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• Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot

  03-06-2026 20:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure for security teams, because AI-enabled applications can introduce unfamiliar attack surfaces, unpredictable behavior, and new ways for attackers to manipulate inputs, access data, or chain weaknesses across […]
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• Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety

  04-06-2026 19:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Days after a phone call with Pope Leo XIV about the moral stakes of artificial intelligence, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Toronto on Thursday and announced precisely the kind of national framework the pontiff had demanded. The strategy, branded “AI for All,” commits more than $2.3 billion in spending over five years. It is Canada’s […]
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• Publishing professionals are becoming prime targets for impersonation

  04-06-2026 19:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  An aspiring author receives an email from a “literary agent” expressing enthusiasm about their manuscript. The message is polished, personalized, and professional. The sender references recent bestsellers, adaptation potential, and submission strategy. The agency website looks legitimate, the LinkedIn profile appears credible, and the tone sounds authoritative and reassuring. Then comes the catch with one […]
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• Meta launches an AI assistant that tells Facebook creators why their content works, not just that it did

  04-06-2026 18:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Knowing that a reel performed well has never been the hard part. The hard part is understanding why. Was it the hook, the timing, the format, the audio? Creators have spent years toggling between analytics dashboards trying to reverse-engineer answers that the data, on its own, does not give. Meta’s new Creator Assistant, announced on Wednesday, […]
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• A single GitHub issue could have hijacked Anthropic’s own Claude Code action and poisoned every project that uses it

  04-06-2026 18:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  The attack starts with a GitHub issue. Not a sophisticated one. Just an issue opened by a bot account with a carefully worded body that looks like an error message. When Claude Code’s GitHub Action picks it up for triage, it follows the instructions hidden inside, reads the process’s environment variables, and writes them back […]
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• Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

  04-06-2026 18:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion. SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June at a $1.77 trillion valuation, selling 555.6 million shares at a fixed price of $135 each in what will be the largest IPO in history. Anthropic has filed at […]
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• Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time

  04-06-2026 18:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  When Meta announced in April that it would install software on US employees’ work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company’s head of technology Andrew Bosworth was blunt: “There is no option to opt out of this on your work provided laptop.” Two months and more than 1,500 petition signatures […]
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• A mile-long nuclear-powered ship for 80,000 people has been “about to break ground” for three decades

  04-06-2026 17:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  The renderings are gorgeous. A mile-long vessel, 800 feet wide, 30 decks high, gliding across the open ocean with parks, schools, a 15,000-seat sports stadium, and enough residential space for 50,000 permanent inhabitants. Nuclear-powered, perpetually circumnavigating the globe, never docking in port. A floating city, in the most literal sense. The Freedom Ship has been […]
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• Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame

  04-06-2026 17:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Two years ago, Ramp was a $7.65 billion corporate card company. On Wednesday, it announced a $750 million Series F that values it at $44 billion, a nearly six-fold increase that makes it one of the most valuable private fintech companies in the world. The round was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers’ Pension […]
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• UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking

  04-06-2026 17:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  For months, publishers have faced a binary choice with Google: let AI Overviews summarise your content at the top of the search page, sending less traffic to your site, or disappear from Google entirely. As of Wednesday, that choice no longer applies in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority has ordered Google to give publishers the […]
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• Revolut’s co-founder and first employee steps down as CTO ahead of the company’s march toward a $200 billion IPO

  04-06-2026 16:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Vlad Yatsenko was Revolut’s first employee. He joined before CEO Nik Storonsky had even launched the company. Storonsky later gave him the title of co-founder, not because he had co-founded the business in the conventional sense, but because, as Storonsky told David Rubenstein earlier this year, “it was easier for him to recruit engineers if he had […]
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• Microsoft’s AI chief says the company wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic

  04-06-2026 16:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mustafa Suleyman has identified Microsoft’s biggest AI competitor, and it is not OpenAI. “Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,” the head of Microsoft’s in-house model effort told Bloomberg in an interview. The statement is more than competitive positioning. It is a declaration of intent. “We pay a lot of […]
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• EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe

  04-06-2026 16:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  More than a year after Belgian prosecutors asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of four lawmakers suspected of taking bribes from Huawei lobbyists, the Parliament has voted to keep those protections in place, Politico reported. The decision shields the accused MEPs from questioning by Belgian investigators, who cannot compel testimony or gather key evidence […]
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• Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do

  04-06-2026 16:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  The pitch deck for every AI sales tool tells the same story: more signals, better insights, smarter forecasting. What they leave out is that most of those insights end up ignored. Reps drown in dashboards. CRM records go stale. The deal that should have closed last week slips because nobody acted on the intent signal […]
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• Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

  04-06-2026 15:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was also, for European policymakers, clarifying. If a single American company could cut off a senior international official’s communications at the stroke of a pen, what else could be […]
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• Inside the mind of a viral indie hacker

  04-06-2026 14:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  When the 29-year-old Samuel Rizzon is asked what he does, he answers with a single word: “developer.” While accurate, it’s a modest label for someone whose work has stretched well beyond writing code. At an age when many engineers are still settling into a single specialty, Rizzon has built products embraced by large enterprises, online […]
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• Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US

  04-06-2026 14:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Perk, the corporate travel and spend management group that until last year traded as TravelPerk, has closed a $300 million private credit facility, money raised as debt rather than equity and at a scale the company says few technology firms have reached in the current market. The facility is led by Neuberger Specialty Finance, the private-credit […]
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• The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners

  04-06-2026 12:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial Intelligence is entering the late stage of its hype cycle. Not a collapse. A correction. For the past two years, AI has dominated venture capital flows, with capital pouring into the sector at unprecedented scale and startups multiplying rapidly as funding concentrates around AI-driven businesses. What began as acceleration has now started to show the […]
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• Synthesia partners with Cinder to scale moderation before a frame renders

  04-06-2026 12:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI video company is adding moderation infrastructure built for AI-generated content, doubling down on a screen-at-creation model it has run since 2017. Synthesia decides whether a video is allowed before it exists. The London AI video company, which lets users generate avatar-led clips from a script, announced on 4 June that it is extending its […]
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• Amazon’s new Proteus robot takes plain-language orders, headed to Europe in 2027

  04-06-2026 11:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  The pitch for Amazon’s new warehouse robot is that you talk to it. At its “Delivering the Future” event at the Dartford fulfilment centre east of London on 4 June, Amazon unveiled a next-generation Proteus that takes instructions in plain language, no technical commands and no programming interface, alongside a plan to invest more than […]
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• Meta keeps delaying the Muse Spark API developers were promised

  04-06-2026 11:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  The model shipped in April. The interface developers need to build on it has slipped repeatedly, with no firm date until Meta said this week it would arrive this month. A model without an API is a demo, not a platform. That is the awkward position Meta’s Muse Spark has occupied since April, when the […]
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• Quantinuum prices its IPO at $1.68bn, setting a new bar for quantum

  04-06-2026 11:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The marketed range was $53 to $55. Quantinuum priced at $60. That gap, the willingness of investors to pay above what the bankers asked, is the real news in the Honeywell-backed company’s initial public offering, which raised $1.68bn and set a valuation the entire quantum-computing sector will now be measured against. The mechanics are straightforward. […]
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• SoftBank’s PayPay pushes into insurance with a 70.2% T&D Life stake

  04-06-2026 11:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  The SoftBank-backed payments app is taking a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life, its most capital-intensive move yet from payments into full financial services. PayPay is buying its way into life insurance. The SoftBank-backed payments company has agreed to acquire a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance from T&D Holdings for roughly ¥134.3bn, about […]
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• Complexity is the ceiling: software design in the age of AI coding

  04-06-2026 11:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI has made writing code faster than ever. The harder work is understanding a system and changing it without breaking it. That has not gotten cheaper, and it now decides how much you can hand to a machine. Introduction In 1987, in an essay called “No Silver Bullet,” Fred Brooks predicted that no tool or […]
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• KPMG puts Claude in front of all 276,000 staff in an Anthropic alliance

  04-06-2026 11:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Big Four firm is embedding Claude in the platform its people and clients actually work in, starting with tax and legal, and is named Anthropic’s preferred partner for private equity. The number that defines the deal is 276,000. That is how many KPMG employees will get access to Anthropic’s Claude under a global alliance […]
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• Merantix Capital closes a €103m fund to back early-stage European AI

  04-06-2026 10:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Merantix Capital has closed a €103m fund to invest in early-stage, AI-native teams across Europe, the Berlin firm announced on 4 June. The fund is more than three times the size of its first vehicle, which co-founders Rasmus Rothe and Adrian Locher raised at roughly €30m, and it widens the firm’s remit from companies built […]
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• Cerebras says it will work with everyone in AI hardware except NVIDIA

  04-06-2026 10:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  The strategy is defined by a single exclusion. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Wednesday, Cerebras chief executive Andrew Feldman said the AI chipmaker is working with every major hardware maker in the industry apart from one: NVIDIA. The line was not a complaint. It was the pitch. Feldman’s argument is that the buyers […]
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• SpaceX wins Texas county approval for Terafab reinvestment zone

  04-06-2026 10:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  A reinvestment zone is the unglamorous first step, the procedural gate that has to open before any of the larger numbers attached to a project can flow. On 3 June, the commissioners of Grimes County, Texas, opened it, voting 4-1 to designate a reinvestment zone for SpaceX’s proposed Terafab semiconductor plant. The vote is the […]
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• Benchmark breaks its own rule with a $2bn raise and a first growth fund

  04-06-2026 10:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  The discipline was the whole identity. For more than twenty years Benchmark kept its funds around $425m and backed only young companies, taking a roughly 20% stake in each and trusting that selectivity, not scale, would produce the returns. That model has now bent. The firm has closed $2bn across two new funds, according to […]
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• Uber’s bet on Nuro is bigger than it let on, at close to $500m

  04-06-2026 10:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Uber said “multi-hundred-million” and meant something closer to half a billion. The ride-hailing company’s commitment to self-driving start-up Nuro is near $500m, according to sources directly aware of the matter, a figure that reframes a partnership Uber had described in vaguer terms and reveals a follow-on investment significantly larger than its first. The new detail […]
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