Mistral made its EU-only inference generally available on 11 August, the same day it asked five companies to prepay for a gigawatt of compute that does not exist yet. The two offers carry very different risk.
From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the instant playback starts, and a separate rule just doubled the bar to become a monetized partner. What owners should recheck before Q4.
Cursor's new Origin git-hosting platform turned on automatically for every paid user on 17 August 2026 - the same day GitHub had a major global outage.
Google paid $10 million in Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy for 100 million staff emails and HR records. The passenger data was protected. The employee data was not - and that gap is bigger in the US than it would be under GDPR.
OpenAI, Nvidia and SB Energy are building an 8GW Ohio data campus with a $105 billion Nvidia guarantee. The ratepayer-protection structure is the part EU grid operators should study.
EA's $55 billion sale to PIF, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners closed August 4. The new $18 billion debt load is bigger than EA has ever earned in a year.
Germany's antitrust regulator ruled Apple's own tracking-consent prompt was designed more favorably than the one it forces on other apps. Apple has four months to fix it, EU-wide.
Five US tech giants carry 1.65 trillion dollars of AI-related contractual obligations that never appear as debt. The disclosure sits in a footnote, and it tells you what your next cloud renewal will cost.
Groq raised 350 million dollars at a 3.5 billion valuation, half its 2025 peak, months after Nvidia hired its CEO and licensed its chip designs.
SoftBank was the sole investor in Gravis Robotics' 172 million euro Series A, weeks after cashing out its last Boston Dynamics stake. One balance sheet now prices your excavator's autopilot.
Binance says it left Russia in 2023. Documents show its compliance team answered Russian police data requests about an EU resident a year later - and no regulator has opened a file on it.
Alibaba's Qwen team shipped Qwen3.8-27B on August 14, open weights included, a dense model that runs on a single consumer GPU. Two weeks earlier the same family's flagship needed 2.4 terabytes of memory just to hold. The self-hosting math for EU and UK owners just split in two.
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