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Mistral’s revenues soar over $400mn as Europe seeks AI independence

French start-up is riding a growing wave of demand from European businesses for alternatives to US tech

Activist fund pushes for turnaround at UK-listed financial data group

Dutch brewer will reduce global headcount by about 7% after fall in annual volumes

Australia’s CSL pledges to ‘deeply examine’ what has gone wrong at former stock market darling

Modi government cuts deadline to ‘within 3 hours’ as authorities step up oversight of social media platforms

But only a little

Ring cameras; AI; brain hacking; comedy panel shows; watchdogs; Bloomberg; ICE; cyclists; private markets; and vetting

Police were called to an incident at a secondary school in British Columbia

Cristina Criddle talks to Calder Quinn, Giada Pistilli, Alaina Winters and others

Also in this newsletter: Why the EU’s carbon trading system is not obsolete after all

Well, your chief marketing officer’s money anyway

Lawmakers reject proposal by Republican leadership that would have blocked votes to challenge president’s trade policy

Also in today’s newsletter: ‘Buy European’ push and Syria’s untapped gas reserves

Michela Tindera talks to Amelia Pollard and Costas Mourselas

Andrea Pignataro’s heavily indebted fintech empire has been hit hard by a sell-off of its bonds

Marc Filippino talks to Jude Webber and Camilla Palladino

Israeli prime minister wary of a possible US-Iran deal as president continues to waver on threats of military action

Paul Friend’s exit follows FT investigation into offshoot of North London Collegiate School

A big part of female graduates’ decision to have children depends on how they expect their husbands to behave

Brian Leveson rejects barristers’ criticisms that move will erode right to fair trial in England and Wales

Biggest label will offload royalty services business to allay competition concerns

State oil boss says Chevron, ConocoPhillips, TotalEnergies and Eni are interested in exploration

Protectionism cannot be a recipe for European success, says Ulf Kristersson

UK oil major’s valuation as a multiple of expected ebitda is lower than its European peers and the gap is widening