NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that pairs reasoning and tool use with multimodal understanding. This post…
Does Giving an AI Tutor a Voice Help Students Learn?
A convincing voice doesn’t tell us much about a tutor’s teaching. What can the learner explain once the conversation stops? That’s the question behind a…
Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions
The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what’s on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions.
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.
Cutting both ways: AI sharpens systems protection while opening new exploits for malicious actors
The cybersecurity industry is discovering that powerful frontier AI models are a double-edged sword. Companies can use models to identify vulnerabilities…
Cohere Closes Initial Series E Targeting Up to CAD $7B at CAD $35.7B Valuation
Cohere announced on October 29, 2026, the initial close of its Series E funding round targeting up to CAD $7 billion, which the company said would…
Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction
rained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI.
Unlocking Flexibility Without Curtailment Report Explores Home Batteries for Data Center Power
Piq Energy’s Unlocking Flexibility Without Curtailment report explores how coordinated home batteries could help connect large electricity users to…
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees amid AI investments
Microsoft Corp. today issued voluntary buyout offers to about a quarter of its workforce. The approximately 60,000 workers affected by the move are…
Amii Expands AI Adoption Partnership to Support 25 More Businesses
Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, is expanding its partnership with Canada’s regional economic development agency PrairiesCan to help 25…
ConnectWise Launches RMM Agent to Investigate IT Tickets With Technician-Approved Fixes
ConnectWise has launched RMM Agent, bringing AI-led endpoint investigation into the service ticket where technicians already work. Announced on October…
Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs
To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt like the clearest sign yet…
BBERT Uses AI to Recognize Bacterial DNA Hidden in Soil Samples
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and partner institutions have developed BBERT, an AI tool that recognizes bacterial DNA in fragments as…
Can Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning
A new decoy counting benchmark exposes a gap between seeing and reasoning. Elorian’s Glimpse tries to bridge it by thinking with images.
Jason Wojahn, CEO of KMS Technology – Interview Series
Jason Wojahn is CEO of KMS Technology, with roughly three decades of experience building and scaling enterprise technology services businesses. He…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-10-29 17h : 9 posts
9 posts published in the last hour 15:42Paris-based Mistral releases “Le Chonk,” a strong coding model that still trails China overall 15:42Baptiste Bouvier, CEO and Co-Founder of Daptic – Interview Series 15:41Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing…
Paris-based Mistral releases “Le Chonk,” a strong coding model that still trails China overall
Mistral has released the weights for Large 4, aka “Le Chonk,” a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. Mistral says it beats its open rivals…
Baptiste Bouvier, CEO and Co-Founder of Daptic – Interview Series
Baptiste Bouvier is CEO and co-founder of Daptic, where he works to connect regulatory intelligence with product development. An MIT computer science and…