Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.
Month: September 2026
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government
Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant’s owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department.
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcement
Apple’s annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT, and we’re expecting big news.
Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?
Meta’s new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users’ email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company’s biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.
This geneticist’s age-reversal tech could help restore sight
Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun. Age-related blindness runs in his family. A great-aunt in China, the story goes, was killed crossing a road because she couldn’t see oncoming traffic. And Lu’s own…
This founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel
The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s. The majority of steelmakers melt solid iron ore at dizzyingly high temperatures inside blast furnaces, where the material reacts with gases to trigger chemical reactions that remove oxygen. It…
This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up…