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Sweden gets a French AI supercomputer. Will Swedish users actually put it to work?
Scaleway will place its first supercomputer outside France in Sweden. Hosting European AI capacity is one step. The harder part is getting Swedish companies and researchers to use it.
Read the analysisLegora raises $550 million at an $8.8 billion valuation
The Swedish legal AI company has secured new funding from investors. Reuters reports the money will go mainly to expansion abroad.
Nvidia releases open Nemotron models for enterprise agents and local AI PCs
Nvidia has launched three open-weight models: one large model for enterprise agents and two smaller Bolt models that run locally on PCs and workstations with its chips.
Researchers warned for months before hackers disabled cooling in French grocery stores
Security firm Claroty flagged vulnerabilities in the cooling equipment in August. Thousands of devices stayed reachable from the internet even though security updates existed.
Spyware rode ordinary ad auctions, and Europe should treat adtech as a security risk
Citizen Lab says zero-click government spyware reached targets through an ad platform. We think Europe should stop treating ad targeting as only a privacy matter and start treating it as an attack surface.
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta has launched Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that is built to run locally on Apple Macs. It needs at least 1 terabyte of RAM.
Citizen Lab finds zero-click spyware delivered through online ads
Citizen Lab says an Israeli ad platform, Discover-Tech, let spyware makers Candiru and Bindecy aim malicious ads at devices. It describes this as the first confirmed case of government zero-click spyware spread through ads.
Sferical AI opens Sferical One, a supercomputer for major Swedish companies
Sferical AI, formed with several large Swedish companies, has inaugurated Sferical One, an AI supercomputer built on 16 Nvidia DGX GB300 systems. It has been running since late summer.
French cloud firm Scaleway to build AI supercomputer in Sweden
Scaleway plans to place a new AI supercomputer in Sweden as part of expanding European AI infrastructure. The machine will use AMD Instinct MI355X and be built by Bull.