Google Finance is exiting beta with a wave of new features, including a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, an AI-powered research tool, and scheduled market briefings. The updates mark the broadest expansion of the platform since Google began rebuilding it with Gemini AI in August 2025, and the company says an iOS version will follow […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Sail Research has raised $80m to make AI agents cheaper to run. The startup, founded by ex-Apple and ex-NVIDIA engineers, says it can serve the tokens agents burn through at up to 10 times lower cost. AI agents are hungry. Leave one running for hours and it can chew through billions of tokens on a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Coval has raised $28m to test AI voice agents before they reach real callers. Its founder built the same kind of safety checks for Waymo’s self-driving cars, and thinks voice needs them just as badly. An AI voice agent can sound flawless in a demo and fall apart on a real call. It trips over […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Taktile has raised $110m in a Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The startup wants banks and insurers to hand their riskiest decisions to AI agents, the calls that cost millions when they go wrong. Banks and insurers spend billions on people to screen risky transactions, process claims and vet new customers. Get one […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round follows what the company says is 800 percent annual recurring revenue growth and more than 35 live deployments at GPU clusters around the world, including operations […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Trump administration has barred Polestar from selling new electric vehicles in the United States, denying the Geely-owned automaker authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The decision, first reported by TechCrunch, means Polestar will not be able to sell any new models in the US once the rule’s software restrictions take effect for model year […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The technology they are building could upend the American job market, and almost nobody […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning maker of AI image and video enhancement tools. The deal hands Adobe upscaling, restoration and on-device AI as creators blend captured and generated footage. Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, an AI company that sharpens, upscales and restores images and video. The two firms signed a definitive […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Toyota is gaining on General Motors in the race for America’s sales crown, and the gap is now the narrowest it has been in half a decade. A new forecast from Cox Automotive, released on Wednesday, projects Toyota will sell approximately 1,250,000 vehicles in the United States through the first half of the year, up […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Scaled Cognition has raised $100M led by Khosla Ventures to build AI that does not hallucinate. The startup says its model will not give a wrong answer, a bold claim in a field built on probability. Scaled Cognition, a Mountain View AI lab, has raised $100m in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn in December. The payments company is now pivoting to “autonomous finance” and AI agents that transact on your behalf. Airwallex, the global payments platform, has raised $320m in a Series H round. The deal values the company at $11bn, up from $8bn in December […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The era of AI was ushered in with dazzling displays of its seemingly endless capabilities and a promise to change the world. After OpenAI sparked the generative AI boom in 2022, the pace and scale of AI growth in just about every major industry have been staggering. These days, although many of the promises have been materializing, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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French insurtech Alan has raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation, just months after its last round. The Paris company is betting that AI-driven prevention can reshape health insurance. Alan, the French health insurance company, has raised €480m ($550m). The deal values the Paris firm at €5.5bn ($6.3bn). Dutch investor Prosus led the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Most teams don’t go shopping for the best contract management software until something slips. A renewal auto-fires nobody approved. A signed agreement sits in someone’s inbox instead of a searchable record. An auditor asks for a contract trail and the scramble begins. The right platform turns that mess into one organized system, and in 2026 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The multi-year deal puts Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange behind the team’s car design, race strategy and trackside data, with branding on the AMR26 from the Austrian Grand Prix. A single Formula One race weekend can throw off more than a terabyte of telemetry, streaming in real time from hundreds of sensors on each car to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Brussels opened talks with Washington over Anthropic after a US export-control order cut Europe off from the company’s two most capable models, ENISA included. To get its hands on an American AI model, the European Union has had to negotiate not with the company that makes it but with the government that can switch it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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On The Axios Show, Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “fumbled” its lead in AI, dismissed the jobs apocalypse, and finally called his SPAC incentives “grossly misaligned.” Here is what the investor told Axios. Chamath Palihapitiya does not do quiet interviews. On The Axios Show, the investor and All-In podcast co-host ranged across Meta’s AI stumble, the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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For one week every June, the advertising industry decamps to the French Riviera to take its own temperature. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, now in its 72nd year, ran from 16 to 20 June 2025 and drew roughly 15,000 delegates from 90 countries, the sort of crowd that turns a seaside town into […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The AI boom has been an abstract thing for most consumers, a story about data centres and model launches happening somewhere else. This week it arrived somewhere concrete: the price of a Mac. Apple is raising prices on Macs and iPads to offset the soaring cost of memory and storage chips, the bill for an […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes chips, and chips take capital. TensorX and Solstice said they would supply the second to help buy the first, announcing a partnership […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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