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Mistral AI is taking on a large debt package to secure chips and build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, rather than selling more of the company’s equity, a decision that says as much about today’s AI funding playbook as it does about the fast‑rising European startup. The move also highlights how capital‑intensive building AI compute and infrastructure has become and how credit markets are quickly becoming a primary way to pay for that compute. What Mistral AI Is Doing With The Money   French startup Mistral AI has secured about $830 million in its first major debt financing, backed by a consortium…

The longest service disruption from DeepSeek to date has raised fresh questions about whether the fast‑rising Chinese AI company is ready for the demands of a truly global user base. The seven‑plus‑hour outage hit both regular users and developers, cutting access to one of China’s most visible competition to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, especially at a time when expectations around reliability in AI tools are increasing. What Happened To DeepSeek On March 30, DeepSeek’s flagship chatbot went offline for 7 hours and 13 minutes, in what the company itself labeled a “major outage” on its public status page. The disruption had begun…

Big Tech including Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have collectively committed around $635 billion in capital expenditure for 2026, with the bulk of that going toward AI data centers. The scale of this investment is historically unprecedented. But as billions pour into chips, servers, and infrastructure, a more pressing question is surfacing – where is the power to run all of it actually going to come from? S&P Global estimates that the leading U.S. tech platforms had mapped out around $635 billion of combined spending on data centers, chips and other AI infrastructure for 2026, up from $383 billion in…

Nvidia-backed Starcloud is betting that the future of AI will be powered by something above and better than power grids. As data centers on Earth run into increasing electricity demand, grid problems, and local protests, the Redmond, Washington-based startup wants to build orbital data centers that run on uninterrupted solar power in space. Starcloud Space Data Center Ambition Starcloud wants to move a meaningful slice of AI computing off the planet by turning satellites into high‑performance data centers. The company recently filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to launch a constellation of up to 88,000 satellites…

Debugging has always been one of the tasks that AI coding agents can not properly handle. They only read code, make educated guesses, and generate fixes without ever running the program.  But Cursor’s 2.2 Debug Mode takes a different approach entirely as it instruments code with runtime logs, collects live data during bug reproduction, and brings the developer back into the loop before committing to any fix. The result of this process is that bugs which were previously out of reach for even the most capable models can now be resolved through a structured and evidence-based process. How Debug Mode…

Tinder is rolling out Photo Insights, a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that is capable of scanning your photo library to build a personality profile with the aim to make matches feel more authentic and reduce swipe fatigue on the app. Tinder’s Photo Insights will rely on on-device analysis and optional access to your camera roll as it turns what it sees in your photos into clues about how you live, what you enjoy, and how you might be a match to other potential users. What Tinder’s Photo Insights Actually Does Photo Insights is a tool that analyzes images from…

A critical vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server is being actively exploited, and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging organizations to patch their systems immediately. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20963, was recently added to CISA’s Know Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. It is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tied to deserialization of untrusted data in on-premises SharePoint server. What The Vulnerability Does Successful exploitation of CVE-2026-20963 will allow threat actors without any privileges to achieve remote code execution on unpatched servers through a deserialization of untrusted data weakness. In a network-based attack, an unauthenticated attacker can write…

At Nvidia’s annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, CEO Jensen Huang made a declaration that a modern data center should be viewed as a factory that produces tokens and not just a warehouse for compute and storage. Nvidia now describes its AI infrastructure stack as an “AI factory” built to “manufacture intelligence at scale,” with token generation presented as the core output of the system. With this, Huang formally repositioned Nvidia’s identity around a new concept being an AI factory built to continuously generate AI outputs measured in tokens, as opposed to only storing and retrieving data. What…

For 35 years operating in the semiconductor industry, Arm Holdings built its business by selling chip designs, not chips. That changed on March 24, 2026, when the British semiconductor company unveiled Arm AGI CPU, its first in-house production processor, at its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco. According to the company, the chip is designed specifically for data centers running agentic AI workloads, and it puts Arm in direct competition with Intel and AMD. The ARM AGI CPU Arm has introduced the AGI CPU, its first in-house data center processor, moving beyond its longstanding model of only licensing core designs…

Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, has filed a formal application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to seek the approval of Project Sunrise, a plan to deploy a constellation of over 51,600 satellites designed to host artificial intelligence (AI) computing workloads in orbit and deliver AI-custom computing power. Filed in March 2026, Project Sunrise represents the company’s most ambitious step yet into building commercial data center infrastructure. The goal is to move some of the most power‑hungry parts of AI infrastructure off Earth and into space, where energy and cooling can be easily harnessed and…