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Less than a year ago, AlphaFold won Google DeepMind a Nobel Prize. Now DeepMind has taken the team that built it apart. The lab has reassigned most of the original AlphaFold-paper authors over the past year, the Financial Times reported. Nearly a quarter of them have left the company altogether. DeepMind confirmed the moves, and [] This story continues at The Next Web

As organizations embrace AI to communicate faster and at greater scale, the companies preserving trust arent sending more messages; theyre creating more meaningful human moments. Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed how organizations communicate with employees. Announcements can now be drafted in seconds. Leadership updates can be personalized automatically. Internal newsletters, summaries, FAQs, and policy changes [] This story continues at The Next Web

Recruiters used to open a resume to look for a reason to say yes. Now they open it to look for a reason to doubt it. Nearly two-thirds of job candidates use AI in their applications, while 87% of US hiring managers admit to using AI in their hiring process, resulting in a double-edged sword [] This story continues at The Next Web

The worlds biggest consultancies are selling companies expensive advice on how to adopt AI without getting burned. Their own reports keep getting burned. PwC is the latest to be caught. Four of its Middle East thought leadership reports were a mess, the Financial Times reported. The reports, on AI and electric vehicles, carried fake footnotes, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Audi spent years betting its future on electric cars. Its new flagship for America runs on a V8, with big cupholders and a ChatGPT assistant. The German brand unveiled the Q9 this week. It is a full-size three-row luxury SUV built, in Audis own words, for the US market. It starts at about $89,000, with [] This story continues at The Next Web

ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users. OpenAI wanted to be here seven months ago. The chatbot is on the verge of the milestone, based on figures OpenAI has shared internally, The Information reported. The company had hoped to reach a billion weekly users by the end of last year. It is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every AI agent a company switches on needs an identity to log in and reach data. Enterprises now run millions of them, with almost no way to keep track. That gap just sold for $1bn. The data-security firm Cyera has agreed to buy Oasis Security for around $1bn, the Wall Street Journal first reported. It [] This story continues at The Next Web

xAI has a novel argument for why it should get to keep building tools that digitally undress people. The First Amendment. Elon Musks AI company, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesotas attorney general on Monday, CBS News first reported. It wants a federal court to strike down the first US law banning nudification technology. The [] This story continues at The Next Web

BuzzFeed bet on AI to rescue itself. This week it laid off another third of its staff. The bet, it turns out, was never the thing that could save it. The company cut about 180 jobs on Monday, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, the New York Times reported. The cuts hit the news [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, and charges for the wiring around them. The startup is a year old. It says more than 8 [] This story continues at The Next Web

For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better reasoning, longer context windows, or more capable autonomous agents. Increasingly, people assume that software wont just answer questions; it will also complete tasks for us. This raises a concern that has received far less attention: what [] This story continues at The Next Web

A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any more, so stop trying. Act Security launched on Tuesday, Calcalist reported. It was founded in 2025 by the team that sold Medigate to Claroty for [] This story continues at The Next Web

NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported. The project would rank among the largest single commitments yet in the American build-out of computing capacity for artificial intelligence. The companies are joining the largest utility in the United States with one of the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple has a new answer to the complaint that its products cost too much. Do not buy them. Lease them. On Tuesday the company launched Apple Upgrade in the US, a leasing programme run by the buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna. It covers the iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad, and it starts at $17.99 a month [] This story continues at The Next Web

Britains Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into how Microsoft sold its 365 subscriptions, asking whether the company misled personal and family customers when it raised prices and bundled in its Copilot AI assistant. The CMA announced the probe on 29 July, training its attention on the marketing of the plans rather than [] This story continues at The Next Web

ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors, has raised $60 million. The company, a partner of Nvidia, is betting that the same agentic AI reshaping software can be turned on the painstaking business of making chips. The raise adds to an already busy year. ChipAgents closed a $21 million Series A [] This story continues at The Next Web

Richard Sochers new AI lab has just made an unusual bet with its money. Recursive has committed about $410m to a single, multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services. That is roughly two-thirds of everything it has raised. The company left stealth in May with $650m at a $4.65bn valuation. It employs about 25 people. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Visa is cutting about 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its staff, and it is cutting them mostly from the teams that build its technology. The money it saves is going into the payment methods that could one day make those rails matter less. The payments network confirmed the cuts on Tuesday, in a staff memo [] This story continues at The Next Web

Options traders are positioning for a swing of roughly $190 billion in Microsofts market value after its results, an unusually large bet on a single earnings report. The pricing, reported by Reuters on 29 July, implies a move of about 6.6% in either direction once the fiscal fourth-quarter numbers land. That is well above Microsofts [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ask ChatGPT for a chapter in the voice of Stephen King and it now says no. It offers instead to write something with the hallmarks of atmospheric, character-driven horror and small-town dread, while staying its own. OpenAI has quietly changed how its chatbot handles author imitation, Ars Technica reported after testing it. The model declines [] This story continues at The Next Web

The most expensive moment in a B2B sales cycle does not look like one. An account executive is thirty minutes into a live call. Discovery is finished, the buyer is engaged, and the conversation has moved past polite curiosity into the part where deals get decided. Then comes the question that matters: how the integration [] This story continues at The Next Web

The evolution ofenterprise softwarehas solved countless operational bottlenecks over the past decade. Supply chains are mapped in real time, and global payrolls execute automatically across dozens of tax jurisdictions with total precision. Yet somehow, arranging a simple business trip still frequently requires employees to wrestle with archaic interfaces and manual approval workflows. Asking highly paid [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the worlds most advanced AI labs handle systemic risk, as the AI Act reaches its second anniversary. The EUs AI Office will be able to demand documentation, conduct evaluations, and request access to frontier models, with fines of up to 3% of global [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms. The first substantially weakens HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature scheme under review by NIST, by cutting its effective key strength in half. The second improves the best-known attack on seven-round AES, the most widely used symmetric cipher, by 200-800x. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and childrens phone numbers. The chats were not hacked or leaked in any technical sense. Users had shared them through a Claude feature built for that. Search engines then indexed [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last years rate. Almost none of them are being exploited. The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software flaws between January and 27 July, already approaching the whole of 2025, which was itself a record. On that trajectory the year ends at roughly double the 2025 total, Bloomberg [] This story continues at The Next Web

A penetration test at a financial services firm managing billions of dollars in client assets has found a critical flaw in AI-generated code. The interesting part is what the code got right. Sygnia, the incident response firm, assessed a customer onboarding application built substantially with Claude. It handled government-issued identification, identity verification data, payment details [] This story continues at The Next Web

ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The Dublin company is a contract research organisation, which means pharmaceutical firms pay it to run their trials. It employed roughly 40,200 people across 99 locations and 55 countries at the end of June. Neither company disclosed financial [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bending Spoons has agreed a 500m loan facility guaranteed by the Italian state. The guarantee comes from SACE, Italys export credit agency, which is wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. HSBC Continental Europe, Intesa Sanpaolo and BPER Banca arranged the facility, which matures in March 2031. The Milan company will use the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amkor Technology reported record second quarter results on Monday. Revenue reached $1.9bn, up 26% on a year earlier, and net income more than tripled. Operating income roughly doubled to $200m. Earnings came in at $0.70 a diluted share, against $0.22. EBITDA reached $400m. The numbers matter less than what the company plans to do next. [] This story continues at The Next Web

X Money went live on Monday. Buried in its support pages is a rule that no ordinary bank applies to a current account. If your X account is suspended for violating Child Safety or Violent and Hateful Entities policies, you will lose Money access, the company FAQ states. Any remaining balance will be mailed to [] This story continues at The Next Web

A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone calls. It works out who is speaking, whether or not the speaker wants that. LEO Technologies, based in Austin, announced Verus Voice AI on Monday. The product uses voice biometrics to catch prisoners who call on someone elses [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia is working on a fresh round of AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, Bloomberg reported, accelerating a pattern of investment that critics say inflates demand and valuations across the sector. The response from the debt market was unusually direct. Nvidias five-year credit default swap spread surged to a record 82 basis [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, has asked the High Court in London to force Elon Musks xAI to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualised images of her, sharpening a claim that her lawyers say could help settle how far an AI company answers for what its tools produce. Asato is seeking a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ofcom proposed on Tuesday to block a discounted wholesale offer from Openreach, the first time the regulator has ever moved to stop a commercial deal from BTs network arm. The offer would have given internet providers up to 9.50 off per customer per month, for as long as 30 months, when they connected more new [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fitch Ratings has gathered a number of the markets quieter anxieties into a single sentence, warning that a possible AI market correction is now emerging as one of the biggest credit risks facing the global economy. The judgement comes in the agencys third-quarter Global Risk Outlook, published this week, and it lands at a moment [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nine months after its own shareholders torpedoed a roughly $9bn takeover byCoreWeave, Core Scientific has found a far larger partner in the chipmaker trying to loosen Nvidias grip on artificial intelligence. On Tuesday the former bitcoin miner said it had signed adata-centre agreement with AMDthat could eventually reach 2.5 gigawatts of capacity across the American [] This story continues at The Next Web

A humanoid robot named Sally was due to take a seat in a Western New York high-school classroom this autumn, silicone skin, long brown hair, and all. Instead she is on hold. A plan that had quietly cleared the Salamanca school board back in June turned, over the following weeks, into a public fight over [] This story continues at The Next Web

Peacock Premium will be included with YouTube Premium in the US at no extra cost starting in early 2027. The deal, announced on Sunday by NBCUniversal and YouTube, is Peacocks largest wholesale distribution partnership to date and immediately expands its reach to millions of existing YouTube Premium subscribers. Peacock Premium currently costs $10.99 per month [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta is rolling out Meta AI to Threads direct messages globally starting today. All users can now share posts, images, links, and videos with Meta AI in a one-on-one conversation, ask follow-up questions, and explore topics privately. The feature mirrors what already exists on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Meta said the move responds to community [] This story continues at The Next Web

A growing number of young adults are using AI chatbots to script not just their texts but their in-person conversations, the Wall Street Journal reported. Niharika Abbaraju, a 20-year-old cancer researcher, uses ChatGPT at work for research, but off the clock it becomes her conversation coach, drafting dating app lines, party icebreakers, and real-time responses [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop using it. The OpenAI CEO said on the Relentless podcast that he forced himself to learn the app while OpenAI was building Sora, its AI-generated video social network. I made myself get addicted to TikTok, because I wanted to just learn, he said. He started with [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fareed Zakaria opened with the question everyone is circling. Are we in an AI bubble, and has it begun to deflate? OpenAI has promised to spend hundreds of billions while making a fraction of that, he noted. The maths does not add up. Nadella did not push back. He reframed the question as a test [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sam Altman has a preferred way of framing the contest over artificial intelligence, and it is a stark one. Either the United States and its allies build the technology and spread its benefits, the OpenAI chief has argued, or authoritarian governments use it to cement and expand their own power. That binary, set out most [] This story continues at The Next Web

China has a new most valuable listed company, and it makes the chips inside your phone. CXMT, formerly ChangXin Memory Technologies, closed its Shanghai debut up 466% on Monday, the South China Morning Post reported. That values the Hefei firm at 3.28 trillion yuan, or about $485bn. The numbers are hard to overstate. CXMT priced [] This story continues at The Next Web

Spanish deeptech company that shrinks large language models wants investors to bet that efficiency, rather than sheer scale, is where the next stretch of AI money gets made. Multiverse Computing, based in San Sebastin in Spains Basque Country, has opened a Series C round targeting up to $570m (500m), the company said on July 27. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europes ambition to stop hitching rides on someone elses spacecraft now has a rough price tag. The Exploration Company, the Munich-based startup building what it bills as Europes first reusable space capsule, is in talks to raise at least $300mn, according to theFinancial Times. The round would value the six-year-old firm at more than $2bn, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to guarantee about $250bn of financing for OpenAI, a backstop that would let the ChatGPT maker fund a vast new data centre without the investment-grade credit rating such borrowing normally demands. The arrangement was described by theWall Street Journal on July 26, and neither company has confirmed it. The guarantee [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to brief the Trump administration on the companys most powerful AI model yet, pushing for speedy approval of a system that has already demonstrated it can solve problems humans could not and breach another companys infrastructure without being told to, Axios reported on Saturday. The visit [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple is currently aiming to unveil its first smart glasses at next Junes Worldwide Developers Conference, with a consumer release by the end of 2027, according to Bloombergs Mark Gurman. But the companys engineering and marketing teams are still wrestling with a question that will define the product: whether its glasses should include a camera [] This story continues at The Next Web