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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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Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants in 2025, gaining access to the industrial control systems that regulate pumps, filters, and chemical dosing. In some facilities, the attackers could have altered the operational parameters of equip…

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Trump’s H-1B proposal would push entry-level tech salary floor near $162,000

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March, The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York,…

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Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Intel’s stock has tripled in twelve months. Its chief executive still has not told most of his employees what the plan is. Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in March 2025, has spent the first fourteen months of his tenure building relationships outside t…

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The AI industry’s model and agent skill repositories are full of malware. The infrastructure built to accelerate development is now the vector for compromising it.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  The two most important software supply chains in artificial intelligence have been systematically compromised. Hugging Face, the repository that hosts more than a million machine learning models used by virtually every AI company on the planet, ha…

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PR & Media lessons from EU-Startups Summit 2026: what works, what does not

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A panel in Valletta laid out a working playbook for startup PR, from the friends-and-family headline test to the case for hiring an agency. Founders looking for media coverage at this year’s EU-Startups Summit in Valletta got a fairly direct briefin…

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Spotify’s AI DJ now speaks French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Spotify has just released an expansion of its premium AI DJ feature that promises to enhance the experience for users in Europe and Brazil, adding the DJ function to new markets and four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian P…

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AWS was hit by overheating in northern Virginia, knocking Coinbase offline and rattling CME

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A single data centre’s cooling system fell behind. AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected. Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data cent…

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NVIDIA takes $2.1bn warrant in IREN as part of 5GW AI data-centre deal

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

NVIDIA will invest up to $2.1bn in IREN as part of a deal that pairs the chipmaker’s reference architecture with the data-centre operator’s 5-gigawatt infrastructure pipeline. The two companies announced the partnership on Thursday. The structure is…

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SoftBank cuts OpenAI-backed margin loan target by 40% to $6bn

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Lenders pushed back on valuing OpenAI shares as collateral. The downsize lands a fortnight after the $10bn ask first surfaced and is the clearest signal yet that even an $852bn primary round has not closed the gap between sticker and what banks will…

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Sony forecasts 11% profit lift and $3.2bn buyback as music and sensors offset PS5 memory shock

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

FY26 guidance puts operating profit at ¥1.6 trillion. The PS5 install base, royalty income from streaming, and a smartphone-camera business with no obvious challenger are doing the work while the gaming hardware unit absorbs a memory-cost shock. Son…

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The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

US prosecutors believe a company at the centre of Thailand’s national AI strategy helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China, with Alibaba among the eventual customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company …

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Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  The person who connected Jeff Bezos to one of the most ambitious electric vehicle startups in America has left its board. Melinda Lewison, who manages the Bezos family office and was listed as a director on Slate Auto’s corporate filings, has depa…

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Tesla trademarked a supercar badge for a car it promised nine years ago. The logo is the most tangible thing about the Roadster.

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Tesla has filed a trademark for a bespoke Roadster badge that looks like it belongs on a Lamborghini. The car it will adorn was first promised nine years ago. A prototype debuted in November 2017 with a 200 kilowatt-hour battery, a claimed 620-mil…

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A data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A fire at a data centre in Almere on Thursday morning knocked a university offline, disabled the emergency communication system for public transport across an entire province, triggered an NL-Alert to residents across Flevoland, and required a crash…

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