Meta has deployed a new layer of artificial intelligence aimed at a stubborn loophole in its advertising machine: campaigns that look entirely harmless but exist only to funnel users toward child sexual abuse material hosted off its platforms. Instead of hunting explicit imagery — a job its hash-matching systems have handled since 2011 — the … Read more
Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model nicknamed “Le Chonk” — the French lab’s most ambitious bid yet to plant a European flag at the AI frontier, and its loudest argument for open weights. It is live in public preview now, but the full checkpoint stays behind a guarded endpoint, with the … Read more
Anthropic is betting that whoever wins a startup’s first technical decisions wins the next decade of enterprise software. During SF Tech Week in October 2026, the company opened Claude Founder House in San Francisco and paired it with one of the most aggressive founder offers the AI industry has put on the table: a free … Read more
President Donald Trump has named Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to chair a newly created federal task force on artificial intelligence — branded the Super Intelligence Force — and given it 120 days to deliver a report on the technology’s risks and opportunities. Announced on 4 October 2026 in a post on Truth … Read more