2026-07-30

Sam Altman’s underrated AI fear: that we stop thinking for ourselves

The man whose company is trying to get the world to use AI for everything has named a risk he thinks almost no one is talking about: that people will let it do so much of their thinking that their own minds go slack. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, calls it “cognitive atrophy,” and puts […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-30

Data center operators must take local populations seriously to succeed

How local populations can influence the success of data center developments. [...]

2026-07-30

'Maybe laziness is the best way to improve the technology' — I chatted to a lawnbot exec about the tech and trends taking robot mowers mainstream

Thanks to big leaps in technology over the past couple of years, robot lawn mowers are on the march. [...]

2026-07-30

Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 310,000 U.S. vehicles over a door lock defect that can cause rollaways

A corroded micro-switch in the driver's door lock can prevent the automatic park brake from engaging, NHTSA says [...]

2026-07-30

10 summer festivals around the world worth planning a trip around

The best summer festivals around the world combine music, tradition and spectacle, and each one is reason enough to build a vacation around it [...]

2026-07-30

Hershey is raising its annual outlook after beating second-quarter estimates

The candy maker's net sales rose 6.6% to $2.79 billion, driven by a 12% jump in prices that offset an 8% decline in volumes [...]

2026-07-30

What’s your ‘AI Type’?

Whether you love or hate it, here’s how to make AI work for you as a solopreneur. [...]

2026-07-30

Samsung reports billions in record profit for Q2 thanks to AI boom

The chip giant announced $62 billion in earnings for the April–June period. [...]

2026-07-30

NTT DATA AIVista and Snowflake: Identity alone won’t secure enterprise AI agents

Presented by NTT DATA AIVistaVentureBeat’s June research found that 69% of enterprises are still running AI agents that share credentials, a practice associated with higher rates of security incidents and near-incidents. But at VB Transform 2026, Mukesh Karki, CTO of NTT DATA AIVista, and Mayank Upadhyay, chief security and trust officer at Snowflake, argued that fixing identity is only the firs [...]