Nvidia may put $10bn into Anthropic’s IPO, more than Europe’s largest AI round in full
Nvidia may put $10bn into Anthropic’s IPO, more than Europe’s largest AI round in full

Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10bn in Anthropic’s initial public offering, which seeks as much as $100bn at a valuation near $2trn and would be the largest listing in history. Three days earlier it returned as an investor in Mistral’s EUR 3bn rou…

Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed
Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed

Amazon has made its Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows, pitching it to enterprise IT as the governed alternative to shadow AI. Quick runs in ordinary European AWS regions with inference kept inside Europe, but it is not on…

OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as Astra demand strains its systems
OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as Astra demand strains its systems

OpenAI has stopped selling the $200 tier of ChatGPT Pro, saying demand for its Astra model is straining its systems. European organisations face a second constraint the pause does not touch, because Astra still has no EU data zone deployment and no pai…

ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework
ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework

Five ElevenLabs services are listed on the software lot of G-Cloud 15, the UK government’s cloud buying framework, according to the Digital Marketplace. They cover conversational agents, transcription, dubbing and text-to-speech. Three months ago the s…

Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in commitments and 51 signed deals
Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in commitments and 51 signed deals

The first International Space Summit closed at the Grand Palais in Paris on Thursday with about €20bn in announced investment and 51 deals signed, after two days in which European governments tried to convert a long-running argument about dependence on…

AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it
AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it

A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxon’s re…

Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant
Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden NFL and Pokemon Go under one roof. Brussels cleared the EA takeover on competition and foreign subsidy grounds six weeks ago, and com…

Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video
Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video

Skild AI says it has reached $100M in recurring revenue run-rate ten months after its first commercial deployment, with hundreds of robots running at more than 60 companies. Its S1 model learns tasks from a single video without prior training data, whi…

Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain
Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain

Nvidia and Palantir have announced today a joint product for running AI over corporate supply chains without handing the underlying data to anyone else, and the first customer is Nvidia, which is using it on its own. It pairs Palantir’s Foundry, its Ar…

A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident
A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident

Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies…