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Musk promised truth-seeking AI. When Grok 4 tackles politics, it searches Musk's posts first. Tests show 54 of 64 citations came from him. Accident or intent? The answer matters for every AI system we build.
Experienced developers work 19% slower with AI coding tools but think they're 20% faster. New study challenges AI's flagship use case and shows why self-reported productivity gains can't be trusted.
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France's Mistral AI just showed Silicon Valley how to build smarter AI with less muscle. Their new open-source model, Mistral Small 3.1, processes text and images using just 24 billion parameters - a fraction of what American competitors need.
President Macron couldn't contain his excitement. He urged French citizens to ditch ChatGPT for "Le Chat." One million people jumped ship within two weeks. Vive la révolution digitale!
Europeans chose brain over brawn. Their AI runs on a single gaming PC while American models demand entire data centers. Microsoft took notice and opened its checkbook. The French military, IBM, and Stellantis followed suit. Not bad for a startup that's barely a year old.
The company's €6 billion valuation turns heads. But it's pocket change compared to OpenAI's €80 billion. Mistral's secret weapon? They're giving away their code while Americans keep theirs under lock and key.
Timing couldn't be better. Europe craves digital independence, and here comes a champion - speaking French, no less. CEO Arthur Mensch dreams bigger: he wants to build European data centers and decentralize the cloud revolution.
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Grammarly bought email app Superhuman for an undisclosed sum, part of its plan to build an AI productivity empire. With $1 billion in fresh funding, the grammar company wants to put AI agents at the center of your workday.
While Congress debates TikTok's future, ByteDance quietly built America's #2 education app. Gauth helps 200 million students cheat on homework by solving problems from photos. Same company, same data concerns, zero scrutiny.
Programming computers in English sounds impossible. But Andrej Karpathy built working apps without knowing code, using only natural language prompts. He calls it Software 3.0. These AI systems think like humans, complete with superhuman memory and distinctly human mistakes.
Chinese AI startup MiniMax just trained a frontier model for $534,700 - a fraction of what competitors spend. Their open-source M1 beats DeepSeek while using 75% less computing power. The breakthrough suggests advanced AI no longer requires massive budgets.
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