Digital sovereignty has arrived in the boardroom and has immediately been downgraded. Some 93% of large organisations have now discussed it at the board level, and 59% say full digital sovereignty is not a realistic goal, according to a Capgemini Research Institute survey of 1,300 business and technology executives published on Tuesday. What has replaced the […]

Dacia has revealed a second-generation Spring built at Renault’s Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia, and the entire range is priced below €20,000 before government subsidies. The first-generation car, which sold more than 210,000 units across forty countries since 2021, was built in China. That relocation is the story, and the press materials do not mention […]

Anthropic has decided against buying Decart AI, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. The company had explored a deal and completed due diligence before walking away, and one of those people said the two may still find other ways to work together. Representatives for both companies declined to […]

Australia has published draft legislation that would require social media platforms to show users recurring prompts offering to turn the algorithmic feed off. The exposure draft of the Digital Duty of Care bill went out this week, Reuters reported, and carries penalties above A$100m for breaches. Plenty of jurisdictions have established that users should be able […]

Mistral has raised €3bn in a Series D at a post-money valuation of more than €21bn, which the company says is the largest equity fundraising ever completed by a European technology firm. Samsung Electronics led the round, three years after the Paris company was founded. The co-leads are the part worth pausing on. One is […]

Two weeks after X Corp’s lawyers demanded it disappear, Nitter is coming back. The open-source project posted a two-line notice on Monday saying it will continue, following legal advice. It did not say what that advice was. The notice sits on nitter.net, struck through the old cease-and-desist banner. “Following legal advice, the Nitter project will […]

Malaysia is leaning towards Huawei silicon to run its national AI project, according to Bloomberg. No foreign government has openly chosen Chinese AI accelerators over American ones before. Washington told the world last year that buying these particular chips could break its rules. Faris Mokhtar, Mackenzie Hawkins and Niki Koswanage reported the deliberations for Bloomberg. […]

The man who wrote the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is leaving the government research agency he chaired. He announced it five days after taking a job at Anthropic. The resignation itself is not the interesting part. The arrangement it undoes had already been reviewed and cleared by a government department. Matt Clifford will step […]

Ineffable Intelligence has handed the title of cofounder to six people who did not found it. Four come from Google DeepMind, one from InstaDeep, and one from the Seattle venture firm that wrote the company’s first cheque. The London startup is ten months old, has no product, and carries a $5 billion valuation. Jeremy Kahn […]

Last year Nvidia told GPU owners worried about Rowhammer to switch on error correction. Four researchers at the University of Toronto have now shown that the same attack, aimed harder, goes straight through it. Their technique, GPUThor, is the first Rowhammer attack to defeat ECC on Nvidia GPUs. It works on four Ampere-generation workstation cards: […]