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• CSS Tools, AI Tools

  13-02-2025 18:58 via webdesignernews.com
  WorkOS offers a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS with easy integration and free user management up to 1 million MAUs. Chris Kiehl shares his changed opinions on software development after 10 years.
  
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• Wayve raises $1.5 Billion in Series D to scale its autonomous driving AI

  25-02-2026 10:50
  
  London-based autonomous driving startup Wayve has just closed a major funding round, pulling in roughly $1.5 billion and lifting its valuation to about $8.6 billion. The investment positions the company as one of the United Kingdom’s most highly valued AI ventures and marks a shift from research toward real-world deployment. The core of the round […]
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• SheBuilds on Lovable’s 2026 call to create

  25-02-2026 10:01
  
  On March 8, 2026, in honour of International Women’s Day, a new edition of SheBuilds on Lovable invited builders from around the world to a 24-hour global, powered by Anthropic. On top of that, participants in the SheBuilds campaign receive $100 in Anthropic API credits and $250 in Stripe fee credits to kickstart their builds […]
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• Nvidia’s Q4 results could make or break confidence in the AI hardware market

  24-02-2026 13:27
  
  Nvidia has become shorthand for the AI market itself. In the years since generative models reshaped computing, the company’s GPUs have powered everything from large-scale training clusters to real-time inference infrastructure. That dominance helped Nvidia’s stock surge over 1,500 percent from 2022 into 2025 and made it one of the most valuable tech firms in […]
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• UK brings streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ under broadcaster-style regulation

  24-02-2026 12:39
  
  The UK government announced new regulatory requirements that will bring major video-on-demand (VoD) platforms under tighter oversight by Ofcom, aligning them more closely with traditional television broadcasters. The changes are part of implementing the Media Act 2024 and mark one of the most significant shifts in how online streaming services are governed in the UK. […]
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• VoiceLine raises €10M to scale its voice AI platform for frontline enterprise teams

  24-02-2026 11:05
  
  VoiceLine, a Munich-based startup that builds voice-first artificial intelligence for enterprise frontline workers, has closed €10 million in Series A funding to accelerate growth, expand its product and bring its technology to more customers across Europe and beyond. The round was led by Alstin Capital and Peak, with continued participation from existing backers including Scalehouse […]
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• OpenAI forms “Frontier Alliances” with top consultancies to push enterprise AI into production

  23-02-2026 16:12
  
  OpenAI is broadening how it helps large organizations put artificial intelligence into real use. The company announced a new initiative, Frontier Alliances, teaming up with four major consulting firms, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini, to help enterprises move beyond pilot AI projects and embed intelligent systems deeply into business workflows. […]
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• The EU’s strategic rebalancing of research partnerships with China

  23-02-2026 11:43
  
  In 2026, one of Europe’s most ambitious scientific ventures, Horizon Europe, a seven-year, roughly €93 billion framework dedicated to research and innovation, underwent a quiet but significant transformation.  What had once been an open invitation to researchers across the globe now carries a more guarded tenor.  In critical areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum […]
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• A new early-stage fund: Syndicate One raises €22M for Belgium’s startups

  23-02-2026 09:31
  
  Brussels-based investor Syndicate One has hit a funding milestone with the €22 million first close of its second early-stage tech fund, underscoring a growing confidence in Belgium’s startup ecosystem. The new capital builds on the firm’s first fund, which closed at €6.5 million in late 2024, and will be deployed to support early-stage Belgian tech […]
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• Berlin hosts private premiere of ‘Holiguards Saga – The Portal of Force’ with Kevin Spacey and Elvira Paterson

  20-02-2026 18:27
  
  A private premiere screening of “Holiguards Saga – The Portal of Force,” the pilot installment of the planned Holiguards Saga franchise, was held on February 16 at ASTOR Film Lounge Berlin. The event took place in a closed format with invited industry guests, partners, and media representatives. The screening was organized as a formal black-tie […]
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• Zurich’s Rapidata raises €7.2M to build a real-time human feedback network for AI

  20-02-2026 16:01
  
  A growing number of startups are rushing to build software that thinks fast. But one of the hardest parts of teaching machines to improve isn’t raw computing power, it’s human insight at scale. Zurich-based startup Rapidata has just taken a significant step toward fixing that with a €7.2 million seed round aimed at scaling a […]
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• Gartner $110M sale of Digital Markets division in latest SEC filing

  20-02-2026 12:05
  
  When Gartner first disclosed that it had agreed to part with its Digital Markets ( business unit that included its major software review, specifically Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice) business in early 2026, the announcement was forward-looking and economical with detail: it named the buyer and the assets involved, but it left out any financial […]
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• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6

  19-02-2026 18:00 via webdesignernews.com
  Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet. It’s a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. Sonnet 4.6 also features a 1M token context window in beta.
  
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• What the AI Coding Debate Actually Agrees On

  19-02-2026 17:58 via webdesignernews.com
  AI agents generate 98% more PRs but reviews take 91% longer. The work didn’t disappear — it moved. A synthesis of eight perspectives on where it actually went.
  
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• Design is dead, it’s all evolution now

  19-02-2026 17:58 via webdesignernews.com
  When I was reading Richard Dawkins about evolution, one example stuck with me: the giraffe’s laryngeal nerve. It connects the larynx to the brain, but in a giraffe it runs all the way down the long neck, loops around the aorta, and then comes back up. Logically, it should run straight from the head to the larynx. But the giraffe evolved from a short-necked ancestor that already had this loop around the&nbs
  
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• Design systems are today’s cure and tomorrow’s cause of shitty software

  19-02-2026 17:57 via webdesignernews.com
  Making software used to be easy. Well, easier. Twenty years ago, desktop software was software. 99.999% of that used a mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Most were web-based–using plain HTML, CSS, and a (relative) sprinkle of Javascript. Frameworks existed, but there were less of them. Was it limiting? Oh, yeah–to the point of claustrophobia.
  
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• A programmer’s loss of identity

  19-02-2026 17:57 via webdesignernews.com
  As an aside, I received a lot of positive feedback on that essay, thank you! (And I’m sorry that I still haven’t responded to some of you. My inbox is a disaster for a variety of reasons.) The wild thing is that I received zero negative feedback. My pet theory is that it was simply too long and nuanced for casual drive-by critics and that anyone who stuck with it did so because they found something that resonated. What you’re reading now is much shorter and I guess I
  
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• Best Local-First Databases for Web Apps

  19-02-2026 17:56 via webdesignernews.com
  If you are still debating “Optimistic UI” versus “Loading Spinners” in 2026, you are fighting the last war. The paradigm has shifted. We aren’t just building offline-capable apps anymore; we are building Local-First apps where the client is the source of truth and the cloud is just for backup and collaboration.
  
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• From DOM to WebGL

  19-02-2026 17:55 via webdesignernews.com
  Build a smooth horizontal parallax gallery in DOM/CSS/JS, then upgrade it to GPU-powered WebGL (Three.js) with shaders.
  
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• The UX And Psychology Of Streaks

  19-02-2026 17:54 via webdesignernews.com
  What makes streaks so powerful and addictive? To design them well, you need to understand how they align with human psychology. Victor Ayomipo breaks down the UX and design principles behind effective streak systems.
  
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• Google’s new music tool, Lyria 3 is here

  19-02-2026 14:24
  
  Google’s announcement that its Gemini app now writes music for you isn’t just one of those “blowing my mind” product updates. It feels like a symbolic surrender to a long-standing refrain from Big Tech: creative work is now just another checkbox for a machine.  If you don’t know what I am talking about, yesterday Google […]
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• Plato closes $14.5M to bring AI automation to wholesale trade

  19-02-2026 10:41
  
  Plato, a Berlin-based startup, has raised $14.5 million in seed funding to bring generative AI into wholesale distribution, a massive industry that rarely makes tech headlines but quietly moves a significant share of the world’s goods. The round was led by Atomico, with Cherry Ventures, Discovery Ventures, and D11Z joining in. Wholesale distribution accounts for […]
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• David Silver is chasing superhuman intelligence with a $1bn seed

  19-02-2026 10:06
  
  David Silver, a British AI researcher known for his role at Google’s DeepMind lab, has helped build some of the most influential AI systems and is now leading his own ambitious start-up. He is in the middle of raising a $1 billion seed round for his new London-based venture, Ineffable Intelligence. If the fundraising will […]
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• When robots outshine humans, I have to ask: Are we ready?

  18-02-2026 12:16
  
  If you tuned in to China’s 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala looking for traditional lion dances and nostalgic tunes, you may have done a double-take when what greeted you was a squad of humanoid robots performing kung fu, synchronized moves, and comedy sketches with more precision than most of us manage during family reunions. It […]
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• VC Quantonation closes €220M fund to back next-gen physics tech

  18-02-2026 11:10
  
  A Paris-based venture firm that has quietly shaped the quantum technology scenery is now making a much louder statement about Europe’s role in the future of computing, materials science, and sensing. Quantonation Ventures has today announced the successful close of its second flagship fund at €220 million, more than double the size of its first […]
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• Mistral AI buys cloud startup Koyeb

  17-02-2026 20:49
  
  When European tech observers talk about AI ambition, the narrative often splits neatly in two: models and infrastructure. On one side are the clever bits of code that can write, reason, and generate text or images. On the other is the gritty reality of making those bits run reliably, at scale, and in production. Today, […]
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• How the uninvestable is becoming investable

  17-02-2026 15:17
  
  Venture capital has long avoided ‘hard’ sectors such as government, defence, energy, manufacturing, and hardware, viewing them as uninvestable because startups have limited scope to challenge incumbents. Instead, investors have prioritised fast-moving and lightly regulated software markets with lower barriers to entry. End users in these hard industries have paid the price, as a lack […]
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• The European Parliament pulls back AI from its own devices

  17-02-2026 14:22
  
  The European Parliament has taken a rare and telling step: it has disabled built-in artificial intelligence features on work devices used by lawmakers and staff, citing unresolved concerns about data security, privacy, and the opaque nature of cloud-based AI processing. The decision, communicated to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in an internal memo this […]
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• AI FOMO: Where the “I” is not just intelligence, but I, the human

  17-02-2026 13:34
  
  When FOMO ( fear of missing out) first entered popular language, it was about teenagers scrolling through friends’ social feeds and worrying they weren’t having as much fun. But today, that word has taken on a different meaning in the era of artificial intelligence. The fear now isn’t about beach photos or party snapshots. It’s […]
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• Claude Code for Designers: A Practical Guide

  16-02-2026 22:18 via webdesignernews.com
  But in my early career, I worked as a full-stack developer and designer at creative agencies. Back then, we called it being a “webmaster.” You did everything: design, frontend, backend, deployments, the whole stack.
  
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