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Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headsets gaming unit. The company says it is realigning teams and will create new roles. Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs across the teams that build Siri and the Vision [] This story continues at The Next Web

Samsung Electronics approved the largest shareholder return in South Korean corporate history on Friday. Its shares then fell as much as 2.6% in post-market trading. The board signed off on a Samsung shareholder return of between 90 trillion and 110 trillion won for 2026. That is roughly $65bn to $80bn. It is about five times [] This story continues at The Next Web

A 15-year-old from New Jersey has dropped her case against Meta, Google, and Snap seven weeks before it was due to be heard in Los Angeles. Her lawyer said she wanted to get on with her life. The case was one of three bellwethers set for trial in October in California state court, chosen to [] This story continues at The Next Web

The ChatGPT desktop app can now read your iMessage history and send messages on your behalf. OpenAI shipped the integration this week for Macs running Apple silicon, and Apple, a company it is reportedlypreparing to sue, was not part of the announcement. The plugin reads and searches Messages conversations on the machine, covering iMessage, SMS, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every revenue leader now has AI somewhere in the deal cycle. It drafts the proposal, suggests the discount, recommends the next move, and does it all in seconds. The speed is real. But a recommendation is not a decision. When AI proposes a price or a deal structure, something still has to answer the harder [] This story continues at The Next Web

Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised 5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-seed. Spintop Ventures, a Nordic early-stage firm investing in the company for the first time, co-led the round with Ugly Duckling Ventures, the Danish [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The jump follows a deal to supply chips to Anthropic. The company is raising funds at a pre-money valuation of $6.5bn, according to people [] This story continues at The Next Web

Marvell Technology has agreed to give Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of its shares. In return, Google will buy its custom chips. The chipmaker set out the deal in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. Its stock jumped as much as 14 percent on the news. The warrant lets Google buy 58,970,907 [] This story continues at The Next Web

Grant Lee still remembers the investors verdict. Yeah, so the investor said it was the worst idea he had ever heard. The call came in 2020, when Grant Lee and co-founders Jon Noronha and James Fox started Gamma in San Francisco. Six years later, that worst idea is a $2.1 billion company, a profitable AI-powered [] This story continues at The Next Web

Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillets third raise in 14 months. The backers are a roll-call of AI investors. [] This story continues at The Next Web

A 1918 Detroit Electric Model 75B went under the hammer at Monterey Car Week claiming an original 80 miles of range, against the 73 miles the first Nissan Leaf was rated for. The format died because of the electric starter and a price five times a Model T, not because of range. A 1918 Detroit [] This story continues at The Next Web

The UK government and Google are launching a trial to steer aircraft around climate-warming contrails. Google announced Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday. It is the first such effort across an entire ocean airspace. AI forecasts will predict where contrails form over the North Atlantic, and controllers will nudge planes to avoid those patches of sky. [] This story continues at The Next Web

EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation, according to Business Insider. Katie Roof reported the round on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with it. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners are in talks to lead it. The details are not settled. Roof wrote that the numbers could still change. EliseAI, a16z and [] This story continues at The Next Web

Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday on the web. The iOS and Android apps followed on Tuesday. It covers select English-language posts in a sample of communities. A toggle appears above an eligible post. Read shows [] This story continues at The Next Web

Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on interviews with eight current and former officials who work or have worked with the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Americas cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the worlds AI training and inference, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, confirming that the flaw is being used in real-world attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency made the move on 17 August, giving federal [] This story continues at The Next Web

Synchrony Financial, which issues store credit cards for Amazon, Walmart and Lowes, is working with OpenAI so shoppers can buy inside ChatGPT using those cards. Its chief strategy officer says general-purpose cards will take six to twelve months and store-specific cards longer. Synchrony Financial wants its cards inside ChatGPT. The issuer behind store cards for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice that circulated a decade ago. Publish more often, get quoted somewhere respectable, trust the algorithm; the genre rarely rewards close reading. INPUT Global, a communications agency [] This story continues at The Next Web