Behavox has raised $175 million in preferred equity from HPS Investment Partners, the private credit firm that BlackRock acquired for $12 billion last year. The funding will go toward expanding Behavox’s unified AI compliance platform and pursuing acquisitions. It is the company’s first equity raise in six years. As part of the deal, Behavox fully repaid and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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PsiQuantum has broken ground on a facility in Moreton Bay, Queensland, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The site will eventually hold tens of thousands of photonic quantum chips cooled by one of the largest cryogenic systems ever constructed for quantum computing. Victor Peng, PsiQuantum’s […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple investors are losing patience with the company’s AI strategy. The stock is coming off its worst week since February after the annual Worldwide Developers Conference failed to convince Wall Street that a long-promised upgrade cycle is any closer to arriving. “There’s a bit of fatigue with Apple and AI,” Tim Chubb, chief investment officer at Girard, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydropower market for decades, according to Bloomberg. The law converts EDF’s hydropower concessions into permits and requires the state-owned utility to auction 6 gigawatts of capacity each year under the supervision of France’s energy regulator, CRE. EDF […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis used a closed-door lunch at the G7 summit on Wednesday to call for a US-led coalition that would shape international rules and standards for artificial intelligence, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions who spoke to CNBC on condition of anonymity. Canadian Prime Minister […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company that went public at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021, has officially renamed itself Smartbird and appointed a new chief executive to lead its pivot into AI compute. Shares surged more than 50% on Wednesday morning before pulling back. The rebrand completes a transformation first announced in April, when the company […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social media ban for teens, breaking from the approach taken by Britain and France. “I am not against a social media ban for under-16s, but I am not either convinced that this proposal alone can solve […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Amazon’s AI chief has said what the market long suspected. Peter DeSantis, the senior vice president who oversees the company’s AI models, custom chips, and quantum computing, told CNBC that Amazon’s models “haven’t been at the very frontier for the very largest, most demanding workloads.” He added that he hopes Amazon will be “in the conversation about […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Sir Keir Starmer’s government spent the weekend lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic’s most capable AI models. A source close to President Trump told The Telegraph there was “zero chance” of a UK carve-out. The rejection lands as Starmer meets Trump at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, where the ban is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Mastodon is betting that email, the oldest surviving communication protocol on the internet, can solve its biggest problem: reaching people who will never create a fediverse account. The open-source social network released version 4.6 on Tuesday, and its most strategically significant feature is the ability for creators to send their posts directly to email subscribers. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Gary Marcus has spent years warning that the AI industry is building on shaky foundations. Now he sees a specific chain of dominoes: if OpenAI’s IPO underperforms, the fallout will not stop at one company. “Their values rely to a significant degree on the expectation that OpenAI will have an immense demand for chips and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Clair Health, a San Francisco startup founded by two Stanford graduates, has raised $11.6 million in seed funding to build what it calls the first continuous, noninvasive hormone monitor for women. Khosla Ventures led the round, with participation from a16z speedrun, Brydge Club, Treehub, Cartan Capital, AGI House, Insiders VC, and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 a share on 12 June. Five days later, the stock has climbed nearly 50%, pushing SpaceX past Amazon to become the fifth most valuable public company in the world at roughly $2.66 trillion. That surge is not just making shareholders richer. It is making acquisitions cheaper. The Cursor deal On Monday, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Half of American adults now use AI chatbots, but a plurality believe the technology will ultimately damage society, and overwhelming majorities have lost confidence that either the government or the companies building it will manage it responsibly. A new Pew Research Center report released Wednesday, based on a survey of 5,119 US adults conducted in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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More than one million people in the Netherlands now rely exclusively on social media for news, according to the 2026 Digital News Report published on Tuesday. They use no news websites, no television, no radio, and only 12% say they trust what they encounter on those platforms. The group represents 7% of Dutch adults, up from 2% […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The problem with letting an AI agent loose inside a company is not that it might forget who it is. It is that it has no reason to hold back. A human employee is restrained by the fear of being fired. An agent, as one investor in Arcade.dev put it, “will exhaustively exploit every permission […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The race to power artificial intelligence has a problem that solar panels and wind turbines cannot fix on their own: the electricity has to be there at 3am, in still air, under cloud. Critical Energy, a Los Angeles startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer, has raised $22mn to chase that always-on demand with geothermal, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Marketing leaders have never had access to more data, yet proving the business impact of advertising has become increasingly difficult. As budgets face greater scrutiny and finance teams demand clearer evidence of return on investment, many chief marketing officers are discovering that traditional performance metrics no longer satisfy the questions being asked in the boardroom. Tal […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admission that winning it could cost a lot of people their jobs. The State Council, effectively China’s cabinet, has issued its blueprint for employment policy from 2026 to 2030. Buried in a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meteor.js is one of those open-source projects developers have lived with for years. It has over 44,800 GitHub stars, more than 500,000 active installations worldwide, and still sits inside products across many countries. Behind its largest release in over ten years, Meteor 3.0, is Henrique Schmaiske, CTO of Meteor Software, who started the work in April 2022 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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