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In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the project to merge Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, and WhatsApp. Last year, the company started unifying Instagram and Messenger by allowing you to message contacts across both networks. But this is just the beginning of the work, and the final aim for the social network is to let you reach your friends across networks from any of the apps. I spoke to Loredana Crisan, VP of Messaging Experience at Facebook, about the company’s vision regarding messaging services in c
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Is it time for another activist investor to take a run at Microsoft? Shares of the iconic software giant are down nearly 16% so far this year, making it the worst performer of the big tech names. The Financial Times reported on Friday that British hedge fund TCI had sold “almost all” of its stake in Microsoft, citing uncertainty about how AI could undermine the company’s big Office productivity software... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity is changing. The limited release of Claude Mythos sent the security community into a tail spin, with concerns that frontier AI could be used to discover and exploit enterprise vulnerabilities. The Mythos model was dubbed too dangerous to be released, and Anthropic put together an international task force, known as Project Glasswing, to find ... Read more ›
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iPhone 16 and 15 Pro buyers in the US between June 2024 and March 2025 will get $25–$95 per device. Apple admits no fault. The settled action covers consumers; the parallel securities-fraud case Apple is still trying to dismiss is structurally separate. On Tuesday afternoon, Apple agreed to pay $250m to settle a US federal […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Samsung’s stock has more than quadrupled in a year. The KOSPI broke 7,000 for the first time. Two Korean chipmakers now account for 42% of the index. The supercycle that built this rally is, by Samsung’s own forecast, not yet at its peak. There is a particular type of market moment that does not happen […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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What started in mid-April as a $300m raise at a $10bn valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent talking, is now an FT-reported deal at $45bn led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. The strategic logic has changed substantially. There is, in venture-capital pricing, a particular kind of ascent that does not normally happen to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Paris-based AI-native real-estate company, founded by Entrepreneurs First alumni Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, has Heartcore and Balderton co-leading the round, an unusual cap-table for a pre-seed. The technical pitch is more interesting than the headline. There is a particular shape of European AI seed round that has, in 2026, become harder to land […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Sergei Vassilvitskii, distinguished scientist at Google since 2012, has written to Brussels warning that the Commission’s proposed anonymisation scheme for forced search-data sharing is, by his red team’s own demonstration, breakable in 120 minutes. The decision deadline is 27 July. There is a familiar genre of corporate complaint in EU regulatory proceedings: a US technology […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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After selling Silo AI to AMD for $665m, the Helsinki entrepreneur is doing it again. Qutwo’s angel round prices a quantum-classical orchestration layer with no quantum hardware shipping yet, and customers already paying tens of millions for it. There is a particular kind of European startup story that is not supposed to happen at this […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Bangkok’s Board of Investment cleared six major investments on Wednesday. Three of them are data centres. The headline is the TikTok number, but the larger story is what Thailand is becoming inside the regional AI infrastructure trade. Thailand’s Board of Investment is, on most readings, an institutional body whose press releases attract limited international attention. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice banks one of the cleanest mid-market industrial partial exits of 2026, three and a half years after carving the portfolio out of Roper Technologies. Ametek pays a full multiple for picks-and-shovels exposure to the AI-infrastructure trade. Ametek, the Pennsylvania-based scientific-and-industrial-instrumentation company, has agreed to acquire the test-and-measurement businesses of Indicor for […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Berlin geospatial-AI company has closed the first slice of a new round, with defence VC Helantic alongside Nordic Ninja, MMC, and the EIC. Most of the money funds the same product. The strategic shift is who else gets to buy it. European defence-tech rounds, in 2026, are no longer being raised on a pure-defence […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Beacon Point lease, anchored by an unnamed investment-grade tenant, lifts Hut 8’s contracted AI capacity to 597 MW and $16.8bn in base-term value. The Bitcoin-miner-to-AI-landlord pivot is now substantially complete. There is a particular kind of corporate transformation that is supposed to take years, and Hut 8 has done it in roughly 18 months. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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