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Freepik rebrands as Magnific: a bootstrapped, profitable $230M ARR AI creative platform

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The new name unifies what was previously fragmented across Freepik (stock assets), Magnific (AI upscaling), and several other products. One million paying subscribers. 250 enterprise customers, including BBC, Puma, and Amazon Prime Video. CEO Joaquí…

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True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

True Anomaly’s Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles can manoeuvre near other satellites in orbit for inspection, space situational awareness, and, under Golden Dome, potential interception of ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Total funding now exceed…

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Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Blackbird is doubling down: it led both the pre-seed and now the seed, and now holds 34% of the company. Icehouse Ventures also participated. The founders -Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, and Ben Robertson, retain ~27% each. US expansion is next. Marloo…

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Accenture deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

97% of Accenture employees report Copilot helped complete routine tasks up to 15 times faster. 89% monthly active usage among the 200,000-person cohort tested. Microsoft has over 450 million M365 enterprise users; only ~3% currently pay $30/month fo…

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Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

3TS Capital Partners led the round with Grazia Equity and existing investors. 25,000 users, 85% daily wear rate, 500,000+ emergency calls handled. The company is building an AI companion for the watch to address loneliness in the hours when no famil…

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Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Information reported the deal on Tuesday. The agreement allows the DoD to use Google’s AI models without the restrictions that led Anthropic to be blacklisted in February. Google becomes the latest in a line of AI companies, alongside OpenAI and…

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Meta prepares to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition after China’s block

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Meta is preparing to unwind its approximately $2 billion acquisition of the agentic AI startup Manus after China’s National Development and Reform Commission formally ordered the deal’s cancellation on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citin…

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Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The round brings total raised to €9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model…

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OpenAI is building a phone that would make apps obsolete. The supply chain says it might actually ship.

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

OpenAI is developing a smartphone built around AI agents rather than apps, with Qualcomm and MediaTek jointly designing the custom processor and Luxshare Precision Industry co-designing and exclusively manufacturing the device, according to Ming-Chi…

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Microsoft drops its exclusive licence to OpenAI’s technology

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Both companies announced the revised agreement in a joint statement on Monday. Microsoft retains a non-exclusive licence to OpenAI’s intellectual property through 2032, remains the primary cloud partner, and keeps its 27% equity stake. OpenAI will c…

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How Arpit Grawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Arpit Agrawal’s career has been shaped by a single, consistent focus: expanding access. For more than a decade, he has worked at the intersection of global brands and emerging markets, building distribution and retail ecosystems that connect product…

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Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap. Wha…

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Vinted reaches €8 billion valuation in €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Schroders Capital and Teachers’ Venture Growth join as new investors. The transaction gives early investors and long-serving employees a route to liquidity. Vinted says it is ‘IPO-ready’ but has set no timetable. FY2024 revenue grew 36% to €813 mill…

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Spotify expands from soundtrack to sweat session: Peloton partnership puts 1,400 classes inside the app

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Available from today in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Austria, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, and Spain.Peloton bike workouts are not included, the classes cover strength, cardio, yoga, meditation, pilates, and outdoor runs, requiring no specialist equip…

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Musk v. Altman goes to trial in Oakland

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A four-week federal case over OpenAI’s soul, a diary entry, $150 billion in claimed damages, and the question of whether a nonprofit can become the world’s most valuable AI company.  The years-long legal battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over …

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Google DeepMind to open its first AI campus in the world in Seoul

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Demis Hassabis met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at Cheong Wa Dae on Monday and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Science and ICT. The campus will be operational this year. Hassabis accepted a request to send at least 10 Google engineers fro…

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The world’s largest EV battery maker is raising $5 billion in Hong Kong

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The world’s largest EV battery maker priced its Hong Kong listing at HK$263 in May 2025. Its shares touched HK$701 before the placement was announced. The deal builds on a week of shareholder activity: a Sinopec unit sold $770M of CATL stock at HK$7…

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China orders Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The NDRC’s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review issued a formal cancellation order on Monday, four months after the deal was announced. Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao have been barred from leaving China s…

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India’s Acko hires Kotak, ICICI Securities, and Morgan Stanley for a $350 million IPO targeting a $2.5 billion valuation

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The digital insurer, backed by General Atlantic, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and Accel, plans to file its DRHP confidentially with SEBI in H2 2026. In FY25 it grew revenue 35% to Rs 2,837 crore and cut net losses by 37%. It has raised over…

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The Iran war is hitting the AI supply chain where it hurts

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Iran’s strike on SABIC’s Jubail petrochemical complex in early April halted production of the resin used to make PCB laminates. Goldman Sachs analysts say prices surged 40% in April alone. A South Korean supplier to Samsung and AMD says epoxy resin …

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DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth

maandag 27 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the pricing strategy of US AI providers at a moment when …

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