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Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mythos Ventures. It is among Europe’s largest AI stealth-to-launch rounds in 2026. The founding team comes from DeepMind, Microsoft, and Reka […]This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.

Microsoft published a blog post on Wednesday criticising a security researcher known as “Nightmare Eclipse” for publicly disclosing a series of unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows Defender and BitLocker. The company then invoked its Digital Crimes Unit, which handles criminal referrals and law enforcement coordination. The cybersecurity community responded with outrage. The bugs, named BlueHammer, RedSun, […]This story continues at The Next Web

HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

HeartFocus, the AI-powered cardiac imaging software developed by French medtech company DESKi, has launched HeartFocus Link, a product that connects a tablet to any cart-based ultrasound system through a simple HDMI setup. The tablet runs HeartFocus’s AI guidance software alongside the live ultrasound image, delivering real-time probe positioning instructions to help clinicians and trainees capture diagnostic-quality cardiac […]This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out Groq’s investors in cash, took several senior engineers, and licensed Groq’s hardware technology. The same investors who were cashed out in December have now […]This story continues at The Next Web

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in its January 2026 Series D round. The company, which builds AI agents for enterprise customer service, has also surpassed $50 million in annual recurring revenue with […]This story continues at The Next Web

Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.

In February 2026, AI research lab METR tried to repeat a groundbreaking study measuring how much time developers take to complete tasks with and without AI. It could not. Developers refused to participate because they would not work without AI, even for a limited number of tasks in a research setting. The original 2025 study […]This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk ratchets up fury over Henry Nowak case when police handcuffed dying victim of Sikh killer

The tech billionaire, 54, has retweeted several posts which have criticised both Hampshire Police and the press for an ...

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jared Isaacman react to Florida rocket explosion

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test in Cape Canaveral, Florida. What Bezos, Elon Musk, Jared Isaacman said about explosion

Elon Musk called out after he questioned why no one on the Epstein list was being prosecuted in resurfaced interview: 'This aged like milk'

A resurfaced interview in which Elon Musk discussed the Epstein files is going viral now that his name has appeared in ...

DOGE staffer resigns after racist posts uncovered. Elon Musk might bring him back.

After a DOGE staffer's racist posts were outed, Elon Musk could have him rehired. Credit: ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images) Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, is the first of Elon Musk's DOGE ...

Elon Musk accuses Trump admin of using Starlink for military purposes

The billionaire's SpaceX was reported to be at odds with the Pentagon over its use of Starlink technology in Iran.

Zohran Mamdani takes page from Elon Musk's and Donald Trump's playbook

Mamdani appears to be borrowing from a high-profile political playbook, announcing a new Commission on Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk Is Already Preparing to Evict Anthropic from SpaceX’s Data Center

Sounds like those CPUs are available to the highest bidder... unless Elon figures out how to make a successful AI model.

Elon Musk says SpaceX has only committed to a 180-day compute agreement with Anthropic

On Thursday, Musk wrote on X the deal between SpaceX and Anthropic is a "180 day lease." ...

SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.

The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on Friday to build satellites that track foreign aircraft and missiles. The programme is called Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator, or SB-AMTI. It is part of the Trump administration’s $185 billion Golden Dome missile defence initiative. Two days earlier, the Space Force awarded SpaceX $2.29 […]This story continues at The Next Web

Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported. If completed, the deal would more than double the company’s valuation from earlier this year, when it crossed the €1 billion mark. The company is 18 […]This story continues at The Next Web

Ferrari’s CEO says the Luce deserves “respect.” Its former chairman says it deserves a different logo.

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna used a round table in Modena on Thursday to defend the €550,000 ($640,000) price tag for the Luce, the company’s first fully electric vehicle. The car was unveiled on Monday. By Tuesday, Ferrari’s Milan-listed stock had fallen 8%. Vigna said the price was fair for innovation and that the Luce has […]This story continues at The Next Web

AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.

Katelyn Watterson owes her career to a summer internship. As a student at American University, she spent a summer working for a high-end beauty brand in New York. Her boss offered her a full-time job over drinks at the Plaza Hotel. Almost two decades later, Watterson runs her own marketing agency, Fifty Six. At times, […]This story continues at The Next Web

Founders seize on Indian court ruling to revive criticism of Google’s ad business

The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.

I went to the so-called ‘steroid Olympics,’ to understand why Silicon Valley is obsessed with peptides

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace.