Mistral boss calls for European unity in AI race, as pledges €1.2bn Swedish data centre investment

The boss of one of Europe’s most high-profile AI startups today called on European unity in the global AI race, as it committed €1.2 billion to build its first data centres outside of its native Franc…

China’s top chipmaker warns that rushed AI data center capacity could remain idle — SMIC chief says utilizing ballooning capacity ‘has not been fully thought through’

Co-CEO of SMIC warns that massive data centers that are currently being built in the U.S. and other regions could end up sitting idle if some AI projects do not take off.

Mozart AI secures $6M to develop AI tools for music creation

London-based Mozart AI has raised $6 millionin an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Balderton Capital. The roundincluded participation from Mercuri, EWOR, Kevin Hartz, Charles Ferguson, andEmer…

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after 30 years at the company

Robert Playter announcd he is leaving Boston Dynamics after 30 years at the company in various roles, including six years as CEO.

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the chatbot’s coding abilities and its gushing, meandering replies. Then he came across a post on Reddit about…

UK tech startups urged to take bold risks, by AI minister, as chip startup Fractile invests £100M

UK tech startups are being urged to take bold risks, by the UK’s AI minister, saying the government will back them, as a UK chip startup pledges to invest £100m in its business. The call comes as th…

Workday CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning as CEO 

Bhusri said in a statement that the company’s next chapter would be focused on AI.

Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Lots of influential people in tech last week were describing Moltbook, an online hangout populated by AI agents interacting with one another, as a glimpse into the future. It appeared to show…

Nvidia now produces three times as much code as before AI — specialized version of Cursor is being used by over 30,000 Nvidia engineers internally

Cursor, an AI-assisted development environment, essentially an IDE, is being used by Nvidia internally to boost coding efficiency. Cursor says the Green Team’s internal code commits have tripled since its implementation wh…