Mistral buys Paris adtech startup Pimento in its third acquisition of 2026
The acquisition was first mentioned on Monday by L’Informé, and Mistral confirmed it to AFP the same day, citing a price of “several million euros”. Two sources have now shared different numbers for the deal. L’Informé…
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Apple Ships Desktops Pitched As Enterprise AI Alternative
The Mac Studio desktops launched in August, with pricing of up to nearly $20,000 (£15,000) for the top-end models with the new M5 Ultra chip and high-end memory configuration. Most models began shipping on Tuesday, while…
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Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders
Jev’s output is more restricted than the chatty ask-me-anything approach of other LLM-powered chatbots. Basically, Jev is a classifier with brains. When given a set of data, it returns predefined “typed” decisions that…
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Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer
On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber’s data center complex on the Zernike Campus in Groningen. The installation is scheduled…
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F13 raises $5M pre-seed to build an AI model for precise vector graphics
Angel investors, including Carles Reina of Baobab Ventures and Jack Richardson of Mainframe, also took part. Images described using vector graphics are made up of shapes and coordinates rather than pixels, which means…
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Google Maps Error Causes Traffic Chaos In Rural Scotland
The U163 road has no designated passing places, causing it to become jammed when vehicles met one another coming from both directions, local residents told the BBC. Local residents reported vehicles including camper…
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Third time lucky: why businesses need to boost their resilience
In the first, a reported software glitch in NATS’ main systems caused the cancellation of over 2,000 flights. The defect happened “in the space of a millisecond”, according to an initial NATS investigation. This, in…
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Fees and AI lock-in contribute to the new data gravity
The larger and more disparate a global organization’s dataset was, the more difficult it was to move, access, and use, therefore raising data storage bills. Companies were unable to scale without bearing the logistical…
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HP Z4 G6i Workstation review
That's why HP is banking on enterprises with zero room for error and a demand for limitless compute should sparing no expense at locking down desktop-based high-performance computing (HPC) . The HP Z4 G6i Workstation is…
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Ravenser Odd, the sunken medieval island that continues to inspire and obsess
Read more about the competition here . “It’s a heck of a way”. My parents are surprisingly resistant to visiting Spurn Point. It’s the second summer of the COVID pandemic, and my husband, young son, and I are holidaying…
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