Local clouds shape Europe’s AI future

It’s a foggy morning in Munich. Marie, CIO of a fictional, forward-thinking European healthcare startup, pores over proposals from cloud vendors. Her company is on the verge of launching AI-powered diagnostics but must keep every byte of patient data within EU borders...

‘Futuristic’ Unison functional language debuts

Unison, a statically typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling, has reached its 1.0 release status. Announced November 25, Unison 1.0 marks a point where the language, distributed runtime, and developer workflow have...

OpenAI to acquire AI training tracker Neptune

OpenAI has agreed to acquire a startup specializing in tools for tracking AI training, Neptune, which promptly announced it is withdrawing its products from the market. OpenAI said in a statement. The ChatGPT maker has been a Neptune customer for more than a year....