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Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth

In short: Xoople, a Madrid-based geospatial data company founded in 2019, has raised a $130 million Series B led by Nazca Capital, bringing its total funding to $225 million and pushing its valuation into unicorn territory. The round was co-invested by MCH Private Equity, CDTI (the Spanish government’s technology development fund), Buenavista Equity Partners, and Endeavor […]This story continues at The Next Web

Apple plans Supreme Court appeal in Epic Games App Store battle — again

Apple plans to ask the Supreme Court to review its App Store fight with Epic Games, as it challenges a ruling limiting its ability to charge fees on external payments.

Watch this video of how a job interviewer exposes a North Korean fake IT worker

An apparent North Korean worker was caught visibly stumped during a remote job interview when asked to insult the country's leader.

North Korea’s hijack of one of the web’s most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making

North Korean hackers pushed out malicious updates to a popular open source project by hacking a top developer's computer in a long-running campaign.

How MassMutual and Mass General Brigham turned AI pilot sprawl into production results

Enterprise AI programs rarely fail because of bad ideas. More often, they get stuck in ungoverned pilot mode and never reach production. At a recent VentureBeat event, technology leaders from MassMutual and Mass General Brigham explained how they avoided that trap — and what the results look like when discipline replaces sprawl.At MassMutual, the results are concrete: 30% developer productivity gains, IT help desk resolution times reduced from 11 minutes to one, and customer service calls cut fr

OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day work week

OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.

AI agents that automatically prevent, detect and fix software issues are here as NeuBird AI launches Falcon, FalconClaw

The mantra of the modern tech industry was arguably coined by Facebook (before it became Meta): "move fast and break things." But as enterprise infrastructure has shifted into a dizzying maze of hybrid clouds, microservices, and ephemeral compute clusters, the "breaking" part has become a structural tax that many organizations can no longer afford to pay. Today, two-year-old startup NeuBird AI is launching a full-scale offensive against this "chaos tax," announcing

Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes

Satellites on Fire, founded in 2020 as a school project by three Argentine teenagers, has closed a seed round led by Dalus Capital. Its software-only platform integrates satellite data from multiple agencies and detects fires faster than NASA’s FIRMS system by avoiding the gaps between satellite passes. Argentine climate-tech startup Satellites on Fire has closed […]This story continues at The Next Web

Startup Battlefield 200 applications open: a chance for VC access, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K

Nominate your startup, or one you know that deserves the spotlight, and finish the process by applying. Selected 200 have a chance at VC access, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K for Startup Battlefield 200. Applications close on May 27.

Bolt expands its Hopp ride-hailing brand into Canadian corporate travel

A year after its consumer launch in Toronto, Bolt’s North American brand Hopp has introduced a corporate mobility product targeting finance teams frustrated by fragmented expense reporting. It enters a market where Canada’s business travel spending was forecast to grow 17.7% to CAD $44.3 billion in 2025. Bolt, the Estonian mobility company that operates in […]This story continues at The Next Web

How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others

Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.

Ticket savings of up to $500 this week for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Starting today, you have 5 days to save nearly $500 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. This offer disappears Friday, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here to secure these low rates.

OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day week

Sam Altman’s 13-page policy blueprint, ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,’ proposes auto-triggering safety nets, containment playbooks for rogue AI, and direct citizen dividends from AI-driven growth. He told Axios it is a starting point, not a prescription. OpenAI has published a 13-page policy document calling for sweeping economic reforms to prepare for what it […]This story continues at The Next Web

Convicted spyware maker Bryan Fleming avoids jail at sentencing

The pcTattletale founder escapes a custodial sentence following the first successful prosecution of a spyware maker in the U.S. in over a decade.

Spain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI

The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.

IBM and Arm are partnering to stop mainframes being left out of the AI era

In short: IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration on 2 April 2026 to enable Arm-based software to run on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, the platforms that process the bulk of the world’s regulated enterprise transactions. The partnership targets three areas: virtualisation to host Arm software environments on IBM hardware, security and compliance for regulated […]This story continues at The Next Web

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is offering $18M to hire a chief AI scientist

UBTech’s salary range for Chief Scientist of Embodied Intelligence runs from $2.2M to $18M. The Shenzhen company’s humanoid robot revenue grew twenty-fold last year. Bloomberg calls the offer unusual even by Chinese standards. Chinese humanoid robotics company UBTech has posted a global recruitment notice for a Chief Scientist of Embodied Intelligence, offering an annual salary […]This story continues at The Next Web

Which Telegram growth service is worth It

Which Telegram Growth Service Is Worth It How can I grow my Telegram channels quickly? Are growth services for Telegram safe? What is the best SMM panel for Telegram? Can I grow a Telegram channel without ads? Do fake members hurt my channel? The answers to these questions define the modern growth strategy, and they […]This story continues at The Next Web

New Crypto: Pepeto Project Updates While Dogecoin Holders Watch Elon Musk X Money Beta Launch and Ask What Comes Next

Pepeto is a crypto project built to serve the economy Dogecoin proved exists but never supported. The ecosystem includes ...

U.S. Marshals waived training rules for Musk's armed DOGE security, emails say

Members of Elon Musk’s private security team were deputized as federal agents even though some lacked the required training, according to newly released emails.