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How Europe can compete on AI

Most of the world’s biggest AI firms are locked in a race to build “superintelligence”. But Mistral AI, a French frontier lab, is betting against this “winner-takes-all” competition. The firm thinks that smaller, more customisable, open-weight models will prove more valuable. Mistral’s boss outlines his plan—and why he thinks that, wherever you are, AI should be built and served closer to home. How does his vision stack up?

Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.

Economists on AI-infused future: "We must act now"

Artificial intelligence's positive and negative disruptions is a seismic question for the economic future.

OpenAI limited collab is a physical keypad for AI

Codex Micro is a remote control for your AI agents.

OpenAI's new $230 device is for Codex power users

OpenAI launched Codex Micro, a shortcut keyboard for users of its AI coding product. It was engineered by Work Louder and priced at $230.

OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.

OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex

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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.

This week in the big AI data center buildout.

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

Elon Musk says X’s codebase will be made open source.

Along with his usual morning tweets in support of right-wing politics, against certain immigrants to the US, and boosting data centers, the sometimes-trillionaire writes, “Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝒛 open source, with no exceptions.” (He didn’t mention how Grok Build had apparently made exposing your code a little too easy.)

Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise

Watch as Equity catches up with Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, co-founders of Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Ode with Anthropic acquired earlier this year to serve as the new venture’s core.

The UK finally has a blueprint for innovation

The Whittle Lab aims to transform aerothermal engineering, one of the country’s strongest manufacturing industries