EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič has called for a new “diversification instrument“ to reduce Europe’s dependence on single suppliers of chips and rare earths. He made the proposal at the European Policy Center’s Brussels Economic Security Forum on Friday. The tool would force companies in sensitive sectors to source from at least three different suppliers. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Reid Hoffman is stepping down from Microsoft‘s board of directors after nearly a decade. The company disclosed the departure in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Hoffman said he wants to go “founder mode” with Manus, his AI-powered drug discovery startup. Hoffman joined the board in 2016 after Microsoft bought his company LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A former IBM cybersecurity executive has accused the company of concealing multiple data breaches by Chinese state-linked hackers. William Barlow served as IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019. In a whistleblower lawsuit unsealed this week, he alleged IBM knew about the breaches and deliberately failed to notify US authorities. The lawsuit was […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to discuss what he called a federal government “partnership” that would let the American public profit from the industry’s success. “There are concepts where pieces could be given to the American public, where the American […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The e-bike industry spent the past two years burying its darlings. VanMoof, the Dutch startup that raised over €200 million, went bankrupt in July 2023. Rad Power Bikes, the Seattle company that raised $330 million and was once valued at $1.65 billion, filed for Chapter 11 in December 2025. Its assets were sold for $13.2 million. Lectric eBikes […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Hidden among the landmarks of General Motors’ Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a pair of nondescript off-white buildings that house the company’s most consequential investment in years. The new Battery Cell Development Centre, spanning 500,000 square feet, is the lynchpin of GM’s plan to bring a new class of cheaper EV batteries to market a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SpaceX has signed its second massive compute deal in a month, this time with Google. Under the terms disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs, memory, and related components. At that rate, the contract is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Picking a press release distribution service feels a lot like shopping for phone plans. Every provider claims the widest reach and the best value. Then you read the fine print and realize the advertised price covers text-only distribution, images cost extra, and you need a twelve-month contract just to get started. For my marketing agency, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Russia intends to switch on a commercial version of its homegrown answer to Starlink next year, according to people familiar with the programme cited by Reuters, the latest milestone in a project that has been promising to arrive for most of a decade. The constellation is called Rassvet, the operator is a private aerospace firm […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Brian Chesky has spent years as an AI kingmaker. He met Sam Altman through Y Combinator in 2006, advised him on managing OpenAI’s hypergrowth, and helped broker Altman’s return to power after the board fired him in November 2023. He was reportedly considered for a seat on OpenAI’s board. Now he is entering competition with his […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licences six months after enabling them. One company reportedly ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after forgetting to set usage limits. A Priceline employee told TechCrunch that a routine Cursor contract renewal came back four to five times […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as its special envoy for industrial artificial intelligence. He will advise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen on how to accelerate AI adoption across European industry. The backlash was immediate. Snabe’s appointment lands weeks after Siemens […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The most oversubscribed sporting event in history is also the most phished. With more than 150 million ticket requests in the first 15 days and just six million seats across 16 cities in the US, Canada, and Mexico, the 2026 FIFA World Cup has created exactly the conditions that fraud thrives on: scarcity, urgency, and money moving […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on Thursday that it plans to invest more than INR 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030, building over 5 gigawatts of digital infrastructure capacity across multiple states and union […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO of Thinking Machines Lab gave her first major media appearance in roughly 18 months, a carefully managed re-entry into a conversation that has moved at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Two days. That is how long Nvidia’s latest robotics model sat at the top of the RoboArena leaderboard before a startup from Hangzhou knocked it off. On Wednesday, Spirit AI announced that its foundation model for embodied intelligence, Spirit v1.6, had scored 1,924 on the benchmark, edging out Nvidia’s Cosmos3-Nano-Policy at 1,881. A second Nvidia project, DreamZero, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The phrase Japan’s digital minister chose was deliberately stark. Hisashi Matsumoto warned that the country risks becoming an “AI colony” if it fails to keep pace with the technology, using the term to defend a government-backed bill that would amend Japan’s personal-data protection law to let AI developers use medical and criminal records without obtaining […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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One of Anthropic’s engineers hasn’t written a line of code in five months. Not because the work dried up, but because Claude does it now. As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase was authored by Claude, up from low single digits when Claude Code launched in February 2025. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The conversation at this year’s NY Tech Week is about AI. The panels, the pitch decks, the happy hours: agents that code, agents that sell, infrastructure for the agents. Then a screen mounted to a truck shows a man sitting on a toilet, staring at his phone in open panic. The line underneath: “His prospect […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Switch is trying to raise money at a valuation that would have looked implausible for a data-centre developer a few years ago. The Las Vegas company is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50bn, according to The Information, as it moves to capitalise on the demand for the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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