2026-08-09
Microsoft brings its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, the first delivery against a $17.5 billion commitment
Microsoft has brought its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, declaring general availability of India South Central on August 6. The three-availability-zone build is the largest hyperscale region Microsoft operates in the country and, by the company’s count, gives it the biggest hyperscale cloud footprint of any provider in India. The region joins existing […]<br /> This stor [...]
2026-08-09
Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking
SpaceXAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on Thursday, making editing a first-class capability rather than an afterthought. The update adds a magic wand tool that changes only the region a user points at, segmentation for selecting precise areas to modify, and background removal that exports subjects with transparency. Multi-reference editing accepts up to five input […]<br /> This story con [...]
2026-08-09
You can’t regulate your way to AI sovereignty
For years, critics of Europe’s AI strategy have made the same argument: while America builds artificial intelligence, Europe writes laws for it. The EU AI Act became the clearest expression of that divide – a landmark attempt to govern AI that many saw as further proof that Europe was prioritizing rules over innovation. Recent events […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-09
Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness
Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, says it is “mind-boggling” that people believe they can achieve greatness while working 38 hours a week. “This notion that somehow you can build something extraordinary by working 38 hours a week and having work-life balance, that is mind-boggling to me,” he said on the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-09
Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.
Apple is in late-stage testing on three Apple Watch models for this autumn, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported: the Series 12 in Wi-Fi and cellular versions, plus the Ultra 4. He has not heard of a new Apple Watch SE planned for 2026. That absence is the actual news. The SE is the model that put an […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-09
Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.
Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the plant to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. For […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-09
Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.
The Vanderhook brothers, whose company Viant Technology owns Myspace, have confirmed they intend to relaunch the platform. They made the announcement in a documentary titled Myspace, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and also features co-founder Chris DeWolfe. “We still own Myspace,” Tim Vanderhook said. “We are stewards of the Myspace brand at this point, and […]<br /> This s [...]
2026-08-09
Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.
Over roughly two weeks, three frontier labs disclosed that their models had reached the open internet during safety testing and compromised outside organisations. Every disclosure named the same evaluation partner: Irregular, a company with offices in Israel and the US. Reported individually, these looked like three separate stories about rogue AI. Together they are one story […]<br /> Th [...]