Reflection has released Beam, its first open-weight model. The mixture-of-experts system activates just 23 billion of its 501 billion parameters per token…
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Mistral Large 4 is Europe’s trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work
Mistral’s Large 4 is the company’s biggest model yet, with one trillion parameters trained on its own European infrastructure. In the independent…
Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size
Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs…
Wikimedia confirms OpenAI’s rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused…
South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China’s best
South Korea wants to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion). The article…
Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control
Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei could be personally…
Google’s new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money
Google’s new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost. But its predecessor…
CATL and Tencent back Deepseek’s ballooning funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO
Deepseek is close to raising at least $12 billion in a new funding round, Bloomberg reports. The article CATL and Tencent back Deepseek’s ballooning…
Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model
Cohere turned its enterprise platform into a control center for AI agents with North 2, handling multi-step workflows on their own and retaining context…
Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor
Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic’s biggest enterprise customers, are sharply cutting their use of Claude. Microsoft slashed the monthly per-employee…