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France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly
9 June 2026 @ 12:04 pm
France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken. France’s National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, detected a compromise of Tchap on 7 June, and the Digital Affairs Directorate (DINUM), […]
This story continues at The Next WebRobot-arm maker Standard Bots hits a $1bn valuation to scale US manufacturing
9 June 2026 @ 11:32 am
America wants to build robots, not just import them. A New York startup has just raised $200mn to do exactly that. Standard Bots has closed a $200mn round that values the company at $1bn, minting a fresh robotics unicorn. The financing was led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a fund dedicated to robotics, and marks […]
This story continues at The Next WebNinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money
9 June 2026 @ 11:03 am
Most startups raise money because they need it. NinjaOne has just raised more than $400m to make the opposite point. The Austin-based IT-operations company said on Tuesday that a fresh round of Series C extensions has more than doubled its valuation to $12.3bn, up from the $5bn it was worth only 16 months ago. The […]
This story continues at The Next Web9 best HRIS systems for large organizations (2026)
9 June 2026 @ 10:52 am
Enterprise HRIS buying guides tend to recommend the same five names. That shortlist hasn’t changed in a decade, and most of those platforms were built for a workforce model that no longer exists. Remote-first teams, distributed payroll across multiple countries, AI-driven workforce planning, and employee experience expectations from a generation raised on consumer apps have all reshaped […]
This story continues at The Next WebVertical Aerospace gets a second VX4 flying, doubling its test fleet on the road to certification
9 June 2026 @ 10:52 am
Building an electric air taxi is less about one dramatic first flight than about doing it over and over until regulators are convinced. Vertical Aerospace has just put a second aircraft in the air to help it get there faster. The Bristol-based company said on Tuesday that its newest full-scale prototype completed its maiden piloted […]
This story continues at The Next WebA UK firm trained a “sovereign” NHS triage AI that it says rivals Claude, at a fraction of the cost
9 June 2026 @ 10:36 am
The NHS does not lack for AI pitches. What it has lacked is one that keeps patient data inside the country. A British software firm says it now has it. OneAdvanced, the Birmingham-based SaaS company whose software touches more than 40 million NHS patients a year, has launched what it bills as the UK’s first […]
This story continues at The Next WebChina is drafting a $295bn plan to build AI data centres, and to lock Nvidia out of them
9 June 2026 @ 10:07 am
China wants to win the AI race on its own hardware. A new plan shows just how much it is willing to spend, and how far it will go to cut American chips out of the picture. Beijing is drafting a blueprint to spend around 2 trillion yuan ($295bn) over the next five years building […]
This story continues at The Next WebFinland’s ICEYE hits a €10bn valuation, quadrupling in six months as Europe scrambles for its own spy satellites
9 June 2026 @ 9:53 am
Six months ago, ICEYE was worth €2.4bn. Today it is worth more than €10bn. Few numbers capture Europe’s defence-tech boom as bluntly as that. The Finnish satellite company has raised €450mn in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, valuing it at over €10bn ($11.5bn), a fourfold jump since December. Counting a secondary sale […]
This story continues at The Next WebEurope’s best-funded rocket startup just raised €270M, and now Isar Aerospace has to actually reach orbit
9 June 2026 @ 9:44 am
Europe has the ambition to reach space on its own. What it lacks is rockets that work. Isar Aerospace has just raised €270mn to fix the first problem, and in less than a week it gets another chance to fix the second. The Munich startup, one of Europe’s best-funded space companies, closed a €270mn Series […]
This story continues at The Next WebDeliverance AI exits stealth with £6m ARR to run agentic AI inside companies’ own walls
9 June 2026 @ 9:27 am
Enterprise AI has a stalling problem, and it is not the models. Companies have poured money into chips, private clouds, and pilot projects, then watched most of them stop before they ever reached production. A London company called Deliverance AI thinks it knows why, and on Tuesday it came out of stealth to sell the […]
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President Donald Trump is bragging about his corruption but the media is not reporting it, according to Trump’s former communications director.“Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught,” Anthony Scaramucci posted on X on Tuesday. “A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.”He then summarized Trump’s replies as being “1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care.”Scaramucci concluded, “That�
President Donald Trump keeps insisting that gas prices aren’t especially high. What many Americans see at the pump tells a different story, and CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has the numbers to prove it.As recently as Tuesday, Trump claimed that the price of gas is “not very high, relatively speaking. I mean, it’s lower than during the Biden administration.”Trump was not especially specific, but Dale is.According to AAA, today’s average gas price is $4.16. That is lower than the peak number during the Biden administration, $5.02, which occurred after Russia attac
President Donald Trump's disastrous trip to the NBA Finals was not just a public humiliation for him, because according to one cognitive health expert, it also showed a dire sign of his potential "sundowning" cognitive decline for the entire world to see.Amid the New York Knicks' historic run, Trump opted to return to his hometown of New York City to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday evening. The decision turned into a nightmare for all involved: Trump was booed mercilessly when he was shown on the jumbotron during the national anthem; fans had to arrive ho
Congress has been locked in an ongoing battle over the reauthorization of a key national security tool that has been repeatedly frustrated by Republican infighting. Now with the extension deadline looming on Friday, Capitol Hill insiders say that President Donald Trump has tossed a “live hand grenade” into the process that threatens to blow it up altogether. “This is not a problem between Senate Democrats and Republicans,” declared Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) on Tuesday. “This was the administration throwing a live hand grenade into a critical reauthorization 10 days out.” Th
One point of contention between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was Powell's refusal to follow Trump's demands to lower interest rates. Now, Trump's replacement will be forced to tell him he will likely follow the same path. The Economist reported on Tuesday that unlucky chairman Kevin Warsh "has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate." The report called it "ironic" that Warsh's life is going to be miserable as Trump demands lower rates, even as annual inflation 
In the face of rising gas prices caused by President Donald Trump’s decision to launch war with Iran, a sizeable majority of Americans expect that the problem will only continue to get worse. According to the Hill, a new poll shows that nearly two out of three U.S. voters think the cost of gas will continue to rise over the coming year. “The survey, released Monday by Reuters/Ipsos, found that 59 percent of 4,531 respondents said that gas prices wil
After President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, MAGA attorney Kurt Olsen was a prominent figure in Trump's efforts to overturn the election results. Trump ultimately failed: Biden was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2021. But Olsen, 16 and one-half months into Trump's second presidency, is serving in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) via the Southern District of Florida. And according to NBC News reporter Ryan J. Reilly, MAGA critics are alarmed by Olsen's rapid advancement at DOJ."An election denier who tried to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss is facing scrutiny 
President Donald Trump’s performance on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” — where he cut the interview short and blasted the moderator as “crooked” — was widely criticized, with many noticing his habit of attacking women reporters.Among those who noticed was a resident in deep red Trump country: Florida’s The Villages, known as the “largest retirement community in the world,” where nearly seven out of 10 county residents voted for Trump in 2024. One resident recently told 
A lawyer who previously worked within President Donald Trump's business empire has gotten caught up in a massive new lawsuit, according to The Daily Beast, alleging that he was involved in a "bizarre international spying escapade."Breaking the story on Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that Ted Kittila, a "prominent Republican attorney" who previously worked for Trump's Truth Social company, has been hit with a $120 million lawsuit accusing him of "fraud, civil conspiracy, and extortion on behalf of agents of an abusive foreign regime." 
After Venezuelan then-President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in Caracas and the Trump administration installed leftist Delcy Rodríguez as interim president, opposition leader María Corina Machado tried to curry favor with Trump by offering him her Nobel Peace Prize (which was merely symbolic, as it cannot be transferred under Peace Prize rules). But Machado wasn't the first person to offer Trump a symbolic "peace prize": before that, in December 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino offered Trump the inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize." In the Daily Beast, reporter Leigh Kimmins details