Kog, an eleven-person French startup, claims that the next leap in AI inference speed will come from software optimizing existing GPUs rather than new silicon, and has demonstrated 30× faster decoding…
A one-time snapshot of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 latency across nine inference providers found Baseten fastest with 3,980 decode tok/s and 7.72 s total p99, while Azure ran an older checkpoint and Scalew…
The European Union is offering €10 billion in public funding for seven AI gigafactories, aiming to attract another €20 billion from private investors, but the bloc's total €30 billion investment is dw…
Digital sovereignty is gaining traction across Europe as governments and businesses seek to reduce reliance on US technology, but the UK lags behind with no overarching policy, according to a House of…
Airbus has selected French cloud provider Scaleway as its sovereign cloud partner following a competitive tender that formally scored providers on protection against non-European extraterritorial legi…
Hetzner, the German cloud provider, has tripled prices for new customers through three separate price hikes in 2026, with some plans now costing more than three times their April levels, driven by AI …
Airbus signed a multi-year agreement with French cloud provider Scaleway to migrate hundreds of critical applications, including defense and AI workloads, away from US cloud giants, signaling Europe's…
Airbus signed a multi-year partnership with Scaleway, the cloud computing arm of French telecom group Iliad, to build sovereign cloud infrastructure for defense and industrial workloads, migrating rou…
French startup ZML announced a partnership with Scaleway, VSORA, and the Île-de-France region at VivaTech to build a European AI stack independent of Nvidia. ZML's open-source inference software compi…
A developer added opt-in GPU backends (Metal and CUDA) to a pure-C TTS inference engine for Qwen3-TTS, achieving faster-than-real-time performance on Apple Silicon and NVIDIA GPUs. The key optimizatio…
France is advancing its AI infrastructure with NVIDIA technologies, including Mistral's new 44-megawatt data center and a planned 1.4-gigawatt AI campus. The ecosystem is deploying open models tailore…
InfraFactory, an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool, now generates and validates OpenTofu configurations across AWS, GCP, and Scaleway using LLMs against deterministic mock servers in seconds, el…
On May 20, a consortium of eight French companies including EDF, Orange, and Iliad (Free) announced the formation of AION to bid for one of five EU-funded AI Gigafactories. The project aims to build a…