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For B2B software companies, product-led buying has created a new challenge: buyers increasingly expect to explore products on their own terms, while go-to-market teams still have limited time to tailor those experiences. Walnut is now betting that AI can make that personalization scalable. Walnut, a platform used by go-to-market teams at hundreds of B2B software […] This story continues at The Next Web

The cybersecurity industry has spent years adding new layers of protection around applications, cloud infrastructure, and internet-facing services. But as organizations adopt more cloud providers, CDNs, web application firewalls and network technologies, a different problem is emerging: managing all of those systems together. That challenge is now attracting investor attention. Huskeys has raised a $27 […] This story continues at The Next Web

AEREDIUM has launched AERSeal, a security product for smart contracts. It exists to stop a single compromised private key from handing an attacker control of a contract. Smart contracts often rely on one private key to authorise sensitive operations. Those include minting assets, upgrading the contract, or changing administrative settings. If someone steals that key, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft Edge will stay outside the European Union’s toughest tech rulebook. The bloc’s General Court on Wednesday rejected Opera’s challenge to the European Commission’s decision not to designate the browser as a gatekeeper service under the Digital Markets Act. The Luxembourg-based court ruled that the Commission “did not err by accepting Microsoft’s sufficiently substantiated arguments […] This story continues at The Next Web

Sality has been infecting computers since 2003, making it older than the iPhone, Facebook, and much of the security industry now working to dismantle it. US law enforcement and CrowdStrike began taking it apart this week, Reuters reported. For more than two decades, the operation has been used for fairly ordinary cybercrime. Infected machines have […] This story continues at The Next Web

Building the world’s AI infrastructure will cost $31.6 trillion between now and 2050, according to modelling commissioned by PwC from Oxford Economics across 46 countries. Annual capital expenditure is projected to rise from $800bn this year to $1.8tn by 2050. The United States accounts for $15.1tn of that spending, or 48%; next in line is […] This story continues at The Next Web

Somebody registered a Lenovo ID using a stranger’s email address and then used it to sign into that person’s Dropbox account without needing their password. About 5,000 accounts were compromised between August 4 and 21, Dropbox said. The flaw was in a legacy integration between Lenovo ID and Dropbox that did not properly verify email […] This story continues at The Next Web

“With the right tools and access, Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop ways to exploit them,” said Amelia Glaese, the OpenAI vice president who oversees its safety work. That is the company describing its own unreleased model. Astra spots more security vulnerabilities than any OpenAI model currently available publicly, and uses less […] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission is gathering information on how Oracle licenses its software in the cloud, following a similar approach it used against SAP two months ago. Reuters reported the inquiry on Monday, citing a person familiar with it, after MLex first reported on the issue. The Commission was careful about what it would confirm. A […] This story continues at The Next Web

John Ternus will receive a base salary of $3m a year as Apple’s chief executive, roughly 5% of what the company is targeting for his total compensation. The rest is equity, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday, the same day he took over the role. His fiscal 2026 stock award is prorated to $2.5m […] This story continues at The Next Web

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

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

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

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

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

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

SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging high-bandwidth memory, with production due in the second half of 2029. Intel’s equivalent assembly and testing plant near Wroclaw was cancelled last year after state aid had been approved. SK Hynix has put […] This story continues at The Next Web

Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the middleman. Automate the humans. Do more with less. Filip Pesek disagrees. “The best AI tools still come with a human who knows how to think,” says the founder of DonnaPro, Europe’s premium executive […] This story continues at The Next Web

JPMorgan has begun approaching lenders about a $5B debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings’ AI data centre buildout, weeks after the seven-month-old company raised $300M at a $2.4B valuation. Its first major site is a 121-megawatt campus in Norway leased from bitcoin miner Bitdeer. JPMorgan has started sounding out lenders for a $5B debt […] This story continues at The Next Web

Voltpost has launched two Level 2 chargers that mount on parking garage ceilings and on walls, avoiding trenching and cutting installation costs by up to 70% according to the company. Europe’s revised buildings directive requires member states to make it easier for tenants to install charging points, with transposition due this May. Voltpost has built […] This story continues at The Next Web