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Amprius and Matternet partner to bring silicon anode batteries to drone delivery

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Amprius Technologies, the Fremont-based maker of high-energy-density silicon anode batteries, has announced a partnership with Matternet, one of the few drone delivery companies to hold both FAA Type Certification and Production Certification. The…

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Panasonic buys UK media server maker HIVE in push beyond hardware

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Panasonic Projector & Display Corporation has acquired 100% of the issued shares of UK-based HIVE Media Control, the company behind the award-winning BeeBlade media server platform. The deal signals a decisive shift in Panasonic’s strategy, moving i…

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Hitachi partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude across 290,000 employees and strengthen Lumada 3.0

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Hitachi has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic that will see the Japanese industrial conglomerate deploy Claude AI models across its entire workforce of approximately 290,000 employees, in what it describes as a move to strengthen its …

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AMD’s Lisa Su meets China’s vice premier in Beijing as chip diplomacy intensifies

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  AMD CEO Lisa Su sat down with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, a meeting that underscores how US chipmakers are scrambling to protect their foothold in the world’s second-largest semiconductor ma…

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Meta’s $200 billion Hyperion data centre in Louisiana is the most expensive private infrastructure project in American history

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Meta is building the most expensive single piece of private infrastructure in American history. Hyperion, the company’s AI data centre campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, now carries a projected cost of more than $200 billion, a figure that has gr…

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Geely-backed ECARX signs $750 million deal to build purpose-built robotaxis for May Mobility

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

ECARX, the automotive technology company backed by Geely founder Li Shufu, has signed a strategic framework agreement with May Mobility to supply thousands of autonomy-enabled vehicles for the American robotaxi operator’s commercial fleet. The deal,…

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Feldwerke pulls a €12M revolving credit facility behind a 100 MW agri-PV roll-out

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Munich-based developer behind Germany’s largest agri-PV facility plans to build 100 MW across the next 18 months. The new debt line is the working-capital plumbing that turns a 250 MW pipeline into deliverable projects. Munich-based agri-PV deve…

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Hypershell takes $50M more on $120M Series B series as consumer exoskeletons step out of niche

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Ant Group and Meituan Dragonball co-led the $50m Series B+; Sofina and Granite Asia joined. Total Series B funding now stands at $120m at a near-$400m post-money valuation, ahead of Wednesday’s global X-Series launch. Hypershell, the Shanghai-based …

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$20bn Kimi developer Moonshot abandons VIE structure for HK listing

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The $20bn Kimi developer has informed shareholders it will dismantle its variable-interest-entity structure, after Beijing made it clear an exemption was unlikely. The IPO would be one of the biggest Chinese AI listings on record. Moonshot AI, the B…

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Nintendo jumps 6.8% as Japanese investors rotate out of AI

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Nintendo jumped as much as 6.8% on Tuesday for its longest winning streak since mid-March. Bandai Namco and Konami each gained more than 9%. The trade is about what isn’t AI as much as what is. Nintendo’s stock climbed as much as 6.8% in Tokyo on Tu…

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Standard Chartered will cut 7,800 back-office jobs to ‘the machines’ by 2030

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Bill Winters told investors in Hong Kong that the bank’s HR, risk and compliance functions will shrink by more than 15% over five years, with the headcount efficiency aimed at lifting income-per-employee 20% by 2028. Standard Chartered will cut more…

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Intel and Qualcomm circle Tenstorrent as the NVIDIA-alternative trade comes due

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Bloomberg reports early-stage takeover conversations with the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, which raised $800m at a $3.2bn valuation last year and counts Bezos Expeditions and Samsung among its backers. Tenstorrent, the Jim Keller-led AI chip star…

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Project Glasswing partners can now share Mythos findings beyond the programme

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Project Glasswing partners can now pass vulnerability findings to other security teams, industry bodies, regulators, open-source maintainers and the press, under responsible-disclosure norms. The defender pool just got wider. Anthropic said on M…

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Analog Devices near $1.5bn cash deal for Empower Semiconductor’s AI power chips

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Milpitas-based vertical-power-delivery firm puts more than 3,000 amps of current directly under the GPU. The deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday. Analog Devices is in advanced talks to acquire Empower Semiconductor, the closely held Calif…

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Meta moves 7,000 people into AI roles the same week it cuts 10%

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Chief People Officer Janelle Gale’s Monday memo described ‘smaller teams’ and a ‘flatter’ structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later this week. The Meta Saga continues with layoffs and “reassigni…

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Mistral buys Vienna’s Emmi AI to put physics into its industrial pitch

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Paris-based open-weights lab is acquiring an Austrian startup whose models handle airflow, heat transfer, and material stress, targeting aerospace, automotive, and semiconductor customers. Terms were not disclosed. Mistral AI, Europe’s most prom…

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OpenClaw creator’s $1.3 million monthly OpenAI bill reveals the real cost of autonomous AI coding at scale

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw and an engineer at OpenAI, racked up $1.3 million in API costs in a single month by running approximately 100 Codex instances simultaneously on his open-source project. The bill, which covered 603 billion t…

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Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, p…

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Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including fingerprints, in a breach affecting at least 1.8 m…

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Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit as jury unanimously rules his claims were filed too late

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. A nine-person jury in Oakland returned a unanimous verdict on Sunday finding that Musk’s claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, ending…

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HistoSonics gets Taiwan approval for its tumour-destroying ultrasound system as it pushes into Asia

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

HistoSonics has received regulatory approval from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration for its Edison Histotripsy System, a non-invasive cancer treatment device that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumours without cutting, radiation, or thermal …

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