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 measure, one of the most information-intensive processes in modern medicine, and one of the least efficiently […]This story continues at The Next Web
Manus’s new desktop app can read, edit, and act on files and applications directly on a user’s machine. The launch puts Meta’s AI agent ambitions in direct competition with the open-source tool that has dominated the conversation this week. OpenClaw arrived on the internet last month like a weather system. Within days of its release […]This story continues at The Next Web
For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard’s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer in milliseconds; settlement follows on a separate, slower track. The system is extraordinarily reliable and extraordinarily profitable. It is also, increasingly, a system designed for a world that […]This story continues at The Next Web
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 industry has long regarded it as an engineering necessity: nothing else absorbs as fast, as much, or […]This story continues at The Next Web
The Oslo-based DNV spinout processed over 25,000 bunker operations in 2025 and claims roughly 40% of Singapore’s digital bunkering market. Verb Ventures leads a growth round that brings total funding to $9 million. The paperwork of global shipping is notoriously stubborn. Every fuel delivery to every vessel at every port generates a chain of manual […]This story continues at The Next Web
Closing arguments are set to kick off Tuesday in a trial pitting Elon Musk against Twitter shareholders who say the world’s ...
Elon Musk is once again pushing back the target date for the Roadster launch. The Tesla CEO now says it'll "probably" happen ...
Mario Carbone reveals the moment JAY-Z and Elon Musk fought over who'd pay the bill at his legendary restaurant.
The trial is pitting Elon Musk against Twitter shareholders who say he engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy the ...
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The generative AI era began for most people with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, but the underlying technology — the "Transformer" neural network architecture that allows AI models to weigh the importance of different words in a sentence (or pixels in an image) differently and train on information in parallel — dates back to Google's seminal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need."Yet while Transformers deliver unparalleled model quality and have underpi
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 annual cohort of its Pioneers Project: twelve European companies using AI and cloud infrastructure to tackle problems that […]This story continues at The Next Web
It's the latest salvo in an escalating battle between state regulators and an industry that claims it's not beholden to them.
Mistral Forge lets enterprises train custom AI models from scratch on their own data, challenging rivals that rely on fine-tuning and retrieval-based approaches.
Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move that positions the French AI lab squarely against the hyperscale cloud providers in one of the most consequential and least understood markets in enterprise technology.The announcement caps a remarkably aggressive week for Mistral, which also released its Mistral Small 4 model, unveiled Leanstral — a
Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan's Claude Code setup, which was shared on Github. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
Apple's first-ever "background security improvement" fixes a vulnerability in its Safari browser running its latest software.
Kagi's "Small Web" offers a handpicked collection of more than 30,000 non-commercial, human-authored websites, including personal blogs, webcomics, and independent videos.
For decades, skincare has been driven by claims, trends, and trial-and-error. But what if we could actually measure how products impact the skin at the microbial and molecular level?That’s exactly what our SOSV portfolio company Sequential is doing.With a fresh $3.5 million Seed co-led by Sparkfood and Corundum Systems Biology (CSB), with participation from SOSV, Dermazone Holdings, Scrum Ventures, and Innovate UK, they are using a proprietary, non-invasive testing platform that quantifies how i
After their dramatic falling-out, it doesn't seem as though Anthropic and the Pentagon are getting back together.