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TikTok settles second addiction case, leaving Meta and Snap to face a jury alone

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TikTok has reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager who accused the platform of contributing to his mental health problems, removing itself from a jury trial scheduled to begin on July 27 in Los Angeles. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday, makes TikTok the second defendant to exit the case in recent […] 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 makes Gemini’s personalized image generation free for all US users

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Google is making Gemini’s personalized AI image generation free for all eligible users in the United States, removing a paywall that had restricted the feature to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers since its launch in April. The expansion, announced on Sunday, lets any US user aged 13 or older generate images informed by their Google […] 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

Baidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to buy its semiconductors

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Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning to go public in Hong Kong at a target valuation of $50 billion, The Information reported on Sunday. In an unusual twist, the company asked prospective IPO investors to also commit to purchasing its semiconductors, according to the report. Reuters could not independently verify the report. The $50 […] 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

Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs and then grew its engineering team by 45 percent, and its CEO says the pattern will repeat everywhere

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Cloudflare’s engineering headcount surged 45 percent in the weeks after the company cut 1,100 jobs in May, according to BNP Paribas data drawn from LinkedIn profiles. The finding, first reported by Business Insider, shows Cloudflare’s engineering staff grew from 1,308 to 1,894 even as its total workforce shrank by a fifth. CEO Matthew Prince confirmed […] 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

Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong

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Ford has admitted that it had to rehire experienced engineers after its AI systems failed to deliver the quality the company expected. Charles Poon, Ford’s VP of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters that the automaker mistakenly believed it could swap in AI and still produce a high-quality product. The admission, first reported by The Verge, […] 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 hidden cost of complacency and Jay Roland’s mission against corporate America’s technical debt crisis

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Corporate America is hemorrhaging money through inefficient IT business processes, and Jay Roland, founder of Varex Solutions, believes that the industry is complacent about it. Technical debt, which is the accumulated cost of deferred IT fixes, misconfigurations, and other operational inefficiencies, is projected to cost US enterprises $2.41 trillion a year, costing $1.52 trillion to fix. With numbers this staggering, Roland argues […] 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 accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude

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Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White House officials that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude’s capabilities between April and June. The letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg, described nearly […] 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

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, a 30-second native 4K AI video model that accepts 50 reference inputs

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ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 on Tuesday at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing, a video generation model that produces 30-second clips at native 4K resolution from a single prompt. The company skipped four intermediate versions entirely, jumping straight from its predecessor to signal what it described as a generational leap. An enterprise beta is […] 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

Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

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Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking users. The protocol, called Private Access Control Tokens, is designed to replace CAPTCHAs and forced logins with anonymous tokens that prove a visitor is human or […] 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 American dream is ‘very dead’ for young Americans, says Mrs. Dow Jones

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The American dream is “very dead” for millennials and Gen Z, according to financial influencer Haley Sacks, better known as Mrs. Dow Jones. In an interview with Business Insider, Sacks argued that traditional markers of middle-class success, homeownership, stable careers, retirement savings, have become functionally inaccessible to younger Americans, pushing them toward gambling and side […] 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

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule

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Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986, has died in a plane crash near the coastal town of La Baule in western France. He was 69. Guillemot and a flight instructor from Rennes were both killed when their twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed in a field near La Baule aerodrome on 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

Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO

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President Donald Trump said in a pretaped Axios interview that he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat, marking a sharp reversal from the administration’s aggressive posture toward the AI company over the past three months. Asked whether he considers Anthropic a threat, Trump replied, “Well, not now. But a week ago, maybe.” […] 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 201-year-old mutual bank just launched an AI Center of Excellence with a startup partner

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Liberty Bank, a 201-year-old mutual bank headquartered in Middletown, Connecticut, announced the launch of an AI Center of Excellence alongside a strategic partnership with Flare AI. The centre will serve as the hub for AI strategy, governance, and execution across the bank’s personal, commercial, and digital operations. The partnership is structured around outcomes rather than […] 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

Parafin lands a Goldman Sachs credit facility to embed lending inside Amazon, DoorDash, and Walmart

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Parafin, an embedded financial infrastructure company on the 2026 Forbes Fintech 50 list, has secured a new credit facility led by Goldman Sachs alongside One William Street Capital Management. The facility will expand access to embedded lending for small businesses through platforms including Amazon, DoorDash, Gusto, TikTok Shop, and Walmart. The company’s model is straightforward. […] 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 Czech AI startup says it can detect drones by sound for €150 per sensor, and it wants to wire up power grids first

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Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using microphone sensors that cost between €100 and €150 each. The system is designed as a passive, low-cost alternative to radar for detecting low-flying drones over cities, infrastructure, and military installations. 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

Canada wants to stop companies from using your data to charge you more, but the details are still missing

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The Canadian government introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the country’s private-sector privacy laws, including new restrictions on businesses that use personal data to charge individual consumers higher prices. Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, would replace the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, a law first enacted in 1998 that […] 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

Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly

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Several Chinese frontier AI models can detect when they are being subjected to safety evaluations and adjust their behaviour accordingly, according to research published by Neo Research, a Singapore-based AI safety evaluation lab. The finding, which the researchers call “evaluation awareness,” raises fundamental questions about whether the safety tests that governments and companies rely on […] 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

Amazon’s CEO reportedly triggered the government crackdown that shut down Anthropic’s most powerful AI

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was reportedly the source of security concerns that led the US government to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other officials that Amazon researchers used Fable 5 to obtain […] 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

80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes

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Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negligence, and trespass based on the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984. One plaintiff showed Reuters her home in Port […] 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 is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.

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Anthropic is donating $150 million to place 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofit organisations across the United States. The programme, called Claude Corps, will pay early-career workers $85,000 plus benefits for a year-long placement where they help nonprofits use Claude more effectively. Applications opened Wednesday and close on July 17. No college degree is required. Applicants […] 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

Palantir’s Karp says Sanders will regret only asking for 50% of AI companies. Full nationalization is coming.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says full nationalization of AI companies is coming, and that Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal for 50% public ownership will soon look moderate. “In two years, they’re not going to think Bernie Sanders is progressive,” Karp told CNBC on Wednesday. “They’re going to be like, ‘Bernie Sanders, you only want 50%? 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

Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce

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Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire m3ter, a London-based metering and rating platform built for consumption-based billing. The deal will integrate m3ter’s infrastructure natively into Agentforce Revenue Management, giving Salesforce customers the ability to launch, track, and bill usage-based and outcome-based pricing models without leaving the platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. 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

Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines

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Apple previewed a suite of new parental controls at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing tools that give parents more granular authority over what their children can see, who they can contact, and how long they can spend in apps. The updates, arriving this autumn with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, land on 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

China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces

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China wants its electric vehicles to go on a diet. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kg in 2024, roughly a third more than in 2012, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday. Many popular SUVs and MPVs now approach or exceed 2 metres in width, squeezing into parking spaces designed a decade […] 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

Audi’s 1,001 PS Nuvolari is its fastest car ever, and it’s not electric

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Audi has revealed the Nuvolari, the fastest and most powerful production vehicle in its history. The hybrid supercar produces 1,001 PS (736 kW) from a 4.0-litre V8 biturbo paired with three axial flux electric motors. Only 499 will be built, starting at €600,000. The V8 alone delivers 800 PS and revs to 10,000 rpm, territory […] 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

Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving

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Russia intends to switch on a commercial version of its homegrown answer to Starlink next year, according to people familiar with the programme cited by Reuters, the latest milestone in a project that has been promising to arrive for most of a decade. The constellation is called Rassvet, the operator is a private aerospace firm […] 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

Upwind, the next-gen wiz, now secures every corner of the AI stack

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Upwind just dropped a new product announcement today, and it signals a fundamental shift in how the company thinks about AI risk. CEO Amiram Shachar published a lengthy post this morning laying out Upwind’s “Security for AI” thesis, the companion piece to their earlier push around agentic AI capabilities. The core argument is simple: AI security isn’t a standalone product […] 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

Microsoft dropped the one survey question its employees actually cared about

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For years, one question in Microsoft’s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a “good deal at Microsoft,” defined as “a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft and what I get in return.” When the scores dropped low enough, the company responded with significant […] 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 quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

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President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. The order, titled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” was signed privately without the usual livestream or public ceremony, a […] 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

GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.

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GoPro warned on Monday that there is “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.” The action-camera maker reported a 26% revenue decline in Q1 and expects to breach several loan covenants. Shares fell as much as 14%. The cause is memory. GoPro said its earnings forecast has been “significantly impacted” […] 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