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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web 1 place · 04/18/2026 07:31 EDT

Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work

The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 billion in private capital and labelled 92 VC and growth funds with […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 17:38 EDT

Netflix launches Playground, a standalone games app for children aged eight and under

In short: Netflix has launched Netflix Playground, a dedicated standalone gaming app for children aged eight and under, bundled into existing memberships with no ads or in-app purchases and full offline support, positioning it squarely against Apple Arcade in the family market. Netflix has quietly extended its gaming ambitions into the family market with the launch […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 17:24 EDT

Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi

In short: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if the US proceeds with threatened attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure. A senior officer in Iran’s […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 17:07 EDT

Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify

In short: Google has quietly released an iOS app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, a free, offline-first voice dictation tool that transcribes speech in real time, strips filler words automatically, and transforms raw dictation into polished text without requiring an internet connection. The app runs on Gemma-based on-device ASR models, offers an optional cloud mode using […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 16:48 EDT

Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth

In short: Xoople, a Madrid-based geospatial data company founded in 2019, has raised a $130 million Series B led by Nazca Capital, bringing its total funding to $225 million and pushing its valuation into unicorn territory. The round was co-invested by MCH Private Equity, CDTI (the Spanish government’s technology development fund), Buenavista Equity Partners, and Endeavor […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 10:44 EDT

Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes

Satellites on Fire, founded in 2020 as a school project by three Argentine teenagers, has closed a seed round led by Dalus Capital. Its software-only platform integrates satellite data from multiple agencies and detects fires faster than NASA’s FIRMS system by avoiding the gaps between satellite passes. Argentine climate-tech startup Satellites on Fire has closed […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 10:18 EDT

Bolt expands its Hopp ride-hailing brand into Canadian corporate travel

A year after its consumer launch in Toronto, Bolt’s North American brand Hopp has introduced a corporate mobility product targeting finance teams frustrated by fragmented expense reporting. It enters a market where Canada’s business travel spending was forecast to grow 17.7% to CAD $44.3 billion in 2025. Bolt, the Estonian mobility company that operates in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 09:05 EDT

OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day week

Sam Altman’s 13-page policy blueprint, ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,’ proposes auto-triggering safety nets, containment playbooks for rogue AI, and direct citizen dividends from AI-driven growth. He told Axios it is a starting point, not a prescription. OpenAI has published a 13-page policy document calling for sweeping economic reforms to prepare for what it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 08:57 EDT

IBM and Arm are partnering to stop mainframes being left out of the AI era

In short: IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration on 2 April 2026 to enable Arm-based software to run on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, the platforms that process the bulk of the world’s regulated enterprise transactions. The partnership targets three areas: virtualisation to host Arm software environments on IBM hardware, security and compliance for regulated […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 08:51 EDT

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is offering $18M to hire a chief AI scientist

UBTech’s salary range for Chief Scientist of Embodied Intelligence runs from $2.2M to $18M. The Shenzhen company’s humanoid robot revenue grew twenty-fold last year. Bloomberg calls the offer unusual even by Chinese standards. Chinese humanoid robotics company UBTech has posted a global recruitment notice for a Chief Scientist of Embodied Intelligence, offering an annual salary […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Veronika Furs @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 08:09 EDT

Which Telegram growth service is worth It

Which Telegram Growth Service Is Worth It How can I grow my Telegram channels quickly? Are growth services for Telegram safe? What is the best SMM panel for Telegram? Can I grow a Telegram channel without ads? Do fake members hurt my channel? The answers to these questions define the modern growth strategy, and they […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/06/2026 04:13 EDT

Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s

In short: Salesforce unveiled more than 30 new AI capabilities for Slackbot on 31 March 2026, the most sweeping overhaul of the platform since its $27.7 billion acquisition in 2021. The update transforms Slackbot from a conversational assistant into an agentic system that can transcribe meetings across any video platform, monitor users’ desktop activity, execute tasks […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/05/2026 13:57 EDT

Monzo is shutting down its US operation, and its European banking licence explains why

In short: Monzo announced on 1 April 2026 that it is closing its US operations, stopping new American sign-ups immediately and shutting existing accounts by June, and cutting approximately 50 roles. The decision comes three months after the UK challenger bank received a full banking licence from the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/05/2026 12:58 EDT

Netflix owes Italian subscribers up to €500 after court rules its price hikes were illegal

In short: The Court of Rome has ruled that Netflix’s repeated price increases between 2017 and 2024 violated Italian consumer law and EU Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair contract terms. The ruling voids the relevant contract clauses, orders current prices rolled back to 2015 launch levels, and requires Netflix to notify millions of current and former Italian […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/05/2026 12:48 EDT

Vibe coding is flooding Apple’s App Store, and Apple is fighting back

In short: AI-powered “vibe coding” tools have driven an 84% jump in new app submissions to Apple’s App Store in a single quarter, according to reporting by The Information, the largest surge in a decade. The flood is straining Apple’s review infrastructure, with approval times ballooning from 24 hours to as many as 30 days. Apple […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/05/2026 07:35 EDT

LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told

In short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software characteristics about your device, encrypts the resulting fingerprint, and attaches it to every API request you make during your session. The practice, labelled “BrowserGate” by researchers, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/05/2026 06:58 EDT

Microsoft calls Copilot ‘entertainment only’ while charging $30 a month for it

In short: Microsoft has spent billions building Copilot into every corner of its product lineup, pitching it as an indispensable AI co-worker. Its own Terms of Use tell a different story. A clause quietly buried in the document labels Copilot “for entertainment purposes only” and warns users not to rely on it for important advice. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/05/2026 04:29 EDT

A week bookended by Mistral’s $830 million debt raise and a €1.1 million workpod pre-seed is a useful reminder of how wide the band of European ambition now runs. The dominant theme is not a single technology but a single instinct: build the infrastructure layer first, whether that means sovereign AI compute, quantum hardware ready […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/04/2026 14:53 EDT

Anthropic cuts Claude subscribers off from OpenClaw in cost crackdown

In short: Anthropic has blocked Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their flat-rate plans with third-party AI agent frameworks, starting with OpenClaw. The move, which took effect on 4 April 2026, shifts the cost of running autonomous agents onto users through a pay-as-you-go billing tier. The creator of OpenClaw, who joined OpenAI in February, called […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/04/2026 14:31 EDT

Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk

In short: Meta has suspended its collaboration with Mercor, a $10 billion AI data startup, after a supply chain attack exposed what may be the AI industry’s most closely guarded secrets: not just personal data, but the training methodologies that power the world’s leading large language models. The breach, carried out via a poisoned version of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/04/2026 14:21 EDT

WHOOP raises $575m at $10.1bn valuation, signals IPO ahead

In short: WHOOP has raised $575 million in a Series G round that values the screenless health wearable company at $10.1 billion — nearly three times its 2021 valuation. Backed by sovereign wealth funds, leading medical institutions, and a roster of celebrity athletes, the Boston-based startup is positioning itself for an IPO. Its founder and CEO […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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