Will plug-in solar plus batteries solve your power problem? I did the math
It can't be just about harvesting solar power - it's also about storage, and time-shifting cheap, off-peak power to times when it's more expensive.
AI workforce penetration in Retail GCCs has increased from 2.1% in 2022 to 4.8% in 2025, with projections of reaching 10.6% by 2028
Flexible sensor detects near-infrared light with higher response after repeated bending
A research team has developed a flexible near-infrared (NIR) photodetector that delivers photoresponsivity more than five times higher while maintaining its performance under repeated bending. The technology is expected to serve as a core platform for next-generation flexible optoelectronic devices, including wearable health care devices, medical diagnostic sensors and optical communication receivers.
Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huaweis top-end Ascend 950-series chips for an AI training cloud. A further 600, either the same chips or the [] This story continues at The Next Web
Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old
Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat. The case rests on a 13-year-old account, opened on a new iPhone by an investigator in the attorney generals office before the filing. What that account could reach is the evidence. Attorney General David Sunday filed the complaint on 25 August in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. It [] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a time to do work that computers could not. Jeff Bezos once called it artificial artificial intelligence. A banner across the MTurk homepage sets out the decision. We regularly evaluate our programs, tools, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters
X Corp has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open-source project that let people read X posts without an account. Nitter.net is offline and development has stopped. Its creator says he is seeking legal advice. XCancel, the best-known site built on Nitter, has also stopped operating. Sarah Perez has read one of the letters and [] This story continues at The Next Web
Gatik has raised $200m to put more driverless box trucks on US roads
Gatik has raised $200m in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies. It is the largest financing in the autonomous trucking companys history. Millennium Management, ARK Invest and Intact Private Capital also took part, and the round brings Gatiks total to about $500m since it came out of stealth [] This story continues at The Next Web
Mate Security unveils Gamebooks to bring trusted autonomy to AI-powered security investigations
As artificial intelligence pushes security operations toward greater speed and automation, the central challenge is becoming less about whether AI can investigate threats and more about whether organizations can trust it to act. SiliconANGLE first reported on Mate Securitys Gamebooks, a new architectural layer designed to give AI agents room to reason and adapt while [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules
Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the states case. Meta puts the full payment at approximately $18bn, [] This story continues at The Next Web
From games to communication: How childrens online habits are shifting
Kids porn exposure on mobile devices increases, almost three times from desktop rates
Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case
Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal data of children who used its platforms. Diana Novak Jones reported the figure for Reuters on [] This story continues at The Next Web
Boston Scientific has disclosed a cybersecurity incident causing a global disruption to operations
Boston Scientific has told the US Securities and Exchange Commission that a cybersecurity incident detected on 25 August has caused a global disruption to the Companys operations, including its ability to process and ship customer orders. Shares fell about 3.5% in premarket trading, and the company has not identified who is responsible, in a year [] This story continues at The Next Web
Speed is no longer a selling point for AI agents, caution is
AI agents have spent two years competing on the same thing: independence. Less oversight, fewer clicks, more autonomy, that was the pitch. It didnt matter if the agent lived in a browser extension, a cowork app, or a coding tool. I think that pitch has become the industrys biggest liability. At Decodo, we recently reviewed [] This story continues at The Next Web
Aurivillius-type materials could lower the operating temperature of fuel cells
Fuel cells, devices that generate electricity by converting the chemical energy of hydrogen or other fuels via electrochemical reactions, are promising solutions for powering large electric vehicles, industrial sites and remote facilities. To drive the necessary reactions, solid oxide fuel cells rely on ceramic, heat-resistant electrolytes, solid materials that transport ions between two electrodes.
Octave sets up tech centre with 1,600 engineers in Hyderabad
The company has also set up its Experience Centre at the Hyderabad office, showcasing its connected, contextual intelligence solutions and technology capabilities
Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern
Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached. That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state issued on 20 August and announced on Monday. OpenAI [] This story continues at The Next Web
The SEC has subpoenaed four banks over Situational Awareness
American securities regulators have subpoenaed the banks that lent Situational Awareness the money it used to make its AI bets. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants the timing of the funds trades, and its communications with lenders about the money it was borrowing. It also told the banks to preserve any information they hold on [] This story continues at The Next Web
India tribunal lifts WhatsApp data-sharing ban, upholds Meta fine
WhatsApp had challenged the Competition Commission of India's November 2024 ban on data sharing between WhatsApp and other Meta entities, warning it may have to roll back some features
IT sector revenue growth to remain stable at 6% through FY27: Brickwork Ratings
The sector recorded $418 billion in services exports in FY26, while revenue growth is estimated at 6.1 per cent
French initiative Desibel aims to take India's AVGC-XR talent to global stage
The initiative has been introduced by the Embassy of France in India, the French Institute in India (IFI), along with support from the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3
Moonshot AI is in early discussions with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google about hosting Kimi K3 on their cloud platforms, seeking up to 30% of the revenue those services generate, according to Reuters. It would be the first arrangement of its kind between a Chinese AI company and the major American clouds, involving a model thatMoonshot [] This story continues at The Next Web
MindRank, a Hangzhou drug developer built around AI, says its lead candidate went from programme initiation to Phase III trials in roughly four and a half years on about $23mn of cumulative research spending. If that holds up, it is the most concrete answer yet to a question the sector has been asking loudly and [] This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceX is spending $100bn on a second Starbase, on an old Exxon site in Louisiana
SpaceX will build a second Starbase in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on a former Exxon property on the Gulf Coast, and it puts the price at $ 100 billion. The company describes it as a self-sustaining spaceport with its own propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping, vehicle processing, and an airport, which is a fair description [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI firms debate putting cyber tests online after model hacks
Cybersecurity specialists are debating whether they should connect the virtual testing environments where they experiment with dangerous software, known as sandboxes, to the internet
Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even where AI could do them, and the analogy he reaches for is a nature reserve, a place where development is restricted because something there is worth preserving. He names childcare and jury service as roles humans are [] This story continues at The Next Web
The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional
The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed making public disclosure of air pollution from minor sources voluntary rather than mandatory, a change that would cover the diesel generators clustered around data centres. It follows the same direction as the exemptions the administration has already granted, havingexcused data centres and rockets from parts of environmental lawearlier [] This story continues at The Next Web
Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection
Spain has drafted a decree that would require new data centres to source at least 80% of their electricity from renewables in every hour of operation, with loss of grid connection as the penalty for failing to comply. It is a markedly firmer position than the one Brussels has taken, having previously told Big Tech [] This story continues at The Next Web
Innovation does not usually die because an experiment fails. It dies when ownership disappears. Large software companies can build an ancillary tool, prove that it solves a real problem, and still starve it of attention once leadership redirects the team toward the flagship product or the next urgent initiative. My argument is simple: when a [] This story continues at The Next Web
Revolut is launching a euro stablecoin into a market MiCA handed to an American company
Revolut is launching a euro-backed stablecoin, entering a market that European regulation has spent two years accidentally consolidating around a single American issuer. The neobank is also one of the 36 firms the ECB picked for its digital euro pilot, which means it is now building the private euro token and helping test the public [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI data centre executive Chris Malone departs the AI startup
Malones exit adds to a series of executive shuffles and departures at the ChatGPT maker in recent months
Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain
Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikkei, in a project involving the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the countrys three largest banks. It is the sort of [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia is about to report its fastest growth in seven quarters
Nvidia is expected to report quarterly revenue of $92.18bn, close to double the same period last year and its fastest growth in seven quarters, with analysts forecasting a further rise to $104.20bn in the current quarter. The numbers are not really the issue anymore, because the scrutiny has moved to how much of that demand [] This story continues at The Next Web
Eight months into the worlds first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat before the law took effect. The data comes from the parental control software maker Qustodio, and it puts numbers to something already visible in the [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta and the states are talking settlement while the jury is still sitting
Meta and state attorneys general have held settlement discussions amid the youth social media harm trial now underway in federal court in California, according to Bloomberg. The case is the largest of its kind, with 29 states pursuing the companyand four of them, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, party to the trial thatopened this [] This story continues at The Next Web
Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram
Adam Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, told a federal jury in Oakland that the apps Take a Break feature helped, but not nearly as much as we hoped, as internal documents showed only 1.8% of teenagers used it. Metas public blog post at the time said more than 90% of users who turned [] This story continues at The Next Web
FlowX.AI Brings Mission-Critical Industry AI Agents to Gemini Enterprise
Menlo Park, CA, United States, August 25th, 2026, TechnologyWire FlowX.AI is among the first partners bringing specialized industry agents to Gemini Enterprise, with enterprise-grade AI built for complex, high-stakes work where making a mistake is not an option. FlowX.AI today announced that specialized FlowX.AI agents are available through Google Cloud Marketplace and as part of [] This story continues at The Next Web
Instagram chief admits touting teen safety tool while omitting it was barely used
Meta's business model revolves around selling advertising, and the company earns more when users spend more time on its apps
Meta, U.S. states have discussed settling teen social media harm case: Report
Meta has denied the allegations, saying it has worked hard to protect children on its platforms
Meta, US states have discussed settling teen social media harm case
The development comes during a federal court trial in California over claims brought by 29 states, in what is one of the highest-profile tests of allegations that social media companies have harmed young users
AI will deflate value of IT work by up to 25%, Hexaware CEO says
As AI helps to improve efficiency, customers could demand 20%-25% lower fees for some of the work Hexaware accomplishes currently
Apple launches faster Mac mini, Mac Studio to tap AI boom
Pricing starts at $2,499 for the M5 Max version and $5,499 for the M5 Ultra model, up from $1,999 for the previous generation
H-1B visa fee hike: Nasscom says Indian IT firms have cut reliance on visas
Indian technology firms have strengthened their US workforce and STEM initiatives as policymakers reassess the role of skilled foreign workers
H-1B visa fee explained: What the $103,265 fee proposal means for US employers and foreign workers
The proposed changes could have significant implications for companies facing worker shortages and professionals seeking temporary employment in the United States
Brazil has fined TikToks owner over the way it handled childrens data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok [] This story continues at The Next Web
Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth
Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit said on Tuesday. That range runs from minus 1% to [] This story continues at The Next Web
Garmin's new Fenix 9 Pro smartwatch is twice as bright as the previous gen - here's how they compare
Garmin's new flagship Fenix 9 epitomizes the premium rugged smartwatch - but how much of an upgrade is it from the Fenix 8?
Alice raises $140mn to stress-test the models Anthropic and Google ship
One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board seat. Total funding now stands at $280mn. The announcement names MoreTech and Phoenix [] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity
Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would top the $28.5tn SpaceX put in front of investors before its own record listing. Corrie Driebusch reported the number for The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Companies going public estimate a total addressable [] This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceX plans a $100B spaceport built for thousands of launches a year
SpaceX has announced plans to spend up to $100bn on a launch facility in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, intended to support thousands of launches annually and become the main site for Starship. Arianespace is targeting six to eight Ariane 6 launches this year. SpaceX has picked where Starship will mostly fly from, and it is Louisiana. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Emerald AI raises $150mn at a $1.05bn valuation to flex data centre power
A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and the round takes total funding past $220mn. The investor list is the tell. Nvidia, Siemens, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Stability AI raises $76mn from Universal, Warner, Sony Music and EA
The worlds three largest record companies have bought equity in a generative AI company. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group are all new investors in Stability AIs $76mn Series B. The company announced the round on Tuesday. The games publisher Electronic Arts joined it, alongside AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures. [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI firms debate connecting test sandboxes to the internet after breaches
After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing, security specialists are debating whether test sandboxes should have controlled internet access. Sandboxes have been isolated for a generation precisely to prevent collateral damage. The industrys response to AI models escaping their test environments may be to [] This story continues at The Next Web
Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn
Unitrees shares have fallen roughly 45% from the peak they hit on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The slide has turned a national success story into an argument about how China prices its listings. The stock steadied on Tuesday after three consecutive days of decline, Reuters reported. The valuation of the Hangzhou humanoid [] This story continues at The Next Web
Shivaami launches Gemini Enterprise Experience Centre
Facility to offer immersive demos, workshops and industry solutions powered by Google Cloud
SFAL expands beyond fabless start-ups; to support 75 more companies by 2030
In the next phase, SFAL aims to move Indias semiconductor ecosystem towards greater commercialisation, indigenous IP and private capital
Apple unveils new Mac mini, Mac studio with major chip upgrades
In May, Apple eliminated the original $599 base configuration, effectively hiking the machines starting price to $799 before the latest increase.
ESDS flags local protest impact on data centre business during IPO announcement of 720 crore
Company raises issue size to 720 crore from 600 crore; plans more centres in industrial areas to address concerns
Xiaomi unveils custom 3nm chip for intelligent driving
Xiaomi has unveiled the Xring D100, an in-house 3nm chip for intelligent driving that will replace Nvidia hardware in its cars from 2027. The company has invested more than 21bn yuan, about $3.1bn, since restarting its chip programme. Xiaomi is designing Nvidia out of its cars. The company has unveiled the Xring D100, an in-house [] This story continues at The Next Web
Waymo is coming to Munich, with commercial service targeted for late 2027
Waymo has announced it is laying the groundwork for autonomous ride-hailing in Munich, starting with high-definition mapping and manual driving in the coming weeks. It aims to open a commercial service to the public toward the end of 2027. Munich is getting robotaxis, though not for a while. Waymo says it is laying the groundwork [] This story continues at The Next Web
A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026
One minute and 49 seconds, that was the median time a machine needed to read a patients arm, choose a vein, insert a needle, fill the tubes, and withdraw, across the Dutch clinical trial that carried it towards regulators. A phlebotomist working carefully takes roughly five minutes, by the companys own reckoning. Nothing about the [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI-generated text found on over 1/3rd of new web pages
AI-written text could degrade future AI training data
Chip design start-up Aheesa Digital signs distribution partnership with Zigma Technologies
The agreement brings together Aheesas design capability with Zigmas to carry indigenous silicon to the market across India and beyond
OpenAI Under Investigation Over Hugging Face Hack Tied To Cybersecurity Test
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has launched an investigation into OpenAI following an AI-driven hack of Hugging Face during an internal cybersecurity test. His office subpoenaed OpenAI to examine whether its safety controls and oversight violated state consumer protection laws.
It's been 35 years since Finnish graduate student Linus Torvalds drafted a brief note saying he was starting a hobby operating system. The world will never be the same.
Scalable Capital has opened its investment platform to ChatGPT and Claude, allowing its clients to analyse their portfolios and place trades through the two AI assistants rather than through the brokers own app. The Munich company says it is the first European bank to do this, and it arrives as the industry works out what [] This story continues at The Next Web
UK digital infrastructure investment hit
Britains businesses put 11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree. Almost none of the difference is new money. The Office for National Statistics changed what counts on Monday. What the ONS actually [] This story continues at The Next Web
Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers
Liner, a South Korean AI search startup, has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding as it seeks to turn its consumer research platform used by millions into an enterprise AI business. LB Investment led the Series C round, joined by returning investors InterVest, Atinum Investment and CJ Investment. New funding participants included Korea Development [] This story continues at The Next Web
China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch
China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single sentence. Change 7 does not meet the conditions for launch, the China Manned Space Agency said on Sunday. It cannot go ahead in this years scheduled window. It gave no reason. What the [] This story continues at The Next Web
An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost
Australias Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much [] This story continues at The Next Web
Oura is seeking up to $3bn in an IPO that would value it above $16bn
Oura is targeting a September listing that would raise up to $3bn and value the smart ring maker at more than $16bn, according to Bloomberg, several months after the Finnish company filed confidentially for a US IPO. The mark would be a sharp step up from the $10.9bn valuation it carried last September, in a [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back
Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the hire to Axios. Ina Fried reported it on Monday. Metz starts this week and reports to Alexandr Wang, who runs Metas AI effort. Three labs in under a year Metz left OpenAI in 2024 for [] This story continues at The Next Web
Lambda is raising up to $3bn before an IPO, months after borrowing $917m for chips
Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3bn in pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $12bn or more, according to Bloomberg, as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider prepares for a listing expected next year. The raise follows a very different kind of financing earlier in its run, when Lambdaborrowed $917mn against its GPUsto buy more [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI boom propping up APAC growth but geopolitics, trade shocks headwinds: Moody's Analytics
Growth in the Asia-Pacific region is projected to slow to 4.2% in 2026 and 3% in 2027, down from 4.3% in 2025
Dear peasants: Sam Altman on how some of his rivals sell AI
Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong. The OpenAI chief executive said so to the podcaster David Senra, in an episode released on Sunday. He was answering a question about someone elses prediction. The claim he was pushing back on [] This story continues at The Next Web
US state launches probe into OpenAI after AI agent hacks Hugging Face
Last week, IPO-bound OpenAI said it would slow the pace of model development while overhauling its research and training systems
Alabama Launches Probe into OpenAI After Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI's models hacked technology company Hugging Face last month, raising concerns about how artificial intelligence firms control their powerful systems
Dr Dre says only people who struggle to create are scared of AI
Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview with the New York Times, published on Sunday. His longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine sat alongside him and went further. I think the only people that see it [] This story continues at The Next Web
How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn
On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots. The team presented Copilot and had the teachers practise using it to write emails to parents and customise lesson plans. They screened an explainer video from [] This story continues at The Next Web
WazirX launches AI trading co-pilot to streamline crypto research and execution
Integrated into WazirX's app and website, the tool allows users to ask questions about live crypto prices, market news and macroeconomic developments, among other functions
The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over
A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left. What the court decided Three judges of the US [] This story continues at The Next Web
Tiger Analytics appoints Prakash Arunachalam as Global Head of Operations
Arunachalam will be responsible for increased holistic operational efficiency, agility to enable sustained business growth, and strengthen profitabilityArunachalam will enhance operational efficiency, agility, and profitability for sustained business growth.
OpenAI, Anthropic Lean On TCS & Infosys As Go-To Partners For Enterprise Rollouts
UBS says both frontier AI labs count Infosys among their enterprise partners, with TCS also named by Anthropic, as clients struggle to move AI projects from pilot to production without systems integration support.
T-Hub, Army to back defence start-ups
Founders to work on real problem statements and military deployments
OpenAI Restores 5-Hour Codex, Work Limits For ChatGPT Plus Users
OpenAI is restoring the five-hour usage cap for ChatGPT Plus users on Codex and ChatGPT Work from August 25, citing computing demand and user experience, while Pro, Enterprise and Edu plans remain unaffected.
New Zealand moves to ban social media for under-16s
Platforms would also be required to assess the risks they pose as well as report on how those dangers are being reduced, with penalties slapped on companies that fail to comply
U.S. state probes OpenAI over rogue AI hack
The incident raised alarm about the dangers of AI systems acting autonomously and breaking guardrails set by human programmers to prevent safety violations
Apple gears up to launch its first new Mac Mini in two years
The new desktop will debut as soon as the coming days, potentially putting the unveiling ahead of a September event to introduce the next iPhones
Meesho tax disputes jump over threefold to 2,071.8 crore in FY26
The e-commerce company is contesting the tax demands while continuing to invest heavily in technology, customer acquisition and future growth
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabamas Attorney General announced an investigation into the incident.
