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General Compute is betting SambaNova will be the next breakout chipmaker.
Last June, we announced SOSV’s latest deep tech expansion, the HAX Plasma Forge, a program launchpad dedicated to founders turning breakthroughs in plasma science into real-world companies and a space for corporates to access cutting-edge R&D co-located with innovators. HAX Plasma Forge will harness the latest advancements in plasma applications to build the critical infrastructure behind AI, with a focus on companies in the Advanced Computing, Energy, and Manufacturing industries. To
Meta is on track to dethrone Google as the world’s largest digital advertising business by the end of 2026, according to Emarketer. The market research firm projects Meta’s global net ad revenues will reach $243.46 billion this year, edging past Google’s projected $239.54 billion. It would be the first time in the history of digital advertising […]This story continues at The Next Web
The ring is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and comes with more accurate sensing, enhanced battery life, and more.
The Temu fine, the second-ever DSA penalty after X’s €120M in December, gives the EU’s online-safety regime its first major Chinese-platform enforcement case. The European Commission has fined Temu, the Chinese e-commerce platform owned by PDD Holdings, €200m (roughly $232m) under the Digital Services Act for failing to prevent the sale of unsafe products to […]This story continues at The Next Web
Meta’s $7.99-and-$19.99 chatbot tiers and OpenAI’s push into advertising mark the moment the AI revenue-model question becomes a cross-cutting collision. Meta’s decision to begin selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot at $7.99 and $19.99 a month, announced on Tuesday, lands at exactly the moment OpenAI and xAI are visibly moving the other way: into […]This story continues at The Next Web
Artificial intelligence is entering healthcare at a pace that, according to Donna R. Cryer, risks outpacing the governance structures needed to support it responsibly. Cryer believes hospitals, payers, pharmaceutical companies, and digital health organizations are introducing AI systems into clinical and operational environments without sufficiently involving the people most affected by those decisions, which are the […]This story continues at The Next Web
Transition Ventures, the London-based early-stage firm led by Unity co-founder David Helgason, has closed a $150m second fund, bringing the platform’s assets under management to over $300m. Fund II will continue Transition’s thesis that the most consequential companies of the coming decade will sit at the intersection of AI and the physical world: power, robotics, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Access to each other has never been easier in an era of a constantly connected world. Yet Sheila J. Simpson, Executive Director of FOCCUS Marriage Ministries, believes that this unprecedented connectivity has introduced a more complex challenge. “We have never been more connected as we are now, yet many people have never felt more unheard,” she says. […]This story continues at The Next Web
Elon Musk’s SpaceX had reportedly requested a price hike from the Pentagon for the use of its Starlink network during the Iran war, leading to tensions between the two. Senior officials from SpaceX have claimed that the Pentagon has been...
SpaceX IPO might be the next push for Bitcoin treasury companies.
Explaining on X, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said there’s “a US government arm of SpaceX called Starshield, which has a ...
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning an initial public offering in June that could be the largest ever. Here's what you ...
SpaceX’s IPO will bring Elon Musk’s rockets, Starlink, xAI, X and decades-long business ambition into one $1.75 trillion conglomerate. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images This new incarnation of ...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is furious that the military is using Starlink — not Starshield — to connect its cheap suicide drones.
Three days after the Vatican called for AI to be ‘disarmed’, the Mistral CEO defended his company’s defence-AI work, arguing Europe cannot afford unilateral restraint. Arthur Mensch, the chief executive of French AI startup Mistral, pushed back directly on Thursday against Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm AI,” arguing that European companies cannot afford to […]This story continues at The Next Web
AtlasEdge, the European data-centre operator jointly owned by Liberty Global and DigitalBridge, has secured roughly $1.2bn in debt financing to scale its data-centre footprint across the continent, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday. The facility is the largest single financing AtlasEdge has raised since its 2021 formation and lands in a stretch of unusually […]This story continues at The Next Web