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 [...]
2026-08-09
OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the deal in a note on the company’s website, which now carries nothing else. “The NextSlide team is now at OpenAI, helping build […]<br /> This story co [...]
2026-08-08
Russia is kickstarting its plans to dominate the space race once again — but it will have to depend on Chinese hardware to do so
Russia's Angara expansion combines domestic machinery with strategically important Chinese equipment supporting critical manufacturing processes. [...]
2026-08-08
Claude Cowork Record a Skill: I’m Never Hiring a VA Again
I’ve spent way too much time doing tasks that feel like they should be someone else’s job, whether it's formatting reports, organizing information, or repeating the same steps in different apps. At some point, you start thinking, “Maybe I should just hire a VA.” That’s why Claude Cowork’s Record a Skill feature caught my attention. Instead of writing out a giant list of instructio [...]