The UK hyperscaler has now raised over $4.5bn across equity rounds in less than six months, and says it is the largest Series C ever closed in Europe. That claim deserves scrutiny. When Josh Payne founded Nscale, the company was barely a year old, and the world’s appetite for GPU compute had not yet tipped This story continues at The Next Web
A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of February 2026, anarchists severed electrical cables near Bologna on the opening day of the Milan–Cortina This story continues at The Next Web
Telura has come out of stealth with €4 million and a bold claim: it can make deep geothermal economically viable almost anywhere on Earth. The problem with geothermal energy has never been the heat. The Earth’s core sits at roughly 5,000 degrees Celsius, and the thermal gradient beneath the surface is consistent enough that, in This story continues at The Next Web
The new deal ties Google’s CEO to the future of its most ambitious bets, and signals that the board has finally decided they’re bets worth making. Sundar Pichai has run Google since 2015 and Alphabet since 2019. In that time, the company’s market value has grown from roughly $535 billion to approximately $3.6 trillion. On This story continues at The Next Web
If you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed to add a “write with AI” button, and the industry spent its collective energy arguing about whether Google would penalize AI-written This story continues at The Next Web
The camera nods, dances to music, and tracks faces. The rest of the specs are a secret. Something unusual happened at Mobile World Congress this year. A device sat in a glass case at the Honor booth in Hall 3, present, demonstrably functional, performing little robotic gestures for anyone who stopped to watch, and yet This story continues at The Next Web
Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking its contract has now claimed OpenAI’s most senior hardware executive. Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in This story continues at The Next Web
DeepRare, an agentic AI system integrating 40 specialised tools, outperformed medical specialists in identifying rare conditions in a head-to-head study published in Nature. For millions of people with rare diseases, the path to diagnosis is a labyrinth. Patients bounce between generalist GPs and specialists across years, sometimes decades, piecing together symptoms that fall outside textbook This story continues at The Next Web
A new command-line tool published to GitHub consolidates Workspace’s sprawling APIs into a single interface. It also signals how seriously the company is taking the agentic AI moment. The tool, whose documentation describes it as “one CLI for all of Google Workspace, built for humans and AI agents,” is called gws. It provides unified command-line This story continues at The Next Web
Discovery has already changed, even if many teams have not fully felt the consequences yet. Buyers no longer open ten tabs, skim through blog posts, and slowly form an opinion over weeks. Instead, they ask a single question to an AI system and receive a shortlist in return, usually two or three companies that feel This story continues at The Next Web