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		<title>How Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski built a global tech career and is now shaping AI strategy for enterprises</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/evercognitive-ai-business-outcome</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/evercognitive-ai-business-outcomes.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski’s career spans multiple continents and leadership roles, yet her current focus reflects a consistent theme: understanding how technology translates into business outcomes. As founder and CEO of EverCognitive, she brings that perspective into an AI landscape where many organizations are still defining their AI transformation and how to apply it in practical [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Roblox gives its AI assistant the ability to plan, build, and test games on its own</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/roblox-ai-assistant-agentic-tools-planning-procedural-models</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Dina]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/roblox-ai-assistant-agentic-tools-planning-procedural-models.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Roblox is upgrading its built-in AI assistant with agentic capabilities including a planning mode that analyses game code before proposing action plans, procedural 3D model generation, mesh generation, and self-correcting loops that test and refine outputs. The update also adds MCP client integration with third-party tools like Claude and Cursor, with a roadmap [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Trusti envisions the return of human-centered recommendations in a digitally expansive marketplace</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/trusti-human-centered-recommendations</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/trusti-human-centered-recommendations.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>When a need arises, many people instinctively turn to someone they know. A quick message to a friend or a brief conversation often brings clarity, shaped by shared experiences and personal understanding. According to Stanley Fulton, founder of Trusti, this pattern has long guided everyday decisions, offering a sense of familiarity that extends beyond simple [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Samsung turns its smart home into a remote care system for ageing families</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/samsung-smartthings-family-care-elderly-monitoring-ambient-sensing</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[launch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/samsung-smartthings-family-care-elderly-monitoring-ambient-sensing.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Samsung has updated SmartThings with family care features that use connected appliances and wearables to monitor elderly relatives remotely, including fall detection via robot vacuum camera, cognitive decline screening through behavioural pattern analysis, environmental safety alerts, and activity tracking. The update also adds Galaxy AI-powered routine creation, millimetre-wave ambient sensing with local processing, [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Solidroad raises $25 million to replace manual customer support QA with AI that reviews every conversation</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/solidroad-25-million-series-a-ai-customer-support-qa</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Dina]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Investors and funding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/solidroad-25-million-series-a-ai-customer-support-qa.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Solidroad, a Dublin and San Francisco startup founded by Intercom alumni, has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Hedosophia to automate customer support quality assurance using AI. The platform reviews 100% of customer interactions versus the industry standard of 1-3%, and counts Ryanair, Crypto.com, and Oura among its customers. Solidroad, [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Tesla’s China chief calls Shanghai factory a ‘golden key’ to mass-producing humanoid robots</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/tesla-shanghai-gigafactory-optimus-humanoid-robot-production</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allison Steffens Herrera]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/tesla-shanghai-gigafactory-optimus-humanoid-robot-production.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Tesla’s China president Wang Hao has described the Shanghai Gigafactory as a “golden key” to mass-producing Optimus humanoid robots, the first time a Tesla executive has publicly linked the factory to robotics manufacturing. The plant delivered 851,000 EVs in 2025, and Tesla has deployed over 1,000 Gen 3 Optimus units across its own [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Google gives Gemini image generation that knows your life</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/google-gives-gemini-image-generation-that-knows-your-lifegoogle-gemini-nano-banana-personal-intelligence-image-generation</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/google-gemini-nano-banana-personal-intelligence-image-generation.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Google has added Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature, letting the AI create images informed by a user’s Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Drive, and other Google app data. The feature rolls out to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in the US first, with Europe excluded from the initial global launch. Nano [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-claude-opus-4-7-coding-agentic-benchmarks-release</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthropic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/anthropic-claude-opus-4-7-coding-agentic-benchmarks-release.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and a 14% improvement in multi-step agentic reasoning with a third of the tool errors. Priced at $5/$25 per million tokens, it [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/slash-100m-series-c-14b-valuation</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Fintech and ecommerce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/Slash-founders.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Slash, the vertical banking platform built by two college dropouts, has raised a $100M Series C backed by Khosla Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company’s valuation has nearly quadrupled since its May 2025 Series B, the latest leg of a comeback story that began when its core market evaporated overnight. Slash, the San Francisco-based vertical [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/storm-therapeutics-56m-series-c</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/STORM-Therapeutics.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>STC-15 is the world’s first RNA-modifying enzyme inhibitor to reach human trials. Phase 1 showed durable tumour regression across multiple sarcoma subtypes. The $56M Series C is backed entirely by existing investors including Pfizer Ventures and M Ventures. STORM Therapeutics, a Cambridge-based clinical-stage biotech targeting RNA modifications to treat cancer, has raised $56 million in [&hellip;]</p>
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