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Mistral AI’s Arthur Mensch and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on stage at Vivatechnology in Paris, France on June 11, 2025. (Photo: AUGUSTIN PASQUINI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)Augustin Pasquini | AFP | Getty ImagesNvidia The company has become something of an AI kingmaker as hyperscalers rush to build out AI capabilities. The company also has cash to spend and is slowly increasing its investments in European startups.Last year, Nvidia participated in 14 rounds for European tech companies, compared to seven in 2024, five in 2023, one in 2022, and zero in 2021 and 2020, according to deal aggregation platform Dealroom.Of the…
The United States, Russia, and Ukraine rarely agree on anything. But as delegations from both countries met in Abu Dhabi for the first trilateral meeting since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, they appeared to have come to the same conclusion: Only one issue remained to be resolved. At issue is territory, the eastern region of Ukraine known as Donbass. And based on their comments at the meeting, the issue is unlikely to go away. “Everything is a question of the east of our country, everything is a question of land,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, pointing to Russia’s…
Manchester United fans shouldn’t get carried away with Michael Carrick. But why not?So far, Carrick has shown that you don’t have to “suffer” to win football matches. Instead, he proved that football is a simple game. However, the dilemma now is whether he deserves a permanent role or whether, despite the obvious turnaround at Old Trafford, United should still bite the bullet and stick to their original plan of appointing another permanent Ruben Amorim replacement. Some fans have become more determined and the players are younger, but Roy Keane and Gary Neville remain cautious.Keane said United needed a manager who…
In the run-up to the winter storm currently hitting much of the United States, weather forecasts in some areas have changed across the board, and snowfall forecasts have fluctuated wildly. Nvidia couldn’t have released a new Earth-2 weather forecast model at a better time. Or perhaps the company knew something we didn’t, given how accurate the company claims its new model is? New AI models promise to make weather forecasts faster and more accurate. Nvidia claims that one model in particular, Earth-2 Medium Range, outperforms GenCast, Google DeepMind’s AI weather model, on more than 70 variables. GenCast itself, which Google…
On January 2, 2026 in London, England, people visit the observation deck in Greenwich Park on a sunny but cold day with a view of Canary Wharf financial district in the distance.Henry Nichols AFP | Getty ImagesLONDON — European stock markets were flat on Monday. pan-european Stocks 600 As of 1:45 p.m. (8:45 a.m. ET) in London, the index was mostly flat, with mixed results across major exchanges and sectors.Geopolitics could continue to shape market sentiment this week as tensions between the US and Canada flare up again.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that his country will not pursue…
Venezuela’s defense minister has accused the United States of using the country as a “weapons laboratory” during the January 3 abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Syria Flores.President Vladimir Padrino López said last week that the United States was using Venezuela as a testing ground for “advanced military technologies” that rely on artificial intelligence and weapons never used before, according to Venezuelan newspaper El Universal.On Sunday, US President Donald Trump told the New York Post that the US military had actually used a weapon he called a “discombobulator.””We are not allowed to talk about it,” he said, adding…
At 296 mph, the scenery starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. The whole town blinks before you remember its name. As the name suggests, high-speed trains are fast. When two people are moving toward each other, they can close the distance at twice their maximum speed. Sixty seconds after they pass, a moment when drivers have little chance to wave amicably, they are six miles apart, each carrying more than 1,000 passengers as they drive relentlessly through the countryside. This breathtaking speed makes a recent fatal accident between two high-speed trains in Spain even more alarming. Despite…
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives ahead of a bilateral meeting at the Congress Center on the occasion of the 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, January 21, 2026. Laurent Guillieron | via Reuters The adage “good fences make good neighbors” seems to sum up U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat Saturday to impose 100% tariffs on Canada if it strikes a trade deal with China. Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that Canada has “no intention” of pursuing a free trade agreement with China. Trump’s warning came after he withdrew Canada Carney’s participation on Thursday from…
The European Commission announced on Monday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the spread of sexually explicit content by the AI chatbot Grok. The study is being conducted under the European Union’s comprehensive Digital Services Act (DSA) regulations. “The new investigation will assess whether the company adequately assessed and mitigated the risks associated with deploying Grok’s capabilities to X within the EU,” the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said in a statement.“This includes the risks associated with the distribution of illegal content within the EU, such as manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that…
Paris AP — A former French senator goes on trial in Paris on Monday on charges of drugging and sexually assaulting another lawmaker, mirroring the landmark drug-and-rape trial that captivated France and turned Gisele Pericot into a global symbol of the fight against sexual violence. Joel Guerriault, 68, is accused of putting the drug MDMA in a champagne glass he gave to Sandrine Josso, a member of parliament who left her seat after feeling unwell. He admitted to providing her with a drink laced with MDMA, but claims it was an accident. Mr. Josso, 50, has since spoken out about…