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Alphabet's Cash Burn Erases $500 Billion in a Day

Alphabet's Cash Burn Erases $500 Billion in a Day

Alphabet shares fell 13% on Thursday, erasing roughly $500 billion of market value. Cash flow sank to minus $9.1 billion in the third quarter as capex rose to $51.3 billion, and Google said AI Mode queries were eating into traditional search.

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Close Second: France's Le Chonk Trails China on Coding

Pierre Stock, Mistral's vice president of science, called it "a pivotal moment in the global AI leadership race" when he told reporters about the release at a press briefing. The French lab on Thursday released the weights for Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter model it calls Le Chonk, a French wordplay on the company's cat mascot. Mistral says the model ranks as the best open-weight model for coding. Its launch post puts the model effectively tied with China's GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index. Artificial Analysis

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Why We Think TypeWhisper Is the Best AI Dictation App

We have dictated close to 100,000 words into a free app maintained almost single-handedly by a developer in Zeuthen. Here is what it does that paid rivals charge for, and where it still falls short.

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