SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its Starship megarocket and is pushing for a launch cadence that would make space access resemble an airline schedule rather than a government programme, Reuters reported on Friday, drawing on the company’s confidential pre-IPO prospectus. The figure quantifies, for the first time, the cumulative cost of the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In January 2026, a new AI-generated micro-drama went live on a Chinese streaming platform every 90 seconds. By March, approximately 50,000 AI-native titles had been added to Douyin in a single month. The production cost was roughly one-tenth of a live-action shoot. The usable rate of AI-generated footage had climbed above 90 per cent. And […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Uber has acquired the main remaining alternative taxi-hailing app in the city. Acquired five months before Hong Kong’s new ride-hailing licences are expected to come into force, the move locks in Uber’s consolidated position before competitors Didi, Tada and Amap can use the licensing transition as an opening. Uber is acquiring Hong Kong’s Fly Taxi, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The firm’s new ‘AI productivity gains and the performance paradox’ report concludes that most current AI applications ‘accelerate existing work’ without redesigning workflows, a finding McKinsey is publishing while targeting 1:1 parity between its 40,000 human consultants and 40,000 AI agents by year-end. McKinsey’s strategy practice has published a new analysis arguing that the corporate […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Most of the umbilical cord blood collected at birth is discarded. The tissue is clamped, cut, and disposed of as medical waste, along with the stem cells it contains, cells that are immunologically naive, genetically diverse, and capable of being reprogrammed into virtually any cell type in the human body. The New York Blood Center […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The social platform beat Wall Street estimates across every line, raised Q2 guidance above consensus, and reported $1m in capital expenditure, a striking contrast to the hyperscaler capex arms race. Reddit reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $663 million, up 69% year on year and 8.5% above the $611 million Wall Street consensus, in earnings released […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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At a Thursday town hall, the Meta CEO made the explicit trade-off he had previously left implicit: ‘We basically have two major cost centres in the company: compute infrastructure and people-oriented things.’ The chief people officer also declined to rule out additional layoffs Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attributed the company’s upcoming layoffs to its rising […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The United States government now owes more than the country produces. Data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on 30 April showed that debt held by the public stood at $31.27 trillion at the end of March, while nominal GDP over the preceding 12 months was $31.22 trillion, pushing the ratio to 100.2 per […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Norway-founded company’s vertically integrated NEO factory in Hayward marks the first US-scale push to put a general-purpose humanoid robot into private homes, with shipments planned this year and a competitive field that is already crowded 1X Technologies has opened a 58,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Hayward, California, to produce its NEO humanoid robot at consumer […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In February 2026, workers at Sama, a Nairobi-based outsourcing company contracted by Meta, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that they had been reviewing footage captured by users of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. The footage included people having sex, going to the toilet, undressing, and handling bank details. The workers’ job was to label […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Q1 revenue of $1.41 billion grew 20% year on year, the highest reported rate since 2022, as the cloud communications platform repositions itself as enterprise voice AI infrastructure. Twilio raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth forecast to 14-15%, up from 11.5-12.5%, after reporting first-quarter results that beat expectations across every major metric on Thursday. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Anthropic’s most controversial product has spent its first three weeks moving between state actors who cannot agree on whether it is theirs to use, theirs to block, or someone else’s problem entirely. On Wednesday morning, an unnamed Trump administration official told the Wall Street Journal that the White House opposed Anthropic’s plan to expand access […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple reported its best March quarter in history on Thursday, posting revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 per cent year over year, with net profit of $29.6 billion. iPhone revenue reached a March quarter record of $58 billion, up 22 per cent, driven by what Tim Cook called “extraordinary” demand for the iPhone 17, which […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Octopus Energy Generation has committed $500 million to Living Carbon, a San Francisco biotech company that plants trees on degraded land to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The deal, announced on 30 April, will fund reforestation projects across North America with the goal of removing up to 50 million tonnes of CO₂ over 40 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Greg Brockman’s comments at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026 conference fit a pattern of AI lab leaders citing self-reinforcing productivity numbers, but the underlying evidence on AI coding productivity remains substantially more contested than the headline figure suggests. OpenAI president Greg Brockman said AI is now writing roughly 80% of the company’s code at Sequoia Capital’s […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser that turned Microsoft from a software company into an internet company and triggered the most consequential antitrust case in technology history. In 2015, he co-founded CTRL-labs, a neural interface startup that built a wristband capable of translating electrical […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director has called being ‘collateral damage’ in a war that is not really about them. The Internet Archive has preserved more than one trillion […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Lee family of South Korea, which controls Samsung, has doubled its wealth in twelve months. Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index now values the dynasty’s holdings at $45.5 billion, up from $22.7 billion a year ago, propelling the Lees from tenth to third among Asia’s richest families. The catalyst is not a new product or a management […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI has released a security feature for ChatGPT accounts that treats them the way banks treat online banking: hardware keys, no passwords, no email recovery, and no help from customer support if you lose access. The feature, called Advanced Account Security, is an opt-in setting that requires users to authenticate with two passkeys, two hardware […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta posted the most profitable quarter in its history and the stock dropped 9 per cent. Revenue rose 33 per cent to $56.31 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimate of $55.49 billion. Net income reached $26.8 billion, up 61 per cent year over year. And for the first time since Meta began reporting its “family” of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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