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NextWeb Aug 31, 4:42 PM

LG Energy Solution signs a 10-year Arkansas lithium deal starting 2029

LG Energy Solution has signed a binding 10-year take-or-pay agreement for 8,000 tonnes a year of battery-grade lithium carbonate from Smackover Lithium in Ar...

NextWeb Aug 31, 2:14 PM

Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software

Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by t...

NextWeb Aug 31, 1:45 PM

Reform UK wants to scrap the UK GDPR and copy New Zealand’s privacy law

Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New Zealand’s. Nigel Farage and the party’s econom...

NextWeb Aug 31, 1:37 PM

EU employment law 2026 moved the burden of proof to you

If your people team spent this year reading legislation rather than hiring, that is not a scheduling failure. Three pieces of European employment law took ef...

NextWeb Aug 31, 1:28 PM

Google will pay £260m to settle a UK class action over Play Store fees

Google has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was due to go to trial next month. The dea...

NextWeb Aug 31, 1:18 PM

Google will limit how much memory Android apps can use from February 2027

Google will start policing how much memory Android apps use, and it says the reason is the global shortage of RAM. From February 2027, an app that exceeds th...

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NextWeb Aug 31, 1:07 PM

Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI

Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the p...

NextWeb Aug 31, 11:59 AM

ChatGPT becomes the first AI chatbot designated under the DSA

The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Monday’s designation brings the chatbot under the Digital Services Act as a Very Large Onl...

NextWeb Aug 31, 10:13 AM

Honda and Nissan will share the software in their cars from 2029

Eighteen months after their merger fell apart over who would control whom, Honda and Nissan have agreed to share the software inside their cars. The two sign...

NextWeb Aug 31, 9:37 AM

Singapore is putting S$220M into fintech as private funding hits a decade low

Singapore has committed S$220M, about $173M, to its fintech sector over the next three years. It made the announcement three days after KPMG reported that pr...