China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.
Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low
An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks
Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification
AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot
Common Sense Media says Google’s AI Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to students. Google cannot turn it off.
The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy
Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation
France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software
The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs
Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. The tariff gap explains why.
Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. It has $40 billion more contracts to securitise.
Artificial Intelligence
Australia
Cars
Get the Nextwebworlds newsletter
Getting to the heart of the European tech and startup scene.
a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents
French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away
TSMC posted record $40 billion revenue. Its stock fell 4%. Investors are no longer buying the AI spending story on faith.
Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company at $4.88 trillion
Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.
The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres
AI was supposed to kill the travel agent. Instead it just minted a billion-dollar one.
While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets
Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it
