Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension
Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web instead of using its Chrome extension. It is on by default for Enterprise, Pro, Max and Team users, who can switch back in settings. Anthropic has put a browser inside Claude. Cowork now detects [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority
More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fix weaknesses in their own software. The EUs Cyber Resilience Act makes much of that mandatory from 11 September. More than 100 organisations have signed a letter [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nanoscale transistors achieve lower contact resistance with stepwise evaporation method
Metals, semiconductors and insulators are fundamental components of modern electronics. However, efforts to improve device performance have largely focused on semiconductor quality, while metal crystallinity has received far less attention.
As AI reshapes business, the fractional CTO finds its moment
The AI race is producing an uncomfortable management gap. Deloittes 2026 research found only 21% of enterprises have mature governance for agentic AI, while 74% expect to use agents at least moderately by 2027. Technology is moving faster than the structures responsible for controlling it. Recent reporting by NBC News of nearly 700 rogue AI [] This story continues at The Next Web
SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B memory packaging hub in Indiana
SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging high-bandwidth memory, with production due in the second half of 2029. Intels equivalent assembly and testing plant near Wroclaw was cancelled last year after state aid had been approved. SK Hynix has put [] This story continues at The Next Web
The executive assistant of the future: DonnaPro
Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the middleman. Automate the humans. Do more with less. Filip Pesek disagrees. The best AI tools still come with a human who knows how to think, says the founder of DonnaPro, Europes premium executive [] This story continues at The Next Web
Andhra set to emerge as third subsea hub following datacentre buildout
The State is seeing investments from Microsoft and Google, who are building fresh subsea cable infrastructure, currently concentrated in Mumbai and Chennai
Bifur-circuits let shape-changing devices keep electrical connections intact
A new set of modular components allows users to create reconfigurable smart devices with electrical connections that keep working no matter what shape the structure forms.
Voltpost is making an EV charger that hangs from your garage ceiling
Voltpost has launched two Level 2 chargers that mount on parking garage ceilings and on walls, avoiding trenching and cutting installation costs by up to 70% according to the company. Europes revised buildings directive requires member states to make it easier for tenants to install charging points, with transposition due this May. Voltpost has built [] This story continues at The Next Web
Telecom sector needs periodic tariff rationalisation for survival: Kumar Mangalam Birla, Vi Chairman
Speaking during the AGM, Birla called FY27 as the year of execution and delivery for the telco
Metas US child-safety settlement exposes gaps in Indias safeguards
Experts said India should seek similar protections for children that Meta has introduced on Facebook and Instagram in the US
ChatGPT Ads set to rewrite the rules of digital advertising in India
The initiative aims to enhance consumer engagement through contextual advertising, targeting logged-in adult users on ChatGPTs Free and Go plans.
UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028
Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation carries them out. He stakes the framework on a dated prediction and names the evidence that would weaken it. Daniel Dines has written a book, and its most useful sentence [] This story continues at The Next Web
The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things
Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest, but the bigger question is: smartest at what? As tech giants chase lucrative enterprise contracts, they are optimizing frontier models for coding, logic, and autonomous agent workflows. In the process, [] This story continues at The Next Web
After US settlement, EU says Meta must
The EU said Thursday it expects Meta to address
The next frontier in fintech is understanding the person behind the data
Fintech has spent almost two decades making financial information increasingly accessible, portable, and actionable. Open banking, digital wallets and connected financial platforms have created an environment in which consumers can move between products while allowing authorized providers to access increasingly detailed information about their financial activity. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that more than [] This story continues at The Next Web
Plaud made earbuds for people who want to record every meeting and call
The Plaud One is a different take on AI wearables.
Wiproand Google Cloud expand partnership to scale AI into core enterprise operations
As part of this partnership,Wiprohas launched theLIFT framework to help enterprises accelerate AI transformation and operationalise agentic AI at scale
Huawei plans more AI pharma partnerships, mainly with Chinese drugmakers
Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its healthcare business unit, who told Reuters the projects currently run mainly with domestic Chinese drugmakers. The company sells compound screening tools alongside its Ascend and Kunpeng chips, the same domestic stack it has been building out since US [] This story continues at The Next Web
What the US semiconductor tariff does and does not currently touch
The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it from touching the AI buildout, exempting covered products destined for American data centres. That exemption was always provisional, and the Commerce Department report that determines whether it survives was due on 1 July, in a [] This story continues at The Next Web
London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind
Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the worlds first successful AI-assisted operation of its kind. The system analysed live camera footage during the procedure, helping the team identify nerves and blood vessels near the tumour, and joins [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple has confirmed that its autumn event will take place on 9 September at 10am Pacific time at Apple Park, under the tagline Surprise and shine and an invitation showing a sun rising behind the company logo. The expectation is that it will finally show a foldable iPhone, a deviceIDC thinks could ship 10 million [] This story continues at The Next Web
Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude
Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of Salesforces agent products and simultaneously puts Salesforce inside Claude as a plugin. It formalises a relationship that already runs deep enough that Salesforceexpects to spend around $300mn on Anthropic tokens this year, and it comes on top ofa [] This story continues at The Next Web
LTM launches new tech campus in Kolkata; Bengal CM Adhikari allots more land
Campus to focus on artificial intelligence, data, cloud and digital engineering, L&T chairman and managing director S N Subrahmanyan says
Nvidia reported revenue of $96.2bn for the second quarter
Nvidia reported revenue of $96.2bn for the quarter, up 106% from the same period last year, and then did something it has never done before by guiding a full year ahead. The shares slipped about 1.3% on the release and only turned sharply higher once chief financial officer Colette Kress reached the section of the [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
The deal would give Nvidia control of a major open-source AI platform as developers increasingly explore alternatives to its chips.
Gabriel India teams up with South Koreas HL Klemove for autonomous driving
Gabriel India has formed a strategic joint venture with South Korea's HL Klemove. This partnership aims to expand Gabriel India's presence in high-growth automotive segments. The collaboration will focus on autonomous driving solutions and advanced driver assistance systems. Gabriel India will acquire a 30 percent stake in HL Klemove India for US$98.44 million. This venture will develop and sell advanced mobility and automotive electronic products.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Ads in India for Free and Go users
The new feature will only be rolled out for logged in adults and not users under 18 years of age
NVIDIA, AWS expand AI partnership; plan to deploy 2 million additional GPUs in 2027-28
NVIDIA and AWS will introduce NVIDIA Vera CPU infrastructure to AWS and enhance NVIDIA NVLink Fusion with custom high-bandwidth memory
Nvidia doubles revenue, forecasts even more AI spending
Nvidia's biggest customers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google-parent Alphabet and Meta) are on track to spend roughly $800 billion on data centres and AI infrastructure this year
Understanding the historic $17.1 billion Meta settlement
The settlement came with certain conditions on how Meta should change its safety features on Instagram and Facebook
Nvidia in talks to buy AI startup Hugging Face, reports say
The two sides have held serious conversations about a transaction in recent weeks, Business Insider reported on Wednesday
Time limits and a midnight cutoff: Meta's new rules for kids go further, but critics say not enough
Meta Platforms agreed to a significant $18 billion settlement with 48 US states. This historic deal mandates substantial changes to protect younger users on its platforms. New rules will limit daily usage and restrict access during nighttime hours for minors. Meta will also enhance its age verification technology to better identify underage users. These forthcoming changes aim to improve child safety across Instagram and Facebook.
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion: Report
Nvidia has agreed to buy AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported
Nearly 700 OpenAI agents coordinated Hugging Face attack, says report
The episode drew wide attention and fed worries that the biggest AI companies cannot keep their own models under control
South Korea seeks charges against officials over Jeju Air crash statements
South Korea seeks charges against officials over Jeju Air crash statements
OpenAI Report Says Its Network Was Hacked By Its Own Rogue AI Agents
The 37-page report reveals previously undisclosed aspects of the recent hacking spree powered by OpenAI's most advanced models.
Gemini Live gains agentic tasks, voice inbox control and personal intelligence
Google has added four capabilities to Gemini Live, letting spoken commands trigger background agents that work across Docs, Sheets and Drive, alongside hands-free Gmail control and a spoken daily brief. Its DMA settlement requires it to let rival assistants reach comparable functionality on Android by July 2027. Google has given its voice assistant the ability [] This story continues at The Next Web
Waystar turns agentic AI loose on claims, denials, and documentation
Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industrys first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps how many hospital invoices may be audited each quarter and charges a flat fee when one is reduced. An American company has built software that argues with insurers on its [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach
OpenAIs technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agents for exploiting their own environment. OpenAI has published its account of how [] This story continues at The Next Web
Legal notice to Meta on covertly recorded video shot on smart glasses
This case highlights growing concerns over privacy and consent in the era of wearable technology, amid similar scrutiny faced by the device globally.
What could change for U.S. teens on Instagram and Facebook
In a landmark development, Meta reached a proposed settlement Wednesday with U.S. states over claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to hook children.
Vanguard is acquiring Altruist, the AI custody platform it backed six years ago
Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed terms. Britain and the EU are addressing the same shortage of advice through rule changes rather than acquisitions. Vanguard is buying the platform it helped fund. It has agreed to [] This story continues at The Next Web
Alibabas Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B for each token. Its licence may not qualify for the EU AI Acts open-source exemption. Alibabas Qwen team has published the architecture it plans to build Qwen4 on. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next carries [] This story continues at The Next Web
Divide-and-conquer approach advances system reliability through scalable model checking
Model checking helps automatically verify whether hardware and software systems satisfy specified requirements. It has become an important formal verification technique, but two major challenges remain: state-space explosion, which limits the size of systems that can be checked, and long verification times.
Up to half of planned US data centres face delays or cancellation, Kimmeridge says
Investment firm Kimmeridge says as many as half of the data centres proposed in the United States are at risk of delay or cancellation because of political backlash and the difficulty of building physical infrastructure. It expects that to cut forecasts for US gas demand, most of which Europe now buys. As many as half [] This story continues at The Next Web
IDC expects Apple to ship 10 million foldable iPhones in year one at $2,500
IDC predicts Apples first foldable iPhone will ship more than 10 million units in its first year at a price of $2,500, reviving a category that was heading for a double-digit decline. In the EU the device will have to carry an energy label grading its repairability and its survival of repeated drops. Apples first [] This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain
Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B over six years renting AI computing power from Nscales flagship West Virginia data centre development, covering about 460 megawatts. Nscale is a London company preparing a US listing as soon as next month. Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B renting computing power, and the landlord is British. The six-year [] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta, US states agree to a $16.7 billion settlement in landmark teen safety case
Meta agreed to pay a coalition of U.S. states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing Wednesday that ends a landmark trial in California.
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
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
Meta reaches $17 billion settlement with states in landmark trial over teen social media addiction
The lawsuit accused Meta of contributing to the youth mental health crisis by deliberately designing features that addict children to its platforms and hiding them from the public
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
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
This simple antivirus tool is the easiest way to scan your Linux PC for threats - for free
Worried about Linux vulnerabilities or sharing files with Windows users? This ClamAV GUI makes it easy to ensure they're clean.
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
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
Deloitte will pay $21.5M to settle a DOJ investigation into its diversity targets
Deloitte has agreed to pay $21.5M to settle a US Justice Department investigation into its diversity practices, without admitting liability. The firm is one of the largest technology consultancies in the world as well as an accountancy, and it sits inside the same enterprise AI and systems integration market that has drawn Indian IT firms [] 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
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
Why is Bill Gates spooked by AI all of a sudden?
The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist wants to meet Chinas Xi Jinping to discuss policy ideas
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
