SPRIND launches €125M Next Frontier AI challenge to back new AI paradigms in Europe

SPRIND has launched the Next Frontier AI challenge, inviting up to ten teams from across Europe to develop new approaches that expand current paradigms in artificial intelligence. The selected teams w…

Featherless.ai secures $20M to expand serverless platform for open-source AI

Featherless.ai, a platform for running open-source AI, has secured $20 million in Series A funding to give enterprises a new path to AI independence. The round was co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus V…

Meta’s multi-billion-dollar Graviton deal highlights intensifying CPU shortages in AI infrastructure — the industry signals a shift to Agentic inference workloads, pushing demand

Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.
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OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers in favor of more flexible deals — company now prefers to lease compute and says Stargate is an umbrella term

OpenAI has reportedly modified its arrangement on several Stargate projects, leaving the direct ownership set up and instead preferring to lease compute from other partners who took on the direct risk of investing in the i…

Nvidia exec says AI is more expensive than actual workers — yet some companies don’t see the extra costs as a negative

As advanced LLMs do more and more for modern businesses, the outlays to cover all those tokens can cost more than worker salaries alone. But some companies don’t see the added costs as a negative as they look toward a more…

AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most
AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most

Founded by a former Atomico talent adviser, Dex charges employers agency fees only on successful hires, and has gone from zero to $1.8 million ARR in under six months of charging. Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 European s…

Cleo Labs secures €1.5M to scale AI-driven product compliance globally

Cleo Labs, a Paris-based company specialising inproduct regulatory compliance, has raised €1.5 million in a funding round toaccelerate the development of its AI-powered platform for internationalcompl…

Zuckerberg’s Meta will beam sunlight from space to power AI data centers, solar-collecting satellites will orbit 22,000 miles above Earth — firm reserves 1 Gigawatt of orbital solar energy and 100 Gigawatt-hours of long-duration storage

Meta has announced plans to help power its AI data centers using sunlight beamed from space through a partnership with Overview Energy, alongside a 100 GWh long-duration storage deal with Noon Energy, as the AI industry’s …

Dex lands $5.3M to grow its AI-driven talent matching platform

London-based Dex, an AI-poweredrecruitment platform, has raised $5.3 million in a seed funding round led by Notion Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz’s Speedrun programme, Concept Ve…