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Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American
Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn’t made in America or China.

Mystery of Armenia’s Giant 6,000-Year-old ‘Dragon Stones’ is Finally Solved https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mystery-of-armenias-6000-year-old-dragon-stones-believed-solved/

Mystery of Armenia’s Giant 6,000-Year-old 'Dragon Stones' is Finally Solved
The research team's working hypothesis is that the stones are tied to an ancient water cult, but it took a few wrong guesses to get there.

I fiddled something again. The challenge was to enable static web file “hosting” out of Forgejo Repos. This doesn’t come out of the box from Forgejo and there are various ways to solve this.
I went for a hopefully lightweight setup using a Caddy Webserver to serve the static files and a little Rust program to act as a Webhooks for Forgejo to call on push to the repo. The repo can be found at

forgejo-static-pages
forgejo-static-pages

A "love triangle"? 😉
Hidden Crotch Detail Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-crotch-detail-solves-a-500-year-old-leonardo-da-vinci-mystery

Hidden Crotch Detail Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of his time.

Sean McDermott speaks out after being fired by the Buffalo Bills https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6984163/2026/01/19/sean-mcdermott-statement-thanks-buffalo-organization-bills-mafia/

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/meister-des-mysteriosen-david-lynch-ware-jetzt-80-seine-besten-werke-15156404.html
Seine Filme haben neue Sehgewohnheiten gebracht.
Ich mag seine Filme sehr. …

Meister des Mysteriösen: David Lynch wäre jetzt 80: Seine besten Werke
Vor einem Jahr starb David Lynch. Seine legendäre Serie „Twin Peaks“ ist nun komplett bei Arte in der Mediathek zu sehen. Welche Filme heute noch faszinieren – und wo sie gestreamt werden können.

📢 FC Bayern ist vorzeitig deutscher Fußball-Meister
Der FC Bayern München ist zum 35. Mal deutscher Fußball-Meister. Der Rekord-Titelträger gewann daheim 4:2 gegen den VfB Stuttgart und ist damit vier Spieltage vor Saisonende nicht mehr von der Tabellenspitze zu verdrängen.
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FC Bayern ist vorzeitig deutscher Fußball-Meister
Der FC Bayern München ist zum 35. Mal deutscher Fußball-Meister. Der Rekord-Titelträger gewann daheim 4:2 gegen den VfB Stuttgart und ist damit vier Spieltage vor Saisonende nicht mehr von der Tabellenspitze zu verdrängen.

Bookmarked: Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing the Ancient Greek AI “Apollo” with Mistral AI and Reply https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/oeaw-entwickelt-altgriechisch-ki-apollo-mit-mistral-1

Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing the Ancient Greek AI “Apollo” with Mistral AI and Reply
Austrian Archaeological Institute Develops Custom AI Model for Hundreds of Thousands of Ancient Papyri and Inscriptions ++ Faßmann: “AI and ancient languages are not a contradiction”

Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models (Mistral AI)
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-4

Introducing Mistral Small 4 | Mistral AI

Was Sean McDermott really Buffalo's problem? There's plenty of blame to go around for its playoff woes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47660090/2026-nfl-offseason-buffalo-bills-fire-sean-mcdermott-coach-al…