Control within connection: How data sovereignty is rewriting the rules of critical infrastructure

Presented by EquinixDigital systems are central to economic resilience. But the governance models supporting them were designed for a bygone era, when systems were smaller, often centralized, and rare [...]

Mistral AI wants to build 1 gigawatt of European compute by 2030 — and lock in customers now.

Mistral AI wants to turn European AI sovereignty from a talking point into a product — one with a service-level agreement attached.The French artificial intelligence company announced Tuesday a thre [...]

Sail raises $80M to make AI agents cheaper to run

Sail Research has raised $80m to make AI agents cheaper to run. The startup, founded by ex-Apple and ex-NVIDIA engineers, says it can serve the tokens agents burn through at up to 10 times lower cost. [...]

Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in

Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is d [...]

Mistral launches OCR 4, turning document extraction into a full enterprise AI play

Mistral AI on Tuesday released OCR 4, a document intelligence model that moves beyond raw text extraction to return structured representations of entire documents — complete with bounding boxes, blo [...]

French government says au revoir Windows, bienvenue Linux

America's Big Tech companies may soon learn that saddling up with Donald Trump doesn't tend to work out in the end. As the president sows chaos and distrust around the globe while taking aim [...]

Infrastructure and compute: Enterprises are buying AI compute for speed while flying blind on what it costs

Across 170 enterprises, AI infrastructure has moved decisively into production — two-thirds now run AI workloads live and three in 10 run them at scale — while the ability to account for what that [...]

Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish i [...]

6 top cruise lines with 'kids sail free' deals in 2026

The cruise lines that let kids sail free, from Norwegian's eight-guest deals to Costa's Mediterranean itineraries [...]