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Mistral releases Mistral Large 4, dubbed “le Chonk”, a 1T-parameter open-weight model for general agentic capabilities — Most flagship models dominating the market are from frontier labs and are closed models. French AI lab Mistral seeks to change that with its latest model.
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Mistral says ML4 was trained using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its own data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual — Le Chonk — Today, we're launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4. Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk.
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| Google: |
Google DeepMind launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter model to map code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space, under an Apache 2.0 license — EmbeddingGemma 2 is the most capable model for on-device multimodal embeddings, natively mapping combinations of text, images …
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| Reuters: |
Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei made $18M in 2025, ranking in the middle of top tech executives, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, made $16.4M — Dario Amodei made $18 million last year as CEO of Claude AI developer Anthropic, the company's IPO filing shows … | Lee Harris / Financial Times: |
Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims after AI agents went rogue, amid concern that Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and others could be held liable — Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AI neocloud Lambda is raising up to $4B led by Blackstone and Coatue at a pre-money valuation of $14.5B in a final round before its planned IPO — Blackstone and Coatue are leading the round, which values the cloud-computing startup at $14.5 billion pre-money
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek is close to raising $12B+ in a round that could hit ~$14.9B, with Tencent and CATL among the biggest contributors, ahead of an early-2027 IPO — DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan ($12 billion) in its latest round of funding, blowing past …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: the FBI removes an Accenture contractor over a breach exposing thousands of employees' data; the FBI says a contractor failed to apply a security patch — The Federal Bureau of Investigation removed an Accenture contractor on Monday over their role in a damaging data breach … | New York Times: |
South Korean officials are probing whether AI agents were used in recent bank hacks, after President Lee Jae Myung said “signs” suggest AI models were involved — The president said there were signs that such models were used in recent attacks on several banks involving customer data.| ABC: |
At an Australian hearing, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon pledged faster safety incident disclosures; Anthropic representatives made similar pledges — A top OpenAI executive who flew to Australia to mop up after the company's Medicare statistics hack said he could not explain … | Laila Kearney / Reuters: |
Google contracts for 3,590 MW of power from Constellation Energy in the US' largest power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for ~25% of that supply — Google (GOOGL.O) has contracted for 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy (CEG.O) in the US' largest power grid …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Anthropic expands its Claude Startups program, including up to $45K in discounts and credits via the Claude Startup Stack and a one-time $1,000 API credit — Anthropic on Tuesday announced it's expanding its Claude Startups program, the artificial intelligence lab's latest push to deepen …
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| Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz: |
A look at consumer AI trends: ChatGPT has 3x more US subscribers than Claude or Gemini, the top 1% of spenders drive 19.5% of spend, and AI agents gain traction — Three years into tracking consumer AI, the leaderboard is becoming familiar. This is the seventh edition of our Top 100 AI Consumer Apps …
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| Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it creates, which have gone viral on social media — OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.| Reuters: |
Ofcom opens an OSA investigation into Meta over Instagram Instants in the UK; Meta says it “briefed Ofcom about this feature” several times before its May debut — Britain's communications regulator said on Tuesday it has opened an investigation into whether Meta Platforms …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Meta, Walmart, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure interactions between AI bots and businesses — A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies is coming together to try … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber agrees to acquire Boston-based catering platform ezCater for $2.3B in cash to help Uber Eats reach corporate clients; the deal is set to close in months — Uber Technologies Inc. is buying catering firm ezCater Inc. for $2.3 billion in a cash deal that will help the Uber Eats delivery platform reach a more corporate clientele.
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Flai, which makes AI tools for car dealerships to manage phone calls, emails, and texts, raised a $27M Series A led by Base10 Partners — When Flai was raising its seed round last year, it was just a team of three people pounding the pavement to get car dealerships to use the startup's software …
More: Flai, WOWTALE, and RuntimeWire
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Vinci, which makes software used to simulate elements of chip and other hardware design, raised $250M at a $1.5B valuation — Software startup Vinci said on Tuesday it raised $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation and is seeking to expand its suite of software used to simulate elements of chip and other hardware design.
More: FinSMEs, RuntimeWire, and Finimize
| Zeyi Yang / New York Times: |
Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey — China's booming artificial intelligence sector has given local researchers good reason to remain in the country …
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| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company plans to “substantially increase” its supply in 2027 and needs “more advanced wafer capacity”, as she meets Foxconn and TSMC — AMD (AMD.O) plans to substantially increase chip supply in 2027 as the US chipmaker races to meet booming demand …
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