The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going public may have little to do with rockets, or with Musk. It is what […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Deezer has built a free tool that will tell you how much of your music was made by a machine, even if you stream it somewhere else. The French service has opened its AI-music detector to the public, letting anyone scan their playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, and around 20 other platforms for AI-generated tracks. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Most enterprise AI projects do not fail because the model is bad. They fail because the data feeding it is a mess: broken pipelines, mismatched systems, and context locked in one engineer’s head. Upriver, an Israeli startup, has raised $14M to automate the cleanup, betting that this dull but critical layer is where the AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The AI boom has a problem no amount of capital can solve on its own: there are not enough electricians, welders, and pipefitters to build it. Google’s answer is to pay to train them. Its philanthropic arm, Google.org, said it is committing $50M to prepare more than 300,000 skilled-trade workers across over 20 US states, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The US-backed plan to build an AI and supply-chain hub in the Philippines now has a number attached: about $10bn in initial investment, with more to follow, according to the official leading the Philippine side. It also has a striking term on the table, a lease to the United States of up to 99 years. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Mercedes-Benz is leaning deeper into defence. The carmaker has signed a memorandum of understanding with TYTAN Technologies, a Munich counter-drone startup, to develop vehicle-based systems that detect and shoot down hostile drones, built on its G-Class SUV and Sprinter van. Mercedes calls the defence sector “a strategic growth field”. The deal, signed at the ILA […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A German startup wants to rebuild online commerce for shoppers who are not human. ShopAgentic has raised a €1.9mn pre-seed to do it. May Ventures and Greenfield Capital co-led the oversubscribed round. What ShopAgentic is building ShopAgentic calls itself a “native agentic commerce system”. It runs a squad of specialised AI agents, each owning one […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The backlash against AI data centres has reached a new stage: a class-action lawsuit. Residents of Mississippi have sued Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX, claiming a gas-fired power plant that feeds nearby data centres blasts “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that has eroded their health and home values. The case, made public in federal court in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI is wiring a payment network into ChatGPT. Under an expanded partnership announced at the Visa Payments Forum on Wednesday, AI agents inside OpenAI’s products will be able to shop and pay on a user’s behalf at, in principle, any of the more than 175 million merchant locations that accept Visa, once the user grants […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped e-commerce giant Coupang with a record-breaking 624.7 billion won ($409 million) fine, the largest data breach penalty in the country’s history. The ruling, handed down today by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), dwarfs the previous record of 134.8 billion won imposed on telecoms firm SK Telecom last year. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In the past fortnight, the two most powerful AI labs on the planet have published research papers, blog posts, and policy proposals warning that frontier artificial intelligence is advancing faster than anyone can control it. In the very same stretch, both filed confidential paperwork to go public. The tension is hard to miss. OpenAI and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Satispay, the Milan-based mobile payments company that became Italy’s second unicorn in 2022, is reportedly planning to raise up to €120 million ($139 million) in fresh funding. The round would fuel the fintech’s expansion beyond payments into stock and ETF trading, savings, investments, and pensions. Existing investors are set to vote on the round on […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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China’s Workers’ Daily, the official mouthpiece of the country’s umbrella trade union, has published a pointed editorial urging government agencies to protect labour rights as artificial intelligence spreads across the economy. The newspaper, which is published by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, titled the piece: “With the AI wave surging, how can we build […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta has erected a data firewall between itself and Manus, the Chinese-founded agentic AI service it acquired for $2 billion in December 2025. Since the start of June, Manus and its staff have been barred from accessing Meta’s internal data systems, and Meta employees can no longer use Manus tools for internal projects, according to Bloomberg. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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An Applied Digital subsidiary raised $1.59 billion in the high-yield bond market on Tuesday to fund a fourth building at its Polaris Forge 1 campus in North Dakota, which will provide 150 megawatts of computing capacity for CoreWeave under a 15-year contract. The bonds were priced to yield 7%, a steep drop from the 10% investors demanded […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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AISLE, the cybersecurity startup founded by former Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek, launched Snapshot on Tuesday, a product that deploys its AI vulnerability scanner inside a customer’s private cloud, on-premises data centre, or fully air-gapped environment. Source code and security data never leave the organisation’s control. The product is aimed squarely at regulated industries, banks, defence […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Oracle reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $19.2 billion, up 21% year on year, and adjusted earnings of $2.11 per share, beating analyst estimates of $19.1 billion and $1.97 respectively. The numbers were overshadowed by capital expenditure that came in well above the company’s own projections. The company spent approximately $55.7 billion on capital expenditure in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Elon Musk has called the ability to fall asleep in a Tesla and wake up at your destination the “acid test” for true autonomy. He first described that vision in 2014 and repeated it on Tesla’s Q1 2025 earnings call, saying he was confident it would be available in many US cities by the end of that […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says full nationalization of AI companies is coming, and that Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal for 50% public ownership will soon look moderate. “In two years, they’re not going to think Bernie Sanders is progressive,” Karp told CNBC on Wednesday. “They’re going to be like, ‘Bernie Sanders, you only want 50%? What […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher Microsoft threatened with criminal prosecution, has published a seventh Windows zero-day exploit. Called RoguePlanet, it grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 machines. The researcher released the proof-of-concept hours after Microsoft shipped its June Patch Tuesday update, which fixed a record 200 vulnerabilities. RoguePlanet exploits a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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