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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/26/2026 04:51 EDT

Arkadia Space raises €14.5M for green propulsion system

The Spanish propulsion startup, based at Castellón Airport, is the first Spanish space company selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Its DARK system became the first hydrogen peroxide propulsion system flown in orbit in Europe, launching on a SpaceX mission in March 2025. Most of the satellites currently operating in orbit are kept in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/26/2026 03:54 EDT

EU-Startups Summit returns to Malta in May with 2,500 attendees, and 80+ speakers

The 12th edition of one of Europe’s longest-running startup events takes place on 7–8 May in Valletta. Alongside the usual pitch competition and investor matchmaking, this year’s programme includes a media panel featuring founders and editors from some of the continent’s most-read tech publications. Most startup founders know they need press coverage. Far fewer know […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 17:06 EDT

Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication

Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent, and SanDisk fell 5.7 per cent, as investors recalculated how much physical memory the AI industry might actually need. The algorithm is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 16:39 EDT

Jury finds Meta and YouTube built ‘addiction machines’ that harmed a child, awards $3 million in landmark trial

A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman’s mental health, awarding her $3 million in compensatory damages in what is the first trial verdict of its kind in the United States. The decision, delivered on Wednesday after a five-week trial, found […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 16:28 EDT

A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room

A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects users by shared interests and geographic proximity, then deliberately limits chat functionality to push them toward face-to-face meetings rather than […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 13:01 EDT

Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues

Pepper, a New York-based technology platform for independent food distributors, has acquired Alima, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built ordering and procurement software for small food distributors in Latin America. The deal, announced on Tuesday with no disclosed financial terms, brings Alima’s two cofounders into Pepper’s leadership team and extends the company’s push into AI-driven […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 12:40 EDT

Your finance team is still chasing invoices. Here’s why that costs more than you think

The average small business processes around 500 invoices per month. When that workflow runs on email threads, spreadsheets, and manual check runs, each invoice costs somewhere between $15 and $40 to handle. That is not a technology problem. It is an operational tax on growth, and most finance teams have been paying it for years […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 12:32 EDT

London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure

Granola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. The round values the company at $1.5 billion, a sixfold increase from its $250 million […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 11:57 EDT

Decathlon doubles warehouse output with Exotec’s climbing robots across seven European sites

The world’s largest sporting goods retailer has turned seven of its European warehouses over to robots, and the early results suggest the machines are earning their keep. Decathlon announced on Tuesday that its partnership with Exotec, a French warehouse robotics company, has delivered what it calls significant productivity gains across sites in France, the United […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 11:27 EDT

Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles

Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected employees. The layoffs are the latest in a rolling series of workforce reductions that have accelerated sharply in 2026, as the company redirects resources toward artificial […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 10:02 EDT

OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working.

Last September, when OpenAI quietly released the Sora 2 app to the public, the discourse around it was not quiet at all. Commentators who had spent months watching the model’s preview clips, the golden retriever bounding through autumn leaves, the Tokyo street scene that looked almost real, lined up to declare that something had shifted. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 08:49 EDT

PAVE Space raises $40M to build orbital transfer vehicles

The Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in European space. Visionaries Club and Creandum led; Lombard Odier, Atlantic Labs, and Sistafund also participated. The satellite lifecycle has a structural inefficiency baked in. Launch vehicles deliver payloads […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 07:29 EDT

Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capital led the round; HSBC Innovation Banking UK also contributed growth financing. One CFO told Origin’s CEO […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 07:03 EDT

RWS launches Language Weaver Pro

The AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in internal benchmarking against DeepL and Gemini. The model is natively integrated into the Trados portfolio. The problem RWS is describing is a real one in enterprise translation: the tools that move […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 05:39 EDT

Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla Ventures participated. The gap between an AI agent that works in a demo and one that works in production is, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 05:21 EDT

Openreach expands collaboration with Google Cloud AI to plan its full-fibre rollout

The BT subsidiary, operator of the UK’s largest broadband network and the country’s second-largest commercial fleet, has built a digital twin of the UK’s transport and broadband infrastructure on Vertex AI, and is using Gemini Enterprise to cut engineering overhead by more than half. Openreach, the BT subsidiary that operates the UK’s largest broadband network, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 04:51 EDT

Epoch Biodesign closes $12M to prove its nylon recycling enzymes can work at scale

The London startup uses AI-engineered enzymes to break nylon 6,6 waste, from leggings to airbags to carpets, back into the monomers it was made from, recovering more than 90% and removing the need for virgin petroleum feedstock. Total funding now exceeds $50M. Nylon 6,6 is one of the most useful materials humanity has ever made. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 04:32 EDT

Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout

The deal, Amazon’s second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company’s portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed. The race to put a humanoid robot in every home has a new entrant. Amazon has acquired Fauna […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 04:01 EDT

The OpenAI Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion this year

The nonprofit that controls OpenAI has outlined four programme areas, Alzheimer’s, jobs, AI resilience, and community, and brought on two senior hires to run the biggest of them. The gap between its charitable history and its new ambitions is the most striking number in their announcement. When OpenAI moved its operational activities into a for-profit […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 03/25/2026 03:23 EDT

This team password manager costs $1.50/user and just added the features businesses actually need

Somewhere in your company right now, someone is sharing a login credential through Slack, a sticky note, or a spreadsheet named “passwords_final_v3.” You know it. They know it. And eventually, an attacker will know it too. This article contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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