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Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.

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The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. Decentraland, one of the earliest and most persistent experiments in decentralised virtual worlds, appears to have reached a different […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Flipsnack and the shift toward motion-first business content with living visuals

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Interactive content now generates 52.6% higher engagement than static formats, with users spending significantly longer interacting with dynamic media and showing higher recall for brands that use it. In practical terms, that shift may have transformed expectations around how digital content should be produced, especially in commerce and B2B environments, where attention is often a […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (23–29 March)

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A week that spanned semiconductor physics, orbital logistics, defence interceptors, and carob-based chocolate tells you something about the breadth of European and European adjacent capital right now. The dominant thread is not a single sector but a single instinct: back the infrastructure layer, whether that means chip interconnects, satellite transfer vehicles, or the AI plumbing […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

All 11 xAI co-founders have now reportedly left Elon Musk’s AI company

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Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing. Ross Nordeen, described by Business Insider as Musk’s “right-hand operator,” left on Friday. They were the last two of eleven co-founders, all of whom have exited […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Lucyd captures 44% Amazon market share in smart safety glasses category, positions for major retail expansion in 2026

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Company establishes dominant position on world’s largest retail platform while building multi-channel distribution strategy Innovative Eyewear, Inc. (NASDAQ: LUCY) has emerged as the clear category leader in the rapidly growing smart safety glasses segment, capturing approximately 44% market share on Amazon.com according to recent market analysis. This dominant position on the world’s most popular retail […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

OpenAI shelves erotic ChatGPT after staff, investors, & advisors revolt

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OpenAI has shelved its plans to add an erotic “adult mode” to ChatGPT indefinitely, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, capping a five-month saga in which the feature was announced with confidence, delayed twice, and ultimately abandoned after pushback from staff, advisors, and investors. The retreat is the third major product reversal for OpenAI in […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication

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Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent, and SanDisk fell 5.7 per cent, as investors recalculated how much physical memory the AI industry might actually need. The algorithm is […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

OpenAI open-sources teen safety policies for developers amid mounting lawsuits over ChatGPT deaths

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OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give the developers who build on top of its models the tools to avoid creating the same problem. The company announced on Tuesday that it is releasing a set […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use

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The London-based platform, which already covers 1.5 million eligible lives across enterprise and healthcare deployments, is using the Series A to accelerate US market entry and deepen its clinical infrastructure, with a new CEO who sold his last company to Adobe. JAAQ, the London-based digital health engagement platform, has raised $17 million in a Series […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)

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A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the growing operator-to-VC pipeline. What the week of 16-22 March delivered was something different in texture rather than volume: smaller rounds, more specific theses, and a […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site

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Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human approval at every step. For most of the past six months, connecting an AI agent to your WordPress.com site has meant […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

The dummy server and the chip war

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The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse in Southeast Asia, a man was using a hair dryer on a server box. Not to dry it. To loosen the adhesive on a serial-number sticker, […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Bluesky raises $100M Series B as new CEO takes charge

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Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There is a quiet irony in the fact that the person who built […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform

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Meta’s Creator Fast Track programme guarantees three months of pay for established creators willing to build a following on Facebook, after the company paid out a record $3 billion to creators in 2025. Facebook has a creator problem that three billion monthly users cannot solve. The platform is enormous, but the creators who drive the […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

AWS names 12 European AI startups mapping oceans, diagnosing leukaemia, and predicting airstrikes

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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 * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care

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In the ubiquitous age of artificial intelligence, the technology appears as if it is largely earmarked for optimizing the mechanics of work. Buzzwords like speed, automation, efficiency, and productivity often dominate conversations that are shaping the digital era. Today, AI’s capability has expanded into streamlining operations at an unprecedented scale, yet even this magnitude of […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)

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From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London, one in Paris,accounted for nearly three billion dollars. But beyond the headline […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature

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The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a decade, Spotify’s recommendation engine has worked largely in silence. It watched what you played, noted what you skipped, inferred meaning from the time of […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Uber relaunches Motional robotaxis in Las Vegas

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Two years after a brutal restructuring gutted Motional’s workforce and halted its commercial operations, the Hyundai-backed AV company is back on the Strip, still with a safety operator for now, but promising to remove one by the end of 2026. Uber and Motional have relaunched a commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas, making all-electric Motional […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries

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The Amsterdam-headquartered startup has been out of stealth for just eight months, but it already has 350 staff, production deployments across four continents, and a valuation reportedly approaching $1.7 billion There is a problem that every major enterprise AI deployment eventually runs into: the gap between a convincing demo and a working system in production. […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Meta rolls out new scam detection across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook

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The company removed 159 million scam ads last year and took down 10.9 million accounts linked to criminal networks. Now it wants to catch scammers before they get to you. Meta has announced a fresh wave of anti-scam tools across its platforms, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook, as it steps up both on-platform detection and cooperation […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Why 2026 will be the year of governed cybersecurity AI

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The global average cost of a data breach fell to USD 4.44 million in 2025, a 9 per cent drop and the first decline in five years, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. On the surface, that looks like progress. Security AI and automation are finally paying dividends, compressing detection timelines and […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI

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The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise agent platform launched just a month ago. When Ian Webster was leading the LLM engineering team at Discord, […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year

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The camera nods, dances to music, and tracks faces. The rest of the specs are a secret. Something unusual happened at Mobile World Congress this year. A device sat in a glass case at the Honor booth in Hall 3,  present, demonstrably functional, performing little robotic gestures for anyone who stopped to watch,  and yet […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

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Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking its contract has now claimed OpenAI’s most senior hardware executive. Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

A new early-stage fund: Syndicate One raises €22M for Belgium’s startups

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Brussels-based investor Syndicate One has hit a funding milestone with the €22 million first close of its second early-stage tech fund, underscoring a growing confidence in Belgium’s startup ecosystem. The new capital builds on the firm’s first fund, which closed at €6.5 million in late 2024, and will be deployed to support early-stage Belgian tech […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com

The EU’s strategic rebalancing of research partnerships with China

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In 2026, one of Europe’s most ambitious scientific ventures, Horizon Europe, a seven-year, roughly €93 billion framework dedicated to research and innovation, underwent a quiet but significant transformation.  What had once been an open invitation to researchers across the globe now carries a more guarded tenor.  In critical areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here check out our main post right here social media work from home at blogspot.com