2026-07-07
The AI architecture that let Liberty Mutual shrug off the Fable 5 outage
When Anthropic's Fable 5 was pulled from international use for nearly three weeks, some over-reliant businesses were left scrambling.But Liberty Mutual easily pivoted to other platforms. That’s because 18 months earlier, they built their "AI backbone" exactly for this kind of scenario.In this rapidly moving AI landscape, the 114-year-old property and casualty insurance company rec [...]
2026-07-07
SpaceX’s biggest bull sees a $10.5tn valuation. A famed bear bets on a crash
SpaceX just joined the Nasdaq 100. On the same day, one Wall Street analyst put a $10.5 trillion price tag on it. A famed investor put the odds of a crash at 90 per cent. SpaceX has plenty of admirers on Wall Street. None goes further than Raymond James analyst Brian Gesuale. He opened coverage […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-07
Romania leads its first private ESA mission with CyberCUBE launch
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the morning of 7 July, carrying a satellite roughly the size of a loaf of bread that will spend the next year probing how European spacecraft can be attacked. The payload, called CyberCUBE, is the first European Space Agency mission run […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-07
Hud CEO Roee Adler says runtime intelligence will define the next era of software operations
Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, with coding agents now capable of producing large volumes of production-ready code in minutes. Yet while writing software has become faster, ensuring that software behaves correctly in production remains one of engineering’s biggest challenges. For decades, observability platforms have helped teams monitor infrastruct [...]
2026-07-07
Quaise raises $134M to drill superhot rock with microwaves
Geothermal used to mean shallow wells and modest heat. Quaise wants to drill kilometres down and blast the rock with microwaves, and it just raised $134 million to try. Quaise Energy has raised $134 million to drill for superhot rock deep underground, Bloomberg reports. Prelude Ventures led the first close of the Series B, the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-07
Norm Ai raises $120M at a $1.2B valuation to build AI-native law
Most AI legal startups sell software to law firms. Norm Ai built its own firm instead, and investors just valued the bet at $1.2 billion. Norm Ai has raised $120 million in a Series C round that values the New York startup at $1.2 billion, Bloomberg first reported. Khosla Ventures, an early backer of OpenAI, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-07
ECB tells Europe’s big banks to plan for AI cyber threats
Europe’s banking regulator has a new fear: an AI model clever enough to break into the financial system. It wants every big bank to have a plan by October. The European Central Bank has a warning for the euro area’s largest banks. Frontier AI now poses a serious cyber threat, and lenders must draw up […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-07
The Pentagon calls this Chinese firm a military company. Its lidar runs US robotaxis anyway
A lidar maker the Pentagon brands a Chinese military company quietly wires up America’s robotaxis, trucks, and even an airport. Nvidia is one of its partners. Hesai makes many of the sensors self-driving machines use to see. The Shanghai firm also sits on a US Department of Defense blacklist of Chinese military companies, CNBC reports. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
