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Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View:
Mistral releases Mistral Large 4, dubbed “le Chonk”, a 1T-parameter open-weight model for general agentic capabilities, trained on 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwells  —  Most flagship models dominating the market are from frontier labs and are closed models.
Mistral Blog:
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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, 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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Financial Times:
Source: Palmer Luckey's Erebor hits $7B+ in deposits since launching in February, including $3B+ over the past quarter with 500+ new customers  —  Palmer Luckey's bank for the technology industry has surged to more than $7bn in deposits since launching in February, as the start-up seeks …

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Rajeev Syal / The Guardian:
A UK jury convicts two Iranians of assisting Iranian intelligence in a plan to “eliminate” journalists at London-based Persian broadcaster Iran International

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Bill Simmons and Spotify canceled a ChatGPT partnership after audience backlash; Ringer hosts Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins had voiced unease on air

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Source: NBC News will stop airing one hour of primetime programming on the NBC News Now streaming service, eliminating the Stay Tuned show and a handful of jobs

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Earlier Picks

SemiAnalysis:
Analysis: for agentic workloads, Anthropic's plans with Claude Opus 5.5 offer ~5x more API-equivalent value per month than OpenAI's plans with GPT-6.1 Sol
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
SpaceX's stock closed up 7.6% on October 5 after Morgan Stanley called it “cheap”, hitting its highest since June and returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status
Semafor:
NYC-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4x less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks
Bloomberg:
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety
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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