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Where AI workloads and customer data are processed, and why it matters for compliance and latency.

Sunday November 1, 2026

  1. Brazil courts AI data centers with equipment tax breaks and cheap renewable power

    The REDATA law requires 10% of qualifying capacity to be offered locally, as AWS, Microsoft and Google expand their Brazilian footprints.

    Our takeFor commerce teams in Brazil, more local AI data center capacity could mean lower latency for AI search, recommendations and service agents, plus clearer answers on where data is processed.

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Thursday October 29, 2026

  1. Mistral releases Large 4 weights, with a separate license for model-as-a-service hosts

    The roughly one-trillion-parameter model is free to self-host and commercialize, and Mistral halved its API prices.

    Our takeFor European retailers and agencies with data-residency rules or a mandate to rely less on US vendors, this is Mistral's largest self-hostable model yet. Its trillion-parameter scale needs serious multi-GPU hardware, so most teams will likely use it through Mistral's API or a cloud marketplace.

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