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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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GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  It is an unsettling irony when the world’s largest code-hosting platform becomes the victim of its own ecosystem. GitHub confirmed on Tuesday that a threat actor exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal repositories after compromising an employee’…

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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will…

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This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched…

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Lambda wins a cloud deal with Hudson River Trading to supply access to NVIDIA chips

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The IPO-bound GPU-cloud start-up adds one of the largest US quantitative trading firms to a customer list that already includes Microsoft and NVIDIA itself. Lambda has signed a cloud-infrastructure deal with Hudson River Trading, one of the largest …

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Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox ‘strongly disputes’ the claims; the FTC has declined to comment. Two children’s advocacy groups, Fairplay and the Nationa…

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Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI P…

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Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The first model in DeepMind’s new Omni family will generate and edit video from any combination of image, audio, video, and text inputs. Speech-editing is being withheld; SynthID watermarking is on by default. Google introduced Gemini Omni on Tuesda…

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Meta starts the 10% cut, with the Singapore office getting the 4 am note first

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were no…

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Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based dee…

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Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

T-Head’s new GPU lands inside US export controls, a Trump-Xi summit on AI chips, and a Chinese domestic accelerator market, the company says, is already in scaled mass production. Alibaba’s T-Head chip unit unveiled detailed specifications of the Zh…

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Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived …

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Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Warsaw- and Munich-based ex-Meta engineering team hit $15m annualised recurring revenue in ten weeks. The angel list reads like a who’s who of European and US software. Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-agent company built by former Meta e…

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CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Cambridge-rooted, Massachusetts-based automated electronics factory has delivered more than two million boards across 20,000 engineers. Plural’s bet is on the trillion-dollar reshoring tailwind behind it. CircuitHub, the automated-electronics-ma…

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