2026-07-14

Finland’s NestAI is building the AI layer Europe’s militaries want to own

A Helsinki lab barely a year old, bankrolled by Nokia and the Finnish state, is now writing battlefield software with two defence ministries. The technology matters less than who controls it. On the last day of June, officials from Finland’s Ministry of Defence, the Estonian Defence Forces, and a Helsinki AI lab founded only last […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-14

Intel commits $5.7bn to Xeon production in Ireland

Intel is spending €5bn, or about $5.7bn, upgrading its campus at Leixlip outside Dublin, the company said on Monday. The money is not for a new fab. It is for getting more out of the ones already standing. The plan is to upgrade existing fabrication facilities, install leading-edge equipment, and extend the automated track system so […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-14

Australia finds serious gaps in Big Tech’s response to child sexual abuse online

Australia’s online safety regulator has told the largest technology companies in the world that the tools to stop sexual extortion already exist, and that they are not using them. In a transparency report published on Tuesday, eSafety said companies including Apple, Meta, and Google have “significant gaps” in how they detect and prevent child sexual exploitation […]<br /> This story [...]

2026-07-14

Masayoshi Son says AI will cost $5tn a year by 2040, and calls bubble talk absurd

“Every year $5 trillion, or 800 trillion yen, you might think that’s a lie, but I am confident that’s what it will cost.” That was Masayoshi Son on Tuesday, at SoftBank’s annual corporate conference in Tokyo, telling the room what building artificial intelligence will require each year by 2040. Yet, he did not say how he […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-14

Japan's largest taxi operator Nihon Kotsu hit by cyberattack which forces systems to be shut down

Nihon Kotsu suffers malware attack, but there's no evidence of data exfiltration yet. [...]

2026-07-14

Sotheby’s Big T. Rex Auction Raises Concerns Hype and Wealth Are Upending Science

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. That’s making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past. [...]

2026-07-14

Google bought all of a major solar farm's output to offset its dirty data center emissions

Google has struck a deal to purchase a major solar project's entire electrical output to offset its fossil fuel emissions. [...]

2026-07-14

This Origami-Inspired Coffee Maker Is the Best Camping Brewer. Period.

Even deep in the woods, you can make filter coffee without fuss. Here's why this simple, foldable brewing design works so well. [...]

2026-07-14

Marvel has reportedly cast a former Star Wars actor as Magneto in its new X-Men movie — and they nearly played The Fantastic Four's Reed Richards in the MCU

A major star long rumored to play Mr. Fantastic in Marvel's cinematic juggernaut will reportedly play the iconic mutant. [...]