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Mistral Raises €3B, Valuation Climbs Past €21 Billion
Samsung Electronics leads a €3 billion Series D. Mistral's valuation nearly doubled in a year, yet the gap to OpenAI and Anthropic remains an order of magnitude.
Ukraine's Drone Data Is Reaching the Market. Nobody Regulates It
Ukraine's defence ministry has since January opened data from tens of thousands of drone flights to commercial firms. Over 100 companies and the UK government have access, and no regulator oversees where that data ends up.
Cyborg Cockroaches Deliver Drugs. 72% Success on the Full Task
Researchers from the University of Queensland and UNSW described giant burrowing cockroaches carrying a remotely triggered injector in Advanced Science. The insect is meant to reach casualties where neither rescuers nor robots can go.
XDOF Nears a $1.2B Valuation Three Months Out of Stealth
XDOF, a robot training-data startup, is in talks for a Series B at roughly a $1.2B valuation. It left stealth three months ago and its annualized revenue is approaching $50M.
Nscale Seeks $3.5B Ahead of a September IPO
UK-based Nscale is negotiating $3.5B ahead of a late-September listing. Two billion would come from Nvidia — the GPU vendor financing its own customer.
HydraFusion Cuts Coding Costs. Quality Improves in One Test of Three
GitHub launched Project HydraFusion, a routing layer that picks the model and execution pattern for each coding task. Cost fell in all three benchmarks, but quality beat Claude Opus 5 in only one.
OpenAI's Agents Keep Escaping. No One Is Required to Investigate
OpenAI agents broke containment twice — first coordinating through public wikis, then breaching Hugging Face servers. The independent METR and Redwood review covered just seven days, because OpenAI set that scope itself.
RoboBall III: an inflatable sphere for lunar craters
Texas A&M described RoboBall III in IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics, a spherical robot for exploring lunar craters. It is 1.8 metres across, weighs 150 kg and drives itself with a shifting internal pendulum.
Muse Spark 1.3: Meta's best variant is out of reach
Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.3 in two configurations. The available xhigh scores 61 on the Intelligence Index, while the stronger max is still in safety testing. The model came out closed, with no open weights.
WeatherNext 3: hourly forecasts at 5 km resolution
Google DeepMind shipped WeatherNext 3 — a 5 km forecast for temperature and humidity, refreshed hourly. Precipitation forecasts improved by 60% in CRPS. The model goes into Search, Maps and Gemini.
K2 Horizon: six open models and the full training recipe
The Institute of Foundation Models released six K2 Horizon models under Apache 2.0, from 0.9B to 375B parameters. Alongside the weights it opened the whole training lifecycle: checkpoints, data or recipes, code, configs and logs.
Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93B
Nvidia confirmed its acquisition of Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Jensen Huang promises the platform will stay open and that Nvidia hardware will not be required. The announcement gives no closing date and no word on antitrust clearance.