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Pigment's $250M Series E Values French Excel Rival at $2.3B France has an Excel-killer, and this week it got the kind of money that usually only flows down Sand Hill Road. Pigment, the Paris-based enterprise planning software company, has raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation — and the cheque wasn't led by a Silicon Valley giant. It was led by Brussels. Europe's own €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, headed a round that also carries a planned investment from Nvidia, whose chief executive spent the past fortnight criss-crossing the continent declaring, whisky glass in hand, "I'm the biggest VC in Europe!" For a company whose stated mission is to replace Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint in the finance office, the symbolism is the whole story: Europe's sovereign-AI bet is walking straight onto Microsoft's home turf. The round was announced on October 21, 2026 — Bloomberg had broken the news ahead of the announcement. Pigment c...

INDUSTRIAL AI: Nvidia GTC Berlin 2026: 14-Day AI Factories, 960K Rubins Jensen Huang's first European keynote was really a factory tour: prefab AI data centers built like shipping containers, safe-agent infrastructure on silicon, cell towers reborn as AI infrastructure — and Vera Rubin, the chip at the center of it all, now in full production. Published October 21, 2026 · By Daniel Rao, TechPulse USA · Berlin Huang's GTC Berlin keynote at the Tempodrom. Image: TechPulse USA Jensen Huang walked onto the stage at Berlin's Tempodrom on Wednesday with a different pitch than any Nvidia keynote you've seen. He wasn't selling you a faster GPU. He was selling time . The headline announcement: DSX POD , a reference design for complete Vera Rubin AI data centers built inside modular containers by manufacturing partners — wired, plumbed, and tested at the factory, then shipped to site. Once the site's power and cooling are ready, Nvidia says deployment shrinks from s...

Container stacks at the Port of Rotterdam — a file photo. Nvidia's DSX POD units arrive the same way cargo does: finished, sealed and truck-ready. Photo: AgainErick, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The shipping container never changed how goods were made. It changed how fast they reached a buyer. On Wednesday morning, Jensen Huang stood on a Berlin stage and argued that AI data centres are about to learn the same lesson — and that Nvidia intends to sell the entire box. The product is called DSX POD, and the pitch is startlingly simple: a complete, factory-built Vera Rubin AI factory, plumbed, cabled, powered and liquid-cooled, inside a modular container roughly the size of a standard shipping box. Huang announced it during his two-hour keynote at GTC Berlin at the Tempodrom, and the headline number is one the industry cannot ignore — deployment at a prepared site falls from six months to as little as 14 days. "An AI factory creates value when it starts producing to...

INDUSTRIAL AI: Nvidia GTC Berlin 2026: Merz Signs the AI Factory Deal Two days before Jensen Huang's keynote, Germany handed its factories to Nvidia's chips — and the Chancellor asked its family firms to "open your doors for AI." Here's what today's 5am ET keynote means for your money. Published October 21, 2026 · By Daniel Rao, TechPulse USA Nvidia is selling Europe "AI factories," not GPUs — and Germany just signed on. Image: TechPulse USA The lecture came first. The deal came next. And at 5:00 a.m. ET today (11:00 CEST) , Jensen Huang takes the stage at Berlin's Tempodrom to close the loop. Two days before his GTC Berlin keynote, Nvidia's CEO sat beside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Invest in Germany Summit and did something unusual for a guest: he told the host country it was losing. "It pained him to witness how far" economically advanced Germany had slipped behind on AI, he said, according to Euronews — and off...

Huang Warned Germany: Miss AI's Wave, Get No Second Chance Jensen Huang did not fly to Berlin to hand Germany a compliment. On Monday night, in a converted power station, the NVIDIA chief executive stood beside Chancellor Friedrich Merz and gave Europe's biggest economy something closer to a deadline: the physical-AI revolution is under way, he said, and Germany does not "have another chance" to miss it. What followed was a Joint Declaration of Intent — a document that promises far less than it sounds like, and matters rather more than its lawyers would admit. Update, Oct. 20: the summit continues, and Siemens just showed its cards The Invest in Germany summit runs into Tuesday, and day-one detail is filling in the declaration. Reuters (via carriers, Oct. 19): the German economy ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA — no financial detail disclosed — and the partnership is expected to be formally announced as the summit continues. NVIDIA's ...

The man who sells the world its AI chips walked into Mayfair this week and told Britain that the two companies leading the AI race cannot be trusted with anything that matters. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, looked at a room containing the Mayor of London and the government's AI minister, named Anthropic and OpenAI, and said their “opaque” models have no business running anything mission critical. Not everything, mind you. Huang was careful about that. For ordinary work, he said, relying on an opaque service is “fine, frankly.” But for the systems a country or a company cannot afford to get wrong — the trust, regulatory, sovereignty and control cases — his message was blunt: “How could you have an opaque agentic system, be contained in an opaque box, run by an opaque company? It's obviously not sustainable.” That is a startling sentence from the chief executive of a $5tn company about two of his biggest customers. Nvidia's ch...

By the TechPulse USA News Desk The most powerful sentence in AI this week came with an asterisk. Jensen Huang — the man whose chips power nearly every frontier model on the planet — told Bloomberg's Emily Chang in London that he would cut off a customer building unsafe artificial intelligence. Then, in almost the same breath, he said the current panic about AI safety isn't warranted. Read that twice, because both halves are doing work. The first half is a threat aimed at the industry's worst actors. The second half is a dismissal aimed at the industry's loudest worriers. And the tension between them — between "I would pull the plug" and "there's nothing to fear" — is the whole story of where AI safety politics stands in October 2026. Asked whether he would stop supplying an irresponsible developer, Huang answered: "It's a hypothetical, but yes." Then came the caveat, in his own words: "But before you do so, you would ha...