Tech

Can a 30-person start-up build Britain’s answer to OpenAI?

London-based Cosine has UK government backing to build a ‘sovereign AI’ model but faces far better resourced rivals

The AI threat to India’s IT jobs machine

The country has bet big on tech services but disruption is coming

The HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook is incredible

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Introducing Grok Bot

Grok Bot is your team of always-on agents. They have their own computer, work inside tools and apps like you do, and keep working 24/7.

In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.

Mistral is advancing AI sovereignty by offering enterprises and countries control over AI models, infrastructure, and compute capacity, ensuring regional compliance and reliability. The company is expanding open model access, introducing regional endpoints and priority tiers, and forming a coalition to secure long-term European AI compute capacity. With plans to build up to 1 GW of capacity by 2030, Mistral aims to provide a scalable, sovereign AI infrastructure that retains value and control for users.

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Plus: An AI writing policy that makes writers do the thinking, Zuckerberg’s AI Future for Everyone runs on Meta, and a tool that keeps your agents from timing out

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves start-up less than a year after joining

Chloé Bakalar’s departure is one of several high-profile exits at the group in recent weeks as safety concerns mount

This one is for my fellow Dickheads…

A really excellent essay about how Philip K. Dick predicted our current day, “filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown. Musk and his brethren seem more like escapees from this universe than the Asimovian super-geniuses they imagine themselves to be.”

With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy

Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he’s found a way forward.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

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Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds

Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the Nintendo Switch. The game originally cost $30 (or $60 for an “Ultimate” version with additional content).

Anker’s travel charger works in almost any country and is down to $20

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