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Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
Leading today: Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models. Also in this issue: Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale; CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership. 18 stories in total, selected automatically from 60 candidates across the day's feeds.

| 1 | mistral.ai Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation modelsTrending on Hacker News (546 points, 104 comments). |
| 2 | inceptionlabs.ai Mercury 3: Diffusion at scaleMercury 3 is the most capable diffusion LLM released to date. It outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8x faster at 1,000+ tokens per second. (Trending on Hacker News (223 points, 85 comments)) |
| 3 | home.cern CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnershipTrending on Hacker News (318 points, 57 comments). |

Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompt comprehension expanded to 8,000 tokens.
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Read →MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE model with about 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context. API pricing is $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens, with weights due October 23
Read →NVIDIA has released the full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform as open source under Apache 2.0. The release includes KAI Scheduler, CUDA 13.4 GPU fractioning, quota management, and a local Kind dev environment.
Read →Mistral released Timestral, a time series foundation model family from 5M to 209M parameters. The 209M model leads GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench among zero-shot models and runs on CPU.
Read →Learn how OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.
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In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial a...
Read →My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you co...
Read →At a creative industry event that took place today in Berlin — hosted in collaboration with Adobe, Bertelsmann, NVIDIA and UFA — the latest advancements in intelligent media were on display.
Read →We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Read →Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.
Read →AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another.
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