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The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google’s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 2024 offer, antitrust review on both sides of the Atlantic, and an […]

Microsoft launches Copilot Health

Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, a dedicated, secure space within its Copilot AI assistant that aggregates personal health data from wearables, electronic health records, and laboratory results, then applies AI to surface what the company calls a “coherent story” of a user’s health. The product opened its waitlist on 12 March 2026 and is rolling […]This story continues at The Next Web

Ramp buys Stockholm fintech Billhop to crack open European market

The $32 billion US spend management platform acquires a licensed payments provider to launch corporate cards and finance tools in the UK and EU this summer. The corporate spend management market just shifted its centre of gravity. On 13 March 2026, Ramp, the New York-based financial operations platform valued at $32 billion, announced the acquisition […]This story continues at The Next Web

Apple drops commission rates in China without a fuss

Apple dropped its App Store commission rates to 25% in China, and commissions on auto-renewed subscriptions down to 12%.

The FBI is investigating malware hidden inside games hosted on Steam

The FBI believes a series of video games published on Steam in the last two years were embedded with malware by the same hacker.

Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming

Peacock is betting on new AI-powered video experiences, vertical clips, and mobile games to help its growth.

Motional robotaxis join the Uber app in Vegas two years after major reset

The launch comes just two years after a major reboot at Hyundai-owned Motional. The service will start with a safety monitor, which Motional hopes to remove by year's end.

NanoClaw and Docker partner to make sandboxes the safest way for enterprises to deploy AI agents

NanoClaw, the open-source AI agent platform created by Gavriel Cohen, is partnering with the containerized development platform Docker to let teams run agents inside Docker Sandboxes, a move aimed at one of the biggest obstacles to enterprise adoption: how to give agents room to act without giving them room to damage the systems around them.The announcement matters because the market for AI agents is shifting from novelty to deployment. It is no longer enough for an agent to write code, answer q

Dublin fintech Teybridge Capital pledges £600 million for UK SMEs

The trade finance platform made the commitment alongside 14 other Irish firms as PM Starmer and Taoiseach Martin unveiled £937 million in Irish investment into the UK. The second UK-Ireland Summit, held in Cork on 13 March 2026, produced the sort of headline figures that governments like to announce at diplomatic gatherings. Among them was […]This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk ‘Kisses’ Donald Trump in AI Video Powered by New Grok Update

An AI-generated video of Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump sharing a kiss recently went viral on X (formerly Twitter). The video follows the tech mogul’s announcement that an update to his AI tool, Grok, allows users to generate R-rated content. The update arrives after Musk and the AI tool received harsh criticism earlier […] The post Elon Musk ‘Kisses’ Donald Trump in AI Video Powered by New Grok Update appeared first on Reality Tea.

Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has verified account on X, Elon Musk's platform

The newly created account was busy posting on Thursday, its first day being active on the X social media platform.

Elon Musk says Tesla expects to increase its human workforce as AI and robotics boost productivity

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he expects to hire more workers and that output per Tesla employee will get "nutty high." ...

Elon Musk steps into the UK energy crisis

LONDON — Elon Musk has been granted a license to supply energy in the U.K. Ofgem announced Thursday morning it has issued Musk-owned Tesla Energy Ventures with a license to provide electricity to U.K.

Anthropic commits $100M to Claude Partner Network

The Claude Partner Network launches as Anthropic fights the Pentagon in court, and doubles down on the commercial relationships that matter most. There is a particular kind of defiance in the timing. On the same week that Anthropic was seeking an emergency stay from a US appeals court over the Pentagon’s decision to label it […]This story continues at The Next Web

Atlassian is cutting 1,600 jobs and replacing its CTO

In October 2025, Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes appeared on the 20VC podcast and said something that now reads rather differently. Technology creation, he argued, is ‘not output-bound.’ Atlassian would employ more engineers in five years, not fewer. They would just be more efficient. On 11 March 2026, Mike Cannon-Brookes sent a memo to […]This story continues at The Next Web

TechEx North America 2026 comes to San Jose for your annual enterprise technology intelligence briefing

TechEx North America will take place on May 18–19, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, bringing together seven co-located enterprise technology events under one roof to tackle the real questions enterprise leaders are asking right now. This leading enterprise technology showcase will help CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, enterprise architects, and IT leaders understand […]This story continues at The Next Web

Bumble’s AI assistant Bee will learn what you want from a relationship

The dating app unveiled Bee at its Q4 earnings alongside a broader ‘Bumble 2.0’ overhaul, as the company attempts to reverse years of declining user numbers by replacing gamified swiping with AI-driven compatibility. There is a version of the future, Bumble’s version, at least, where you never swipe on a dating app again. Instead, you […]This story continues at The Next Web

Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas

The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is in serious trouble. Panama Disease Tropical Race 4, a fungal pathogen that travels in soil and water and leaves no cure in […]This story continues at The Next Web

Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era

The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the code. It is getting the code to run. That gap,  between what an AI coding assistant can produce in minutes and what […]This story continues at The Next Web

ESET PROTECT scored zero false alarms in independent testing. Now it’s 20% off.

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support our content. All opinions expressed are our own. Here’s a number worth sitting with: 43% of all cyberattacks now target small businesses. Not corporations with dedicated SOC […]This story continues at The Next Web