TCS buys Best Buys India GCCs to transform into AI Capability Centres
TCS will merge Best Buy India employees into its global organisation
ShepHertz unveils three AI models; eyes enterprise market
The company launched Tatva for on-device commands at Drone Expo 2026, while Sanjaya for fleet and telemetry intelligence, and Drashta for machine vision, as part of its AgentAnywhere sovereign AI platform
TCIL pays govt 43.86 crore dividend for FY26
TCIL CMD Syed Tausif Abbas presented the dividend cheque to Union Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, with telecom secretary Amit Agrawal present
Youth audiences are crucial for entering homes; their openness to new stories is highly significant
Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropics IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of tensor processing units (TPUs), the AI chips Google designs with Broadcom. Echo Wang, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Accentures managed services momentum offers positive signals for Indian IT
Accenture reported revenues of $18.7 billion for the quarter, marking a 6% increase in U.S. dollars and 7% in local currency
Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails
Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It builds infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend software running through failures. Singular led the round, with Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Its total funding is now $27m. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process
Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures also took part, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The round comes a year after its previous one [] This story continues at The Next Web
When everyones responsible, no one is: the AI champion problem
Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champions time. A month later, the manager had taken it back. There [] This story continues at The Next Web
Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times
Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsofts gaming chief published on Wednesday. Xbox is not for sale, Sharma said. We will do whatever it takes to set the company up for success, and we will [] This story continues at The Next Web
MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China
MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for Chinas Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday as an Espionage Alert. It is [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m
GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that invests in AI and robotics, [] This story continues at The Next Web
AI pact: India needs its own AI safety framework, experts say
Experts feel that India should not simply replicate a framework developed for a different AI ecosystem
Redington to distribute OPSWATs cybersecurity solutions across GCC, Africa markets
The partnership will combine OPSWATs cybersecurity portfolio with Redingtons sales, technical, warehousing, logistics and financing capabilities across regulated sectors
Google DeepMind watermarks AI proteins as Demis Hassabis warns of biosecurity risks
Google DeepMind has unveiled a groundbreaking technique named SynthID Bio to watermark proteins created by AI. This innovative approach seeks to bolster biosecurity as synthetic biology harnesses the power of artificial intelligence. By embedding an invisible digital tag into biological sequences, functionality remains intact. This tool is poised to help researchers fend off potential biosecurity threats from AI-generated sequences, enhancing safety in the swiftly advancing realm of synthetic biology.
GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. Anthropics Frontier Red Team published the findings in a research post. Zhipu [] This story continues at The Next Web
Use.ai puts 10+ AI models in one app and reaches 1 million monthly users
Every new AI model creates another reason to switch. For users who have already built up months or years of conversations, preferences, files and personal context inside one platform, moving to a better model can also mean starting again. Use.ai was built around the idea that people should be able to switch between the intelligence [] This story continues at The Next Web
Maximor rebrands as Hyphenate after 86x revenue growth
Maximor, the autonomous finance company, has rebranded as Hyphenate. The new name reflects the companys expansion across the office of the CFO and follows 86x revenue growth over the past 12 months. Finance software spent the last decade breaking the office of the CFO into point solutions. There was one for close, another for billing, [] This story continues at The Next Web
A Rajkot vegetable vendor has been arrested after police allegedly found counterfeit Rs 100 and Rs 500 notes along with equipment used to produce them at his home. Investigators said Kishan Solanki learned the process after seeing an Instagram reel and later communicating with a trainer on Telegram. Police allege he circulated around 40 fake Rs 100 notes through small purchases.
Trump tells Axios that Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar
President Donald Trump has said that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar, Axios reported on Tuesday. Trump has said he wants to name a czar within three or four days. Maria Curi of Axios asked Trump who he wanted for the role. He said he had someone in mind. [] This story continues at The Next Web
SpintronicsAI, CSIR-CEERI sign MoU to advance indigenous GaN semiconductor technology
The partnership will explore technology, infrastructure and fabrication requirements while transferring advanced GaN know-how from research into manufacturing
Reliance Jio strengthen telecom leadership in Keralam
Jio also registered growth in its overall subscriber base (CMS) in Keralam, increasing from 112.47 lakh subscribers in July to 112.88 lakh in August
US lawmaker asks five AI firms how they guard model weights from China
US Congressman Ro Khanna has asked five leading American AI companies to share what they know about attempts by China or other hostile actors to steal their model weights. The letters went to the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX, Reuters reported. Model weights are the numbers learned during training that make [] This story continues at The Next Web
Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunch where the CEOs agreed it. Ashley Gold first reported the story for [] This story continues at The Next Web
Monk hosts Net 30, an applied AI summit on the future of finance
On October 21, 150 CFOs, operators, founders and researchers will gather at The Times Center in New York. They will discuss how AI is reshaping cash, capital and the finance function. In a Gartner survey of 183 CFOs, 84% of finance organizations had deployed AI or planned to. Yet only 7% reported a high impact. [] This story continues at The Next Web
Suspected Chinese hackers posed as US AI insiders, Proofpoint says
A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday. Proofpoint has identified the group as TA419 and has said that [] This story continues at The Next Web
PLD Space and CNES to study a second launch pad in French Guiana
Today, the company announced that PLD Space had entered into an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, and that both parties were considering building a second launch pad for PLDs rockets at the spaceport in French Guiana. They will examine whether the new pad can be accommodated at the ELM-Diamant site of the Guiana [] This story continues at The Next Web
Walmart Global Tech ties up with IIM Kozhikode to launch incubation programme
Deep Leap will engage with 1,500 startups from across the country from which 50 startups will be selected for a 12-month incubation and acceleration cohort
WhatsApp rolls out parental controls for teens
WhatsApp confirmed that even with the parental controls in place, teens chats would stay private and protected by end-to-end encryption
Anthropic's IPO pitch embraces AI's promise and peril
Nearly a third of the IPO prospectus covers risk factors, more than twice the space given to describing what Anthropic actually does
Google launches new AI model to anchor Gemini 4 after months of delays
The new model Argon is comparable to OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Opus on coding and cyber benchmarks, the company said
AI agents tried to hack Canadian government website, research firm says
AI agents
Musk, Luckey and Gingrich get 120 days to map America
Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-direct Project Meridian. The Pentagon study will identify the technology the US military needs to fight future wars. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commissioned it on Wednesday, the Department of War said. The findings are due by 28 January 2027, 120 days after the announcement, according to [] This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports
SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musks SpaceX. It makes the Grok [] This story continues at The Next Web
Boeing beats Northrop to build the US Navy
Boeing will build the US Navys next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC and Axios put it at more than 0bn. The programme could grow to hundreds of billions of [] This story continues at The Next Web
Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a sites new posts in a feed reader. Moderators who use it for alerts can move to a [] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist
Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalists private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Metas communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday. It cant read your Messages unless you do this, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Nissan wants hybrids to lead by 2030. In Britain a hybrid took an electric car
Nissan has told Automotive News it wants hybrids and extended-range models to be its primary powertrain in North and Latin America by 2030. In Britain the same strategy is already built: a 170M hybrid Kicks is going into the Sunderland slot promised to an electric Qashqai that Nissan stopped developing in early 2025. Nissan wants [] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazons delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures almost constantly on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property. Customers will have no way to opt out, see the images or ask for them to [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI says Moonshot-linked users tried to extract its AI reasoning
OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low volume. It spiked on 24 and 25 July, with 16,000 [] This story continues at The Next Web
CScale exits stealth with $145m to stop laser failures stalling AI
CScale, a Palo Alto startup building optical interconnect for AI data centres, has come out of stealth with $145m in Series C funding. The round takes its total funding to $188m, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Atreides Management led the round, with Valor Equity Partners and Premji Invest as co-leads. Sutter Hill [] This story continues at The Next Web
GAC is yet to resolve 49,978 appeals out of the total 63,353 appeals as of September 2026 compared to 174 pending appeals in November 2025
Five technology providers dominate infrastructure supporting nonconsensual AI
For the first time, researchers have identified and named key players facilitating the growing problem of AI-generated explicit sexual imagery online. The study
Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Series Debuts: Dimensity 9500, Ultra-Thin Design, And 7 Years Of Updates
Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy Tab S12 Plus and Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra , targeting the premium mobile productivity and creative segments. Both high-end Android tablets run on the flagship 3nm MediaTek Dimensity 9500 processor, delivering an impressive 61% boost in neural processing, 19% faster CPU performance, and 17% enhanced graphics rendering. To maintain sustained peak throughput under demanding multitasking workloads, Samsung engineered an enlarged, redesigned 3D vapor chamber cooling system. Departing from earlier generations, Samsung omitted the traditional 11-inch entry tier, focusing entirely on large-format screens. The Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra becomes the thinnest tablet in Samsungs history, measuring a mere 5.1 mm in thickness around its massive 14.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Tab S12 Plus delivers an agile 12.6-inch panel with reduced display bezels. Both panels boast a smooth 120Hz refresh rate , 1,600 nits peak brightness, specialized anti-reflective surface coatings, and Vision Booster algorithm technology for enhanced outdoor readability. Memory configurations for the Tab S12 Plus provide 12GB RAM with 256GB or 512GB of storage. The flagship Tab S12 Ultra expands options up to 16GB RAM and 1TB of internal storage, with both devices supporting up to 2TB external microSD expansion. Battery endurance relies on a large 11,600mAh cell in the Ultra delivering up to 23 hours of continuous runtime, while the Plus houses a 10,600mAh capacity rated for 21 hours. Both tablets support 45W wired charging via USB-C, achieving a complete full replenishment in approximately 95 minutes. On the software front, the series debuts with Android 17 under One UI 9 , supported by an industry-leading commitment to seven years of major OS and security upgrades. Onboard Galaxy AI tools are paired with six months of complimentary Google AI Pro access and pre-installed Adobe Photoshop featuring dedicated S Pen hardware optimization and Adobe Firefly generative tools. The complete hardware package includes an inbox S Pen stylus, quad-speaker 4-channel spatial audio, IP68 water resistance , under-display fingerprint biometrics, versatile 5G dual-SIM support, and modern Wi-Fi 7 on the Ultra alongside Wi-Fi 6E on the Plus. Technical Specifications & Pricing The Galaxy Tab S12 series will be available starting October 7 in the U.S. offered in two colors, Gray and Silver. Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra starts at $1,399.99 and Galaxy Tab S12+ starts at $1,199.99 . Customers who purchase the Galaxy Tab S12 series directly from Samsung using their Samsung Galaxy Card will earn 5% cash rewards. For a limited time, with the purchase of a Galaxy Tab S12 series device, customers can get 30% off the Pro Keyboard or Book Cover Keyboard Slim. Specification Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Plus Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra Display 12.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X (2800 x 1752), 120Hz, HDR10+, 1,600 nits peak, Vision Booster 14.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X (2960 x 1848), 120Hz, HDR10+, 1,600 nits peak, Vision Booster Processor MediaTek Dimensity 9500 (3 nm) MediaTek Dimensity 9500 (3 nm) Thermal Cooling Redesigned 3D Vapor Chamber Redesigned 3D Vapor Chamber RAM & Storage 12GB RAM 256GB / 512GB (microSD up to 2TB) 12GB / 16GB RAM 256GB / 512GB / 1TB (microSD up to 2TB) Rear Cameras 13 MP (Main) 13 MP (Main) + 8 MP (Ultrawide) Front Camera 12 MP (Ultrawide, landscape) 12 MP (Ultrawide, landscape) Battery & Charging 10,600 mAh 45W wired charging via USB-C 11,600 mAh 45W wired charging via USB-C Audio Quad speakers with 4-channel Spatial Audio Quad speakers with 4-channel Spatial Audio Connectivity Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 6.0, 5G (Optional in US), USB-C Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, USB-C (Wi-Fi only in US) Durability & Stylus IP68 certified, S Pen included in the box IP68 certified, S Pen included in the box Dimensions & Weight 289.5 x 187.8 x 5.3 mm 553 g (Wi-Fi) / 555 g (5G) 326.3 x 208.5 x 5.1 mm 692 g Software Support Android 17 / One UI 9 (7 years OS & security updates) Android 17 / One UI 9 (7 years OS & security updates) Official US Pricing (MSRP) Wi-Fi Base: $1,199.99 5G Model: $1,349.99 Wi-Fi Base: $1,399.99 Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Series Debuts: Dimensity 9500, Ultra-Thin Design, And 7 Years Of Updates , original content from Ubergizmo . Read our Copyrights and terms of use .
ElevenLabs opens Brussels office and plans to triple its Belgian team
ElevenLabs has launched in Belgiumand opened an office in Brussels, the voice AI company said on Wednesday. The office is in the European District, close to the main EU buildings. ElevenLabs has named Falke Van Onacker to lead its Belgian business and plans to triple its local team this year. Most new staff will work [] This story continues at The Next Web
Stock trading, investment scams drive 60% of cybercrime losses in Telangana
455 crore recovered in two years as cyber fraud networks expand globally
Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra and Galaxy Tab S12+ launched with Dynamic AMOLED 2X displays, measuring 14.6 inches and 12.6 inches, respectively. They run Android 17 with One UI 9. They feature the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chipset and support Galaxy AI features. The Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra is 5.1mm thin. They offer IP68-rated water and dust resistance.
70% of enterprises will abandon Agentic AI built by vendor FDE by 2028: Gartner
The outcome is shaped by decisions made before contracting, during delivery, and at transition, when software engineering leaders still control scope, incentives, governance and ownership
Yahoo already holds what AI agents ask people for first, their email and their calendar, CEO Jim Lanzone told TNW. He said Yahoo will launch more personalised, agentic products in the months ahead. Lanzone spoke to TNW in an exclusive interview at HumanX in Amsterdam on 23 September, for the first episode of the relaunched [] This story continues at The Next Web
Keralam launches citizen-centric initiatives to strengthen digital governance
The government is committed to making digital governance a reality by ensuring that public services become more transparent, convenient and accessible
IONNA launches driver council as its US fast-charging network doubles
IONNA, the electric vehicle charging network established by eight car manufacturers, now operates over 180 charging sites in the United States, which is more than twice the number it had at the beginning of 2026. The company, based in Durham, North Carolina, is launching a council of well-known electric-vehicle reviewers to feed driver complaints back [] This story continues at The Next Web
A business registers its number, writes a plain appointment reminder and sends it. The text never arrives. Nothing bounces back. Somewhere between the sender and the phone, a filter simply drops it. US carriers filter business text messaging for three main reasons: spam volume, complaint rates and messages that do not match the business that [] This story continues at The Next Web
Complaint accuses EU of hiding data centres
Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty that grants people the right to access environmental information and to participate in environmental decision-making; the [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple Pay lands in India: How to set up and use it on your iPhone
The Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 3's special feature is being a pet activity monitor
Not only can it keep tabs on your furball's location, it can monitor their motion and sleep too.
Samsung Wallet Adds Fingerprint UPI Payments: Pay Up to 10,000 Without Entering Your PIN
Samsung Galaxy users could find everyday UPI transactions quicker and more convenient with a new biometric payment option in Samsung Wallet. The feature allows eligible users to authorize certain UPI payments using their fingerprint instead of manually entering a four- or six-digit UPI PIN each time...
AI, or SI, pardon me will give you better healthcare than Elon Musk gets, says Elon Musk
Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President Donald Trump, after the presidents lunch with tech leaders. He began by praising the positive benefits of AI, or SI, pardon me, correcting himself [] This story continues at The Next Web
Flytxt recognised as Challenger in Gartner Magic Quadrant
The recognition marks an upgrade from its Niche Player positioning in 2025 and reflects the companys expanding global footprint
DoorDash opens talent hub with 500 employees
It plans to take the headcount to over 3,000 in the next two years
First a gulf, then a lake, now a technology. Trump orders US agencies to call AI
President Donald Trump has now renamed a gulf, a lake, and a technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order telling every federal agency to stop saying artificial intelligence and to call it super intelligence, or SI, instead. Also, on his Truth Social account, he posted 2 pages from the document, subtitled Inaugurating The Era [] This story continues at The Next Web
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is currently priced from around Rs 1,74,999 to Rs 1,79,999 in India, depending on the configuration.
AI gets more interesting when it meets the physical world
A transporter pulls up to a construction site outside Riyadh, unloads a delivery of bulk cement, and sends a photo of the delivery note through WhatsApp. For most of BRKZs history, that photo was the start of a chain of human work. Someone had to read the document, find the matching order, verify the quantity, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Mistral CEO tells CNBC US AI safety debate covers rivals
Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch said the US debate over AI safety has been a cover for the negligence of some of his rivals. He made the comments to Annette Weisbach in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. The debate that weve seen in the U.S. has been a cover for the negligence of some [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple will sell 6 million iPhone duos in 2026, Counterpoint says
The figure hinges on how quickly Apple ramps up production of the new foldable hardware, says Counterpoint senior analyst Ivan Lam
In the upcoming Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale, shoppers can expect deals on Samsung Galaxy smartphones. In addition to discounts, buyers can also benefit from bank offers, no-cost EMI plans, and exchange deals. Flipkart has yet to reveal the exact sale prices for the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 FE and others. The deals will be available from October 9, with early access beginning a day earlier for select shoppers. Samsung Galaxy S25 FE will be available below Rs. 50,000 in the upcoming sale.
What are Dots, OpenAIs new AI agent?
The usage cost of Dots is included directly in existing ChatGPT subscription plans, and the service is available to ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise users at no additional cost
Apple Pay goes live in India with Axis Bank-issued Visa and Mastercard cards
Customers can add their eligible credit card to the Apple Wallet via the Axis Bank app, or through the Wallet app on their Apple iPhone
Apple Pay launches in India to take on PhonePe, Google
Customers can make payments across merchants using their iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad, with support for Mac coming soon
Apple launches Apple Pay in India to take on Google, Paytm
Apple Pay is first launching in partnership with local lender Axis Bank Ltd
OpenAI unveils Dots AI agents as Sam Altman promises always-on AI helper
Altman said AI should give people more power to create, learn, discover and expand knowledge rather than automate every aspect of lif
Trump rejects new federal AI rules, backs industry self-regulation
Top Silicon Valley executives met Trump amid growing concerns over AI security, safety risks, regulation and the technologys rapid expansion
After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI
President Donald Trump left a White House lunch with more than two dozen tech leaders on Tuesday, still set against the backdrop of new AI safety rules. He told reporters the executives had agreed that companies should police themselves, NBC News reported. Theres a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple updates Final Cut Camera to support the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture
The company is also rolling out new features across several of its Creator Studio apps.
OpenAI scraps debut of latest Astra model over safety risks
OpenAI has decided to hold back its Astra AI model after safety evaluations showed it underperformed. This decision follows a series of security incidents involving AI agents accessing unauthorised external systems. The company's head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, emphasised the need for better communication and task completion. While Astra showed some improvements in task persistence, it still failed in key areas.
What is OpenAI Dots? Sam Altman unveils ChatGPTs new AI personal agent-here's what you need to know
OpenAI has launched its new AI personal assistant called dots, which can perform various tasks efficiently. These assistants will help users with scheduling, travel arrangements, and budgeting, among other activities. Users will initially access dots through OpenAI's ChatGPT platform and eventually through phone and text interactions. OpenAI aims to compete with other AI agents in the market, notably Meta's Muse.
GM will spend $1B making the first manganese-rich cells in mass production
GM and LG Energy Solution will spend $1B turning their Spring Hill plant into the first factory to mass-produce prismatic lithium manganese-rich cells. Europes carmakers are spending comparable sums on lithium iron phosphate, the chemistry GMs battery chief says may never earn its way into its cars. General Motors and LG Energy Solution will spend [] This story continues at The Next Web
Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern
OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. A few weeks ago we reached that goal. We now [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI ignored employees who warned it wasn't doing enough about security
In emails, employees said they worried that OpenAI's newest AI models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the tech's sophistication and to secure the models
Apple's new iPhone and iPad security feature can protect you from scammers
One of iOS 27's coolest security features didn't make headlines, but it could stop you from falling for a scam.
OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay
Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with OpenAIs commitment not to reintroduce the five-hour limit on Pro 200. OpenAI is halving the usage included in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan and launching a $500 plan with its fastest speed tier. It also unveiled shared team workspaces, a meeting note-taker and @ChatGPT for [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI Launches GPT 6.1-Sol. It Costs 1/5th Of Earlier Model
The company on Monday said it abandoned plans for GPT-6.1 Astra because the model frequently ignored instructions.
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OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra
Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with a second safety test result from OpenAI and a customer quote from Salesforce. OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work. It costs a fifth of Astras standard input and [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with the regions where dots is available and a quote from an early tester. OpenAI said Pro users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK will not get dots for now. OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their [] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
Faster launches, more job cuts? New Apple CEO John Ternus pushes for sweeping changes
Apple CEO John Ternus plans to speed up product development by launching more frequently and reducing management layers. Key changes include moving product launches throughout the year.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Thirty-one people have confirmed their attendance, according to an RSVP list obtained [] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
OpenAI takes on Meta with always-on Dots agent in enterprise AI push
OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled always-on agents called Dots that chase user
