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Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health

The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the year’s fastest-moving product category, and on Thursday Perplexity entered the race properly. The company launched Perplexity […]This story continues at The Next Web

Why the checkout is the most strategic product in your 2026 stack

Every product team has a roadmap. Every marketing team has a funnel. But ask most SaaS and ecommerce leaders which single component has the greatest direct impact on their revenue, and you will hear a surprising amount of hesitation. The answer, increasingly, is the one piece of infrastructure that still gets treated as an afterthought: […]This story continues at The Next Web

VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. The team behind Warsaw-based Montis Capital has raised €50 million at first close for a new fund, Montis VC, targeting European startups at the intersection […]This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic just shipped an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels, letting you message it over Telegram and Discord

The hit open source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw may have just gotten mogged by Anthropic. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Code Channels, a way to hook up its own powerful Claude Code AI agentic harness to a human user's Discord or Telegram messaging applications, letting them message Claude Code directly whenever they want while on the go and instruct it to write code for them. Official documentation is here.This isn't just a new UI; it is a fundamental shift in how developers inter

Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot

Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup. The deal signals the e-commerce giant's interest in doorstep delivery.

Teens sue Elon Musk’s Grok AI for ‘generating child abuse images’

Teens launch lawsuit claiming Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot made sexual abuse images of them as minors - Lawyers for three young ...

Elon Musk calls Jon Stewart "an extremely skilled propagandist disguised as a truth-teller" as the comedian comments on X influencing democracy

After Jon Stewarts suggests that Elon Musk is influencing the country with his money and algorithm, the billionaire calls him a propagandist.

Tennessee Teens Sue Elon Musk’s xAI Over Child Sexual Abuse Images

It’s the latest legal challenge against the Grok chatbot’s mass creation of nonconsensual sexual imagery of women and girls.

Elon Musk's 'DOGEfather' meme fails to lift memecoin

Elon Musk reposts a Godfather-inspired AI video.

Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI

The Amazon magnate has a new project centered around acquiring industrial firms and revamping them with AI technology.

Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant

A dancing robot in a Haidilao hot pot restaurant boogied down a little too hard.

Why enterprises are replacing generic AI with tools that know their users

The future of AI isn’t just agentic; it’s deep personalization. Rather than simple recommender systems that correlate user behavior to identify patterns and apply those to individual workflows, large language models (LLMs) and AI agents can analyze users directly to create deeply personalized experiences. It’s this kind of aggressive customization users are increasingly demanding — and the savviest enterprises who provide it (and soon) will win. The goal is: “Don't try to randomize, or gues

Cursor’s new coding model Composer 2 is here: It beats Claude Opus 4.6 but still trails GPT-5.4

Cursor, a San Francisco AI coding platform from startup Anysphere valued at $29.3 billion, has launched Composer 2, a new in-house coding model now available inside its agentic AI coding environment, and it offers drastically improved benchmarks from its prior in-house model.It's also launching and making Composer 2 Fast, a higher-priced but faster variant, the default experience for users.Here's the cost breakdown:Composer 2 Standard: $0.50/$2.50 per 1 million input/output tokens Com

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

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

DoorDash launches Tasks

Here is one way the AI data economy works in practice in 2026: a DoorDash courier straps on a body camera, washes at least five dishes, holds each one up to the lens for a few seconds, and earns a few dollars. That footage, mundane, specific, reproducible at scale, is exactly what AI and robotics […]This story continues at The Next Web

Polymarket continues its partnership spree with a Major League Baseball deal

MLB is only the latest in a string of recently announced partnerships involving the prediction market.

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ago, Microsoft was generating images for Bing and Copilot almost entirely with OpenAI’s models. On Thursday, the company’s in-house team announced MAI-Image-2, a […]This story continues at The Next Web

Meta's rogue AI agent passed every identity check — four gaps in enterprise IAM explain why

A rogue AI agent at Meta took action without approval and exposed sensitive company and user data to employees who were not authorized to access it. Meta confirmed the incident to The Information on March 18 but said no user data was ultimately mishandled. The exposure still triggered a major security alert internally.The available evidence suggests the failure occurred after authentication, not during it. The agent held valid credentials, operated inside authorized boundaries, passing every ide

Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says

AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition

The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.