Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/ant-international-visa-masterca…
Mastercard führt ab 2027 Offline-Zahlungen in Europa ein
Ab Anfang nächsten Jahres sollen Kunden auch bei Strom- oder Netzwerkausfällen mit der Mastercard bezahlen können.
https://www.
Blockchain wordt consequent aangeduid als hype en gebakken lucht, dat is/was het ook voor een deel, tegelijk bestaan cryptocurrencies nog en heeft de rijkste Nederlander zijn geld ermee verdiend.
'Mysterieuze cryptomiljardair blijkt rijkste Nederlander ooit – maar heeft bij Tether niets meer te zeggen'
Sources including French public officials detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron (Océane Herrero/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/mistral-ai-arthur-mensch-emm…
German search engine Ecosia, used by government services, ditches Mistral for open-source models, including Chinese ones, citing Mistral's disappointing quality (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-ecosia-search-engine-mistral-chin…
Mistral says ML4 was trained using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its own data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual (Mistral Blog)
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/
Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands into data centers beyond developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html
Artificial Analysis says Mistral Large 4 is the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, achieving results comparable to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/mistral-large-4-france-ai