Mistral 3 is designed for customization and privacy. Its smaller multimodal models can run on single GPUs. Mistral hopes the models create "distributed intelligence." Another open-source model has ...
French AI company Mistral released a new open-source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...
AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...
Hg-backed Visma is delaying its IPO until at least 2027, as the AI-driven selloff depresses tech valuations. It follows similar moves by Blackstone. Private equity groups that spent over $220 bln on a now-embattled sector will find it harder to return cash to investors.
Europe on Friday moved a step closer to adopting rules governing the use of artificial intelligence and AI models such as Microsoft-backed ChatGPT after EU countries endorsed a political deal reached in December.
Serbia on Thursday signed a landmark agreement with France's Dassault Aviation for the purchase of 12 new Rafale fighter jets for 2.7 billion euros ($2.99 billion).
Britain and Germany's leaders agreed in Berlin on Wednesday to work on an ambitious treaty covering issues from defence to trade that would be part of a reset of British relations with the European Union.
Ukraine is developing a large language model using Google's open-weight Gemma framework, aiming to create an independent system for artificial intelligence operations amid rising demand across military and civilian sectors, the country's digital ministry and mobile operator Kyivstar said on Monday.
Anthropic is calling on major artificial intelligence labs to consider a coordinated and verifiable pause in development, warning that rapid advances in the technology could soon allow AI systems to improve themselves faster than society can manage the risks.
Libya has called for international aid after a devastating flood killed thousands of people, with many still missing. Tens of thousands have been displaced.
Netherlands-based data centre operator Nebius will leverage recent multi-billion dollar contracts with Microsoft and Meta to build its business with traditional firms and emerging AI companies that could be future tech titans, its co-founder said.
EU lawmakers halted talks on the bloc's landmark Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act on Thursday, agreeing to resume discussions on Friday after they failed to reach a deal during almost 24 hours of negotiations.
France announced 71 foreign investment projects worth a combined €93 billion ($108.3 billion) at its annual Choose France business summit on Monday, adding they would create more than 15,600 jobs.
France won a record 15 billion euros ($16.17 billion) in foreign investment pledges on Monday, allowing President Emmanuel Macron to bask in the limelight with global CEOs and forget about strained public finances and weak polls for a while.
Europe will cut back on regulation to make it easier for artificial intelligence to flourish in the region, French President Emmanuel Macron told an AI summit in Paris on Monday, urging investment in the EU - and more specifically in France.
All eyes are on the French capital next week to see if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration can find common ground with China and nearly 100 other nations on the safe development of artificial intelligence.
The European Union’s artificial intelligence ambitions may fall short. Brussels wants to enact vanguard regulation that makes the new technology safer and more competitive. But overly detailed legislation makes it more likely the EU, and emerging local champions, get left behind.
Hemanth Mandapati, boss of German startup Novo AI, was an early adopter of DeepSeek chatbots when he switched to the Chinese AI model from OpenAI's ChatGPT two weeks ago.
France will this week host tech executives and political figures including former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry, EU industrial chief Thierry Breton and ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt as it looks to assert Paris' role as an AI hub.
Mining giant BHP's quick fix to a recent six-day strike at its huge Escondida copper mine in Chile could set the tone for upcoming negotiations elsewhere, with workers emboldened by high copper prices to push for a larger share of the profits.
Meta Platforms on Thursday released early versions of its latest large language model, Llama 3, and an image generator that updates pictures in real time while users type prompts, as it races to catch up to generative AI market leader OpenAI.
Europe's fintech industry faces an uncertain future after funding squeezes over the past two years brought lofty pandemic-era ambitions and valuations down to earth, but some are optimistic that lower interest rates will spur a recovery.
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is seeking to raise about $20 billion in what will be the largest fund in its history, to capitalize on global investors' interest in backing U.S. artificial intelligence companies, sources told Reuters.