📰 The Next Web AI

Among the interpreters who rely on it, the verdict is consistent: at last, something built for the way they actually work. The premise is simple. Interpreting w

OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Co

On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layoffs: the Danish spend-managemen

Anthropic built the Claude Fable 5 curbs to keep China’s AI labs out of its most powerful public model. The loudest complaints came from its own side of the fir

Artificial intelligence has been one of the most influential forces shaping recruitment in a global talent war. The volume of data companies can now access, the

THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial pro

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Ch

Coinbase has launched an AI agent that can execute crypto trades and pay for premium research data on behalf of users. The agent integrates with a user’s main C

Meta has erected a data firewall between itself and Manus, the Chinese-founded agentic AI service it acquired for $2 billion in December 2025. Since the start o

Uncovr, a surgical AI startup based in New York and Paris, has raised $7M in seed funding to turn the video from an operation into its official written record.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how software businesses are built, launched, and scaled. In particular, it is driving a surge in micro-SaaS startups, small

Standard Bots has raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation to expand US manufacturing of AI-powered robotic arms. The round was led by General Catalyst and

Addverb Technologies, the Indian robotics startup controlled by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, is seeking to raise more than $100 million to fund developm

Legora, the agentic AI platform for legal professionals, is opening offices in Madrid, Milan, and Paris during Q3 2026, alongside a dedicated engineering hub in

Engineers at MIT have built an ultrasound wristband that can track 22 degrees of freedom in the human hand and use that data to control a robotic hand in real t

A London startup called Zaro has come out of stealth. Cherry Ventures led its $5.1mn pre-seed round. Zaro wants to build one AI workspace that a company owns, n

Generative AI has already changed how companies draft, summarize and search for information. The next challenge is more complex: whether AI can coordinate work

The NHS does not lack for AI pitches. What it has lacked is one that keeps patient data inside the country. A British software firm says it now has it. OneAdvan

London’s robotaxi era is starting with a sign-up form. Uber has opened a waitlist for Londoners who want to ride in a self-driving car, the clearest sign yet th

The lobby of Hyundai’s Seoul headquarters now waters its own plants. On Monday it was also handling security and deliveries, a row of robots laid on for one imp

London-based PhysicsX has raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, more than doubling its valuation to $2.4 bil

A security startup’s autonomous AI agent found 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the open-source media library embedded in almost everything that

Mustafa Suleyman has identified Microsoft’s biggest AI competitor, and it is not OpenAI. “Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently

The pitch deck for every AI sales tool tells the same story: more signals, better insights, smarter forecasting. What they leave out is that most of those insig