Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026 and gives safety as the reason
Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return
Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models
China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same
Z.ai raises $5bn in Hong Kong including $3bn of zero-interest bonds
Obama warns AI in private hands could be dangerous and urges Democrats to act
From tools to AI teammates: the next era of investing
Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out
From IFA demonstrations to a wider design question: why should an office chair expect the body to stay still?
Australia’s AI music decision opens a new front in the fight over human creativity
The detrimental cost of scaling too fast
Revolut handed customer passports to scammers using a real government email domain
Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B SpaceX stake
Investors and funding
Artificial Intelligence
Contributed
Anthropic
Deep tech
Security
OpenAI
Business
Get the Nextwebworlds newsletter
Getting to the heart of the European tech and startup scene.
HelmGuard raises $7.3m to replace compliance paperwork with AI agents
Baseten buys Blaxel, a startup that builds sandboxes for AI agents
TAR raises $120m at a $1bn valuation to build off-grid power for AI
John Daley and Jack Miller, co-founders of HelmGuard, in side-by-side portraits against a grey studio backdrop
Ten people in business-casual clothes standing in two rows for a group portrait against a deep blue panelled wall.
Black TAR wordmark over an iridescent abstract shape in blue, orange and white, on a pale background
White Motive logo over a black-and-white photo of a warehouse aisle lined with tall shelves of boxed pallets
A neoclassical stone building with a BNP Paribas sign along its roofline, seen from a Paris boulevard.
Black-and-white studio portrait of a man in a white T-shirt seated on a stepladder and a woman in a white vest top standing beside him, both smiling
Two men leaning against a wall by a large window, one in a green short-sleeved shirt with a hand on his chest, one in a navy jumper
Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.
Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices
Lenovo opens a phone line to Eva Longoria for entrepreneurs
