Google’s financial performance has never been stronger. Alphabet posted $109.9 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, up 22 per cent year on year, the fastest growth rate in any quarter since 2022, with search advertising revenue climbing 19.1 per cent and queries hitting an all-time high. And yet the week before these numbers […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Stark Defence, the Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, has raised €500 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The deal values the company at more than three and a half billion euros, roughly triple the €1 billion mark it crossed earlier this year. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Seven of Europe’s largest technology companies have created a permanent dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, pressing the bloc to deregulate faster and let European firms consolidate. The group, which calls itself the European Tech Creators, collectively generates €417 billion in annual revenue, represents nearly €1.1 trillion in market capitalisation, and employs close […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea’s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country’s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy. The Bank of Korea warned this month that performance bonuses at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix could spread into broader wage increases and add upward […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Honda R&D, the independent research arm of Honda Motor Company, has signed a multiyear joint research agreement with California-based QuantumScape to develop and manufacture solid-state battery cells. The deal, announced on June 18, makes Honda the second major automaker to formally partner with QuantumScape after Volkswagen. The agreement follows Honda’s completion of an in-depth technology […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case data were stolen after hackers breached Klue, a competitive intelligence vendor that held OAuth tokens granting access to LastPass’s Salesforce environment. The breach did not compromise LastPass’s own infrastructure or its customers’ encrypted password vaults. The stolen data includes names, phone numbers, email […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Crypto firms have spent years trying to convince banks that they’re safe to do business with. Even now, with far more regulation in place than a few years ago, plenty of those firms still get turned away at the door. Jelizaveta Paskovskaja, Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) at CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid, has a clear explanation for […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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HaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, has raised seven million dollars in a seed round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture firm Seven Seven Six. The device works alongside professional stylists rather than replacing them: a braider starts each braid by hand and then hands off to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta has launched smart glasses under its own brand for the first time, pricing the Adventurer and Fury models at $299 each. The glasses match the hardware specifications of the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, which starts at $359, but ship without the Ray-Ban branding and licensing premium. A third model called Starfire, designed in collaboration […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In a former shop on Ginnekenstraat, a pedestrian street in the Dutch city of Breda, you can answer a short questionnaire about yourself and walk out less than an hour later holding a perfume that did not exist when you arrived. The questions are not the ones a sales assistant asks. What colour best represents […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Update: Anthropic says the incident has been identified and a fix is being implemented. The company says the issue affects Claude.ai, Claude Console, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Anthropic says it has identified a fix for elevated errors across multiple Claude models, just as the company is still explaining why it suspended access […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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For most of Luminvera’s short life, the pitch came with an AR wearable. The company, incorporated in March 2026 and run out of Silicon Valley, started as a bet that the right device could pull an industrial engineer out of what its founder, Lu Yang, likes to call the “2D Stone Age.” A flat monitor […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook and Instagram of exploitative design that hooks children. The Meta addictive design probe could end in a fine worth up to 6% of global sales. Brussels is about to turn up the heat on Meta. The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150mn a month for Nvidia chips at Colossus 2, a deal worth roughly $6.3bn by 2029. The SpaceX Reflection AI deal puts Nvidia on both sides of the trade. SpaceX has signed another giant compute tenant. This time it is Reflection AI, an open-source startup barely two years old. Reflection […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Cybersecurity has never been better at finding risk. Organizations can identify vulnerable servers, dormant user accounts, excessive privileges, exposed cloud assets, and software flaws in near real time. The market has rewarded that capability handsomely, with global cybersecurity spending projected to exceed the half-trillion-dollar range as enterprises continue investing in tools that promise greater visibility […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Bristol fusion startup Astral Systems has raised £23mn to scale the medical isotopes that cancer scans depend on. The Astral Systems £23M round backs a rare fusion company that already runs reactors and earns revenue. Most fusion companies promise clean power in a decade or two. Astral Systems is trying something different, and getting paid […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Groq has confirmed a $650mn raise to rebuild itself as an AI inference cloud, six months after Nvidia paid out its investors and hired away its founder. The Groq $650M round is a bet that purpose-built chips still beat GPUs. Groq spent years as one of the loudest challengers to Nvidia. Then, last December, Nvidia […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam firm that inspects chips at the atomic scale, has raised $380mn at a $1.6bn valuation. It is the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, and sovereign funds are paying close attention. Everyone knows the headline names of the AI chip boom. Nvidia designs the chips. TSMC makes them. ASML builds the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Qualcomm is closing in on a deal to buy AI-software startup Modular for about $4bn. The Qualcomm Modular deal would hand the chipmaker fresh ammunition in its fight to rival Nvidia. Qualcomm has entered advanced talks to acquire Modular, according to Bloomberg. The deal would value the AI-infrastructure software company at roughly $4bn. An announcement […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Abu Dhabi’s MGX AI fund has raised close to $50bn. For the first time, the emirate leaned on outside investors to do it, and the money is already going out the door. MGX is the Abu Dhabi investment firm built for the AI era. It has pulled in nearly $50bn for a single fund, according […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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