How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips
Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims
Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by “round-tripping” sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... X: Nikhil Patwardhan / @patwardhannn : 🚨🚨 The Dailyhunt, Josh story seems to be unravelling quickly. Another Peak XV startup, among the most funde...
Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by “round-tripping” sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... X: Nikhil Patwardhan / @patwardhannn : 🚨🚨 The Dailyhunt, Josh story seems to be unravelling quickly. Another Peak XV startup, among the most funde...
Mistral AI, seen as Europe's great hope for AI, is losing ground to US rivals and being overshadowed by DeepSeek; sources say its ARR is in the tens of millions
Financial Times : X: @workmj and @starcourse . Forums: Slashdot X: Michael Jackson / @workmj : “One investor in Mistral is less bullish in private. ‘They are starting to see the w...
Opensignal ranks Japan #1 in G7 mobile reliability experience between July 1 and September 28, followed by France, Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK
Research highlights impact of poor network performance on consumers — Mobile users in the UK had the least reliable experience … Bluesky: @seanfionn . X: @workmj . Forums: r/ukpo...
A profile of Rapidus, which is attempting to prove that bespoke chips can be efficiently and profitably produced in small quantities rather than large batches
Financial Times : X: @tanarrowz and @workmj X: @tanarrowz : In Dec'24, Rapidus will take delivery of an EUV machine from ASML, vital for manufacturing the 2nm chips the company is...
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees Big Tech regulation, says he is stepping down over a rift with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
Thierry Breton of France stepped down as a member of the European Commission on Monday and will no longer be his country's candidate …
Sources: French antitrust regulators are preparing to charge Nvidia for allegedly anti-competitive practices, after raids in the GPU sector in September 2023
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI London, a new hub for its consumer AI division led by former Inflection AI and DeepMind engineer Jordan Hoffmann
here's why Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Microsoft to Open New AI Hub in London PYMNTS.com : Microsoft to Open New AI Hub in London Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Microsoft's £2.5B UK In...
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI London, a new hub for its consumer AI division led by former Inflection AI and DeepMind engineer Jordan Hoffmann
Microsoft has announced a new London hub for its recently unveiled consumer AI division. It will be fronted by Jordan Hoffmann …
An interview with Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström about his upbringing, his VC firm Atomico, the vitality of Europe's startup space, a Skype “mafia”, and more
French billionaire Xavier Niel plans to invest €200M in AI projects, including an Nvidia cloud supercomputer, a research lab in Paris, and an annual conference
and we can — create a European AI champion. It's a question of sovereignty...supercomputer powered by Nvidia”. European sovereignty, powered by Nvidia. 🤷🏼♂ ️ https://www.ft.com/.....
A look at the UK's new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI
A look at the UK's new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI
Head of Advanced Research and Invention Agency tells FT it has appointed directors charged with selecting projects X: @braincures , @drdrasko , @clivecookson , @braincures , @workm...
Paris-based Mistral AI raised a €105M seed led by Lightspeed, sources say at a €240M valuation, to rival OpenAI and plans to release its first AI models in 2024
France and Germany dominate the EU's tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc's smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation
it's in Central and Eastern Europe. It's time that these countries speak with one voice on the kind of digital decade they would like to see. https://www.politico.eu/... @e_estonia...
The popularity of H100, which offers at least 3x better performance than the A100, with Big Tech, OpenAI, and others has pushed Nvidia's market value toward $1T
High demand for US group's H100 processors helps send its market value skyrocketing towards $1tn
After decades of slumber, Japan's tech industry, which has produced just ~10 unicorns, musters momentum as its startups raised ~$6.2B in 2021 and ~$6.4B in 2022
some of whom are questioning the wisdom of moving fast and breaking things in a world now breaking apart.” https://restofworld.org/...
The open-source AI boom is precarious because it is built on top of giant models like LLaMA and GPT-3, and could collapse if Meta and OpenAI decide to shut shop
Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation. But if top companies get spooked, they could close up shop.
Intel becoming a chip foundry is its biggest business shift in nearly 40 years, meaning US industrial policy rests on one of tech's most complex turnarounds yet
Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech's most complex turnrounds