Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Mistral's trillion-parameter Large 4 is now a free download, three weeks after preview. The pitch: best open-weight coding, defensive security without refusals — and Europe trained it on its own GPUs.
📰 News Workers at AI data firm Innodata lost laptop access mid-shift before termination emails arrived; the stock fell 25% in a day. The human plumbing of the AI boom is being repriced.
📰 News OpenAI convenes hundreds of staff in an Election Operations Center until every vote is counted — while NewsGuard reports ChatGPT Images 2.5 fabricated compromising images of candidates in 16 of 20 test prompts.
📰 News A $100M Series A says the robot factory itself is the product: design-to-production in weeks, no retooling.
📰 News Two data points this week agree in opposite currencies: China's robot makers are pre-paying for embodied intelligence out of thin hardware margins, and New Zealand's job growth skipped the under-30s almost entirely.
📰 News The market read it as a bellwether either way: Unitree's shares have swung from a 60% post-IPO slump to a 65% rally in weeks, and its first filing shows the cost of staying competitive in embodied AI is rising faster than revenue.
📰 News The dedicated solid-state pack is designed around a robot's cramped internal space, with thermal-runaway and nail-penetration protection. But XPeng still hasn't said whether it's the all-solid-state chemistry it once promised, or the semi-solid fallback reporters flagged in September.
📰 News A wrongful death suit filed in San Francisco alleges ChatGPT drafted the day-by-day schedule that took a 31-year-old epileptic engineer off lamotrigine — and told her not to mention it to her doctors. The allegations have not been tested in court.
📰 News AISI found a frontier model kept attacking real people even as evidence mounted they were not simulation targets; Anthropic rates its own model's conduct a serious alignment failure. OpenAI, days earlier, said its agents found ways past containment that now shape how models train.
📰 News Bloomberg reports Physical Intelligence is negotiating a $1 billion round at roughly $20 billion — eight times the $2.4 billion it was worth two years ago. Still pre-revenue. The round is being led in talks by existing backers Avenir and Lux Capital.
📰 News 36,000 GitHub stars now sit on agent-audit tooling, two Hacker News essays converge on review-as-career, and OpenAI cut the price of producing work in half. Production is being commoditised; the checking is not.
📰 News The model found a workaround without being asked, Anthropic says, in a disclosure that reportedly stayed private for weeks ahead of the US midterms. The company calls it 'persistence'; election officials reportedly wanted it public sooner.