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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/29/2026 02:59 EDT

Nvidia has committed at least $6.5 billion to photonics companies since the beginning of March, making it the largest single investor in the technology that many in the industry believe will replace copper wiring as the backbone of AI data centres. The spending spree reflects a calculation that copper, the standard medium for moving data […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 05/29/2026 02:40 EDT

Asana has acquired Stack AI, a no-code platform for building AI agents that operate across enterprise systems like Salesforce, Slack, and Google Workspace. The deal, reported at $75 million, was announced on 28 May after market close, timed to coincide with Asana’s first-quarter earnings call. Stack AI founders Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno will join Asana. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/29/2026 02:26 EDT

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night, sending a fireball into the sky and destroying the vehicle along with critical launch pad infrastructure. The explosion occurred at approximately 9pm EDT as engineers were counting down to a brief test firing of the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Darius Popa @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 14:42 EDT

BYD has unveiled the Xuanji A3, which it calls China’s first automotive-grade 4-nanometre chip for self-driving vehicles. CEO Wang Chuanfu announced the chip at an event at BYD’s Shenzhen headquarters on 28 May, saying it delivers the lowest power consumption per unit of compute in its class, drawing roughly 20% less than comparable semiconductors. The chip has […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 14:25 EDT

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship AI model that the company says is more honest, more reliable in agentic tasks, and better at catching its own mistakes. The model is available immediately at the same price as its predecessor, $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Darius Popa @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 14:14 EDT

Waymo has started offering rides to select passengers in its new Ojai robotaxi, the first vehicle purpose-built for autonomous ride-hailing rather than retrofitted from an existing car. The Ojai runs on Waymo’s sixth-generation Driver system and is built on a platform manufactured by Zeekr, the electric vehicle brand owned by China’s Geely, the same conglomerate that […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 13:57 EDT

Oura has launched the Ring 5, a smart ring that is 40% smaller than its predecessor and, at 6.09mm wide and 2.29mm thick, is the smallest smart ring on the market. The ring weighs as little as 2 grams depending on size, down from the Ring 4’s 7.99mm width and 2.88mm thickness. Despite the shrinkage, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Veronika Furs @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 13:38 EDT

Every finance vendor with a pulse has slapped “AI-powered” on their homepage in the last 18 months. Most of them are exaggerating, not maliciously, but loosely. They’re calling forecasting “modeling,” trend extension “intelligence,” and pattern matching “reasoning.” The terms get blurred on purpose because the blur sells. Here’s the cleaner version of the truth: AI is genuinely […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 11:19 EDT

The formal opening of Anthropic’s sixth European office lands the same week as Pope Leo’s AI encyclical, with the company naming a roster of Italian enterprise deployments. nthropic formally opened its Milan office on Wednesday, the sixth European location for the US AI lab after London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich and Munich. The opening completes the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 09:14 EDT

The May estimate is twice the bank’s January figure, and the workforce cuts are already happening at UBS, ABN Amro and HSBC. Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for AI-driven job losses across the European banking sector, estimating that as much as 20% of total banking employment could be eliminated by 2030 as lenders push […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 08:37 EDT

Wix is laying off approximately 1,000 employees, roughly 20% of its workforce, in the largest round of cuts in the company’s history. CEO and co-founder Avishai Abrahami announced the decision on 28 May in a message posted publicly on X and sent simultaneously to all staff. He framed the restructuring as a company-wide change driven by two […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 08:22 EDT

Meta is on track to dethrone Google as the world’s largest digital advertising business by the end of 2026, according to Emarketer. The market research firm projects Meta’s global net ad revenues will reach $243.46 billion this year, edging past Google’s projected $239.54 billion. It would be the first time in the history of digital advertising […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 07:51 EDT

The Temu fine, the second-ever DSA penalty after X’s €120M in December, gives the EU’s online-safety regime its first major Chinese-platform enforcement case. The European Commission has fined Temu, the Chinese e-commerce platform owned by PDD Holdings, €200m (roughly $232m) under the Digital Services Act for failing to prevent the sale of unsafe products to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 07:43 EDT

Meta’s $7.99-and-$19.99 chatbot tiers and OpenAI’s push into advertising mark the moment the AI revenue-model question becomes a cross-cutting collision. Meta’s decision to begin selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot at $7.99 and $19.99 a month, announced on Tuesday, lands at exactly the moment OpenAI and xAI are visibly moving the other way: into […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Callum Turner @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 07:23 EDT

Artificial intelligence is entering healthcare at a pace that, according to Donna R. Cryer, risks outpacing the governance structures needed to support it responsibly. Cryer believes hospitals, payers, pharmaceutical companies, and digital health organizations are introducing AI systems into clinical and operational environments without sufficiently involving the people most affected by those decisions, which are the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 07:03 EDT

Transition Ventures, the London-based early-stage firm led by Unity co-founder David Helgason, has closed a $150m second fund, bringing the platform’s assets under management to over $300m. Fund II will continue Transition’s thesis that the most consequential companies of the coming decade will sit at the intersection of AI and the physical world: power, robotics, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Callum Turner @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 06:50 EDT

Access to each other has never been easier in an era of a constantly connected world. Yet Sheila J. Simpson, Executive Director of FOCCUS Marriage Ministries, believes that this unprecedented connectivity has introduced a more complex challenge. “We have never been more connected as we are now, yet many people have never felt more unheard,” she says. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 06:01 EDT

Three days after the Vatican called for AI to be ‘disarmed’, the Mistral CEO defended his company’s defence-AI work, arguing Europe cannot afford unilateral restraint. Arthur Mensch, the chief executive of French AI startup Mistral, pushed back directly on Thursday against Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm AI,” arguing that European companies cannot afford to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 05:45 EDT

AtlasEdge, the European data-centre operator jointly owned by Liberty Global and DigitalBridge, has secured roughly $1.2bn in debt financing to scale its data-centre footprint across the continent, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday. The facility is the largest single financing AtlasEdge has raised since its 2021 formation and lands in a stretch of unusually […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 05/28/2026 05:30 EDT

At its first annual conference in Paris, Mistral formally rolled out the physics-aware AI stack it built around the Emmi acquisition, with Airbus, BMW and EDF as launch customers. Mistral AI used its first annual conference in Paris on Thursday to formally launch “Mistral for Industrial Engineering,” a physics-aware AI stack pitched directly at heavy-industry […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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