At its first annual conference in Paris, Mistral formally rolled out the physics-aware AI stack it built around the Emmi acquisition, with Airbus, BMW and EDF as launch customers. Mistral AI used its first annual conference in Paris on Thursday to formally launch “Mistral for Industrial Engineering,” a physics-aware AI stack pitched directly at heavy-industry […]
Liu Qiangdong’s pledge to safeguard JD.com’s workforce from automation sits uncomfortably with his own ‘unmanned era’ vision and a flagship warehouse already running on four employees. Liu Qiangdong, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, vowed in an internal speech this week to protect the company’s 900,000-strong workforce from AI and robotics, according to a […]
SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year lease of its Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic, Elon Musk said on Wednesday, describing the agreement as 180 days with a 90-day mutual cancellation right. Elon Musk has clarified that SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year lease of its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic, contradicting […]
Michele Spagnuolo allegedly traded under the handle ‘AlphaRaccoon’, netting $1.2m on Google’s Year-in-Search outcomes. It is the second federal criminal case tied to Polymarket. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Google information-security engineer based in Switzerland, with using internal Google search-trend data to bet $2.7m on […]
The five-year deal consolidates scattered Microsoft 365 and cloud subscriptions for the Defense Department, intelligence community and Coast Guard. Dell, not Microsoft, is the prime contractor. The US Department of Defense has awarded Dell a five-year, roughly $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft software licensing across the entire US military, the intelligence community and the Coast […]
Jay Shetty, the former Hindu monk turned self-help podcaster, has signed a deal to bring the video version of his show On Purpose exclusively to Spotify and Netflix. The arrangement is worth as much as $100 million over multiple years, according to people familiar with the deal cited by Bloomberg. That figure puts Shetty in […]
Meta is selling subscriptions to its AI chatbot for the first time, introducing two paid tiers that put it in direct competition with OpenAI and Google for consumer AI revenue. Meta One Plus costs $7.99 per month and Meta One Premium costs $19.99 per month. Both tiers give users expanded access to image generation, video […]
ElevenLabs has struck a deal with Stan Lee Universe to add Stan Lee’s voice and likeness to its platform, making the late Marvel co-creator the latest deceased cultural icon to be digitally resurrected by AI. The partnership puts Lee’s voice on the ElevenLabs Iconic Marketplace for commercial licensing and on the Eleven Reader app, where fans […]
Spotify has launched a feature called Podcast Clips that lets listeners select, trim, and share specific moments from podcast episodes. A new scissors icon in the Now Playing view opens a clipping tool where users can mark a segment of audio, preview it, and share it via social media, messaging apps, or a direct link. […]
China’s $1.1bn AI, robotics and EV package for Serbia lands four days after 34,000 protesters filled the capital demanding early elections. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either. On Saturday, tens of thousands of Serbians filled the centre of Belgrade in what police estimated as a 34,300-person rally demanding early elections, accountability […]
