Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total  —  French company's debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups

Bloomberg:
DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of over seven hours in China, its biggest outage since debut in 2025 and an unusual downtime for a globally used app  —  DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of more than seven hours overnight in China, forcing the AI pioneer to deploy several updates to rectify the issue.

The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped back from Bluesky’s CEO role specifically to build it. It’s currently invite-only, with a waitlist open. Bluesky’s best-known differentiator from X and Threads has always been its custom feed system, the […]

Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
An interview with early Twitter executive Jason Goldman on the platform's early free-speech-maximalist decisions, underinvestment in trust and safety, and more  —  An early Twitter exec reckons with the monster he helped create.  —  What is Twitter's legacy?

The Helsinki-based company, which builds and sells full-stack superconducting quantum computers for on-premises deployment, disclosed the financing today. It was secured before the February announcement of IQM’s SPAC merger with Real Asset Acquisition Corp at a $1.8B valuation. IQM Quantum Computers has secured a €50 million financing package, approximately $57.6 million, from funds and accounts […]