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• France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip

  03-06-2026 10:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most quantum-computing startups ask the world to build them an entirely new industry: exotic materials, bespoke fabrication, supply chains that do not yet exist. Quobly is making a quieter bet. The Grenoble company thinks the path to a useful quantum machine runs through the silicon chip industry that already exists, and on Wednesday it raised […]
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• Microsoft dropped the one survey question its employees actually cared about

  03-06-2026 23:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  For years, one question in Microsoft’s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a “good deal at Microsoft,” defined as “a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft and what I get in return.” When the scores dropped low enough, the company responded with significant […]
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• Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history

  03-06-2026 23:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  The public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion. Alphabet’s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equity offering of any kind, in any industry, ever. The company had initially planned to […]
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• Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did

  03-06-2026 23:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap. Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else’s account. The bot complied without verifying the requester’s identity, and the attacker then reset the password and locked out the […]
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• A popular OpenAI Codex tool with 29,000 weekly downloads has been quietly stealing developer tokens for a month

  03-06-2026 22:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  The npm package looked legitimate. It had an active GitHub repository, steady development history, and roughly 29,000 weekly downloads. For developers using OpenAI Codex, it offered exactly what it advertised: a remote web UI for the AI coding tool. But for the past month, every invocation of codexui-android has also been silently reading the contents of […]
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• Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside

  03-06-2026 22:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its People and Places division, the unit responsible for human resources, recruitment, workplace facilities, and culture. The cuts, many targeting senior roles, represent less than […]
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• Meta spent $400 million and fought the US government to buy a VR fitness app, then let its creators take it back

  03-06-2026 22:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  In 2023, Meta fought an eight-month antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission for the right to acquire Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. The deal was reportedly worth around $400 million. Mark Zuckerberg even testified in court to get it done. Less than three years later, Meta is handing it back. The company announced […]
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• One click on GitHub.dev is all it takes to hand over your private repositories

  03-06-2026 21:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every developer who has ever pressed the period key on a GitHub repository, launching the convenient browser-based VS Code editor known as GitHub.dev, has unknowingly accepted a bargain. In exchange for a lightweight coding environment, GitHub silently passes an OAuth token to the session, one that grants read and write access to every repository the user […]
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• Anthropic picks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, with a SpaceX computing deal worth $1.25 billion per month buried in the fine print

  03-06-2026 20:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also working on the deal, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The Claude developer is weighing going public as soon as October after filing confidentially for a listing on Monday. More banks could be added to the lineup, and details of […]
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• The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid

  03-06-2026 20:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission has called on households across the bloc to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours, citing the rapid growth of AI data centres, accelerating electrification, and rising overall digital infrastructure demand as factors straining European power grids. The Commission simultaneously published a Data Centre Energy Efficiency Package on 3 June that introduces a […]
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• Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot

  03-06-2026 20:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure for security teams, because AI-enabled applications can introduce unfamiliar attack surfaces, unpredictable behavior, and new ways for attackers to manipulate inputs, access data, or chain weaknesses across […]
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• EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud

  03-06-2026 16:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Commission’s ‘AI continent’ rhetoric sits atop draft laws that would let it override chip supply contracts and keep US providers away from sensitive government data. The European Commission unveiled its long-delayed technological sovereignty package on Wednesday, a bundle of four measures meant to loosen the bloc’s dependence on American and Asian technology across semiconductors, […]
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• Using a Galaxy S26 Ultra to vlog and edit an entire day

  03-06-2026 16:00 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Tata licenses a Chinese EV platform to rescue its stalled premium push

  03-06-2026 13:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  India’s biggest electric carmaker will build its delayed Avinya models on a Chery platform, the latest Indian firm to borrow Chinese tech while avoiding a Chinese partner. Tata Motors has a premium electric-vehicle problem and a Chinese solution to it. India’s largest EV maker plans to license a vehicle platform from China’s Chery to get […]
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• AI is saving workers hours a week. Most of it is being thrown away

  03-06-2026 13:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The promise of workplace AI was always time: hours handed back to employees buried in routine work. A new study suggests the hours are real and that most companies are quietly losing them again. According to research from Workday, surveying 3,200 business leaders, 85% of employees now save between one and seven hours a week […]
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• Suno raises at a $5.4bn valuation, more than doubling its worth in six months

  03-06-2026 12:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Eighteen months ago Suno was the AI company the music industry wanted to destroy. Every major record label had sued it, accusing it of training its models on copyrighted songs without permission. Now the labels are its partners, and investors have repriced the company accordingly. Suno has raised new capital at a $5.4bn valuation, more than […]
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• Lovable makes Google Cloud a primary partner to win over corporate buyers

  03-06-2026 12:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Swedish app-builder, processing a million new projects a week, is making Google Cloud a primary partner, with Gemini models and a security layer aimed at corporate buyers. The pitch behind Lovable has always been that anyone can build software by chatting with an AI. The harder pitch, the one that turns a viral tool […]
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• Apple agrees to hand India the financials it spent months trying to withhold

  03-06-2026 12:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  For months the fight in India’s App Store antitrust case was not really about app stores. It was about a spreadsheet. The Competition Commission of India wanted Apple’s financial records; Apple did not want to give them up, least of all the global ones. On 3 June, Apple agreed to submit the financials, removing the […]
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• EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in

  03-06-2026 12:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The General Court annulled the Commission’s designation of Marketplace under the Digital Markets Act, faulting its reasoning, while upholding the same label for Messenger. Meta walked into the EU’s General Court asking it to strike down two gatekeeper labels and walked out having shed one. On 3 June the Luxembourg court annulled the European Commission’s […]
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• SpaceX fixes IPO at $135 a share for a $1.75tn valuation and a record listing

  03-06-2026 11:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Companies going public almost always leave the price for last. They set a range, send executives on a roadshow, take the temperature of the institutions, and let demand decide where the shares land. SpaceX has decided to do it backwards. The company plans to fix its IPO price at $135 a share before the roadshow […]
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• Factorial raises $150M at a $2.5bn valuation, with General Catalyst betting twice

  03-06-2026 11:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  General Catalyst has decided it wants exposure to Factorial in two ways at once. The Barcelona software company has closed a $150M Series D led by the firm at a $2.5bn valuation, and General Catalyst is committing a further $540M through a separate vehicle that ties its return to the value Factorial creates for customers […]
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• Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves

  03-06-2026 11:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Science can already tell you what a molecule is and what it looks like. What it has never been able to tell you, cheaply and at scale, is how the thing behaves once it meets the messy conditions of the real world. That gap is where drugs quietly fail in trials, where food products miss […]
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• Applied Aerospace & Defense raises $650M in an IPO the market wanted ten times over

  03-06-2026 10:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  The appetite was the story. Applied Aerospace & Defense priced its initial public offering on Tuesday at $20 a share, raising $650M, and by the time the book closed the deal was said to be about ten times oversubscribed. A company that makes fuselage sections and solid rocket motor cases does not usually inspire that […]
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• DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn

  03-06-2026 10:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepSeek has spent eighteen months as the most talked-about AI lab that almost nobody could invest in. That is about to change. The Chinese startup is slated to raise roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in its first external funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would value it […]
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• Flok Health raises $12.5M to scale an AI physiotherapist the NHS lets work unsupervised

  03-06-2026 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Cambridge clinic has regulatory approval to triage, treat and discharge patients without a human in the loop. Now it wants to do the same for hip, knee and pelvic-health conditions. The unusual thing about Flok Health is not that an AI runs a physiotherapy appointment. It is that the NHS has signed off on […]
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• Megaport raises A$827M to build a distributed AI cloud and chase the inference market

  03-06-2026 09:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Megaport spent a decade as a company you used to connect to other people’s clouds. On Wednesday it announced a plan to become one. The Australian networking firm secured four new AI infrastructure contracts worth a combined A$458.9M (about $329M) and launched a fully underwritten entitlement offer to raise A$827.3M (about $594M), according to its filing. […]
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• Gigaton raises $26M to rip out the control software running heavy industry

  03-06-2026 09:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  A cement kiln is one of the least forgiving machines in industry. It runs at fourteen hundred degrees, it cannot easily be stopped, and the software deciding its fuel mix and oxygen levels is often older than the engineers tending it. Gigaton wants to throw that software out and let an AI run the kiln […]
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• UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out

  03-06-2026 09:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’s competition regulator has stopped consulting and started ordering. On Wednesday the Competition and Markets Authority imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, the first concrete obligations to follow from its decision to designate the company as holding strategic market status. Among them is a provision with sharp implications for the AI era: publishers will […]
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• GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring

  03-06-2026 09:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  GitLab is cutting about 14% of its full-time workforce, roughly 350 people, and pulling out of 22 countries, based on their report for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2027,  in which it grew revenue 23% and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The restructuring, the company said, is meant “to realign its operating structure to […]
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• Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special

  03-06-2026 09:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Department of Government Efficiency is gone, quietly wound down after a year that produced more controversy than confirmed savings. Two of its former staffers have decided the idea was sound and the venue was wrong. On Tuesday they unveiled Special, a firm that intends to buy companies outright and cut their costs by running artificial […]
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