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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.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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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 … | 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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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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.| 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.| 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 …
| 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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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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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Anduril lands an up to $2.9B US Navy contract to make Virginia-class submarine components, days after Palmer Luckey was named to a DOD future weapons task force — Anduril won an up to $2.9 billion contract with the U.S. Navy on Tuesday to boost submarine production, days after co-founder Palmer Luckey …
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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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| 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.
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