Amazon's Fire tablets are notable for being dirt cheap. While they're great for kids , they don't offer a premium Android tablet experience. The company's new $499 Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is an attempt to build a device someone might actually want to use. It's one of a few new Android tablets Amazon announced today, and it's the one you need to know about. Unlike the Fire Tablet lineup, the Alexa Tabl…
American Express is making another big bet on airport lounges , and its next expansion includes what will become the largest Centurion Lounge in its network. The company announced plans to open new Centurion Lounges at Newark Liberty International Airport and London Heathrow Thursday, along with plans to significantly expand its existing spaces in the Philadelphia and Houston airports. American Ex…
Amazon’s Fire tablets have historically been seen as low-cost, low-spec alternatives to the best Android tablets and best iPads , but the mega-retailer has finally entered the premium tablet market with the Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro. Yes, the ‘Fire’ nomenclature is gone — and, mercifully, Fire OS along with it. The Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is the first Amazon tablet to support full Android, meaning us…
DARPA has moved Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ into the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. The US defence research agency runs the programme to test whether anyone can build a useful quantum computer by 2033. DARPA announced the four teams on Wednesday. Each one uses a different type of qubit, the basic […] This story continues at The Next Web
Spotify has renewed its licensing agreement with Joe Rogan, whose podcast remains the number one show on the platform - and in the world . As reported by The Wall Street Journal , the multi-year agreement is valued at around $250 million, allowing new episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience to appear on Spotify and across other platforms each week. The renewal builds on the lucrative relationship bet…
NHS England’s South East region is rolling out an AI that can discharge patients with harmless skin lesions without a dermatologist seeing them. DERM, made by London-based Skin Analytics, goes live in all 18 NHS trusts there from this autumn. It will cover another 9 million people. Skin Analytics announced the rollout on Wednesday and […] This story continues at The Next Web
The two companies said on Thursday that they would begin testing Pony.ai's Gen-7 robotaxis in London in the coming weeks.
Upscale AI, a Santa Clara networking startup backed by Nvidia, launched a platform on Thursday that lets data centres link AI chips made by different suppliers, Reuters reported. The product, called Token Fabric, was revealed in a company announcement today. Upscale said it is built on open standards and works with graphics chips, custom AI chips, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing “too fast,” while 27% say its development has been “about right” and only…
The US Department of War has offered chipmaker Wolfspeed a conditional loan of up to $1.5bn over 30 years. In return, Wolfspeed would give the department warrants to buy up to 7.5% of the company. Wolfspeed filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2025. The department’s Office of Strategic Capital announced the commitment on Wednesday. In […] This story continues at The Next Web
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune : AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks — Justin Zheng is pretty sure Dylan Iskandar took his money the first time they met as teenagers, over a poker game in 2019 at a conference run by economist Tyler Cowen.
Italy’s commercial data centres could attract €36.9 billion ($41.5 billion) of investment through 2036, according to a study by the Italian Datacenter Association (IDA). The industry group presented its 2026 market research at its Data Center Symposium in Rome on October 8. According to Bloomberg’s account of the study, IT capacity in Italy’s commercial data centres […] This story continues…
AI has replaced entry-level work, so graduates are being hired to manage AI Goldman worries about its impacts on existing middle managers "We don’t quite know what’s going to happen to that group" Goldman Sachs exec Kevin Sneader has shared (via Bloomberg ) how he believes AI could change jobs in banking, and it doesn't necessarily mean that junior workers will be at a loss for jobs. Instead, Snea…
Argos has launched its Big Red Sale. Now, I've seen loads of 8GB laptop deals there, but as always, I'm begging you to avoid them. The low cost isn't worth the frustratingly sluggish performance. 16GB memory is plenty for day-to-day office multi-tasking without breaking the bank. And of all the ones in the Argos sale, I've 100% choose the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3. • Best for: Remote workers and stude…
Microsoft 's got a new laptop to take on Apple's MacBook Pro , and it's an absolute powerhouse. Called the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra , it runs on Nvidia's RX Spark N1X chip that either has a 5,120-core GPU and an 18-core CPU, or a 6,144-core GPU and a 20-core CPU. Memory options range from 24 to 128GB, and storage is either 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB. SEE ALSO: Microsoft's new Surface laptops get rid…
Reuters : Drones struck a data center owned by Russia's Yandex in the town of Sasovo, marking the first major attack on a Russian data hub since the Ukraine war began — Drones hit a data centre owned by Russia's Yandex , the country's leading AI and technology company said on Thursday …
Bhutan’s DK Bank has received In-Principle Approval from ADGM’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority to establish a regulated subsidiary in Abu Dhabi. The approval gives the bank a pathway toward its first financial services presence outside Bhutan. DK plans to offer brokerage, custody, payments and advisory services through the Abu Dhabi entity. That is subject to […] This story continu…
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal : Spotify and Joe Rogan renew their multiyear licensing and ad sales deal; sources say the terms are similar to Rogan's last deal, worth $250M, signed in 2024 — Latest multiyear agreement comes as ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ remains No. 1 in U.S. listenership
Nestlé chief executive Philipp Navratil says knowing how to write a good prompt is not enough for workers who want to keep up with artificial intelligence. Staff also need to understand their business and change the way they work, he told Business Insider in an interview published this month. Philipp Navratil runs a company of more […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Verge : Xbox launches XP, a division to manage four non-gaming “investment areas”: Xbox Pictures for film and TV, Xbox Products, Xbox Places, and Xbox Partnerships — Xbox's new ‘XP’ arm will oversee Xbox experiences outside of video games, including movies, consumer products, and live events.
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch. Much of it comes from the idea that the same AI advances behind ChatGPT and Claude could enable robots to imitate human movement the way c…
Jack Black in A Minecraft Movie. | Image: Warner Bros. Xbox is launching a new division, called "XP," that's dedicated to Xbox experiences that aren't video games, including films and TV adaptations, consumer products, live events, and partnerships with creators and brands. Different teams at Xbox already do this work, but it will all now fall under the centralized XP division. XP formalizes four…
There’s more to Google Maps’ dining tools than reviews and directions – and a few are worth a look before your next night out.
I became a social entrepreneur at 14, working in partnership with other students to make our high school a more welcoming home to students with disabilities. We saw what the adults did not: Bullying and harassment could not be wished away with detentions and scoldings. The change required students standing up for one another, changing our school culture one relationship at a time. For more than 30…
Businesses and policymakers are racing to build an economy centered on AI , and it’s quickly becoming one of the biggest economic bets in history. Billions of dollars are flowing into numerous sectors to support it, and states are competing to attract investment while companies seem to announce major expansions every day. The U.S. is trying to build the AI economy as quickly as possible, but these…
American hardtech venture is finally being taken seriously. Deep tech funds are outperforming conventional VC. The opportunity is real, and it’s being funded the way it should be, by investors who bear the cost of being wrong. But there’s an elephant in this room, and it isn’t a coastal fund getting into the game without the capital, infrastructure, or institutional knowledge to truly back physica…
Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.
OpenAI has hired Ismail Elmas, who ran Cursor’s business in Europe, as its vice president of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is the second sales executive OpenAI has taken from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which owns Cursor, in the past month. The German business daily Handelsblatt first reported the news on Thursday […] This story continues at The Next Web
Dyson Total Restore is a door-to-door cleaning and restoration service It's available for Dyson's cordless and wet floor cleaners It costs £99.99 and is now available in mainland Britain If your vacuum cleaner or floor cleaner needs some love, Dyson has just launched a new refresh and restoration service that will get it working like new (or as close as possible). Dyson Total Restore , now availab…
Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike : Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX — CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data.
Climate science has been clear for decades: Since at least the 1950s , oil and gas companies have known that their fossil fuels release planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. And we’ve known that those emissions cause dangerous planetary impacts like the melting of our ice caps, rising sea levels, and “potentially serious environmental damage worldwide,” as one 1968 study put…
Ella Stiller, Mike Colter, and Rachel Keller star in Cupertino. | CBS Cupertino brings the tech backlash to the CBS procedural - an initially awkward combination, but with rewarding results. The show starts off just slightly unsure, but quickly figures out what to do with these strange times, creating fictionalized dupes of the Zizians, Polymarket, Jeff Bezos' looksmaxxing obsession, OpenAI steali…
French AI infrastructure company Sesterce plans to invest more than €10bn in an AI data centre campus at a former paper mill in Jämsä, central Finland. The campus will be located on the Kaipola site, where UPM shut down its paper mill in early 2021, Sesterce announced. Building work on the first phase, with 200 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Windows 11 search is getting a major overhaul It'll be made faster, more efficient with RAM usage, and be tweaked to better understand what you're searching for Microsoft is also adding 'actions' to allow users to directly adjust Windows 11 options in the search box, a nifty and convenient touch Microsoft has announced that it's forging onwards with making Windows 11's search function a faster and…
Investors bullish on AI data centers may be fueling Nvidia’s multi-trillion-dollar market capitalization, but the AI chipmaker has also bet billions of dollars on physical AI technologies such as robotics and self-driving cars. Part of that gambit has involved Nvidia developing a full-stack safety system that companies can build upon to reduce the risk of their machines harming nearby people. Nvid…
Butterfly Effect, the company behind AI agent startup Manus, said that it has closed a funding round of more than $500 million. This would be the first raise since Meta’s $2 billion-plus purchase of Manus was undone on Beijing’s orders. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round. Existing investors Tencent, HSG (formerly Sequoia China), […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Anycubic Photon P1 Max 3D printer has a massive 18.3L build volume, giving you room for large resin creations models, and it's on sale at Amazon right now. • Best for: Experienced makers, designers, engineering teams, and small businesses that need a large-format resin 3D printer for bigger models or batch production. • The deal: The Anycubic Photon P1 Max is now $850 (was $900) at Amazon , sa…
Sigma completes its trinity of f/2.8 zoom lenses for APS-C cameras The 50-120mm lens (75-180mm equivalent) comes to Sony, Canon and Fujifilm from October 22 It weighs just 13.4oz / 380g and costs $799 / £699 (about AU$1,300) Sigma has completed a trinity of f/2.8 zooms with the 50-120mm F2.8 DC OS Contemporary — and it proves that you don't need shoot full-frame to have access to exciting lenses.…
The best October Prime Day tech deals still live: Best Kindle deal Amazon Kindle (2024) $103.99 (save $46) Get Deal Best AirPods deal Apple AirPods 4 $79 (save $50) Get Deal Best laptop deal Apple MacBook Air (M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) $1,099 (save $200) Get Deal Best 65-inch TV deal Hisense 65-inch E7 Cinema Series TV $579.99 (save $320) Get Deal Best Deal Under $25 Apple AirTag (2nd Gen) $24 (sav…
In July 2010, US Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) predicted the rise of prediction markets and the problems they could cause. If not properly regulated, Lincoln warned during Senate proceedings on the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, prediction markets could evade gambling laws by offering "event contracts" that let people place wagers on sports games. "It would be quite…