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Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1.05-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 49 billion active parameters per token and a 1-million-token context window. The API is live; weights are promised by the end of October.
Microsoft will end support for Office 2021 on October 13, cutting off technical help, software updates, bug fixes and security patches, according to a ZDNet report. Users have five options.
Mistral has previewed Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model it calls the strongest developed outside China, trained on 4,000 Nvidia chips in Europe.
Vast CTO Alon Horev said long-running AI agents are straining GPU memory with KV caches, and tiered storage can offload sessions to avoid repeated inference computation.
Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk report that patients taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs scored younger on molecular aging clocks, with differences from placebo averaging about two to three years. Researchers at a Boston aging conference called the data encouraging but said results vary by clock type and organ.
Apple released second public betas for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2 and macOS 27.2 on Tuesday, bringing the redesigned iPhone Health app and five new Siri AI languages, and issued first release candidates of macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 with unspecified security fixes.
Apple is reportedly developing a smart home camera that describes activity in AI-generated text instead of saving video, and Google says it is considering similar designs for smart glasses, The Verge reports.
San Francisco startup Mirror Particle is building a foundation model of human behavior, arguing that LLM roleplay is not enough to predict what consumers will do and why.
Ghost has launched Core, a $3,499 personal AI computer that runs large language models entirely on-device and sold out its first preorder batch on day one, according to TechRadar.
CoreWeave has been named BattleBots’ official AI cloud partner, as robot builders use simulation to test weapon designs and new materials before combat. BattleBots senior engineer Rob Bahr said AI could also drive autonomy and push the sport forward.
Spotify is rolling out Music Quiz to Premium subscribers in 11 countries, expanding beyond BTS to more than 2,000 artists.
Le Monde reported on October 6, 2026 that a Chinese woman was arrested in the US for allegedly spying on Taiwan's president's son, that France completed a test of a new nuclear-capable missile, and that Finland halted work on Google data centers over environmental concerns.
Khosla backs Wajo, a personal-agent startup from ex-DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar, saying trust will decide the agent market.
Anthropic will spend $100M to train 10,000 enterprise AI engineers and expand its Claude Startups benefits.
Apple is expected to introduce a major MacBook Pro redesign as soon as October or November, adding an OLED display, its first touchscreen Mac, a Dynamic Island and a lighter body.
Bluesky has applied for the .bsky domain suffix, a move that could shorten user handles.
NetApp is promoting a unified data infrastructure strategy that aims to make decades-old enterprise data usable for AI where it already sits, including a planned fully managed storage service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure due within 12 months.
Google DeepMind Chief AI Readiness Officer Lila Ibrahim tells CNBC she is focused on preparing workers, schools and communities for AI, urging people to start using the technology and calling for earlier AI education.
Amazon's October sale brought the first discount on the Apple Watch Series 12 and lower prices on the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 phones, while Garmin launched the Enduro 4 and Approach S72 on the same day.
SteelSeries and KontrolFreek, working with Epic Games, released ten officially licensed Fortnite accessories on October 6, 2026, from $14.99 thumb grips to $219.99 Peely-themed earbuds, each SteelSeries item bundling an in-game cosmetic code.
Beta code hints at new Apple TV 4K and HomePod features next week, including Apple Intelligence and Siri surround sound.
Apple is reported to have more than seven new products slated for October, beginning with a home device refresh on October 13 that centers on Siri AI, followed by new Macs, the foldable iPhone Duo and an upgraded iPad mini.
Amazon fall Prime Day cuts prices on Apple, Nothing, TCL, Soundcore, and Turtle Beach gear.
Microsoft released an out-of-band Exchange Server update fixing CVE-2026-96940, a high-severity privilege-escalation flaw that lets an authenticated attacker read mailboxes across the same organization. Exchange Online is already fixed; on-premises customers must patch.