The music industry descended on New York this week for Indie Week and a flurry of parallel gatherings. The conversations kept circling back to the same handful of anxieties: generative AI, streaming fraud, underpaid songwriters, and the organisations meant to protect them. Four issues, in particular, dominated the agenda. Each one carries the potential to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta had a bad Friday morning. A major Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for users around the world, starting shortly before 10am ET. By midday it was recovering, unevenly, region by region. The trouble appeared to begin on WhatsApp, then spread. Facebook users were abruptly logged out, met with a “Query […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special permit from Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office for Level 4 autonomous driving, Baidu said. Level 4 means the vehicle drives itself within a defined area. Open-road trials began on 1 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta is giving free Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Mark Zuckerberg announced the programme on Friday, offering a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, at no cost, to all legally blind US veterans. “Meta AI on these glasses can describe what’s around you, read documents, and help you navigate daily life more […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Thena Capital has closed its first fund at £45m ($60.4m), the London venture firm announced this week, after a £27m first close in March 2025. The fund backs early-stage British medical-technology companies, and it is now fully closed. The milestone is not only the money. Thena is the first all-female general partner team to win […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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EngineAI, a Chinese maker of humanoid robots, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Shenzhen-based startup is working with China International Capital Corp and Citic Securities on the possible share sale. The company is only three years old. It raised […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Mistral is in funding talks to raise about €3bn ($3.5bn) at a valuation of roughly €20bn, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the discussions. That would nearly double the price investors put on Europe’s leading AI startup just months ago. The talks are early, and the terms could change. The valuation may even […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SpaceX rang the Nasdaq opening bell on Friday, marking its Nasdaq debut as a public company with the largest IPO on record. It did so in typical fashion. Hours earlier, a Falcon 9 rocket had launched a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit. “What other company would do something like that on the day it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target. The attack, disclosed by Tenet Security, turns the coding agent into the weapon. When a developer asks the agent to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. Terms were not disclosed. Codex is on a tear. OpenAI says more than 5 million people now use it each week, up 400 per cent since […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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BlackRock submitted an order to buy at least $5 billion in SpaceX shares ahead of Friday’s debut, the Wall Street Journal reported. That single order is nearly as large as the entire $5.5 billion Cerebras IPO, the biggest of 2026 so far. SpaceX has told banks it will not budge from its $135 per share […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta is adding an AI assistant and a desktop version to Edits, its video-editing app built to compete with ByteDance’s CapCut. The company previewed the features at an invite-only creator event in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The AI assistant is currently in testing with event attendees. The desktop version is “coming soon.” The AI assistant […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya, and Bright Pixel Capital. It marks Samsung’s first-ever investment in a Spanish […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, alongside Bezos himself. Total funding now exceeds $18 billion. The company is building what Bezos calls an “artificial general […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Coinbase has launched an AI agent that can execute crypto trades and pay for premium research data on behalf of users. The agent integrates with a user’s main Coinbase account or can operate in a separate sandbox. It trades spot crypto and derivatives markets, with support for equities and prediction markets planned next. Users can […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Waymo is launching a $29.99 per month subscription tier called Waymo Premier, targeting its most frequent riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. The plan is invite-only to start. Subscribers get prioritised matching, up to five free cancellations per month, and earn 10% back in loyalty credits, called Waymo Cash, on every trip. “You […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In May 2025, AI researchers at Palisade Research ran a controlled experiment in which several advanced AI models, including OpenAI’s o3, were placed inside command-line sandboxes. The test was designed to measure controllability. Most models complied: Claude, Gemini, and Grok models allowed shutdown in all 100 test runs, reporting green across the board. However, three […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Here is a constraint that almost no one building physical AI says out loud, even though every one of them is quietly fighting it. A robot’s intelligence wants three things at once. It wants to be smart, meaning it can reason at the level of a frontier model about an unfamiliar scene. It wants to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Coram AI has raised $35m to turn the security cameras already bolted to walls into something closer to an autonomous detective. The Series B is co-led by the new investor Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with UP Partners, 8VC and Mosaic Ventures joining. It takes the San Francisco company’s total funding to $66m. Coram’s pitch […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Canada has introduced a bill that would bar under-16s from social media and, in a twist that sets it apart from other countries, regulate AI chatbots in the same sweep. The Digital Safety Act, tabled on Wednesday, is the latest move in a global wave of governments cracking down on platforms over harm to children. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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An Irish company that uses AI to stop crashes before drivers see them coming has raised up to €49m to expand in North America and Europe. CameraMatics, founded in Dublin in 2016, makes a video-telematics platform for commercial fleets. Its cameras and software watch the road and the cab at the same time. The system […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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On the day SpaceX prices the largest stock-market debut in history, the market underneath it has a case of nerves. The cause is not rockets. It is AI. Several warning lights are flashing at once. Together they amount to the first serious test of a trade that has carried global markets for two years. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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One of Europe’s oldest deep-tech specialists is opening a London office, and pitching it as a fresh expansion into new territory. Companies House tells a slightly different story. Vsquared Ventures, founded in Munich and known for raising one of Europe’s largest early-stage deep-tech funds, quietly incorporated its UK entity back in October 2024, some 18 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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US AI giants are planting flags in London at a pace the city has never seen, and in doing so they are turning the British capital into the clearest rival to San Francisco, while making life harder for the homegrown startups they are landing next to. In the past few months Anthropic has taken office […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going public may have little to do with rockets, or with Musk. It is what […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Deezer has built a free tool that will tell you how much of your music was made by a machine, even if you stream it somewhere else. The French service has opened its AI-music detector to the public, letting anyone scan their playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, and around 20 other platforms for AI-generated tracks. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Most enterprise AI projects do not fail because the model is bad. They fail because the data feeding it is a mess: broken pipelines, mismatched systems, and context locked in one engineer’s head. Upriver, an Israeli startup, has raised $14M to automate the cleanup, betting that this dull but critical layer is where the AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The AI boom has a problem no amount of capital can solve on its own: there are not enough electricians, welders, and pipefitters to build it. Google’s answer is to pay to train them. Its philanthropic arm, Google.org, said it is committing $50M to prepare more than 300,000 skilled-trade workers across over 20 US states, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The US-backed plan to build an AI and supply-chain hub in the Philippines now has a number attached: about $10bn in initial investment, with more to follow, according to the official leading the Philippine side. It also has a striking term on the table, a lease to the United States of up to 99 years. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Mercedes-Benz is leaning deeper into defence. The carmaker has signed a memorandum of understanding with TYTAN Technologies, a Munich counter-drone startup, to develop vehicle-based systems that detect and shoot down hostile drones, built on its G-Class SUV and Sprinter van. Mercedes calls the defence sector “a strategic growth field”. The deal, signed at the ILA […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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