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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give the developers who build on top of its models the tools to avoid creating the same problem. The company announced on Tuesday that it is releasing a set […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Enterprises have spent years and considerable fortunes building data lakehouses, training models, and unifying customer records inside platforms like Databricks. The harder problem, it turns out, is not building the intelligence but deploying it, getting a prediction out of a data warehouse and into a marketing decision before the moment passes. BlueConic, the Boston-based customer […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A cow wearing a GPS collar doesn’t sound like a $2 billion idea. But for the ranchers who have strung virtual fences across 60,000 miles of American pastureland in under two years, it apparently is. Halter, the New Zealand-born agtech company, announced on Monday that it has raised $220 million in Series E funding at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In the sprawl north of Dallas, where data centres are multiplying and the Texas grid groans under record demand, Energy Vault has placed a new bet on battery storage, and on the idea that the companies powering AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity will need far more of it, far faster. The California-based energy storage company […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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BNESIM, a global connectivity provider specializing in travel eSIM and digital communications, acknowledges the far-reaching influence artificial intelligence is having across industries. Operating in a space defined by constant movement, both in terms of people and technology, the company approaches this shift intentionally to evolve in parallel with it. “We believe that meaningful progress comes […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Tony Siu, founder of Coffee & Code Philadelphia and an AI engineer and community builder, aims to advance a model of ecosystem development that blends human connection with the thoughtful use of AI. His approach reflects a community-first, servitude-leadership philosophy where participation, shared learning, and developer advocacy evolve alongside scalable systems, offering insight into how […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Three years ago, institutional investors took a leap of faith when they purchased bonds backed by auto loans that an algorithm had selected. Now Pagaya Technologies is asking them to do it again, with the very same loans. The Israeli-founded, New York-headquartered fintech announced on Monday that it has closed a $450 million auto resecuritization […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The YC Fall 2025 startup, founded by a former Agicap GM and a former Apple Pay engineer, converts screen recordings of finance workflows directly into computer agents, no API integration required. 14 Peaks led the round, with Cohen Circle and 20VC participating. The CFO’s software stack is both the problem and the constraint. Enterprise finance […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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When Jensen Huang told 30,000 attendees at GTC last week that the future data centre is a “token factory,” he was describing a world that a small Israeli startup has been quietly building toward for months. NeuReality, the Caesarea-based company behind the NR-NEXUS inference operating system, has appointed Shalini Agarwal, a product management director at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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