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| 08/30/2026 10:39 PM |
MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets |
 An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate curriculum and has driven measurable shifts in campus culture in under three years. In the EU, systems that monitor students during tests are high-risk under the AI Act and emotion recognition in education has been prohibited since […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/30/2026 03:49 PM |
Google Maps relabels Lake Ontario as Lake America for US users |
 Google Maps now labels Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an update to the US Geographic Names Information System, while Canadian users see the old name and everyone else sees both. Google Maps has been a designated very large online platform in the EU since April 2023, with duties […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/30/2026 11:41 AM |
UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators |
 VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts requiring permission. The EU’s Gigabit Infrastructure Act has since November given authorities four months to decide a permit, after which it is deemed […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/30/2026 11:25 AM |
How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it |
 Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot tax in February 2017, the same month the European Parliament adopted robotics rules […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/30/2026 10:33 AM |
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data |
 Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics allegedly taken from pirate archives, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per composition. A Munich court ruled in November 2025 that memorising lyrics inside a model is reproduction and that the text and data mining […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/29/2026 07:58 PM |
Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot? |
 Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more than 3 million open-source LLMs, for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/29/2026 04:48 PM |
Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list |
 CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese military company, a designation that blocks defence contracts without restricting commercial sales. The company is the world’s fourth-largest DRAM maker and passed Tencent this month to become China’s most valuable listed company. CXMT has sued […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/29/2026 04:33 PM |
BYD doubled its 1,500kW charging network in five months and wants to double it again by December |
 BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station on 28 August, doubling the network in under five months, with each connector rated at up to 1,500kW. European rules require a charging pool on the core road network to deliver 400kW in total this year, rising to 600kW by 2027. BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/29/2026 11:15 AM |
OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition |
 OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in Cursor on every plan. OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor. The […] This story continues at The Next Web |
| 08/29/2026 10:57 AM |
A rethink for China’s carmakers as regulators tell them to fix quality, not add features |
 Four Chinese ministries have begun a yearlong vehicle quality campaign that bars carmakers from changing technical parameters through over-the-air updates after test samples are sealed, with penalties including suspension from the product catalogue. A separate mandatory standard requires physical controls for 19 functions from July 2027. Four Chinese ministries have launched a yearlong inspection campaign […] This story continues at The Next Web |
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