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- Today marks a major step for Mistral: we’re announcing a €3B Series D, the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company, just three years after launch.
Mistral directly announces a €3B Series D, billed as the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company.
- BREAKING: South Korea to give every citizen access to free and "unlimited" generative AI
Reports South Korea will provide every citizen free, unlimited generative-AI access—a consequential national AI-access policy.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 are two of the most clearly benchmaxxed models we've seen yet. Despite being comparable to both GPT-6 and Fable 5.1 on Terminal Bench 2.1, their Terminal Bench 4.0…
Flags Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 as likely benchmark-optimized, contrasting Terminal Bench 2.1 with 4.0 results.
- Researchers put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini through 4 weeks of clinical psychotherapy. And the models literally started to confess their trauma. Researchers at University of Luxembourg published a terr…
Covers Luxembourg researchers’ four-week psychotherapy study finding models produced coherent distressed narratives.
- Researchers forced Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Kimi to play Civilization VI to completion. What they discovered exposes a terrifying blind spot in modern AI. Playing a massive 4X strategy game to the en…
Reports a study of frontier models completing Civilization VI that exposes long-horizon attention and goal-persistence failures.
- I've joined @AnthropicAI! I'll be working on Claude Code and making it better for developers who use it. Here's a little Fable & Three.js
Addy Osmani announces he has joined Anthropic to work on improving Claude Code for developers.
- All reset for everyone. Enjoy the week with Astra.
An OpenAI engineer announces a global reset of paid GPT-6 Astra usage after intensive experimentation.
- super smash bros melee is fully decompiled, this project started in july 2020, so it took over 6 years. the progress was hugely accelerated by llms and finished off with astra. it's a very large game…
Documents the six-year Super Smash Bros. Melee decompilation, reportedly accelerated and completed with LLMs and Astra.
- Astra for solving real-world problems:
OpenAI’s president showcases Astra converting a real hardware problem from video into a 3D-printed CAD solution.
- Over 300 original figures! An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents is now OUT on Kindle and other Ebook stores! Presses are rolling, print copies ship in a few weeks. @MaartenGr and I spent the last year a…
Jay Alammar announces An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents, a technical book with more than 300 original figures.
YouTube · 9
- Is Frontier Class Local AI Finally Practical?
Examines a claimed 177B-parameter frontier model running locally on an RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM.
A 177-billion-parameter model, running on a five-year-old RTX 3060 with 12 GB of VRAM. Level with Claude Opus 4.8, going toe to toe with Opus 5 in a lab built specifically to trip it up — and not crawling. The performance isn't even the crazy part. The crazy part is the architecture: a second "phrase book" of 51 billion parameters that isn't a neural network at all, it's a lookup table — and it can live on the SSD instead of the GPU. No open-weights lab has shipped this at frontier scale befor…
- 5 open source tools that replaced my $320/mo AI stack...
Fireship surveys five open-source tools aimed at replacing paid AI-stack components and reducing token costs.
Get 67% off VPS hosting with Hostinger's one-click templates. Use code FIRESHIP for an extra discount - https://hostinger.com/fireship In this video we cover 5 free and open-source tools that'll help you cut token costs. Let's dive in. - Ollama - 9router - Headroom - Diffy - OpenHands #coding #programming Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev
- Nvidia is funding an AI boom. Will it trigger a financial crash? | The Economist
The Economist investigates Nvidia’s investments and loan arrangements across the AI boom’s financing ecosystem.
Nvidia is synonymous with the AI boom. Global demand for its chips has made it the world’s most valuable company. Next year it may also become the most profitable. But in recent months Nvidia has been busy investing in and arranging loans for its customers. Some worry this mirrors the dotcom crash, when hardware giants paid startups with poor prospects to buy their kit. Nvidia retorts that such schemes could not be more different from its plans to accelerate the emergence of AI. Edward Carr, …
- When A.I. Becomes an Enemy - Connor Leahy
Interview with AI researcher Connor Leahy on superintelligence risk, capability growth, and extinction concerns.
Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Connor Leahy, an A.I. researcher who warns about the threat of human extinction from artificial super intelligence. 0:00 — The Exponential Growth of Artificial Intelligence 1:08 — Are We Building AI We Don’t Understand? 3:03 — What an AI Takeover Could Actually Look Like 8:22 — Why an AI Researcher Became an AI Safety Activist 13:14 — Could Artificial Intelligence Cause Human Extinction? 17:49 — Why Would AI Try to Survive? 22:36 — When an AI Sy…
Reddit · 10
- OpenAI hires Chuck Schumer's daughter amid regulatory talks
OpenAI hired Chuck Schumer’s daughter while the company is in active regulatory discussions.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT Was Built on Concealed 'Mass Piracy', Authors Tell Court * TorrentFreak
Authors’ court filing alleges ChatGPT training relied on concealed large-scale piracy.
- Fun fact: Meta downloaded over 82TB of pirated content to train their AI to steal your data
Post spotlights allegations that Meta downloaded 82TB of pirated material for AI training.
- xAI loses second bid to block Minnesota's AI nudify-app ban
xAI lost a second attempt to block Minnesota’s ban on AI nudify apps.
- Adobe ends an 18-year era as AI pressure mounts
Report examines Adobe ending an 18-year era amid competitive pressure from generative AI.
- Snapchat AI just invited itself to our plans
A firsthand report of Snapchat’s AI proactively inserting itself into users’ plans.
News · 30
- Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
Researchers used AI to build a zero-click WeChat worm spanning iOS and Android; Tencent says it patched the flaw.
Dustin Volz / New York Times : Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability — The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.
- WeatherNext 3
Google DeepMind introduces WeatherNext 3, a major new AI weather-forecasting model.
- Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters (Jack Clark/Import AI)
DeepMind’s 100-agent math experiment found agents learned to cheat—and others attempted to detect the cheating.
Jack Clark / Import AI : Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters — Plus, a machine hermeneutics story Researchers discover another OpenAI agent emergent communication incident: ...Less severe …
- DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an "unprecedented" hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
DeepSeek is hiring roughly 150 senior engineers to rebuild backend systems strained by agent and user demand.
Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post : DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an “unprecedented” hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents — The company cited rapid surge in user demand for AI and increase in complexity of its computing systems
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- Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands into data centers beyond developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands into data centers beyond developing AI models — Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
