A round at the proposed terms would push the Claude maker past OpenAI on paper, less than three months after its last record-setting raise. Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30bn in a new financing round at a pre-money valuation above $900bn, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Court of Justice has ruled that Italy’s AGCOM can require Meta to pay publishers for news snippets, the first time the bloc’s top court has weighed in directly. Meta lost its bid to overturn an Italian regulatory order requiring it to compensate publishers for the use of their news snippets, after the Court of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Europe’s external dependency exposes more than its AI sovereignty. It also affects its data sovereignty and creates political exposure. In a previous article, we discussed how Europe is heavily dependent on external providers for AI development, particularly through GPUaaS and the semiconductor industry. US companies such as Nvidia and AMD provide the GPU chips powering […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Grand Chamber of the CJEU heard ByteDance’s appeal in Case C-627/24 P on Tuesday, the first DMA gatekeeper challenge to reach the bloc’s highest court. ByteDance’s TikTok went before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union on Tuesday in a last attempt to escape its designation as a “gatekeeper” […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Milan- and Chicago-based startup, backed by Azimut Libera Impresa’s IXC3 fund, plans to scale agentic AI for SMBs and pursue acquisitions in the US. Webidoo, an Italian-American AI company building software for small and medium-sized businesses, has closed a $25m funding round led by the IXC3 fund managed by Azimut Libera Impresa SGR. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Tomoro was created in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI. The Edinburgh and London-based firm built AI concierges for Virgin Atlantic, in-game support agents for Supercell, and deployment systems for Fidelity International, Tesco, Red Bull, Mattel, and the NBA. It grew monthly revenue tenfold in 12 months. It pledged 10 million pounds to Scottish AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Jan Oberhauser started n8n in 2019 as a side project in Berlin because the workflow automation tools he used at work were too expensive and too closed. Seven years later, SAP has embedded his company’s software inside Joule Studio, the agent-building environment at the centre of the Autonomous Enterprise platform that SAP unveiled at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase filed paperwork on Tuesday for its second tokenized money market fund, four months after becoming the largest global systemically important bank to put a fund on the Ethereum blockchain. The JPMorgan OnChain Liquidity-Token Money Market Fund, ticker JLTXX, will issue digital tokens on Ethereum representing shares in a portfolio of US Treasuries […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Google killed the Chromebook. It took 15 years, but the company that invented the browser-as-operating-system has concluded that a browser is not enough. At the Android Show on Monday, Google unveiled Googlebook, a new category of premium laptops running Android with Gemini embedded at the operating system level. The devices will ship this autumn […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Christian Klein opened the SAP Sapphire keynote on Monday with a question that no chief executive of Europe’s most valuable technology company should need to ask. “Will SAP be a software company in the future?” The answer, delivered by SAP’s own AI assistant Joule at the end of the presentation, was that SAP is becoming […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a deal worth up to 15.2 billion dollars with Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, China’s largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalisation. The agreement covers 13 early-stage drug programmes across oncology, haematology, and immunology. None of the drugs have entered human clinical trials. The deal was announced on the same day that […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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On Friday evening, China Central Television’s most-watched news programme broadcast footage that has never been shown publicly. The Chip Fundamental Technology Research Laboratory at Huawei’s Lianqiu Lake campus in Shanghai appeared on Xinwen Lianbo, the state-run bulletin that reaches more than 200 million viewers nightly, in a segment showing Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei hosting […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Deepak Ahuja, the chief financial officer who took Tesla public in 2010 and served two terms steering its finances through the most volatile period in automotive history, has joined Redwood Materials as CFO. He told TechCrunch it is “too early” to talk about an IPO. Companies that are not thinking about an IPO do […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Satya Nadella told a federal jury on Monday that he feared Microsoft would become “the next IBM” while OpenAI became the next Microsoft. The admission, drawn from an April 2022 internal email presented by Elon Musk’s lead attorney, reveals the strategic anxiety that drove the largest corporate investment in artificial intelligence history. Microsoft did […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Google has identified the first zero-day exploit it believes was developed with artificial intelligence. The criminal threat actor that built it planned to use it in a mass exploitation event. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group discovered the vulnerability before it was deployed, worked with the affected vendor to patch it, and disrupted the operation. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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General Motors is laying off 500 to 600 salaried IT workers and replacing them with engineers who know how to build AI systems. The cuts, centred in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, represent more than 10 per cent of GM’s IT department. The company is not reducing headcount for cost savings. It is executing what […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Picture a woman in her mid-30s assessing her options, balancing household expenses with a long‑held ambition to enter a more purpose‑driven profession. A transition into teaching or nursing holds deep meaning, yet most degree pathways require time away from a steady income and a financial commitment that demands careful planning. The desire to move forward […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The new platform pairs GPT-5.5 variants with Codex Security and a roster of enterprise security partners, all aimed at defenders. OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative aimed at finding software vulnerabilities, generating patches, and validating fixes inside enterprise codebases. The launch positions OpenAI directly against Anthropic’s Mythos, which has spent the past few months […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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While AI peers chase billion-dollar megafunds, the Eventbrite founder’s venture firm has gone the other way. Kevin Hartz, the Eventbrite co-founder turned long-time seed investor, has closed a $450m fund at A*, his San Francisco venture firm, according to Bloomberg. The vehicle pointedly avoids the multi-billion-dollar AI megafund template that has dominated venture fundraising for […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Waymo is recalling 3,791 robotaxis in the United States after federal regulators identified a software flaw that could send the vehicles into flooded roads at higher speeds, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday. The recall covers vehicles running both the fifth- and sixth-generation Waymo Driver, the Alphabet unit’s automated driving system. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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