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TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > georgia-power-demolishing-homes-ai-data-centres-zuckerberg-agents

The real cost of AI agents: demolished homes, rising power bills, and a $145 billion spending spree

15+ hour, 49+ min ago   (612+ words) Georgia Power is using eminent domain to seize more than 330 properties for a $16 billion grid expansion that will mostly serve data centres, while Zuckerberg promises billions of people will have personal AI agents within five years Georgia Power is demolishing…...

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > big-tech-ai-features-pulled-slop-retreat-eu-labelling-mandate

Big Tech keeps shipping AI features it has to yank days later

15+ hour, 40+ min ago   (504+ words) For two years, Big Tech had one reflex: put generative AI into every product, and ship it fast. This week that reflex hit a wall. Features were pulled within days. Platforms turned on the AI slop their own tools had…...

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > openai-product-manager-chatgpt-prompting-advice-impress-me

This OpenAI product manager asks ChatGPT to impress him, and his real advice is about how the PM role is changing

15+ hour, 26+ min ago   (426+ words) Ty Geri, the product manager behind ChatGPT Work, uses voice dictation to ramble at the model until something useful surfaces, a technique Andrej Karpathy also swears by at Anthropic OpenAI PM Ty Geri rambles at ChatGPT via dictation and asks…...

TNW | Apps
thenextweb.com > news > snapchat-spotlight-bans-ai-generated-videos-recommendations

Snapchat will no longer recommend AI-generated videos on Spotlight

8+ hour, 46+ min ago   (613+ words) TL;DRSnap stops recommending wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight, joining LinkedIn and YouTube in a wider crackdown on AI slop Snapchat will no longer recommend wholly AI-generated videos on its Spotlight feed. The change, effective thi Snap stops recommending wholly…...

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > openai-astra-model-ten-math-proofs-non-sofic-groups

OpenAI says its next model, Astra, has solved ten open problems in mathematics

14+ hour, 8+ min ago   (286+ words) The results include the first-ever construction of a non-sofic group, a disproof of Connes's rigidity conjecture, and three resolved Erdos problems, all shipped with machine-checkable Lean certificates OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model solved ten open maths problems, shipping Lean…...

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > judge-denies-xai-block-minnesota-nudify-ban

Judge denies xAI’s bid to block Minnesota’s ban on nudify apps

13+ hour, 32+ min ago   (400+ words) Senior US District Judge Donovan Frank said xAI failed to show the law would cause irreparable harm, clearing the way for $500,000-per-violation penalties to take effect on Saturday A federal judge denied xAI’s bid to block Minnesota’s nudify app ban,…...

TNW | Cars
thenextweb.com > news > car-industry-2026-electric-splinters-china-leads-autonomy-software-prize

The car industry made one bet on electric. In 2026 it splintered into several.

16+ hour, 37+ min ago   (837+ words) For a decade the car industry raced towards a single goal: the electric car. In 2026 that one race has broken into several. The powertrain is unsettled again, the centre of the market has moved to China, the West is easing…...

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > amd-radeon-gpu-price-hike-10-percent-august-memory-shortage

AMD is raising Radeon GPU prices by at least 10 percent, days after Nvidia did the same

20+ hour, 48+ min ago   (404+ words) The company has told its add-in board partners that GPU and memory bundle costs are going up in August, as the AI-driven memory shortage makes graphics cards steadily more expensive AMD told board partners that GPU and memory kit prices…...

TNW | Amazon
thenextweb.com > news > big-tech-2-trillion-ai-spending-commitments-bloomberg

Big Tech holds nearly $2.4 trillion in spending commitments for AI

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (265+ words) Alphabet and Amazon have tipped into negative free cash flow as their combined purchase commitments, leases, and capital spending on AI infrastructure reach a scale with few precedents in corporate history Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft hold roughly $2.4tn in AI…...

TNW | Cars
thenextweb.com > news > us-micro-mobility-golf-cart-boom-fiat-topolino-microlino

The US golf cart market hit $5 billion, and now Fiat and Microlino are chasing the same buyers

18+ hour, 39+ min ago   (420+ words) Fiat launched its Topolino micro EV in the US for under $14,000, Microlino designed an open-top bubble car specifically for American buyers, and e-bike imports topped two million units in 2025 None of this means Americans are abandoning large vehicles. The EPA’s…...