2026-07-08
NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone
NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on Tuesday, struck at the NATO summit in Ankara. NATO calls the programme the Protected Business Network. It will give the Alliance a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-08
Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web
Cloudflare has spent a year arming websites against AI crawlers. Now it wants to help one crawl better. The company said on Wednesday it is running a research pilot with OpenAI to test whether its network data can make AI search more accurate. Cloudflare sits in front of more than a fifth of the web. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-08
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. But that lead comes at a steep cost. In the Strategy & Ops Index, a single task runs $3.48 with Fable 5, more than a hundred times what DeepSeek V4 Pro charges at $0.03. The score difference is just 12 points.<br /> The article Anthropic� [...]
2026-07-08
Sonos is finally improving its app — but its not moving fast enough, so people are building new alternatives to solve big gripes about home theater setups and more customizable sound
Sonos users are making their own alternatives to the official app and sharing them on the Sonos subreddit [...]
