Mistral Large 4
Mistral's Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, is a 1-trillion-parameter open-weights model with a 1M-token context that Mistral says is natively multimodal. Its first third-party score of 38 sat one point…
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JEPA world models
JEPA world models, a research line associated with Yann LeCun, have produced a steady run of papers since late September: driving and hierarchical-planning models, an 8B robot world model claiming a…
AI-scraping "policy token" standard
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic have committed to adopting a shared "policy token" signal so publishers can set AI-scraping preferences across all four companies at once instead of…
Anthropic VS Code extension backdoored on Cursor
Attackers backdoored Anthropic's VS Code extension as distributed on Cursor for nearly 12 hours before the compromise was caught. It is still unknown how they gained access to Anthropic's verified…
Anthropic automated red-teaming of Claude training data monitors
Anthropic used thousands of Claude agents to try to evade a training data monitor, and the agents produced training data that looked harmless, such as a veteran wrestler mentoring a newcomer and a…
Apple Intelligence launch in China
Apple has announced that Apple Intelligence will launch in China with iOS 27.3. A first beta is due November 4, and the full release is scheduled for December. The China launch starts with earlier…
Colossus 2
Musk has said Colossus 2 is headed toward about 1.2 million Blackwell chips by the end of the year, with Macrohard at 110,000 GB200s and 220,000 GB300s and Macroharder and Minihard at 220,000 GB300s…
Gemini 4
Google now has two Gemini 4 models: Argon, which shipped September 30 to trusted cyber defenders and then opened worldwide to developers and subscribers in mid-October, and Carbon, announced October…
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AI training copyright litigation (DOJ / OpenAI)
AI training copyright is a widening pile of lawsuits: the Justice Department has urged a judge to side with OpenAI, while Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft and USA Today Co. sued…