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Mistral opens the weights of Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk": a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model under an MIT-based license

An open trillion-parameter model trained in Europe reaches the level of the best open models in coding, by the company's own claim.

According to Mistral, the weights of the improved Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open; earlier this month the model came out in public preview. It is a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 1 trillion parameters, of which, per the Hugging Face description, 49 billion are active; the context is 1 million tokens, and the formats are FP8, NVFP4 and GGUF. The license is the Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License, derived from MIT, with restrictions for "model-as-a-service" offerings. The company calls the model the best open one for agentic coding and cybersecurity and says it is on par with GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index. Companies whose testimonials appear on the release page include Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Fortinet and ENISA.

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The Canadian state becomes a shareholder in a national SI lab, and Cohere gets money for compute.

Canada will invest C$1.6 billion in Cohere and take a stake in the company: the round, valued at C$35.7 billion, is led by Schwarz Group

The Canadian state becomes a shareholder in a national SI lab, and Cohere gets money for compute.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced at the Canada–EU summit in Montreal a C$1.6 billion investment in Cohere; the state gets an equity stake. According to Cohere's press release, the Series E round, led by companies of Schwarz Group, targets C$7 billion at a C$35.7 billion valuation. The new investors are Bell Ventures, Bullhound Capital and the Government of Canada; the returning ones are Inovia Capital, Nvidia and Prosperity7 Ventures. The money will go to developing the model lineup and to compute infrastructure for training frontier-level models. Carney said: "Under this agreement, Cohere will stay Canadian"; the company's chief financial officer, per the Globe and Mail, speaks of commitments on hiring and investing in Canada. According to Cohere, it bought Aleph Alpha, Reliant AI and AISLE in 2026, and its annual recurring revenue in the third quarter grew 165% from a year earlier.

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Demand for memory for SI servers has brought Samsung a profit that no technology company has had before.

Samsung Electronics: third-quarter operating profit of 107.44 trillion won, the first above 100 trillion for a technology company

Demand for memory for SI servers has brought Samsung a profit that no technology company has had before.

From Samsung's regulatory filing: revenue for July–September rose 126.9% to 195.25 trillion won, operating profit rose 783.1% to 107.44 trillion won, and net profit reached 75.13 trillion won (about $56.2 billion). The semiconductor division brought in 106.5 trillion won, or 99.1% of operating profit. The company calls itself the world's first technology company with quarterly operating profit above 100 trillion won; records in revenue and profit have come for a fourth quarter in a row. Samsung expanded sales of HBM4 memory and announced a dividend of 30 trillion won for the quarter; it plans to return another 55–75 trillion won to shareholders this year. According to CNBC, the profit was close to analysts' expectations, and the shares closed 4.13% lower.

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Microsoft is borrowing on the bond market to pay for building capacity for SI.

Microsoft is selling at least $25 billion of bonds, its first such issue in the US since 2017

Microsoft is borrowing on the bond market to pay for building capacity for SI.

According to Bloomberg, as relayed by The Next Web, Microsoft is offering at least $25 billion of bonds: up to 10 tranches with maturities from 2 to 40 years, with Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and UBS as organizers. The previous large US issue was in January 2017, $17 billion, partly to fund the LinkedIn acquisition. The company's rating is AAA. Per its quarterly report, spending on data centers and equipment including leases reached $45.2 billion, free cash flow fell 27% to $18.6 billion, and Azure revenue rose 48% to $33.2 billion. Chief financial officer Amy Hood said demand still exceeds supply.

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The market punishes enterprise software even for meeting expectations, fearing that SI will change its business.

ServiceNow shares fall 25% after quarterly report: revenue of $4.11 billion, adjusted earnings of $1.00 per share

The market punishes enterprise software even for meeting expectations, fearing that SI will change its business.

According to CNBC, ServiceNow shares were heading for the company's worst day ever. Revenue rose more than 20% to $4.11 billion against an expected $4.10 billion (LSEG), and adjusted earnings came to $1.00 per share against a forecast of $1.02. The company slightly raised its 2026 subscription revenue outlook to $15.78–15.79 billion; net new average contract value for SI products rose 65%. Citi analyst Tyler Radke linked the reaction to the fact that there is no quick payoff yet from the company's new team of engineers embedded with customers. The report, CNBC says, renewed fears that new SI capabilities will undermine the traditional software model.

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The question of export controls on Nvidia chips has reached a discussion of its chief's connections; the company disputes the newspaper's conclusions.

NYT: US intelligence watched a woman from the Nvidia chief's circle linked to Megaspeed; Nvidia calls such contacts ordinary

The question of export controls on Nvidia chips has reached a discussion of its chief's connections; the company disputes the newspaper's conclusions.

According to The New York Times, citing people familiar with the surveillance, US intelligence agencies feared that a woman from Jensen Huang's circle, linked to the Singapore-based cloud company Megaspeed, could be helping the Chinese government obtain information, and noted the Nvidia chief's access to President Donald Trump. As relayed by The Decoder, Megaspeed was suspected of helping China get access to Nvidia chips, and its Malaysian sister company, per the newspaper, bought equipment with Nvidia chips worth at least $4.8 billion between June 2024 and February 2026. An Nvidia spokesperson, in a statement to CNBC, called Megaspeed one of its regional cloud customers and Huang's contacts with its representatives ordinary, since he talks to thousands of customers a year; customers, he said, do not get access to trade secrets or national security information. Nvidia calls the allegations of evading restrictions "investigated and debunked". The Chinese embassy called the report groundless slander, and Megaspeed, according to The Decoder, announced an internal review.

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Google's data center construction in Finland is now being examined not only by the supervisory agency but also by the police.

Finnish police open a criminal investigation over work at Google's data center site near Muhos

Google's data center construction in Finland is now being examined not only by the supervisory agency but also by the police.

As Insurance Journal writes, Finnish police have opened an investigation into possible breaches of environmental law at the site of a planned Google data center in the north of the country. The authorities said that Tuike Finland, an Alphabet subsidiary, carried out forest clearing and drainage near the town of Muhos before the environmental impact assessment required by Finnish law was completed. The police said that, according to preliminary information, there were "ambiguities and shortcomings" in drainage and water management at the construction site, and the investigation will examine these circumstances, among others. On October 6, Finland's supervisory agency ordered a halt to preparatory work at this and one other site. Google, per the same report, said it began preparatory work on its understanding of the permits required by law. The project is part of Google's plans to invest $15 billion in Finland's SI infrastructure, which the company calls its largest investment in Europe; per the Anadolu description, the investigation will continue into 2027.

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Russia's largest tech company has stopped giving year-end guidance after attacks on its data centers.

Yandex withdraws its 2026 revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance after the October attacks on its data centers

Russia's largest tech company has stopped giving year-end guidance after attacks on its data centers.

According to a company statement relayed by Interfax, Yandex is withdrawing its 2026 revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance in connection with the October drone attacks on its data centers; after them, the statement says, the company faced additional external factors that make it hard to assess results through the end of the year. Yandex had previously expected revenue growth of about 20% and adjusted EBITDA of around 350 billion rubles. It will consider resuming guidance from next quarter. The company does not plan to increase capital expenditure this year: investment over nine months came to 115 billion rubles, and reserve capacity and equipment had been bought in advance. Yandex writes that it is not revising plans for its key business areas.

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Investment in SI has become a noticeable part of growth in the US economy.

US GDP grew 3.4% at an annual rate in the third quarter; nonresidential business investment rose 12.7%

Investment in SI has become a noticeable part of growth in the US economy.

According to preliminary data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real GDP grew 3.4% at an annual rate in July–September, after 2.2% in the second quarter and 2.5% in the first — the fastest growth since the third quarter of 2025, when it was 3.9%. Consumer spending rose 3.8%, and nonresidential business investment rose 12.7%, the biggest quarterly jump since the start of 2024. The Hill ties the growth to the continuing surge in SI investment. The PCE price index in September was 3.6% higher than a year earlier. According to The Korea Times, economists believe that, together with accelerating inflation, the data strengthen the case for a Federal Reserve rate hike in December.

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Smart glasses with SI have pushed South Korea to toughen the punishment for cheating on its main entrance exam.

South Korea's education ministry will seek criminal prosecution for cheating on the CSAT exam with SI glasses and extend the ban to three years

Smart glasses with SI have pushed South Korea to toughen the punishment for cheating on its main entrance exam.

The education ministry said it will seek criminal prosecution for cheating on the CSAT college entrance exam with SI glasses — on a charge of obstructing official duties by fraudulent means — and is seeking to extend the ban from the exam from one year to three. The ministry will recommend that universities apply the same rules to their own entrance exams, where cases of such cheating were recently detected. At the November 19 exam, one inspector will be assigned to each test site to check for SI glasses.

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Investors keep betting on general-purpose SI assistants, valuing the startup at a billion dollars.

Wabi, the SI messenger from Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda, raises $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation

Investors keep betting on general-purpose SI assistants, valuing the startup at a billion dollars.

TechCrunch reports that Wabi, which now calls itself a "personal agent", announced a $55 million round at a $1.25 billion valuation. Founder Eugenia Kuyda previously created the SI companion Replika; Wabi originally let people build apps from a text prompt, and in September the startup announced a turn toward an SI messenger that builds the interfaces you need — mini apps for planning meals, restaurant visits, dates, workouts and quizzes. IVP led the round; a16z, Forerunner and the Amazon Alexa Fund took part, and the business angels include Shopify chief executive Tobi Lütke, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, Marissa Mayer and Dick Costolo.

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A European helicopter maker is betting on ready-made American autonomy software.

Leonardo picks Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software for its Proteus uncrewed helicopter demonstrator

A European helicopter maker is betting on ready-made American autonomy software.

According to Shield AI, Leonardo has chosen Hivemind — an autonomy software development kit that lets partners build, integrate, test, deploy and update their own autonomous pilots and keep ownership of their mission autonomy — for work on autonomous rotary-wing aircraft. The platform is Proteus, an uncrewed vertical takeoff demonstrator that Leonardo is developing with the Royal Navy and the UK's Defence Innovation unit under the Rotary Wing Uncrewed Air System program; its modular bay holds about a tonne of cargo or two NATO 463L pallets. Leonardo's engineers will develop autonomy capabilities for anti-submarine warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and logistics in contested environments.

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A model hub is taking on making the data of taxpayer-funded science ready for use by SI.

Hugging Face and US universities launch Project ProtoStar: publicly funded science data in a form ready for SI

A model hub is taking on making the data of taxpayer-funded science ready for use by SI.

Hugging Face announced Project ProtoStar, an initiative to make the data, models and code of publicly funded research accessible and reusable, above all in scientific work done with SI. The partners are Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Georgia Tech and Arizona State, the ORCA community and the Astera Institute, as well as George Washington University through its Open Forum program. According to Hugging Face, the platform hosts more than 17,000 public scientific datasets, about 29,000 counting medicine and mathematics; over the first nine months of 2026 researchers uploaded three times as many scientific datasets as in the same period of 2025. US federal authorities spend about $190 billion a year on research and development. The project's aim is to test whether such data can be found, combined and extended to speed up discovery.

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Developers of factory robots are chasing the sensitivity that assembly operations require.

Xiaomi shows a robot hand with 21 degrees of freedom and 1,500 tactile sensors for factory tasks

Developers of factory robots are chasing the sensitivity that assembly operations require.

According to Xiaomi's post in its community, relayed by 3DNews, the hand has 21 degrees of freedom, 26 electric drives and 1,500 tactile sensors on the palm; a mechanism with cable-tension regulation plays the role of tendons. For the design, the company analyzed 2,579 standard operations at 16 types of car factories and picked 1,827 for data collection. The next stage is trials in real production to check stability, autonomous operation and integration into processes.

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Google ties its SI study helper to open textbooks with links to the source.

Gemini Notebook gets hundreds of free textbooks from OpenStax, Open Textbook Library and S Chand for students in the US and India

Google ties its SI study helper to open textbooks with links to the source.

According to Google, students in the US and India can add hundreds of textbooks from OpenStax, Open Textbook Library and S Chand Publishing to Gemini Notebook notebooks for free: choose "Add sources", then "Textbooks". Answers rely on the textbook text with inline citations and links to the source, and it can be used to make study guides, quizzes and flashcards. The feature continues the "Expert Intelligence" program, which lets people work with trusted sources in Google's SI products.

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A Russian browser is gaining audience along with its SI features, per the company's own data.

Yandex Browser tops 100 million monthly active devices for the first time: 104 million in September, 46 million people use its SI features

A Russian browser is gaining audience along with its SI features, per the company's own data.

As Yandex reported (relayed by iXBT), the monthly audience of Yandex Browser exceeded 100 million active devices for the first time in September and reached 104 million; since the start of the third quarter the figure has grown by 9 million. The number of users of Alice AI and other built-in SI features of the browser grew by almost 40% over the quarter, to 46 million people.

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Russia's Duma is beginning to build SI agents into its work on bills.

The State Duma's committee on digital development and superintelligence will get its own SI agent for working with bills

Russia's Duma is beginning to build SI agents into its work on bills.

As committee chair Alexander Sidyakin told Interfax, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin at the Duma Council urged deputies to use SI more actively, and a corresponding tool will appear in the committee soon. According to him, the SI agent will work with all emerging legislative initiatives, including in the Duma's legislative support system, and will bring together proposals from expert communities and the government.

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Lawmakers demand that Meta explain how SI glasses protect the privacy of people around them.

Senators Wyden and Markey demand answers from Meta on the privacy of Ray-Ban smart glasses after a 404 Media investigation

Lawmakers demand that Meta explain how SI glasses protect the privacy of people around them.

According to 404 Media, Senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey sent Meta a letter with questions about its smart glasses: what measures keep people from being filmed without consent, whether the company assessed the risk of voyeurism and invasion of privacy, which images are used to train SI, and whether people can demand deletion of biometric data captured by the glasses. The letter says Meta's smart glasses are "increasingly implicated in serious invasions of the privacy" of users and bystanders. The trigger was a 404 Media investigation: Ray-Ban glasses were used to film and harass massage parlor workers, and Instagram accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers posted such videos.

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Pharma companies are preparing a large immune-system dataset on which SI models can be trained.

Parse Biosciences and Nomic Bio are building Cascade, a 100-million-cell dataset for training models of immune response

Pharma companies are preparing a large immune-system dataset on which SI models can be trained.

According to the companies (BusinessWire), Cascade will combine 100 million single-cell RNA sequencing profiles, over 11,000 proteomic profiles and more than 150,000 perturbation measurements; the data come from 12 healthy donors at different time points and will cover at least 14 immune cell types. Parse Biosciences provides the sequencing, and Nomic Bio provides quantitative analysis of more than 1,000 secreted proteins on its Omni 1000 platform. The first industry partners named are GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi, Graph Therapeutics and Turbine; the dataset will be available under license, and its creation is underway.

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