Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models
Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models

Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China. Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral’s API. The model weights, which enable anyone…

Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw

Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France’s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent…

OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU
OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU

OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to text from ChatGPT and Codex in the EU over the coming weeks. The change covers eligible users on all plans, but only in the EU, the company said in a blog post on Monday. OpenAI said it is acting in response to…

Gas cars fall below 50% of global new car sales for the first time
Gas cars fall below 50% of global new car sales for the first time

Gas cars are now a minority of the world’s new car sales. Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of global new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026, down from 73% in 2021, according to Mobility Global data first reported by Nikkei.

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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm …

Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses
Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses

Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also p…

Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI
Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI

Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of “super intelligence”, the name President Donald Trump has told US …

Norway plans temporary ban on AI glasses in parks, schools and gyms
Norway plans temporary ban on AI glasses in parks, schools and gyms

Norway’s government plans to ban the use of AI glasses in selected public places for a limited time and announced the plan today, saying that people could be filmed or recorded without their knowledge. The ban could cover places where the public often …

Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports
Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in …

UK EV sales surge 36% to record high in September
UK EV sales surge 36% to record high in September

UK EV sales hit a new all-time record in September. The country registered 99,199 battery-electric cars last month, up 36.3% from a year ago and good for 28.3% of the market, according to preliminary data released today by the Society of Motor Manufact…