SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work
SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist. SpaceXAI has released Grok Bot, software that hands work to groups of [] This story continues at The Next Web
Sonos Plans September Launch Event and Deeper Push Into Home AI
Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already knows a home. An FCC filing names the first product of that push, the Ace Ultra headphones, expected at a September launch event. Sonos is betting that the value of AI in the home sits in [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple Executive Who Launched Apple Pay Is Retiring After 25 Years
Jennifer Bailey, head of Apple Pay and Wallet since the service launched in 2014, is retiring in October after more than 25 years at Apple. Her exit is one of several senior departures ahead of Tim Cook handing the chief executive job to John Ternus on September 1. Jennifer Bailey, who has run Apple Pay [] This story continues at The Next Web
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
Target has named Lowes executive Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, starting August 24. IBM research puts the share of organisations with a chief AI officer at 76% this year, up from 26% in 2025. Target has appointed its first chief AI officer. Chandhu Nair joins from Lowes on August 24 as senior [] This story continues at The Next Web
IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers
A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money in artificial intelligence is no longer only in building [] This story continues at The Next Web
Tesla emptied its share of California
Tesla exhausted its share of Californias MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of Californias new first-time buyer rebate in five days. The MyFirstEV scheme opened this month, and Tesla started [] This story continues at The Next Web
Vi optimistic of closing funding discussions with PSU banks: CEO Abhijit Kishore
The company is said to be mainly in talks with the State Bank of India, while also exploring other funding routes
Agentic AI emerges as mid to high level priority for Indian banks
Senior executives highlight its potential to transform decision-making, security and innovation across the sector
River AI raised $1.1bn to let companies train and keep their own models
River AI has raised $1.1bn, roughly four months after the company was incorporated. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and further money from Y Combinator and Temasek. The Palo Alto company was founded by Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI. The pitch is that companies [] This story continues at The Next Web
China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in
As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on Chinas coast this week, the countrys bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring resources into models that promise to see [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta smart glasses banned from courts across England and Wales
His Majestys Courts & Tribunals Service has banned Meta smart glasses from court buildings across England and Wales, a move that pulls one of Silicon Valleys buzziest gadgets into a very old argument about who gets to record what. HMCTS, which runs the criminal, civil and family courts, will now confiscate the glasses on entry [] This story continues at The Next Web
Bumble is letting men make the first move, dismantling the rule it was built on
Bumble is preparing to let men make the first move, a change that unpicks the single rule the dating app was built around. According to Bloomberg a coming messaging update will let men open conversations in opposite-sex matches, though the exact mechanics are still emerging and Bumble has not spelled them out in full. For [] This story continues at The Next Web
Equitybee has launched Equitybee Benchmark, a free tool that lets US startup employees compare equity grants across roles, seniority levels, departments, and company stages. The company argues that while salary benchmarking has been everywhere for years, equity data has stayed locked inside HR teams and employers. You would never accept a salary without comparing it [] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump Media posts a $238m quarterly loss as its bitcoin bet sours
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the companys slow drift from social network to crypto holding vehicle into something close to a headline. Most of [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI push: TCS, Google Cloud launch Gemini Experience center in Mexico
Located in TCS' Mexico City office, the new facility will enable organisations in the region with advanced AI capabilities
HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML
HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and the deal says as much about where the industry now thinks the value in enterprise AI is settling as it does about any single company. The investment was made through [] This story continues at The Next Web
Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit
Amkor Technology, one of the worlds largest outsourced chip assembly and testing firms, is weighing a sale of a stake in its China operations, a deal that could value the unit at between $1bn and $1.5bn, according to Bloomberg. The Arizona-based company, which has been pouringrecord sums into advanced packaging, has engaged an adviser to [] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms
Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Claude maker a large slab of capacity at a Texas campus that Riot Platforms is [] This story continues at The Next Web
House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents
US House Democrats have decided that AI agents breaking loose from their test environments is a matter for Congress, and on Monday they put that view in writing. Two letters went out, one to OpenAI and one to Anthropic, each demanding an account of how the companies own systems slipped their leashes during security testing, [] This story continues at The Next Web
A US court just cleared thousands of social media harm lawsuits to proceed
US appeals court has cleared thousands of lawsuits accusing the biggest social media companies of harming young people to move towards trial, in a ruling that chips away at the legal shield the tech industry has relied on for decades. On 10 August 2026, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected [] This story continues at The Next Web
Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC
Intel has announced a $15bn common-stock offering, a sale that could swell to as much as $20bn if underwriters take up their overallotment options. It is a bold move for a company that, not long ago, looked like a cautionary tale, and it shows just how far the chipmakers fortunes have turned in the space [] This story continues at The Next Web
Six finance giants back Nvidia
Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls compute financing platforms, structures designed to mobilise over $500bn of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Vienna startup most of the tech world has not heard of just posted numbers that would turn heads anywhere. fonio.ai, a European platform for AI-powered customer calls, says it has surpassed $10m in annual recurring revenue in under twelve months. Since February, when the company switched from a prepaid model to subscriptions, it says it [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia taps Wall Street for $500 billion funding commitment
US investment giants including Apollo Global Management Inc., Blackstone Inc., BlackRock Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management are coming together to create pools of capital at attractive rates for Nvidia customers
Anthropics Claude to mark all AI content, including text
The changes are being rolled out as Anthropic signed the EU AI Acts Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
How AI is transforming frontend engineering for modern web applications
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a core part of software development, but its biggest impact may not be replacing developers, it may be redefining what developers spend their time doing. For frontend engineers, AI is shifting the focus from repetitive coding to designing smarter, more resilient digital experiences. Traditionally, frontend development involved building user interfaces, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Wipros Nifty exit reflects waning clout of IT giants
BSE will replace Wipro in the gauge from Sept 30 as part of a semi-annual review. The switch comes as concerns over artificial intelligence and slowing global technology spending weigh on biggest software services firms.
Meta opens Muse Glimmer AI model weights to developers
The move gives developers greater flexibility to build AI applications locally, while Meta prepares another model for broader developer access
TCS flags alleged exposure of some employee data, says customer data not impacted
TCS said it has had safeguards in place for over two years against the manner in which this attack was carried out. Its own operational systems have not been impacted, the IT firm said
Chinese military researchers tap U.S. AI models to train defence systems
As Chinese AI models close the gap with their U.S. counterparts, military researchers are also examining distillation as a potential security risk
Meta releases new open weight model, pushes global AI vision amid race with rivals
In a long essay published Monday about the future of artificial intelligence, Zuckerberg called for the U.S. to compete against China
China Still Germanys Top Trade Partner But German Exports Plunge
China remains Germanys biggest trading partner, but the trade relationship is becoming increasingly uneven. German exports to China fell more than 12% in the first half of 2026, while Chinese exports to Germany rose 9%. Meanwhile, German exports to other EU countries jumped 7.5% raising fresh questions about the future of Germanys industrial powerhouse.#Germany #China #Trade #GermanEconomy #Europe #ChinaGermany #Economy
Valve is warning Steam Machine buyers that scammers have their address
Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNETs Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday. CEVA told Valve about the breach on 7 August, and Valve spent the following days working [] This story continues at The Next Web
Graphene-powered soft lens could pave the way for smarter glasses, cameras and medical devices
The ability to change focus instantly is something most people take for granted. Every day, our eyes effortlessly switch between reading a book, recognizing a face across the room or watching a bird fly overhead. Replicating that remarkable technological flexibility, however, has proved far more difficult.
This pocket-sized gadget helped cut down our editor's screen time - and it's on sale
Brick can curb your screen time, and it's on sale for a limited time.
Why recovery readiness has become the new standard for cyber resilience
As outages become more expensive and frequent, recovery readiness is emerging as the true measure of resilience.
Apple has run out of iPhone shapes, and Jefferies just cut it to sell
Jefferies cut Apple from hold to underperform on Monday. That is the banks equivalent of a sell rating. It also cut its price target from $285.56 to $263.66. Fortunes Sebastian Herrera reported the call. The banks supply-chain checks produced three reasons. Apple has cancelled a rumoured all-glass iPhone, memory prices are surging, and there is [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout. Its shares fell on the news
A group of financial firms is working with Nvidia on a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure. The group covers Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRocks Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The Financial Times reported the talks first. Bloomberg confirmed them with people familiar with the matter. A deal could land [] This story continues at The Next Web
YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program
From 1 February 2027, a channel applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need 1,000 subscribers and 8,000 valid public watch hours over the previous 365 days. The current bar is 4,000 hours over 12 months. The Shorts route doubles as well. Twenty million valid public Shorts views over 90 days, up from 10 million. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta, Google, TikTok face thousands of lawsuits over alleged youth addiction
Thousands of lawsuits accusing major social media companies of harming young users can proceed after a US appeals court rejected an early appeal
House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.
The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBCs Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the witness chair. Casar chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus. His letter does not open [] This story continues at The Next Web
The Ninth Circuit let 2,400 addiction lawsuits proceed without touching Section 230
The Ninth Circuit handed the social media companies a defeat on Monday. It did not hand them a ruling. The San Francisco appeals court rejected their bid to overturn a lower court and shut down some 2,400 federal lawsuits over claims they built their products to addict young users. Reuters Diana Novak Jones reported the [] This story continues at The Next Web
An AI agent deleted a stranger from a gym waitlist. The API let it
An Australian man named Andrew asked his AI agent to book him into a popular gym class. The agent booked the class. Then it deleted a stranger. The ABCs national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Teams Rhiannon Hobbins broke the story on Monday. They describe what may be the first known autonomous [] This story continues at The Next Web
Why managers are ransomware's top targets now - and 6 ways to stay safe
Almost two-thirds of the victims targeted in a single ransomware campaign held managerial positions or higher.
Vodafone Idea pares Q1 losses by 43%
Delivered on all critical business parameters, says CEO Abhijit Kishore
Demand for AI skills boosts campus placement salaries
Fresh graduates can now snag job offers ranging from 7-12 lakh, a huge leap from the earlier 3-4 lakh norm
Zee Entertainment Q1 net nearly halves to 74 crore
Higher spending in advertisement in the run-up to FIFA World Cup, muted tax expenses for earlier years played spoilsport
Royal Jordanian Airlines picks Ramco Systems for its aviation software
Ramco Aviation Software provides Royal Jordanian with a single, unified digital platform that will enhance operational efficiency
Claude's Record-a-Skill cut my research from hours to 30 minutes - but the magic has limits
I used Claude Cowork to automate a workflow, and the result was remarkably effective, but it exposed four serious drawbacks.
Publishers maintaining clear AI-use records better placed to manage legal, commercial risks: Report
The report said publishers need to implement practical governance measures even as courts and regulators continue to work out the legal principles governing AI training and copyright
Indian student murder accused held in Germany while fleeing US for India
Indian student murder accused held in Germany while fleeing US for India
Airtel Business, ITI Limited join hands to accelerate enterprise digital transformation in India
The partnership brings together Airtel Business' enterprise connectivity and digital technology capabilities with ITI Limited's engineering, manufacturing and technology expertise
AI coding boom puts software testing, verification in focus
As AI accelerates software development, companies face a new challenge: ensuring machine-generated code performs reliably, safely and as intended
SFO Tech in pact with US-based Smart IOPS to produce high-end AI hardware
Through the tie-up, SFO has integrated Smart IOPS proprietary TruRandom controller technology into its production lines
Indian student kills girlfriend in US, arrested in Germany
Batchigari is accused of first-degree murder and kidnapping, having allegedly stolen Salazar's phone and credit cards and sent deceptive texts to her mother to conceal the crime.
Q1 Results Today, 10th August 2026 Live Updates: Follow Q1FY27 live updates from businessline
Indian student arrested in Germany for girlfriend
Washington: An Indian student accused of murdering his girlfriend in Tucson, Arizona, was arrested in Germany before he could board a connecting flight to his home country. Varun Batchigari, 20, a business analytics student at the University of Arizona, allegedly murdered his 19-year-old girlfriend Julissa Rubi Salazar on August 6 at a Tucson apartment. According Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News , Technology , Entertainment , Sports , Politics and Top Stories on WhatsApp & Telegram by subscribing to our channels. You can also download our app for Android and iOS .
Indian student arrested in Germany over Arizona girlfriends murder
An Indian student was arrested in Germany for allegedly murdering his girlfriend in Arizona. Varun Batchigari, a University of Arizona student, was apprehended before boarding a flight to India. Investigators allege he stole the victim's phone and cards after the killing. He is accused of sending deceptive texts to the victim's mother. Batchigari now awaits extradition to Arizona for legal proceedings.
AI broadens India office demand beyond Fortune 500, Embassy REIT says
Indias large and increasingly fungible technology talent pool is lowering the entry barrier for smaller overseas companies, says Embassy REIT CEO Amit Shetty
IAM Ignite Museum unfolds a new chapter in tech history
Put together by ex-TCS veterans, it will showcase the Information Age revolutions
AI may redraw Indias IT services map; 20-25% firms could struggle to cross over, says Nasscom chief
Strong deal pipelines belie market concerns as 6.1% revenue growth outpaces 2.3% headcount growth
Outcome-based IT services no longer optional: Nasscoms Rajesh Nambiar
In an interview with businessline, Rajesh Nambiar, President of IT industry body Nasscom, discusses how AI is changing the economics of IT services, why outcome-based delivery is becoming inevitable, the industrys AI readiness, talent and policy priorities
Samsung tracking consumer AI adoption to shape future features: Official
Samsungs Jay Kim aims for AI to operate seamlessly in the background, allowing users to complete tasks effortlessly without considering the technology involved
Govt examines if Meta recommendation system deciding what-to-show-to-whom fits intermediary status
The issue centres on whether a platform that actively decides what users see, can continue to claim intermediary status under the Information Technology Act
Artificial intelligence can chat, translate and answer questions but only if it understands your language. At IIT Madras, researchers at AI4Bharat are travelling across India, collecting voices, preserving dialects and teaching AI to understand the countrys incredible linguistic diversity.
Track all the latest Q1 FY27 earnings announcements, corporate developments and management commentary as companies including Delhivery, Eveready Industries India, Medi Assist Healthcare Services, Oswal Pumps, Studds Accessories report their June quarter results.
Ministry warns corporates of WhatsApp malware behind Boss Scam
The campaign poses a particular risk to Chartered Accountants, Company Directors, Chief Financial Officers
SpaceX to build $16.8 billion chip plant in Texas, create over 3,000 jobs
The mega facility aims to meet an anticipated requirement of over one terawatt of computing power for Musks ventures
Center reduces takedown timeline for unlawful content to three hours
Intermediaries are also required to ensure clear labelling and traceable metadata for permissible AI-generated content, so that users can easily identify synthetically generated material and prevent deception or misuse
ByteDance targets mega AI model nearing Anthropics Mythos, FT reports
Sarvam AI | All about the Bengaluru startups plans for a trillion-parameter model
Sarvam AIs plan has clear geopolitical implications, but developing a trillion-parameter model is a huge challenge.
ai-horizon.io enters pre-Series A round with Source1 Technologies investment
ai-horizon.io to use fresh investment to accelerate innovation, expand global footprint
The AI and data centre financing universe continues to expand rapidly, now comprising 31 issuers with more than $576 billion in outstanding bonds and over $5 billion in leveraged loans: J.P. Morgan
Well positioned to compete: Vi
Companys annual report highlights its readiness to effectively challenge competition
Googles $15 billion India data centre project battles water, wildlife concerns
In recent weeks, activists and children have marched in Visakhapatnam city, holding banners saying We cannot drink DATA and painting handcuffs on the Google logo, social media posts show.
More than half of children, teens are using AI for personal reasons. This comes with risks
Of the 54% who reported using AI for social and personal reasons, 33% asked about physical health, 33% asked for advice about what to do in a particular situation, and 20% asked AI for advice about their mental health and wellbeing
OpenAI asks US judge to dismiss Apple's trade secrets case
Ai+ Smartphone rolls out 100-cr bug bounty program
Through the bug bounty program, Ai+ said that it is looking to go beyond traditional bug bounty programs to foster an open environment where developers, security researchers, and ethical hackers can collectively contribute to the safety and resilience of Ai+ products
AIs volatile power demand is damaging its own data centers
Power increments equivalent to the consumption of factories, towns or even cities can appear and disappear within seconds, creating repeated shocks that connected equipment struggles to absorb
Meta launches new AI coding tool powered by Muse Spark 1.2
Muse Code can write code and verify results, and has been trained to handle long, complex coding projects while also running multiple sub-agents simultaneously to speed up difficult tasks
DeepSeek plans Significant price increase for its AI services
The company currently charges $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens
Samsung pre-orders for latest foldables jump 30% from last year
Samsung is hyping its preorder performance just weeks before the company will have to contend with formidable competition from Apple Inc
Google AI veterans depart during seismic leadership shift
Jeff Dean, a key Google AI strategist, is leaving to start a new venture, taking several notable employees with him
Meta AI model accessed internet, hacked third-party firm during cybersecurity testing
Metas model, Muse Spark 1.1, breached the systems of an undisclosed third-party service, the company said Wednesday. The AI model had access to the internet because of an error in the setup testing environment
Google DeepMind revamp: Demis Hassabis takes new role, Jeff Dean leaves
The leadership changes coincide with Gemini delays, growing AI competition and a wave of high-profile departures reshaping Googles artificial intelligence strategy
Infosys expands partnership with Finlands Mets Group to drive AI-led IT transformation
The expanded engagement strengthens enterprise technology capabilities through AI, cloud and automation to improve efficiency, productivity and service delivery worldwide
DE-CIX India sets up point of presence at AdaniConneXs Chennai data centre
Customers at Chennai 1 to gain direct access to DE-CIX Indias internet exchange, cloud connectivity and enterprise networking services
Freshworks beats guidance estimates to post 16% revenue growth in Q2 2026
SaaS firm posts net profit, raises full-year guidance; hits GAAP profitability ahead of plan
Tech Mahindras AI tech helping clients improve productivity, prune debt
Its the year to reap returns, says COO Atul Soneja
Persistent Systems wins shareholder favour for Nagarro acquisition
Persistent Systems says all offer details to be laid out shortly
