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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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Alphabet handed Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

maandag 9 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The new deal ties Google’s CEO to the future of its most ambitious bets, and signals that the board has finally decided they’re bets worth making. Sundar Pichai has run Google since 2015 and Alphabet since 2019. In that time, the company’s market va…

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How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility

maandag 9 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

If you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed to add a “write with AI” button, and the industr…

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OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

zaterdag 7 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI takin…

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How an AI system beat experienced doctors at diagnosing rare diseases

zaterdag 7 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

DeepRare, an agentic AI system integrating 40 specialised tools, outperformed medical specialists in identifying rare conditions in a head-to-head study published in Nature. For millions of people with rare diseases, the path to diagnosis is a labyr…

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Google made Gmail and Drive easier for AI agents to use

zaterdag 7 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A new command-line tool published to GitHub consolidates Workspace’s sprawling APIs into a single interface. It also signals how seriously the company is taking the agentic AI moment. The tool, whose documentation describes it as “one CLI for all of…

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Unmasking the Illusion of Safety Online

vrijdag 6 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The global cost of cybercrime surpasses billions of dollars annually, with phishing/spoofing, personal data breaches, and extortion accounting for a significant share of losses. According to Cordell Robinson, CEO of Brownstone Consulting Firm, the s…

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TaxDown secures €4M financing to expand AI tax platform

vrijdag 6 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Madrid tax fintech doubled revenue in 2025 and hit profitability. Now it’s taking on structured debt to scale its AI platform, a sign that its capital strategy is as deliberate as its product. Most tax software companies want to tell you how man…

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DealFlowAgent raises $750,000 to automate small business M&A

vrijdag 6 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A seed-stage investment bank for small business M&A raises $750,000 from the backers of Uber and SpaceX. The market they’re targeting is enormous. The question is whether they’re early or right on time. Most people who sell a business do it once. Th…

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Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

vrijdag 6 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of …

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Evervault raises €21M to keep payment data encrypted from end to end

vrijdag 6 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Dublin-and-New York-based startup, backed by Ribbit Capital, Sequoia, and Index Ventures, says it processes more than €4.2bn in transactions monthly and cuts customers’ PCI compliance costs by an average of €86,000. The premise behind Evervault …

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French quantum startup Pasqal to list on Nasdaq via SPAC at a $2bn valuation

vrijdag 6 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The neutral-atom quantum computing company, co-founded by Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, has announced a business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026. When Alain Aspect shared …

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