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Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year and positioning the San Francisco-based company as one of the most aggressively valued players in the business intelligence market. …

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Anthropic’s co-founder will speak at the Vatican launch of the pope’s AI encyclical

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic. The Vatican announced the details on Mond…

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Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before. At the same time, traffic often looks stable – sometimes ev…

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NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acqu…

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Musk’s xAI promised employees $420 for their tax data. Two months later, nothing.

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Elon Musk’s AI lab promised employees a 420-dollar payment for handing over their personal tax data to train Grok ahead of the April 15 deadline. Two months on, Bloomberg reports, the money has not been paid. Elon Musk’s xAI asked its own employees …

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Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video a…

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Google has sold so much TPU capacity that its own researchers are queueing for the rest

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the mos…

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XPeng starts its robotaxi line in Guangzhou, three years behind the leaders and ahead of any other Chinese automaker

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The first car off the line on Monday marks the start of a slow ramp. Public pilots arrive in the second half, fully driverless by early 2027. XPeng said on Monday that the first robotaxi had rolled off its production line in Guangzhou, making the Ch…

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The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Af…

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Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to form…

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Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihil…

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CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out. Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its …

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Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed. Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, h…

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Apple’s India App Store case gets a procedural compromise from the Delhi bench

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

An order posted on Saturday tells Apple to hand over financial information to India’s competition regulator. It also tells the regulator not to issue a final ruling before 15 July.  The Delhi High Court told Apple over the weekend to ‘fully cooperat…

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HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Europe’s largest bank is putting a dedicated facility behind Chinese solar, battery, EV and data-centre exporters expanding overseas, citing demand that has accelerated alongside the Iran war. HSBC has set up a dedicated $4bn credit facility to help…

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Samsung union holds 21 May strike date as Monday mediation opens in Sejong

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Talks resumed in Sejong on Monday. Choi Seung-ho walked into the National Labor Relations Commission building in Sejong on Monday morning, about 110 km south of Seoul, and told reporters he would ‘participate in this second round in good faith’. The…

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Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

maandag 18 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Motive Partners is leading the seed round, with WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures alongside. The 2025-founded startup is targeting case management, billing, and document handling rather than the parts of legal work most AI vendors are chasing. …

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The seven new job titles that AI created, from Claude Evangelist to Chief AI Officer

zondag 17 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

AI companies are not just changing the way people work. They are changing the kinds of roles that exist. Org charts are morphing as an entirely new class of jobs emerges, some with titles that did not exist two years ago, others that represent old p…

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OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman. The side quests are over.

zondag 17 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company’s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product organisation. In an internal memo seen by Wired, Brockman wrote that Op…

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Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown on rethinking hormone health through advanced testing

zondag 17 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

In a healthcare environment shaped by protocols and time constraints, many people often experience long journeys marked by inconclusive answers and persistent symptoms. Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown, founder of Hormone Health with Dr. Brown, positions his wo…

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How workplace infrastructure supports business performance

zondag 17 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Every strong business is built on a firm foundation. This “infrastructure” is critical to surviving the demands of a startup, the pressures of scaling and the momentum of success. Workplace infrastructure is key to how a company performs. It enables…

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