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Veronika Furs @ The Next Web · 04/12/2026 10:48 EDT

Why data quality matters when working with data at scale

Data quality has always been an afterthought. Teams spend months instrumenting a feature, building pipelines, and standing up dashboards, and only when a stakeholder flags a suspicious number does anyone ask whether the underlying data is actually correct. By that point, the cost of fixing it has multiplied several times over. This is not a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web 1 place · 04/11/2026 04:38 EDT

SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format

As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on the Beach, a curated event for SaaS founders, will return to Barcelona between May 20 and 21 for its second edition, positioning itself as an alternative to the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web 2 place · 04/11/2026 04:32 EDT

UK startup Altilium bags £18.5m to build Britain’s first commercial EV battery refinery

In short: Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured £18.5 million in grant funding from the government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country’s first commercial refinery for recovering critical minerals from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Located in Plymouth, Devon, the facility will process 24,000 EV batteries a year using Altilium’s proprietary EcoCathode™ process, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web 3 place · 04/11/2026 04:14 EDT

Estonia is the rare EU country opposing bans on children’s social media use

In short: Estonia and Belgium are the only two EU member states to have declined the Jutland Declaration, an October 2025 pan-European commitment to restrict children’s access to social media. Estonia’s ministers argue that age-based bans are unenforceable, that children will find ways around them, and that the correct approach is to enforce the GDPR against […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/11/2026 03:30 EDT

AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets users orchestrate swarms of AI coding agents simultaneously, assembling software at speeds […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/11/2026 02:00 EDT

AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.

The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late 2025, a team of researchers working on Huntington’s disease used generative AI to computationally design 15 million potential compounds for a type of molecule called […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 17:21 EDT

France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push

In short: France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced on 8 April 2026 that it is migrating its own workstations from Windows to Linux and has ordered every government ministry to formalise a plan to eliminate extra-European digital dependencies by autumn 2026. The directive covers operating systems, collaborative tools, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence platforms. It follows […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 17:00 EDT

Police arrest 20-year-old after Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home

In short: A 20-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Friday, 10 April 2026, after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, then travelling across the city to OpenAI’s offices on Third Street and threatening to burn the building down. No one was injured. The suspect’s […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 10:26 EDT

Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents

In short: Meow Technologies has launched what it describes as the world’s first agentic banking platform, enabling AI agents to open business bank accounts, issue cards, send payments, and manage day-to-day account activity on behalf of users, with no human required to initiate any action. The platform supports Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, and other leading AI […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 10:15 EDT

Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign

In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amazon with Amazon Nova Reel-generated videos of individual shelter animals to drive adoptions. The tool processes natural language queries to match prospective adopters with compatible shelter pets, and a pilot […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 09:49 EDT

CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform

In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives one day after CoreWeave announced a $21 billion expansion of its Meta partnership, and adds Anthropic to a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 09:17 EDT

SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO

In short: SiFive, the RISC-V chip IP firm founded by the Berkeley engineers who created the open-source instruction set architecture, raised $400 million in an oversubscribed Series G on April 9, 2026, at a valuation of $3.65 billion. The round was led by Atreides Management and backed by Nvidia, Apollo Global Management, D1 Capital Partners, Point72 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 08:54 EDT

Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live

In short: Amazon’s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November 2025, entered enterprise beta on April 8, 2026, with commercial availability targeted for mid-2026 per Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter. The service offers three terminal tiers delivering up to 1 Gbps for enterprise users, with Verizon, AT&T, Vodafone, JetBlue, and NASA […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 08:44 EDT

Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a year after its web launch

In short: Google has brought end-to-end encryption in Gmail to Android and iOS, closing the mobile gap that remained after the feature launched on the web in April 2025. Enterprise users on Google Workspace Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls add-on can now compose and read encrypted messages directly in the Gmail app, with no extra […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 08:32 EDT

10 Best SOC 2 Compliance Software for 2026

You’ve just closed a massive deal with a dream enterprise client. Then, the email lands: “Please send over your SOC 2 Type II report.” Panic sets in. You don’t have one. You have a folder of screenshots, a few outdated policy documents, and a CTO who is already overworked. SOC 2 compliance software exists to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 03:50 EDT

Anthropic is exploring building its own AI chips as Claude revenues surge past $30 billion run rate

The plans are early-stage and Anthropic may still decide to only buy chips rather than design them. The exploration comes days after the company signed a long-term deal with Google and Broadcom for 3.5 gigawatts of TPU compute starting in 2027. A company spokesperson declined to comment. Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 03:42 EDT

Revolut launches its new AI assistant AIR to UK customers

Revolut, the British virtual bank platform, has just launched its new AI financial assistant named AIR (AI by Revolut) to its more than 13 million customers in the UK.  The new AI assistant allows customers to manage their finances through in-app chat, their spending insights, investment tracking, subscription monitoring, and card management. It also provides […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 03:35 EDT

Eight, the Portuguese dating app,is raising a €3M seed round

The app goes live each night between 8 and 9pm, connecting verified users through 30-second video intros and instant live calls. It is currently available in Portugal and the UK. CEO Afonso Simão previously founded Miofar, a fitness brand he grew to over $1.2M in revenue. Eight, a Portuguese video-first dating app, is raising a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 03:20 EDT

Maeconomy raises €1.5M to give building materials a digital identity

The Dutch startup is tackling one of construction’s most stubborn problems: the fact that most building materials lack traceability, making them impossible to reuse when a structure is demolished or renovated. Maeconomy, a Dutch startup, has raised €1.5 million to build a platform that turns building materials into auditable, monetisable circular assets. The Netherlands has […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/10/2026 03:07 EDT

Serve First secures €5.7M to scale its AI-driven customer experience platform beyond the UK

The Milton Keynes startup, which tripled annual recurring revenue in the 12 months to July 2025, is using the new round to hire a Chief Revenue Officer and continue product development. Serve First, a British AI-driven customer experience platform, has raised €5.7 million (£5 million) in new funding, according to EU Startups. The round will […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›

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