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OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model, with details like estimations of compute spent in terms of ChatGPT Pro usage — We're releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
More: OpenAI on GitHub, agmai.org, New York Times, The Information, RuntimeWire, Unite.AI, Gizmodo, and The Verge
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| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
More: The Indian Express and Wall Street Journal
| 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.
More: T3, Business Today, Forkast, Android Authority, MacRumors, iClarified, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, Bloomberg, CNBC, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, Seoul Economic Daily, iPhone in Canada, RuntimeWire, The Verge, and AppleInsider
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Forums: r/smarthome, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple's upcoming smart home products co-developed with LG are “at least a few more months” away; LG is handling manufacturing and product support — Bloomberg reports that Apple's plans for smart home products include devices, sensors, and cameras codeveloped in partnership with LG.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or “Le Chonk”, a 1T model it says tops any open model developed in the US or Europe, with weights due October 27 — Mistral is launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model code-named …
More: Reuters, Silicon Republic, Wired, CNBC, The New Stack, Courthouse News Service, Wccftech, Tech.eu, The Decoder, Finimize, Unite.AI, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, ZDNET, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: r/singularity, r/BuyFromEU, r/SillyTavernAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLaMA, r/accelerate, r/technology, and r/MistralAI
| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/europe, r/MistralAI, and Slashdot
| Artificial Analysis: |
Artificial Analysis says Mistral Large 4 is the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, achieving results comparable to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) — Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, scoring 38 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; France is back to having …
More: Artificial Analysis and Unite.AI
| Financial Times: |
Sources: SpaceX is seeking to raise $40B, including ~$10B in bank loans and ~$30B in investment-grade debt, to purchase Nvidia chips, in a deal led by Apollo — Blockbuster debt deal is the latest sign of the vast spending on chips and other infrastructure underpinning AI
More: Bloomberg, CTech, Reuters, Financial Express, Chip Briefing, Seoul Economic Daily, The Straits Times, The Information, and Finimize
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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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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1, based on Gemini 3.6 Flash, saying it improves on previous versions “across the board”; pricing is ~50% lower than Nano Banana 2 — Google has released Nano Banana 2.1, a new model for image generation and editing.
More: Google DeepMind, The Hans India, The Peninsula Newspaper, RuntimeWire, Unite.AI, Decrypt, Android Authority, Neowin, and NPowerUser
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| Bill Donahue / Billboard: |
A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison — Michael Smith admitted earlier this year to using bots to stream fake songs billions of times in a first-ever criminal case over streaming fraud.| 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 …
More: Help Net Security, The Register, Cyber Security News, SiliconANGLE, Quartz, Unite.AI, and Bloomberg
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| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major attacks despite Anthropic's warnings about its Mythos-level cyber risk, undercutting calls to ban open models — Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs. … Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
More: The Business Times, The Information, Wall Street Journal, and Quartz
X: @natolambert, @stevesi, @jessi_cata, @ramez, and @bahradx
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @natolambert
| Reuters: |
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is partnering with 17 companies, including US-based Synopsys, to help customers design chips; Rapidus has $15B+ in state funding — Japan's Rapidus, with $15 billion in state backing, is tying up with chip design firms as it seeks to answer a major question hanging …
More: Finimize
| 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 …
More: Google Developers Blog, 9to5Google, Google AI for Developers, Verdict, Android Authority, unsloth.ai, Digit, SiliconANGLE, The Deep View, The Decoder, The Next Web, iThinkDifferent, The New Stack, RuntimeWire, The Verge, Unite.AI, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/Bard
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who spent 12 years helping build and expand Alexa, as its CEO, after Robert Playter stepped down — Boston Dynamics appointed former Amazon.com Inc. executive Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer to lead the Hyundai Motor Co … | Associated Press: |
A September 24 cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole PII for 1.3M people, including 30K orders of protection and 150K reports from a foster care board — A cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole personal information for more than a million people and is believed to have started …
More: Bloomberg Law
| Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: |
Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed and Series A — The data center build-out is exploding across America. But what if AI didn't need more—more chips, more energy, more resources … | Financial Times: |
Sources: the European Commission considers taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations to avoid singling out individual companies — European Commission considers a broad levy on all large companies to avoid singling out US digital services groups
More: RTÉ
| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Sources: Singapore distances itself from regulating Hyperliquid, citing its “decentralized nature”, even as the crypto futures DEX confirms it is based there — City-state averse to risk and scandal tries to distance itself from homegrown Hyperliquid Labs and its popular ‘perps’| Financial Times: |
GoTo and Grab face pressure to offer drivers better deals; GoTo's share price has fallen 90% from its 2022 peak, while Grab's has fallen 50% in the past year — Asia's market leaders Grab and GoTo face squeezed margins over push to offer better deal to workers
More: Motley Fool and The Business Times
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