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Oura files confidentially for US IPO as ring sales accelerate

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Oura, the Finnish company that turned a piece of finger jewellery into a serious health-tracking franchise, has filed confidentially for a US initial public offering. The filing comes less than a year after the company closed a $900m Series E that v…

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Russell Nicolet: Finding his purpose as a client-centered attorney

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Russell Nicolet’s personal journey in law shows that being committed to learning and client care can change lives, even if you do not have a map. Russell Nicolet had no family or mentor to guide him when he entered the legal world, yet he had to fin…

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Inside the quiet reinvention of the clinical judgment call

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Neurovascular care remains one of the more complex and uncertain areas of modern medicine. Millions of people live with conditions such as intracranial aneurysms without symptoms, yet when an event occurs, the consequences are often catastrophic, ca…

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UN draft protocol would expand nations’ right to tax tech giants

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A May 5 draft, due to be discussed in New York in August, takes aim at where digital revenue is taxed and by whom. A new draft protocol circulating inside the United Nations tax process would let countries tax companies like Google, Amazon and Meta …

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IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Nine CHIPS Act letters of intent, $1bn for IBM, and a government cap table that now includes most of the publicly traded quantum names. The US Department of Commerce has signed nine letters of intent to provide $2.013bn in CHIPS Act funding to quant…

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Europe’s go-to-market accelerator for AI Startups launches

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

AcceleratorX, a new breed of startup accelerator purpose-built for AI founders opens Cohort 1 applications – offering startups unprecedented access to a pan-European network of 2,000+ marketing and communications professionals across 30 countries as…

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Grok’s federal stall is undercutting SpaceX’s IPO growth story

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Downloads have fallen from 20m in January to 8.3m in April, paid conversion is a fifth of ChatGPT’s, the $0.42-per-agency GSA deal is now stalled, and SpaceX has rented out the Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic for $1.25bn a month. SpaceX’s S-…

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Taiwan moves to detain three over alleged illegal high-end AI server exports to China

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The investigation is the island’s first formal semiconductor-smuggling crackdown and ties back to the wider Supermicro-linked diversion network that has been routing Nvidia Hopper systems into Chinese customers through Hong Kong and third-country re…

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Trump administration moves to underwrite US AI exports with billions in EXIM financing

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

EXIM has more than $100bn of unused statutory lending capacity that the White House wants channelled into US-built, full-stack AI export packages, with the Commerce Department running a public solicitation for industry-led consortia. The Trump admin…

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Starling’s FY26 profit dips again as the neobank provisions for more credit losses

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Goldman-backed UK challenger has booked a second consecutive annual decline as it takes additional expected-credit-loss provisions, on top of the FY25 fallout from the BBLS Covid-loan compliance issue and the FCA’s £29m anti-money-laundering fin…

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SpaceX files S-1, opening the path to what would be the largest IPO in history

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The prospectus shows $18.7bn of 2025 revenue, a $4.27bn Q1 net loss, an accumulated deficit of $41.3bn, and a balance sheet that includes 18,712 bitcoin worth $1.29bn at quarter-end. SpaceX will list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. SpaceX has filed…

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NVIDIA beats again, guides to $91bn for Q2 and authorises another $80bn of buybacks

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Q1 revenue $81.6bn (+85% YoY), data centre $75.2bn, net income $58.3bn. The quarterly dividend moves from a penny to 25 cents per share. The buyback is the second $80bn authorisation in three quarters. Nvidia reported first-quarter revenue of $81.6b…

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Trump to sign an AI oversight order this week as MAGA security pressure mounts on frontier-model labs

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The draft executive order, expected as early as Thursday, sets up a voluntary 90-day pre-release model-disclosure framework with the federal government, with critical-infrastructure providers including banks brought in early. Steve Bannon and Amy Kr…

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Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Paris and New York-based start-up, founded in 2023, will use the new capital to deepen ERP integrations and push its agentic procurement platform into more enterprise environments. DoorDash, Lemonade and Flix are already on the customer list; $3…

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Canva launches inside Google Gemini, completing its push to be the design layer for every major AI assistant

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Canva has spent the past year quietly embedding itself into every major AI assistant. First came Claude, then ChatGPT, then Microsoft Copilot. Now Google Gemini gets the same treatment, and the strategy is complete. The company launched its Connecte…

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Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Airbnb started as a way to book someone else’s spare room. It is now trying to become the app you never leave during a trip. The company’s summer 2026 release adds boutique hotels, car rentals, luggage storage, and thousands of new experiences to …

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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the Netherlands became the first. Greece and Belgium are expe…

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OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The AI industry’s most consequential race is no longer about building the best model. It is about getting to public markets first. OpenAI appears to have taken the lead. The company is preparing to confidentially file a draft of its IPO prospectus a…

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LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

If your LinkedIn feed has felt like it was written by one person with 10 million accounts, you are not imagining things. The platform has become a petri dish for AI-generated posts that say nothing while sounding vaguely inspirational. Now LinkedIn …

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Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to m…

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Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Summary: Figma is launching its own AI agent that operates directly on the collaborative design canvas, letting users generate, edit, and iterate on designs through natural language prompts. The move follows partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI an…

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