A €2.06 million EU grant gives the Grenoble deep-tech startup non-dilutive runway to industrialise a four-component technology platform, and moves it one step closer to its first commercial drilling campaign. Fourteen months after closing a €3.4 million seed round backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Kiko Ventures, Mantle8 has secured a second source […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The automaker has launched a pilot at its Leipzig plant using Hexagon Robotics’ AEON humanoid. The move follows a successful 11-month run in the US with Figure AI’s robots, and arrives just as the production chief who championed the programme prepares to take the top job. A new colleague has arrived on the shop floor […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Lithuanian food marketplace Saltz pulls in a €20M Series A backed by the EBRD, Inovo, Lifeline, and a roster of Baltic tech founders, to digitalise how restaurants across Europe source their ingredients. When Andrius and Tomas Šlimas sold their dropshipping platform Oberlo to Shopify in 2017, they could have sat out the next decade comfortably. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The timing is not coincidental. In October 2025, Escape published research that scanned more than 5,600 publicly deployed applications built with vibe coding platforms, tools like Lovable, Base44, and Bolt.new that let non-developers build and ship apps by describing what they want in plain English. The results were stark: over 2,000 high-impact vulnerabilities, hundreds of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise agent platform launched just a month ago. When Ian Webster was leading the LLM engineering team at Discord, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A Puglia-based startup founded by the man behind aircraft maker Blackshape has closed a pre-seed round to build software-defined ships and maritime AI. The ocean, it argues, is the last major physical environment not yet governed by software. Mirai Robotics, a startup headquartered in Puglia, southern Italy, wants to change that. The company has closed […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The UK hyperscaler has now raised over $4.5bn across equity rounds in less than six months, and says it is the largest Series C ever closed in Europe. That claim deserves scrutiny. When Josh Payne founded Nscale, the company was barely a year old, and the world’s appetite for GPU compute had not yet tipped […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of February 2026, anarchists severed electrical cables near Bologna on the opening day of the Milan–Cortina […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Telura has come out of stealth with €4 million and a bold claim: it can make deep geothermal economically viable almost anywhere on Earth. The problem with geothermal energy has never been the heat. The Earth’s core sits at roughly 5,000 degrees Celsius, and the thermal gradient beneath the surface is consistent enough that, in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The new deal ties Google’s CEO to the future of its most ambitious bets, and signals that the board has finally decided they’re bets worth making. Sundar Pichai has run Google since 2015 and Alphabet since 2019. In that time, the company’s market value has grown from roughly $535 billion to approximately $3.6 trillion. On […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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If you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed to add a “write with AI” button, and the industry spent its collective energy arguing about whether Google would penalize AI-written […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The camera nods, dances to music, and tracks faces. The rest of the specs are a secret. Something unusual happened at Mobile World Congress this year. A device sat in a glass case at the Honor booth in Hall 3, present, demonstrably functional, performing little robotic gestures for anyone who stopped to watch, and yet […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking its contract has now claimed OpenAI’s most senior hardware executive. Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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On March 8, 2026, in honour of International Women’s Day, a new edition of SheBuilds on Lovable invited builders from around the world to a 24-hour global, powered by Anthropic. On top of that, participants in the SheBuilds campaign receive $100 in Anthropic API credits and $250 in Stripe fee credits to kickstart their builds […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nvidia has become shorthand for the AI market itself. In the years since generative models reshaped computing, the company’s GPUs have powered everything from large-scale training clusters to real-time inference infrastructure. That dominance helped Nvidia’s stock surge over 1,500 percent from 2022 into 2025 and made it one of the most valuable tech firms in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The UK government announced new regulatory requirements that will bring major video-on-demand (VoD) platforms under tighter oversight by Ofcom, aligning them more closely with traditional television broadcasters. The changes are part of implementing the Media Act 2024 and mark one of the most significant shifts in how online streaming services are governed in the UK. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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VoiceLine, a Munich-based startup that builds voice-first artificial intelligence for enterprise frontline workers, has closed €10 million in Series A funding to accelerate growth, expand its product and bring its technology to more customers across Europe and beyond. The round was led by Alstin Capital and Peak, with continued participation from existing backers including Scalehouse […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI is broadening how it helps large organizations put artificial intelligence into real use. The company announced a new initiative, Frontier Alliances, teaming up with four major consulting firms, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini, to help enterprises move beyond pilot AI projects and embed intelligent systems deeply into business workflows. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In 2026, one of Europe’s most ambitious scientific ventures, Horizon Europe, a seven-year, roughly €93 billion framework dedicated to research and innovation, underwent a quiet but significant transformation. What had once been an open invitation to researchers across the globe now carries a more guarded tenor. In critical areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Brussels-based investor Syndicate One has hit a funding milestone with the €22 million first close of its second early-stage tech fund, underscoring a growing confidence in Belgium’s startup ecosystem. The new capital builds on the firm’s first fund, which closed at €6.5 million in late 2024, and will be deployed to support early-stage Belgian tech […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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