Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0

Release: llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 OpenAI released their new Jev-style Decisions API , as previously announced at last week's DevDay. Sinc…

Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action

Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and d…

llm-mistral 0.16

Release: llm-mistral 0.16 Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4 . Tags: llm , mistral , llm-reasoni…

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk

Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter mod…

How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT

Jump Trading uses OpenAI to expand quantitative research. See how longer-running AI workflows combine multiple data sources with human revi…

Advancing computer use with Ironclad

Learn how OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contracting workflows to advance computer use for profession…

EmbeddingGemma 2

My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embeddin…

Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces I saw Parseable in a Show HN today - it's a new observability platform with bo…

datasette-atom 0.11a0

Release: datasette-atom 0.11a0 A minor fix for compatibility with the latest Datasette alphas. This meant we could upgrade the datasette.io…

Scrimshaw Jukebox

Tool: Scrimshaw Jukebox I wanted to see if Claude Opus 5.5 could compose music, so I tried this : I want you to write some computer game mu…

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that…

Unlocking Earth AI’s planetary geospatial foundation models for global public health

Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance

The state of the tech industry in 2026

A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry. The full video and the summary of my keynot…

Java and Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA: The LSP-Based Extension Reaches Release Candidate

Two months ago, we announced the preview of Java and Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA – an LSP-based extension that brings IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and…

Why LLMs Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong

When LLMs sometimes agree with incorrect claims, it is mostly because their training rewards such behaviour. This reward system is built on…

Ship faster, improve reliability, and control CI costs with Datadog CI/CD Optimization

Learn how Datadog CI/CD Optimization helps teams ship faster with shorter CI feedback loops, reliable builds, and controlled compute costs.

Dependency Firewall: Block risky packages before the build

Attackers disguise malicious packages as ones you trust. In June 2026, GitLab researchers found five malicious PyPI packages , four of them…

GitLab Transcend: Speed you can trust, all the way to production

At Transcend, we made over a dozen announcements across all four layers of our architecture for agentic software engineering: agent orchest…

The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready?

On October 11, 2026, the DNS root switches to a new key-signing key (KSK-2024). Learn what this means for you, and how RFC 8509 trust ancho…

AI Gateway adds confidence-based decision fallbacks

Nano Banana 2.1 now available on AI Gateway

Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results

Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the ove…

Metrics Board: Building an Agent-ready Metrics Layer

Michele Ceccacci; Software Engineer I | Jason Coffman; Sr. Software Engineer | Colm O’Shaughnessy; Software Engineer II | Laura Palmer; Sta…

Presentation: Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Matthew Liste explains the 12 core principles of building scalable, reliable platforms for enterprise tech teams. From avoiding technical d…

QCon London 2027 Announces 15 Tracks on Production AI, Architecture, and Engineering at Scale

A preview of the 15-track QCon London 2027 program, covering agent evaluation and guardrails, AI-era architecture, distributed-system debug…

The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!

Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what's going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usa…

Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product

Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets…

Go All-Electric By July 2027: Maharashtra Govt To Bike Taxi Aggregators

The Maharashtra government has reportedly directed all bike taxi aggregators, including Rapido, Uber and Ola, to transition to an all-elect…

Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors

The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.

Facebook Tests Reels-First UX In India

Meta has started testing a new video-first feed for Facebook in India, where users will now encounter a full-screen, Reels-centric…

Mistral releases new flagship model as it seeks to close the gap with competitors

How to Automate Inbound

Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, COO of Vercel, walks through the construction of the company's inbound sales agent: one GTM engineer at 20% time, a…

Spiko raises $90m in Series B backed by Index Ventures and Speedinvest

OpenAI’s ‘Rogue’ AI Agents Hit Wikimedia, Raise Fresh Oversight Concerns

OpenAI’s AI agents have come under scrutiny yet again after the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia, found what…

How Much of Your Customer Support Can AI Really Resolve? The Best Get About 70%. The Median Is 48%. Here’s the Real Data From 13 Vendors

Exactly how many support and related issues can AI Agents really, truly resolve today? It’s a good test of just exactly where the latest mo…

Exclusive: AI Research Startup FYDY In Talks To Raise $12 Mn From Lightspeed, General Catalyst

Frontier AI research startup FYDY (Fuzzy Dynamics), which is operating in stealth mode, is in advanced talks to raise $12…

Fireside leads Rs 110 Cr Series B round in Beyond Appliances

Beyond Appliances, a smart kitchen technology company building intelligent appliances for modern Indian homes, has raised Rs 110 crore ($11…

Exclusive: Hadrian raises $40m as AI cyberattacks accelerate

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…

9 Videos from Machine Earning: Town’s Jean-Denis Greze, Lead Bank’s Jackie Reses, Chime’s Ryan King & More

See the most compelling conversations from Newcomer’s Machine Earning AI Summit

Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable f…

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.

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…

Learn all about scaling, fundraising, founder how-tos, and more at TechCrunch Founder Summit, November 4

There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on No…

Glimpse wants to give hardware companies an X-ray view of every critical part

Called Explore, Glimpse's new image processing software lets hardware makers speed up quality control checks using CT scanners.

TPG Offloads More Shadowfax Shares Via ₹115 Cr Bulk Deal

TPG continues to dilute its shareholding in Shadowfax. The private equity (PE) giant has now sold more shares of the…

Flai’s AI dealership software is booking 50,000 appointments per month

Flai's revenue has grown 20x in a year, and the company just closed a $27 million Series A funding round.

Insurance Brokers Oppose IRDAI Reforms, Project 70% Revenue Loss

The Insurance Brokers Association of India (IBAI) has said that the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India’s (IRDAI) recen…

Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034

Type One Energy is betting that its lean approach to fusion power will get a power plant on the grid faster, and investors have rewarded it…

ServiceNow’s India Bet: Can It Put AI To Work Inside Enterprises?

Enterprise software major ServiceNow is betting that its next leg of growth in India will come not just from digitisation…

SAP to acquire AI startup TechWolf for undisclosed sum

Exclusive: IPO-Bound StockGro Raises ₹110 Cr From Existing Backers

Invest tech startup StockGro, which pre-filed its IPO papers last week, raises ₹110 Cr (around $10.4 Mn) as a part…

Cabinet Clears ₹10,000 Cr SME Fund To Back Manufacturing, Tech Focused SMEs

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the government’s ₹10,000 Cr SME Growth Fund (SGF) to…

Swara Baby Products Secures SEBI Nod For ₹1,000 Cr IPO

Swara Baby Products, a contract manufacturer of disposable hygiene products and a subsidiary of omnichannel kidswear brand FirstCry’s paren…

Is Europe’s secondaries boom only serving the 1%?

FirstCry-backed Swara Baby Products gets SEBI nod for Rs 1,000 Cr IPO

Swara Baby Products, a contract manufacturer of disposable hygiene products, has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Board o…

Dronetech Startup AITMC Files UDRHP For A Fresh Issue IPO

Dronetech and skill development startup AITMC Ventures has filed its UDRHP with SEBI for an IPO comprising a fresh issue…

India’s NDude Labs leads $3 Mn Series A in US wellness brand SuperMush

India and US-based healthcare and wellness investment firm NDude Labs has led a $3 million Series A funding round in US-based functional we…

BofA cuts PB Fintech price target by 19%; anticipates strong Q2 for Paytm

BofA expects PB Fintech and Paytm to post strong Q2 FY27 growth, but regulatory changes could affect the two differently. It cut PB Fintech…

Sauce leads Rs 15 Cr funding round in kitchen and bathroom brand Lorazzo

Lorazzo, a design-led kitchen and bathroom brand, has raised Rs 15 crore in a funding round led by Sauce, with follow-on investment from Sp…

JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

Polars 2.0

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study

Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing

OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs

OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722…

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft is getting ready to do something around Grand Theft Auto VI that "no other platform hold…

The best robot vacuum and mop deals during October Prime Day

Spending too much time constantly sweeping and mopping? If you have the money to delegate those chores to a robot cleaner, you could save a…

Apple and LG team up on new smart home gear, starting with a lock, doorbell, and thermostat

Apple is collaborating with LG on a new lineup of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, indoor camera, and more, acco…

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU

Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.

Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y can be a backup battery for your house

Some Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners can use their EV battery to keep the lights on longer during a power outage, now that Tesla's expandi…

Google’s power-hungry data centers crave nuclear energy

Google announced a new agreement to update six nuclear power plant sites across the US as the tech giant seeks to generate more electricity…

Amazon’s last-gen Kindle Paperwhite is 30 percent off

Calling something “last-gen” usually means it comes with big compromises compared to the latest version. That’s not as true for the last-ge…

Save on MacBooks, iPads and Apple Watches during October Prime Day

Amazon’s October Big Deal Days are underway (lasting through tomorrow night), and we spotted a ton of Apple products and accessories in the…

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.

Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers' AUX input

Amazon hasn't made an Echo with a 3.5mm port in six years.

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Googlebook "Better Together" phone features don't work with Samsung at launch

Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet.

Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?

"The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future."

Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says

Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial

Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.

Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand

Decisions API is in public beta

I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill

Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

We are going to kill "unalive"

Open Source as We Know It Is Dead

Sebastian Maniscalco’s SiriusXM channel is hurting up-and-coming talent, comics say

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is facing backlash from fellow comics who claim his takeover of SiriusXM's Raw Comedy channel is harming up-a…

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”

A combined service could lead to higher prices.

It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane

To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.

Two mystery PlayStation products have leaked — one might be a PlayStation Portal OLED

Is Sony about to announce a new PlayStation Portal game streaming handheld? The Wi-Fi Alliance recently certified two unannounced PlayStati…

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Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize

Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

All-electric camping gets a solar upgrade: The 2027 Pebble Flow

The Pebble Flow has a 45 kWh LFP battery and can even charge an EV.