NYC Council hearing forces Big Four AI labs into sworn municipal testimony
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, fellow whistleblowers, and policy officials from four major AI labs testified under oath at a New York City Council hearing on Monday . The session establishes a city-level regulatory playbook…
Altman and Anthropic split over what AI is, not just how to regulate it
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic are no longer arguing about how much regulation AI needs. They are arguing about what AI is. Altman's declaration that "the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this…
Mistral Large 4 trails the frontier by roughly six months, Simon Willison says
Independent developer Simon Willison says Mistral Large 4 is "certainly not a Fable-class model," but that it puts Mistral "back to being maybe about 6 months behind the frontier" . He called the preview, released on October 6, a huge…
Mistral Large 4 opens 1.05T-parameter frontier to open weights
Mistral Large 4 scored 61.7% on DeepSWE v1.1, 93% on Cybench, and 82% on an Artificial Analysis Cyber Index test covering vulnerability reproduction and patching, according to benchmarks compiled across multiple outlets . Artificial…
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RANKED · 6 THIS DAYGoogle DeepMind opens 740M-parameter multimodal embedding model under Apache 2.0
Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter open embedding model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single 768-dimensional vector space, under an Apache 2.0 license . The model is small enough to…
Ofcom opens OSA probe into Meta over Instagram Instants
The UK's communications regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation under the Online Safety Act into Meta over Instagram Instants, a feature launched in May, Reuters reported . Meta said it "briefed Ofcom about this feature on a number of…