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DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

vrijdag 24 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls “marginally short” of GPT-5.4 and…

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Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Summary: Meta is cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its workforce) beginning 20 May, cancelling 6,000 open roles, and planning additional cuts for H2 2026. The layoffs, announced via an internal memo from HR head Janelle Gale, are structu…

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Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The McLean, Virginia startup’s Caspian platform sits as a command layer above existing security stacks, deploying pre-trained AI agents into air-gapped and compliance-restricted environments. One of its co-founders is Nick Pompeo, son of former US S…

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White House accuses China of industrial-scale AI model distillation, commits to intelligence sharing with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Summary: The White House OSTP released a policy memo accusing China of “industrial-scale” distillation of US AI models, committing to share intelligence with US AI companies and explore accountability measures. OpenAI accused DeepSeek of distilling …

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Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The oversubscribed financing, led by Triatomic Capital, caps a restructuring that addressed $18.7 million in debt, converted $10 million of that to equity, and preserved 60-plus patents. The company had been days away from liquidation in late 2024. …

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Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US workers in first-ever buyout programme amid $80B AI spending push

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Summary: Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to approximately 7% of its US workforce (~8,750 of 125,000 employees) in the first such programme in its 51-year history, using a “Rule of 70” formula (age + years of service). The offer, disclosed…

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The model, codenamed “Spud,” is designed to complete complex multi-step tasks with minimal human direction. It sets new benchmarks in agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work, while matching GPT-5.4’s per-token latency. API access is delayed…

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Claim Clarity on the role of specialized AI in advancing workers’ compensation decision precision

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Claim Clarity suggests that workers’ compensation represents a significant yet often less visible segment of the broader healthcare ecosystem. Founder and CEO Jamie LaPaglia says, “Its scale and impact continue to expand, but it’s sometimes approach…

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From enterprise IT to entrepreneurship: How Kostiantyn Gitko is building tech businesses across global markets

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Kostiantyn Gitko built his career in a very different environment. Before starting his own company, he worked inside large systems where reliability was expected every day. That experience still shapes how he approaches business. He began as a softw…

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UK Biobank’s 500,000 genomes were listed for sale on Alibaba. The breach came from inside the system.

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Summary: Genetic, medical, and lifestyle data from all 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers was listed for sale on Alibaba after three Chinese research institutions with legitimate access violated their data-sharing agreements. The data was de-identified b…

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The EU is about to tell Google that Gemini cannot have Android to itself

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI assistants, escalating a regulatory confrontation that will determine whether artificial intelligence becomes the next great platform lock-in or the fir…

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The Pentagon just picked the companies that will put nuclear reactors on Air Force bases

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Summary: The Pentagon has narrowed its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) programme from eight companies to three, advancing microreactor deployment at Buckley Space Force Base (Colorado) and Malmstrom Air Force Base (Montana) by 2030. …

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OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The new model reasons about composition, searches the web for context, generates up to eight coherent images from one prompt, and renders text in non-Latin scripts with near-flawless accuracy. It also took the number one spot on the Image Arena lead…

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Anthropic reportedly hits $1 trillion implied valuation on secondary markets

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Secondary share trading platforms are pricing Anthropic at approximately $1 trillion, just three months after its primary fundraising round valued it at $380 billion. OpenAI is trading at $880 billion on the same platforms, a meaningful reversal of …

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Netflix authorises $25 billion share buyback after stock falls 10% on Q1 earnings

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The $25B programme has no expiration date and sits on top of a December 2024 authorisation that still had $6.8B remaining. Netflix’s board approved it on 22 April. Shares rose 1.5% in premarket trading on the news, after falling as much as 10.8% fol…

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Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund lost NOK636 billion ($68 billion) in investment returns in the first quarter, driven by the equity slide among large US technology companies. The S&P 500 posted its deepest quarterly decline since 2022. The …

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Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

TCV led the Series B one year ago and now doubles down on the Series C. Insight Partners also returns. The thesis: AI coding agents are generating software so fast and at such volume that human code review is no longer sufficient, and enterprise art…

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Tesla raises 2026 capex to $25 billion

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The company will go negative on free cash flow for the rest of 2026, CFO Vaibhav Taneja confirmed. But Q1 delivered an unexpected $1.4 billion positive free cash flow beat, and Tesla ended the quarter with $44.7 billion in cash. The capex uplift fro…

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French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A

donderdag 23 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Founded in 2022 and formerly called Constellation Technologies & Operations, Univity is targeting a constellation of at least 1,600 satellites in very low Earth orbit, using telecom operators’ own 5G mmWave spectrum rather than competing with them. …

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SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.

woensdag 22 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Summary: SpaceX’s confidential S-1 pre-IPO filing warns that its orbital AI data centre plans “involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability,” contradicting Elon Musk’s January claim at …

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VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI

woensdag 22 april 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Summary: VAST Data raised $1 billion in a Series F at a $30 billion valuation, more than tripling from $9.1 billion, with Drive Capital and Access Industries co-leading and Nvidia, Fidelity, and NEA participating. More than $500 million is secondary…

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