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Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr

Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.

Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.

US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO

A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.

Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads

Google’s negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.

Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction

Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit archives across the United States.

These data centers hold Putin’s AI aspirations. They’re big targets.

A stout man with a graying beard, wearing a bright-blue Yandex-branded hoodie, shouted over the din of the cooling fans.

Two fears will decide the fate of Anthropic’s giant IPO

Investors must weigh missing out on extraordinary AI growth against potential pitfalls that include “existential” risks to humanity

US economy beats forecasts to grow at 3.4% rate in third quarter

Myles McCormick in Washington and Kate Duguid in New York

The NYT Cooking app is testing AI recipe modifications

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Mistral AI has officially released its Large 4 (Le Chonk) model.

After making Large 4 available in a public preview earlier this month, Mistral is now releasing an improved version to everyone, which it says ranks as the “best open-weight model for coding.” The model offers advancements in cybersecurity-related tasks, like creating patches or reproducing vulnerabilities, and is more likely to refuse “malicious cyber requests” compared to other open models, according to Mistral.

Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round

On Thursday, AI app, Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.

A New Dawn For Mathematical Progress

Artificial intelligence is already a transformative chapter in the story of mathematics, but it won’t be the final one.