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427 stories · page 1 of 48Mistral launches a preview of Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter model, and promises the weights by the end of the month
The preview is available through the API in Mistral Studio from 6 October. Mistral says the model was trained on 3,800 GPUs in its own data centers in Europe and that it will release the weights by the end of the month.
Read →OpenAI put new math results from an internal model on GitHub, and many of the proofs are formalized in Lean
On 6 October OpenAI published a repository of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. Many of the proofs come with Lean formalizations that a computer can check step by step. Which model it is, OpenAI does not say; the results are listed in the repository.
Read →Anthropic puts its cyber capabilities on three access tiers, and vets applicants for the third together with the US government
Anthropic merged Project Glasswing and the old Cyber Verification Program into one program with three tiers for vetted security professionals: Defense, Red Team and Specialized. For the first Anthropic aims to answer within a few days; for the third, with the fewest blocks, it currently reviews every organization together with the US government.
Read →On 11 October the DNS root changes its key for only the second time ever, and if you run your own resolver, you check that it trusts the new one
On 11 October 2026 the DNS root changes its key-signing key (KSK) for only the second time ever; the first was in 2018. The new KSK-2024 replaces KSK-2017. Cloudflare says most website operators need to do nothing, but a resolver that validates DNSSEC must trust the new key before the switch.
Read →The man who built Alexa at Amazon becomes Boston Dynamics CEO from 7 October
Boston Dynamics announced on 6 October that Rohit Prasad takes over the company. He spent 12 years at Amazon, where he led Alexa and artificial general intelligence, and created the Amazon Nova models. The reading that Hyundai is putting in a product person, not a roboticist, is ours.
Read →The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 goes to Francis Halzen for one cubic kilometre of ice that catches neutrinos from the distant universe
On 6 October the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for IceCube and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. The idea is from 1988, the instrument was finished in 2011. There is one laureate, with a 1/1 share of the 12 million Swedish kronor prize.
Read →Google released EmbeddingGemma 2: an open 740-million-parameter model for searching text, code, images, video and audio on the device itself
One shared “shelf” for five kinds of content, which can run entirely on the device. By Google’s figures the full multimodal version, compressed, needs about 567 MB of memory on a Pixel 11 Pro. The licence is Apache 2.0, and the weights are on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
Read →Google released Nano Banana 2.1 and says it does better with panoramas up to 8:1 and with characters across turns
Google announced on 6 October in the Gemini API release notes that the model is generally available: according to the company it keeps Flash-level speed and cost efficiency and improves the wide 1:4, 4:1, 1:8 and 8:1 formats up to 4K. The old gemini-3.1-flash-image is deprecated, with no shutdown date.
Read →OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU and says itself how easily the mark gets lost
From 5 October API customers can switch the mark on for selected models; it is off by default. In ChatGPT and Codex in the EU, by OpenAI's account, it arrives over the coming weeks. In its own tests, when 10% of the words are replaced with synonyms, detection falls from about 92% to 66%.
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