Mistral CEO tells CNBC US AI safety debate covers rivals’ ‘negligence’
Mistral CEO tells CNBC US AI safety debate covers rivals’ ‘negligence’

Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch said the US debate over AI safety has been a cover for the “negligence” of some of his rivals. He made the comments to Annette Weisbach in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. “The debate that we’ve seen in the U.S. …

The Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop on NixOS
The Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop on NixOS

The Dutch government is building its own open source workplace for civil servants, with a desktop operating system built on the Linux distribution NixOS. Eight municipalities are now testing the project, called DAWO, Dutch tech site Tweakers reported l…

France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget
France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget

France wants the billions of euros Google has paid in EU fines to lower what member states pay into the bloc’s budget. Benjamin Haddad, the Minister Delegate for European Affairs, made the case in an interview with the TV channel Franceinfo on Tuesday,…

Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals
Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals

Google has gone to court to challenge two EU orders that would require it to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data with other search engines, Reuters reported. It filed both cases at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Monday. In …

UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports
UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports

The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party’s annual conference. Fortune’s Kamal Ahmed as…

Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days
Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days

Attackers are exploiting two critical flaws in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Companies use the devices to give staff remote access to internal networks. Citrix confirmed the attacks in a security bulletin on Sunday and released fixes. Bot…

The RAF launches a new space squadron to defend UK satellites
The RAF launches a new space squadron to defend UK satellites

The Royal Air Force has set up a new space squadron, the Ministry of Defence said on 23 September. No. III Space Effects Squadron is the first UK unit dedicated to disrupting, degrading and denying threats to British satellites. Air Chief Marshal Sir H…

Nubank’s owner is in talks to buy Monzo at up to £10bn
Nubank’s owner is in talks to buy Monzo at up to £10bn

Monzo is in talks about a sale to Brazil’s Nu Holdings, the owner of Nubank. A deal could value the British digital bank at between £8bn and £10bn, Mark Kleinman reported for Sky News on Saturday. The talks are at a relatively early stage, according to…

Raspberry Pi’s revenue jumps 90% as its memory stockpile pays off
Raspberry Pi’s revenue jumps 90% as its memory stockpile pays off

Raspberry Pi nearly doubled its revenue in the first half of 2026, helped by memory chips it stockpiled before prices soared. Revenue rose 90% to $256.9 million in the six months to 30 June, the company said in its interim results on Thursday. A year e…

More elite AI researchers now work in China than in the US, study finds
More elite AI researchers now work in China than in the US, study finds

China has overtaken the United States as the country where the most elite AI researchers work, according to a study by Carnegie China. The think tank is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2025, 41% of the top researchers it trac…