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• Introducing TNW Council

  14-01-2026 10:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  A private network for founders and executives, limited to 1,000 members The Next Web today announces the launch of TNW Council, a private membership community created for founders and executives leading technology companies. The Council is limited to 1,000 members globally. Each member is selected through an application and review process. The Council is designed to bring together experienced leaders who want peer conversations, meaningful connections, and visibility through editorial and event
  
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• Uber relaunches Motional robotaxis in Las Vegas

  13-03-2026 17:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Two years after a brutal restructuring gutted Motional’s workforce and halted its commercial operations, the Hyundai-backed AV company is back on the Strip, still with a safety operator for now, but promising to remove one by the end of 2026. Uber and Motional have relaunched a commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas, making all-electric Motional […]
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• Microsoft launches Copilot Health

  13-03-2026 16:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, a dedicated, secure space within its Copilot AI assistant that aggregates personal health data from wearables, electronic health records, and laboratory results, then applies AI to surface what the company calls a “coherent story” of a user’s health. The product opened its waitlist on 12 March 2026 and is rolling […]
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• Ramp buys Stockholm fintech Billhop to crack open European market

  13-03-2026 16:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  The $32 billion US spend management platform acquires a licensed payments provider to launch corporate cards and finance tools in the UK and EU this summer. The corporate spend management market just shifted its centre of gravity. On 13 March 2026, Ramp, the New York-based financial operations platform valued at $32 billion, announced the acquisition […]
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• Dublin fintech Teybridge Capital pledges £600 million for UK SMEs

  13-03-2026 12:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  The trade finance platform made the commitment alongside 14 other Irish firms as PM Starmer and Taoiseach Martin unveiled £937 million in Irish investment into the UK. The second UK-Ireland Summit, held in Cork on 13 March 2026, produced the sort of headline figures that governments like to announce at diplomatic gatherings. Among them was […]
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• Anthropic commits $100M to Claude Partner Network

  13-03-2026 12:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Claude Partner Network launches as Anthropic fights the Pentagon in court, and doubles down on the commercial relationships that matter most. There is a particular kind of defiance in the timing. On the same week that Anthropic was seeking an emergency stay from a US appeals court over the Pentagon’s decision to label it […]
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• Atlassian is cutting 1,600 jobs and replacing its CTO

  13-03-2026 11:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  In October 2025, Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes appeared on the 20VC podcast and said something that now reads rather differently. Technology creation, he argued, is ‘not output-bound.’ Atlassian would employ more engineers in five years, not fewer. They would just be more efficient. On 11 March 2026, Mike Cannon-Brookes sent a memo to […]
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• TechEx North America 2026 comes to San Jose for your annual enterprise technology intelligence briefing

  13-03-2026 11:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  TechEx North America will take place on May 18–19, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, bringing together seven co-located enterprise technology events under one roof to tackle the real questions enterprise leaders are asking right now. This leading enterprise technology showcase will help CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, enterprise architects, and IT leaders understand […]
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• Bumble’s AI assistant Bee will learn what you want from a relationship

  13-03-2026 10:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  The dating app unveiled Bee at its Q4 earnings alongside a broader ‘Bumble 2.0’ overhaul, as the company attempts to reverse years of declining user numbers by replacing gamified swiping with AI-driven compatibility. There is a version of the future, Bumble’s version, at least, where you never swipe on a dating app again. Instead, you […]
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• Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas

  13-03-2026 09:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is in serious trouble. Panama Disease Tropical Race 4, a fungal pathogen that travels in soil and water and leaves no cure in […]
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• Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era

  13-03-2026 09:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the code. It is getting the code to run. That gap,  between what an AI coding assistant can produce in minutes and what […]
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• ESET PROTECT scored zero false alarms in independent testing. Now it’s 20% off.

  13-03-2026 06:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support our content. All opinions expressed are our own. Here’s a number worth sitting with: 43% of all cyberattacks now target small businesses. Not corporations with dedicated SOC […]
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• Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries

  12-03-2026 13:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Amsterdam-headquartered startup has been out of stealth for just eight months, but it already has 350 staff, production deployments across four continents, and a valuation reportedly approaching $1.7 billion There is a problem that every major enterprise AI deployment eventually runs into: the gap between a convincing demo and a working system in production. […]
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• Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades

  12-03-2026 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  The 2018 Startup Battlefield winner is joining Zendesk as the race to own agentic customer service accelerates When Forethought won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition in 2018, ChatGPT was four years from existing. The company’s pitch, that AI could handle customer service conversations autonomously, was considered ambitious to the point of eccentricity. On Wednesday, Zendesk […]
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• Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo

  12-03-2026 12:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  The three-way MOU marks Uber’s first autonomous vehicle partnership in Japan, and adds Tokyo to a global rollout already targeting ten cities. Tokyo’s streets are, by common consensus, among the most demanding driving environments on Earth. Dense junctions, narrow lanes, complex signage, and a culture of precision that tolerates neither delay nor error make the […]
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• Neuramancer raises €1.7M to bring forensic AI to deepfake detection

  12-03-2026 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Bavarian startup is targeting insurance fraud first, and sees Europe’s push for explainable AI as a competitive edge Neuramancer AI Solutions GmbH has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the commercialisation of its deepfake detection platform, with an initial focus on the insurance industry. The Bavarian startup, which rebranded from Neuraforge, […]
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• Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts

  12-03-2026 12:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a losing strategy. The Milan-based cybersecurity firm has now raised €12 million in […]
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• NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius

  12-03-2026 12:17 via thenextweb.com
  
    NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a substantial capital injection with a deep technical partnership aimed at deploying more than 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA-powered compute capacity by the […]
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• Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure

  12-03-2026 11:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to take on the CI pipeline bottleneck in the age of AI-generated code. The code review has always had a bottleneck, not the code itself, but the wait. As test suites swell alongside faster development cycles, engineering teams have increasingly found themselves staring at CI pipelines that […]
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• Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech

  12-03-2026 11:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, develops implantable BCI systems designed to restore communication and motor function for people with severe neurological conditions. His second company, Gestala, takes a […]
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• EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes

  12-03-2026 11:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Parliament members to get there,  but the EU’s landmark AI Act will now contain an […]
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• Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M

  12-03-2026 11:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Paris-based VC backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL has exceeded the €120M goal it set at first close in March 2024. When Elaia first raised its third deep-tech seed fund in March 2024, the target was €120 million. The final figure has come in higher. The Paris-based venture capital firm has closed its DTS3 […]
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• AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027

  12-03-2026 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit. AIRMO, a Berlin and Luxembourg-based startup building space-based greenhouse gas monitoring technology, has closed a €5 million seed round to fund […]
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• Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent

  12-03-2026 09:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  At its first developer conference, held in a former North Beach church, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, expanded its cloud agent to enterprise, opened up finance data tools, and staked its identity on a single claim: AI is the computer now. Two weeks after launching Perplexity Computer, a cloud-based AI agent that can orchestrate 20 frontier […]
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• Moz Pro free trial: professional AI SEO tools from $39/month

  12-03-2026 07:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  TL;DR Moz Pro now includes AI-powered keyword suggestions, an AI Visibility feature in open beta, and the industry-standard Domain Authority metric, all starting at $39/month on annual billing. A 7-day free trial is available on Standard and Medium plans, and a free Moz Community account gives permanent access to limited versions of Keyword Explorer and […]
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• Meta rolls out new scam detection across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook

  11-03-2026 16:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  The company removed 159 million scam ads last year and took down 10.9 million accounts linked to criminal networks. Now it wants to catch scammers before they get to you. Meta has announced a fresh wave of anti-scam tools across its platforms, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook, as it steps up both on-platform detection and cooperation […]
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• Paris startup Lemrock raises €6M to become the commerce layer inside AI agents

  11-03-2026 12:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Founded just months ago by two repeat Y Combinator founders and a retail veteran, Lemrock is betting that AI agents are becoming the new storefront,  and that brands are nowhere near ready for it. When you ask ChatGPT or Perplexity which running shoes to buy, someone has to make sure the right brands show up, […]
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• NVIDIA makes ‘significant investment’ in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab

  11-03-2026 11:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  The deal pairs one of the world’s most powerful chip companies with the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former CTO, and the compute commitment alone runs to tens of billions of dollars. When Mira Murati left OpenAI in September 2024, she declined to say much about what came next. What has become clear, roughly 18 […]
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• EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report

  11-03-2026 11:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  EchoPrime, published in Nature in February 2026, outperforms both task-specific AI tools and previous foundation models across 23 cardiac benchmarks, and its code, weights, and a demo are publicly available. An echocardiogram is one of the most common diagnostic tools in cardiology: an ultrasound of the heart that reveals how it moves, how its chambers […]
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• French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation

  11-03-2026 11:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  A decade after becoming the first new independent health insurer in France in 30 years, Alan has closed a €100M round backed by Index Ventures, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, and World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann, and it’s not slowing down. Alan, the Paris-based health insurance startup, has raised €100 million ($116 million) in a new round […]
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