2026-07-21
Electra plans an $850M Ohio factory for its ultra-short hybrid plane
Aircraft startup Electra plans to invest around $850 million to build a factory in Ohio, giving the maker of hybrid-electric ultra-short takeoff and landing aircraft its first dedicated production base. It would place Electra in the same state as electric air taxi rival Joby, which is already building a scaled plant in Dayton. Ohio has courted […]<br /> This story continues at The Next We [...]
2026-07-21
OpenAI’s agents hit 10 million users as ChatGPT Work push accelerates
OpenAI says the agentic side of ChatGPT has passed 10 million weekly users, a mark it reached less than two weeks after the debut of ChatGPT Work, its attempt to turn the chatbot into a tool that finishes a job rather than just describes one. The figure, first reported by Bloomberg, spans the two products OpenAI […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-21
The hidden advantage of looking like a billion-dollar brand before you are one
When founders talk about growth, the conversation usually centers on product development, hiring, revenue, customer acquisition, or fundraising. Those factors matter. They are the engines that move a company forward. Yet after years of working with high-growth businesses, I have become convinced that many companies hit invisible ceilings for a different reason. They are operating […]<br /> [...]
2026-07-21
A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say
AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading hardware-security conference. As The Register reported, it imagines a paying […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-21
Garmin launches the CIRQA, a screen-free Whoop rival that skips the membership fee
Garmin has finally joined the screenless wearable race with the CIRQA Smart Band, a $199.99 fabric-strap tracker that drops the display and, more pointedly, the recurring fee its rivals depend on. The band is the company’s clearest challenge yet to Whoop, the recovery-focused strap that has spent years defining this corner of the market. Where […]<br /> This story continues at The Next W [...]
2026-07-21
Natural raised $30M to build a Stripe for AI agents, before Stripe gets there
The next big customer for a payments company may not be a person at all. It may be an AI agent, and a startup called Natural has raised $30 million to serve it. The Series A was led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures, and closed when Natural was just 193 days old. It takes […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-21
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0 renders full infographic grids and readable ten-pixel text in a single pass
Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced Qwen-Image-3.0, an image generator that accepts prompts up to 4,500 tokens, renders legible text as small as ten pixels, and supports twelve languages natively. It can create complex layouts such as infographics, LaTeX papers, and newspaper pages in a single pass, though their practical value is unclear when the output is a pixel image rather than an editabl [...]
2026-07-21
'A reveal later this year has been planned' — Hold on to your sabers fellow Star Wars fans, a new report claims Knights of the Old Republic remake will finally be re-revealed soon
Five years after being announced, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake will reportedly be re-revealed later this year. [...]