he said. Nair said future wars and industries would involve a whole-of-nation approach, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between physical and digital boundaries. In the whole-of-nation approach, it's very difficult to say where the physical boundaries end and where the digital boundaries start. And it's going to affect all of us, he said. He stressed the ne
Chinese profits rose 25.7%. The CSI 300 fell 9% and the Star 50 fell 29%
Profits at onshore-listed Chinese companies rose 25.7% in the three months to June, the fastest in nearly five years and heavily concentrated in AI-linked firms. The CSI 300 has fallen about 9% this quarter and the tech-heavy Star 50 has dropped 29%, as investors began treating AI spending as a cost rather than a promise. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Digital arrest scams: CBIs nationwide crackdown and the Supreme Courts continuing oversight
The Central Bureau of Investigation has carried out searches at 89 locations across 20 States
Elon Musks xAIloses court bid to block Minnesota's AInudification ban
Musks Grok AI chatbot has faced criticism over its creation of sexually explicit content
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
Tesla shares fell around 6% after a Cybercab update that landed badly and after NHTSA opened an investigation into how the company certified a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Amazons Zoox petitioned for an exemption and was approved in July; Tesla self-certified and did not petition. The complication is that NHTSA is [] 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
Export controls went after China
Moonshot AI is considering raising up to $5bn in a Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this year,Bloomberg reported on Friday. Dong Cao, Julia Fioretti, Pei Li and Luz Ding sourced the account to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The Beijing lab [] 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
Global payroll has an infrastructure problem, and it is finally getting attention
Cross-border payroll moves more than 200 billion dollars a year, and until recently, nobody was building shared infrastructure for it. As one recent report on the infrastructure gap in cross-border payroll pointed out, financial markets have exchanges, trade has clearing houses, and cross-border payroll has neither. The plumbing a treasury team would have recognized in [] 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
