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		<title>Voltpost is making an EV charger that hangs from your garage ceiling</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/voltpost-ceiling-surface-mount-chargers-europe-right-to-plug</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darius Popa]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/voltpost-ceiling-surface-mount-chargers-europe-right-to-plug.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Voltpost has launched two Level 2 chargers that mount on parking garage ceilings and on walls, avoiding trenching and cutting installation costs by up to 70% according to the company. Europe’s revised buildings directive requires member states to make it easier for tenants to install charging points, with transposition due this May. Voltpost has built [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/daniel-dines-the-work-that-remains-book-uipath-2028-prediction</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Dina]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/daniel-dines-the-work-that-remains-book-uipath-2028-prediction.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation carries them out. He stakes the framework on a dated prediction and names the evidence that would weaken it. Daniel Dines has written a book, and its most useful sentence [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-revolution-optimizing-wrong-things</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maz Ahmadi]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/ai-revolution-optimizing-wrong-things.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest, but the bigger question is: smartest at what? As tech giants chase lucrative enterprise contracts, they are optimizing frontier models for coding, logic, and autonomous agent workflows. In the process, [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-hugging-face-13bn-acquisition-talks</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Dina]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/03/NVIDIA-invests-2-billion-in-Nebius.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face at a valuation above $13bn, according to Business Insider, days after reports that the open-model hub was exploring a sale at roughly that figure. The Information puts the process further along than that, reporting an agreed deal at $12.9bn, and Nvidia did not respond to a request [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>The next frontier in fintech is understanding the person behind the data</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/fintech-person-behind-data-behavioral-understanding</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Fintech and ecommerce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/fintech-person-behind-data-behavioral-understanding.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Fintech has spent almost two decades making financial information increasingly accessible, portable, and actionable. Open banking, digital wallets and connected financial platforms have created an environment in which consumers can move between products while allowing authorized providers to access increasingly detailed information about their financial activity. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that more than [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Perion acquires PRN for up to $12 million, expanding in-store retail media reach across North America</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/perion-acquires-prn-12-million-in-store-retail-media</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kolawole Samuel Adebayo]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/perion-acquires-prn-12-million-in-store-retail-media.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>For years, advertisers have been trying to connect digital campaigns with what happens inside physical stores. Perion’s latest acquisition is aimed at closing that gap, extending its advertising infrastructure from channels such as connected TV and digital out-of-home into the point of purchase. Perion, an advertising technology company operating in North America and Israel, announced [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Huawei plans more AI pharma partnerships, mainly with Chinese drugmakers</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/huawei-ai-pharma-tie-ups-ascend-kunpeng</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/huawei-logo-mobile-world-congress-2015.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its healthcare business unit, who told Reuters the projects currently run mainly with domestic Chinese drugmakers. The company sells compound screening tools alongside its Ascend and Kunpeng chips, the same domestic stack it has been building out since US [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>What the US semiconductor tariff does and does not currently touch</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/semiconductor-tariffs-data-centre-exemption-phase-two</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Government and policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Circuit-board-with-robot-arm.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it from touching the AI buildout, exempting covered products destined for American data centres. That exemption was always provisional, and the Commerce Department report that determines whether it survives was due on 1 July, in a [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/uclh-ai-assisted-pituitary-tumour-surgery</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insider]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/National-Hospital-for-Neurology-and-Neurosurgery-in-London.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation of its kind. The system analysed live camera footage during the procedure, helping the team identify nerves and blood vessels near the tumour, and joins [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Apple confirms its ‘Surprise and shine’ event for 9 September</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/apple-september-9-event-foldable-iphone-ultra</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana Maria Constantin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Apple-event-Surprise-and-shine.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Apple has confirmed that its autumn event will take place on 9 September at 10am Pacific time at Apple Park, under the tagline “Surprise and shine” and an invitation showing a sun rising behind the company logo. The expectation is that it will finally show a foldable iPhone, a device IDC thinks could ship 10 million [&hellip;]</p>
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