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		<title>Four OpenClaw flaws let attackers steal data, escalate privileges, and plant backdoors through the agent’s own sandbox</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/openclaw-claw-chain-vulnerabilities-sandbox-escape</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 10:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana Maria Constantin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/openclaw-claw-chain-vulnerabilities-sandbox-escape.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Cybersecurity researchers at Cyera have disclosed four vulnerabilities in OpenClaw that, when chained together, allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, escalate privileges, and establish persistent control over a compromised host. The flaws, collectively dubbed “Claw Chain,” affect OpenClaw’s OpenShell managed sandbox backend and its MCP loopback runtime. All four have been patched in OpenClaw [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>RJ Scaringe has raised $12 billion across three startups, and investors are still queueing up</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/rj-scaringe-12-billion-rivian-also-mind-robotics</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 10:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana Maria Constantin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/rj-scaringe-12-billion-rivian-also-mind-robotics.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across three startups, and the pace is accelerating. The Rivian founder and CEO, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT, is now simultaneously running an electric vehicle manufacturer, an autonomous micromobility company, and an industrial AI robotics startup, each attracting capital at a speed that [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Most CEOs think their boards are rushing AI, and BCG’s survey shows why</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/bcg-ceos-boards-rushing-ai-transformation-survey</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/bcg-ceos-boards-rushing-ai-transformation-survey.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>  Sixty-one per cent of chief executives say their boards are pushing AI transformation too fast, according to a global survey of 625 leaders published by Boston Consulting Group. The research, titled Split Decisions, polled 351 CEOs and 274 board members at companies with at least $100 million in annual revenue and found a consistent pattern: [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Stripe’s John Collison says agentic commerce will completely transform online shopping</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/stripe-collison-agentic-commerce-reshape-internet</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Dina]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Fintech and ecommerce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/stripe-collison-agentic-commerce-reshape-internet.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>John Collison thinks keyword search is a “ridiculous” way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-founder told Bloomberg that agentic commerce, in which AI agents shop on behalf of consumers, will completely transform the online shopping experience, reshaping not just how people purchase but how retailers sell. The argument is structural. For more than [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/bengio-ai-extinction-warning-lawzero-safety</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/bengio-ai-extinction-warning-lawzero-safety.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>  Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal originally published in October 2025 and republished by Fortune this week, Bengio argued that AI [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/salesforce-benioff-300-million-anthropic-tokens-slack-coding</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/salesforce-benioff-300-million-anthropic-tokens-slack-coding.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast published on Friday, calling AI coding agents “awesome” and Anthropic “awesome” in the same breath, before adding that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build. [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle school addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta to face trial alone</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/snap-youtube-tiktok-settle-school-social-media-lawsuit</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 08:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana Maria Constantin]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Data and security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/snap-youtube-tiktok-settle-school-social-media-lawsuit-1.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Snap, Google’s YouTube, and ByteDance’s TikTok have reached settlements in the first lawsuit brought by a public school district over claims that social media addiction has disrupted learning and forced schools to spend heavily on combating a youth mental health crisis. The settlements, filed on Friday in federal court in Oakland, California, leave Meta Platforms [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>OpenAI wants ChatGPT to see your bank account. The pitch is convenience. The risk is everything else.</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-chatgpt-personal-finance-plaid</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 08:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana Maria Constantin]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/openai-chatgpt-personal-finance-plaid.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>OpenAI has launched a personal finance experience inside ChatGPT, letting subscribers connect their bank accounts, credit cards, investment portfolios, and loan accounts to the chatbot and ask questions grounded in their actual financial data. The feature, released on 15 May, is available in preview to US-based ChatGPT Pro subscribers on web and iOS, with support [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Japan’s Monster Wolf robot is a $4,000 scarecrow with red LED eyes, and it actually works</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/japan-monster-wolf-robot-bear-attacks</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 08:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darius Popa]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/japan-monster-wolf-robot-bear-attacks.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>  Somewhere on a golf course in rural Hokkaido, a mechanical wolf with glowing red eyes is turning its head from side to side, howling at nothing in particular. It looks absurd. It is also, by most available evidence, working. Monster Wolf is the product of Ohta Seiki, a small Hokkaido-based manufacturer that has been [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Chinese parts already power American cars, and that’s exactly why Congress is panicking</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/chinese-autos-us-market-congress-ban</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 07:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darius Popa]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Electric vehicle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/chinese-autos-us-market-congress-ban.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>  Somewhere in the wiring of the car you drove this morning, there is almost certainly a Chinese component. An airbag inflator. A windshield. A steering column bearing. According to global consulting firm AlixPartners, more than 60 US-based auto suppliers are now owned by Chinese companies, making everything from axles to electronic control units for [&hellip;]</p>
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