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		<title>Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum Turner]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/TNW-wallpaper-2.png" width="1920" height="1080"><br /><p>In the ubiquitous age of artificial intelligence, the technology appears as if it is largely earmarked for optimizing the mechanics of work. Buzzwords like speed, automation, efficiency, and productivity often dominate conversations that are shaping the digital era. Today, AI’s capability has expanded into streamlining operations at an unprecedented scale, yet even this magnitude of [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zander Phelps]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/The-Most-Radical-Act-in-an-Age-of-Outrage-Is-to-Play.png" width="1640" height="923"><br /><p>We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as play. Spend five minutes scrolling, and you can feel the machinery of social media outrage at work: the pulse of outrage, the invitation to pick [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Gateway Global AI and the vision behind a voice-first infrastructure platform designed to simplify enterprise AI integration</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/voice-first-ai-gateway-global-ai</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:41:35 +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/2026/03/Gateway-Global-AI-1.png" width="1920" height="1080"><br /><p>Artificial intelligence has become a central topic in business strategy discussions, yet many organizations continue to struggle with how to integrate it into everyday operations. Gateway Global AI, a technology company developing voice-first infrastructure, is approaching that challenge from a different angle. According to CTO Jason Trindade, the company focuses on simplifying how businesses deploy [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/OpenAI.png" width="1302" height="732"><br /><p>Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbatim, six months after the same companies sued Perplexity on nearly identical grounds. Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit against [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/oxford-medical-simulation-secures-5m-growth-financing</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/Oxford-Medical-Simulation-secures-5M-growth-financing.png" width="1302" height="732"><br /><p>The London-based healthtech company, which lets clinicians practise emergencies and difficult conversations in virtual reality, will use the capital to deepen its US footprint and accelerate AI-driven product development. Oxford Medical Simulation has raised £5 million in growth financing from Salica Investments, the London-based investment firm formerly known as Hambro Perks. The funding will support [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Meta commits up to $27 billion to Nebius in one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/Meta-commits-up-to-27-billion-to-Nebius-.png" width="1302" height="732"><br /><p>The five-year agreement expands an existing relationship between the two companies and will involve one of the first large-scale deployments of Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips. Nebius shares surged 14% in pre-market trading. Meta has signed a new long-term AI infrastructure agreement with Dutch neocloud operator Nebius Group worth up to $27 billion over five [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Most marketing agencies are held together by duct tape. GoHighLevel wants to fix that.</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/gohighlevel-agency-software-platform</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TNW Deals]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/TNW-GoHighlevel-deal.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>The average marketing agency juggles between six and 12 different software tools to manage clients: one for email, another for CRM, a third for funnels, something else for scheduling, a separate platform for reputation management, and probably a spreadsheet holding the whole thing together. Every new client means another round of logins, another integration to [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>WhiteBridge AI raises $3M seed round</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/whitebridge-ai-raises-3m-seed-round</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Dina]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Startups and technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/WhiteBridge-AI-raises-3M-seed-round.png" width="1128" height="634"><br /><p>WhiteBridge AI, the Vilnius-based people-search and digital identity platform, has raised a $3 million seed round, equivalent to roughly €2.6 million, led by FIRSTPICK VC. The round also includes participation from First Degree, NGL.VC, Scalewolf.VC, BADideas.fund, Nectolabs, Plug and Play, and a group of angel investors. The company says the capital will fund expansion of [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>NVIDIA GTC 2026 opens today</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-gtc-2026-opens-today</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Dina]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/NVIDIA-GTC-2026.png" width="1302" height="732"><br /><p>NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 opens in San Jose today with 30,000 attendees, a keynote at the SAP Center, and announcements that could reshape the next two years of AI infrastructure, from Vera Rubin deep-dives to an enterprise agent platform and a gigawatt deal with Mira Murati’s startup.  San Jose goes green every March. The city’s convention [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Recap: Europe&amp;#8217;s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/europe-startup-funding-rounds-march</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/03/Europes-biggest-funding-rounds.png" width="1302" height="732"><br /><p>From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London, one in Paris,accounted for nearly three billion dollars. But beyond the headline [&hellip;]</p>
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