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Google will take half of a Finnish nuclear plant's output for 22 years News
Fortum and Google signed a 22-year agreement on 9 September 2026 under which Google will buy up to half the output of Finland's Loviisa nuclear plant, which supplies about a tenth of the country's electricity, supporting a life extension without which the plant could not operate beyond 2030.
Mistral raises 3 billion euros with a European state on the cap table News
Mistral AI raised 3 billion euros at a 21 billion euro post-money valuation in a round led by Samsung Electronics, with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg among the investors and sovereignty as the organising pitch.
Warmwind launches AI workers you train by showing them News
German startup Warmwind publicly launched autonomous AI workers that run on isolated cloud computers and drive ordinary software with a virtual mouse and keyboard, priced at roughly one to one and a half euros per hour of active work -- with no public answer on how they hold your credentials.
Austria Starts Rolling Out GovGPT, a Sovereign AI Run on Its Own Data Centers News
Austria began deploying GovGPT to over 180,000 federal staff, processing all queries on national computing infrastructure with no third-party sharing, making sovereignty a matter of operating model rather than a single AI.