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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Ineffable Intelligence names six cofounders, Fortune reports
David Silver has named six new Ineffable Intelligence cofounders, four of them from Google DeepMind, at a company that is ten months old and has no product. Three worked on AlphaStar with him. Fortune reported the hires, which the six confirmed by quietly updating LinkedIn.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Mistral raises €3bn at a €21bn valuation in Europe’s largest tech equity round
Samsung Electronics leads, with the European Commission’s Scaleup Europe Fund co-leading. The valuation has nearly doubled in twelve months.
GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock
Dubai Chambers has opened agentic AI training for more than 14,000 member companies, the first delivery of a two-year push ordered by the Crown Prince in May. The promised incubators and funds have no numbers yet. And the technology itself had a rough week.
UK
Health minister says mistrust of Palantir is pushing NHS patients to opt out of data sharing
A letter to MPs puts the recent rise at roughly 60,000 opt-outs in four months, weeks before ministers decide whether to keep the Federated Data Platform.