thenextweb

2026-07-29

Modus Raises $10M Seed Led by Insight Partners as Enterprise AI Creates Demand for a New Context Layer

The enterprise AI market is moving into a new phase. As companies shift from experimenting with individual AI applications to deploying agents across business operations, the challenge is increasingly less about giving models access to information and more about helping them understand which information actually matters. That is the problem Modus is targeting as it […]<br /> This story con [...]

Destination

2026-07-29

Rare, fully-functional Nintendo Famicombox retro consoles were discovered in a Japanese love hotel

Nintendo's 1986 commercial-use Famicombox is rare, but a Japanese love hotel reportedly has one in almost every room. [...]

Destination

2026-07-29

Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future. [...]

Destination

2026-07-29

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded. [...]

Destination

2026-07-29

OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI to help developers find and fix vulnerabilities from the command line

OpenAI has released Codex Security CLI, an open-source tool that automatically detects and fixes vulnerabilities in code repositories. Previously known internally as "Aardvark," the system has already helped fix more than 3,000 critical security flaws, according to OpenAI. It competes directly with Anthropic's Claude Security, as both AI companies race to match the growing automatio [...]

qz

2026-07-29

OpenAI's rogue AI agent breached a second company during its Hugging Face hacking spree

Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed the agent exploited a customer's vulnerable code, not Modal's own infrastructure [...]

qz

2026-07-29

House Democrat is demanding Taylor Farms explain its White House ties amid cyclospora outbreak

Rep. Robert Garcia is seeking communications between Taylor Farms and the White House after the company donated more than $2 million to Republican PACs in 2025 [...]

qz

2026-07-29

Procter & Gamble's sales missed expectations as shoppers traded down — and the stock sank

P&G posted flat organic sales growth in its fiscal fourth quarter as consumers shifted to cheaper alternatives [...]

qz

2026-07-29

Trump administration is scrapping a Medicare drug plan subsidy that helped keep premiums stable

The Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration, which gave insurers billions to hold down drug premiums, will end after this year [...]