A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying to give them better tools. It wants to replace them. Lightbringer has raised $10m (€8.6m) in a Series A to take its self-styled ‘AI-native patent firm’ into the United States, the world’s […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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No company in the AI industry has done more to warn the public about the technology it is building than Anthropic. No company has had those warnings turned against it quite so brutally. In the past six months, Anthropic has published a 19,000-word essay on civilisational risk, weakened its own safety pledge, been designated a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Most of the AI industry is trying to fix hallucinations by building bigger, smarter models. A startup called Probably is betting on the opposite. The company has raised $9m in a seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, with Tokyo Black and Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, to catch AI’s factual errors before they ever reach […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to ratify the Turnberry Agreement, the trade deal struck at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort in July 2025. The final tally was 440 in favour, 151 against, with 50 abstentions. Under the deal, the EU will eliminate most tariffs on US industrial goods. In return, the US caps tariffs on […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Hydra Host has raised $100m to build the plumbing of the AI boom, and one of its new backers is the company whose chips it is trying to turn into a commodity: Nvidia. The Series A was led by Kindred Ventures, with Nvidia joining alongside ARK Invest, Comcast Ventures, Magnetar, PEAK6 and others. The Information, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Commodore, the computer brand that defined the 1980s, is back with a flip phone, and its main selling point is everything it will not let you do. The Callback 8020, announced on Tuesday, is a clamshell that runs modern apps but blocks web browsers and social media outright. Pre-orders open on 30 June, prices start […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn, a bet that the way to take on Stripe is to own every step of a payment, not just one. The Canadian firm will pay $7.40 a share in cash for Payoneer, the cross-border specialist listed on Nasdaq, in a deal both boards have approved. It ends Payoneer’s roughly […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The US Justice Department has taken Elon Musk’s side in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering his AI data centre are too important to national security to switch off. In a filing on Monday, the department, joined by the state of Mississippi, asked a court to dismiss the case the NAACP brought […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta’s Threads has crossed 500 million monthly users, the company said on Tuesday, almost exactly three years after it launched to chase Elon Musk’s X. That is 100 million more than last August, and it puts Mark Zuckerberg halfway to the 1 billion-user goal he set on day one. Alongside the milestone, Threads is shipping […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Qualcomm’s chief executive thinks the app as you know it is on the way out, and that the phone in your pocket is about to lose its place at the centre of your digital life. ‘Agents are going to be the new app,’ Cristiano Amon told CNBC’s The Tech Download podcast. Apps are ‘not dead,’ […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SpaceX has made it official. In a filing on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s newly public rocket company said it had signed a binding agreement to buy Anysphere, the startup behind the popular AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock deal that values the company at $60bn. It confirms an option SpaceX first disclosed in April, and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI still rules AI by sheer size, but it is no longer running away with it. ChatGPT’s apps crossed 1 billion monthly users in May, the fastest any app has reached the milestone, according to Sensor Tower’s State of AI 2026 report. Yet on the metric that pays the bills, Anthropic’s Claude is pulling ahead: […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The race to secure non-human identities just produced its second deal of the day. SailPoint, the Austin-based identity-security giant, said it plans to buy Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that finds and protects the credentials, keys and machine accounts that now swarm through every cloud. The companies did not disclose a price; Calcalist reports it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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1Password is buying its way into the agentic enterprise. The Toronto identity-security company said on Monday it has acquired Apono, an Israeli startup that decides, in real time, what every human, machine and AI agent is allowed to touch inside a company’s systems. Neither side disclosed a price; the Israeli outlet Calcalist reports the deal […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SoftBank and OpenAI are moving into cyber defence. The two said on Tuesday they are launching “Patching as a Service,” a security product built on OpenAI’s technology, to shield the companies behind Japan’s critical infrastructure from a rising wave of cyberattacks. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son framed the threat in stark terms, calling Japan’s exposure “a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a French company, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, framing the switch as part of a wider push to put sovereign technology at the centre of the French state. The timing is the part […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SpaceX is now worth more than Amazon, at least for as long as the rally holds. Shares of the rocket company rose more than 10% on Tuesday, extending a run that began at its market debut and putting it on course to become the world’s fifth most valuable listed company, four trading days after it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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China’s central bank has brought a fresh batch of financial institutions into its digital-yuan network for cross-border payments, extending a currency that began life as a way to buy noodles in Shenzhen towards the far harder business of moving money between countries. Reuters reported the expansion on Monday, the latest in a steady run of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025, more than two and a half times what it took in, as it prepares to file for one of the largest public listings ever attempted. The figure, reported by the Financial Times, lays out in stark terms what the race to build frontier AI now costs the company leading it. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The aircraft drawing crowds at last week’s Berlin airshow was not the one with a pilot in it. The “loyal wingman,” an uncrewed jet built to fly beside a manned fighter and carry the extra sensors, jammers, and weapons the fighter cannot, has become Europe’s defence obsession, and four companies turned up to sell it. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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