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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 Grace Blackwell GPUs — 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.
More: Mistral Blog, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Reuters, ZDNET, Finimize, Euronews, Quartz, Wired, CNBC, TestingCatalog AI News, Unite.AI, Reuters, Capital Brief, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/accelerate
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Moonshot AI has closed its final private funding round at a ~$50B valuation and is targeting a Hong Kong IPO in Q1 2027 to raise up to $5B — Moonshot AI has closed the final round of private fundraising at a valuation of about $50 billion and is heading toward an initial public offering …
More: Quartz, Silicon Republic, Ventureburn, Euronews, CTech, Seoul Economic Daily, Bitcoin Insider, and Tech in Asia
| Financial Times: |
UK retailer Asos' stock falls 10%+ after users got app notifications saying “we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance”; source: Asos is investigating — Shares in FTSE 250 retailer fall more than 10% following reports from mobile users — Shares in Asos fell …
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| 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.
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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 — By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team's Miwa Blumer — abc.net.au/news/openai-hearing- apology-key-takeaways/107235640| 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
More: Wall Street Journal and ResearchBuzz
| 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 — Reflection AI, the startup billing itself as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, is releasing its first model, called Beam.
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| 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 — Limit testing every AI subscription plan from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, MiniMax, Moonshot, Z.ai, Cursor, and Cognition
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Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| 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 …
More: Quartz, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, Cyber Security News, CSO, Political.org, and The Hacker News. Bluesky: @raphae.li
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kuaishou's Kling has picked banks to lead a Hong Kong IPO aiming to raise $1B+ as soon as 2027; Kling hit a ~$15B valuation after raising $2.8B in July — By continuing, I agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. … Explainers
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| Reuters: |
Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei earned $18M in 2025, middle of the pack for tech CEOs, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, earned $16.4M — Dario Amodei made $18 million last year as CEO of Claude AI developer Anthropic, the company's IPO filing shows, putting him in the middle ranks … | 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.| 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 …
More: Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Quartz, Proactive, ZeroHedge News, Yahoo Finance, and Google
| 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 …
More: Carnegie Endowment …
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed — TikTok announced Monday that it's launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands.| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Seagate and Toshiba are bidding for TDK's HDD magnetic head business in a multibillion-dollar deal, as they compete for AI data center storage demand — Seagate Technology Holdings Plc and Toshiba Corp. are locked in a contest for TDK Corp.'s magnetic-heads business for hard-disk drives … | Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company plans to “substantially increase” 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 …
More: Quartz, Bloomberg, Focus Taiwan, IJR News, and Finimize
Forums: r/hardware, r/wallstreetbets, and r/AMD_Stock
| The Information: |
Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' Claude use; source: Meta employees using Claude Code dropped from ~60K earlier in 2026 to ~30K — Meta Platforms and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest corporate customers, are working to cut their employees' use of Claude …
More: TechRadar, Cyber Security News, The Decoder, and PYMNTS.com
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