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Mistral Small 4: One 119B MoE Model to Replace Four
AI Models

Mistral Small 4: One 119B MoE Model to Replace Four

Mistral AI's latest open-source release consolidates instruction following, reasoning, multimodal, and agentic coding into a single 119B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model under Apache 2.0.

Mar 18, 20265 min read
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano — Speed Up, Price Down
AI Models

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano — Speed Up, Price Down

OpenAI's two new lightweight models extend the GPT-5.4 family to free users and high-volume API workloads. GPT-5.4 nano hits $0.20 per million input tokens.

Mar 18, 20265 min read
Anthropic Commits $100M to Claude Partner Network — Accenture, Deloitte as Anchors
AI Business

Anthropic Commits $100M to Claude Partner Network — Accenture, Deloitte as Anchors

Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network with $100 million in initial funding. Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, and Infosys are anchor partners. A Claude Certified Architect certification is available immediately.

Mar 17, 20265 min read
FTC Signals Pause on AI Rulemaking — Walks Back Rytr Enforcement Order
AI Policy

FTC Signals Pause on AI Rulemaking — Walks Back Rytr Enforcement Order

The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection stated there is 'no appetite for anything AI-related' in its rulemaking pipeline. The agency also vacated its 2024 consent order against AI writing tool Rytr, reversing course on proactive AI enforcement.

Mar 17, 20264 min read
Google Closes $32B Wiz Acquisition — Largest Deal in Company History
AI Infrastructure

Google Closes $32B Wiz Acquisition — Largest Deal in Company History

Google finalized its $32 billion all-cash acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz, the biggest purchase in Alphabet's history, after a year of regulatory approvals from US and EU authorities.

Mar 17, 20264 min read
xAI Was 'Not Built Right' — Musk Pledges Rebuild as Cofounders Exit
AI Companies

xAI Was 'Not Built Right' — Musk Pledges Rebuild as Cofounders Exit

Elon Musk admitted xAI 'wasn't built right the first time' as the cofounder exodus accelerates. Of 12 original cofounders, only 2 remain. The rebuild follows pressure from competing AI coding tools.

Mar 17, 20265 min read
Anthropic Ships Claude Code Review — Parallel Agents on Every PR at $15–$25
Developer Productivity

Anthropic Ships Claude Code Review — Parallel Agents on Every PR at $15–$25

Claude Code Review dispatches a team of parallel agents on every opened PR to find bugs, validate findings, and rank by severity. Now in research preview for Team and Enterprise.

Mar 16, 20265 min read
Cursor Automations: Always-On Agents Triggered by Slack, PRs, and PagerDuty
Developer Productivity

Cursor Automations: Always-On Agents Triggered by Slack, PRs, and PagerDuty

Cursor launched Automations — an event-driven agentic coding system that runs continuously in the background without manual prompting, triggered by commits, Slack messages, and incidents.

Mar 16, 20265 min read
NVIDIA GTC 2026: Vera Rubin GPUs, NemoClaw Agent Platform, and Physical AI
AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA GTC 2026: Vera Rubin GPUs, NemoClaw Agent Platform, and Physical AI

Jensen Huang's GTC keynote unveiled the Vera Rubin GPU platform with 5x Blackwell performance and NemoClaw, an open-source enterprise AI agent deployment platform.

Mar 16, 20266 min read

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