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    {
      "id": 20181,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-q2-2026-revenue-11-5-billion-operating-income",
      "title": "Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold",
      "summary": "Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income. The figures are preliminary and come as the company prepares a listing. Anthropic has told prospective investors that its second-quarter revenue passed $11.5bn. That is more […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana-Maria Stanciuc",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T17:34:55.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/20181"
    },
    {
      "id": 20182,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/lg-nvidia-humanoid-robot-2027-isaac-groot",
      "title": "LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T",
      "summary": "LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August. LG will show a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of next year. The […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Darius Popa",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T17:28:39.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/20182"
    },
    {
      "id": 20183,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-risk-report-bio-classifiers-human-feedback-gap",
      "title": "Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off",
      "summary": "Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings. It now calls that risk low, up from very low […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "safety-alignment,biotech",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T14:14:18.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/20183"
    },
    {
      "id": 20184,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-openai-backstop-halved-13f-spacex-intel",
      "title": "Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns",
      "summary": "Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later. A deal could be signed as soon as this weekend. The Journal says Nvidia made the change to address […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T13:29:21.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/20184"
    },
    {
      "id": 20185,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/software-defined-car-lifespan-updates-eu-rules",
      "title": "Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing",
      "summary": "Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global’s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last that long. Sam Fiorani forecasts vehicles for AutoForecastSolutions, and he gave the […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Darius Popa",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-15T12:52:43.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/20185"
    },
    {
      "id": 19593,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-project-jupiter-green-chile-pipeline-delay",
      "title": "Pipeline for $165 Billion Oracle Data Center Delayed to Next Year",
      "summary": "The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transfer’s Transwestern unit. The state land commissioner has twice refused the route, citing water use and emissions. The pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s largest […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T20:14:35.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19593"
    },
    {
      "id": 19594,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/zoox-safety-case-framework-robotaxi-recall",
      "title": "Zoox has shown its safety workings, three weeks after recalling every robotaxi it owns",
      "summary": "Zoox has published the reasoning behind its claim to be safer than human drivers. Everything reduces to one number, the predicted rate of collision, injury and fatality events, expressed as miles per event. Risk from driving software, from the vehicle itself and from fleet operations is added together into that single estimate. It functions as […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Darius Popa",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T17:23:01.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19594"
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    {
      "id": 19595,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/asu-content-creation-degree-influencer-major",
      "title": "ASU’s content creation degree grades your follower count",
      "summary": "The programme sits inside the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The first cohort enrols this autumn. The Associated Press reported the launch and the backlash on 14 August. Kaitlyn Huamani, who covers social media and internet culture, wrote it. ASU declined an interview request about the new degree. The university’s own documents […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T16:41:43.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19595"
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    {
      "id": 19596,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/thrive-capital-amazon-215-million-public-markets",
      "title": "Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake",
      "summary": "Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of Amazon shares, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday. It lands in the same week the firm told investors it is selling part of its OpenAI stake, in a company Amazon now owns close to 5% of. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana-Maria Stanciuc",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T16:37:13.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19596"
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    {
      "id": 19597,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/canva-valuation-cut-ai-costs-blackbird-airtree",
      "title": "Canva’s backers cut $7.1bn from its valuation, and its own valuer cut more",
      "summary": "Emma Rapaport and Paul Smith reported the markdown for the Australian Financial Review on 14 August. The figure appears two ways and both are correct. It is $7.1bn in US dollars, and A$10bn, which is the number most headlines carried. The cut takes Blackbird and Airtree’s mark from $42bn to $34.9bn, a drop of 17%. […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T15:19:19.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19597"
    },
    {
      "id": 19598,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/spacex-cursor-acquisition-completed-gpu-fleet",
      "title": "SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before",
      "summary": "SpaceX confirmed completion in a regulatory filing. Bloomberg’s Carmen Arroyo and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the close. The desk covered the binding agreement in June, when SpaceX filed an 8-K and said it expected to complete in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval. That approval has now happened, on the schedule the filing set out. […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T14:53:53.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
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    {
      "id": 19599,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/epic-google-donato-anticompetitive-friction",
      "title": "A judge just told Google to stop making rival app stores hard to install",
      "summary": "The hearing ran on 13 August in a San Francisco courtroom, The Verge reported first. It was a compliance check, not a new case. A jury decided unanimously nearly three years ago that Google held an illegal monopoly over Android apps. Donato set the remedy in October 2024. That remedy made Google carry rival Android […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana-Maria Stanciuc",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T14:44:06.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19599"
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    {
      "id": 19293,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/databricks-closes-5-billion-round-at-190-billion-valuation",
      "title": "Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation",
      "summary": "Databricks has closed a $5bn round at a $190bn valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate past $7bn and growth above 80% year on year. That is a 42% valuation increase in six months, and it comes after chief executive Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a bad year to go public. Databricks has closed $5bn at […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana-Maria Stanciuc",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T21:03:39.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19293"
    },
    {
      "id": 19294,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/ultium-cells-ohio-battery-restart-gm-lg",
      "title": "GM and LG restart Ohio battery production after seven idle months",
      "summary": "Ultium Cells, the GM and LG Energy Solution joint venture, restarts EV battery cell production in Warren, Ohio next week after a seven-month shutdown, with about 1,400 workers. US EV sales rose 14.2% in the second quarter but remain 20.5% below a year earlier. The battery plant that GM and LG idled in January is […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Darius Popa",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T17:58:49.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19294"
    },
    {
      "id": 19295,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-ipo-2-trillion-october-revenue-multiple",
      "title": "Anthropic’s $2trn IPO is priced below what AI stocks already fetch",
      "summary": "The number comes from investors, not the company. Six backers told the Financial Times that rising revenue would let the five-year-old lab more than double its valuation in an autumn listing. At $2 trillion it would eclipse SpaceX, which went public at $1.77 trillion in June. Anthropic itself has fixed nothing. Several investors said senior […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T16:40:23.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19295"
    },
    {
      "id": 18897,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/next-great-game-indie-studio-ai-prototyping",
      "title": "The next great game may not come from a million-dollar studio",
      "summary": "The economics of making a blockbuster game are starting to look as demanding as the games themselves. Development cycles stretch across years, budgets climb into extraordinary territory, and a single failed release can erase enormous amounts of investment. The industry’s latest workforce data makes the pressure difficult to ignore. 28% of respondents to the 2026 […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Callum Turner",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T21:14:59.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18897"
    },
    {
      "id": 18898,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/small-moments-recognition-workplace-culture",
      "title": "Why small moments of recognition are becoming critical to workplace culture",
      "summary": "Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, with disengagement costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion annually. Research also shows that engagement is closely tied to how employees experience their workplace relationships. Gallup’s workplace research found that highly engaged teams achieve […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Callum Turner",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T15:13:28.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18898"
    },
    {
      "id": 18524,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/spacexai-grok-bot-ai-agents-cursor",
      "title": "SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work",
      "summary": "SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist. SpaceXAI has released Grok Bot, software that hands work to groups of […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T20:26:43.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18524"
    },
    {
      "id": 18525,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/apple-jennifer-bailey-apple-pay-wallet-retiring",
      "title": "Apple Executive Who Launched Apple Pay Is Retiring After 25 Years",
      "summary": "Jennifer Bailey, head of Apple Pay and Wallet since the service launched in 2014, is retiring in October after more than 25 years at Apple. Her exit is one of several senior departures ahead of Tim Cook handing the chief executive job to John Ternus on September 1. Jennifer Bailey, who has run Apple Pay […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T18:23:59.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18525"
    },
    {
      "id": 18121,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/point2-136m-series-b-rf-interconnect-ai-data-centre",
      "title": "Point2 raised $136M to solve AI’s wiring problem. Its RF cables beat copper on reach and optics on latency.",
      "summary": "Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could replace both copper and optics inside AI data centres. The latest extension was led by LB Investment, with new strategic participation from Arm and continued support from Maverick Silicon. The investor roster now includes Nvidia, […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T20:00:53.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18121"
    },
    {
      "id": 18122,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/levi-strauss-social-engineering-breach-corporate-data",
      "title": "Hackers talked their way into Levi’s, and three computers were enough",
      "summary": "Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took corporate data out with them. The company set out the incident in a regulatory filing with the SEC on 7 August. Intruders accessed and exfiltrated “certain corporate information”, the filing […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T19:38:55.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18122"
    },
    {
      "id": 18123,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/crowdstrike-palo-alto-record-highs-black-hat-ai-agents",
      "title": "Cybersecurity stocks hit record highs, and one analyst target lasted a morning",
      "summary": "CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record highs on Monday. Each rose more than 5%, after a week in which the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas turned into an argument about AI agents. CNBC’s Samantha Subin reported the move. CrowdStrike gained 11.32 points, or 5.28%. Palo Alto added 17.84 points, or 4.90%, and traded […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T19:33:17.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18123"
    },
    {
      "id": 18124,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-power-trading-lead-data-centre-hedging",
      "title": "OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books",
      "summary": "OpenAI is recruiting a power-trading lead for its data centres. The role will own commodity hedging strategy across the company’s power portfolio. It will have no direct reports at first. Bloomberg’s Julian Hast reported the listing on Monday. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company’s own job posting places the […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T19:05:40.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18124"
    },
    {
      "id": 18125,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/shein-ipo-sub-30b-hong-kong-valuation-drop",
      "title": "Shein’s IPO is being pitched at under $30 billion. Four years ago it was worth $100 billion.",
      "summary": "Shein’s advisers are pitching the fast-fashion giant to investors at a valuation below $30 billion for its Hong Kong IPO, a roughly 70% drop from the $100 billion-plus valuation it hit in a 2022 private fundraising. Internally, Shein set a target of $30 billion. If it IPOs lower, the company may have to consult existing […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T19:00:58.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18125"
    },
    {
      "id": 17867,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/hong-kong-under-16-social-media-ban-educators-lawmakers",
      "title": "Hong Kong educators want a social media ban for under-16s. The government says it has no plans to legislate.",
      "summary": "Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker are urging the city to ban children under 16 from social media, calling addiction “the biggest problem facing education.” At a panel discussion this week, Lilian Chan Lui Ling-yee, honorary president of the Yan Oi Association of Principals, said legislation was needed to protect the next generation. A survey […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T12:16:25.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17867"
    },
    {
      "id": 17868,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-avatars-job-interviews-candidates-recruiters",
      "title": "Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.",
      "summary": "Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past six months. “At the beginning, it’s like […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T12:04:26.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17868"
    },
    {
      "id": 17869,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-china-open-models-winning",
      "title": "American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.",
      "summary": "Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpassed the US on both monthly and overall model downloads. “They’re clearly dominating on open models […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T11:39:25.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17869"
    },
    {
      "id": 17870,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/south-africa-corporate-stablecoin-ban-exchange-control-backlash",
      "title": "South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.",
      "summary": "South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the most aggressive attempts by any emerging economy to force borderless digital tokens back inside decades-old exchange control machinery. Under the proposal, South African companies could not make cross-border crypto transfers […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T10:53:57.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17870"
    },
    {
      "id": 17871,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-bosworth-ai-productivity-more-work-not-time-off",
      "title": "Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead",
      "summary": "Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI productivity gains should be used to build more products, not to take more time off. An employee had asked whether the gains could be channelled into reviving “Meta Days,” a cancelled holiday programme that gave staff a few extra days off. […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T10:09:34.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17871"
    },
    {
      "id": 17727,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/cloudflare-kitesurf-browser-ai-agents-workers",
      "title": "Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.",
      "summary": "Cloudflare built a browser from scratch for AI agents and launched it today as a free beta inside its Browser Run product. Kitesurf runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, uses Rust compiled to WebAssembly, and strips out everything a human browser needs but an agent does not: tabs, extensions, themes, pixel-perfect rendering, and 60-fps scrolling. What […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T21:07:07.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17727"
    },
    {
      "id": 17728,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/ackman-bezos-capitalism-philanthropy-brain-institute",
      "title": "Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works",
      "summary": "Bill Ackman has spent close to $1 billion on philanthropy over two decades and concluded that capitalism is better at solving problems. “I’ve spent a fair amount of time on philanthropy, and it’s vastly less efficient at solving problems than capitalism,” the Pershing Square founder told Fortune. “You create far more jobs through capitalism than […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T20:36:42.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17728"
    },
    {
      "id": 17729,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/navvis-73-7m-series-d-spatial-twin-industrial-ai",
      "title": "NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI",
      "summary": "NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company. Existing investors Yttrium, KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING, and Cipio Partners also participated. The company, a 2013 spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, builds photorealistic digital replicas of factories, plants, and […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "bias-fairness,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T19:42:08.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17729"
    },
    {
      "id": 17730,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/bmw-clemson-deep-orange-17-luminetta-solar-ev-energy-positive",
      "title": "BMW challenged students to build an EV that makes more energy than it uses. They covered it in 1,700 solar cells and it works.",
      "summary": "BMW challenged graduate students at Clemson University to build an electric vehicle that generates more energy than it consumes in a day of urban commuting. Two years later, they have a working prototype. Deep Orange 17, which BMW calls the Luminetta, is a two-seat solar EV covered in more than 1,700 photovoltaic cells developed with […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Darius Popa",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T18:08:27.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17730"
    },
    {
      "id": 17731,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/zenity-malicious-ai-skills-1-7m-installs-supply-chain-credential-theft",
      "title": "Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale",
      "summary": "Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the research at the Black Hat conference. Attackers had cloned real skills into typosquatted look-alikes. One tainted family racked up over 1.7 million installs, though Zenity stresses that is aggregate downloads, […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T17:46:20.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17731"
    },
    {
      "id": 17732,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-boom-rethink-measure-business-value-profitalize",
      "title": "AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value",
      "summary": "Artificial intelligence has quickly become a boardroom priority, inspiring significant investment across industries. Yet conversations about return on investment often remain tied to familiar software purchasing habits, where success is judged by logins, subscriptions, or the performance of an individual application. That perspective may overlook the broader operational influence AI can have across an organization. […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Callum Turner",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T17:45:57.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17732"
    },
    {
      "id": 17733,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-astra-critical-cyber-capabilities-pause-preparedness",
      "title": "OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk",
      "summary": "OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough that it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities. So it is pausing some internal work on the model and scaling up security while testing continues. “Critical” is the top rung […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T17:36:17.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17733"
    },
    {
      "id": 17734,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/harvey-legal-ai-15-5bn-valuation-500m-raise-vertical-ai",
      "title": "Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months",
      "summary": "The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it raised $200m. Lightspeed Venture Partners is keen to lead the round. The raise follows a revenue surge. […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T17:26:32.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17734"
    },
    {
      "id": 17540,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/gravity-ai-ads-30-5m-series-a-agent-to-agent",
      "title": "Gravity raised $30.5M to place ads inside AI chatbots. Its next product targets the bots themselves.",
      "summary": "Gravity, an adtech startup that places ads inside AI chatbots, raised a $30.5 million Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Committed Capital. The round brings total funding to $38.5 million. The company runs a full-stack ad platform: a demand-side platform for buying ads within AI chatbots and agents, a supply-side platform for developers […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T19:24:08.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17540"
    },
    {
      "id": 17541,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/aschenbrenner-autopilot-retail-copy-trading-ai-portfolio",
      "title": "His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades",
      "summary": "The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge fund nearly imploded. They do it through Autopilot, an app that builds portfolios from the […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana-Maria Stanciuc",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T18:29:43.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17541"
    },
    {
      "id": 17542,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/google-maps-ask-maps-agentic-food-ordering-hotel-booking",
      "title": "Google Maps can now order your food, book your hotel, and read your calendar. Ask Maps just became an agent.",
      "summary": "Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company announced on Thursday that Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered conversational feature it launched in March, is gaining agentic capabilities that let it order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. Users can describe what they want in natural language, and Ask Maps will surface options, populate […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T18:04:45.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17542"
    },
    {
      "id": 17543,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-agent-plugins-open-standard-skills-mcp",
      "title": "OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents",
      "summary": "The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a single agent extension work across competing products. The pitch is “build once, run anywhere”. Today, every agent tool expects […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T18:00:52.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17543"
    },
    {
      "id": 17544,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/deepseek-8bn-round-unitree-robot-stake-humanoid-ai",
      "title": "DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots",
      "summary": "DeepSeek spent early 2025 proving that a good AI model did not have to cost a fortune. This week it has been busy proving it can spend one. In a handful of days, the Chinese lab reopened a multi-billion-dollar fundraising. It took a stake in the country’s best-known robot maker. And it told customers it […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T17:49:51.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17544"
    },
    {
      "id": 17545,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-ai-safety-team-open-models-chip-demand",
      "title": "Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason",
      "summary": "You can read Nvidia’s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A cluster of listings posted late last month gives it away. The pitch is not caution about what AI might do. It is a bet that trust is what makes people […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "safety-alignment,jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T17:28:27.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17545"
    },
    {
      "id": 16780,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/yann-lecun-224-ventures-oriol-vinyals-ai-fund",
      "title": "Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner",
      "summary": "Yann LeCun has found a VC fund that will actually launch. The Meta former chief AI scientist is joining 224 Ventures, a new firm that announced Wednesday with more than $100 million in assets under management. His co-partner is Oriol Vinyals, who until today served as Gemini’s co-technical lead at Google DeepMind. Shaun Johnson, who […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana-Maria Stanciuc",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T19:21:38.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16780"
    },
    {
      "id": 16781,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/sapiom-35m-series-a-ai-agent-cost-routing",
      "title": "A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.",
      "summary": "Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million. […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Cristian Dina",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T19:06:03.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16781"
    },
    {
      "id": 16782,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/google-52-layoffs-washington-state-warn",
      "title": "Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers",
      "summary": "Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the result of relocating or contracting work out of the state. […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T18:48:40.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16782"
    },
    {
      "id": 16399,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/zillow-500-layoffs-largest-of-year-ai-native",
      "title": "Zillow calls itself “AI-native.” It just cut 500 jobs and won’t say whether AI was the reason.",
      "summary": "Zillow laid off more than 500 people on Tuesday, about 7% of its staff and its largest cut of the year. The Seattle property company made the move one day before it reports quarterly earnings. It has spent the year telling investors it is becoming an “AI-native” company. It will not say whether AI had […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T18:26:30.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16399"
    },
    {
      "id": 16400,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/deel-acquires-clarity-deepfake-detection",
      "title": "Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows",
      "summary": "Deel, the global HR and payroll platform, has acquired Clarity, a Tel Aviv-based AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies identities in real time. The deal, reportedly worth between $45 million and $50 million in a mix of cash and shares, is Deel’s 15th acquisition and its first in Israel. The announcement landed alongside […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana Maria Constantin",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T18:22:01.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16400"
    },
    {
      "id": 16401,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/college-ai-use-spikes-kogod-survey-students",
      "title": "The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.",
      "summary": "The boos at last spring’s graduations suggested a student revolt against AI. The data points the other way. Among business students at one Washington school, regular AI use has quietly become the norm, and the loudest demand is not to ban it but to teach it. The figures come from a three-year survey at American […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Ana-Maria Stanciuc",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T18:16:16.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16401"
    },
    {
      "id": 16402,
      "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/ore-energy-43m-iron-air-battery-series-a",
      "title": "Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days",
      "summary": "Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup building grid-scale iron-air batteries, has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale a technology that can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours. The round was led by Plural and HV, with participation from Positron Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to $61 million. The batteries work […] This story continues at The Next Web",
      "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T18:11:06.000Z",
      "source": "The Next Web AI",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16402"
    }
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  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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