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		<title>Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/alibaba-zhenwu-m890-t-head-china-ai-chip-nvidia</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allison Steffens Herrera]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/Alibaba.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>T-Head’s new GPU lands inside US export controls, a Trump-Xi summit on AI chips, and a Chinese domestic accelerator market, the company says, is already in scaled mass production. Alibaba’s T-Head chip unit unveiled detailed specifications of the Zhenwu M890 on Wednesday, the company’s latest GPU-class AI chip designed as a domestic alternative to NVIDIA’s [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-whatsapp-ai-rivals-free-access-eu-dma-proposal</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 07:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/WhatsApp.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>After January’s blanket ban and March’s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then a fee. Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal that would give rival AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claude and others, free [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-singapore-applied-ai-lab-235-million</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 07:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[OpenAI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/04/OpenAI.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>The company will scale to about 200 staff in the city-state and align the lab’s work to Singapore’s public-sector, finance, healthcare, and digital-infrastructure priorities. OpenAI said on Wednesday it will open its first applied-AI lab outside the United States in Singapore, with a S$300m (about $235m) commitment alongside a staffing ramp to roughly 200 people [&hellip;]</p>
<br /><br /><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-singapore-applied-ai-lab-235-million?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed">This story continues</a> at The Next Web]]></description>
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		<title>Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/gen-z-commencement-boos-ai-redundancy-cohort</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 07:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/AI-displacement.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived through. The former Google chief executive was attempting, on the published account, to be reassuring. [&hellip;]</p>
<br /><br /><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/gen-z-commencement-boos-ai-redundancy-cohort?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed">This story continues</a> at The Next Web]]></description>
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		<title>Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/viktor-75-million-series-a-accel-ai-coworker-slack-teams</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 07:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/Viktor-founders.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>The Warsaw- and Munich-based ex-Meta engineering team hit $15m annualised recurring revenue in ten weeks. The angel list reads like a who’s who of European and US software. Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-agent company built by former Meta engineers Peter Albert and Fryderyk Wiatrowski, has raised a $75m Series A led by Accel. Bek [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/circuithub-28-million-plural-automated-pcb-manufacturing</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 07:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/CircuitHub.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>The Cambridge-rooted, Massachusetts-based automated electronics factory has delivered more than two million boards across 20,000 engineers. Plural’s bet is on the trillion-dollar reshoring tailwind behind it. CircuitHub, the automated-electronics-manufacturing company founded by Andrew Seddon, has raised $28m in funding led by Plural. The round is the largest CircuitHub has disclosed in its 15-year history, and [&hellip;]</p>
<br /><br /><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/circuithub-28-million-plural-automated-pcb-manufacturing?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed">This story continues</a> at The Next Web]]></description>
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		<title>RemotePass raises $17.4m Series B from EBRD as global employment meets fintech</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/remotepass-17-4-million-series-b-ebrd-500-global</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 06:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/RemotePass.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>The Dubai-founded global employment and payroll platform reached profitability in early 2025 before taking the round. EBRD Venture Capital led; 500 Global is the new strategic name alongside.\ RemotePass, the global employment, payroll, and spend platform co-founded by Kamal Reggad and Karim Nadi, has raised $17.4m in Series B funding led by EBRD Venture Capital, [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-openai-cofounder-pretraining</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-openai-cofounder-pretraining.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at the frontier of large language model development. Karpathy is joining Anthropic’s pre-training team, [&hellip;]</p>
<br /><br /><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-openai-cofounder-pretraining?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed">This story continues</a> at The Next Web]]></description>
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		<title>Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/analog-devices-empower-semiconductor-acquisition-ai-power</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana-Maria Stanciuc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/analog-devices-empower-semiconductor-acquisition-ai-power.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, placing a major bet that the insatiable energy demands of AI data centres will keep chipmakers scrambling for better power-delivery technology. The deal, announced on Monday, gives the Wilmington, Massachusetts-based chipmaker access to Empower’s integrated voltage regulators, which sit directly beneath AI accelerators and [&hellip;]</p>
<br /><br /><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/analog-devices-empower-semiconductor-acquisition-ai-power?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed">This story continues</a> at The Next Web]]></description>
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		<title>SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/spacex-plans-to-buy-cursor-for-60-billion-once-its-record-ipo-wraps</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 23:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/spacex-cursor-acquisition-ipo-60-billion-ai-coding.avif" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>SpaceX expects to complete its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor roughly 30 days after it begins trading publicly, according to Bloomberg, a timeline that would place the deal in July if the company’s blockbuster IPO proceeds on schedule. The rocket, satellite, and artificial intelligence conglomerate is planning to file its public IPO prospectus as [&hellip;]</p>
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