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		<title>Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:48:56 +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/2026/04/xoople-130m-series-b-earth-ai.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Xoople, a Madrid-based geospatial data company founded in 2019, has raised a $130 million Series B led by Nazca Capital, bringing its total funding to $225 million and pushing its valuation into unicorn territory. The round was co-invested by MCH Private Equity, CDTI (the Spanish government’s technology development fund), Buenavista Equity Partners, and Endeavor [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/satellites-on-fire-wildfire-ai-raises-2-7m</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:44:59 +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/2026/04/Satellites-on-Fire.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Satellites on Fire, founded in 2020 as a school project by three Argentine teenagers, has closed a seed round led by Dalus Capital. Its software-only platform integrates satellite data from multiple agencies and detects fires faster than NASA’s FIRMS system by avoiding the gaps between satellite passes. Argentine climate-tech startup Satellites on Fire has closed [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Bolt expands its Hopp ride-hailing brand into Canadian corporate travel</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/bolt-expands-its-hopp-ride-hailing-brand-into-canadian-corporate-travel</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:18:16 +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/2026/04/Hopp.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>A year after its consumer launch in Toronto, Bolt’s North American brand Hopp has introduced a corporate mobility product targeting finance teams frustrated by fragmented expense reporting. It enters a market where Canada’s business travel spending was forecast to grow 17.7% to CAD $44.3 billion in 2025. Bolt, the Estonian mobility company that operates in [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day week</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-robot-taxes-wealth-fund-superintelligence-policy</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ana Maria Constantin]]></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/Sam-Altman-OpenAI.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Sam Altman’s 13-page policy blueprint, ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,’ proposes auto-triggering safety nets, containment playbooks for rogue AI, and direct citizen dividends from AI-driven growth. He told Axios it is a starting point, not a prescription. OpenAI has published a 13-page policy document calling for sweeping economic reforms to prepare for what it [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>IBM and Arm are partnering to stop mainframes being left out of the AI era</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/ibm-arm-mainframe-ai-software</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></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/ibm-arm-mainframe-ai-software.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration on 2 April 2026 to enable Arm-based software to run on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, the platforms that process the bulk of the world’s regulated enterprise transactions. The partnership targets three areas: virtualisation to host Arm software environments on IBM hardware, security and compliance for regulated [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is offering $18M to hire a chief AI scientist</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/ubtech-18m-chief-scientist-humanoid-robot-salary</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:51:28 +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/2026/04/UBTech.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>UBTech’s salary range for Chief Scientist of Embodied Intelligence runs from $2.2M to $18M. The Shenzhen company’s humanoid robot revenue grew twenty-fold last year. Bloomberg calls the offer unusual even by Chinese standards. Chinese humanoid robotics company UBTech has posted a global recruitment notice for a Chief Scientist of Embodied Intelligence, offering an annual salary [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Which Telegram growth service is worth It</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/which-telegram-growth-service-is-worth-it</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Veronika Furs]]></dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Apps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/telegram-growth-service-2026.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>Which Telegram Growth Service Is Worth It How can I grow my Telegram channels quickly? Are growth services for Telegram safe? What is the best SMM panel for Telegram? Can I grow a Telegram channel without ads? Do fake members hurt my channel? The answers to these questions define the modern growth strategy, and they [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/slack-slackbot-30-ai-features-agentic</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></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/slack-slackbot-30-ai-features-agentic-1.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Salesforce unveiled more than 30 new AI capabilities for Slackbot on 31 March 2026, the most sweeping overhaul of the platform since its $27.7 billion acquisition in 2021. The update transforms Slackbot from a conversational assistant into an agentic system that can transcribe meetings across any video platform, monitor users’ desktop activity, execute tasks [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Monzo is shutting down its US operation, and its European banking licence explains why</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/monzo-us-exit-europe-ipo</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristian Dina]]></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/monzo-us-exit-europe-ipo.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: Monzo announced on 1 April 2026 that it is closing its US operations, stopping new American sign-ups immediately and shutting existing accounts by June, and cutting approximately 50 roles. The decision comes three months after the UK challenger bank received a full banking licence from the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of [&hellip;]</p>
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		<title>Netflix owes Italian subscribers up to €500 after court rules its price hikes were illegal</title>
		<link>https://thenextweb.com/news/netflix-italy-price-hikes-refund</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alina Maria Stan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/04/netflix-italy-price-hikes-refund.png" width="868" height="488"><br /><p>In short: The Court of Rome has ruled that Netflix’s repeated price increases between 2017 and 2024 violated Italian consumer law and EU Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair contract terms. The ruling voids the relevant contract clauses, orders current prices rolled back to 2015 launch levels, and requires Netflix to notify millions of current and former Italian [&hellip;]</p>
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