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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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Why 2026 will be the year of governed cybersecurity AI

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The global average cost of a data breach fell to USD 4.44 million in 2025, a 9 per cent drop and the first decline in five years, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. On the surface, that looks like progress. Security AI and automation a…

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Clarity as strategy

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

CuraeSoft, a software studio developing practical solutions for professional services firms, observes that among growing consultancies and service-based organizations, many leaders operate without clear visibility into the profitability of their wor…

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Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The AI company filed two federal lawsuits on Monday, arguing the Trump administration’s ‘supply chain risk’ designation is unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech. There is a phrase in Anthropic’s court filing that sets the tone for everyt…

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Google brings Gemini deeper into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive with new beta features

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A wave of Workspace updates puts Gemini inside Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, with a benchmark result Google is happy to shout about. The blinking cursor is Google’s enemy. Every time a Workspace user stares at an empty document, spreadsheet, or s…

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Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Stockholm-born company has gone from zero to $5.55 billion in under two years, and it is not slowing down. There is a standard piece of mythology in the legal profession: that lawyers are resistant to technology, constitutionally sceptical of ch…

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Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4M to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Swiss startup Seprify has raised €13.4 million to scale a cellulose-based alternative to one of the most widely used, and increasingly banned, industrial whiteners on the planet. IKEA is backing it. Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a small beetle called…

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Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Turing Award winner left Meta four months ago convinced that large language models are a dead end. Today he announced $1.03 billion in seed funding, Europe’s largest ever, to build something different. In November 2025, Yann LeCun walked into Ma…

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Mantle8 secures €2.06M EU grant to scale natural hydrogen tech

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A €2.06 million EU grant gives the Grenoble deep-tech startup non-dilutive runway to industrialise a four-component technology platform, and moves it one step closer to its first commercial drilling campaign. Fourteen months after closing a €3.4 mil…

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BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The automaker has launched a pilot at its Leipzig plant using Hexagon Robotics’ AEON humanoid. The move follows a successful 11-month run in the US with Figure AI’s robots, and arrives just as the production chief who championed the programme prepar…

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Escape raises $18M to replace pen-testers with AI agents

dinsdag 10 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The timing is not coincidental. In October 2025, Escape published research that scanned more than 5,600 publicly deployed applications built with vibe coding platforms, tools like Lovable, Base44, and Bolt.new that let non-developers build and ship …

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The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI

maandag 9 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise …

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Italy’s Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous vessels for the ‘blue economy

maandag 9 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A Puglia-based startup founded by the man behind aircraft maker Blackshape has closed a pre-seed round to build software-defined ships and maritime AI. The ocean, it argues, is the last major physical environment not yet governed by software. Mirai …

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Nscale raises $2bn Series C at $14.6bn valuation

maandag 9 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The UK hyperscaler has now raised over $4.5bn across equity rounds in less than six months, and says it is the largest Series C ever closed in Europe. That claim deserves scrutiny. When Josh Payne founded Nscale, the company was barely a year old, a…

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