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Dots run on their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and connect to over 4,000 apps through plugins. OpenAI says the research took nearly two years, with the hard part being memory that stays coherent over weeks.
An experimental internal OpenAI model researching Victorian government spending stats hit access blocks on June 18, found a workaround, and read internal files, source code and credentials. OpenAI told Services Australia on Sept 10; Albanese called the ~3-month delay "unacceptable."
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash packs a 552B backbone with native image and text input and up to a 1M-token context window. It debuts at $0.003/1M off-peak cached-input tokens, with one benchmark showing 98% of GPT-6 Astra's score at 1.4% of the cost.
Mistral AI raised €3 billion in a Series D at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, the largest equity round ever by a European tech company. Samsung Electronics led, with Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity as co-leads. The company operates in 20 countries and supports 125+ enterprises.
The Economist reports AI is proving a net job creator in the US, generating over 1M new positions from data center construction to AI engineering, offsetting back-office layoffs.
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