2026-08-22
Betting brands are off Premier League shirts. Enterprise software moved in
Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of the 20 to find new partners at once. Fulham’s went to ClickHouse, an American data infrastructure company valued at $15bn. The most valuable advertising space in world sport has changed hands, and some of it went […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-22
Study Finds Frontier AI Labs Have Few Plans to Contain Rogue Models
Five of the leading frontier AI companies have, at most, partially implemented the basic practices needed to keep control of their own AI systems, and none has published a complete plan for containing a model that turns against its operator, according to a new assessment from Guidelight AI Standards grading Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI, with information current through August 18, 2026. [...]
2026-08-22
Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls
An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023, with no statistically significant employment effect. The gap was 10.7% in the lowest-paid quartile and absent in the highest. The first measurable mark AI has left on the labour market is not unemployment. Apollo’s […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-22
China’s AI and chip firms are handing out shares to keep their engineers
Chinese chip companies are running unusually broad equity schemes to keep engineers, with Cambricon covering 85.3% of its workforce and AMEC more than 97%. Europe’s semiconductor sector has a talent gap estimated at 65,000 workers. Chinese chip companies are giving away equity at a scale that looks less like a bonus scheme and more like […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-22
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 […]<br /> This stor [...]
