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 executive of French AI startup Mistral, pushed back directl…
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 first annual conference in Paris on Thursday to form…
Liu Qiangdong’s pledge to safeguard JD.com’s workforce from automation sits uncomfortably with his own ‘unmanned era’ vision and a flagship warehouse already running on four employees. Liu Qiangdong, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, vowe…
The Nvidia CEO accepts a seat on Tsinghua’s School of Economics and Management board alongside Musk, Dell, Nadella, Zuckerberg, Dimon and Fink, days after travelling to China with Trump. Jensen Huang has accepted an invitation to join the advisory boar…
Vincent Bolloré has formally turned down Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square offer for Universal Music Group, ending the largest take-private attempt in music-industry history. Vincent Bolloré has formally rejected Bill Ackman’s $64bn offer for Universal Mus…
NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang told a Taipei audience at Computex 2026 on Wednesday that Taiwan is the “epicentre” of the AI revolution, and that the company’s annual spending on the island will reach roughly $150bn a year. The number, the highest…
Drew Houston, the co-founder who built Dropbox from a Y Combinator demo into a company with more than 700 million registered users, is stepping down as chief executive. Ashraf Alkarmi, Dropbox’s current head of product, has been named co-CEO effectiv…
Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two ex-bankers, are booked out for the next two months teaching financial institutions to actually use the AI tools they have already bought. Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two former investment bankers, are charging …
Quantinuum, the quantum-computing company majority-owned by Honeywell, is targeting a valuation of $12.7bn in its US IPO, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday, a level materially below the $20bn-plus figure that circulated earlier in May when the c…
The 24 hours since Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, have produced something unusual: a papal document being read in earnest by financial and policy capitals as a piece of tech-regulation analysis rather than a piece of …