Artificial Intelligence

Auto Added by WPeMatico

AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.

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 won’t 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

AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it. Read More »

AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.

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

AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching. Read More »

NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky

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

NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky Read More »

Visa is cutting 2,600 tech jobs to bankroll the tech that threatens it

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

Visa is cutting 2,600 tech jobs to bankroll the tech that threatens it Read More »

China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse

China’s internet regulator has published draft rules to combat cyberbullying, and, according to Reuters, the measures are written to reach abuse generated with artificial intelligence. The Cyberspace Administration of China released the draft for public comment on 29 July, part of a widening effort to police what happens on the country’s platforms. The draft targets […]

This story continues at The Next Web

China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse Read More »

Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend

The startup, whose agents negotiate and pay across procurement for the likes of Unilever and Pfizer, is betting enterprises want software that acts, not software that suggests. Freehand, a startup whose AI agents take over the grunt work of managing what large companies spend on their supply chains, has raised $75 million. The round is […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend Read More »

The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face.

Europe is close to banning apps that digitally undress people. A new report argues the ban will miss the point. The tools that do the undressing do not need to be apps at all. They are sitting on Hugging Face. The European nonprofit AI Forensics tested the most popular image-editing tools on the platform. Seven […]

This story continues at The Next Web

The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face. Read More »

Modus Raises $10M Seed Led by Insight Partners as Enterprise AI Creates Demand for a New Context Layer

The enterprise AI market is moving into a new phase. As companies shift from experimenting with individual AI applications to deploying agents across business operations, the challenge is increasingly less about giving models access to information and more about helping them understand which information actually matters. That is the problem Modus is targeting as it […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Modus Raises $10M Seed Led by Insight Partners as Enterprise AI Creates Demand for a New Context Layer Read More »

Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models

Mark Zuckerberg has come out against one of Washington’s favourite ideas about artificial intelligence: that the way to beat China is to shut its models out. In an interview with the Financial Times published this week, Meta’s chief executive said banning advanced Chinese AI from use in the United States is “not an effective solution.” […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models Read More »

The US just banned ‘foreign’ robots and inverters, and it means China

The United States has moved to block new imports of foreign-made robots and power inverters. Officials fear a hostile power could spy through them, or switch them off from afar. The order never says China. It does not need to. The Federal Communications Commission added two categories to its Covered List on Tuesday, as first […]

This story continues at The Next Web

The US just banned ‘foreign’ robots and inverters, and it means China Read More »

Shopping Cart