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GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  It is an unsettling irony when the world’s largest code-hosting platform becomes the victim of its own ecosystem. GitHub confirmed on Tuesday that a threat actor exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal repositories after compromising an employee’…

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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will…

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This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched…

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Lambda wins a cloud deal with Hudson River Trading to supply access to NVIDIA chips

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The IPO-bound GPU-cloud start-up adds one of the largest US quantitative trading firms to a customer list that already includes Microsoft and NVIDIA itself. Lambda has signed a cloud-infrastructure deal with Hudson River Trading, one of the largest …

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Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox ‘strongly disputes’ the claims; the FTC has declined to comment. Two children’s advocacy groups, Fairplay and the Nationa…

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Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI P…

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Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The first model in DeepMind’s new Omni family will generate and edit video from any combination of image, audio, video, and text inputs. Speech-editing is being withheld; SynthID watermarking is on by default. Google introduced Gemini Omni on Tuesda…

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Meta starts the 10% cut, with the Singapore office getting the 4 am note first

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were no…

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Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based dee…

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Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

T-Head’s new GPU lands inside US export controls, a Trump-Xi summit on AI chips, and a Chinese domestic accelerator market, the company says, is already in scaled mass production. Alibaba’s T-Head chip unit unveiled detailed specifications of the Zh…

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Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived …

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Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Warsaw- and Munich-based ex-Meta engineering team hit $15m annualised recurring revenue in ten weeks. The angel list reads like a who’s who of European and US software. Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-agent company built by former Meta e…

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CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Cambridge-rooted, Massachusetts-based automated electronics factory has delivered more than two million boards across 20,000 engineers. Plural’s bet is on the trillion-dollar reshoring tailwind behind it. CircuitHub, the automated-electronics-ma…

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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at…

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Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, placing a major bet that the insatiable energy demands of AI data centres will keep chipmakers scrambling for better power-delivery technology. The deal, announced on M…

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SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

SpaceX expects to complete its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor roughly 30 days after it begins trading publicly, according to Bloomberg, a timeline that would place the deal in July if the company’s blockbuster IPO proceeds on sc…

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Discord now encrypts every voice and video call by default, and not even it can listen in

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Discord has flipped the switch on end-to-end encryption for every voice and video call on its platform, a move that means not even the company itself can access what its hundreds of millions of users say on calls. Mark Smith, Discord’s VP of core te…

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H2O.ai launches tabH2O, a foundation model that makes predictions from tabular data without any training

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

H2O.ai has unveiled tabH2O, a foundation model purpose-built for tabular data that can generate high-accuracy predictions from structured datasets using a single API call, with no model training required. The company announced the product at Dell Te…

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GitLab cuts 7% of workforce and flattens management in sweeping ‘agentic era’ restructuring

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

GitLab is slashing jobs, shrinking its geographic footprint, and reorganising its engineering teams as it bets its future on a world where AI agents, not humans, write most of the code. The DevOps platform company announced on 19 May that it will cu…

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Google gives Gemini a morning routine, a new look, and an AI agent that never sleeps

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Google used the opening keynote of I/O 2026 to unveil a wave of updates to its Gemini app, headlined by a feature called Daily Brief, a personalised morning digest that pulls from a user’s inbox, calendar, and task list to deliver a prioritised over…

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Google launches Android CLI 1.0 so AI coding agents can tap into Android Studio’s full power

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Google has released Android CLI at a stable version 1.0, giving AI coding agents a direct line into Android Studio’s capabilities without ever opening the IDE. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026 on 19 May, is a frank acknowledgement that many…

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