2026-08-11
AquaNab raises funding to fight salmon’s $4bn sea lice problem with alpaca nanoantibodies
Hamburg biotech is taking an unusual shot at salmon farming’s most expensive pest, and it starts with an alpaca. AquaNab is developing tiny antibodies, derived from the animals and delivered through fish feed, to treat and prevent sea lice. The parasite it is chasing is a genuine scourge. Sea lice cost the aquaculture industry billions […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-11
A US court just cleared thousands of social media harm lawsuits to proceed
US appeals court has cleared thousands of lawsuits accusing the biggest social media companies of harming young people to move towards trial, in a ruling that chips away at the legal shield the tech industry has relied on for decades. On 10 August 2026, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-11
Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs globally with marks that "may persist through some editing"
Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in all Claude-generated text and sign files using the C2PA standard. New models shipping from August 2026 onward will have labeling built in from day one. The policy applies worldwide, and Anthropic plans to provide detection tools for third-party verification.<br /> The article Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs globally with marks that "m [...]
2026-08-11
Exclusive: Vienna’s fonio.ai hits $10m ARR less than a year after switching on subscriptions
Vienna startup most of the tech world has not heard of just posted numbers that would turn heads anywhere. fonio.ai, a European platform for AI-powered customer calls, says it has surpassed $10m in annual recurring revenue in under twelve months. Since February, when the company switched from a prepaid model to subscriptions, it says it […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-11
Six finance giants back Nvidia’s $500bn plan to fund the AI buildout
Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls “compute financing platforms”, structures designed to mobilise over $500bn of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. […]<br /> This stor [...]
2026-08-11
Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance
A team of BioNTech alumni thinks cancer screening has been stuck in the past, and it has raised $25M to do something about it. Bios Life has emerged from stealth with a plan to replace one-off screening with continuous, AI-driven surveillance, and a data alliance with Tempus to power it. The seed round is well […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-11
Lovable’s answer to enterprise AI risk is an insurance policy from Lloyd’s
Lovable has become the first coding agent platform certified under AIUC-1, a security standard for AI agents that comes with something unusual attached: the certifying body also underwrites the risk. Customers using a certified agent are insured, through Lloyd’s of London, against the failures the standard is meant to prevent. Certification and liability arrive together. What […]<br /> [...]
