France and the UAE agree to build an up to 1GW data center in France, representing €30B to €50B in investments in French and Emirati AI, chips, talent, and more
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Airbnb launches the Co-Host Network to help homeowners hire fellow hosts to manage their rentals in the US, the UK, Canada, France, Spain, and Brazil
- Homeowners can pay co-hosts to set up listing, manage guests — Firm won't take commission when hosts connect with each other
Microsoft's deal with Inflection is a further sign that the emerging AI economy will probably be dominated by the US tech giants, as the AI talent war heats up
The fact AI researchers are commanding 7 figure pay packages even at startups wraps this up in bow that is a gift to FAANG investors. … @1br0wn@eupolicy.social : '#Microsoft's latest hiring spree, fol...
Microsoft takes a minor stake in Mistral AI and plans to help bring the French startup's AI models to market, as regulators probe Microsoft's OpenAI alliance
Extremely excited to see Mistral AI and Microsoft expanding the strategic partnership with focus on three areas: … Florian Follonier, PhD : Excited to share news of a new partnership between Microsoft...
French billionaire Xavier Niel plans to invest €200M in AI projects, including an Nvidia cloud supercomputer, a research lab in Paris, and an annual conference
and we can — create a European AI champion. It's a question of sovereignty...supercomputer powered by Nvidia”. European sovereignty, powered by Nvidia. 🤷🏼♂ ️ https://www.ft.com/... Hussein Kanji / @h...
OpenAI plans to open an office in London, its first office outside of the US, due to “world-class talent”; Sam Altman had floated Poland and France
ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. has chosen London as the home of its first corporate office outside the US, according to a company statement issued Wednesday.
Sources: Amazon creates Ratatouille, a PR push to boost its image in France via a dozen projects like TV ads, promoting French products sold on Amazon, and more
Bloomberg : Tweets: @rmac18 Tweets: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : This is like Louis Vuitton saying it needs more American customers and launching Operation Hamburglar https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://tw...
Ant Group partners with BNPL service Splitit to let Alipay users on AliExpress in Europe pay for items in installments, starting in Germany, Spain, and France
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Google signs deals with 300+ outlets in Germany, France, Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands, and Ireland to pay for news content and will roll out tools for them
Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU countries …
Sources: Intel plans an R&D center in France, test and assembly factory in Italy, and major wafer production fab in Germany
- Chipmaker is seeking to restore its technological edge — Germany could get major wafer factory as part of the push — Intel Corp.'s global push …