The Next Web

Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europe’s Methane Regulation ordered a satellite […]

Google’s autumn roundup of its AI subscriptions leads on Gemini Spark handling web errands through Chrome for US subscribers, alongside voice tools, an image editor and a spreadsheet app builder that do reach Europe. Spark itself is unavailable across the European Economic Area, Switzerland and […]

Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in another, which are not equivalent claims. Roughly […]

Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europe’s Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January 2027, and the French company that created […]

Shipt and Instacart both launched AI assistants that build a grocery cart from a prompt or a photo on 9 September. Instacart said orders placed through its assistant contain more items than a typical order and exceed its $115 average basket, while Shipt’s announcement gives no equivalent figure […]

Apple has made a foldable iPhone. It is called the iPhone Duo, it opens to 7.6 inches, and it starts at $1,999. The price is the news. Analysts expected $2,500. Samsung, which has had this category almost to itself for seven years, sells its Z Fold8 Ultra at $2,099. Apple arrived last and priced […]

Apple’s new watches can replay the last 15 seconds of a conversation you just had. Press the Digital Crown twice and the words appear as text on your wrist. The feature is called Live Rewind. It arrives with the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watch Ultra 4. It will not work in the This […]

Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacturers for clear indicators when a camera or […]

Apple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The headline feature is a camera that can change its aperture, which no iPhone has done before. Two of the phone’s flagship features will not work in Europe at launch. Apple announced both models on Wednesday. Pre-orders open on […]

Gamification has a bad name in finance, and rightfully so. Trading apps fired confetti when you bought options. Meme stocks turned rent money into casino chips. Say “gamified finance” today and people picture slot machines packaged as financial products. The gamification itself was not the […]