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China just told its tech giants to stop fighting on price and start investing in AI

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A top-level Communist Party publication has signaled a shift in how Beijing intends to govern its largest internet platforms. A draft commentary set to appear in the Qiushi journal on Monday says the focus will be on balancing support for growth with enhanced regulatory oversight. The message is directed at companies including Alibaba, Meituan, and […] 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 building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.

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Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The device builds on the Limitless acquisition Meta completed at the end of 2025. Limitless made a pendant that users could clip to their shirt or wear as a necklace […] 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

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

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ChargePoint and Powers Parts, a national distributor of electric vehicle components and fleet replacement parts, have announced a partnership to sell ChargePoint charging hardware, software, and fleet management services directly to transit agencies across North America. The deal targets operators running E2 and ZX5 electric buses built by PhoenixEV, the company that acquired Proterra’s transit bus […] 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

BYD has built China’s first 4nm driving chip, and it’s putting LiDAR on a $10,000 car

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BYD has unveiled the Xuanji A3, which it calls China’s first automotive-grade 4-nanometre chip for self-driving vehicles. CEO Wang Chuanfu announced the chip at an event at BYD’s Shenzhen headquarters on 28 May, saying it delivers the lowest power consumption per unit of compute in its class, drawing roughly 20% less than comparable semiconductors. The chip has […] 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’s startup scene is falling behind the US and Europe, and AI is both the cause and the cure

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A new report on the French tech ecosystem by Alexandre Dewez, a partner at venture firm 20VC, paints a picture of a startup scene that is growing more dependent on a handful of AI companies while the rest of the market stalls. French startups raised €6.7 billion across 411 funding rounds in 2025, a 5% decline in […] 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 Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

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The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a US-headquartered firm control over the platform that runs DigiD, the digital identity system used […] 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

Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional

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Microsoft has added the ability to fully remove the Copilot app from Windows 11. The change arrived in the April 2026 update and applies to both enterprise administrators using Group Policy and regular users who can now uninstall it through Settings like any other app. For IT administrators, the new policy is called “Remove Microsoft […] 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

McKinsey built a free AI tool so candidates stop paying $500/hour interview coaches

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McKinsey launched a free AI practice tool in April that gives candidates unlimited attempts at the quantitative case study they will face in their interview. The tool is available globally to applicants for entry-level business analyst and associate roles. The firm says it is designed to level the playing field for candidates who cannot afford […] 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 reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.

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The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running its data centres on unregulated natural gas turbines, with plans to buy $2.8 billion more. Tesla, the company Musk built on the promise […] 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 Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident

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Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching happen right now is different. And I know I am not alone. Every seasoned marketing professional I speak to, whether they built their career in offline […] 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

ClickUp cuts 22 per cent of staff and introduces $1 million salary bands for those who remain

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ClickUp, the $4 billion productivity platform, has cut 22 per cent of its workforce. CEO Zeb Evans announced the layoffs in a post on X, framing them not as a cost-cutting exercise but as a structural bet on AI. The savings, he said, will flow back to the employees who stay in the form 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

Canva launches inside Google Gemini, completing its push to be the design layer for every major AI assistant

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Canva has spent the past year quietly embedding itself into every major AI assistant. First came Claude, then ChatGPT, then Microsoft Copilot. Now Google Gemini gets the same treatment, and the strategy is complete. The company launched its Connected App for Google Gemini at Google I/O, giving Gemini users the ability to generate, edit, and search […] 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 co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

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Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at the frontier of large language model development. Karpathy is joining Anthropic’s pre-training team, […] 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

OpenClaw creator’s $1.3 million monthly OpenAI bill reveals the real cost of autonomous AI coding at scale

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Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw and an engineer at OpenAI, racked up $1.3 million in API costs in a single month by running approximately 100 Codex instances simultaneously on his open-source project. The bill, which covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests over 30 days, is the most visible demonstration yet of what […] 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’s Siri app in iOS 27 will auto-delete your chats. It may also launch as a beta, again.

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Apple’s first standalone Siri app, coming in iOS 27, will include an auto-delete function for chat histories that borrows from the Messages app. Users will be able to configure the app to retain conversations for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. The feature, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter on Sunday, […] 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

Faraday Future raised $25 million for its robotics pivot. The fine print tells a different story.

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Faraday Future announced on Thursday that it has raised $25 million through convertible promissory notes, bringing its total financing over the past two months to $70 million. The company says the capital is sufficient to fund Phase 1 of its robotics business plan through the end of 2026. The stock, which trades on Nasdaq under […] 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 and the Gates Foundation are betting $200 million that AI can do more than make money

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  Anthropic has committed $200 million over four years to a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest deal of its kind between an AI company and a global philanthropy. The money, a mix of grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support, will fund programmes in global health, life sciences, education, […] 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

Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.

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  For ten months, Figma has been a case study in how quickly Wall Street can fall out of love. The company went public on 31 July 2025 at $33 a share, soared past $140 on its debut, and has spent most of 2026 in freefall,  battered by Google’s free Stitch design tool, Anthropic’s Claude […] 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

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

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AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, […] 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 just acquired the consulting firm it was born alongside. The model company is now the services company.

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  Tomoro was created in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI. The Edinburgh and London-based firm built AI concierges for Virgin Atlantic, in-game support agents for Supercell, and deployment systems for Fidelity International, Tesco, Red Bull, Mattel, and the NBA. It grew monthly revenue tenfold in 12 months. It pledged 10 million pounds to Scottish AI […] 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

GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.

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  GitLab is cutting jobs to invest in AI agents. The company announced on Monday that it will flatten management layers, reorganise its research and development teams into roughly 60 smaller autonomous units, reduce its country footprint by approximately 30 per cent, and use AI agents to automate internal reviews, approvals, and handoffs. CEO Bill […] 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

Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping

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The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall, the company’s two largest consumer marketplaces, in what amounts to the most ambitious […] 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 manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.

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  A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ’s Cyber Accelerator, has launched AI pentesting agents that replicate the methodology of a human […] 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

NHTSA says the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass its new safety tests. The agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing.

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  The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass NHTSA’s new advanced driver assistance safety tests. The same agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Tesla vehicles for crashing while using the company’s more advanced self-driving system. The announcement celebrates Tesla for passing a test that measures […] 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

Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.

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  The person who connected Jeff Bezos to one of the most ambitious electric vehicle startups in America has left its board. Melinda Lewison, who manages the Bezos family office and was listed as a director on Slate Auto’s corporate filings, has departed the company’s board months before its first truck is scheduled to roll […] 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’s AI Overviews killed 58 per cent of publisher clicks. Now it is adding a ‘Further Exploration’ section to bring some back.

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Google has a publisher problem. AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that now appear at the top of search results for a growing share of queries, have been correlated with a 58 per cent reduction in click-through rates to the websites whose content those summaries are built on. Penske Media has filed an antitrust lawsuit. 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

Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

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Intel will arrive at Computex 2026 in Taipei on 2 June with something it has not had in a decade: a product in every computing category built on a single manufacturing story. Panther Lake, the laptop chip launched at CES in January, is expanding to handhelds with Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors designed […] 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

Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.

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Pinterest reported its first billion-dollar quarter last week. Revenue hit $1.008 billion in the first three months of 2026, up 18 per cent year on year, with monthly active users reaching 631 million for the tenth consecutive quarter of double-digit user growth. The stock jumped on guidance that projects second-quarter revenue of $1.133 billion to […] 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 next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.

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The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which sounds like an abstraction, is producing a data governance framework that is structurally different […] 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

Foreign automakers are not staging a comeback in China. They are learning to be the junior partner.

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In January and February 2026, Volkswagen reclaimed the top position in China’s passenger vehicle market with a 13.9 per cent share, narrowly ahead of Geely at 13.8 per cent. Toyota’s joint ventures held 7.8 per cent. BYD, which dominated 2024 and much of 2025 as the world’s largest EV maker, slipped to fourth at 7.1 […] 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 missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids

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Lerrel Pinto co-founded Fauna Robotics, a startup that built an approachable bipedal robot called Sprout. He left in 2025. Amazon acquired Fauna in March, along with its 50 employees and its $50,000, three-and-a-half-foot-tall dancing humanoid, to enter the consumer robotics market. Pinto then co-founded Assured Robot Intelligence with Xiaolong Wang, a former Nvidia researcher and associate […] 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