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• Funding down, exits muted, and valuations flat in rough quarter for European startups

  16-05-2023 17:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s been a rough start to 2023 for European startups. In the first quarter of the year, dealmaking decelerated, valuations flattened, and exits remained subdued, according to new research. Analysts from PitchBook, a financial data firm, found that investor priorities have shifted from growth at all costs to profitability. After a boom in VC activity that trickled into early 2022, reports of lower growth rates, workforce reductions, and tougher funding conditions have emerged. As a result
  
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• Google lifts the Pixel 10a price to $599 as memory costs climb

  02-10-2026 22:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google raised the Pixel 10a from $499 to $599 seven months after launch, with no change to the phone, blaming memory costs that its own vice president said had risen from $2.80 per gigabyte to $12. Apple and Samsung have both repriced existing phones in the past month, and Google has not said whether European […]
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• Nvidia hits its first record since May, within $300B of $6T

  02-10-2026 21:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, on a rally driven by AI agent demand and a record $150B buyback increase. ASML, Europe’s most valuable listed company, needs the same $300B to reach its first trillion. Nvidia hit a record […]
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• Quantum sensing could become the next foundation of navigation

  02-10-2026 20:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  GPS has become so embedded in modern life that its infrastructure is almost invisible. A driver opens a map, an aircraft follows its navigation system, or an autonomous machine calculates its position, and the underlying infrastructure disappears from view. Nir Sharon, Chief Quantum Technology Scientist at Quantum X Labs and an associate professor of applied […]
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• Robot software startup FieldAI is set to raise $700M at a $10B valuation

  02-10-2026 19:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe’s biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its valuation. FieldAI is […]
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• Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists

  02-10-2026 18:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks since 2 August, but artistic and satirical work gets the lightest disclosure obligations of all. […]
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• Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference

  02-10-2026 18:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027, the same year Volantis plans to ship. Volantis has raised $88M to put light […]
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• Tesla’s deliveries fell 2% and still beat expectations

  02-10-2026 17:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, down 2% year on year but well above the 461,000 analysts expected, with American electric sales down 47% in August after the federal credit expired. Its European registrations rose 43.3% between January and August, outpacing the wider battery-electric market. Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles last quarter, 2% fewer […]
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• Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre

  02-10-2026 17:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with a Spanish solar producer that […]
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• Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business

  02-10-2026 16:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm’s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the document. The prospectus has not been made public, and TNW has not seen […]
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• Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads

  02-10-2026 15:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  More than 3 million people prompt Meta’s Muse at least once a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information. More than 1 million send the AI agent a prompt every day, Jyoti Mann reported. The weekly figure is part of a wider group. More than 4 million people use Muse in some way […]
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• Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports

  02-10-2026 15:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-East Asia. The deal, signed this year, is worth about $7bn, and Tencent […]
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• Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports

  02-10-2026 14:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei replied that it was important to be honest, according to the report. The exchange came just after […]
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• Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter

  02-10-2026 14:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net income reached $37.7bn, up from $3.2bn a year earlier. Gross margin hit 86.8%, […]
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• Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports

  02-10-2026 14:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei “deluded” and, later in the interview, “crazy”. LeCun […]
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• EU set to name AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers in November

  02-10-2026 14:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission plans to name Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in November, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Citing people familiar with the matter, it said regulators are finishing an investigation that will find both cloud services fall under the bloc’s Big Tech rules. The decision is still a […]
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• California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC

  02-10-2026 14:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics firm. Some of their tactics left records erased or out of reach. Public data […]
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• Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings

  02-10-2026 13:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It was one of 13 AI bills he signed that day. The law, SB 947, bars employers from relying solely on an […]
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• The AI race is becoming a test of strategy, not just software

  02-10-2026 13:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI has become remarkably good at making organizations move faster and more efficiently. The harder question is whether companies know where they should be going. As artificial intelligence moves deeper into everyday work, the competitive divide is beginning to shift from access to technology toward the quality of the decisions surrounding it.  Gallup reports that […]
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• Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests

  02-10-2026 13:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index, with 58. The score is 23 points above Gemini […]
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• OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports

  02-10-2026 12:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they’re going to operationalize it,” said Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer. TNW is […]
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• Amazon pledges $1bn over five years to US data centre communities

  02-10-2026 12:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programme, called Built Together, in a post on Friday, along with new commitments on power, water and transparency. The money will go to three areas: education […]
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• America isn’t short of electricity. It’s short of places to plug in fast enough.

  02-10-2026 12:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening and the system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a third from solar. Nothing broke. Yet much of the discussion around artificial intelligence and electricity suggests a looming shortage. American data centers used about 176 terawatt-hours […]
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• Discord opens its ad business to smaller brands, Ars Technica reports

  02-10-2026 12:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, it said on Tuesday. Select advertisers can use it now. Full self-serve access is due in early 2027. Until […]
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• Caverion to build €15M substation for Nebius data centre in Finland

  02-10-2026 11:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Caverion Finland has agreed to design and build a substation for Nebius’s new data centre in Mäntsälä, southern Finland, in a deal valued at about €15 million. The company announced the contract on Friday and expects to finish the work by autumn 2027. The substation will link the data centre to the high-voltage grid and […]
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• The difference between a liar and a bullshitter

  02-10-2026 11:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you don’t expect to see in an academic journal, “On Bullshit.” It stayed largely inside academic circles for the better part of twenty years. Then in 2005 Princeton University Press decided to reprint it as a tiny hardcover, 67 […]
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• AI broke the economics of software. Vayu wants to be the first to tell a CFO which customers are losing them money

  02-10-2026 10:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract for an AI product. They use it heavily, which is what every vendor wants. Every one of those uses costs the vendor money: tokens, compute, third-party model calls. The invoice goes out at the agreed price. The […]
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• French state-owned Bull doubles supercomputer output at Angers factory

  02-10-2026 10:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bull, the French state-owned supercomputer maker, has doubled production at its factory in Angers, western France, after an €80 million rebuild. The plant now assembles 12 racks a month, up from six, executives told Reuters, which first reported the expansion on Thursday. Output could rise to 24 racks next year if demand continues to grow. Bull […]
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• SoftBank completes $30bn OpenAI investment with final $10bn payment

  02-10-2026 10:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  SoftBank Group has completed its $30bn follow-on investment in OpenAI, after paying the third and final $10bn tranche on 1 October, Japan time. The Japanese group made the payment through its Vision Fund 2, it said on Thursday. With this payment, SoftBank has now put $64.6bn into OpenAI in total, for a stake of about 13%. […]
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• Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and JERA, FT reports

  01-10-2026 21:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Japan’s biggest power generator is teaming up with Dell to build AI data centres across the country. The push could cost as much as $140bn, the Financial Times reported. JERA, Dell and UK developer RHAELM signed a non-binding agreement on Thursday, JERA said. Private equity firm Apollo will help fund the work as RHAELM’s financing partner. The first […]
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