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Samsung’s founding family doubled its wealth in a year. Its workers want a share.

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The Lee family of South Korea, which controls Samsung, has doubled its wealth in twelve months. Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index now values the dynasty’s holdings at $45.5 billion, up from $22.7 billion a year ago, propelling the Lees from tenth to third among Asia’s richest families. The catalyst is not a new product or a management […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility

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The discussions, triggered by a visit from Nvidia’s Madison Huang, would deepen LG’s physical AI ambitions and give Nvidia another major consumer electronics partner at a moment when physical AI is moving from lab to factory floor. LG Electronics confirmed on Wednesday that it has been in discussions with Nvidia over potential cooperation in three […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.

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South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National AI Safety Institute, and an AI Insurance Superfund. It outlined five pillars of AI governance: skills capacity, responsible governance, ethical […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

OpenAI is building a phone that would make apps obsolete. The supply chain says it might actually ship.

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OpenAI is developing a smartphone built around AI agents rather than apps, with Qualcomm and MediaTek jointly designing the custom processor and Luxshare Precision Industry co-designing and exclusively manufacturing the device, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, the TF International Securities analyst whose Apple supply-chain intelligence has made him the most closely followed hardware analyst in the […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Sequoia is giving away the hardware for an AI project it cannot invest in. That is the point.

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Sequoia Capital co-steward Alfred Lin personally purchased 200 Mac Minis, had each one custom-engraved with a design mixing old cartography and machine learning contour plots, and distributed them to attendees at Sequoia’s “AI at the Frontier” event. Each machine contained two easter eggs: Sequoia’s ethos statement about creative spirits and underdogs, and a quote generated […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

OpenAI knew. It chose not to call the police. Now Sam Altman is sorry.

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Sam Altman published an open letter to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Thursday, apologising for OpenAI’s failure to alert law enforcement after its own systems flagged a user who went on to carry out the deadliest school shooting in Canada in nearly four decades. “I am deeply sorry that we did not […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Europe’s child safety laws require collecting the data its privacy laws forbid

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Summary: Europe’s effort to protect children online has collided with its own privacy architecture. The ePrivacy derogation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning expired on April 3 after Parliament voted 311-228 to reject its extension, the EU’s new age verification app announced April 15 was hacked in under two minutes, and the CSA Regulation (“Chat Control”) remains […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.

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Summary: Meta is cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its workforce) beginning 20 May, cancelling 6,000 open roles, and planning additional cuts for H2 2026. The layoffs, announced via an internal memo from HR head Janelle Gale, are structural rather than performance-based, reorganising teams into AI-focused “pods” while Meta spends $115-135 billion on AI infrastructure […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.

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Summary: SpaceX’s confidential S-1 pre-IPO filing warns that its orbital AI data centre plans “involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability,” contradicting Elon Musk’s January claim at Davos that space-based AI was a “no-brainer” achievable within two to three years. The filing comes as SpaceX targets a $1.75 trillion […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Apple is betting John Ternus will bring back Jobs-era decisiveness at the worst possible time to be behind on AI

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Summary: Bloomberg frames Apple’s CEO transition as a bet on “Jobs-era decisiveness,” with John Ternus expected to centralise decision-making and move faster on AI, where Apple’s models trail year-old competitors and the Siri overhaul has been delayed three times since 2024. He inherits a product roadmap spanning a foldable iPhone, smart glasses, and a HomePad, […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first

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Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files to give the AI assistant passive context about user activity. The feature is unavailable in the EU, UK, and Switzerland, requires a $100+/month […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

A humanoid robot just beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes in Beijing

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A humanoid robot named Lightning completed the Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by nearly seven minutes. The robot, built by Shenzhen Honor Smart Technology Development Co., navigated the 21-kilometre course autonomously, without remote control, using multi-sensor fusion and real-time decision-making algorithms. A second Lightning unit, […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work

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The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 billion in private capital and labelled 92 VC and growth funds with […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access

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Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser. The meeting follows Anthropic’s blacklisting by the Pentagon after Amodei refused to remove safety […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

How Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski built a global tech career and is now shaping AI strategy for enterprises

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Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski’s career spans multiple continents and leadership roles, yet her current focus reflects a consistent theme: understanding how technology translates into business outcomes. As founder and CEO of EverCognitive, she brings that perspective into an AI landscape where many organizations are still defining their AI transformation and how to apply it in practical […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Accel raises $5 billion for AI as venture capital bets reach infrastructure scale

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In short: Accel has raised $5 billion in new capital, comprising a $4 billion Leaders Fund V and a $650 million sidecar, targeting 20-25 late-stage AI investments at an average cheque size of $200 million. The raise follows standout returns from its Anthropic stake (invested at $183B, now valued near $800B) and Cursor (backed at […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Science Corp is preparing to place its first brain sensor in a human, betting biology will beat electrodes

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Science Corporation, the BCI company founded by ex-Neuralink president Max Hodak, is preparing to place a pea-sized, 520-electrode sensor on a human brain’s surface during already-scheduled surgery. Yale neurosurgery chair Murat GĂĽnel will lead the programme; trials could begin in 2027. The company also has PRIMA, a retinal implant that restored vision in 38 patients […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic – and is now telling banks to use its AI

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In short: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are urging Wall Street’s biggest banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, even as the Pentagon fights Anthropic in court after branding it a supply chain risk for refusing to remove safety guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. JPMorgan Chase, […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Mac mini and Mac Studio go out of stock – is it the RAM crisis or an M5 refresh?

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In short: Several high-RAM Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations disappeared from Apple’s online store in the US on 11 April 2026, listed as “currently unavailable” with no delivery estimate and no option to order. The affected models are Mac mini configurations with 32GB or 64GB of RAM and Mac Studio configurations with 128GB or 256GB […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format

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As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on the Beach, a curated event for SaaS founders, will return to Barcelona between May 20 and 21 for its second edition, positioning itself as an alternative to the […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push

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In short: France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced on 8 April 2026 that it is migrating its own workstations from Windows to Linux and has ordered every government ministry to formalise a plan to eliminate extra-European digital dependencies by autumn 2026. The directive covers operating systems, collaborative tools, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence platforms. It follows […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion

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In short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The new contract will deliver early deployments of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform across multiple sites, and is designed specifically for […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a twin deal aimed at turning a design tool into an end-to-end work platform

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Both companies were built by brothers Chris and Mike Sharkey, who previously co-founded Australian holiday rental site Stayz. Financial terms were not disclosed. Canva will preview what it calls the biggest transformation in its history at Canva Create on 16 April. Canva has acquired two companies simultaneously: Simtheory, an agentic AI collaboration platform, and Ortto, […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security

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In short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic escalation that would reduce the country’s primary civilian cybersecurity agency to a $2 billion operation after a year already defined by DOGE-driven layoffs and mass departures. The United States’ central […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Netflix launches Playground, a standalone games app for children aged eight and under

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In short: Netflix has launched Netflix Playground, a dedicated standalone gaming app for children aged eight and under, bundled into existing memberships with no ads or in-app purchases and full offline support, positioning it squarely against Apple Arcade in the family market. Netflix has quietly extended its gaming ambitions into the family market with the launch […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Monzo is shutting down its US operation, and its European banking licence explains why

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In short: Monzo announced on 1 April 2026 that it is closing its US operations, stopping new American sign-ups immediately and shutting existing accounts by June, and cutting approximately 50 roles. The decision comes three months after the UK challenger bank received a full banking licence from the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Anthropic cuts Claude subscribers off from OpenClaw in cost crackdown

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In short: Anthropic has blocked Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their flat-rate plans with third-party AI agent frameworks, starting with OpenClaw. The move, which took effect on 4 April 2026, shifts the cost of running autonomous agents onto users through a pay-as-you-go billing tier. The creator of OpenClaw, who joined OpenAI in February, called […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Musk wants a million data centre satellites. Bezos wants 51,600. Scientists want to know why.

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The pitch is seductive in its simplicity: AI needs more power than terrestrial grids can supply, so move the data centres into orbit, where the sun never sets and the electricity is free. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a growing constellation of startups are now racing to make that vision real. The problem, according to the […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations

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Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked third on the Arena AI open-model leaderboard. The Apache 2.0 licence is a significant shift from previous Gemma releases. Google has released Gemma 4, the latest […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones

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WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake application was built by SIO, an Italian surveillance technology company that develops spyware for law enforcement and intelligence agencies through its subsidiary ASIGINT. WhatsApp said it […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com