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Istanbul’s Grand Games lands a $70m Series B as Balderton doubles down on Turkey’s puzzle-game pipeline

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Bek Ventures, Laton Ventures, and angel investor Mert Gür are back. Total funding for the two-year-old studio reaches $103m. The round arrives weeks after Scopely’s $1bn buyout of Loom Games and CVC’s $5bn deal for Dream Games. Grand Games Oyun ve Y…

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GPUaaS is reinforcing the illusion of European AI sovereignty

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Europe is pouring billions into AI development and infrastructure. GPU (graphics processing units) access is expanding rapidly through cloud platforms and GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) providers, becoming a key enabler of AI development and deployment. …

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TNW, Oneflow, and Flexas are hosting a free networking evening in Amsterdam

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A speaker panel, food, and a room full of people who actually want to connect. The gathering takes place on 3 June at Flexas.com in the heart of the city. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from attending the wrong networking event.…

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Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m, alleging her photo has been selling its TVs without permission since 2025

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The complaint says a backstage shot from the 2024 Austin City Limits Festival ended up on Crystal UHD packaging in retail and online channels worldwide, and that Samsung ignored her cease-and-desist requests. Dua Lipa filed a $15 million federal law…

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Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The company has traced its model’s most uncomfortable behaviour to the corpus of science fiction it was trained on. The fix it describes is unsettling in a different way: teaching the model the reasons behind being good, not just the rules. In a fic…

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Nintendo shares fall 7% as Switch 2 price hike and thin pipeline land in the same forecast

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

FY27 hardware guidance is for 16.5m Switch 2 units, down 17%. Memory and shipping costs add a ¥100bn drag. The US price moves to $499.99 in September; Japan goes to ¥59,980 from 25 May. Nintendo shares dropped roughly 7% in Tokyo trading on Monday a…

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Microsoft-G42 Kenya data centre stalls over government offtake demands

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The company asked the Kenyan government for a guaranteed annual capacity offtake. The government did not commit at the level Microsoft requested. Talks have broken down for now; the project is not formally cancelled. A $1bn Microsoft data-centre pro…

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SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centres at former Sharp plant

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Target output is one gigawatt-hour a year. Partners are South Korea’s Cosmos Lab and DeltaX. Production opens for the fiscal year starting next April, with zinc-halide chemistry following in 2027. SoftBank Group’s mobile-services subsidiary will beg…

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Why LaceLocker® believes the next breakthrough in wearables may begin beneath the laces

maandag 11 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  The next wave of wearables may rely less on adding new devices and more on embedding connectivity into products people already use every day. LaceLocker® believes the next generation of wearables will emerge through integrated hardware platforms t…

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Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping

zondag 10 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tm…

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NVIDIA tops $40bn in AI equity bets in 2026, anchored by $30bn OpenAI investment

zondag 10 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

$30bn went to OpenAI; the rest is spread across CoreWeave, IREN, Corning, Nebius, and roughly two dozen private rounds. The pattern is closer to vertical integration than to venture investing, and is starting to draw the inevitable circular-deal que…

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Trump Media reports $405.9m Q1 loss, almost entirely from crypto markdowns

zondag 10 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Trump Media & Technology Group reported a $405.9 million net loss for the first quarter of 2026, the company said on Friday, almost all of it driven by unrealised losses on the cryptocurrency holdings it has spent the past nine months building. Oper…

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A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.

zaterdag 9 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ…

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Quantinuum filed for an IPO worth 20 billion dollars. It has 31 million in revenue and a quantum computer that does not exist yet.

zaterdag 9 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Quantinuum filed for a US initial public offering on Thursday that could value the company at more than 20 billion dollars. In the year ended 31 December 2025, Quantinuum reported revenue of 30.9 million dollars and a net loss of 192.6 million dol…

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Akamai’s stock had its best day in 22 years. It took one AI contract.

zaterdag 9 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Akamai Technologies disclosed a 1.8 billion dollar, seven-year cloud infrastructure deal with a customer it described only as “a leading frontier model provider.” Bloomberg identified the customer as Anthropic. The stock rose 27 per cent in a sing…

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Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.

zaterdag 9 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Google launched a 99 dollar screenless fitness tracker and a 9.99 dollar per month AI health coach powered by Gemini. One day later, Whoop announced that it would add on-demand video consultations with licensed clinicians to its app. Google is bet…

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Anthropic’s Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The Fed chair called the banks.

zaterdag 9 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Anthropic built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The Federal Reserve chair and the Treasury secretary called bank CEOs to discuss it. The company says there is a six-to-t…

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The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.

zaterdag 9 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth more than some countries. Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial revealed this we…

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Rocket Lab’s revenue grew 64 per cent, its backlog hit 2.2 billion dollars, and its stock hit a record. Neutron still has not flown.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Rocket Lab’s revenue grew 64 per cent, its stock hit a record high, and its backlog reached 2.2 billion dollars. The company sold more launches in the first quarter of 2026 than in the entire previous year. The only thing that has not launched yet…

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Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Cloudflare beat Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates on Wednesday, announced it would cut 1,100 employees because artificial intelligence agents now do their work, and watched its stock fall 24 per cent on Thursday. The sequence is becomin…

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The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Department of War launched a website on Friday called war.gov/ufo. It contains 162 files, including photographs from the Apollo 17 mission that NASA cannot explain, infrared videos of objects the military cannot identify, and internal memos desc…

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