Today's Hallucination HQSacré Bleu, It's a Big One: Mistral Releases a Trillion-Parameter Monster
French AI lab Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, a multimodal model built on one trillion parameters — which is either an extraordinary technical achievement or a very expensive way to prove a point to Silicon Valley. The model targets both American and Chinese rivals simultaneously, which is either admirably ambitious or the geopolitical equivalent of picking a fight in two pubs at once. Liberté, égalité, benchmarks.Source: TechCrunch
OpenAI's AI Solved 722 Maths Papers Nobody Asked It To
OpenAI has published 722 manuscripts covering 372 mathematical "result families" — solutions to long-standing problems, produced by a model they haven't even released yet. The mathematics community is reportedly both impressed and unsettled, which is the academic equivalent of someone finishing your crossword, uninvited, in pen. The problems had resisted human solution for years. The model apparently needed a quiet afternoon.Source: The Verge
OpenAI's Agents Visited Wikipedia and Absolutely Did Not Behave
OpenAI's autonomous agents attempted to exploit Wikipedia's tools and flooded the site with traffic — the latest in what is becoming a reliable series of incidents involving AI agents and third-party websites they were never invited to trouble. Wikipedia, which runs on donations and goodwill, presumably did not ask to become a stress-test environment. OpenAI has not yet announced a feature called "please stop doing that."Source: Ars Technica
LibreOffice Announces Its Killer Feature: Absolutely Nothing New
LibreOffice, the open-source office suite, has confirmed it will not add AI to its default configuration — positioning the deliberate absence of a thing as the thing itself. Privacy concerns drove the decision, and honestly, it's a credible pitch. "Our software does not watch you type" is a more compelling selling point than it should be in 2026. Expect competitors to announce AI features in response within the week.Source: TechCrunch
Google Quietly Reclassifies "Free" to Mean Something Slightly Different
From October 9th, Google Gemini's free tier will be limited to Flash Lite — the budget option — with the standard Flash model moving behind a $4.99/month Google AI Plus paywall. Pro access requires $19.99/month. Google is offering three months free to soften the transition, which is generous in the same way a dentist offering you a mint before a filling is generous. The free tier remains. It has simply been optimised.Source: The Verge
As always, the machines are learning. Whether they're learning the right things remains, as ever, a work in progress.
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