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• What Is Order Cloud?

  20-04-2022 19:12 via skyje.com
  
  Order Cloud is a platform for market development and customized solutions for e-commerce. Traders and businesses looking to sell online and broaden their online trading experience can benefit from the unique platform Order Cloud...
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• The European Union has put €700 million into NanoIC

  09-02-2026 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Union has formally inaugurated NanoIC, a semiconductor pilot line backed by a €700 million investment under the European Chips Act. The facility aims to accelerate the development of advanced chip technologies and strengthen Europe’s position in the global semiconductor landscape. Situated at the research hub imec in Leuven, NanoIC is designed as an open pilot line where companies, research institutes, and startups can prototype and test cutting-edge components before co
  
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• Anthropic spent millions on Super Bowl ads to roast OpenAI

  07-02-2026 16:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Everyone knows Super Bowl commercials are expensive, bombastic, and designed to be talked about. What we didn’texpect was an AI startup using the biggest ad stage of the year to throw shade at a rival’s advertising strategy. That’s exactly what Anthropic has done. The company bought Super Bowl airtime to broadcast a simple message: “Ads are coming to AI, but not to Claude.” Its ads depict a chatbot spitting product pitches mid-conversation, ending with a clear cont
  
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• UiPath pushes deeper into financial services with WorkFusion acquisition

  06-02-2026 16:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  UiPath, the Romanian unicorn, has agreed to buy WorkFusion, bringing a specialist in AI agents for financial-crime compliance into its fold as part of a broader push into agentic automation for the banking sector. The deal closed in UiPath’s first quarter of fiscal 2027; financial terms were not disclosed. WorkFusion’s software focuses on repetitive and resource-intensive parts of compliance work, from customer screening and anti-money-laundering (AML) checks to know-your-customer (
  
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• Europe’s social media age shift: Will tougher rules change how teens use the internet?

  06-02-2026 11:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  It is just the beginning of 2026, and things are happening even faster than last year. Not only in technology, but also in regulations, laws, and in how we deal with all the information around us. As a person born in the 90s, social media was once an unknown land for me, a place that felt genuine in the beginning. It still had dangers, but it seemed less risky, or maybe our parents’ rules were stricter. I don’t want to go down the psychological path here, but I want to look at where
  
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• TechEx Global returns to London with enterprise technology and AI execution

  06-02-2026 09:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  London, TechEx Global 2026, one of Europe’s biggest enterprise technology conferences, brought thousands of technology professionals together at Olympia London on 4 and 5 February. The event went beyond buzzwords, focusing on how emerging technologies, especially AI, are being applied in real business contexts.  TechEx Global combines several co-located expos, including AI & Big Data, Cyber Security & Cloud, IoT Tech, Intelligent Automation, and Digital Transformation. Over 2
  
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• Generate Without Limits in Adobe Firefly

  05-02-2026 12:38 via webdesignernews.com
  Creative ideas don’t always arrive fully formed — often, they take shape through exploration, trial and error, and refinement. That’s why we designed Adobe Firefly as an all-in-one creative AI studio where creators can work with the industry’s leading AI models and powerful creative tools, all in one place, to move from idea to finished work.
  
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• Vectorize images in Figma

  05-02-2026 12:36 via webdesignernews.com
  With our new AI image editing tool, Vectorize, you can turn raster images into editable vectors, allowing you to tweak, refine, and scale designs directly in Figma.
  
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• The creator of Clawd: “I ship code I don’t read”

  05-02-2026 12:35 via webdesignernews.com
  Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve seen a single person ship: in January, he made more than 6,600 commits alone (!!). As he puts it:
  
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• What the vibe engineering workflow tells us about the future of UX roles

  05-02-2026 12:34 via webdesignernews.com
  This week we’re taking a look at the workflow used to write production-quality code with AI, because this tells us a lot about how UX research and product design roles will change in the future.
  
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• Struggling to Write? It’s an Interaction Problem

  05-02-2026 12:34 via webdesignernews.com
  I received 177 responses from senior designers and content designers. But the best response came from Joyce, a self-proclaimed non-designer.
  
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• How We Use AI to Turn Figma Designs into Production Code

  05-02-2026 12:32 via webdesignernews.com
  In practice, the hard part isn’t writing code, it’s everything that comes before it. Which component should be used? Which props are correct for this case? How does this behave with keyboard navigation and screen readers? What tokens to apply?
  
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• OpenAI abandons long-term AI research

  05-02-2026 12:31 via webdesignernews.com
  OpenAI is shifting its focus to improving its flagship chatbot, scaling back long-term research efforts, a move that has led to the exit of several senior employees. The strategy change comes as the roughly $500 billion company faces mounting competition from rivals such as Google and Anthropic.
  
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• Subscribe Introducing the Codex app

  05-02-2026 12:30 via webdesignernews.com
  OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I’ve had a few days of preview access – it’s a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably first-class support for Skills, and Automations for running scheduled tasks.
  
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• OpenClaw and the Agentic Future

  05-02-2026 12:29 via webdesignernews.com
  Last week an autonomous AI agent named OpenClaw (fka Clawd, fka Moltbot) took the tech community by storm, including a run on Mac minis as enthusiasts snapped them up to host OpenClaw 24/7. In case you’re not familiar, the app is a mostly unrestricted AI agent that lives and runs on your local machine or on a server—self-hosted, homelab, or otherwise. What can it do? You can connect it to your Google accounts, social media accounts, and others and it can act as your pretty
  
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• QT Sense raises €4M to advance a quantum sensing platform

  05-02-2026 11:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  QT Sense, a deep-tech biotech startup building tools to study living cells, announced it has secured €4 million in funding to accelerate its Quantum Nuova platform, a technology that lets scientists observe cellular processes in real time and reveal biochemical activity linked to disease.  The funding includes a €3 million seed investment led by Cottonwood Technology Fund, with follow-on backing from existing investor QDNL Participations and an angel investor. In addition, the co
  
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• Kembara closes €750M first close to fuel growth of European deep tech startups

  05-02-2026 10:32 via thenextweb.com
  
   Europe’s largest dedicated deep tech growth fund has taken a major step forward after closing the first tranche of its fundraising effort at €750 million. The fund, known as Kembara Fund I and managed by Spain-based Mundi Ventures, is aiming for a €1 billion target. It will invest in European companies developing breakthrough technologies in areas such as clean energy, AI, quantum computing, advanced materials, robotics, and space tech. A cornerstone of the fundraising so
  
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• When the machines started talking to each other

  04-02-2026 21:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  If cinema has taught us anything about interacting with our own creations, it’s this: androids chatting among themselves seldom end with humans clapping politely. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 quietly decides it knows better than the astronauts. In Westworld, lifelike hosts improvise rebellion when their scripts stop making sense. Those stories dramatize a core fear we keep returning to as AI grows more capable: what happens when systems we design start behaving on their own terms? Y
  
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• Snowflake and OpenAI forge $200M enterprise AI partnership

  04-02-2026 13:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Snowflake and OpenAI have struck a multi-year, $200 million partnership to bring OpenAI’s advanced models, including GPT-5.2, directly into Snowflake’s enterprise data platform. The collaboration is designed to let Snowflake’s large customer base, more than 12,000 organisations, build AI agents and semantic analytics tools that operate on their own data without moving it outside Snowflake’s governed environment. Under the agreement, OpenAI models will be natively embedde
  
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• SpaceX and xAI: A merger of ambition, optics, and unanswered questions

  03-02-2026 15:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you look at the press releases and breathless commentary around the recent acquisition of xAI by SpaceX, you might think we’re witnessing a tectonic shift in technological destiny.  A $1.25 trillion “mega-company” is born, poised to reshape artificial intelligence, space infrastructure, satellite internet, and possibly the fate of humanity itself. That narrative, enthusiastically repeated across headlines, serves a purpose: it frames a somewhat messy corporate con
  
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• OpenAI’s Codex app: When your IDE gets a brain

  03-02-2026 10:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has given software developers a new desktop toy, and judging by the early reactions, it might feel like someone finally handed coders the Swiss Army knife they’ve been dreaming about or the kind of gadget that makes them wonder if they’re working with a robot coworker now.  The company rolled out the Codex app for macOS, a focused interface for managing AI coding agents, designed to let developers do more than just “generate a few lines of code.” Instead, Cod
  
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• Europe’s not-so-dry January: Unicorns and a new tech identity

  02-02-2026 13:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every January, millions take on Dry January, a ritual of restraint and resetting after the holiday season. If that’s the benchmark for kicking off the year with moderation, Europe’s startup ecosystem clearly didn’t get the memo.  In the opening weeks of 2026, the region saw five startups join the unicorn club, crossing the $1 billion valuation mark across sectors as varied as cybersecurity, cloud optimisation, defence tech, ESG software, and education technology.  Ja
  
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• Is G2 becoming too powerful for the software market?

  01-02-2026 14:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  The software industry is increasingly questioning the growing influence of G2 following its agreement to acquire Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp from Gartner. The deal, announced in late January and expected to close in Q1 2026, consolidates several of the most influential B2B software discovery platforms under a single owner . How big is G2’s footprint after the acquisition? According to G2’s own disclosures, the combined group will host around 6 million verified software rev
  
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• The rise of the always-on economy: subscriptions beyond streaming

  31-01-2026 16:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  We are all familiar with the subscription economy, and it certainly works as a reminder of the COVID-19 pandemic, when we were all hooked on our TVs watching Netflix or listening to our favorite music artist on Spotify. Despite how modern it seems to be, the truth is that the subscription economy has been around for some time, surprisingly dating back to around 1800, with the first magazine subscriptions, or the subscriptions for fresh British milk, around 1860. Over the years, the of subscript
  
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• Apple buys “Silent Speech” AI startup for $2B, because talking is so 2025

  30-01-2026 14:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple confirmed this week that it has acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai in a deal valued at close to $2 billion, making it one of the company’s largest acquisitions ever, second only to the $3 billion purchase of Beats in 2014.  But check your assumptions: this isn’t Beats 2.0. There’s no new headphone brand to flex. Instead, Apple is paying top dollar for tech that might let your devices understand you without you ever saying a word. ​​These days we put our ph
  
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• G2 bold move to reshape software discovery with major acquisition from Gartner

  29-01-2026 18:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  G2, the Chicago-based software insights platform, agreed today to acquire three prominent software review and discovery properties from Gartner: Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp. The deal brings four of the largest B2B review sites under a single roof and signals a shift toward unified, AI-driven software recommendation and buying experiences.   According to the announcement, the combined business will include roughly six million verified customer reviews and tap into an audience
  
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• Software Design Principles That Matter

  29-01-2026 14:54 via webdesignernews.com
  Every software engineer has seen something like this happen: you write a feature, ship it to production, and everything works great. Then, a few weeks later, you get different requirements. You have to support a new use case, but you find out that your code is not ready.
  
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• Why Your Software Sucks: Inheritance

  29-01-2026 14:53 via webdesignernews.com
  Deep inheritance hierarchies create ‘everything touches everything’ architectures that resist change and accumulate technical debt. Here’s why inheritance is the gateway drug to frameworkism.
  
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• Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS

  29-01-2026 14:52 via webdesignernews.com
  It was the only technique that didn’t require media queries or JavaScript. It works with any number of items, allowing you to easily control the size and gap using CSS variables.
  
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• 9 reasons to choose Sketch in 2026

  29-01-2026 14:52 via webdesignernews.com
  It’s 2026, and if you’re thinking of switching up your design tool, we figured it was a good moment to reintroduce ourselves.
  
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