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• What You Can Learn from Picky Design Clients

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• Together AI raises 800 million dollars in Series C as open-source cloud demand surges

  01-07-2026 23:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Together AI has raised 800 million dollars in a Series C round led by Aramco Ventures, valuing the company at more than eight billion dollars. The round also drew Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Nvidia, March Capital, Pegatron, and SentinelOne’s S Ventures. Together AI says it now generates more than one billion dollars […]
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• SpaceX reportedly showed investors an AI device prototype, Musk says the report is false

  01-07-2026 22:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device before its record IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal. The prototype is reportedly slimmer than an iPhone, runs on a proprietary operating system, integrates technology from xAI, and uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. Elon Musk has denied the report, calling it “utterly false” on […]
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• Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to start a new VC firm with Morgan Beller

  01-07-2026 21:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago, to start a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, according to TechCrunch. The new firm will target early-stage investments in AI infrastructure, energy, and deep tech, areas where Kutcher believes the next generation of transformative companies will be […]
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• Hyundai and Kia built a UV system that kills bacteria inside a car while you are sitting in it

  01-07-2026 21:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Hyundai and Kia have unveiled an in-vehicle sanitization system that uses far-ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses inside a car cabin, even while passengers are present. The technology, called Plasma Care UVC, is what the companies describe as the first system of its kind designed for production vehicles. Conventional ultraviolet sterilization poses a risk […]
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• Honda starts making batteries for data centres at a factory built for EVs it cancelled

  01-07-2026 20:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Honda has begun producing batteries for energy storage systems at its Ohio factory, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. The plant was originally built to supply cells for electric vehicles the company cancelled three months ago. Those batteries are now headed to data centres instead of driveways. The shift follows Honda’s decision in March […]
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• A Brazilian banking trojan is targeting Santander and BBVA customers with fake PDF lures

  01-07-2026 19:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal, using fake PDFs, geofencing, and a payload hidden inside an image to steal credentials without triggering security tools. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May and published its analysis this week. The attack starts with a phishing […]
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• Krafton agrees to pay Subnautica 2 bonuses after CEO who used ChatGPT to dodge them steps down

  01-07-2026 19:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Krafton has agreed to pay bonuses to the entire staff of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, the studio behind Subnautica 2, after reaching a legal settlement with the company’s chief executive and co-founders. CEO Ted Gill told Bloomberg he is stepping down as part of the deal. “We mutually agreed to part ways,” Gill said. The settlement […]
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• Hire in 150+ countries without setting up a single entity

  01-07-2026 19:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  You have found the perfect candidate. They have the skills, the experience, and the enthusiasm. There is just one problem: they are in a country where you have no legal entity. No tax registration. No idea how local employment law works. Sound familiar? This article contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these […]
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• AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering

  01-07-2026 18:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every summer the world’s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in relative calm. This year the argument had a single organising subject, and it was not inflation in the usual sense. It was artificial intelligence, and specifically the awkward fact that nobody in the room […]
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• Meta wants to rent out its spare AI compute, and Wall Street likes the idea

  01-07-2026 18:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  A reported plan to sell surplus computing power would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and give investors a reason to look past its spending. Meta has spent two years buying every scrap of AI computing power it can lay hands on. Now it appears to be working out how to sell […]
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• Swedish court orders Google to pay Klarna nearly $2 billion in antitrust damages

  01-07-2026 18:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay more than 14 billion kronor to Klarna’s PriceRunner subsidiary for illegally favouring its own comparison shopping service in search results. The ruling, handed down on Tuesday by the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, is the largest competition damages award in Swedish history. Presiding judge Linda Kullberg […]
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• Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portuguese

  01-07-2026 18:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  A country of just over 10 million people now has a large language model that speaks its own version of the language. Portugal has released Amália, its first national AI model built specifically for European Portuguese, and it has done so in about the most deliberate way a government can. The model, its training data […]
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• Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028

  01-07-2026 17:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sony will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation titles starting in January 2028, the company announced on Tuesday in a PlayStation Blog post. New games released after that date will be available only as digital downloads through the PlayStation Store. Existing disc-based games will continue to work on compatible hardware. The decision follows […]
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• GM’s Q2 sales fell four percent as EV demand dropped and Toyota closed in

  01-07-2026 17:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  General Motors’ second-quarter US sales fell just over four percent as demand for its all-electric vehicles and Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks declined year over year. The Detroit automaker reported selling 714,896 vehicles from April through June, down from 746,588 units during the same period in 2025. First-half sales came in at roughly 1,300,000 units, down […]
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• Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money

  01-07-2026 17:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” It is a pitch dressed as a principle. On Tuesday, Palantir posted its “thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty” on X. […]
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• UiPath shares rebound as Wall Street warms to its AI-agent pivot

  01-07-2026 17:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  UiPath spent much of the year as one of software’s biggest disappointments. Now the Romanian-founded automation firm is clawing back. Its first profit and an all-in bet on AI agents are the reason. Shares in UiPath have rebounded in recent weeks. They are up around 15 per cent over the past five days, lifting the […]
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• Meta’s AI reads typed sentences from the brain, no surgery required

  01-07-2026 16:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta says it can turn brain activity into typed sentences without opening your skull. The leap is real. So is the catch: the system learns from typing, the one thing its intended users cannot do. On Monday, Meta unveiled the second version of Brain2Qwerty, a system that reads the brain signals people produce while typing […]
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• Pie raises $19.5M to keep small businesses visible in AI search

  01-07-2026 16:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  For 30 years, small businesses fought to rank on Google. Now their customers are asking ChatGPT instead. A New York startup wants to make sure the local salon still shows up. The startup is Pie, and it has just stepped out of stealth with money to match its pitch. It raised a $19.5mn Series A […]
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• The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast

  01-07-2026 16:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Few people have done more to automate the office than Daniel Dines. So it is striking that the UiPath founder’s message on AI and jobs is a plea for patience, and a confession that he feels the anxiety too. Dines built UiPath into one of Europe’s biggest software success stories by selling robots that do […]
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• Realta Fusion lights bulbs straight from its reactor, a commercial first

  01-07-2026 16:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fusion’s hard problem was making more energy than you put in. The next one is turning that energy into cheap electricity. A Wisconsin startup says it has taken a first step, by lighting a few bulbs straight from its reactor. The company is Realta Fusion. On 30 June it announced the first demonstration of direct […]
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• Build raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centres

  01-07-2026 16:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI boom needs somewhere to live. Data centres, power lines, and factories all start with months of paperwork before a single wall goes up. A British-founded startup says its AI can cut that grind by 95 per cent. The company is Build, and on Tuesday it raised $8.5mn (€7.4mn) in seed funding led by […]
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• London’s MDOTM raises $27M to put AI inside wealth managers

  01-07-2026 15:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  The buzziest corner of finance AI is not the trading desk. It is the dull middle office, where staff keep thousands of portfolios in line with spreadsheets. A London-founded startup just raised $27mn to automate exactly that. The company is MDOTM. It has closed a $27mn growth-equity round led by Expedition Growth Capital, it said. […]
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• Queue raises $12.6M for a pharmacy that runs without a pharmacist

  01-07-2026 15:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Silicon Valley startup says it has built a pharmacy with no pharmacist behind the counter. Sealed bottles go in, filled and checked prescriptions come out, in about a minute. The company, Queue, came out of stealth on Tuesday with a working machine and fresh money. It has raised a $12.6mn seed round led by […]
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• Building AI Infrastructure Responsibly: ER Steel on the Evolving Demands of Data Center Expansion

  01-07-2026 15:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure seems to have brought data centers into a new phase of global development, with growing attention on computing power, digital capacity, and speed to deployment. Alongside that momentum, ER Steel observes another conversation gaining importance: the challenge of building and powering these facilities responsibly and efficiently while maintaining long-term […]
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• Ottawa’s Dominion Dynamics raises CA$139M, a record for Canadian defence

  01-07-2026 15:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Canada just produced the biggest Series A in its defence history. The money is going into autonomous drones and the software to run a war in the Arctic. Dominion Dynamics, an Ottawa defence-technology company, has raised CA$139mn ($100mn) in a Series A round. The raise is the largest of its kind in Canadian defence history, […]
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• Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI

  01-07-2026 15:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Belgian cybersecurity unicorn has bought an Israeli startup with an unusual trick. Its AI agents fix an open-source flaw without breaking the app that depends on it, something most security tools cannot do. Aikido Security, based in Ghent, became Europe’s fastest cybersecurity company to reach a $1bn valuation in January. It has now acquired […]
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• Europe’s Crypto Reset Is Underway as Venga Joins the First Wave of MiCA-Approved Firms

  01-07-2026 15:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe’s crypto industry has entered a new regulatory era. After years of operating under a patchwork of national registration regimes, crypto companies across the European Union are now facing a single regulatory framework under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The transition marks one of the biggest structural changes the industry has seen, replacing fragmented […]
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• Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding

  01-07-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Base44 spent its first year building apps on other companies’ AI models. Now it has built its own. It is betting that owning the model is the only way to survive the vibe-coding gold rush. The Tel Aviv startup lets anyone build a working app by describing it in plain language. It has now launched […]
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• OpenAI’s first hardware is a macro pad for Codex coders

  01-07-2026 14:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI’s first piece of hardware is not the mysterious gadget everyone is waiting for. It is a small keyboard for people who talk to an AI all day. On Monday, the OpenAI Developers account posted a short video on X. It showed a small square device with a grid of buttons, glowing through a cycle […]
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