Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation
Databricks has closed a $5bn round at a $190bn valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate past $7bn and growth above 80% year on year. That is a 42% valuation increase in six months, and it comes after chief executive Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a bad year to go public. Databricks has closed $5bn at [] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether todays safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
GM and LG restart Ohio battery production after seven idle months
Ultium Cells, the GM and LG Energy Solution joint venture, restarts EV battery cell production in Warren, Ohio next week after a seven-month shutdown, with about 1,400 workers. US EV sales rose 14.2% in the second quarter but remain 20.5% below a year earlier. The battery plant that GM and LG idled in January is [] This story continues at The Next Web
Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were opt-in, nobody would opt in. Twitch has added a setting that stops Amazon training [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI is not just replacing its revenue chief, it is rebuilding the sales operation
OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving after eight months, replaced by Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief operating officer of Wiz. The company has also hired recruiters to rebuild its go-to-market team, two days after longtime executive Brad Lightcap said he was leaving. OpenAIs chief revenue officer is leaving after eight months in [] This story continues at The Next Web
Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, and its all-electric propulsion produced more than one megawatt. The airframe explains the record. The X1 has a wingspan of about 32 metres, runs 23 metres [] This story continues at The Next Web
The Pune facility is the first new FlktGroup manufacturing facility to become operational since Samsung Electronics completed its acquisition of the global HVAC specialist in November 2025
Omdia says phone prices will stay high after the shortage ends
Start with the number, because it is the kind that settles an argument. In the first quarter of 2026, panel makers shipped 298 million displays into the refurbished phone market. They shipped 289 million to the companies that make new phones. The refurbished figure was up 20% year on year, according to Omdia. The two [] This story continues at The Next Web
NITES flags prolonged onboarding delay for 200-plus Wipro Elite hires
NITES said the candidates had repeatedly approached Wipros HR teams and other channels but had not received a substantive response
Explosion at Europe's largest port kills one, injures six as investigators probe cause
Cloudflare and Trail of Bits now audit who Signal says you are talking to
Here is the problem, and it is easier to state than most people expect. End-to-end encryption scrambles a message so only the recipient can read it. That works perfectly, provided you were handed the recipients real key. The app fetches that key from a server. If the server hands you a different key, the encryption [] This story continues at The Next Web
Volkswagen can build a $17,175 car. Just not in Europe
Start with the Volkswagen, because it is the one that should give Europe pause. SAIC Volkswagen, the joint venture with Chinas state-owned SAIC Motor, opened preorders for the ID. Era 5S saloon this week. The introductory price is 115,900 yuan, which Digital Trends converts to about $17,175. The car goes on sale in China on [] This story continues at The Next Web
An AI-written article needs no label. Your proofread email gets one
Start with what the mark actually is, because it is not a stamp on the page. When a model writes, it picks each word from a set of reasonable options. A watermark quietly splits those options into two groups using a secret key, then nudges the model towards one group. One word proves nothing. Across [] This story continues at The Next Web
SK Hynix is spending $720bn as its shares fall by half
High-bandwidth memory is the part of an AI system that nobody photographs. It sits next to the processor and feeds it data, and if it is too slow the expensive chip waits. It is made by stacking ordinary DRAM, the same memory that goes into laptops and phones. That is why an AI buildout drains [] This story continues at The Next Web
Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for
Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and IT services companies outright, puts its own engineers inside them, and rebuilds how the work gets done. It now [] This story continues at The Next Web
CodeRabbit raised $143m to read the code AI wrote
Code review is the step where somebody reads a change before it ships. A developer proposes an edit, opens what the trade calls a pull request, and a colleague checks it for bugs and security holes. It is slow and unglamorous work. Until recently it was also manageable, because roughly one human wrote each change [] This story continues at The Next Web
A Continent Running Dry: Europe's Drought Seen From Space
A Continent Running Dry Europes Drought Seen From Space
TCS will partner with VodafoneThrees enterprise arm for digital adoption
The partnership builds on VodafoneThrees 11 billion investment to create the UKs best network for business
Accel raised $3.5bn. Europe now gets the same fund as the US
Accel is a venture capital firm. It gives money to startups early, usually before anyone else has, and takes a stake in return. It has done this since 1983, and it wrote the first institutional cheque into Atlassian, CrowdStrike, Flipkart and Slack. On Tuesday it said it had raised $3.5bn for four new funds, Bloomberg [] This story continues at The Next Web
T-Hub picks 14 start-ups for Blueprint cohort
12-month cohort to help startups scale
Taiwan briefly slows its mobile internet to text-only speed as part of defense drill
For 30 minutes, the internet in parts of Taiwan crawled. The slowdown Thursday for people in the capital, Taipei, and six other cities and localities was part of the last phase of the island
When do the major European leagues start and what are the big stories?
BBC Sport looks at the big stories in Europe heading into the 2026-27 season.
Cloudangles opens Global Engineering Centre
The GEC will support a broad range of capabilities spanning digital and technology, application development and engineering, data and analytics, AI and automation.
Doughy Eastern European Man Tired Of Everyone Assuming He
MCCOOK, ILComplaining that he couldnt even walk down the street without being mistaken for a world-class basketball player, doughy Eastern European immigrant Vukain Petrovi told reporters Thursday that he was tired of everyone assuming he was an NBA superstar.Just because Im a 6-foot-10, soft-bodied Balkan man with a last name ending in -i, everyone automatically [] The post Doughy Eastern European Man Tired Of Everyone Assuming Hes NBA Superstar appeared first on The Onion .
Nebius revenue grew 454%. Most of the cash came from customers paying in advance
Nebius rents out computing power. It buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centres, and charges companies to train and run AI models on them. The trade calls this a neocloud. It is based in Amsterdam, listed on Nasdaq, and was spun out of the Russian internet company Yandex in 2024. On Wednesday it reported [] This story continues at The Next Web
75% of developers I surveyed prefer Claude Code - here's why they choose it over Codex
Three out of four of the 138 developers I surveyed use Claude Code. Here's what they say matters in daily AI coding workflows.
DoGo Power Wins EUPD Research's 2026 Top Innovation Award in Europe
DoGo Power Wins EUPD Research's 2026 Top Innovation Award in Europe
Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice that circulated a decade ago. Publish more often, get quoted somewhere respectable, trust the algorithm; the genre rarely rewards close reading. INPUT Global, a communications agency [] This story continues at The Next Web
Can you name every team Rangers have played in Europe since 2000?
Not even the biggest Rangers fan is getting 100%. The post Can you name every team Rangers have played in Europe since 2000? appeared first on Planet Football .
Legora is reportedly chasing a $10bn valuation, barely a season after its last raise
Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europes fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it lands, the deal would roughly double the figure investors put on the business only months ago, a pace that says as much about the frenzy around [] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle plans fresh August layoffs as its AI spending spree bites
Oracle is planning another round of job cuts this month, according to Business Insider, with some teams reportedly facing double-digit-percentage reductions. Managers have been told to identify the employees affected, and the goal is to trim payroll before 1 September, the start of the companys fiscal second quarter. Oracle declined to comment. It is the [] This story continues at The Next Web
A billion-dollar game deleted a character in 8 days. Then it had the worst month of its life
In June, Love and Deepspace took about $38m across the App Store and Google Play. In July it took just over $10m, mobilegamer.biz reported this week, citing Sensor Tower. The game slid to 16th in the monthly gacha rankings, having never before dropped out of the top five. Put that against its own history and [] This story continues at The Next Web
India's GCC sector faces up to 19.3% value risk from skill gaps by 2030: PwC India-FICCI study
The report, based on a survey of 200 senior GCC executives, found that skill shortages are limiting annual value creation by up to 10%
Meta says it has taken down 756,000 Australian teen accounts as ban enforcement looms
Australian government figures and multiple independent studies have shown more than eight in 10 under-16s were still on social media in the bans first three months
L&T secures AI data centre order worth up to 15,000 crore
The centre, hosted at the firms Vyoma.AI unit in Chennai, will have a capacity of 10,000 NVIDIA B300 chips.
Donald Trump is sued for putting a $100,000 paywall on his Truth Social posts
The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have sued President Donald Trump over a Trump Media service that sells paid early access to his Truth Social posts, arguing that a sitting president should not be allowed to put a price on his own official words. The service, called Truth API, gives paying subscribers [] This story continues at The Next Web
Taiwan says AI agents helped hack its government in four days
Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The islands Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National Institute of Cyber Security, disclosed that government agencies were targeted in July, with alerts going out from around 20 July. What makes the [] This story continues at The Next Web
JioStar brings Star brand back to UK and European Audiences
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: JioStar brings Star brand back to UK and European Audiences JioStar brings Star Plus, Star Gold and Star Bharat back to UK and European audiences as the channels move away from the Utsav brand. The post JioStar brings Star brand back to UK and European Audiences appeared first on DESIblitz .
President Donald Trump signs memo letting US agencies hack transnational crime groups abroad
President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising US federal law enforcement to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organisations operating abroad. Washington, in short, is giving itself formal permission to hack the hackers, and it is roughly as consequential as that sounds. The memorandum takes aim at foreign criminal groups [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta says it has removed 756,000 Australian teen accounts, but most under-16s are still online
Meta has deactivated 756,000 Australian accounts it believes belonged to under-16s, a figure it disclosed as the countrys world-first social media ban moves from threat to enforcement. The company says 462,000 of those accounts were on Instagram and 294,000 on Facebook, all removed between December 2025 and June 2026. It is a big, headline-friendly number, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Supreme Court asks Centre to consider framing guidelines on AI ethics
The court disposed of a PIL seeking binding rules on AI ethics, algorithmic impact assessments, bias audits and transparency in high-risk government AI systems.
Lenovo India Q1 revenue grows 18% on strong AI demand
Lenovo India reported 18% year-on-year revenue growth in the June quarter, while the global group posted record quarterly revenue of $26.9 billion.
Black Box secures 1,240-crore data centre order from US hyperscaler
Black Box will provide digital infrastructure services at a key US location over three years, with further expansion expected
Black Box Q1 results: Net profit climbs 18% to 56 crore
Black Boxs revenue from operations jumps 83% to 8,986 crore during Q1 FY27
Meta AI glasses hit with criminal complaint from German advocacy group
Theres no place to escape from smart glasses. You have to expect at any moment to be filmed and then exposed on the internet, said HateAid managing director Josephine Ballon
Why Meta is paying for controversial content and what it means for the posts you see
Facebooks creator economy has raised fresh questions about whether engagement-driven payments can create incentives for provocative or harmful material
Meta meets its own 'tobacco' moment as jury selection kicks off trial
Meta founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg is among the star witnesses expected to testify
Q1 Results Today, 13th August 2026 Live Updates: Follow Q1FY27 live updates from businessline
Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone
Code in the latest Uber iOS app refers to adding a tween aged 10 to 12 to an Uber Family profile, with a trusted adult contact and the option to require a grown-up at pickup. Uber says it is not a live product and that its only teen offering remains 13 to 17. Uber is [] This story continues at The Next Web
Google Pixel 11 lineup launched with prices starting at $899
The Pixel 11 series brings upgraded cameras, brighter displays and enhanced Gemini AI, while Google also expands its foldable smartphone lineup
New model bridges ferroelectric physics and circuit modeling
A new physics-based analytical model can accurately predict ferroelectric behavior under real-world, complex voltages, according to a study led by University of Michigan Engineering. The model bridges the longstanding gap between fundamental switching physics and practical device engineering.
Bharti Airtel discontinues four monthly plans from 300 to 650, entry-level packs remain intact
The telecom operator cancelled its data 299, 579, 619 and 649 on Wednesday
Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts
Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it our fastest growing product ever and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. His post has been seen more than 1.5 million times. Google published the engagement [] This story continues at The Next Web
Why small moments of recognition are becoming critical to workplace culture
Gallups State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, with disengagement costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion annually. Research also shows that engagement is closely tied to how employees experience their workplace relationships. Gallups workplace research found that highly engaged teams achieve [] This story continues at The Next Web
Jaguar gives the first look inside its all-electric Type 01
Jaguar has published the first interior images of the Type 01, the electric grand tourer that will end a two-year gap in which it stopped selling new cars in the UK. The car is revealed in New York on October 6, after a delay from late 2025 and an expected price of around 100,000. Jaguar [] This story continues at The Next Web
Megadeals took 87.5% of US venture dollars, and the rest of the market is priced by vintage
PitchBook published its Q2 US VC Valuations report on 10 August. Megadeals took 87.5% of the dollars deployed in the first half of 2026. PitchBook defines those as rounds of $100m or more. AI is the primary driver of that concentration, though the figure describes deal size rather than sector. The AI premium is real [] This story continues at The Next Web
Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine
Zoom has patched three memory corruption flaws in its annotation feature that allowed any meeting participant to run code on another attendees device with no interaction. The fixes shipped in June and July 2026, roughly two months before the research was made public. Zoom has patched three flaws in the annotation tools used during screen [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta faces 29 states in the biggest youth social media trial yet, with $1.4 trillion at stake
The long legal reckoning over social media and childhood is about to have its biggest day in court. Meta goes on trial this week against a coalition of 29 US states that accuse it of deliberately engineering Facebook and Instagram to addict children, in what amounts to the most consequential test yet of a sprawling [] This story continues at The Next Web
GetIntel published its AI Software Index on Wednesday. The study asked roughly 80 buyer-phrased questions in each of 126 software categories, covering 1,825 brands. The questions went to the live ChatGPT and Gemini consumer apps rather than the developer APIs. That produced 9,978 usable answers, all collected on 6 August. The headline result is a [] This story continues at The Next Web
An energy storage device designed to be recycled
Smartwatches, phones and even some drones rely on lightweight, rechargeable energy storage systems. Once those devices wear out, many end up as electronic waste. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have developed a compact supercapacitor that can be quickly disassembled into reusable components. They used the devices to power a glider
Electric cars just hit a record share of China
New energy vehicles took a record 65.1% of Chinese passenger car sales in July, but NEV volumes fell about 2% year on year, a seventh straight monthly decline, while the total market dropped 18%. Geelys Xingyuan was the bestseller and BYDs best performer managed only fifth over six months. Electric and hybrid cars took 65.1% [] This story continues at The Next Web
Indian semicon startups raised $206 million since 2022 as investors back mature bets: Report
The number of funding rounds fell from 16 in 2024 to 7 in H1 2026, even as capital deployed rose sharply
Is Aptoide safe? I tried Android's first alternative app store on Google Play - and it's a mess
Aptoide Games just landed in the Play Store - no sideloading required. I tested it, and caution is advised.
Foxconn now makes more money from AI servers than from everything else combined
Foxconn crossed a line this quarter that it will not cross back. Its cloud and networking division, the one that builds AI servers, made up 51% of revenue in the three months to June. That is the first time the segment has passed half. Smart consumer electronics, the division that contains the iPhone, came to [] This story continues at The Next Web
Its still day zero: Lovable is worth $13.3bn, and the EU just became a shareholder
Lovable is worth $13.3bn and its revenue is tripling. The interesting name on the cheque is the European Union. Lovable has raised $400m at a $13.3bn valuation. The Stockholm company lets people build software by describing it in ordinary language, and it is now one of Europes most valuable startups. Eight months ago it raised [] This story continues at The Next Web
Best HR software with predictive turnover analytics for 2026
The resignation landed on a Tuesday, and the manager never saw it coming. A senior engineer with three years at the company had earned strong reviews and showed no obvious signs of frustration. Then came the resignation. A competing offer had already been signed. Looking back, the warning signs were easy to spot. Survey scores [] This story continues at The Next Web
TripleDart tops $7 million ARR with AI-led growth, reports 50 per cent EBIT margin
Bengaluru, India TripleDart, a bootstrapped B2B growth company, today announced it has crossed $7 million in annual recurring revenue while operating at a 50% EBIT margin. The company says software, not additional headcount or capital, drove the jump. The milestone lands in the middle of a heated debate. Venture investors have poured more than $300 [] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre
Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service. No financial terms were disclosed, no launch customer was named, and no firm date was given [] This story continues at The Next Web
Ryanair signs a five-year AI deal with Google Cloud, and a second cloud to fall back on
Ryanair has signed a five-year data and AI partnership with Google Cloud, rolling out Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 employees and making Gemini Enterprise, Googles agentic AI platform, the centrepiece of how Europes largest carrier intends to run itself. The airline has tied the deal explicitly to its growth target of 300 [] This story continues at The Next Web
IIT Madras, CAMS expand partnership for Fintech innovation
The CAMS IIT Madras FinTech Innovation Lab will focus on emerging areas such as AI in financial services, digital payments, blockchain and tokenisation, cybersecurity, regulatory technology, WealthTech and InsurTech
Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years to start something new
Brad Lightcap, who spent eight years at OpenAI and four of them as chief operating officer, said on Tuesday that he is leaving to start something new. He did not say what it is. It is bittersweet to share that Ill be moving on from OpenAI to start something new, Lightcap wrote in a post [] This story continues at The Next Web
Spotify will badge AI artist profiles, and keep them out of your recommendations
Spotify will begin attaching anAI Persona badge to artist profiles whose public identity is generated rather than human, the company announced. Profiles carrying the badge will be excluded by default from editorial and algorithmic recommendations, which is the part of the policy that actually bites. There are two versions of the label. Artists can apply [] This story continues at The Next Web
French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers
French media have asked the countrys competition authority to rein in Googles use of artificial intelligence, filing a complaint that seeks to put a price on the AI-generated summaries quietly siphoning readers away from the outlets that produced the underlying journalism. The grievance, lodged by a trade association representing publishers, lands as the fight over [] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic starts marking all of Claude
Anthropic has begun attaching machine-readable marks to the text and images that its Claude models generate, and will apply them to users worldwide rather than only in Europe, after signing a European Union code of practice tied to new transparency rules that took effect on 2 August 2026. The company confirmed in asupport documentthat it [] This story continues at The Next Web
Spotify to slap 'AI Persona' badges on AI-generated artist profiles
Spotify will also review profiles whose public identity appears to represent photorealistic AI-generated imagery
Bumble eases women-first messaging rule as dating apps seek engagement boost
The move comes as dating-app companies grapple with user fatigue toward traditional swipe-based platforms and slowing growth
Senior OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap to leave for new venture
In response to Lightcaps post, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he was excited to work together on whats next.
Q1 Results Today, 12th August 2026 Live Updates: Follow Q1FY27 live updates from businessline
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
There are increasing calls for tighter legislation and restrictions on social media use, particularly for children and young people. Evidence shows potential harms coexist on social media platforms alongside opportunities for crisis support and connection.
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
