Mistral’s Arthur Mensch directly rebuts Pope Leo on AI in warfare
Mistral’s Arthur Mensch directly rebuts Pope Leo on AI in warfare

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…

The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their task is to help shape AI, he was met with a resounding chorus of boos. “I can…

Atheni secures £350K to help teams use AI more effectively

Atheni, an AIadoption company, has raised £350,000 to further develop its platform designedto help organisations use AI more effectively across their workforce. Thecompany is backed by angel investors…

Mistral launches Industrial Engineering AI with Airbus, BMW and EDF as headline customers
Mistral launches Industrial Engineering AI with Airbus, BMW and EDF as headline customers

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…

Kopa.ai raises €2M to build AI agents for end-to-end e-commerce operations

Kopa.ai,an agentic AI platform for e-commerce teams, has raised €2 million in seedfunding in a round co-led by XTX Ventures and Practica Capital, withparticipation from Inovia Capital and angel invest…

Orbital Industries secures $50M to scale data centre infrastructure systems

Orbital Industries, a London-basedcompany developing industrial hardware and infrastructure using AI-drivenengineering and materials discovery systems, has raised $50 million in a SeriesB funding roun…

London topples Paris to regain European tech top spot

London has reclaimed its position as Europe’s top tech ecosystem, knocking Paris off the top spot, driven by record AI investment, according to new data. The Dealroom Global Tech Ecosystem Index data …

Amazon just announced three AI-made animated series and they’re heading to Prime Video

Amazon MGM Studios and AWS have unveiled its first three AI-generated animated series, all of which are headed to Prime Video at a future date.

AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report — Uber and Microsoft among companies feeling the bite of tokenized billing

Major tech companies are considering refining their approaches to AI, as rising token costs and increased token demand from AI agents make the costs harder to justify, with limited return on the investment.

Cognition just raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, and 90% of its own code is written by its AI
Cognition just raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, and 90% of its own code is written by its AI

Cognition AI has raised more than $1 billion in new funding at a $26 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth since a September round that valued the company at $10.2 billion. The round was co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, with …