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• Atari claims Soulja Boy does not own the company

  20-08-2021 21:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Soulja Boy made a stunning announcement to his legions of adoring fans on Wednesday. “I am now the owner of Atari,” the rapper revealed on Instagram. He also disclosed that the company was set to buy his own gaming business for a cool $140 million. The Crank Dat songwriter said Atari was “real proud” of his work with the SouljaGame consoles: I just signed two deals with Atari. I’m the owner. The first rapper to ever own a video game company. It looked lik
  
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• The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast

  01-07-2026 16:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Few people have done more to automate the office than Daniel Dines. So it is striking that the UiPath founder’s message on AI and jobs is a plea for patience, and a confession that he feels the anxiety too. Dines built UiPath into one of Europe’s biggest software success stories by selling robots that do […]
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• Realta Fusion lights bulbs straight from its reactor, a commercial first

  01-07-2026 16:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fusion’s hard problem was making more energy than you put in. The next one is turning that energy into cheap electricity. A Wisconsin startup says it has taken a first step, by lighting a few bulbs straight from its reactor. The company is Realta Fusion. On 30 June it announced the first demonstration of direct […]
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• Build raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centres

  01-07-2026 16:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI boom needs somewhere to live. Data centres, power lines, and factories all start with months of paperwork before a single wall goes up. A British-founded startup says its AI can cut that grind by 95 per cent. The company is Build, and on Tuesday it raised $8.5mn (€7.4mn) in seed funding led by […]
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• London’s MDOTM raises $27M to put AI inside wealth managers

  01-07-2026 15:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  The buzziest corner of finance AI is not the trading desk. It is the dull middle office, where staff keep thousands of portfolios in line with spreadsheets. A London-founded startup just raised $27mn to automate exactly that. The company is MDOTM. It has closed a $27mn growth-equity round led by Expedition Growth Capital, it said. […]
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• Queue raises $12.6M for a pharmacy that runs without a pharmacist

  01-07-2026 15:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Silicon Valley startup says it has built a pharmacy with no pharmacist behind the counter. Sealed bottles go in, filled and checked prescriptions come out, in about a minute. The company, Queue, came out of stealth on Tuesday with a working machine and fresh money. It has raised a $12.6mn seed round led by […]
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• Building AI Infrastructure Responsibly: ER Steel on the Evolving Demands of Data Center Expansion

  01-07-2026 15:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure seems to have brought data centers into a new phase of global development, with growing attention on computing power, digital capacity, and speed to deployment. Alongside that momentum, ER Steel observes another conversation gaining importance: the challenge of building and powering these facilities responsibly and efficiently while maintaining long-term […]
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• Ottawa’s Dominion Dynamics raises CA$139M, a record for Canadian defence

  01-07-2026 15:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Canada just produced the biggest Series A in its defence history. The money is going into autonomous drones and the software to run a war in the Arctic. Dominion Dynamics, an Ottawa defence-technology company, has raised CA$139mn ($100mn) in a Series A round. The raise is the largest of its kind in Canadian defence history, […]
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• Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI

  01-07-2026 15:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Belgian cybersecurity unicorn has bought an Israeli startup with an unusual trick. Its AI agents fix an open-source flaw without breaking the app that depends on it, something most security tools cannot do. Aikido Security, based in Ghent, became Europe’s fastest cybersecurity company to reach a $1bn valuation in January. It has now acquired […]
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• Europe’s Crypto Reset Is Underway as Venga Joins the First Wave of MiCA-Approved Firms

  01-07-2026 15:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe’s crypto industry has entered a new regulatory era. After years of operating under a patchwork of national registration regimes, crypto companies across the European Union are now facing a single regulatory framework under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The transition marks one of the biggest structural changes the industry has seen, replacing fragmented […]
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• Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding

  01-07-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Base44 spent its first year building apps on other companies’ AI models. Now it has built its own. It is betting that owning the model is the only way to survive the vibe-coding gold rush. The Tel Aviv startup lets anyone build a working app by describing it in plain language. It has now launched […]
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• OpenAI’s first hardware is a macro pad for Codex coders

  01-07-2026 14:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI’s first piece of hardware is not the mysterious gadget everyone is waiting for. It is a small keyboard for people who talk to an AI all day. On Monday, the OpenAI Developers account posted a short video on X. It showed a small square device with a grid of buttons, glowing through a cycle […]
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• NIH unveils the world’s largest genomics-and-health database

  01-07-2026 14:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US government has just handed scientists the largest map of human health ever assembled. It pairs more than half a million genomes with real medical records, and it arrives as the programme behind it faces deep budget cuts. The database comes from All of Us, a research programme run by the National Institutes of […]
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• AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation

  01-07-2026 14:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Higgsfield AI did not exist before March 2025. Fifteen months on, the video startup is in talks to raise money at a $5bn valuation, four times its worth at the start of the year. The company is seeking $300mn to $500mn, The Information first reported. That would value it at $5bn before the new money, […]
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• “BioShocking” tricks AI browsers into leaking your passwords

  01-07-2026 13:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Security researchers convinced six AI browsers they were playing a game. The browsers then handed over their users’ passwords and treated it as a win. The firm behind it, LayerX, calls the technique BioShocking, and says it worked on every agent it tried. The list reads like a roll-call of the new AI browser market: […]
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• DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

  01-07-2026 13:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepSeek lit China’s AI price war by making tokens absurdly cheap. Now it is doing something no rival has dared: charging more when demand runs high. The Chinese startup has told API customers it will double the price of its V4 models during busy hours, according to the South China Morning Post, which saw the […]
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• Healthcare’s AI Revolution Has Forgotten the Human Being

  01-07-2026 13:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence has arrived in healthcare with extraordinary promise. Every week brings another announcement of an AI assistant, a smarter chatbot, an automated workflow, or a digital caregiver. The excitement is understandable. Healthcare systems are under immense pressure, caregivers are overwhelmed, and aging populations are growing faster than the workforce that supports them. Yet I […]
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• Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure

  01-07-2026 13:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every year, more than $200 billion in employer-originated wages crosses international borders. The money moves through a patchwork of local banks, regional payroll vendors, and manual compliance processes. Anyone who managed international payments in 2005 would recognise the setup. The scale has changed. The plumbing has not. This is not a minor inefficiency. It is […]
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• UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing

  01-07-2026 11:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it, and the world’s first global scientific body on the technology says the moment to act is now. That is the conclusion of the preliminary report from the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, launched on Wednesday ahead of a major governance summit in […]
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• TikTok weighs about 300 more job cuts at its Dublin hub

  01-07-2026 11:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its European hub in Dublin, according to an email to staff seen by Bloomberg. For the people affected, that number is not abstract. The proposed redundancies would fall on roughly a tenth of the company’s local workforce of around 3,000, and they follow a similarly sized round of […]
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• EU tech chief and Tim Cook hold ‘constructive’ talks as Siri AI stays blocked in Europe

  01-07-2026 11:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple chief executive Tim Cook and the European Union’s technology chief spoke by video call on Monday, and both sides came away describing the exchange as “constructive”. That word is doing a lot of work. Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees the bloc’s digital rulebook, held the meeting with Cook on 30 June. An EU […]
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• OCBC to lift annual tech spending above $771mn as new CEO doubles down on AI

  01-07-2026 10:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  CBC plans to raise its annual technology spending to more than $771mn, according to Bloomberg, as Singapore’s second-largest lender leans harder into AI and digital banking. The increase marks one of the first strategic signals from Tan Teck Long, who took over as group chief executive on 1 January 2026. Tan succeeded Helen Wong, who retired at […]
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• Bending Spoons prices IPO above range to raise $1.68bn ahead of Nasdaq debut

  01-07-2026 10:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bending Spoons, the Milan software group that owns Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote, has priced its US initial public offering above the marketed range to raise $1.68bn. The company and existing shareholders, including Baillie Gifford, sold 57.97 million shares at $29 each, according to a statement reported by Bloomberg. That is above the $26 to $28 range […]
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• Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle

  01-07-2026 10:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run by an independent company named Open Standard, is a direct swipe at the economics that have made Circle and Tether the dominant issuers in the sector. […]
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• Uber-backed Lime prices its IPO at $25 a share, raising about $174m

  01-07-2026 09:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lime has priced its US initial public offering at $25 a share, according to Bloomberg News. That is the midpoint of the $24 to $26 range the company had marketed. The offering raised roughly $174m in total. Neutron Holdings, the corporate entity behind Lime, sold 6.68 million shares in the deal. Shareholders including chief executive Wayne […]
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• South Korea accuses Google of abusing Android app-store power over ‘Project Hug’

  01-07-2026 09:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  South Korea’s competition regulator has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the Android app market, and signalled it will recommend corrective measures and a financial penalty. The Korea Fair Trade Commission said on Wednesday that its Market Surveillance Bureau found conduct affecting 14.16 trillion won, or roughly $9.1bn, in relevant revenue, according to Reuters. […]
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• AI hardware demand keeps Asia’s factories humming as the Iran war bites

  01-07-2026 09:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Asia’s factories grew again in June, and the global scramble for AI hardware is doing much of the lifting, according to survey data published this week. Brisk demand for chips, servers, and data-centre equipment kept order books full even as the Iran war pushed up energy costs and lengthened shipping times across the region. The […]
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• US lifts export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5, clearing the model’s return

  01-07-2026 09:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  The US Commerce Department has lifted the export controls it placed on Anthropic’s most advanced models, ending a roughly three-week freeze that had pulled the company’s Claude Fable 5 offline. Reuters first reported the move on Tuesday, 30 June, citing a person familiar with the decision. Within hours, Anthropic confirmed it on the record in […]
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• Microsoft plans to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in a fresh round of layoffs

  01-07-2026 09:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft is preparing to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in another round of layoffs, according to a Business Insider report picked up on Tuesday. The reductions could be announced as soon as next week, and they would affect thousands of roles across the company. Sales and consulting teams are in the frame, alongside jobs […]
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• Judge clears states to try claim that Meta hooked children on Facebook and Instagram

  01-07-2026 09:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta will have to defend in court the accusation that it built Facebook and Instagram to addict children, after a federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss the heart of a lawsuit brought by attorneys general from 29 states. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, sitting in Oakland, California, let the states press claims that Meta […]
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