insights

Auto Added by WPeMatico

A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself

China, Digital Marketing, insights, SEO Tips, Technology /

  The idea that an AI system could improve itself, then use those improvements to improve itself again, faster, in an accelerating loop that eventually outpaces every human researcher on earth, has been a fixture of computer science folklore since at least the 1960s. For most of that time, it remained comfortably theoretical. Now someone […]

This story continues at The Next Web

A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself Read More »

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

Artificial Intelligence, Digital Marketing, Insider, insights, SEO Tips, Technology /

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, […]

This story continues at The Next Web

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Read More »

Nadella feared Microsoft would become ‘the next IBM.’ The trial reveals how much he paid to make sure it didn’t.

Digital Marketing, insights, Microsoft, Next Featured, SEO Tips, Technology /

  Satya Nadella told a federal jury on Monday that he feared Microsoft would become “the next IBM” while OpenAI became the next Microsoft. The admission, drawn from an April 2022 internal email presented by Elon Musk’s lead attorney, reveals the strategic anxiety that drove the largest corporate investment in artificial intelligence history. Microsoft did […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Nadella feared Microsoft would become ‘the next IBM.’ The trial reveals how much he paid to make sure it didn’t. Read More »

GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.

Artificial Intelligence, Digital Marketing, insights, Next Featured, SEO Tips, Technology /

  GitLab is cutting jobs to invest in AI agents. The company announced on Monday that it will flatten management layers, reorganise its research and development teams into roughly 60 smaller autonomous units, reduce its country footprint by approximately 30 per cent, and use AI agents to automate internal reviews, approvals, and handoffs. CEO Bill […]

This story continues at The Next Web

GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many. Read More »

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

Data and security, Digital Marketing, insights, Next Featured, SEO Tips, Technology /

  Cloudflare beat Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates on Wednesday, announced it would cut 1,100 employees because artificial intelligence agents now do their work, and watched its stock fall 24 per cent on Thursday. The sequence is becoming the template for the technology industry in 2026: record revenue, record layoffs, record doubt about what […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day Read More »

Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.

Digital Marketing, insights, SEO Tips, Technology /

Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants in 2025, gaining access to the industrial control systems that regulate pumps, filters, and chemical dosing. In some facilities, the attackers could have altered the operational parameters of equipment that determines what comes out of the tap. The attack vector, in every case, was unremarkable: weak passwords and […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test. Read More »

will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.

Artificial Intelligence, Digital Marketing, insights, Music, Next Featured, SEO Tips, Technology /

The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. will.i.am, born William Adams, co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas and founder […]

This story continues at The Next Web

will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people. Read More »

A data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem

Data and security, Digital Marketing, insights, SEO Tips, Technology /

A fire at a data centre in Almere on Thursday morning knocked a university offline, disabled the emergency communication system for public transport across an entire province, triggered an NL-Alert to residents across Flevoland, and required a crash tender from Lelystad Airport to cool a diesel tank on site. The fire broke out at approximately […]

This story continues at The Next Web

A data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem Read More »

Uber missed its revenue target. The stock jumped 10 per cent. Wall Street is pricing a different company.

Digital Marketing, Insider, insights, Next Featured, SEO Tips, Technology /

Uber missed its revenue estimate on Tuesday. The stock jumped 10 per cent. The divergence between the number Wall Street expected and the number the market rewarded tells the story of a company that has crossed a threshold: Uber is no longer being priced as a ride-hailing business that also delivers food. It is being […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Uber missed its revenue target. The stock jumped 10 per cent. Wall Street is pricing a different company. Read More »

Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026

Digital Marketing, insights, launch, Next Featured, SEO Tips, Sustainability, Technology /

On Monday, Fervo Energy formally launched its IPO roadshow, offering 55,555,555 shares of Class A common stock at an indicated range of $21 to $24 each. At the high end of the range, the geothermal-energy developer would raise as much as $1.33bn and become the largest climate-tech IPO of 2026 to date. The company has […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026 Read More »

Shopping Cart