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BYD has built China’s first 4nm driving chip, and it’s putting LiDAR on a $10,000 car

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BYD has unveiled the Xuanji A3, which it calls China’s first automotive-grade 4-nanometre chip for self-driving vehicles. CEO Wang Chuanfu announced the chip at an event at BYD’s Shenzhen headquarters on 28 May, saying it delivers the lowest power consumption per unit of compute in its class, drawing roughly 20% less than comparable semiconductors. The chip has […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

France’s startup scene is falling behind the US and Europe, and AI is both the cause and the cure

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A new report on the French tech ecosystem by Alexandre Dewez, a partner at venture firm 20VC, paints a picture of a startup scene that is growing more dependent on a handful of AI companies while the rest of the market stalls. French startups raised €6.7 billion across 411 funding rounds in 2025, a 5% decline in […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

A Marketing Tip from My Yoga Teacher

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Listen to this issue here 👇 Have you ever noticed that when you don’t think something will work, it doesn’t? Then you get frustrated waiting for it to work, so you get discouraged and stop doing it. And then of course it doesn’t work, right? This is one of the things I was meditating on earlier this month when I attended a 5-day yoga retreat with my awesome teacher, Meg Shuba .  On Day 2, as we started our morning practice in the beautiful Glass House (pictured with Meg in it, below), she asked us to close our eyes, interlace our fingers and place them, open-palmed, over our hearts. “This is unshakeable trust,” she told us. What do the words "unshakeable trust" mean to you? Share here . Now, I tend to be more practical than “woo-woo.” But in that moment, I had a bit of an epiphany, which can happen on a yoga retreat. 🙂 As it was happening, it occurred to me that unshakeable trust might be the missing element in your marketing. Because when you don’t trust that yo...

Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional

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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 […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

McKinsey built a free AI tool so candidates stop paying $500/hour interview coaches

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McKinsey launched a free AI practice tool in April that gives candidates unlimited attempts at the quantitative case study they will face in their interview. The tool is available globally to applicants for entry-level business analyst and associate roles. The firm says it is designed to level the playing field for candidates who cannot afford […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.

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The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running its data centres on unregulated natural gas turbines, with plans to buy $2.8 billion more. Tesla, the company Musk built on the promise […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident

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Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching happen right now is different. And I know I am not alone. Every seasoned marketing professional I speak to, whether they built their career in offline […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here