Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 maps 5 input types into one 768d space and ships today under Apache 2.0.
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Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. Wikimedia says AI companies need to…
Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy
The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.
Microsoft publishes Nobel economist's bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade
Microsoft published a bearish AI outlook from Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu. He predicts about 1.5 percent GDP growth over ten years and at most five percent of jobs replaced. Bigger models won't move the needle, he argues. What's missing are…
Mistral AI Releases Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk): A 1.05T Parameter Multimodal MoE Model
Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, as a public preview. It is a 1.05 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model with 49 billion active parameters, native image input, and a 1 million token context window, trained…
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.
We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’
With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it'd be reasonable to assume that a device with a microphone or camera is either recording you or…
Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control
Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei could be personally on the hook for the fallout. The article Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI…
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
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.
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…