France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software
France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software

France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir’s military AI software. A joint declaration signed after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz committed the two countries to examine “a European sovereign di…

The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs
The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs

The Trump administration is now dictating which companies and entities get access to frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, CNBC reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Until now, the labs made that decision themselves. A…

Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. It has $40 billion more contracts to securitise.
Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. It has $40 billion more contracts to securitise.

Nebius raised $775 million in its first secured debt facility, borrowing against deployed GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows from an investment-grade customer. The facility matures on October 31, 2030, and is priced at SOFR + 2.50%, roughly 6…

Meta patented an AI system that listens to your voice all day and tracks your mood
Meta patented an AI system that listens to your voice all day and tracks your mood

Meta has been granted a patent for an AI system that continuously records a user’s voice, transcribes it, and feeds the audio through a machine learning model to detect their emotional state. The patent, published on July 2, describes a device that lis…

Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.
Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.

Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course argument again. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less wate…

Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in

Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is designed to lower migration barriers for developers cur…

Every app on my phone has decided I need AI, and none of them bothered to ask

Every app wants to become an AI app, even when users keep dismissing the invitation. Somehow, software that promises to understand us still can’t remember when we’ve said no.

A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.
A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.

Raidium, a Paris and Silicon Valley-based radiology startup, has launched its AI-native imaging platform in the US at Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the country’s leading oncology research institutions. The platform, called Raidium Read, replaced Moffit…

Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking
Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking

Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday. The update improves facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across changing lighting, camera angles, and partial f…

Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price
Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price

One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s signature black Tom Ford leather jackets sold at Sotheby’s on Friday for $960,000 after 65 bids from 45 collectors. The pre-sale estimate was $40,000 to $60,000. The jacket retails for just under $10,000. Huang wore it …