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Darius Popa @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 14:06 EDT

  New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including fingerprints, in a breach affecting at least 1.8 million people. The organisation reported the figure to the US Department of Health and Human Services, making the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 13:53 EDT

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. A nine-person jury in Oakland returned a unanimous verdict on Sunday finding that Musk’s claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, ending the most consequential corporate governance trial in the history of artificial intelligence without reaching the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 13:36 EDT

HistoSonics has received regulatory approval from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration for its Edison Histotripsy System, a non-invasive cancer treatment device that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumours without cutting, radiation, or thermal damage. The TFDA authorisation, announced on 18 May, marks a significant step in the company’s expansion into Asia and adds Taiwan to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 13:28 EDT

  Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year and positioning the San Francisco-based company as one of the most aggressively valued players in the business intelligence market. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 12:59 EDT

  Coursera has announced a $500 million share repurchase programme, its first buyback since going public in 2021 and one that arrives exactly one week after the online learning company completed its merger with Udemy. The board approved the programme on Sunday 18 May 2026, funding it from existing cash balances and cash flow from […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 12:49 EDT

The hackers exfiltrated a codebase that was already open source, then demanded payment to keep it from being released. Grafana said no, and cited the FBI’s standing advice. It is the second high-profile extortion case in seven days. Grafana Labs, the open-source monitoring and visualisation company, disclosed on Monday that hackers had broken into its […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 12:27 EDT

Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic. The Vatican announced the details on Monday, confirming that the document will address the protection of human dignity in the age of artificial […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 11:46 EDT

The Pátria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil’s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pecém, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America. Omnia, the Pátria Investimentos-backed data-centre developer, has signed a roughly $2bn energy-supply agreement with Casa dos Ventos, Brazil’s largest independent renewable-power generator, according to Reuters. The contract […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Milan Savov @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 11:23 EDT

Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before. At the same time, traffic often looks stable – sometimes even growing. The disconnect comes from a shift that isn’t immediately visible in dashboards. Buyers are forming […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 10:27 EDT

The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy for about $67bn in an all-stock deal, Bloomberg reported on Monday, in what would be the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 10:15 EDT

Elon Musk’s AI lab promised employees a 420-dollar payment for handing over their personal tax data to train Grok ahead of the April 15 deadline. Two months on, Bloomberg reports, the money has not been paid. Elon Musk’s xAI asked its own employees earlier this year to hand over their personal US tax returns as […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 09:58 EDT

Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and world models, announced on Monday it had raised $300m in new funding led by Radical Ventures. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 09:35 EDT

Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the most enviable position in AI infrastructure: a healthy cloud business, its own custom chips, and supply […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 09:11 EDT

The first car off the line on Monday marks the start of a slow ramp. Public pilots arrive in the second half, fully driverless by early 2027. XPeng said on Monday that the first robotaxi had rolled off its production line in Guangzhou, making the Chinese carmaker, in its own framing, the first automaker in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 08:10 EDT

  The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Helberg visited the proposed site on Monday with more than a dozen American companies, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 08:00 EDT

The Paris- and San Francisco-based platform’s Series B is co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with Snowflake and Datadog participating. Total funding is now north of $60m. Dust, the Paris- and San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform, has raised a $40m Series B co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with participation from Snowflake and Datadog, the company said […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 07:44 EDT

Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to formalise a set of announcements that Google began rolling out a week early […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 07:38 EDT

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilation.” Speaking at Rome’s La Sapienza University on Wednesday, the pontiff called for tighter monitoring of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 05:39 EDT

Reuters traced $2.3bn in Iranian exchange Nobitex’s flows since 2023 to Tron and BNB Chain, the blockchains established by World Liberty Financial’s two most prominent early backers. No party at WLF has been accused of knowing about it. A Reuters investigation published on Monday documents that Nobitex, Iran’s largest crypto exchange, has processed at least […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/18/2026 05:03 EDT

The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out. Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first Chief AI Scientist on Monday, recruiting one of the country’s best-known AI researchers from the University of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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