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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/02/2026 02:21 EDT

Generare raises €20M to decode the 97% of microbial chemistry

The Paris techbio company screens microbial genomes to find molecules that evolution spent three billion years producing, and claims to have characterised more novel small molecules in 2025 than the rest of the field combined. Alven and Daphni co-led the Series A. Generare, the Paris-based techbio company reading microbial genomes for molecules that drug development […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 17:06 EDT

WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones

WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake application was built by SIO, an Italian surveillance technology company that develops spyware for law enforcement and intelligence agencies through its subsidiary ASIGINT. WhatsApp said it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 16:48 EDT

A former Swiss president just filed criminal charges over AI-generated abuse. The target is Grok.

Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland’s finance minister and the country’s former president, has filed criminal charges for defamation and insult after Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was prompted by an anonymous user to generate a torrent of sexist and vulgar remarks about her on X. The complaint, filed on 20 March with the Bern public prosecutor’s office, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 16:28 EDT

SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in history. The conflicts of interest are staggering.

SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares to the public, according to multiple sources familiar with the registration, setting the stage for what would be the largest initial public offering in history and almost certainly making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The offering, internally code-named Project Apex, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 16:10 EDT

Legora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.

Eighteen months ago, Legora was a Stockholm startup with a handful of law-firm clients and roughly $1 million in annual recurring revenue. On Tuesday, the company told Business Insider that it has crossed $100 million in ARR, a milestone that in enterprise software typically takes the better part of a decade. Max Junestrand, Legora’s 26-year-old […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Sam L. Savage @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 14:24 EDT

A New Way to Improve Your Chances

What is it worth to increase your chance of success? Or to reduce the chance of a costly failure? For most of modern history, we have not been able to answer those questions clearly. We have relied on averages: simple, clean, and often misleading. That is starting to change. A new class of tools, which […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 13:55 EDT

Geely says it will stop building factories and start borrowing everyone else’s instead

Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who bought Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has arrived at a conclusion that many of his peers in the global automotive industry have been slower to reach: the world has too many car factories, and building more of them […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 13:38 EDT

A jury just told Meta and YouTube their platforms are defective products. Thousands of lawsuits are waiting.

Mark Lanier, the folksy Texas litigator who doubles as a part-time pastor, held a jar of M&Ms in front of the Los Angeles jury and told them that each one represented a billion dollars of Meta’s market capitalisation. There were, by that maths, roughly 1,400 sweets in the jar. The jury awarded his client six […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 13:10 EDT

Hasbro has been hacked, and the maker of Peppa Pig says recovery could take weeks

Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Power Rangers ,disclosed on Wednesday that it had identified unauthorised access to its systems, an intrusion first detected on 28 March that has since […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 11:57 EDT

OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you

Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $100 million in annualised revenue, drawn more than 600 advertisers, and reached fewer than a fifth of eligible users. Now OpenAI is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 11:31 EDT

A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering that still dot the American landscape were designed for a grid that moved power […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 11:00 EDT

Klarna just struck a $1.7 billion deal to free up capital for $40 billion in lending. Its stock is down 76 per cent from its IPO high.

Six months after listing on the New York Stock Exchange at $40 a share, Klarna is trading at roughly $12. The Swedish buy-now-pay-later company that once symbolised European fintech’s arrival on Wall Street has lost more than three quarters of its market value since its September debut. On Tuesday, it announced a $1.7 billion significant […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 10:41 EDT

More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.

On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze, scattered across the city’s roads and elevated highways, some in the middle lane of ring roads with traffic streaming past on both sides. Passengers trapped […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 09:35 EDT

Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.

Three months after Australia became the first country in the world to ban children under 16 from holding social media accounts, its online safety regulator says the platforms are not doing enough to make the ban work. eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant released her first compliance report on Tuesday, alleging that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 09:26 EDT

China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.

Nexchip Semiconductor filed for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday, joining a stampede of Chinese chip companies turning to the city’s capital markets as Beijing pours resources into building a domestic semiconductor supply chain that can withstand American export controls. The Hefei-based foundry, China’s third largest behind SMIC and Hua Hong […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 06:00 EDT

Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding

The Copenhagen-based health AI company built Symphony on peer-reviewed research from the largest medical coding study of its kind, treating coding as a reasoning task rather than a labelling problem. It’s available via API now. Medical coding, the process of converting clinical notes, diagnoses, and procedures into standardised alphanumeric codes used for billing, reporting, and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 05:57 EDT

Credibur hits €2B in debt facility volume on its private credit infrastructure platform

The Berlin fintech, which raised $2.2M in pre-seed in July 2025, has connected clients managing €2 billion in structured debt portfolios to its continuous monitoring and reconciliation platform, faster than almost any comparable infrastructure startup. Credibur, the Berlin-based infrastructure fintech building operational control software for non-bank lenders and their capital providers, has reached €2 billion […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 05:17 EDT

Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”

The Tallinn-based platform, formerly WOIS.io, hosts over 1,000 professionals including Rovio co-founder Peter Vesterbacka and ex-Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John. AI handles routine questions; high-value queries go to the expert via 1:1 asynchronous video. Pickmybrain, the Tallinn-based platform that turns professionals’ expertise into AI-powered “Digital Brains,” has raised a $2.1 million pre-seed round from a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 04:57 EDT

Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant

The Swiss startup’s Turbe project at the Evos terminal in the Port of Rotterdam will be the first commercial deployment of its aerobrew methanol-to-jet technology, and a blueprint for large-scale e-SAF production across Europe. Metafuels, the Swiss aviation technology company developing synthetic sustainable aviation fuel, has been awarded €1.92 million in grant funding from the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/01/2026 04:38 EDT

Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M

The all-female-founded company, backed by Oura Health co-founders and Business Finland, uses brainwave entrainment to support focus, sleep, and recovery via background audio. Its new Sleep Headband targets secure environments where phones are banned. Audicin, the Finnish neurotechnology company using brainwave entrainment and auditory engineering to support nervous system regulation, has raised $1.9 million in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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