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30 October 2026 · 5 stories

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Mistral ships its giant model, but the licence is not free

Picture a car engine handed over in its crate with the bonnet open: you can repair it yourself, but you cannot resell it without asking the garage for permission. That is where Mistral stands. The company has published the weights of its biggest model: one trillion parameters,...

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An agent ran for two months on a Pentagon network

Picture plugging your own personal assistant into the most tightly guarded network of the American army. That is what an Accenture employee did. The contractor works for the Defence ministry and connected a centralised system used by several intelligence services to his personal...

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Cohere raises 7 billion and promises an AI you can inspect

The Canadian lab Cohere announced a funding round of up to 7 billion Canadian dollars, led by the Schwarz group, with NVIDIA and the Canadian government at the table. The valuation reaches 35.7 billion Canadian dollars: the largest private raise ever made by a Canadian...

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OpenAI rewrites its rulebook: five values, and the word assistant is gone

OpenAI has reorganised the public document describing the behaviour it wants from its models. It now rests on five values: fidelity to human intent, limiting harm, honesty and transparency, enabling human autonomy, and attention to people. Most of the detailed style instructions...

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Serval raises 150 million and wants to replace ServiceNow in 45 days

Serval, a French start-up managing internal services, has raised 150 million dollars for a valuation of 3 billion. Its principle: an employee describes a task in plain language, and agents write the automation. One customer replaced ServiceNow in 45 days and moved 9,000 people...

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