🥶 Mistral CEO warns Europe has two years to secure AI independence

🚀 SpaceX targets June 12 Nasdaq debut in accelerated IPO

🧠 OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex into one agent

📖 Kindle users jailbreak devices after Amazon ends support

🤖 Chinese firm sells pilotable giant robot for $650K

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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told France's National Assembly that Europe has two years to build its own AI infrastructure before U.S. firms lock up the compute, chips, and energy needed to compete.

The urgency is real: U.S. companies are set to deploy roughly $1 trillion next year on AI infrastructure alone, while Mistral has secured €1.7B in funding and is building a gigawatt-scale data center in Sweden.

Mensch is essentially making the case for Mistral's own funding needs in front of lawmakers, which doesn't make the warning wrong, but it's worth noting who's giving it.

SpaceX plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX as early as June 12, with its prospectus dropping next week and a roadshow kicking off June 4, weeks ahead of its original late-June target.

A faster-than-expected SEC review of SpaceX's IPO paperwork drove the timeline forward, letting the company take advantage of Nasdaq's new "fast entry" rules designed to speed large-cap companies into the Nasdaq-100.

Nasdaq built those fast-entry rules partly to compete for listings from richly valued AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI. SpaceX just became the first big test of whether they work.

OpenAI is merging ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic product, with president Greg Brockman now officially leading all product strategy under four new pillars: core platform, enterprise, consumer, and infrastructure.

The restructure follows AGI boss Fidji Simo's medical leave last month and reflects investor pressure to cut "side quests" and focus on revenue drivers like coding and enterprise ahead of a potential IPO.

OpenAI has now reorganized twice in a month. At some point, the org chart stops being a strategy and starts being a symptom.

Amazon is dropping support for 13 older Kindle models on May 20, leaving devices only able to read already-downloaded content — pushing owners toward jailbreaking to keep their hardware useful.

Jailbreaking lets users install custom fonts, alternative reading apps like KOReader, and third-party tools, though it risks bricking the device and may violate Amazon's terms of service.

Amazon effectively forced its most loyal, hardware-hoarding users to choose between buying a new Kindle or learning to hack the one they already own.

Unitree's GD01 is a 2.8-meter transformable mecha you climb inside and pilot, switching between bipedal and four-legged modes and yes, it can punch through a brick wall.

Priced at $650K and positioned as a civilian transport platform, Unitree calls it production-ready, marking a real engineering step beyond the animatronic mech statues seen before.

Unitree already ships more humanoid robots than anyone on earth, including Tesla, so when they call something production-ready, it's worth taking that claim more seriously than usual.

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B) No - 36%