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Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature
14 March 2026 @ 10:48 am
The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a decade, Spotify’s recommendation engine has worked largely in silence. It watched what you played, noted what you skipped, inferred meaning from the time of […]
This story continues at The Next WebRise of model context protocol in the agentic era
14 March 2026 @ 10:25 am
We have all heard about model context protocol (MCP) in the context of artificial intelligence. In this article, we will dive into what MCP is and why it is becoming more important by the day. When APIs are already available then why do we need MCP? Although we have seen a large rise in popularity […]
This story continues at The Next WebElon Musk is tearing xAI down to build it back up. Again.
14 March 2026 @ 10:09 am
The AI company he founded three years ago has lost six co-founders, is slashing staff, and trails badly in coding benchmarks. Musk’s remedy: rebuild from scratch, for the second time. In March 2023, Elon Musk launched xAI with 12 co-founders and a stated ambition to build “the most powerful AI in the world.” Three years […]
This story continues at The Next WebGoogle’s biggest Maps update in a decade puts Gemini in the passenger seat
14 March 2026 @ 9:55 am
Ask Maps lets users query the world in natural language. Immersive Navigation rebuilds directions in 3D. Together, they mark the most significant overhaul of Google Maps since Street View. The question Google is now asking its users to ask Maps is: “My phone is dying, where can I charge it without a long wait for […]
This story continues at The Next WebUber founder Travis Kalanick launches robotics company Atoms
14 March 2026 @ 9:13 am
The Uber founder re-emerges with Atoms, a stealth robotics venture that quietly employed thousands before going public, and a philosophy about ‘gainfully employed robots’ that sounds a lot like Uber, but for warehouses. For eight years, Travis Kalanick ran a company whose thousands of employees were not allowed to list their employer publicly. On March […]
This story continues at The Next WebUber relaunches Motional robotaxis in Las Vegas
13 March 2026 @ 4:27 pm
Two years after a brutal restructuring gutted Motional’s workforce and halted its commercial operations, the Hyundai-backed AV company is back on the Strip, still with a safety operator for now, but promising to remove one by the end of 2026. Uber and Motional have relaunched a commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas, making all-electric Motional […]
This story continues at The Next WebMicrosoft launches Copilot Health
13 March 2026 @ 3:27 pm
Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, a dedicated, secure space within its Copilot AI assistant that aggregates personal health data from wearables, electronic health records, and laboratory results, then applies AI to surface what the company calls a “coherent story” of a user’s health. The product opened its waitlist on 12 March 2026 and is rolling […]
This story continues at The Next WebRamp buys Stockholm fintech Billhop to crack open European market
13 March 2026 @ 3:19 pm
The $32 billion US spend management platform acquires a licensed payments provider to launch corporate cards and finance tools in the UK and EU this summer. The corporate spend management market just shifted its centre of gravity. On 13 March 2026, Ramp, the New York-based financial operations platform valued at $32 billion, announced the acquisition […]
This story continues at The Next WebDublin fintech Teybridge Capital pledges £600 million for UK SMEs
13 March 2026 @ 11:32 am
The trade finance platform made the commitment alongside 14 other Irish firms as PM Starmer and Taoiseach Martin unveiled £937 million in Irish investment into the UK. The second UK-Ireland Summit, held in Cork on 13 March 2026, produced the sort of headline figures that governments like to announce at diplomatic gatherings. Among them was […]
This story continues at The Next WebAnthropic commits $100M to Claude Partner Network
13 March 2026 @ 11:06 am
The Claude Partner Network launches as Anthropic fights the Pentagon in court, and doubles down on the commercial relationships that matter most. There is a particular kind of defiance in the timing. On the same week that Anthropic was seeking an emergency stay from a US appeals court over the Pentagon’s decision to label it […]
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