The Next Web

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched this week, Wove bills itself as the first mobile […]

  The race to protect sensitive data from future quantum computers just gained fresh momentum. QIZ Security, a cryptographic posture management startup, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud designed to help enterprises accelerate their migration to quantum-resistant cryptography, a […]

The IPO-bound GPU-cloud start-up adds one of the largest US quantitative trading firms to a customer list that already includes Microsoft and NVIDIA itself. Lambda has signed a cloud-infrastructure deal with Hudson River Trading, one of the largest US quantitative trading firms, to supply HRT with […]

The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox ‘strongly disputes’ the claims; the FTC has declined to comment. Two children’s advocacy groups, Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, asked the […]

Picture Kevin. It’s 2014, and on Kickstarter he has just backed the Coolest Cooler, a portable cooler with a built-in blender, a Bluetooth speaker, and a USB charger. Finally, an innovative product that lets him host the perfect beach party. To Kevin, it feels like he’s caught onto something […]

Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the coming months. […]

The first model in DeepMind’s new Omni family will generate and edit video from any combination of image, audio, video, and text inputs. Speech-editing is being withheld; SynthID watermarking is on by default. Google introduced Gemini Omni on Tuesday at the I/O 2026 developer conference, a new […]

Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notified early in their own time zones on the same […]

The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based deeptech company building autonomous […]

T-Head’s new GPU lands inside US export controls, a Trump-Xi summit on AI chips, and a Chinese domestic accelerator market, the company says, is already in scaled mass production. Alibaba’s T-Head chip unit unveiled detailed specifications of the Zhenwu M890 on Wednesday, the company’s latest […]