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A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page

Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the finding for The Register on Friday. The work is by Johann Rehberger, who publishes as wunderwuzzi and has […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/7Ax0QIb Read full article: The Next Web

X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 59 of those accounts with zero engagement. X probably suspended them before they […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/PntHgfA Read full article: The Next Web

Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion

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 https://ift.tt/2dCvrGy Read full article: The Next Web

JPMorgan leads a $5B debt package for Volta’s AI data centre buildout

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 https://ift.tt/MXYEl5J Read full article: The Next Web

PayRewards launches in America with $28M and a 1.75% fee to earn points

An Australian payments company thinks American small businesses will pay for the privilege of earning points. PayRewards, the US arm of Pay.com.au, has launched with $28M in funding and a promise that bank transfers which currently earn nothing can earn something. The parent business is not speculative. Pay.com.au says it has processed more than $7bn […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/2CH3UsI Read full article: The Next Web

Parents can now watch their teen’s Uber ride live, through the driver’s phone

Uber is rolling out live video streaming of teen rides in the US, using the driver’s phone as the camera and sending the feed to linked parent accounts. Other passengers in the car appear on the stream and are given no way to opt out. Uber is putting a camera in the car, and it […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/K78Jelt Read full article: The Next Web

The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away

LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europe’s first solid-state gigafactory broke ground in France in February. The company that has just opened America’s newest battery plant does not think solid-state cells are […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/lAdsNwq Read full article: The Next Web

Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning the Discover feed, and topic controls for audio news briefings. Mrinalini […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/W1l8tFv Read full article: The Next Web

Milan’s Domyn raises over $1bn Europe’s largest AI round, mostly in debt

Domyn has raised more than $1bn, which makes it one of the largest financings a European AI company has ever announced, yet only about a tenth of it is equity. The Milan company took roughly $1.1bn in total, split about 10% equity and 90% debt, according to Sifted. That structure is the story, because it is […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/YQzU81R Read full article: The Next Web

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