2026-07-22

'AI is an enormous tailwind for software companies': 5 tips for adapting to the new 'SaS' model

Here's what people are getting wrong about the so-called SaaS apocalypse. [...]

2026-07-22

j-hope skipped Samsung Unpacked, but he spoiled the Galaxy Z Fold 8 anyway

The BTS member skipped Samsung Unpacked in London but starred in the Galaxy Z Fold 8 campaign after giving fans an early glimpse of the device. [...]

2026-07-22

OpenAI adds two banking CEOs to its board as an IPO looms

The ChatGPT maker has put two banking chiefs on both its nonprofit and for-profit boards: Nubank’s David Vélez and BNY’s Robin Vince. It is the kind of Wall Street ballast a company assembles when it is getting ready to face public investors. OpenAI is not a public company yet. Its latest board picks suggest it […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-22

AI firms are buying up old books because they are the last slop-free data left

The pitch from data broker ISBNdb is blunt: the world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. The catch is that getting at it means slicing the spine off millions of books, then never admitting which lab paid for the job. AI has a pollution problem of its own making. So much of […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-22

Substack adds AI detection to fight ‘Claudefishing’

Substack has a name for the moment you realise a post you admired for its human voice actually came from a bot: Claudefishing. Now it is handing readers a button to catch it, powered by the AI detector Pangram. The newsletter platform has launched an AI-detection feature. In a pointed post titled “Against Claudefishing,” chief […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-22

Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and cognitive capability. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that technological progress must not create “new historical injustices.” He c [...]

2026-07-22

To prove the anti-AI Pope’s words were human, his camp used AI

To defend an anti-AI Pope from claims a machine helped write his words, his camp reached for an unlikely tool: AI. An Australian firm has certified Pope Leo XIV’s writings as human-made, using a suite of the very detectors the technology has spawned. Pope Leo XIV has made AI one of his defining themes. His […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-22

Surround sound speaker channel numbers explained: Bigger isn't always better

Here's what to pay attention to when building a home theater system. [...]

2026-07-22

OpenAI's "Project Camellia" in Georgia secures a massive 3.2-gigawatt power deal through 2032

OpenAI is planning a data center in Georgia called "Project Camellia" with a 3.2-gigawatt power deal from Georgia Power. The company pledged $80 million for the local community and $71 million in Codex credits for students to counter growing opposition to US data centers that many residents see as resource-hungry but job-poor.<br /> The article OpenAI's "Project Camellia& [...]