📰 The Next Web AI

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloom

You ask an AI to polish your post. It keeps your point, but tilts it. New Oxford research says those tiny tilts can move public opinion. AI writing tools that t

AI requirements management software is changing how engineering teams write, review, and validate requirements. For decades, this work meant drafting specificat

Before replacing SaaS subscriptions with internally built AI software, executives should evaluate the full lifecycle cost of ownership rather than focusing on d

Starling Bank is cutting around 130 jobs, roughly 3% of its 4,000-strong workforce, as the London-based neobank restructures its banking and technology operatio

California has struck a deal with Anthropic that gives all state agencies and local governments access to Claude at half price. The agreement, announced by Gove

Dina Gazzella is 85, and on her wrist is a small black band that looks like a watch and does rather more than tell the time. “If I feel unwell, this is a lifesa

North America has more than 280,000 independent auto repair shops. Most run on workflows a 1990s small business owner would recognise: phone-based scheduling, p

India’s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of the body that oversees it says AI will be central to reachin

A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo’s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of the titles submitt

The AI infrastructure startup raised $1.5bn in a Series F, with Australia’s Blackbird VC putting in what may be the largest single outlay yet by an Australian f

Germany’s space minister has a message for Washington: the dependence runs both ways. In an interview with Politico at the VivaTech trade show in Paris this wee

Ask an industrial engineer how their plant would recover if a controller’s code got corrupted or encrypted, and the honest answer is often grim: a backup on som

UPS detailed a slate of AI-powered logistics initiatives on Wednesday, including a real-time digital twin of its entire global network that updates every 10 min

China’s ‘618’ shopping festival, the mid-year sales event named for 18 June and now stretched across several weeks, has become two things at once this year: a s

JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from using Anthropic’s AI models, according to the Financial Times, a quiet decision with loud implications. T

Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company that went public at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021, has officially renamed itself Smartbird and appointed a new chi

A year ago, the smart move inside a big company was to use as much AI as humanly possible. Some firms even ranked employees on leaderboards by how many tokens t

Snap unveiled the consumer version of its augmented reality glasses on Monday at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California, pricing them at $2,195 with

For seven years, He Tingbo worked in silence. The head of Huawei’s semiconductor business, widely known as the company’s “chip queen,” vanished from public view

Mark Lanier, the Texas trial lawyer who won a landmark $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in a social media addiction case in March, says AI was central

NHS England is giving more than 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in what will be the largest AI deployment in healthcare glo

Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest le

Meta is adding an AI assistant and a desktop version to Edits, its video-editing app built to compete with ByteDance’s CapCut. The company previewed the feature