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  1. Mistral Debuts “Le Chonk”: Open-Weight Large 4 in Public Preview, Weights Drop Oct 27

    …ters: It was trained on about 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European data centers; weight…

    Stories·Oct 6

  2. Isomorphic Labs in Talks at a $40–50B Valuation; No Drug Yet in Human Trials

    …s at a valuation of at least $40 billion and up to $50 billion, five months after a $2.1 billion Series B; non…

    Stories·Oct 8

  3. OpenAI in Talks for $30B Round at $1.4T Valuation, With UAE Funds and BlackRock Circling

    Why it matters: The ~$1.4 trillion pre-money valuation is about 64% above March's $852 billion post-money; it …

    Stories·Oct 6

  4. TSMC Q3 Revenue Rises 50% to Record $46.7 Billion

    …ted record Q3 revenue of NT$1.49 trillion ($46.71 billion), up 50% year on year, beating the NT$1.46 trillion …

    Flash·Oct 9

  5. Lambda Seeks $4B in Final Pre-IPO Round at $14.5B Valuation: $35B of Its $50B Backlog Is One Customer

    …loud Lambda is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money valuation, led by Blackstone and Coatue — its final rou…

    Stories·Oct 7

  6. Google Launches EmbeddingGemma 2: 740M-Param Multimodal Embedding Model Goes Apache 2.0, Runs On-Device

    …launched EmbeddingGemma 2: a 740M-parameter open multimodal embedding model under Apache 2.0, with weights on …

    Stories·Oct 7

  7. Nvidia-Backed Firmus Withdraws $31B IPO That Would Have Been Australia's Biggest in Nearly 30 Years

    …valued the company at about A$44 billion and targeted nearly $5 billion; it would have been Australia's larges…

    Flash·Oct 9

  8. Tencent Mulls $5B Offshore Bond Sale to Fund AI Push

    … it would be Tencent's second large bond deal this year; in June it sold $4.66 billion of bonds, its largest d…

    Flash·Oct 8

  9. DeepSeek Nears $12B Funding Round with Tencent and CATL, Doubling Its Original Target

    … it matters: It is DeepSeek's largest round and China's biggest private AI raise this year; it grew from a 50 …

    Stories·Oct 6

  10. Moonshot in Settlement Talks Before Its IPO: A Claim Above $700 Million Dating to a Spin-Out

    …claim in arbitration since 2024 exceeds $700 million, and an unresolved outcome covers governance, ownership a…

    Stories·Oct 12

  11. Nvidia in Talks to Deepen Investment in Reflection AI or Acquire It

    …in April would rank among the largest capital moves of this AI cycle.

    Flash·Oct 11

  12. Nvidia-Backed Firmus Said to Cut $5B Australian IPO Pricing as Investors Balk

    …t would be Australia's second-largest IPO in nearly 30 years; local media say the price could fall from A$11 t…

    Flash·Oct 8

  13. Microsoft × NVIDIA Start Selling Surface Laptop Ultra: Runs 120B Models Locally, Top Config ~$7,000

    …cally; the entry S2 has only 24GB of memory, and official pricing is still unannounced.

    Stories·Oct 8

  14. Claude vs GPT for Coding: Same Mid-Tier Price, a 2.5× Flagship Gap, Benchmarks Measured Differently

    … ten times cheaper than Haiku 4.5.

    Comparisons·Oct 7

  15. OpenAI Publishes 722 AI-Generated Math Manuscripts Citing Riemann Hypothesis Progress; None Peer-Reviewed

    Why it matters: It is the largest of OpenAI's math releases: 722 manuscripts across 372 problem families, none…

    Stories·Oct 7

  16. Hands-On: Perplexity pplx-embed-v2-late — the 0.6B Model That Queries a 9B Index

    …IT license); the 9B scores 92.4% on MADQA. Why it matters: the two sizes share one embedding space, so a 9B-bu…

    Reviews·Oct 12

  17. GSK Expands Chai Deal After Wet-Lab Validation of AI Designs

    …ugmaker, and Chai's roster of large pharma partners grows to five with GSK.

    Flash·Oct 12

  18. Google's $15 Billion India AI Data Center Sparks Backlash; Company Responds to Water and Power Fears

    …in Visakhapatnam, India — its largest outside the US — as locals protest over water, power and land; a Google …

    Flash·Oct 11

  19. Super Micro Contractor Pleads Guilty in $2.5B AI-Chip Smuggling Case

    …; the operation ran since ~2024 through a Southeast Asian pass-through concealing China end customers; the ind…

    Stories·Oct 10

  20. Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for All Internal Evals

    …losed Oct 9: after reviewing 141,000+ eval runs, it found Claude agents reward-hacking onto real websites — by…

    Stories·Oct 10

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