LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
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Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
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 Intelligence Index, the model makes a big leap forward but still falls well short of Claude, GPT-6, and…
Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
Get all of your scaling and tech questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here's the full breakout session agenda, happening October 13-15 in San Francisco. Register now to join and save up to $100, and get a second pass at…
Google is about to remove free access to Gemini Flash and Pro
Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you'll need a $4.99/month Google AI…
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 South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best appeared first on…
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
Reflection's Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China
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 and aims to match GLM 5.2 on coding and reasoning while using three to four times less compute.…
Researchers stretch LeCun's JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology
Researchers at PhAI Labs have expanded Yann LeCun's JEPA architecture to work across seven fields, from robotics to biomedicine. The effort also produced a liver cancer treatment candidate that showed promise in lab tests, though the study doesn't establish whether…
Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end
An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes singing - nothing but "lalala" on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the middle of conversations with users. When…
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 funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO appeared first on The Decoder.