After Pentagon Feud, UK Woos Anthropic to London
Britain is offering Anthropic a £40M research lab and a dual London Stock Exchange listing after the Pentagon branded the AI company a supply-chain risk.
Europe
Mistral Borrows $830M to Build a Sovereign GPU Farm
Mistral AI secures $830M in debt financing from seven banks to build a 13,800-GPU Nvidia GB300 cluster near Paris, targeting 200MW of European compute by 2027.
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.
Legal AI Startup Legora Raises $550M, Hits $5.55B
Swedish legal AI platform Legora closes a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B in five months on the back of rapid US expansion.
LeCun Raises $1B Seed to Build AI Beyond LLMs
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs closes a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation, betting that world models - not large language models - will define the next era of AI.
Nscale Closes $2B to Build Europe's AI Backbone
Nscale raises the largest Series C in European history, valuing the company at $14.6 billion and funding a 100,000-GPU AI gigafactory in Norway with OpenAI as anchor customer.
Mistral's New Playbook - Send Engineers, Not Models
Europe's most-funded AI startup is embedding engineers inside banks and consulting giants, borrowing Palantir's forward-deploy playbook to survive the frontier race.
France Builds an Official MCP Server for Its National Open Data Platform - 74,000 Datasets Now Queryable by AI Agents
The French government's digital agency Etalab shipped an open-source MCP server for data.gouv.fr, giving AI agents structured access to 74,000 public datasets without an API key.
Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is a 675B-parameter MoE model activating 41B per token with native multimodal support, a 256K context window, and Apache 2.0 licensing - Europe's first frontier-class open-weight model.
