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Mistral Large 4
Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, a new model from the French firm that competes directly with the latest offerings from American…
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Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
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ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review
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NASA and IBM’s open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science
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Top AI experts badly underestimated how fast the field is moving, study finds
AI reached gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad in July 2025, five years…
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BottleCap AI Releases ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B: 37.2% Fewer Thinking Tokens at a 0.86pp Accuracy Cost
BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a fine-tuned version of Qwen3.8-27B designed to reduce the…
24 Sep 2026
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit returns to Boston on November 4, 2026. The full-day gathering at…
24 Sep 2026
AI performance costs are falling faster than those of any previous technology
Epoch AI reports that the cost of achieving a fixed performance benchmark in artificial…
24 Sep 2026
Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
A mistake in an AI chatbot is a nuisance. A mistake in a system…
24 Sep 2026
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
Meta has announced a new wearable device called the Muse Charm, which functions as…
24 Sep 2026
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
Meta has announced a fresh wave of features for its personal AI agent, Muse,…
24 Sep 2026
Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
Anthropic has announced that its wet lab in the Bay Area discovered a new…
23 Sep 2026
Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
Anthropic states that its AI model Claude autonomously identified a novel enzyme system comparable…
23 Sep 2026