2026-07-03
Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models
Most verticals aren’t clean, well-oiled SaaS databases; the reality is ugly documents, proprietary schemas, implicit workflows, and long‑running tasks that most general-purpose models struggle with. This prompted construction project management company Trunk Tools to build a specialized, three-layer architecture — perception, semantics, agents — based on highly-detailed data to support hig [...]
2026-07-03
Zoom buys Common Room to push past the video call into AI sales
Zoom made its name on the video call. Now it wants to own everything that happens before the call too. The company is buying Common Room, a Seattle startup whose AI reads the buying signals of potential customers, pushing Zoom deeper into enterprise sales software. Zoom announced the acquisition on Thursday. It did not disclose […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-03
Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank eyes an $8bn valuation as deposits quadruple
A bank that barely existed a year ago is now chasing a valuation most European lenders can only dream of. Erebor was founded by Anduril’s Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel. It is in talks to raise at a valuation of at least $8bn, and its deposits have almost quadrupled in three months. That […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-03
IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange
Europe just put its first quantum computing company on a major American stock exchange. And it did so without leaving home. IQM, a Finnish maker of quantum machines, started trading on Nasdaq this week. The debut was equal parts landmark and reality check. IQM began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on 2 July […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-03
Spain’s LALIGA piracy blocks knocked out 500,000+ innocent websites
For much of this year, Spanish internet users have lost access to huge parts of the web on match days. Not pirate streams, but human rights groups, climate charities and business tools. A new report puts hard numbers on the damage, and they are staggering. The culprit is Spain’s football league, LALIGA, and its court-backed […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-03
Dutton Ranch episode 9 recap: who dies, 10 Petal's biggest secret revealed, what's next for Beth and Rip, and what to expect from season 2 of the hit Yellowstone spinoff
Over one extra long episode, the season finale of Yellowstone's latest spinoff didn't disappoint — here's everything that happened in the explosive Dutton Ranch episode 9. [...]
2026-07-03
Ex-PlayStation boss calls Sony's plan to kill physical disc production 'fairly dramatic' and remembers a time when 'digital sales were zero percent because we didn't have a digital market'
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says Sony's decision to scrap physical discs is 'fairly dramatic' and thinks this means the PS6 won't have a disc drive. [...]