ByteDance is building its own CPUs on Arm and RISC-V to feed its AI infrastructure

The TikTok parent is developing custom data-centre processors on two parallel architectures as Intel and AMD push prices up 10-35% a quarter and US export controls bite. ByteDance is developing its ow [...]

Mistral’s Arthur Mensch directly rebuts Pope Leo on AI in warfare

Three days after the Vatican called for AI to be ‘disarmed’, the Mistral CEO defended his company’s defence-AI work, arguing Europe cannot afford unilateral restraint. Arthur Mensch, the chief e [...]

AtlasEdge raises $1.2bn in debt to scale its European data-centre footprint

AtlasEdge, the European data-centre operator jointly owned by Liberty Global and DigitalBridge, has secured roughly $1.2bn in debt financing to scale its data-centre footprint across the continent, ac [...]

Mistral launches Industrial Engineering AI with Airbus, BMW and EDF as headline customers

At its first annual conference in Paris, Mistral formally rolled out the physics-aware AI stack it built around the Emmi acquisition, with Airbus, BMW and EDF as launch customers. Mistral AI used its [...]

Taco Bell’s voice AI expansion shows the drive-thru has entered a new phase

Voice AI in the drive-thru is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operating decision for quick-service restaurants. Food On Demand recently reported that Taco Bell has expanded its voice AI [...]

Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new

Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitche [...]

The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention

Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commissio [...]

Putting a number on a founder’s voice

Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice that circulated a dec [...]

Drone makers race to build navigation that survives warzone jamming

GPS spoofing and jamming have become standard countermeasures on the battlefield in Ukraine, separating drones from their operators and rendering some guided munitions useless. US-made Excalibur artil [...]