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Anthropic commits $100M to Claude Partner Network

vrijdag 13 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Claude Partner Network launches as Anthropic fights the Pentagon in court, and doubles down on the commercial relationships that matter most. There is a particular kind of defiance in the timing. On the same week that Anthropic was seeking an em…

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Bumble’s AI assistant Bee will learn what you want from a relationship

vrijdag 13 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The dating app unveiled Bee at its Q4 earnings alongside a broader ‘Bumble 2.0’ overhaul, as the company attempts to reverse years of declining user numbers by replacing gamified swiping with AI-driven compatibility. There is a version of the future…

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Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas

vrijdag 13 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is in serious trouble. Panama Disease Tropical Race 4…

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Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era

vrijdag 13 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the code. It is getting the code to run. That gap,  bet…

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ESET PROTECT scored zero false alarms in independent testing. Now it’s 20% off.

vrijdag 13 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support our content. All opinions expressed are our own. Here’s a number worth sitting wit…

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Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Amsterdam-headquartered startup has been out of stealth for just eight months, but it already has 350 staff, production deployments across four continents, and a valuation reportedly approaching $1.7 billion There is a problem that every major e…

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Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The 2018 Startup Battlefield winner is joining Zendesk as the race to own agentic customer service accelerates When Forethought won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition in 2018, ChatGPT was four years from existing. The company’s pitch, th…

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Neuramancer raises €1.7M to bring forensic AI to deepfake detection

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Bavarian startup is targeting insurance fraud first, and sees Europe’s push for explainable AI as a competitive edge Neuramancer AI Solutions GmbH has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the commercialisation of its deepfa…

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Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a …

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NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a substantial capital injection with a deep technical pa…

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Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture,…

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EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European …

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Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Paris-based VC backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL has exceeded the €120M goal it set at first close in March 2024. When Elaia first raised its third deep-tech seed fund in March 2024, the target was €120 million. The final figure has come in…

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Moz Pro free trial: professional AI SEO tools from $39/month

donderdag 12 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

TL;DR Moz Pro now includes AI-powered keyword suggestions, an AI Visibility feature in open beta, and the industry-standard Domain Authority metric, all starting at $39/month on annual billing. A 7-day free trial is available on Standard and Medium …

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Paris startup Lemrock raises €6M to become the commerce layer inside AI agents

woensdag 11 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Founded just months ago by two repeat Y Combinator founders and a retail veteran, Lemrock is betting that AI agents are becoming the new storefront,  and that brands are nowhere near ready for it. When you ask ChatGPT or Perplexity which running sho…

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EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report

woensdag 11 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

EchoPrime, published in Nature in February 2026, outperforms both task-specific AI tools and previous foundation models across 23 cardiac benchmarks, and its code, weights, and a demo are publicly available. An echocardiogram is one of the most comm…

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French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation

woensdag 11 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A decade after becoming the first new independent health insurer in France in 30 years, Alan has closed a €100M round backed by Index Ventures, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, and World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann, and it’s not slowing down. Alan, the Paris-…

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Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100M milestone for its Global Water Fund II

woensdag 11 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Temasek and the Grundfos Foundation have joined the fund as it passes its latest target, part of a broader push to channel institutional capital into water technology innovation. Water scarcity is not a future problem. It is a present one, already c…

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Finperks raises $4M to become the API layer for prepaid payments in Europe

woensdag 11 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Berlin startup, founded by the team behind viafintech, is building a single integration that lets banks, fintechs, and HR platforms offer gift cards, cashback, and tax-free employee benefits, without touching the underlying infrastructure themse…

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British startup Outpost raises €15M to make international selling as simple as domestic commerce

woensdag 11 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Founded in 2024, Outpost acts as the legally liable entity for cross-border payments, tax, and compliance, so merchants don’t have to. Ribbit led the Series A. Selling across borders has always been technically possible and operationally punishing. …

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AgentMail raises $6M to give AI agents their own email inboxes

woensdag 11 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The San Francisco startup, backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator, is betting that email, not some new identity protocol, is how AI agents will establish themselves on the internet. AI agents can already book your meetings, negotiate contracts,…

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