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  1. The Next Web

    An AI startup is driving 3,400 miles to film how Americans live with AI

    The founder of a US AI software company is taking a camera crew on a road trip to ask ordinary Americans how AI is changing their lives. The documentary, called America vs. AI, will cover about 3,400 miles and more than 20 cities this month, AskBobAI said in a press release. TNW has not...

  2. Security Week

    Osavul Lands $10 Million to Spot Hostile Intent Across Cyber, Physical Domains

    Hybrid risk intelligence company Osavul has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by 33N Ventures. The post Osavul Lands $10 Million to Spot Hostile Intent Across Cyber, Physical Domains appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  3. The Next Web

    Walmart shelf labels will light up to guide shoppers, CNBC reports

    Walmart is turning its digital shelf labels into a way to find things. Shoppers can now make the label under a product flash from the Walmart app, as Laya Neelakandan reported for CNBC. The feature, called Shop to Light, is moving from a pilot to a wide rollout. Customers have already used it to...

  4. The Hacker News

    Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers

    Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when...

  5. The Hackers News

    Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers

    Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when...

  6. The Next Web

    LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft

    Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn before taking over Microsoft’s Office group, will leave the company at the end of 2026, as Jordan Novet reported for CNBC. Chief executive Satya Nadella announced the exit in a memo to staff on Thursday, according to CNBC. “Ryan leaves the organization in a strong...

  7. The Next Web

    Ford’s CEO says it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers

    Ford chief executive Jim Farley said it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers and that the United States should take its time deciding. Ford’s own answer in Europe is a Valencia joint venture in which Geely holds 34% and will build two of the four electric models from 2028. Ford’s...

  8. The Hacker News

    ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories

    This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years. That is...

  9. The Hackers News

    ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories

    This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years. That is...

  10. NY Times

    Swedish Company Uses A.I. Likeness of Greta Garbo in Ad

    An ad produced by the manufacturing company SKF Group featured a digital version of the Swedish American actress, who died in 1990. Not all viewers found the replica convincing.

  11. The Next Web

    FedEx is buying 2,000 electric trucks for $300M, and investing in the company building them

    FedEx has ordered 2,000 electric delivery trucks worth $300M from Harbinger, a Californian startup it also backed with a Series C investment last year. Europe’s equivalents, Volta Trucks and Tevva, both went under, and a European logistics depot needs ten to twenty times its current power capacity...

  12. The Next Web

    Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic

    President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the White House on 28 September. TIME has published the...

  13. Wired

    Tim Heidecker Is Bringing His Joe Rogan Parody Show to The Onion

    Five years after the comedian went viral with a 12-hour blabberthon mocking the king of bro podcasting, he’s back in character to shill a supplement called “Crab Salts.”

  14. The Next Web

    ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news

    Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in submissions to Parliament’s Joint Select Committee...

  15. The Next Web

    Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports

    Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropic’s IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of tensor processing units (TPUs), the AI chips...

  16. NY Times

    Who’s to Blame When A.I. Goes Rogue?

    Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy

  17. The Next Web

    Kanu AI raises $11.7m to turn how staff work into software they own

    Kanu AI has come out of stealth with $11.7m in funding. The Seattle startup builds software that runs inside a customer’s own cloud. Accel, BMW i Ventures and a16z speedrun joined a round led by Trilogy Equity Partners, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. “Companies have spent decades...

  18. The Next Web

    Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails

    Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It builds infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend software running through failures. Singular led the round, with Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, the company said in a statement on...

  19. The Next Web

    Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process

    Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures also took part, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The round comes...

  20. The Next Web

    ‘When everyone’s responsible, no one is’: the AI champion problem

    Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champion’s time. A month later, the manager had taken it back. There […] This...