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- 01 of 10SCIENCE
CERN and Mistral plan an AI model for physics
CERN and France's Mistral AI have agreed to develop Flare, an AI model trained on billions of simulated particle collisions. They hope it will help researchers interpret experiments and eventually support other sciences; no budget or timetable was disclosed.
OUR TAKEAt last, an AI asked to explain a collision rather than cause a meeting.
Read more → - 02 of 10MODELS
DeepSeek updates Flash and opens its search tools
China's DeepSeek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 through its website, app and developer service. The company says it finishes tasks faster with shorter answers, and has opened its Search and Fetch tools at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
OUR TAKEShorter answers are an unusually considerate way to compete.
Read more → - 03 of 10INDUSTRY
Germany prepares an AI pact with Nvidia
Germany plans to announce an agreement with Nvidia next week to expand AI use in its factories, government sources told Reuters. Handelsblatt reported that the plan would support robots, self-driving vehicles and AI models for industrial work.
OUR TAKEGerman industry would quite like its next assistant to arrive with a manual.
Read more → - 04 of 10HARDWARE
AI parts supplier plans major Malaysian expansion
An optical communications supplier plans to more than triple its manufacturing capacity in Malaysia by the end of 2028. Taiwan's FICG says the expansion will help meet demand for parts that connect computers running AI.
OUR TAKEThe cloud continues to require a surprising number of actual factories.
Read more → - 05 of 10MODELS
Reflection releases its first open model, Beam
US startup Reflection has released Beam, its first model with downloadable weights, under the Apache 2.0 licence. Built for coding and multi-step tasks, it launches with more than 40 partners and integrations so developers can run and adapt it themselves.
OUR TAKESome assembly required, though the instruction booklet is now public.
Read more → - 06 of 10BUSINESS
Cohere plans to buy Czech security firm Aisle
Canada's Cohere has signed a letter of intent to acquire Aisle, a Prague-based company whose AI tools find and fix software weaknesses. Aisle's roughly 50 employees would join Cohere, with its founders taking senior roles in a new security division.
OUR TAKEBuying the people who check the locks seems a sensible shopping trip.
Read more → - 07 of 10TRANSPORT
Waymo heads to Toronto ahead of 2028 launch
Waymo has approval to join Ontario's automated vehicle pilot programme and will begin with manually driven mapping trips in Toronto. It aims to welcome riders in 2028 and has partnered with Toronto-based Element Fleet Management to support local operations.
OUR TAKEBefore driving itself, the taxi will sensibly ask a human about winter.
Read more → - 08 of 10POLICY
China proposes controls on 23 AI technologies
China has proposed export controls covering 23 AI technologies, including models, agents and computing clusters. Access through apps and developer services would remain available, while the proposals seek tighter control over transfers of sensitive technology.
OUR TAKEThe export paperwork is catching up with the software.
Read more → - 09 of 10CODING
Replit makes OpenAI its preferred AI partner
Replit now uses OpenAI as its preferred partner for its coding assistant, chief executive Amjad Masad said. He cited cost, performance and the partnership, while clarifying that customers can still choose Anthropic's Claude and other supported models.
OUR TAKEThe default setting remains the most persuasive salesperson in software.
Read more → - 10 of 10RESEARCH
Claude helps design leaner quantum circuits
Researchers from Anthropic and Harvard used Claude to design quantum circuits across eight computing tasks. Seven designs reduced both operations and memory units against the study's baselines, but the work used computer checks and estimates rather than tests on quantum hardware.
OUR TAKEA promising saving, pending the small matter of building the machine.
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