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French AI startup Mistral AI is finalizing a €2 billion investment at a post-money valuation of $14 billion, reports Bloomberg, positioning the company as one of Europe’s most valuable tech startups. The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences. Mistral isn’t commenting on the report, but the round would represent Mistral’s first major raise since June 2024, when it was valued at €5.8 billion. The company has previously raised over €1 billion from prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst. The…

The Harmony Gold movie theater in Hollywood bore unusual signage last Wednesday evening. In the shadow of Sunset Boulevard’s billboards promoting Peacock‘s upcoming “The Office” spinoff, “The Paper,” the theater was labeled the Toledo Truth Tower — in homage to the new show’s central setting. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, “The Paper” follows the staff of a dying local Ohio newspaper, the Toledo Truth Teller, as a new editor-in-chief tries to revive its journalistic prowess. It’s set in the same universe as “The Office,” and the documentary crew that followed Dunder Mifflin has now arrived at the Truth…

134 Uganda is stepping up its fight against counterfeit goods and tax evasion with the use of Digital Tax Stamps (DTS), a system introduced in 2019 to track products, improve revenue collection, and protect consumers. For years, counterfeit goods have quietly flooded Uganda’s markets, costing government millions of dollars, reducing legitimate business earnings, and putting the lives of ordinary people at risk through fake medicines, expired food items, and substandard products. Digital Tax Stamps are special coded labels applied to goods by manufacturers or importers. They carry encrypted information such as serial numbers, expiry dates, product details, and tax records.…

Salesforce has slashed another 4,000 jobs from its customer support workforce as the tech giant doubles down on artificial intelligence, even as the company reports strong financial results.The latest layoffs gutted Salesforce’s customer service division, reducing its headcount from 9,000 to 5,000. AI agents now reportedly handle about one million customer conversations.In a recent episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, CEO Marc Benioff justified the cuts by saying he “needs less heads” as Salesforce invests heavily in AI across its operations.Earlier this year, Benioff boasted that AI was already doing 30 to 50 percent of the work, which he framed…

The decision is a victory for the Ivy League university, which has been locked in a months-long feud with Trump.Published On 3 Sep 20253 Sep 2025A United States federal judge has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump violated the law when it cancelled research grants worth more than $2.2bn to Harvard University.The Wednesday decision from District Judge Allison Burroughs is a major setback for the Trump administration, which has sought to pressure universities into compliance with policies opposing pro-Palestine protests and diversity initiatives.In her order, Burroughs explained that the funding cuts ran afoul of the First Amendment of…

Hamas has urged the United Nations and the wider international community to intervene immediately to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as the Israeli army escalated its brutal assaults on Gaza City and elsewhere in the enclave.At least 73 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, were killed in relentless Israeli bombardments across Gaza on Wednesday, among them 43 in Gaza City alone.Entire families are being killed together in their tents and shelters as the Israeli forces are targeting densely populated areas in Gaza.“My brother was killed, struck inside his room. They killed him with his wife and children; they erased them all. No…

This photograph is titled The Swing of Life. My aim was to illustrate the deep connection between a woman and a man, a relationship shaped by care and burden, intimacy and distance. The man swings from the flowing black dress of the woman above him. The clothing becomes the bridge between the two figures, soft yet unbreakable.It’s a visual metaphor for how men, knowingly or not, often rest on the invisible emotional strength of women.At first glance, it may seem playful, but beneath lies a quiet tension. The woman, still and composed, elevated yet grounded, but the man, bare-chested and…

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) urges immediate action by government to reduce the increasingly unaffordable price of electricity to stop a jobs bloodbath. This is not a matter that workers or the economy can afford for government to continue to philosophise about. Since the advent of loadshedding in 2006, electricity prices have increased by more than 450% with endless promises of short-term pain. The consequences have been that electricity tariffs are squeezing working-class families, taking monies needed to buy food and other essential goods, as well as starving the economy of badly needed stimulus. It is not…

BBCElissa says constipation needs to be screened for in every area of healthcare A mother who feared her two-year-old son’s untreated constipation could have killed him is calling for access to children’s continence services to be made a national priority. Elissa Novak said Ivan was constantly vomiting, losing weight and in severe pain when it was at its worst, and a doctor said 2kg of his 10kg (22lb) body weight was estimated to be stool.The number of children aged up to 16 admitted to English hospitals suffering with constipation, among other symptoms, is at a 10-year high, with more than…

Atsu is no samurai. The lead character in Ghost of Yōtei is a wandering sellsword from a lowly family. Her sex and lack of status mean that, following the murders of her family, she has no fixed place in 17th-century Japanese society, and there is no permitted path for her to tread if she is to get revenge on the Yōtei Six, the men who killed her loved ones. As the game’s co-director Nate Fox puts it, “Atsu is not somebody who walks in to a room and people pay respect to.”Yōtei’s predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions’ 2020 sprawling open-world game…