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		<title>Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/only-3-3-per-cent-of-users-pay-for-copilot-so-microsoft-is-finally-making-it-optional</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darius Popa]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/microsoft-copilot-uninstall-windows-11-bloatware.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Microsoft has added the ability to fully remove the Copilot app from Windows 11. The change arrived in the April 2026 update and applies to both enterprise administrators using Group Policy and regular users who can now uninstall it through Settings like any other app. For IT administrators, the new policy is called “Remove Microsoft [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/china-humanoid-robot-id-system-lifecycle-tracking</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 19:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana Maria Constantin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/unitree.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data including joint wear, battery status, and AI training history.   China has launched a national identification system [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/reallusion-ai-studio-bytedance-seedance-3d-video</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/reallusion-ai-studio-bytedance-seedance-3d-video.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video models. The centrepiece is a direct integration with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0, currently the top-ranked AI video model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The pitch is straightforward. AI video [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/perplant-1m-seed-precision-spraying-copenhagen</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 14:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/PerPlant.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>The Copenhagen agtech has already mapped nine times more European farmland than every Danish agricultural drone combined. Two well-known Nordic investors want the United States next. The pitch behind PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence: a box on the roof of the tractor, a camera looking at the field, an AI deciding which [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/india-ai-workforce-reskilling-ibm-patel</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 13:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/IBM.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>IBM India’s Sandip Patel says the country can become the world’s AI skill capital by 2030. The arithmetic of getting there is harder than the headline number suggests. ndia has roughly six hundred million workers, and on a recent Bengaluru morning, the head of IBM’s India business put a number on how many of them [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-business-ai-adoption-real-bottleneck</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/European-Commision.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Eurostat published  last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news. They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their business, up from 13.5 per cent the year before. A jump of six and a half [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-claude-code-retreat-ai-cost</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 11:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/04/microsoft-voluntary-retirement-us-workers-ai.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: into the kind of non-technical roles that, in earlier waves of enterprise software, would have waited years [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>From the Vatican stage, Anthropic’s Chris Olah says AI cannot be steered by AI labs alone</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-olah-vatican-ai-oversight-big-tech</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 10:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthropic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/04/Anthropic.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV at the launch of Magnifica humanitas, the company’s interpretability lead conceded that frontier-lab incentives can pull researchers away from doing the right thing. Christopher Olah, Anthropic’s co-founder and the head of its interpretability research, used his seat at the Vatican on Monday to make an argument that no leader of [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-magnifica-humanitas-ai-encyclical</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 10:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/pope-leo-ai-warfare-spiral-annihilation-sapienza.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his pontificate, published in Rome on Monday, to call for the disarmament of artificial intelligence. The 245-paragraph document, titled Magnifica humanitas, frames AI [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Ericsson is leaving Kista for central Stockholm, in the largest office lease in Swedish history</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/ericsson-hagastaden-stockholm-headquarters-kista</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 10:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2015/12/Ericsson.avif" width="868" height="434"><br /><p>The 71,000-square-metre Hagastaden campus, signed with Atrium Ljungberg and Castellum, ends more than two decades in the suburb once branded Sweden’s Silicon Valley. Ericsson is moving its global headquarters out of Kista. The Swedish telecoms-equipment maker said on Monday that, starting in 2028, it will gradually relocate its Stockholm operations, including the HQ, R&amp;D functions, [&hellip;]</p>
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