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Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion

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Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap. What it has is a thesis, and a founder whose track record is worth a billion dollars to […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Sequoia is giving away the hardware for an AI project it cannot invest in. That is the point.

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Sequoia Capital co-steward Alfred Lin personally purchased 200 Mac Minis, had each one custom-engraved with a design mixing old cartography and machine learning contour plots, and distributed them to attendees at Sequoia’s “AI at the Frontier” event. Each machine contained two easter eggs: Sequoia’s ethos statement about creative spirits and underdogs, and a quote generated […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock

The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather than rule-based systems. Humble, a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup, has emerged from stealth with a […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Op-Ed: SaaS is not dead. You are just being sold the funeral

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The “AI has killed software” narrative has a handful of very loud beneficiaries and a lot of quiet evidence against it. The companies that will survive the next five years are the ones that refuse to treat the hyperscalers as the new gods. Whenever I make an affirmation, I like to do my research first, […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Trump wants to stop states from regulating AI. States and Congress keep saying no.

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In short: The Trump administration is waging a multi-front campaign to prevent states from regulating AI, using a DOJ litigation task force, Commerce Department evaluations of “burdensome” state laws, and a legislative framework urging Congress to preempt state-level regulation with a “minimally burdensome national standard.” But states have accelerated in the opposite direction – 1,208 […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Apple testing four frame designs for AI smart glasses ahead of 2027 launch

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In short: Apple is testing at least four frame styles for its upcoming AI-powered smart glasses, according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman published 12 April 2026. The designs include a large rectangular style similar to Wayfarer frames, a slimmer rectangular style comparable to those worn by CEO Tim Cook, a larger oval or circular […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases

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In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed first among the tool’s example applications. The add-in, available to Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers, completes Anthropic’s integration across the full Microsoft Office suite and arrives […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy

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The Berkeley biotech is backing a Nature-published approach that recreates the embryonic environment where blood stem cells first form, rather than reprogramming aged cells chemically or genetically. Its lead programme targets bone marrow transplant in blood cancers and has received FDA Orphan Drug Designation. HexemBio has publicly launched with a $10.4 million seed round led […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

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

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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 * This article was originally published here

LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told

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In short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software characteristics about your device, encrypts the resulting fingerprint, and attaches it to every API request you make during your session. The practice, labelled “BrowserGate” by researchers, […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Keeper Security brings zero-trust database access to its PAM platform with KeeperDB

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Database credentials remain one of the most common attack vectors in enterprise breaches, yet most organisations still manage them through shared spreadsheets, hardcoded connection strings, or standalone credential vaults with no session oversight. Keeper Security, the Chicago-based cybersecurity company best known for its password management platform, is attempting to close that gap with KeeperDB, a […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Anthropic just paid $400 million for a startup with fewer than 10 people

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Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, a stealth biotech AI startup founded barely eight months ago, in an all-stock deal worth just over $400 million. The acquisition brings a team of fewer than 10 people, nearly all former Genentech computational biology researchers, into Anthropic’s healthcare and life sciences division, and it signals something larger than a […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here