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 [...]

From Silicon Valley to Nairobi: What the Global South’s AI leapfrogging teaches tech leaders

When I write about the cognitive migration now underway, brought about by the rapid advance of gen AI, I do so from the perspective of someone who has spent four decades in the technology industry. My [...]

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 [...]

China is falling behind in the AI race, according to a US government benchmark

A US government agency says China is now eight months behind in the AI race, but independent data doesn't back that up. And while US labs keep chasing smarter models, the price edge from Deepseek [...]

Cohere VP says enterprise AI sovereignty requires control of the full agent stack

Hundreds of enterprise leaders and technical experts packed the main ballroom of the luxurious Hotel Nia in Menlo Park this week for VB Transform 2026, the year's preeminent conference on using g [...]

Formula E will finally debut its fast-charging pit stops this weekend

After announcing initial plans two years ago, Formula E is finally ready to deploy its fast-charging pit stops in an official race. At the Jeddah E-Prix in Saudi Arabia this weekend, the all-electric [...]

Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away

Alibaba Cloud on Sunday released HappyHorse 1.1, a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that the company says delivers production-ready video synthesis across core content creation scenarios [...]

Bonjour Visio: France turns digital sovereignty into policy

In a bold turn of phrase and deed, Paris has quietly told Silicon Valley “au revoir.”  On January 26, 2026, France’s Ministry of Finance announced that by 2027, all public servants will switch [...]

Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of open models designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices

Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: a family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smart [...]