A £35bn plan to fill the UK with 14 mini nuclear reactors
A £35bn plan to fill the UK with 14 mini nuclear reactors

A Polish billionaire has laid out plans to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across Britain, at an estimated £35bn, TechRadar reported. Michał Sołowow’s firm, SGE, says it wants to install 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites…

ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs
ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs

The ALL-IN Podcast took its live show to the Louvre this week for the RAISE Summit. It put ElevenLabs co-founder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski in the hot seat. Host Jason Calacanis opened where it stings: revenue, competition, and whether a voi…

Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs
Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs

At RAISE Summit in Paris on Wednesday, “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban made the case for AI coding tools like Lovable and Replit, Business Insider reports. They can hold their own against the big AI labs, he argued. The reason: they now bundle service…

France’s ZML wants to break Nvidia lock-in with free cross-chip AI software
France’s ZML wants to break Nvidia lock-in with free cross-chip AI software

A Paris startup wants to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, not with a new chip, but with software. ZML has released a free tool that runs open-source models fast across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Apple and Intel silicon alike. Nvidia still rules AI hardware, but i…

Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree
Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree

Young workers and their bosses do not see the same person. Almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds, 45 per cent, believe they entered work with the skills to succeed. Just 6 per cent of UK managers agree, according to the Chartered Management Institute. The …

NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone
NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone

NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on Tuesday, struck at the NATO summit in Ankara. NATO calls …

RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO
RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Mid…

Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help
Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help

Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. Its new AI lab, run by a former Google DeepMind resea…

Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA
Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA

Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple’s challenge to being labelled a …

UK tech secretary backs driverless cars as Burnham’s team gets cold feet
UK tech secretary backs driverless cars as Burnham’s team gets cold feet

Britain’s tech secretary backs driverless cars and British AI startups. The likely next prime minister’s team has doubts, and her own job is on the line. Liz Kendall wants Britain to back its own AI companies before someone else does. In a Sifted podca…