Mistral’s €3bn Series D: Samsung Leads, Valuation Nearly Doubles to €21bn
Mistral confirmed on September 8, 2026 that it raised €3bn in a Samsung Electronics-led Series D at a post-money valuation…
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Cross-beat data-industry correspondent. Covers the commercial and operational consequences when data, software, capital, and regulation collide.
Crif Launches AI Anti-Fraud Tool for UK Onboarding, Skips the Numbers
Credit-data giant Crif announced on September 8, 2026 an AI-powered service to detect document tampering during customer onboarding in the…
Smartkarma Runs Investor Primer on YipitData as Alt-Data Market Eyes $427B
Smartkarma published a research "primer" on private alternative-data vendor YipitData on September 7, 2026, formatted with an equity ticker (YIPITDATA…
Crusoe’s $13bn Jane Street Deal: One Sourcing Chain, No Confirmations Yet
Bloomberg reported on September 3-4, 2026 that Crusoe signed a five-year, roughly $13 billion GPU cloud contract with Jane Street,…
Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Puts Open-Model Scorekeeper Under Chip Vendor
Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion cash, officially confirmed September 3, 2026, giving one chipmaker ownership of…
Seattle Times, Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Scraping
The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday filed a joint copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of…
Snowflake’s 37% Growth Comes With a Gross-Margin Tax From AI Workloads
Snowflake's fiscal Q2 product revenue accelerated to 37% year-over-year on September 2, 2026, prompting a raised $6.07 billion full-year guide…
Palo Alto Networks Paid $500M for Console — 3x Its Last Valuation
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock for the two-year-old IT help-desk AI startup Console, sources told…
DOJ Backs OpenAI’s Fair-Use Defense Against NYT, Rattling Licensing Markets
The Trump administration filed a Sept. 1, 2026 brief in Manhattan federal court arguing AI training on copyrighted text is…
S&P Global Weighs Capital IQ Pro Spinout at High-Single-Digit-Billion Value
S&P Global is in early talks to spin off Capital IQ Pro into a standalone company that could be valued…