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France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in

France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants building data centres on French soil? When the head of Europe’s biggest AI lab arrived at last month’s G7 working lunch on artificial […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/pZKIhwo Read full article: The Next Web
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Home robots already walk. 1X’s new hands try to solve the part that actually matters

Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands, and they are the most interesting thing about it. A robot can stride across a stage and still be useless in a kitchen. Lifting a wet glass takes precision, fast […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/CzUeJZi Read full article: The Next Web
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Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation

Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursday. The figure is striking for a firm that bootstrapped its way to the top. Oxylabs says […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/P5fzHgo Read full article: The Next Web
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The Pentagon calls this Chinese firm a military company. Its lidar runs US robotaxis anyway

A lidar maker the Pentagon brands a Chinese military company quietly wires up America’s robotaxis, trucks, and even an airport. Nvidia is one of its partners. Hesai makes many of the sensors self-driving machines use to see. The Shanghai firm also sits on a US Department of Defense blacklist of Chinese military companies, CNBC reports. […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/YGg50vO Read full article: The Next Web
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Pegasus hack of the EU’s own spyware investigator sparks calls for urgent action

Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to act on spyware, after forensic evidence showed one of the EU’s own spyware investigators was hacked with Pegasus. Civil society groups issued a joint statement demanding the abuse be met with accountability, “not impunity”. Citizen Lab confirmed last week that Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek former MEP, was infected in October […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/AonS5gT Read full article: The Next Web
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Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech platforms time to destroy documents that could be used as evidence against them. The conservative Liberal Party and the minor Greens party referred the legislation to an eight-week Senate […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/LxyVBXg Read full article: The Next Web
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Tesla launches the six-seat Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US at 61,990 dollars

Tesla has launched the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the United States and Puerto Rico, a stretched, six-seat version of the world’s best-selling electric vehicle that adds a third row and marks the company’s most significant Model Y expansion since its redesign earlier this year. The Launch Series starts at 61,990 dollars and includes 12 […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/YreT5pH Read full article: The Next Web
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Lucid Motors replaces its CFO and overhauls its entire leadership team as new CEO reshapes the company

Lucid Motors said on Thursday that its chief financial officer, Taoufiq Boussaid, will be leaving the company, the latest in a series of leadership changes under new CEO Silvio Napoli. Alexander De Bock, a veteran automotive finance executive who previously served as CFO of TI Automotive, will replace Boussaid after a transition period that will […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/ivLHVb6 Read full article: The Next Web
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Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028

Sony will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation titles starting in January 2028, the company announced on Tuesday in a PlayStation Blog post. New games released after that date will be available only as digital downloads through the PlayStation Store. Existing disc-based games will continue to work on compatible hardware. The decision follows […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/0bapjfZ Read full article: The Next Web
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Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money

Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” It is a pitch dressed as a principle. On Tuesday, Palantir posted its “thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty” on X. […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/NZmoFvr Read full article: The Next Web
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X launches hosted MCP server so AI tools can plug into its API directly

X has launched a hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Grok Build connect directly to its API using a user’s own account permissions. The move eliminates the integration work developers previously had to do on their own, from building a custom MCP server to handling authentication. X joins […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/oXI6M5P Read full article: The Next Web
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