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SWI raises €800 million to expand transatlantic AI infrastructureThe financing will support power infrastructure, compute deployments and a development pipeline across Europe and the United States. SWI said the transaction raises its total equity since March 2026 above €1 billion.→Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign definitive transatlantic sovereign-AI dealCohere and Aleph Alpha announced a definitive business-combination agreement on 16 September, following an earlier plan to combine. The proposed company would be headquartered across Toronto and Berlin, retain Aleph Alpha's Heidelberg research centre and target sovereign deployments with partners including Germany's STACKIT.→Apple begins rolling out iOS 27 with redesigned Siri AIApple began rolling out iOS 27 at 10:04 a.m. Pacific time, according to MacRumors. The update adds Siri AI capabilities including on-screen context, web access and deeper actions across apps, while the major Siri AI features remain unavailable in the European Union.→Mistral AI raises €3 billion to scale frontier models and infrastructureSamsung Electronics led the round, with ScaleUp Europe Fund and PSG co-leading. Mistral said the capital will fund frontier research, compute, infrastructure, products and commercial expansion.→NEURA Robotics and SECO partner to scale European physical AISECO will design, engineer and manufacture computing modules for NEURA’s cognitive robots, including its 4NE1 humanoid platform. The companies also plan to develop industrial data and automation solutions for semiconductor and electronics manufacturing.→Denmark's Gefion supercomputer underpins a sovereign AI control layerThe platform provides an OpenAI-compatible API for managing and deploying leading models while retaining control over compliance, security and infrastructure choices. It runs on DCAI's ISO-certified Gefion supercomputer, with Trifork as an early adopter and DCAI investing in a Blackwell B300-based inference cluster.→