Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models (Mistral AI Blog)
https://mistral.ai/news/regional-inference-open-models-new-compute/
A promising drug could be the first of an entirely new class of treatments for cancer
✅ Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer’s master switch - The Economist
https://www.economist.com/science-and-tech
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#VISA #MasterCard
One potential side effect of limiting processing fees would be merchants being able to deny using some high cost cards.
"The 'honor all cards' provision, which requires merchants to accept all Visa and Mastercard versions, would be discontinued. Merchants may choose to decline to accept higher-cost rewards cards and other premium consumer and commercial credit cards."
Oligarchies suck
https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/what-the-38-billion-visa-mastercard-swipe-fee-settlement-means-for-credit-card-users-164015738.html
Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p117#a260611p117
Sources: Mistral has been developing a cybersecurity-focused AI model and held discussions about it with European banks, which don't have access to Mythos (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-13/mis…
Sources: French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise ~€3B at a ~€20B valuation; it was last valued at €11.7B during a funding round in September 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/france-s-…