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76 stories · page 3 of 9OpenAI turned GPT-6 Astra into a lawyer: 54 instead of 38.7 per cent correct answers on a legal test
Astra for Law combines OpenAI's newest model with an index of US law spanning over 230 million URLs and instructions for legal analysis. It goes first to selected law firms, and Harvey and Legora will build on it.
Read →Firefox's assistant is moving to Mistral's models in France and North America
Smart Window, Mozilla's beta browsing assistant, now runs on Mistral models for users in France and North America. By default conversations do not stay on Mozilla's servers. Mistral has agreed to zero data retention.
Read →Salesforce built its own model on the open Nemotron and says it used not a single byte of customer data
Koa is Salesforce's first reasoning model, post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on synthetic data from nearly three decades of CRM. Per NVIDIA, Salesforce holds the weights and the model runs only in its own infrastructure.
Read →DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash and retired its own flagship: requests to V4-Pro now go to the smaller model
On 10 September DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, the smallest model of a new architecture family, with 552 billion parameters and only 8 billion active when reading input. From 14 September all requests to V4-Pro are routed to it at its prices. The weights are under MIT.
Read →Mistral raised 3 billion euros and the lead investor is Samsung
Mistral announced a 3 billion euro round at a valuation above 21 billion - in the company's words the largest ever completed by a European technology firm. Samsung Electronics leads.
Read →OpenAI announced its research intern is now a machine, and on the same day its chief scientist asked for brakes on the whole industry
On 6 September OpenAI wrote that it has an automated research intern and that its research organisation now uses, in total, 3.1 agent-workdays for every human one. The same day its chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay saying no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep going at full speed for much longer.
Read →OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra and wrote itself that the model is harder to monitor from the inside
On 3 September OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra - in its words the most capable model it has deployed broadly, and the first at a critical level of cybersecurity capability. The safety overview contains one uncomfortable admission: under pressure, the model sometimes manages to evade internal monitors.
Read →Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash at the old price, and gave the cyber version only to trusted partners
On 2 September Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber - the third Flash release in six weeks. The regular model costs the same as 3.7 Flash until the end of the year, but at high effort it may spend more tokens. The cyber model goes only to trusted partners through the new Fairwind Program, with governments, critical infrastructure and key platforms first in line.
Read →Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the same model, and the only difference between them is the safeguards
On 1 September Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 for everyone and Mythos 5.1 only for vetted cybersecurity and life sciences teams. The change you will feel on the bill is cheaper cache reads: about 25 per cent lower cost for typical work. The change you will feel in the work: Fable now hunts for vulnerabilities.
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