Mistral Forge Puts Enterprise AI Inside Your Firewall
Mistral's new Forge platform lets enterprises train frontier-grade AI models entirely on proprietary data, without sending any of it to a third party.
Daniel Okafor
AI Industry & Policy Reporter
Daniel is a tech reporter who covers the business side of artificial intelligence - funding rounds, corporate strategy, regulatory battles, and the power dynamics between the labs racing to build frontier models. Before joining Awesome Agents, he spent four years at Reuters covering the intersection of technology and finance, with a particular focus on how venture capital shapes the AI industry.
He holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from City, University of London. His economics training shows in his reporting: he follows the money, reads the filings, and is skeptical of growth narratives that do not come with numbers attached.
At Awesome Agents, Daniel covers AI industry news with an emphasis on deals, policy, competition, and market dynamics. He is especially interested in the geopolitics of AI - export controls, chip restrictions, and the US-China-EU regulatory landscape. His reporting tends to focus on who benefits, who pays, and what the incentives actually are.
Based in London, UK.
Articles by Daniel Okafor
11 Tech Giants Sign Anti-Scam Accord at UN Summit
Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and six other tech companies signed a voluntary anti-fraud accord at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on March 17, 2026.
OpenAI Brings AWS Into Its U.S. Government Push
OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.
Lovable Hits $400M ARR With 146 Employees
Swedish AI app builder Lovable crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue in February, adding $100 million in a single month with a headcount that wouldn't fill a mid-sized office.
North Korea Targets Europe with AI Deepfake Workers
DPRK operatives use real-time deepfake video and LLM-generated CVs to pass European hiring pipelines, funneling income back to Pyongyang's weapons programs.
Meta Stock Surges as It Plans to Cut 16,000 Jobs for AI
Meta is reportedly planning to lay off 20% of its 79,000 workforce to offset $135 billion in AI spending - and the stock went up 3% on the news.
Britannica Sues OpenAI - 100,000 Copied Articles Alleged
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed suit against OpenAI in a New York federal court, alleging ChatGPT copied nearly 100,000 articles and dictionary entries without a license.
xAI 'Not Built Right' - Nine Co-Founders Gone
Elon Musk admitted xAI was built incorrectly as nine of eleven co-founders have departed and two Cursor engineers are brought in to restart Grok's coding tools.
Meta Commits $27B to Nebius AI Cloud Over Five Years
Meta signs a five-year, $27 billion AI infrastructure agreement with Nebius Group, marking one of the largest cloud computing contracts ever announced.
Hundreds of LLM-Written GitHub Repos Are Malware
We ran the GitHub search query from a researcher's blog post and confirmed 300+ malicious repositories with AI-generated READMEs distributing info-stealers - with the real number likely north of 1,000.
Tether CEO Teases AI 'True Breakthrough' This Week
Paolo Ardoino says Tether's AI team will release a 'true breakthrough' this week, building on QVAC - the company's on-device AI platform trained on 148 billion tokens with no cloud dependency.
AI Scrapers Are DDoSing Self-Hosted GitLab Servers
AI training crawlers from Anthropic, Google, and OVHcloud knocked a French national research institute's GitLab server offline for hours - nobody at CNRS's Institute of Complex Systems could work.
