A topexecutive at one of the UK‘s hottest AI startups has made the bold claim that ithas the potential to be Britain’s first onetrillion dollar company.Carmen Alfonso Rico is a VC-turned-angel investo…
French AI company Mistral raised €3 billion in Series Dfunding at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, three years afterits launch. Samsung Electronics led the round, with the Scaleup Eur…
Mistral has raised €3bn in a Series D at a post-money valuation of more than €21bn, which the company says is the largest equity fundraising ever completed by a European technology firm. Samsung Electronics led the round, three years after the Paris co…
Technology company Veridue has raised $4 million inpre-seed funding to expand its due diligence and M&A platform for renewableenergy and data centre transactions. The round was led by Episode 1 Ve…
Malaysia is leaning towards Huawei silicon to run its national AI project, according to Bloomberg. No foreign government has openly chosen Chinese AI accelerators over American ones before. Washington told the world last year that buying these particul…
The man who wrote the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is leaving the government research agency he chaired. He announced it five days after taking a job at Anthropic. The resignation itself is not the interesting part. The arrangement it undoes had a…
Ineffable Intelligence has handed the title of cofounder to six people who did not found it. Four come from Google DeepMind, one from InstaDeep, and one from the Seattle venture firm that wrote the company’s first cheque. The London startup is ten mont…
Last year Nvidia told GPU owners worried about Rowhammer to switch on error correction. Four researchers at the University of Toronto have now shown that the same attack, aimed harder, goes straight through it. Their technique, GPUThor, is the first Ro…
Jensen Huang said it in four words. “AGI has arrived,” the Nvidia chief executive wrote on X late on Sunday, congratulating OpenAI on GPT-6 Astra. By Monday morning the post had passed 10 million views. The rest of the post is the part worth reading. H…
Dubai Chambers is putting more than 14,000 companies through training in agentic AI, the kind of software that carries out tasks on its own rather than answering questions. The body launched the courses on 1 September in front of 90 chairpersons of its…