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Orange is building a €3bn French data centre business, funded from New Zealand

Orange and Morrison announced an exclusivity agreement on Monday to create a jointly controlled data centre company in France, backed by a €3 billion investment programme combining Orange assets, Morrison equity, and debt. The venture targets 400 megawatts of capacity, close to ten times what Orange operates today. Orange would contribute five French data centres […]

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A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.

Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropic’s Fable. The same volume from DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AI’s GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Moonshot’s Kimi K3, pricey by Chinese standards, charges $15. Corporate America has noticed. Companies spent a year competing to burn tokens. Now they shop […]

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SAP’s cloud is still booming, and that was enough to calm the AI-doom fears

SAP gave investors the number they wanted. Europe’s biggest software company said cloud revenue grew 22% to €6.28 billion in the second quarter, beating forecasts, SAP announced. Its cloud backlog, a measure of future sales, jumped 26%. The stock rose more than 6% in Frankfurt. That relief is the story. SAP’s shares are down about […]

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AppLovin Backs Velocity As The AI Industry Looks Beyond Subscriptions For Growth

The artificial intelligence industry has no shortage of users. The harder problem is turning that usage into a sustainable business. As generative AI applications spread across consumer and enterprise markets, developers are confronting an unusual combination of opportunities and pressures. AI can make software faster to build and easier to distribute, but the costs of […]

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A British AI lab signed up Nvidia, Meta and Samsung to invent materials that don’t exist yet

A two-year-old British AI lab wants to build the search engine for materials that do not exist yet. On Monday it gathered an unusual crowd to help. Cambridge-based CuspAI launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of more than 45 companies and research labs, Reuters reported. The founding partners include Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai Motor […]

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While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets

The AI industry is obsessed with models that write and talk. SAP has just completed a large bet on a different kind entirely, one built for structured data, as its acquisition of Prior Labs closed. The deal is now done, with regulatory approvals secured and the Freiburg-based lab operating inside SAP. The German software giant is […]

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Half of Gen Z feel guilty using AI at work. Employers now rank it above a degree

Half of young workers feel guilty when they use AI to do their jobs. Yet the same skills are fast becoming something their employers demand. That is the bind facing Gen Z at work, according to a new global survey from the employment platform Employment Hero. The company calls it “the AI paradox.” In the […]

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AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs

On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing Intel on CPUs and Nvidia on GPUs. Its market […]

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This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks

Tech loves a perk, but few go this far. Rilla, an AI startup that makes coaching software for sales teams, spends about $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff can live near its New York office, Fortune reports. The trade-off is a 72-hour week. Employees who live within a 10-minute bike ride of the […]

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Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code

Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed “Teammate,” and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Its own engineers have used the tool since May. The company made its name with an AI search […]

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