UK AI Regulation
Britain's £100m AI Scheme Launches Competitions, Not Awards
The Treasury opened the first procurement competitions under a £100m scheme. Nothing has been awarded and no per-competition value is given.
2h ago
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AI Chips
Korea's National AI Service Gets 512 GPUs in Total, Not Each
SK Telecom, KT and Kakao were selected on 28 August from six applicants. Contracts are due in September and the launch is a year-end target — roughly 170 GPUs per operator to serve a country.
2d ago
Mistral AI
Mistral's Saudi Deal Is Hundreds of Millions of Euros, But Only Intent
Thirteen days after positioning itself as Europe's sovereign-AI vendor, Mistral sold the same sovereignty pitch to Riyadh. The release contains exactly one number.
6d ago
AI Chips
Korea Broke Ground on Its National AI Computing Centre, 29% State-Owned
A 2.5-trillion-won facility in Haenam, led by Samsung SDS, with 40 megawatts approved. That is roughly a fiftieth of the gigawatt campuses the phrase "national AI centre" invites you to picture.
Aug 3, 2026
AI Data Centers
CoreWeave and Leidos Announced a Classified AI Cloud Their Own Release Says Does Not Exist Yet
No contract, no value, no capacity, no site — and a disclaimer stating that definitive agreements have not been executed.
Jul 31, 2026
AI Data Centers
HCLTech and Sarvam Put $1.48 Billion Behind India's Sovereign AI Park
India's third-largest IT services firm is building its first AI data center with a domestic model startup and a state government — and the headline figure includes the state's own money.
Jul 25, 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 Models
Korea's Motif Ships a 314B-Parameter Open Model It Says Ranks Third Globally Among Open Weights
A 30-person startup spun off from AMD-backed Moreh trained Motif-3-Beta on about 700 government GPUs — and became the highest-ranked model builder outside the US and China.
Jul 21, 2026
Nvidia
Japan and Nvidia Launch a National AI Factory Built on 27,500 Rubin GPUs
Noetra will build and operate a 140-megawatt Vera Rubin AI factory under METI's FRONTia project, while Fujitsu, Fanuc, Yaskawa and Kawasaki sign on to a robotics push Jensen Huang calls the next industrial revolution.
Jul 16, 2026
