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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 10:06 EDT

Your team’s whiteboard just got its own AI agents, and they already know the context

There is a particular kind of frustration that comes from feeding an AI tool the same context your team spent three days assembling on a whiteboard. You copy the sticky notes into a prompt, paste the diagram description, try to explain the relationships between ideas that were obvious when they were spatially arranged on a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 06:20 EDT

TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre

The new facility in Lahti is part of TikTok’s €12 billion Project Clover data sovereignty push for European users. Finland’s defence ministry approved the first data centre investment in 2024 without informing elected politicians. A former minister publicly called for the project to be reconsidered. TikTok is investing €1 billion ($1.16 billion) to build a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 06:05 EDT

Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban in a TikTok video on Wednesday. It takes effect on 1 January 2027. Enforcement will rely on a state-mandated app on every device. Around 80% of Greeks support the measure, according to a February poll. Greece has announced it will ban children under 15 from accessing social media platforms, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 06:02 EDT

Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos

In short: A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing the platform’s security checks, the latest in a series of privacy and security failures to emerge from the company over the past four years. Meta’s internal security systems are designed […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 05:35 EDT

Trent AI raises $13M to build multi-agent security for a world where AI systems are running themselves

The London startup emerged from stealth on 7 April with a layered agentic security solution and a seed round backed by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Its co-founders include a Cambridge professor who was previously Amazon’s director of machine learning. Trent AI, a London-based agentic security company, has raised $13 million in a seed round […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 05:24 EDT

Uber joins Amazon’s Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal

In short: Uber has expanded its AWS contract to run real-time ride-matching infrastructure on Amazon’s Graviton4 processor and is piloting AI model training on Trainium3, joining Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple on a customer list that is becoming the clearest evidence yet that Amazon’s custom silicon strategy is working. Uber’s infrastructure runs on milliseconds. Every time a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 04:49 EDT

Eclipse raises $1.3B across two funds to back the next era of physical industries

Fund VI ($720M) targets early-stage companies in robotics, manufacturing, and energy. Early Growth Fund III ($591M) supports companies scaling toward Series A. Total AUM is now approximately $10 billion. Eclipse, the Palo Alto-based venture firm that backs companies rebuilding physical industries, has closed $1.3 billion across two funds simultaneously. Eclipse Fund VI has raised $720 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 04:27 EDT

Narwhal Labs raises €22.9M and launches DeepBlue OS, an autonomous AI communication platform for regulated industries

The Bristol-based company, parent of Narwhal AI, is building an operating system for autonomous customer conversations across voice, SMS, email, and WhatsApp. CEO Luke Sartain has previously led the Narwhal Media Group. Narwhal Labs, a Bristol-based AI infrastructure company, has raised €22.9 million and simultaneously launched DeepBlue OS, its autonomous communications platform. The company operates […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 04:12 EDT

AirHub raises €4.4M from Keen Venture Partners to scale drone operations software

The Dutch company, founded in 2016, has grown from a €1M seed in 2024 to a €4.4M follow-on as government and security operators accelerate drone fleet deployments across Europe and the Middle East. AirHub, a Dutch drone operations software company, has raised €4.4M in a new round led by Keen Venture Partners. The company’s software is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/08/2026 02:30 EDT

Utah let AI prescribe medicine

The case for AI prescription renewals is real. So is the case against trusting a state sandbox to catch the risks. In January, a security research firm called Mindgard sat down with a chatbot. The chatbot had been built by Doctronic, a health technology startup that had just become the first company in American history […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 14:08 EDT

Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security

In short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic escalation that would reduce the country’s primary civilian cybersecurity agency to a $2 billion operation after a year already defined by DOGE-driven layoffs and mass departures. The United States’ central […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 13:48 EDT

Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos

In short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a six-month campaign to weave AI into every layer of Maps. Sharing a photo on Google Maps has always required a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 13:27 EDT

Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD

In short: Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3-certified ITAD provider, completing a $70 million, nine-month acquisition spree that now spans the U.S., Netherlands, and Ireland, positioning the company to handle the growing wave of hardware disposal from Dublin’s hyperscale data centre cluster. When the servers that power Europe’s cloud infrastructure reach the end of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 13:08 EDT

Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies

In short: Joby Aviation and Air Space Intelligence have announced a partnership to integrate AI-driven airspace management into U.S. electric air taxi operations, using ASI’s Flyways AI platform to model high-density eVTOL traffic before commercial flights begin later this year. The electric air taxi race has long centred on the aircraft itself: wing count, battery range, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Veronika Furs @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 11:46 EDT

Medialister opens editorial media marketplace to AI Agents with MCP server

For years, buying editorial coverage looked less like modern marketing and more like digging through email archives. A brand would hire an agency. The agency built a media list. Then came dozens, sometimes hundreds,  of outreach emails to publishers. Threads multiplied. Negotiations dragged on. And only if everything aligned would a sponsored article or press […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 09:09 EDT

HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy

The Berkeley biotech is backing a Nature-published approach that recreates the embryonic environment where blood stem cells first form, rather than reprogramming aged cells chemically or genetically. Its lead programme targets bone marrow transplant in blood cancers and has received FDA Orphan Drug Designation. HexemBio has publicly launched with a $10.4 million seed round led […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 09:08 EDT

Hermeus raises $350M at a $1B valuation to build autonomous hypersonic fighters

The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica says the only way to build hypersonic aircraft at this pace is to accept that hardware will fail, and plan for it. Hermeus, a Los Angeles-based defence aviation startup developing autonomous […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 08:58 EDT

Natter raises $23M to replace enterprise surveys with AI-moderated video conversations

The London-based startup, founded by former BBC and Uber executives, runs AI-orchestrated video conversations that can gather structured insight from thousands of employees simultaneously. A seven-minute conversation produces more than 1,000 words of data versus ten from a typical survey answer. Natter, a London-based enterprise insights startup, has raised a $23 million Series A led […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 08:43 EDT

Conxai raises €5M to bring agentic AI to construction industry

The Munich-based startup automates complex project workflows using AI trained on construction-specific data, not general-purpose models. Its backers include Earlybird, Pi Labs, noa, and Zacua Ventures. Conxai, a Munich-based construction AI startup, has raised €5 million in new funding. The round adds to the €2.7 million pre-seed the company closed in January 2022 with Earlybird […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/07/2026 08:42 EDT

Nvidia-backed Firmus targets $2bn ASX IPO after locking in $505m equity and $10bn Blackstone debt for its AI factory network

In short: Australian AI data centre company Firmus has raised $505m at a $5.5bn valuation in what it says is its final pre-IPO round, and is now targeting a $2bn listing on the ASX in June or July, backed by a $10bn Blackstone-led debt facility secured in February and a plan to deploy 1.6 gigawatts of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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