Marketing AI
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Ads Are Coming to 31 European Markets
The post announces an expansion that happens "next week," sold through OpenAI's own team until self-service arrives "later this summer."
Aug 19, 2026
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AI Agents
Uber Is Putting 2,000 Chinese Robotaxis on European Streets
Pony.ai supplies the driving stack, Uber the demand, local partners the operations. Zagreb is first; four more cities are unnamed.
Aug 14, 2026
EU AI Act
The EU's High-Risk AI Deadline Died Five Days Before It Would Have Bitten
Regulation 2026/1744 entered into force overnight, moving the AI Act's August 2 obligations to December 2027. The general-purpose model rules — and the fines behind them — still start on schedule.
Jul 27, 2026
AI Models
Black Forest Labs Goes From Making Images to Moving Robots
FLUX 3 generates 20 seconds of video with native audio in one pass. FLUX-mimic, released alongside it, controls robot arms — and is already in deployment testing at Audi.
Jul 24, 2026
AI Agents
Arrakis Exits Stealth With $38 Million to Put AI Agents Inside Aerospace and Energy Operations
The London- and Paris-based startup, founded by an ex-Accel investor with Palantir alumni, is betting AI's biggest payoff is in mission-critical industry — not office work.
Jul 23, 2026
Mistral AI
Samsung Is in Talks to Back Mistral at a €20 Billion Valuation, the FT Reports
The Korean group would put in hundreds of millions of euros — possibly close to €1 billion — in a round that would roughly double the French lab's valuation in under a year.
Jul 22, 2026
Microsoft AI
Microsoft Commits Billions to Rent Mistral's European Compute — With No Equity Attached
The expanded partnership makes the French lab a supplier of GPU capacity to Microsoft's own cloud customers, and puts Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 into Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.
Jul 22, 2026
AI Agents
Defense-AI Maker Quantum Systems Raises $1.2 Billion
Europe's largest-ever private defense-tech round values the German drone and autonomy company at about $8 billion, co-led by Blackstone, Airbus and Advent.
Jul 5, 2026
