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Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health

vrijdag 20 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the y…

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VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

vrijdag 20 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. The team behind Warsaw-based Montis Ca…

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Bluesky raises $100M Series B as new CEO takes charge

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There…

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Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ago, Microsoft was generating images for Bing and…

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Your inbox is someone else’s business model. It doesn’t have to be

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

There is a moment, usually around the third eerily accurate ad for something you only mentioned in an email, when you start to wonder what exactly your inbox knows about you. The answer, it turns out, is everything. And the companies running the mos…

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Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The partnership puts Rivian’s in-house chip and full autonomous stack to work as a robotaxi platform, with commercial deployments planned for San Francisco and Miami in 2028. Uber has been signing robotaxi deals at a pace that can make any single an…

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eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for years. The market for greenhouse automation has accumu…

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Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone …

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Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform

woensdag 18 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Meta’s Creator Fast Track programme guarantees three months of pay for established creators willing to build a following on Facebook, after the company paid out a record $3 billion to creators in 2025. Facebook has a creator problem that three billi…

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Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail

woensdag 18 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Paris startup opened the EU’s emissions trading market to private investors in 2024. Now it has the backing to expand into energy, electrification, and other markets shaping the industrial transition. Valentin Lautier says he got the idea for Ho…

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Multiply raises $9.5M to build AI agents that keep B2B ad campaigns from going stale

woensdag 18 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The San Francisco startup emerges from stealth with Mayfield backing and a pitch that treats ad creative as a continuous learning loop, not a quarterly deliverable. Every B2B marketing team knows the problem. A campaign launches, the creative is fre…

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Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials

woensdag 18 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a clinical trial. Clinical trials are, by almost any me…

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Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic

woensdag 18 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Polyacrylate is the synthetic crystal at the heart of every modern disposable nappy, is derived from petroleum, and it does not break down. It persists for centuries, leaching microplastics into soil and groundwater as it degrades. The hygiene indus…

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AWS names 12 European AI startups mapping oceans, diagnosing leukaemia, and predicting airstrikes

dinsdag 17 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The 2026 AWS Pioneers cohort spans healthcare, climate, and conflict zones, and lands alongside a stark warning that Europe risks losing its best innovators if the regulatory environment doesn’t change. Amazon Web Services announced today the second…

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Former scaleup operators launch Operator Circle VC to back Europe’s next decacorn

dinsdag 17 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do it again. For years, the criticism of European venture capital has be…

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Google, Meta, Amazon and 8 other tech giants sign global accord to share scam intelligence

dinsdag 17 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud, announced at the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna, commits 11 companies to share threat intelligence and coordinate defences against AI-driven fraud at scale. When Google’s vice president of trust …

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Tracebit raises $20M to scale cloud honeypots as enterprise deception security grows

dinsdag 17 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The startup, which plants millions of decoy assets across cloud environments to catch intruders in the act, closed its Series A led by FirstMark as enterprise security teams warm to deception as a primary detection strategy. The logic of cyber decep…

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Partech closes its first impact fund at €300M to back Europe’s next generation of industrial and climate tech scaleups

dinsdag 17 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Paris-based VC is targeting 15 B2B companies with revenues above €10M in clean manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, green construction, and digital health, with carry tied to impact performance for the first time. Europe has no shortage of ea…

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Gecko Robotics lands $71M Navy deal to send wall-climbing robots inside warships

dinsdag 17 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavail…

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Nvidia turns OpenClaw into an enterprise platform with NemoClaw

dinsdag 17 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A single command now installs security, privacy guardrails, and local AI models on the world’s fastest-growing open-source agent platform. OpenClaw launched on 25 January 2026. Austrian developer Peter Steinberger says he built the first version in …

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Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

dinsdag 17 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory floors. Universal Robots has launched the UR AI Train…

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