Apple makes a huge bet on AI models becoming commodities

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Apple CEO Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook

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A leading European AI startup says its edge over Silicon Valley isn't better tech — it's not being American

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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch at an IA summit at Imperial College London, in central London, in July 2025.
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says its edge over Silicon Valley isn't smarter models, but being a European alternative built for control, sovereignty, and trust.

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Eric Schmidt said he worries that most governments will use Chinese AI models

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Google's ex-CEO is worried most countries will adopt Chinese AI models.

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Apple wants to buy startups. Here's what Tim Cook should have on his shopping list, according to bankers, VCs, and analysts.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook and an Apple logo on stage at WWDC in June 2024.
Apple's Tim Cook is pitching a bunch of new AI-powered services. Are they enough to get you to buy a new iPhone?

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Meta's Llama AI team has been bleeding talent. Many top researchers have joined French AI startup Mistral.

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Timothee Lacroix, Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample Mistral AI.
Timothée Lacroix, Arthur Mensch, and Guillaume Lample are the co-founders of Mistral AI. Lacroix and Lample were two of the authors of Meta's original Llama paper.

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AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law

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A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and “decel”.

Move Over OpenAI, Microsoft Has a New Darling Startup

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Microsoft announced a new partnership with Mistral AI on Monday, a

It's never been this easy to build a $1 billion AI company

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Kai-Fu Lee
Computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee turned his AI startup into a $1 billion company in less than eight months.

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