A ranking of the builders behind these apps needs a link between a person and a product, and we do not record one yet. When we do it will come from launch posts people wrote themselves. Business profiles only, never personal accounts.
New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar up to 1,200W, barring local governments from requiring approvals and stopping landlords from blocking installation. Germany wrote the same right into its civil code in October 2024 and now has 1.31 million registered systems at 1.34GW. New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar. A new law bars municipalities […] This story continues at The…
Bloomberg : Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating — Crusoe, a cloud-computing provider and data center developer doing business with OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. …
After a brief training pause to reflect on the inadequacy of its AI security measures, OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, initially for those in its Trusted Access Program. Assuming all goes well and there are no more incidents like the Hugging Face hack, the AI biz in a few days will allow Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers to try out what the company describes as "our most intelligent…
OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans. “I do leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves if this qualifies for them“, Brockman said. “I think […] This story continues at The Next We…
Alfonso Cuarón will executive produce the dark fantasy vampire story based on the popular D&D campaign setting. Alfonso Cuarón will executive produce the dark fantasy vampire story based on the popular D&D campaign setting.
T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days after Elliott built a stake to oppose it. A full combination would put the holding company outside Germany and cut the German state and KfW’s joint holding from about 28% to roughly 17%. T-Mobile US chief executive […] This story continues at The Next Web
OPINION Nvidia on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire open source AI evangelist and model depot Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a deal that's expected to close next year, assuming regulators don't get in the way. They should get in the way. As antitrust magnets go, Nvidia buying Hugging Face takes the cake. You wouldn't let an automaker acquire the primary means of fuel distribution. Nor…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still secretly counting two measles deaths that were deleted from the agency's public measles data—a deletion that occurred at the direct request of anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to two reports released today. Early today, Reuters reported that Kennedy instructed new CDC director Erica Schwartz to delete the two dea…
Dyson's beauty lineup may be most famous for its multi-styling Airwrap and luxurious hair dryer , but the product range doesn't stop there. In fact, it's growing. At the Dyson Unveiled event on Sept. 3, the brand announced two new beauty products: the Dyson AirSmooth dryer brush and the Corrale CoolShine straightener. The products aren't available to purchase just yet, but we've gathered everythin…
Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe the binding constraint is grid capacity, with Denmark holding roughly 60GW […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI companies are buying used books to help train their large language models. As part of a copyright settlement earlier this year, courts ruled that buying physical books and destroying them for AI training is technically fair use.
This week, the security workers who stand guard outside some of Silicon Valley’s most deep-pocketed AI companies decided they were ready to go on strike if necessary. The unionized workers, who are represented by SEIU-United Service Workers West, are staffed at tech giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, Salesforce, and Google, where they provide critical building security. The union has been in the midst…
2025 was a major year for new 360 cameras . Insta360 maintained its dominance with the X5 (since upgraded with the X6), DJI entered the picture with the Osmo 360, and GoPro finally upgraded its original Max after years of delays with the Max 2. In our in-depth review, we said GoPro's 8K second-gen model was 'worth the wait' , and it's now available for a new low price that further sweetens the dea…
Ugreen has three new hubs that run your smart home with local AI rather than the cloud. The top model runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor platform and costs $20,000. Ugreen has three new hubs that run your smart home with local AI rather than the cloud. The top model runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor platform and costs $20,000.
Does your power bank have "CryoPulse technology" or a "Cyber Window"? If you disappointingly answered "no" to both, you might want to consider upgrading to Ugreen's new MagFlow Pro Magnetic Power Bank . It's available starting today for $149.99 , which puts it on the really expensive end of power banks with only a 10,000mAh battery, but those fancy-sounding features are part of what Ugreen is clai…
Axios : Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures — PayPal has paused plans to sell its venture capital portfolio for around $900 million to $1 billion, Axios Pro has learned from multiple sources.
This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents
A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason to watch any of it. The footage only becomes useful when a package goes missing, an accident happens or somebody needs to work backwards from an […] This story continues at The Next Web
Just how much will the foldable iPhone Ultra cost? That's the biggest lingering question ahead of Apple's big iPhone launch event on Sept. 9. Leaks point to a price of $2,000 or more, and now, a new report from the analysts at the market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC) projects an average selling price of $2,550. The IDC has a solid reputation and is well known for its mobil…
According to an analysis published by The Hacker News, manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the European Union will face a September 11 deadline under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) to notify regulators within 24 hours after learning that a vulnerability is being actively exploited, with a fuller report due within 72 hours. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Another massive Garmin sale is underway at Amazon for Labor Day, offering yet another chance to score big savings on many of the manufacturer's top smartwatches. Several of these models are considered the best running, fitness, and outdoor wearables, according to our expert testers, so I've hand-picked the eight top deals that you need to see. • See all Garmin deals at Amazon I've included everyth…
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) said Thursday he was informed by the Department of Justice that his phone calls with a Virginia state legislator in the spring were wiretapped. Why it matters: The Democratic congressman is casting the tap as part of a pattern of the DOJ targeting President Trump's political enemies , calling the incident "deeply concerning." "They have politically investigated multi…
London, UK, September 3rd, 2026/Chainwire/-- Integral , a leading currency technology provider, today announced that Grupo Salinas, through COINPRO, has selected Integral Digital as the technology infrastructure for Coinpro’s institutional digital asset trading desk. The desk is designed to serve corporate and institutional clients seeking to buy or sell digital assets against fiat currencies. Its…
Stryker says its SportSuite Vision software for the headset received De Novo authorization from the FDA in July. Stryker says its SportSuite Vision software for the headset received De Novo authorization from the FDA in July.
Classroom technology is the focus of a new report from the American Psychological Association (APA), which argues we should be focusing less on bans and more on the specific harms of flashy new tech. The report , which includes a long list of findings and recommendations for educators and parents regarding all kinds of EdTech, hones in on a new genre of educational technology that increasingly rel…
In 2020, Microsoft announced that Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions would include unlimited access to its new Xbox Cloud Gaming service (then still known as Project xCloud ). Now, that kind of streaming buffet service is coming to an end, as Microsoft announced strict new limits on how much streaming is included in its various Game Pass subscriptions. Starting in November, Game Pass subscriptions w…
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg : Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier — Health and fitness ring-maker Oura Inc. filed for an initial public offering, showing soaring revenue as well as increasing losses.
Annie Palmer / CNBC : Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair — Adobe on Thursday named Anil Chakravarthy as its next CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who announced he would step down earlier this year.
If you are looking for a singular champion of the artificial intelligence boom—a single company that will stand atop the mountain, holding the crown of "Winner of AI"—you are asking the wrong question. The obsession with declaring a definitive winner in the AI space usually centers on the frontier model layer. Pundits endlessly debate whether OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google DeepMind will claim the ul…
How the leading autonomous penetration testing platforms validate every exploit before it reaches your dashboard Security teams seldom lose because a scanner missed a bug. They lose because the dashboard fills with findings nobody has proven. Astra Security has provided a comprehensive State of Pentesting 2026 report which built on 6.8 million findings across 8,000-plus […] This story conti…
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 3rd, 2026/CyberNewswire/-- Link11 has released its European Cyber Report for the first half of 2026, providing an overview of DDoS attack activity targeting European companies. Although the number of DDoS attacks on the Link11 network decreased by 42 percent, the report records new highs for attack intensity across bandwidth, packet rate and cumulative data vo…
Strahd returned earlier this year in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. | Image: Wizards of the Coast A Ravenloft series is currently in development from executive producer Alfonso Cuarón, writer and executive producer John August, and Hasbro Entertainment, Deadline reports. It could bring to life one of Dungeons & Dragons ' most iconic campaign settings, which got an update earlier this year w…
Sam Sabin / Axios : OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world — - The $1 billion will come in the form of expanded subsidized access to models, training, technical support and partnerships for participating organizations.