Mistral AI on October 29, 2026 released the weights of Mistral Large 4, its flagship 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal model known as Le Chonk, making the checkpoint downloadable from Hugging Face for self-hosting and available across its API and partner platforms under a modified MIT open-weight license. The release follows the model’s public preview on October…
Digital Science announced on October 29, 2026 that it has acquired Jenni AI, an AI-native research and writing platform the company says is used by more than 8 million students and researchers across 189 countries. The acquisition will connect Jenni AI to Digital Science’s research data, starting with Dimensions, which the company describes as its…
ShareWillow has raised $8.5 million in seed funding to expand AI agents for the technicians who keep home service businesses running. The New York company is building on its performance-pay platform with a broader product called Willow, designed to connect job preparation, coaching, and earnings visibility around the work technicians do each day. The round…
Personal AI assistant company Wabi has raised $55 million in funding led by IVP at a $1.25 billion valuation, according to the company’s announcement dated October 29, 2026. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Forerunner, and the Amazon Alexa Fund also participated, alongside angel investors and founders Tobi Lütke, Marc Benioff, Marissa Mayer, Dick Costolo, and Alex Pall….
Deepgram announced on October 29, 2026, that it is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source Pipecat voice agent framework, unveiling the deal at its inaugural Deepgram Speak event in San Francisco. The Daily team will join Deepgram, and Pipecat will remain fully open source and free to developers under its existing BSD V2 license….
Precision measures how many predicted positives are correct, recall measures how many actual positives are found, and F1 summarizes their harmonic balance. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
An AI agent can complete a task and still make a decision an experienced employee would reject. The difficult part is often understanding the unwritten rules: when to ask another question, when to escalate, and what a good outcome means for a particular business. Crux Labs is building a platform to turn that expert judgment…
Serval announced on October 29, 2026 that it has raised a $150 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation, a round led by Sequoia that the company described as its third funding round in 12 months. The financing drew participation from Elad Gil, Evantic, First Round, General Catalyst, and Redpoint, with Conviction and Headline…
Pluto Security’s research team on October 29, 2026 published its Load/Mine report, disclosing a cryptomining and backdoor campaign distributed through malicious Hugging Face model repositories. The report counts 31 malicious repositories across seven Hugging Face accounts plus a mirror on ModelScope, with 29,818 recorded campaign downloads and 32,376 when 13 linked repositories are included. Pluto…
A retailer can launch a promotion across hundreds of stores in a morning. Making sure every employee knows how to sell it is a different challenge. Bites is building its AI training platform around that gap, raising a $40 million Series A to connect short, mobile-delivered lessons with the sales, service and operational results those…