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• Unmasking the Illusion of Safety Online

  06-03-2026 19:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  The global cost of cybercrime surpasses billions of dollars annually, with phishing/spoofing, personal data breaches, and extortion accounting for a significant share of losses. According to Cordell Robinson, CEO of Brownstone Consulting Firm, the scale of financial damage urges the need for a reality check. “Personal protection is no longer optional, and it cannot be […]
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• Holyvolt buys US battery pioneer Wildcat Discovery for $73M

  06-03-2026 15:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  The battery industry has a translation problem. Researchers can identify promising new materials in the lab; the challenge is moving those discoveries through chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing without losing years and hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. The gap between discovery and production has long been one of the defining bottlenecks of the […]
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• Inaccurate business listings are quietly costing companies customers

  06-03-2026 12:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  TL;DR Moz Local automates local listing management, review monitoring, and reputation management across 90+ directories, starting at $16/month per location on annual billing. A free citation checker lets you audit your business listings before paying anything, and the AI-powered Listings AI add-on can rewrite and optimize your profiles across the web in minutes. For businesses […]
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• TaxDown secures €4M financing to expand AI tax platform

  06-03-2026 11:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Madrid tax fintech doubled revenue in 2025 and hit profitability. Now it’s taking on structured debt to scale its AI platform, a sign that its capital strategy is as deliberate as its product. Most tax software companies want to tell you how many users they have. TaxDown wants to tell you how little money […]
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• DealFlowAgent raises $750,000 to automate small business M&A

  06-03-2026 08:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  A seed-stage investment bank for small business M&A raises $750,000 from the backers of Uber and SpaceX. The market they’re targeting is enormous. The question is whether they’re early or right on time. Most people who sell a business do it once. They don’t know the going rate, they don’t know which buyers are serious, […]
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• Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

  06-03-2026 08:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of contract talks. For four years, Ben Affleck has been running a technology company that nobody in […]
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• Evervault raises €21M to keep payment data encrypted from end to end

  06-03-2026 07:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Dublin-and-New York-based startup, backed by Ribbit Capital, Sequoia, and Index Ventures, says it processes more than €4.2bn in transactions monthly and cuts customers’ PCI compliance costs by an average of €86,000. The premise behind Evervault is one of those ideas that sounds straightforward until you think about how most payment systems actually work. Card […]
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• French quantum startup Pasqal to list on Nasdaq via SPAC at a $2bn valuation

  06-03-2026 07:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  The neutral-atom quantum computing company, co-founded by Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, has announced a business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026. When Alain Aspect shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022, the citation concerned experiments performed decades earlier, precise measurements of quantum […]
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• Revolut applies for a US bank charter

  06-03-2026 07:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  The London-headquartered neobank has submitted applications to the OCC and the FDIC to establish Revolut Bank US, N.A., committing $500m to the American market and appointing a former Visa executive as its new US CEO. In early 2021, Revolut told the world it was going after a US banking licence. The announcement was confident, the […]
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• Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

  06-03-2026 07:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US Department of War has issued the first such designation ever applied to an American company, demanding that defence contractors certify they do not use Claude. Anthropic says the action is unlawful and retaliatory. For months, the conversations between Anthropic and the US Department of War were framed, at least publicly, as a negotiation. […]
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• Oslo’s Unleash raises $35M to govern AI-generated code as European enterprise bets grow bolder

  06-03-2026 06:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Norwegian startup claims its open-source feature management platform can give developers a safety net, just as AI-written code outpaces the humans reviewing it.  For a city better known for sovereign wealth than software venture capital, Oslo has been producing a notable crop of enterprise startups. The latest to catch growth-stage attention is Unleash,  formally […]
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