2026-07-08
Spotify didn’t tell anyone it updated its song-mixing feature, and users are obsessed with it — now I’m putting even more pride into how I curate my DJ-set playlists
Spotify's Mixed Playlist feature just got a quiet upgrade, and its new customization tools have boosted it to a new level. [...]
2026-07-08
France orders Meta back to talks with news publishers over content payments
Meta has been told to go back and talk to France’s newspapers about money. On Wednesday, the country’s competition regulator ordered the company to reopen negotiations with news publishers over payment for their content, after an earlier round of talks fell apart. The order comes with a stopwatch attached. The Autorité de la concurrence gave […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-07-08
Apple starts testing China’s state-backed memory chips, and Washington is watching
Apple has begun testing memory chips from China’s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier Washington has flagged as a security risk. Apple has turned to Chinese memory chips for its own devices. It has begun testing DRAM from state-backed ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next We [...]
2026-07-08
Allianz to cut up to 1,800 jobs as AI takes over call-centre work
The job that AI seems keenest to take is the one on the other end of the phone. Allianz, the German insurance giant, is preparing to cut as many as 1,800 roles in its travel arm as automated systems take over work that used to need a person, according to Reuters. The figures are oddly […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-08
Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help
Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. Its new AI lab, run by a former Google DeepMind researcher, is betting on mastery before generality. A Polish robotics company has quietly done the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next We [...]
2026-07-08
Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA
Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple’s challenge to being labelled a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act, the designation that ties the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-08
Russia tries to jam Starlink to counter Ukraine’s long-range drones
The war in Ukraine has become, among other things, a fight over signals. Russian forces are now trying to jam Elon Musk’s Starlink network to blunt the cheap long-range drones that have reshaped the conflict, according to Ukrainian drone commanders and pilots who spoke to Reuters. The tool they describe has a name. Ukrainian crews […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]