Heist Day
Binance loses $6.3 billion to hackers, Reddit wants everyone logged in, and Nvidia's CEO lands in a spy story.
The 10
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Mistral opens Le Chonk, releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter model trained in Europe that it says is the best open-weight model for coding. Independent testing says it is fast and fairly cheap but still scores 26 against 32 for China's top models.
Why it matters Open weights let organizations run and control a frontier-scale model themselves, which matters for security-sensitive and sovereignty-minded customers.
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Accenture's AI agents screen applicants, sifting through candidates at the global consultancy while a human still makes the final hiring decisions at the tech consultancy.
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OpenAI doubles Pro usage limits across its paid plans after backlash over a planned cut, and the Pro 200 quota stays where it was. The change lands just ahead of Anthropic's IPO as the two companies compete for heavy users.
Why it matters Usage limits are a main way AI companies compete for paying power users, so loosening them signals how tight the Anthropic rivalry has become.
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Gemini Notebook adds textbooks from OpenStax and S Chand, letting students turn them into custom study guides and quizzes, which should make cramming slightly more organized.
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