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• 10 best contract management software tools for 2026 (compared)

  25-06-2026 16:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most teams don’t go shopping for the best contract management software until something slips. A renewal auto-fires nobody approved. A signed agreement sits in someone’s inbox instead of a searchable record. An auditor asks for a contract trail and the scramble begins. The right platform turns that mess into one organized system, and in 2026 […]
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• Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds

  25-06-2026 18:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round follows what the company says is 800 percent annual recurring revenue growth and more than 35 live deployments at GPU clusters around the world, including operations […]
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• Trump administration bars Polestar from selling new EVs in the US under Connected Vehicle Rule

  25-06-2026 17:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Trump administration has barred Polestar from selling new electric vehicles in the United States, denying the Geely-owned automaker authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The decision, first reported by TechCrunch, means Polestar will not be able to sell any new models in the US once the rule’s software restrictions take effect for model year […]
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• OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US

  25-06-2026 17:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The technology they are building could upend the American job market, and almost nobody […]
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• Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer

  25-06-2026 17:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning maker of AI image and video enhancement tools. The deal hands Adobe upscaling, restoration and on-device AI as creators blend captured and generated footage. Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, an AI company that sharpens, upscales and restores images and video. The two firms signed a definitive […]
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• Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter

  25-06-2026 17:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Toyota is gaining on General Motors in the race for America’s sales crown, and the gap is now the narrowest it has been in half a decade. A new forecast from Cox Automotive, released on Wednesday, projects Toyota will sell approximately 1,250,000 vehicles in the United States through the first half of the year, up […]
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• Scaled Cognition raises $100M to build AI that won’t hallucinate

  25-06-2026 17:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Scaled Cognition has raised $100M led by Khosla Ventures to build AI that does not hallucinate. The startup says its model will not give a wrong answer, a bold claim in a field built on probability. Scaled Cognition, a Mountain View AI lab, has raised $100m in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. […]
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• Airwallex raises $320M at an $11bn valuation

  25-06-2026 17:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn in December. The payments company is now pivoting to “autonomous finance” and AI agents that transact on your behalf. Airwallex, the global payments platform, has raised $320m in a Series H round. The deal values the company at $11bn, up from $8bn in December […]
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• There’s a very real human problem at the heart of the AI revolution

  25-06-2026 17:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  The era of AI was ushered in with dazzling displays of its seemingly endless capabilities and a promise to change the world. After OpenAI sparked the generative AI boom in 2022, the pace and scale of AI growth in just about every major industry have been staggering. These days, although many of the promises have been materializing, […]
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• Alan raises €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation

  25-06-2026 16:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  French insurtech Alan has raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation, just months after its last round. The Paris company is betting that AI-driven prevention can reshape health insurance. Alan, the French health insurance company, has raised €480m ($550m). The deal values the Paris firm at €5.5bn ($6.3bn). Dutch investor Prosus led the […]
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• The Pixel 10 Pro should be better…but I don’t care

  25-06-2026 16:35 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Aston Martin Aramco signs Zscaler as its global cybersecurity partner

  25-06-2026 16:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  The multi-year deal puts Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange behind the team’s car design, race strategy and trackside data, with branding on the AMR26 from the Austrian Grand Prix. A single Formula One race weekend can throw off more than a terabyte of telemetry, streaming in real time from hundreds of sensors on each car to […]
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• Brussels held talks with Washington over Anthropic access after Fable 5 ban

  25-06-2026 16:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Brussels opened talks with Washington over Anthropic after a US export-control order cut Europe off from the company’s two most capable models, ENISA included. To get its hands on an American AI model, the European Union has had to negotiate not with the company that makes it but with the government that can switch it […]
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• Chamath Palihapitiya: Meta “fumbled” its shot at AI

  25-06-2026 16:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  On The Axios Show, Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “fumbled” its lead in AI, dismissed the jobs apocalypse, and finally called his SPAC incentives “grossly misaligned.” Here is what the investor told Axios. Chamath Palihapitiya does not do quiet interviews. On The Axios Show, the investor and All-In podcast co-host ranged across Meta’s AI stumble, the […]
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• Cannes insights: What a two-time major champion knows about marketing that CMOs don’t

  25-06-2026 16:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  For one week every June, the advertising industry decamps to the French Riviera to take its own temperature. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, now in its 72nd year, ran from 16 to 20 June 2025 and drew roughly 15,000 delegates from 90 countries, the sort of crowd that turns a seaside town into […]
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• Apple raises Mac and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch reaches the shelf

  25-06-2026 15:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI boom has been an abstract thing for most consumers, a story about data centres and model launches happening somewhere else. This week it arrived somewhere concrete: the price of a Mac. Apple is raising prices on Macs and iPads to offset the soaring cost of memory and storage chips, the bill for an […]
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• TensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildout

  25-06-2026 15:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes chips, and chips take capital. TensorX and Solstice said they would supply the second to help buy the first, announcing a partnership […]
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• Upwind launches AI Sensor for Endpoints as security teams grapple with AI’s expanding reach

  25-06-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  When cloud computing transformed enterprise IT, security vendors followed the workloads. Visibility into cloud infrastructure became a central requirement as organizations shifted applications and data into new environments. Artificial intelligence is now driving another change, but this time the challenge is not simply where applications run. It is understanding how actions move between developer devices, AI systems, […]
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• Kremlin demands an explanation from Apple after VK apps vanish from the App Store

  25-06-2026 14:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Thursday, a clutch of apps belonging to the Russian tech group VK disappeared from Apple’s App Store, and by the afternoon the Kremlin was asking why. Dmitry Peskov, the presidential spokesman, said the government expected an explanation from Apple. He also offered Russians a workaround that doubled as a message: switch operating systems. The […]
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• Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules

  25-06-2026 14:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The wording matters more than it looks. Neither service meets the DMA’s quantitative thresholds. Brussels wants them in anyway. That is the […]
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• Anthropic hires Orange’s AI chief as its European build-out accelerates

  25-06-2026 14:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Steve Jarrett, Orange’s chief AI officer since 2019, will join the Claude maker in Paris in late August to adapt its products for European and African markets. The head of artificial intelligence at the French telecoms group Orange is leaving to join Anthropic, a hire that lands squarely inside the US company’s push into Europe. […]
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• A Michigan township killed a $2.4 billion Chinese battery plant, and now the company might bankrupt it

  25-06-2026 14:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Less than three years ago, residents of Green Charter Township, a rural community of roughly 3,000 people in central Michigan, packed a hall to celebrate what they saw as a victory for local democracy. They had recalled every member of their town board and installed replacements who promptly killed a $2.36 billion electric vehicle battery plant proposed […]
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• The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation

  25-06-2026 14:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda built on the opposite instinct. The European Union is set to join Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to coordinate AI chip supply chains and export controls against China. The decision is awkwardly timed. It arrives just […]
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• China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre

  25-06-2026 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public grid. That detail, dull as it sounds, is the whole point. China is encouraging its sprawling data centre industry to […]
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• Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left

  25-06-2026 13:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks. Russian government unit broke into the iPhone of a detained opposition politician using a forensic tool made by Cellebrite, three months after the Israeli firm publicly announced it had […]
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• Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance

  25-06-2026 12:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  TD’s plan to monitor some staff has exposed a legal gap: in much of Canada, an employer can watch you work and owes you little more than a notice. Then Toronto-Dominion Bank told some of its staff that software would soon be watching how they worked, the employees did what most people do when handed […]
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• Oracle cuts about 500 jobs in Romania as AI restructuring rolls on

  25-06-2026 12:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  On the morning of June 25, Oracle began telling roughly 500 of its Romanian employees that their jobs were gone, part of the company’s long-running global reorganisation toward cloud and artificial intelligence. Oracle has not commented publicly on the exact number of local roles affected. It is the second such round in Romania in under […]
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• IBM says it has built the first sub-1nm chip technology

  25-06-2026 12:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  IBM announced that it has built the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology, a transistor architecture at what it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, node. It is the kind of milestone the semiconductor industry has been straining toward for years, and the kind of claim that needs reading carefully, because a node name is no longer […]
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• South Korean chip shares rally after Micron’s upbeat earnings

  25-06-2026 12:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  South Korean chip stocks rallied on Thursday after Micron Technology reported a record quarter and an upbeat outlook, reviving optimism that demand for AI memory will stay tight well into next year. The benchmark KOSPI rose about 4.1%, with the country’s two memory makers, which together account for more than 55% of the index, doing […]
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• Berlin’s Almetra raises €16.3M to turn factory video into live data

  25-06-2026 12:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Berlin startup points cameras at production lines, converts the footage into live data, and says it has lifted output at Bosch and ABB plants. Now it wants the US. Berlin startup that films what happens on a factory floor and turns it into live production data has raised €16.3M in Series A funding. Almetra, […]
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