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• NASA picked Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space to fly to Mars. It has never reached orbit.

  18-06-2026 13:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  NASA is partnering with Relativity Space, the rocket company run by former Google chief Eric Schmidt, to fly a science mission to Mars. Announced on June 17, the mission is called Aeolus, the first flight in Relativity’s new Interplanetary Sciences Program. The company will build the spacecraft, provide its Terran R rocket, and fly the […]
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• A 201-year-old mutual bank just launched an AI Center of Excellence with a startup partner

  18-06-2026 21:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Liberty Bank, a 201-year-old mutual bank headquartered in Middletown, Connecticut, announced the launch of an AI Center of Excellence alongside a strategic partnership with Flare AI. The centre will serve as the hub for AI strategy, governance, and execution across the bank’s personal, commercial, and digital operations. The partnership is structured around outcomes rather than […]
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• Spotify launches Reserved, a ticketing feature that rewards superfans with early concert access

  18-06-2026 21:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Spotify on Wednesday launched Reserved by Spotify, turning the concert ticketing concept it unveiled last month into a live product. The feature automatically holds up to two concert tickets for Premium subscribers based on their listening habits, making Spotify the first audio streaming platform to offer dedicated pre-sale ticket access. The first artist to participate is indie-pop […]
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• UPS is building a real-time digital twin of its entire logistics network, updated every 10 minutes

  18-06-2026 21:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  UPS detailed a slate of AI-powered logistics initiatives on Wednesday, including a real-time digital twin of its entire global network that updates every 10 minutes. The system creates a digital replica of facilities, air and ground networks, and end-to-end package flows. It continuously tracks performance so the network can adjust and, in UPS’s words, “self-heal […]
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• Apple opens iOS to rival app stores in Brazil after antitrust settlement with CADE

  18-06-2026 20:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple on Wednesday announced changes to iOS in Brazil that will allow developers to distribute apps through alternative marketplaces, operate their own app stores, and process payments for digital goods outside Apple’s In-App Purchase system. The changes take effect with iOS 26.5 and stem from a settlement with Brazil’s competition regulator CADE. Brazil now joins the European […]
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• Rivian sued for allegedly promising self-driving features its first-generation vehicles can never deliver

  18-06-2026 20:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Rivian is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it spent five years making false promises about the autonomous driving capabilities of its first-generation R1T truck and R1S SUV. The complaint, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California, claims Rivian represented that its flagship vehicles would be capable of hands-free, eyes-off driving, […]
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• General Intuition is raising $300 million to train AI agents on the video game data OpenAI tried to buy

  18-06-2026 20:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  General Intuition, a New York-based AI lab that trains agents to reason about space and time using billions of video game clips, is in talks to raise approximately $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion, according to TechCrunch. The round would come just eight months after the company launched with a $134 million […]
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• FERC orders a fast lane for data centre grid connections, but the electricity to fill them is another matter

  18-06-2026 20:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday ordered six major grid operators to fast-track interconnection requests from data centres and other large electricity users. Under the directive, approved unanimously, grid operators must demonstrate that data centres are “able to connect to the transmission system in a timely and orderly manner.” Data centres will be responsible for paying […]
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• BMW slashes profit forecast as China’s EV makers squeeze European carmakers on two fronts

  18-06-2026 20:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  BMW on Tuesday cut its full-year profit forecast for the car business, lowering its expected automotive EBIT margin to a corridor of 1 to 3 per cent from prior guidance of 4 to 6 per cent. The company blamed an accelerating decline in the Chinese market and the widening economic fallout from the conflict in the Middle […]
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• Ford pivots its Kentucky battery plant from EVs to AI data centre storage in a $2 billion bet

  18-06-2026 20:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ford has launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary that will manufacture large-scale battery energy storage systems for utilities, data centres, and industrial customers. The company has committed roughly $2 billion to the operation, which repurposes a Kentucky plant originally built for electric vehicle batteries. The subsidiary is led by Lisa Drake, who reports directly to Ford […]
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• SpaceX adds Sequoia’s Roelof Botha to its board, days after record $75 billion IPO

  18-06-2026 19:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX has appointed Roelof Botha, the former steward of Sequoia Capital, to its board of directors. The appointment, disclosed in an 8-K filing on 17 June, comes less than a week after the company’s record-breaking $75 billion IPO. Botha will serve as an independent director and join SpaceX’s audit committee immediately. He fills an existing vacancy on the […]
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• Your email landed in the inbox. Your links didn’t.

  18-06-2026 19:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Watching email marketers obsessively monitor their sender IP, checking it daily, warming it carefully, treating it like a rare orchid, is not only relatable, it’s a reminder of how much conventional wisdom can leave you completely exposed. Because the blacklist that’s killing your campaigns in 2026 probably has nothing to do with your IP at […]
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• Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue

  18-06-2026 18:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and Norrsken VC also took part. The race to AI is now a race to power […]
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• Architect Labs raises $24M to let any company design its own AI chip

  18-06-2026 18:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Designing a chip is hard. It takes years, hundreds of millions of dollars, and a tiny pool of experts. Most of them sit inside a few large companies. Architect Labs wants to change that with AI. The Palo Alto startup left stealth on Thursday with a $24mn seed round. Its plan is to build an […]
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• Gradial raises $65M to be the ‘AI glue’ for enterprise marketing

  18-06-2026 18:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every software company is racing to bolt an AI agent onto its own product. Gradial is betting the real money is in the gaps between them. The Seattle startup has raised $65mn in Series C funding to build what it calls an operating system for marketing: a layer of AI agents that execute work across […]
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• ‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data

  18-06-2026 17:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  It takes a particular kind of dysfunction for an employee to hijack a company-wide livestream and demand the hosts pass a message to a senior executive: that he is, in not so many words, garbage. That happened inside Meta this month. According to a recording heard by WIRED, the outburst, on a call open to […]
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• Life360 now lets parents order Uber rides for teens without leaving the app

  18-06-2026 17:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Life360 and Uber launched an integration that lets parents request and coordinate Uber rides for teens and other family members directly inside the Life360 app. Parents can tap a family member’s real-time location on the Life360 map, and the pickup details auto-fill in the Uber app. Trip progress is visible on either platform. Uber’s teen […]
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• Adobe just made its biggest AI push yet, and it stretches from Photoshop to Disney World

  18-06-2026 17:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days. The headline is an agent inside the apps. The rest of the week shows what Adobe is really building: a single creative and marketing […]
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• The EU is about to declare AWS and Azure gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act

  18-06-2026 17:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission is set to unveil preliminary findings as early as next week stating that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure appear to meet the requirements to be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, Bloomberg reported. A final decision is expected by the end of 2026, though timelines could shift. If designated, […]
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• Accenture had its worst stock day ever on fears AI is eating consulting. Hours earlier, it spent $4.18bn trying to escape that.

  18-06-2026 16:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Accenture had the worst day in its history on the stock market on Thursday, and the reason cuts to the heart of the AI era: investors increasingly fear that AI will hollow out the consulting business itself. Shares fell as much as 20 per cent, the company’s worst one-day drop on record, after it forecast […]
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• The ‘godfather of AI’ called xAI a failure and warned of a bubble. He’s also selling the alternative.

  18-06-2026 16:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Yann LeCun has never been quiet about his doubts, and his latest target is one of the most valuable companies on earth. Elon Musk’s xAI is “kind of a failure” that will not be able to compete on the frontier with OpenAI and Anthropic, LeCun, the founder of AMI Labs and a former chief AI […]
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• California expected a tax bonanza from AI IPOs. Modern compensation structures may blunt the windfall.

  18-06-2026 16:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX is now valued at $2.5 trillion. OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to go public later this year at valuations approaching $1 trillion each. California, where all three companies are based or have significant operations, should be looking at the largest IPO tax windfall in state history. The reality may be more complicated. Facebook’s 2012 […]
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• While Helsing and Anduril chase billion-dollar valuations, Comand AI raised €32M for the layer above them

  18-06-2026 16:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  The defence-tech land grab has a new front, and it sits above the drones and sensors that get the headlines. Comand AI, a Paris startup building AI software for military command, has raised a €32mn Series A led by Blossom Capital, with a strategic investment from Sweden’s Saab and renewed backing from Expeditions. The round […]
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• 85% of NATO’s defence-tech funding goes to the US. AVP and Earlybird raised €500M to change that.

  18-06-2026 16:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe is pledging hundreds of billions to defence. Almost none of the venture money funding the technology behind it is European. Since 2019, the US has captured around 85 per cent of all NATO defence-tech venture funding, according to the founders of a new fund out today. Europe accounted for just 6.2 per cent of […]
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• An ex-Palantir leader raised $16M to point AI at the NHS’s paperwork, not its doctors

  18-06-2026 16:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Almost every AI tool aimed at the NHS is built for clinicians. Frontier Health raised $16M to build for the people behind them. The London startup announced a $16M seed round led by Atomico, with firstminute capital and XYZ Venture Capital also taking part. It is the first institutional money into the company, founded in […]
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• Baseten is raising $1.5bn at up to $13bn, betting AI’s profits lie in cheap inference

  18-06-2026 15:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Baseten is finalising a $1.5bn funding round that values the company at up to $13bn. The structure is almost as notable as the size. The round is dual-tiered, with some investors buying in at an $11bn valuation and others at $13bn, according to the company via the Wall Street Journal. It is a tactic a […]
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• LinkedIn will now show recruiters which apps you actually use, not just which skills you claim

  18-06-2026 15:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  LinkedIn launched Connected Apps, a feature that links the software you use to your profile and auto-generates descriptions of how you use it. The descriptions are based on real activity data from the connected app. Users cannot manually edit them. “Once connected, each app generates a simple statement based on your real activity,” the Microsoft-owned […]
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• ByteDance is Microsoft’s biggest AI customer, even as Washington treats Chinese AI as a threat

  18-06-2026 15:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  ByteDance has generally been Microsoft’s single biggest AI customer in recent years, and it is on track to spend more than $1bn a year on Microsoft’s AI and cloud services, Bloomberg reports. The striking part is what the TikTok owner is mostly buying: OpenAI models, sold through Microsoft’s Azure cloud, in a market that OpenAI […]
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• GTA VI pre-orders open June 25. Rockstar revealed the cover art. No price yet.

  18-06-2026 15:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Rockstar Games confirmed that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI open on June 25. The game will be available on the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, and at select retailers. Rockstar also revealed the official cover art, which features protagonists Jason and Lucia alongside scenes from the game’s Vice City setting. GTA VI launches November 19, […]
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• Waymo issues its sixth recall after robotaxis drove into highway construction zones 13 times

  18-06-2026 15:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Waymo has issued its sixth recall, covering nearly 4,000 robotaxis that drove into highway construction zones at least 13 times across two cities. Six incidents occurred in Phoenix in April. Seven happened in the San Francisco Bay Area on a single day in May. A fix is “currently under development,” according to NHTSA filings. The […]
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