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Palantir’s US commercial business brought in more revenue than its US government work for the first time in the third quarter. US commercial revenue rose 148% from a year earlier to $984m, the company said in its earnings release on Monday. Revenue from the US government rose 96% to $953m. Total revenue also rose 96%, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google has agreed to let the Prospect union speak to its UK staff in its offices, including its King’s Cross headquarters. It follows a new UK law, in force since Friday, giving unions a right to access workplaces. Prospect signed a similar deal with Meta in September. Google has agreed to let the trade union […] This story continues at The Next Web

Squarespace is laying off 19% of its workforce, about 300 people, The Verge reported on Monday. The website builder has about 1,800 employees worldwide. Most of the cuts hit product and engineering teams, according to a companywide memo from chief executive Anthony Casalena seen by Business Insider. “The way we need to work is changing faster than at […] This story continues at The Next Web

Germany’s cybersecurity agency has told lawmakers who got Apple’s spyware warnings to treat their iPhones as possibly compromised. Several Bundestag members and other public figures have received the alerts since 29 October. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said so in a note on its website. In the alerts, Apple says it detected an […] This story continues at The Next Web

Revolut has been registered as a bank in New Zealand, clearing the way for the fintech to expand its financial services in the country. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand announced the approval on Tuesday, local time, making Revolut Bank New Zealand the country’s 27th registered bank. The London-based company has operated in New Zealand […] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft and Lumen Technologies are expanding their partnership to jointly sell networking to companies running AI on Azure. Lumen plans to bring its full cloud networking range to Azure. No figures or dates were given. Microsoft and Lumen Technologies will jointly sell networking to large companies moving their AI work onto Azure, the two firms […] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic launched message threads in public beta for its API. Agents send the full conversation once, then only new messages, which Anthropic says cuts the wait before Claude replies by about 35% on very long sessions. Prices and rate limits stay the same. Anthropic has launched message threads, a beta feature for developers building AI […] This story continues at The Next Web

UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines told customers at FUSION in Dubai on Monday that companies will hand more and more work to AI. People, he said, will have to steer it and answer for what it does. He spoke at the Museum of the Future. “We need to educate our people to take a […] This story continues at The Next Web

Snap has settled with two teenagers who accuse Snapchat and other social media apps of addictive design. Their trial in Los Angeles was days away. The terms are confidential. Lawyers for the plaintiffs announced the settlement on Monday, Reuters reported. Jury selection began last week. The trial was set to start on Wednesday, according to […] This story continues at The Next Web

SUSE, the German Linux company founded in 1992, is cutting about 10% of its workforce. Chief executive Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen told staff on Monday that AI and automation are changing how software companies work. Liam Proven reported the cuts for The Register, which saw the internal memo. SUSE has more than 1,900 employees, according to […] This story continues at The Next Web

Instagram is paying some YouTubers to bring their long videos across. It has offered select creators $50,000 to $500,000 to post long-form work to Features, its new 90-minute format. Sydney Bradley and Lucia Moses reported for Business Insider, citing people familiar with the deals. The deals are not exclusive. Instagram wants creators to post their […] This story continues at The Next Web

Hubble has no engine of its own, and it is slowly sinking. NASA now wants companies to say how they could lift the 36-year-old telescope higher, service it, or steer it down safely, the agency said on Friday. The request for information went out on 29 October, and responses are due by 30 November. NASA’s […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google’s prototype data centre satellite has run an AI model in orbit and sent its answer back to Earth. The onboard Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku about being in space, Travis Beals, a senior director at Google, wrote in a blog post on Friday. The satellite launched on 1 October for Project Suncatcher, Google’s […] This story continues at The Next Web

A federal judge in Mississippi has refused to throw out the NAACP’s Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI. The case is over the gas turbines that power its Colossus 2 data centre. Judge Debra M. Brown ruled on Friday that the turbines are not exempt from air permits as “mobile sources”. She also rejected xAI’s […] This story continues at The Next Web

Palantir was caught in Anthropic’s clash with the US Department of War, its chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, told Ben Thompson for Stratechery, in an interview published on Thursday. Thompson noted that Anthropic’s work for the US national security system ran through Palantir, and asked whether Sankar regrets it. “Yes, we were stuck in the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has renamed its two Claude Max plans and dropped the five-hour usage limit on the more expensive one. It now calls the $100-a-month Max 5x plan Max, and the $200 Max 20x plan Ultra. Prices stay the same, the company said on X on Friday. Verified Ultra accounts no longer have a limit that […] This story continues at The Next Web

Game developers have been hitting refusals from Claude Code since late October, some on projects they say they have a right to build. Bruno Ferreira reported the complaints for Tom’s Hardware on Saturday, citing a wave of issues on Claude Code’s public GitHub tracker. TNW read the issues. Anthropic has not announced a change, and […] This story continues at The Next Web

Salesforce has agreed to buy Rune Technologies. The US startup’s AI software helps the military plan supplies near the front line. Salesforce announced the deal on Thursday. Rune will join Missionforce, the defence business Salesforce launched a year ago. Salesforce did not disclose the price. It is paying $375m in cash and shares, Margaux MacColl […] This story continues at The Next Web

Alphabet’s Google is in talks with the US Defense Department to help protect the data behind Golden Dome, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Sana Pashankar and Kiel Porter cited people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are not public. TNW has not independently verified the report. Golden Dome is […] This story continues at The Next Web

France’s National Assembly has voted to tax companies for every gigabyte of data they send to French internet users. The measure, an amendment to the 2027 budget, would charge content providers €0.055 per gigabyte. Its Socialist authors estimate it would raise €10bn a year. It passed by 11 votes to 10 on Friday, with 14 […] This story continues at The Next Web