Mistral AI deepens compute ambitions with Koyeb acquisition

Mistral AI has acquired Paris-based cloud startup Koyeb, marking the model-maker’s first acquisition and entry into the enterprise infrastructure market. This suggests a strategic shift for the French company, which has built its reputation on frontier models but is now investing heavily in compute capabilities and expanded deployment options. The acquisition folds Koyeb’s serverless deployment…

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Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 targets enterprise agent workflows with expanded multimodal support

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model that the company says is intended to serve as a foundation for digital agents capable of advanced reasoning and tool use across applications. The release reflects the ongoing shift from standalone chatbot deployments toward AI systems that can execute multi-step workflows and operate with minimal human…

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Why cloud outages are becoming normal

The Microsoft Azure outage that dragged out for 10 hours in early February serves as another stark reminder that the cloud, for all its promise, is not immune to failure. At precisely 19:46 UTC on February 2, the Azure cloud platform began experiencing cascading issues stemming from an initial misconfiguration of a policy affecting Microsoft-managed…

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OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder as AI agent race intensifies

OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, creator of the viral OpenClaw AI assistant, to spearhead development of what CEO Sam Altman describes as “the next generation of personal agents.” The move comes weeks after OpenClaw, previously known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, achieved explosive popularity despite security researchers warning of serious vulnerabilities in the open-source tool. Steinberger will join OpenAI…

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Finding the key to the AI agent control plane

We spent the better part of two decades arguing about text files. You can be forgiven for blotting that from your mind, but if you were anywhere near enterprise IT between 2000 and 2020, it’s pretty much all we talked about. GNU General Public License, Apache License, MIT License, etc., etc. That was on the…

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Five MCP servers to rule the cloud

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), coined the “USB-C for AI,” has inspired the software industry to think bigger with their AI assistants. Now, armed with access to external data and APIs, as well as to internal platforms and databases, agents are getting arms and legs to conduct impressive automation. MCP is no longer reserved for…

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