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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/17/2026 07:27 EDT

Gecko Robotics lands $71M Navy deal to send wall-climbing robots inside warships

The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavailable at any given time. Ships are queued in dry dock. Maintenance cycles […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/17/2026 03:55 EDT

eYou raises €300K pre-seed to build a European social media platform with real-time fact-checking baked in

Founded by two French serial entrepreneurs who have spent decades in Romania, the platform aims to be a trust-by-design alternative to X and Facebook, with a public launch set for May 2026. A new social media platform that embeds real-time fact-checking directly into the user experience has raised €300,000 in pre-seed funding from Fil Rouge […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/17/2026 03:24 EDT

Nvidia turns OpenClaw into an enterprise platform with NemoClaw

A single command now installs security, privacy guardrails, and local AI models on the world’s fastest-growing open-source agent platform. OpenClaw launched on 25 January 2026. Austrian developer Peter Steinberger says he built the first version in roughly an hour. Within weeks it had become one of the fastest-growing open-source repositories in GitHub history, an AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/17/2026 03:05 EDT

Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory floors. Universal Robots has launched the UR AI Trainer, a hardware-software system built in collaboration with Scale AI that allows operators to generate high-fidelity robot training data […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/17/2026 02:54 EDT

Nscale signs 1.35GW Microsoft LOI for a West Virginia AI campus built around NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin GPUs

Announced at GTC 2026, the deal covers around 430,000 next-generation NVIDIA GPUs, is backed by a Caterpillar natural gas power deal, and is built on a site described as the US’s first state-certified AI microgrid, with an 8GW potential footprint. Nscale has signed a letter of intent with Microsoft to provide 1.35 gigawatts of AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/17/2026 02:31 EDT

Restaurant tech startup Choice closes $7.1M Series A

The all-in-one SaaS platform for independent restaurants, processing 1.5 million orders a month across nine CEE markets, is now targeting Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Choice, the Prague-founded restaurant management platform that bundles ordering, payments, reservations, and marketplace integrations into a single subscription, has closed a $7.1 million Series A. The round […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Callum Turner @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 18:34 EDT

Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care

In the ubiquitous age of artificial intelligence, the technology appears as if it is largely earmarked for optimizing the mechanics of work. Buzzwords like speed, automation, efficiency, and productivity often dominate conversations that are shaping the digital era. Today, AI’s capability has expanded into streamlining operations at an unprecedented scale, yet even this magnitude of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Zander Phelps @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 18:11 EDT

The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play

We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as play. Spend five minutes scrolling, and you can feel the machinery of social media outrage at work: the pulse of outrage, the invitation to pick […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Callum Turner @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 17:41 EDT

Gateway Global AI and the vision behind a voice-first infrastructure platform designed to simplify enterprise AI integration

Artificial intelligence has become a central topic in business strategy discussions, yet many organizations continue to struggle with how to integrate it into everyday operations. Gateway Global AI, a technology company developing voice-first infrastructure, is approaching that challenge from a different angle. According to CTO Jason Trindade, the company focuses on simplifying how businesses deploy […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 10:54 EDT

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbatim, six months after the same companies sued Perplexity on nearly identical grounds. Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit against […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 09:16 EDT

Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing

The London-based healthtech company, which lets clinicians practise emergencies and difficult conversations in virtual reality, will use the capital to deepen its US footprint and accelerate AI-driven product development. Oxford Medical Simulation has raised £5 million in growth financing from Salica Investments, the London-based investment firm formerly known as Hambro Perks. The funding will support […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 08:41 EDT

Meta commits up to $27 billion to Nebius in one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record

The five-year agreement expands an existing relationship between the two companies and will involve one of the first large-scale deployments of Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips. Nebius shares surged 14% in pre-market trading. Meta has signed a new long-term AI infrastructure agreement with Dutch neocloud operator Nebius Group worth up to $27 billion over five […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 07:18 EDT

Most marketing agencies are held together by duct tape. GoHighLevel wants to fix that.

The average marketing agency juggles between six and 12 different software tools to manage clients: one for email, another for CRM, a third for funnels, something else for scheduling, a separate platform for reputation management, and probably a spreadsheet holding the whole thing together. Every new client means another round of logins, another integration to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 06:47 EDT

Italian AI startup Alomana raises €4M to bring autonomous workflows to the enterprise

CDP Venture Capital leads the round for the Milan-based company behind Alo, an AI operating layer already deployed in finance, manufacturing, and pharma. Alomana, a Milan-based AI startup building an operating layer for enterprise automation, has raised €4 million in a seed round led by CDP Venture Capital through its Corporate Partners I, ServiceTech fund. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 06:31 EDT

WhiteBridge AI raises $3M seed round

WhiteBridge AI, the Vilnius-based people-search and digital identity platform, has raised a $3 million seed round, equivalent to roughly €2.6 million, led by FIRSTPICK VC. The round also includes participation from First Degree, NGL.VC, Scalewolf.VC, BADideas.fund, Nectolabs, Plug and Play, and a group of angel investors. The company says the capital will fund expansion of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/16/2026 04:42 EDT

NVIDIA GTC 2026 opens today

NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 opens in San Jose today with 30,000 attendees, a keynote at the SAP Center, and announcements that could reshape the next two years of AI infrastructure, from Vera Rubin deep-dives to an enterprise agent platform and a gigawatt deal with Mira Murati’s startup.  San Jose goes green every March. The city’s convention […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/15/2026 09:02 EDT

Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)

From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London, one in Paris,accounted for nearly three billion dollars. But beyond the headline […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web 1 place · 03/14/2026 06:48 EDT

Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature

The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a decade, Spotify’s recommendation engine has worked largely in silence. It watched what you played, noted what you skipped, inferred meaning from the time of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Kunal Nain @ The Next Web 2 place · 03/14/2026 06:25 EDT

Rise of model context protocol in the agentic era

We have all heard about model context protocol (MCP) in the context of artificial intelligence. In this article, we will dive into what MCP is and why it is becoming more important by the day. When APIs are already available then why do we need MCP? Although we have seen a large rise in popularity […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web 3 place · 03/14/2026 06:09 EDT

Elon Musk is tearing xAI down to build it back up. Again.

The AI company he founded three years ago has lost six co-founders, is slashing staff, and trails badly in coding benchmarks. Musk’s remedy: rebuild from scratch, for the second time. In March 2023, Elon Musk launched xAI with 12 co-founders and a stated ambition to build “the most powerful AI in the world.” Three years […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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