{"id":983,"date":"2018-07-22T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T18:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/?page_id=983"},"modified":"2021-02-21T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:38:56","slug":"the-verge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/?page_id=983","title":{"rendered":"The Next Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feedzy-feea4ca9c2c74fcc92ea7ff54abfcefa feedzy-rss\"><div class=\"rss_header\"><h2><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/\" class=\"rss_title\" rel=\"noopener\">The Next Web<\/a> <span class=\"rss_description\"> Original and proudly opinionated perspectives for Generation T<\/span><\/h2><\/div><ul><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/greer-chip-export-controls-not-major-china-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/04\/beijing-warns-eu-china-russia-sanctions.avif');\" title=\"Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/04\/beijing-warns-eu-china-russia-sanctions.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/greer-chip-export-controls-not-major-china-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Alina Maria Stan<\/a> on 15 May 2026 at 08:07 <\/small><p>Greer told Bloomberg TV the bilateral did not address chip controls, even as Reuters reported the Trump administration cleared Nvidia H200 sales to several Chinese firms after the Xi meeting. Semiconductor export controls were not a major topic at this week\u2019s US-China bilateral meetings in [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/musk-openai-closing-arguments-jury-deliberations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Jury deliberations to begin in OpenAI nonprofit trial after Musk skips closing for Beijing\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/04\/Sam-Altman-v-Elon-Musk-trial.avif');\" title=\"Jury deliberations to begin in OpenAI nonprofit trial after Musk skips closing for Beijing\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/04\/Sam-Altman-v-Elon-Musk-trial.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/musk-openai-closing-arguments-jury-deliberations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Jury deliberations to begin in OpenAI nonprofit trial after Musk skips closing for Beijing<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Ana-Maria Stanciuc<\/a> on 15 May 2026 at 07:48 <\/small><p>Three weeks of testimony in Judge Gonzalez Rogers\u2019s Oakland courtroom end with Musk in Beijing on Trump\u2019s state-visit delegation and deliberations beginning Monday. Closing arguments in Musk v. Altman wrapped on Thursday afternoon in Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers\u2019s Oakland courtroom, sending [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/figma-q1-earnings-ai-monetization-stock-rebound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Figma\u2019s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn\u2019t sure.\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/figma-q1-earnings-ai-monetization-stock-rebound.avif');\" title=\"Figma\u2019s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn\u2019t sure.\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/figma-q1-earnings-ai-monetization-stock-rebound.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/figma-q1-earnings-ai-monetization-stock-rebound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Figma\u2019s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn\u2019t sure.<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Alina Maria Stan<\/a> on 14 May 2026 at 21:04 <\/small><p>\u00a0 For ten months, Figma has been a case study in how quickly Wall Street can fall out of love. The company went public on 31 July 2025 at $33 a share, soared past $140 on its debut, and has spent most of 2026 in freefall, \u00a0battered by Google\u2019s free Stitch design tool, Anthropic\u2019s Claude \nThis [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/thrive-capital-shopify-public-market-ai-commerce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/thrive-capital-shopify-public-market-ai-commerce.avif');\" title=\"Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/thrive-capital-shopify-public-market-ai-commerce.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/thrive-capital-shopify-public-market-ai-commerce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Cristian Dina<\/a> on 14 May 2026 at 20:53 <\/small><p>Joshua Kushner\u2019s Thrive Capital has taken a roughly $100 million stake in Shopify, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The investment is notable less for its size, $100 million is a rounding error in a firm that raised more than $10 billion for its latest fund, [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/palantir-retail-sell-off-germany-military-rejection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Palantir\u2019s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/palantir-retail-sell-off-germany-military-rejection.avif');\" title=\"Palantir\u2019s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/palantir-retail-sell-off-germany-military-rejection.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/palantir-retail-sell-off-germany-military-rejection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Palantir\u2019s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Alina Maria Stan<\/a> on 14 May 2026 at 20:39 <\/small><p>\u00a0 Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In the week through 13 May, individual investors [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/polestar-pump-anxiety-ev-demand-iran-oil-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Polestar says \u2018pump anxiety\u2019 has replaced range anxiety. Its balance sheet tells a more complicated story.\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/polestar-pump-anxiety-ev-demand-iran-oil-crisis.avif');\" title=\"Polestar says \u2018pump anxiety\u2019 has replaced range anxiety. Its balance sheet tells a more complicated story.\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/polestar-pump-anxiety-ev-demand-iran-oil-crisis.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/polestar-pump-anxiety-ev-demand-iran-oil-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Polestar says \u2018pump anxiety\u2019 has replaced range anxiety. Its balance sheet tells a more complicated story.<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Cristian Dina<\/a> on 14 May 2026 at 20:20 <\/small><p>\u00a0 For years, the electric vehicle industry\u2019s biggest problem had a name: range anxiety. Now, according to the chief executive of Polestar, the anxiety has moved to the other side of the forecourt. \u201cPeople are concerned, \u2018how much do I pay at the gas station?\u2019\u201d Michael Lohscheller told [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/openai-apple-partnership-legal-fight-siri-chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/openai-apple-partnership-legal-fight-siri-chatgpt.avif');\" title=\"OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/openai-apple-partnership-legal-fight-siri-chatgpt.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/openai-apple-partnership-legal-fight-siri-chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Alina Maria Stan<\/a> on 14 May 2026 at 19:57 <\/small><p>\u00a0 OpenAI\u2019s partnership with Apple, announced to considerable fanfare in June 2024, is fracturing. The AI company\u2019s lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on options that could include sending Apple a formal notice alleging breach of contract, according to Bloomberg, which [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/carta-law-avantia-acquisition-ai-legal-private-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Carta acquires a law firm and bets the future of private capital runs on a single platform\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/carta-law-avantia-acquisition-ai-legal-private-capital.avif');\" title=\"Carta acquires a law firm and bets the future of private capital runs on a single platform\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/carta-law-avantia-acquisition-ai-legal-private-capital.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/carta-law-avantia-acquisition-ai-legal-private-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Carta acquires a law firm and bets the future of private capital runs on a single platform<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Cristian Dina<\/a> on 14 May 2026 at 19:32 <\/small><p>\u00a0 Carta has spent the past eight months buying its way toward something that did not exist a year ago: a single platform that handles dealmaking, fund operations, investor relations, and now legal and compliance work for the private capital industry. The acquisition of Avantia, a UK-based [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/flo-health-perimenopause-tools-awareness-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/flo-health-perimenopause-tools-awareness-gap.avif');\" title=\"66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/flo-health-perimenopause-tools-awareness-gap.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/flo-health-perimenopause-tools-awareness-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Alina Maria Stan<\/a> on 14 May 2026 at 19:10 <\/small><p>\u00a0 Two-thirds of American women between 38 and 50 say they felt better prepared to go through puberty than perimenopause. The statistic, from a nationally representative survey commissioned by Flo Health and conducted by Wakefield Research, captures something that decades of public health messaging [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/graphon-ai-pre-model-intelligence-layer-seed-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing\" style=\"width:150px; height:150px;\"><span class=\"fetched\" style=\"background-image:  url('https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/graphon-ai-pre-model-intelligence-layer-seed-funding.avif');\" title=\"Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing\"><\/span><amp-img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/graphon-ai-pre-model-intelligence-layer-seed-funding.avif\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/graphon-ai-pre-model-intelligence-layer-seed-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>by <a href=\"\/\/thenextweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"thenextweb.com\">Cristian Dina<\/a> on 14 May 2026 at 17:53 <\/small><p>The name is the tell. Graphon AI, which emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $8.3 million in seed funding, is named after a mathematical object that most people in AI have never heard of and that its two most prominent advisors helped invent. A graphon is the limit of a sequence of dense graphs: [&hellip;]<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul> <\/div><style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{float:left;position:relative;border:none;text-decoration:none;max-width:100%}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image span{display:inline-block;position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;background-position:50%;background-size:cover}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{margin:.3em 1em 0 0;content-visibility:auto}.feedzy-rss ul{list-style:none}.feedzy-rss ul li{display:inline-block}<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-983","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arjenholterman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}