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Mistral AI announced that it is opening the weights of its frontier model Mistral Large 4 (codename Le Chonk), which has 1 trillion parameters with 52 billion active parameters and native multimodal support. ML4 was trained in a European data center on 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs, improving from 28% to 41% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, tying GLM-5.3 for the best coding-agent score while using an average of 47% fewer tokens per task. Open weights mean enterprises can deploy it on their own hardwar

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Intuit has launched a free course, Accounting Futures, combining AI application modules with training in durable skills such as communication, problem-solving, and judgment to help students adapt to advisory-oriented accounting roles. Students practice judgment through QuickBooks case studies based on real firm scenarios and can take part in paid micro-internships lasting a minimum of 10 hours; Intuit has also newly established Intuit Industry Advisors to strengthen its ties with the profession.

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AI-driven lab robotics company Opentrons has closed a $40 million Series E funding round, led by Avego with participation from BroadOak Capital Partners, with the funds to be used to expand its robotics, software, and data infrastructure. Its two benchtop robots, Flex and OT-2, can automate experimental operations such as pipetting, DNA extraction, PCR, and protein purification. The company says it has deployed more than 11,000 robots in over 80 countries, covering 90% of the world's top 20 phar

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Dixie McCurley, Intuit's resident managing partner, said at Intuit Connect that continuous close—closing the books daily rather than weeks after month-end—is becoming possible as AI shortens the lag between transactions and advice, allowing accountants to move from passive year-end adjustments to providing daily counsel. Intuit has launched Intuit Accountant Suite for accounting firms handling hundreds to thousands of client ledgers. McCurley stressed that numerical accuracy is the foremost test

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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) legal operations team uses the CRM module on monday.com's AI work platform to manage piracy investigations and content protection cases across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States. A newly added AI agent handles initial triage of Trusted Partner Network security alerts, and was built by legal operations administrator Melisa King herself without any coding background. King said the module has shifted each region from working in si

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AMD's Jeremy Girven said at EVOLVE26 that enterprises deploying AI should rationally configure infrastructure according to business needs: if end users can accept a 30-second response, cheaper hardware can be chosen; if instant response is required, more cutting-edge hardware is needed. AMD's collaboration with Cloudera includes continuously validating the compatibility of AMD products in Cloudera deployments, and current AI solutions remain highly customized. Girven also reminded enterprises to

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Fortinet has released the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service, which through a cloud subscription enables FortiGate firewalls to inspect prompts, model responses, and MCP tool traffic in real time; the underlying engine is FortiAIGate, which integrates Virtue AI technology. The service can detect 35 categories of personally identifiable information and confidential data and supports alerting, blocking, or redaction, and also supports setting model permissions, budgets, and rate limits by organ

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Cloudera has entered into a partnership with Mistral AI, combining Cloudera's enterprise data foundation with Mistral's customizable models. The model lineup includes Mistral Large 4, and the two companies' joint engineering team helps customers select models and infrastructure based on their use cases. Marjorie Janiewicz, Chief Revenue Officer of Mistral AI, said enterprises need to control where models are deployed and truly own the models, so they can maintain business continuity if a vendor

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HPE replaced executive status reporting with no-code apps on monday.com's AI work platform, compressing what was originally a weekly project review meeting into a monthly one. Kate Kenner, head of its strategic sourcing and planning capability community, said the first IT ticketing app was built in 24 hours; she then shifted to teaching colleagues to build their own processes, and used monday vibe to build an executive dashboard that can be exported to PowerPoint. HPE also allocates AI quotas by

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Wabi has closed a $55 million seed round led by IVP, with participation from Amazon Alexa Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and Forerunner, at a valuation of $1.25 billion. Its AI assistant uses group chat as its core interface, can recommend restaurants based on the conversation, generate a personal budget through Plaid and remind users to cancel unused subscriptions, and also lets users create simple apps and 2D mini-games with vibe coding. The service is already available on Mac, iOS and Android, wit

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The New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been caught up in a Chinese intelligence operation involving Alice Huang (Huang Le), an executive at Singapore-based data center operator Megaspeed, whom the U.S. side believes to be a Chinese intelligence officer. The report said she built a close relationship with Huang and, a year later, facilitated Megaspeed's purchase of about $2 billion in GPUs from Nvidia, with the chips flowing to data c

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Amazon's third-quarter revenue of $201.94 billion and earnings per share of $1.89 both fell short of Wall Street expectations, sending the stock down more than 7% in after-hours trading, with free cash flow at negative $42.4 billion. AWS revenue grew 39% year-over-year to $45.98 billion, slightly beating expectations, and CEO Jassy expects growth to exceed 40% next year. The company reiterated full-year capital expenditures of $220 billion, with third-quarter capital expenditures reaching $77.3

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Intel reported third-quarter revenue of $16.51 billion, up 21% year-over-year, and earnings per share of 52 cents, both beating Wall Street expectations. However, its fourth-quarter guidance was only about 25 cents per share on revenue of $15 billion to $16 billion, far below analysts' expectations of 43 cents and $17.1 billion, sending the stock down more than 22% after hours. Revenue from the Client Computing and Physical AI businesses fell 5% year-over-year to $8.1 billion, while revenue from

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Dream Technologies, founded by former Palantir executives, has officially launched with a $17 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its AI model is trained on 100 million square feet of U.S. real estate data, can generate hundreds of design options within minutes, and has already supported 10 construction projects in California and Texas with a total value of $20 million. Dream does not sell software; instead, it directly delivers blueprints and serves as the architect of record, bearin

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Eran Zinman, co-founder and co-CEO of monday.com, said that the difficulty in deploying autonomous agents lies in business transformation rather than technology, which is why the company established monday Frontier to help customers launch AI projects within weeks through managed services plus deployment engineers. The internal Customer Zero program had all employees pause their regular work for a week to focus solely on agents, building over 3,600 in total, of which about 2,000 are still runnin

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Ryan Nigro, head of the Security Trust and Enablement team at monday.com, said at the Elevate event that permission management is key to securing AI agents, and that well-designed guardrails can let teams move faster. He advocates gradually opening up AI capabilities according to the principle of least privilege, granting each tool only the minimum access it needs when it goes live, and expanding scope only after verifying the results. He cited IBM research saying that 80% to 90% of data breache

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After Alphabet announced its third-quarter earnings, its stock price fell sharply for two consecutive days, and its market value evaporated by about $500 billion. Net profit for the quarter fell 25% year over year to $26.2 billion, or $2.12 per share, below FactSet analysts' expectations; revenue rose 25% to $127.6 billion, and advertising revenue rose 11% to $82 billion. Google Cloud revenue rose 103% to $30.7 billion, and the company said sales of its self-developed TPU chips contributed signi

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The Guardian reports that xAI, in Southaven, Mississippi, has been offering to buy homes from residents through real estate agents on the condition that homeowners not join a class-action lawsuit over noise from its gas turbines. One agent said the goal is to purchase 418 homes, and 18 households have already agreed to sell; xAI did not respond to these figures and denies all allegations in the noise lawsuit. Local residents say the gas turbines run around the clock and produce constant noise re

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