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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 13:15 EDT

Solidroad raises $25 million to replace manual customer support QA with AI that reviews every conversation

In short: Solidroad, a Dublin and San Francisco startup founded by Intercom alumni, has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Hedosophia to automate customer support quality assurance using AI. The platform reviews 100% of customer interactions versus the industry standard of 1-3%, and counts Ryanair, Crypto.com, and Oura among its customers. Solidroad, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 12:53 EDT

Tesla’s China chief calls Shanghai factory a ‘golden key’ to mass-producing humanoid robots

In short: Tesla’s China president Wang Hao has described the Shanghai Gigafactory as a “golden key” to mass-producing Optimus humanoid robots, the first time a Tesla executive has publicly linked the factory to robotics manufacturing. The plant delivered 851,000 EVs in 2025, and Tesla has deployed over 1,000 Gen 3 Optimus units across its own […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 12:33 EDT

Google gives Gemini image generation that knows your life

In short: Google has added Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature, letting the AI create images informed by a user’s Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Drive, and other Google app data. The feature rolls out to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in the US first, with Europe excluded from the initial global launch. Nano […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 11:49 EDT

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance

In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and a 14% improvement in multi-step agentic reasoning with a third of the tool errors. Priced at $5/$25 per million tokens, it […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 10:15 EDT

The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit

Slash, the vertical banking platform built by two college dropouts, has raised a $100M Series C backed by Khosla Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company’s valuation has nearly quadrupled since its May 2025 Series B, the latest leg of a comeback story that began when its core market evaporated overnight. Slash, the San Francisco-based vertical […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 07:25 EDT

Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M

STC-15 is the world’s first RNA-modifying enzyme inhibitor to reach human trials. Phase 1 showed durable tumour regression across multiple sarcoma subtypes. The $56M Series C is backed entirely by existing investors including Pfizer Ventures and M Ventures. STORM Therapeutics, a Cambridge-based clinical-stage biotech targeting RNA modifications to treat cancer, has raised $56 million in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 06:53 EDT

Spektr raises $20M to replace the compliance analyst’s copy-paste workflow with AI agents

The Copenhagen fintech has built a platform of specialised AI agents that handle KYC and KYB work, document reviews, ownership mapping, risk rationale, in minutes rather than hours. NEA led the Series A; Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech participated. Spektr, a Copenhagen-based startup building AI infrastructure for financial compliance, has raised $20 million in a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 06:41 EDT

The EU has told Google what it must do to share search data with rivals

The European Commission today sent Google its preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, proposing six specific measures governing how Google must share search ranking, query, click, and view data with competing search engines. AI chatbots with search functionalities are explicitly included as potential data beneficiaries. A public consultation opens tomorrow. The European Commission has […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 06:28 EDT

Amazon launches AI Bio platform to accelerate early-stage drug discovery

Amazon Web Services (AWS)  announced this Tuesday the launch of its AI bio tool, Amazon Bio Discovery, to accelerate the early-stage process of drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. The application aims to help scientists design and test novel drugs in a fast and secure way. Amazon Bio Discovery enables scientists to run complex computational […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 06:00 EDT

Exclusive: Make opens a mentorship office at STATION F

The Celonis-owned visual automation platform, which already has more than 200 STATION F startups on its programme, is putting a permanent on-campus presence in Paris as it targets France as a strategic growth market. One-on-onementorship, workshops, and hackathon participation are all part of the offer. Make, the visual automation and AI agents platform owned by […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 05:45 EDT

UK banks get their Mythos briefing within days

The Bank of England’s Cross Market Operational Resilience Group will convene within days to brief major UK banks, insurers, and exchanges about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. This unreleased AI model regulators say can autonomously identify and exploit vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. The US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Bank […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 05:13 EDT

Apple secretly threatened to pull Grok from the App Store over deepfake nudes

A letter Apple sent to US senators, obtained by NBC News, reveals that Apple rejected an initial Grok update and warned the app could be removed unless xAI made further changes. Only a second submission passed. Apple privately threatened to remove Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot, from the App Store in January after Elon Musk’s company […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 04:06 EDT

Musk is asking chip suppliers to move at ‘light speed’ for his Terafab AI chip plant

According to Bloomberg, teams from SpaceX and Tesla have approached Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, Lam Research, and Samsung for price quotes and delivery times on chipmaking equipment.  Teams working for Elon Musk have reached out to major chip industry suppliers including Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Lam Research, as well as chip manufacturing partner Samsung […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 03:24 EDT

Cadence and Nvidia are bridging the simulation gap that’s slowing down robotics

The two companies announced an expanded partnership at a Cadence conference in Santa Clara on Wednesday. The goal: make robot training data more accurate so physical AI systems reach real-world deployment faster. Cadence Design Systems and Nvidia have announced an expanded partnership aimed at closing one of robotics’ most persistent problems: the gap between how […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 03:16 EDT

Quantum computing pioneer Chad Rigetti is back

Sygaldry Technologies has raised $105M in a Series A led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, following a $34M seed from Initialized Capital. Its quantum-classical hybrid servers target the $5.2T in AI infrastructure investment projected through 2030. Sygaldry Technologies, an Ann Arbor-based startup building quantum-accelerated AI servers, has raised $139 million across a $34 million seed round […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 03:05 EDT

Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-energy files for an IPO that could raise up to $814M

X-energy is targeting a share price of $16–$19, which at the high end values the IPO at around $814M. Amazon led a $500M round and has committed to buying up to 5GW of nuclear power from the company by 2039.  X-energy, an Amazon-backed nuclear reactor startup, has begun its investor roadshow and filed IPO documents […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/16/2026 02:53 EDT

The Italian deeptech making graphene-based optical chips gets €211M

CamGraPhIC, a subsidiary of Milan-based 2D Photonics, has received European Commission approval for €211M in Italian state funding to industrialise its graphene photonic interconnect technology and build a pilot manufacturing line near Milan. CamGraPhIC, the graphene photonics subsidiary of 2D Photonics, has received European Commission approval for €211 million in Italian state aid funding under […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 04/15/2026 14:00 EDT

Accel raises $5 billion for AI as venture capital bets reach infrastructure scale

In short: Accel has raised $5 billion in new capital, comprising a $4 billion Leaders Fund V and a $650 million sidecar, targeting 20-25 late-stage AI investments at an average cheque size of $200 million. The raise follows standout returns from its Anthropic stake (invested at $183B, now valued near $800B) and Cursor (backed at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/15/2026 13:50 EDT

Anthropic attracts $800 billion valuation offers as revenue hits $30 billion annualised run rate

In short: Anthropic has received investor offers valuing the company at approximately $800 billion, more than doubling its $380 billion valuation from a $30 billion funding round closed just two months ago. The surge follows an unprecedented revenue trajectory that has taken Anthropic from $1 billion in annualised revenue at the end of 2024 to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 04/15/2026 13:33 EDT

Athena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems

In short: Athena Technology Solutions, a Fremont-based MES integrator with roughly 120 employees, has launched FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates reporting, support tickets, system modelling, and code generation for semiconductor and electronics factories. Built in partnership with Bangalore-based LLM at Scale.AI, it layers LLM capabilities on top of the Siemens Opcenter […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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