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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
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” …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Paramount completes its $110B acquisition of WBD, creating Skydance and putting David Ellison in control of Hollywood studios, streamers, and cable networks

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Amazon's Prime Video acquires exclusive global rights to the Primetime Emmys under a six-year deal from 2027; sources say Prime Video will pay ~$15M per year

New York Times:
Disney is seeking an injunction in US District Court to block the FCC from conducting an unusual, early review of eight ABC-owned station licenses

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Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
OpenAI says it will begin testing a visual ad format in ChatGPT later in October in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads while users generate images
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