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Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, a 1T model it claims tops any open model developed in the US or Europe; weights are due October 27 — Mistral is launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model code-named “Le Chonk” …
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| Mistral Blog: |
Mistral says it trained ML4 “from scratch” using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its 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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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Meta, Walmart, Instinct, Shopify, Sierra, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure how AI bots interact with businesses — A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies …
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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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's push into smart home devices includes a doorbell, thermostat, and other accessories developed with LG; the products will carry the LG brand — Apple Inc.'s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through an unusual partnership with LG Electronics Inc.| Anthropic: |
Anthropic expands its Cyber Verification Program by integrating Project Glasswing and offering three tiers, all with access to its most capable Claude models — We're launching a new, expanded version of our Cyber Verification Program (CVP), which makes advanced cyber capabilities …
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| Reuters: |
Anthropic says it found 5,500 verified vulnerabilities in April-October and Glasswing partners found 129K+ in April-July; 33K+ were critical or high severity — Anthropic is expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its most powerful AI models with fewer safeguards … | 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 …
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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 … | 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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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is raising up to $4B led by Blackstone and Coatue at a $14.5B pre-money valuation 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
More: TechCrunch and RuntimeWire
| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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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X: @katie_roof and @natlungfy
LinkedIn: Nihad Rahman and Natalie Lung
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Anthropic expands its Claude Startups program with $45K in discounts and credits via the Claude Startup Stack, a $1,000 API credit, and a year of Claude Team — Anthropic on Tuesday announced it's expanding its Claude Startups program, the artificial intelligence lab's latest push to deepen …
More: Claude, Inc, Claude, TechCrunch, Quartz, RuntimeWire, and Unite.AI
LinkedIn: Haifa Barbari, Saurabh Singh, and Carolyne M.
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise from $3B+ to $5B, as it grapples with rising AI costs and rapidly expands its robotaxi fleet — Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise to $5 billion, tapping lenders to help fuel the robotaxi company's growth as it expands globally.
More: Los Angeles Times
| 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 … | Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it generates; one fake went 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.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Capitolis, which develops tech for banks and financial institutions, raised $220M, including a $120M Series E at a $1.9B valuation, up from $1.6B in March 2022 — Citi, Bank of America, Nomura, Tradeweb, J.P. Morgan, UBS and other major financial institutions are backing the fintech … | 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 led by Advent, Temasek, and Xora — Software startup Vinci said on Tuesday it raised $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation and is seeking to expand its suite …
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